Please show mercy,
I already googled and searched xda for some time now, but I couldnt find any satisfying answer.
I own a Optimus 3D (p920), which is now rooted, has wkpark and cwm. Tried PACMAN and nameless KitKat 4.4.4.
Its fun !!! ^^
I dont have gapps, no games, no email push apps etc. Just the clean ROM flashed.
That leads to my question my question :
I learned that the wkpark bootloader (sometimes) drains a lot of battery, especially on flashing a ROM.
I learned that you shall flash a ROM only above 70%. Sometimes after a flash I have 12% left, sometimes only exactly 1 %.
Sometimes even a simple restart takes my battery from 60% to 20%.
Google wasnt a big help here and Im not a coder/programmer.
Id like to understand what exactly is going on, if there would be any advices I could follow or if there is even a solution out there, that I might have missed.
Noob friendly answers welcome.
Had to add this seperatly :
While sometimes a restart/re-flash made my battery down from 60% to 20%...just like today...it jumped from 60% to 20% and is now on 20% since 5 hours already...on normal use...which is not normal.
If I attach the power-cable, it jumps from 20% to 44% and starts loading. If its at 1% and I attach the powe-cable, it will start charging at 1 %.
And I thought battery (re)calibration is a myth ?
What is it that I dont (want to) understan here ?
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Hi all,
I've got my sg2 since june and since the first moment I have got the same problems. I had the stock ROM & kernel with android 2.3.3. The problems I experienced were these:
1) extreme low battery life (6-10 hours, with normal usage)
2) when using heavy apps, my s2 just suddenly turns of. When rebooting it, it has a battery drop of like ~15%. (this only occurs when battery is already bellow 40% left).
3) Like 5-20 times a day (it really difference day-to-day), I got the notification that I have to put my sg2 on a charger. - So the battery bar drops from example 80% to 1%. After like 1 or 2 minutes it just fills up back again to the 80% before. Sometimes when this occurs, it also turns in a few % (like 80% before, and afterwards 75%).
So what did I already tried to fix this?:
- bought new 1600mah battery > didnt solve the problem, conclusion: no hardware malfunction
- I thought the problems could be occured by the tiny space between the battery and the frame of the phone. So it had a lack in connection... So I filled up the little space with i tiny piece of paper> nope didnt helped.
- downloaded mutiply apps for battery saving, task killers, etc etc.> didnt help!
It's really really frustrating, and I'm guessing more and more it's just a software problem. I do have warranty/insurance on it, but i don't want to send my phone to a repairservice because then I've no phone for like 3 or 4 weeks.
So my last option for me was to try a custom ROM and Kernel. So last week I installed the Lite'ning ROM. I also followed up the advice to calibrate my battery, so i did.
And the first day it was running really smoothed! At the end of the day my battery was still alive and I've used it for over 20hours, so I was really statisfied... But a small sidenote: I had a really busy day at work, so I didnt use my phone that much.
So next day, used it alot more. After 5 hours it had only 50% left.... And that's not all, my phone turned off suddenly. Not once, not twice, but 5 times that day.
Seems all these solutions didnt help. The only positive thing of installing Lite'ning ROM is that i now have about 4 or 5 hours more battery life a day.. But if I use it alot, it shut downs a lot more. Wich lead in more battery drops after reboot.
I'm really desperate, and I really don't know what to do now. Does someone have got these really frustrating problems, and do you guys have got some solutions?
And one more question: is my warranty/issurance voided after installing the Lite'ning 6.1 ROM? or can it by tresspassed by using a Jig?
Tnx for your time, and I really really hope you guys can help me cause i'm really getting sick of all this. It's killing me!!!
ps. sorry for my bad english
your warranty is voided by installing custom rom but u can unroot and use the jig to remove counts in counter.
now apart from that it seems if u use your phone for 5-6 hours continuous it will drain the battery because main source of battery drain is the screen display but for moderate use it should be a little over a day.
i am unclear about your usage but still if you have doubts you should really get it checked at a service center.
I would flash back to stock, use the jig to clear the flash counter and exchange that phone, seems it has some type of hardware issue that could be related to temperature as it only shuts down when you use it.
My 0.02 cents
vickarul said:
your warranty is voided by installing custom rom but u can unroot and use the jig to remove counts in counter.
now apart from that it seems if u use your phone for 5-6 hours continuous it will drain the battery because main source of battery drain is the screen display but for moderate use it should be a little over a day.
i am unclear about your usage but still if you have doubts you should really get it checked at a service center.
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My usage is definetly not THAT extreme, i guess moderate: I never watch movies or youtube, just some messages with WhatsApp, about 4 of 5 times a day checking Facebook, same for Twitter, always GPS off, some time of the day Wi-fi on, never play games, always closing apps on background.
i've got an example of my battery usage (this is one of the best battery usage days i got!!!):
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(Can't post direct link because i dont have 8 posts yet...)
Battery life the beginning .
better battery stats .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
check Wakelocks .
jje
Today step 2) happened to me
Ok, for the first week I had my galaxy s2 my battery would be like 75% after low usage. Now after following the root guide. Then updating it to entropies DD I have terrible life. It seems like even on light usage I lose over 10% an hour. I can't say for sure when it happened. I want to say it wasn't immediatly after the root, but within a week of it.
Here's a pic of the battery life:
Well there would be a pic if I had enough post to post a pic. Anyways it shows my android OS using 71%
It shows that I have a 41% charge at 7:15pm after an hour charge from noon to 1pm that brought it upto 75%. The only thing I've done is text the wife half a dozen times.
Is there anything else I need to log or post to help troubleshoot this?
I love having my phone rooted, and I would hate to have to flash back to stock if I can't get my battery issue lined out.
devlmaycry81 said:
Ok, for the first week I had my galaxy s2 my battery would be like 75% after low usage. Now after following the root guide. Then updating it to entropies DD I have terrible life. It seems like even on light usage I lose over 10% an hour. I can't say for sure when it happened. I want to say it wasn't immediatly after the root, but within a week of it.
Here's a pic of the battery life:
Well there would be a pic if I had enough post to post a pic. Anyways it shows my android OS using 71%
It shows that I have a 41% charge at 7:15pm after an hour charge from noon to 1pm that brought it upto 75%. The only thing I've done is text the wife half a dozen times.
Is there anything else I need to log or post to help troubleshoot this?
I love having my phone rooted, and I would hate to have to flash back to stock if I can't get my battery issue lined out.
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Nothing to troubleshoot really. You probably have most of the known battery draining apps runing on your phone. (listed on another thread)
I would suggest you flash a ROM like Unnamed that removes all the bloatware and all these battery hogging apps. I would also get an app like Setcpu to set the cpu to conservative to save even more battery.
Good luck!
Entropy's DD already sets the CPU governor to conservative. Anyways, post a pic of your battery usage (by uploading it then linking it), and if your phone has blue bars all over awake, then you know you have a wakelock problem. Search for the known battery drainers thread and see if you have apps there, also remove all widgets and add them back one by one to see if any of those affect battery life.
Battery
It's just common sense, before rooting a phone like the i777 it's not much fun spending a
lot of time playing with it.
But after it's rooted and we have access to the CWM Recovery ready to do our bidding
we all get carried away by all the fun and interesting things we can do with the phone
if you get my drift! (and it's easy to get carried away with a phone like ours)
I just don't understand how so many people can say that "My battery is great" or
complaining that "My battery only lasts xx amount of hours" with a straight face
because just like any other battery operated electronic device, our phone's battery
consumption is a lot more variable than the weather!
Without conducting tests like starting with a fully charged battery keeping the screen
on until the phone goes dead or playing non-stop music until the battery dies there is
no real accurate way to test battery life unless it's done under labratory conditions.
Otherwise all we are doing when talking about battery life is a big guessing game!
Even little things like the ambient room temperature and the amount of moisture in the
air have an effect on battery life in all electronic devices even if they are powered off.
In other words, simply rooting a phone and doing nothing else has no effect on the life of the battery.
Hey I think you should try to wipe your battery stats in recovery after ah full charge cycle ..then let it discharge then fully charge it again. It worked for me after flashing cm7 on my evo.
ACTUALLY HERES THE LINK HERE
Recalibrating Your Battery Stats...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765656
Hope that helped???
Battery stats should not be wiped on these phones. There are threads that discuss why not to do that in this forum.
Sent from my páhhōniē
gr8hairy1 said:
Battery stats should not be wiped on these phones. There are threads that discuss why not to do that in this forum.
Sent from my páhhōniē
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Entropy has repeated it in detail time and time again why there's no advantage to doing it and while it works fine on other phones, it doesn't with ours. If I can find a link of his, I'll post it later.
I was really suffering from massive battery drain....see here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1933012
ive now found out that i am having a very wierd problem...My rom is showing some 30% battery while 4ext shows 50%......Sometimes it is exactly the opposite....Once i discharged my phone to 2% (rom reading) and when i saw in recovery it says 17%....
I have completed many many cycles of battery from charging to full....and discharge to 0.....Also i used the battery callibration app SEVERAL times!!!!........But nothing seems to work...
Can somebody help...Please
I am really suffering from massive battery drain http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1933012 :crying:
Did you try to delete battery stats? Or use an app to improve battery life?
I have the same issue too when booting into recovery. I don't worry about it. I suggest the same as Ramjet in your other thread.
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I had this issue with my old battery and old charger,
Now I dont use my phone while charging , I charge other batteries with the wall charger while using other ones and everything is fine now.... battery % seems to be same in both android and recovery.
I have that same issue too. Lol maybe the recovery can't read the battery correctly. It'll show up higher in recovery and then when I reboot, it will read the same way like in recovery. Tried numerous batteries with the same result. Although I havnt tried battery calibrating. Ill give that a shot.
Is there any solution ??
Try klect's solution and go into recovery, wipe battery stats. Then let your battery drain and die. Then charge your battery back to 100% with no interuptions like pulling your phone off the charger too soon. When you wipe your batt stats you are getting ready to recaliberate your battery. After you let it charge to 100 percent. Let it drain to 0 a couple times to recondition your battery.
You do know that the evo 3D gives around 3 hrs of screen time dont you? even on stock rom on normal usage. If you have the wifi on all the times you'll get around 2:30 maybe 3 on a full charge.
Your battery certainly is draining faster than usual but have you tried keeping it idle and seeing what kind of drain you get? From that screenshot in the other thread it seems like your phone is getting some heavy wifi browsing or something (and do check if facebook or email apps are the culprit. Having push email on drains a lot)
And the recovery/rom reading wrong stats happens all the time. just recalibrate your battery like these good folks here have already suggested
Yes i keep wifi on all the time...
But once i kept my locked for abot 3 hours after full charge...when i unlocked it showed 99%...i was happy and i didn't do anything just surfing my screens it dropped very very fast to some 70 % !!!!
Also please hit our thank you buttons please. Even if you didn't get the exact answers you wanted. It's appreciated for helping one another.
you really should check your apps battery usage using one of the apps ramjet73 told you about
ramjet73 said:
There are a bunch of tips here.
Usually that kind of drain is caused by an app. Try running a stock ROM for a day or two and see if the issues go away. Or use one of the battery monitoring apps (BetterBatteryStats, SystemPanel Standard, Battery Monitor Widget) to determine which app is causing your drain.
It may take some work on your part to isolate the problem since there is no global solution to battery problems.
ramjet73
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top culprits are mostly facebook,email exchange,google maps and pretty much anything that syncs alot
Also try using you phone on min brightness auto brightness is also a battery killer
I cant beleive no one asked you this but which kernel are you using? And is it overclocked?
I am on mwakious 13.1 default...no changes to it
Plz i know this has been asked many many times, i have spent last 3 days on whole forum, got lot of info but really need to ask this question direct....sorry
I have S2 rooted with Siyah Kernel & R Remix Rom (latest)
My question is about the battery it seems to drain 1-2% every 4-5min whilst am USING, is that normal?? Everything will be off apart from Wifi or Data...just surfing or whatsapp
When phone is sleep (at night 6-8 hr) it only uses 3-4 %, is that normal? Mostly everything off
I fully charged yesterday around 5pm, hardly used, but seems to drain a lot whilst in use...driving me crazy. Need to know is it the battery weak or something else
Plz see attach screen....
bbs
salimsd said:
Plz i know this has been asked many many times, i have spent last 3 days on whole forum, got lot of info but really need to ask this question direct....sorry
I have S2 rooted with Siyah Kernel & R Remix Rom (latest)
My question is about the battery it seems to drain 1-2% every 4-5min whilst am USING, is that normal?? Everything will be off apart from Wifi or Data...just surfing or whatsapp
When phone is sleep (at night 6-8 hr) it only uses 3-4 %, is that normal? Mostly everything off
I fully charged yesterday around 5pm, hardly used, but seems to drain a lot whilst in use...driving me crazy. Need to know is it the battery weak or something else
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Install BetterBatterystats.
After some time check for alarms/wakelocks.
Read detailed How-to and FAQ on link i posted up..
Thanks but anyone care to explain from attach image if that's normal or ??
If you use your phone for less CPU intensive actions, then change governor to "Conservative".
salimsd said:
Plz i know this has been asked many many times, i have spent last 3 days on whole forum, got lot of info but really need to ask this question direct....sorry
I have S2 rooted with Siyah Kernel & R Remix Rom (latest)
My question is about the battery it seems to drain 1-2% every 4-5min whilst am USING, is that normal?? Everything will be off apart from Wifi or Data...just surfing or whatsapp
When phone is sleep (at night 6-8 hr) it only uses 3-4 %, is that normal? Mostly everything off
I fully charged yesterday around 5pm, hardly used, but seems to drain a lot whilst in use...driving me crazy. Need to know is it the battery weak or something else
Plz see attach screen....
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It's normal.. You need to give it at least 3 battery cycles before you judge the battery life..
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
Using: Omega v43.6 Jelly Bean 4.1.2 rom. Stock kernel.
Android system drains battery as much as screen (depending on screen time, more or less). I found some instructions on the internet:
h ttp://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/249962-android-system-eating-your-battery-check.html
h ttp://gs3.wonderhowto.com/how-to/reduce-battery-drain-your-samsung-galaxy-s3-by-fixing-android-system-usage-0142361/
I didn't find gsiff_daemon or qosmgr from system/bin/ like in those instructions. What can I do?
Search and read here in xda, plenty of similar posts with lots of exciting things for you to try. Upshot is you have customised your phone to be nearly unique to you, what worked for someone else won't make any difference for you.
Install better battery stats, or similar, try to pin down what is keeping your phone awake.
Change your kernal. A good kernal always increases your battery timings, overall speed and maybe the signals (*depending on the type of kernal u are using)
I have had this phone so little time that I didn't know about its idle endurance. Last night and today the screen was off for 15 hours and the battery dropped only 6%, from 58% to 52%, and I think that's very good. It seems like android system isn't draining battery, it just shows android system over something else.