I'm on liquid smooth nightly, the latest kit Kat one and I'm at 75% the first hour.. On Wi-Fi. The only thing I'm doing is restoring titanium back ups and installing apps. I'm using the badass governor, even though I don't know what it does, and have locations and Bluetooth turned off.
I'm coming from cyanogenmod because my battery was bad on that and I though a new rom after wiping everything would help my battery. I just made it worse. I wiped data and both caches too. The screen has been on the whole hour, but 75% is terrible. I used to go 30 plus hours easily on the same battery.
This phone is over 3 years old with the same battery so could that be the problem? Should I be using an official Samsung charger? O already tried the format option, that did nothing. What options can I change to get decent battery life again. Downgrade? Please help, posting on forums is my last resort, I read multiple posts about this problem and nothing worked for me.
1. If your battery is as old as your phone...then woah...you should probably get a new battery.
2. If you don't know how the governor "badass" works then you probably shouldn't use it. I don't know how it works either..it could be used for performance which would likely drain battery.
3. Use governors pegasusq, pegasusqplus, Zzmoove or on demand(tuned) as these tend to work well for battery.
4. I've heard battery on kitkat Roms tend not to be good?
5. Try a stock based ROM if your willing.
6. Install betterbatterystats to see if any apps are waking your phone when its in deep sleep and thus draining battery periodically.
7. Install greenify...and hibernate apps you don't need to be running in the background.
8. Profit. (maybe )
Hope this has helped
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Very helpful.. I don't have your governor options except on demand so I'll do some research on that. Think I'll order a new battery because I'm already using greenify and auto killer. I'll try a stock rom if all that fails lol. Unwanted
Pulseuser said:
1. If your battery is as old as your phone...then woah...you should probably get a new battery.
2. If you don't know how the governor "badass" works then you probably shouldn't use it. I don't know how it works either..it could be used for performance which would likely drain battery.
3. Use governors pegasusq, pegasusqplus, Zzmoove or on demand(tuned) as these tend to work well for battery.
4. I've heard battery on kitkat Roms tend not to be good?
5. Try a stock based ROM if your willing.
6. Install betterbatterystats to see if any apps are waking your phone when its in deep sleep and thus draining battery periodically.
7. Install greenify...and hibernate apps you don't need to be running in the background.
8. Profit. (maybe )
Hope this has helped
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Yes, its battery timing is not good.
What is your battery like on stock roms? I've found that stock + a custom kernel works the best in terms of both battery life and stability.
Mostly sounds like the battery is just old as butt. I had a bum battery when I first got mine and luckily got a replacement for free. The new one has been working fine ever since (been a lot less than 3 years) but 3 years on one battery is pretty darn good if you ask me. OF course there could always be some sort of other problem but everyone's best guess says get a new batt. Hope it works out.
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Hey,
I flashed lighting rom yesterday and was my first custom rom I have ever experienced. I love it, however battery life is worse than stock rom and I have done a recalibration of the battery. Is there something im not doing because I was lead to assume that my battery life would improve.
If there is something I am not doing, please enlighten me.
Thanks
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From my experience a custom rom uses power pretty much the same as stock but once you root the phone you can freeze processes which then save the battery.
On stock I was getting screen on time of about 4.25 hours but now on villain rom I got just over 5 and still had 22% battery left.
I use ant tek app manager to freeze the processes.
I am sure people are going disagree with me here but I really think people are expecting a little too much out of this liddle-o-battery, if your phone is running at 1.2 all the time then its gonna suk-da-juice. I don't pick ROMS based on its battery performance as most now have battery optimisations cooked in as soon as they are found anyway. I just make sure I have some practical SETCPU profiles set to keep those megahertz at bay but also charge my Phone at work so it don't cost diddly anyway.
I also have a spare batter just in case
When the phone turns on, the camera makes a noise like it is coming on, is this normal? If not this could be it, however I have also noticed that the drain is absolutely massive when the screen is on (almost 10% in 20min)
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To have ANY idea about whats going on with your phone post screenshots of settings > about phone > battery.
Of both the graph and of the list of %'s
Also what rom/kernel/modem
Only thing which is suspicious is that display is a lot higher than normal, possibly due to the crt bug where auto brightness is not very good, have now set it to manual.
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Not a clue, without screenshots I cant know how you are using your phone etc
Fair enough, I may see how my use is tomorrow, I have installed juice defender so hopefully that will help things, I really like this ROM
I flashed litening rom 2.0 then cwm flash update 2.1 + 2.2 coming from stock rom noticed a battery life increase of about 50%.
hey
just flashed toxic "crazy8" rom and im having some battery issues.
i also flashed the immortality kernel by team whiskey (PROPS)
so the phone is wicked but the battery is killing me like 4 hours the phone dies. since my job involves gps being used i can understand it will die faster then usual but this fast ?
anyways i dont want to switch roms, cause i like it but any tips and things to improve battery would help
thanks.
I am running it now and it should not be dying that fast. You may want to reflash it. I remember in the past I flashed one of the themes once and it destroyed my battery life.
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I am running it now and it should not be dying that fast. You may want to reflash it. I remember in the past I flashed one of the themes once and it destroyed my battery life.
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well bro there are also more problems, it seems the phone is shutting off and reporting the wrong battery stats. so for example it will shut down on low battery and when you turn it on it has like 40% battery still in it ?
and then its freezing like crazy and stuck forever.
havent rebooted yet but will keep you posted once i do it this weeked.
hopefully
I recommend you switch to Bali 1.8.8uv or Bali X 1.2 if you want improved battery life. Immortality has always been a bit buggy for me, crashing when multiple apps are open and other little issues.
Also, it sounds like maybe your battery settings need to be reset. You can do this with the Battery Calibration app from the market. Just follow the instructions.
I just have my new Galaxy S2 and first thing I noted is that battery drain overnight in flight mode is significannt. I had a ZTE Blade which stayed in same % even for a whole weekend in flight mode, using CM 7 or the best GB cooked roms.
I tried many ROMs, including stock XWKK5, XILA2 and custom, doing a full wipe install and in every case they typically loose 3-5% in one night or 8-10% in one full day. Only ROM that seems to keep battery most inf flight mode CM 7, loosing some 2% in 24h (but more than ZTE Blade). Next better is The-GingerMod 0.8. I tried killing every running process in installed ROMs but consumption is still high.
In ZTE Blade made no sense turning off the phone at night since startup lost more battery, but with S2 it's better to turn it off if still has battery for another day.
I can understand that phone has some parts always running, and that S2 has a large screen that consumes more power than smaller phones, but I find strange that in flight mode, screen off, everything off there is such a difference with the ZTE Blade.
Any opinion about this?
I tend to put my phone in flight mode overnight (~8 hrs/because I like to sleep when I'm in bed ) and I normally lose 2% (0.25% per hr).
At the end of the day it's easy to overthink/stress/obsess about losing a few % overnight when you've got easy access to a charger most of the time. What I mean by this is you can spend a whole lot of time trying to find/chasing that extra couple of % in battery savings & either not find them or maybe only find 1-2%.
Obviously battery drain will depend on a whole bunch of factors not limited to kernel, rom, how you have your phone setup (apps & so on).
You may be experiencing wakelocks when the phone is in flight mode that might be causing the drain to be a bit higher than it could otherwise be. Get hold of BetterBatteryStats. Install it, read the thread on here devoted to it & you can post your wakelock details to that thread. There's a bunch of guys who post to the thread regularly (including the dev) who might be able to help you nail the wakelocks & maybe squeeze out a few % of savings.
I installed BetterBatteryStats but as for now my knowledge is very limited to decipher the processes, anyhow as I said I tried many ROMs after full wipe being intrigued for this behaviour, so they were clean installs with no app added, but I see that even custom ROMs if they're based on official and no removed apps have many things added in comparison to the more vanilla ROMs the Blade has. This explains why CM 7 (or The-GingerMod) s the one that drains less. Have not tried 'lite' ROMs whith removed apps.
Just wanted to decide if it's better to turn phone off at night or just put it in flight mode.
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I installed BetterBatteryStats but as for now my knowledge is very limited to decipher the processes, anyhow as I said I tried many ROMs after full wipe being intrigued for this behaviour, so they were clean installs with no app added, but I see that even custom ROMs if they're based on official and no removed apps have many things added in comparison to the more vanilla ROMs the Blade has. This explains why CM 7 (or The-GingerMod) s the one that drains less. Have not tried 'lite' ROMs whith removed apps.
Just wanted to decide if it's better to turn phone off at night or just put it in flight mode.
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i am currently using a lite rom based on XILA2 and i have to say it is the best i have used hands down. I never use flight mode at night or anything else. All i do is choose the governor of my choice and that is it. Some governors have a screen off profile. That saves you having to add an extra profile in the cpu apps if you use one. Anyway choose a rom plus a kernel that gives you great battery and stick a governor that has a screen off profile and your phone will sleep like a baby
Now that you've installed BetterBatteryStats, charge your phone fully before you go to sleep, do a reboot & leave it in flight mode overnight as you have been.
If you want to find out if it's possible to squeeze out an extra few % of battery, have a read of the BetterBatteryStats thread on here (search for it), read the first page or so, and the last 10 pages. That will give you an idea of what screenshots you'll need to post/what info you'll need to provide for the guys in that thread to help you out.
As to whether it's better to turn the phone off or put it in flight mode @ night, you should realise there's no right answer to that. It's your phone after all. Battery life isn't the be all & end all as I hinted in my previous post. Obviously if you want/need your phone fully on at night (normal mode), then you're going to lose battery & you'll be happy to lose battery because your phone will be switched on. It's entirely up to you.
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Now that you've installed BetterBatteryStats, charge your phone fully before you go to sleep, do a reboot & leave it in flight mode overnight as you have been.
If you want to find out if it's possible to squeeze out an extra few % of battery, have a read of the BetterBatteryStats thread on here (search for it), read the first page or so, and the last 10 pages. That will give you an idea of what screenshots you'll need to post/what info you'll need to provide for the guys in that thread to help you out.
As to whether it's better to turn the phone off or put it in flight mode @ night, you should realise there's no right answer to that. It's your phone after all. Battery life isn't the be all & end all as I hinted in my previous post. Obviously if you want/need your phone fully on at night (normal mode), then you're going to lose battery & you'll be happy to lose battery because your phone will be switched on. It's entirely up to you.
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if he wants the link to the thread of betterbatterystats he can just click on my sig for it
Hehehehe He can indeed
Suarez7 said:
if he wants the link to the thread of betterbatterystats he can just click on my sig for it
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I can be a lot of things besides the kernel itself, for instance:
1. Sensors! Turn off motion sensors...
2. The lower cpu freq is too high. Use the lowerst possible value.
3. The cpu governor it switching to the higher cpu freq to quickly. Try interactive.
4. Constant updates of some programs, like Twitter or Facebook. Even if there is no network connection they still run on their scheduled times. I just turn them off.
Hope it helps!
Hi guys!
I'm experiencing some problems with my Galaxy S III.
I've been changing and testing ROM's for my Galaxy S III for a few months, and i decided that the best ROM for my device is the ARHD (Thx Mike).
But every ROM i try i experience poor battery life.
I got 1% drain/4 hours with everything turned off.
If I'm playing a game like Jetpack Joyride or Plague Inc... 30 mins of gameplay is ~30% battery (94-63%).
What can i do? I know the "wipe battery stats" trick, in CWM recovery, but it's not a big difference.
It is possible that my unit is defective (purchase date 27 July 2012). I got EXCELLENT battery life with the ICS 4.0.4 ROM, unrooted. But if i put the old ICS back, i got the same thing...
What can i do? Is a "bad" file in my phone that corrupts everything?
Every ideea is welcomed.
Thx.
What can i do? I know the "wipe battery stats" trick, in CWM recovery, but it's not a big difference.
>>. has no bearing on battery life .
It is possible that my unit is defective (purchase date 27 July 2012). I got EXCELLENT battery life with the ICS 4.0.4 ROM, unrooted. But if i put the old ICS back, i got the same thing.
Very unlikely but a full wipe and flash a stock rom with no user apps will allow you to test before asking service centre .
jje
I've done a superwipe before installing the ARHD13, and also done wipe in AROMA.
1%/4hours is very good, that wont get any better, it would get you 400 hours of standby time.
Your experience with bad blife when playing games makes me think the drainage is mostly caused by screen & cpu. Try lower brightness, battery save mode in Settings, and/or diffrrent cpu governor settings ( governor determines how fast cpu steps up) . It doesnt seem to be ROM relatef, more kernel related. Try a diffrrent kernel.
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Screen 50-55% with AUTO.
Power saving activated (CPU limit and no vibration).
I am running ARHD 13 with Perseus kernel. Can you recommend me a simple and good kernel?
Please help... i need advice for a good kernel.
I don't know what to do...
siyah kernel is a good one will help in your battery here is the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1709686 and btw 1%/4 hours is just fine but the 2 games you mentioned drains a lot of battery that is the normal your battery is just fine and btw if you downgraded to ICS i would recommend to install the cell standby fix that may give you up to 1%/9 or 10 hours that is pretty good and here is the link to it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722 download the flashable zip file and just flash it using the clock work mod
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Hi guys!
I'm experiencing some problems with my Galaxy S III.
I've been changing and testing ROM's for my Galaxy S III for a few months, and i decided that the best ROM for my device is the ARHD (Thx Mike).
But every ROM i try i experience poor battery life.
I got 1% drain/4 hours with everything turned off.
If I'm playing a game like Jetpack Joyride or Plague Inc... 30 mins of gameplay is ~30% battery (94-63%).
What can i do? I know the "wipe battery stats" trick, in CWM recovery, but it's not a big difference.
It is possible that my unit is defective (purchase date 27 July 2012). I got EXCELLENT battery life with the ICS 4.0.4 ROM, unrooted. But if i put the old ICS back, i got the same thing...
What can i do? Is a "bad" file in my phone that corrupts everything?
Every ideea is welcomed.
Thx.
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Standby time doesn't sound that bad to me, do you get that sort of drain with every game? Otherwise it might just be those games aren't well optimised so use more than you expect.
If you were experiencing terrible standby time it might be the kernel or a rouge app using data/cpu cycles/gps in the background but as that seems to be fine it would indicate this isn't the issue.
Have you tried another battery, if you are finding the same with many different ROMs it is more likely to be that your battery is just getting old. My original battery won't last a day already, stick a new battery in and the life increases massively.
I got one of these and it is much better than the standard battery http://www.amazon.co.uk/Warranty-An...PK/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1351932644&sr=8-12
I don't have many games, because i don't crack anything (only original).
But on every game i get a huge battery drain (Jetpack Joyride, Plague Inc, Jumping Slime). Most of the games, are not a source of CPU/GPU stress, but the battery drain is huge 1%/1-2 minutes.
On Wi-Fi, is not so bad... 30 mins of browsing/downloading is 8-10% battery usage.
I don't think the problem is the battery, the phone is about 4-5 months old. What else can it be?
Is there any solution for me?
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I have done a full wipe, and installed ARHD14 with the latest Siyah kernel.
I have done the following settings:
CPU SETTINGS: Gentle Fair Sleepers -YES
CPU IDLE AND POWER SETTINGS: Idle + LPA (Default)
CPU UNDERVOLTING: -25mV
CPU SCALING SETTINGS: pegasusq
MAX CPU LOCK: Dual Core
SCALING MAX FREQ: 1Ghz
SCALING MIN FREQ: 200Mhz
Can i go further? What can i do?
The battery is 15-20% better, if i can say...
Battery problem?
Maybe it is l like the battery problem so maybe get it replaced.
Ok, i will try to test it on a Li-ION battery analyzer, to test the real amperage of the battery.
Many people told me to replace the battery, cuz is likely to be defective.
I will buy the Seidio 3500mAh model.
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Many people told me to replace the battery, cuz is likely to be defective.
I will buy the Seidio 3500mAh model.
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Did the new battery help?
Hii!
My LG G2 mini D620r is 2 and a half years old, and most of that time everything was ok. But, since two months ago, I noticed that the battery is draining much faster than usual. And also discharge wasn't happening continuously, but it had sam jums i.e. I would use phone for some ammount of time, and the battery gauge would show decrease in capacity of only a couple of percents, and then suddenly it would drop couple of percents more for no reason. Also I noticed that phone wouldn't charge up to the max. It would show that it is 100% full, but after only couple of minutes of idling it would drop to 97%.
After all that I thought that there was a problem with the battery and bought a new one. But it din's solve the problem at all. Problem just continued to apper so I came to conclusion that there was no problem with a battery.
I read somewhere that Android battery gauge can go crazy after certain ammount of time, and my phone in quite old.
So my question is:
Does anyone know what is the solution to the aforementioned problem?
Does this problem have anything with battery gauge?
And if it does, can it be solved by reflashing the stock ROM?
I forgot to mention that I'm using stock Android Lollipop 5.0.2, software version V20b-EUR-xx. Phone is rooted.
kazamat said:
Hii!
My LG G2 mini D620r is 2 and a half years old, and most of that time everything was ok. But, since two months ago, I noticed that the battery is draining much faster than usual. And also discharge wasn't happening continuously, but it had sam jums i.e. I would use phone for some ammount of time, and the battery gauge would show decrease in capacity of only a couple of percents, and then suddenly it would drop couple of percents more for no reason. Also I noticed that phone wouldn't charge up to the max. It would show that it is 100% full, but after only couple of minutes of idling it would drop to 97%.
After all that I thought that there was a problem with the battery and bought a new one. But it din's solve the problem at all. Problem just continued to apper so I came to conclusion that there was no problem with a battery.
I read somewhere that Android battery gauge can go crazy after certain ammount of time, and my phone in quite old.
So my question is:
Does anyone know what is the solution to the aforementioned problem?
Does this problem have anything with battery gauge?
And if it does, can it be solved by reflashing the stock ROM?
I forgot to mention that I'm using stock Android Lollipop 5.0.2, software version V20b-EUR-xx. Phone is rooted.
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A few options you can try, cuz i had the same problem on my d620r:
- Calibrate your battery;
- Uninstall/rootuninstall bloatware by LG/google, and apps you don't need;
- Use Facebook Lite;
- Use Greenify and Amplify (ideally with xposed framework);
- You can try reflashing stock after full wipe, but i dont think it will fix your problems;
- Best solution > Flash a custom rom and do all the things above.
I didn't have that problem on stock, but on CM13. I was running xposed framework with lots of modules, V4A in the background and a custom kernel, but still, i don't think that was the drainage problem. I'm still using the battery that came with the phone, and flashing Resurrection Remix Nougat 7.1 by mobiusm, governor on ondemand and greenify almost doubled my battery life since cm13!
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A few options you can try, cuz i had the same problem on my d620r:
- Calibrate your battery;
- Uninstall/rootuninstall bloatware by LG/google, and apps you don't need;
- Use Facebook Lite;
- Use Greenify and Amplify (ideally with xposed framework);
- You can try reflashing stock after full wipe, but i dont think it will fix your problems;
- Best solution > Flash a custom rom and do all the things above.
I didn't have that problem on stock, but on CM13. I was running xposed framework with lots of modules, V4A in the background and a custom kernel, but still, i don't think that was the drainage problem. I'm still using the battery that came with the phone, and flashing Resurrection Remix Nougat 7.1 by mobiusm, governor on ondemand and greenify almost doubled my battery life since cm13!
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In september, I flashed CM 13 snapshot from august, and I noticed some bugs with it so I returned to stock Lollipop. I think that's when the problems started. Since then I have used Battery Calibration app (if you know some better apps of that kind please do recommend), installed Greenify, but not Amplify and removed some of the preinstalled LG/Google bloatware, but not all. I do not use Facebook app at all. After all that it came to my mind to do full phone wipe and maybe that would eliminate the problem.
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In september, I flashed CM 13 snapshot from august, and I noticed some bugs with it so I returned to stock Lollipop. I think that's when the problems started. Since then I have used Battery Calibration app (if you know some better apps of that kind please do recommend), installed Greenify, but not Amplify and removed some of the preinstalled LG/Google bloatware, but not all. I do not use Facebook app at all. After all that it came to my mind to do full phone wipe and maybe that would eliminate the problem.
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I'd still recommend custom rom tho, preferably RR 7.1
And if you don't want a custom rom, make sure you are calibrating your battery correctly. By deleting the batterystats.bin file you dont really calibrate the battery, rather you reset the battery percentage meter. That is important of course, but before using the calibration app, make sure to do these steps:
Preparation: Hard reset the phone, root it again, install greenify (and amplify if you want), uninstall bloatware, charge to 100%. DON'T USE THE PHONE DURING THIS PROCESS FOR BEST RESULTS
1)Download Battery Waster and Battery Calibration from Play Store
2) Turn on battery waster (turn off flashlight option, it heats up the phone, turn on data, location and other battery consuming settings)
3)Drain battery to 0% until phone shuts down by itself.
4)When it shuts down, turn the phone back again for about 5 times
5)After those 5 or so times of turning on, put your phone on a charger without turning on (use wall charger if u can, and please use correct voltage of 5V)
6)When your phone shows full charge, unplug it and turn it on.
7)When you get to the homescreen, if you have less than 100% battery, plug in your charger again (without turning your phone off)
8)When it shows 100%, unplug your phone
9) Turn on battery waster
10) Let it turn off by itself
11) Do steps 4,5,6,7,8 again
12) Launch battery calibration app (root), and press calibrate
13) Restart phone
14) Greenify your apps and enable agressive doze in settings
NOTES: If on step 4 your phone sucessfully boots again without immediately shutting down, just continue draining your battery until it shuts down.
TIP: Keep between 40% and 80% battery
Hopefully your battery is like new again and free of its problems, but again flashing a custom rom other than fixing your battery, might even boost it, and custom kernels might boost it even more! (If configured right, that is).
IF YOU DECIDE TO FLASH A CUSTOM ROM, PLEASE DO THIS REGARDLESS
I hope I helped you!
Thank you very much @kasa ssg!
If this doesn't help, then there's no way to help me at all.
EDIT: Finally I found some time to do a recalibration of my phone's battery, and I think it worked. It definitely lasts longer now than before calibration. Also I returned to my phone's original battery that came with it first time it was bought.