I installed Lenny's great rom update L11 and it is very nice.
Thank you Lenny
I am having one issue.
The battery life has been drastically reduced. I was able to use the wireless for about 2 hours before the update and now it drains in about 40 min.
Just regular usage is also very fast to drain the battery. 2 hours of usage withe processor on high. I have three batteries and this is for the best of them. The others drain much quicker.
Is there anything to do, other than going back the Dell rom A16?
Thanks,
Jo
Anybody out there???????
yeah i know. I had the same and went back to A16.
ok, so one down.
Is there anyone out there who knows what to do about the power drain.
I do not want to go back to Win5.
Thanks.
I don't have any problem! I don't know how a ROM alone can affect the battery, it's the apps running that do it. I disabled Quick Menu and the Blue Tooth listening apps in Windows>Startup (I don't use BT). Maybe those create the drain?
I do not have bluetooth running and have now disabled Quick menu along with Batti.
I wonder if this will help. I hope so.
Thanks.
Hello people, after having used my Touch pro 2's GPS function extensively one day on battery, I have realized that the battery's life has shortened by huge amounts of time. It lasts for less than 24 hours now, so I was wondering if I needed a new battery or is there something I can do to restore it back to the previous state. Thanks!
I don't think using the GPS should ruin your battery, just doesn't make sense! Are you sure you shut off the GPS after using it? Are you running any other programmes in the background? Did you flash a new ROM?
My battery started going down twice as fast after swapping to the new "official" Sense 2.5 ROM.
you can try a couple of things that may extend your battery life. try first turning off the auto speakerphone when the phone is face down. i just did this and i can tell a marked difference in just a couple of days. also search battery life reg edits. theres a ton out there here and on ppcgeeks that will definetly help. in general i noticed that when I use GPS the battery drain is pretty high. hope that helps
Dimitri Stephan said:
Hello people, after having used my Touch pro 2's GPS function extensively one day on battery, I have realized that the battery's life has shortened by huge amounts of time. It lasts for less than 24 hours now, so I was wondering if I needed a new battery or is there something I can do to restore it back to the previous state. Thanks!
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Using the GPS all day will def drain your battery much faster, especially if you're using aGPS and/or an app that also downloads data to compliment the location info (like google maps). The GPS radio isn't 2-way like the phone or 3G or wifi, but it's still a radio and will give a noticible hit on your batt life when used even moderately, let alone all day.
If you're going to be using GPS a lot, you might want to try different radio roms to see if any of them make a difference in the batt life for you, but I don't know that will make as much of a difference as it does for the phone reception, etc. I would also suggest evaluating various GPS apps, with an eye on relative battery drain
Well guys, thanks for the answers, but that still doesn't solve my problem because I don't use the GPS function often at all, but the battery still drains quickly. Also, there are no programs running in the background. There is however a data connection that is always on and the mail checks for mail every hour. But the thing is I don't want to change any settings to enhance battery life, If it worked fine with the same settings before, why wont it do the same now? Do I need a new battery? Thanks!
Dimitri Stephan said:
Well guys, thanks for the answers, but that still doesn't solve my problem because I don't use the GPS function often at all, but the battery still drains quickly. Also, there are no programs running in the background. There is however a data connection that is always on and the mail checks for mail every hour. But the thing is I don't want to change any settings to enhance battery life, If it worked fine with the same settings before, why wont it do the same now? Do I need a new battery? Thanks!
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Ahhh sorry, I misunderstood, I thought you were just saying it drains faster while you use the GPS like that, not since you used it...I get it now.
That one day of heavy use shouldn't have killed your battery, take a look at THIS thread, others with the same issue/question have posted different things that have worked for them...you might want to give the steps in post #31 a try before thinking about buying a new batt.
Dimitri Stephan said:
Well guys, thanks for the answers, but that still doesn't solve my problem because I don't use the GPS function often at all, but the battery still drains quickly. Also, there are no programs running in the background. There is however a data connection that is always on and the mail checks for mail every hour. But the thing is I don't want to change any settings to enhance battery life, If it worked fine with the same settings before, why wont it do the same now? Do I need a new battery? Thanks!
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You can install " battclock " and you can continuously see what the battery drain actually is during different functions.
jonto said:
You can install " battclock " and you can continuously see what the battery drain actually is during different functions.
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Yes, great recommendation! (why didn't I think of that? lol)
And with battclock you can now see your CPU usage in real-time, which is probably one of the best coincidental indicators of battery drain (much more so than memory load, in my opinion)
Hi Dimitri,
I experienced the same problem where my battery life suddenly "shifted" from 48 hours to 12 hours on regular use..
I thought the problem was the battery and I replaced it, this did not help at all..
The only cause of this problem that I can think was loading the official HTC UK 6.5 ROM (1.86.401.0)..
hilt49 said:
Hi Dimitri,
I experienced the same problem where my battery life suddenly "shifted" from 48 hours to 12 hours on regular use..
I thought the problem was the battery and I replaced it, this did not help at all..
The only cause of this problem that I can think was loading the official HTC UK 6.5 ROM (1.86.401.0)..
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This is exactly what I am experiencing. (This together with not being able to connect the device to PC)
Installed several 6.5 ROMs and suddenly the battery lasts only half a night.
My question is: When the battery is full, when you turn the device off (completely off, not in standby mode!) does the battery drain then?
As far as I see, the battery has only 50% left after a night rest while it is off. So, the only way to keep the battery full is to remove it from the device.
What are your experiences with this?
Bright.Light said:
This is exactly what I am experiencing. (This together with not being able to connect the device to PC)
Installed several 6.5 ROMs and suddenly the battery lasts only half a night.
My question is: When the battery is full, when you turn the device off (completely off, not in standby mode!) does the battery drain then?
As far as I see, the battery has only 50% left after a night rest while it is off. So, the only way to keep the battery full is to remove it from the device.
What are your experiences with this?
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If you are truely turning it completely off, the battery should NOT drain at all. Have you tried a new battery? I bought a pair of batteries and an external charger on flEabay for like $12. The batteries are good as originals as far as I can tell.
worwig said:
If you are truely turning it completely off, the battery should NOT drain at all. Have you tried a new battery? I bought a pair of batteries and an external charger on flEabay for like $12. The batteries are good as originals as far as I can tell.
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Yes, I have two batteries, even an external charger.
Even when a battery is charged with the external charger, then put in the phone it drains the battery
hey guys can anyone link any of the forum topics to tweak battery life? the only things I have done is the general setting on the phone and the power management options with advance config are there more options and tweaks available?
thanks for all help!
worwig said:
If you are truely turning it completely off, the battery should NOT drain at all. Have you tried a new battery? I bought a pair of batteries and an external charger on flEabay for like $12. The batteries are good as originals as far as I can tell.
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I will test this (again) tomorrow night.
Bright.Light said:
This is exactly what I am experiencing. (This together with not being able to connect the device to PC)
Installed several 6.5 ROMs and suddenly the battery lasts only half a night.
My question is: When the battery is full, when you turn the device off (completely off, not in standby mode!) does the battery drain then?
As far as I see, the battery has only 50% left after a night rest while it is off. So, the only way to keep the battery full is to remove it from the device.
What are your experiences with this?
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Bright light...I'm also having BOTH of those problems...stock ATT rom. Within the past week my battery life has dropped exponentially, and when I went to sync last night, had not done so in a week or so, I get nothing...none of my PC's will recognize the phone as even being plugged in, let alone sync. I'm thinking maybe an ATT botched update?
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Bright light...I'm also having BOTH of those problems...stock ATT rom. Within the past week my battery life has dropped exponentially, and when I went to sync last night, had not done so in a week or so, I get nothing...none of my PC's will recognize the phone as even being plugged in, let alone sync. I'm thinking maybe an ATT botched update?
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So it seems I'm not alone.
Mine is a universal one, no brand whatsoever. I will try to reflash the original (6.1) stock ROM, including radio.
Have you flashed yours already?
@Bright.light @VirtualHomer:
I have the crap battery + no activesync issue.
I'm on the Josh's Black 1.7 ROM. I tried hard reseting, reflashing, going back to the stock ROM, but no improvement.
I have heard that removing the battery overnight is a possible fix for the USB issue (maybe for both?), but I haven't tried yet, will try tonight.
If anyone out there has any potential soultions here... would be great. Right now, I only get 1/2 a day (~6 hours) out of the battery & no hotsync at all (other than BT).
One thing I am pretty sure of: The bad battery life and the activesync issue came up around the same time. Wierd.
Cheers
Fingaluna said:
@Bright.light @VirtualHomer:
I have the crap battery + no activesync issue.
I'm on the Josh's Black 1.7 ROM. I tried hard reseting, reflashing, going back to the stock ROM, but no improvement.
I have heard that removing the battery overnight is a possible fix for the USB issue (maybe for both?), but I haven't tried yet, will try tonight.
If anyone out there has any potential soultions here... would be great. Right now, I only get 1/2 a day (~6 hours) out of the battery & no hotsync at all (other than BT).
One thing I am pretty sure of: The bad battery life and the activesync issue came up around the same time. Wierd.
Cheers
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You are right in assuming that battery life and connectivity issues came at the same time.
I was assuming this was because of a (bad?) flash, or maybe a bad ROM which changed something in a position that should not be changed and which is not restored by flashing another ROM.
A night without battery won't help, I think, because my device has been numerous times without any power and without any battery. However, I will try it again.
Could this be a faulty device? Or a design error?
@Bright.Light
I confirm that a night without the battery solved nothing. I have had my phone on for 5 hours now, taken 5 calls, none of them too long, checked email every 10 minutes (automagically) and I am down to 27% battery.
Also, I confirm that a replacement battery solves nothing, as I have also tried this.
I am planning on returning my device to an ATT store next week for a replacement... We'll see how it goes.
Cheers,
Matt
I'm in the same boat with mine. About two weeks ago the battery just started draining fast. Fast enough that it wouldn't make it to 4-5 hours without being charged. You could watch the battery meter drain. And what was weird was that there was no ROM change or anything that started this. Came out of the blue. Calling Spring tomorrow and getting a replacement is the best solution I can think of.
Hi all,
I'm a noob who was happy to get a BA to use instead of a Pocket PC/ MDAII. I thought the battery was no good so bought two new ones (1490mAh).
But even these only give me about 2-3 hours, with all possible power saving settings in use (brightness, beams, bluetooth off, power down if unused etc.).
I've searched and read up a lot on here, it's an excellent forum. I've flashed the ROM from the original 1.12 WWE (I think) to various ones I've found on here using WM6 and WM5 claiming to give good life, still getting nothing better than 3 hours even when left completely idle .
So is there a common hardware fault known for draining the battery? It certainly seems battery life is a common topic here for BA, but I can't see a phone that gives less than say 12 hrs use per charge having ANY success in the marketplace, yet the BA is regarded as pretty popular.
I'm about to bin it and go back to the PPC, or worse the Nokia.
Any ideas please for troubleshooting or remedies before I do that? One strange thing is even when it's idle the back is slightly warm to touch, so I'm thinking of either an invisible rogue application running or a parasitic current drain in the hardware.
All help and suggestions gratefully received.
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Hi all,
I'm a noob who was happy to get a BA to use instead of a Pocket PC/ MDAII. I thought the battery was no good so bought two new ones (1490mAh).
But even these only give me about 2-3 hours, with all possible power saving settings in use (brightness, beams, bluetooth off, power down if unused etc.).
I've searched and read up a lot on here, it's an excellent forum. I've flashed the ROM from the original 1.12 WWE (I think) to various ones I've found on here using WM6 and WM5 claiming to give good life, still getting nothing better than 3 hours even when left completely idle .
So is there a common hardware fault known for draining the battery? It certainly seems battery life is a common topic here for BA, but I can't see a phone that gives less than say 12 hrs use per charge having ANY success in the marketplace, yet the BA is regarded as pretty popular.
I'm about to bin it and go back to the PPC, or worse the Nokia.
Any ideas please for troubleshooting or remedies before I do that? One strange thing is even when it's idle the back is slightly warm to touch, so I'm thinking of either an invisible rogue application running or a parasitic current drain in the hardware.
All help and suggestions gratefully received.
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to solve problem of battery life on your device, much better check at >>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1145499&postcount=2
get an extended life battery
SOLUTION found
The clue was the warm battery
A repair guy over the phone said it was probably water damaged, sure enough the "white spot" inside was showing VOID in red.
So I opened it up including some of the sheet metal covers on the board, and used cotton buds and methylated spirits, cleaned off some deposits.
Put it back together and it's now had >100 hrs of standby time and is still over 50% on battery meter.
Now on to finding a ROM I like and starting to use it.
Hey all.
I have my LG Opt. G Pro E986 on Stock Firmware. It's rooted and has this Kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2363330.
Overall I'm ok with my battery life, around 2 days of usage with 6 hours screen-on time. Standby time is very good.
My problem is the following:
If my phone is around 30% battery it starts to drain a lot. I don't even have to use it and it's empty within 3-4 hours. The power consumption at this point is immense and i can't figure out why, there is nothing I am doing different than normal use. I even try to use it as less as possible at this battery level, but it just keeps going down.
I have Quad-Core management always on, power saving mode always off. I also do not have any other power saving applications or settings running.
Processor is on stock clockspeed, Voltage is on stock too, no Cores are disabled.
I searched for draining apps via Battery Stats Plus but did not found anything.
Useless Tasks/Processes etc. are disabled via App Quarantine.
I have this problem for a long time and now decided to ask for help.
Does anyone have the same problem? Can someone help my fix this issue?
Thanks a lot.
I see it too on stock battery but not on the zerolemon 3150 mah battery...it seems related to the way the phone measures battery %ge for the stock battery I guess
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Well ok, if this is the case is there any way to fix it without buying a new battery?
I ordered one with 3800 mAh, but it was crap and didn't even last half as long as the original one, so i wasn't able to compare them regarding my problem.
Hello everyone!
Proud owner of 5T for about 2 months now, switched from OPX and the performance, the screen, the everything was such a big improvement!
However, I've started noticing that my battery life is sub par... And I frequently read on forums and reddit that people achieve 5-6 hours SOT. I think I average about 4h SOT.. The reason I can't say for sure is because I've probably never charged my phone up to 100% (all hail dash charging when you can just plug it in for 20mins and get an extra hour lol).
Right now I'm testing this out, so I've charged my phone to 100% and I'll see how it goes.. Right now I'm on 36% with 2h 24min SOT and 14h 20mins since last full charge...
Here are some things I've tried:
- I frequently delete cache
- I've set animation scales and some other things to lower in developer options
- I use greenify automatic hibernation
- I don't have auto updates in Play store
- I have most of the notifications turned off
... There are probably more things that I can't remember right now, but I think I've probably tried most of the frequent fixes.
Right now I'm thinking of switching to a custom ROM (I loved Lineage and SultanRom on my OPX), because right now I'm running 8.0.0 (I've never upgraded because some people were saying it slowed their phones and/or worsened their battery life).
Please XDA, help me. I really want that 6hrs SOT and not having to bring charger with me around lol
Your battery life can depends on what apps you use, what you have on (wifi, bluetooth, data and stuff), you could check if something if heavily using up your battery in the corresponding section of your settings.
What kind of ROM you use doesn't noticeably affect your battery life as much. Instead however, people achieve a higher battery life by installing a custom kernel - they really do help, both in smoothness and SOT, give it a go mate
starting walking with several power banks ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Don't clear your cache very frequent.
Uninstall app you don't use.
Disable vibrations.
Use dark, black wallpaper. Bright colors consume more baterry. Blue is bad for our eyes.
Use black menu, interface, where is possible.
Disable Location if you don't need it.
Close the phone when you don't use it.
Finally, get a job.
Download better battery stats.
Then unistall greenery and use oreos background restrictor in battery settings
Also uodate to the latest