Hey everyone, I am having some trouble with my rooted phone. Prior to rooting the phone, I had no battery life issues. Right after Christmas, I had a little bit of time and I rooted my phone for tethering, mostly. I used the root listed on this website at the time (I couldn't use unrevoked because I had just done the OTA update to the software) and installed no further changes. Since then, I can get about 8 hours before the battery is well below 50%. This is without making any phone calls or using the internet, and maybe a few texts. I have resorted to turning off the connection to the internet, and this preserves my battery and allows me to make some calls without absolutely killing my battery. When I unplug, I can almost watch the battery life drain. I will be at 90% by the time my 15 minute drive to work is done. I have tried changing chargers, buying a new battery, and nothing works other than shutting off the connection to the internet. When I look at what has been using the battery, I not no time where I did not have a cell connection, and all the battery usage is idle and connection to network time. Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!
Wow, your situation seems very strange. Are you running a custom ROM or kernel? Have you tried using spare parts to see what is actually consuming your battery? Perhaps, you can try wiping everything from the phone and installing the stock ROM or other custom ROM of your choice. Please keep us posted, good luck
Recalibrate the battery. I would link you but kinda hard to do so. Just search the forums for it.
Sent from my Evo powered by MIUI
What Rom are u using?
That is happening to me too. After I first rooted the battery life was good better than before. I had been using vaelpak, then a about last week my battery started to drain so fast. I would take it off the charger and do a little texting or check my emails. Shower or what not than I pick up my phone and its like 92% already. Thinking maybe I have too many apps so I deleted some and then forced stopped a few and I forgot what else and that day my battery stayed on 60%(thats what it was on when I took it off the charger before I left) for about a good two hours and i was listening to music and the internet and text and all that. Kinda scared me because I thought I messed something up, but the battery lasted longer that day. Then the next day back to the same old same old. Last night I flashed warm twopointtwo and was charging my evo last night but I put it under the pillows by accident and woke up this morning the phone was burning up and flashing red and green at the same time and it had stopped charging. I took the battery out and let it cool for a few hours. now its charged back up. I wanna see if the battery improves with warm but I think I'm going to flash another ROM but this one is too pixeled and its killing my eyes So upset. but let me know if you fix your battery problem
hmmmm....maybe....
Bruggeman.Adam said:
Hey everyone, I am having some trouble with my rooted phone. Prior to rooting the phone, I had no battery life issues. Right after Christmas, I had a little bit of time and I rooted my phone for tethering, mostly. I used the root listed on this website at the time (I couldn't use unrevoked because I had just done the OTA update to the software) and installed no further changes. Since then, I can get about 8 hours before the battery is well below 50%. This is without making any phone calls or using the internet, and maybe a few texts. I have resorted to turning off the connection to the internet, and this preserves my battery and allows me to make some calls without absolutely killing my battery. When I unplug, I can almost watch the battery life drain. I will be at 90% by the time my 15 minute drive to work is done. I have tried changing chargers, buying a new battery, and nothing works other than shutting off the connection to the internet. When I look at what has been using the battery, I not no time where I did not have a cell connection, and all the battery usage is idle and connection to network time. Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!
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I'm having similar problems, though not as dramatic - mybattery life only lasts about a third of what it used to. I am running 2.2 RLS 5 witht the htc stock #15 kernel. What I am trying to do is hunt down a decent kernel that is compatable with RLS 5. I have found a few - but I am still in the process of researching information about the issue.
I have found 3 differant ways to reset your battery... I'm going with the last one (blue) for now and am currently in the process of executing it right now, but here are the three steps I have found while reading:
Charge the phone fully with it powered on
When fully charged, disconnect cable
After green LED goes off, power the phone off
When phone is fully powered off, reconnect cable, amber charging light should be on
When LED goes green, disconnect cable
Repeat previous two steps 10 times
After 10th cycle, boot into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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this is one from HTC
Charge the phone for 8 hours uninterupted with power on
turn off the phone and charge for an additional hour
turn ont he phone unplug it and let it sit for 2 minutes then plug it in for an additional hour.
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charge the phone to full
unplug and use phone till it shuts off from no battery (do not plug in until it shuts off)
charge phone to full again with out unplugging till 100% (check under about phone > battery it shoudl say full charge there)
then boot into recovery and wipe battery stats
reboot back into phone and charge too 100% with a wall charger( don not unplug until at 100%)
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After I try this out - I might or might not switch my kernel - But I wll say this - I had absolutly awesome battery life when I was running HTC stock #17 - you might could look into flashing that instead of what you are running now (flash it just like you would a ROM) - you can find it here
hope this helps out a little bit - but in reality - getting your battery the way you like it is really more of a trial and error type procedure...good luck
Ah, welcome to an elite club...right. I rooted my 003 Evo last summer after getting it shipped to me. From then until mid-november of last year, I got great battery life. Before the switch flipped in November, I could leave it sit overnight and i'd use 1-1.5% charge per hour, so worst case after 8-hours sleeping with no use I'd be at 86-88% charge.
Then suddenly as it a switch had been flipped, I started getting horrible battery life. The ROM didn't matter, settings mattered little, it just sucks no matter what I do. If I unplug it at 6:00 AM and leave it completely unused until 2:00-3:00PM that afternoon, the stock battery is at 31-35%. The awake time will be under an hour, and every utility that I use reports nothing out of the ordinary.
I bought a 3500 mAh battery and its better of course, but gets me nowhere near the use what the stock battery used to provide. I unrooted back to stock with the same results so I rooted again of course. Might try flashing back to the 1.77 PRI and NV. Some folks are getting better battery life with those, but that may only be related to sleep issues which my phone doesn't appear to have. It may prove to be a waste of time, but I have to keep trying.
Good luck all of the club members! Thank you for your time.
JayStation3 said:
I'm having similar problems, though not as dramatic - mybattery life only lasts about a third of what it used to. I am running 2.2 RLS 5 witht the htc stock #15 kernel. What I am trying to do is hunt down a decent kernel that is compatable with RLS 5. I have found a few - but I am still in the process of researching information about the issue.
I have found 3 differant ways to reset your battery... I'm going with the last one (blue) for now and am currently in the process of executing it right now, but here are the three steps I have found while reading:
Charge the phone fully with it powered on
When fully charged, disconnect cable
After green LED goes off, power the phone off
When phone is fully powered off, reconnect cable, amber charging light should be on
When LED goes green, disconnect cable
Repeat previous two steps 10 times
After 10th cycle, boot into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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this is one from HTC
Charge the phone for 8 hours uninterupted with power on
turn off the phone and charge for an additional hour
turn ont he phone unplug it and let it sit for 2 minutes then plug it in for an additional hour.
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charge the phone to full
unplug and use phone till it shuts off from no battery (do not plug in until it shuts off)
charge phone to full again with out unplugging till 100% (check under about phone > battery it shoudl say full charge there)
then boot into recovery and wipe battery stats
reboot back into phone and charge too 100% with a wall charger( don not unplug until at 100%)
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After I try this out - I might or might not switch my kernel - But I wll say this - I had absolutly awesome battery life when I was running HTC stock #17 - you might could look into flashing that instead of what you are running now (flash it just like you would a ROM) - you can find it here
hope this helps out a little bit - but in reality - getting your battery the way you like it is really more of a trial and error type procedure...good luck
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I'm trying the first one right now I will keep you updated to see if this works
im using netarchy 4.3.2 havs more aggressive with both myns roms and my battery is pretty good
JayStation3 said:
I'm having similar problems, though not as dramatic - mybattery life only lasts about a third of what it used to. I am running 2.2 RLS 5 witht the htc stock #15 kernel. What I am trying to do is hunt down a decent kernel that is compatable with RLS 5. I have found a few - but I am still in the process of researching information about the issue.
I have found 3 differant ways to reset your battery... I'm going with the last one (blue) for now and am currently in the process of executing it right now, but here are the three steps I have found while reading:
Charge the phone fully with it powered on
When fully charged, disconnect cable
After green LED goes off, power the phone off
When phone is fully powered off, reconnect cable, amber charging light should be on
When LED goes green, disconnect cable
Repeat previous two steps 10 times
After 10th cycle, boot into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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this is one from HTC
Charge the phone for 8 hours uninterupted with power on
turn off the phone and charge for an additional hour
turn ont he phone unplug it and let it sit for 2 minutes then plug it in for an additional hour.
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charge the phone to full
unplug and use phone till it shuts off from no battery (do not plug in until it shuts off)
charge phone to full again with out unplugging till 100% (check under about phone > battery it shoudl say full charge there)
then boot into recovery and wipe battery stats
reboot back into phone and charge too 100% with a wall charger( don not unplug until at 100%)
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After I try this out - I might or might not switch my kernel - But I wll say this - I had absolutly awesome battery life when I was running HTC stock #17 - you might could look into flashing that instead of what you are running now (flash it just like you would a ROM) - you can find it here
hope this helps out a little bit - but in reality - getting your battery the way you like it is really more of a trial and error type procedure...good luck
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**Just a update, the 1st one did nothing for me lol**
DoctorComrade said:
Recalibrate the battery. I would link you but kinda hard to do so. Just search the forums for it.
Sent from my Evo powered by MIUI
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I used Amon_RA backup to recalibrate the battery this AM. We'll see how that works.
rey823 said:
What Rom are u using?
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Sprintlovers ROM from the initial root process. Kernel HTC #15
JayStation3 said:
I'm having similar problems, though not as dramatic - mybattery life only lasts about a third of what it used to. I am running 2.2 RLS 5 witht the htc stock #15 kernel. What I am trying to do is hunt down a decent kernel that is compatable with RLS 5. I have found a few - but I am still in the process of researching information about the issue.
I have found 3 differant ways to reset your battery... I'm going with the last one (blue) for now and am currently in the process of executing it right now, but here are the three steps I have found while reading:
Charge the phone fully with it powered on
When fully charged, disconnect cable
After green LED goes off, power the phone off
When phone is fully powered off, reconnect cable, amber charging light should be on
When LED goes green, disconnect cable
Repeat previous two steps 10 times
After 10th cycle, boot into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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this is one from HTC
Charge the phone for 8 hours uninterupted with power on
turn off the phone and charge for an additional hour
turn ont he phone unplug it and let it sit for 2 minutes then plug it in for an additional hour.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
charge the phone to full
unplug and use phone till it shuts off from no battery (do not plug in until it shuts off)
charge phone to full again with out unplugging till 100% (check under about phone > battery it shoudl say full charge there)
then boot into recovery and wipe battery stats
reboot back into phone and charge too 100% with a wall charger( don not unplug until at 100%)
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After I try this out - I might or might not switch my kernel - But I wll say this - I had absolutly awesome battery life when I was running HTC stock #17 - you might could look into flashing that instead of what you are running now (flash it just like you would a ROM) - you can find it here
hope this helps out a little bit - but in reality - getting your battery the way you like it is really more of a trial and error type procedure...good luck
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Tried the middle one from HTC as well... we will see how it goes. Just in the time I have been typing this message (about 2 minutes), my battery has gone from 91 to 88%.
Also forgot to add that I have been out of town every week for the last two months and noticed that the HTC weather thing on the startup screen hasn't been switching to my current location. Always shows my hometown, even if I force an update.
I think I figured out the problem... ran into several threads discussing PRI incompatibility with HTC kernel #15. Flashed back to 1.77 and doing much better. Didn't mess with the NV. We will see how it does for the rest of the day.
Ok so I've been trying to figure this out for the past couple weeks but I finally decided to look for some help..
My OEM battery wasnt always chafing so I decided to buy a new one online (same OEM 1500mAh) then I put my new battery in, go into recovery and wipe batt stats, flash tiamat SBC kernel and continue using my phone...well after a couple days I realized that my phone wasn't trickle charging all the way to 0 it would either trickle to about 10 and then hold or it would start discharging while it was still on the charger like I didn't have SBC....I've tried different kernel versions, continuously wiping batt stats and making sure my phone isn't doing anything strange and nothing
I'm currently running the latest MIUI rom with tiamat 3.3.3 with SBC...oh and this also happened when I was running CM7...any input is appreciated
Sent from a MIUIed EVO
When you wipe battery stats are you at 100%? Then let it discharge until it's almost dead? If not, do it again, after it discharges fully, charge it to 100% again without any breaks in charging.
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
Yea I just did that n it seems 2 help out just letting u know
I don't believe you need to wipe battery stats on sbc. But I could be wrong. I would suggest dl the kernel again and reflash.
tim
So i'm currently running CM7 on my incredible. I have been running it for a little over a month with no battery problems. Just recently the battery has been draining crazy fast. I'm saying losing 1% every minute. At first I thought it was my battery so I took the battery from my wife's Dinc to try her's as she has absolutely no battery problems at all. It drained the battery 8% in a matter of 5 minutes!!!
I left my phone on and had it charging all night and in the morning it was still at only 78% charged.
Is there a fix to this? Ideas?
Thanks for the help!
I'm surprised that it wouldn't fully charge over night! Seems like it only takes an hour or two to fully charge my phone (stock battery, cm7, incredikernel). I'd recommend a different kernel that has fast charge at least, might also help your battery life too. Chad's incredikernel or invisiblek are my favorites, both charge very quickly.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
xusefil321 said:
So i'm currently running CM7 on my incredible. I have been running it for a little over a month with no battery problems. Just recently the battery has been draining crazy fast. I'm saying losing 1% every minute. At first I thought it was my battery so I took the battery from my wife's Dinc to try her's as she has absolutely no battery problems at all. It drained the battery 8% in a matter of 5 minutes!!!
I left my phone on and had it charging all night and in the morning it was still at only 78% charged.
Is there a fix to this? Ideas?
Thanks for the help!
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Charge your phone until it won't anymore while turned on. Then turn it off and keep charging until the light goes green. Then unplug it, and plug it back in until it goes green again. Then boot into recovery and go to Advanced -> Wipe Battery Stats. Reboot your phone and let the battery drain to 0% (don't plug it in at all until it's at 0%, it's relearning all the charge points and whatnot). Then plug it in and charge it all the way up again.
I hope this solves your problem!
What's your CPU utilization look like? If something is pegging your processor, the battery will run down pretty fast.
cvbcbcmv said:
that's really weird. I got great BL on cm7. And I get comparable with a sense 2.1/3.0 rom which makes me very happy. I have a 1500mah battery, but I just got it recently and I got great BL with stock. But it's great because it came with 2 bats and a bat charger, so I just keep one on the charger and if I run low for whatever reason, I just swap the battery. And unlike a lot of battery chargers, when it gets full it doesn't start to drain, it keeps it at 100%.
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I WAS getting great battery life. all of a sudden the phone had shut off one day and wouldn't go back on unless I took the battery out and put it back in. Since then the battery life has been just crap. I tried resetting the battery points and nothing happened. I think I'm just going to go back to 2.2. I never had any issues with cm7 up until now but something is completely ****ed and I can't do anything to repair it.
ugh.
Check what apps are consuming most of your CPU. If you nothing stands out there it may be worth buying System Panel ($3) for the monitoring capability. There are probably free apps that do the same thing, but I can only recommend what I've tried. Also, if you just recently flashed an over/underclocked kernel or just installed SetCPU, you may be running into Issue 9733, which has a known workaround. If you want any more detailed assistance, you'll have to post more details. Can you post an adb bugreport?
I'm not sure what happened but I decided to just flash a different ROM. I just flashed Kingdom Stock GingerSense 3.0. Works great! I installed all my programs on it just fine and I just tried installing the google apps zip (it has navigation, places, ect) and now I'm getting an error message. UGH! WHY! It didn't install the apps from the zip file and now for a few programs that I had already installed they are no longer there and when I try to install from the market place I get a "Missing Shared Library" error message. I'm trying to install the TD Bank app and Tweetdeck as well as Craigslist and get the errors. I'm not having any problems with anything else.
problem solved!
I am having an issue with my battery and wanted to ask if it was the norm? I had a battery problem last week and decided to flash the new radios to see if that was the case. It didn't seem to help. So I flashed Tiamat 4.0.5 SBC kernel yesterday after whiping the correct info, flashing, etc. Everything went smooth. I am running latest stable build of CM7.
I charged the phone to 100% (and about 30-40 min more) and then wiped battery stats. Drained the phone all the way until it died last night. I put on the charger before bed and let it charge all night. I woke up at 630am and it was 100%. It is now 930am (3 hours later) and I am down to 40% battery. I have not used my phone at all this morning. No texts, emails, calls, web, anything. Is this the norm? Is there something I am not doing with the kernel? I have good 4G coverage in the area, so I am not sure what the problem is.
I am attaching a screenshot of the battery usage.
I had installed the stock android 2.3.4 by mistake and then reverted to froyo, using the method given in the forum, but have noticed battery drain quickly, it lasts only 15-16 hours on froyo,
then I installed cm7 rc v2 and the battery has been drianing even faster to last just 12 hrs at the squeez,
how do I solve my battery issue..
Download and install battery calibration from the market. You need rooted device.
1) Charge the phone to full.
2) once full charged, launch battery calibration and press calibrate.
3) Use the phone until it fully drained and shut-off. (this only a suggestion to use it one full cycle after battery calibration run).