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Competition: Best Batter life ROM

any chance of mods running such a comp? with 3 way toggle for battery save, gprs and gps?

you can always add the HTC widgets to the home screen that allow you to toggle all the battery draining stuff. And in 2.1, there's a single integrated google widget that does all the same stuff.

It is so intermittent that it would be impossible to get reliable results. I found brilliant battery life with Villain and average on MCR and really terrible on stock HTC. I get three times as long out of my phone now i'm on Villain than I did on the stock firmware.
However, everywhere you hear so many stories of people having poor battery life on custom roms and such varied accounts even on the same rom's that it would be impossible (at the moment) to get some reliable comparrisons.

I dont know u though about 2.1 or 1.5 but the Kimera v.1.5 , which based on android 1.5, has an awesome battery life

yes tried kimera, will try it again when phones re-charged, might have to give villain 4 ago beofre tho. my normal one is ahero tho.
be nice if could be some sort of benchmark for battery usage like there is for speed tho

blueflash said:
yes tried kimera, will try it again when phones re-charged, might have to give villain 4 ago beofre tho. my normal one is ahero tho.
be nice if could be some sort of benchmark for battery usage like there is for speed tho
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I use a program called battery graph to monitor mine. Currently running 24 hours without dropping from 100%

btdag said:
I use a program called battery graph to monitor mine. Currently running 24 hours without dropping from 100%
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and that doesn't make you suspicious? there is obviously something wrong...

Easiest solution............
Turn it off! If your that bothered about the battery life buy an old school nokia 3310 put a paygo sim card in your HTC just to play with it.
Have you not noticed that as phones get smarter battery life gets lower?
On a side note i charge my battery whenever possible, carry a usb lead everywhere with me as i can plug it in at home,in the car,in the pub,at work etc

And remember - regardless of which ROM you use, if you use a lot of widgets, programs which run in the background or programs which sync often, you will find that your battery life will be significantly reduced nonetheless.
Often you can use a shortcut to an application instead of a widget and get on-demand functionality instead of an auto-updating and battery-draining widget.
Disabling wifi / mobile data / mail auto-syncing / GPS, as well as decreasing brightness and the time the screen is on while not using your phone, will help for any rom too.
Good luck.

kendong2 said:
and that doesn't make you suspicious? there is obviously something wrong...
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You're suggesting I should be suspicious because my battery is lasting like it should be? Currently:
71% left
Up Time: 2d 20h 47m 59s
66% Cell standby
34% phone idle
I've also been texting and internet & market but nothing heavy.
It just depends on what you do with your phone, I wonder sometimes why people think they should be able to have wifi, gps, bluetooth, and every other feature turned on and expect their phone to last more than a day? Does your laptop last a day? and look at the size of that battery. I know the hardware is stripped down but your phone is now essentially a miniature pc so stop complaining. If you get used to turning off all the features which drain the battery you'll see a marked improvement. If you can't turn them off for any reason then buy a larger capacity battery! There are loads around on ebay and other sites. hxxp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EXTENDED-3000-MAH-BATTERY-REAR-COVER-FOR-HTC-HERO_W0QQitemZ380174233125QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_MobilePhones_MobilePhoneAccessories_MobilePhoneBatteries?hash=item5884266e25

btdag said:
You're suggesting I should be suspicious because my battery is lasting like it should be? Currently:
71% left
Up Time: 2d 20h 47m 59s
66% Cell standby
34% phone idle
I've also been texting and internet & market but nothing heavy.
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Yes because the battery should not work like that, its a smartphone not a bottom range nokia work phone.
like I have said before no smart-phones battery are meant to last longer than say 2 days max of normal use maybe 5 at a really really really basic/no use

Battery saving tips

Before we get an update (well if it will sort the problem...) I wonder if we could collect the best tricks and tips how to save battery life on Desire? Some of you have experience of apps and widgets that drain the battery fast, then we have the usual (turn of 3g, wifi, avoid white backgrounds etc).
What you think? Lets share what we found out!

- Turn off any auto-update for anything unless you really (really) need them
- Even if you really (REALLY) need auto-update, set auto-update period to longer interval (why do you want to get weather update every hour? just an example)
- Again, review your auto-update apps/widgets!!!
- Turn off GPS. Turn this on only when you are going to use sat nav app
- Turn off Wi-Fi. It is obvious, turn it on when needed and dont forget to turn off!
- Turn off Bluetooth, unless you want to use it (headphone???)
- Don't use task killer of any kind unless you really (REALLY) know what you are doing. Let Android OS take care of killing those inactive apps, Android is designed for this.
- Set your screen brightness as low as possible your eyes could use. Full brightness is really not necessary unless you want to show off to iPhone users
- Limit your home screen widgets, think if you really want to use to have "quick look". Otherwise you can just put icon shortcut, one click and there you go!
- Choose AMOLED friendly apps. Meaning, avoid any white or extreme bright UI / background colors. For example: The XDA Android app created by Tapatalk is AMOLED friendly compared to browsing via web, because it uses black color background. Find apps that you can customize the color
- Choose AMOLED friendly themes. I would replace the default HTC big clock that uses white color with other that uses black color.
That's for now

The first charge is important for the battery and your device too. The battery has to be charged long time, 12-16 hours first time to use all the chemicals it has. Some says that the polymer batteries don't need the first big charge but specialist's says it's good practise to do it with the LiPoly batteries too.
Note: it's best practise to wait until the battery reaches it's critical level (around 5%) before you start the first big charge. The first charge also calibrates your devices power meter.

Mastoid said:
The first charge is important for the battery and your device too. The battery has to be charged long time, 12-16 hours first time to use all the chemicals it has. Some says that the polymer batteries don't need the first big charge but specialist says it's good practice to do it with the LiPoly batteries too.
Note, that you have to wait until the battery reaches it's critical level (around 5%) before start the first big charge. The first charge also calibrates your devices power meter.
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Is this really really true? I hopefully will be getting a new Desire tomorrow (for exchange) and when I received my previous one, I didn't drain the battery and then charge for 12 hours. I would not mind doing it if it really improves the battery life but I've seen conflicting articles/opinions about this whole 12 hours charge thing

From HTC FAQ
http://www.htc.com/www/faqs.aspx?p_id=312&cat=80&id=127114
When I first receive my phone, do I need to charge the battery?
Your phone ships with a partially charged battery so it's suggested you charge your battery fully before first use. The battery is fully charged when the notification LED turns green.
It is recommended to charge the battery for 8 hours the first time to ensure that the battery has had time to recharge.
Note: It is recommended that you only use the charger and cable provided in the box your phone was shipped in.
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HoneyBeFly said:
Is this really really true? I hopefully will be getting a new Desire tomorrow (for exchange) and when I received my previous one, I didn't drain the battery and then charge for 12 hours. I would not mind doing it if it really improves the battery life but I've seen conflicting articles/opinions about this whole 12 hours charge thing
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Thanks for that although if I remember correctly on the Desire quick quide it says I need to charge it for 3 hours for the first time. Regardless, it insinuates that I shouldn't drain the battery before the first charge

Please try and read about how a li-ion battery works.
NiCd and NiMH need longer (and slow) initial charge(s). Because indeed the battery still needs to form. Usually 5 charges, but cheap ones reach max capacity after eg 15 charges.
This is NOT the case for li-ion batteries. They have max capacity as soon as they roll out of the factory. And they start degrading from that point.
Keeping the Desire charged longer has no use. Because as soon as the battery is full, the internal chip will cut off the charge. So you can just as well plug out your charger.
There are so many voodoo stories about batteries, even from manufacturers. Probably because each battery chemistry need different handling. Whereas li-ion batteries are actually much more easy. They don't last too long though :/

updates
Every now and then you get a notification of available updates to apps... anyone knows how this works and if it does drain the battery? Is there a way to turnthe update check off?

Can you try this:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f12/how-to-turn-off-application-upgrade-check-12723/
Let us know the result.
jannen said:
Every now and then you get a notification of available updates to apps... anyone knows how this works and if it does drain the battery? Is there a way to turnthe update check off?
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Battery calibration app

Could someone please develop a good app that would enable the battery to be drained as much as possible and to charge slower so we could all properly calibrate our batteries?

Do we really need this since it's a Li-ion battery? I know Ni-Mh and Ni-Cad has memory effect, but not on the Li-Ion battery.

I was just wondering the same thing today....simply because there seems to be several different methods to do it. Some say charge 8 hours, turn off, charge and hour, unplug, turn on charge 10 minutes. Then other methods say to do something different....be nice to have an app to walk you through different methods so you know step by step your doing it right

I calibrated mine last night and I'm going to get about 18 hours if not more from it....before yesterday I was getting 9.
The ONLY other different I did was make some profiles on CPU but I cant imagine it would make that much of a difference. I bet its a mix of both

deonjahy said:
Could someone please develop a good app that would enable the battery to be drained as much as possible and to charge slower so we could all properly calibrate our batteries?
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That is to funny I was just saying to my wife the other day that I should make one of these programs seeing that there are none already. I hate having to manually kill my battery every night before I charge it again.
Is it needed? It depends on your school of thought, some say yes, some say no. All I know is that on the few devices I have had in the past, if I constantly plug them in to "top them off" then the battery never ends up lasting very long after a few months of doing that. So I am a believer in killing the battery before charging on devices like these.
So the bottom line is if there is a desire for this, I may try to put an app together for it, as I know myself I am interested I just didn't think many others would be.

All the battery calibration tools, are basically deleting the file... right?
Is it that hard to boot into recovery and wipe battery stats?

deonjahy said:
Could someone please develop a good app that would enable the battery to be drained as much as possible and to charge slower so we could all properly calibrate our batteries?
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I think the second part has to do with hardware. The phones hardware just doesn't have trickle charge implemented and instead lets it drop back down to 90% then starts charging it again.
As for the second part, it came on our phones, even has a default widget. 4G
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That is to funny I was just saying to my wife the other day that I should make one of these programs seeing that there are none already. I hate having to manually kill my battery every night before I charge it again.
Is it needed? It depends on your school of thought, some say yes, some say no. All I know is that on the few devices I have had in the past, if I constantly plug them in to "top them off" then the battery never ends up lasting very long after a few months of doing that. So I am a believer in killing the battery before charging on devices like these.
So the bottom line is if there is a desire for this, I may try to put an app together for it, as I know myself I am interested I just didn't think many others would be.
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Um... actually that is (by most accounts) bad for Li-Ion. You want to AVOID completely draining them. All of this stuff is more art than science, but I have way more often heard that completely draining LI batteries is bad. What kills them is the number of cycles they have been through (like -25 +25, -25 +25, -50 +50 would be a full cycle).
You do however want to give them a full up down cycle once in a while (maybe every 1-3 months) for calibration.
Then again, as I said, it is more art than science, and I have heard your method as being better, but the not draining argument seems to be the vast majority.
I'll try to do a little look-see and update this or repost if I find any stronger evidence.

the thing about my phone and battery that ALWAYS baffled me was i would plug it in at night be it at 10% or 22 i would leave plugged in while slept i would wake up unplug and look at battery percentage and it would be like 95.....no other phone has even unplugged and dropped 5 percent by doing nothing????

turn your brightness to 100% and change it so that it never turns off; use wifi tether and play a 720p movie at the same time; oc your kernel to it's highest stable frequency. it'll drain pretty quickly.

I know I might get flamed for this....
Apple suggests, with their laptops, to once a month or so, run the battery completely down. Then let the battery cool down for a little bit. Then give it a full, uninterrupted, overnight charge. I forget if they said to repeat this a second time, then you're good.
This is all from memory of me reading this a couple years ago or so, so our might not be verbatim. Their laptops use lithium ion technology...
(and they used to blow up and melt down too!) Lol!
Wrong word choice and misspelling courtesy of swype.

mykeldrip said:
the thing about my phone and battery that ALWAYS baffled me was i would plug it in at night be it at 10% or 22 i would leave plugged in while slept i would wake up unplug and look at battery percentage and it would be like 95.....no other phone has even unplugged and dropped 5 percent by doing nothing????
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That's because the phone stops charging when it reaches 100%, and runs off of battery probably until it reaches in the low 90s, then charges again. You won't ever notice this because the light will always be green. However, you'll notice that unplugging it a few moments after it turns green, the battery will stay anywhere from 100%-98% for a while. At least on my phone it does.

Is there any way to make this program "auto run" during sleep so it can do everything it needs to do during the night charge (similar to quickpull for blackberry)

laydros said:
I think the second part has to do with hardware. The phones hardware just doesn't have trickle charge implemented and instead lets it drop back down to 90% then starts charging it again.
As for the second part, it came on our phones, even has a default widget. 4G
Um... actually that is (by most accounts) bad for Li-Ion. You want to AVOID completely draining them. All of this stuff is more art than science, but I have way more often heard that completely draining LI batteries is bad. What kills them is the number of cycles they have been through (like -25 +25, -25 +25, -50 +50 would be a full cycle).
You do however want to give them a full up down cycle once in a while (maybe every 1-3 months) for calibration.
Then again, as I said, it is more art than science, and I have heard your method as being better, but the not draining argument seems to be the vast majority.
I'll try to do a little look-see and update this or repost if I find any stronger evidence.
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I am by no means an expert so if you find any reliable info on this and can link us to read, I would love to learn more. All I know is that it is commonly said to drain rechargeable batteries and that I have seen that topping them off very often does lead to battery life degradation.

Tyzing said:
Is there any way to make this program "auto run" during sleep so it can do everything it needs to do during the night charge (similar to quickpull for blackberry)
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There is no need to fully drain the battery. Its purpose in calibration is to configure the software that is correlating voltage to percentage charged. That's all. Regarding the old Apple advice, that is doing the same thing. It will not affect the hardware.
Now, what WILL affect the hardware is charging itself. Every charge/discharge cycle will reduce the total capacity of the battery. This is why the EVO will not cycle on it's own until 10% discharged. It's improving the overall battery life by that restriction.
In short, you will save money overall by getting a higher capacity battery that you don't force to charge too often. Draining your battery does nothing but give you peace of mind and it only really needs recalibrating when it's total capacity has been reduced which isn't often. 3-6 months.
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herbthehammer said:
I know I might get flamed for this....
Apple suggests, with their laptops, to once a month or so, run the battery completely down. Then let the battery cool down for a little bit. Then give it a full, uninterrupted, overnight charge. I forget if they said to repeat this a second time, then you're good.
This is all from memory of me reading this a couple years ago or so, so our might not be verbatim. Their laptops use lithium ion technology...
(and they used to blow up and melt down too!) Lol!
Wrong word choice and misspelling courtesy of swype.
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Yeah except that's not a good idea, it will kill the weak cells.

I understand. Still think it would be useful if it would do the "juice until LED changes" method while sleeping though

paulieb81 said:
So the bottom line is if there is a desire for this, I may try to put an app together for it, as I know myself I am interested I just didn't think many others would be.
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I'm interested!

Btw - what are the charging calibrations people are using? Are you seeing one working better than another?

Im a noob, so take what I say worth a grain of salt but yesterday I did the standard method where you fully charge...turn off...plug back in until led changes green and do it a few times.
I went from 9 hours to 17 hours with no other changes except a few profiles in setCPU.
I did this just last night so my results are fresh.

Tyzing said:
I calibrated mine last night and I'm going to get about 18 hours if not more from it....before yesterday I was getting 9.
The ONLY other different I did was make some profiles on CPU but I cant imagine it would make that much of a difference. I bet its a mix of both
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A few SetCPU profiles is all it takes to see a dramatic increase in battery life, especially while screen off. If you disable it I bet whatever gain you think was from 'calibrating' it disappears.

Looking for technical answer. Why several charge cycles for ROM to "settle in"?

Looking for technical answer. Why several charge cycles for ROM to "settle in"?
So we all know its a common rule when we flash a new ROM we should give it 2 or 3 full charge cycles to "settle in" before we judge what our battery life will be.
But why?
I did Google it, and really only came up with the conclusion that its common knowledge. "Because thats the way it is". But can someone give a white paper type of reply?

No one can, because it's not true.
It's along the lines of clearing battery stats or calibrating the battery. A Google engineer made a public post that it's all cargo cult nonsense, and that all that's contained in the battery stats is info for generating those pretty graphs in the settings screen, but people around here persist in continuing to do so.

Yeah, it's bull****.
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More or less the few min on boot thing, is its booting, allows the rom to fully initiate on its own, not 100% needed but does help in the sense that like windows if u open crap while its still booting it can tend to throw the system off a lil bit.
Few batterycycles, bull****.
Clear batterystats?some devices it CAN help, with this phone its pointless, as this phone has a chip to automaticly calibrate the battery anyways.
All these "tips" are more or less worthless to us and can be taken lightly..

Cool thanks guys
edit: manekineko...I search a little but couldnt find it. Can you give me some search terms or a link (if you can find it quickly) to that Google engineer's comments?

blackangst said:
Cool thanks guys
edit: manekineko...I search a little but couldnt find it. Can you give me some search terms or a link (if you can find it quickly) to that Google engineer's comments?
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Here it is...
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
and an article that links to the google + above...
http://www.talkandroid.com/83611-go...ats-doesnt-improve-battery-life/#.T2dqChEgelg

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Here it is...
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
and an article that links to the google + above...
http://www.talkandroid.com/83611-go...ats-doesnt-improve-battery-life/#.T2dqChEgelg
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Thanks! Sig worthy!

now can someone explain why sometimes it takes a long time to drop batt% when it is high but quickly drops when it's in the reds... or the opposite that it drops really quick when its high but lasts forever when it's red
or when you restart your phone.. your battery level sometimes jump or drops drastically
my guess is that sometimes that chip that automatically calibrates and reads your battery is sometime inaccurate after you poweroff/reboot/pull battery.
Just a guess, but I don't really care much about all that nonsense because our phone lasts a damn long time!

Teo032 said:
now can someone explain why sometimes it takes a long time to drop batt% when it is high but quickly drops when it's in the reds... or the opposite that it drops really quick when its high but lasts forever when it's red
or when you restart your phone.. your battery level sometimes jump or drops drastically
my guess is that sometimes that chip that automatically calibrates and reads your battery is sometime inaccurate after you poweroff/reboot/pull battery.
Just a guess, but I don't really care much about all that nonsense because our phone lasts a damn long time!
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Your battery % is read from the mah left inside the battery, these readings are then translated by the OS into a percsnt based of the max mah on the battery.
Once the percentage is obtained/displayed a new cycle begins, battery drain is completely depentant on the use of the device.
That being said on reboots the first known "cycle" as il refer to it as, is displayed. This first response is usually correct but can vary slightly until the system crosschecks the data.
If that does happen, wit a minute and the system will correct the value in approximately a minute.. hopefully thats clear enough and hope it answeres your question..
Thought i hit post but didnt n left browser open all mornin :/ lmao

doug36 said:
Your battery % is read from the mah left inside the battery, these readings are then translated by the OS into a percsnt based of the max mah on the battery.
Once the percentage is obtained/displayed a new cycle begins, battery drain is completely depentant on the use of the device.
That being said on reboots the first known "cycle" as il refer to it as, is displayed. This first response is usually correct but can vary slightly until the system crosschecks the data.
If that does happen, wit a minute and the system will correct the value in approximately a minute.. hopefully thats clear enough and hope it answeres your question..
Thought i hit post but didnt n left browser open all mornin :/ lmao
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I have yet to see the system suddenly correct the value. And no i was referring to battery drain with the same usage. They drain differently, it is never a linear drain. And i believe it's more than just measuring the mah left in the battery because a dead battery still has mah. And then there are extended batteries with higher mah. Oh wells.
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Teo032 said:
I have yet to see the system suddenly correct the value. And no i was referring to battery drain with the same usage. They drain differently, it is never a linear drain. And i believe it's more than just measuring the mah left in the battery because a dead battery still has mah. And then there are extended batteries with higher mah. Oh wells.
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No crap, there higher capacity/higher MAH
And No Li-iON battery will die down to 0 MAH...
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And seeing as you obviously don't know how to use google, I saved you the trouble
Terminology: mAh
Definition: The mAh acronym stands for Ampere-hour.
This is a unit of electric charge, and is frequently used in measurements of electrochemical systems such as batteries.
Example: a 2000mAh cell is half the charge capacity of a 4000mAh
If you can't take the answer given, don't ask.
Ofc its not a liniar drain ita based off usage/aps running..
And yes this is called for
Info on batterys
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/glossary/m/513466/mah.html
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Found a plausible way for you to achieve that close to linear drain you so desire:
A.) Install stock rom & kernel,
B.) Root, remove all bloat and ALL apps, as some start automaticly and and are registered as services and last through taskkillers.
C.) Disable ALL sync features, turn on airplane mode.
D.) don't touch phone for a few days..
Should be pretty damn linear for ye

Battery Issue ! Its the 7th Charge Cycle Now

I bought this amazing [As you all know how fast it is ] Galaxy Nexus and was previously using hTC Desire S[GB] !!!
I'm somehow not happy with the battery life and also the overheating of Nexus !
It is Stock[ROM + Kernel] + Root ! around 7th or 8th charge cycle !!
I did try out Cpu Sleeper App works like a charm but was facing reboot issue and that is why had to remove it !!!
See if anyone of you could help me overcome these issue ! or Is this really something for me to worry about !!?????
[PS: Please don't recommend me to change ROM or KERNEL ! Because I prefer to stay on Stock ! Also NOOO Overclockig !]
Check out the Few screen shots i took when my brain kicked me to !!!

We need to see the screen before this one(the one that lists top consumers of battery). To see if something is waking the phone up. Also, charge cycles and calibration are bogus. If anything, you would be using the phone less since you've finally set everything up the way you want and the newness effect has worn off. My battery life has been about the same if my usage pattern remains like it usually does throughout the day. It doesn't really look too bad, but the drops seem a little steeper than what I normally see. . Grab CPUSpy and BetterBatterystats. I'm on my way to work soon, but someone may be able to help you before I go on break.

the screenshots you required
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We need to see the screen before this one(the one that lists top consumers of battery). To see if something is waking the phone up. Also, charge cycles and calibration are bogus. If anything, you would be using the phone less since you've finally set everything up the way you want and the newness effect has worn off. My battery life has been about the same if my usage pattern remains like it usually does throughout the day. It doesn't really look too bad, but the drops seem a little steeper than what I normally see. . Grab CPUSpy and BetterBatterystats. I'm on my way to work soon, but someone may be able to help you before I go on break.
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Here we go
ok so calibrators and cycles are bogus ! I get that !
What about brightness ? Should that be auto or manual mode ??
And is Google Now causing issue ?? Because its not really useful to me on daily basis !!???
And any other suggestions your would like to share

I was gonna edit my post, actually. I've personally never fully charged and drained my battery for any of my phones(some people swear by it though). I guess if the readings are out of whack then yes. My phone got stuck at 85% for almost 12 hours one day, but I had did something which messed up the OS. Haha.
If you don't use Google Now, you can opt out of it. Brightness is a personal preference. I usually stick mine at 25%. Auto may take a hit on the battery, but I doubt it's anything to worry about. Just the common sense stuff. Apps that poll data in the background will drain the battery, but if they're properly coded, they shouldn't be a problem Running on 4G/LTE/HSPA with a bad signal will drain it more since the radio is trying to find the best possible signal. After a full day of use, what is your typical screen on time? 18 hours is pretty good if you're using it on HSPA all day.

ya honestly that doesnt appear to have anything wrong. What results were you expecting vs what you have? You have a lot of screen on time, that takes a LOT of battery to run the display and using it when brightness is high takes significantly more. Also it appears you have a couple long phone calls in there as well. As far as heat goes, youre going to have that on the higher end phones due to the gpu producing heat and oled displays produce a bit of heat as well, lcd runs cooler.

Weak/unstable/unrealible mobile network signal could cause the fast drain of your battery. I saw you have one bar of hspa signal in the 3rd screenshot.

Those graphs should be much flatter during idle periods. Something is keeping awake. If you're on jelly bean its prob Google now. It does it to everybody.

RogerPodacter said:
Those graphs should be much flatter during idle periods. Something is keeping awake. If you're on jelly bean its prob Google now. It does it to everybody.
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Yeah I some how feel the same and for a fact its a good service but then i don't really use it ! I tried to look through titanium but failed to find Google Now on the list !! Does the apk have some other name ????? or is there any other way out ?

RogerPodacter said:
Those graphs should be much flatter during idle periods. Something is keeping awake. If you're on jelly bean its prob Google now. It does it to everybody.
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chronophase1 said:
I was gonna edit my post, actually. I've personally never fully charged and drained my battery for any of my phones(some people swear by it though). I guess if the readings are out of whack then yes. My phone got stuck at 85% for almost 12 hours one day, but I had did something which messed up the OS. Haha.
If you don't use Google Now, you can opt out of it. Brightness is a personal preference. I usually stick mine at 25%. Auto may take a hit on the battery, but I doubt it's anything to worry about. Just the common sense stuff. Apps that poll data in the background will drain the battery, but if they're properly coded, they shouldn't be a problem Running on 4G/LTE/HSPA with a bad signal will drain it more since the radio is trying to find the best possible signal. After a full day of use, what is your typical screen on time? 18 hours is pretty good if you're using it on HSPA all day.
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Actually 3G isn't really well established for Vodafone[or any other company] in India.Also there is a peak going upwards in the first image indicating charging and after having a battery life of around 20 hrs on My Desire S and screen on [appx.] 7 hrs , I'm very disappointed with Jelly Bean !! Also While googling this issue I found out that somebody sniffed the mobile wifi connection to monitor and found some app constantly exchanging packets which according to his test was the root issue for the battery drain !!
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]Ok I found the way to shut google Now !
I'll records stats for a day or two and get back Thanks Everyone for your time and help

dhruv52004 said:
Yeah I some how feel the same and for a fact its a good service but then i don't really use it ! I tried to look through titanium but failed to find Google Now on the list !! Does the apk have some other name ????? or is there any other way out ?
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In Google Now >> Menu >> Settings >> Google Now there is an on/off switch at the top. Depending on the ROM it's included as either velvet.apk or QuickSearchBox.apk but removing that would get rid of Google search I think.

Yeah. I think its actually part of search. Like I said, just opt out and you should be good to go. Keep us posted.

chronophase1 said:
Yeah. I think its actually part of search. Like I said, just opt out and you should be good to go. Keep us posted.
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I'm loving it