I had try the metod of pluging in and off the charger and cleaning the battery data but i didnt work. I deactivate widgets and everythig but battery still draining iys another metod that i can use to recalibrate my battery? Thanks, i already read all prior post
Have you checked to see if anything is constantly syncing? Checked your partial wake usage? What about monitoring in System Panel?
Are you from Glenview, Illinois? I grew up there, live in Northbrook now.
Well i guess is not another way to solve this
Oh cool man and yeah all the sync its off and all the other stuff i just start having this issue after install the new king kernel ( bad idea ).
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way to give up buddy.
a billion people have an htc evo who at one time had battery issues and fixed them, but there is absolutely NO way to solve YOUR battery problem.
There are a ton of variables as to why your battery drains. What rom are you running, if any custom rom at all? Kernel? Theme? Whats your screen brightness setting, or your screen off time? Do you watch a lot of movies? Are you on the internet all day? Is your GPS on or off? Is your blue-tooth on or off? How much time do you spend on facebook? how much time on Twitter? How far are you away from a tower? How strong of a signal do you have? etc etc ETC
Edit: Ok cool, well can you flash back to your previous kernel and see if things get better again?
hmm... have you tried flashing back to your last known good config? Did you do a nandroid before flashing the kernel? What kernel were you using before that was working? Have you tried flashing that one?
Yes i did all my reading before posting im using the stock rom, with the stock kernel now. I did not jave this issue before my battery was perfect until i flash the king kernel and yes i use a back up and flash it but i did not work
I just wanna know if its another metod to recalibrate the battery besides just pluging in and pluging off the cellphone
I just wanna know if its another metod of recalibrate the battery besides pluging in and pluging off the cellphone
You can wipe your battery stats in recovery, but I don't think that will help TBQH.
If something is draining your battery you need to do some detective work to figure out what is doing it. My first post in this thread suggests a couple things to start with.
Yes friend i did that already mmm i guess im gonna try with another battery to see what happened
Your problem is in kings kernel, i know he was working on it not sure if he has solved it, try the cfs 10 one.
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That was his new release isnt? Thats the one i used and screw everythig :-(
Try reflashing it, maybe it will work then? How long ago did you flash to this new kernel?
Maybe you could give it a couple charging cycles just to be sure. Work with it for a week or so, letting the battery charge down, and then charging it back up again a couple times.
thanks for the tip im gonna do this but with the stock kernel i seems today it last a lil longer i was sufing, texting, even playing and making calls and it last me 7 hrs with out charging. i uninstall sport tap though i read something about that app that use to much conection
try this
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I just wanna know if its another metod of recalibrate the battery besides pluging in and pluging off the cellphone
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i am pretty sure is problem is flashing a custom kernel with a stock rom, other way round (stock kernel with custom rom) probably fine, but i am getting off point, i have never been able to get my battery to reset properly, but on my phone its just a minor annoyance. the only way i have found that comes close
first of all i would really suggest you switch to amon ra if your not already useing it
(also you must do all this in one recovery booting so make sure you have good battery/ phone plugged in)
1. wipe battery data (again the same way you did)
2. factory reset phone wipe data davilik all that then do the battery again
3. flash http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo.../font></div>&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13176886532531
this will wipe your phone
4. flash http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...en_Lightning&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13176887115882
this is your new rom, and kernel, its all in one. it should fix any battery problems because superwipe will destroy extremely completely anything on your phone,
PS. if you want to keep your contacts and applications, before you do anything above, go to the market and download my backup root and make backups of your contacts and applications, then when you do it all download it again from the market and bam you got all ur stuff
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I just wanna know if its another metod of recalibrate the battery besides pluging in and pluging off the cellphone
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Here Try this. Its Worked for me.
use battery calibration app
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Firstly, I know what I'm doing when it comes to flashing. But I'm completely dumbfounded here..
Okay in standby mode, with wifi on i usually get -3 to -7mA.
But suddenly a few days ago, my phone doesn't sound my alarm in the morning because it had turned its self off.
Imagine my surprise when I had to plug it to start it. Turns out it had drained 60% in little over 3 hours.
So I began testing - turns out my phone had started to fluctuate between -90 and -150 mA EVEN IN AIRPLANE MODE.
After trying countless solutions (inc many different ROMs), I had had enough. I full wiped from CWM and installed fresh ARHD 5.1.6, skipped all setup, installed just titanium, and restored just battery calibration and currentwidget. I calibrated and then left it overnight in airplane mode - and STILL it fluctuated just as wildly.
I wouldn't post this if I hadn't tried everything, but I have spent hours reading xda trying to amend this. Changing radios didn't help (am using latest atm), changing ROM didn't help (not GB or froyo or CM7), even restoring my nandroid from when my battery drain was normal didn't help.
Does anyone have ANY ideas as to why this is happening?
The only thing I can conceivably think of is that my battery is giving up.
Is this good enough cause to get a replacement battery/phone from HTC?
Edit: Meant to post this is Q&A tread, sorry
if you changed the ROM and radio, then i'd be near to positive to say that the problem is from the battery!!
Buy another one and give it a long 20-22 hrs charge (although HTC recommends 8hrs - but they talk alot of crap ) before opening your phone.
Or, alternatively, see if anyone (friends/family) can lend you a battery and see if the problem still persists
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if you changed the ROM and radio, then i'd be near to positive to say that the problem is from the battery!!
Buy another one and give it a long 20-22 hrs charge (although HTC recommends 8hrs - but they talk alot of crap ) before opening your phone.
Or, alternatively, see if anyone (friends/family) can lend you a battery and see if the problem still persists
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Official batterys are expensive... does HTC do replacements?
not sure, never tried or asked, gotta phone them up!
have you tried turning USB debugging on? that solved it for some people.
i also had this problem, and the USB debug didnt work, but i found that it was something to do with HTC hub repeatedly trying to connect to the internet and using a shed load of CPU in doing so. aeroplane mode didnt help me either, but after turning off everything with HTC in its name it worked again. (specifically HTC sense in accounts and sync)
hope that helps, worth a try.
oh and my battery is fine now, lasts 2 days or so. can last a week though.
still charge it every night though.
Thanks for replying, but USB Debugging was always on for me, and when I tested with fresh install I didn't put ANY accounts in so the HTC thing shouldn't be an issue. i guess I'll just try the replacement battery thing
sometimes the radio signal kept switching also may cause a drain in your battery.
Setting > Mobile networks > Network Mode > Preferred Network Mode
for me i preferred it to be set as 'WCDMA' rather than 'GSM/WCDMA Auto'. The draw back is that i may lost signal if the signal is weak but this setting prevent the radio from being switching.
OKAY GUYS I FIXED IT
How you may ask?
I HAVE NO IDEA
I was just flashing things over trying to fix it and suddenly it went back to normal. I'm currently using a UV kernel, so maybe that's helping too.
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Firstly, I know what I'm doing when it comes to flashing. But I'm completely dumbfounded here..
Okay in standby mode, with wifi on i usually get -3 to -7mA.
Is this good enough cause to get a replacement battery/phone from HTC?
Edit: Meant to post this is Q&A tread, sorry
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Dont want to go too far OT, but how do you measure the battery current?
I assume you dont physically wire up an ammeter, or do you?
Ian P
Hahahahahaha, that's brilliant. I'm signaturing that
But no, I don't. The phone creates estimates of the present current/voltage loss, much the same way as it makes estimates of the battery % left.
So all you need is an app to log that! Currentwidget is the lightest, but I recommend battery monitor widget
OK its a battery monitoring app, but can you see the current drain whilst actually using other programmes?
Some apps use full screen so even the top status bar is not visible.
Ian P
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Dont want to go too far OT, but how do you measure the battery current?
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CurrentWidget, logging to file :
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.manor.currentwidget
Hello all. Ever since I got my EVO, I've been experiencing random restarts, even before I was rooted. Right now, I am running CM7.1 and Tiamat from kernel manager, and I probably have to do about 8 restarts and 5 battery pulls a day, no matter how often I use the phone. For instance, today I woke up and had to do a battery pull because the screen would not turn on. The light was also still orange despite the battery being fully charged. I unplugged it at about 8 in the morning and by 10 with no use, I had to pull the battery again because the screen was frozen off once again. Once I got it back on, the battery was down to 80%. I tried using it and half the apps would force close immediately, so I restarted... You get the picture. Some roms have been better than others, and kernels don't seem to make any difference, and I figured it was about normal. Then, I installed what is supposed to be a really buggy CM7 on my touchpad, and have only had to restart it once in the past 2 days, which makes me question how stable my phone actually should be. Does it seem like I should take it in to sprint, or is my experience about normal?
I also never overclock because of my already poor battery life and have tried underclocking, but don't see any noticible difference
bump. should I post somewhere else?
Run an RUU but stay s-off for the moment and see if the problem persists. If your phone begins working properly, then you can flash a recovery and flash whatever rom you want - but don't restore your backup. I'd start totally fresh if RUUing fixes your problems, don't restore your apps and data, just download them from the Market as you need them.
If the RUU doesn't help and the problem continues, take it in to Sprint. It's up to you if you want to s-on before taking it in - I've never heard of anyone getting problems from Sprint with s-off but without root, but I think it's a general rule to do so.
I hope everything works out for you!
Sent from my Evo + MIUI using Tapatalk!
I have heard and seen on here many times that random reboots are caused by battery problems, and bad software installs. Try calibrating the battery, also use battery monitor widget to see what ur batt temps are. Then reinstall all your apps, do not restore them then see if that helps.
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I'll try an RUU when I get enough time to do some thorough testing. I have reinstalled everything directly from the market multiple times since I've had the phone, and also have used a total of four batteries with no change in behavior. I Will try the RUU soon though. Thanks for the replies
Hi
since a few time my arc s is draining battery in airplane mode at night (20-30%). I am using Arconium 3c.
- So I tried to come back to Arconium 2.4 (it was ok before) : the same (20-30%)
- So I tried to turn off the phone and the same : the battery lost about 20% during the night.
The battery drain used to be great in airplane mode (2-3% per night) few months ago when I started using arconium. So I don't think it is because of this rom.
Maybe my battery is bad? Or something else?
How old is the phone
In wich interval you recharg it
Check out the battery usage under settings and look if you have installed any program that uses much energy from ur battery
I think the easiest way is to try the other ROM first. If this problem still occur, maybe you have to check your battery
I also had that problem but with this stay good:
Use this kernel
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1680793
Use this Baseband
http://puu.sh/pAgX
Use this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.sineo.android.noFrillsCPU
For me is the best option
Well, thank for your answers. So the phone is 6 months old and I don't understand why if I change my ROM or my kernel it would do anything? Because the battery drain occurs even if my phone is off. Is there a way to check is my battery is damaged?
Tonight I will try to remove the battery for the night.
PS: I checked that I have no weird application that is draining battery...
jap check what happens if you put the battery out for a night
but you should even check the other kernel
jiffer1991 said:
jap check what happens if you put the battery out for a night
but you should even check the other kernel
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Well, I am back to Arconium 2.4 (with .562 firmware) so the other kernel would not work correctly as it is for 4.1.B.0.431, would it?
I guess I should try .431 based kernel if I come back to Arconium 3c.
I have tried battery mix to check if there were an app draining my battery when phone is truned on but nothing (appart from system android) seem to consumes much battery.
Ok
well but if you really want to know what i think i would say (not assure) that it depends on the rom cus some time ago i had a2 different phones (galaxy spica and galaxy gio) wich i flashed to spicagenmod and the gio to cm7 and i recognized that the battery usage increased in a huge amount
u say that even if you turn of the phone it seems to be that you get a loss of power in your battery
the spica often crashed and i had to restart it (used many experimental features)and after the restart i had a huge los of batery power....
some roms have problems updating you the current battery status and if you restart it it seems that it had taken much battery
if you really want to safe power you may search for a undervolted kernel
Hope that really finished ur problem =)
Ok I think I understand what you mean about the voltage. ie at 100% the voltage is about 4178mv and now at 41% the voltage is 3775mv (with battery calibration app). So it seems to be not linear.
So I am going to flash kernel as recommended previously. And Do I have to reflash rom and baseband after flashing new kernel?
depends on wheather the kernel works with ur rom
what do you mean? I flash new kernel, reboot phone and if it does not work, I Reflash the rom? Maybe it risks to brick?
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what do you mean? I flash new kernel, reboot phone and if it does not work, I Reflash the rom? Maybe it risks to brick?
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I dont think that there is any risk and thats what i meant flash kernel check if it works if not reflash rom =)
Download betterybatterystats and see what is causing the drain, think iridika did a thread a while ago, lemme find it for you
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433309
Check what is causing the drain using that
I dont't think it would work when phoen is turned off..
And I am trying to flash kernel with flash tool and it does not seem to work, it is like I still got the previous kernel... any idea?
did u enter fastboot mode? did u get any error while flashing?
Yes, everything seems to work fine. Maybe I don't know where to check my kernel version.
go to settings..about phone...check about kernel.
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Ok I think I understand what you mean about the voltage. ie at 100% the voltage is about 4178mv and now at 41% the voltage is 3775mv (with battery calibration app). So it seems to be not linear.
So I am going to flash kernel as recommended previously. And Do I have to reflash rom and baseband after flashing new kernel?
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Just an FYI
0% on the lithium battery is not 0v it is more like 3v or so... depends on the battery.
if a lithium battery measures 0v it is DEAD.
Pvy.
dinesh690 said:
Download betterybatterystats and see what is causing the drain, think iridika did a thread a while ago, lemme find it for you
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433309
Check what is causing the drain using that
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So I try this app and it appears that com.sonyericsson.android.server.dormant is guilty... about 2500 alarm wake up in 1h. so I used titanium backup to freeze fast dormancy...
But it does not solve my problem about battery drain when phone is turned off
soad0 said:
So I try this app and it appears that com.sonyericsson.android.server.dormant is guilty... about 2500 alarm wake up in 1h. so I used titanium backup to freeze fast dormancy...
But it does not solve my problem about battery drain when phone is turned off
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As said earlier full charge the phone remove the battery and leave it out when you would normaly have it off to see if it is the battery or phone.
Pvy
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Hi Guys,
i have a bit of a problem with the battery in my GNex maguro.
I'm an avid Rom flasher, but when i have something that works well i usually settle with it for a while. So i flashed Cataclysm (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995801) sometime in the last months and it was running great. Best bettery life i had so far.
Then with the release of Android 4.4 i looked for a rom to test it. I flashed XP (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2539201) and i really like the 4.4 changes.
But since then my battery won't even last a day in standby mode. I thought maybe it's an issue with 4.4. still, but even after flashing back to Cataclysm (newest release) i still had the same issues. I thought it may well be, that the final version isn't what it used to be, so i flashed another rom again. This time Purity (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2012706) aaaand... still the same problem. So now i'm pretty much lost. I also tried different kernels (lean kernel specifically) but to no avail.
My battery used to last 2+ days in idle mode. Now i can see my battery drop every minute. It barely holds over 10 hours. I already did a full phone wipe and flashed back to stock before installing cataclysm again but still no improvement.
I hope someone can help me here or point in the right direction.
Sorry if this topic already exists, but the search funtion doesn't seem to work right now and google didn't show something helpfull.
Thank you all in advance.
I don't know why you would still have bad battery life moving back to the original rom you used but.. on 4.4 it is most likely the new Google Now features that constantly listen for voice commands. Disable it by long pressing on an empty part of the home screen and go to settings. Slide Google Now Off and go to voice and turn off hotword detection as well.
I get great standby battery life on 4.4. I'm running the 11/29 ART build of cmetal(toro), 150ish hours of uptime without any issues so far.
Re: Bad Battery Life since KK
What kernel are you running? Are you just using whatever kernels come with each ROM?
I'll try turning off google now and the voice stuff and report back.
It still seems really weird to me, that the problem still persists after flashing back to 4.3. My guess would be, that 4.4 flashes something hidden that messes with the battery. But i don't know where or what.
Especially since it persists after a complete wipe (/data, /system and /cache).
Well, i'll see how it behaves without google now.
What kernel are you running? Are you just using whatever kernels come with each ROM?
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Well i used mostly lean Kernel with 4.3 roms but i can't find any 4.4 kerneles besides CM. I have XP installed right know which uses CM Kernel.
Re:Bad Battery
Make sure your governor is set to interactive or ondemand...it could be seeing power drain from being set to one of the performance settings.
It's also possible that your battery is just going bad...do you have a backup battery you can try?
Well i used mostly lean Kernel with 4.3 roms but i can't find any 4.4 kerneles besides CM. I have XP installed right know which uses CM Kernel.[/QUOTE]
It could just be that you need to replace your battery. They are only good for so many charges and do degrade.
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Reporting back. After deactivating google now yesterday my battery is still ****. It's at 50% after 2h idle and 30 minutes screentime. Before the 4.4 flash it would be at around ~85-90% now. I suspect that 4.4 flashes something in some hidden partition that i don't have access to, that messes with the battery. Users on other boards report the same issues as i have.
dwoods1983 said:
Make sure your governor is set to interactive or ondemand...it could be seeing power drain from being set to one of the performance settings.
It's also possible that your battery is just going bad...do you have a backup battery you can try?
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Just checked. Governor is set to interactive. It's also the default setting.
I sadly don't have a backup battery.
It could just be that you need to replace your battery. They are only good for so many charges and do degrade.
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Could be, of course. But it's kinda weird that the decline is so dramatic and it has to be a pretty big coincidence that it just happend after a 4.4 flash. Seems unlikely to me.
edit: I'll order a new battery just to eliminate the battery as the source of error.
Mine is pretty bad but it's running google play to death so maybe gapps flash was bad? dunno
merid14 said:
Mine is pretty bad but it's running google play to death so maybe gapps flash was bad? dunno
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this maybe issue of ram management.. try some good apps to control those background & foreground app from running without control. dont use any task killer.. please
i recommend using greenify.apk. donate version much better.
sorry for my bad english
galaxy nexus i9250
Same problem here. Since I flashed Kitkat on my phone, battery life isn't enough to last a day on standby. I tried installing another kernel (ASKP) but to no avail. Please keep in mind that I'm not very experienced with custom roms and rooting my phone. Does anyone have some good tips to improve battery life?
Update: After fiddling around a bit with better battery stats, greenify and a bunch of other stuff... i still don't have a solution. I made some screenshots of my stats, but can't post them here because i don't have permission to do that...
So i reflashed swordrune's cm11 rom and it seems to be working better with 1080p kernel w/o art enabled. i'm 11 hrs in with 80% battery on the extended battery (toro btw)
Un4s said:
Update: After fiddling around a bit with better battery stats, greenify and a bunch of other stuff... i still don't have a solution. I made some screenshots of my stats, but can't post them here because i don't have permission to do that...
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are u sure greenify didnt helping??? already got rooted & exposed installer running??
can u state your screen on time??
usually gnex can handle 3-4 hour screen on depend on battery condition n phone performance... not include idle n stanby time.
galaxy nexus i9250
memaro_maro said:
are u sure greenify didnt helping??? already got rooted & exposed installer running??
can u state your screen on time??
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Yes, i am rooted, but i didn't have the donate version of greenify. Bought it now and will test again.
Screen on time ~1:30h
Un4s said:
Yes, i am rooted, but i didn't have the donate version of greenify. Bought it now and will test again.
Screen on time ~1:30h
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that will help.
if u lightweight user, i suggest u to optimized performance. use apps such trickster mod, rom toolbox, or in addition of any light battery saving apps ( for optimization)
should be improve on screen time.
galaxy nexus i9250
Not to hijack your thread, but I'm also experiencing battery issues after flashing the XP 4.4 rom. I did enjoy it but the battery drain was terrible. Not only that, for some reason my charger drains on a 1A charger but charges slowly on a .7A somehow. I only have 1 micro usb cable so I can't test if it's the cable and I can't find any apps to check the current speed. I tried downgrading and flashing to Slimbean but so far it's been no dice.
memaro_maro said:
that will help.
if u lightweight user, i suggest u to optimized performance. use apps such trickster mod, rom toolbox, or in addition of any light battery saving apps ( for optimization)
should be improve on screen time.
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Ok, back again. hibernated every app and system-app that was running in background. Still wasn't getting better. I then saw the only services still running are google location services. I deactivated them now to see if these are causing it.
The biggest wakelocks i have are "wlan_rx_wake" which seem to be a known problem with KK:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2519294
I then researched again and found several threads in google groups which describe the same problems that i have. Across several devices (though mostly Nexus 4, 5 and 7).
Google seems to be aware of that issue and is working on it.
Not to hijack your thread, but I'm also experiencing battery issues after flashing the XP 4.4 rom. I did enjoy it but the battery drain was terrible. Not only that, for some reason my charger drains on a 1A charger but charges slowly on a .7A somehow. I only have 1 micro usb cable so I can't test if it's the cable and I can't find any apps to check the current speed. I tried downgrading and flashing to Slimbean but so far it's been no dice.
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Yes, same for me. Charging is really slow since 4.4 as is the bootprocess of my phone. From the first vibrate when switching the phone on it takes ~10 seconds until the google logo pops up.
i dont know any about gapps issues bcoz not running any gapps in my phone since last year.
1. try searching for updated radio.img (baseband/ radio) if got any network issue.
2. try install trickster mod app. this app can help you for tweaking into deep sleep, also help for optimizing.
galaxy nexus i9250
crayjin said:
Not to hijack your thread, but I'm also experiencing battery issues after flashing the XP 4.4 rom. I did enjoy it but the battery drain was terrible. Not only that, for some reason my charger drains on a 1A charger but charges slowly on a .7A somehow. I only have 1 micro usb cable so I can't test if it's the cable and I can't find any apps to check the current speed. I tried downgrading and flashing to Slimbean but so far it's been no dice.
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try this for helping you go into deep sleep
galaxy nexus i9250
memaro_maro said:
try this for helping you go into deep sleep
galaxy nexus i9250
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Hmm I don't know if this is going to resolve the charging problem but i will try it and also try and use a battery calibrater and come back.
My battery has been draining at an abnormal rate, extremely fast for me.
The NFC service or whatnot is the main culprit.
Read what I mean below and I have the screenshots to show what I mean too.
***Full disclosure, I do not game at all, I do not watch any videos, I do not listen to music when I was doing these tests nso as not to skew the results.
As said above, my battery has been on this downward spiral out of nowhere.
It started a few weeks ago with the foxhound ROM v 0.5. I turned on my phone one day and my battery just went to hell over night.
I was on a full charge expecting like always that I would at least get a good 5-6 days out of 100% charge, but overnight, the battery went from 100% to 10%. I know everyone's battery is different but I mean really from 100 to 10% in just under 7 hours? Damn.
So I thought it was the ROM's problem. Naturally, I Nandroid' the whole foxhound v0.5 ROM and flashed another ROM.
The next ROM I flashed was the SOKP ROM to make sure it was just the ROM's problem. I updated my baseband to NB4 at the same time from the MLK baseband. I let it sit for a couple of days and use it a I normally would, just using FB and going online, no games, no music, and no videos watched.
The battery life was fine for a coupla days and then all of a sudden it happened again. It went from a 100% full charge to 5% overnight.
So then I checked and nothing was wrong, thinking it was the ROM again, so I flashed another ROM, Hyperdrive ROM, and the same thing happens again. It's driving me nuts.
The NFC usage taken from screenshots from the different ROM's are just insane and they show what I mean. Nothing was being used as can be seen. No games or anything like that.
I was wondering if anyone is able to help me out with this singular problem?
Has anyone ever experienced anything similar? I know each battery for each S 4 is different but damn 100 to 10% overnight, I mean...
Is there any way that I could throw up a log for you guys or something to see whats draining or using the NFC so much?
I've attached screenshots that were taken showing what I meant above. These screenshots are taken from when the phone is performing during its better days where I could get up to 1 whole day of usage.
buntobo said:
My battery has been draining at an abnormal rate, extremely fast for me.
The NFC service or whatnot is the main culprit.
Read what I mean below and I have the screenshots to show what I mean too.
***Full disclosure, I do not game at all, I do not watch any videos, I do not listen to music when I was doing these tests nso as not to skew the results.
As said above, my battery has been on this downward spiral out of nowhere.
It started a few weeks ago with the foxhound ROM v 0.5. I turned on my phone one day and my battery just went to hell over night.
I was on a full charge expecting like always that I would at least get a good 5-6 days out of 100% charge, but overnight, the battery went from 100% to 10%. I know everyone's battery is different but I mean really from 100 to 10% in just under 7 hours? Damn.
So I thought it was the ROM's problem. Naturally, I Nandroid' the whole foxhound v0.5 ROM and flashed another ROM.
The next ROM I flashed was the SOKP ROM to make sure it was just the ROM's problem. I updated my baseband to NB4 at the same time from the MLK baseband. I let it sit for a couple of days and use it a I normally would, just using FB and going online, no games, no music, and no videos watched.
The battery life was fine for a coupla days and then all of a sudden it happened again. It went from a 100% full charge to 5% overnight.
So then I checked and nothing was wrong, thinking it was the ROM again, so I flashed another ROM, Hyperdrive ROM, and the same thing happens again. It's driving me nuts.
The NFC usage taken from screenshots from the different ROM's are just insane and they show what I mean. Nothing was being used as can be seen. No games or anything like that.
I was wondering if anyone is able to help me out with this singular problem?
Has anyone ever experienced anything similar? I know each battery for each S 4 is different but damn 100 to 10% overnight, I mean...
Is there any way that I could throw up a log for you guys or something to see whats draining or using the NFC so much?
I've attached screenshots that were taken showing what I meant above. These screenshots are taken from when the phone is performing during its better days where I could get up to 1 whole day of usage.
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Do you use NFC at all? If not, just go into your settings and turn it off. If you do use it, you could just turn it off when you don't expect to use it, and switch it back on before you need it.
lordcheeto03 said:
Do you use NFC at all? If not, just go into your settings and turn it off. If you do use it, you could just turn it off when you don't expect to use it, and switch it back on before you need it.
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I don't use NFC and I have to manually force close it every time because it just turns on of its own accord. Every time I turn it off,
it just turns on again without my doing anything. And even with NFC off, it still appears on the BBS's app and Battery's under Setting's saying that is running still.
buntobo said:
I don't use NFC and I have to manually force close it every time because it just turns on of its own accord. Every time I turn it off,
it just turns on again without my doing anything. And even with NFC off, it still appears on the BBS's app and Battery's under Setting's saying that is running still.
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I never have a problem with that personally, but I would say use Titanium Backup and freeze everything that has NFC in the name.
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I never have a problem with that personally, but I would say use Titanium Backup and freeze everything that has NFC in the name.
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I froze anything that remotely had NFC in the name after doing a Titanium Backup search and the battery is still draining, but just a bit slower than before.
I would try flashing stock firmware with Odin, NFC should not be draining like that and you shouldn't have to freeze everything
serio22 said:
I would try flashing stock firmware with Odin, NFC should not be draining like that and you shouldn't have to freeze everything
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Any way how? I'm thinking about flashing 4.2.2 again with Odin. I'm still on 4.2.2 on the FW side, I haven't upgraded to 4.4.2 or higher. I just flashed the most recent version of ROM's that has 4.4.2
Do I have to root again after flashing stock FW? I don't want to go to android 4.4.4 what with all the Knox and stuff that its being hit with.
Also, is there any link to past android FW versions? I can't seem to find any.
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Any way how? I'm thinking about flashing 4.2.2 again with Odin. I'm still on 4.2.2 on the FW side, I haven't upgraded to 4.4.2 or higher. I just flashed the most recent version of ROM's that has 4.4.2
Do I have to root again after flashing stock FW? I don't want to go to android 4.4.4 what with all the Knox and stuff that its being hit with.
Also, is there any link to past android FW versions? I can't seem to find any.
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Yeah since you never updated past 4.2.2 you can still flash the 4.2.2 firmware, get it at sammobile.com
serio22 said:
Yeah since you never updated past 4.2.2 you can still flash the 4.2.2 firmware, get it at sammobile.com
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I tried to find it there but all I come up with is the 4.4.4 version?
Nothing older than 4.4.4
Edit: found it, will Odin it and see what happens.
Do I have to do a full wipe of everything? on the internal and external SD card?
No, just a factory reset but do it before you Odin
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No, just a factory reset but do it before you Odin
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Do you mean factory reset through the custom recovery? ie using TWRP or CWM?
Yes
Gotcha
Was wondering will I need to re-root the phone again after going back to stock?
Confused by a reply earlier.
Yes you will need to re-root
will keep updated after a few more days of usage to see if any changes occur.
thanks for you guys' help so far!