could you some input on this issue...................
yesterday i installed the new unrevolt kernel from hydra and noticed an immediate difference in battery life throughout the day BUT last night i installed beautiful widgets and widgetlocker and today my battery seems to be dying sooner then expected, is this normal ?
did adding the two new widgets really affect my battery that much ?
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I'm currently on CM6 and using LauncherPro. However, it seems a bit sluggish for some odd reason. My setup is sort of mimicking my Sense layout before I moved to CM6.
Calendar - Internet Stuff - Contact Widget plus shortcut - Beautiful Weather widget, BatteryLife widget plus a couple shortcuts - Entertainment shortcuts - Tools shortcuts - Pure Messenger w/ Facebook and Twitter only
The main thing I think that's slowing things down is the Beautiful Weather widget. Not sure, though. Any recommendations on alternates for the same functionality?
Another thing possibly slowing it down is that I set the pixel density down to 200 with the app. Though, it's only graphical lag that all this encompasses. Benchmark scores are on par. Perhaps Snap is causing issues?
Any tips on making LauncherPro faster?
Do you have window transitions set to fast in spare parts?
and I set my drawer opening speed to 8 and min scrolling speed to about 75
that's all I can think of right now..
I'm not sure what did it, but something just sapped my battery like whoa. About an hour ago my battery was at about 75% and now it's down to 17%. WTF mate.
cosine83 said:
I'm not sure what did it, but something just sapped my battery like whoa. About an hour ago my battery was at about 75% and now it's down to 17%. WTF mate.
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Wow, that's terrible.
What rom setup are you running?
I don't know that much about PowerTop, specifically if it can be run remotely or if it needs to be on the phone but that would help narrow down the problem..
CM6 w/ Snap 8.2 875mV. I'm trying out ADW and it seems to be a bit snappier for some reason.
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CM6 w/ Snap 8.2 875mV. I'm trying out ADW and it seems to be a bit snappier for some reason.
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yeah, something is definitely wrong if ADW seems snappier than launcher pro...
fwiw, I know a lot of people have had great success with them but I haven't found an alternative kernel that has been as stable and predictable as the stock CM6 kernel. No offense, it's definitely me, not knowing how to work with and tweak them. The kernel may be related to your awful battery drain?
I just reflashed the nightly to get the stock kernel. Gonna let that sit for a bit and see how it goes.
Agreed
nebenezer said:
The kernel may be related to your awful battery drain?
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I'm gonna have to agree with you there.
I had Kingklick #6 kernel (yes, I have a Sense-based rom) and my battery life was shot to death.
Hopefully upping to #8 will help.
Make sure that you have the current version of whatever Kernel you are using.
Gday,
Just wondering If I could get some round about figures from you guys that are using combinations with latest 5.x Coredroid Roms and radios on what your general battery life has been like.
I ask for round about figures e.g. percentage of battery decrease per 30 mins on dependence of phone usage because I realize how much battery life can be affected by many different variables.
My setup is:
ROM - CoreDroid HD 5.3 (full wiped and non-titanium app install)
Radio - Radio_12.48.60.23U_26.08.04.07_M3 (Given 2 days to take effect and so far best 1 I've used)
Auto Brightness
Have gone back and forth between live wallpaper and wallpaper but didnt notice much change
Screen animations all on
I'm now in the process of the battery calibration found on Hemorrdroids.net. I was getting about 5-10% battery drop per 30 mins with mobile network on, auto sync on and moderate usage (mainly browsing xda and web + facebook and emails).
So I thought I'd give the battery calibration ago just to see if I can limit the drain a little bit more.
So any other figures provided would just help me to work out if Im on par and Im definitely getting the most out of my battery
With my desire hd with the 12.48 radio and cm7 it takes much less than with core droid 5.x i dont know how much less but a lot........
IN-Freak said:
With my desire hd with the 12.48 radio and cm7 it takes much less than with core droid 5.x i dont know how much less but a lot........
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Yeah I've heard that about CM, I guess you can put that down down to the drain that htc sense causes.
I would switch to a non-sense rom such as cm7, But I still prefer some features of sense.
I guess I have to make a bit of a sacrifice to get those features
pezza313 said:
I would switch to a non-sense rom such as cm7, But I still prefer some features of sense.
I guess I have to make a bit of a sacrifice to get those features
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I prefer a few sense widgets like the friendstream
why don't you try mikes revolution rom, its with android 2.3.3 and sense 2.1?
IN-Freak said:
I prefer a few sense widgets like the friendstream
why don't you try mikes revolution rom, its with android 2.3.3 and sense 2.1?
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Yeah I did and I found I was getting fairly similar battery life with coredroid, So i decided to stick with coredroid because I prefer the visuals and the performance seemed very similar for me as well
Oh ;-)
Then try an alternative launcher on cm7 like spb mobile Shell ;-)
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Try these!
First, You need to turn of auto sync, just back up or sync by manual.
Second, Remove account of HTC facebook. It's always sync therefore it drain battery fast.
Vothana said:
Try these!
First, You need to turn of auto sync, just back up or sync by manual.
Second, Remove account of HTC facebook. It's always sync therefore it drain battery fast.
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Turned off auto sync a couple of hours ago after my battery calibration because I knew it was a contributing factor haha cant believe I had it on.
Am yet to remove my facebook account because I dont no if I can do without that synced haha .
It probably would be wise to only update manually
I use extended controls (might also be possible with widgetsoid) to quickly switch to GSM only when I'm not using my phone out in the wild. That and turning data off when you don't need it (easily done from notification settings screen) will save a hell of a lot of battery over using 3G/auto with data on.
extended controls is a brilliant tool!
It often helps me, too
i think the same.. extended controls are cool for control a good batery drain... and in addition i have WIDGET ON/OF by pedro maicas (android market) for cut the 3g conection
for the flip and clock for example...
Hey xda
I come from cyanogen7 and went for the acesmod rom because I was missing the nice widgets, looks, and overall performance of sense. I have now spend some time on acesmod and I must say that it looks very nice and I especially think that the sense keyboard works a lot better when writing danish.
My problem is now that I find acesmod drinking my battery like crazy. Besides this I find it to be lagging a lot and not that smooth a experience that one could expect.
Do anybody know what I could do about this. Have you guys experiences the same.
Alternatively I am open to other sense based roms.
Thanks xda people!
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sense roms do use considerably more battery than cm7 roms, nothing you can really do about it apart from maybe calibrate your battery, theres a thread on here about how to do it
Again, calibration is not to be used to increase battery performance... Disable htc.com sync, use as less widgets and let them sync as rarely as possible. Disable pocket mode too, sign out of Latitude and make sure that your market and maps are not in the foreground when you turn your screen off as they won't release the wakelock then.
I can hear that there is not much I can do. Had every updating things disabled and also got the black wallpaper for power saving.
Are there then any sense based roms you would prefer over acesmod 007?
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I have good battery life on 007 mod.... But I have used only sense roms, so I cannot compare it to others.
mine life battery is good, try using andrev_oc
andrev_oc? (This is only my second rom)
see here how to install
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16803896&postcount=355
hope it helps
edit: with ES File Explorer (in settings tick the root explorer and mount file system) copy the freqs to system/etc/andrev_oc
Interesting... I have tried a few Sense ROMs and was quite dissapointed by the performance, memory consumption and battery life, went to CyanogenMod 7.1 and now tried Acesmod007.
For me, it does everyhing as smooth as cyanogen, and something obviously very strange - the same or maybe even longer battery time. A full day with gmail sync, active gtalk usage, a little browsing, ~25min of calls, messaging... on 2G+3G and (mostly) WiFi. And the battery level is still not very low.
I'm very happy with this
The new 007 mod (v39) has even better battery life!
And the speed...
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Interesting... I have tried a few Sense ROMs and was quite dissapointed by the performance, memory consumption and battery life, went to CyanogenMod 7.1 and now tried Acesmod007.
For me, it does everyhing as smooth as cyanogen, and something obviously very strange - the same or maybe even longer battery time. A full day with gmail sync, active gtalk usage, a little browsing, ~25min of calls, messaging... on 2G+3G and (mostly) WiFi. And the battery level is still not very low.
I'm very happy with this
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and you dragged up an old thread to post this why exactly?
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and you dragged up an old thread to post this why exactly?
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It's definitely more informative than what you've posted... :-\
I have been running Slim-vision 4.2.2 build 6.2 on my Desire Z for the past month and a half; since upgrading from stock gingerbread.
Unfortunately there are a variety of major issues with it, namely:
Kills battery (1-3 hours battery life now :\)
Unstable (almost all apps freeze)
Unstable (sometimes turns off randomly)
Inaccurate stats (battery is on 87% one minute; the next I get a "very low battery" msg)
Calendar app is broken (had to remove it)
So my question to you is, of all ROMs available, which has the best battery life + stability?
Thanks for all suggestions
I have been using Slim since it came out and don't experience the problems, once I had a clean install.
I did run into the Calendar app problem. The cause was running the wrong addon version. Here is a link to the correct version. You want build 6x, if use current build you will have difficulties.
http://slimroms.net/index.php/downloads/dlsearch/viewcategory/766-slimbean-4-2-2-build-6
I suggest you read the install instructions and the full thread for other helpful tips. Make you do a full wipe.
blk_jack makes a wonderful ROM, Mimicry is ICS ROM that is very good.
Check out other apps for battery drain or installation issues. Any issues I encountered where non-Slim behaving poorly. In the thread there are a lot of recommended tweaks.
I have using G2 since it first game out. It doesn’t matter what ROM I used I good only get 4-5 hours of battery on continuous use (screen on). Right now my phone is at 43% and I have not charged in over a day.
Go luck.
G2 using Slim Bean
For battery life & stability, I would have to say G-Lite. I always seem to go back to ILWT CM7 because I can't handle how slow ICS & JB run on it. With CM7 you get some customization and don't lose out on speed. =)
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Had amazing battery life when running the stock kitkat ROM and even when running early stock Lollipop builds. Now I'm struggling to get 5 hours out of the device with moderate usage - Streaming music, scrolling on social media apps and the occasional browse on the internet. Been having this issue for a while now but it's starting to get irritating when I have to carry a charger around with me like an Apple user, issue has been present on pretty much every ROM ranging from CM based and stock based which leads me to thinking it's a device problem.
Anyone know how I can check what's draining my battery as the battery stats doesn't really help, downloaded a wakelock detector but I can't make sense of it. Currently running ChupaChups 4.1 on a D855 model.
Cheers.
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Had amazing battery life when running the stock kitkat ROM and even when running early stock Lollipop builds. Now I'm struggling to get 5 hours out of the device with moderate usage - Streaming music, scrolling on social media apps and the occasional browse on the internet. Been having this issue for a while now but it's starting to get irritating when I have to carry a charger around with me like an Apple user, issue has been present on pretty much every ROM ranging from CM based and stock based which leads me to thinking it's a device problem.
Anyone know how I can check what's draining my battery as the battery stats doesn't really help, downloaded a wakelock detector but I can't make sense of it. Currently running ChupaChups 4.1 on a D855 model.
Cheers.
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I get 6/6.:30h of sot with 16h on battery(with cc 4.1) in wakelock detector the apps that are on thee top off thelist keep your device awake the longest the x(number) represents how much time your phone has been wokken and the minutes/seconds is how long an app used the cpu. all non system apps on top off the list are popential drainers