[Q] My Battery kills me - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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I'M using Oxygen 0.2.2 Beta Rom. Yesterday I recalibrate my battery, closed unnecessary programs, turn off wifi, 3g, gps and bluetooth. Morning I checked battery level and shocked battery leves was about %75. I checked if there any memory leaked program but I couldn't find something like that.
Display used battery percantage dramatically high?
What is the problem? Screen was turned off naturally.

'My Battery Kills Me' - sounds like the title of a cheap horror film - LOL
How long is 'overnight'? 8, 10 hours?
25% in that time sounds quite reasonable to me.

@cr1960 25% over 8 hr with wifi and 3g off is not normal and if you experience this i would check what is causing your drain.
@yapay Install current widget, place it on one of the home screens and set it up to wright to the log every 5 min. Then turn your phone in to flight mode overnight and the next day check the log, if you have more than 1 mA usage regularly during the night there is something using to much power. Install a monitoring app from the market and let it run during the night to find out what.
If it's mostly around 1 mA than your problem probably is gone after another charge.

Screen is very high for only 1.5h ish. Looks looks like you have high brightness settings and a lot of white/blue images being displayed.
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cr1960 said:
'My Battery Kills Me' - sounds like the title of a cheap horror film - LOL
How long is 'overnight'? 8, 10 hours?
25% in that time sounds quite reasonable to me.
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overnight is about 7hr13m
TheGhost1233 said:
@cr1960 25% over 8 hr with wifi and 3g off is not normal and if you experience this i would check what is causing your drain.
@yapay Install current widget, place it on one of the home screens and set it up to wright to the log every 5 min. Then turn your phone in to flight mode overnight and the next day check the log, if you have more than 1 mA usage regularly during the night there is something using to much power. Install a monitoring app from the market and let it run during the night to find out what.
If it's mostly around 1 mA than your problem probably is gone after another charge.
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I installed current widget. I will try this this night. Thank you very much for your suggestions.
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Screen is very high for only 1.5h ish. Looks looks like you have high brightness settings and a lot of white/blue images being displayed.
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There is a misunderstood. I checked battery status after woke up and that was 60% display usage. After that I used phone during breakfast and later my battery was 18%.
Something is wrong...

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Crazy battery drain after upgrading to 3.9, program to test?

I think my thread got deleted due to the crash, just reposting
I'm having crazy battery drain after upgrading to 3.9, about a percent a minute. Is there a program I can use to see what program is using all that juice?
The monitor function of SystemPanel is great for tracking down problems like this.
Also, if you're phone isn't sleeping, checking partial wake usage in Spare Parts will tell you what is keeping it awake.
Thanks for the quick response, I'll monitor usage for a day and see what comes up.
Have you checked your awake time vs. uptime in battery stats?
I think I found the problem, it was a corrupt copy of wireless tether that I had installed, the battery life seems okay now, still lower then what I was getting before hand. I'll post some screens here later. As for the uptime vs. awake time, I'm at 23:30:51 uptime vs 3:46:46 awake time, battery is currently at 43%
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I think I found the problem, it was a corrupt copy of wireless tether that I had installed, the battery life seems okay now, still lower then what I was getting before hand. I'll post some screens here later. As for the uptime vs. awake time, I'm at 23:30:51 uptime vs 3:46:46 awake time, battery is currently at 43%
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wow thats good, how do u get such good battery, i would normally only get 1:30:00 or something around there for awake time before mine would die, are u using set cpu?
I got...
32:48 up / 4:57 awake. At 37% battery.
I'm using the new OTA deodexed by Myn along with the new radio package (radio,wimax, pri, nv) by caulk. Nothing else! Set CPU is uninstalled. WiFi is on 100% along with background apps/auto sync. Mobile Networks only on when I am out of the house and without WiFi or 4G. I actually get good battery life on 4g if I keep the mobile networks off.
Here are some screens from my phone. This is after a normal days usage for me, do these seem normal for my kernal/ROM?
(This is without any type of OC/UC utility, I don't ever use those anyway)
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masbirdies said:
32:48 up / 4:57 awake. At 37% battery.
I'm using the new OTA deodexed by Myn along with the new radio package (radio,wimax, pri, nv) by caulk. Nothing else! Set CPU is uninstalled. WiFi is on 100% along with background apps/auto sync. Mobile Networks only on when I am out of the house and without WiFi or 4G. I actually get good battery life on 4g if I keep the mobile networks off.
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How do u get better battery?
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[Q] Huge battery drain by display (screenshots)?!

I got massive battery drain done by display, no matter what rom using. Brightness set to minimum, no animations at all. And its really killing my nervs. Most biggest battery drain (drop-down) is from 100% - 85%, within an hour! (SLCD model)
EDIT: flashed other radio few days ago, recalibrate battery, nothing helps..
EDIT2: CPU is downclocked to 768 mhz max.
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Like on every electronic device (with screens) the display is the most power-hungry component.
So the readings are OK - I have an AMOLED display and mine is always around 65-75%.
Battery life is excellent.
And BTW, it is not a huge battery drain, but only shows what ate most of your juice - and of course the display eats it most of the time.
I saw battery stats readings with only 15-20% battery usage... so i though this may be something wrong.
Yes, those were on Froyo ROMs, but were not accurate - in all 2.3 based ROMs (even official) the stats for the display are bigger.
Gusta_HR said:
I saw battery stats readings with only 15-20% battery usage... so i though this may be something wrong.
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Or were the results of people barely using their phones sharing misinformation. Whomever has anything else on top of their list other than display, is barely using his device. Eod
erklat said:
Or were the results of people barely using their phones sharing misinformation. Whomever has anything else on top of their list other than display, is barely using his device. Eod
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So true.
TouchPaled from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
Gusta_HR said:
I got massive battery drain done by display, no matter what rom using. Brightness set to minimum, no animations at all. And its really killing my nervs. Most biggest battery drain (drop-down) is from 100% - 85%, within an hour! (SLCD model)
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Do you think that display does not consume any power? Rethink!
If you keep the screen ON continuously then it consumes the battery a lot. Does not matter if it is AMOLED or SLCD. Keep the brightness low and timeouts short to get better battery life.
Screen consumes the most of power on a phone. In addition to mobile/WiFi Internet connection (during heavy traffic) and video encoding (camera), decoding (playing videos).
Watching films on a phone in a bright environment over a mobile connection would be a killer if you want to try
Phone calls drain the battery much less than screen. Same about listening musing while screen is switched off.

Battery life

Is this good battery life? Just updated to 4.04 GSM galaxy from Google play
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A single screen shot shows us absolutely NOTHING about battery life.
Your battery is also almost full...
Use the phone a full day 100% to 5%, then screenshot your overview, graph, screen on, awake, and signal times. THEN we'll be able to tell.
martonikaj said:
A single screen shot shows us absolutely NOTHING about battery life.
Your battery is also almost full...
Use the phone a full day 100% to 5%, then screenshot your overview, graph, screen on, awake, and signal times. THEN we'll be able to tell.
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sorry i missed the first pic my question is i am 82% after 1 hour of screen time with heavy use that means i am getting 5 hour on screen time if that so its very good.
digweed4me said:
sorry i missed the first pic my question is i am 82% after 1 hour of screen time with heavy use that means i am getting 5 hour on screen time if that so its very good.
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My first day was like this after charging it for the first time when immediately opened it. I found my brightness to be all the way up by default and set it to auto, substantially improving my battery life.
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digweed4me said:
sorry i missed the first pic my question is i am 82% after 1 hour of screen time with heavy use that means i am getting 5 hour on screen time if that so its very good.
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Still means absolutely nothing. Use it 100% to 5% and then report your usage.
I'm using liquidsmooth 1.3, just got this...is this on par or could I be doing better? Didn't browse the web much though, only lurked around xda cos I noticed chrome really sucks the juice
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battery life is definitely improved on 4.0.4 , i'm getting between 45min-1hr more screen ON time (mostly surfing and reading xda) than on 4.0.2
i use live wallpaper and autobrightness, wifi always ON, everything stock with no tweaks, stock 1750mAh battery
Can you also post the battery voltage when you almost depleted your battery?
It can let us to see if the battery is correctly calibrated to show the proper percentage value. I encountered up to 1 hour different in screen on time with a non calibrated GN.
To know your voltage, dial *#*#4636#*#* (*#*#info#*#*) (no need press call).
Go to battery info and see the battery voltage value.
The galaxy nexus will always get awful battery. I have never gotten over 2.5h screen time and.I have tried every rom, literally. I can't really get over 14h stanbdy either.
I can verify I seem to have better battery life after the 4.04 update.

[Q] Sharp and consistently high battery drainage

Hi, a few days after flashing ICS OrDroidX ROM from Android Revolution HD, I noticed that my phone battery starting to have sharp battery drop, for example after 30 minutes of off screen, it will drop from 97% to 92% based on the log from CurrentWidget. The current drain also extremely high, often stay between 300mA to 600 mA, rarely back to normal with 8mA draining in off screen.
I have done the wiping battery stats from the tutorial, and reflash CM10, however it get back to same battery drain though less severe than before, about 200mA drain on average, the sharp battery percentage drop still there.
Please let me know if there's anything else I can do, my phone is rooted, hence I would try to do anything I can before returning to HTC which I almost certain that they will charge me a lot for replacing a battery. Will battery overheating cause the issue as well? Thanks in advance!
I would say download betterbatterystats from the play store. It can give you information on what is active.
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I would say download betterbatterystats from the play store. It can give you information on what is active.
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Thanks a lot for your advise. I have tried betterbatterystats as suggested, here's the result
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Does it ring any bell that something is wrong? I notice that the awake is somewhat a lot, is that due to kernel issue?
Thanks!
hellcommando said:
Thanks a lot for your advise. I have tried betterbatterystats as suggested, here's the result
Does it ring any bell that something is wrong? I notice that the awake is somewhat a lot, is that due to kernel issue?
Thanks!
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According to that graph, your phone hasn't been in deep sleep, ideally you would want to get a similar graph for Screen On and Awake. Go to -> partial wakelocks and give us a screenshot. Also, your signal doesn't seem very good. Do you usually get 1 bar?
tomascus said:
According to that graph, your phone hasn't been in deep sleep, ideally you would want to get a similar graph for Screen On and Awake. Go to -> partial wakelocks and give us a screenshot. Also, your signal doesn't seem very good. Do you usually get 1 bar?
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Thanks a lot for the analysis! Yesterday I decided to reflash CM10 and remove all files from SD, and put them back after flashing. I get a similar graph as the previous graph that I posted.
After reflash
Partial wakelocks (because I did a reboot in between, so it shows only a short period of time, however during the screen on period of time, my battery have a awful sharp drop from 39 % to 29 %, a 10% drop in just a second...)
Shortly after I reflash the ROM and put my SD contents back into the phone, media scanner was a horrible process which hog on my CPU, after clearing the data from 'media storage', did several reboot then the phone only return to normal.
For the signal issue, my room never get full bar, normally would be stay around 2-3 out of 4 bar. Will this affect the battery life?
Now the problem seems like got two parts,
1. Screen off battery still drain quite a lot, though not as much as screen on
2. Screen on battery drain is awful, sometimes 5-10% in a just a second

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Here's my battery results after a full day's use.
Stock Oppo Color OS
Stock Kernel
Google Now OFF
Low Manual Brightness
Bluetooth On
GPS On
Keylights Always OFF
Vibrate on Touch OFF
Greenify: NONE
Snapdragon Battery Guru: LEARNING
[There is a very small part where the battery charged while attached to a computer due to syncing over a few songs. I only seem to recall that battery going up by 1% at this time]
Anyone have any suggestions?
After installing snapdragon battery Guru i mentioned verry low speaker audio during phone Calls. uninstalling fixed the behavior.
anyone else.
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That was with about 3 hours of gps on and using Google maps and a route planner for my deliveries today. I don't know if that's good as I've yet to use it like this before.
I have all off screen and on screen gestures turned off except the 3 fingers for screen shot. Auto brightness and wifi was off today as well.
The other day I let my phone idle for 9ish hours while I slept and I lost 4%, that was also putting the cell data to edge though.
I also use the greenify app, not the built in greenify. Haven't messed with the built in greenify does it work the same way?
Tapped out on my beastly OPPO Find 7a
This has got to be a bug...
Unplugged, drove to work and noticed no drain on the monitor.
The phone was trickle charged by my router though overnight, not through the OEM charger
I disabled the gestures, that helped a lot.
how long does your battery get charged with the flash charger??
reyscott1968 said:
how long does your battery get charged with the flash charger??
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100%
gielsgaard said:
100%
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what 100%?
i was asking how long does your phone charge to get 100%???
reyscott1968 said:
what 100%?
i was asking how long does your phone charge to get 100%???
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from 50 to 100 takes 20 minuttes.
Sorry folks, but there is already a thread for this here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2750001

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