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[Q] setcpu advanced settings

does anyone use these? if so what have you set yours at? mine are sampling rate (45000), up threshold (93%), and power save bias (140). im looking for battery life from anywhere and if you could give me insight to the best settings, without much lag, id be appreciative and thank you.

Anybody?
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For battery life, I'd recommend a custom kernel. If you don't want to do that, go to profiles and add one for screen off. Make it underclock to 384MHZ min and max. This saves battery a ton.
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While I don't know the exact answer to your question -- I have heard that SetCPU doesn't do an incredible amount for the Incredible (no pun intended).
If you're looking for battery life, I'd probably look around (maybe Google?) for people who know how much to underclock it while the phone is not in use -- I know capping the processes really helps the battery life.

xirftwx said:
For battery life, I'd recommend a custom kernel. If you don't want to do that, go to profiles and add one for screen off. Make it underclock to 384MHZ min and max. This saves battery a ton.
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Did that and noticed some improvement, min 245 max 384. Will that make any changes?
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ejsholly said:
While I don't know the exact answer to your question -- I have heard that SetCPU doesn't do an incredible amount for the Incredible (no pun intended).
If you're looking for battery life, I'd probably look around (maybe Google?) for people who know how much to underclock it while the phone is not in use -- I know capping the processes really helps the battery life.
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I am actually underclocked to 883mhz on normal usage
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No, it shouldn't affect it. For the most drastic battery life saver, I would consider installing a custom ROM such as skyraider 4.0. I used my phone quite a bit today and lost only 30% battery. I do have an extended battery, but still.
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i have found the best kernel/rom combo for me that saves battery is MIUI and chad's incredikernel. with that kernel, your screen off will be 128 (versus 245) and it works extremely well. you will get a good full day of use, trust me..

Screen brightness and battery life.

I have been searching for 20 mins and can't find an answer (first time using the app so may have missed something).
I was wondering if anyone had any data on brightness % and power usage. People seem to go to great lenghts to change the brightness levels but I remember something on last years Google dev. con. videos on YouTube that said it didn't make as much difference as originally thought. (i can't find the video either lol. Bad search day here).
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The biggest improvement in battery life (IMO) comes from setcpu. I also keep my screen at 40% which I suppose helps some. I've got a Mugen extended life battery and setcpu set at around 537 max (on demand) with the screen off. I get 2 days out of my battery... And I use my phone a lot.

k3an said:
The biggest improvement in battery life (IMO) comes from setcpu.
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Lol, now uninstall it, set smartass governor and see how meaningless that app really is.
madmaveric said:
I was wondering if anyone had any data on brightness % and power usage.
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The bad thing is that on Sense roms, I have yet to see brightness going lower than 30%, even in pitch dark. Aosp does far better job as long as brightness is concerned. Setting it at low value is not an option for me either as it renders your phone unusable in direct sunlight.

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erklat said:
Lol, now uninstall it, set smartass governor and see how meaningless that app really is.
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How to set governor when i don't have an app which can do this any more?
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MatDrOiD said:
How to set governor when i don't have an app which can do this any more?
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Every rom has it listed under its changelog, usually it is smartass for sense roms. It isn't by accident either, some have reported lag waking the phone up. I haven't across almost all roms available, and even if I did I'd still prefer 20% less performance over 20% less battery life.

madmaveric said:
I have been searching for 20 mins and can't find an answer (first time using the app so may have missed something).
I was wondering if anyone had any data on brightness % and power usage. People seem to go to great lenghts to change the brightness levels but I remember something on last years Google dev. con. videos on YouTube that said it didn't make as much difference as originally thought. (i can't find the video either lol. Bad search day here).
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Why dont u test it wiht currentWidget or so? Okay, i did it:
0% -> 125mA
25% -> 150mA
100%-> 280mA
So what do we learn? Brightness and/or Screen has a big impact and probalby most people here trying kernel tweaks and whatever to improve the battery dont understand math.
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How to set governor when i don't have an app which can do this any more?
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You can just use the Terminal... its linux after all.

x潮騒x said:
Why dont u test it wiht currentWidget or so? Okay, i did it:
0% -> 125mA
25% -> 150mA
100%-> 280mA
So what do we learn? Brightness and/or Screen has a big impact and probalby most people here trying kernel tweaks and whatever to improve the battery dont understand math.
You can just use the Terminal... its linux after all.
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Agree. Just check the battery usage, you will get the idea.
On mine, display usually uses 40% - 60%, with data always on.

Apologies for the late reply. lost internet connection for a week then forgot I posted it
Thanks for the replies guys. I eventually found the video, took ages lol
(youtube.com/watch?v=OUemfrKe65c).
According to what they say in this the screen actually doesn't account for that much of the total battery usage (mainly due to the screen being off most of the day) overall given everything else using battery.
i.e. coming up with a way to keep the device asleep for longer when turned off would completely out strip any adjustment to the screen brightness in terms of battery life.
So things like lower cpu when in standby can be really good but only when not getting data transfer (as this needs to be done very quickly as its expensive).
As adjusting screen brightness is easy to do I think that is why so much time is spent on this. In reality though it seems like it is only going to give a limited battery life increase.

But if you put low cpu, the cpu needs more time at low to do the same that a fast cpu, thats why the setcpu apps its a bit crap. I think that set low the brightness of the screen save more battery than putting the set cpu really low... (just my two cents)

I leave the brightness on my phone to around 30% for better battery, and i can see it ok in the daytime. I have recently had it up at 100% and noticed how quick my battery goes dead.

Gsanez said:
But if you put low cpu, the cpu needs more time at low to do the same that a fast cpu, thats why the setcpu apps its a bit crap. I think that set low the brightness of the screen save more battery than putting the set cpu really low... (just my two cents)
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Very true.
I guess ideally you want the CPU low when its not doing anything and high when doing data transfers etc (to speed up the high current draw activities).
I guess a good app would be one that puts the phone in airplane mode for 90% of the time when inactive. Only coming out once every so often to check for text/data etc. I can see that giving better returns than anything else. from what was said in the video a phone in standby doing nothing would apparently last nine days (as apposed to one normally). Given this data I guess its possible to double the battery life with this kind of app.
I may have to have a go at writing one

SMF_12 said:
I leave the brightness on my phone to around 30% for better battery, and i can see it ok in the daytime. I have recently had it up at 100% and noticed how quick my battery goes dead.
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I agree that turning the brightness down makes sense and saves battery. It just seems a disproportionate amount of time people spend over brightness vs better ways of extending battery life.
I guess the rewards also depend on the amount of time you use the phone as the more you use it, the better reward from the screen and the less from the standby solutions

better battery life

I've been using CyanogenMOD 7 and love it (mostly). The one thing I don’t like about it is the short battery life. I'm kind of new to rooting phones so it took me a bit to get it rooted and get CM7 rolling. I was wondering if there are any mods out there like CM7 that have better battery life? Or if there's any thing I can add to CM7 to give it more batter life?
I've been using android since the first phone came out so I’m already knowledgeable in what to turn off to try and extend the battery life, but I have noticed a big decrees in batter since installing CM7.
Thanks for the help guys
Trench

You can under clock the processor when your phone is asleep. This creates better battery life.
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Have you tried wiping battery stats?

evilcuber said:
You can under clock the processor when your phone is asleep. This creates better battery life.
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your phone automatically underclocks your processor when it sleeps (for most CPU governors), you do not need to tell it to do so.
I'm not picking on you fyi, I'm just making sure we are giving people accurate information... there's only one thing worse than no information: incorrect/incomplete information.
op: which version of CM7 are you running? remember, the more minimal your setup (ie less homescreens, less widgets, manual syncing of gmail and whatever else, etc) the better your battery life will be. this is especially true of newer phones that are getting heftier cpu & gpus that, while intelligent with power consumption, are going to drain even larger capacity batteries relatively quick with moderate/heavy usage.
how long are we talking with battery life? how heavy a user are you? for reference, I get around 16 hours of battery life if I don't charge the phone at all from unplugging to battery dying with moderate to heavy usage (texting ~50 times a day, sometimes up to 100 emails depending on what's happening at work, couple hours of calls, couple hours of streaming music [pandora or audiogalaxy], couple of hours of games [peggle and plants v zombies mostly - both of which are resource hogs], etc).
I have just learned to get used to the fact that the phone is going to die if I use it a lot, so I've purchased three micro-usb cables and a car charger.. that way, unless I'm in an area where there is no charge-capable usb port nearby, I'm always able to get a little more juice if need be.

pmcqueen said:
your phone automatically underclocks your processor when it sleeps (for most CPU governors), you do not need to tell it to do so.
I'm not picking on you fyi, I'm just making sure we are giving people accurate information... there's only one thing worse than no information: incorrect/incomplete information.
op: which version of CM7 are you running? remember, the more minimal your setup (ie less homescreens, less widgets, manual syncing of gmail and whatever else, etc) the better your battery life will be. this is especially true of newer phones that are getting heftier cpu & gpus that, while intelligent with power consumption, are going to drain even larger capacity batteries relatively quick with moderate/heavy usage.
how long are we talking with battery life? how heavy a user are you? for reference, I get around 16 hours of battery life if I don't charge the phone at all from unplugging to battery dying with moderate to heavy usage (texting ~50 times a day, sometimes up to 100 emails depending on what's happening at work, couple hours of calls, couple hours of streaming music [pandora or audiogalaxy], couple of hours of games [peggle and plants v zombies mostly - both of which are resource hogs], etc).
I have just learned to get used to the fact that the phone is going to die if I use it a lot, so I've purchased three micro-usb cables and a car charger.. that way, unless I'm in an area where there is no charge-capable usb port nearby, I'm always able to get a little more juice if need be.
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but i also mean setting the max sleep to 368mhz. by default its set at 800mhz. sometimes with apps running in the background, the processor may go to 800mhz without you knowing

check out 'powersave' and set your cpu max to 806mhz. should last you a nice long time like that. responsiveness suffers, of course.
'ondemand' and 806mhz is the best comprimise for me. still fine with HDvideo recording, streaming audio, Nav, etc
if you really want to make it last... clock down to 400mhz, turn off all the sync, set brightness and timeout to minimum, all the radios off (airplane mode), and the volume down, on vibrate.
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pmcqueen said:
your phone automatically underclocks your processor when it sleeps (for most CPU governors), you do not need to tell it to do so.
I'm not picking on you fyi, I'm just making sure we are giving people accurate information... there's only one thing worse than no information: incorrect/incomplete information.
op: which version of CM7 are you running? remember, the more minimal your setup (ie less homescreens, less widgets, manual syncing of gmail and whatever else, etc) the better your battery life will be. this is especially true of newer phones that are getting heftier cpu & gpus that, while intelligent with power consumption, are going to drain even larger capacity batteries relatively quick with moderate/heavy usage.
how long are we talking with battery life? how heavy a user are you? for reference, I get around 16 hours of battery life if I don't charge the phone at all from unplugging to battery dying with moderate to heavy usage (texting ~50 times a day, sometimes up to 100 emails depending on what's happening at work, couple hours of calls, couple hours of streaming music [pandora or audiogalaxy], couple of hours of games [peggle and plants v zombies mostly - both of which are resource hogs], etc).
I have just learned to get used to the fact that the phone is going to die if I use it a lot, so I've purchased three micro-usb cables and a car charger.. that way, unless I'm in an area where there is no charge-capable usb port nearby, I'm always able to get a little more juice if need be.
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But some govenors don't drop the sleep to the lowest profile. In fact almost all keep it above the lowest clock. Other kernels allow it and you can also use third party to set it lower. When the tweaKr script becomes universal it will be even better =)
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ohgood said:
check out 'powersave' and set your cpu max to 806mhz. should last you a nice long time like that. responsiveness suffers, of course.
'ondemand' and 806mhz is the best comprimise for me. still fine with HDvideo recording, streaming audio, Nav, etc
if you really want to make it last... clock down to 400mhz, turn off all the sync, set brightness and timeout to minimum, all the radios off (airplane mode), and the volume down, on vibrate.
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It suffers in powersave because it stays at the lowest setting only. No reason to set to 806. Lol and that bottom comment is hella funny =), but if he does that his phone will just be...a waste of pocket space.
Your best bet is to do some research on kernels. If you are using cm7 to cm 7.0.3 id recommened pyros kernel. If you are on 7.1 or a nightly over 121 I believe id go with eugene's streamline5. It did wonders for mine Also there is a battery saving tips. Google G2 battery saving tips. Should be first link that comes up.
Cyanogenmod roms are known to be battery hungry. Nom nom nom.
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cjward23 said:
Have you tried wiping battery stats?
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I used the battery califration app if that's what you mean.
Thanks for all the help guys, i'll check out some Kernals.

popimp315 said:
Your best bet is to do some research on kernels. If you are using cm7 to cm 7.0.3 id recommened pyros kernel.
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Do you have link for this? I'm running 7.0.3.. but I dont think im finding the correct Kernal.

Mugen 3600mah = better battery life...

Can you elaborate on what kind of battery life you are getting now? How many hours, and for what level of usage?
How long have you been on CM? It takes a couple charge cycles of the battery after flash any ROM, for the battery meter to be accurate. Clear battery stats (as mentioned) then charge to 100%, let drain to about 20%, repeat a couple times. Don't drain until the phone dies. Some people say to do this, and its not good advice. Over discharge of Li ion batteries can cause them to no longer take a charge. There are people on here, on the Vision and other phones, that let their battery drain to empty, then the phone would no longer boot, forcing them to replace the battery.

Mog said:
Mugen 3600mah = better battery life...
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It has good battery life but the battery sticks out a lot and its very uncomfortable
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evilcuber said:
It has good battery life but the battery sticks out a lot and its very uncomfortable
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Yup its all opinionated. I would never go back to stock.
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Do you have link for this? I'm running 7.0.3.. but I dont think im finding the correct Kernal.
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[Q] horrible battery life with any ROM

Hey all,
I'm having serious battery drain on MIK 2.56 and pretty much any ROM that I flash. I'm running Chopsuey9.2.7 along with SetCPU profiles. I underclock the majority of the times.
My SetCPU profiles are:
Set on Boot = 691max/245min conservative
Charging = 1152/245 performance priority 100
Screen off = 245/245 ondemand priority 99
In-call = 1152/245 performance priority 98
Battery <50% = 691/245 conservative priority 97
Temp >43.7 degrees = 614/245 conservative priority 96
My evo doesn't like to be clocked at 128 or even 499. It reaches temps as high as 115-120 degrees during charging and while in my pocket (I'm thinking it may have got damaged when I used to run the SBC kernels in the early stages). Im starting to think that i have a bad battery. My battery will drain from 100% down to 80% within 5 minutes and usually will be dead within 2 1/2 hours after being off of the charger with moderate usage such as calls
text and checking email. I have Autokiller running and have set memory Lowmem settings to extreme thru Darktremor a2sd.
Any ideas/suggestions?

I personally would stop messing with setcpu, its cool to see a phone all Super fast and what not, but isn't completely necessary to govern everything you do [calling, sleeping, etc..] I only find it cool to use when I'm playing a cool ass game like contract killer: zombies for nice smooth graphic, or running a benchmark.. otherwise messsing with setcpu tends to do awkward things like drain battery when not properly adjusted, **Especially when overclocked.

My stock battery lasts all day with my current setup. I have setcpu as well but don't really mess with it. I use Smartass governor with 1075/245 for normal everyday use. If I have too many drinks and have to crash at a friends house without my charger I'll drop the max speed to about 700 and use conservative or just switch the governor to powersave. Then I've got more than enough time till I need to get back to a charger.

i got good life on that ROM using Aggressive Freedom kernel & using set cpu at 245/768 set at boot....no profiles.

So you think the use of profiles is the issue? I'm not completely sure the profile for screen off is working correctly; I ssh'd into my EVO and took a look at /proc/cpuinfo but it will not show the current cpu speed.
I'll give it a shot without profiles and see. As for the govenors, I believe Smartass was removed and replaced with InteractiveX; is InteractiveX as good?

j7jman said:
I personally would stop messing with setcpu, its cool to see a phone all Super fast and what not, but isn't completely necessary to govern everything you do [calling, sleeping, etc..] I only find it cool to use when I'm playing a cool ass game like contract killer: zombies for nice smooth graphic, or running a benchmark.. otherwise messsing with setcpu tends to do awkward things like drain battery when not properly adjusted, **Especially when overclocked.
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I agree but with the way my profiles are set, I'm underclocking the majority of the time and only overclock when charging or on a phone call.

ive noticed i get wose battery life if i set up profiles. Worth a shot.

Sprint will test the battery for charge free I actually did it today
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Could be your baseband or pri. Or maybe update ur prl through a sense rom.
If your phone has a horrible signal it will drain like crazy.
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Could be your baseband or pri. Or maybe update ur prl through a sense rom.
If your phone has a horrible signal it will drain like crazy.
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That's correct. Also check your spare parts app for any wake lock.
Also, if you're using a havs kernel, setcpu will conflict with the kernel. And in general, you'll always get better battery life on AOSP.

try using setcpu sometimes that will help save battery.

Disabled Profiles in SetCPU....no luck
So I disabled profiles in setCPU and am underclocking at 691/245 and battery life is still the same. I have the most recent radios/PRI/PRL as well and still getting rapid battery drain. One weird thing it does is the phone will hit 0% and shutdown; I'll place it on the charger (AC wall charger, not the usb adapter) until the orange LED stops blinking; I'll turn the phone on and once it's fully booted it will read 53%......all of this within 5mins of going dead! WTF!!!
I just wiped battery stats again in recovery and will boot and see what that does for me. I'm really starting to think the battery is partially bad....

Just left Sprint. They tested the battery and it tested bad and was swollen. I got a stock replacement free of charge although he said they normally would have charged me because the 1yr factory warranty expired. He also went on to say that the battery going bad was possibly caused from my phone being rooted which he may be partially correct. The problem began when SBC first came out and I was testing on the beta stage. It nice to have my phone off of the charger and not be down to 60% within 45 mins!
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lostsoul77 said:
So I disabled profiles in setCPU and am underclocking at 691/245 and battery life is still the same. I have the most recent radios/PRI/PRL as well and still getting rapid battery drain. One weird thing it does is the phone will hit 0% and shutdown; I'll place it on the charger (AC wall charger, not the usb adapter) until the orange LED stops blinking; I'll turn the phone on and once it's fully booted it will read 53%......all of this within 5mins of going dead! WTF!!!
I just wiped battery stats again in recovery and will boot and see what that does for me. I'm really starting to think the battery is partially bad....
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my phone has been doing this exact same thing but i took it to sprint they said my battery was good should i go to another sprint tech and let them test it out?

Battery Life Discussion

Ok so here are the tools I use
An automatic radio activation tool that will turn radios/wifi /gps OFF when screen is off - Juice Defender Ultimate is my choice
A CPU management tool - I use AnTuTu CPU Master but i hear that SetCPU is also very nice
Better Battery Stats
I Have setup Juice Defender (JD) to turn off my radios/wifi/bluetooth when the screen is off, to manage auto-synch, manage screen brightness but i DO NOT use it to manage CPU. I have also not setup any special App settings in JD, it just manages power consuming hardware (other than cpu)
My CPU tool (whichever you use) is used to setup profiles based on situations. Screen off, screen on, in call, etc.
There is never any reason for your CPU to be over 700mhz unless you are interacting with your phone. When you are on the phone 920 is all you will ever need. You can set the max above 1200 if you want or need the extra power but just remember that the cpu is always going to be a battery drain.
The #1 thing to remember is that if your not using your phone actively, it should be doing as close to nothing as possible.
Now I would love to hear from others on experiences and strategies or even critiques of my method. I know many will say that JD is not needed, bit i like not having to think about it.

I stick with Trickster Mod app for CPU/kernel settings. It's amazing. Also I never use Juice defender I use Tasker :thumbup:
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aperseghin said:
Ok so here are the tools I use
An automatic radio activation tool that will turn radios/wifi /gps OFF when screen is off - Juice Defender Ultimate is my choice
A CPU management tool - I use AnTuTu CPU Master but i hear that SetCPU is also very nice
Better Battery Stats
I Have setup Juice Defender (JD) to turn off my radios/wifi/bluetooth when the screen is off, to manage auto-synch, manage screen brightness but i DO NOT use it to manage CPU. I have also not setup any special App settings in JD, it just manages power consuming hardware (other than cpu)
My CPU tool (whichever you use) is used to setup profiles based on situations. Screen off, screen on, in call, etc.
There is never any reason for your CPU to be over 700mhz unless you are interacting with your phone. When you are on the phone 920 is all you will ever need. You can set the max above 1200 if you want or need the extra power but just remember that the cpu is always going to be a battery drain.
The #1 thing to remember is that if your not using your phone actively, it should be doing as close to nothing as possible.
Now I would love to hear from others on experiences and strategies or even critiques of my method. I know many will say that JD is not needed, bit i like not having to think about it.
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Good idea starting this thread but I feel that you've opened up a can of worms
I've used JD before on my Dinc2 and I liked the fact that it can manage the radios but for me, I get a lot of emails and I like something on so I stopped using it. I did try some other apps like that but JD was my favorite by far!
Check out TricksterMOD from the app store it blows setcpu out of the water! It let's you do so much more and since I've found that I can't go back to anything else.
I usually don't undervolt, I feel like the kernel developers so a good job with their frequencies so I leave that alone lol but I have been recently checking out the governor settings to try and optimize a few things, that's a tricky topic lol
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Um.. wow.. i wasted money on a few other apps apparently, trickstermod looks amazing..

Not sure if this is the forum for this but a good discussion none the less.
What ROM you guys running for best battery life? I seem to get the most from aosp based roms and not cm10 or aokp ones.

Im using XenonHD with Tinys kernel. I saw HORRIBLE battery life until i took action to tame it. now its much better

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Im using XenonHD with Tinys kernel. I saw HORRIBLE battery life until i took action to tame it. now its much better
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Mines close to stock on purpose but I don't mind people tuning it. What did you change that helped battery? There's bit much from a kernel perspective that will really help battery.
And this topic doesn't belong in development.
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i guess it belongs in general but the idea was to get all the tidbits that we need together in one app specifically for our phones. like "The CDMA Galaxy nexus Super Battery saver app that does it all without all the stuff you dont need"

Just flash lean kernel and turn off mobile data when you're not using it. No need for these crazy battery saving apps. I get ~7 - 9 hours a day, easily.
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I consistently get 14 to 18 hrs. I've been using the battery for about 2 weeks now and its awesome.
Rom of Choice: Jelly Belly
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Battery of choice: Anker 2200mAh
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Since radios are such a huge drain ...
I think my best move has been using an app called Profile. You can use it to turn off and on WIFI, Bluetooth and change the screen brightness at certain times on certain days. So at my usual time to go to work, WIFI gets shut off. At my usual time to get home, WIFI back on.
Also will change ringers, volumes and vibration on/off (always off uses battery).
24 hours no problem.
Costs a couple of bucks to get the time based control, but works for me.

Two tricks are using auto brightness and using WiFi whenever possible.
However, since I can't stand either of those options, using trickstermod to set max CPU speed while screen off, and setting color profile to morific typically helps my battery life.
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gchild320 said:
Two tricks are using auto brightness and using WiFi whenever possible.
However, since I can't stand either of those options, using trickstermod to set max CPU speed while screen off, and setting color profile to morific typically helps my battery life.
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CPU max is capped at 350 or 700 already there's no need to change it.
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Yah why would you need to lower CPU on sleep when we have deep idle?

I use CM10 nightlies, and the latest dev snapshots of Imo's leankernel. Min frequency 230mhz, max 1350mhz, interactivex governor with his tweaks and sio i/o scheduler.
I get ~24 hours battery with decent screen-on time, from just texting, about 20 minutes on the phone, and websurfing on full wifi service wherever I go (stays connected even when sleeping, and we have cross-campus wifi here). 3g service only, no LTE here yet. Bluetooth off. NO apps--many of the market "powersaving" apps will just wake the phone from sleep and cycle a few times to write to the log file (any app that keeps track of power consumption, and half of them don't even use the system tools). GPS is on, but it's never initialized more than 1-2x a day for random needs.
Getting a lightweight kernel is a good choice for battery life saving, and getting one that actually keeps up with android mainline is pretty key.

I think it's most helpful to post your total 'screen on' time and time since charge. If someone tells me they get 14 hours, that means nothing. I can get a full day 16 hours with roughly 2 hours of screen on time, without limiting my phone via turning off mobile data, syncing, or using a juice defender app that disables a lot of things.
That, to me, is not very good at all. I saw that the Nexus 4 is getting about 4.5 hours of screen on time with a full day of being on with everything syncing, etc being on. 4.5 is actually pretty bad also compared to other devices these days.

No matter what I try I usually only get about 2.5 hours of screen on time. I under clock to a max of 750 screen off at 280 undervolted to in each setting.
I've tried many many kernels with many roms

Screen on time doesnt mean much me to me because i use my phone for personal and business use, which means I get quite a few calls.
I use the stock 4.1.1 image, rooted with SuperSu and debloated a bit. Also use Faux kernel 23m-sr and his control app.
I roughly get about 2.5 hours screen on time with light calls and about 1.5 with heavy calls - my off charger time is pretty good though as it easily gets me thru the day. I bought another OEM standard battery and just keep one fully charged at all times so I can swap. Works well for me.
I also keep 4g on - why not when you can swap batteries.

does leaving gps on all the time if you're not running any location apps bother the battery at all?

t1.8matt said:
does leaving gps on all the time if you're not running any location apps bother the battery at all?
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No only when you use something requiring device GPS does it turn on. Most background stuff like Google Now uses tower fix so it's OK to leave it on.
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Battery life is a pretty unique experience for everyone. Apps, ROM, kernel, signal, Wi-Fi time, brightness, etc. Won't say these type of threads are totally pointless but they are pretty close to it. Always good to share pointers on how to save a few minutes of juice though. Ultimately its a big screen and turning it off now and then is the best way to save but personally I leave all my services on because that's why I bought this thing and I keep a charger everywhere I go.