To those using "CurrentWidget" - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i'm having battery consumption issues, and somewhere on the forum the guys talked about a widget that shows current battery discharge amount in ma (miliamps). so i installed the widget and it shows 44ma no matter what i did, i turned on everything, and then all off, changed radios, changed roms(was using leedroid2.2f then flashed opendesire4.0.36)...
what ever i did, 44ma was the number showed by the widget. i installed another widget, and it gave the same number...
any one has any clue about this?
also yesterday i charged the phone to the point where the lock screen said it was "Charged". but i didn't unplug the charger, 30 minutes later "CurrentWidget" changed the number from 44ma to 8ma, so i thought, maybe now its fully charged.
used the phone for a while(maybe used up 10% or a bit more), and then "CurrentWidget changed back to 44ma, and its been the same since then.
now my battery's at about 40%, and its the same still...
anyone??!!

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I installed it and it gave the same reading (44mah).
The problem is i want to know what it means for the reading to be the same at any given point. Whether the screen is on or off, or the cpu is at 1Ghz or at 652Ghz(using setcpu).
Can someone shed some light here please?

mean no disrespect!! do you wipe when you flash roms? try to wipe battery stats also. do you use a task killer that somehow prevents the system from reading correctly? i know that this might sound dumb but you never know, i have seen alot of weirdness from the last expected.
edit:do you use setcpu profiles? if yes try and deactivate profiles or change governors.
jaikat said:
I installed it and it gave the same reading (44mah).
The problem is i want to know what it means for the reading to be the same at any given point. Whether the screen is on or off, or the cpu is at 1Ghz or at 652Ghz(using setcpu).
Can someone shed some light here please?
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mariosraptor said:
mean no disrespect!! do you wipe when you flash roms? try to wipe battery stats also. do you use a task killer that somehow prevents the system from reading correctly? i know that this might sound dumb but you never know, i have seen alot of weirdness from the last expected.
edit:do you use setcpu profiles? if yes try and deactivate profiles or change governors.
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i really appreciate the help you guys are offering... thanks.
alright, i'll tell you what i did:
1- i wiped everything (data, cache, ext, dalvik)
2- flashed the rom (defrost 6.1a)
3- after everything was up and running i charged the phone to the point where clarus battery(battery info widget) showed the phone was charged, also current widget changed the reading from 44 to 8 mah at this point.
4- rebooted into recovery and wiped battery stats
after i used the phone for a while and the battery lost about 10% or more, current widget went back to showing 44mah, all the way to the moment my phone turned off by itself cause the battery was empty (this was almost 18 to 20 hours later)
i use setcpu, the cpu speed is set to 245-728 using the On-demand governor. and there's one profile set for when the phone is on standby(screen is off), that one is set to 245-530(approximate) using either the conservative or the On-demand governors.
another thing is autobrightness, which i have turned OFF.
and lastly, i don't use a taskkiller, and i advise anyone not to use one as i got better battery life without one...(anyone who reads this, try it and see for yourself)..
the amount of the mah current being used by my phone is whats bugging me, i'v read another topic where people who were using Desire phones and the current widget were getting 25-40 when using the phone, and 3-8 when the phone was idle. but in my case, the number is always the same...
too much talking i know, forgive me, but this is in case anyone who wants to help has other questions ...

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[Q] Batery life and where to instal android

Hello.
I've just installed android on my HTC Tytn II (Not so Super Froyo Release).
It is very nice but the battery life is very short. I don't think that i can manage for one day without recharging. I think a couple of hours just. Is there something i can do to improve this? When i entered the #*#*4636*#*# it says that the android system is the one that keeps the processor running when in stand by. what can i do?
And another question. How is it better to install. On nand system and data? For now, i've installed data on external data.img. But there is not much room for aplications. Is it better if i install data on sd partition? And if so....how do i do that?
blacki3 said:
Hello.
I've just installed android on my HTC Tytn II (Not so Super Froyo Release).
It is very nice but the battery life is very short. I don't think that i can manage for one day without recharging. I think a couple of hours just. Is there something i can do to improve this? When i entered the #*#*4636*#*# it says that the android system is the one that keeps the processor running when in stand by. what can i do?
And another question. How is it better to install. On nand system and data? For now, i've installed data on external data.img. But there is not much room for aplications. Is it better if i install data on sd partition? And if so....how do i do that?
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If the processor is still running while in standby then that means you have a widget or program running that's preventing the phone from going to sleep. When you install an app in Android always look for "Prevents Phone from Sleeping" where the app installer says what the app requires to access.
Also, as I have said in the help thread, there is nothing you can do about the battery life. It's Kernel related and being investigated, so until that time unfortunately battery life is very short because the phone's CPU while not in standby runs at 100% speed, unlike all other android phones which decrease their CPU speed and voltage when they are idle (sitting at the home screen or even checking emails).
Also, if you are installing into a data.img file on your SD Card, you should have about 256MB of usable space in /data, if you are running out of space with just a few applications, then you are still installing on NAND, as it only has about 90-100MB available depending on how you have your NAND partitioned, please verify that you have fstab set correctly in atools and re-flash your firmware so that it reads the /data partition under data.img instead of NAND p3.
BEst thing to do if you are wanting to install /data on SD Card (or data.img), is have /system on your NAND for best performance when Android is loading from boot. For quick performance, you should have /data and /system on NAND. For more space and stability, go with /system on NAND and /data on either SD Card partition or data.img.
Thank you for the answer.
I have another problem...when i'm recharging the phone...it says that it is fully charged at 90%.
blacki3 said:
Thank you for the answer.
I have another problem...when i'm recharging the phone...it says that it is fully charged at 90%.
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That means there is a incorrect battery calibration number in the kernel. Run atools and check under Battery Settings > Advanced Settings. If you have a 1350mAH battery (noted on the battery itself), input 2160 units.
If you have any other type of battery, take that battery's mAH and multiply it by 1.6 to get the battery units. If the battery continues to stop at 90% after making that change, and the battery is old, then the battery may be losing it's charge and can only sustain up to 90% of it's core charge.
Thank you. now i'm trying with 2160 set in atools. i will inform you if something is wrong
Another question. How can i see the battery status in %?
i think now it's ok. but still the battery life is very short. and somethig is keeping the android from sleeping but i don't know what. when i enter in the *#*#4636#*#* it says that the "android system" is the one that prevents from sleeping.
And another question. What is the difference between panels. If i am installing with panel 1 the screen looks very bad. Now i've installed with panel 3 but i don't see any difference from panel 2. It is ok that i've installed with panel 3 or should i use panel 2?
I need to know how you set your phone up, including kernel, system/data partitions, which build you used, what radio you're using, anything that could help me investigate further.
I have 2 AT&T Tilt phones, one for daily use and the other for testing purposes only. (nice to have friends with connections, I got them both for free).
My current "daily use" phone will use about 1/2 battery per day with moderate use (texting/Pandora/phone calls) and will last 3 1/2 days if I just let it sit in standby. 3G is enabled and I use Rogue Tools to O/C to 480. I get almost no FC errors and everything works as it should. (The only FC I get is with ADW, which I press "wait" and it comes right back). I was able to set up my phone on the wireless domain at work and ported my work email to it.
Again, I would need to know what you're running as it sounds like your phone is not actually "sleeping" when it should.
PoXFreak said:
I need to know how you set your phone up, including kernel, system/data partitions, which build you used, what radio you're using, anything that could help me investigate further.
I have 2 AT&T Tilt phones, one for daily use and the other for testing purposes only. (nice to have friends with connections, I got them both for free).
My current "daily use" phone will use about 1/2 battery per day with moderate use (texting/Pandora/phone calls) and will last 3 1/2 days if I just let it sit in standby. 3G is enabled and I use Rogue Tools to O/C to 480. I get almost no FC errors and everything works as it should. (The only FC I get is with ADW, which I press "wait" and it comes right back). I was able to set up my phone on the wireless domain at work and ported my work email to it.
Again, I would need to know what you're running as it sounds like your phone is not actually "sleeping" when it should.
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So...the radio is 1.70.09.1 or something like that, the latest 2.6.32 kernel. android build is valentine. I am using system on NAND and data on data.img. now i can use the phone for a full day of use but i have other problems. when i charge the phone it freeze and white screen appears. Usually i left for charge at night so in the morning i find it with white screen.
Can u please tell me what are you using so i can use to?
Thank you in advance
Battery life
blacki3 said:
So...the radio is 1.70.09.1 or something like that, the latest 2.6.32 kernel. android build is valentine. I am using system on NAND and data on data.img. now i can use the phone for a full day of use but i have other problems. when i charge the phone it freeze and white screen appears. Usually i left for charge at night so in the morning i find it with white screen.
Can u please tell me what are you using so i can use to?
Thank you in advance
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I've the same problem of battery life, can you tell me how to improve the fix for this issue...thanks

[Q] Another Battery Drain Thread (But this is ridiculous)

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
CodeNameUnknown1 said:
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.
apoorvajsh said:
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
elanman99 said:
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

Battery life severely reduced!

Please can I get some assistance, I cannot for the life of me figure out what has happened.
LeeDroid 3.3 latest.
I have gone from 48h standby to 14h. During use it's depleted in a matter of hours, it's incredibly low in relativity to what I'm used to.
I was on LeeDroid 3.0.2 previously and battery life was VERY long, I loved it - going back to this version doesn't help and the battery issue remains, and therefore it also remains on the newest build.
Previously I was running a bucket load of apps/games with normal 50% brightness, I have resorted to deleting apps/keeping tasks closed but to no avail. The Statistics for battery usage seem to look similar to how it used to be before, with display taking up a large chunk.
I tried the battery trick today but it hasn't helped. My phone has already gone to 98% (40m uptime) with screen turned off + SetCPU set at powersave/lowest mhz while screen is off.
I hope you can help, Thanks.
This does happen sometimes, not sure what causes it but a wipe and reflash sorts it out for me.
What kernel are you using? Have you made any recent changes before massive drain started happening?
Try monitor the current using current widget. If it's normal, around 1-4ma during standby, perhaps, your battery need calibrated. If it didn't resolve your problem, then, maybe the battery is dead.
ErOR22 said:
What kernel are you using? Have you made any recent changes before massive drain started happening?
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I dont think this is the problem because when it happens to mine it just happens by itself after a few weeks of having the ROM installed with very few extra applications which I install immediately.
anyone know if the proximity sensor is classed under display? could be that thats stuck on. got any apps that use or used the proximity sensor? or maybe the touch screen is stuck on.
have you tried removing the SD card? see if its something on there.
Well I reinstalled Leedroid with the recommended rom and although the battery life is nowhere near what it was previously... its at a respectable 22h or so... enough to give me time to actually find a fix...
Theres no apps, nothing, just the rom and its apps so I will try it without SD card also, i dont understand how to check for proximity sensor though
Thanks

[Q] About Elemental X Kernel

I recently installed this kernel and some question came up. I hope someone can help me answer them
1. I installed the kernel in CWM 6.0.4.4. It said "install complete" When i chose reboot system now it gave me an option to fix root permission i chose go back. It restarted, my n7 boot normally. Did something go wrong during install?
2. I chose BLE=4.2. My n7 would charge to 92% Usually it takes 3h to full charge. So if i charge to only 92% would i need less time to do so? Cause i noticed the charger would cool down when it finished.
3. If i want a full charge i change the value to 0 in the config file right?
4. I can't find the kernel log file. Already tried in /data/tmp but no luck. Even though the settings were applied (checked with cpu spy).
Edit: my mistake. i used a file manager without root access.
5. Can i set different auto voltage for lowest cpu speed 384Mhz without reinstall the kernel and use trickster mod or kernel tunner? Btw i chose 800mv and is it too low? I havent seen any weird problem since then. Just 1 random reboot so far.
P/s1: Thanks for the great kernel @flar2. It worked flawlessly :good:
P/s2: Can someone tell me how to reset the usage time under battery setting because my n7 will never reach a full charged anyway
dichton said:
I recently installed this kernel and some question came up. I hope someone can help me answer them
1. I installed the kernel in CWM 6.0.4.4. It said "install complete" When i chose reboot system now it gave me an option to fix root permission i chose go back. It restarted, my n7 boot normally. Did something go wrong during install?
2. I chose BLE=4.2. My n7 would charge to 92% Usually it takes 3h to full charge. So if i charge to only 92% would i need less time to do so? Cause i noticed the charger would cool down when it finished.
3. If i want a full charge i change the value to 0 in the config file right?
4. I can't find the kernel log file. Already tried in /data/tmp but no luck. Even though the settings were applied (checked with cpu spy).
5. Can i set different auto voltage for lowest cpu speed 384Mhz without reinstall the kernel and use trickster mod or kernel tunner? Btw i chose 800mv and is it too low? I havent seen any weird problem since then. Just 1 random reboot so far.
P/s1: Thanks for the great kernel @flar2. It worked flawlessly :good:
P/s2: Can someone tell me how to reset the usage time under battery setting because my n7 will never reach a full charged anyway
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I'm not a big fan of cwm, I prefer twrp myself, but I do have an old phone with cwm and it used to ask me the same thing, after I flashed just about anything, whichever option I chose made no difference, my root was never broken. As long as aroma didn't bomb out on you, I'd say your good.
The elementalx.config file is located in system/etc.
My minimum voltage is 750, and I haven encountered any instability, but I've heard such things can very from device to device. CPU binning etc.
Not sure about changing minimum voltage, without reflashig kernel, as I'm a set it and forget it kinda guy, but I would look somewhere in sys/devices/system
The battery stats will reset when the tablet completely dies, probably another way, but I don't use the battery saver, so idk. And yes its 0 under the elementax.config to disable (it has instructions in the file). I believe that it actually changes the charging voltage, but I'm not sure about that, if it does tho it would take the same amount of time to reach 92% as it would to reach 100 with it disabled don't quote me on that one tho
And yes the elemenalx kernel is pretty sweet, flar2 is a kernel god.
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I'm not a big fan of cwm, I prefer twrp myself, but I do have an old phone with cwm and it used to ask me the same thing, after I flashed just about anything, whichever option I chose made no difference, my root was never broken. As long as aroma didn't bomb out on you, I'd say your good.
The elementalx.config file is located in system/etc.
My minimum voltage is 750, and I haven encountered any instability, but I've heard such things can very from device to device. CPU binning etc.
Not sure about changing minimum voltage, without reflashig kernel, as I'm a set it and forget it kinda guy, but I would look somewhere in sys/devices/system
The battery stats will reset when the tablet completely dies, probably another way, but I don't use the battery saver, so idk. And yes its 0 under the elementax.config to disable (it has instructions in the file). I believe that it actually changes the charging voltage, but I'm not sure about that, if it does tho it would take the same amount of time to reach 92% as it would to reach 100 with it disabled don't quote me on that one tho
And yes the elemenalx kernel is pretty sweet, flar2 is a kernel god.
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I have found a way to reset battery usage: delete batterystat.bin file. so simple
P/s: Please close this thread. :good:
dichton said:
I have found a way to reset battery usage: delete batterystat.bin file. so simple
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This has no use whatsoever :good:
dichton said:
I have found a way to reset battery usage: delete batterystat.bin file. so simple
P/s: Please close this thread. :good:
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Sounds like you enabled battery extender when you set up the kernel. What this does is stop the charging around 94% (or so) to extend you batteries life. It does this by stopping the battery from getting to full charge and saving a cycle as the battery is good for only so many cycles.
Sent from my Nexus 7 Flo running Odex SinLess ROM 4.4.2 with ElementalX kernel using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
dichton said:
2. I chose BLE=4.2. My n7 would charge to 92% Usually it takes 3h to full charge. So if i charge to only 92% would i need less time to do so? Cause i noticed the charger would cool down when it finished.
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Yes, it will be faster. It will actually need less than 92% of the normal time, since the charge current tapers off towards the end.
3. If i want a full charge i change the value to 0 in the config file right?
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Yes. Or if you want to do it temporarily, you can just write 4300 to
/sys/devices/i2c-0/0-006a/float_voltage
That will get reset to the config file value during the next reboot.
5. Can i set different auto voltage for lowest cpu speed 384Mhz without reinstall the kernel and use trickster mod or kernel tunner? Btw i chose 800mv and is it too low? I havent seen any weird problem since then. Just 1 random reboot so far.
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Don't bother. It doesn't help with power consumption, the Snapdragon does automatic voltage scaling. You can get instability though, since this will be the starting point for the voltage scaling.
Pfeffernuss said:
dichton said:
I have found a way to reset battery usage: delete batterystat.bin file.
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This has no use whatsoever :good:
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IIRC, the hardcoded reset conditions in the battery manager service are 100% reached or 80% charge performed (e.g. going from 12% to 92%). Deleting
'/data/system/batterystats.bin'
will also do a reset, but you must do it in recovery. If you do it while booted up, it just gets rewritten. TWRP recovery has a file browser under 'Advanced' that you can use to delete the file.

Question about battery

Hi there,
Recently I got a secondhand HTC wildfire buzz and the original battery had a remarkable short life. After + / - 6 hours was empty.... without touching the phone!.
I replaced the battery by a new one with slightly higher capacity (1500mah) but after approx. 7 hours this one is empty too!....without using the phone, I mean the phone was closed with the on off button, not used and checked after 7 hours
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Specs:
Android 2.2.1
kernel 2.6.32.21
Build number 2.22.405.8
- Phone was connected to my local wifi
- Only app in background was What's app (didn't send or recieved messages)
- Killed rest of apps with "App Killer"
- Noticed a few processes with the app "OS monitor" and the process "Android-system" used between 8-20% CPU. And the process "System" about 2% CPU
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Kind regards,
thats strange.
diy3dm2 said:
Hi there,
Recently I got a secondhand HTC wildfire buzz and the original battery had a remarkable short life. After + / - 6 hours was empty.... without touching the phone!.
I replaced the battery by a new one with slightly higher capacity (1500mah) but after approx. 7 hours this one is empty too!....without using the phone, I mean the phone was closed with the on off button, not used and checked after 7 hours
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Specs:
Android 2.2.1
kernel 2.6.32.21
Build number 2.22.405.8
- Phone was connected to my local wifi
- Only app in background was What's app (didn't send or recieved messages)
- Killed rest of apps with "App Killer"
- Noticed a few processes with the app "OS monitor" and the process "Android-system" used between 8-20% CPU. And the process "System" about 2% CPU
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Kind regards,
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you dont gave proper description. well yiu are new so i consider you don't know about rooting process and your phone is not rooted.
first of all install wakelock app check from playstore. i will give you a hint wats eating your battery. well on froyo 2.2. plenty of battery monitors are avaliable. at last and the best follow some rooting guides in wildfire fourms. they are sometimes confusing for new users . well follow a method to install recovery and get rooted. install a new rom and recalibrate your battery. its a file that somtime help users .
at last if you dont want to root. simply erase everything and reinstall everything. but i suggest you to get rooted and soff. because froyo users now can not download anything from playstore. google has dropped support of froyo...
sachoosaini said:
you dont gave proper description. well yiu are new so i consider you don't know about rooting process and your phone is not rooted.
first of all install wakelock app check from playstore. i will give you a hint wats eating your battery. well on froyo 2.2. plenty of battery monitors are avaliable. at last and the best follow some rooting guides in wildfire fourms. they are sometimes confusing for new users . well follow a method to install recovery and get rooted. install a new rom and recalibrate your battery. its a file that somtime help users .
at last if you dont want to root. simply erase everything and reinstall everything. but i suggest you to get rooted and soff. because froyo users now can not download anything from playstore. google has dropped support of froyo...
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I dont think that root is the answer here, also wiping battery stats from recovery does nothing except delete a batterystats file from the rom. no actual calibration happens. no need to rush off into s-off without a real need for it
diy3dm2 said:
Hi there,
Recently I got a secondhand HTC wildfire buzz and the original battery had a remarkable short life. After + / - 6 hours was empty.... without touching the phone!.
I replaced the battery by a new one with slightly higher capacity (1500mah) but after approx. 7 hours this one is empty too!....without using the phone, I mean the phone was closed with the on off button, not used and checked after 7 hours
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Specs:
Android 2.2.1
kernel 2.6.32.21
Build number 2.22.405.8
- Phone was connected to my local wifi
- Only app in background was What's app (didn't send or recieved messages)
- Killed rest of apps with "App Killer"
- Noticed a few processes with the app "OS monitor" and the process "Android-system" used between 8-20% CPU. And the process "System" about 2% CPU
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Kind regards,
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To be honest with you friend it could be many things. ive seen many wildfires over the years that had massive battery drains just because they were old, with new batterys not really helping much. your device being on wifi is probably keeping it awake and not allowing for a deep sleep (which conserves more battery) if you go into wifi/advanced settings i think there is a option to have wifi always on during sleep. if that is ticked, then untick it and see if you gain any performance boosts. its also possible that your 3rd party battery may claim to be 1500 but it could be much lower. trusted brands are safer bets in these fields. also consider how you charge your battery, if you charge it excessively (much more that it needs, ie charged overnight while you sleep) then you could be causing permanent wear onto the battery.
as a last resort you could flash an android kernel that supports underclocking your cpu, that would increase your battery life but at the cost of performance. like the above user said try to install wakelock app and see if it pops up with anything useful but i don think it will
thanks
Thank you guys for the answers.
@sachoosaini
I did a successfull ROM flash on a HTC Prophet (QTEK S200) but that was a while ago.
@heavy_metal_man
I agree with you that it's hard to find the cause only with these info. Hard/software are very complex today. Yesterday I completely switched off Wifi but the results where the same.
I've noticed that the phone gets pretty warm while charging so perhaps that's the cause. I charging with a 5V 1.3 A usb charger.
Anyway, I'll try wakelock app to get some more info
Kind regards
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heavy_metal_man said:
I dont think that root is the answer here, also wiping battery stats from recovery does nothing except delete a batterystats file from the rom. no actual calibration happens. no need to rush off into s-off without a real need for it
To be honest with you friend it could be many things. ive seen many wildfires over the years that had massive battery drains just because they were old, with new batterys not really helping much. your device being on wifi is probably keeping it awake and not allowing for a deep sleep (which conserves more battery) if you go into wifi/advanced settings i think there is a option to have wifi always on during sleep. if that is ticked, then untick it and see if you gain any performance boosts. its also possible that your 3rd party battery may claim to be 1500 but it could be much lower. trusted brands are safer bets in these fields. also consider how you charge your battery, if you charge it excessively (much more that it needs, ie charged overnight while you sleep) then you could be causing permanent wear onto the battery.
as a last resort you could flash an android kernel that supports underclocking your cpu, that would increase your battery life but at the cost of performance. like the above user said try to install wakelock app and see if it pops up with anything useful but i don think it will
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diy3dm2 said:
Hi there,
Recently I got a secondhand HTC wildfire buzz and the original battery had a remarkable short life. After + / - 6 hours was empty.... without touching the phone!.
I replaced the battery by a new one with slightly higher capacity (1500mah) but after approx. 7 hours this one is empty too!....without using the phone, I mean the phone was closed with the on off button, not used and checked after 7 hours
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Specs:
Android 2.2.1
kernel 2.6.32.21
Build number 2.22.405.8
- Phone was connected to my local wifi
- Only app in background was What's app (didn't send or recieved messages)
- Killed rest of apps with "App Killer"
- Noticed a few processes with the app "OS monitor" and the process "Android-system" used between 8-20% CPU. And the process "System" about 2% CPU
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Kind regards,
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