Hi I am wondering what kernels everyone is using for their Incredible. I was using Tiamat 3.3.5 NO-SBC and got decent battery life. Today I put on Savaged-Zen-INC-0.0.2-BFS-HAVS-GB-signed. What is working best for you also what one would you recommend for maximum battery life. Thank you.
I'm kinda one of those people that just experiments around with kernels. Right now I'm using the same as you which is Tiamat, but I really have enjoyed the most recent incredikernel.
I'm running Skyraider 3.5 with the 2.6.32.27 incredikernel. Happy with it so far. I'm at 46% battery after 28 hours of medium use for calls, texts, browsing, and listening to music. I have the screen brightness pretty low and the cpu governer set to "smartass". I just flashed to this from HeyitsLou #9. That one gave great battery too...the best was almost 72 hours! I flashed to this one for the overclocking.
I really like incredikernel, I get great battery life out of it. when I flash a new kernel I bump charge then erase battery stats and I get about 2 days of battery out of it, that's with turning off wifi when not needed and custom automatic brightness
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I am currently running the MIUI rom along with netarchy's universal 4.1.9.1 (the less aggressive UV because aggressive caused screen tearing). Battery life is good, and better than with the stock kernel, but I still only see about 8-10 hours under light/very moderate use.
Does anyone have a kernel they prefer for exceptional battery life? I'm not looking for crazy, 1.5GHz overclocking or anything like that; superior battery life is most important to me.
I'm using Savage v1.6 CFS - HAVS - WIMAX (#6 I think).... and I am getting crazy battery life. Normally around 25 hours with moderate use.
Never been happier with my phone.
Hey guys, I am on cm 7 nightly #11. I am on radio 09.01 and have experimented with Chad's and the stock kernel.
I have background data, auto-sync, wifi, bluetooth, gps all off. I dont have facebook or anything pushing either. Screen brightness is on about 60%.
With the seido 1750 mah battery, I am getting around 7-8 hours of battery. That is to the bone dead .
That is making maybe 1 call a day, a couple dozen texts, browsing the web a bit and listening to an hour or so of music/pandora.
In spare parts it says under 'other usage'. Running 42.7%, screen on 23.8%. 'Partial wake' only ones on here are really music and pandora, but they are relatively small slivers.
Under settings it is 68% display, 8% cell standby, 7% voicecalls, 4% android, 4% idle.
I have tried wiping battery stats, doing the drain all the way technique, etc.
Anyone have any suggestion on what to do here?
Thanks.
I'h suggest moving to Cymod 7 RC1 (unless you mean the new nightly, then I'm not sure) I have been running cyanogenmod since before the nightlies hit and I've never had battery that bad. I get about 3 days of standby out of my phone on RC1 and the incredikernel. I listen to pandora on 3G (charging only in that time) about an hour a day and never charge otherwise unless I'm using it heavily. I text semi often, but don't really listen to music or call.
Seems wildly different that my experience. I take it this is specific to this rom, and your battery is better on others, ie battery itself not going south? With pretty similar usage and syncs to yours, I make it about 10 hours to use 50% of batt while at work. That's with stock battery. Only new nightly #8 with stock cm7 kernel.
1) change to 2.15 radio
2) did you buy the battery off ebay for $10? If so its really a 1250mAh or so. Either way OEM batteries are better than the aftermarket (ie Siedio)
3) Is the battery really old? If so it may be wearing down
4) Kernels are all decent, they should all get better than what you are getting...
5) Don't overclock to 1300+ it should run smooth at 998 or whatever it is.
I get 12+ hours of moderate use out of my OEM 1500mAh battery.
When I first started on the nightlies and flashing different kernels, I was having the same issue.
I stopped flashing other kernels and started using the stock cm7 kernel, now I am getting awesome battery life. Also, after flashing, several people recommend immediate rebooting to improve battery life.
Thanks guys.
Few questions.
1.) Radio 2.15? I am on 2.15.00.09.01 currently. Is that the same?
2.) Mine is an authentic Seido. But should I start using the OEM 1300mah battery?
Oh, I should mention. I don't overclock at all.
I was using the stock battery and got ~6 hours even with UC to ~850 most of the time and ~200 while screen off. Turns out my battery was defective and even now OCing to ~1100 most of the time I'm getting 4x the battery. Of course I couldn't be sure that my battery was defective until after I bought the new one but if the battery life just doesn't make sense then you might want to try going back to stock (assuming that's fine) and comparing.
try a different battery maybe
i currently have the stock battery which was only used a couple days
a HTC 1500 battery
a seido 1750 battery but i havent tried any of the other batteries in awhile but i also use CM7 nightlies on #11 because it seems to have best battery life
maybe ill try my other battiers and see my findings
I've had a similar experience and I'm fairly certain it was not my battery. The battery worked great with other ROM's; Normal usage of my phone would yield roughly 40% remaining battery life at the end of the day.
After going to CM7 (I started at #38) my battery has been lousy. I can't get through a day at all.
Two days ago I flashed incredikernel 2272011 as well as CM7 build #11. I'm using the default smartass governor and my battery performance is back where it used to be. Going through an entire day for me is no problem with normal usage.
Not sure if that helps but I've had good luck with this kernel thus far. Oh... and phone has been rock solid!
I'm on CM7 Nightly 11 right now with stock kernel. Seidio 1750 that I've had since last June. I've recently been comparing Tiamat's 3.14 to stock. If I'm on any kernel that has Smartass I'll use that as my governor. If I'm on the stock kernel then I use SetCPU with the kernel set to ondemand and a screen off profile set to 245. Either scenario seems to give me pretty good battery life, but I think Tiamat's with smartass may be a little better. With any kernel I've had it overclocked to 1.03.
Also, the brightness settings based off of HTC's ROM that were posted in the cm nightly thread in the development section have worked great. I've definitely noticed an increase in battery life.
I use advanced task manager with the shortcut on the desktop. I leave essentials running in the background but try to make sure everything else is killed.
All in all with the current setup I have I can get roughly 12-14 hours with heavy texting, 4-5 phone calls, internet and games scattered throughout the day.
Hello I just flashed my phone to CM7 and it's so smooth, but I was wondering if I could get the.most our of my battery by using a different kernel. That allows everything to work. please help.
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Hello I just flashed my phone to CM7 and it's so smooth, but I was wondering if I could get the.most our of my battery by using a different kernel. That allows everything to work. please help.
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Tiamat kernel plays nice.
It can also be undervolted additionally.
Right now I'm running CM7 Stable, and I use the Savage Zen kernel (no SBC). I get pretty decent battery life out of it by using SetCPU and setting it to 245 min/max when the screen is off and around 245-1000~ when it's on; this allows me to get great performance while still maintaining decent battery.
savaged zen 2.0.0. my phone's been through 2 nights. played quite a few games. checked facebook a bunch. used flashlight a few times. email, xda, calls. 1 day 11 hours and still like 10 percent left. runnign on savaged zen governer. that's pretty damn good.
then again, i did fall asleep wiht it on and not charging twice. at least we know it sleeps well...
played with the SZ governor for a little bit the other day, and found it pretty nice.
ended up switching back to tiamat and smartass though.
also currently testing and trying out SBC just to see how it behaves. easily noticing that extra percentage of battery that gets pushed to charge due to the trickle charge vs a non-SBC kernal.
I'm visitng here from the Samsung Captivate forum. I flashed CM7 to my girlfriend's EVO last night and she is experiencing horrid battery life. I turned off the "back up to google" options in the privacy menu that is said to be starting Android system every time the dialer is used, which is said to use up excessive battery power.
I'm about to flash tiamat's latest kernel. I'll report back on how it goes.
I flashed back to CM7 the other day. I was having issues, so i completely reformattetd everything. Went back to stock, unrooted, re-roooted, and flashed cm7. I'm getting great battery life with CM7 + the tiamat kernel.
As of right now: 25 hours, 19 minutes of uptime with 68% of my battery life remaining.
ETA: This is using the 3500mah seido extended battery.
My girlfriend is getting much improved battery life with tiamats 3.3.7 kernel
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i'm on Kings Unleashed GBR3 NEON-CM7 using tiamat 3.3.7 sbc kernel and i love it! i am getting almost 35hrs on one charge!
Hey there,
I want to know what is the BEST setup to maximize battery life. What ROM? What Kernel? What UnderVolt ( if any )? What Radio?
My room mate has an iPhone that he modded and it now lasts two days without being charged and that's with moderate usage. I'd like to out do him with my Android. Any help?
-Reiz
So far personally I've had the best experience with the following :
ROM : CM7 ( 7.0.0 )
Kernel : Tiamat 2.6.32.27
Radio : 11.19
I can't seem to get undervolting to work since I don't have the folder that Viper describes even though I am using an AOSP rom ( as far as I know ) . o.o It's odd really... Anyways, that usually gets me about 20 hours of usage or so .
Twenty hours isn't bad, as the Incredible isn't known for it's battery life. You won't get what your roommate's getting with his phone, maybe get a bigger battery...? I don't think you're going to really out do yourself with the experience you've posted, I'd be happy with that.
I am running SkyRaider 4.0, Chad's 12232010 kernel, OC'd to 1.0368 (small OC, I know) with the leaked 04.08 radio, and I can get about 20 - 24 hours before charging, low to moderate usage (no games, emails for work/personal, maybe 1 call of 5 minutes, lots of web browsing).
Cm7 stock kernal. On metro pcs with a seidio 3500 mah extended battery. Unplug at 7am 12 hours later only sitting on 74% lmao. And in that time bout 100 text. And 200 work emails.. and 30 mins of surfing on lunch. This setup has been the best for me on bat life.. used to run sense and my bat life would just suck..
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your screen is sucking your battery down
Reizvoller said:
Hey there,
I want to know what is the BEST setup to maximize battery life. What ROM? What Kernel? What UnderVolt ( if any )? What Radio?
My room mate has an iPhone that he modded and it now lasts two days without being charged and that's with moderate usage. I'd like to out do him with my Android. Any help?
-Reiz
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Two things that will kill your battery faster than anything:
-Anything that syncs
-your screen
So, turn your brightness and screen timeout down and turn off anything you don't need syncing all the time, or at least turn the sync frequency down.
Also, keep your wifi, vibration, tactile feedback, and gps off unless you really need it.
Kernels, roms, undervolting...no where near as effective.
Think about your phone as a smaller version of a laptop (which it pretty much is), what's going to save you the most energy: throttling your cpu speed, or turning the screen brightness down?
Much love brother
I am using one of those ANKER 1700 MAH batteries.. I am also running LINOFISH 1.6 sotkc voltage and MIKG ROM 3.11. I just switched to INTELLIDEMAND GOVERNOR. I am wondering if anyone uses that and if being at 78% battery after 8 hours is good?? not too much use of the phone...
Is there a better governor to use to get better battery life but no lag? intellidemand seems to have a small lag opening apps..
Thanks..
I'd use underworld with SBC. It will help u get the most out of an extended battery. Been thinkin about getting one these myself.
Those batteries r great. I'm using one as well. Id recommend smartass gov and the underworld SBC kernel
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I'm using a 2000mah batter picked up on Amazon. Pretty good and it lasts about 4 hours on constant use, including putting my phone to sleeping and waking it up a lot.
Any suggestions on which governor to use? Using Tiamat 4.1 SBC (not even sure if a new one is out). Running cm7.2 also.
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I'm using a 2000mah batter picked up on Amazon. Pretty good and it lasts about 4 hours on constant use, including putting my phone to sleeping and waking it up a lot.
Any suggestions on which governor to use? Using Tiamat 4.1 SBC (not even sure if a new one is out). Running cm7.2 also.
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4 hours???? not a good battery... I have a couple of 2000MAH batteries and they stink.. the ANKER 1700MAH with LIONFISH KERNEL and INTERACTIVE X last me close to 20 hours and I still have more then 20% battery left...
I havent run mikg in a while...but I am currently on Jamieg71 KWIQ rom with mason G .15 sbc kernel running stock frequencies wheatley governor and my battery lasts at least 16 hrs (with about 30-40% remaining) phone is very responsive too. my normal usage is GPS+track my run (30 minutes most days), pocket casts driving to work, few games of DRISK, many texts, emails and calls.
Edit:..stock battery