Battery Life - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I flashed my phone to Caulkin Evio the latest version. and I really want to increase my battery life. I get decent battery life, but it trickles down to like 90% after using it for 5 min. What kernel should I download to keep everything running smooth. I appreciate links. Thank you.
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You could try a netarchy 4.3.1 cfs sbc. The sbc will charge it, just read up on it first. I use it all the time for sense roms.

OK, here's what you do. Kernel selection IS important, but I do these 2 things that keep my battery fresh.
1) I do the battery conditioning techniques after any ROM I flash. The HTC method of an 8 hr charge, turn it off for an hour, unplug, turn it on for 2 minutes, power down, charge for another hour, followed by the 10 times unplugging, then plugging back in until the charge light turns green, unplug, plug back in, etc... 10 times.
2) I keep all my data turned off in case I need it. You can still text and make calls. When I need data or WiFi, I turn it on, do my thing, then off again, and use WiFi instead of Mobile Data when ever possible.
My phone has been off the charger for 4 hours now, made a few calls, and texts and I'm still at 100%.

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[Q] Confused on battery life... please help

Hey everyone, I am having some trouble with my rooted phone. Prior to rooting the phone, I had no battery life issues. Right after Christmas, I had a little bit of time and I rooted my phone for tethering, mostly. I used the root listed on this website at the time (I couldn't use unrevoked because I had just done the OTA update to the software) and installed no further changes. Since then, I can get about 8 hours before the battery is well below 50%. This is without making any phone calls or using the internet, and maybe a few texts. I have resorted to turning off the connection to the internet, and this preserves my battery and allows me to make some calls without absolutely killing my battery. When I unplug, I can almost watch the battery life drain. I will be at 90% by the time my 15 minute drive to work is done. I have tried changing chargers, buying a new battery, and nothing works other than shutting off the connection to the internet. When I look at what has been using the battery, I not no time where I did not have a cell connection, and all the battery usage is idle and connection to network time. Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!
Wow, your situation seems very strange. Are you running a custom ROM or kernel? Have you tried using spare parts to see what is actually consuming your battery? Perhaps, you can try wiping everything from the phone and installing the stock ROM or other custom ROM of your choice. Please keep us posted, good luck
Recalibrate the battery. I would link you but kinda hard to do so. Just search the forums for it.
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What Rom are u using?
That is happening to me too. After I first rooted the battery life was good better than before. I had been using vaelpak, then a about last week my battery started to drain so fast. I would take it off the charger and do a little texting or check my emails. Shower or what not than I pick up my phone and its like 92% already. Thinking maybe I have too many apps so I deleted some and then forced stopped a few and I forgot what else and that day my battery stayed on 60%(thats what it was on when I took it off the charger before I left) for about a good two hours and i was listening to music and the internet and text and all that. Kinda scared me because I thought I messed something up, but the battery lasted longer that day. Then the next day back to the same old same old. Last night I flashed warm twopointtwo and was charging my evo last night but I put it under the pillows by accident and woke up this morning the phone was burning up and flashing red and green at the same time and it had stopped charging. I took the battery out and let it cool for a few hours. now its charged back up. I wanna see if the battery improves with warm but I think I'm going to flash another ROM but this one is too pixeled and its killing my eyes So upset. but let me know if you fix your battery problem
hmmmm....maybe....
Bruggeman.Adam said:
Hey everyone, I am having some trouble with my rooted phone. Prior to rooting the phone, I had no battery life issues. Right after Christmas, I had a little bit of time and I rooted my phone for tethering, mostly. I used the root listed on this website at the time (I couldn't use unrevoked because I had just done the OTA update to the software) and installed no further changes. Since then, I can get about 8 hours before the battery is well below 50%. This is without making any phone calls or using the internet, and maybe a few texts. I have resorted to turning off the connection to the internet, and this preserves my battery and allows me to make some calls without absolutely killing my battery. When I unplug, I can almost watch the battery life drain. I will be at 90% by the time my 15 minute drive to work is done. I have tried changing chargers, buying a new battery, and nothing works other than shutting off the connection to the internet. When I look at what has been using the battery, I not no time where I did not have a cell connection, and all the battery usage is idle and connection to network time. Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!
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I'm having similar problems, though not as dramatic - mybattery life only lasts about a third of what it used to. I am running 2.2 RLS 5 witht the htc stock #15 kernel. What I am trying to do is hunt down a decent kernel that is compatable with RLS 5. I have found a few - but I am still in the process of researching information about the issue.
I have found 3 differant ways to reset your battery... I'm going with the last one (blue) for now and am currently in the process of executing it right now, but here are the three steps I have found while reading:
Charge the phone fully with it powered on
When fully charged, disconnect cable
After green LED goes off, power the phone off
When phone is fully powered off, reconnect cable, amber charging light should be on
When LED goes green, disconnect cable
Repeat previous two steps 10 times
After 10th cycle, boot into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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this is one from HTC
Charge the phone for 8 hours uninterupted with power on
turn off the phone and charge for an additional hour
turn ont he phone unplug it and let it sit for 2 minutes then plug it in for an additional hour.
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charge the phone to full
unplug and use phone till it shuts off from no battery (do not plug in until it shuts off)
charge phone to full again with out unplugging till 100% (check under about phone > battery it shoudl say full charge there)
then boot into recovery and wipe battery stats
reboot back into phone and charge too 100% with a wall charger( don not unplug until at 100%)
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After I try this out - I might or might not switch my kernel - But I wll say this - I had absolutly awesome battery life when I was running HTC stock #17 - you might could look into flashing that instead of what you are running now (flash it just like you would a ROM) - you can find it here
hope this helps out a little bit - but in reality - getting your battery the way you like it is really more of a trial and error type procedure...good luck
Ah, welcome to an elite club...right. I rooted my 003 Evo last summer after getting it shipped to me. From then until mid-november of last year, I got great battery life. Before the switch flipped in November, I could leave it sit overnight and i'd use 1-1.5% charge per hour, so worst case after 8-hours sleeping with no use I'd be at 86-88% charge.
Then suddenly as it a switch had been flipped, I started getting horrible battery life. The ROM didn't matter, settings mattered little, it just sucks no matter what I do. If I unplug it at 6:00 AM and leave it completely unused until 2:00-3:00PM that afternoon, the stock battery is at 31-35%. The awake time will be under an hour, and every utility that I use reports nothing out of the ordinary.
I bought a 3500 mAh battery and its better of course, but gets me nowhere near the use what the stock battery used to provide. I unrooted back to stock with the same results so I rooted again of course. Might try flashing back to the 1.77 PRI and NV. Some folks are getting better battery life with those, but that may only be related to sleep issues which my phone doesn't appear to have. It may prove to be a waste of time, but I have to keep trying.
Good luck all of the club members! Thank you for your time.
JayStation3 said:
I'm having similar problems, though not as dramatic - mybattery life only lasts about a third of what it used to. I am running 2.2 RLS 5 witht the htc stock #15 kernel. What I am trying to do is hunt down a decent kernel that is compatable with RLS 5. I have found a few - but I am still in the process of researching information about the issue.
I have found 3 differant ways to reset your battery... I'm going with the last one (blue) for now and am currently in the process of executing it right now, but here are the three steps I have found while reading:
Charge the phone fully with it powered on
When fully charged, disconnect cable
After green LED goes off, power the phone off
When phone is fully powered off, reconnect cable, amber charging light should be on
When LED goes green, disconnect cable
Repeat previous two steps 10 times
After 10th cycle, boot into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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this is one from HTC
Charge the phone for 8 hours uninterupted with power on
turn off the phone and charge for an additional hour
turn ont he phone unplug it and let it sit for 2 minutes then plug it in for an additional hour.
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charge the phone to full
unplug and use phone till it shuts off from no battery (do not plug in until it shuts off)
charge phone to full again with out unplugging till 100% (check under about phone > battery it shoudl say full charge there)
then boot into recovery and wipe battery stats
reboot back into phone and charge too 100% with a wall charger( don not unplug until at 100%)
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After I try this out - I might or might not switch my kernel - But I wll say this - I had absolutly awesome battery life when I was running HTC stock #17 - you might could look into flashing that instead of what you are running now (flash it just like you would a ROM) - you can find it here
hope this helps out a little bit - but in reality - getting your battery the way you like it is really more of a trial and error type procedure...good luck
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I'm trying the first one right now I will keep you updated to see if this works
im using netarchy 4.3.2 havs more aggressive with both myns roms and my battery is pretty good
JayStation3 said:
I'm having similar problems, though not as dramatic - mybattery life only lasts about a third of what it used to. I am running 2.2 RLS 5 witht the htc stock #15 kernel. What I am trying to do is hunt down a decent kernel that is compatable with RLS 5. I have found a few - but I am still in the process of researching information about the issue.
I have found 3 differant ways to reset your battery... I'm going with the last one (blue) for now and am currently in the process of executing it right now, but here are the three steps I have found while reading:
Charge the phone fully with it powered on
When fully charged, disconnect cable
After green LED goes off, power the phone off
When phone is fully powered off, reconnect cable, amber charging light should be on
When LED goes green, disconnect cable
Repeat previous two steps 10 times
After 10th cycle, boot into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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this is one from HTC
Charge the phone for 8 hours uninterupted with power on
turn off the phone and charge for an additional hour
turn ont he phone unplug it and let it sit for 2 minutes then plug it in for an additional hour.
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charge the phone to full
unplug and use phone till it shuts off from no battery (do not plug in until it shuts off)
charge phone to full again with out unplugging till 100% (check under about phone > battery it shoudl say full charge there)
then boot into recovery and wipe battery stats
reboot back into phone and charge too 100% with a wall charger( don not unplug until at 100%)
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After I try this out - I might or might not switch my kernel - But I wll say this - I had absolutly awesome battery life when I was running HTC stock #17 - you might could look into flashing that instead of what you are running now (flash it just like you would a ROM) - you can find it here
hope this helps out a little bit - but in reality - getting your battery the way you like it is really more of a trial and error type procedure...good luck
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**Just a update, the 1st one did nothing for me lol**
DoctorComrade said:
Recalibrate the battery. I would link you but kinda hard to do so. Just search the forums for it.
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I used Amon_RA backup to recalibrate the battery this AM. We'll see how that works.
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What Rom are u using?
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Sprintlovers ROM from the initial root process. Kernel HTC #15
JayStation3 said:
I'm having similar problems, though not as dramatic - mybattery life only lasts about a third of what it used to. I am running 2.2 RLS 5 witht the htc stock #15 kernel. What I am trying to do is hunt down a decent kernel that is compatable with RLS 5. I have found a few - but I am still in the process of researching information about the issue.
I have found 3 differant ways to reset your battery... I'm going with the last one (blue) for now and am currently in the process of executing it right now, but here are the three steps I have found while reading:
Charge the phone fully with it powered on
When fully charged, disconnect cable
After green LED goes off, power the phone off
When phone is fully powered off, reconnect cable, amber charging light should be on
When LED goes green, disconnect cable
Repeat previous two steps 10 times
After 10th cycle, boot into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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this is one from HTC
Charge the phone for 8 hours uninterupted with power on
turn off the phone and charge for an additional hour
turn ont he phone unplug it and let it sit for 2 minutes then plug it in for an additional hour.
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charge the phone to full
unplug and use phone till it shuts off from no battery (do not plug in until it shuts off)
charge phone to full again with out unplugging till 100% (check under about phone > battery it shoudl say full charge there)
then boot into recovery and wipe battery stats
reboot back into phone and charge too 100% with a wall charger( don not unplug until at 100%)
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After I try this out - I might or might not switch my kernel - But I wll say this - I had absolutly awesome battery life when I was running HTC stock #17 - you might could look into flashing that instead of what you are running now (flash it just like you would a ROM) - you can find it here
hope this helps out a little bit - but in reality - getting your battery the way you like it is really more of a trial and error type procedure...good luck
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Tried the middle one from HTC as well... we will see how it goes. Just in the time I have been typing this message (about 2 minutes), my battery has gone from 91 to 88%.
Also forgot to add that I have been out of town every week for the last two months and noticed that the HTC weather thing on the startup screen hasn't been switching to my current location. Always shows my hometown, even if I force an update.
I think I figured out the problem... ran into several threads discussing PRI incompatibility with HTC kernel #15. Flashed back to 1.77 and doing much better. Didn't mess with the NV. We will see how it does for the rest of the day.

Losing battery life....

My daily ROM is vealpak but yesterday I was on cm7 final but I nanded back to vealpak and now I'm losing battery life fast I did the proper wipes even did vr format all zip any idea I use to get great battery life I use nat's 4.3.4 cfs havs more sbc kernel any ideas why this would be happening?
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I know I post this a lot, but after anytime i flash a new ROM, or notice rapid battery loss, I have a battery routine I use, derived from the various conditioning methods on here, that works very VERY well.
1 - The "HTC Method w/10 Time Unplug"
Charge to full, unplug, turn off the phone, charge while off for another hour. Unplug, turn the phone on for 2 minutes, turn it off again, charge for another hour.
Unplug til the light goes off, plug back in til it turns green.
Do that 10 times.
Boot to Recovery, while plugged in. Clear battery stats, boot to system. And wait 2 mins, THEN unplug.
Also, I keep my GPS, mobile data and WiFi off unless I need it. You don't need either of those to make phone calls or texts
Yeah, you probably just need to wipe battery stats, but the method listed above is good for making sure the battery is actually at 100% when you wipe the stats.
Thanks for the help the wipe worked I think I'm going back to nat's 4.3.2 cfs havs more sbc I got better battery on that and for the charging method I would like to try that but I can't seem to put my phone down that long I think I would go crazy! lol
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You don't sleep?? lol
It probably doesn't have to be 8 hours, but I do it overnight, and on a weekend, when I can wake up and not need my phone for a few hours.

[Q] im still having problems with my extended battery

I don't understand why its not working correctly I did everything I was my phone isn't rooting is there anything else I can do to get it to work correctly without rooting it???
pjay203 said:
I don't understand why its not working correctly I did everything I was my phone isn't rooting is there anything else I can do to get it to work correctly without rooting it???
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I'm obviously missing something here and your post isn't very clear. Why would you need to root your device just to use an extended battery? That doesn't make any sense. All you should have to do is put the extended battery on a charger and charge it until it is full and then for a few hours more initially, unless the directions state otherwise. Afterwards, insert it in the back of your EVO, turn on your device and voila! If your device isn't functioning after doing that, assume you have a defective extended battery and return it to where you got it from.
Your gonna have to go through like 5-6 FULL/discharge sessions. Charge it for like 3 hours after it hits 100% and then disconnect it and dont charge it UNTIL it completely dies. Then do it again like 5 times.
Everyone keep saying I should root my phone for it to work correctly
Thats so you can install a SBC Kernel but forget about that. Just do the full charge/discharge cycles and your battery should be good in like 3 days.
knowledge561 said:
Your gonna have to go through like 5-6 FULL/discharge sessions. Charge it for like 3 hours after it hits 100% and then disconnect it and dont charge it UNTIL it completely dies. Then do it again like 5 times.
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Iight Imma do it that way now
Even HTC said do NO fully discharge your batery, so I'll take anyone that poists that as bad information.
Here's what works for me:
Here's what I do, and I get PHENOMINAL Battery life.
There are two ways of conditioning a battery that stand out above the rest, and I combine them.
Download the battery monitor widget/app
Set it to your battery's maH in settings.
This isn't totally a needed step, but is a useful app.
Charge your phone until full.
Unplug it, turn it off, then plug it in for one hour.
Turn it on for two minutes, so it fully boots.
Turn it off, unplug it, when the light goes off, plug it back in for one hour.
That part of this is actually from HTC, on how they found the best results for charging.
Now, before you plug it in, unplug, wait for the light to go off, plug it back in.
When the light turns green, unplug it again. Repeat that step 10 times.
(It may not take 10, it may take more, but 10 is good)
While plugged in, boot to recovery, wipe your battery stats.
Then reboot to system.
A good habit to preserve battery life is to keep mobile data off, unless you need it. I used to turn wifi off, too, but lately, I leave it on.
How good is this?? I take my phone off the charger when I leave for work at 7AM, and usually, I go to bed at 11PM, when I charge it back in, and it's never below 80%, unless I've been really using the phone excessivley.
The other thing is, I do this, somewhat daily. I wake up, tuen the phone off ,so my alarm doesn't keep ringing every 15 minutes, unplug it, then not turn it back on til just before I leave, so it's getting that "treatment" at some level, every day.
ok but how do i wipe my battery status?
You have to be rooted to wipe your battery stats. Just do what i said byt dont let the phone fully die then. Let it get to like 5% or something then FULLY charge it for like 2 hours after it hits 100%. Do that like 5 times. What the other dude said will work too. Just do what your comfortable with.
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yeah im doing it ur way now

Please someone make an SBC Sense Kernel for Synergy

Please, please, please. SBC kernel for Synergy?
I am tired of my 3500 battery running out after 18 hours, I was getting 60 hours from Warm 2.2 RLS5.
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SBC wont give you better battery usage, just an extra 10% when you wake up. I highly doubt your 18 will turn into 60 just because of SBC alone.
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Warm 2.2 was a great rom.that rom gave me the best battery life I have ever had except for my current setup...I am on wifi once I got home but 8 fairly rough hours on 3g. The wake time shows I used it.
I did get better life w froyo though. I could get 40+ hours pretty regularly and half would be 3g. If I stayed on wifi I am sure I could get 60+ currently.
Lithid, with all due respect, but I am on Synergy. When I charge my phone until the green light comes on, i unplug it and it drops from 100% to 80% in about an hour.
So I tested some things out. I ran battery clear dead and recharged, phone on, and then when the light turned green, I rebooted it and when it booted back up, battery monitor widget said I was at 79%.
Ran dead again about 12 hours. Recharged, phone off, until light turned green and turned on phone. BMW said 78%.
I am not very smart, but both times it took 2 hours exactly to recharge until light turned green. That is telling me that the phone has a timer, or shuts down charge at a certain voltage. It also tells me that it takes the same amount of time to charge my 3500 battery as my old stock 1500???. I call BS!
With SBC, it took 3 hours to fully charge my 1500, and almost 6 to charge my 3500. So what you stated above, makes no freaking sense to my stupid arse. Please re explain to me again how I was not getting 3 days of use before and only about 17 hours today with screen on time of 3 hours today....
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I don't know what you guys are doing to get such terrible battery life. I get 19-20 hours with moderate use out of the stock 1500 battery.
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So this morning, I unplugged at 9am from charger. I turned off everything that makes an EVO an EVO, like Background data, and sync so that it does not update any fb or email or anything without me doing it. I have had WiFi on since then and I have it set in Spare Parts to never while plugged so it will shut down when the screen is off. I also turned off Mobile network always on. so I now have a NON EVO, EVO. And at 5 hours, I have 71% battery left. That will get me to to about 17 hours of drain time. so far today I have 2 hours online with it. The 17 hours is purely estimate as I may go 5 hours later without picking it up. so I may be more like 24 hours on this charge cycle.
That is no where near what I was getting with SBC and RLS5 of 2.2. With Synergy, I am not expecting the same run time as before, but with SBC, I would definately be getting WAY MORE life out of battery. 2 days at least.
All I am saying is the the EVO without SBC, DOES NOT fully charge my 3500mA battery. PERIOD!
eggsack said:
So this morning, I unplugged at 9am from charger. I turned off everything that makes an EVO an EVO, like Background data, and sync so that it does not update any fb or email or anything without me doing it. I have had WiFi on since then and I have it set in Spare Parts to never while plugged so it will shut down when the screen is off. I also turned off Mobile network always on. so I now have a NON EVO, EVO. And at 5 hours, I have 71% battery left. That will get me to to about 17 hours of drain time. so far today I have 2 hours online with it. The 17 hours is purely estimate as I may go 5 hours later without picking it up. so I may be more like 24 hours on this charge cycle.
That is no where near what I was getting with SBC and RLS5 of 2.2. With Synergy, I am not expecting the same run time as before, but with SBC, I would definately be getting WAY MORE life out of battery. 2 days at least.
All I am saying is the the EVO without SBC, DOES NOT fully charge my 3500mA battery. PERIOD!
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I agree 100%. I wont use any sense 3.0. Gb rom until an SBC kernal is available. I myself wouldn't use it but my gf would. I'm a cm7 person and only use SBC cause I need every drop of battery life possible. Without SBC I get that initial drain and I wont sacrifice that. For me its safe and a must have and people can disagree with me all they want on the validity of SBC but I believe in it and won't change my mind. If I ever get time I might throw my hand in to creating a kernal but right now I'm working on my apps new release
free the dirk
Nothing wrong with SBC and s reputable replacement battery. Mine is a Seidio and I used SBC for 4 months on 2.2. No problems! Well except only charging every 3 days unlike everyday now.
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update from Today on battery life. I am not at 13h 48min since unplug and BMW says I have 12% remaining and estimates that dead time is 1h05min.
Display time on is 78% and in time that is 5h 48 min.
Wifi on 9h, 8min. I had to make a trip to the grocery store and pharmacy. Dont know where the other 2 hours of time went that it should have been on, cause I did not turn it off.
Phone idle, 7h 55min
I would consider this a normal day. Only about 10 min of talk time. I got similar to this with Stock ROM and a 2600mA battery from Sprint.
If your battery is registering fully charged at 78%, then you must've wiped battery stats without a full charge or something. Charge it fully & then wipe battery stats. Let it drain completely, then charge it fully again. You should get better battery life after doing so.
I've seen in some people's wiping/flashing directions to wipe battery stats (or everything except the SD card), and that's incorrect. Don't wipe battery stats unless your battery is fully charged. Wiping at less than a full charge, or not following through with the conditioning directions, can mess with your battery life.
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No, I did not wipe battery stats. How would I get fully charged if the phone will not let it fully charge??? That is my complaibt in the first place. It is NOT charging my 3500 battery anywhere near full charge.
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I was not talking about when your phone is fully charged. I'm saying your battery will still drop the same at 100% or 90% you said at 100% you can get 60 hours. But at 90% your only getting 18 hours or whatever... I was saying, doing that math it doesn't make sense. I also use the 3500 battery. No sbc and I charge to 100% not 78%
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lithid-cm said:
SBC wont give you better battery usage, just an extra 10% when you wake up. I highly doubt your 18 will turn into 60 just because of SBC alone.
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Gotta disagree with lithid here as well. If you watch the amps separate from the charging indicator, they keep going at max after the charge hits 100% and don't stop until it gets fully charged. For me the full charge without SBC is about 70% of the actual battery capacity
Lithid, I just ask that if you were to unplug your phone when your led turns green. Then do a full restart, BATTERY MONITOR WIDGET will show you your exact capacity charge and it will not be 100%.
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I also want to add....
Lithid, I totally appreciate your interest and I hope I have not offended you or my posts read like I dont care what you say. I try to be respectful, but sonetimes typing out things come across wrong to the reader. You have done some fantastic work for the EVO and I think you are first class for doing it.
You have also caused me to research things so I can learn what you are talking about so I dont come off as an idiot.
The only thing that is troubling me is that I freakin love Synergy. It drains my battery very quickly compared to 2.2. My hunch was that the stock kernel was the culprit. I tried golden monkey and freedom, same problem. I tried chop suey today. I am at 10%, so it is about the same as others. CSuey is a bunch quicker than the others for performance.
So I guess what it comes down to is this; I would just like to try an SBC kernel for Synergy just a. Couple of charge cycles to see if i still get the same endgame. If I still only get 18 to 24 hours of battery charge, I will be a non SBC guy forever. But no one is doing one, so I can not test it. Solution???
And again, Lithid, thanks for your time on this and keep up the good work! I appreciate it!
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Stock 1500 running synergy godmode. Moderate use checking email placed about 15 calls. Checked xda on the hour. Downloaded apps. Browsed the web and listened to music for a few hours. I think your battery might be going bad. Also if you have a taskkiller you need to get rid of it. I let Android do its thing and have had zero battery problems. I easily get a full day and then some out of my EVO.
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Small update. All these nay sayers about SBC got me thinking, and the one above that said my battery may be going bad, so I am now back in Myns 2.2 RLS5 and SBC#15 kernel. My old setup. I am going to charge my battery FULLY tonight, and in the morning, I am going to see how long my battery lasts on that setup. I was getting 2.5 to 3 days with moderate use.
Then, when it gets dead, I am going to Recharge it fully and then immediately flash Synergy and then see how long of life I get with a SBC charged kernel and the reflash and see if I get more than 18 hours.
If nothing changes, then I will forever shut up about SBC. If I get significantly longer life, then I will pay someone to do an SBC kernel. Fair enough??
Plugged the phone in to charge at 1:05am today. Light turned green after 3 hrs 15 min. It is still not fully charged and that is at 9 hours 15 minutes. It is almost there. Right now it is showing 22mA charging and dropping. Goal is 0, which means full charge using SBC. I do realize that SBC also charges the battery at a slower rate, but that in itself cannot explain how the phone said the battery was FULLY charged after 3 hours.
So as soon as it gets to 0, I will reboot into recovery, wipe batt stats, then reboot into 2.2 RLS5 and unplug. Then I will run completely down until phone ****s off, then recharge once again using the SBC kernel, once fully charged, I will reboot into recovery, restore my Nandroid of Synergy RLS1 and see how long batt lasts on SBC charge. Then when I run that completely dead, recharge using Stock kernel from synergy and see what happens.
Screw SBC, I'd be happy with HDMw1n, 2-way call recording, and standard speed enhancements ALL in one, stable kernel. We don't have that yet.
Alpine- said:
Screw SBC, I'd be happy with HDMw1n, 2-way call recording, and standard speed enhancements ALL in one, stable kernel. We don't have that yet.
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This is an SBC thread not a lets ***** about HDMI and 2 way recording which are both out there already thread.
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Sbc kernel on miui

I've tried sz's and tiamats sbc kernel on miui and neither one seems like its working, I still drop 10% in 30 minutes. what am I doing wrong. I'm charging all night long.
A good battery calibration is a good way to start.
Here's my method:
Plug and charge til full, with phone off.
Unplug, turn it on for about 5 minutes.
Turn it off, plug it in and charge for one hour.
Unplug it til the light goes off, then plug it back in.
Once the light turns green, repeat this step, unplug, then replug til green, about 10 times.
Boot to recovery, wipe battery stats, boot to system.
Also, I've been running Tiamat 4.0.7 all week, and it's better than 4.0.6, but not quite as good as 3.3.7 was.
I asked about this on the MIUI forums the other day and someone told me about a battery calibration tool and the market. I guess it deletes the .bin file... It worked fine for me. On light use i'm on 15 hours at 80%
I used that battery calibration app as well, and my 3.3.7 SBC works just fine on MIUI. That being said, I got miserable results from 4.0.7 SBC. It gave me wakelock issues which were resolved by going back to 3.3.7. It's all about finding what works best on your phone.

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