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Battery running super hot

I know that everyone has problems with the battery but I've never seen anything like this. I used to barely be able to squeeze 8 hours out of it but it keeps getting worse. The battery is always really hot, running at around 40 degrees celsius and depletes itself pretty rapidly. I've been off the charger for 2 and a half hours and I'm already down to 48%. Has anyone else seen this or had it this bad? I've searched the forums here and at PPC Geeks but to no avail. I'm running Fresh ROM 0.3.x. I haven't had time to update but it's on the to-do list for today. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

And it's dead. 4 and a half hours. PoS.

I am too getting these results. I think it is fresh rom because im running it too.

Try Damage Control. Battery life is pretty good. Set profile in Dconfig to battery saver. Even overclocked battery is pretty good. No matter what though, if you're power using the phone (games,internet,etc) its usually only gonna last a few hours. Task managers help also.
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I've got ATK killing apps every half hour and today I barely used the thing. I didn't get a call, not one text, and maybe only used the Engadget app a couple of times.

Mine was a little warm when I first got it (power using while playing!); I took it to Sprint techs and they investigated. Mine was normal due to high use, but there WAS a known issue with some bad batteries, and they were ready to jump in and replace mine if it had shown those symptoms.
Now rooted, running DC ROM on mixed battery savings/performance profile...perfect. No issues. At least 18 hrs per charge with fairly heavy phone use.

what were the "symptoms"? i would like to know...

Try clearing your battery stats. I had the same problem(crazy warm battery and really bad battery life)
I did it through the recovery(clockworkmod) go to advanced then wipe battery stats. theres other ways to do it too just search around here and you'll find them.

I installed the latest Fresh ROM last night and it seems to be working great now. We'll see as time goes on.

Terrible battery life

So I've come to accept that the Incredibles battery life is terrible. But after rooting and flashing new ROMs, how come my battery life is even MORE terrible?? Is it because I've downloaded too many apps? My phone was just charged to full and as I post this it already dropped 10%. I can't get my battery life past 6hours of moderate use ie texting and occasional browsing. This can't be normal, or is it??
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Maybe try CM?
Have you considered flashing CM? I get really good battery life on CM and I am running build 17 right now.

When I flashed cm I got stuck in boot loops so I didn't really want to try it again haha
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mkhang said:
When I flashed cm I got stuck in boot loops so I didn't really want to try it again haha
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Did u wipe data/cache and Dalvik cache? It's a must since CM7 is an AOSP rom. Just sayin'.

mkhang said:
My phone was just charged to full and as I post this it already dropped 10%.
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As far as this issue, please see: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871051
Good explanation on what happens to your battery when you think it's being fully charged.
Concerning ROMs that boost battery life, have you looked into those that are basically just tweaked, scaled-down versions of stock ROMs? I'm running Magnolia 1.3.1 and getting more than a day of use with a good amount of texting, calling, browsing, apps, etc.
And this is on the stock kernel! My Dinc is running so well I don't want to screw anything up by flashing a different one haha

Another suggestion would be to use setcpu or similar app to underclock slightly at all times, and drastically on screen off...these processors are plenty fast, and you may not even notice 100-300 hertz less through the day.
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[email protected] said:
Have you considered flashing CM? I get really good battery life on CM and I am running build 17 right now.
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I got the worst battery life ever out if the cm's, can't go a full day on single charge!
Dinc running Magnolia 1.3/incedikernel/and BnB theme!

My battery came as a lemon, so I got a new one under warranty and battery life quadrupled. My battery life was insanely bad (like 3 or 4 hours light/medium use) so if yours is that bad your battery might be bad too.

mkhang said:
So I've come to accept that the Incredibles battery life is terrible. But after rooting and flashing new ROMs, how come my battery life is even MORE terrible?? Is it because I've downloaded too many apps? My phone was just charged to full and as I post this it already dropped 10%. I can't get my battery life past 6hours of moderate use ie texting and occasional browsing. This can't be normal, or is it??
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My battery life was much worse with the stock ROM.
I am using the CM7 nightly, my battery life is much better using this rom opposed to the stock.
One thing I had to do was to turn off auto brightness and manually set the brightness. I usually set it to about 1/4 or 1/3 of the way up as the screen is bright enough for indoor use.
I watch a lot of videos and this comsumes battery, but with the brightness manually adjusted it was much better. ex if a normal video used 20% of the battery for a 22 minute show, it now uses about 10 to 13%.
Also I noticed that when I am at 100% charge, it drops to 93% in about 10-20 minutes. After that it stablizes and appears to give a more accurate reading.
those are my suggestions. I have had the same results with all the CM roms.

Latest CM7 nightly gave my wife's phone 1 day 11 hours to get down to 20% charge, with typical (for her) usage. Meaning a lot of touchdown email checking/facebook stuff, not a lot of talking.

Ughh battery drain definitely too fast.

I feel like I make a thread for each phone I go through. First Blackberries, then Droid X, now Galaxy Nexus.
I am getting pretty horrible battery drain that is definitely worse than others' Nexuses. I have gone to the extended battery now for a few days, yet in the morning, when I unplug from charger (says 98% but charged?), with brightness only a quarter of the way up from lowest, I can literally watch the percentage (battery number mod in corner) drop one-by-one each minute or a few...So if I am actually using the phone, you can imagine it drops pretty fast. Yesterday, with very very moderate use the phone was still dead within 5-6 hours. It was at the mid-80s within an hour or more. Again, with moderate use.
It is stomach-dropping watching the percentage number just go down and down. Yet my friend's Gnex using the extended battery his first day did not hit 85% yesterday until 5+ hours later. The battery stats page on mine shows nothing with high numbers except Screen and Android OS, so I assume no apps are draining it. I am rooted with unlocked BL, on bigxie's deodexed ROM with softkeys mod, battery percentage mod, and power menu mod. I have 100-something apps and many widgets but no battery draining/updating ones. Others with the same ROM report fine battery.
I believe after using the ext. battery for a couple days, it should be "conditioned" if needed at all, yet I see no improvement.
I'm getting very angry watching this drop.. For example, 40 minutes off the charger with almost NO use except for turning the screen on here and there, I am at 94% battery with Screen at 46%, Android OS at 34%, Phone Idle 11%, Cell Standby 9%, and Android System 2%.
And then 1 hr 20 min in, at 88% battery with 55% Screen, 27% Android OS, 6% Phone Idle, 6% Cell Standby.
This doesn't sound normal right? Keep in mind, those numbers are with almost no phone use..very minimal settings menus visited and one update from Market.
Jesus, literally almost every time or two I turn the screen on just to check these numbers, I see the damn battery percentage drop a number. Not even using the phone how/as much as I normally would be. This is infuriating. Luckily, it doesn't seem to drain much with the screen off.

Quit checking and wait til the bug is fixed and blood pressure stabilizes?
Crazy world, ay?

Update to 4.0.2 or 4.0.3 with an improved kernel = success.
Use the phone for 1-2 weeks to stablize battery life - mine is better now than it was when I began using it. But the kernel/rom makes a big difference.

Thanks. Any suggestions on with combo to use now? 4.0.3 preferrably I guess.
Then why does my friend on totally stock 4.0.2, non-rooted have that great battery life from the first day using the extended battery?? I'm pretty much basing mine off of his and other's who are getting ridiculously long life. I never understood how it varies SO much. We should all have the same relative to usage.

just4747 said:
Thanks. Any suggestions on with combo to use now? 4.0.3 preferrably I guess.
Then why does my friend on totally stock 4.0.2, non-rooted have that great battery life from the first day using the extended battery?? I'm pretty much basing mine off of his and other's who are getting ridiculously long life. I never understood how it varies SO much. We should all have the same relative to usage.
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No. Because no two phones are set up the same. Too many variables to say relatively same usage. For instance, when i go to bed i get 2-3 hours standby per percentage point. Not everybody is going to get that.
Crazy world, ay?

@rbiter said:
No. Because no two phones are set up the same. Too many variables to say relatively same usage. For instance, when i go to bed i get 2-3 hours standby per percentage point. Not everybody is going to get that.
Crazy world, ay?
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Maybe, but the fact that I have no other visible outstanding draining factors, and I get no 4G at home and therefore have it set to CDMA only...I should not be seeing 1% drops almost every time I turn the screen on for more than 30 seconds. Especially with an extended battery.
God forbid I want to use GPS or 4G.

More battery life threads please.

case0 said:
More battery life threads please.
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Wow, really? At first glance in all sub-forums I saw about two, if that. I have a legitimate concern, especially when my friend is getting about 4 times better life. Thanks for your help though in the device forum where this 'doesn't belong'.
..And over the course of only a few minutes of the screen being on maybe twice and sending one email, I saw it go from low 82-83 down to 77. ****ing awesome.

just4747 said:
Wow, really? At first glance in all sub-forums I saw about two, if that. I have a legitimate concern, especially when my friend is getting about 4 times better life. Thanks for your help though in the device forum where this 'doesn't belong'.
..And over the course of only a few minutes of the screen being on maybe twice and sending one email, I saw it go from low 82-83 down to 77. ****ing awesome.
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You probably have a misbehaving app. Download better battery stats from the android apps and games section here at xda and let it run for a day or so and see what processes are being used the most and what your wakelocks are, etc.
Also, find a 4.0.3 rom with a kernel that can be undervolted and try that out.
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joshnichols189 said:
You probably have a misbehaving app. Download better battery stats from the android apps and games section here at xda and let it run for a day or so and see what processes are being used the most and what your wakelocks are, etc.
Also, find a 4.0.3 rom with a kernel that can be undervolted and try that out.
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Thank you, downloading now and will check it out.

I'll admit I'm using the GSM version so my experiences may not apply but for the first few days my battery life was utter crap.
Its been MUCH improved over the last few days, I dont have the wakelock issue and with the screen off the battery drain is literally only about 3% per hour, and thats with background data on.
YES, the screen DOES use a lot of battery, it isnt really avoidable and is somewhat expected with a 720p 4.6 inch super AMOLED screen.
The one thing I can recommend doing is finding a modded kernel and undervolting that CPU - It seems they've been really rather generous providing power to the thing, I've been able to take off at least 100-150mv across the board.

Antzor said:
I'll admit I'm using the GSM version so my experiences may not apply but for the first few days my battery life was utter crap.
Its been MUCH improved over the last few days, I dont have the wakelock issue and with the screen off the battery drain is literally only about 3% per hour, and thats with background data on.
YES, the screen DOES use a lot of battery, it isnt really avoidable and is somewhat expected with a 720p 4.6 inch super AMOLED screen.
The one thing I can recommend doing is finding a modded kernel and undervolting that CPU - It seems they've been really rather generous providing power to the thing, I've been able to take off at least 100-150mv across the board.
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This - My battery on the stock battery on GSM sucked first few days, and I was really concerned I made a poor purchase. But with the screen on probably 5 or 6 hours of my work day it lives through the day and just enough to get home after that. I can charge it at work too, which I usually do. On my day off it survived 18 hours and still had ~20% battery life left on 4.0.3 AOKP/Francisco.Franco Kernel

From my experience, the battery life isn't bad. I did install the "extended" battery as soon as I bought the phone but is isn't much bigger than the stock battery. I am on stock rooted 4.02. With LTE off I use about 2% per hour in standby. With LTE on it is almost double that (3-4%/hour). I have several widgets running and gps enabled. (wifi when available) I can easily get a 16-18 hour day and have 50% remaining when I go to bed unles I sit around gaming for a couple hours.
I may try a new ROM tonight but I expect it will probably make things worse.

Im running a bone stock setup and im getting 12 -14 hours a day... normally I read posts like the one skiddingus posted and wonder why I never can achieve those readings so i feel your confusion . I do have 4g on and gps off screen is about 1/4 of the way up brightness wise

How are people getting such great battery life on the Epic Touch!?

I am watching this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23272848) in amazement, as people report 24+ hours of battery life, with screen-on time of four, five, or even SEVEN hours!
I can't understand how folks get such great life.
Mine averages about two or three hours of screen time and about 14-18 hours, I'd say. I'm using Blazer 4.0, FB27 modem, and Rogue 1.4 kernel.
I know everybody's usage is different, and also we're all going to get different results due to other factors (signal strength, apps, etc), but I can't understand why the massive difference in battery life!
And I do have an 1800 maH battery.
Note: I do have a handful of apps, but not a whole lot, and I don't think any are destroying the battery. According to BetterBatteryStats, it doesn't look like the phone is having any trouble sleeping. That is, the screen-on time is just slightly lower than the awake time, meaning that the phone is typically sleeping when the screen is off.

imekul said:
I am watching this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23272848) in amazement, as people report 24+ hours of battery life, with screen-on time of four, five, or even SEVEN hours!
I can't understand how folks get such great life.
Mine averages about two or three hours of screen time and about 14-18 hours, I'd say. I'm using Blazer 4.0, FB27 modem, and Rogue 1.4 kernel.
I know everybody's usage is different, and also we're all going to get different results due to other factors (signal strength, apps, etc), but I can't understand why the massive difference in battery life!
And I do have an 1800 maH battery.
Note: I do have a handful of apps, but not a whole lot, and I don't think any are destroying the battery. According to BetterBatteryStats, it doesn't look like the phone is having any trouble sleeping. That is, the screen-on time is just slightly lower than the awake time, meaning that the phone is typically sleeping when the screen is off.
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With your usage, you feel 14-18 hours of battery is bad??? Id say a day of 16 hours consistently is pretty darn good. Now, I know that I have gotten over a day on battery by using it all day and then forgetting to charge it over night. Sleeping while the phone isnt awake can give some pretty outrageous looking battery life. Again, Id say if you are getting 14-18 hours on one charge, you are doing pretty darn good.

Im lucky if I can get 7-8 with all the "videos" I watch during the day

kbizzle said:
With your usage, you feel 14-18 hours of battery is bad??? Id say a day of 16 hours consistently is pretty darn good. Now, I know that I have gotten over a day on battery by using it all day and then forgetting to charge it over night. Sleeping while the phone isnt awake can give some pretty outrageous looking battery life. Again, Id say if you are getting 14-18 hours on one charge, you are doing pretty darn good.
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Well, I understand that when the phone is sleeping, it generally uses very little power -- especially on wifi.
It's mainly the screen-on time that amazes me. How can somebody get seven hours of screen-on time?? Just seems unreal!

iSaint said:
Im lucky if I can get 7-8 with all the "videos" I watch during the day
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Not to mention the sore wrist.

cds0699 said:
Not to mention the sore wrist.
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I know and the nurse keeps giving me cough drops for it in school

Well I am assuming that their 7 hours of screen on time was doing something minor. Then again, these are electronics, and they are all different. He just may have found his perfect set up. But again, if you can get through your day, doing everything you needed to with your phone and lasted 14-18 hours, I would be happy.

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Well, I understand that when the phone is sleeping, it generally uses very little power -- especially on wifi.
It's mainly the screen-on time that amazes me. How can somebody get seven hours of screen-on time?? Just seems unreal!
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I get good time myself just by lowering the brightness.
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disabling fb/twitter sync has helped my bat life improve.
always turning screen off when done rather than letting 1min timer take care of that whenever possible.
wifi is better on battery than 4g/3g. also disable wifi sleep.
other than that.. all comes down to extra 3rd party apps you have and personal usage.

I've never calculated mine all out, but I do get some pretty decent battery life.

Its all about how you use the phone. everyone seems to have there own definition of what "heavy" and "light" usage is but the fact is people getting 14+ hours aren't using there phone all that often. if you want to know how much actual usage time you can get out of the phone check the time the phone has been awake or the time the screen has been on.
for example my g2x goes for about 2 and a half hours of screen on time. my vibrant, 2 hours. havent had the e4gt long enough to see. these numbers of course changes depending on what you're actually doing (data intensive tasks will obviously cause faster drain) but it will give you an idea of how much you can actually use the phone before it dies. if all youre doing is texting here and there and checking email plus maybe 15-20 minutes of games or videos it isnt hard to get through a 10-12 hour day on a single charge. but if youre like me where i spend extended periods of time browsing the net while messaging and texting then the batter is going to die fast regardless of what battery saving tricks people suggest.

I recently removed OfficeSuite Pro 5 and noticed about 15-20% better battery life.
I also removed it from my other android devices and my tablets. Still testing them to see if theres a difference or not but so far it seems a bit better battery life.

iSaint said:
Im lucky if I can get 7-8 with all the "videos" I watch during the day
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Pron?
It burns when I Tapatalk....

My bat life isn't great now that I'm on cm9 ...but when I ran any of cauks roms with the batter saver script I would get a day of batt with pretty consistent use.. the one thing I miss....

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Pron?
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No porn
Lol jk bro
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My bat life isn't great now that I'm on cm9 ...but when I ran any of calkulins roms with the batter saver script I would get a day of batt with pretty consistent use.. the one thing I miss....

You can also use juice defender ultimate on aggresive
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los82 said:
My bat life isn't great now that I'm on cm9 ...but when I ran any of calkulins roms with the batter saver script I would get a day of batt with pretty consistent use.. the one thing I miss....
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His new rom with FCO2 will have battery saver script on it
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I don't know. Just how much can you believe people who are posting on forums that they are not exaggerating? Take for instance the post below where this guy was claiming he got 11 hours of screen on time and STILL had over 50% battery left on stock battery. By far the biggest claim in battery life I have ever seen. And he was insistent on it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22293195&postcount=30
All I'm saying is take what people are saying about amazing battery life with a grain of salt.
I average about 3 hours screen on time, and occasionally get over 4 hours with ~24 hours total time. But if my signal isn't the greatest, like when I'm at work, I get probably 1.5 hours screen on time and 17 hours total time.

I'm currently at 14h 41m with display on for 2h 36m and still have 47% battery left (I'm on stock rooted EL29).
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Hyperion battery under-performing?

Got the Hyperion last week from Amazon and overall I was impressed with its initial performance. It was a huge boost from the oem battery as I didn't have to recharge my phone at all during the day.
My only concern is that I've noticed I haven't been seeing similar numbers as others have mentioned with their Hyperion. I mean, I'm not getting 24+ hrs of use with 8 hrs of on screen time. I'll take a photo next time when its at its lowest charge but I am averaging about 5-6 hrs of on screen time, and thats with basic use, surfing the web, texting, couple phone calls, no games or movies, wifi/gps/sync on, and 30% brightness, non rooted as well.
Does anyone else feel their Hyperion isn't performing as others have claimed?

Pagaldesi4life said:
Got the Hyperion last week from Amazon and overall I was impressed with its initial performance. It was a huge boost from the oem battery as I didn't have to recharge my phone at all during the day.
My only concern is that I've noticed I haven't been seeing similar numbers as others have mentioned with their Hyperion. I mean, I'm not getting 24+ hrs of use with 8 hrs of on screen time. I'll take a photo next time when its at its lowest charge but I am averaging about 5-6 hrs of on screen time, and thats with basic use, surfing the web, texting, couple phone calls, no games or movies, wifi/gps/sync on, and 30% brightness, non rooted as well.
Does anyone else feel their Hyperion isn't performing as others have claimed?
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24+ hours with 8+ hours screen is is down right impossible. The reason people get extended batteries is because they want more than the stocks screen time for 4-5 hours without worrying about their phone dying.

Not really... With the correct kernel and ROM I can push that if not surpass it. Paranoid 2.51 leankernel 1.6 been home all day from the storm... That's 3 hours 12 mins screen on time @ 67% juice left.
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For me, not so much. Today for an example, I got a little over 12 hrs until I hit the 5% mark with almost 6 hours of screen on time. Home all day too with wifi on and screen brightness at 30%.
One thing I did notice though is that the "sdcard" used 1 hr and 17 mins of the battery. I've never even seen the sdcard on the activity list before, this is the 2nd time I've seen it since installing the Hyperion battery. Hmm what could it be?

I almost made it.. I'm running Aokp build 4. Not sure what the kernel is.
Plus the batteries have to go through a charging period... I noticed the first day it lasted a long time almost 2 days. (1day22hrs)I forget what the screen on time.

P2o8wer said:
I almost made it.. I'm running Aokp build 4. Not sure what the kernel is.
Plus the batteries have to go through a charging period... I noticed the first day it lasted a long time almost 2 days. (1day22hrs)I forget what the screen on time.
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Off topic..sorry..What font are you using?
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24+ hours with 8+ hours screen is is down right impossible. The reason people get extended batteries is because they want more than the stocks screen time for 4-5 hours without worrying about their phone dying.
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No, it is very possible, as I get that all the time on my hyperion.

Pagaldesi4life said:
For me, not so much. Today for an example, I got a little over 12 hrs until I hit the 5% mark with almost 6 hours of screen on time. Home all day too with wifi on and screen brightness at 30%.
One thing I did notice though is that the "sdcard" used 1 hr and 17 mins of the battery. I've never even seen the sdcard on the activity list before, this is the 2nd time I've seen it since installing the Hyperion battery. Hmm what could it be?
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Have you looked at any wakelocks your getting with better battery stats? That is pretty bad for the 4200 batt. Did you do the charging cycles that were detailed in the user manual?

Hey I was just passing by and reading threads, although I don't have this battery, a very possible reason that your battery life might not be as good is that you're still on stock. Notice everyone else who posted is on a custom rom + kernel. The GS3 stock roms are nice but come very bloated with apps. I read somewhere that on stock when you start up your phone, by default it starts a very impressively high number of processes ~50ish. I could be wrong on that but yeah a bloated stock rom MIGHT be the problem. Just my thought.

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Have you looked at any wakelocks your getting with better battery stats? That is pretty bad for the 4200 batt. Did you do the charging cycles that were detailed in the user manual?
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No I have not tried that app yet.
And yes I did follow the initial charging instructions as well.
It has to be something with the phone because even with the stock battery I had terrible performance, it'd last me only 3 hrs of on screen time where I've heard most users receive around 5.
He is my cpu time, it seems normal since the phone is spent most of its time in deep sleep.

Good at first/No so good after a couple months?
I havce the Hyperion, and have experienced close to 48 hours of life, albeit with very little use. With moderate use, I've experienced 30 hours. My screen time never surpasses 3 hours per day.
A few weeks ago I installed the Serenity 1.1 ROM. I have not been able to get more than 15 hours with that ROM.
This morning, I put in my stock battery, and it has been in for 9 hours so far, and is currently at 83%. I did a reboot about 4 hours ago, so don't have accurate screen-on stats. But I'm never at 83% this time of day with the Hyperion.
ANyone else experience good, then later, poor performance from this battery?

In the beginning I head awesome battery power. Now the battery is horrible I only get 2 hours screen time at 65 percent. Any ideas? Also undervolted and running 1.8mhz but battery still runs hot.
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