Hey y'all, I've been seeing a strange thing on my SGS2 recently with Words With Friends: It totally kills the battery.
I just recently wiped my phone and put in VillainRom 1.1 with CF-Root kernel and charged up my phone. I then randomly checked words with friends and played a few words.
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In 4 minutes and a half, it pulled 43% total battery use from a total uptime of just under 40 minutes.
Anyone else seen this happening with WwF ?
I've noticed Words with Friends taking up a lot of battery whenever I use it, so your not alone on this.
Yes i've noticed it too. it uses 100% cpu in one of the 2 cores while the game is open.
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You're definitely not alone and I tried the application on both of my phones (Captivate and S II) and all I can tell you is that words with friends drains the battery like mad.
Furthermore, the app hasn't been optimized for dual core processor handsets yet (as it is the case with most apps). When developers start optimizing their apps for dual core processors we should definitely see an increase in battery life as optimized apps can utilize the two cores more efficiently.
Any fix for this yet? It's killing both mine and my wife's SgSII's, but my desire Z is fine.
Biggest priority for the wife is WwF so she's not happy about the battery usage! Lol
lol it's funny i played this with the gf yesterday and it killed my battery as well. i knew immediately it was the culprit
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I usually get android system usage at 1%, hence im freaking out. Help please! Could it be because i use vipernod, v6 supercharged and savagezen kernel?
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I would say it could be any number of things, however the question is, what have you changed recently? Any updates, new apps?
Also, with this increase have you seen any decrease in your battery usage? I will have 70+% android usage sometimes but battery doesn't drain any faster. This is a normal thing for AOSP especially. Someone noted that they had high A.S. usage on a stock Nexus 4g.
This may just go away with a days usage, but be sure to check for partial wakelock. This option is in Spare Parts app not sure if its built in to MIUI. The wake lock is what kills your phone, when an app goes bonkers and keeps your phone awake.
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True. Miui has updates every Friday. So yeah, i updates last Friday. I switched from tiamat to savagezen just so i can fix the high usage but to no avail. I can't check battery partial lock because miui has battery stats issues right now.
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In addition to what imheroldman stated, charging your device will oftentimes cause your android system usage to spike, but 20% is nothing to be concerned with.
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So I charge my phone all night, take it off the charger to go to work at 6am by 3pm my battery is at about 8 percent. Here is where it gets funny, if I turn the phone off then back on I have about 59%. How does that happen
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Sorcery. That's how.
I'm guessing the reason your battery gets drained so quickly is because of the poor network coverage.
Could you also provide a screenshot of the apps/programs/hardware that have drained your battery? By that I mean the screen you see after hitting battery under settings.
The fact that it goes up so much after a reboot is very weird indeed. It usually happens the other way around with mine, the battery level drops about 15% for me after a reboot, which I also find weird.
I have had the same expierence with my phone as well. Dont understand it either.
I suggest you use a battery calibration app or s-off/root and install Clockwork Mod recovery to clear your battery stats and run a few cycles. Your phone doesn't know where full is and can't detect it as well as we'd like.
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I think you need a battery calibration. Before i calibrated mine would drop 10-15% sometimes but now it is good. I would also add expect a small margin of error if you were using your phone heavily and it is warm/hot and you reboot. Some people report, myself included, that you might see a slight spike after your phone cools down.
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I can't seem to get the battery results people are claiming. It seems like I lose 10 percent usage per hour during the day. I am starting to think I might need to replace my battery. Last night I left my phone unplugged and It drained over 25 percent with 7 hours sleep. When I installed the rom I used the wipe flag. I haven't touched a CPU controller cause it was suggested not to.
How do I find out exactly what is draining the battery so much?
I heard about battery calibration. I have read about a few techniques. I have also read that it is a placebo.
I am not sure what to do. Here are some screens. The drainage doesn't seem normal.
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Battery life really depends on the user much moreso than the rom. are you constantly using gps? google location? Wifi? Facebook sync? Twitter sync? Google talk? Other im's thru social hub? max screen brightness? constantly receiving calls and texting?
All of these factors influence your battery life. its probably not the roms fault.
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I am not saying its the rooms fault. I am trying to figure out what is causing the drain. I don't use social hub or the Facebook aphp. Only thing I kesync is Gmail, contacts, calander. Also, I use gtalk. I don't GPS at all.
Something is draing the battery.
So warm up check is something you can do the moment you get the phone (or at least it was like this with the Sensation).
Can someone that has already received the phone comment if the phone has a warm up problem while playing games or web-browsing etc?
(I know most of the phones warm up, the question is if it's fine or if it's becoming an oven like the early versions of the Sensation)
Been toying with it for about an hour now, battery just about to die so I can charge properly. No heating issues what so ever. It is as cool as ice tbh. I've played Glowball a bit and the screen has obviously been on for an hour now, 6% battery left, started with 27. Wifi on, data on, heavy game on. It does NOT heat up and Glowball runs perfectly smooth for me. I will be doing more tests in a day or 2.
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djolebih said:
Been toying with it for about an hour now, battery just about to die so I can charge properly. No heating issues what so ever. It is as cool as ice tbh. I've played Glowball a bit and the screen has obviously been on for an hour now, 6% battery left, started with 27. Wifi on, data on, heavy game on. It does NOT heat up and Glowball runs perfectly smooth for me. I will be doing more tests in a day or 2.
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Sorry, I can't post in the ROM thread yet. Just wondering if I need to calibrate the battery every time I pull the battery. I ask because I use a wall charger for my batteries.
I have three that I rotate so I always have a fresh one with me. I feel a lot better letting the wall charger do the work so its one less thing the EVO has to do. No wear and tear on the port too.
If anyone has any idea I would appreciate it.
Thanks, Che
No, you just need to calibrate the battery each time you flash the rom; pulling the battery is fine.
Thanks. Wasn't sure if it needed to be done for each battery every time since they are different ages and have limited lifespans.
I've been doing it every time and have been getting amazing battery life. Could be the new ROM too.
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I use to calibrate the battery as well until I read heard about by wiping it doesn't do anything... Correct me if I'm wrong.. just throwing that out there..
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To be honest, I'm not 100% on what exactly happens during battery calibration.
I thought it was something done to the phone; how it saw the limits of the battery; and not something done to the battery it self.
Any one who knows a little more about it feel free to correct me.
WITH CALIBRATION
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WITHOUT CALIBRATION (but streaming and playing music for hours)
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