Hello Mates,
I am using Wildpuzzle ROM v0.8, which is having many problems in its stage.
The camera fails to operate sometimes. But I do managed to make it working using an external application.
The major issue remains of the BATTERY.
Its been a disaster for me to use it when EDGE 'on'. When the downloading is taking place, this phone starts draining the battery within 30sec for each percent. Presently i get the battery backup of around 120mins max on data usage.
One more issue lies in, the battery wont get charged beyond 71%. I need to reboot so that it shows somewhere more than 90%.
I have tried to reflash the v0.8 rom but facing similar problem again.
Will Radio update be a better option?
Can you recommend any better Sense Enabled Froyo?
Is this the bug in the ROM itself?
Help me, with your suggestions.
Thank You.
Recalibrate your battery. Just perform a search on XDA, there are many guides. It cant be a bug with WildPuzzle because I have personally tested it extensively, and this issue didnt exist.
Only after a fresh flash of a ROM, I get very bad battery life, but this is normal in all ROms I have tried. After 1-2 charge - discharge cycles, it fixes itself.
But because you are facing issues like it doesn't go beyond 71%, then jumps to 90% etc - Your battery definitely needs recalibration.
Related
Hey everyone,
I wanted to ask everyone for advice/opinion on my horrible battery life.
I have been trying out 2.0-RC6 for some time now and I love it, except the fact that the battery is drained in about 10 hours. I am coming from LeeDroid 2.2 and could go sometimes 2 days without charging.
I have searched forums, posts, what have you ... tried different kernels, radios. No joy.
I am now running a virgin RC6 with all caches wiped (S-OFF too). What it comes down to is a mysterious drain of about 100mA even when the phone is sleeping (radio on, bluetooth off, wifi off). Which makes no sense... I used to get really low drain with the laggy HTC Sense rom (about 5-10mA). Again - this is a clean rom there are no apps installed on it apart from a battery widget and setCPU.
Why i think it is the radio's fault is that when I do put the phone in airplane mode the power drain goes to 2mA. I have tried most radios, even flashed the 32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_RIL and for some reason the radio is still constantly drawing power.
So, I am stumped. I was wondering if any of you have found some tweaks that have worked for you. Have you experienced this kind of problem and do you have any advice as to how I can go about debugging this issue? I have very little knowledge about radios in general but i'm willing to learn.
There have been people with battery drain issues out there, but no one seems to know how to resolve them (or those issues simply go away when they flash a new rom, which hasn't happened for me).
I would appreciate comments from developers who know how to debug those issues and I think this will be of help to everyone.
Thanks
slyn4ice said:
Hey everyone,
I wanted to ask everyone for advice/opinion on my horrible battery life.
I have been trying out 2.0-RC6 for some time now and I love it, except the fact that the battery is drained in about 10 hours. I am coming from LeeDroid 2.2 and could go sometimes 2 days without charging.
I have searched forums, posts, what have you ... tried different kernels, radios. No joy.
I am now running a virgin RC6 with all caches wiped (S-OFF too). What it comes down to is a mysterious drain of about 100mA even when the phone is sleeping (radio on, bluetooth off, wifi off). Which makes no sense... I used to get really low drain with the laggy HTC Sense rom (about 5-10mA). Again - this is a clean rom there are no apps installed on it apart from a battery widget and setCPU.
Why i think it is the radio's fault is that when I do put the phone in airplane mode the power drain goes to 2mA. I have tried most radios, even flashed the 32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_RIL and for some reason the radio is still constantly drawing power.
So, I am stumped. I was wondering if any of you have found some tweaks that have worked for you. Have you experienced this kind of problem and do you have any advice as to how I can go about debugging this issue? I have very little knowledge about radios in general but i'm willing to learn.
There have been people with battery drain issues out there, but no one seems to know how to resolve them (or those issues simply go away when they flash a new rom, which hasn't happened for me).
I would appreciate comments from developers who know how to debug those issues and I think this will be of help to everyone.
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try the 32.54.00.32U_5.14.05.17 radio and use a RIL designed for it also. For me this gives the best battery life. Also set wifi sleep mode to never by going into wifi settings, menu->advanced
Hi all!
Since a few months ago, my Desire has been having two major issues:
- Huge battery drain in 2 to 5h time (unable to identify application responsible, powertutor reports android system or os - can't remember -, while built-in battery usage monitor reports either display or cell standby - the second appears especially when the phone is idle and supposedly sleeping). The few times I enabled airplane mode, I got double battery time, though it doesn't come close to former normal battery time.
- 3G connectivity loss, when going through no signal areas or when the phone is forced to switch between GPRS and 3G and vice-versa.
Regarding the second issue, I've already tried to enable GSM (auto-PRL) and the result is practically the same as having 3G enabled. Only factory resetting after enabling the former setting and choosing GPRS only, in Settings works in no signal downtime.
Nothing I've tried takes care of the battery draining issue, even hard-resets. I've already flashed different roms from Eclair to Gingerbread, from unrooted stock to root stock-based: no real change.
So after this rambling, my question what is more likely either some hardware malfunction or a software bug in the android system or in some application?
Anyway, I'll try to use systempanel or watchdog to try pinpointing the culprit.
Thank you.
Flash latest radio
Also worth thinking about the kernel, I had a similar thing to you, and it was because I flashed a different kernel to the one packaged with the rom.
I would also try a full wipe, ie cache, data, system etc. in recovery and installing something clean eg oxygen rom.
The suggestion above about the radio is definitely worth trying also I would check that your current ril is compatible with your radio version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902752
Hello! Sorry for not answering sooner.
I have been running the latest radio for at least one month, and it hasn't changed that much the issue.
Also, at some point, I did try another kernel, having seen that suggestion elsewhere in the forums. It also didn't change much.
Finally, I have also tried flashing and using the clean oxygen gingerbread rom. The battery time improved a bit, but didn't go back to normal.
Still, after seeing the results of systempanel monitoring, I will try flashing oxygen rom again because, perhaps with 2.3.4, whatever the issue is, it might have been fixed.
Try to calibrate your battery:
1.) Load phone till full when on
2.) Turn off and load to green led
3.) Turn completely on, turn off and load until green led appears
4.) Boot into recovery, wipe battery stats and now use phone as normal
No warranty for any damage.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Did it start when you flashed something new?
Hello!
That is possible. However, I have flashed and formated the phone many times since then and there has been no change.
Also, I have been monitoring the cpu usage through systempanel as suggested in some other threads, throughout the last weeks and in average, there's no installed application going further than 10% cpu usage consistently. When seeing the history of usage, at the top I have the system process, which has an average consumption of 0.2% over one week.
So, the phone seems to be working normally, but when using the currentwidget app to see the current drawn from the battety in each instant, at the best I get 50-70 mA, at the worst I get 700-800 mA. On average, 300-500 mA consistently.
I think something is draining the battery consistently much more than normal and also causing the baseband or the radio subsystem to crash, when switching from 2G to 3G or vice-versa.
I have done everything suggested in this thread, except for flashing a new clean oxygen rom and I've got no result.
What could be causing this: some hardware problem?
Thank you for your patience.
Maybe try the battery in someone else's desire, that you know functions ok, and their battery in yours? Perhaps the battery is dying?
Since I haven't been able to find anyone with an HTC Desire and I can't be certain if the problem is with the battery itself, I'll just send my Desire for repair to HTC.
Hopefully, they'll find and solve whatever the problem is.
Thank you all, anyways.
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?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
Hi, i'm running Paranoid Android 2.52 and since the last 5 days or so I've me experiencing the two following situations: the battery is fully charged, i start using the phone and it discharges normally, but when I load a heavier app it just shuts down suddenly with a low battery warning. the other situation is when i connect the phone to the wall charger after this issue, it starts charging normally but then it just jumps right to 100% with the same speed that it went down. Already checked the usage statistics but cant seem to find whats causing this, the battery just goes down abruptly.
Thoughts, anyone?
Try a different rom.. I recommend a Gingerbread rom with a kernel that supports battery calibration like Oxygen Rom. If there is no improvement after using the rom, calibrate the battery with this guide. http://forum.oxygen.im/viewtopic.php?id=723
If there is no difference, your battery is probably shot.
I've tried wiping the battery stats several times, re-flashing the rom, scripts and gapps, calibrating the battery and flashing rooted stock desire rom.
Is this method any diferent? I want to avoid moving to another rom if I can, i have tried several and i really like my current one.
EDIT: okey, I did as you suggested, flashed oxygen and followed the calibration steps. I was quite hard as the phone shut down as soon as the voltage level drop bellow 3201, but i managed. I experimented for a while on oxygen and the battery acted just the same as before. i have now reverted to jb, this time on AOKP v2.1. Is my battery ready for a replacement?
I flashed a custom ROM [unofficial CM9 ICS4.0.4]. Everything seems to be working fine, but there are a few problems and I'm wondering if this is normal for those using this. It's my first time flashing a ROM on my android and I'm not sure if it's normal. Did some searching in the forum, couldn't find much info too. Maybe I didn't search hard enough!
Anyway, here are some issues, I'm not even sure if it's the ROM.
1. Sometimes, the apps just bring me back to the home screen several times. Example: Running whatsapp brings me to home screen a few times, or when I go into a conversation, it brings me back to the conversation list but eventually it works.
2. On another occasion, every app that I ran would be unresponsive and I needed to end it. Solved it by rebooting.
3. Battery drain is very fast with little usage. I thought running a custom ROM usually provides better battery life.
I've not overclocked it, it's still in it's default value after flashing 1024. So I doubt it's anything to do with that. But since we're on the topic on overclocking. Desire HD didn't have anything beyond Gingerbread. So if we're flashing anything greater, is there a need overclock to be able to work comfortably on a higher OS? Is there a minimum or maximum for it to function comfortably?
Thanks!
Hmm, did more reading up.
Could it be I didn't calibrate my battery after flashing a new ROM?
Just flashed ARHD 6.4, will try to calibrate after that.
Appreciate any other advice though