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Battery life just terrible, need since help plz!!

As title says guys, I don't no why but my battery life is just really bad since I moved from stock 2.1 Rom to custom ROMs :-(
Is it my phone? I can't work pig wot it is. I checked the battery usage #*#*4636*#*#) and it seems the Android system is using A LOT of it. I tried charging with phone off, clearing battery stats, not overcharging, but just can't resolve this issue.
Also, I have sync set to update manually and have mobile internet off always, only on wen needed. Same with WiFi. Screen is on auto and time off screen lock set to 30 seconds
I am using OpenDesire sense Rom
Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks
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I could feel WiFi siginal of 2.2 is much better that stock 2.1,
I suppose that the better performance will bring the fast battery drain,
if your custom ROM support WiFi N mode,
that really makes your battery life short that before.

I have the same problem and same settings as you. I read on other forum that people who updated to official 2.2 have even better battery life.
I cant even squeze 20 hours out of my battery :/

You guys should always post what ROMs you are using...

Opendesire 3.3, its the same with defrost.

i also had really bad battery life on those 2 roms
even doing nothing the phone would just keep dropping
go to official froyo 2.2
neophye roms for me have amazing battery life = 48 hrs..

Agree with cygnet
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Neophytes's battery life +1

I'm using OpenDesire sense Rom
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Is there another non sense rom? I really like stock better...

Check if the phone goes to sleep correctly. Spareparts > battery usage: other usage, since last unplugged.
I had the same problem, until I found out that the phone was not going to sleep. (running and screen on percentages were way off. Almost 100% running and a lot less for screen on.

update to the last radio

I found that after forcing everything to install to SD card my battery life plummeted. There were apps/widgets that should have stayed on the phone. Once I moved these back, battery life was back to normal.
I use Systempanel to see the battery drain graph and could see a pattern to it.

Same issue here, Will try Neophyte tonight
Using this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741663, and it's fantastic! However batt life on .08 and .20 radio is a shocker. I watched a 1 min trailer on youtube, in and out and I lost 4% battery. Before with OpenDesire I'd be shocked if the battery percentage even twitched slightly.

jamran said:
As title says guys, I don't no why but my battery life is just really bad since I moved from stock 2.1 Rom to custom ROMs :-(
Is it my phone? I can't work pig wot it is. I checked the battery usage #*#*4636*#*#) and it seems the Android system is using A LOT of it. I tried charging with phone off, clearing battery stats, not overcharging, but just can't resolve this issue.
Also, I have sync set to update manually and have mobile internet off always, only on wen needed. Same with WiFi. Screen is on auto and time off screen lock set to 30 seconds
I am using OpenDesire sense Rom
Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks
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I use Defrost 1.5a and I just use about 2% every hour when the phone is sleeping, and that's with auto sync and mobile data enabled. (disabled it's 1%/hour)
Always underclock to the lowest mhz when the screen is off using SetCPU and when you do use your phone make sure the brightness isn't too high.
I could make a whole list of tips, but I'm sure you'll find more than enough of those on the net.

djind said:
Check if the phone goes to sleep correctly. Spareparts > battery usage: other usage, since last unplugged.
I had the same problem, until I found out that the phone was not going to sleep. (running and screen on percentages were way off. Almost 100% running and a lot less for screen on.
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I may be dumb but how do you force your phone to go into sleep once screen is turned off ?

nb8k said:
I found that after forcing everything to install to SD card my battery life plummeted. There were apps/widgets that should have stayed on the phone. Once I moved these back, battery life was back to normal.
I use Systempanel to see the battery drain graph and could see a pattern to it.
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Which apps were they?
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djind said:
Check if the phone goes to sleep correctly. Spareparts > battery usage: other usage, since last unplugged.
I had the same problem, until I found out that the phone was not going to sleep. (running and screen on percentages were way off. Almost 100% running and a lot less for screen on.
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How did u resolve this issue?
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Metalazzo said:
I may be dumb but how do you force your phone to go into sleep once screen is turned off ?
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jamran said:
How did u resolve this issue?
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(using Cyanogenmod 6)
When your screen is off, your phone should automatically go to sleep. Sometimes widgets or apps keep this from happening (like the music player), making it use battery as if you are constantly working on it.
How I resolved this issue was to find out what app or widget caused this. I ended up starting from a fresh reset, installing first all apps I really use (calendar/message widgets, powerstrip etc.)
I tested by installing an app, rebooting (or sometimes not), check the running time of the phone, turning screen off, and check again in 5 minutes. The phone should go to sleep in about 30 - 40 seconds. I am telling you this, because most apps causing this are widgets/apps running constantly.
However, I found in spareparts also that 'settings' was taking alot of usage time in usage statistics. A simple reboot did the trick from here on. But I am guessing I had installed something which made some app not close properly..
Maybe it is better to have a task manager/killer for these situations.
Running and Screen On percentages should not have too much of a difference if your testing and not using the phone while screen is off (music, bg stuff)

You could try juicedefender, it helps improve battery life by disabling unneeded connections while the phone is not in use

Screens off but sucking the power still

Hay I just left my phone on over night to see what uses the most battery with me doing anything.
The screen used 30% of the battery, what is odd is that everything in the settings is off or set to the lowest it can be set to.
Can you guys help me with how to save more battery from the screen, this is silly that its using so much when it's not doing anything.
What can you think of to help?
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Are you unrooted? Do you have a custom ROM? Have you tried taking battery in and out? Or even when these things happened when I was not rooted I found turning airplane mode on and off to work or rebooting the phone as it might of just been a rogue app not allowing the phone to sleep.

letom said:
Are you unrooted? Do you have a custom ROM? Have you tried taking battery in and out? Or even when these things happened when I was not rooted I found turning airplane mode on and off to work or rebooting the phone as it might of just been a rogue app not allowing the phone to sleep.
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hi ,
i would say it is a app,behaving badly ,( badly coded, battery drain? ) that's draining your battery like that ..?
i would suggest try "currentWidget " to check you battery drain ( just remeber to enable the log file, in settings !
my drain, if i leave it overnight,
say about, 9/10 hours, is about 3%/ 4% for this period ( 1mA /3mA a hour )
also try "SystemPanel " to monitor you applications over period of time .
i had same problems as you,
say 15/20% battery drain ,from time to time ,but everytime managed,to id the culprit , with above apps ..!!!
you can find both applications in the market ?
you also don't need, any root for these apps above .
good luck

I'm using LEEDROID v5 I think which shouldn't make a big difference.
Thanks in will download the app and see what they say
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Now using cord Droid this is much better on the battery.
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regarding the OP, with a lot of the newer kernels the power monitoring stuff is snafu, confirmed by Mad-murdoch on cm, thus the reports of what's using the power are useless, although the overall usage is correct.

[Q] Battery lasts only only 6 hrs with WiFi, 10 hrs on standby.

My battery drains within 6 hrs of WiFi usage. No heavy downloading or updating, (keeping auto sync off).
With out WiFi, the phone lasts for hardly 10-12hrs. Mobile data seem to last longer than wifi.
I am charging for more than 10hrs to make sure battery is full and there be no calibration error.
The issue started happening after I installed Sunabh ROM. I use to wonder why there is a "switch of WiFi notification" in Sunabh ROM, every time there is no wifi connection established. Now I know why.
What could be done to solve the issue ?. I have tried other AOSP, stock based ROMs after that but couldn't solve the problem.
Please suggest methods changing kernel, radio or may be calibration methods.
P.S. I wonder, why there is still no standard guide to improve battery life in this forum . There must be certain a software set that would provide maximum battery life (assuming average hours of use).

Turn wifi off when the phone screen is turned off
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bynge said:
My battery drains within 6 hrs of WiFi usage. No heavy downloading or updating, (keeping auto sync off).
With out WiFi, the phone lasts for hardly 10-12hrs. Mobile data seem to last longer than wifi.
I am charging for more than 10hrs to make sure battery is full and there be no calibration error.
The issue started happening after I installed Sunabh ROM. I use to wonder why there is a "switch of WiFi notification" in Sunabh ROM, every time there is no wifi connection established. Now I know why.
What could be done to solve the issue ?. I have tried other AOSP, stock based ROMs after that but couldn't solve the problem.
Please suggest methods changing kernel, radio or may be calibration methods.
P.S. I wonder, why there is still no standard guide to improve battery life in this forum . There must be certain a software set that would provide maximum battery life (assuming average hours of use).
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I use the "SenseOnFire" rom and my wifi is on all the time, when i dont use the phone that much the battery lasts 36h or more. but i noticed when i use the 3g my battery drains faster.
P.S. I had your problem when i used JokerDROID 4.2, the exact same thing

Try this out....it will help you on your present rom..
1. Go to recovery and wipe battery stats.
2. Open market and search and install battery calibrator.
3. Plug on charging and charge it to 100% and then open battery calibration app and click on battery calibration while keeping the charger plugged
4.after when the app says calibration done..remove your charger plug..and you are ready to go.. but after this step..let it discharge it to 0% and then charge it to 100% without break.. hope it works for you.
This improved my battery life to about 4-5 hour..
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The other thing you can do is try reflashing latest radio. Unless you don't have an a3335 phone. Also try entering *#*#4636#*#* then in phone information scroll down then in " set preffered network type to " GSM auto prl ". It will save some battery.
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Solved. Phheeewwww.
Guys, I solved the problem by working on the CID bug.
Alanrocks15 said:
Turn wifi off when the phone screen is turned off
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When you suggest a method please make sure it is practical.
anmol7ify said:
1. Go to recovery and wipe battery stats.
2. Open market and search and install battery calibrator.
3. Plug on charging and charge it to 100% and then open battery calibration app and click on battery calibration while keeping the charger plugged
4.after when the app says calibration done..remove your charger plug..and you are ready to go.. but after this step..let it discharge it to 0% and then charge it to 100% without break.. hope it works for you.
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I had already done this. My mistake not to mention it.
showlyshah said:
" set preffered network type to " GSM auto prl ".
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. Again, practicality. Please. Please.
There seems to be a misdirection in the entire forum on how to improve the performance of the phone. I hope a senior member consolidates and prepares a "How to improve your phone" post rather than a list of all ROMs and other useless shopping lists.
My phone runs 3 days now, it took only 1 minute of action. Cheers to non-dev guy who posted the method.

bynge said:
. I hope a senior member consolidates and prepares a "How to improve your phone" post rather than a list of all ROMs and other useless shopping lists.
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Was that directed at me? Sorry, I am not at your beck and call here. and I am not obligated to do anything for you. Help yourself.

If you feel there is need for a "how to improve Your phone" thread then crack on and make one because (sarcasm) you're obviously smarter than us all, one thing you forgot though is that every phone is different, yes some things work for all but some don't so even a thread like this might still be redundant for you!
Most people on here post suggestions from there own experiences when trying to solve problems for themselves, they may be correct they may not, you should be thankful to these people even if they're suggestions weren't right for you. And as for the list of roms and the shopping list I bet that thread has helped thousands of people solve problems, which is a damn sight more than you've done in this forum so jog on mate!!
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Why he mention "pratically"? Practically means just what you can practice. And our suggestions are practiced by us. It may/ may not work for you. But you should check it. And about the thread you mentioned, dude each of us have personal interests. So as we customize our phones. Its different for every one. What you can do is roam around the forum and take what suits you the best.
Hey i can drink a full 750ml redlabel Scotch with out a single drop of soda. I prefer it that way. Can you? Its just as it.( no mention Pls. Just wrote an example)
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bynge said:
Guys, I solved the problem by working on the CID bug.
My phone runs 3 days now, it took only 1 minute of action. Cheers to non-dev guy who posted the method.
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CID bug??????? can u explane... actually iam new to all this and dont know much...just few basic things...one should know..so explan what you did...maybe it'll help me out to increase my device performance!!!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-857249.html
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[Q] huge battery drain

Hi all , my lt18i face a big drain while 3G on and it could take 20% over even more per hour...:crying:
and i wonder if there someone can help me with it,i'll attach some screenshot and the dump by betterbatterystats.
here is some information about my ArcS
BB:77
Kernel:VDS 2.0
Rom:Xperia Ultimate HD 2.0
CPU Control
Max:1.024
min: 245
smartassV2
noop
thanks in advance!!!

I use the rom aokp milestone m1-r1 with kernel 4.0 fusion and also notice this problem. if I use the 3g, the battery dies quickly. I am always on 2g with data off and only use when needed. wifi does not occur with this problem.

TexChu said:
Hi all , my lt18i face a big drain while 3G on and it could take 20% over even more per hour...:crying:
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Yep. that's pretty normal for me Just buy a second batttery to carry around :highfive:

Change kernel
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TheHaso said:
Change kernel
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Rather change ROM to something more battery friendly!
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Actually,I have tried many different kernel lol,guess the solution is just buy another battery...
BTW,does anyone know that should i wipe battery state in CMW after changing another batttery?
Thanks for your response
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I have the same problem but even with 2g i get 20% of battery drain (tested with two different batteries) im using CM10 with fusión kernel and the same settings you have
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TexChu said:
Actually,I have tried many different kernel lol,guess the solution is just buy another battery...
BTW,does anyone know that should i wipe battery state in CMW after changing another batttery?
Thanks for your response
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Another battery will not help.
Another kernel will not help.
Wiping battery stats does nothing, all stories about "improving battery life" are complete bull**** - it has nothing to do with battery!!
All ICS and ICS-Based ROMs, yes that also means all Jelly Bean ROMs,that are based on ICS, have that ICS bug, which causes battery drain after every charge. You need to restart your phone in order to fix it. Restart after charging and no more massive drain should occur.
If it does, it must be something in your personal settings.

Someguyfromhell said:
Another battery will not help.
Another kernel will not help.
Wiping battery stats does nothing, all stories about "improving battery life" are complete bull**** - it has nothing to do with battery!!
All ICS and ICS-Based ROMs, yes that also means all Jelly Bean ROMs,that are based on ICS, have that ICS bug, which causes battery drain after every charge. You need to restart your phone in order to fix it. Restart after charging and no more massive drain should occur.
If it does, it must be something in your personal settings.
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Justo charged my phone i will give it a try
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No difference at all
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TexChu said:
Hi all , my lt18i face a big drain while 3G on and it could take 20% over even more per hour...:crying:
and i wonder if there someone can help me with it,i'll attach some screenshot and the dump by betterbatterystats.
here is some information about my ArcS
BB:77
Kernel:VDS 2.0
Rom:Xperia Ultimate HD 2.0
CPU Control
Max:1.024
min: 245
smartassV2
noop
thanks in advance!!!
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Flash 72 baseband...Baseband 77 has battery drain issues...Also facebook eats some battery in standby...Change the refresh interval to 30 min and see...Also alarm app eats the battery. I know that. Dont set a daily alarm, instead set it just before gng to sleep.

I'm experiencing quite the same problem on my Arc (LT15i) although I don't think it occurs after every charge, and I'm not even sure it does only appear when I charged the phone.
I remarked that the radio is going a bit buggy (switching from Wi-Fi to 2G/3G or constantly reconnecting to the mobile network) and when this appears, I have to reboot the phone or the battery dies in 6 to 8 hours (when the problem don't occurs, it can go on for 36-48h).
Anyone has noticed the same thing or am I experiencing another battery drain problem ?

Not trying to hijack or anything, but as my problem relates to yours, I thought I'll write to this thread.
My LT18i battery drains around 10-20%/hour even when put to airplane mode and rebooting before. I just tested last night and charged the battery full, left the phone to airplane mode and at the morning after 7 hours there was 20% left!!! I even checked from betterbatterystats and the phone had been on deep sleep almost all the time.
Have had this problem for a while, but havent found any solution to it, if anyone can help, PLEASE do!
P.S running on stock GB

Xtremerer said:
Not trying to hijack or anything, but as my problem relates to yours, I thought I'll write to this thread.
My LT18i battery drains around 10-20%/hour even when put to airplane mode and rebooting before. I just tested last night and charged the battery full, left the phone to airplane mode and at the morning after 7 hours there was 20% left!!! I even checked from betterbatterystats and the phone had been on deep sleep almost all the time.
Have had this problem for a while, but havent found any solution to it, if anyone can help, PLEASE do!
P.S running on stock GB
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There is an app or something, that is using lots of battery. Check sync settings (some apps have it in app settings), turn off WiFi/3G/Bluetooth/GPS, make sure app is working.
And do not use taskkillers.
And if you can, post a screenshot of Battery Usage screen, with the list of apps consuming battery.

I flashed Stock ICS .587 on my arc last night and charged it 'till today in morning so i took my arc restarted it and 'till now worked just fine,my battery is almost dead but i used my phone today at max.I did some callings,played Asphalt 7,used wifi and internet,dolphin browser,installed some basic apps from market,done a cwm bacup,installed some cam mods cyber-shot,tested the camera.but hey even the battery is dieing now it's cool.I had fun with it for today,i hope this battery will last always ss today.
Apps kills the battery,so i deleted FB,i frezzed some apps that i don't use everyday,and i have my brightness on 50%.
I know i didn't help to much but i'm sharing my expirence.
And yeah sry for my english.
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Someguyfromhell said:
There is an app or something, that is using lots of battery. Check sync settings (some apps have it in app settings), turn off WiFi/3G/Bluetooth/GPS, make sure app is working.
And do not use taskkillers.
And if you can, post a screenshot of Battery Usage screen, with the list of apps consuming battery.
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Pretty sure, theres no apps running and I have everything turned off, I even took the sim card off for testing purposes.
Betterbatterystats shows 98% deep sleep at my tes period of one night.
Now it gets even weirder...A friend of mine suggested that I try to turn the phone fully off (power totally off).
I charged the battery to 100% last night and pulled the battery, putted it back on and let the phone sit on the table untouched for the night. When I turned it on on the morning battery showed 4% left!!!
So theres a huge drain even when the phones power is turned fully off. I dont know does this indicate a broken battery (battery 2 months old) or something wrong with the hardware ???

Turn phone off. Charge to 100% when 2-5% left
After fullcharge, use ur phone. When it drops to 50% exactly shut it down. Remove battery for a minute. Reinsert battery and dont turn it on.
Charge it again to 100%
Done
This worked for me
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TheHaso said:
Turn phone off. Charge to 100% when 2-5% left
After fullcharge, use ur phone. When it drops to 50% exactly shut it down. Remove battery for a minute. Reinsert battery and dont turn it on.
Charge it again to 100%
Done
This worked for me
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I tried something similar, but I will try this also when I get home from work.
By the way, is it normal that the phone warms up quite lot from the top back (about under camera) ?

Xtremerer said:
I tried something similar, but I will try this also when I get home from work.
By the way, is it normal that the phone warms up quite lot from the top back (about under camera) ?
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Yep it's normal if u use it alot.It's not normal if it's on sleep.
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Xtremerer said:
I tried something similar, but I will try this also when I get home from work.
By the way, is it normal that the phone warms up quite lot from the top back (about under camera) ?
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Didn't help. Charged full allright, but even on idle, all apps closed and no comms on, I get 12% battery drain

[Q] Battery charging too fast

Hi guys.
I have a strange problem. My Gio charges from 3% to 100% in 3 minutes. It says fully charged...
Of course it's not real charging, if i unplug it, and start to play a game or just see my mails with wifi, it consumes that 100% on 5-10 minutes...
I've tried to charge the phone all night and the result is 2-3h of working time. If i use power consuming apps, like games, than it's just half an hour... I think that the phone stops somehow the charging process if it reaches to 100%.
I've tried to calibrate the battery, with program from market, and wiping batterystats from CWM too... It didn't help...
The strange thing is, that last week it worked well. Now something happened and it's ruinig my life...
I had THIS ROM when it started.
I've changed to THIS ROM, and it didn't solve the problem. All caches were wiped during flashing...
Any ideas?
Thanks for any help!

Anybody? Please...

Kuyte said:
Anybody? Please...
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Hm you said you tried to calibrate the battery so it`s weird. I have sometimes the same problem but after a calibration it is fixed. I can only recommend to charge it overnight , make sure you`re not overclocking it , make sure you don`t use wifi , mobile data , gps , see if there`s an improvement keep it only with calls and messaging for 1 day see how that goes. Check also the battery maybe it has a spillage altough i don`t think that`s the case. Sorry that`s all i can say

Thanks for the advices.
I've just set the CPU governor to smartassv2. It was on Ondemand. Now I can discharge the phone with playing within 15 minutes. It's better than it was on ondemand...
I will try to use it like a regular phone, let's see how it works...

R: [Q] Battery charging too fast
Also, how old is your battery?
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ItachiSama said:
Also, how old is your battery?
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The phone is 1.5 years old. On the battery the date is: 2011/07/26

Flash a stock rom with odin if doesn't solve the issues buy a new battery maybe your's dead.
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also remove any apps or games you have installed since you encountered this problem, I have tried enhanced rom it gives a stable battery life, but its worth changing to a different rom like cm 7.2 by phiexz, I am currently using it and it gives a good battery life.

Kuyte said:
The phone is 1.5 years old. On the battery the date is: 2011/07/26
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I've a battery old as yours (04.05.2011)
With any custom ROM my battery life is of 3 hours...
With stock is kinda 5 hours with 2G connection activated.
I'm waiting for a new battery, but if you want to keep your phone alive up to then:
- flash a stock ROM
- install as few apps as you can (I've G+, Stream (FB client), FB messanger, Viber, WhatsApp, App Cache Cleaner, AppZorter and xda app, nothing else T_T)
- do NOT use kernel different from stock
- hope you good luck because first times battery will be strange, after some full usage and discharge now I've the battery life I told before
Hope this could help

I have galaxy gio and it problem is whaen i charge my galaxy gio 3 min later to touch to 100 percent and then i plug out and on it then it show battery is zero