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Hi All,
When i look into (almost) all roms i see the problem with the battery drain problem.
To bad i do not have the knowledge to find out what to do.
But i think that some smart developers work together to find a solution about this battery drain problem.
So that's why i start this thread so we can discuss this
raiz said:
AdamG's Official Froyo HTC Sense might hold the key to this since it seems to give about 2 days battery performance with the original battery unlike any other rom.
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It would be great if he could share the knowledge
I am using LeeDroid 1.4c and I too experience battery drain issues...
Someone tried this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7170484&postcount=173 ?
There's a really good battery life on the OD 2.3 ROM Love it!
/CK
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Café King said:
There's a really good battery life on the OD 2.3 ROM Love it!
/CK
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Thanks, but i don't like the interface.. want have the sense feeling
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Tested a lot of roms with froyo and sense. The roms based on 2.06 base are draining relative more then the roms based on 2.04.
Above is not scientificly tested.
Charge to 100% , go to recovery , advanced , wipe battery stats. Enjoy greater baterry life
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I had NONE battery drain problems on any of ROMS 2.1 or 2.2, and i did try alot of them.
Maybe theres something wrong with your phone itself (battery).
But definetly try wipe battery stats in recovery.
Since 08:00 morning had WiFi on.. network Data of... and now 12:02 battery is now 90%. DId have play with config the Tasker Tool (Great app).
Tomorrow i will do the test again but then with Network Data on and WiFi off.
raiz said:
AdamG's Official Froyo HTC Sense might hold the key to this since it seems to give about 2 days battery performance with the original battery unlike any other rom.
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Yup, that ROM has the best battery life by far...
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people are having mixed results on the battery perfermance of adam's sensefroyo rom. i experienced a poorer battery life compared to eclair (i used Amer_v4 and the battery was excellent) but can still manage to last a full day usually. haven't tried out the froyo roms though.
ryanrich said:
Yup, that ROM has the best battery life by far...
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btw aren't you're using opendesire?
I've changed about 8 roms, mostly used 4, but can't say there was a huge difference between them. 2 days of normal use, 1 day of heavy use.
Possibly shadowfrost and DeFrost 2.4 had the best battery life and I had the fastest kernel installed...
I would think that - some isolated problem aside - mostly it has to do with some applications/settings
Charge to 100% , go to recovery , advanced , wipe battery stats. Enjoy greater baterry life
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Any ideea why?
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andycted said:
I've changed about 8 roms, mostly used 4, but can't say there was a huge difference between them. 2 days of normal use, 1 day of heavy use.
Possibly shadowfrost and DeFrost 2.4 had the best battery life and I had the fastest kernel installed...
I would think that - some isolated problem aside - mostly it has to do with some applications/settings
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sometimes my E-Mail application is consuming most of the cpu. It keeps the cpu at max frequency. Even if i try to end the taks with the app "system panel" it wont solve the problem. I have to go into the app and make a manual sync.
i also found out that automatic brightness is using loads of battery. since i set it to static I'm experiencing almost 2 days of battery life with moderate use.
I'm on Defrost 2.1
Hello again everybody,
Yesterday whole day online by WiFi. Using phone couple of hours and my Maildroid Email was active without prevent sleep mode.
Battery was empty after almost 17hours. (+/- 5% every hour)
Today. Wifi on. Maildroid now with prevent sleep mode ON.
Have unplugged the phone 4 hours ago and battery is at 75%
Tomorrow i will test this with Network Data on.. and without prevent sleep mode of Maildroid. And day after with prevent sleep mode.
I know for sure.. the battery will drain very vast for both situations...
BUT Ill let you know
EDIT 26-07-2010: Battery was empty tonight on 1:30.
NOW I do the whole test again but now with network data on and WiFi off
Ive had the opportunity to own a Nexus One at launch and a HTC Desire...I always found Android OS to be the issue whenever i had excessive battery drain.
Ive found my issue to center around the OS 'calling home to sync' (whether 'sync' option is selected or not)Initially, the problem was resolved by deleting all my sync funtions...but that was obviously not practical........ so now I keep my GSM data connection running and I get about 2.5 days on Open Desire (non HTC Sense).
AdamG seems like the guy who knows what hes talking about - His changelogs for OpenDesire actually hint at him having done some battery drain tweaking...whatever he did, he has definitely fixed it
Cheers
Oz
I've tried so many ROMS in the past few weeks to try to solve battery drain issues. On some, I could almost see the percentage dropping as I looked at the home screen! I even bought a new battery thinking I might have killed the original.
OpenDesire does seem to be the way forward re this problem if you're intent on the HAVS kernel. OD2.3a gave me almost two days of varied use.
However, and I know this is going backwards, an earlier DeFrost - the 2.1, is brilliant for me. I'm now at two days since unplug and still at an unbelievable 45% - yes, I know, I thought it was broke as well! For now, I'm sticking with this one. Everything I want works and I don't have to carry a spare battery in my pocket when I go out.
Hope this is of some help. Don't despair. You will find the one for you.
Cheers
I don't get why everyone says they have such a issue with battery.
I get about 2.5-4 days of use with DeFrost 2.2 and have done about so since DeFrost 0.9. I've had it up around five days once.
How are you actually using your phones?
It's not a "Froyo" issue.
sckc23 said:
people are having mixed results on the battery perfermance of adam's sensefroyo rom. i experienced a poorer battery life compared to eclair (i used Amer_v4 and the battery was excellent) but can still manage to last a full day usually. haven't tried out the froyo roms though.
btw aren't you're using opendesire?
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Switched back because I had terrible battery life on OD 2.3a and couldn't see why...
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Daelyn said:
I don't get why everyone says they have such a issue with battery.
I get about 2.5-4 days of use with DeFrost 2.2 and have done about so since DeFrost 0.9. I've had it up around five days once.
How are you actually using your phones?
It's not a "Froyo" issue.
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It's very interesting to me how are YOU using your phone?
Come on, 4 days ? When i talk about 30m to 1h each day and using a phone little bit, i have at least 30-40% down.
u mean u only drain about 25% each day? are u actually using your phone ? wifi, calls, 3g ? or u have a expensive pocket toy just to show to your friends ?
Guys,
I've been jumping between ROMs since rooting my phone last week and one thing I've noticed is that my battery life takes a big hit when I'm using the G2 ROM.
You'd think that since it's a lot closer to stock Froyo than the Bell Desire Z ROM it would have better battery life, but that not what I'm seeing.
With both ROMs it seems that they will stay at 100% for a two or three hours and then start coming down - however it's much more dramatic with the G2 ROM and it seems as though it's battery drain gets accelerated.
Has anyone else noticed this?
vro25 said:
Guys,
I've been jumping between ROMs since rooting my phone last week and one thing I've noticed is that my battery life takes a big hit when I'm using the G2 ROM.
You'd think that since it's a lot closer to stock Froyo than the Bell Desire Z ROM it would have better battery life, but that not what I'm seeing.
With both ROMs it seems that they will stay at 100% for a two or three hours and then start coming down - however it's much more dramatic with the G2 ROM and it seems as though it's battery drain gets accelerated.
Has anyone else noticed this?
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yep,
i have noticed this too,
try an interactive governor with your setcpu and bacon bits, it may help
JD
JupiterDroid said:
yep,
i have noticed this too,
try an interactive governor with your setcpu and bacon bits, it may help
JD
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Are you using the Modaco G2 or CM 6.1 RC1?
vro25 said:
Are you using the Modaco G2 or CM 6.1 RC1?
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For my part, while using CM 6.1RC1 the battery drain was amazingly bad.
Under Modaco G2 ROM, it's more reasonable. For casual use for 7h since being unplugged, I'm at 76%.
daft.71 said:
For my part, while using CM 6.1RC1 the battery drain was amazingly bad.
Under Modaco G2 ROM, it's more reasonable. For casual use for 7h since being unplugged, I'm at 76%.
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My phone's been unplugged for almost 7hrs and I'm at 85% battery on my original Bell ROM.
If you have Spare Parts installed, check Battery History. From there click on the "Running" bar. This will tell you how much time the phone has spent "awake" (this excludes the time the display has been on or while on a call).
I'm at 2hrs 18mins (+20mins with the display on).
Give my stock g2 rom a chance and tell me how that compares. I get better bat life out of stock kernel myself. Bet we could use some uv.
I've noticed something new.
I had my SIM card out of my phone today and it's been unplugged for 5hrs with not cellular network (but everything else going via WiFi) and it's still at 99% battery life.
Uptime is 5hrs 53mins with Awake Time at 1hr 36mins.
Is the cellular connection using more battery than it should be?
it looks like a combination of issues.
1. the android system uses a lot of battery
2.cell standby uses a lot of battery but less than android system
i have a unlocked bell desire z.
installed CyanogenMod RC2 but had to roll back to a sense based rom because the battery drain was just too much.
I figured it out, Kik Messenger was the main culprit.
It's been great since I uninstalled that.
To figure it out o had to restore to a clean rom and install one app at a time. At that point id leave my phone alone for a couple hours and check "wake" time under battery history in Spare Parts. If it was more than 10% we had our app.
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seems to me the mocado in my g2 gets better life than the stock g2.
id give up a lot of features for good bat life.
are there any roms created for bat life?
gnormal said:
seems to me the mocado in my g2 gets better life than the stock g2.
id give up a lot of features for good bat life.
are there any roms created for bat life?
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ei did you unlock your phone already?
So I've flashed over to incredibly RE-engineered and I heard about the great battery life and speed. I sure did have a more noticeable speed improvement but my battery life hasn't gotten any better. Any reasons why this might be? And for some reason I can't load any videos off hulu either. Anyone have these similar problems?
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mkhang said:
So I've flashed over to incredibly RE-engineered and I heard about the great battery life and speed. I sure did have a more noticeable speed improvement but my battery life hasn't gotten any better. Any reasons why this might be? And for some reason I can't load any videos off hulu either. Anyone have these similar problems?
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Everyone's battery life is different because everyone uses their phone differently. One person may get great battery life because they don't do much with the phone, and someone else will try the same, but they do a lot of streaming, web browsing, etc and have horrible battery life. It's all trial and error until YOU find the combination that works well for YOU.
And the hulu problem I believe there is a fix for it in the thread. Search the thread for Hulu and you should be able to find it. (I am not sure of this because I don't use the rom, but I believe I read something about it when I tried it out.)
Battery life if tough to compare due to reasons above. When I was syncing a corporate email account via active sync I was getting 9-10 hours o this rom. I am no longer using active sync and right now am at 15 hrs 37 minutes since unplugged at 62%. Awake time is about 5 hours on this charge. This is with stock battery.
Exchange active sync is a hog.
I use my phone pretty often and Im usually texting and browsing on the net. But my battery life is maybe 6 or 7 hours? I haven't really gone all the way down to empty but that seems about right. Is that decent?
mkhang said:
I use my phone pretty often and Im usually texting and browsing on the net. But my battery life is maybe 6 or 7 hours? I haven't really gone all the way down to empty but that seems about right. Is that decent?
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That's not quite good. On my stock battery I'm getting around 15-25 depending on use. Maybe check your settings for battery hogs?
I'm using chads kernel, have sync on every hour for weather and my friend stream tied accounts.no gps on though.
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I'm not sure what's wrong with my phone. My battery usage says that most of my battery is being used by cell standby and the android system. Should I reflash the rom and see if that helps? I want incredible battery life too this battery life is pretty much the same as a stock rom which is why I flashed in the first place : more battery life!
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I'm not a power user but I get better battery life with this ROM. Yeah, maybe you should wipe and re-install the ROM. I would then not install any apps and see what your battery life is like. Disable auto-syncing too. Maybe you have an app sucking the battery down.
Is there an app that i can download to monitor my battery usage? I know you can check it through the "About Systems " menu but I almost don't trust it.
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Spare Parts has the ability to let you know what's using the battery.
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How do I tell what is using it through spare parts? Nothing really stands out?
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Running a faster rom like re engineered, if battery life is super important, you can use setcpu to underclock slightly at all times, and lot at screen off. It comes with a lou's kernel, which he doesn't recommend using setcpu with, but I've always had great luck with king klix kernals, which also undervolt.
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There are way too many thread where this is relevant and I think it is important enough to warrant its' own thread. I can confidently confirm the 26.06.02.27 is the source of many battery drain issues. I'd been battling battery drain on standby using CM7 for the past week and narrowed it down to the radio.
If you are using Virtuous or CM7 (I obviously use both), I recommend using either 26.04.02.17 or 26.03.02.26. Both radios are offered here:
http://files.virtuousrom.com/vision/radio/
Please do not discuss HOW to flash radios in this thread. There are many guides on that subject. Mods, if you think this should be part of the other threads, I understand. There's just so much misinformation out there I wanted to make sure to get my findings out there.
Finally some common sense! I too arrived at the conclusion that the radio was the cause of the dramatic battery drain, but only after pulling my hair out and removing most every app and turning off all syncing. I've been on the .26 radio since yesterday and battery is back to normal.
How did you determine that? I've been using this radio for two weeks now and I have not notice any drain. Just last night, I charged my phone at around 30% after two days of use.
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Hosermage said:
How did you determine that? I've been using this radio for two weeks now and I have not notice any drain. Just last night, I charged my phone at around 30% after two days of use.
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Without changing any other configuration, I've done tests over the past few nights with the phone on standby the entire duration without being touched. Using the .27 radio, I was seeing 5-6% drain per hour, versus 1-2% with the .17 and .26 radios. Nothing else changed and my usage was constant.
If you're having success with the .27 radio, you're probably an exception. I suspect most people are going to have problems with it.
mejorguille said:
Finally some common sense! I too arrived at the conclusion that the radio was the cause of the dramatic battery drain, but only after pulling my hair out and removing most every app and turning off all syncing. I've been on the .26 radio since yesterday and battery is back to normal.
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I had the exact same issues with the 26.06.02.27 radio as well, excessive battery drain.
rmk40 said:
Without changing any other configuration, I've done tests over the past few nights with the phone on standby the entire duration without being touched. Using the .27 radio, I was seeing 5-6% drain per hour, versus 1-2% with the .17 and .26 radios. Nothing else changed and my usage was constant.
If you're having success with the .27 radio, you're probably an exception. I suspect most people are going to have problems with it.
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You need to take into consideration that these radios perform differently depending on the location of the user which is why it's impossible to determine which radio is actually the "best".
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You need to take into consideration that these radios perform differently depending on the location of the user which is why it's impossible to determine which radio is actually the "best".
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That's not true either, WWE are the "generic" radios that have decent performance in all areas. It's the provider specific radios that generally have the issues.
I do kind of notice more than usual normal drain when I use my phone but when it is on standby it is awesome. I can keep it on standby for 4 hours and the battery will still read 100%. I have flashed the lib files associated with this radio also.
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I have been running the .27 radio for a couple weeks and see no excessive drain. I had drain issues a couple times before using the .27 radio but those were determined to be from a stray app and market updating issues.
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Oh snap. I just changed to that radio last night. I did notice a bit of battery drain but not as much this morning. I'll continue to use it and see what happens. I've heard that the reception with this radio is apparently really good which is why I'm trying it.
We'll see what happens. Thanks for letting us know, rmk40! Hopefully I fluke out and it doesn't cause excessive battery drain though
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You need to take into consideration that these radios perform differently depending on the location of the user which is why it's impossible to determine which radio is actually the "best".
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Of course but keep in mind this radio was released for the Australia market. No where else yet. So it's not that surprising it's causing drain for most people.
Didn't change much for me. I was hoping for improved reception but didn't get that either
I have to agree with the OP. I flashed the Aus radio to fix my GPS in which it did but having using my phone for like 3 hrs lastnight and draining down to 9% left I had to flash the TMO OTA radio back. After flashing the .26 back and running fix_permissions my GPS is working and my battery life is better.
can anyone make a recovery for this?
.26
for some reason flashing through computer wont work for me -___-
thank you in advance.
I havent noticed a drain using SenseGinger 1.0.1
I updated hoping it would solve gps with newest nightlies but no bueno. My battery has actually improved. I'm on 26 hours with 22% life left on moderate use
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Let's put it this way. The .27 does in fact give off a serious battery drain, in certain areas. Seems like us on the west get significant battery drain while those on the east like it more. Maybe?
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Shaquiel Harris said:
Let's put it this way. The .27 does in fact give off a serious battery drain, in certain areas. Seems like us on the west get significant battery drain while those on the east like it more. Maybe?
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i live on the west and i do notice a battery drain.
but .27 is the best radio with the fast 4g speeds for me
.26 was horrible when it came to that
going to try .17 and will report back
Update :
4g speed is good. Not as great as .27
Battery so great far is great so I'm happy
Reception is the same so far as well.
Will report back in a few days.
bstylz911 said:
i live on the west and i do notice a battery drain.
but .27 is the best radio with the fast 4g speeds for me
.26 was horrible when it came to that
going to try .17 and will report back
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Tell me how .17 goes.
Maybe in a few months, .27 will be good for all of us. Just im tired of killing myself over this damned .27 radio. im back on .26 and i dont think im going to leave it.
Shaquiel Harris said:
Tell me how .17 goes.
Maybe in a few months, .27 will be good for all of us. Just im tired of killing myself over this damned .27 radio. im back on .26 and i dont think im going to leave it.
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Why do u choose .26 rather than .17?
Look at my update.
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Hey guys, so I'm having some odd battery readings depending on what ROM I have installed... For the record my battery life sucks horribly but that's not the point of this. The point is that, on AOSP ROMs such as CM7 and MIUI (not sure if that's considered AOSP but it's not sense which is the main thing..) I have cell stand-by using a ton of my battery, like 50+%, whereas on sense ROMs I have display using like 70+% of battery.. does anyone know if there's a reason for that or if it's just messed up readings or something? Thanks in advanced!
If you're not using the phone, meaning screan is off, cell standby will use the majority of your battery. Whereas if the screen is on because the device is in use, the display will require the most battery. So... are you sure your user habits aren't to account for these differences?
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quite sure, the battery drops at pretty much the same speeds for both, and also i've tried having 3G off for AOSP ROMs all day and even maxed out display settings to try to get it up (just to see what's going on of course) and with the Sense ROMs I have display settings super low :S
That is some strange behavior. All I can say is battery consumption and lag seem to be the primary reasons many users stick to "senseless" ROMs. But you likely know this already...
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That is some strange behavior. All I can say is battery consumption and lag seem to be the primary reasons many users stick to "senseless" ROMs. But you likely know this already...
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Haha yeaaaa.... Though the new affinity ROM is super smooth! As smooth as many senseless ROMs! But then there's the battery haha, which is why I ordered a new one I've always had disgustingly bad battery life (max 8 hours on super battery saving ROMs with undervolting) so I'm hoping I've just always had a bad battery and the new one will be good and of larger capacity... And maybe that's why my readings are so wrong? ROM is confused as to where all the juice is going/has gone so it just throws the data somewhere? Just a guess haha
Its been discussed on here before that Sense ROMs just report the battery usage differently than AOSP. Its normal, and I would disregard. As long as you are getting decent battery life on the ROMs, the battery usage details don't really matter.
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Its been discussed on here before that Sense ROMs just report the battery usage differently than AOSP. Its normal, and I would disregard. As long as you are getting decent battery life on the ROMs, the battery usage details don't really matter.
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problem is that I'm not but I'm gonna wait until I get a new battery and see if that's better before going further into figuring out what's going on.. Thanks for that info though!
Did the short battery life come on recently? Bad battery is certainly a possibility. But can also be some sort of network issue. If you local tower is having problems, it can drain your battery fast, particularly if they are doing something to 3G, and your phone is constantly searching for a 3G signal or from 2G/3G. Notice any data reception issues?
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Did the short battery life come on recently? Bad battery is certainly a possibility. But can also be some sort of network issue. If you local tower is having problems, it can drain your battery fast, particularly if they are doing something to 3G, and your phone is constantly searching for a 3G signal or from 2G/3G. Notice any data reception issues?
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Rarely any reception issues, I think it might be a bad battery as ever since stock I'd last maybe max 8 hours with medium-light use. Just never knew that that wasn't good until recently haha