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Semi-noob here lol ok I've seen screenshots of peoples battery stats (what's using your battery) in the settings and their display percentage was always low. Now on my EVO, everything is pretty low probably like 10% and under. But my display % is always above 70. I've looked for fixes and other stuff but I either didn't do it right or just didn't wanna mess up my phone. So what Im askin is if someone can give me some info on this is greatly appreciate it. I'm running mikg v2.1, any other stuff you guys might need to know to help just let me know. My phone only lasts close to 3 hours after a full charge and its killing me lol thanks in advance
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People only post pics when there battery seems like it super awesome. Their display percentage is 10% or less because they barely used it during that "cycle" if you will (as in they let their phone sit there for 20+ hours and not use it at all ). Yours is so high and battery lasting not very long because your probably actually using your phone. Haha
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But yeah 3 hours on a full charge sucks. First try charging to 100% and downloading the batterycalibration app. It will clear your battery stats from previous roms and should make it a bit better. Also try turning off radios when internet isn't needed (turn off 3g 4g wifi GPS etc.) When you aren't using them. This will help miraculously. Also don't keep your brightness at 100% all day haha. But I've heard this happening on that rom before. Try using the synergy rom its amazing all around. Good luck
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sense 2.1/3.0 roms always have crazy high display usage. no real fix either. battery life gets better in a few days, and it will get MUCH better once htc releases the source so people can make custom kernels.
Thanks for all the replies guys. What's weird is a day or 2 after I flashed miks I was getting crazy battery life almost a full day on the stock battery which amazed the hell outta me, then all of a sudden like 2 nights ago I could literally watch my battery percentage dropping. I really do love miks but i think ima switch over to synergy again. I seen that rc1 was released, I haven't been on synergy since the early nightlies. I'll give it a go and see what happens. Could not having updated radios and such be a problem?
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Thanks for all the replies guys. What's weird is a day or 2 after I flashed miks I was getting crazy battery life almost a full day on the stock battery which amazed the hell outta me, then all of a sudden like 2 nights ago I could literally watch my battery percentage dropping. I really do love miks but i think ima switch over to synergy again. I seen that rc1 was released, I haven't been on synergy since the early nightlies. I'll give it a go and see what happens. Could not having updated radios and such be a problem?
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probably........
id say the radios may have an effect but i wouldn't think it would be all that much. Not to the point of watching it go down. Virus's kingdom rom has given me battery times ranging from 20 hrs to 10 hrs. I really think that if you get 10 hrs out of this phone you have sucessfully used your cellphone that day the CORRECT way
I believe to really maximize your battery or at least a good way is to start a charge in an evening to 100 percent and what not and unplug it before you go to bed. It will sit and discharge over night and imo if battery stats are what i think they are it will learn the best screen off discharge rate you can get since it will have at the very least a few hours to learn its rate. I noticed after doing this most of the time i look at my phone after it being idle for a while (45 min to an hour) i wouldn't lose much if at all any percentage. Maybe im just crazy but its been great this last week since i did this
I need to figure out exactly what's causing this battery drain. At 7PM my battery was at 100% after installing a new radio+kernel combo. I also calibrated my battery using a method I read in the Calkulin thread for his ROM. The method was as follows: After installing a new radio, rom or kernel charge the battery to 100% then physically take the battery out for 3 minutes. Boot into recovery then wipe the battery stats and dalvik cache 3 times each. Boot into Android then charge to 100%. Download a battery calibration tool use that and discharge. Anyway, I did all of this and was done by 7PM. After light use...listening to a few songs via google music...did a search using 3g...nothing too heavy. By 8:23 my battery was down to 76%. I thought this was pretty abnormal so I downloaded some extra battery tools and app watcher tools to see exactly was draining me so bad. Over the course of about 1:30 hours my battery dropped from 76% to 46%. I froze some non essential apps after checking up on them with watchdog (social hub, yahoo finance, tts service and accuweather). Decided to do a restart to see if that would help and my battery read 17%. I just noticed that it went up to 18% and it's holding steady but this is really weird...I honestly don't know what's going on and I could really use some assistance with this issue.
I forgot to post stats for the past few hours. Before I started the battery drain quest the Battery Monitor Widget said that the estimated was around -280mA. Over the course of a few hours it ranged from that to well over -600mA. After the restart it dropped to like -2mA but now it's back up in between the -400mA to -700mA range. It's slowly dropping as I type but there's no way that this is normal.
Sometimes when doing reboots messes up the battery reading. Its done that to me before. I have noticed that on ics when I flash a kernel and modem it takes me like a full day to get good battery. After I flash it my battery is pretty bad. Search for an appstore called bettery battery stats. Its on here at xda somewhere. Use that to see if your phone is sleeping properly or if an app is wakelocking your phone. Also it depends on who u ask but wiping battery stats does absoutley nothing for me. Its been said before that it doesn't work. Hope u get it straightened out.
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thanks for the response. I've downloaded the battery stat app but I need to read up more on it to find out what the program is telling me. In your opinion what is good battery drain? I was on facebook for a second and it skyrocketed to high -600's but now it's down to about -90mA and dropping by just sitting in front of me.
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Sometimes when doing reboots messes up the battery reading. Its done that to me before. I have noticed that on ics when I flash a kernel and modem it takes me like a full day to get good battery. After I flash it my battery is pretty bad. Search for an appstore called bettery battery stats. Its on here at xda somewhere. Use that to see if your phone is sleeping properly or if an app is wakelocking your phone. Also it depends on who u ask but wiping battery stats does absoutley nothing for me. Its been said before that it doesn't work. Hope u get it straightened out.
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Clearing battery stats does work to wipe any info the os has on the battery. Just check your battery graph in settings, boot to cwm, wipe battery stats, then look at that graph again.
I know you know your fair share of info, so no disrespect man...
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Clearing battery stats does work to wipe any info the os has on the battery. Jus check your battery graph in settings, boot to cwm, wipe battery stats, then look at that graph again.
I know you know your fair share of info, so no disrespect man...
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I think he meant wiping does nothing to actually effect the life of the battery... Which, I agree. I've never seen any benefits when I've done it on my ET our my Moment.
Wiping just resets the OS's experience with the battery. Using your phone normally for 24 hours had the exact same effect.
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things were looking up as far as battery life goes. i got rid of some programs that were hogging the cpu and i was almost to around 12 hours on a single charge with light use. however, i did a reboot at around 6pm and my battery read 45% before hand. after the reboot it read 10%. do you think it has something to do with the kernel? this is the second time a reboot has jacked up my battery.
Guys
I have been having the same problem and try lots of things but what I did not try and just found out is that my phone has a 1500mHa instead off a 1800mHa Sprint store made a mistake and placed the wrong battery inside my phone.
Maybe some of the problems you guys are having is due to that fact.
Besides opening the phone there are several app that will actually tell you which battery you have I.E. Battery Monitor
So I am running UVDL|6 for some time now which works good (not great but good) and this morning I woke up to find my battery completely dead. When I went to sleep it was at a decent 55% now I highly doubt that without any use the battery just drops to 0%, So checked my battery stats and it says Android System at 70% use.. which is pretty high for an idle phone. Any ideas? Or any software I can use to pull out the culprit because Android System has so many subsets to it that it makes it really hard to pin point what causes it.
You will have to reproduce the problem, but try GSam Battery Monitor.
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You will have to reproduce the problem, but try GSam Battery Monitor.
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Reproduce the problem? Well I was a sleep so maybe ghosts were messing with my phone, I'll ask them nicely...
I think he means you need to put your phone in the same spot when you go to bed and see if it does it again. No sense in trying to fix a one time problem.
Battery stats were gone when you started the phone up I'm assuming. Good reception where you placed it?
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Been happening to me on LI7 lately. Originally it was great on battery life, then all of a sudden I started getting insane battery drain from the Android System. I haven't really taken the time to diagnose it yet, but I need to. It gets really hot randomly sometimes then cools down and the battery just starts draining away really fast.
I saw someone mention deleting or renaming gsiff_daemon in /system/bin to solve this.
Theres a thread dedicated to the subject as well, though ive yet to actually go through it.
Anyway give that a shot and lets all hope they Completely fixed the battery issues in the final release! (Its not all from one thing in my experience with the leaks, but from multiple issues)
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Ill add my stock experience for reference as well as if anyone has a fix. I'm pretty happy with battery life coming from a Vibrant but what I notice is that usually there is minimal drain during the night ,however if I get an SMS the drain will be maximal.Like 30/40% Almost like the screen went on and never shut off but it doesn't seem to be the case. This is on the stock messenger App. If I don't get an SMS it will usually drain from like 99% to 96% roughly. Didn't mean to threadjack OP.
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demize! said:
Ill add my stock experience for reference as well as if anyone has a fix. I'm pretty happy with battery life coming from a Vibrant but what I notice is that usually there is minimal drain during the night ,however if I get an SMS the drain will be maximal.Like 30/40% Almost like the screen went on and never shut off but it doesn't seem to be the case. This is on the stock messenger App. If I don't get an SMS it will usually drain from like 99% to 96% roughly. Didn't mean to threadjack OP.
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Have you tried running Better Battery Stats to see why the phone isn't sleeping?
Yeah battery stats were probably from when I turned the phone back on...
So I bought my ATT GS3 out in Los Angeles this summer and then I returned to New Jersey to find that I have horrible battery life. It was not right away so this could be completely unrelated. As of right now my phone is at 75% and I let it drain while i was sleeping for 10.5 hours. I have tried several different roms which are usually good the first two days and then after that the battery life is bad again. I thought it may be some application I have installed so I removed a few of the ones I remembered downloading since I got back to NJ. I also updated to the latest radio ending in H9 because I was two behind when I checked. I have attached some battery information below. Any help anyone could provide would be great. I have tried Juice Defender which did save some battery life but it also caused a problem where I couldn't use the internet for 10 seconds after I wake the phone.
U need a Rom with cell standby fix
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I thought the cell standby problem only effected the international GS3? If the cell standby fix was the problem then I shouldn't actually be draining that low right? Something must be draining the battery then. Google maps is probably draining the battery but how do I stop that from happening?
No its not just international and it is cell standby using almost 10% battery
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Diable maps only use it when needed
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Diable maps only use it when needed
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try Triune ii or Black jelly 0.7 i tried them both on my s3 these both hav good battery backup..
Ariel 2.10 fixes everything!
I just installed the standby fix and im going to test that and see if it helps. If that doesn't work I'll try the other roms everyone has suggested. Will take a little while to make sure whats good and whats not though. Thanks for the advice.
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So I bought my ATT GS3 out in Los Angeles this summer and then I returned to New Jersey to find that I have horrible battery life. It was not right away so this could be completely unrelated. As of right now my phone is at 75% and I let it drain while i was sleeping for 10.5 hours. I have tried several different roms which are usually good the first two days and then after that the battery life is bad again. I thought it may be some application I have installed so I removed a few of the ones I remembered downloading since I got back to NJ. I also updated to the latest radio ending in H9 because I was two behind when I checked. I have attached some battery information below. Any help anyone could provide would be great. I have tried Juice Defender which did save some battery life but it also caused a problem where I couldn't use the internet for 10 seconds after I wake the phone.
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Just another observation. Battery tends to drain faster if you leave it in your pocket. If you flash a rom, you might have to calibrate the battery stats. I only lose 1% every 2 hours overnight if I leave it on a cold surface.
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So I have tried a few different roms and I'm still not happy with the battery life. I calibrate the battery after every rom installed and I usually keep that rom for atleast 2 days to test it. Right now I'm on AOKP. If the phone is on standby whats the general %/hr? When I go to sleep my phone drops from 92%-75% for about 10-11 hours (on desk at temp 60F). By Apocalypse487's response I should only see a drop of 5-6 % over night when I see 17%. Am I supposed to me losing this much battery life over night? To me I feel like I barely use my phone. Today wasn't too bad with 1 hr with screen on and about 1 hr in calls. I made it about 1 day 1 hour 36min on battery. My phone was sleeping for about 23.5 hours. Is this the typical battery life or is something wrong with mine? Tonight I'm going to try juicedefender and see if that helps.
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So I have tried a few different roms and I'm still not happy with the battery life. I calibrate the battery after every rom installed and I usually keep that rom for atleast 2 days to test it. Right now I'm on AOKP. If the phone is on standby whats the general %/hr? When I go to sleep my phone drops from 92%-75% for about 10-11 hours (on desk at temp 60F). By Apocalypse487's response I should only see a drop of 5-6 % over night when I see 17%. Am I supposed to me losing this much battery life over night? To me I feel like I barely use my phone. Today wasn't too bad with 1 hr with screen on and about 1 hr in calls. I made it about 1 day 1 hour 36min on battery. My phone was sleeping for about 23.5 hours. Is this the typical battery life or is something wrong with mine? Tonight I'm going to try juicedefender and see if that helps.
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I'm using ParanoidAndroid based off of CM10. Version 2.16 of PA gave me the best battery life. Try that. Certain Roms have better battery management, but that probably depends on the kernel. PA uses stock.
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I'll give ParanoidAndroid a try and see what that does. So Juicedefender ended up making it so I only lost 1% over 9 hours. Thats pretty good. Way better than I wanted. So what could be draining the power over night. Is it because my data is on all the time but shut off when using Juicedefender?
I use Trinue 2, and I use an app called Go Power Master.
In GPM you can setup options that will turn off mobile data/gps/wifi when the screen is turned off, will automatically turn them back on when the screen is back on.
Those things little things I find can make a big difference for the battery to last throughout the day.
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I use Trinue 2, and I use an app called Go Power Master.
In GPM you can setup options that will turn off mobile data/gps/wifi when the screen is turned off, will automatically turn them back on when the screen is back on.
Those things little things I find can make a big difference for the battery to last throughout the day.
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I'll give ParanoidAndroid a try and see what that does. So Juicedefender ended up making it so I only lost 1% over 9 hours. Thats pretty good. Way better than I wanted. So what could be draining the power over night. Is it because my data is on all the time but shut off when using Juicedefender?
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It's as Sianspheric says, common things like gps, data, and wifi uses power. I just started using Juicedefender since my friend told me it helps. Also download battery calibration. It's a root only app. Don't let your device discharge completely. It's bad for Lithium Ion batteries. That will clear out any bad data from Samsung.
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Hey guys. So unfortunately better battery stats stopped functioning. Basically when I first got the phone the battery life was pretty good, close to 5 hours screen on time, decent standby battery life. Recently within an hour of screen on and phone off the charger for about 3 hours it could easily be at 50pct. I am currently running wicked version 6 with stock kernel. I haven't downloaded any new apps that have exacerbated it and seems to deliver about the same battery life on a clean install of a rom before restoring all of my apps.
Anyone else experience this? I've tried both my stock battery and another battery with the same results.
Auto sync off as always. No clue why the crazy drop in battery performance and light on the subject would be awesome.
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This erases batterystats.bin
Thanks this seemed to help slightly, but still having significant battery drain
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Thanks this seemed to help slightly, but still having significant battery drain
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It's in your mind. Wiping the battery stats did absolutely nothing for you. Guarenteed.
You could have a battery that went bad. Take it out of hte phone and look at it. Is it bulging anywhere on the surface on either side?
If so the battery is bad. Replace it.
If not, it coudl still be a bad battery. See if you can find someone else with an S4 who will let you test their battery for a few hours.
Also, try a full wipe and reinstall of the rom. And restore your apps in small groups over several hours. See if battery life suddenly suffers after installing a particular app.
You could could have a messed up setting in the ROM, a rouge app that isnt' showing up on BBS, a bad battery, etc etc etc.
Try cpu sleeper? Quad core version
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I noticed a pretty significant reduction in battery life since I bought the device. I see people getting 5-7 hours of screen-on time; 4-5 days idle time, etc... I could easily do that when I first got it but after around 2 months, I'm lucky to have 2 hours screen on; I'll drop about 10% over an 8 hour period on idle... I've tried on fresh installs of both TW and AOSP; adding none of my own apps and the results are the same. Stock kernel, Ktoonsez kernel, various settings, etc... I've also noticed that sometimes, say the status bar will tell me I've got 92% battery left; I boot into recovery and TWRP tells me I've got 97% left. That, to me, sounds like the battery is going south so I'll be trying a new battery here soon.
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I've got a spare battery been the same experience and similar to cheetoh, I've done fresh installs, no apps and standard kernel with same results. I'll maybe pick up a zerolemon and see if that plus a fresh start helps because this is ridiculous. My battery life used to be amazing I loved it, best phone to date for me, 5+ hours screen on and would spend the day outta the house, come home late night and still have 30pct. Now, it's at 30pct by 1pm... No difference in how I use it, if anything I use it less now. I'll try these things again and probably pick up a zerolemon... Usually this isn't a problem but I'm going to have to be spending a few long days without access to a charger during the day, and don't wanna get screwed. Anyway thanks guys.
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Battery.
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Thanks for the suggestions guys, I've got a spare battery been the same experience and similar to cheetoh, I've done fresh installs, no apps and standard kernel with same results. I'll maybe pick up a zerolemon and see if that plus a fresh start helps because this is ridiculous. My battery life used to be amazing I loved it, best phone to date for me, 5+ hours screen on and would spend the day outta the house, come home late night and still have 30pct. Now, it's at 30pct by 1pm... No difference in how I use it, if anything I use it less now. I'll try these things again and probably pick up a zerolemon... Usually this isn't a problem but I'm going to have to be spending a few long days without access to a charger during the day, and don't wanna get screwed. Anyway thanks guys.
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So this still happens even with a different battery?