Forgive me as I'm a complete Noob and don't understand a lot of this.
I rooted my Evo 4g a few days ago using Revolutionary and flashed the CM7.1 ROM. Iam now having horrible battery life. My phone died after 2 hours and 46 minutes off the charger after having full battery. The Android System was the largest drainer at 81%.
I only had one phone call that was 15 minutes and maybe only sent/received approx 20 texts during that time period.
Can anybody help me figure out what I need to do to correct this?
I've only flashed the CM7.1 ROM since I'm new to this and don't know what everything else means.
Any help would be much appreciated.
You need to look and see what you have running on your phone. Things like 4G, Wifi, tethering, bluetooth, etc all take up a large amount of battery. Also, your screen brightness eats through your battery. When you root and flash a custom ROM you have to play around with it for a bit to get everything set the way you want to give the performance you're looking for and the battery life you need.
Oh one more thing, I've noticed that the biggest drop in battery is after I disconnect it. It drops down to Fifty something percent in an hour or less.
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You need to look and see what you have running on your phone. Things like 4G, Wifi, tethering, bluetooth, etc all take up a large amount of battery. Also, your screen brightness eats through your battery. When you root and flash a custom ROM you have to play around with it for a bit to get everything set the way you want to give the performance you're looking for and the battery life you need.
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I never use 4g, Bluetooth, or tethering. I only use wifi when I'm at home and have my phone plugged in to download new apps. I have no idea what is killing it.
I have the Bob Clock App and Minimalistic Text running on my home page. Could that be the problem?
Never heard of Bob Clock. But I use minimalistic on my lock screen. So I know that wont do it. Might want to try a different kernel. Check my setup in my signature. I get great battery life with my setup.
Also, check this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712990
Also do a google search for how to get better battery life. There is a whole list of things to check on your phone and options to change like widget syncs, transitions, screen timeout, etc. that can double your battery life. It's too much for me to go over....especially since I know for a fact other people out there have already written guides for it.
I've seen all the info in your sig listed on my phone somewhere before but can remember where. Can you point me in the right direction of where to find it on my phone so that I can compare?
Thanks!
Was running CM7.1 using JuiceDefender on aggressive mode, I can easily pull 24 hours and when not using my phone often I can even get up to 32 hours. I have stock battery as well.
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I've seen all the info in your sig listed on my phone somewhere before but can remember where. Can you point me in the right direction of where to find it on my phone so that I can compare?
Thanks!
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Root: The method used to obtain root access. Either unrEVOked or Revolutionary (depending on what Hboot version you have)
hboot: The version of Hboot you have on your phone. This is the white load screen you enter by pressing and holding the volume down button on your phone while pressing the power button. Once the screen comes up you will see various bits of system information at the top including your Hboot version. Hboot is used to flash various PC36IMG.zip files which can do anything from load a custom splash screen, update Hboot versions, and even unroot your phone.
Recovery: Which custom recovery you have flashed. This is found by entering your phone's recovery mode. To do this enter your Hboot, as instructed above, select the "bootloader" option, and then select the "Recovery" option. Your phone will then enter recovery mode.
Hardware: Once your phone has booted up go to settings > About Phone > Hardware. Your hardware will be 0001, 0002, 0003, or 0004.
Rom: Which ROM you have flashed. This is the actual system you see and use on your phone. It can be anything from the stock system that came with the phone or can be a custom ROM that you've flashed via recovery. They come in two types. Sense, which is the style that your phone was loaded with and AOSP which is what Cyanogenmod is. There are ton of them out there. Get flash happy and find one that fits what you want in a ROM Settings > About Phone > Software Information
Kernel: The software on your phone that is installed on the level between hardware and the actual Android system you use on your phone. This controls things like scheduling, battery charging, cpu clock speed, etc. and tells Android how to use it within the system. To find this info go to Settings > About Phone > Software Information
Baseband: Which baseband radio software version your phone is currently using. This information can be found in Settings > About Phone > Software Information
Theme: Which theme you are using on your phone. This varies depending on whether you are using an AOSP, Odexed, or Deodexed ROM. Cyanogenmod comes with two built in themes. Cyanbread and Androidian. I use a custom kitchened version of Cyanbread.
Hope that covered it. Sorry, I know my post is really bright. :-x
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I've seen all the info in your sig listed on my phone somewhere before but can remember where. Can you point me in the right direction of where to find it on my phone so that I can compare?
Thanks!
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Not gona re-post said info, though:
radios, roms, hboots, kernels, and recoveries will be found in the development section.
Theme and apps will be in the themes and apps section. You'll also find mods, ect.
Thanks guys. I think I may have found the culprit. Google Maps was showing to be running when I went into the manage applications screen. Whenever I hit force stop it would stop then restart again so I deleted it. Battery seems to be fine now. I had this same issue with maps before I rooted it. Is there a way to solve this as I need a navigation app on my phone.
Yea, use the telenav app for navigation and leave google maps deleted.
Or freeze it until you need it.
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try using set cpu . that helps battery .
Use a toggle switch for your GPS so that it isn't constantly running. Also turn off the Google network location service. Google Maps is the only navigation app I use on my phone and I don't have the same issue that you do.
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I flashed CM6 version RC1 and now my phone wont sleep. Everything in running services is sleeping so doesnt that mean it has to be something in the background? I check the battery stats and the screen bar is full while the others only show a small percent of usage.
Under battery history the major thing seems to be network usage/android system with half a blue bar and then a full red bar. Not sure if that helps.
Running services is 25%
screen on is22%
I am having trouble figuring this out is there a good tool that could offer some guidence or is there a slick way to trouble shoot?
Thanks, Thomas
Are you sure your phone is not sleeping? Press running and what does it say..
Sorry I know its not sleeping i have been monitoring it very closly for the last few hours. CM6 doesnt work like 2.1 it doesnt show up time and down time it just shows one time. So i have been monitoring how long its been on after a reboot and how long it shows its been running and everytime it shows its not sleeping.
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Sorry I know its not sleeping i have been monitoring it very closly for the last few hours. CM6 doesnt work like 2.1 it doesnt show up time and down time it just shows one time. So i have been monitoring how long its been on after a reboot and how long it shows its been running and everytime it shows its not sleeping.
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Do you have the newest radio?
If so, try changing your network to CDMA using Network in the market. Menu - Set Network - Force Close - Scroll to CDMA Auto PRL - Press Back - Black screen - the phone will come back to life when done.
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Do you have the newest radio?
If so, try changing your network to CDMA using Network in the market. Menu - Set Network - Force Close - Scroll to CDMA Auto PRL - Press Back - Black screen - the phone will come back to life when done.
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The usual tweaks area already done but thanks maybe I missed something but I keep going back over things looking to find anything I might have missed and still nothing.
The basics are done though, the phone is already set to auto prl CDMA. Gtalk is off, with no auto sign in. I have the settings all setup the way I would normaly have them set.
Keep them comming maybe I missed something lol.
Thanks, for the help so far.
yuo can try getting SystemPanel. the paid app will let you see history and can show you what apps are running int he background and inactive. It will also let you pull up the top apps using cpu/battery which might help out. its a pretty nice program for the price.
I use it for a lot of troubleshooting and finding battery drain from apps.
EDIT : in CM6 if you go to about phone and then status at the very bottom should show up time
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yuo can try getting SystemPanel. the paid app will let you see history and can show you what apps are running int he background and inactive. It will also let you pull up the top apps using cpu/battery which might help out. its a pretty nice program for the price.
I use it for a lot of troubleshooting and finding battery drain from apps.
EDIT : in CM6 if you go to about phone and then status at the very bottom should show up time
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Thank you I will try that. I am really feeling like an idiot here lol. I have been looking at up time thinking it was telling me how long the phone has gone without sleep. Uptime is just how long the phone has been unpluged. With the old 2.1 roms you got two times uptime and wake time or something like that. Is there anyway to check my wake time?
Im gonna dl that ap and check it out thanks.
I am an idiot. It was sleeping and after resetting the battery I think the battery stats where adding to my crazy issue.
Hi all, this is my first post and I'm a n00b to rooting, but don't let that stop you from reading on since I'm an advanced user and hope I can add some value here. Honestly, don't know what took me so long to do this. Posting to the Q&A forum since I can't yet post to the RC1 Dev forum.
My main goals for rooting were to get out from under Sprint's downgrade of my Swype beta (I should never have installed that OTA update, duh), upgrade to GB, and get better performance (battery especially).
I tried lots of the GB ROMs so far and experienced some of the reported problems like cycling reboots, slow/non-responsive market, CM skate anim cycling, etc. Some ROMs had swype, some didn't and most produced the licensing issue discussed in these forums when trying to install the latest beta.
Long story short, I've found a very stable and fast performing combo that I thought I'd share, and ask a question about. Here's what I did:
In recovery, Format_all, wipe data, system, cache, dalvik.
Install RC1, install the latest GB google apps and restart.
3G performance was piss poor, and I want wimax (more Geeees!), so I installed the toast wimax kernel (and antipasto font which I'm loving), cleared caches again, restarted and now 3G performance was faster than I think it has ever been. [EDIT: WiFi now an issue] and GPS are fast and stable. Best part, I was able to download and install the very latest Swype beta on this ROM.
A couple things that need addressing though:
'Cell standby' is a somewhat high percentage battery drain which I'll try to tackle through other reported methods (could be wimax searching/standby?). That said, battery life is still very good and way better than sprint/sense, even under heavy/constant use.
USB issues: Enable USB debugging and notify. Icon shows in notification bar. Disable debugging, but leave notify checked. Debugging icon still shows. Tied to this is the inability to select the mount/charge options, which others have recently reported in the RC1 Dev forum. So can't mount to PC. Any updates on how to resolve?
WiFi is now non-functional on my office AP.
WiMax control settings not showing up since they aren't there with this ROM/kernel combo for some reason. Any/all ideas welcome on this point too.
Slow market downloads, even though speedtest shows 527kbps down.
Thanks again everyone for this great community!
I haven't had any luck with my phone on my office AP (3COM) since I got this darn phone. For some odd reason it gets the wrong gateway and I have to set it up manually from the terminal if I want to use it after connecting. Check your gateway when you connect and see what you are getting.
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[*]WiMax control settings not showing up since they aren't there with this ROM/kernel combo for some reason. Any/all ideas welcome on this point too.
Thanks again everyone for this great community!
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WiMax isn't in RC1 yet. You can get an alpha build that Shinzul has up. Or wait until the Final release which should have WiMax and HDMI working.
Thanks, I'll check the gateway, and will check out Shinzul's alpha.
Had my first auto reboot today, and Sms is not working right (yes, less than 160 chars and not mms). Might have spoken too soon about this combo...
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Thanks, I'll check the gateway, and will check out Shinzul's alpha.
Had my first auto reboot today, and Sms is not working right (yes, less than 160 chars and not mms). Might have spoken too soon about this combo...
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Wait till the final release. It will be more stable.
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A couple things that need addressing though:
'Cell standby' is a somewhat high percentage battery drain which I'll try to tackle through other reported methods (could be wimax searching/standby?). That said, battery life is still very good and way better than sprint/sense, even under heavy/constant use.
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Keep in mind that the "Percentages" will always total a 100%. Something will always be big.
So to me I WANT TO See Cell Standby be high. That means nothing stupid in the OS is chewing it up. And Cell Standby isn't effected all that much except the Radio Firmware (and settings) !! So be careful what you wish for.
The problem for me is, on sense you can uncheck radio always on to remove that cell standby huge drain. On froyo you can use juice defender. But on cm7 you can do neither. So I need to turn it on and off manually. Very annoying, anybody have a solution?
If you install CM7 nightly build #6 (today's build), it now has support for WiMax and SMS splitting.
juice defender is failing me. and i reeeeeallly hate turning data on and off manually. any suggestions? i'm new to aosp so i'm a bit lost rigt now.
Just use the expanded notification bar and toggle data. You're not gonna be able to shut off the radio without airplane mode.
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juice defender is failing me. and i reeeeeallly hate turning data on and off manually. any suggestions? i'm new to aosp so i'm a bit lost rigt now.
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Unfortunately I think some permissions changed within Android 2.3 which CM7 uses and JuiceDefender just doesn't work on it yet. You're only other option is to flash CM6 (Android 2.2) if you must have JuiceDefender working in ASOP.
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Unfortunately I think some permissions changed within Android 2.3 which CM7 uses and JuiceDefender just doesn't work on it yet. You're only other option is to flash CM6 (Android 2.2) if you must have JuiceDefender working in ASOP.
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ya it looks like thats the case. sucks cause it is taking a really high toll on my battery. i hope somebody will put it into one of the next builds soon.
Continuing from my OP, I'm now off RC1 and onto Nightly #12 with WiMax. WiMax when on is a huge battery drain and I'll be doing some post-reading to figure out if someone has found a way to set a WiMax antenna polling frequency so that it can sleep for periods when not connected.
That said, the WiMax is nice and fast...so I only enable it with the notification bar widget when I need speed or talk/data simultaneously. I also use a new version of Setting Profiles (Full version) to toggle the Wimax on/off based on where I am -- note that this is a test version sent to me by the developers as I've been helping them test this feature. So I don't know if it's in the latest market release version, but if you are a paid owner of that app, just email them and ask for it (although the updated market release is likely not far off if it's not out already).
With the XDA-sponsored SetCPU on and no WiMax, I'm actually getting great standby times in the double-digit number of hours, which has been a first for me with this phone! I know there are some great posts out there about manual conditioning of the battery, which I'm eager to try, and other useful battery-related posts.
I am running CM7 RC1 and I have to say I love it. The first couple of days after flashing I was experiencing terrible battery life. I mean 5 hours or less. I finally flashed Savage-Zen kernel and used the "smartass: governor in CM settings. My battery was better, but Cell Standby was still draining all the battery. I wiped the dalvik cache again and it helped some. but I think the best thing I did was disable google backup settings. Keep in mind before I flashed the kernel and battery life was horrible I wasnt using it heavily, WiFi was off completely, I toggled mobile data on and off as needed, and didnt let anything except for weather autosync. I had maybe 10 applications as well. Once I flashed Savage-zen, used smartass, and disabled Backup data to google servers. MY battery lasts over 2 days with moderate usage with mobile data always on and gmail and weather auto synced.
As far as bug-wise, the only thing I have experienced so far is sometimes there is a slight delay when unlocking the phone and getting the lockscreen to show. Sometimes when the button is pressed to unlock, the bottom touch buttons light up, but the lockscreen takes like 5 seconds to appear.
One more thing is the GPS icon stays in the notification area once it has been turned on and back off.
All in all I can say now that I have amazing battery life, I love CM7 and will not use anything else besides CM7. I cannot wait until the stable release is out. GO CyanogenMod Team!
Hi all! I'm currently using a T-Mobile Galaxy S3 (T999) running Illusion v2.5. I did a super clean flash and wiped systems, caches, etc completely. Afterward, I flashed Ktoonz kernel. I really enjoy the ROM but one of the problems I've been encountering is my terrible battery life. I'm not sure what's normal for you guys but I've been getting around 6 hours as you can see with my attachment, but it seems that my screen is draining the highest part of my battery. I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen or if I'm supposed to adjust brightness or something. I have it on "auto." If anyone can suggest some apps to help me monitor and change up battery usage or a different kernel/ROM, I'm open to suggestions! I'm also suspecting that maybe my battery is starting to fail and I should get a new one. I've had my phone for ~1 year.
Thanks all! I hope you guys can help me! If there's any more info you need, please feel free to ask.
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Hi all! I'm currently using a T-Mobile Galaxy S3 (T999) running Illusion v2.5. I did a super clean flash and wiped systems, caches, etc completely. Afterward, I flashed Ktoonz kernel. I really enjoy the ROM but one of the problems I've been encountering is my terrible battery life. I'm not sure what's normal for you guys but I've been getting around 6 hours as you can see with my attachment, but it seems that my screen is draining the highest part of my battery. I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen or if I'm supposed to adjust brightness or something. I have it on "auto." If anyone can suggest some apps to help me monitor and change up battery usage or a different kernel/ROM, I'm open to suggestions! I'm also suspecting that maybe my battery is starting to fail and I should get a new one. I've had my phone for ~1 year.
Thanks all! I hope you guys can help me! If there's any more info you need, please feel free to ask.
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First, your battery has reached a point where it will begin to show its age. How badly it will show it, just depends on the battery, its history, and your current use of it. A couple of things you need to do though, are go to that battery screen like in the screenshot, and tap Android System, Google Services, and Android OS. Take screenshots of those as well.
Also you need to read Woody's Battery thread stickied at the top of this section. Tons of good info for you in there. But you also should get the app Better Battery Stats. (Note this will likely be referred to just as BBS by anyone else who answers you). Start from a full charge at the end of your day, and leave it overnight, off the charger and unused. Then in the morning, check BBS, and post your findings here. This will help find if there is anything not sleeping as it should.
Hopefully @Aerowinder may chime in here. He is much better at the battery stuff than me! Plus he will know a lot more about CM based roms.
One other thing you need to do. Let us know more about what you are running. What firmware build were you on before flashing your rom? What is the current baseband? If you're baseband is MD5, you may want to flash back to either the LJC or LJA modems. Also, if you are on the MD5 firmware, you may want to consider doing the same by flashing the LJC or LJA firmware. In the development section is a thread for exactly this!
Oh and the screen will always be a huge battery hog! I personally do not ever use auto brightness. This uses a lot more battery than just manually changing it to where you need it, when you need it. This and more are in Woodys thread.
Good Luck!
You didn't give us a lot to go on, but there is at least one obvious problem. Google Services shouldn't be in list.
1) Get BetterBatteryStats and give us a log of at least 4 hours while your phone is idling. Charge it up before bed and let it run. BBS will start the log when you unplug it, so when you wake up just press the share button and save to text file and post here.
2) Use LJC firmware. Link in my signature, second firmware link. It's an MD5 thread, but LJC is in there, too. Flash that.
3) Buy new batteries. I'm using Anker 2200s, got a pair from Amazon for $28. Prime is so worth it, for the free two day shipping alone. Anyhow these batteries are NFC enabled and are the same size as OEM battery.
4) Disable Wi-Fi and network location in your location options in Android settings. It causes terrible wakelocking. Has for months, remains unaddressed by Google. It's collecting location information and sending it to them. That's why they don't fix it. It's the only logical explanation.
5) Get Greenify. And greenify all the things... that you don't need notifications from. If your gapps package has Maps and stuff in it, use the BaNkS gapps in my signature instead. Maps, Google Now, Google+, etc. have no business being on your system partition. Download them from the store. Then greenify them.
Anyhow, Doc said most of this already. The BBS log is what we really need. Make this other changes in the meantime, though.
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First, your battery has reached a point where it will begin to show its age. How badly it will show it, just depends on the battery, its history, and your current use of it. A couple of things you need to do though, are go to that battery screen like in the screenshot, and tap Android System, Google Services, and Android OS. Take screenshots of those as well.
Also you need to read Woody's Battery thread stickied at the top of this section. Tons of good info for you in there. But you also should get the app Better Battery Stats. (Note this will likely be referred to just as BBS by anyone else who answers you). Start from a full charge at the end of your day, and leave it overnight, off the charger and unused. Then in the morning, check BBS, and post your findings here. This will help find if there is anything not sleeping as it should.
Hopefully @Aerowinder may chime in here. He is much better at the battery stuff than me! Plus he will know a lot more about CM based roms.
One other thing you need to do. Let us know more about what you are running. What firmware build were you on before flashing your rom? What is the current baseband? If you're baseband is MD5, you may want to flash back to either the LJC or LJA modems. Also, if you are on the MD5 firmware, you may want to consider doing the same by flashing the LJC or LJA firmware. In the development section is a thread for exactly this!
Oh and the screen will always be a huge battery hog! I personally do not ever use auto brightness. This uses a lot more battery than just manually changing it to where you need it, when you need it. This and more are in Woodys thread.
Good Luck!
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You didn't give us a lot to go on, but there is at least one obvious problem. Google Services shouldn't be in list.
1) Get BetterBatteryStats and give us a log of at least 4 hours while your phone is idling. Charge it up before bed and let it run. BBS will start the log when you unplug it, so when you wake up just press the share button and save to text file and post here.
2) Use LJC firmware. Link in my signature, second firmware link. It's an MD5 thread, but LJC is in there, too. Flash that.
3) Buy new batteries. I'm using Anker 2200s, got a pair from Amazon for $28. Prime is so worth it, for the free two day shipping alone. Anyhow these batteries are NFC enabled and are the same size as OEM battery.
4) Disable Wi-Fi and network location in your location options in Android settings. It causes terrible wakelocking. Has for months, remains unaddressed by Google. It's collecting location information and sending it to them. That's why they don't fix it. It's the only logical explanation.
5) Get Greenify. And greenify all the things... that you don't need notifications from. If your gapps package has Maps and stuff in it, use the BaNkS gapps in my signature instead. Maps, Google Now, Google+, etc. have no business being on your system partition. Download them from the store. Then greenify them.
Anyhow, Doc said most of this already. The BBS log is what we really need. Make this other changes in the meantime, though.
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Just wanted to thank you guys a lot. I downloaded BBS and have been using it.I'll post the log after I let my phone idle overnight.. I really appreciate the time you guys took for your replies. I'll flash LJC as well. Thanks again!
EDIT: I downloaded Greenify but it was a bit confusing haha.
So today I've installed latest MaximusHD rom for HTC One X, and everything is super fine, except for one thing - when I'm trying to connect to my Skydrive (using official app) while on Wi-Fi I just can't do it. After awhile it just says that I should check if I have a connection. The problem does not occur when I switch to Data Transmission. Other apps usually are able to connect but it seems slower than when using Data Transmision.
I have installed the WiFi update, and when using Google Play, or browsing the internet it seems to work just fine... I also switched from Superuser to SuperSU, but the problem occured before that so I don't think it had anything to do with that (noob question - which should I use? Superuser was there by default, but is ist actually better, or there is no big difference?)
Have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the app?
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Yep.
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Have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the app?
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I tried, it's still very slow.
Other odd thing is that when I turn on Data Transmission it's always showing the "H" symbol, even in the places where it previously showed "3G" or "3.5G", now it never switches. What does it mean? The speed seems fine though.
This happened to me too. And it's happening to YouTube and google play.
Could it be because I didn't do the OTA update?
In that case i have a little question: if I update the OTA do I/will it wipe all data?
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This happened to me too. And it's happening to YouTube and google play.
Could it be because I didn't do the OTA update?
In that case i have a little question: if I update the OTA do I/will it wipe all data?
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Well I did the OTA update almost right away (after intalling few apps), and I saw the problem after that, so I don't think it has anything to do with that although it's suppose to fix WiFi. Oh and it didn't wipe my data.
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Well I can't post in MaximusHD thread yet so I'll ask here, does everyone using this rom experience such a tremendous drop in battery life when using Data Transmission? On WiFi it's normal, but when using cellular it drains 5-10% in 10 minutes... That seems absurd.
bump. Seriously? Anyone knows if this problem with power drain when using cellular data transmission is also present in other clean Sense 5 Roms? Or is there a way to fix that, or maybe there is an update underway?
I just switched ROMs but was getting a full days use out of a charge. WiFi at work and home all day. So I never really used hspda.
Sent from my Avatar ROM that kicks buttski!!!
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Well I did the OTA update almost right away (after intalling few apps), and I saw the problem after that, so I don't think it has anything to do with that although it's suppose to fix WiFi. Oh and it didn't wipe my data.
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Well I can't post in MaximusHD thread yet so I'll ask here, does everyone using this rom experience such a tremendous drop in battery life when using Data Transmission? On WiFi it's normal, but when using cellular it drains 5-10% in 10 minutes... That seems absurd.
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Yes! It does this for me too. It seems to drain at something like 1% per minute for me when I have mobile data on. Wifi also drains it quickly, but not as fast. I posted about this in the Maximus thread (some other issues too) but nobody has replied. Good to know it's not just me.
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Yes! It does this for me too. It seems to drain at something like 1% per minute for me when I have mobile data on. Wifi also drains it quickly, but not as fast. I posted about this in the Maximus thread (some other issues too) but nobody has replied. Good to know it's not just me.
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Yep, hopefully there is going to be some kind of fix, I really wouldn't like to go through the whole configuration, app instalation, etc. process again.
Ok, so another thing is - some icons in one of the folders on my home screen disapear. It's always in the same folder, and only in this one, others seem to be unaffected.
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Yep, hopefully there is going to be some kind of fix, I really wouldn't like to go through the whole configuration, app instalation, etc. process again.
Ok, so another thing is - some icons in one of the folders on my home screen disapear. It's always in the same folder, and only in this one, others seem to be unaffected.
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Issues I'm having:
1. Crazy battery drain when I enable wifi, but particularly bad when I enable mobile data. I have a Tasker profile where if I enable wifi and connect to my home network, autosync and GPS are enabled for 2 minutes then disable themselves. Last night my phone was on 61%, I enabled wifi, and immediately it dropped to 56%.
2. When I go to bed at night I turn my phone off. If I put it on charge at night it gets to a certain point and the phone switches itself on! One night last week it switched itself on at about 89%, so I switched it off again, and about ten minutes later it switched itself on again!
3. I use Google Calendar, not the HTC one. I seem to be unable to disable the HTC calendar - the only option is to "freeze" it in my backup app.
Aside from these things, I really like the rom, but these three issues are making me wonder if I should try something like ARHD and see if the same things are present there.
Nasalhair said:
Issues I'm having:
1. Crazy battery drain when I enable wifi, but particularly bad when I enable mobile data. I have a Tasker profile where if I enable wifi and connect to my home network, autosync and GPS are enabled for 2 minutes then disable themselves. Last night my phone was on 61%, I enabled wifi, and immediately it dropped to 56%.
2. When I go to bed at night I turn my phone off. If I put it on charge at night it gets to a certain point and the phone switches itself on! One night last week it switched itself on at about 89%, so I switched it off again, and about ten minutes later it switched itself on again!
3. I use Google Calendar, not the HTC one. I seem to be unable to disable the HTC calendar - the only option is to "freeze" it in my backup app.
Aside from these things, I really like the rom, but these three issues are making me wonder if I should try something like ARHD and see if the same things are present there.
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Well I don't know how it is with the phone turning itself on, because I'm not turning it off to begin with.
The thing with calendar - it seems to me it was also like that when using official Sense 4+, so I don't know if it's fixable.
I think I'm going to switch to ViperX Sense 5 Rom, people seem to say good things about battery life in this one.
kolas310 said:
Well I don't know how it is with the phone turning itself on, because I'm not turning it off to begin with.
The thing with calendar - it seems to me it was also like that when using official Sense 4+, so I don't know if it's fixable.
I think I'm going to switch to ViperX Sense 5 Rom, people seem to say good things about battery life in this one.
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Yes, I know some people think the idea of switching a phone off is somehow weird, but I turn mine off at night. As an experiment I just switched my phone off here in work, plugged it in to charge it (it was on about 93% - charged overnight and it has lost 7% since I switched it on when I got up for work at 5.30) and lo and behold it powered itself on when it reached 100%. I don't want this to happen.
The calendar on Sense 4 could be disabled - I know this as I had it disabled! I prefer the Google calendar, so I disabled the HTC one. On this ROM you can only hide it, or backup apps allow it to be frozen, which is what I've had to resort to.
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Yes, I know some people think the idea of switching a phone off is somehow weird, but I turn mine off at night. As an experiment I just switched my phone off here in work, plugged it in to charge it (it was on about 93% - charged overnight and it has lost 7% since I switched it on when I got up for work at 5.30) and lo and behold it powered itself on when it reached 100%. I don't want this to happen.
The calendar on Sense 4 could be disabled - I know this as I had it disabled! I prefer the Google calendar, so I disabled the HTC one. On this ROM you can only hide it, or backup apps allow it to be frozen, which is what I've had to resort to.
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Well then since nobody seems to know what to do in our instance, and I have no idea if there is some kind of update for MaximusHD underway, we propably will have to switch the Roms. I usually had the mobile Data Transmission turned on all the time when outside my apartment and while it did drain the battery more than WiFi it still was enough for 8+ hours of being on with medium usage (sometimes with battery saver option ticked when I needed to be outside for a longer period of time). Now the phone would be dead after few hours.
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Today I switched for ViperX Rom, and all of the issues I wrote about seem to be gone, Skydrive app no longer has any issues with connecting. Although I'll say something more about batery life in 2-3 days when I'll actually have a chance to see how it works. In general I can say that this ROM is a lot more customizable, and has lots of tweaks (greeat ones) I haven't seen in Maximus, but still I'll wait for a few days with my final opinion.
Ok so after using it for a few days I can tell that the ROM itself is just better in sheer terms of funcionality. First thing I noticed is that I can now put more than 16 shortcuts into Folders, the icon grid in app panel is 5x6 so now I have 3 pages to scroll instead of 7. WiFi seems work more stable but I can't say that it worked bad in MaximusHD. When it comes to battery drain while using Data Transmission - it's still there, but after a few cycles of charging it seems to get better bit by bit, if it still changes I'll let You know. ROM comes with lots of additional tools, and allows heavy customization, and reclocking the processor for better battery life. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. I don't know what about the phone turning itself on, because I don't switch it off. In terms of the callendar I also use gogle one and I just turned of sync options in the one provided by htc. Also I'm not sure if while installing the rom You are able to choose not to install the HTC callendar.
kolas310 said:
Ok so after using it for a few days I can tell that the ROM itself is just better in sheer terms of funcionality. First thing I noticed is that I can now put more than 16 shortcuts into Folders, the icon grid in app panel is 5x6 so now I have 3 pages to scroll instead of 7. WiFi seems work more stable but I can't say that it worked bad in MaximusHD. When it comes to battery drain while using Data Transmission - it's still there, but after a few cycles of charging it seems to get better bit by bit, if it still changes I'll let You know. ROM comes with lots of additional tools, and allows heavy customization, and reclocking the processor for better battery life. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. I don't know what about the phone turning itself on, because I don't switch it off. In terms of the callendar I also use gogle one and I just turned of sync options in the one provided by htc. Also I'm not sure if while installing the rom You are able to choose not to install the HTC callendar.
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I've gone back to my old Orange-branded 4.1.1 / Sense 4+ build. Battery life has gone through the roof, HTC calendar is disabled, everything works, no problems. As for the phone powering itself on, well, something odd happened there...
When I decided to go back to the old build I restored my Nandroid backup and reflashed my old boot.img, taking the phone back to its old setup, and all seemed well, but that night I switched it off at bedtime (still find it weird that so many people think I'm freakishly odd for daring to switch my phone off from time to time) and lo and behold, some time later, it switched itself on again! The next morning I did some searching about removing the Clockworkmod recovery, followed the instructions, and also relocked my bootloader for good measure, and guess what? Since then it hasn't powered itself on while charging. So all I can gather from this is it was either Clockworkmod or having an unlocked bootloader that caused my phone to power itself on, because as soon as these two things were changed it has behaved normally.
So anyway, I'm going to stay on this build until Orange get around to releasing 4.2, or my contract expires in April, whichever comes first. Probably the latter, as according to a post I've seen from Orange themselves they reckon the update will appear 3-6 MONTHS after the manufacturer releases it.
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I've gone back to my old Orange-branded 4.1.1 / Sense 4+ build. Battery life has gone through the roof, HTC calendar is disabled, everything works, no problems. As for the phone powering itself on, well, something odd happened there...
When I decided to go back to the old build I restored my Nandroid backup and reflashed my old boot.img, taking the phone back to its old setup, and all seemed well, but that night I switched it off at bedtime (still find it weird that so many people think I'm freakishly odd for daring to switch my phone off from time to time) and lo and behold, some time later, it switched itself on again! The next morning I did some searching about removing the Clockworkmod recovery, followed the instructions, and also relocked my bootloader for good measure, and guess what? Since then it hasn't powered itself on while charging. So all I can gather from this is it was either Clockworkmod or having an unlocked bootloader that caused my phone to power itself on, because as soon as these two things were changed it has behaved normally.
So anyway, I'm going to stay on this build until Orange get around to releasing 4.2, or my contract expires in April, whichever comes first. Probably the latter, as according to a post I've seen from Orange themselves they reckon the update will appear 3-6 MONTHS after the manufacturer releases it.
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Heh I'm alson in Orange (poland), and we got info that the update will show up sometime mid-december. I just got tired of waiting for them to update that's why I ended up with custom roms.
Maybe it was CM fault? I'm using TWRP, tonight I'll turn it off and see if it powers back itself during the night and let you know.
PROBLEM SOLVED!
Hi, this is not my phone, it is my mom's phone. (Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini International)
Her battery life has been terrible, so I went to Settings > More > Battery, and found that Google Location Services is using 70 - 80% of her battery.
There was also a notification in the pull-down menu that said "Samsung has blocked an unauthorized person from accessing your phone. Press "Update Now" to update the security policy. It will use less than 500 KB of network traffic."
So I pressed "Update Now" and it instantly said that the latest updates were already installed. This Message was a UI popup, not a webpage.
What should I do?
Help will be greatly appreciated!
If you go to the settings >about phone > what is the model number of the phone, just curious.
About the location thing, go to settings >location >Google location reporting >you should be able to turn the location reporting off. As for the battery, if her phone has ever been rooted, you might look at flashing a custom rom. Sometimes a phones battery life can improve by flashing an undervolt rom, (I think that's the term) what that means is that the phone would use less battery power for the regular things that it does. Plus, rooting the phone would allow you to get rid of a lot of the "stock" bloatware that comes already installed on the phone. I hope that helps.
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If you go to the settings >about phone > what is the model number of the phone, just curious.
About the location thing, go to settings >location >Google location reporting >you should be able to turn the location reporting off. As for the battery, if her phone has ever been rooted, you might look at flashing a custom rom. Sometimes a phones battery life can improve by flashing an undervolt rom, (I think that's the term) what that means is that the phone would use less battery power for the regular things that it does. Plus, rooting the phone would allow you to get rid of a lot of the "stock" bloatware that comes already installed on the phone. I hope that helps.
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Model No. GT-I9505
Battery life has fixed itself.
Thanks for your help!