Hi, I had my desire serviced for battery unrelated problems. When it came back with a new MB (or so they state) my battery woes began. My desire eats the battery 3-4x faster that before. Even if I swap batteries with my friends, who also has a Desire, the one in my phone lasts only 12hour on Stand-by in airplane-mode with display Off!
I've tried running battery benchmark and get around 7000 sec (with my and friends battery), while my friend gets 20000+ with both batteries.
So obviously the problem is my phone. After the battery problem the service changed my MB again (the phone went dead) and the new MB eats the battery again!
What could be the cause? What is inside the phone besides the MB, battery and display?
are you using a custom rom? some of them are very heavy on battery life and drain it quickly
default HTC android 2.2
I got the exact some problem =/ it's a hardware bug, even on different ROMS my battery goes from 90% 10% in just 5 hours, without even touching the device...
Check battery health:
Open dialer, type *#*#4636#*#* > Battery information.
maybe your calibration is messed up, try using BatteryCalibration app
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I have a desire z and I am using a recent nightly and loving it but I have one concern my battery usage stats are like these:
After Charging and letting it go standby at night:
When I woke up after 7 hours battery was %89.
Usage was: Cell standby : %46
Phone Idle : %41
Display: %7
Wi-Fi : %5
Now you may tell me it is normal to have only cell standby if I let it go standby but even if I use a lot of gps and google maps for around an hour maybe it still show a lot of cell standby. And when I am using the phone I feel like it drains the battery a lot.
Are these stats normal. I remeber on my stock rom My display was always eating the battery like %40 %50 ish now display never shows above %10 even if I use the phone a lot!
Is this because of radio? Should I try different radios? I had radio that came with downgrade of my Desire Z and than I flashed the neww Bell radio.
Please help cause I am not sure if this is normal.
Noone ? any idea?
I'm on CM7 #186 since Sunday and my battery's live is slightly higher than with stock Gingerbread.
I recommend that you install "Battery Monitor Widget". It uses a lot of RAM, but it has some pretty good statistics what's using the battery.
About the display: I think in stock the battery display stats are wrong. Mine had always 70%. On CM7 it's 7% right now after two working days and moderate news in the evening. Phone idle is 43% right now.
Probably the display usage is wrong on stock rom but i am not really sure. I will try that app you recommend thx.
So my stats arent that weird.
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I'm on Runny 3.3 which I have had flashed for about a week.
Wiped completely before flashing (Full wipe EXT4 zip), never had this problem before.
Anyway, in this week I assumed that the battery usage would level out. I tried calibrating it, but display always takes up 93% of the battery usage.
Even on Runny 3.1 I had brilliant battery life. This problem has only occured on this ROM. I lost 7% from full in 20 minutes when I was using my phone for relatively basic tasks.
Should I reflash? What kind of values are you getting for display battery usage?
I have a solution my friend
I suffered this problem like a few days a go.
what you need to do is take a look at this post i hope it'll help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...26016#16808950
Thanks, but the link doesnt work lol
a wee bump for any help....
I changed the kernel to the Unity kernel and the display is now using 60 - 70 odd percent. Can't really test it though since its been plugged in since I flashed it. Will see how it goes tomorrow and report back
Please let me know, my battery lasts 8 hours with moderate 3 hours of onscreen time (at best)
For those who suffer this problem check out memnocs perfect battery guide
Btw I'm sorry the link didn't work. As a said take a look at memnocs guide its in dhd development page
The kernel didnt help much, the display usage has gone down but the other things have gone up lol a lot more than I expected. Will try that battery guide now.
lol what do you expect? the display is the biggest battery-eating-monster in our phone. it's completely normal that it drains that much.
fyi: my phone drains ~250-300 mA with display on, lowest brightness level, ~500 with maximum brightness level and 1-8mA in standby.
so: ~500mA/h and we have a 1200mA/h (probably less than that, since Li-Ion batteries lose capacity after some months) battery -> about 2h display on at maximum brightness
its weird because this "problem" occours only with sense rom.
On Cm7 and miui the screen was under 50% of battery usage...
Most non sense roms don't calculate ic correctly.
You can use an app called battery monitor widget to watch your battey drain if you want to.
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Hi All,
Recently switched from an iPhone to HTC One X and I am quite disappointed so far. Does anyone also endure poor battery life with your HTC One X?
I am not running much applications in the background either, if I charge my phone to 100%, I go to bed and wake up its 80% without me even touching the phone... and it hardly lasts me half a day without charging.
Does anyone have any tips to improve battery life? Oh, and my screen brightness is always at 0-25%... thanks for any help!
MrCEOAdam said:
Hi All,
Recently switched from an iPhone to HTC One X and I am quite disappointed so far. Does anyone also endure poor battery life with your HTC One X?
I am not running much applications in the background either, if I charge my phone to 100%, I go to bed and wake up its 80% without me even touching the phone... and it hardly lasts me half a day without charging.
Does anyone have any tips to improve battery life? Oh, and my screen brightness is always at 0-25%... thanks for any help!
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Plz search in One X general....u'll find alot of topics regarding this....search for the one titled battery saving tips...the tips are all the same usually....your phone will improve after multiple charge cycles.....
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There are plenty of threads discussing about battery life, look at few of them to get an idea.
One X battery life is not great, but it should comfortably last a day (around 16 hours or more) with moderate use. But everything depends on what apps you are running and how you the phone. For example if you play graphics intensive 3D games for like 2 or 3hrs then it wont last much more than 4 or 5 hours. Other than processor intensive apps the other biggest battery killer is screen, you can’t get more than 3~4hrs of screen time with One X (but then again 4 hours on the phone is not exactly moderate use either). With normal use i.e: 1~2hrs of screen time for day-to-day tasks (browsing, email, texting etc..) and about 1hr of calls the battery should last 16+ hrs. Standby battery life of One X is fantastic, it hardly drops even more than 5% overnight is left alone. If you notice a 20% drop then there is something wrong. Go to battery usage stats and see which apps are eating up the battery.
MrCEOAdam said:
Hi All,
Recently switched from an iPhone to HTC One X and I am quite disappointed so far. Does anyone also endure poor battery life with your HTC One X?
I am not running much applications in the background either, if I charge my phone to 100%, I go to bed and wake up its 80% without me even touching the phone... and it hardly lasts me half a day without charging.
Does anyone have any tips to improve battery life? Oh, and my screen brightness is always at 0-25%... thanks for any help!
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There is a huge battery thread in this forum, please read through it. However, to start do as below:
Your overnight behavior is not normal. One X uses a 5th core and barely uses any battery while asleep. Usually with auto sync on I consume 2% overnight (usually 8 hours).
Install CPU spy and Better Battery stats. With CPU spy reset the counter before going to sleep and check the sleep % in the morning, it should be above 90% at 0 mhz. Check if it has several minutes at high mhz (800 to 1200 mhz).
With better battery stats go to other in menu and set custom ref before going to sleep. Check in the morning both kernel wakelocks and partial wakelocks. Check if there are any apps generating the most wakelocks . You could have some of the following consuming your battery overnight (I had all of these):
- weak wifi or data signal generates a lot of kernel wakelocks as the phone is constantly scanning for signal.
- some weather widgets have generated me constant wakelocks
- Facebook, Currents, Flipboard all of those constantly update and consume battery.
Also if your HOX is new at first battery life sucks. Believe me it will get way better after a couple of weeks.
try installing ther latest firmware (2.17). if you cant install then search install this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1546970
works like a charm for me and helps the battery to last longer!
MrCEOAdam said:
Hi All,
Recently switched from an iPhone to HTC One X and I am quite disappointed so far. Does anyone also endure poor battery life with your HTC One X?
I am not running much applications in the background either, if I charge my phone to 100%, I go to bed and wake up its 80% without me even touching the phone... and it hardly lasts me half a day without charging.
Does anyone have any tips to improve battery life? Oh, and my screen brightness is always at 0-25%... thanks for any help!
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yup .. im having the same problem ... and i tried the tips concerning this, not really useful ...
unlucky us -_-
I just acquired a Xperia S one week ago, and then i realized that battery is very poor. with full charging it got three hours of use to hit 15%, during these three hours the phone was in flying/airplane mode. The first two hours i used memedroid with wi-fi and opera mobile navigation and downloads, the last hour i played temple run 2. Its normal such battery life? before this phone i had a lg p990 which i considered very very poor the battery life, but the xperia s just broke the record. sorry for bad english, i'm brazilian '-'
my average battery usage is about 9 hours, usually unplug from charger about around 7am, around 4pm battery empty.
Androids aren't popular for battery life. But it can be increased by doing several customizations since Androids are meant for customizations.
So before complaining please check the battery life related threads in General sections. You'd find many tweaks and tips from other users.
Hello Jr, i´m BR too. Write in english ...bad english....rs
My battery life in LT26i is 12h with all things "on": BT, GPS, 3G and WIFI. I install PAC ROM V19 , but when i have Stock ROM my battery life is the same with updated system. Maybe your phone have any problem and you can change if have NF and between 7 days of purchase. You see the "battery stats" in "Setting" to see how apks drain battery ?
Hello m8 .
There are several ways to check if your battery is OK (but I think it should be, as Android device with HD screen just eat battery)
First of all, we can check if you battery health is good. To do that, in phone dialer enter this code: *#*#7378423#*#* (it's same as: *#*#SERVICE#*#*). There enter to "Service tests" > Battery Health Test. In my phone it looks like in photo in attachment. Don't worry if value in "Actual Batt(uAh)" is lower than 1750mAh. When you use your phone correctly, I can be around 1650~, too, but after fully charging this "counter" sometimes reset. More important thing is information, that health is good, and battery is no need to be replaced.
If this part is correct, now enter Settings > Battery. Here you can find information what consume your battery in pertencage of currently "eaten" % battery (example: You have 80% battery remaining, so you've lost 20%. There's information, that "Screen" or anything else eat 60% of battery. It means, that in these 20% of current lost battery -> It has been lost for screen).
Most discharging things in our phone are:
Screen - try to turn off Mobile Bravia Engine if not used (not watching movies), and decrease brightness.
WiFi & Data Transfer - If not used, turn off your WiFi.
Hope this helps
Also remember that the first charges are smaller.
Hopefully I'm helping an not hindering...so here we go.
I ran AnTuTu tester on my Sony XPERIA S 1750mAh battery which is reported to be in good health.
Now I'm not sure how much faith I place in this application as it didn't list my CPU usage, where on my XPERIA X10i it did.
My XPERIA S is rooted and using RaymanFX' ELiTE kernel with GPU and CPU over-clocked.
I started the test with my battery fully charged.
I got a battery life from 100% to 19% of 1hr and 50min using a 1750mAh battery on a dual-core CPU clocked at 1566MHz.
Yes, I know, that scared me too.
The same test on my Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10i returned the following.
I got a battery life from 100% to 19% of 3hr and 17min using a 1800mAh battery on a single-core CPU clocked at 1113MHz.
Now this may not be as bad as things look as we have two CPUs ripping into a battery compared to 1 CPU so there may be pause for reflect and thought on this battery usage in this case.
So, long story short, if you run the same test at 1.5GHz (stock ROM) and you get a battery life of approx 1hr and 50mins (or more) using the AnTuTu Tester your battery should be able to give you a days usage in moderation.
This is not exactly science, but it may give some indication if your XPERIA S(LT26i) 1750mAh battery is operating in a 'normal' threshold.
Odp: [Q] Xperia S battery life very poor, its normal?
So that's why I bought external battery for phones from Sony, CP-EL. 2000mAh.
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ThaweK said:
So that's why I bought external battery for phones from Sony, CP-EL. 2000mAh.
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but this 2000mAh has a higher size compared to the stock 1750 battery, anyway, it works fine?
ThaweK said:
Hello m8 .
There are several ways to check if your battery is OK (but I think it should be, as Android device with HD screen just eat battery)
First of all, we can check if you battery health is good. To do that, in phone dialer enter this code: *#*#7378423#*#* (it's same as: *#*#SERVICE#*#*). There enter to "Service tests" > Battery Health Test. In my phone it looks like in photo in attachment. Don't worry if value in "Actual Batt(uAh)" is lower than 1750mAh. When you use your phone correctly, I can be around 1650~, too, but after fully charging this "counter" sometimes reset. More important thing is information, that health is good, and battery is no need to be replaced.
If this part is correct, now enter Settings > Battery. Here you can find information what consume your battery in pertencage of currently "eaten" % battery (example: You have 80% battery remaining, so you've lost 20%. There's information, that "Screen" or anything else eat 60% of battery. It means, that in these 20% of current lost battery -> It has been lost for screen).
Most discharging things in our phone are:
Screen - try to turn off Mobile Bravia Engine if not used (not watching movies), and decrease brightness.
WiFi & Data Transfer - If not used, turn off your WiFi.
Hope this helps
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Since i bought my phone the mobile bravia engine is turned on.... i did the test and the battery health is good, i will try to close apps and decrease the brightness, and see if a get a decent battery life. I use only wifi, no data transfer, and 2G connection. If i cant get success i will wait for sony's JB update.
The guy who posted the benchmark up there should be reminded that you're using a dual core in Xperia S plus each core is built on 45nm technology which means that the newer snapdragon phones are likely to be more battery conservative than the one used in xperia s because it produced around double the heat...
I changed my omnia II ([email protected]) to xperia s and I was shocked with its battery. now I got used to charging it twice a day with really heavy use or once for two days with normal use.
> Go for a ROM with minimum size and least applications. This lighter ROM saves battery by eliminating the junk running in the stock's background. Less CPU usage = Less battery drain
> Reduce the brightness to save power since the 4.3" 720p is a battery hog.
> You can also try switching on 3G and Wireless only when required.
But don't be worried (if you were), almost all androids suck at battery timing.
I relocked my bootloader and installed the original firmware and now android system is using up 66%.. though it still lasts 14 to 15 hours with average use, it can be much more, but i've no idea what the problem is.
BBS says "AlarmManager", but since I don't have root anymore I can't figure out which process/app is getting all these partial wakelocks :crying:
GabrielBezerra said:
but this 2000mAh has a higher size compared to the stock 1750 battery, anyway, it works fine?
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It's an external battery. Imagine it as you were charging your phone out of your notebook's battery. It is way bigger, so it uses just a part of it.
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Felimenta97 said:
It's an external battery. Imagine it as you were charging your phone out of your notebook's battery. It is way bigger, so it uses just a part of it.
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Yup. However, if you're using your phone normally during charging it will use full 2000mAh and there still won't be full but ex. You can watch about two full movies more for ex. during trip
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Hey all.
I have my LG Opt. G Pro E986 on Stock Firmware. It's rooted and has this Kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2363330.
Overall I'm ok with my battery life, around 2 days of usage with 6 hours screen-on time. Standby time is very good.
My problem is the following:
If my phone is around 30% battery it starts to drain a lot. I don't even have to use it and it's empty within 3-4 hours. The power consumption at this point is immense and i can't figure out why, there is nothing I am doing different than normal use. I even try to use it as less as possible at this battery level, but it just keeps going down.
I have Quad-Core management always on, power saving mode always off. I also do not have any other power saving applications or settings running.
Processor is on stock clockspeed, Voltage is on stock too, no Cores are disabled.
I searched for draining apps via Battery Stats Plus but did not found anything.
Useless Tasks/Processes etc. are disabled via App Quarantine.
I have this problem for a long time and now decided to ask for help.
Does anyone have the same problem? Can someone help my fix this issue?
Thanks a lot.
I see it too on stock battery but not on the zerolemon 3150 mah battery...it seems related to the way the phone measures battery %ge for the stock battery I guess
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Well ok, if this is the case is there any way to fix it without buying a new battery?
I ordered one with 3800 mAh, but it was crap and didn't even last half as long as the original one, so i wasn't able to compare them regarding my problem.