Android OS Bug - READ THIS BEFORE YOU ASK ANYONE ABOUT FIXES - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

The linked thread below is the definitive discussion on the Android OS bug. Please read the OP thoroughly before you ask whether ROM's or kernels fix the AOS bug. Bottom line, there is no fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290020

odub303 said:
The linked thread below is the definitive discussion on the Android OS bug. Please read the OP thoroughly before you ask whether ROM's or kernels fix the AOS bug. Bottom line, there is no fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290020
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Absolutely a very informative read. I saw this myself last night. Thanks for posting a link odub. There is a lot of good information included.
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JohnCorleone said:
Absolutely a very informative read. I saw this myself last night. Thanks for posting a link odub. There is a lot of good information included.
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I pm'd the OP to see if he minds if I copy the main content into this thread.

It definitely made sense to me. I mean if I charge my phone to full before I go to sleep and I have my 2 email accounts set to sync at maximum which I believe is 1 hour on stock email app then my Android OS is always going to be at the top until I actually start using the phone and if you are really using your phone then screen is always at the top of usage and if it was such a major battery drainer then when I woke up and my Android OS was at like 60% then I don't think my battery would look like this...
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It definitely made sense to me. I mean if I charge my phone to full before I go to sleep and I have my 2 email accounts set to sync at maximum which I believe is 1 hour on stock email app then my Android OS is always going to be at the top until I actually start using the phone and if you are really using your phone then screen is always at the top of usage and if it was such a major battery drainer then when I woke up and my Android OS was at like 60% then I don't think my battery would look like this...
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So are you in agreeance there is no bug and the percentages show just the way it should?
I do not believe there is a bug but people will argue there is so it is almost a waste of breath...If you click on Android OS you can actually see how much activity is uses. I am also waiting for someone to post a pic that has a high on screen time but still has a high percentage of Android OS.

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So are you in agreeance there is no bug and the percentages show just the way it should?
I do not believe there is a bug but people will argue there is so it is almost a waste of breath...If you click on Android OS you can actually see how much activity is uses. I am also waiting for someone to post a pic that has a high on screen time but still has a high percentage of Android OS.
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Well, if its a bug (which it is acknowledged as and without a real fix) then its not something that's dinging my battery in any major way that's for sure. Edit..once I debloated my phone and got rid of the apps that run on their own, everything has been great here
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I have been running Calks Rom 1.5a with Overstews ICS Theme. With this Rom and the Kernel that came with the Rom, I believe the kernel was the Rogue Kernel, I was having only 2% dedicated to the AOS. Two weeks ago I flashed the EG31 modem, which I feel I jumped the gun on that, but was still only running 2% for AOS. I flashed the EK02 kernel today and my AOS has been sitting at 14% and I really dont see any improvement in signal strength. Compared to some of the speed test I have seen in some of the forums, my data speeds seem really slow in comparison. Does anyone know if the jump from 2% to the 14% AOS I'm having will make that big of a difference in battery life? With my previous setup, I was able to run on a full charge for about 2 and a half days with moderate use.

I believe (and I may be wrong) that it was masked in the kernel more than it was an actual fix. Really your best bet is to re-calibrate your battery and give it a few battery cycles/days to settle in and then compare your results to previous setup
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I believe (and I may be wrong) that it was masked in the kernel more than it was an actual fix. Really your best bet is to re-calibrate your battery and give it a few battery cycles/days to settle in and then compare your results to previous setup
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Any kernel patched up to .14 reports usage in a way that results in dramatically reduced usage attributed to AOS. Personally, even with the bug, the device is superb in the battery life department. If the ever truly quash this bug, it will leap to ridiculous.
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odub303 said:
Any kernel patched up to .14 reports usage in a way that results in dramatically reduced usage attributed to AOS. Personally, even with the bug, the device is superb in the battery life department. If the ever truly quash this bug, it will leap to ridiculous.
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I agree 110%. If your phone is set up right, you will have great battery life right now. If it gets solved...wow! We will be in for a real treat. Is there anybody checking this our on 2.3.6 or is it the same?
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Any more info on this?

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I agree 110%. If your phone is set up right, you will have great battery life right now. If it gets solved...wow! We will be in for a real treat. Is there anybody checking this our on 2.3.6 or is it the same?
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Same android OS bug on 2.3.6 that I had on 2.3.4, draining around 5% an hour with very light use, and I've already wiped and reloaded apps one by one

apparently this bug is still present in android 4.0
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bbedward said:
apparently this bug is still present in android 4.0
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Why am I not surprised? Lol. Well, I am happy with my battery life. I tend to just look past it when I check battery info
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[REQ][ROM][ICS 4.0.3] ::DARKSIDE.EVOLUTION.3:: [v1][UVLE1 Battery Tweek

Hey guys i was wondering if the battery on this rom could be tweeked [ROM][ICS 4.0.3] :ARKSIDE.EVOLUTION.3:: [v1][UVLE1][WiFi CALLING][6.12.2012]...ive noticed that the battery tweak on the DArkside Ucle2 Has IMPROVED ALOT!! was wondering if anyone can relay this request to TDJ? Due to my limitation of post i am unable to post anything on his thread...Thx
No it just sucks at battery life. I went from a full battery to 30% in under 6 hours with only 1.5 hours of screen time vs the 16+, 3 hour+ screen on time with the att base. Ucle2 is much better with battery life until some kernel adjustments are made. No battery tweaks though. I suspect the radio or kernel and since you cant do anything about the latter, try flashing different radios. Try the modified LDE radio. Its the one I used to eat sweet ass battery life with ucle2. Report back with your findings. I had a few issues with the new tmo release so I didn't even bother to try it. I had flashed the lc8 radio with the tmo release.
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Yeah I heard the Telus is way better on battery life. For right now I'm sticking with UCLE2 beta 7 with the Telus radio. I been getting 17 hours average on heavy use and I'm happy with it for the time being. My suggestion if you are going to use the Tmo release, try Telus radio...calibrate battery and set all apps to manual sync, so they are not running trying to sync airpush info.
Edit: almost forgot, try to keep your screen low as you can get it. Auto is a waste of battery
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Yeah I heard the Telus is way better on battery life. For right now I'm sticking with UCLE2 beta 7 with the Telus radio. I been getting 17 hours average on heavy use and I'm happy with it for the time being. My suggestion if you are going to use the Tmo release, try Telus radio...calibrate battery and set all apps to manual sync, so they are not running trying to sync airpush info.
Edit: almost forgot, try to keep your screen low as you can get it. Auto is a waste of battery
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I get the same as you except I don't turn off background data and my screen is 50%-100% all the time
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Hey, what battery tweak for the UCLE2 base are you talking about? Tried searching the forum but can't find what you're referring to.
Seriously everyone! It just got released. Give it time.
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Seriously everyone! It just got released. Give it time.
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I get that it just released etc. Its just that for me the initial performance and battery life has been worse than every ics build I've flashed. Even when when the bases were initially released like this one. I have no issue staying on evo 7.1. It runs flawlessly. It'd just be nice to join the other users having a great experience with it instead I get a broken rom with crap battery life. And before anytime says "its too early let it settle in idiot!"
I flashed back to evolution 7.1 ucle2 earlier. From a full charge on its initial drain I'm at 63%, 11 hours, 2.5 hours of screen on time. Certainly beats the 6 hours and 1.5 hours of screen on time for the tmo release on its initial run don't it?
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I get that it just released etc. Its just that for me the initial performance and battery life has been worse than every ics build I've flashed. Even when when the bases were initially released like this one. I have no issue staying on evo 7.1. It runs flawlessly. It'd just be nice to join the other users having a great experience with it instead I get a broken rom with crap battery life. And before anytime says "its too early let it settle in idiot!"
I flashed back to evolution 7.1 ucle2 earlier. From a full charge on its initial drain I'm at 63%, 11 hours, 2.5 hours of screen on time. Certainly beats the 6 hours and 1.5 hours of screen on time for the tmo release on its initial run don't it?
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Hey I'm all for what works for you but the overall feedback from other users as well as myself running my second battery purge just isn't consistent. Anyways I'm not going to debate what sucks and what doesn't suck. I'm only asking everyone to chill out with the slander on peoples work. I mean Mr X and TDJ are rolling with things but dammmmmm, the overall @ss woopin they are taking is ridiculous.
Oh no!! I hope I'm speaking for others as myself but I in no way blame the devs. I'm flaming T-Mobile for this release not them lol for god sakes these guys are our saviors from a ****ty phone experience. As someone stated before. It'd just be nice for one of these multi billion dollar companies to release a fully working rom for once. Instead of enhancing experience like the devs want they spend it fixing the crap churned out by these companies. I've owned my share of android phones and can't think of one release that went smoothly for everyone as a whole.
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Bad Battery Life in Jellybean

I'm running the Paranoid Android Jellybean ROM and I've been getting really bad battery life. It dropped from 100 to 79 in 2 hours yesterday with 4g on and no usage. Last night "media" was killing my battery but now nothing really appears out of the ordinary. I attached some pictures below. Thanks
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this is because we do not have a source kernel once we do battery will get batter
Worst battery life I've ever had and i get no GPS.... i flashed backed to Re-calikun 4.0.4 Rom :laugh:
Most users have pretty bad battery. We need either a kick ass script (placebo ) or source to increase potential
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Have you tried the latest CM10 nightly? I get amazing batterylife on it.
Have you considered the idea that maybe somethings keeping your phone from sleeping?
I think its weird how most jb roms I've run, ALL seem to charge really quick. Maybe that's part of the reason? I obviously have no expertise in this, just seems probable?
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I'm running the Paranoid Android Jellybean ROM and I've been getting really bad battery life. It dropped from 100 to 79 in 2 hours yesterday with 4g on and no usage. Last night "media" was killing my battery but now nothing really appears out of the ordinary. I attached some pictures below. Thanks
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Yes, battery life is bad now but slowly improving.. I've posted several methods to help the bleeding battery issue... Keeping 4G up (If not using it) will make your battery disappear faster then a cupcake at a jenny craig convention. So here's some helpful things to make it a little bareable..
Juice defender- Use this app to manage data. I've got mine set Data off with screen off. It'll automatically kick it on when you put the screen on.
Notifications- Turn off Notification light, Limit notifications from App sycn (Facebook and such)
Sync times- Add a longer duration between syncs. do you need email to check every 15 min? It can be set to every 6 hours, ever 12 hours, or everyday, open app to sync at that moment. (not saying this is how your's is set)
Screen brightness- Turn off Auto bright, Set to a level where you can see it.
GTalk- This is an auto sign in program, Turn off, sign out.. disable whatever you prefer to do with this.
Screen time out- 15 Secs (or so) if your not using it.. it'll go off and save battery. (Works well with the dimness being lower)
Try these methods.. Your life will improve some.. (as always YMMV)
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this is because we do not have a source kernel once we do battery will get batter
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Sbrissen's kernel is built from source....
thewadegeek said:
Sbrissen's kernel is built from source....
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Umm.. did samsung release source only to him?
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I was getting terrible battery life until I replaced my battery with a new one. The old battery was bloated and I was able to spin it around on a flat surface. I only spent $13 for a new one
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31936573
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Omar04 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31936573
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Agree with u there Omar, things i listed earlier will ease the drain a little. But as you stated, till kernel is set (which we know the devs are hard at work on, between their real lives, familes, jobs) it'll get nailed down. Thanks!
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BluesRulez said:
Umm.. did samsung release source only to him?
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Nice smart ass response that truly shows your level of ignorance. The kernel used in both cm10 and aosp jb is built from source, both the Samsung released ff18 kernel source and open source bits to patch up the kernel to support jb. You fail at reading.
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odub303 said:
Nice smart ass response that truly shows your level of ignorance. The kernel used in both cm10 and aosp jb is built from source, both the Samsung released ff18 kernel source and open source bits to patch up the kernel to support jb. You fail at reading.
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Read what the other guy said, don't think she/he was trying to be to much of a smartass. This what gets some of the noobs and other folks confused and asking about other kernels yea its built from source as you explained but its a different source other then the jb source that Samsung would to release. There's lots of confusing leading to the word built from source and have some folks thinking maybe its jb source which we haven't gotten yet and maybe that's why they wonder why the bad battery and start to asking about other kernels.
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The point is its not JB source for our phone. If we had a JB kernel source, we'd see a lot more kernels than just his. It takes a certain amount of skill to take ICS source and make it work with another OS version, and it takes time to work out all the issues.
I've run just about all the JB ROMs to date, but had to finally give in and go back to ICS for my daily because JB battery life just couldn't get me through the day with my normal usage pattern. It'll get there though. Just give it time.
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odub303 said:
Nice smart ass response that truly shows your level of ignorance. The kernel used in both cm10 and aosp jb is built from source, both the Samsung released ff18 kernel source and open source bits to patch up the kernel to support jb. You fail at reading.
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Just wow.
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Have you guys tweaked the Performance tab of the phone? I've noticed better battery performance if I set my CPU freq to be 200-800 and the governor to be PegasusQ. Performance of the phone is still the same, but drain has been slower. You can also download Internet Commander from the market that will control your data radio, but it kinda sucks for streaming apps (Pandora).
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Just wow.
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Exactly!
"Samsung released ff18 kernel source and open source bits to patch up the kernel to support jb."
That is not considered "Samsung source"- I don't care how you slice it. That is Samsung ICS Source and patches from our Dev's to make JB work- not from Samsung. Besides that... your rude.
Jb battery life has been fine for me. I get about 2-2:30 hrs screen on time which typically includes playing music for about an hour each day, wifi or 3g on 24/7, along with 10-60 texts and a few quick phone calls. It's not as good as gingerbread but I would say it is better than early ics leaks, and maybe even better than ff18. As always ymmv. :good: BTW I'm running codename android with everything stock.
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Exactly!
"Samsung released ff18 kernel source and open source bits to patch up the kernel to support jb."
That is not considered "Samsung source"- I don't care how you slice it. That is Samsung ICS Source and patches from our Dev's to make JB work- not from Samsung. Besides that... your rude.
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Perhaps you weren't aware, but "Samsung source" has sucked and sucks in the ff18 source release. It's incomplete, it doesn't boot if built as intended, and requires changes just to compile properly. Try actually learning and educating yourself instead of making lame arguments like this one.
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4.1.2 improved battery life

After receiving the 4.1.2 OTA update, I'm getting a much better battery life.
It used to be dead at the end of the day. Now, I finish my day and the battrey is on 45% with the same phone use.
I also find that apps and mostly google apps do launch faster
Have you also noticed it?
CM10 "added" 4.1.2 into the compilation recently & I've noticed a difference too... :victory:
Can you give us some screenshots of the screen time?
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Only with data all the day i got 3.30h and 19h on, automatic brightness, sync on. Google stock 4.1.2
4.1.2 appears to have a big affect on battery life. I've gone from needing a charge after about 12 hours to going all day with charge left
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When 4.1.1 was released, people reported that Google Now was a battery hog. Maybe Google improved it drastically.
Those who experience better battery life with 4.1.2, do you have Google Now activated?
MoosDiagramm said:
When 4.1.1 was released, people reported that Google Now was a battery hog. Maybe Google improved it drastically.
Those who experience better battery life with 4.1.2, do you have Google Now activated?
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To add on to this. I'm noticing FAR fewer wakeups (alarms) caused by Maps services on 4.1.2. That has an impact regardless of whether or not Google Now is running.
They definitely made some changes to location based services considering the menus were modified and additional settings were added.
Using a custom ROM and kernel so I can't answer this. But my battery life using CM10 + Franco Kernel has definitely improved.
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Using a custom ROM and kernel so I can't answer this. But my battery life using CM10 + Franco Kernel has definitely improved.
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Flash stock and it will be better.
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I logged in hoping someone had made a topic about this. On 4.1.1 I did not use Google Now because of the effect on battery life it caused. I tried it on 4.1.2 hoping it had improved. In my opinion it did. Still need more days to test but it seems way better now. Even saying that, I still feel it takes too much of a hit on battery for me to continue using it.
Just my 2 cents.
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Flash stock and it will be better.
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Umm, it absolutely wouldn't be better at all.
Rooting and using custom ROMs have it benefits and my battery life wouldn't be to where it is now (at least not as long) if i was on stock.
Stock is too boring for me. I need my lock screen customizations and backups
It doesn't take away root capabilities right?
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I logged in hoping someone had made a topic about this. On 4.1.1 I did not use Google Now because of the effect on battery life it caused. I tried it on 4.1.2 hoping it had improved. In my opinion it did. Still need more days to test but it seems way better now. Even saying that, I still feel it takes too much of a hit on battery for me to continue using it.
Just my 2 cents.
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I use it while traveling. A lot of the functions are designed to help you familiarize yourself with the area.
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I use it while traveling. A lot of the functions are designed to help you familiarize yourself with the area.
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Absolutely. I don't travel much so its not as useful for me.
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The 4.1.2 custom ROMs have done me better overall than the 4.1.1 ROMs.
I haven't noticed much of any difference one way or another.
So the latest cm10 nightlies contain 4.1.2??
It seems the battery life claims are pretty circumstantial. I wish there was a standardized test for this..
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Cm10 nightlies are cm10.
And battery is much much better.
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I never let any Rom to settle down(for more than 2 days) to comment on battery life, but i hope the thread is pointing to facts
So now in Stock will report back after 2 charge cycles at least
The map process is eating my battery to. I reserve testet it yesterday (nandroid of 4.1.1 back) no problem and then again OTA to 4.1.2. Anyone out there a possible resolution ? Had 2-3 days with my battery, now maybe one day.
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It doesn't take away root capabilities right?
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If you use some sort of Recovery like CWM it does not. CWM will ask you if you want keep recovery and/or root.

Battery life on Slim Bean 3.1.0

I'm still too laconic on XDA forums to post this in response to gmillz' SlimBean 3.1.0 ROM posting in Android Development, so here it is.
I'm getting the attached battery life after one day, one full power cycle on my new 1850mAh battery and fresh installation of the above referenced ROM. I'm running noop I/O and ondemand governor with the stock kernel built into SlimBean. I'm also running the screen on minimum brightness (not automatic). What else provides some useful background?
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you are good . i have 70% lost in 4 hours
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you are good . i have 70% lost in 4 hours
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heavy heavy use I hope! lol
roperp said:
I'm still too laconic on XDA forums to post this in response to gmillz' SlimBean 3.1.0 ROM posting in Android Development, so here it is.
I'm getting the attached battery life after one day, one full power cycle on my new 1850mAh battery and fresh installation of the above referenced ROM. I'm running noop I/O and ondemand governor with the stock kernel built into SlimBean. I'm also running the screen on minimum brightness (not automatic). What else provides some useful background?
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Here's my battery today on slim bean...I love this ROM
Since my phone "lost" my IMEi (actually, it was just not able to read it anymore), I flashed back to Stock Samsung 4.0.4. Before, I used SB 3.0.
And I can also report that battery life is much better now. Perfect example is a night in flight mode, which results in about 1% loss vs 6% loss @ SB.
As there are several guys I talked to which have perfect battery life with this ROM and I also had till 2.8 or so, there must be some misconfiguration. Or a battery draining app.
Where did you get the download for 3.1.0? I've checked there site and they only have 3.0 for the T989.
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Where did you get the download for 3.1.0? I've checked there site and they only have 3.0 for the T989.
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It's not offcially out yet. Download onlychevys 3.1 build.
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Where did you get the download for 3.1.0? I've checked there site and they only have 3.0 for the T989.
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I've been running this ROM for the good half part of this day, and I must say, the battery is not as good as I hoped. Maybe I'll have to let it settle in, but CM so far beats this in terms of battery life.
I agree with the comment about stock being better than SB 3.0 and onlychevy's 3.1. It is a downer to realize most custom roms don't actually optimize for better battery life. I test the battery life by playing 5 minutes of youtube on 3g only to see how much is drained. On SB, 1% is drained for every 2 minutes of playback, and 3 minutes on stock.

[Q] Questions about kernels

I'm new to Android. I made a few posts on here making that abundantly clear (lol). I am just wondering, what exact part of the OS is the kernel? For example, I'm using LiquidSmooth with the default kernel that was included with that. If I were to flash the ktoonsez kernel, what changes would I see? Also, could someone point me to a site where I can download the KT kernel for LiquidSmooth 4.2.1 JellyBean Beta 2? What other kernels are there? What are the advantages of using them? And finally, where can I find them?
I'm looking for a way to conserve battery life right now, but not take away from how my phone currently looks. Sorry for asking such a stupid set of questions, but I'd like to know about this since I plan on sticking with Android. And if that's the case, I wanna learn all about the neat things I can do to make my phone customized, sleek looking, and effective.
Thanks in advance for helping out this new comer to the Android scene
The kernel is the interface between the devices software and hardware. Its basically a bundle of drivers and code to tell the hardware and software how to communicate. All computers use a kernel from windoze to OSux and Linux. Android is based around a modified version of the Linux kernel. You won't see any visual changes when you flash a kernel. And you can find em here in the development or original development sub forums
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Cool thanks for the detailed explanation. I never really took the time to look up the exact purpose of kernels in an OS but you just explained it to me perfectly.
So, are there any kernels that are better for say battery conservation and performance?
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That all depends on your settings and usage. Theres no one way to get the best battery and performance for your usage, mostly just trial and error trying out different settings and tweaks til you find what works for you. For a good battery performance balance undervolting and overclocking work well. For instance I'm on a note 2 and im overclocked to 1.8ghz and undervolted by 75mv across the board and get almost identical battery to stock, however I still gain in performance without sacrificing battery. Now if I drop my clock rate back to stock and keep the undervolting I get same performance as on stock but my battery life increases by a few hours.
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davelikestacos said:
I'm new to Android. I made a few posts on here making that abundantly clear (lol). I am just wondering, what exact part of the OS is the kernel? For example, I'm using LiquidSmooth with the default kernel that was included with that. If I were to flash the ktoonsez kernel, what changes would I see? Also, could someone point me to a site where I can download the KT kernel for LiquidSmooth 4.2.1 JellyBean Beta 2? What other kernels are there? What are the advantages of using them? And finally, where can I find them?
I'm looking for a way to conserve battery life right now, but not take away from how my phone currently looks. Sorry for asking such a stupid set of questions, but I'd like to know about this since I plan on sticking with Android. And if that's the case, I wanna learn all about the neat things I can do to make my phone customized, sleek looking, and effective.
Thanks in advance for helping out this new comer to the Android scene
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Check out the how to thread in general. Should be right up at the top... Great battery and great performance on the ktoonsz kernel with lots of different options! If I knew how to copy and paste the link from the stupid xda app, I would!
Edit: I am an idiot...here ya go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35101228
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adamdelozier said:
Check out the how to thread in general. Should be right up at the top... Great battery and great performance on the ktoonsz kernel with lots of different options! If I knew how to copy and paste the link from the stupid xda app, I would!
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Long press the thread and click copy url :thumbup:
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
Long press the thread and click copy url :thumbup:
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As edited above...I am an idiot! Haha
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Heres a battery life thread too http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1830157
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Here are some current stats using assorted tweaks from that thread. My screen shot app is horrible... Sorry for the sideways pic.
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adamdelozier said:
Here are some current stats using assorted tweaks from that thread. My screen shot app is horrible... Sorry for the sideways pic.
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I can't seem to see your thumbnail. Do I have to enable an option in the settings to view thumbnails?
And thanks for all the replies guys, I appreciate the input
davelikestacos said:
I can't seem to see your thumbnail. Do I have to enable an option in the settings to view thumbnails?
And thanks for all the replies guys, I appreciate the input
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Not that I know of...total batt time 1 day 10 hours. Screen on time 3 hours 45 minutes with about 15% left.
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1 day and 10 hours?! Wow! I'm lucky if I get 8-9 hours. I am going to start disabling WiFi when I am walking around though. I just flashed over to the KT kernel and I am going to try optimizing my settings with the ones that were in that Kernelizers thread.
davelikestacos said:
1 day and 10 hours?! Wow! I'm lucky if I get 8-9 hours. I am going to start disabling WiFi when I am walking around though. I just flashed over to the KT kernel and I am going to try optimizing my settings with the ones that were in that Kernelizers thread.
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Check out DS Battery Saver Pro. Handles WiFi disabling for you...less bloat than Juice defender. Screen filter helps with screen brightness...and I am undervolted pretty good too. Good luck! I am now at 1d 12 hr. 4:44 screen on. 2% batt left!
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adamdelozier said:
Check out DS Battery Saver Pro. Handles WiFi disabling for you...less bloat than Juice defender. Screen filter helps with screen brightness...and I am undervolted pretty good too. Good luck! I am now at 1d 12 hr. 4:44 screen on. 2% batt left!
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Awesome, installed the KT kernel and used the settings listed in the Kernelizers thread. I also installed DS Battery Saver Pro and now my battery life is amazing. Left my house at 7:05AM this morning and on my way to work over the course of the hour my battery dropped 3%. Usually, my battery would drop 10% - 15% during this time so I am VERY happy with the outcome.
Thanks for all the help guys
davelikestacos said:
Awesome, installed the KT kernel and used the settings listed in the Kernelizers thread. I also installed DS Battery Saver Pro and now my battery life is amazing. Left my house at 7:05AM this morning and on my way to work over the course of the hour my battery dropped 3%. Usually, my battery would drop 10% - 15% during this time so I am VERY happy with the outcome.
Thanks for all the help guys
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Glad it worked out! Did you undervolt yet...more battery savings there too...and very little drop in performance.
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