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Getting Better Awake Battery Time?

Sup guys. I no doubt get great battery life. Check out my screenshots below. 13 hours with 67% remaining. Thats pretty good. But if you look at my awake and up time youll see ive only have 8 hours awake, with 48 hours of up time. What this means ( for those that dont know ) is my phone hasnt bern rebooted for 48 hours (up time), in those 48 hours, my screen has been on ( ive been doing something on the phone) for 8 hours (awake time). Now on this charge im showing you. I probably only have about 2-3 of those awake hours . As you can see I.bareley used the phone. 40% on call standby u know. Im running netarchy 4.2.1 CFS HAVS More Aggresive Smartass. Which is an awesome kernel. Phone is faster than ever and battery does not drain much while sitting in my pocket. Now what I want is a kernel that will give me 6-7 hours of awake time in one charge period with around fifty percent battery left. Am I dreaming ?? Oh yeah and phone doesnt have to be superfast, just be workable ( basically not frustrating). Any suggestions??
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lol what kernal u using?

Check first post..netarchy 4.2.1 CFS HAVS More Agg. Smartass
Evo - Myn 2.2 RLS 3 - Clockwork - HBoot .76

That's about my average. I don't think realistically we can get better than that. I use my phone a good bit. I'm a photojournalist so I'm using the camera/calls/email quite a bit during a normal day. If you make it through a normal day, you are fine. Why fix something that's not broken? Actually, while typing this I realized you said you had 60% left. That's actually a lot better than me. Discribe your usage for me. I can only get about 4 hours of awake time with about 15-16 up before the phone is dead. You however would get about 6 or 7. Jealous.

notasimpleway said:
That's about my average. I don't think realistically we can get better than that. I use my phone a good bit. I'm a photojournalist so I'm using the camera/calls/email quite a bit during a normal day. If you make it through a normal day, you are fine. Why fix something that's not broken? Actually, while typing this I realized you said you had 60% left. That's actually a lot better than me. Discribe your usage for me. I can only get about 4 hours of awake time with about 15-16 up before the phone is dead. You however would get about 6 or 7. Jealous.
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Your rite on with my average. I said I had about 2 hours of awake time in one charge with 13 hours since tooken of the charger with 60% left. So yeah in 4 hours of awake I would probably be almost dead too.
Evo - Myn 2.2 RLS 3 - Clockwork - HBoot .76

Best battery for DHD?

Hi there.
In currently running stock battery and struggle to get like 7 hours moderate use
What's the best battery on the market in the Uk which isn't too expensive
Cheers
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The stock battery is the best out there. The other ones who claim to have more mah are just fake mah's.
You just can't put more mah's in the same size!
How old is your battery?, I bought a new one last week and I am now on 8 hours, with 58% juice left!
I'm using Redemption v1.0-Alpha, but also had VQ RC3.

Jeurum_92 said:
The stock battery is the best out there. The other ones who claim to have more mah are just fake mah's.
You just can't put more mah's in the same size!
How old is your battery?, I bought a new one last week and I am now on 8 hours, with 58% juice left!
I'm using Redemption v1.0-Alpha, but also had VQ RC3.
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I've had it for about 5 months bought as refurb and battery has been crap since arrived 1 hour music drains 20% and when screens on 1/2 brightness it's 1% per 30 seconds worst I've had it do was tethering and battery went from 100 to 0 in an hour playing games is about hours
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Hmm, what drains most juice from your battery?
And did you have this also on stock rom?
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Screen which is at 75%-80% usage even at 1/2 brightness
But its the fact that to get any performance on battery life at all out of my phone i have to not use it which is what I don't like about it or i have to have a realy dim screen.
Quick browsing of Facebook and tapatalk can easily drain 10%
Yes I did have it on stock rom but ICS has improved it a tiny bit

Have you tried to reflash the rom?
That may help sometimes. And otherwise try another rom, RC3 gave problems with me so now i use Redemption, works very smooth.

Yeah I have
I might try the calibration trick where you:
Turn your phone on and charge it for 8 hours or more
Unplug the charger
Turn your phone off and charge it for one hour
Unplug the charger
Turn on the phone and wait 2 minutes
Turn your phone off and charge it for one hour
Unplug, turn it on and use as normal. Your battery life should now be a lot better
See if it helps
if not I might try a few different roms
Cheers the replys

I have tried that also, and also whiped my battery stats with my old battery. But it never helped me.
Let us know if it helped you!

Will do
people are reporting that battery pulls at every turn off seem to help
How much do you actually use your phone to get 9 hours at 50% (display on time)?

It doesn't helps you to pulln the battery out. After restart you see about 5/10% more battery, but in a couple of minutes its at the same level before the pull
Well that was not with much use. Mostly on WIFI and sometimes 3g on. Some browsing and twitter/facebook.
Today i had left 3g all time on and used my phone as I alsways do.
Keep in mind this battery is new and has only be fully charged 3 times, so it doesn't have his full capacity.
See attached foto's!

Been on stock battery and ROM for the first year of my DHD, battery life was absolutely horrible.
By the time I got into running custom roms my stock battery no longer held a very good charge. I picked up a couple Andida batteries, they say they are rated for 1800mAh but after running some tests they are just about the same as a new stock battery.
Been running on them for a few months now and I get just over a full day with my usage habits.

acrufox said:
Been on stock battery and ROM for the first year of my DHD, battery life was absolutely horrible.
By the time I got into running custom roms my stock battery no longer held a very good charge. I picked up a couple Andida batteries, they say they are rated for 1800mAh but after running some tests they are just about the same as a new stock battery.
Been running on them for a few months now and I get just over a full day with my usage habits.
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Has the battery life decreased since you first got them? Or do you get the same result as in the beginning?

There's an app called battery calibration in the google play. It shud help with ur battery life problem, it calibrates the battery after every flash of a new rom
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roms also can have a negative impact on battery so make sure that that isnt ur problem

No need fot that app. You can wipe the battery stats with EXT4/ CWM.

Battery life 1st impressions

Does it take awhile for this battery to settle in? It's just been 2.5 hours since my first charge and I'm already down to 90%. All I did was send a few texts and receive a couple of short calls. Can't remember if I experienced this on other phones but after hearing about how great the S3's battery life is, I'm a little disappointed.

I think it's great. It's a lot better than my Epic 4g Touch, that's for sure.
And 10% per 2.5 hours is pretty good IMO.. That's 2.5 * 10 = 25 hours of battery. That's pretty sick lol.
Just remember to turn off wifi/bluetooth when not in use, and turn off LTE if it's not active in your area (so the phone doesn't keep searching for the 4G signal).

Yeah, wait for it to settle. This phone definitely has the best battery out of everything I've owned...and I've had a few phones, believe me lol

How is your signal? Have you been in an area with wifi? Radio signal has been the biggest issue for me...
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Naddict said:
How is your signal? Have you been in an area with wifi? Radio signal has been the biggest issue for me...
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I've been on wifi the whole time.

I sometimes get more than 2 days on a charge. I try not to use phone while charging, causes inefficient charging(supposedly).
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I must be doing something very wrong. I really got horrible battery life in my phone and I only got 4 apps installed: xda, rage of bahamut, Facebook, and power amp. The ones that can be on sync I turn it off. I'm currently running on CM10 but was on stock for about 3 weeks and blazer for about 2 weeks. All with similar battery life. 2 hrs of screen on time with 13 hrs on battery. On my epic touch I could do 5 hrs of screen on with 24hr battery and evo lte 7 hrs of screen on and 18+ on battery. I've already switched batteries so I know its not a defective one. I got no email syncing and brightness is always set on lowest unless I'm outside its at 50%. I will try to post a picture of better battery stats, CPU spy, and see if anyone can help me figure out what I can do to improve it. Really disliking battery life right now and hope it will get better
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I personally just went 26 hours with 3 hours screen on time in CM10. That's way better than my Evo 4G could do, so I'm extremely happy with my battery life by comparison. This phone has been awesome for me.
Edit: That time includes leaving Wifi and mobile data enabled at all times, with data mode set to CDMA/LTE. I also left everything syncing like normal.

Coming from a EVO LTE so far my battery life been unimpressive. Loving the phone, but not digging the battery.
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Not bad for me. Moderate to heavy usage.
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seems much better than my og evo running anthrax

This phone is right on par with my iPhone 4's battery (which is a beast). If you think this battery is underwhelming, you obviously haven't had the original Evo 4G lol
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How To Increase Battery Life ?

my battery drain so fast in 1hour..

you gave us no information, no screenshots or anything. please provide before we can tell you anything.

Zepius said:
you gave us no information, no screenshots or anything. please provide before we can tell you anything.
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sorry for no information & no screenshots or anything...i never thought to take any screenshots.. i only open my mobile network..and its on for 24/7..when screen off yet the battery still drain so fast..

los3rkid91 said:
sorry for no information & no screenshots or anything...i never thought to take any screenshots.. i only open my mobile network..and its on for 24/7..when screen off yet the battery still drain so fast..
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Post a Screenshot of your battery drain in the settings and give details about your setup. And what is fast in your opinion? 1% /hour?
Maybe you should buy the extended battery kit?
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los3rkid91 said:
my battery drain so fast in 1hour..
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try flashing different kernels and see which one suits u the best.every phone is different.u may also wanna underclock and undervolt. also change the rom may b if changing kernel doesnot work.ine suggestion.XenonHD rom with its stock kernel.

The stock battery is a joke at 1800 and the extended is 2100...I had both and both sucked although the 2100 was a lil better. I have the 3800 Seiko battery now and that will last me all day. Makes the phone thicker but its better then charging all day and worrying about what's killing your battery.
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Turn off features when not being used like data NFC GPS.
Also avoid auto task killers

How much does it drain in one hour? Battery drain depends on many factors. The mains ones would be what kernel and ROM you are running as well as what "features" you have turned on. For example I am running CM10.1 with the stock CM kernel and I usually get around 16-18 hours of battery life with 1.5-2 hours of screen time.. that is with all of the features (gps, NFC, etc.) turned OFF.

Refer to my post, partner
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Lunarskye23 said:
The stock battery is a joke at 1800 and the extended is 2100...I had both and both sucked although the 2100 was a lil better. I have the 3800 Seiko battery now and that will last me all day. Makes the phone thicker but its better then charging all day and worrying about what's killing your battery.
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How on earth can you drain a 3800mAh battery in one day? Nonstop internet radio AND 3d gaming on full display brightness?

I am currently using PA rom with franco kernel. Normal day = roughly 13-15 hours ish.
By normal day I mean around 30 minutes of talk time, about 1 hour ish web browsing and like what, 30 minutes ish of youtube? Of course, sometimes I am free and end up playing games on it for couple hours lol, but the stock battery seems to be plenty enough to me.

My battery makes it about 15-17 hours,with about 1 hour gaming,1 hour browsing and talk time around 1,5 hours...Xylon + Purity Kernel!

It is what it is. This is Wi-Fi only on this charge:
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Turn data off when not using it. You can download a widget for that.
Keep screen brightness down low.
If rooted use setcpu and choose a screen off profile of 350mhz maximum - I find this a real benefit.

Battery drains fast for the first 20-25% on Jelly Bean

Hey All,
I hope someone here can help me out. I am on stock rooted JB and the batter drains extremely fast for the first 20%. In about an hour I am down to about 75-80% left. Then it slows down. Also when I unplug the charger the battery immediately looses 5%. I might have to go back to Ginger Bread because this update is so buggy.

I m having the same issue.
Was having 2-days battery life with ICS.
Update to JB with new TMobile radio. Battery lift drop so fast. Only for 1-day. Same usage. Now back to ICS. Still cant get 2-days battery life. Any one has the same problem?
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I switched back to Ginger bread. JB has nice features but its too buggy and everything crashed even after a factory reset and debloat.

It will take a couple of days (a week maybe) until the phone settles down into its own. Until that time you will see very random battery stats. It has happened to me on every new OS I have ever flashed. Several reboots followed by a ten minute "no touch" helps me. Meaning boot the phone, let it sit for ten minutes, reboot the phone, let it sit for another ten minutes, etc. After about four reboots like this my battery becomes more stable and predictable.

Same problem. My battery drop so much. I used deep sleep battery saver but seem cant help more.
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Sounds like you guys might have have some rogue apps but also it does take a little time for the ROM to settle in
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I froze or uninstalled everything there is to freeze and uninstall. The only thing that syncs is the email every 30 min. Thats it. I am a light user and on GB I get 3 days of battery life on a single charge. After this update I cant get half a day. I never heard of ROM that needs to settle, is it like a new puppy or something

Damn that's crazy I've never seen 2 days
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On GB for 12 hours with 70% left. I have been using the phone quite heavily today. I can usually get about 3 days out of it with light use an only email sync.
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Yeah that's wild but I prefer having the latest and greatest I can deal with at least getting a day out of my battery ha I have 4 spare batteries always fully charged ready to go
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megaforcer said:
On GB for 12 hours with 70% left. I have been using the phone quite heavily today. I can usually get about 3 days out of it with light use an only email sync.
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You used the phone quite heavily? You barely have any screen on time. That is not heavy at all.

What the stats don't show is that my screen was on for at least 2 hours that morning while I was trying to restore GB from backups. It took at least 5 attempts to get it to work properly.

thakrew317 said:
Damn that's crazy I've never seen 2 days
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+1 to that! 3 days is crazy!
megaforcer: Can you please post screenshots with battery lasting 3 days?
Also, what GB ROM are you using for that kind of life?