ICS battery life vs Miui/CM - G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have tried Andromadus, Desire s port and ICS for desire z. Although the battery is better with each release, it still drain really fast.
When I say drain I mean in use. Not really noticed typical 'battery drain' from background services etc.
My DD has been various versions of Miui or CM7 for a few months and the battery is great.
Loads of people are saying that battery is good on ICS but I just don't see it.
Am I doing something wrong?

Well let's start knocking stuff off a list...
For each of these, think about what it's like on ICS compared to MIUI or CM7:
Brightness setting
Screen time on
Music time
WiFi time
3G time
Browsing/syncing time
Different apps running in background (how many do you kill if any on either?)
Any apps replacing stock ones? (messaging mainly)
Number of messages
Sound/vibrate on or off
Think about if these are equal for both. I've noticed mainly and largely that my battery drain from having 3G turned on is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than on MIUI, just an example.

noneabove said:
Brightness setting
Screen time on
Music time
WiFi time
3G time
Browsing/syncing time
Different apps running in background (how many do you kill if any on either?)
Any apps replacing stock ones? (messaging mainly)
Number of messages
Sound/vibrate on or off
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Brightness set to auto on both.
Screen set to 1 minute auto off on both. Running time is just general use (as a heavy user).
Haven't used music for a little while.
So far most of my testing was on wifi so that and 3G were left alone.
As for usage and apps. I use stock apps on both. And any apps that I added were added on both.
Vibrate/sound were mostly the same on both with haptics turned on but selection sounds off.
As far as I can tell, without testing again to get the battery stats, my usage was standard for me but ICS uses battery like a machine. Oh and no app killing.
Sent from my HTC Desire Z using xda premium

My observations are the same as yours no builds of ICS gave me more battery life than MIUI and CM roms.

I wasn't getting great battery life on ICS either until this morning when I flashed Virtuous Quattro. I'd say it's just as good as what I was getting on GB.

'Good' to see others are getting similar results.
I'll keep an eye on updates as they are bound to improve just as GB roms have.
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with andromadus im back at a days batterylife, with ILWT cm7 i get about 27 hours use, 7 hours is of course when im sleeping, but i get 8 hours of music with some pauses for games.
here you can see where im playing games, and when im just listening to music
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Mine hasn't been too bad. This was with AndroICS. Took it off the charger Christmas morning around 7-730am. Was out and about all day with some moderate use (ya know, to keep my sane around the family), wifi on probably half the time.
Then again I don't know how well battery stats are tracked in that ROM.

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Do you think this is about right?

Hi guys. I'm a bit concerned about battery life, I'm not sure whether I'm on the average or the battery drain crowd.
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Oxygen 2.1 (upgraded from 2.0.3)
Radio - 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08
Kernel - 2.6.35.12_r3 by thalamus
AVS is off but I've just installed the zip that turns it on at boot, so should see some improvement
What do you guys think? Reasonable power consumption as it is? Sent a few texts, went on internet (3G) a few times and made a couple of short calls.
kharekatoh said:
Hi guys. I'm a bit concerned about battery life, I'm not sure whether I'm on the average or the battery drain crowd.
Radio - 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08
Kernel - 2.6.35.12_r3 by thalamus
AVS is off but I've just installed the zip that turns it on at boot, so should see some improvement
What do you guys think? Reasonable power consumption as it is? Sent a few texts, went on internet (3G) a few times and made a couple of short calls.
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I think that's alright. I normally get home from work after about 12hrs on battery at about 75-80% with some light browsing, sms and a few calls made.
If I'm completely on standby I lose around 1% per hour!
Cheers 00droid! On standby I loose very little too so I guess it's doing alright!
Wow that's so much better than mine...I'm just about to flash that kernel so will see how it goes tomorrow.
By the way, what are your settings with regards to wifi/data/screen brightness/syncing etc? Wondering if those could be impacting so drastically on my battery life...
EDIT: Just had a look at mine now, and Display is 72% usage - I've had it on auto - should I just turn it down to a very low brightness? Also, I've been on "All Animations" - will reducing this to "Some Animations" increase it somewhat?
I'm using some animations, screen brightness I've got it set at about 35% which is plenty for me and I turn wifi off unless I'm at home surfing on the net. I've also got a few hours between weather updating, then facebook, twitter and all other syncs I do manually when I open the program
I'm doing much better with my battery today turns out I had everything set to drain as much battery as possible - after 6hours of sending a few texts and downloading a couple of apps, but mostly standby, I'm on 93% - best I've ever got
@kharekatoh do you have mobile data on all the time?
i cant eek more than 8 hours out of a full battery !!!! yours is amaing
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@kharekatoh do you have mobile data on all the time?
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Yup it's on constantly unless wifi is turned on
8 Hours is pretty bad... must be some app sucking all the power maybe

[Q] viper rom draining battary

I been using viper rom for a while now but the rom is eating my battary up. i loose 10% in 5 minutes of browsing or listening to music. Best rom out in my opinion but the battary drainage is becoming an issue. I wiped battary stats and recharged while phone is off and problem persist. i lowered clock speeds and adjusted profiles while screen is off but helped very little.
any suggestions?
donp2700 said:
I been using viper rom for a while now but the rom is eating my battary up. i loose 10% in 5 minutes of browsing or listening to music. Best rom out in my opinion but the battary drainage is becoming an issue. I wiped battary stats and recharged while phone is off and problem persist. i lowered clock speeds and adjusted profiles while screen is off but helped very little.
any suggestions?
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Might be a specific app or something. Post a screenshot of your battery graph
I'm not experiencing unexpected battery drain on Viper. I'm betting you have an app or setting wreaking havoc. Did you restore Apps and App data from TB? That could be a cause. It could also be an App that's not playing nice with the ROM. Run some battery and cpu apps that may help you nail the rogue down. You could also try a full wipe and re-flash, then install your apps fresh from the market. Appbak from the market can help make this process easier.
I have used TB to restore apps...i would hate to reflash and restore apps the long way but so far this is the best rom out. thanks!
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Im running viperrom as well and it actually seems like my battery lasts forever but its just reporting wrong. the other night I got LOS around 50% and when I rebooted the phone it came back on at 9%, today same thing happened, was above 70, rebooted and was in the 40's... but then once it finally does die, charge it for a few minutes and then turn it back on and it magically charged 70% in a few minutes, check this battery graph out...
I need to figure out why my awake time was so much greater than the screen-on time... I did stream pandora but that was less than an hour and it is only shown as 4% of the battery usage.
(taken with the netbooks webcam is why the pictures are so great...)

[Q] Bad battery life

I'm running AOKP 20 and Franco kernel but seem to be getting really bad battery life. I see folks claiming 1% battery loss over 8-9 hours of sleep. Mine loses 12-15% while I sleep and that is with WIFI on.
I'm not real familiar with the Better Battery Stats or Battery Monitor Widget. Can I use one of those to find out what is killing my battery life?
Does anyone know of something that might be causing this or how I can find out what it is?
Rogue app? Wich Franco are you using?
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I tried 14.4 but went back to 13.1 hoping things would improve. Same on both.
Better Battery Stats' ugly interface really does mask what I feel is a great app. In your case, assuming you have it installed, change the top box in the app to Kernel Wakelocks and Partial Wakelocks and see what is preventing your phone from sleeping (post the screenshots of the two pages if they mean nothing to you).
I've also found CPU Spy to be an easier to understand quick overview of what's going on with my device. It'll list out the various clock speeds my kernel has and how much time was spent in each. If you notice "deep sleep" isn't the biggest bar, you likely have something going on.
Juvenall said:
I've also found CPU Spy to be an easier to understand quick overview of what's going on with my device. It'll list out the various clock speeds my kernel has and how much time was spent in each. If you notice "deep sleep" isn't the biggest bar, you likely have something going on.
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Yup, yup. I was going to suggest CPUSpy, it's a decent little app. My phone will spend ~60-70% of the time in deep sleep over a nine hour or so period with WiFi on.
It looks like my phone is going into deep sleep and then something is waking it up and it can't go back. These processes don't mean much to me...
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The audio out wake lock is caused by keyboard sounds, touch sounds and screen lock/unlock sounds. Turn those off.
The other wakelock seems to be your gallery syncing constantly.
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Touch sounds were on, I turned those off. Why would those be waking my phone up in the middle of the night though?
How do I keep my gallery from syncing constantly? The only setting I see in the gallery options is to turn off my google account sync which I assume would turn off my gmail and other things as well?
Never mind, I found where to turn off photo sync.
Is it normal for touch sounds and gallery updates to keep your phone awake all the time? If so, what is the point of having them if they are going to eat your battery...
what franco are you using?
13.1
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Here is a screen of my overnight usage. I don't know why but I've just noticed the clock has gotten stuck. Stupid thing.
*Edit* I have a few things syncing over night, and the LED was literally flashing for the entire time, I didn't check my e-mails on purpose to see what nine and a half hours battery drain would do when that bright little LED was flashing all night, not bad I reckon!
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15% after 63 hours, UV and OC

CM10.1 Battery life expanding

I have been having issues with cm10.1 "android OS" using too much battery. And i have seemed to squash out the bugs. nearly doubling screen time. (in the sense that by bed time i had about 4 hours screen time and 10% battery left and now can hit 8 hours in a day)
I am going to slowly try different things to see where hte main issues were. but here are the majority of the changes i made.
1. Wifi, this should be off during the day, simple but true. Also i noticed build.prop had wifi scan interval set to 15 instead of the recommended 120
2. Auto rotate screen, i have read this has bugs in some builds (not sure on ours) it should be disabled unless you absolutely need it, you can add a quick tile for quick toggling. (I honestly think this is the biggest cuplrit)
3. Dev options, try to have all unneeded dev options off. I had strict mode enabled, not sure if it made a difference, but its useless cpu cycles.
4. Battery apps, as helpful as they are, uninstall asap, unless you are isolating a problem they eat cpu cycles trying to figure out what is eating your cpu cycles...
5. Notification Light, its not the LED so much as it is the CPU cycles required for the timing of the led light.
6. sign out of or uninstall/freeze (disable) google talk.
7. disable gps (use quick toggle for when really needed)
8. go to system settings -> google (under accounts) -> maps & lattitude -> make sure "report from this device" is unchecked and if you dont move around a lot (aka you work really close to home) turn location reporting to either do not update, or set location...
9. and of course any other common place one, screen brightness etc...
I will slowly implement these back in to see if they cause the drain to come back.
I think its auto rotation honestly, but it could have been a combination of all of them.
I get 8-9 hours on stock 4.1.2
I get 6 hours screen time in 4.2.2 without doing any of that, and I still think that's pretty bad compared to touchwiz. I use all those functions mentioned (except gtalk) all the time, so cm10.1 is nowhere near usable as a daily driver for me.
So battery is not draining on its own anymore.
Now time to find the culprit.
If its autorotation then the cm team can fix it and that's a good thing
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simonxliu said:
I get 6 hours screen time in 4.2.2 without doing any of that, and I still think that's pretty bad compared to touchwiz. I use all those functions mentioned (except gtalk) all the time, so cm10.1 is nowhere near usable as a daily driver for me.
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I'm not saying cm10.1 is the culprit. I'm trying to figure out what is and so I can help squash it.
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I get 8-9 hours on stock 4.1.2
I use Deviant's Xone rom. Get 2 days+ of use depending on how I use my phone. Even with heavy use I get a good day out of it, at least for what I need.

How To Guide Battery life Inhacement Mi 11 lite 5G NE - Code name <<LISA>>

Hello,
I just created this thread to post a tip that works perfectly with me to enhace battery life and it's very simple to do and i wanted to share it with you.
and it's just switching from BALANCED to SAVE BATTERY like you could see in the photos above, with this i gained +~40% of battery life. In my case i don't use the phone hugely but the way my battery drains was frustrating me even without using it constantly it was draining fast in stand by only.
before i tried this option i was always using DARK MODE and disabling auto start for apps almost for every app etc just to boost the battery life, and now when im on SAVE BATTERY im back to the LIGHT MODE and using the phone with the least battery life extension measures. i joined another photo showing the few optimisations i use.
i had to charge it 2 to 3 times per day from 20% to over 85%, now i don't even think about charging because i know that 50% of the lasting battery can absolutly be enough for me to the end of the day. (as i mentioned before im not a huge user of the phone), so when you use it in games for exemple it will drain as fast as it used to drain, i think it's way of working is limiting the process in the backgroud.
it's a good deal when watching films and videos in a browser also, i use kiwi browser with chrome extensions like ublock to block ads, the battery life is better when you switch to BATTERY SAVE option even when you put the brigtness at higher levels. i don't know about NETFLIX etc i don't use it so TBT.
Now i use 90 hz refresh date in i assume that i charge the phone 2 times per day just for ~35-25% or less just in less 15 minutes just to keep the battery over 70% and it doesn't bother me att all.
i wish this could be helpful for you guys
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Phone used: Mi 11 lite 5g ne, Stock Miui 13.0.9.0 (SKOEUXM) Stable EEA. Memory Extension to 8 GB option desactivated.
ps: the stock rom iam using is very stable and iam not facing any problem with it, the only minor issue i faced was ui bug when i use a live wallpaper in lock screen, it will sometimes show as a home wallpaper and not animated until i restart the phone or re apply the lock screen wallpaper.
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Hello. What font are you using ?
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Im combining these two themes
Mini 12 lockscreen and icones
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