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My friend has a Desire and he isnt pleased with the battery life at all.
I told him to root and install a custom ROM and it will help, as it did with me (Motorola Milestone).
Do the custom ROMS for the desire have better battery life? How many hours can you get out of it?
He hardly gets a day and doesnt even use much data, mostly texts, maybe short calls, and just brief stints of data
i use oxygen 2.0.2 and had the same usage as your friend, more or less.
my battery stands for almost 20 hours.
do check the auto-sync options and 2G-3G network setting.
turn-off the GPS, WiFi bluetooth if it isnt used.
and maybe your friend could install Juice Defender from market to conserve battery.
hope that helps
I second the vote for Oxygen. I heavily use data for Twitter, Facebook, four email accounts and several short browsing sessions daily. I also make a handful of calls (often with Bluetooth) and SMS a lot. I jump on and off MSN with imo.im beta (my current multi-protocol IM client at the moment) and get almost 20 hours a day. I've always had battery life problems in the past.
Your friend won't regret it.
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Another vote for oxygen. Phone out of the box for me I only get about 24 hours. On oxygen 2.0 with moderate use - wifi always on, browsing forums and email, calls, no widgets except for weather and date, I got 2 days 9 hours! That's also with setcpu and rokee mod (check oxygen forum). Very happy so far and don't think I will be upgrading anytime soon unless I can get better battery life.
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I am using the RCMIXHD and for now I haven't seen a huge improvement ... but I keep everything on and still have to tweak around .
AuraxTSense v8.4
Standby Time 8day's.
With checking time/date and mail from time to time.
Google latititude enabled and face book enabled.
Allmost no wifi involved btw.
So with oxygen, since he doesnt leave wifi or data on all the time, and only sparingly uses it, I assume he would get a lot more than 20 hours of use?
wow the auraxtsense sounds good
Wond3r said:
So with oxygen, since he doesnt leave wifi or data on all the time, and only sparingly uses it, I assume he would get a lot more than 20 hours of use?
wow the auraxtsense sounds good
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I would agree with the people suggesting oxygen, although i haven't tried the most recent one I have tried other AOSP ROMs (Such as Cyanogenmod and Redux) but you do however sacrifice the incredible camera for a terrible AOSP one, so I personally like to use Sense ROMs for that reason. There are some Kernels that can improve the cpu usage-thus improving battery life when using HTC sense based roms. I would either recommend either LeeDroid or AuraxTsense (the one i currently use) and with heavy use i can easily get a working day from it (from 9am to 5pm) and it'll only JUST reach the 20% mark for me which is fine
Using the Redux 1.1.0 rom with newest radio (32.54) and coutts99 2.6.38 CFS HAVS kernel. Battery life has never been better, 2 days since recharge, couple of games of Worms and 3d table tennis, some emails, browsing for maybe one hour, listened to a Brian Eno CD and maybe 15 minutes of talking on the phone. 56% left!
I was positively shocked. I reckon the largest cause for this was the new radio and kernel, Wi-Fi reception seems to be a bit weaker TBH than with 32.49 but this battery life is definetely worth it.
I was having severe battery issues with my desire - looked at logs via currentwidget etc - found I'm use around 55ma on standby !!
Long story short and after lots of research I found I was a victim of the usb brick bug... anyway, unbricked and now my use is around 4 to 6 ma standby on CM7 RC4..
I'm running Cyanogen since the Release Candidate 1 with the latest RADIO and this kernel: http://mirror.couttstech.com/android/index.php?dir=bravo/kernel/aosp-2.6.38/CFS/ (CFS, HAVS, Ginger).
I only use 3G when idle and WiFi for downloading updates.
Sync is on
Bluetooth and GPS are off.
Underclocked to 800 MHz when active, Max 256 when idle. Min-Frequency set to 128 MHz.
Undervolted by 50-100 mV.
I'm listening about 30 minutes/day to online radio (via 3G)
Trillian is enabled in background (ICQ,MSN,AIM,GoogleTalk)
With this, my desire loses around 40-50% in 14 hours (around 3% hour). Most battery hog is the online radio (drains 15%).
If I do not listen to online radio and if I disable Trillian but keeping everything else enabled, the drain is around 1%/hour (tested over night).
For me this is the best I could get and I'm fine with it (Also: My battery only has 85% of original capacity left).
vote for Oxygen2 or CM7. Try this Kernel too. Sync only every 3h-6h (FB/Twitter/Weather/...)
In my case Oxygen 2.0.2 is draining approximately 1% of battery every 4 hours on standby with wifi on. Kinda hard to beat that I guess.
I am using InsertCoin 2.0.1 Data2Ext
My Settings:
-Syncs: FB 6hr, Push e-mail for yahoo and googlemail, News 4 hrs, weather 3 hrs, and htc sense based on change.
-2G/3G set to auto
-CPU freq: 384-1075MHz with interactive...yes I am OCing a bit.
-Night in the City live wallpaper.
-WiFi always on at home.
-(not really a setting) GSM signal strength is somehow always full at home.
-advance task killer every 1 hr.
I have tested the battery life at home and it resulted with those settings above about 25% reduction in 12-14Hrs on standby.
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-advance task killer every 1 hr.
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http://www.xda-developers.com/android/the-view-on-task-managers-for-android/
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http://www.xda-developers.com/android/the-view-on-task-managers-for-android/
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I know that one.
I have tried not to use any task killer but the battery usage is somehow better with task killer running.
On the other hand, if I set the task killer faster than 1 hr, the battery life is drained drastically.
Longer than 1 hr will not give me any effect on battery life.
I also know those are only based on subjective judgement.
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oh i was going to post something like this.
Using Stock 2.2 Rom.
I've found i actually get better usage with WIFI always on rather than OFF and switching between 3G to WiFi and then tun it off.
so switch phone on at 7am @ 100%, switch off at 11:30pm and im around 85% usage.
dzam72 said:
I was having severe battery issues with my desire - looked at logs via currentwidget etc - found I'm use around 55ma on standby !!
Long story short and after lots of research I found I was a victim of the usb brick bug... anyway, unbricked and now my use is around 4 to 6 ma standby on CM7 RC4..
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I think I might have this problem as well, been doing a search, but not sure where to look, did you follow the procedures for usb brick, or are you talking about something else. I downloaded the current app and it shows 44amp all the time, any info on where to look for a cure is appreciated.
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I think I might have this problem as well, been doing a search, but not sure where to look, did you follow the procedures for usb brick, or are you talking about something else. I downloaded the current app and it shows 44amp all the time, any info on where to look for a cure is appreciated.
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Yeah - followed procedures for USB brick and worked fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691187
Having a little trouble with usb brick procedure, I think my cache was corrupted, so I unrooted and thought I would start again. So far unrooted, replaced original battery back in taking out 3000 mah one, and funny the amps go down, when gone into idle, but they do shoot up to 130 something or more when doing things. Then I replaced it with the 3000 amp one, and it still stays at 44mah, so I think it is the battery, it won't go down in amps for some reason, well atleast I have a backup battery incase.
Hey guys,
Wanted to get a defy but a few things worry me. I saw a few vids on youtube and it appears the defy seems choppy or laggy while pinch to zooming on the web browser. I think the defy was on 2.1 though and maybe it was the recording camera being laggy.
For you defy users here, may I ask if the defy running on 2.2 or modded with custom firwmware is still laggy/coppy while zooming/scrolling during browsing?
How is the pinch to zoom speed compared to the iphone?
Also how is the battery life? Does the galaxy s really have twice the talk time of the defy (as stated on spec sheet 6 hours vs 12)? Is the galaxy s offer a much better web browsing experience?
Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
it really was laggy on stock 2.1, but now i use cm7, and theres absolutely no lagg, it very smooth (both in gallery and in browser). about battery life: my defy lasts about one day before having to charge it again, but im quite a heavy user (lots of talking, gaming, listening to music, surfing). you can easily get 2-3 days out of it with moderate use. as for the galaxy s, never used it more than a few minutes, so i cant tell you about the battery life, but havent noticed any difference in web browsing compared to a cm7 defy.
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it really was laggy on stock 2.1, but now i use cm7, and theres absolutely no lagg, it very smooth (both in gallery and in browser). about battery life: my defy lasts about one day before having to charge it again, but im quite a heavy user (lots of talking, gaming, listening to music, surfing). you can easily get 2-3 days out of it with moderate use. as for the galaxy s, never used it more than a few minutes, so i cant tell you about the battery life, but havent noticed any difference in web browsing compared to a cm7 defy.
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Thank you for your reply zakoo2. I think I am swaying a lot towards the defy now. As the boot loader is locked on the defy, does it mean that mods such as CM7 can never tweak the defy as much as an unlocked device?
Get it, this device is indestructible, and in finding that out, I gained the confidence to really mess around with it, and five brickings, (Yes the bootloader must be er locked Coz I seriously came close to killing the phone but even when the bootloader didn't show on screen it still worked) four service flashes and three attempts at a Cm7 install later I've finally found the firmware for me and I now own the Millennium Falcon of mobile phones
Also I'd like to think the defy must have been released with a 1Ghz chip clocked down to 800 Coz its very o/c friendly ( mines running @ 1100 but I've read reports of 12 or 13 o/cs with no probs which sounds consistent with a 1ghz, should be able to push an extra ⅓)
Battery life is now customisable, I've been playing around with it and now its on an ultra efficient profile & after 12 hours still have half a battery left which is awesome for me
Long story short I love this phone, its truly customisable in every respect & in 6 months it's taken all the **** I could possibly put it thru, kayaking trips mountain bike rides & all, and it just sneers at me in defiance, a throwback to the good old moto brick!!
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well said, brother yeah, it's very overclock-undervolt friendly, have been testing both of them, no problem for the defy
just read this article if you're interested: http://androidunderground.blogspot.com/2011/05/setvsel-overclock-and-undervolt-your.html
just an advice: don't use official firmware, it's slow and has ****ty drivers, get a modded rom (cm7, pays, miui)!
the galaxy s uses the same processor as the motorola xt720 which i happen to have. :/ and all stock roms WILL lag most of the time. tried out my friends galaxy s .... was not really impressed. and i do also have the defy. its rugged and almost life proof
Go ahead..
Gr8 mobile to have... having fun playing all HD games in the mobile..
Hi! I bought a Chinese retail defy a couple months ago, and have been a happy user ever since. It came with Froyo already installed. So far I haven't experienced the laggy pinch problem you mentioned. And as for battery life, my defy lasts about one and a half days on a single charge. Hope this helps.
thanks to all the reply guys!
It's a best seller very compact easy to use and lifeproof.
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I have decided to buy a new Desire phone.I read on many forums that battery backup on Desire is very very bad.I need this phone for gaming atleast 1 hour a day.Whether there are any tricks to increase the battery or the battery backup has no problem?
Desire's battery consumption isn't so good, but to play 1 hour a day, is ok even with stock roms.
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What is the standby time if i give a full charge?
If you're not using it could be around 5 days.
With moderate use 2 days.
Heavy usage 24h.
Sent with smoke signals.
I think with heavy usage phone working 24 hours is not too bad.Tell me what will be the battery life with the following usage:
1.5 hours gaming,1 hour browsing,1 hour music,45 minutes running apps and always running a live wallpaper.
Probably around 24-36 hours.
Is a bit impossibile to know how your battery will "live" with this usage, because not all apps have the same battery drain... so, we can only imagine...
Live wallpapers use a lot of battery, wi-fi drain is more than 2g/3g network drain... i think that using MIUI or AOSP rom, with this usage, you can stay 24h without recharge... with stock roms 12-16 hours maximum...
Sorry if my english isn't perfect
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Probably around 24-36 hours.
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Agree, around 36 hours.
And also,Can it run latest games without any lag?I need a phone with this budget.I selected Motorola Defy and this one.Which is better?
both are good devices...
ShotMe said:
both are good devices...
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But select anyone from those two.
From these two Desire, but in this price range there is also Samsung Galaxy S which is slightly better from hardware point of view but i would get Desire anyways.
Galaxy S's price is higher in our country.120$ more than these phones.I need a good phone in 340$-360$ price range.And what about HTC Google Nexus One and Sony Ericsson Xperia mini pro?
I left my LTE N7 last night on WiFi and i found that it lost 10% overnight.
Dont know is it normal or not,but i didnt find any apps awakening device.
So guyz whats your standby battery life on stock?
its been abt 18 hours since my last charge , the batter is now down to 15% (no sim inserted yet)
these are the stats -
wi-fi is constantly on, downloaded abt 1.5 - 2gb of apps/games.
saw a movie (abt 2 hours) .
read a few ebooks (abt an hour's worth).
played a few HD games (for abt 2 - 2.5 hours, not in a single run)
Chiming in with WiFi only battery results.
My best stock result is 7h40m screen on with 5 days of idle time as well.
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I left my LTE N7 last night on WiFi and i found that it lost 10% overnight.
Dont know is it normal or not,but i didnt find any apps awakening device.
So guyz whats your standby battery life on stock?
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My WIFI Nexus 7 is losing 4 or 5% overnight (~8 hours) with WIFI ON.
So... it makes sense that your LTE nexus 7 should be losing more because of the cellular connectivity.
However, I can't tell if 10% is normal or not
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My WIFI Nexus 7 is losing 4 or 5% overnight (~8 hours) with WIFI ON.
So... it makes sense that your LTE nexus 7 should be losing more because of the cellular connectivity.
However, I can't tell if 10% is normal or not
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Somewhat i agree whit you.
But when MKBH stated that he left his N7 overnight it lost 1% that im pretty worried.
Karlo666 said:
Somewhat i agree whit you.
But when MKBH stated that he left his N7 overnight it lost 1% that im pretty worried.
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Maybe MKBH configure the wifi off on sleep !?
but I must say that I have a few apps with auto-update every hour or so (falcon-pro, rss feed, etc) so without these apps, maybe I could get a better result.
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Maybe MKBH configure the wifi off on sleep !?
but I must say that I have a few apps with auto-update every hour or so (falcon-pro, rss feed, etc) so without these apps, maybe I could get a better result.
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I left my N7 whit Google Now and Auto-Sync off today full time and i found this after 7hrs.
Dunno whats happening because we cant use BBS if we are not rooted(damn you Google).
Okay this has been discussed before...marshmallow = bad
BUT is there any new solutions to this problem?
Can i take phone back to warranty because its usable only 14hours ...well usable i mean its in my pocket like 11 hours doing nothing and rest of time its used for web browsing and email reading.
Yeah this thing cant even handle these simple tasks without killing battery too soon.
I would undestand usage if i would play games or watch hd videos but no....
Brightness is set manually to 33%
I am not running any battery saving apps because phones like this SHOULD make whole day
Sorry about angry text but im pretty pissed off with this "life is good" thing
I have 3g internet because its cheaper than 4g and i dont need 4g speeds.
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