Hey all,
I was running Tiamat 4.1.0 and really loved the extended battery life, in both stand-by and day-to-day moderate use. However, there was only one problem that made me switch to SZ, is that I couldn't get USB Tethering to work with Tiamat. As soon as I flashed to SZ, it started working.
Now, problem with SZ is that is draining my batter like mad, and I have no idea wtf is going on. Stand-by seems ok, but once I start using my phone (email, facebook, downloading apps, playing words with friends, etc.), batter is draining like crazy before my eyes, could go from to 60 to 50 in like 5 mins.
I am using default settings, using CM's governor on conservative, never changed any CPU settings. Screen brightness is very low.
Again, Tiamat was wonderful with the batter, but it seems SZ is being very greedy on my battery.
I flashed SZ 2.2.1-CFS-HAVS and using SZVManager app to disable SBC.
Anyone having similar issues? Or can provide tips or hints on why this might be happening?
Thanks.
edit: I know I haven't done any conclusive testing, this is just pure observation, but I am pretty positive that SZ is draining way more battery when in-use than Tiamat.
You don't want to disable SBC, for one thing and get her it fully charged, wit the Sbc kernel, and then do a calibration. I have a good method in my guide (in my signature)
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I am running myn rom and kings kernel BFS 9 and have terrible battery life. I have also used CFS 9 and still have terrible battery life. How can i fix this?
Not sure how you can fix it, but from my own experience, I tried ava's rom with his kernal and my battery just went downhill bad, so I wiped and flashed back to fresh rom with his included stock newest kernal and my battery life is great now been messing with it on off all day and still have 55% from 10am this morning
coming from stock fresh 3.3.0.1 to ava9 with king's cfs #10 i get DOUBLE the battery life. it may be from loading up different widgets or switching from ADW launcher to LauncherPro, but i doubt that would double my battery life.
Ur not the only one buddy! Had same config on wife's evo and phone would last less than 5 hrs. Flashed cm6 with snap 7.6 kernel with turbo and at times can get up to 20 hrs+ (standby and use of coarse). Only thing with this config is that if ur unlucky u might have issues not receiving txts.
I had myns running with the same kernel, and set cpu set to conservative with no profiles. Battery life was fantastic. Made it 15 hours + with moderate use.
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Brohr said:
I am running myn rom and kings kernel BFS 9 and have terrible battery life. I have also used CFS 9 and still have terrible battery life. How can i fix this?
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I'm running myns and CFS 9 and it has been 11 hours since I charged to 100%, my battery has 71% left now. Battery life has a lot to do with your settings. If I am in range of WiFi, I use it instead of 3g. If I'm not using 3g, I turn it off. GPS, 4g and Bluetooth are always off. Auto sync is off, I disabled mobile data always on under the wireless & networks section of the settings menu. I have a profile set under setcpu to underclass to 245mhz min/245mhz max when the screen is off. I think that is all of my battery saving settings...
Sent from my EVO running Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo RLS2 Beta and King's #9 CFS.
I had the same problem today when I turned off Juice Defender, but when I have juice defender on, the battery will last 2 days with your same setup, so my suggestion is to try using juice defender.
Fresh 3.3.0.1 has great battery life.
Also, try upgrading to CFS #10. It's supposed to be much better.
When i used Fresh i had the same problem
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Try to calibrate your battery.
I agree, I noticed recently that I was having battery drain, after installing a few apps and uninstalling them, I still had very quick drain.
I did a full wipe and reflashed the same rom and reset battery stats, and all was well again.
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I'm running myns and CFS 9 and it has been 11 hours since I charged to 100%, my battery has 71% left now. Battery life has a lot to do with your settings. If I am in range of WiFi, I use it instead of 3g. If I'm not using 3g, I turn it off. GPS, 4g and Bluetooth are always off. Auto sync is off, I disabled mobile data always on under the wireless & networks section of the settings menu. I have a profile set under setcpu to underclass to 245mhz min/245mhz max when the screen is off. I think that is all of my battery saving settings...
Sent from my EVO running Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo RLS2 Beta and King's #9 CFS.
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I have similar settings except I think setcpu eats up some of my battery life. I have used in the past overclock widget which I suggest and now I am using juice defender with ultimate juice. my settings are 460/844/245 I set my phone to turn off data when my backlight goes off and I am running CFS#9. I dont know if anyone else has noticed this or just me but when I shut my phone down(put it to sleep) my battery DOES NOT drain !% al all and it does not matter how long I leave it that way when I come back its at the same pct I left it. This is with CFS #9, just curious if anyone else has had these same results. I have two EVO's and it does it on both. 1 stock 1 running Fresh 3.3
I have my cpu settings on 245 245 powersave when the screen is off, yet I'm still getting horrible battery. I use my phone extremely lightly, maybe once in a while to listen to music. Check my emails, chat every so often. I use to get 48 hours with light usage. Seems I cant figure what is causing my battery to drain. I have a craigslist app, I had one search enabled so I deleted that to see how much it will effect. Does google talk drain that much? In the past it was fine. My usage shows the 2 main ones are cell standby and phone idle. Any tips on finding out what exactly is draining my battery? Im running CM 7.0.2??, latest stable, forgot. Koni's was the same. I thought maybe sense drained the battery, but it doesnt seem to be the problem.
Click the link in my sig and run that battery conditioning routine for one. What kernel are you using?
And dump SetCPU. Useless app, seriously...
1. Update to the latest stable version...7.0.3.1 released this morning.
2. Google talk could be draining, but I've never used it
3. Perhaps install it under a clean install and see if that helps.
Get tge system panel app. It'll show you what apps and everything that's eating your battery. Does the kernal your on perflock unlocked for over /under clocking cause if it isn't setcpu doesn't work.
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Click the link in my sig and run that battery conditioning routine for one. What kernel are you using?
And dump SetCPU. Useless app, seriously...
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+1 SetCPU is great for Sense ROMs, but not necessary for CM based ROMs.
looks to me like you were in pretty crappy coverage. that makes the phone work hard. it's justifiable that you'll have a lot of battery drain then, even while sleeping.
you can greatly reduce this by:
1: upgrade to newest cm7
2: flash a custom kernel. may i reccomend tiamat 4.0.1?
3: put your governer on smartass, and uninstall setcpu. smartass does it better.
4: use a bsm from viperboy. they decrease voltages. work almost too well.
5: USE JUICEDEFENDER! this will save a ton of battery in low coverage, because it turns off 3g when screen is off. this still lets you get calls and texts, but with mobile data off, your battery will last much longer while sleeping.
what prl are you on?
I was wondering is someone can help me. I've been using Deck's ROM's for the HTC EVO 4G for some time now and I hear about all these guys getting 20-30 hrs of battery life. I'm currently on 1.2.1 and have never got probably more then 11 hours out of my battery life with heavy or mederate usage. I've updated all my radios, wimax, etc....I've tried different kernels, I've installed vipermod and undervolted, I have CPU profiles. I've installed a new 3F3D driver. I've tried the wake lock fixes and still nothing has changed. Am I missing something here to how these other guys can get that performance out of their batterys. I'd like to post this directly to his thread but this is my first post and I guess I need at least 10 posts. I'm a bit of a noob but can hold my own.
I run decks with tiamat kernel 4.0.5 and I get outstanding battery life. Give this a try then let me know how it works out. Check your accounts to see if anything is synching that's insignificant. Then check your apps update frequencies. Lastly, turn off all of the haptic feedbacks, animations, and effects. Live wallpapers kill a lot of battery too. You might also want to try enabling and disabling auto brightness to see which is more energy efficient. If your overall goal is great battery life, then a lot of the bells & whistles are pointless.
It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.
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I run decks with tiamat kernel 4.0.5 and I get outstanding battery life. Give this a try then let me know how it works out. Check your accounts to see if anything is synching that's insignificant. Then check your apps update frequencies. Lastly, turn off all of the haptic feedbacks, animations, and effects. Live wallpapers kill a lot of battery too. You might also want to try enabling and disabling auto brightness to see which is more energy efficient. If your overall goal is great battery life, then a lot of the bells & whistles are pointless.
It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.
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I've tried tiamat 3.3.7, 4.0.5, and 4.0.6 and have got the same results with all three. I've tested each and one of these over about a week period. Currently I am trying SavagedZen 2.2.1 and up til this morning it hasn't changed much. I've took off all auto syncs. All haptic feedbacks, animations, and effects have been turned off. Never use live wallpapers and have read that lighter wallpapers will conserve battery. Right now I have auto brightness off and down to about 35-40%. I did however just checked off data enabled about 2 hrs ago and seem to have got better battery since. So far I'm at 82% with about 4 hours of moderate use. (mostly texting and surfing the web). I didn't know if there was any other tweaks internally that I'm missing or if it's more of a puzzle with what combinations to use.
Just saw my background data was enabled. I unchecked that as well. We will see how this goes I guess.
It seems like it's definitely data related. I downloaded skype from one of the forums strait to the phone and my battery percentage went from 79% to 68% just for the duration of the download. Is this common?
Do you use an SBC kernel? Have you whipped battery stats in recovery? Have you tried using the kernel governors (smartass, powersave, conservative) without setcpu?
It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.
amase005 said:
It seems like it's definitely data related. I downloaded skype from one of the forums strait to the phone and my battery percentage went from 79% to 68% just for the duration of the download. Is this common?
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No, not with a rom as good as Decks.
It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.
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Do you use an SBC kernel? Have you whipped battery stats in recovery? Have you tried using the kernel governors (smartass, powersave, conservative) without setcpu?
It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.
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I have used kernels with SBC and without and haven't seen much difference besides the initial 10% loss of battery. I usually I wipe cache, Dalvik cache, and battery stats everytime I flash a new ROM in recovery. I usually do a factory restore too. I've used smartass and savaged zen as governers as well. Currently I'm using savagedzen governer with a max at 1036 and a min at 245. I also calibrate the battery when i flash a new ROM. Currently I'm standing at 60% battery with about 7hrs and 37 min on battery. Probably the best battery life I've seen. I'm still seeing massive drains when I use 3G. I was just on xda forums on my phone for about 5 min. and the battery went from 65% to 60%. If I turn 3G off it stands idle for awhile.
I'm scratching my head trying to think of what will help. You probably won't like this, but when my rom has me stumped with a problem, I wipe and start over. Maybe an extended battery is the answer? They are dirt cheap for the EVO now.
It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.
Yea I was thinking about an extended battery as well. It seems like taking 3G off does wonders for the battery. Are you keeping yours on or off to get great battery life?
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I have used kernels with SBC and without and haven't seen much difference besides the initial 10% loss of battery. I usually I wipe cache, Dalvik cache, and battery stats everytime I flash a new ROM in recovery. I usually do a factory restore too. I've used smartass and savaged zen as governers as well. Currently I'm using savagedzen governer with a max at 1036 and a min at 245. I also calibrate the battery when i flash a new ROM. Currently I'm standing at 60% battery with about 7hrs and 37 min on battery. Probably the best battery life I've seen. I'm still seeing massive drains when I use 3G. I was just on xda forums on my phone for about 5 min. and the battery went from 65% to 60%. If I turn 3G off it stands idle for awhile.
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Lowering your max and min cpu frequencies will improve your battery life. I've always used 128 MHz as a min with no ill effects. Ever since I got my evo I've kept the max at 998 MHz and it was plenty fast, but I am currently trying out 691 MHz max and it seems just as snappy so far (battery life was great at 998 MHz max for low or moderate usage, but with heavy usage I've noticed it drains too fast). I'll probably try out some lower max frequencies to see how low I can go without affecting performance.
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Yea I was thinking about an extended battery as well. It seems like taking 3G off does wonders for the battery. Are you keeping yours on or off to get great battery life?
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Use JuiceDefender to automatically toggle your data connection (3g/1x) off when the screen is off. This will dramatically improve your battery life especially when you're in areas with poor signal. If you want, you can set it to turn on the data connection at user-defined intervals so emails, google voice, and anything else that needs a data connection to be refreshed periodically can go through. With the paid version, you can even allow exceptions for programs like google music, pandora, or wireless tether, so they can keep the connection while the screen is off if they're in use.
Ill try juicedefender. I had it before but didn't really know what settings to use. Current battery is doing well. I'm curious to if all these people experiencing 20-30 hrs of battery life have data turned off a alot. I'm currently at about 14 hrs. with about 42 percent left. Thanks for all ur advice.
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Ill try juicedefender. I had it before but didn't really know what settings to use. Current battery is doing well. I'm curious to if all these people experiencing 20-30 hrs of battery life have data turned off a alot. I'm currently at about 14 hrs. with about 42 percent left. Thanks for all ur advice.
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I can easily get over 40 hours with light usage and over 20 hours with moderate usage, but that's only because of JuiceDefender. Without it, my battery drains like crazy at work where there's really bad reception.
I use the customize profile with mobile data enabled, schedule enabled at a frequency of 30 min, and apps enabled when the screen is off for google music, pandora, and wireless tether. I also enable the text notification which puts the icon in the status bar. I've run into problems when I disabled notification where JD gets shut down in low memory situations, but having the icon in the status bar prevents that. I leave wifi, location, and night mode diabled, but that's just because they're not useful for my usage. I'm sure the other profiles work fine as well, but I just like knowing and controlling exactly what JD is going to do.
Try using saveged Zen with conservative governer, viper mod and other little things people have mentioned
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I can easily get over 40 hours with light usage and over 20 hours with moderate usage, but that's only because of JuiceDefender. Without it, my battery drains like crazy at work where there's really bad reception.
I use the customize profile with mobile data enabled, schedule enabled at a frequency of 30 min, and apps enabled when the screen is off for google music, pandora, and wireless tether. I also enable the text notification which puts the icon in the status bar. I've run into problems when I disabled notification where JD gets shut down in low memory situations, but having the icon in the status bar prevents that. I leave wifi, location, and night mode diabled, but that's just because they're not useful for my usage. I'm sure the other profiles work fine as well, but I just like knowing and controlling exactly what JD is going to do.
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I'm going to run JD all day today with those settings to see what it does for battery life with my data on. Yesterday seemed to be the best battery life I've recieved with data off for the majority of the day. Got about 17 hrs with 39% left. I'm happy with that. If JD can get me something like that without having to toggle with data on/off that will be nice.
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Try using saveged Zen with conservative governer, viper mod and other little things people have mentioned
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I've run viper mod with tiamat before and undervolted 50mv with little or no change in the overall performance of the battery. Any suggested settings for savaged zen using viper mod?
Undervolt as much as you can, all phones are different. As for jd, sorry I forgot about that. It's a HUGE improvement. Your battery can pretty much double. It can be a little annoying in some cases.
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Didn't really get to do a full trial on battery life yesterday. I downloaded a Sense Rom and tried some troubleshooting that I read on Deck's page but it didn't work. Today will be the first full day I try JD with 3G on. I will probably try viiper mod tomorrow after the results I get for today. Thank for the help guys.
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Didn't really get to do a full trial on battery life yesterday. I downloaded a Sense Rom and tried some troubleshooting that I read on Deck's page but it didn't work. Today will be the first full day I try JD with 3G on. I will probably try viiper mod tomorrow after the results I get for today. Thank for the help guys.
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You can't judge in one day.. you have to wait like 3 days of use to let it settle down
Deck's + SZ + SuperCharger script + ViperMod script.
I believe I have found what i belive is just about the perfect setup for this ROM
My evo is lightning fast, in app performance is almost comparable to my xoom
And with heavy usage my battery lasts at least twenty hours
Kernel: savaged Zen 2.2.1 bfs
Setcpu info: Max clock to 1136, try 1152 if 1136 is stable for Max clock, min 245. Savaged Zen governor, screen off profile with interactivex governor and min bumped to 384mhz. Eliminates all screen on lag
Market app: chainfire 3d its a graphics driver that increases all animations, 3d effects efficiency and speed, and improves battery life IMO follow in app instructions and install the driver, make sure to nand backup first and to not have the phone connected to the charger or computer when installing
Market app: battery calibration wipes battery stats to build new ones that are correct for your ROM kernel setup
Advanced setting in settings menu: performance settings, VM heap size set to 48
Market app : SD booster set SD cache to 3000 makes all SD apps and media faster.
Market app : busy box install 1.18.4
After all this install any user apps you wish and run fix permissions in ROM manager or recovery
Its a lengthy setup, but there is much profit to be had. This setup is faster then I've ever seen an evo run and has the best battery life of any ROM kernel combo I've tested.
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Hey, I'm trying to fix my battery drain during light use. Having screen on for not even 5 minutes eats around 2% of my battery. I've calibrated, gone through many different ROMs [GB(CM7,MIUI,Sense) and ICS] with full wipes(format and wipe). leading to my question in hand... how do I completely wipe my phone? I visit the wifi settings and see a wifi history that were from a pretty long time ago(before wipes). This leaves me thinking I have not fully wiped my phone in between flashing. Does the google account save wifi history or something? Thanks for any tips!
My problem still persists any help is appreciated
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You seem to be wiping your phone correctly. The WiFi settings are backed up under the Google account and are restored when you add the account again. It also backs up other settings, wallpaper, and app data of certain apps. Here's an easy way to fully wipe your phone (including the SD card app files in .android_secure) - http://tinyurl.com/66fc8og
It's called super wipe script and it is from the Android Revolution HD ROM thread, thanks to mike1986.
Sometimes the battery loses it's ability to hold charge after sometime. This happens when the battery is quite old or due to various reasons that I don't know. You'll need to get a new battery then.
On the ROM side, a good ROM+kernel combo gives the best battery life. Instead of using a plethora of apps to save battery, finding the right ROM & kernel combo and choosing a good CPU governor and min-max frequency settings will give you much less battery drain. I don't use any battery saving apps, but I run a great ROM (CM7.2 RC1) with an awesome kernel (LorDModUE 8.9b7), with smartassv2 governor running 122-1152 Mhz and a few build.prop tweaks.
You can try out my combo and see if you're getting any better battery life. The max I've gotten recently is 14 hours of heavy use with 4 hours of screen on time, wifi on for 75% of the time and a lot of web browsing and video watching. I usually keep my phone in 2G mode and only change to 3G when I need to use the internet. 3G drains the battery really fast. On average I get around 13 hours heavy use, 1 day medium use and more than a day of light use (with mobile data off unless when necessary). I get around 1% per hour drain in standby.
You can try this ROM VictoryMod by victoryo. It has my same ROM+kernel combo I've mentioned before + build.prop tweaks. Change the CPU governor to smartassv2 with 122-1152 Mhz frequency. It gives great battery life.
Among the Sense ROMs, Android Revolution HD with klquicksall's kernel and LeeDrOiD HD with LeeDrOiD's kernel give awesome battery life.
Thanks for the reply! I greatly appreciate it. As for my ROM, I've been using the latest LeeDroid, but the battery drain seems to be happening across all the ROMs I've tried recently. I never install battery saving apps, and I keep default kernels and settings. The problem is probably with my battery, I've had this phone since last May, so almost a year. I'll see if I can get this problem sorted out. Thanks again!
A few days ago I started running a nightly of Franco Kernel. My battery life immediately increased and I was able to run for about 18 hours and 2.5 hours of screen time. However, after each progressive day, the battery life has decreased steadily until today I was barely able to squeeze out 12. I've checked my battery stats and it doesn't show that any particular app is hogging all the battery or anything. CPUSpy also says that it's entering deep sleep as usual. Any ideas and has anyone encountered this issue? Franco 156 with Liquidcool 1.4
Thanks in advance.
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A few days ago I started running a nightly of Franco Kernel. My battery life immediately increased and I was able to run for about 18 hours and 2.5 hours of screen time. However, after each progressive day, the battery life has decreased steadily until today I was barely able to squeeze out 12. I've checked my battery stats and it doesn't show that any particular app is hogging all the battery or anything. CPUSpy also says that it's entering deep sleep as usual. Any ideas and has anyone encountered this issue? Franco 156 with Liquidcool 1.4
Thanks in advance.
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That could be dependant on soooo many variables... How is your signal strength in the area you reside? What are your settings, governors, Any kernel wakelocks? What are your ROM settings. Are you in WIFI, 2G or more?
I don't think you'll get an easy answer on your question here. Just play with your settings and see what suits you best.
I myself am using Franco with the Rascream ROM and getting currently 4hrs of screen on time on stock 1750 battery.
My settings:
ROM: Rascream
Kernel: Franco r174
Powermode: Balanced
Governor: On demand
Min: 729 MHz
Max 1228 MHz
OMAP4 interface 1.4
No other performance or battery saving apps or tweaks....
Just test your settings and be aware of wakelocks (but you allready are since you have the batterystat log included).
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Powermode: Balanced
Governor: On demand
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Could you explain why do you use those?
Why not power save mode or lazy governor?
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Could you explain why do you use those?
Why not power save mode or lazy governor?
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That is simple. I get about 17hrs uncharge off which 3,5 to 4 screen on. That is sufficient for my use. With Lazy and power safe I feel that the performance suffers too much. With these settings everything is still smooth and snappy... as you can see I adjusted the min and max from my CPU above the standard that comes with balanced power mode for the same purpose.
Thanks guys. I moved some things around and I'm getting better life again. It seems like the problem lied in either an app called 1Weather or My Data Manager. Have any of you heard anything about those apps?
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Thanks guys. I moved some things around and I'm getting better life again. It seems like the problem lied in either an app called 1Weather or My Data Manager. Have any of you heard anything about those apps?
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I've used 1weather for months and it has never negatively effected my battery.
I'll play around with it for a few days. I wouldn't have imagined that it would be 1weather, but due to the nature of My Data Manger constantly keeping track of something could have run the battery down. Funny how it never showed up anywhere. Though the battery drained significantly during standby. I uninstalled both and battery is fine now. I'll see what happens when i put them back.