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Hi, I have recently installed the new HTC_SPA_2.03.412.2 rom wich cames with Radio_Signed_Diamond_52.51.25.26_1.09.25.23, and now the battery life has been reduced to less than 6hrs in stand by and it is heating a lot (previouslly it only got hot and with poor battery life when WIFI was on)
I have a US Diamond originally unlocked phone and here we have 850/1900 band.
Has anyone had similiar experience? Wich radio do you recomend?
Thnks
ianchi said:
Hi, I have recently installed the new HTC_SPA_2.03.412.2 rom wich cames with Radio_Signed_Diamond_52.51.25.26_1.09.25.23, and now the battery life has been reduced to less than 6hrs in stand by and it is heating a lot (previouslly it only got hot and with poor battery life when WIFI was on)
I have a US Diamond originally unlocked phone and here we have 850/1900 band.
Has anyone had similiar experience? Wich radio do you recomend?
Thnks
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I'm not sure but may be I'm living same problem its draining. I'm not sure because I started to use push mail same time with this Radio.
Pushmail+3G is really a horrible battery drain in general. No wonder. Data connection is up all the time and a PING is sent every 15 seconds from push server (if you use Z-Push as I do).
Option A: disable 3G for most of the time. If you surf enable 3G.
Option B: use 1.08.25.20 which gives me the best pushmail + 3G battery life so far. I always go back to 1.08.25.20
P.S. I think most people from the radio thread aren't using pushmail. So I would take their battery life tests with a huge grain of salt.
No, absolutely no battery drain.
(not more than others)
Here in Europe (Netherlands), same radio ver and Z-Push with 3G on.
If I do not receive / make calls I can _easily_ get 48hours out a full charge.
If I turn 3G off (as I also do most of the time) I can get 2 days without recharging even with busy work days (SMSing and calling quite a lot).
If your diamond is also generating a lot of heat, I'd say it isn't the reception or radio, but a process / program on the ROM is using the cpu at full strength all the time... then the battery won't last long whatever you do.
If I run TomTom on the battery (full time CPU and GPS usage) with the phone turned off, I can drain my full battery in 2 hours .
the radio works fine for me, and if you use push mail of course the battery will drain much faster...
what is push mail? download email with pop3?
asticinzano said:
Pushmail+3G is really a horrible battery drain in general. No wonder. Data connection is up all the time and a PING is sent every 15 seconds from push server (if you use Z-Push as I do).
Option A: disable 3G for most of the time. If you surf enable 3G.
Option B: use 1.08.25.20 which gives me the best pushmail + 3G battery life so far. I always go back to 1.08.25.20
P.S. I think most people from the radio thread aren't using pushmail. So I would take their battery life tests with a huge grain of salt.
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you're very right dude
I went to Option B, battery performance is awesome, about 1,5 - 2 days.
Same here [Europe, HSDPA, Exchange mail sync always on]: awful battery life with 1.09.25.23 on the last Dutty and new PDACornerIllusion v.3 ROMs.
I usually go back to 1.08.25.20 after each new radio test but this time running 1.11.25.1 for the last few days and so far very happy with both signal level and battery life.
mgs333 said:
the radio works fine for me, and if you use push mail of course the battery will drain much faster...
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for me too , best radio for Romania
same here, 1.09 it's pretty good, with normal usage i can get to 3-3,5 days.
(some wifi, some push mail, sms & calls) but not through 3g, i've turn it off..
Romania/Vodafone
it drains battery rly fast...with high usage:listening musi for about 2hours with volume set to max, surfing internet during 30minutes, sending some sms...without 3g, then its down !
tomorrow it's my 4-th day, and yesterday i've listened to music like 30min, and sms/call /wifi , today i used the wifi like 30min, voice like 20min, am 5 sms...
@altcineva2009 : What rom are you using ? Where do you live (country) ? And is your 3G set to ON ?
i see they got some problems with the forum.
i'm using the latest official rom, country: Romania, operator: Vodafone, 3g is off, i turn it on only when i need it
ianchi said:
Hi, I have recently installed the new HTC_SPA_2.03.412.2 rom wich cames with Radio_Signed_Diamond_52.51.25.26_1.09.25.23, and now the battery life has been reduced to less than 6hrs in stand by and it is heating a lot (previouslly it only got hot and with poor battery life when WIFI was on)
I have a US Diamond originally unlocked phone and here we have 850/1900 band.
Has anyone had similiar experience? Wich radio do you recomend?
Thnks
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I'm suspecting that this radio (1.09.25.23) is not a quad band radio, and it does not support 850MHz band. Open your dial pad and dial *#*#364#*#* and look at the "Band" field, it should show either "3: 850" or "2: PCS" (1900MHz band)
I have 1900MHz towers around my place in South Bay Area, but the signal is significantly weaker than the 850MHz ones. The end result is that it drains the battery faster.
Hey guys, so I'm having some odd battery readings depending on what ROM I have installed... For the record my battery life sucks horribly but that's not the point of this. The point is that, on AOSP ROMs such as CM7 and MIUI (not sure if that's considered AOSP but it's not sense which is the main thing..) I have cell stand-by using a ton of my battery, like 50+%, whereas on sense ROMs I have display using like 70+% of battery.. does anyone know if there's a reason for that or if it's just messed up readings or something? Thanks in advanced!
If you're not using the phone, meaning screan is off, cell standby will use the majority of your battery. Whereas if the screen is on because the device is in use, the display will require the most battery. So... are you sure your user habits aren't to account for these differences?
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quite sure, the battery drops at pretty much the same speeds for both, and also i've tried having 3G off for AOSP ROMs all day and even maxed out display settings to try to get it up (just to see what's going on of course) and with the Sense ROMs I have display settings super low :S
That is some strange behavior. All I can say is battery consumption and lag seem to be the primary reasons many users stick to "senseless" ROMs. But you likely know this already...
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Ditamae said:
That is some strange behavior. All I can say is battery consumption and lag seem to be the primary reasons many users stick to "senseless" ROMs. But you likely know this already...
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Haha yeaaaa.... Though the new affinity ROM is super smooth! As smooth as many senseless ROMs! But then there's the battery haha, which is why I ordered a new one I've always had disgustingly bad battery life (max 8 hours on super battery saving ROMs with undervolting) so I'm hoping I've just always had a bad battery and the new one will be good and of larger capacity... And maybe that's why my readings are so wrong? ROM is confused as to where all the juice is going/has gone so it just throws the data somewhere? Just a guess haha
Its been discussed on here before that Sense ROMs just report the battery usage differently than AOSP. Its normal, and I would disregard. As long as you are getting decent battery life on the ROMs, the battery usage details don't really matter.
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Its been discussed on here before that Sense ROMs just report the battery usage differently than AOSP. Its normal, and I would disregard. As long as you are getting decent battery life on the ROMs, the battery usage details don't really matter.
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problem is that I'm not but I'm gonna wait until I get a new battery and see if that's better before going further into figuring out what's going on.. Thanks for that info though!
Did the short battery life come on recently? Bad battery is certainly a possibility. But can also be some sort of network issue. If you local tower is having problems, it can drain your battery fast, particularly if they are doing something to 3G, and your phone is constantly searching for a 3G signal or from 2G/3G. Notice any data reception issues?
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Did the short battery life come on recently? Bad battery is certainly a possibility. But can also be some sort of network issue. If you local tower is having problems, it can drain your battery fast, particularly if they are doing something to 3G, and your phone is constantly searching for a 3G signal or from 2G/3G. Notice any data reception issues?
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Rarely any reception issues, I think it might be a bad battery as ever since stock I'd last maybe max 8 hours with medium-light use. Just never knew that that wasn't good until recently haha
I have been using CM10 for awhile and usually find it to be great. However recently I have noticed my phone doesn't seem to last a full day anymore and this is minimal screen time. I updated to CM10.1 (RC2) when it was released, I'm not sure if that contributed or if there's something else I'm missing. I have found the best performance by disabling LTE and using WiFi whenever possible. Still though it lasts 9 hours with about 1h30m screen time. If I use it anymore the battery may only last 5 or 6 hours, and this is just using it for occasional web browsing and some texting.
My service provider is Koodo (Telus) and I live in Burnaby BC, so I usually have a pretty good cell signal.
I have attached some screenshots of my battery usage. This was on a day with only light usage and no music or media used; LTE was disabled and WiFi was on.
Any ideas as to what could be causing this, or if this is normal would be appreciated.
Thanks!
smcw said:
I have been using CM10 for awhile and usually find it to be great. However recently I have noticed my phone doesn't seem to last a full day anymore and this is minimal screen time. I updated to CM10.1 (RC2) when it was released, I'm not sure if that contributed or if there's something else I'm missing. I have found the best performance by disabling LTE and using WiFi whenever possible. Still though it lasts 9 hours with about 1h30m screen time. If I use it anymore the battery may only last 5 or 6 hours, and this is just using it for occasional web browsing and some texting.
My service provider is Koodo (Telus) and I live in Burnaby BC, so I usually have a pretty good cell signal.
I have attached some screenshots of my battery usage. This was on a day with only light usage and no music or media used; LTE was disabled and WiFi was on.
Any ideas as to what could be causing this, or if this is normal would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Did you update your bootloaders? If so, you probably have the LK4 modem, I'd try flashing the LL1.
Also, you can download BBS (BetterBatteryStats) from here to help narrow down what drains your battery.
It has been known that CM10.1 has been giving poor battery life ever since the Linux 3.4 kernel rebase. I'm not sure if there is a fix, or if the CM guys are working on it at all... It has been 7 days since the last kernel commit for d2.
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I have been using CM10 for awhile and usually find it to be great. However recently I have noticed my phone doesn't seem to last a full day anymore and this is minimal screen time. I updated to CM10.1 (RC2) when it was released, I'm not sure if that contributed or if there's something else I'm missing. I have found the best performance by disabling LTE and using WiFi whenever possible. Still though it lasts 9 hours with about 1h30m screen time. If I use it anymore the battery may only last 5 or 6 hours, and this is just using it for occasional web browsing and some texting.
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I can support this, I am getting about the same battery life as you. Ever since updating to RC2 I have noticed that my battery life has diminished. I have a spare samsung battery, and normally I wake up, boot and go to school and use my phone a fair amount for texting, researching, and music. A full charge will usually support this until around 10-12 hours later, then I change batteries in the evening play more music and web browse. I took a screenshot of my battery history a few days ago, you'll notice that the graph increases without the phone ever being connected to a power source.
Has anyone checked their "Cell Standby" to see if there is any time without signal showing?
If you haven't toggled your LTE off, have a look sometime and let me know. If it is showing a percentage of time without signal, go back to your battery life graph and see if there is any RED in your Mobile Network Signal. If you see time without signal but no red in the bar let me know.
I've got some ideas on why battery life isn't great and I'm trying to build a case for it. Guys who frequent locations with poor LTE (4G) signals are who I'm mostly looking to get data from.
Any information that you guys might have would be very helpful to me. Screen captures are welcome. I've uploaded a couple of myself to show what I am talking about.
Cheers.
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Has anyone checked their "Cell Standby" to see if there is any time without signal showing?
If you haven't toggled your LTE off, have a look sometime and let me know. If it is showing a percentage of time without signal, go back to your battery life graph and see if there is any RED in your Mobile Network Signal. If you see time without signal but no red in the bar let me know.
I've got some ideas on why battery life isn't great and I'm trying to build a case for it. Guys who frequent locations with poor LTE (4G) signals are who I'm mostly looking to get data from.
Any information that you guys might have would be very helpful to me. Screen captures are welcome. I've uploaded a couple of myself to show what I am talking about.
Cheers.
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Poor signal is one hell of a battery drainer. I would suggest trying different modems to find one that works better in your area.
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Poor signal is one hell of a battery drainer. I would suggest trying different modems to find one that works better in your area.
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No no. Modems do not affect this issue at all and with the new phones now a days modems don't play as big of a role as they used to with signal strength. Anyway this issue is bigger than that. CM10.1 isn't reporting 4G low signal strenght correctly. It jumps from -115 at one bar to 0dBm no bars instead of switching over to a 3G signal or showing a value that is accurate like -117dBm.
Flashing back to the M1 release of CM10.1 or even to stock and the handoff from 4G to 3G is seamless. We aren't seeing that anymore with the later released even as early as RC1.
Here is my JIRA report.
https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/CYAN-1209
You can see I've put some work into it. Trust me, this isn't a flash a different modem, change network preferences or anything type of issue. I've tried all that before finally starting to gather some screen captures and information on the way the phone is handling it's network signals.
I've also talked about it extensively in the CM10.1 Nightlies thread in the dev section over the last week or two.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41931891#post41931891
Also my original post was asking for anyone who has seen a time with signal recorded under cell standby BUT NOT showing any red in the mobile network status graph. Different than just no signal at all and red showing meaning you have no connection to the carrier at all.
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No no. Modems do not affect this issue at all and with the new phones now a days modems don't play as big of a role as they used to with signal strength. Anyway this issue is bigger than that. CM10.1 isn't reporting 4G low signal strenght correctly. It jumps from -115 at one bar to 0dBm no bars instead of switching over to a 3G signal or showing a value that is accurate like -117dBm.
Flashing back to the M1 release of CM10.1 or even to stock and the handoff from 4G to 3G is seamless. We aren't seeing that anymore with the later released even as early as RC1.
Here is my JIRA report.
https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/CYAN-1209
You can see I've put some work into it. Trust me, this isn't a flash a different modem, change network preferences or anything type of issue. I've tried all that before finally starting to gather some screen captures and information on the way the phone is handling it's network signals.
I've also talked about it extensively in the CM10.1 Nightlies thread in the dev section over the last week or two.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41931891#post41931891
Also my original post was asking for anyone who has seen a time with signal recorded under cell standby BUT NOT showing any red in the mobile network status graph. Different than just no signal at all and red showing meaning you have no connection to the carrier at all.
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Well then, I stand corrected. Great work, thanks!
flexfulton said:
Has anyone checked their "Cell Standby" to see if there is any time without signal showing?
If you haven't toggled your LTE off, have a look sometime and let me know. If it is showing a percentage of time without signal, go back to your battery life graph and see if there is any RED in your Mobile Network Signal. If you see time without signal but no red in the bar let me know.
I've got some ideas on why battery life isn't great and I'm trying to build a case for it. Guys who frequent locations with poor LTE (4G) signals are who I'm mostly looking to get data from.
Any information that you guys might have would be very helpful to me. Screen captures are welcome. I've uploaded a couple of myself to show what I am talking about.
Cheers.
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I can probably come up with some data, when I'm at work I generally get a low signal, I never toggle LTE, though I live in a town of ~8000 people, far from major centres. I believe we have HSPA+, but I'm generally connected to 3G. Right now, I've had normal battery life, (no increasing), and 0% time without signal, should I ever have <0% I'll message you some data. Thanks for your work!
I can confirm that I'm having this issue as well. I live in a 4G city (Boston), but my high school has practically no 4G reception. I noticed that unless airplane mode is enabled in the school, I have a battery drain of about ~1 per 5 minutes. The battery stats shows certain red areas when the signal is close to 0.
I'm running the latest nightly (5/29), but I'm flashing back to the M1 ROM until this is fixed. If I encounter any issues with this ROM, I'm probably going to flash back to stock.
Hopefully the devs can get on this when they have time.
Piegoodman said:
I can confirm that I'm having this issue as well. I live in a 4G city (Boston), but my high school has practically no 4G reception. I noticed that unless airplane mode is enabled in the school, I have a battery drain of about ~1 per 5 minutes. The battery stats shows certain red areas when the signal is close to 0.
I'm running the latest nightly (5/29), but I'm flashing back to the M1 ROM until this is fixed. If I encounter any issues with this ROM, I'm probably going to flash back to stock.
Hopefully the devs can get on this when they have time.
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Battery life has actually improved quite a bit since rc2, but when I'm at school, where the signal is bad (most of the time I get "emergency calls only"), I see faster than usual battery drain as well. I think that this is normal though, because even my old dumbphone drained battery quickly when there was no signal.
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klin1344 said:
Battery life has actually improved quite a bit since rc2, but when I'm at school, where the signal is bad (most of the time I get "emergency calls only"), I see faster than usual battery drain as well. I think that this is normal though, because even my old dumbphone drained battery quickly when there was no signal.
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Emergency Calls Only and Red in the mobile network history aren't what I'm referring too with my issue.
Those two things would indicate you phone had no cell signal at all to your carrier. I'm talking about being on such a poor 4G signal but still being connected to the Roger's network. It's hard to explain.
Anyway I appreciate your input.
There has been a lot of discussion on this in the CM10 Nightlies thread in the dev section if anyone is interested in reading or check out the JIRA report linked on the first page of this thread.
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Emergency Calls Only and Red in the mobile network history aren't what I'm referring too with my issue.
Those two things would indicate you phone had no cell signal at all to your carrier. I'm talking about being on such a poor 4G signal but still being connected to the Roger's network. It's hard to explain.
Anyway I appreciate your input.
There has been a lot of discussion on this in the CM10 Nightlies thread in the dev section if anyone is interested in reading or check out the JIRA report linked on the first page of this thread.
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I'm still connected to the AT&T network, but it's a very weak signal when I'm at school.
Just flashed back to stock, and the draining issue disappeared. I guess there's still some issue regarding cell signal that's draining the battery.
I've got the same issue, I thought it was just me. I'm on Rogers
I even lose battery (about 1% every 30 minutes) while plugged in and charging, if I'm listening to music, and checking my phone once every half hour for texts or emails.
The other day at the gym while listening to music and using 1 note taking app, it went from 95% to 15%. When I checked, it said the phone was active for 1 hour and 5 minutes even though I never used the phone.
I'm going to install that bettery battery status app now.
Hi i am from mexico due to my carrier havent realised the 4.1.2 update i decided to install a canadian 4.1.2 stock rom (rogers). It worked like a charm i can receive calls, sms and use mobile date without any problems.... but i feel a litte drain of battery. When the phone is in deep sleep mode it doesnt consum much but when the screen is on the battery goes about 1% every 4 min more or less. I decided to check better battery stats and partial wakelocks seems so good for my opinion but there is something wrong in "other" module. it appears no or unknown signal with 100%!!! is it due to this rom is not from my country? i have tried with other modem and stills the same. i dont why it appears like no or unknown signal if the signal is so good. i attache some screenshots. Thank you so much for your time and sorry for my bad english!!
Don't know about what it's being reported by BBS versus the ROM but 1% every 4 minutes equates to 15% battery usage an hour with screen on. Definitely no issues there.
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Hello.I noticed some really strange behaviour of our device.I suppose maybe this is the reason many users complain about huge battery drain on their device.So i was on a village (outside my city) with really bad to zero signal reception.The most weird was the fact that when i later returned to my city,i noticed that i again had signal issues!i was continuing to not have any signal.So i rebooted once and my signal came back.But other issue is that i had not internet data!i rebooted once again without any difference.Then finally i turned off/on my phone and everything came back to normal.Meanwhile i notice huge battery drain compared to other phones,when my RN5 is in poor signal reception.Maybe is modem issue?This has to be fixed dudes.
*I also noticed now i have max 8 hours of SOT compared to 10+ i had before.
On which rom sir?
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On which rom sir?
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On 9.7.11 developer rom.
resetting network data seems to have fixed the issue.But surelly it will happen again and happens to all users.