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[Q] AARRGGH!....Battery on my Evo stinks!

Configuring this thing for good battery life is exhausting. Before root I had done most things listed in this thread : http://www.xda-developers.com/android/tweaks-for-superb-battery-life-in-evo/ and finally achieved pretty good battery life.
After root, I have never been able to achieve this even though the bloatware isnt running, have various tweaks on there for performance, and so on.
Have tried Fresh Rom with stock and Kings #11 and liked it but had terrible battery life. Tried Myn's 2.2 with stock, Kings #11, and Netarchy and battery was not much better. Now running AVA9 (no flashed kernel) and battery is no better. Have tried running setCPU on all these setups and does not help.
Any suggestions? Seems someone will say this rom/kernel combo works for them and another person will say it sucks, don't use it.
I couldn't stick with Myn's because there were too many bugs/errors. If my best bet is to go back to all HTC stock rom w/root then so be it.
.....and yes, I have read through the numerous amount of threads on this topic but no clear combination has been highlighted that I have seen. I use my phone for business primarily so it needs to last me as long as possible. The thought of increasing my phone size with an extended battery is not appealing to me.

I have stock rooted 3.29. I initially did the plug-unplug trick when I got the phone. Then, I turned off always on data, and set email, google accounts, and Sense weather widget to update once an hour. Phone behaves the same as when data is always on, so I don't even notice 3G off when the screen is off.
I get 8 - 10 hours under very heavy use (constant fiddling, email, games, internet, calls, etc),
10 - 15 hours moderate (surfing, ebooks, email, internet),
and easily 18+ with light use (email, occasional light surfing, occasional call)

I have everything the same as before root so with the bloatware and some other things not running would think it would last longer than stock......not!
@greyopaque...what was the reasoning for using stock rom instead of custom? Battery life or just never tried any of the others? Would like to know if your battery life is better with just the stock over others.

Ditto....I am a heavy user and leave everything running that I need. I use the phone for what it was made for. After trying/not trying all different types of roms/battery tweaks/advanced task killers/battery monitors etc., I decided to buy another original red 1500 battery as I don't like the extended battery look either. So, until they come with better battery technology....I guess that would be the career to go into and make some money ;0).....we are stuck with the best phone ever...yet....with a battery life that sucks for those of us that put the phone to the test....have a great day!

Yep...only problem is having to shut the phone off, change battery, then power back on. All the while, missing whatever phone calls come in.
***My point of the thread really isn't the terrible stock battery but the fact that the pre-rooted setup lasted so much longer than the rooted w/custom rom. Why??
I would think the battery life would get better without all the bloatware and other worthless services running all the time.

Once again.. you need to check your apps. Most likely there's something causing a drain.. Try updating to the newest rooted stock roms (3.30). The new kernel is definitely an improvement.
As an aside.. what bugs did you have with myn's 2.2 rls2? I ran it, and it was fine. Now on rls3 beta and amazing rom with great battery (3.30 base).

To be honest, I've never tried anything else. I really like the stock Sense experience... and since this is a work phone, I need it to work without glitches.
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@greyopaque...what was the reasoning for using stock rom instead of custom? Battery life or just never tried any of the others? Would like to know if your battery life is better with just the stock over others.
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Well....hopefully I can hear from some peeps that have used a good amount of custom roms/kernels, as well as the stock one and see what they think.
Cmon guys....let me know!
@eyeballer1......Myn's was just acting weird and I kept getting a "com.htc.bgp" force close that I couldn't fix. Also, I have tried the newest stock rom but it is just so darn plain jane didn't keep it on long enough to test it. As for apps, I have basically the same apps on my phone that I had before root (except for specific root apps such as rom manager, titanium, etc).

1Brite1 said:
Ditto....I am a heavy user and leave everything running that I need. I use the phone for what it was made for. After trying/not trying all different types of roms/battery tweaks/advanced task killers/battery monitors etc., I decided to buy another original red 1500 battery as I don't like the extended battery look either. So, until they come with better battery technology....I guess that would be the career to go into and make some money ;0).....we are stuck with the best phone ever...yet....with a battery life that sucks for those of us that put the phone to the test....have a great day!
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Sadly they won't.. That is battery technology.. This world is pretty much stuck where its at and will probably stay there.. Its the one thing that is not progressing that much.. Even from the 50's
That said.. the thicker battery is the way to go.. Only you will know its thicker, and trust me.. ITS NOT THAT BAD! Believe it or not you get used to it.. If its for business, well then a thicker battery should not bother you at all, use it during the day and maybe at night switch back to the smaller one.. You know, for the dates and ****
The thicker battery will be a life savior.. All these battery tricks and tips help, but nothing is going to be mind blowing.. The fact is, this phone is extremely advanced and requires a lot of power.. I just except the fact that I need to be close to a power charger at most times..

I might go ahead and try Myn's new beta with 3.30 and see what happens. Looks as though I need to look deep into what is actually using my battery. I have always used K-9 for email and have heard it sucks up battery, but it only uses about 2% on mine and is the best email app I have ever found.
@fastfed......I'll have to ask my wife if I can go on a date sometime.

what helped me the most was wiping battery stats correctly (as per cyanogen wiki, but applies to all roms).
Charge to full, turn off, wipe battery stats. Turn back on, wait till everythings loaded, unplug. Use as normal until battery dies (do not charge at all until battery dies). Recharge fully in one go (meaning do not unplug while charging until full). Use and charge as normal.
This should be done whenever flashing new rom.
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I also use k9 for mail. As I use Hotmail not Gmail.. is it really that bad? Anything else out there ?
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The biggest positive jump I have seen in regards to battery life was going from Cm6 to 3.29 ruu stock, then I ur3 to root.
I'm still sceptical that the 3.30 zip update gave any improvement to battery life as I have seen others report. In fact, I almost wonder if I somehow have less battery life now, but it could be in my head. It's almost impossible to approach this issue scientifically since I use this evo all day.
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Try bakedsnack 1.8, its the best battery life I've seen on a rom w/o having to make all these stupid tweeks and disabling features on ur phone.
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I'm gettin great battery life using vaelpak 2.3 with the stock htc kernel. I imagine most of the custom kernels around are based off of older kernels and while they may have higher "performance" ratings though I have hardly been able to tell a difference between kings 11 or baked speed and battery, I think the newer stock kernel is your best choice no set cpu to worry about, its just simple. I'm personally gettin about 14 hours with almost constant music playing to bluetooth headset, a bunch of browsing, and occasional use of google navigation which is a big battery eater. With just phone and text use after 21 hours I was at 52% yesterday.

ok so i have literally flashed every major rom / kernel and a comination of each. I have found that with minor tweaking most sense based roms get close to the same battery life. some people will argue that this or that rom is best but I would challenge others to truely preform a test on them and i bet they would be suprised.
k-9 is only a battery hog if you have it constantly polling for new emails if you have it set up to scan constantly then it will take a reasonable about of battery life but nothing more then most other email apps with the same settings.
have you tried as was lsited above and recalibrating your battery? I am assuming you are a pretty heavy user from the sound of things. How long where you getting pre root and how long are you now getting rooted? do you have titanium back up set up on a schedule? If so that can cause major battery drain as it sometimes keeps your phone awake.
All in all with the information you provided no one can actually tell you what is wrong. there are to many variabes and everything we say is a shot in the dark hoping to hit common problems.
my best recomendation configure your battery stats as listed above, if you havent tried use the HTC trick (chrage battery for 8 hours turn off phone charge for 1 hour turn on phone unplug it or 2 minutes then turn it off and charge for another hour.)
Anytime you wipe data you wipe your batary stats and it can drasitally impact your phones "battery life".

At this point I'm not so sure my battery or charging device on the phone isn't defective. But, only time will tell.
Currently I am running the newest, non-beta Myn TwoPointTwo and Netarchy 4.2 non-havs. I also ran this procedure (which fachadick already suggested):
1. Phone on...charge until green light comes on. Immediately unplug and turn phone off.
2. Plug phone back in until green light comes on again. Immediately boot into Recovery and wipe battery stats.
3. Use the phone on battery until dies.
4. recharge phone to 100%
I'm still on step 3. Will report back after a few days.
I had never heard of doing this when switching roms so hopefully it will help since I have swapped out a good amount lately.
Does anyone know where to get the newest HTC flashable kernel based on the new 3.30 release? All I have found is the rom package.

Better battery life after update 2.3.6

Galaxy s2 didn't have great battery life when I first got it. I didn't do exact calculation, but it was terrible with minimum usage.
After updating to the latest firmware, I was hoping for improved battery life as stated. I was getting the same battery life as before. Nothing has change, except my storage space got a lot worst. The system data files was taking 900MB internally!
So i did a factory reset to clear out the junk in the system data folder. It's back down to 67MB. Restore all settings and apps back onto the phone and now getting much improved battery life.
So for those of you that updated and see no changes in battery life, try backing up all your data/sms and restoring to factory again.

Where did you get the update? I have recieved nothing ota. Still running stock 2.3.5. What other changes did you notice?

I think some people just get a bad battery. This phone has the best battery life out of the 20 or so Androids I have owned. But I have always conditioned it well. For example when I first got it I plugged it in and didn't unplug it till it was fully charged. Then used it till out was almost dead and repeated that for the first week. Seems to make the battery golf a better charge for its life time by song that in the beginning.
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sflagg73 said:
Where did you get the update? I have recieved nothing ota. Still running stock 2.3.5. What other changes did you notice?
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the t-mobile support forum for the GSII has instructions for updating manually. I'd post the link but i'm still too new apparently
When i did the update, the Kies software would detect my phone and do the update when i had USB Debugging unchecked.

My battery life has significantly gone down since the 2.3.6 update. I could easily get 2 days out of my phone and if I didn't use data, I could probably squeeze out 4 with minimal usage. Ever since the update, the Android OS has been my biggest Eater of Battery. It destroys it and I haven't really been able to correct it. Some days do better, and the others just drain it for no apparent reason. I'm not sure if it's the bloat ware causing it or what. I just wish the "Android OS" was more specific as to what's new about the update that requires it to murder my juice.
When I first got the phone (2.3.5), I did have a the Android OS problem eating my battery but I guess I fiddled with it enough to where it went away. I don't have a reason why.
I do use ZDBox and Android Assistant (both times) to help with program limits and stuff.
Would a system restore help out and does it wipe out all my applications?

The update made my phone better so to each his own.
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[Q] Why is my battery so bad on ICS? Can I downgrade to GB?

I'll try to make this as simple as possible.
On VeNuM's GB ROM, I was getting at least a day on my battery, it was fantastic. Modem was EL29 (I believe, possibly 26 though). I could use the phone a lot and it still got good battery life. With the verizon PRL, forcing roaming 24/7, I could almost get two days on it since there was less time it was "Searching for service"
Now on ICS (have done stock, calk, venum), I have been getting dreadful battery life. Take it off the charger at 9 and by 3, after using the phone during my hour commute, it's dead. The place that I work has pretty bad service for sprint, barely hovers at 1 bar if I even have service at all. One thing I have also noticed is that even on stock (and stock PRL), my phone does not seem to roam, at all.
Here was day one on FE22 stock: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mwjr5j3nd5vgody/2012-06-06 15.36.08.png
Day one calk FE22: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0lroppsxl1bzbup/2012-06-07 18.14.04.png
Battery 2nd: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pttz5fla4us8evk/2012-06-07 18.14.08.png
You'll notice that there are a few bumps at the end. I did have it charging on the comp for a little bit before I left work, those are the two spikes. HOWEVER, it also rose on its own. It went down to 5% and then went UP to 6%, staying there for a bit and then going down.
There seems to be something funky going on, but I just dont know what. I'm currently testing what the difference is with the verizon PRL, I have that on there now.
Are there some battery logs I can post to perhaps decode this puzzle?
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Second question. How do I go about downgrading from ICS to GB?
Thanks a lot.

You should try calibrating your battery and wiping the battery stats at 100%. That would speed up the settling in.
I suggest using sfhubs Odin one click package to revert back to GB.
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Something is keeping your phone awake. Download badass battery monitor and check whats using up your battery.!

I'll do that right now. I just took it off the charger an hour ago and it's down to 85, just sitting in my pocket. I'll let it charge back up to 100 and then clear battery stats. I'll use it today and if it's still bad, revert to GB.
You look at the pics? They're depressing.

i definitely think you have apps causing wakelocks. try disabling dropbox, facebook and other random programs that sync, same goes for other stuff u may have polling for updates. with exchange syncing every 15 minutes i think i get better battery life vs push. Kobridge tweaks helped a ton.
white signal bars- cm9, the other is stock fe22 w/kobridge
id defintely search the forums for better battery stats (the dev made it available for free to xda users) or badass battery monitor in the market (also free)

I'm on Kobridge aggressive! I tried moderate as well.
Can anyone else confirm the first reply as to how to downgrade to GB? A direct link would be nice as well.

iSkylla said:
I'm on Kobridge aggressive! I tried moderate as well.
Can anyone else confirm the first reply as to how to downgrade to GB? A direct link would be nice as well.
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backup sms with "sms backup and restore"
backup apps with titanium or "appbak"
run the odin one click found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
if you dont want root, then run the autoroot package linked below(after doing above) and choose the option to remove root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728

Battery life is not as good on ics and I too had the same the same problem. System monitor wouldn't pick up any program eating up CPU. Took me for a few day to realize I had a bad install. I had to Odin back to el26 and re install. That seemed to fix my problems. Which is my understanding is the procedure one is supposed to take when flashing from ics. So regardless your flashing back GB everytime you flash roms. but might want to give ics another shot when you flash correctly.
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Must say it took me several weeks to find the right combination of parts to get my battery right.
I found that several of the newer modems were overheating my phone and draining my battery in a couple hours. Right now I'm running wicked ff02 rom, agats ff02 kernel and fe21 modem. Battery never get above 90 degrees; and yesterday I got an 8 hour day of work with heavy use (no mid day charge).
Edit: I tried venums boa rom, with very good results too. He included badass battery monitor, which seems to be one of the best of the bunch.
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I did downgrade back to GB, running Blazer's EL29 rom with verizon PRL right now and from what I saw it was decent, even through the first battery cycle with the ROM. I'll see how it runs this weekend.
If I want to go back to ICS, can I flash straight from EL29 or should I flash the EL26 kernel first and then upgrade?

dgn_sandibalz said:
Must say it took me several weeks to find the right combination of parts to get my battery right.
I found that several of the newer modems were overheating my phone and draining my battery in a couple hours. Right now I'm running wicked ff02 rom, agats ff02 kernel and fe21 modem. Battery never get above 90 degrees; and yesterday I got an 8 hour day of work with heavy use (no mid day charge).
Edit: I tried venums boa rom, with very good results too. He included badass battery monitor, which seems to be one of the best of the bunch.
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I'm getting also great results with battery from wick from but with fe29
modem
Also tweaking settings using spar parts is helping too
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Any screenies?
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ICS Battery life
I have been running "Wicked Sensations" now for 4 days, with the FF09 Modem. I also added the FF11 Kobridge Tweaks to the mix using the aggressive zip. I have been getting roughly 15 to 18 hours out of my battery. I keep my screen about 15% on the slider for brightness. I am heavy user and this seems to be the best combination for my SII. I came from Calkulin's 3.0 GB... If you decide to go back to ICS, this combination. Good luck.

[Q] Official ics

Hello.How is official ics(4.0.4? on the nitro hd? Is it better than gingerbread in performance, does it have better benchmark results than gb,better battery, is video playback smooth, is the browser and gaming smooth? Would anyone want to go back to GB?BTW if i update does it have any result on the screen?Asking cause im not sure to update. Thx for the answers.

I'm sure no one would go back to gingerbread here, benchmarks don't really matter. Stock ics is super smooth. I just don't use it because atm there are better roms available like hono full throttle and cm10 preview.
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No one would go back to gb
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features vs battery life
I would go back. I can't stand half time of battery life regardless of all ICS features. I already got "double capacity" battery from Amazon, but still it's far from GB longevity on stock battery. There are other ROMs, but you need to root the phone and install some kind of CPU Sleeper app. In my case Android OS consumes 40% of the juice and is awake most of time. In GB the major consumer was the screen and I can afford it because the screen is nice . Here in ICS they fixed it by worsening Android OS power consumption Not good improvement at all.
Check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813378
and other thread about Battery Life and think for yourself.

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I would go back. I can't stand half time of battery life regardless of all ICS features. I already got "double capacity" battery from Amazon, but still it's far from GB longevity on stock battery. There are other ROMs, but you need to root the phone and install some kind of CPU Sleeper app. In my case Android OS consumes 40% of the juice and is awake most of time. IN GB the major consumer was the screen (I can afford it because the screen is nice ).
Check the forum thread about Battery Life and think for yourself.
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Did you do factory reset after installing ICS update? You should if you haven't.

Can you please help me root my nitro which I updated to ics via the LG tool. Is there a way to root this device which is already running LG's 4.0.3? Please help!!
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I did factory reset (remember the other thread). It improved the life but not too much actually...

I don't know how you guys are getting bad battery life with the official ICS.
I've been averaging 15 hours of battery life on the official release with pretty heavy use throughout the day... I can provide a screen shot of my battery use screen if desired.
I'm also using the stock LG 1800 mAh battery, and not an extended battery.

eshka said:
I would go back. I can't stand half time of battery life regardless of all ICS features. I already got "double capacity" battery from Amazon, but still it's far from GB longevity on stock battery. There are other ROMs, but you need to root the phone and install some kind of CPU Sleeper app. In my case Android OS consumes 40% of the juice and is awake most of time. In GB the major consumer was the screen and I can afford it because the screen is nice . Here in ICS they fixed it by worsening Android OS power consumption Not good improvement at all.
Check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813378
and other thread about Battery Life and think for yourself.
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Wow you might want to see what is causing that under GB I could never go all day on the HC battery let alone stock the ONLY thing I have found better was CM9 stable but not by much. BTW I am only running RAM booster to manage my apps nothing else. Screen shot with official ICS and stock battery and over an hour of phone calls plus my entire lunch break on the phone:
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I had a chat with AT&T support and folowed their instruction: Do factory reset, DO NOT RESTORE ALL APPS, only restore/update preinstalled apps, install/restore other apps one by one to find "incompatible" apps.
During first 6 hours after reset with only preinstalled apps it was ok. Then I reinstalled Yahoo Mail to sync address book. It also was ok. Then in 3 hours I installed WhatsApp and that was not soo good. Going to stop it and check if it is the problem. May be uninstall is better. Not sure yet. :fingers-crossed:
Also I'll put back stock battery just to do not compare apples to oranges

eshka said:
I had a chat with AT&T support and folowed their instruction: Do factory reset, DO NOT RESTORE ALL APPS, only restore/update preinstalled apps, install/restore other apps one by one to find "incompatible" apps.
During first 6 hours after reset with only preinstalled apps it was ok. Then I reinstalled Yahoo Mail to sync address book. It also was ok. Then in 3 hours I installed WhatsApp and that was not soo good. Going to stop it and check if it is the problem. May be uninstall is better. Not sure yet. :fingers-crossed:
Also I'll put back stock battery just to do not compare apples to oranges
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I am glad you have found the issue!
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As of right now, I would gladly go back. I have an extended battery. Before the update, I regularly got 1½ - 2 full days with moderate to heavy use. No longer. Last night I unplugged my phone at 2 am with 100% charge. Eleven hours later, it sits at 23% with no usage other than 2 short phone calls, 4 or 5 texts, and no gameplay or other usage. Factory reset or no, this is just plain pathetic. I'm pretty confident that if I had the stock battery in right now, I would be lucky to get 3 hours out of it before having to charge.
I have also had issues with lagging, especially while typing text. And finally, my touchscreen seems to be...."off." Touches no longer register completely accurately. Seems to affect the right half of the screen more than the left.

IRingTwyce said:
As of right now, I would gladly go back. I have an extended battery. Before the update, I regularly got 1½ - 2 full days with moderate to heavy use. No longer. Last night I unplugged my phone at 2 am with 100% charge. Eleven hours later, it sits at 23% with no usage other than 2 short phone calls, 4 or 5 texts, and no gameplay or other usage. Factory reset or no, this is just plain pathetic. I'm pretty confident that if I had the stock battery in right now, I would be lucky to get 3 hours out of it before having to charge.
I have also had issues with lagging, especially while typing text. And finally, my touchscreen seems to be...."off." Touches no longer register completely accurately. Seems to affect the right half of the screen more than the left.
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Something must have gone very wrong with your installation of the V20C official ICS.
Not only have I had no problems with my installation, but I also get much better battery life on rooted V20C ICS than on CM9.
Here is my battery usage so far today, on the stock LG 1800 mAh battery (not the 3800 mAh battery).

IRingTwyce said:
As of right now, I would gladly go back. I have an extended battery. Before the update, I regularly got 1½ - 2 full days with moderate to heavy use. No longer. Last night I unplugged my phone at 2 am with 100% charge. Eleven hours later, it sits at 23% with no usage other than 2 short phone calls, 4 or 5 texts, and no gameplay or other usage. Factory reset or no, this is just plain pathetic. I'm pretty confident that if I had the stock battery in right now, I would be lucky to get 3 hours out of it before having to charge.
I have also had issues with lagging, especially while typing text. And finally, my touchscreen seems to be...."off." Touches no longer register completely accurately. Seems to affect the right half of the screen more than the left.
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Your phone is probably staying awake 100%. I had the same problem with the official ICS firmware. I tried installing it thought the official installer and using the flashable version through CWM. Factory reset and froze all the bloatware. Same problem with both of them. Phone stays awake almost all the time and hardly ever goes to sleep. I went back to CM9.

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Your phone is probably staying awake 100%. I had the same problem with the official ICS firmware. I tried installing it thought the official installer and using the flashable version through CWM. Factory reset and froze all the bloatware. Same problem with both of them. Phone stays awake almost all the time and hardly ever goes to sleep. I went back to CM9.
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Well now I have new problems. Did a factory reset, and now every time I unplug the charger (car OR wall), the phone immediately shuts off. Juuuuuuust great. I wish I had NEVER done the upgrade. Shame on me for not waiting and reading about others' troubles first.

I've had no problems. Battery life is way better (hyperion 3800mah). Super smooth and definitely the best launcher out there. Sucks that telus deleted the themes though.
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IRingTwyce said:
Well now I have new problems. Did a factory reset, and now every time I unplug the charger (car OR wall), the phone immediately shuts off. Juuuuuuust great. I wish I had NEVER done the upgrade. Shame on me for not waiting and reading about others' troubles first.
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You might want to try forceably reflashing the ICS update. Perhaps something got corrupted the first time around or something, I don't know. To do it, you would have to follow the directions from the unbricking guide except use the Telus KDZ from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1838346 . Consider using a different USB cable if you have one just to rule out the possibility of a problematic cable that caused the flashing to get corrupted.
Unfortunately I have no idea why you would be experiencing the problems you're having.

drumist said:
You might want to try forceably reflashing the ICS update. Perhaps something got corrupted the first time around or something, I don't know. To do it, you would have to follow the directions from the unbricking guide except use the Telus KDZ from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1838346 . Consider using a different USB cable if you have one just to rule out the possibility of a problematic cable that caused the flashing to get corrupted.
Unfortunately I have no idea why you would be experiencing the problems you're having.
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OK. Thanks for that info. The factory reset has definitely left me with serious charging issues. Left the phone charging all night, and it only charged to 56%! That was with a solid 8 hours plugged in with the factory cable/plug.
Is there a particular reason I need to use that specific Telus KDZ? Just curious.

IRingTwyce said:
OK. Thanks for that info. The factory reset has definitely left me with serious charging issues. Left the phone charging all night, and it only charged to 56%! That was with a solid 8 hours plugged in with the factory cable/plug.
Is there a particular reason I need to use that specific Telus KDZ? Just curious.
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That KDZ is Telus's version of ICS. It's the same file that automatically gets downloaded by LG's updater tool if you use it normally. The problem is that LG in their infinite wisdom won't let you reinstall ICS because "there is no update available". The unbricking guide basically tricks the updater into applying the update anyway, but you have to manually download the KDZ you want to install.
You don't HAVE to install that one. You could also install Bell's or AT&T's ICS if you wanted to try it. But I don't think there's a good way to get back to Telus Gingerbead unless someone has a backup of it they can post. You could install a custom ROM though.
BTW, is it possible the problem is actually with the battery itself and it's just a coincidence? Are you using an OEM battery?

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The problem is that LG in their infinite wisdom won't let you reinstall ICS because "there is no update available".
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That was something that was REALLY ticking me off last night as I fought with this.
You don't HAVE to install that one. You could also install Bell's or AT&T's ICS if you wanted to try it. But I don't think there's a good way to get back to Telus Gingerbead unless someone has a backup of it they can post. You could install a custom ROM though.
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Didn't really want to go the custom ROM route with this phone...but I might. I'm on at&t FWIW, but I'm not opposed to another company's ROM. I do like several of the unlocking features and other visual tweaks of LG's ICS, but I don't know how the custom ROMs would compare in that regard.
BTW, is it possible the problem is actually with the battery itself and it's just a coincidence? Are you using an OEM battery?
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Anything is possible, but it seems like too much of a coincidence. I'm using a QCell extended battery. It's maybe six months old at the most. With GB I regularly got 2 days on a charge with fairly heavy usage. Immediately upon updating to ICS, battery life dropped to roughly 16 hours. I didn't do the factory reset for roughly one week after updating, as I <stupidly> did not do any research before the update. Immediately after the reset my battery issues compounded with the slow/no charge and shut down on power cord unplug / reboot on power cord plug in. Sadly, my stock battery is 630 miles away. So I have no way of eliminating the battery as being the issue.

[Q] Huge Drop in Battery Life after 2.17 Update

Hi all,
My battery life on the One X has been great before the 2.17 update. Better than the average being reported on this forum.
After 2.17 it plummeted to 14 hours or so with barely 2 hours of screen time.
Nothing was changed after the update on my end. Same apps, etc. All on stock.
What are my options? Will a hard reset solve it?
Thanks.
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The factory reset did the trick. Battery is back functioning properly and I did get extra juice out of the 2.17 update.
If you do find a weird drop in battery life and the ONLY change is that you updated the firmware, a hard reset may solve it like it did for me.

junialum said:
Hi all,
My battery life on the One X has been great before the 2.17 update. Better than the average being reported on this forum.
After 2.17 it plummeted to 14 hours or so with barely 2 hours of screen time.
Nothing was changed after the update on my end. Same apps, etc. All on stock.
What are my options? Will a hard reset solve it?
Thanks.
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You should go thru a couple of charging cycles before complaining about battery time.. everytime you flash a new rom or update the phone the battery has to calibrate ( as far as i know ), and that takes about 2 - 4 recharge cycles..
in case you already done that, then check you sync settings, brightness if its too high, or low.. Maybe you are used to be on wifi instead of 3g ?

It has gone through over 10 full charge cycles.
Sync is off. Brightness minimum.
Wifi and 3G usage patterns are similar.
Just noticed that Phone Idle is consuming a lot more.

Maybe it's the new radio which is affecting your signal, try flashing an older radio. My battery life is better on the new firmware.
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i first of all found the battery life had dropped, i ended up resetting the phone and it got much better, i think some old app was getting lodged in the memory and preventing deep sleep.
i ran it for about 2 weeks before i decided to wipe.

@nikzDHD
I suspect it could be that. My provider does not provide that strong a connectivity. But that is something I can't change for the next year or so.
@audiobookman
I decided to wipe it today. Also waited about 2-3 weeks before deciding enough is enough.
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I did a HTC Battery test and found that my battery was in good condition and performed way better than their baseline. So, I went on to wipe the phone clean and started from scratch.
It was not a painful process actually. Most of my stuff are on the cloud (Google/Dropbox/Skydrive) and the only things I had to back up was the list of apps I had and some settings from apps like Tasker and Minimalist Text. I got everything back up and running within an hour + (reinstalling 60+ apps and getting them setup the way they were takes time).
So far, battery seems a lot better and back to the former period but, it is too early to tell. I'll give it a week of use and a fair amount of full charge cycles before commenting.
Will update this thread then.
If anyone has other ideas please sound out. Thanks a lot!

junialum said:
@nikzDHD
I suspect it could be that. My provider does not provide that strong a connectivity. But that is something I can't change for the next year or so.
@audiobookman
I decided to wipe it today. Also waited about 2-3 weeks before deciding enough is enough.
--
I did a HTC Battery test and found that my battery was in good condition and performed way better than their baseline. So, I went on to wipe the phone clean and started from scratch.
It was not a painful process actually. Most of my stuff are on the cloud (Google/Dropbox/Skydrive) and the only things I had to back up was the list of apps I had and some settings from apps like Tasker and Minimalist Text. I got everything back up and running within an hour + (reinstalling 60+ apps and getting them setup the way they were takes time).
So far, battery seems a lot better and back to the former period but, it is too early to tell. I'll give it a week of use and a fair amount of full charge cycles before commenting.
Will update this thread then.
If anyone has other ideas please sound out. Thanks a lot!
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I do a factory reset after every OTA because of the reasons you mention of this thread. After it battery life seems to get better or at least not worse as on previous firmware version. I hate doing that but it seems the only way
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The factory reset did the trick. Battery is back functioning properly and I did get extra juice out of the 2.17 update.
If you do find a weird drop in battery life and the ONLY change is that you updated the firmware, a hard reset may solve it like it did for me.
Thanks all.