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Terrible Battery With ICS

Is anyone else having terrible battery life with ICS? I'm using Calkulin's ROM with FD26, and my phone is already at 50% after 5 hours of being on. No phone calls, screen was barely on, and no browsing. It would usually be at 85-90% on the UnNamed gingerbread ROM. The battery stats say android OS is using the majority of it, and it's making the phone hot as well. Anyone else have this issue? Is it time to go back to gingerbread?

I am havig the exact same issue, fast drain and Android OS being at the top of the list. I haven't got a reply as of yet in other posts so IDK....

If your phone is getting hot then there's probably an app eating up cpu cycles and keeping the phone from deep sleep.
Use an app like system panel to see what app is misbehaving.

Try a few things.. I fell aslee with..umm... A.very family friendly website on and it stayed on all night. I ended up gaining battery somehow... Not really gaining but it was around 45 when i slept. But my settings are so tweaked...
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shaklee3 said:
Is anyone else having terrible battery life with ICS? I'm using Calkulin's ROM with FD26, and my phone is already at 50% after 5 hours of being on. No phone calls, screen was barely on, and no browsing. It would usually be at 85-90% on the UnNamed gingerbread ROM. The battery stats say android OS is using the majority of it, and it's making the phone hot as well. Anyone else have this issue? Is it time to go back to gingerbread?
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If you are using Calk's FD26, then it's trying to use 'conservative' cpu governor but it's not supported on Stock ICS. Backup his CPU tweak init.d script and try modified version in here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1625299
Hopefully, I expect coming FE07 has more CPU governors that will give us more power saving options.

Well why dont you try my RubiX Xcel Rom. Users are reporting awesome battery life of 14hrs Plus under Moderate to heavy use. Just a thought

ReActiveDisorder said:
Well why dont you try my RubiX Xcel Rom. Users are reporting awesome battery life of 14hrs Plus under Moderate to heavy use. Just a thought
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Thanks, I'll give that a try. Do you know how it compares to the AOKP ROM?

How does this look? Caulk v1.5.
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Yes its horrible!
Edit..sorry I couldn't resist
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No one can beat you JC!
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kobridge said:
No one can beat you JC!
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I think Sammys just agree with me...my NS4G yesterday

JohnCorleone said:
Yes its horrible!
Edit..sorry I couldn't resist
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BS!!! pm me your ways of eternal battery life!
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radrian92 said:
BS!!! pm me your ways of eternal battery life!
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I don't do anything special really. If you are starting from a stock ROM, delete Sprint bloat (I do keep Sprint TV and VVM) and delete Social Hub and the 4 apks tied to it. Replace those with inverted Facebook and Twitter if you use them. Actually use as many inverted apps as possible. Turn off auto brightness and control it by swiping across status bar. The more time on wifi the better obviously. Kobridge and I have discovered that leaving wifi on even when not connected actually helps. Ummm....not many widgets helps. I always have a minimal homescreen. Also dark wallpapers with only a little color is good too. Black ones are best. That's a good start. Let me think if I do anything else but for the most part that's all I do. Watch out for rogue apps running in the background. Oh yeah...delete Maps and only install when you need it. One app running in the background can ruin your whole setup. Monitor that with Better Battery Stats
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I still get like 24 hours each charge with AOKP

JohnCorleone said:
I don't do anything special really. If you are starting from a stock ROM, delete Sprint bloat (I do keep Sprint TV and VVM) and delete Social Hub and the 4 apks tied to it. Replace those with inverted Facebook and Twitter if you use them. Actually use as many inverted apps as possible. Turn off auto brightness and control it by swiping across status bar. The more time on wifi the better obviously. Kobridge and I have discovered that leaving wifi on even when not connected actually helps. Ummm....not many widgets helps. I always have a minimal homescreen. Also dark wallpapers with only a little color is good too. Black ones are best. That's a good start. Let me think if I do anything else but for the most part that's all I do. Watch out for rogue apps running in the background. Oh yeah...delete Maps and only install when you need it. One app running in the background can ruin your whole setup. Monitor that with Better Battery Stats
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Why delete maps? Does it always run in the background?

FD10 to FD26 stock I was getting up to 31 hours of standby. Definitely only brought the phones down to 50% in 5 hours through moderate use.

This what I got from blue kuban fd24 by rujelus
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JC what ROM are you on?
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JC what ROM are you on?
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Venum Ice FD19 is my main daily. I just added WP7 Notifications to squash the one minor issue.
And yes I delete the baked in Maps because it has been known to start on its own after boot. Check with BBS and it should let you know
Actually I was involved with Ice. It is basically my exact setup out of the box.
Edit...I forgot about deleting clock and weather widgets apks if you don't use them. I use Weatherbug Elite
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Pimp my Rom

I came across this interesting app/tweak.
It's supposed to be universal, I am downloading now and will update my finding. Anyone else tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1908269

Alex1x said:
I came across this interesting app/tweak.
It's supposed to be universal, I am downloading now and will update my finding. Anyone else tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1908269
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Read about it on Lifehacker, how's it working out for you?

This is pretty interesting, might give it a try.

Nice. Downloading to give a try. I thought I saw some devs talking about incorporating this into some ROMs?
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Weird. So it could actually work on a TW ROM?
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So has anyone tested this yet?

Tried it on cm9 (Shabby's latest nightly). Some things work, others don't and some will cause the script to hang. It looks like the build.prop tweaks applied and the init.d items copied to the appropriate folder, though I really can't notice a whole heaping difference myself so I don't know if they actually did anything, and the script itself ran out of the box. The not working list looks to consist of things that probably just need a little E4GT love from our devs to button everything up straight. And (at least for me) installing the Smart Stay app froze the whole process but after a reboot I found that it installed the app.
Just my .02¢, others could probably give a much better run down but I just wanted to play with it so it only seemed right to share what I noticed.
Props to the Dev and OP. I'm very fond of this idea, and thankful it was shared.
UPDATED: OK so I got bored and tried it on PA 2.16 and got a little better luck (ie didn't freeze once and actually installed everything I had selected.)

I'm also on PA and it doesn't cripple anything, but I don't see a very dramatic difference in much of the overall operation. I was hoping it'd help battery life but it seems no different. The Sony music player is kind of cool, and the CPU governors seem to kick in. I guess one would have to really dig in to see the difference. But I'm stoked on this kind of mod coming out.
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Another update: I've tried it on aosp jb and ics and touchwiz ics. Still no huge differences anywhere on any rom but it's useful to add beats and a file manager on roms that dont have one out of the box amongst other things. I hope to see this come out of development strong as it's a nice concept

I've noticed more steady battery life.
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hrffd said:
I've noticed more steady battery life.
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Which tweaks did you use, if you remember? Ver 2.0 has had a small improvement over the original so maybe I'm just not paying close enough attention. I must say the update alone makes this worth trying once.
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Just installed this.. The installation went well.. Going to give it a few cycles to see some results
-TeaM VeNuM Like A Boss

This seems promising. I can't speak to any battery life improvement yet but the phone does feel snappier.

I installed v2 and here is my find running few tweaks.
Browser seems a bit faster
Touch input seems more accurate and responsive
Battery is hard to tell but maybe added 30mins extra screen on time
I flashed sony music and beats, but I can't find them... not sure whats up lol
Regardless, everything seems a bit more responsive?

Smartstay is quite handy. Especially for pron
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Alex1x said:
I installed v2 and here is my find running few tweaks.
Browser seems a bit faster
Touch input seems more accurate and responsive
Battery is hard to tell but maybe added 30mins extra screen on time
I flashed sony music and beats, but I can't find them... not sure whats up lol
Regardless, everything seems a bit more responsive?
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Sounds like a bad install towards the end. Ive noticed I have much better luck using it after I've already booted into the ROM for a few minutes. Just reboot recovery, pimp, and reboot
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Thought sony and bears were behind the scenes tweaks?
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patrao_n said:
Thought sony and bears were behind the scenes tweaks?
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it is.. but some use awesome beats some use dsp manager.. either way.. depending on wat u flash this should install sony walkman and dsp manager as well as a ac!d audio app to turn it on and off plus the behind the scenes files
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elliwigy said:
it is.. but some use awesome beats some use dsp manager.. either way.. depending on wat u flash this should install sony walkman and dsp manager as well as a ac!d audio app to turn it on and off plus the behind the scenes files
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I've only ever gotten the Awesome Beats app from Pimp my Rom, which is just a modded DSP manager. The Sony apps are a music player and gallery, which are pretty nicely polished, with quite a few addons for them. What is this acid audio app you mentioned? Not that I'm doubting you, I've just never run across it so I'd like to check it out.
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mdhscanes24 said:
I've only ever gotten the Awesome Beats app from Pimp my Rom, which is just a modded DSP manager. The Sony apps are a music player and gallery, which are pretty nicely polished, with quite a few addons for them. What is this acid audio app you mentioned? Not that I'm doubting you, I've just never run across it so I'd like to check it out.
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screenies below.. its actually from a seperate mod lol sorry.. i forgot, i flash ac!d audio mod n get all that.. screen below of the app im talking about..
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Vice City is Available NOW!

Nice Vice
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Nice!
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I think I'm going to wait for the games to drop in price of before I get it. I think I picked up gta3 for either 0.25 ¢ or 0.99
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GTA Vice city+ Nexus 7= Awesomeness Christmass :=)

Nexus 7 + GTa vice city - F from School=Books :/

dfavefenix said:
GTA Vice city+ Nexus 7= Awesomeness Christmass :=)
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you are missing plus PS3 controller

Very Nice, thanks for sharing.

I bought it the day it appeared and had to wait till it was fixed. I'd been checking every time I went to the market just in case. Took six and a half hours to download on my crappy connection but my god its worth every minute of the waiting...
"TAKE.......THESE BROKEEEEEN WIIIIINNNNNNGS.........."
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vice city look better now than when it originally came out! very impressed with the game. awesome to have flash fm back!

Anybody else have the problem where the draw distance for cars is really bad. So bad that when overtaking a car on the opposite side of the road a car can appear before I've passed. I've looked through settings and haven't seen anything
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has anyone tried typing "nuttertools" cheat for weapons.. i did and the gamw crashed..
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ehmjay said:
has anyone tried typing "nuttertools" cheat for weapons.. i did and the gamw crashed..
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I did and it worked fine. Same goes for preciousproctection. Make sure your outside not in a building. I did it right outside the save building.
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How are you entering cheats?
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Jordanooo said:
How are you entering cheats?
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USB OTG and a keyboard. Or "in-game keyboard" on the play store. its a straight PC port so PC cheats work, but some will crash the game.
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YESS finally my fav gta game. will try it out later today

The one thing I've found that's quite annoying is the touch controls on the missions where you are riding shotgun. The fire button seems to send the aim all over the place. Anyone else found this?
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Jordanooo said:
Anybody else have the problem where the draw distance for cars is really bad. So bad that when overtaking a car on the opposite side of the road a car can appear before I've passed. I've looked through settings and haven't seen anything
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Was playing on my S3 and having this problem. Suddenly I'm a horrible driver because oncoming traffic doesn't appear until they're almost on top of me. There is a draw distance setting, but I turned it to full, and it didn't change it.
I don't recall ever having this issue with GTA 3.

warlock257 said:
Was playing on my S3 and having this problem. Suddenly I'm a horrible driver because oncoming traffic doesn't appear until they're almost on top of me. There is a draw distance setting, but I turned it to full, and it didn't change it.
I don't recall ever having this issue with GTA 3.
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That's what I mean. I can't be a 'rebel' driver anymore without crashing. Hope it gets fixed in an update
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ÜBER™ said:
Make sure your outside not in a building. I did it right outside the save building.
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Seems like it only works outside the save hotel. Anywhere else I tried it, it fc'd.
My BT keyboard controls the game just fine.

It has like lag spikes and I turn off the fps limiter so I don't know what to do now anyone have the solution?
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[Q] Major lag spike when playing a game and connected to wi-fi.

So basically I had this issue for awhile now, even on stock ROM and kernel. Now i'm using CM10 nightly with franco kernel. Whenever I play a game offline or out of reach pf Wi-Fi, the game runs perfectly fine. But when connected to Wi-Fi i'm getting huge frame drops (1-5 fps) every like 2-3 min. Maybe it has already been answered, but yes, I did search the forums, I searched pretty much everywhere. Anyone had similar issues?

What about 3g/4g?
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I do,and I still did not got a workaround with this...but I don't have this issue only when connected to wifi,just every time i do something(play a game,scrolling,switching homescreens) the only workaround is using faux kernel wich is pretty good(in my case)

Maybe an app like facebook
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Yep even with 3G/4G.
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Have you tried with a different game?
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It does it with mostly 3D games, but it does it as well for a few 2D games like Drag Racing. I noticed that turning off auto-sync got rid of the lag for about 10 minutes. But then the framedrops would happen again.
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ThePureTalent said:
It does it with mostly 3D games, but it does it as well for a few 2D games like Drag Racing. I noticed that turning off auto-sync got rid of the lag for about 10 minutes. But then the framedrops would happen again.
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Seems as though you have something running in the background.
You could try, is catch what is going on via logs (ddms may be helpful here since it has a built in log, but you can get them via adb as well) or adb shell commands, adb shell top for example. Trying and see what is going on when the lag spikes hit.
Alternatively, you can disable/uninstall apps that could possibly be the offenders. Facebook apps, twitter apps, messaging, email...perhaps even widgets. Then try and game until you figure out what the offender was.
This is assuming it is another app at fault.

Alright thanks for the advice! Won't be able to try it right now as I'm going on a vacation but as soon as I can I'll do it and report back.
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Greenify

I'm sure some or many of you have heard of this, but the app Greenify is amazing. I just wanted to try and get the word out to anyone experiencing unsatisfactory battery life.
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Greenify is great. It lets you hibernate the apps that you are not using without the confusing interface which other apps offer. It's impossible to put yourself into a bootloop using Greenify since your not disabling individual services that the general user might not understand. I've been there and done that using other apps.
By hibernating the apps you're not using, not only do you get better battery life, you also get more free RAM that can be used by other services and applications making the overall experience with the system that much better because you have plenty of memory.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify
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Thank you, your explanation is definitely a lot better than mine ever would have been I also appreciate you putting up a link. I made this thread from my phone and I don't usually create many threads or post much so I'm still trying to get the hanf of it.
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It's not too hard. Just minimize the app and open the Play Store, find the app, click share, if you have a clipboard app you can copy the link or do what I do and copy it from the text message option, then pull up XDA and paste.
I kinda made it sound like a sales pitch... but that's just how I explain stuff.
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I'm sold!
Is the process similar to what RomToolbox pro does when you freeze an app?
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I use autostarts but its not noon friendly at all. I've soft bricked a bunch of times with it stopping the wrong process
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PanchoPlanet said:
I'm sold!
Is the process similar to what RomToolbox pro does when you freeze an app?
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I think its much more user friendly. The app stays in its hibernated state till you use it. No need to defrost, like when freezing. And its not system heavy, or use much ram

This is a very useful app. Nice find.
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I've had absolutely zero problems with this app and as my screen shot shows I'm getting great results
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Are you running JB? Also, does running this app allow your phone to deep sleep?

I am running jb, and I have had no issues with my phone deep sleeping.
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Looks good but how much screen on time?

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Are you running JB? Also, does running this app allow your phone to deep sleep?
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This combined with ds battery saver will give you incredible results:beer:
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Which apps do you guys greenify?
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Did I read wrong or when the screen is off the ds batt app turns off data and phone?
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btoddweber said:
Did I read wrong or when the screen is off the ds batt app turns off data and phone?
jellyverse soaked E4GT
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It turns off data, shouldn't effect your phone service.
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Did I read wrong or when the screen is off the ds batt app turns off data and phone?
jellyverse soaked E4GT
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Data and phone service is two different things
You can get cut off from data on sprint, AT&T, Verizon..etc. and still get phone calls and all....but you wont be able to stream, download..etc
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Love Greenify, it's great for annoying apps that like to run all the time in the background, that you use only very occasionally, like Number Guru for example.
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Bear Knuckles said:
Which apps do you guys greenify?
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All of them! Only ones i don't are the ones i need running in background (dropbox, drive, chrome, maps, Google voice, and a couple widgets that auto update)
No performance hit so far and battery is noticeably better. Gonna add ds battery saver tomorrow and see how far i can push it.
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I always Greenify any social networking app since I'm not really too worried about simply refreshing the app once I open it. This method has allowed me to get a solid 4 hours of on screen time with about 15% battery left.
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