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Hey guys,
It would be really nice if people start posting the battery life of their defy on CM7 any build.
Pls mention the build detail and how much do you use.
let me start.
i am getting around 2 days 10-15 hrs on a single charge..
i am using cm7 RC1v2
i listen to music for around 4 hrs, i msg frequently, i take pics,only 2G, wifi for an hour, no gps, no mobile data.
Lets try to keep this thread alive to help ppl who are trying CM7 and wants to know how much they should expect battery life.
Thank you
I m having the latest build july 1 and it charges only till 95............
2g is 6hrs
cm7 beta 6
around 30hs
2h listening to music
1.5h talking
30m gaming
30m web surfing
auto-brightness enabled
wifi/3g constantly on, wifi never sleeps
undervolted:
800/45, 600/30, 300/18
up threshold: 90%
vsel1 when screen is off
vsel2 when battery <20%
wow...that alot of info...thanks..really appreciated..
cmon guys...70+ views but only 2 replies??
I've noticed that if I am busy and I don't have time to play to much with Defy (using it mostly for his basic function = mobile phone) the battery can least over 4 days with moderate use (talk time around 40 minutes). I generally keep it on 2G network mode as the 3G coverage on my current carrier is not so god and I use the internet/data connection on Defy only on demand. The screenshot below was taken on CM7 beta 6.
1 hour usage can drain as much battery as 20 hours standby. So "battery life" can hardly be comparable even with slight difference in usage pattern. Maybe how long 1% battery can last on average is more comparable.
In my case 1% battery can standby 1~2 hours, or use (call, video, game...) 3~7 minutes. I was actually recording battery level/time with pen and paper but not by impression. And I don't notice big differences among roms, including orange, finland, noric, hk/tw, or cm7.
And I noticed that after using the 720p recording patch to record video (in other stock roms, not cm7), battery would be drained at 4% every hour standby.
3 hrs of GPS tracking, screen off, 3G always on:
100% to 70%
Hi !
With rooted froyo (the official one from Orange France), SetvSel to undervolt the proc (vsel3 : 52V @ 1000 MHz, lowering by 2V the others vsel), i could go for more than 26hrs with one charge.
Now with cm7 nightly from 01/06 n°0114 (which by the way works like a charm and was really easy to install even for a noob like me), no undervolting at all, 9hrs drained 35% of the battery (with a more intense use I must recognize), which leads to a little less than 26hrs.
I will try to undervolt it, but I definitely think I will get a better battery saving with cm7 !
It's terrible to see that with some little tweaks, cm7 moto defy beats the stock one.
I consider that I paid moto enough that they can provide these tweaks by default in their product, it doesnt cost much time (in my case less than an hour) and it benefits a lot.
ABC_Universal said:
1 hour usage can drain as much battery as 20 hours standby. So "battery life" can hardly be comparable even with slight difference in usage pattern. Maybe how long 1% battery can last on average is more comparable.
In my case 1% battery can standby 1~2 hours, or use (call, video, game...) 3~7 minutes. I was actually recording battery level/time with pen and paper but not by impression. And I don't notice big differences among roms, including orange, finland, noric, hk/tw, or cm7.
And I noticed that after using the 720p recording patch to record video (in other stock roms, not cm7), battery would be drained at 4% every hour standby.
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For me 1% battery can standby for 30 mins only
Wi-fi off
2g
cm7-110627-2013-NIGHTLY-Jordan.zip
SoulHunter78 said:
For me 1% battery can standby for 30 mins only
Wi-fi off
2g
cm7-110627-2013-NIGHTLY-Jordan.zip
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did u wipe battery stats?
if not then do it! download battery calibration app from market and use it.
u can also do it manually in custom recovery..
This is mine. im using CM7RC1
5% battery only 33 minutes
wifi-off
2g network
phone call 5 minutes
stand by
I really need your help??!!!
5% after 30 min from full charge. Wow, check the battery itself, maybe broken
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50~60 hours.
sorry for a long post but here is a quick log of my activity using cm7rc1 v1
7:00 am - boot phone with wifi - 99%
9:42 am - wifi off - switch to 3g - 91 % (8% drop - 30min music)
9:56 am - stdby with 3g on - 88%
10:06 am - 5 min gps nav 3g - 85% battery - 36C
10:22 - switch to 2g - 81%
11:37 - 2g stdby -73% - battery - 34C
12:47 - camera-3pics, video 1 min, 2g - 66%
turned off phone reboot to recovery update to cm7 rc1 v2 then reboot
12:58 - 65% (still on 2g)
switching to 3g
13:02 - 3g stdby - 64%
13:11 - maps, couple of messages- 62%
13:40 - 1min call, check emails, (still in 3g) - 49%
2:20 - 3g stdby - 44%
2:29 - 3g gps nav - 39% battery 47C
2:48 - data off - switch to wifi - 38%
this is my moderate use as i haven't played any games yet.
baseband - us tmobile .9
OC in recovery -300/600/1000 vsel 20/40/50
vm heap - 16m (if this would help)
2 widgets for power, 1 widget for clock
auto brightness/ wake with volume control
any tips how to improve battery life?
after i using BatteryCalibration, my battery seems like running well..it drains 3% after full charging in 4hrs30mnt.
phone idle 40%
cell stand by 31%
display 12%
android system 5%
etc...
is it normal now??
F.Ace said:
after i using BatteryCalibration, my battery seems like running well..it drains 3% after full charging in 4hrs30mnt.
phone idle 40%
cell stand by 31%
display 12%
android system 5%
etc...
is it normal now??
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yes it is completely normal
i m sure now u may get a complete 2 days backup with moderate use on ur defy
salingpusa said:
any tips how to improve battery life?
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wipe battery stats after flashing a ROM..read few post above to know how to do it..
turnoff wifi,3G,gps,bluetooth and mobile data when u r not using..these consume battery alot!
or else use apps like juicedefender or green battery app to do it automatically..
reduce screen brightness or keep it in auto brightness mode..it will save alot of battery
task killers might help..some people says..but i think it consumes more battery then it gives
avoid using live wallpaper..i know it looks gr8..but its not gud for ur battery
try these and report here..
All the best
my battery uses is not normal
help!!!
the display use too much
sorry for it is chinese version
hope all can identify the icons
adkit said:
my battery uses is not normal
help!!!
the display use too much
sorry for it is chinese version
hope all can identify the icons
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hmm..many people have problem with display..
its been only 33 mins since last charge..
report back here after few hrs and let us know if the display is still taking max battery or not
still not fixed..
after i use the battery calibration, firstly its good..
but now the battery stats is changing again the position
current position of battery 76%
20h 35m on battery
display 30%
phone idle 24%
android system 11%
cell standby 9%
android OS 5%
etc
(on airplane mode, wifi off (on for 1h), very low brightness)
Hi everyone.
I don't see anyone feeling bad about battery nowadays with new update. I dont see any improvement in mine :O
I need some informations from you, can you tell me voltage phone reaches when it turns off by itself? Its very strange when mine reaches around 40-50% voltage goes down very fast and it turns off around 3.2v...
Who's with good battery?
Tell me,
*phone time on battery
*display on time
*wifi time on
i feel like mine is not good i dont know the reason why.. my friend gets 7 hours of browsing(7hrs display on), and i get around 4... it cant last 5 hours with display on.
-- 30 % brightness, bravia off, sync off, auto rotation on --
I saw on internet some reviews 2 days of heavy use :O how?
I tried wiping batt. stats, and gonna try again after system creates batterystats.bin
i did it twice, but slight improvement...
regards
hope this isnt spam for you.
Hi
I have voted 8-9 hours for casual use at low display brightness 20-30%. Auto brightness is allways activated and using it in a fairly light room might increase your display brightness without you noticing this. Could this be the reason you are experiencing such high battery drain with display on?
Heavy gaming:
3D games like order and chaos and dungeon defender that utilize the Andreno consumes up to 30% per hour, that leaves 3 hours of use. Battery history show an allmost 50/50 between display power usage and the game process power usage. Buildin speaker also consumes allot of power.
FPSE that to my knowledge do not use the GPU but utilizes the CPU 100% consumes around 20% per hour leaving 4-5hours gaming.
Light gaming and casual use.
My daughters using drawing programs, playing angry birds or other light weight kids games plus some webbrowsing and email reading consumes about 12-15% per hour leaving 8-9 hours of use with dispaly on.
If you add speech calls on 3G your times will decrease significantly, this is consuming 20-30% of battery per hour depending on signal strengt. This is my personal observations.
Bravia is allways activated and I thought this was only used when watching movies or looking at pictures in the gallery?
It is interesting to read the SE support app installed and the SE recommendations to improve battery live. They mention that if your display is at max brightness it will not make any noticeable difference if you have bluetooth, wifi, data, sync etc turned on as the screen is consuming sooo much power at max they also recommend to use earphones instead of speaker to improve battery consumption. The rest of the recommendations are well known as to turn everything not needed off. The recommendation I like the most is a daily reboot to improve system performance
I like your review.. I got the same result with 3d gaming... 3 hours, but i never had 8-9 hours even with light usage.. Not playing 3d games..
Max. I get is 5 hours but i dont know how, i fell asleep on entry screen on asphalt 6...
Btw. Did u payed order n chaos i cant find cracked version.
3 hours phone on
40 mins display on
1 hour wifi..
Now on 85 %
Regards
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I began to suspect it's from the battery it self, I reversed to the old firmware .145 the battery was the same, never completes a whole day, 19 hours maximum.
I think its battery too... I bought mine with world generic, and flashed uk generic, its same for me... Has anyone thought that somewhere in system is set battery capacity is example 900, i have read it on this forum in x8... So how to investigate it, my battery dies always ~4 hours display... It went once 2 days, and display time of course 4 hours.
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shtreber said:
I like your review.. I got the same result with 3d gaming... 3 hours, but i never had 8-9 hours even with light usage.. Not playing 3d games..
Max. I get is 5 hours but i dont know how, i fell asleep on entry screen on asphalt 6...
Btw. Did u payed order n chaos i cant find cracked version.
3 hours phone on
40 mins display on
1 hour wifi..
Now on 85 %
Regards
Sent from my LT15i using xda premium
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Haha, a nice way of testing it, keeping it running while sleeping :-D 5-6 hours is probably more normal than 8-9 hours, that was when my daughters was using it with a kids drawing program at low light settings, it was not consuming much cpu at no sound was used.
I have bought order and chaos but had shortly installed a cracked version as there were some problems with android marked at the time. I paid for the game but it would not start the download, contacted their support and found a cracked version while waiting for them to fix it ;-)
36 min phone on
36 min display on
Wifi on browsing xda on dolphin
Display dimmed with SE widget
2G coverage
8% battery used
Display consumed 76%
Dolphin consumed 13%
Wifi consumed 5%
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Running with smartass cpu governor and noop io schedule and Doomkernel v10
I got some interesting stuff... I deleted mine bat. Widget, using battery calibrator i can see percentage, 4.2 v full, 3.75 v 46 %, i played 10 min game, percentage fell down, and now i got 35 %, same voltage... Btw. Stock everything.
And calibrated my battery today... I ll post in few days if i got some improvement, but i dont think so...
And 13 min 300 mhz, but display on all the time? Weird.
29 % 3.72 v... Browsing only
20% 3.708 v... Still browsing
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shtreber said:
I got some interesting stuff... I deleted mine bat. Widget, using battery calibrator i can see percentage, 4.2 v full, 3.75 v 46 %, i played 10 min game, percentage fell down, and now i got 35 %, same voltage... Btw. Stock everything.
And calibrated my battery today... I ll post in few days if i got some improvement, but i dont think so...
And 13 min 300 mhz, but display on all the time? Weird.
29 % 3.72 v... Browsing only
20% 3.708 v... Still browsing
Sent from my LT15i using xda premium
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The batterys voltage will drop allot from 100% to 90% and the voltage decrease will slow down as you are getting closer to 0%. I would guess 3,65 is close to 0%.
The battery % is not calculated from the voltage level but from an internal register in the battery chip that decreases with a value calculated by the battery chip from the exact amount of power used. The battery chip can measure precisly how much power is running to and from the battery.
The android calibration can change this register for example when the battery is getting close to a pre configured safe voltage level, could be 3,65v. It would then reset the register to 0 and the same goes when charging the phone.
If the register show you can have max 5000 units and you are charging the battery and reaches 95% and 4500 units while the voltage show 4,2 which is full, it would then update the register to have 4500 as max level and start to decrese this as power is draining from the battery. If you have 10% left and 450 in the register with voltage at 3,65 it will presume this to be empty and the register would be changed to 0 and battery indicator to 0%. The next charge to 100% should end up at 4150 which would match the exact capacity available for the phone.
The battery will over time slowly degenerate and its capacity will slowly decrease which is one of the reasons the calibration is needed to allways have it show correct battery levels.
The battery is actually not empty at 3,65 but draining it even further will drop the voltage and make the phone crash.
I hope my above explanation makes senses. Had earlier updated and compiled an android kernel battery driver for the old xperia x1 phone. I presume the mechanism for the battery driver in Xperia Arc is the same.
hygge said:
The batterys voltage will drop allot from 100% to 90% and the voltage decrease will slow down as you are getting closer to 0%. I would guess 3,65 is close to 0%.
The battery % is not calculated from the voltage level but from an internal register in the battery chip that decreases with a value calculated by the battery chip from the exact amount of power used. The battery chip can measure precisly how much power is running to and from the battery.
The android calibration can change this register for example when the battery is getting close to a pre configured safe voltage level, could be 3,65v. It would then reset the register to 0 and the same goes when charging the phone.
If the register show you can have max 5000 units and you are charging the battery and reaches 95% and 4950 units while the voltage show 4,2 which is full, it would then update the register to have 4950 as max level and start to decrese this as power is draining from the battery. If you have 10% left and 100 in the register with voltage at 3,65 it will presume this to be empty and the register would be changed to 0 and battery indicator to 0%. The next charge to 100% should end up at 4850 which would match the exact capacity available for the phone.
The battery will over time slowly degenerate and its capacity will slowly decrease which is one of the reasons the calibration is needed to allways have it show correct battery levels.
The battery is actually not empty at 3,65 but draining it even further will drop the voltage and make the phone crash.
I hope my above explanation makes senses. Had earlier updated and compiled an android kernel battery driver for the old xperia x1 phone. I presume the mechanism for the battery driver in Xperia Arc is the same.
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more results,
3.65v at 15%
3.6 at 8%
and since it passed 8, it goes down to ~3.25v but mine doesnt crash. it nicely turns off. 5 hours 35 mins display(yay.. improvement.), wifi time i cant remember, but 9+ hours. 30% brightness,around 30 mins total gaming, something like angry birds. 30% brightness. and like 20 mins 3g internet.
shtreber said:
more results,
3.65v at 15%
3.6 at 8%
and since it passed 8, it goes down to ~3.25v but mine doesnt crash. it nicely turns off. 5 hours 35 mins display(yay.. improvement.), wifi time i cant remember, but 9+ hours. 30% brightness,around 30 mins total gaming, something like angry birds. 30% brightness. and like 20 mins 3g internet.
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Interesting, the old xperia x1 could not handle levels below 3,65 6i
Hi
For the last one week my battery drains faster and the phone app takes most of the battery.
I normally use CPU spy and Usually my phone would be in deep sleep mode for almost 95% but now it has dropped to 72.5% and some service on 1100MHZ takes 18%.
My BBS shows the following info.
Can you please help. Thanks in advance.
70% deep sleep is not actually bad.
Could be due to roaming ?
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I got stock os with all the fancy stuff disabled.
My battery charges 1% per minute when between (0-85%) after that charging slows down.
It doesnt however fully charge it usually wont go higher than 97%.
Battery drains 1%/h in standby
5%\h listening to offline-music
Today I had 6h 5 min with 3:54 on-screen time ( starting from 93% down to 2%.
About the same for me but I can do a full charge in 45min coming from about 9%
About the same, recent CM builds are better. I'm considering the Nexus ROM
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At first i thought the battery life was ok, then i switched to the nexus rom for a while and came back to stuck because i wanted my camera back. There is a huge difference in battery life as far as I'm concerned. Stuck OS burns way more battery when idle but then again it has a lot more bloat :/ so it's to be expected
I get awesome battery life. On rooted stock with third party launcher with various tweaks. Way better than my desire or Moto g or Moto x or nexus 4 ever were.
Agreed, all other roms besides stock get awesome battery life. I've disabled or uninstalled as many apps as possible and the battery still drains unacceptably fast at idle. If we could get a stock rom modified to get the battery life of a custom rom that would make this phone perfect for me.
riour said:
I got stock os with all the fancy stuff disabled.
My battery charges 1% per minute when between (0-85%) after that charging slows down.
It doesnt however fully charge it usually wont go higher than 97%.
Battery drains 1%/h in standby
5%\h listening to offline-music
Today I had 6h 5 min with 3:54 on-screen time ( starting from 93% down to 2%.
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I consider the battery in mine to be working very well and use ~33.3% every two hours with the screen at full brightness and constant touching for reading. So looks like its about the same.
Standby is ~50% used in 48 hours with wifi on and background apps using the internet.
That's based on the apps I use and whatever they're doing in the background to wake the cpu, use wifi, etc.
Stock rom with the 'fancy stuff' disabled as well.
I haven't been able to root my last few phones so I wasn't able to really use Greenify recently (i mean I know I could use it in non-root mode, but I never cared for that and found that to be kind of buggy)...
With all the battery improvements supposedly implemented as Android has continued to evolve, do you think that Greenify still offers any benefits?
My standby drain is not so good -
According to EXKM My idle drain is somewhere around 3-4%/hour.
According to BBS, so far today out of 5 hours 30 min on battery, I have drained 5.2%/hour, down 28% in total, with almost 3 hours of deep sleep (54%), 1 hour 23 min of screen on (25%), and 1 hour 5 min awake (w Screen off) (20%). The 1 hour 5 min awake seems high to me - I did listen to 15 minutes of music so that would explain 15 minutes of it.
I checked out my partial wakelocks and the highest is ImsSenderRxr.
According to Battery Usage in settings #1 is Screen at 1 hour 23 minutes (that's good it is first), #2 is Google Play Services which has used about half the same amount of battery as the screen, #3 is Ambient Display which has used almost as much as play services.
I'm going to try adding Greenify and see if that does anything beneficial, but figured I would ask the community to see what your mileage has been like with Greenify more recently since it has been awhile since I've used it.
Honestly, I haven't found much of a need for Greenify, aggressive doze, or wakelock blocking apps on 8.0 and above. It might be beneficial to Greenify battery hungry social media apps (especially those related to Facebook), but then you end up with Greenify running constantly in the background. Plus it requests usage permissions, enabling it as a device admin, etc.
Do you have Adaptive Battery enabled? There is a thread in the general section where a few users have reported that their battery life improved after disabling it.
I came here wondering the same. I had Greenify installed for a while but im not sure its really doing much anymore. I just took the lastest OTA update and im gonna roll without Greenify to see if there's a difference. Ill report back in a few days.
I know it's the wrong phone. But I have just bought a Pixel 3a and am introducing myself to its battery usage. I use Greenify on my Galaxy S7 running superman rom. I forgot to reinstall it last time I reinstalled things and I reckon it makes between 20% and 30% improvement.
largeselection said:
I haven't been able to root my last few phones so I wasn't able to really use Greenify recently (i mean I know I could use it in non-root mode, but I never cared for that and found that to be kind of buggy)...
With all the battery improvements supposedly implemented as Android has continued to evolve, do you think that Greenify still offers any benefits?
My standby drain is not so good -
According to EXKM My idle drain is somewhere around 3-4%/hour.
According to BBS, so far today out of 5 hours 30 min on battery, I have drained 5.2%/hour, down 28% in total, with almost 3 hours of deep sleep (54%), 1 hour 23 min of screen on (25%), and 1 hour 5 min awake (w Screen off) (20%). The 1 hour 5 min awake seems high to me - I did listen to 15 minutes of music so that would explain 15 minutes of it.
I checked out my partial wakelocks and the highest is ImsSenderRxr.
According to Battery Usage in settings #1 is Screen at 1 hour 23 minutes (that's good it is first), #2 is Google Play Services which has used about half the same amount of battery as the screen, #3 is Ambient Display which has used almost as much as play services.
I'm going to try adding Greenify and see if that does anything beneficial, but figured I would ask the community to see what your mileage has been like with Greenify more recently since it has been awhile since I've used it.
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My idle drain using EX is usually around 2%. What is your charging behavior... overnight and leave with 100% in the morning? I leave mine on the Pixel stand all night. If you are keeping it in your bedroom off-charger, use flip-to-shhh. You should have done that with BBS. If you didn't run BBS again overnight. 100% charged, hot off the charger and flip it upside down. This is just for a proper overnight battery drain test. Second, I would install Accubattery. It is NOT a battery drain app, but rather will eventually zero in on your remaining battery capacity compared with new. It uses several full charging sessions from say above 20% all the way to 100%. After a few full charging sessions it will give you solid information the condition of your battery. Just ruling the battery out here. If Accubattery confirms your battery capacity is well over 90% then you may want to do a fresh install. Sometimes that is the only thing that is going to return the good idle battery drain. Just my .02 cents. Take it for what it's worth. For reference, my battery capacity started at 106% new and is now at 94%. Cheers!