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Which Rom do u guys think has the best battery life?
My say is SILLIAN Rom but it was banned from the site.
So now I am using Virtuous.
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I am looking for a rom with good battery life, I just got the phone and I love it, but it should have a bigger battery! My Cliq XT had a biiger battery, at 1390 mA lol. I have tried CM7-RC1 and now I'm on CM7 Nightly (released on the 25th). Currently downloading Virtuous and will give that a shot.
Stock ROM. Period.
I have been unsuccessful in finding a ROM that can match the crazy battery life that I got on stock.
I used to get 30+ hours on stock. Now, I can't get more than 10 for sure..
I keep jumping from ROM to ROM, maybe that could be an issue too with battery stats in CWM and stuff... but as far as I'm concerned, stock is the best option for the best battery life.
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I noticed No difference with stock over any cm rom i have used. Battery sucks. Htc overall sucks with battery life. For some reason any htc device i ever had sucks balls. My mt4g was probably the only good phone in terms of battery.
Otherwise htc is retarded.... 1200mah is plain dumb on a smartphone.
From my permarooted 1209mhz G2 with CM7 nightly 6
Different people have different results. You're gonna see someone with every rom in the dev section claiming ridiculous battery life. When it comes down to it you have to realize everyone uses their phone different and the rom isn't gonna make the biggest difference, its how u configure and use it.
No matter the rom, using things like SetCPU, juicedefender, etc. and other battery savers can improve ur battery life. Most dev roms are going to offer better performance and life, just choose one you like and set it up the way u like it. The only way to know what to rom offers the best life for u is trying several and comparing.
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martonikaj said:
Different people have different results. You're gonna see someone with every rom in the dev section claiming ridiculous battery life. When it comes down to it you have to realize everyone uses their phone different and the rom isn't gonna make the biggest difference, its how u configure and use it.
No matter the rom, using things like SetCPU, juicedefender, etc. and other battery savers can improve ur battery life. Most dev roms are going to offer better performance and life, just choose one you like and set it up the way u like it. The only way to know what to rom offers the best life for u is trying several and comparing.
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Agreed.
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I'm getting nearly two days (40+) hours on CM6.1.1 stable. That's about the same as I got on stock.
I leave wifi on 85% of the time and my average daily use:
~30 texts via Google Voice
~20 minutes talk
~30 minutes XDA app
~60 minutes playing X Construct
~30 minutes browsing
~15 minutes Facebook app
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I'm getting nearly two days (40+) hours on CM6.1.1 stable. That's about the same as I got on stock.
I leave wifi on 85% of the time and my average daily use:
~30 texts via Google Voice
~20 minutes talk
~30 minutes XDA app
~60 minutes playing X Construct
~30 minutes browsing
~15 minutes Facebook app
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holy **** are you kidding me?!?!
bstylz911 said:
holy **** are you kidding me?!?!
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No. I'm not kidding. Rooted via the non-ADB method. Flashed CM6.1.1 and didn't mess about with any different kernels or radios.
However, when I try CM7, my battery life is halved. Maybe I got lucky. Best battery life I've ever had on a smartphone. Not even my old Dash lasted this well.
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holy **** are you kidding me?!?!
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Its because hes hardly using his phone... If you have a screen off profile and let your phone sit for long extents of time you can easily get that kinda life. Don't expect it when you actually use it regularly or keep the screen on for any length of time. See these are the people I'm talking about. You're always gonna find someone running every ROM out there that say he/she gets great battery life on it.
I personally am on CM7 overclocked to 1ghz and im at 43% battery with 12h 34m of usage today. General usage off and on, texting all day and some phone calls/app usage etc. The problem is I can easily have days where I only get 12h out of the whole battery because I'm on the phone all day doing things.
Even something as small as signal strength where you use your phone can effect your battery life numbers. take every battery life screenshot with a large grain of salt. The best thing about the battery meter in 2.3 is that it at least shows how long the screen has been off so you can tell when people just idle their phones to claim huge battery life numbers.
That is one of the things I really liked about CM7. The battery graph.
Never said I was a heavy user. I quantified my average use by time and activity. Still, with the same average use, my battery life on CM6 far outstrips CM7. They're both excellent roms. I like many of the new features in CM7. However, the battery life and GPS troubles influence me to continue using CM6 as my daily driver.
Once I figure out how to replicate the battery life or CM7 hits stable, I'll gladly upgrade.
Try out some CM7 nightlies.
I'm on nightly 12 and I get excellent battery life: as much or even better than stock. GPS also works without a hitch. I remember my first lock took like 20s max. And navigated without a data connection using Navigate (voice guided) for 45 minutes without a hitch. After that may bat was at about 79% I ended up not charging until 15 hours later.
So yes, Nightly 12, atleast for me, is solid. And I will never upgrade until something better comes along.. like the Meizu rom.. your mileage will vary though.
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That is one of the things I really liked about CM7. The battery graph.
Never said I was a heavy user. I quantified my average use by time and activity. Still, with the same average use, my battery life on CM6 far outstrips CM7. They're both excellent roms. I like many of the new features in CM7. However, the battery life and GPS troubles influence me to continue using CM6 as my daily driver.
Once I figure out how to replicate the battery life or CM7 hits stable, I'll gladly upgrade.
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Cm7 is been pretty good to me with battery life good luck
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here is what i get out of a day (battery consumption for specific tasks are mentioned in percentages measured using juiceplotter)
wifi on constantly
display set to 24% brightness
background sync enabled (google, weather 6hrs, whatsapp and facebook once a day)
45 min video (rockplayer no h/w decoding) 15%
1 hr browsing+chat 15%
30 min calls 6%
20 min music+chat 5%
20 min general usage 5%
1 hr flash streaming 15%
24 hrs standby 24% (@ 1% for every hr of standby)
15% battery remaining after 24 hrs i.e. low battery warning.
pretty amazing battery life IMO i am very happy.
enoch861 said:
Stock ROM. Period.
I have been unsuccessful in finding a ROM that can match the crazy battery life that I got on stock.
I used to get 30+ hours on stock. Now, I can't get more than 10 for sure..
I keep jumping from ROM to ROM, maybe that could be an issue too with battery stats in CWM and stuff... but as far as I'm concerned, stock is the best option for the best battery life.
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Cyanogen....the best rom out there and it gives you amazing battery life.I'm using cm 7 nightly 26 and I can go a whole day on moderate use.
Sent from my CM 7 Monster Evol.
Now, I do use my phone pretty heavily. My girlfriend and I text back and forth about every 2-5 minutes, all day, which will surely rape some of my battery. In addition to that, I do things like surf the internet, market, Gmail, no music, rarely games.
Is there any kernel, or ROM/kernel combination that has users getting >20 hours on a full charge with heavy usage? I always see people getting it with what they claim as "moderate" usage or they'll post screens and their phone is like 40% idle, 40% standby, which is silly.
Just wondering.
It is...on CM7...with Tiamat kernel...19 hrs at 55% left, 3.3.5, non-sbc. ; moderate usage.
With heavy usage, I had around 18hrs @ 35% left.
I knew CM7 had far superior battery life to Sense ROMs, but only tried SZ with it, not Tiamat. Guess I'll give it a go for a few days and see what happens!
That whole some users experiencing dead SD cards issue kind of worries me, but nothing a new SD card can't fix! Ha.
I see some people sticking with RC2 instead of going up to RC4. I know thgre's a changelog I can check, but is there a particular reason some people are sticking with an earlier release other than that they might not necessarily need the new things added in a later RC? Does RC2 have more stability or something?
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I knew CM7 had far superior battery life to Sense ROMs, but only tried SZ with it, not Tiamat. Guess I'll give it a go for a few days and see what happens!
That whole some users experiencing dead SD cards issue kind of worries me, but nothing a new SD card can't fix! Ha.
I see some people sticking with RC2 instead of going up to RC4. I know thgre's a changelog I can check, but is there a particular reason some people are sticking with an earlier release other than that they might not necessarily need the new things added in a later RC? Does RC2 have more stability or something?
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CM7 final is out, and tiamat is FTW.
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I knew CM7 had far superior battery life to Sense ROMs, but only tried SZ with it, not Tiamat. Guess I'll give it a go for a few days and see what happens!
That whole some users experiencing dead SD cards issue kind of worries me, but nothing a new SD card can't fix! Ha.
I see some people sticking with RC2 instead of going up to RC4. I know thgre's a changelog I can check, but is there a particular reason some people are sticking with an earlier release other than that they might not necessarily need the new things added in a later RC? Does RC2 have more stability or something?
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Some people are just clinging to it, and don't like change, or they're content with what it offers. Use the CM7 final that was released, along with the Tiamat kernel, you'll be good to go.
Didn't know final was out! (I don't follow CM much.)
Thanks for the tip!
Will certainly flash it tonight!
This was the best I have ever seen my phone do. I didn't use it heavy, just somewhat moderate. Typically with this same combo I will burn through a whole battery in less than 8hrs at work. Of course I am streaming Pandora/Slacker or on PowerAmp alot. But this screenshot was on Myn's Warm Z Nightly with kernel netarchy-toastmod-4.3.2-cfs-nohavs-nosbc-suv-universal-signed. Set Cpu running 1036max/38400min OnDemand and a screen off profile of 652max/245min. The only things autosyncing are Google acct, HTC sense and everything else is manual on my phone.
Of course being in a strong signal/service area is key. At work my signal is weak at best and we have no wifi . This particular stretch of time I was at home for a bit (ok signal) and my in laws (strong signal) working on their car for 5-6hrs. I Then of course let it sit unplugged all night. But I did a lil web browsing, searching, games and otherwise calls and texts. I was pleasantly surprised. If I was in a good service area at all times I'm sure I could run my phone 10-12hrs on heavy use.
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could easily with an extended battery.
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could easily with an extended battery.
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I don't see the point in spending some money on an extended when I'm just gonna go get the EVO 3D when it releases. I'll just spend my time trying to find the best combination for me.
try calibrating.
full charge...after light turns green check with battery monitor widget
then clear battery stats, unplug
use the **** out of it till it hits the redzone
plug back in full charge again *checking charge*
see how it lasts...
Ih they're using the same battery and there bit expensive anyway...
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CM7 Final with Tiamat is the way to go!
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CM7 Final with Tiamat is the way to go!
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Enough said!
I would highly recommend setcpu. I do the same thing as you, mainly use my phone for a lot of texting, and maybe 20 mins of internet a day. I have my setcpu set to 384mhz when the screen is off. This alone saves a TON of battery during the day, and doesnt affect any apps or anything else. I also have step down profiles, so if the battery gets under 60%, it throttles down to around 700mhz, at 40% it throttles down to 500 mhz, etc.
I am currently on cm7, and I can easily go a day and a half without a charge. But when I was on Myn's rom, I could go almost 3 full days.
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Ih they're using the same battery and there bit expensive anyway...
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Are we sure the battery is the same size? Another forum said the pics showed a square shaped battery. I know it's supposed to be more mah than current evo battery. But maybe they are confirmed to be the same size and I just missed that info.
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CM7 with stock kernEl here
20 to 30 hrs batt
trick was to delete the /data/system/batterystats.bin file only when phone was at 100% charge
BOOM
teh roxxorz said:
It is...on CM7...with Tiamat kernel...19 hrs at 55% left, 3.3.5, non-sbc. ; moderate usage.
With heavy usage, I had around 18hrs @ 35% left.
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could u post a download link to that kernel?
and also i have a question im running cm7rc4 do i just flash the kernel
or do i have to do anything b4 that cause it does have the rom kernel
any advice would be great
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Why not use something like gvnotifier to send/receive texts using your google voice number. The program runs in the task tray area of windows and integrates very nicely with google voice.
http://www.daveamenta.com/products/gvnotifier/
The only issue is texts you send will not be stored on your phone. Both however are available via the website at google.com/voice .
Most of my texts conversations are relatively unimportant, so saving is not vital.
Funnily enough, just the next charge, I got 23 hours on Warm 2.2. Moderate usage, though, not heavy usage.
gpz1100 said:
Why not use something like gvnotifier to send/receive texts using your google voice number. The program runs in the task tray area of windows and integrates very nicely with google voice.
http://www.daveamenta.com/products/gvnotifier/
The only issue is texts you send will not be stored on your phone. Both however are available via the website at google.com/voice .
Most of my texts conversations are relatively unimportant, so saving is not vital.
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GVoice has always had such a terrible wakelock for me. Like, the wakelock was the amount of time since it had started the process!!!
I use an SBC kernel, but I didn't for awhile. Here's what I did:
1. Turn off mobile data when you're not using it. Background data takes up a lot of battery.
2. Turn down the screen brightness.
3. Keep screen off as much as possible. My best, with SBC, battery test is nearly two days and my screen-on time is only like 7 hours. Use it for what you need it for then turn the screen off. Display is one of the biggest battery users.
4. Don't use haptic feedback or vibrate. It takes more battery than making noise. Since you're a heavy texter, like myself, this won't seem like it's helping, but it is.
5. Get a kernel that undervolts. That user up there who said use SetCPU to underclock when your phone display is off is basically doing what kernels that has undervolt does manually. Undervolting does it automatically.
6. In my personal experience: CFS > BFS. I'm not sure why, I'm not a kernel specialist, but I use what works best for my phone (0004 Hardware).
If I were to give you a suggestion, it'd be Netarchy 4.3.4 CFS-Mor-Havs-NoSBC. It's in beta but I've been using the SBC version for a month now and it seems to be the best bet for Sense users. I don't know AOSP at all, so I'm unhelpful if you use that.
I had the Thunderbolt with OEM extended battery, AOSP rom (TH3ORY roms), and imoseyon's lean kernel and used to get over 24-30 hours of battery life.
I've tried the 4.0.2, 4.0.3, and 4.0.4 with imoseyon and franco's kernels and still 7-8hrs is all I could hope for my Galaxy Nexus(stock battery). I've ordered the bigger battery with Costco but not here yet. Any suggestions other than the obvious: (please add to the list and I will update this original post)
1- Keep on AUTO brightness
2- avoid widgets
3- use a custom kernel (which one?)
I use francos with CM9. I always have everything switched on (Data, Sync, Wifi, GPS) and it only goes to about 50-40% after a days use and I consider myself a heavy user.
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As for using an extended battery, am I right in thinking that its only a 10-15% increase in capacity?
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I use francos with CM9. I always have everything switched on (Data, Sync, Wifi, GPS) and it only goes to about 50-40% after a days use and I consider myself a heavy user.
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As for using an extended battery, am I right in thinking that its only a 10-15% increase in capacity?
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I have not had the extended battery yet, I will let you know when I get it. Do you change anything in Francos's kernel? I had a terrible experience. Isn't CM9 just a nightly release? Stable?
What radio are you using? I'm on the 4.04 radio
Hi guys, new here. I'm on the same boat as you on the battery, I'm running AOKP25 with Franco Kernel 18... I run a Hyperion 2000mAh battery and get about 8 hours with normal use , WiFi on, GPS off, Screen Brightnes on Auto, some whatsapp, emails, a couple of calls, a bit of browsing, and about an hour worth of reading in the kindle app... I know this should last longer... any ideas?
I can't post pic of the battery usage because I'm new but it basically is:
Screen: 57%
Android OS: 26%
Voice Calls: 4%
Phone Idle: 4%
Cell Standby: 3%
Browser: 2%
MediaServer: 2%
Android System: 2%
Thanks,
loveubuntu said:
I have not had the extended battery yet, I will let you know when I get it. Do you change anything in Francos's kernel? I had a terrible experience. Isn't CM9 just a nightly release? Stable?
What radio are you using? I'm on the 4.04 radio
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I'm on the latest European radio (cant remember the code).
No I don't change anything in francos, but you can if you want to boot it some more.
And yes CM9 is just a nightly but super-stable still in my experiences, definitely worth trying for a week or two.
I'm on a gsm nexus stock battery running codename with francos kernel. 18.4. I just had a super heavy day, 12 hours and I'm down to 13 percent. 3 hours screen time plus 3 hours playing music with poweramp while the screen was off. No wifi - 3g hspa all day. Kernel set to 700/1000 conservative. Running juice defender on aggressive. 1 push email and one email set for once every hour.
If you are not getting acceptable battery life after running a custom rom and kernel with juice defender (not even sure if it helps) then download cpu spy and see if you are making it to deep sleep. 99 percent of the time it is an app.
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Maguire11 said:
I'm on a gsm nexus stock battery running codename with francos kernel. 18.4. I just had a super heavy day, 12 hours and I'm down to 13 percent. 3 hours screen time plus 3 hours playing music with poweramp while the screen was off. No wifi - 3g hspa all day. Kernel set to 700/1000 conservative. Running juice defender on aggressive. 1 push email and one email set for once every hour.
If you are not getting acceptable battery life after running a custom rom and kernel with juice defender (not even sure if it helps) then download cpu spy and see if you are making it to deep sleep. 99 percent of the time it is an app.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I do also think there is something that is causing this. I do get a heated screen also at times. I am running the FA02 for both CDMA and LTE which is the latest radio. I did change to franco's kernel but may go back to CM's stock if I don't find anything.
Also, I'm on 4G 24/7. No 3G area where I live and work anymore (Chicago) which is great but I think it eats up battery. Will report my findings after cpu spy.
Used 10% in 1 hr and 30 minutes.
Most definitely suggest CPUSpy. Another option is BetterBatteryStats to find out what has your device in a partial wakelock. I had an issue with my Desire Z prior to moving to the Galaxy Nexus where a piece of software attempting to access the GPS would get stuck in the background, and cause a partial wakelock. Going from 20+ hours of usage down to ~11 was a bit of a downer, but BetterBatteryStats helped me find the problem.
My battery is pretty bad too. I'm running Apex (latest) and the lean kernel (latest).
This is just from a few texts and emails:
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I have frozen the maps app as well ( this was a major battery drain as it would constantly reopen) but it only gave me ~1 hour more.
Thinking of swapping out for CM9.
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Mine is still crazy bad...today I got 6 and a half hours of battery with even less activity as yeterday...I installed CPUSpy and mine does go into deep sleep state ,so nothing is keeping it awake...I'll update to AOKP26 and Franco Kernel 18.6 and report back...
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Mine is still crazy bad...today I got 6 and a half hours of battery with even less activity as yeterday...I installed CPUSpy and mine does go into deep sleep state ,so nothing is keeping it awake...I'll update to AOKP26 and Franco Kernel 18.6 and report back...
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Try running Codenamed Android and Franco Kernel.. I'm on my second day with this setup, and I'm really getting impressed. Running the stock battery. I have an extended one waiting to install once I've maxed out usage with the stocker.
Instead of starting a new thread I thought I would add to this one. My battery life just went from acceptable to abysmal and I also don't know why. I'm running latest Codename ROM with latest Franco kernel along with Gapps from 2/18. Kernel was installed after wiping cache/dalvik. I am lucky to get 12 hours without even touching the phone. Here are some screen grabs:
Please help me if you can!!
I'm no expert on radios but it looks like your signal sucks (all yellow) which can cause an insane drain on battery. Download cpuspy and make sure you are getting to deep sleep(your graph looks like you are watching a movie or 3) . My battery graph looks similar to yours when I use my phone constantly.
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Sorry I didn't see that you have already downloaded cpu spy. My next thought would maybe it's just your connection. Try looking into flashing newer radios or disabling lte/4g, your area may just not be good for it.
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Maguire11 said:
Sorry I didn't see that you have already downloaded cpu spy. My next thought would maybe it's just your connection. Try looking into flashing newer radios or disabling lte/4g, your area may just not be good for it.
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I usually have good LTE coverage but I'll try tomorrow with it disabled. Also if I am using WiFi, will LTE still drain the battery?
skottema said:
Instead of starting a new thread I thought I would add to this one. My battery life just went from acceptable to abysmal and I also don't know why. I'm running latest Codename ROM with latest Franco kernel along with Gapps from 2/18. Kernel was installed after wiping cache/dalvik. I am lucky to get 12 hours without even touching the phone. Here are some screen grabs:
Please help me if you can!!
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Your signal is trash and you're having wakelocks
martonikaj said:
Your signal is trash and you're having wakelocks
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Maybe I'll try a new radio - I'm still on the original. Is there any other program besides Better Battery stats to find wakelocks?
Ran CM nightly with Franco's latest kernel and had some improvements but the battery on this thing is nothing compared to my extended Thunderbolt. I guess I was spoiled by that huge battery. How about CM's kernel? Anyoone has an opinion on that?
Having just the screen on will eat the battery at a 10-15% per hour. Using the phone, browsing XDA site, playing a game, using the Facebook app, or basically doing anything else eats the battery at even a higher rate. I don't understand when people say they are a heavy user and have 45% after 10 hours.Ccan't see that happening!!!
I'm using Juice Defender on aggresive, bought the BetterBattery Stat and nothing seem out of the ordinary, and CPUspy says that deep sleep is achieved when it is supposed to (over night 95% or more). I just think that this phone is a battery hog. I guess it's time to buy some spare batteries and an external charger. Any thoughts?
give this a try, it helps me a lot
i'm doing almost 24h on 4.0.2, can't wait for 4.0.5 or whatever
JuiceDefender - battery saver - Apps on Android Market
loveubuntu said:
Ran CM nightly with Franco's latest kernel and had some improvements but the battery on this thing is nothing compared to my extended Thunderbolt. I guess I was spoiled by that huge battery. How about CM's kernel? Anyoone has an opinion on that?
Having just the screen on will eat the battery at a 10-15% per hour. Using the phone, browsing XDA site, playing a game, using the Facebook app, or basically doing anything else eats the battery at even a higher rate. I don't understand when people say they are a heavy user and have 45% after 10 hours.Ccan't see that happening!!!
I'm using Juice Defender on aggresive, bought the BetterBattery Stat and nothing seem out of the ordinary, and CPUspy says that deep sleep is achieved when it is supposed to (over night 95% or more). I just think that this phone is a battery hog. I guess it's time to buy some spare batteries and an external charger. Any thoughts?
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Heavy users do not get 10 hours of use with 45 percent left so don't believe people who say that.. At most that is moderate use.
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UPDATE #4:
I thought I have solved, but right now I just got a process GSM0710MUXD using about 25% of my battery in one hour, locking the processor in 100% for more than 50 minutes. This process is responsible for controlling the access do GSM radio.
A reboot solved the problem, but, it is the second time it happened, so, could this be the problem?
Some people might have this and not even know about it and think that a low battery life is normal with this phone, which is not.
UPDATE #4
UPDATE #3:
Last status update:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26321944&postcount=51
If anyone want some extra help besides what is posted here, just ask in this thread, I'll keep looking into it.
Greetings.
END UPDATE #3
UPDATE #2:
I must say that I solved the problem, with a hard and long way to get there.
The problem was with all the OTA updates from HTC. With several reflashes of RUU in some special sequence I could solve it.
See the sequence and problem solved here, with pics to prove.
END UPDATE #2
UPDATE: Just to be clear, I'm still having a horrible battery life, even after using a working battery monitoring program.
All below values are with screen OFF except when advised.
I have seen that with everything ON except DATA (wifi and 3g off) it consumes about 4mAh, which is very good, on par with my HD2. With 3g ON it consumes about 12-16 mAh, which is very bad and with wi-fi ON it consumes 20-25 mAh, which is outrageously bad. In idle this should not be the case. Apparently no other programs are getting anything from the net.
My HD2 with ICS or GB gets by a full day usage (1250mAh battery) with wi-fi and 3g radios ON full time and several things syncing at the same time all the time with push notifications. Twitter, facebook, whatsapp, gmail, normal mail, everything else in two google accounts. So I don't see why a 2,5 years newer phone shouldn't do it. HD2 usage with everything ON except wifi is about 2-5mAh and with wifi on (always) it is about 8-12mAh.
So, one part is fixed (the current widget) but the other is still bad, so I'll keep the thread open.
Programs used, Battery Monitor Widget, BetterBatteryStats, Control Panel.
If someone can help, it will be much appreciated.
Greetings, Santroph.
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I'm having a huge problem with battery life in my HOX.
I'm NOT a noobie in Android or using custom ROMs or anything like this, after all I do have an HTC HD2 with Android since the early Cupcake days
I'm new to HOX but I have searched everywhere before coming here to get help from u guys.
It's a HUGE (never seen this before) batt drain, something like 200 - 700mAh in idle, screen off. (Current widget was used to measure it)
I do have some proof below.
Some of the things I have done:
Besides knowing all of the steps from here, I have done it all gain anyway. I'm having the same draw 200-700 from my phone with everything, EVERYTHING off, sensors, connections, sync and all off.
I have tried Revolution HD 5.1.1 and 6.0.0, Leedroid 6.2.0, which seems to be good roms from the feedback. The result is the same with all of them, and the same thing with Stock RUU 1.29.401.7
I have cleaned everything before installing the roms (system/data/cache/dalvik/battery stats).
Well, any suggestions? I can't reallt return the phone because I do live in Brazil and bought it in a trip in USA, it is a UK unlocked grey model. And the phone is not sold in Brazil yet, so I will try anything that can be done without returning it.
The next pic show what is happening in Airplane mode, every radio off, and after killing everything running. I still have HUGE Drain besides entering in deep sleep and nothing running
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Thanks for the help.
Santroph.
Log from CW: (very strange that the same values appear so much and don't vary for a long time)
2012/05/14 01:27:09,-866mA,70%,3.77V
2012/05/14 01:27:29,-866mA,70%,3.77V
2012/05/14 01:27:49,-866mA,70%,3.77V
2012/05/14 01:28:09,-866mA,70%,3.77V
2012/05/14 01:28:29,-866mA,70%,3.77V
2012/05/14 01:28:49,-866mA,70%,3.77V
2012/05/14 01:29:09,-866mA,70%,3.77V
2012/05/14 01:29:29,-866mA,70%,3.77V
2012/05/14 01:29:49,-866mA,70%,3.77V
2012/05/14 01:30:10,-712mA,70%,3.799V
2012/05/14 01:30:30,-712mA,70%,3.799V
2012/05/14 01:30:56,-242mA,69%,3.87V
CW is not working correctly with ICS/Sense 4 atm bro.
Used to have the same results with it.
Try some other app/widget.
Use Battery Monitor Widget, much lighter on the battery.
DanteGR said:
CW is not working correctly with ICS/Sense 4 atm bro.
Used to have the same results with it.
Try some other app/widget.
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No one has ever told me that before, and it is even used in the thread for better battery life in HTC One X.
So, I assumed it was working fine. I use it for a long time, since it was launched.
Do you know any other app that does something like it, logs the drain, that work?
Thanks.
ArmedandDangerous said:
Use Battery Monitor Widget, much lighter on the battery.
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NB:
- NOT all phones report accurate mA - Check app web-site for more information
- The app displays the % remaining, voltage and temperature data reported by Android OS
- HTC One X reports incorrect mA during standby, use mA corrections for better results
- Android battery stats have nothing to do with % calculations
Well at least this one says right upfront the problem, but what should be the mA corrections? Do we need to do some cal or is it just a checkbox? (I will install it right now of course, to find out)
Thanks, can't thank you in the button, it doesn't appear.
UPDATE: It is an option in the settings, correct mA report, and there we can choose HTC One X
If it is really as good as it looks to be, I'll buy the PRO version, thanks for the tip.
santroph said:
NB:
- NOT all phones report accurate mA - Check app web-site for more information
- The app displays the % remaining, voltage and temperature data reported by Android OS
- HTC One X reports incorrect mA during standby, use mA corrections for better results
- Android battery stats have nothing to do with % calculations
Well at least this one says right upfront the problem, but what should be the mA corrections? Do we need to do some cal or is it just a checkbox? (I will install it right now of course, to find out)
Thanks, can't thank you in the button, it doesn't appear.
UPDATE: It is an option in the settings, correct mA report, and there we can choose HTC One X
If it is really as good as it looks to be, I'll buy the PRO version, thanks for the tip.
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The updated versions already support the One X, been using it for weeks and idle drain reporting is working just fine The change log on the Play website and the change log on the Play app are different somehow. On the app it says it's fixed, and I can see proper drain on standby.
Do you have huge battery drain or just an app that reports huge battery drain?
I noticed you didn't mention that the phone doesn't last long.
At 200-700mA drain, your 1850mAh battery would last 2.5 to 9 hours on standby.
You could also install Better Battery Stats (free for XDA users) and see what is causing the battery drain.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
BenPope said:
Do you have huge battery drain or just an app that reports huge battery drain?
I noticed you didn't mention that the phone doesn't last long.
At 200-700mA drain, your 1850mAh battery would last 2.5 to 9 hours on standby.
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No, I have the drain, AND the app was not reporting good things too...
My battery today lasted only 5 hours.
I had only 2 hours of screen ON and also only 5 minutes in a game, the rest was normal/light use, like web surfing and facebook. NO heavy use like watching movies.
So, it is a lousy battery life, my HD2 does last way longer with a worse battery. Sure I do have a worse screen in there too, but this shouldn't be that bad.
santroph said:
No, I have the drain, AND the app was not reporting good things too...
My battery today lasted only 5 hours.
I had only 2 hours of screen ON and also only 5 minutes in a game, the rest was normal/light use, like web surfing and facebook. NO heavy use like watching movies.
So, it is a lousy battery life, my HD2 does last way longer with a worse battery. Sure I do have a worse screen in there too, but this shouldn't be that bad.
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Well my batery life is even worse. It was ok when i bought a phone. I am trying to relate to the latest update 129.401.11 . Today my standby was 8hrs18mins. Screen time 1hr40min. Out of those 8hrs, 5 i spent in flight mode. Its crazy!
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tadas_max said:
Well my batery life is even worse. It was ok when i bought a phone. I am trying to relate to the latest update 129.401.11 . Today my standby was 8hrs18mins. Screen time 1hr40min. Out of those 8hrs, 5 i spent in flight mode. Its crazy!
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do a full factory restore and only setup bare minimum apps to be sure you haven't gotten a rogue process/app
if that doesn't work return it pronto
i used to have huge drain from either goole maps, latitude or navigation after installing it from the forum which enables it for everyone (outside us) uninstalled it and it got fixed. if u have drain while the phone is idle it is an app issue, try factory reset, install one app at a time and see which one causes it.
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Some apps e.g games like draw something.. have push notifications running at background.
The latest version of facebook drains battery like crazy.
There's a need to monitor what is installed in the phone. Especially apps that require to run background services and push notifications (Those apps drain battery life )
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do a full factory restore and only setup bare minimum apps to be sure you haven't gotten a rogue process/app
if that doesn't work return it pronto
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Well since it was working fine I did not install any new apps, didnt change any setting. I only sync gmail. I disabled everything else. Ill do factory reset anyway, maybe just recent OTA messed up my battery
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You both clearly have a problem. If you look at the battery stats graph, is it always awake? If so, you have an app that is preventing it from sleeping and need to find it.
Post this screen, as you can see, Awake and Screen on should, essentially, be the same.
Isles should be less than 20ma .
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BenPope said:
You both clearly have a problem. If you look at the battery stats graph, is it always awake? If so, you have an app that is preventing it from sleeping and need to find it.
Post this screen, as you can see, Awake and Screen on should, essentially, be the same.
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Don't worry, nothing it keeping my phone awake.
With the new app for monitoring the phone mAh usage I can see that it is using about 16 to 25 mAh in idle (too much for my taste, used to be 3 - 5 in HD2) but not that bad.
But the thing is, just wake up the phone and than BAM, 500-900 usage, WITH THE SCREEN BACKLIGHT SET TO MINIMUM
As u can see in one of the pics the phone looses 3% in just 3 minutes. So it can only be awake for 1 hour? common...
I'll install a process monitoring app, but I don't have that much hope...
Several pictures for your delight of my problem
Please help :|
My HOX lasted 25 hours the day before the latest FW Update. Today it was on 9% after 10 hours and the stats told me that the screen was on for 7 hours. The screen was off and the phone was in airplane mode over night and drained over 60% of battery live.
As far as I could tell, the WiFi is consuming too much of the battery. I don't know why but yesterday my WiFi turned off during the night (even if set to never turn off in the settings) and the drain got from 25mAh in idle to 4 mAh when just using 3g.
After waking WiFi again the drain got back to 22.
Can anyone confirm?
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My battery is Awesome
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After long being one of those people who would never post a thread with bias questions or answers.
It's come to this.
I long for the battery I had from ICS, I never got less than 4 hours screen on and 16 hours standby together.
The best I got was right at 5 hours screen on with 18 hours standby.
All with wifi/3G only, very little to none 4G, it's fine with me.
AOKP M6.
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Every single ROM/Kernel combination since I've moved to JB has provided me with just......crap......
AOKP, AOKP kangs, CM, Liquid, CNA, and Eclipse along in different combinations with
Faux, Lean, stock, 007, TinyKernel, and Trinity kernels.
It does not matter what combination I use.
I can barely get over 3 hours-ish screen on time with about 12-18 hours standby.
Now if I use the screen less than 2 hours, I can get up to two days standby, which is nice but not the overall complete usefulness I had.
I know battery has long been an issue for many of us, but I see people in threads talking about their 2 hours of screen on time like it's amazing when it's awful, especially when some of us, could, and used to get close to 5 with stock batteries or 2100 extended (mine)
If you're using LTE all the time, only 2 hours screen on is justified because it should be common knowledge what happens.
Point of the thread is this, I want to know, those on JB with stock or 2100mAh battery and can manage 4+ hours screen on and still close to a day of screen on, what's your secret? Every detail, spill them.
Is it our fault or are we just in a down time of battery efficiency in the ROMs and kernels?
There is no secret, jb is crap when compared to battery usage on ics
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I believe project butter is to blame. But that's just me
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Why not just post here, then we can all possibly benefit
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Couldn't figure out why my battery life was so poor the for the last month or so. Good to see I'm not the only one with the problem.
AOKP ICS with Franco kernel gave me amazing battery life. Jelly Bean not so much.
I personally believe that anyone getting more screen time than you (this goes for anyone) is:
a) Using their phone in an environment that is less bright than you (indoors, on the bus, in the subway)
b) and / or not syncing as many things as you / not as often as you.
Reverse the above for people getting less screen time than you.
This is the truth of the matter.
Personally, I get 2 to 3 hours to 3.5 hours of screen time on JB, depending on usage.
4 hours if I read in bed at night.
Edit: Kernel / ROM be damned, maybe it'll make 10 to 15 minutes worth of difference. NOBODY has presented scientific proof of any ROM/kernel being different from any other. It's always "oh yaa best battery life ever with this rom". It's just noise and cherry-picked screenshots.
ringer13 said:
Why not just post here, then we can all possibly benefit
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I will then. I may not get to it for a day or two though as I'm busy and will need time to write up as detailed as I can my usage, settings, etc.
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I usually get at least 1 day worth of charge. My set up is pretty easy tho. Since I am in front of a computer 75% of the time , gmail sync is turned off, twitter is @ 4 hours, Facebook set to never with location turned off. Phone gps and location are also turned off unless I M walking towards the bus stop. I don't need to be checking my phone every 5 minutes so my useage is pretty stable and predictable. I wonder what you guys are doing to make the battery die so quick? If your usage patterns are pretty high with checking email 100s of texts and lots of twitter and Facebook well yeah I'll die quick.
Also I seem to get the same results with custom kernels and stock. I have little experience with CPU controls and and such so maybe setting a lower frequency will help?
My .2 ponies.
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Battery can be related to many causes leading to user error. I never used ICS on this phone so I honestly have no idea how great the battery was.
Google now, project butter and many other optimizations are to blame yes.
Depends how much you use it and what is going and the vary of networks going on and off and switching. I can normally pull off 3-4 hours of near heavy use. My droid incredible could only get at least 1 hour max. So maybe it is me but the nexus is a godsend for me.
Leaving the governor at interactive with low max and undervolting will help battery and a specific kernel. I can normally roll with 0-10% brightness and have all networks running and syncing.
I'm tired and ready to cook my tacos I'll be back later with more input.
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STOP overclocking your phone (even to 1350), under clocking exists you know.
STOP using interactive governors.
STOP using your phone so much.
STOP complaining about it.
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Try this...
I have an old Android phone that my boy plays with...so I turn the cell radio off & have it on the wifi signal only. Even with him having the screen on for hours & hours (usually playing games), the phone will stay on battery for almost 4 days!
Turn your cell radio to airplane mode & then turn on wifi only...mess around with it, play games & see what the difference is. When I have a Sprint signal (usually junk 2g one) at home I get poor battery life...when I hack the PRL to choose a 3g (better) signal I get twice the battery life...
I've seen other battery life threads where the signal is a MAJOR factor & even with a strong 2g signal the 3g is probably better at not wasting battery. (4g is a whole other story)
I've found 4 things that almost double my battery life
1) Google Maps: huge battery drainer. freezing it doesn't help either, it has to be uninstalled. Mapquest from the play store is a decent battery friendly alternative. or if you really need gmaps, copy the .apk file and install it when needed, then uninstall afterward.
2) Push Email apps: i.e. Yahoo mail app, Gmail app... use the built-in email app and set the refresh limit to every hour.
3) 3G/2G: when your not using data, put it to 2g networks only. huge battery savings especially if you're somewhere with a weak 3/4g signal.
4) NFC/WIFI/GPS : turn them off if your not using them (obviously)
your results may vary, but doing these things did wonders for my battery. I average 23-26 hours with 2.5-3.5 hrs screen on time. before that I was getting 14-16 hrs with about 1.5-2 hrs screen on
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lowrider262 said:
3) 3G/2G: when your not using data, put it to 2g networks only. huge battery savings especially if you're somewhere with a weak 3/4g signal.
4) NFC/WIFI/GPS : turn them off if your not using them (obviously)
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Well, Switching 2g/3g is pretty battery draining, too. So better be sure you don't use 3g networks for a while. constantly switching just to be a minute or two at 2g just drains more
Turning of WiFi is pretty obvious but NFC and GPS shouldn't take any battery juice if they arn't in use... Someone tested it and could proove, that gps only uses battery power if it's searching for a connection.
As you can see, you basically need t neuter your device and constantly worry in order to get 'great' battery life, lol.
skadebo said:
As you can see, you basically need t neuter your device and constantly worry in order to get 'great' battery life, lol.
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yeah that's the downside to the smartphones.
skadebo said:
As you can see, you basically need t neuter your device and constantly worry in order to get 'great' battery life, lol.
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Yup. Use it, roll with a charger and forget about it
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Its a small battery, they should up the battery sizes. They can fit the samsung galaxy note 2's battery in the samsung galaxy nexus if they wanted too.. /the end.
mike.b93 said:
Well, Switching 2g/3g is pretty battery draining, too. So better be sure you don't use 3g networks for a while. constantly switching just to be a minute or two at 2g just drains more
Turning of WiFi is pretty obvious but NFC and GPS shouldn't take any battery juice if they arn't in use... Someone tested it and could proove, that gps only uses battery power if it's searching for a connection.
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yea I only switch to 2g when I know its just gonna be sitting in my pocket for a while, like when I'm at work. in that situation it definaetly helps. but your right switching constantly is bad too. :thumbup: as for NFC and GPS, it just seems to help for me, maybe its just placebo. like I said results may vary
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I thought leave it on interactive since jb was tweaked around that
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