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I have searched and read thru 100s of the threads in the dev section. Im running the Baked Snack Rom now and no matter what kernel i use, battery life is horrible. I have ran the AVA rom and had the same issue. Is there any Rom that battery life is decent with or is this a phone issue. And by horrible i mean from being off the charger 30 minutes the phone drops to half battery. By 2 hours its getting the message to put it on the charger. Any help or suggestions will be apprciated.
has to be something wrong with your battery. bring it in to sprint.
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I have searched and read thru 100s of the threads in the dev section. Im running the Baked Snack Rom now and no matter what kernel i use, battery life is horrible. I have ran the AVA rom and had the same issue. Is there any Rom that battery life is decent with or is this a phone issue. And by horrible i mean from being off the charger 30 minutes the phone drops to half battery. By 2 hours its getting the message to put it on the charger. Any help or suggestions will be apprciated.
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Battery probably defective.
Backed Snacks 9.7 (2.1 Eclair) has legendary battery life.
what froyo rom has the best battery life?
For me it was fresh(3.1.0.1) I notice that the Handcent messaging app, is great and all, kills a lot of battery. I had two evos for about a week and tried to do some battery testing and for me handcent was the big problem. My usage is about 25mb of data daily (not counting tethering), like 50+ txt easy, and like 20 calls. After all that I still get around 10+ battery by the end of the day. My day is from 11am to 2am
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I'm running nerchey's (Yes, I know, I miss spelled that) rom and kernel. Better battery life than I got with fresh's and all the features of the phone work.
I doubt its the ROMs.. try looking at your partial wake usage..
So far the main two I've used has had excellent battery. Fresh 3.1.0.1 and DC 3.5 with battery saver profile.
But ROMs I use net's kernels, but I don't overclock.
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in my experience, cm6 has horrible battery life. fresh 3 has provided the best battery life for me.
cnstarz said:
in my experience, cm6 has horrible battery life. fresh 3 has provided the best battery life for me.
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Opposite for me
Wipe ur phone and use it for a day maybe its one of the apps u have. Of that doesnt work, unroot and go stock 2.1, If that doesnt do it, then try a new battery, and if that doesnt work then ur phone is fudged up
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Ok i think this is part of the problem. I downloaded this program from the market called Battery History. When i check click on running, its basically showing that the phone never goes to sleep. I downloaded the program onto my vibrant and compared the two. After 6hours It shows "time spent without sleeping". For the evo is 6 hours and the vibrant its only 35 minutes. So it looks like the Evo is never going to "sleep" even when the screen turns off. Anyone else having this same issue?
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Ok i think this is part of the problem. I downloaded this program from the market called Battery History. When i check click on running, its basically showing that the phone never goes to sleep. I downloaded the program onto my vibrant and compared the two. After 6hours It shows "time spent without sleeping". For the evo is 6 hours and the vibrant its only 35 minutes. So it looks like the Evo is never going to "sleep" even when the screen turns off. Anyone else having this same issue?
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I'm going to check it out, if thats true then it would explain the amount of drain happening across the EVO's that have been released. If there is a possible fix I wonder how long the average life on one charge would be.
Sounds like you might have an app that's constantly running in the background. Try rebooting the phone, and after it comes back on turn the screen off for a minute or two, then turn the screen back on and check your battery history. If it shows running at 100% then you need to find out what app is causing that. About a week ago there was an issue with the facebook app, and also Fring used to keep my phone from sleeping until I deleted it.
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abanh said:
Sounds like you might have an app that's constantly running in the background. Try rebooting the phone, and after it comes back on turn the screen off for a minute or two, then turn the screen back on and check your battery history. If it shows running at 100% then you need to find out what app is causing that. About a week ago there was an issue with the facebook app, and also Fring used to keep my phone from sleeping until I deleted it.
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Will check that. I use bloo for facebook and dont have fring installed. When i check what programs are using the most power its always "android system"
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My usage... daily... 50+ txt
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Wow... I think I had three texts sent/received last month...
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An army of pacifists can be defeated by one man with the will to fight.
Anyone else test this out yet?
i think baked snack 1.4 with kernel 2 is the best froyo rom for battery life. i let it sit overnight with wifi on, in 9 hours only 7% drop
Man if only someone made some unified test to see which ROM has the best battery life... o wait there is, check my sig if you would like to help fill in the battery tests for your ROM.
2 hours of battery life though doesn't sound like the ROMs fault or an apps fault for wake-ups, it is probably bad battery.
Definitely a bad battery, I have done my worse trying to drain a battery and even using all the wireless I could with constant GPS and streaming pandora to bluetooth couldnt kill it in two hours. Instead of returning your phone you could try buying an extra battery and then sending your old one back saying it is defective. Currently I use two stock evo batteries with a wall charger for the batts and never have to plug my phone in, I just keep the spare in my wallet and swap them out when one dies.
Calendar widget=culprit
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Will check that. I use bloo for facebook and dont have fring installed. When i check what programs are using the most power its always "android system"
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I just saw in another post of the same topic but with a different phone. This guy said he tried getting rid of everything. on his phone's home screen, then added things one by one. the one that made the phone not sleep was the calendar widget. Surprisingly, I have the same problem and the calendar widget on my phone. Simply remove the widget. You can still put a shortcut to the app, just not the widget. Use any task killer to kill the calendar. Problem fixed.
Battery consumption is going trough the roof lately..
Can someone tell me if it is normal to go from 56% to 28% in an hour of surfing and listening to music? (see screenshots) Screen brightness is 10% and just surfing, no downloading from the market etcetera..
I think it's unacceptable.. Took my phone from the charger 7:30 this morning, i charged it at work from 50 to 60% in the afternoon.
Current charge is 17%.
I already changed my ROM (clear cache, dalvik, storage) and radio but it doesn't seem to help at all...
I ordered a replacement battery for only 10 euro at ebay so i hope it will solve the issue..
Also, is there a known fix for the 90% charge on wakeup? It's rather annoying.
Yep thats 3G for you.. I've just been doing the same fir about 10 and already a 15% drop.. at least yiu can change the battery unlike the iPhone..
xx
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!PANDA said:
Yep thats 3G for you.. I've just been doing the same fir about 10 and already a 15% drop.. at least yiu can change the battery unlike the iPhone..
xx
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That's ridiculous.. Are you telling me it's normal to drop a percent per minute when actually using the device? (happened to me the other day)
Yeah I hear you. This phone has absolutely pathetic battery life. Even worse than an iPhone! Even using SetCPU to underclock it has little effect.
Just 10 minutes after unplugging it from the charger its at 94%. Another 10 minutes later its at 89.
Disturbing.
If you are sure you don't have an app running in the background, or a badly coded app draining your battery, I'd try THIS. I get around 48 hours of medium use on a full charge.
Calibrating the battery made a massive difference to me.
I forgot to mention that in fact i did calibrate my battery. Twice. Already 6% down in 10 minutes as we speak.
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Imperium said:
I forgot to mention that in fact i did calibrate my battery. Twice. Already 6% down in 10 minutes as we speak.
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Im not trying to be rude but im assuming you have checked all your settings & applications for wakelock bugs and syncing related stuff?
You should roughly have ~1% per hour consumption when idling(screen off).
Try typing *#*#INFO#*#* and see battery history for any abnormalities, like way higher "running" % than "screen on" %. They should be pretty much equal.
Jgruar said:
Im not trying to be rude but im assuming you have checked all your settings & applications for wakelock bugs and syncing related stuff?
You should roughly have ~1% per hour consumption when idling(screen off).
Try typing *#*#INFO#*#* and see battery history for any abnormalities, like way higher "running" % than "screen on" %. They should be pretty much equal.
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Yes i checked all those things numerous times also no abnormalities in applications sucking up all the juice.
I think we can conclude the battery(consumption) just sucks monkey balls.
When your battery is fully charged go to phone and type the following. *#*#4636#*#* then tap battery information. It should say battery health good, and then Battery voltage. What doe that read?
I'd also try calibrating the battery again, following the instructions to the letter. If all else fails I'd try a factory reset and run it at stock for a while to test and ensure you don't have a rogue app.
One thing I'd say about your cheap replacement battery. They are never going to be nearly as good as an original, as they are mostly poorly made and deliberately wrongly labelled to make them look like they are high powered, and at worst can be dangerous. Just be careful with that one.
I really can't understand why you would have such poor battery life. I'm happilly getting at least 48 hours with mine. I have wifi and data enabled all the time, use it a lot for twitter, make a few calls, and send texts.
Anyway, good luck and let me know how you get on.
rolfd said:
When your battery is fully charged go to phone and type the following. *#*#4636#*#* then tap battery information. It should say battery health good, and then Battery voltage. What doe that read?
I'd also try calibrating the battery again, following the instructions to the letter. If all else fails I'd try a factory reset and run it at stock for a while to test and ensure you don't have a rogue app.
One thing I'd say about your cheap replacement battery. They are never going to be nearly as good as an original, as they are mostly poorly made and deliberately wrongly labelled to make them look like they are high powered, and at worst can be dangerous. Just be careful with that one.
I really can't understand why you would have such poor battery life. I'm happilly getting at least 48 hours with mine. I have wifi and data enabled all the time, use it a lot for twitter, make a few calls, and send texts.
Anyway, good luck and let me know how you get on.
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Cheers for your reply,
I checked using *#*#4636#*#* and nothing out of the ordinary to be honest.
When fully charged it's around 4100mV so that should be ok as well.
About the cheap battery, it's from E-cell in the UK and my previous purchases were of good quality. So will see if it's crap or not
Having the same issue as you. Bought my phone 5 days back and I calibrated the battery too. No sneaky app trying to drain the battery.
Will wait for couple of days and then as suggested will reset the phone to factory settings and then check.
I've had this phone for about a month. Started off on stock, and rooted it and flashed different ROMs and kernels. I never really got good battery life with any ROM. Typically I would get around 7 to 10 hours of moderate usage.
I fully went back to stock firmware and kernel using ODIN, to flash 2.3.6. I rooted it and removed some bloatware apps. BUT, the battery life seems so bad.. it's been 2 days, I've done calibration 2 or 3 times.
Leaving my phone idle, in one spot, I lose about 4-5% an hour. 4G Data on, wifi off, 2/4 bars of signal, sync on (only gmail, google docs, contacts, calendar).
But today, I think it got worse, as shown here: http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f380/wordk4/SC20120319-230121.png
Graph: http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f380/wordk4/SC20120319-230126.png
Note: the data icon on top shows that it's on 3G, because I moved out of good signal area when I took the screenshots. The phone was idle in a spot with 4G getting 3-5mbps.
What's wrong with this? The phone is a month old, so I don't think it's a battery problem. I've calibrated 2-3 times since I went back to stock.
Also, don't recommend me to use Juice Defender. I use Google Voice to call and text, so I need data on all the time. And I know this phone can last over a day with data on (my friend has the same phone and it has lasted 2 days on one charge, completely stock firmware).
ALSO, when I press "Android System" on the battery history, here's a list of what it shows:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f380/wordk4/SC20120319-231629.png
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http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f380/wordk4/SC20120319-231651.png
IS THIS NORMAL? :O
8-10 hours heavy usage? That seems like a lot...
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Sensation-al! said:
8-10 hours heavy usage? That seems like a lot...
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Actually that would be more of light/medium. Checking facebook every 30mins, a few texts now and then, playing a game for 30 minutes, listening to music for an hour, a call or two about 2mins each, a few instant messages on facebook, GPS use for 5 minutes, and idle for about 5 hours. Brightness at 50% or below. All on data connection, no wifi.
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Actually that would be more of light/medium. Checking facebook every 30mins, a few texts now and then, playing a game for 30 minutes, listening to music for an hour, a call or two about 2mins each, a few instant messages on facebook, GPS use for 5 minutes, and idle for about 5 hours. Brightness at 50% or below. All on data connection, no wifi.
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Well what do you think is suppose to happen when you USE your phone? Lol
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cashyftw said:
Well what do you think is suppose to happen when you USE your phone? Lol
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I know, but overall the time the display is on is 1-2 hours.. I know other people have been getting 16+ hours, 4 being with display on. With 4G data on.
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I know, but overall the time the display is on is 1-2 hours.. I know other people have been getting 16+ hours, 4 being with display on. With 4G data on.
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I see easily over 12 hours on a charge with my phone, and i use it heavily... 2 to 3 hours of phone time (at the least) wifi tether here and then, a lot of facebook iming and checking. Reading....
Something i noticed though. I got the phone in October or so, and the battery life started off pretty bad. I didnt do anything special, i figured it would be bad with such a massive screen. Over time though the battery improved, and now im seeing wonderful battery life. I usually unplug it at about 6:30 or so in the morning when i head to work, and yesterday at 10-something is when it started *****ing it had low battery life.
Moral of the story? Be patient, itll get better as time goes by.
xFrozen said:
I know, but overall the time the display is on is 1-2 hours.. I know other people have been getting 16+ hours, 4 being with display on. With 4G data on.
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Your battery looks fine. Playing games rapes the battery. Also 4g rapes the battery.
There are ways to improve the battery but like you said... You need to use all of these features.
Go get a spare oem battery or a reputable extended battery.
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Im at 52% right now, 34% display, time on 3 hours 14 minutes, and sitting at 1d 1h 39m on battery. Light usage.
Something is definitely draining your battery. As you can see your phone is awake when the screen isn't even on. It's just likely an app you downloaded or something in the background. good luck narrowing it down
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Teo032 said:
Something is definitely draining your battery. As you can see your phone is awake when the screen isn't even on. It's just likely an app you downloaded or something in the background. good luck narrowing it down
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Lol way to back up your answer.
His battery is fine...
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G1ForFun said:
Your battery looks fine. Playing games rapes the battery. Also 4g rapes the battery.
There are ways to improve the battery but like you said... You need to use all of these features.
Go get a spare oem battery or a reputable extended battery.
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Just right now i'm on a bus and lost 5% in less than 10 minutes. Listening to music. All i did was send five texts, check Facebook for a minute and read the posts on this thread. That doesn't seem normal at all. 4G on, sync on.
blackangst said:
Im at 52% right now, 34% display, time on 3 hours 14 minutes, and sitting at 1d 1h 39m on battery. Light usage.
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this is more than what I'm expecting, but definitely shows that something is wrong with my battery life.
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Oskiee said:
I see easily over 12 hours on a charge with my phone, and i use it heavily... 2 to 3 hours of phone time (at the least) wifi tether here and then, a lot of facebook iming and checking. Reading....
Something i noticed though. I got the phone in October or so, and the battery life started off pretty bad. I didnt do anything special, i figured it would be bad with such a massive screen. Over time though the battery improved, and now im seeing wonderful battery life. I usually unplug it at about 6:30 or so in the morning when i head to work, and yesterday at 10-something is when it started *****ing it had low battery life.
Moral of the story? Be patient, itll get better as time goes by.
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You give me some hope. I recently ordered an Anker 2050mAh battery for this, hopefully that will help in the meanwhile.
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xFrozen said:
You give me some hope. I recently ordered an Anker 2050mAh battery for this, hopefully that will help in the meanwhile.
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2050mAh wouldn't get you to much more out of thr battery..
Only 200mAh over stock, hows this supposed to help if you have a sleep mode issue or app issue?
Bringz me back to my first statement.
Your kernel is NOT allowing deep sleep mode for whatever reason, your best bet would be make a backup
Delete data/factory reset and try it over a day.. if it works good, its an app issue, still the same. It is undoubtedly the kernel. Why pay more for maybe an hour out of your phone?
Run some actual tests to clarify the issue first..
There. I said my peace
If you tried everything else try recalibrating the battery.
I have seen this happen most often when flashing new ROMs. Especially if you did not wipe your system, data, and caches before install it seems to encourage this.
To Recalibrate Battery (must have custom recovery like cwm):
Charge phone to FULL
(I highly recommend AC charger for this)
Reboot into recovery
Look for wipe battery stats (should be I'm advanced if not main menu)
Unplug phone and restart it
Now FULLY KILL THE BATTERY
(for faster results set mp3 or video on repeat and let her rip)
Fully charge one more time and done
(again I highly suggest AC adaptor)
Keep in mind if you set your CPU to Max frequency or leave a demanding app running and CPU is set to allow full usage ondemand or performance the phone will kill battery very quickly.
Same if you leave antenna on auto 4G and it is weak around you and phone is always searching it will go fast as well.
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xFrozen: have you downloaded cpuspy to actually see if your phone is hitting deep sleep?
Realn00b said:
If you tried everything else try recalibrating the battery.
I have seen this happen most often when flashing new ROMs. Especially if you did not wipe your system, data, and caches before install it seems to encourage this.
To Recalibrate Battery (must have custom recovery like cwm):
Charge phone to FULL
(I highly recommend AC charger for this)
Reboot into recovery
Look for wipe battery stats (should be I'm advanced if not main menu)
Unplug phone and restart it
Now FULLY KILL THE BATTERY;
(for faster results set mp3 or video on repeat and let her rip)
Fully charge one more time and done
(again I highly suggest AC adaptor)
Keep in mind if you set your CPU to Max frequency or leave a demanding app running and CPU is set to allow full usage ondemand or performance the phone will kill battery very quickly.
Same if you leave antenna on auto 4G and it is weak around you and phone is always searching it will go fast as well.
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You sir, are a n00b, calibrating the battery is useless to this device and actually done automaticly.
So your post is useless and rather a waste of everyones time even reading. So thanks.
@above
Its obviously not hitting deep sleep, there's no way it can be and be draining the battery this quick.
@OP
As suggested above use cpuspy to check on the cpu when idle,
Sleep mode should kick in within 30sec to a minute.
Also chek my reply a few posts up and follow steps there..
Ignore Realn00b's post
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@Realn00b
Please take the time to read up on batterystats.bin and find out what its for,
You don't need cwm to delete, just root explorer.. its in:
Data/system/batterystats.bin
Also, the entire basis of this is stupidity and was takin way out of context.
Batterystats is used to cache the active information of running applications (uptime/cpu usage, etc. NOT battery percents)
And should only be deleted under very very rare occasions (effecting above)
Your battery percent, is actually the mAh
Your system collects the information from a chip on the battery, among the information read, max mAh and current mAh.
The device then calculates from these the value we know as the percent.
Meaning, no device with a lithium ion battery stores charge information for the battery, making the entire purpose of your post for this, or ANY device not only useless, but also a little pathetic considering you would actually try to post a tip on something you are obviously completely uneducated about.
Please don't provide tips unless you are 100% sure of the situation and are actually educated on the material. Thanks
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2050mAh wouldn't get you to much more out of thr battery..
Only 200mAh over stock, hows this supposed to help if you have a sleep mode issue or app issue?
Bringz me back to my first statement.
Your kernel is NOT allowing deep sleep mode for whatever reason, your best bet would be make a backup
Delete data/factory reset and try it over a day.. if it works good, its an app issue, still the same. It is undoubtedly the kernel. Why pay more for maybe an hour out of your phone?
Run some actual tests to clarify the issue first..
There. I said my peace
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I originally purchased it for two reasons:
1. For long trips or for when I'll be gaming a lot
2. It had no reviews, so I figured I should buy it and test it. It's cheap anyways, $11.
Also, I'm on stock kernel. Everything stock + rooted.
I just did a re-flash with ODIN, so it has all the bloatware back on. I rooted and installed most of the main apps I use (facebook, aim, xda, google apps, games, basic things).
Currently I have sync on for Google contacts, calendar, and gmail. Facebook syncs with existing google contacts. T-Mobile contact sync off. Dropbox auto uploads camera photos on wifi only (I rarely take photos).
It's charging right now, at 50%. I might not have time to leave it idle today, so I could try in the morning if I have time.
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I originally purchased it for two reasons:
1. For long trips or for when I'll be gaming a lot
2. It had no reviews, so I figured I should buy it and test it. It's cheap anyways, $11.
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Yea your right that is a good price.. is it same size as stock and have NFC? can you post link?
Thanks.
And please excuse realn00b up there..
He didn't know wat he was talking about.. read my post below it if you want an explanation.
Take a look at the safe to remove apps list aswell I'll see if I can find it on google pages for you. I definitely recommend
Deleting unndeeded applications and even replace stock with third party where applicable.
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Yea your right that is a good price.. is it same size as stock and have NFC? can you post link?
Thanks.
And please excuse realn00b up there..
He didn't know wat he was talking about.. read my post below it if you want an explanation.
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1. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0078WL4YO (i ordered this)
2. http://www.amazon.com/Anker-Batteries-Skyrocket-SGH-I727-Multi-purpose/dp/B0078WR4KW/ (even better deal!)
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1. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0078WL4YO (i ordered this)
2. http://www.amazon.com/Anker-Batteries-Skyrocket-SGH-I727-Multi-purpose/dp/B0078WR4KW/ (even better deal!)
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Thanks!
That is a good deal.. doesn't say if it has NFC though, got some tags comming now
So definitely want that lol xD i dont want one of those bulky ass ones though
I have searched and read, and read. I can't seem to find my problem and my 14 days are closing in so dont know if I got a bad batt or charger, or something else.
ok. so my phone charges. says 100% so I unplug, and my batt circle on status bar says 96%(blx, maybe, I got that part). but then not touching phone, 15 minutes later 85%, then send a text, check email, 65%. by the time I hit 30 minutes it is at 45%. that is with gps off, etc. during the day I can't get more then 4 hrs tops without being at 7%. and that a couple phone calls, few texts, and maybe some email.
phone is Verizon, stock batt, etc. i'm on aokp. phone gets hot to touch when playing a game or watching you tube. I have set it to conservative, and no overclock.
I moved from t-mo to vz because of better coverage where I moved. and even with heavy use my sgs2 with the same battery lasted about 8hrs.
is it just lte?
should I make vz give me a new phone?
Attach screenshots of your usage? You probably have a wakelock problem.
ill have to take screen shot maybe tomorrow? or should I try and mimick same activities? I don't work till Monday. what is wakelock problem. ill probably search before you get back, but more info is more info
edit: did a search on wakelock, and yes I have noticed long charging times. or well it will charging all night, I unplug and head out to work it says 96% (blx problem maybe?) by the time I get to work (8 minutes or 10) its at 89%. so is it wakelock and blx(hope i'm mentioning the right thing, the rom reads battery wrong on purpose for better life)? the phone gets pretty hot charging and the plug. I don't remember my sgs2 getting that hot. and would charge from 10% to full pretty quick. should I try that charger and cable considering they are the same ratings(amps and voltage)
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ill have to take screen shot maybe tomorrow? or should I try and mimick same activities? I don't work till Monday. what is wakelock problem. ill probably search before you get back, but more info is more info
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Should have taken a screen shot when experiencing these issues. Duplicate it. A wake lock is when the processor is not sleeping properly or is awake. Something like an app or a process is keeping it up.
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i'm not used to problem with my Android phone lol. didn't cross my mind for screen shot, was initially thinking 4000mah battery, but don't want a phone book in pocket. is there anyway to check wakelock?
Wipe data;
Return to stock;
Use betterbattery stats to check wakelocks;
Most likely it will be user installed apps causing the extra drain.
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All of a sudden, my battery is getting drained by the messaging app. I have no idea why this started happening. A few weeks ago I noticed my phone battery life was getting significantly worse. It used to last for days, and now was barely lasting one. I've had it 1.5 years roughly, so figured the battery just needed to be replaced.
I went out and bought a new battery, and all seemed fine, but then randomly one evening it was practically dead again and I hadn't even used it. I looked at the battery graph and saw an exponential decline. It literally went from 12% to dead in a matter of 15 minutes. I thought the people sold me bad/used battery and was about to take it back, but I noticed that the stock messaging app had used 30% of the battery. It had used more than the screen even.
I'm not totally sure how the battery meter works, so I decided to charge it last night and then see what happened the next day. This time it was fine. Lasted a full day and barely used any battery life. Then at lunch just now I was playing Bejewled for 30 minutes, then walked home. I got home and heard the low battery beep. Was practically dead suddenly. I checked the battery graph and sure enough, Messenger had consumed 40% of the battery even though I had only used it for 10 seconds. It used more than even 30 minutes of Bejeweled.
So now I'm convinced my battery was actually fine and Messenger has a bug.
Anyone out there experienced this or know of a fix?
That is definitely odd. Maybe try wiping the cache of the messaging app. I've seen similar and it was because a message didn't go through, but kept trying to send for hours and I hadn't noticed.
FYI, I'm lucky to get 3hrs on screen or more than a full day off a single charge. No idea how you are getting this phone to last for days.
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cnoevl21 said:
That is definitely odd. Maybe try wiping the cache of the messaging app. I've seen similar and it was because a message didn't go through, but kept trying to send for hours and I hadn't noticed.
FYI, I'm lucky to get 3hrs on screen or more than a full day off a single charge. No idea how you are getting this phone to last for days.
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Thanks for the input. I solved it by installing Chomp and/or turning off auto retrieve MMS. When I installed Chomp, I saw 3 MMS messages show up in Chomp that were never viewed in the Messenger app. I guess it had to do with a different SIM card that I swapped in while traveling, and somehow messed it up. I then uninstalled Chomp after deleting them and it seemed to work fine.
As far as battery life, I just have different usage habits. I leave it in 2g only mode and keep wifi, gps, data, and bluetooth off. When I'm out. I just turn stuff on every now and then to check, then turn it back off. The only data I use for the most part is email. I don't use an social networks or apps that use data, so unless I'm checking email or looking up some information while I'm out, my screen and all data is off.
Never understood how people use their phones so much. I can't imagine having more than maybe 20-30 minutes of screen on time per day on average.