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[Q] Desire Battery Troubles

Hi everyone,
So that's my problem : I've got some real battery life troubles on my HTC Desire for 1 month now. I'll quickly explain what I did back then and what I've done since then.
So my Desire is rooted and has S-OFF for 4-5 months now. I've tried many roms, starting from the stock one with root (froyo), RCMix S, CyanogenMod, InsertCoin, GB Roms, ...
I had a great battery life with the froyo stock rooted ROM, I could listen to music, go on Youtube, read mails, call, ... and my battery would last a little bit less than 2 days, which I find good for a smartphone.
When I switched to GB Sense ROMs, I lost some battery life, but I could still do a lot of stuff and have some 40% remaining at the end of the day. So it could last 2 days when not doing heavy stuff.
One month ago, I updated InsertCoin to a new version and since then I've got battery life troubles. I thought first it was obviously IC having battery troubles, but when an update arrived, it remained the same. I bought a new battery and nothing changed. Since then I've tried different ROMs like AOSP Cyanogenmod or stock rooted Froyo but the battery can't last more than one day even if the phone remains idle for the most part of the day (one call, 30 minutes of music and that's it... 15-20% at the end of the day).
I've tried to change the radio to an oldest one (5.11.05.27 previously 5.17.05.23), add to the stock froyo a powersaving pack (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773997) which I think should be the lightest ROM available (stock froyo with old sense and a powersaving pack) and still can't have my phone survive the night ...
So what has changed in my phone and how can I have a normal battery life back ?
I don't expect you to exactly solve my problem, but it could be nice to give some advices regarding the battery or explain how exactly the modified kernels with smartass work or even the setcpu application. And how to monitor exactly what drains the battery !
Best regards

How long have you had the phone? And is it still the original battery you got with the device?
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I've had my phone since June 2010 and I bought a new battery 1 month ago to see if it changed something. It's an official htc battery
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Did you calibrated your new battery? If not, here is a very nice guide for battery calibration:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/11823-battery-calibration-thread

Thanks for the link. I've tried to calibrate my battery, I'll see if it changes something, but from what I read, calibration only avoids your phone turning off at 10-15% of battery because it thinks the battery is empty. A lot of people say that calibration doesn't improve battery life ...

So I tried to find what really drained my battery. I spoke with a friend and he told me he thought our provider must have changed something in the network and that can use more battery.
So I tried to use my phone as usual but turning on and off the 3g network when needed or not and the battery life is back to normal.
It's strange though because one year ago I didn't need to do that to save my battery.
I'm wondering : if I try several radios, could I find one that uses less battery? So far I've used the last one available and the one that came with froyo 2.2 but I didn't try the other...
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What most people forget is the tiny size of the battery Vs what we want the phone to do. If I were to only send a few text messages per day and maybe a 10 minute phone call it may last up to 3 days. As it is I have it checking Facebook, Google mail, my home mail and I leave wifi on 24/7. With this I can do 24 hours provided that I'm not putting the screen on to look.
Turn wifi off and don't look at the screen, battery suddenly lasts twice as long. The issue is that these phones are made to be able to access anything and your battery will die fasy when you do. Get a cheap £10.99 Nokia or Samsung that only makes phone calls and you'll save yourself the heartache of a phone that's a PC away from home.
Otherwise, swallow the bitter pill. You can't have both.

Parva4 said:
What most people forget is the tiny size of the battery Vs what we want the phone to do. If I were to only send a few text messages per day and maybe a 10 minute phone call it may last up to 3 days. As it is I have it checking Facebook, Google mail, my home mail and I leave wifi on 24/7. With this I can do 24 hours provided that I'm not putting the screen on to look.
Turn wifi off and don't look at the screen, battery suddenly lasts twice as long. The issue is that these phones are made to be able to access anything and your battery will die fasy when you do. Get a cheap £10.99 Nokia or Samsung that only makes phone calls and you'll save yourself the heartache of a phone that's a PC away from home.
Otherwise, swallow the bitter pill. You can't have both.
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Thanks for the answer. I'm not asking for one week battery life though. I'm just pointing out that one year ago I had Froyo with root and now I'm back to Froyo with a brand new battery after trying some other ROMs but I can't manage to have my old battery life back. What I'm saying in my other posts is that I'm not using my phone a lot, I just write 2 messages a day and listen to 30 minutes music, I don't go on Youtube, I don't have push notifications for exchange etc etc ... Last year I had all of that and the battery lasted more than one day !
Cheers

What is the part number of your new battery ? Is it 35H00132-06M
I have got such one and results is very surprising
See my blog 78michel/unblog now in french will be in english within few days

7_michel said:
What is the part number of your new battery ? Is it 35H00132-06M
I have got such one and results is very surprising
See my blog 78michel/unblog now in french will be in english within few days
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Nop, it's not very far, it's 35H00132-05M.
BTW, meantime I've switched to sebaastian15's ROM Runnymede, removed everything I could (Twitter, auto sync off, Exchange manual update, etc ...) and I'm very satisfied with the battery life And the Beats audio enhancement is very nice with some good headphones !
I'll just suppose that Android 2.2 + uses more battery than the old ones and if you want the same battery life, you need to turn off some stuff. I also think that Sense 3.5 is more battery friendly than 3.0.
Cheers

[Q] HTC desire quickly draining (1yr battery)

Hello
Since one week i'm having 16hours battery till it drains completely, before that i got 1day and an half to 2 days, i'm using this phone for 1 year and i've never experienced that, so i decided to make a hard reset and see what i got, it stills drains in 16hours
i guess my battery isn't in it's full capacity maybe it's time to change for a new one
i'm in panic, its that a possibility that the phone become faulty or is just time to change for a new battery ?
Thanks
Edit : I'm using HTC Desire with Android 2.2 Stock Rom

HTC themselves IIRC made the announcement that after a year of battery cycle battery might need to be replaced.
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Thank you for the answer, i've noticed that gsm only mode is the cause of abnormal consumption, i can't explain why since i have no apps installed, i did hard reset yesterday... now i'm testing with gsm auto prl and is saving a lot of battery but 3g network don't suit for me, it's very unstable here...

[Q] Compatible Battery

Hi everyone, i am facing some HUGE battery drains when i am over a 3G network.
I am currently using a Stock ROM 2.2 (JPS i guess),but as soon i turn the 3G on,my battery does not last 10 minutes.
I started looking over a battery replacement,and i´ve found all those :
Ebay Search
I want to know if you guys can tell me which would be a better alternative for a compatible battery. Also,if you guys already experienced this battery drain and were able to fix it somehow.
Thanks in advance.

marcelloLins said:
Hi everyone, i am facing some HUGE battery drains when i am over a 3G network.
I am currently using a Stock ROM 2.2 (JPS i guess),but as soon i turn the 3G on,my battery does not last 10 minutes.
I started looking over a battery replacement,and i´ve found all those :
Ebay Search
I want to know if you guys can tell me which would be a better alternative for a compatible battery. Also,if you guys already experienced this battery drain and were able to fix it somehow.
Thanks in advance.
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buy from TOP-RATED sellers & see if the TITLE says it s for i5800 ..

Um also having xctly d same prob.. :/ :/
sent via SG3 running on kyrillos v9.4

Did you end up buying a battery? Did it solve the 3G drain?
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facing same problem . any solutions?

Solutions:
1) Buy new battery
and / or
2a) Turn on and off mobile data manually
2b) Use OnScreenOff app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seroton.onscreenoff with auto time intervals
3) Use 2G only (in settings)
4) Try another rom

szewc1 said:
Solutions:
1) Buy new battery
and / or
2a) Turn on and off mobile data manually
2b) Use OnScreenOff app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seroton.onscreenoff with auto time intervals
3) Use 2G only (in settings)
4) Try another rom
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if u take option 4 try indroid v6 ( u find it a development page 6 ) best rom i ever tried (the developer stopt making this rom so deleted the kernel list the rom is stil their but u need to flash a kernel if u want to overclock it otherwise its just ur normal speed ) ( btw. sorry for the bad english xP )

After 1 year and an half some months ago i faced the same problem, so i bought a new battery on ebay (http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=110861143398&view=all&tid=834148161001) but i still had a short battery life on 3G/2G and i thught the problem was the ruined battery (it arrived in terrible conditions with cracks etc...) so i bought this extended battery: http://www.ebay.it/itm/261029030204...X:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649#ht_1965wt_1029 . It didn't arrive yet but someone that bought it can tell me if it works better than the original one or not?

After almoste 2 and a half year of service my battery died in peace
so I begon the search for a new battery and found this battery pack on e-bay
I'm using these battery's for about 2 weeks now and I have to say I'm very satisfied
They last for about 3 day's (mobile data constantly connected, wifi for about 1 hour turned on and some pictures)
I definitely recommend this battery pack to al of you

superfrancy97 said:
After 1 year and an half some months ago i faced the same problem, so i bought a new battery on ebay (http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=110861143398&view=all&tid=834148161001) but i still had a short battery life on 3G/2G and i thught the problem was the ruined battery (it arrived in terrible conditions with cracks etc...) so i bought this extended battery: http://www.ebay.it/itm/261029030204...X:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649#ht_1965wt_1029 . It didn't arrive yet but someone that bought it can tell me if it works better than the original one or not?
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hows the extended battery performance? I m in india.. any suggestion to buy here?

satyamsit said:
hows the extended battery performance? I m in india.. any suggestion to buy here?
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satyamsit..Have you got your new battery? Actually I also need some advice..badly need a new one as it supports only 4-5 hours with light usage (currently using stock battery though...2 years old..)...

Rogers Galaxy S3 battery drains ultrafast

Hi folks,
I have had my rogers S3 for several days now. while i love it very much but one issue frustrates me. I get only about 6-7 hours for one charge on a maybe a little bit more than moderate use.
I read somewhere there was an error in one of the system config files but that article was talking about the international version. do any of you experience the same?
My GS3 battery life is going against all the reviews. help.

I had the same problem, I did a factory reset and it seems to be considerably better now.
not sure why the phone kept going into deep discharge, but it hasn't done it since and it's been a week or so now.. is your phone also warm near the USB connector?
The error in the config file was just in regards to the reporting of usage.. Cell Standby usage was being over-reported.. I am not seeing that as being the case on my Rogers SGS3..
One thing I did do is nuke all the rogers installed apps.. I got sick of the VVM+ whining constantly about not being able to work over WiFi.. I just used Titanium Backup to freeze all of the rogers apps.. (rather than uninstalling them).. battery life is quite good actually.. very surprised.
quekou said:
Hi folks,
I have had my rogers S3 for several days now. while i love it very much but one issue frustrates me. I get only about 6-7 hours for one charge on a maybe a little bit more than moderate use.
I read somewhere there was an error in one of the system config files but that article was talking about the international version. do any of you experience the same?
My GS3 battery life is going against all the reviews. help.
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jvoisin said:
I had the same problem, I did a factory reset and it seems to be considerably better now.
not sure why the phone kept going into deep discharge, but it hasn't done it since and it's been a week or so now.. is your phone also warm near the USB connector?
The error in the config file was just in regards to the reporting of usage.. Cell Standby usage was being over-reported.. I am not seeing that as being the case on my Rogers SGS3..
One thing I did do is nuke all the rogers installed apps.. I got sick of the VVM+ whining constantly about not being able to work over WiFi.. I just used Titanium Backup to freeze all of the rogers apps.. (rather than uninstalling them).. battery life is quite good actually.. very surprised.
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thank you for the info. how is a factory reset done? does that mean i would lose everything i downloaded already? i will give the Titanium Backup a try to get rid of the rogers apps too to see if it helps. yeah, the phone gets pretty warm after a short while.

Are you on LTE, My battery gets about the same with LTE always on since it does consume a lot of power
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quekou said:
Hi folks,
I have had my rogers S3 for several days now. while i love it very much but one issue frustrates me. I get only about 6-7 hours for one charge on a maybe a little bit more than moderate use.
I read somewhere there was an error in one of the system config files but that article was talking about the international version. do any of you experience the same?
My GS3 battery life is going against all the reviews. help.
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Well.. this may not be a fix but it really worked forr me. Battery time was at least trippeled.
I drained my battery until the phone shut down, then I connected the charger WITHOUT turning on the phone (allright I KNOW it sounds stupid). Noticed the time to charge it fully increased from 1.5-2 hours to 4-5 hours.
I had to charge the phone during the day before, now it last for 2 days at least.
The cell standby is still wrong but that is just a indication fault, this was a real problem for me.

it's the rogers apps!!!
FYI - disable the rogers apps (all of them) and your battery life will DRASTICALLY increase. I've tested this with them enabled (battery life sucked), and disabled (battery lasted for like 1.5+ days).
Oh and let rogers know their apps suck like I did. The more people that report it the more chance they might actually fix them. A fun way is to do it to their twitter account @rogershelps
If you decide to keep them disabled, be sure to call Rogers and tell them to remove any of the features those apps use...thus reducing you monthly bill.

Rogers apps
dorcy75 said:
FYI - disable the rogers apps (all of them) and your battery life will DRASTICALLY increase. I've tested this with them enabled (battery life sucked), and disabled (battery lasted for like 1.5+ days).
Oh and let rogers know their apps suck like I did. The more people that report it the more chance they might actually fix them. A fun way is to do it to their twitter account @rogershelps
If you decide to keep them disabled, be sure to call Rogers and tell them to remove any of the features those apps use...thus reducing you monthly bill.
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Forgive my ignorance, I have a VZW GS3. What are Rogers apps? What app names should I look for to see if they're on my phone? Thanks to VZW I cant unlock and root my phone this may not matter.

why don't you return it for a new one?

cbandchikin said:
Forgive my ignorance, I have a VZW GS3. What are Rogers apps? What app names should I look for to see if they're on my phone? Thanks to VZW I cant unlock and root my phone this may not matter.
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Rogers is one of the provider here in Canada...similar to AT&T. They each have their own bloatware that they install in their phones.
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Hi guys,
How do you remove Rogers app? You have to be root, right?
Thx,
Phil

korg33 said:
Hi guys,
How do you remove Rogers app? You have to be root, right?
Thx,
Phil
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With root you can either delete them or use titanium backup to freeze them (stop them from running or updating).
I did this (freeze the Rogers apps and most of the samsung ones) and get all day battery life (6am to midnight) with between 4 & 5 hours of screen time.
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I've found that battery life is related to cell coverage. If I have 3-5 bars and I'm not using the phone I could lose about a percent of battery per hour and my phone will run at a 40-45 when I do use it. If I only have 1 or 2 bats and it keeps switching between 3g and 4G I could easily lose 6-10 percent an hour and my phone will run at 50 or so degrees celcius. A restart seems to help the phone get a better lock. All this temps were cpu temps.

I just did a wipe/reset and found that this worked for me. I couldn't squeeze out a day with it and now go to bed with 30-40 percent left.

Battery life
My battery life on a debloated stock build was average. I was getting about 16-18hrs on moderate use. I've recently tried CPU Editor battery saver profile and so far its going great. I'll post back on the results after I go through a few charging/discharging cycles.
The forum page for the CPU Editor is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1798765
[MOD/SCRIPT]CPU Editor SGS3 Edition - Secret to Die Hard Battery

I'm with rogers and my battery is pretty awful too. Not quite as bad as yours, but still not as good as I'd hope with LTE off.

What kind of usage do you have though ? For example I work with a guy who has the same model and was complaining about battery. I checked his stats and was at 35 percent battery with 4 hours display time. If you're getting 5 to 6 hours screen on time that's enough to kill battery. If its in standby for 6 to 7 hours and battery is dying then something is wrong
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I've had very similar issues. Tried several ROMs and had charging problems and finally ended up on cm10 and it took about 3.5 hours to charge from 30% to 85%. Then dropped to 80% after only thirty minutes off the charger. Not sure exactly what to do to fix the issue.
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[Q] Battery Depleting Quickly

I have had my Note 8 for a couple of months and just recently I have been having battery problems. I restored the Note 8 to factory settings (just to be sure) and am still having the same problem.
It seems that when I watch videos or play any games the battery depletes extremely quickly e.g Its 80%, I start to play the game and within 3-5 minutes the battery is 30%. I play again and its 5% and the screen dims (which is also a pain in the ....) I realise that Games and Apps use a lot of power but surely not this much.
I have looked around for battery calibration instructions and apps but are a bit dubious to try them as I have read that you can deplete the battery totally and the device then wont charge.
Just wondered if anybody else has had the same problem.
Thanks.

My note has a great battery life. For this situation I would look in the battery menu for any apps not closing correctly thus sucking battery. Remember to dis activate GPS, Bluetooth and data when not using them. Check the screen brightness is 50% or less. Automatic brightness should be fine also.
here's a lot of info related to batteries. I'm sure you will find it usefull
http://batteryuniversity.com/

Don't waste time with calibration. Sounds like the battery ifs failing or dying, either way it's bad.
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I usually have Bluetooth and GPS turned off and have the screen on Auto Brightness. I also restored to factory and the problem still persists.
One strange thing is that when I charge it from 10% it takes about 50 minutes to get to 100%. I thought that was a bit quick. The battery must be reporting the wrong charge to the OS. I wish they had user replaceable batteries in this thing although its probably not practical.
I will give Samsung a call. Cannot beleive it has happened now as I am off on holiday soon to the US and wanted to use it there.
Thanks.

chas0001 said:
I usually have Bluetooth and GPS turned off and have the screen on Auto Brightness. I also restored to factory and the problem still persists.
One strange thing is that when I charge it from 10% it takes about 50 minutes to get to 100%. I thought that was a bit quick. The battery must be reporting the wrong charge to the OS. I wish they had user replaceable batteries in this thing although its probably not practical.
I will give Samsung a call. Cannot beleive it has happened now as I am off on holiday soon to the US and wanted to use it there.
Thanks.
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Hi, I've had the same issue. I sent the device for service under warranty and they could not find a fault. They only reflashed the firmware.
Its been working fine since I got it back. I updated to 4.2.2 and its working just fine.
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batttery draining extremely fast
JCUK89 said:
Hi, I've had the same issue. I sent the device for service under warranty and they could not find a fault. They only reflashed the firmware.
Its been working fine since I got it back. I updated to 4.2.2 and its working just fine.
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same with me chas0001, and JCUK89, my situation is actually identical to chas0001, but my device is like a mth old now, i received it on august 5th 2013,
so its basically been used for jus over a mth now. and i barely use it, maybe 3 hrs a day, most days less than 1 hr, constant use.
i dont kno, can anyone help. on xda developers. ??

I called Amazon.co.uk (where I bought it from) and they agreed to replace it for me. Its was definitely faulty and unusable. I kept reading about people with the similar problems and so eventually decided to not get a replacement but a refund.
Its a shame really. I really liked the device but I need something more reliable. I also don't care for Samsung with their constantly delayed OS updates. 4.1.2 for a 'flagship' device. Surely if they get rid of that Touchwiz crap they can release timely updates. You never know even my Note 2 may get an OS update this year!
Just went out and bought a Nexus 7 (2013). NOW...what to do with those 5 Galaxy Note 8 cases

jramna1 said:
same with me chas0001, and JCUK89, my situation is actually identical to chas0001, but my device is like a mth old now, i received it on august 5th 2013,
so its basically been used for jus over a mth now. and i barely use it, maybe 3 hrs a day, most days less than 1 hr, constant use.
i dont kno, can anyone help. on xda developers. ??
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I would see of you can get it exchanged (assuming you still want to keep the device).