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[Q] Battery drain - rooted, but on standard ROM

Hi all,
I've got a slightly strange one here which I wasn't expecting.
My Arc S was on .6, downgraded to .4, rooted, then upgraded to .6 with root still on. So I'm on a stock ROM, and have even removed a ton of unnecessary apps - otherwise, everything is as it should be.
However, where I previously got 2 days out of my Arc S, I'm now getting only about one. As before, I have background data, Wifi, Bluetooth and virtually everything else permanently turned off.
As I'm on a stock rom, and the same one that I was on before I rooted, is this normal and/or expected?
Thanks in advance,
schnide

Download a boot editor, or check the KERNEL, if you are using the stock kernel is normally. Idk how you can stay 2 days with an arc, without charging. Check the brightness.

Heck, im suprised how anyone can keep the battery last even for a day. If i fully charge the arc s, unplug it and then just leaves it there, the longest i can get is ~10hours.
I heard that arc/s battery will get better over time, maybe thats why, coz i only got mine like 4 months ago...
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You can save power using apps like "green power" and cie but I'm impressed by the autonomy of your arc. Mine survives 1 day and two hours when I don't use it. You also can reset the battery stats on recovery but it's an extreme solution...

It's known issue, worse battery performance is because of .6x version

Velcis Ribeiro said:
Download a boot editor, or check the KERNEL, if you are using the stock kernel is normally. Idk how you can stay 2 days with an arc, without charging. Check the brightness.
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I conditioned my battery when I first bought the phone. Conflicting reports say this doesn't do anything with modern batteries, but I've always done it and had better battery life than some.

maliceomalice said:
Heck, im suprised how anyone can keep the battery last even for a day. If i fully charge the arc s, unplug it and then just leaves it there, the longest i can get is ~10hours.
I heard that arc/s battery will get better over time, maybe thats why, coz i only got mine like 4 months ago...
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Two days and 20 hours is my record
(uptime)
From my sexy LT15i

+1 I did manage to push it around the same with a few two minute calls bit of browsing and some xda posting
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Install supercharger, use a task killer to determinate what apps are running on the background and kill the unnecessary ones frequently. I'd suggest you to install another kernel and arconium if you have unlocked bootloader
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2days O.O
Do you people even use your phones ?
1day of usafe ~Moderate is normal
20/30min calls
Edge- Always on
Brightness-Medium - indorrs Full-Outdors
Wifi - off

I,m now almost 2 day,s with 15% left
6 hours displaytime
30 min calls
wifi almost on
brightness 30%
Arc s stock .62
undervolt -100 Mv
stockspeed 134-1400 Mhz smartassv2/bfq
v19.2 kernel
removed a lot off crapp.
With 3g the battery time is worser,but still good.

jejeh said:
I,m now almost 2 day,s with 15% left
6 hours displaytime
30 min calls
wifi almost on
brightness 30%
Arc s stock .62
undervolt -100 Mv
stockspeed 134-1400 Mhz smartassv2/bfq
v19.2 kernel
removed a lot off crapp.
With 3g the battery time is worser,but still good.
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What kernel u use?
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maliceomalice said:
What kernel u use?
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doom v19.2 highboot.

How well xperia arc s ???

I,ve been using xperia arc s for year already and i got 3 question
1- can our phone drop like SAMSUNG OR Iphone? And still working?
2- is it normal when playing games battery runs out quickly and gets hot on top of the back (camera part)
3- can we increase our internal storage? Srry for this kind of question...
Sent From My Xperia Arc S

AlwaysAsk said:
I,ve been using xperia arc s for year already and i got 3 question
1- can our phone drop like SAMSUNG OR Iphone? And still working?
2- is it normal when playing games battery runs out quickly and gets hot on top of the back (camera part)
3- can we increase our internal storage? Srry for this kind of question...
Sent From My Xperia Arc S
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1. i've dropped my phone plenty of times with 'barely there' cases, and it works fine
2. yes it's normal
3. you can with a certain app, but I'm not sure what it's called Some apps however wont have widgets working if you use that app though. i think it's called link2sd or something

Thx for that info bro...
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1 - If you bought phone to drop it, you have really gotten something wrong.
3 - No, that's all you got. Adding it is close to impossible, due to high-tech electricity parts and stuff.

If you really want more internal memory you could partition your sd card and make it as internal memory...

How do i do that?
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AlwaysAsk said:
I,ve been using xperia arc s for year already and i got 3 question
1- can our phone drop like SAMSUNG OR Iphone? And still working?
2- is it normal when playing games battery runs out quickly and gets hot on top of the back (camera part)
3- can we increase our internal storage? Srry for this kind of question...
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1 - It will still work... But Case is made of light plastic and will easily suffer cosmetic scratches and cracks.
2 - Yes... Any Smartphone Runs low on battery fast when playing HD games.
3 - Nope.

I'vr dropped it alot and it still works fine, I might have damaged the GPU or something like that, because my phone is laggy, but that's probably just software problems.
Camera is also worse, which is sad, and I don't think it's software fault.
My screen saver (the original from Sony) is very scratched but the screen is perfectly fine, no scratches.
Many phones get hot when running heavy games or tasks and when charging, and games usually drain battery faster.
To increase internal storage you could remove unnecessary system files, but be careful with that, or you could partition your SD-card (class 8/10 SD for less lag)

use my mod from dev section to increase internal memory
on stock roms it works awesome an everything works even widgets
dropping is no problem
heating does not happen when on stock
on custom roms it heats much
click thanks if i helped and if you want link to my mod then i can give it to you

XtremeSilencer said:
use my mod from dev section to increase internal memory
on stock roms it works awesome an everything works even widgets
dropping is no problem
heating does not happen when on stock
on custom roms it heats much
click thanks if i helped and if you want link to my mod then i can give it to you
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It makes no difference of heating, between stock and custom.
1. I dropped my arc once and it has a big crack on the screen
2. Yeah its like on every phone..
3. Yes

jader13254 said:
It makes no difference of heating, between stock and custom.
1. I dropped my arc once and it has a big crack on the screen
2. Yeah its like on every phone..
3. Yes
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Actually it makes a difference in heating between stock and custom...If i watch a video on Youtube or play a game for 10 minutes,it's heating up to 40 degrees,if i'm using stock rom and kernel,after 30 minutes it's heating up to max 32 degrees.

georgeiulian89 said:
Actually it makes a difference in heating between stock and custom...If i watch a video on Youtube or play a game for 10 minutes,it's heating up to 40 degrees,if i'm using stock rom and kernel,after 30 minutes it's heating up to max 32 degrees.
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Yeah... If the ROM is bad coded

I think jader were rite because stock or custom rom both will gonna heat up while playing HD games well youtube does not effect anything its just game but no all game anyway thx all for suggest those idea gonna hit the thx butt now
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Jader i'm still using your rom and i just want to ask can we change from normal to gaming?? Without wiping anything? Just install like usual??? Because some game laggy so i want to go for games instead of normal usage...
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Return to Stock!!!!!!!

Hey guys I was running nxt 1.3 on the Xperia play and at first it was running games pretty smooth. Then I started restoring my old games and downloading more apps. All of a sudden the games have become very slow and lag badly. I increased my overclock frequency to 1.6 GHz and games were a little smoother but still unacceptable. I was getting about 17 fps in vice city, 23 in real racing 2 and about 24 in modern combat 3.
I couldn't take it anymore so I returned to stock and I flashed doomkernel and now I have overclock frequency of 1.2 and here's the fps scores .
24 GTA vice city, 27 real racing 2 and 33 modern combat 3.
Please return to stock. And get the best gaming performance

hmm.
Xperia Gamer said:
Hey guys I was running nxt 1.3 on the Xperia play and at first it was running games pretty smooth. Then I started restoring my old games and downloading more apps. All of a sudden the games have become very slow and lag badly. I increased my overclock frequency to 1.6 GHz and games were a little smoother but still unacceptable. I was getting about 17 fps in vice city, 23 in real racing 2 and about 24 in modern combat 3.
I couldn't take it anymore so I returned to stock and I flashed doomkernel and now I have overclock frequency of 1.2 and here's the fps scores .
24 GTA vice city, 27 real racing 2 and 33 modern combat 3.
Please return to stock. And get the best gaming performance
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You have gone back to 2.3.3 or 2.3.4 ?

2.3.4

Xperia Gamer said:
2.3.4
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Hmm Do you mind sharing your whole setup ? I mean what performance tweaks have you done except removing bloatware from stock ofcourse? Also, have you tried Lupus instead of Doomkernel with stock ?

nick.knack said:
Hmm Do you mind sharing your whole setup ? I mean what performance tweaks have you done except removing bloatware from stock ofcourse? Also, have you tried Lupus instead of Doomkernel with stock ?
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Nope doomkernel is ok for me. But how do I remove bloatware??

Xperia Gamer said:
Nope doomkernel is ok for me. But how do I remove bloatware??
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Well I am a bit new here too . But as far as I know , I think u can remove bloatware by rooting and using root explorer. I was gonna flash Nxt rom because essentially its cutted stock rom so in theory it should be better. But quite a few ppl like you seem to be returning to stock and finding it better for gaming. So i did make a question about it too ( which u can see) but havent got satisfactory answer yet . I think I might have to just flash nxt myself and compare performance with stock :s. Btw, I think considering Lupus is still developing for our phones and doomkernel isnt maybe u should give Lupus a try .

xdark
you could also try XDark ICS V0.2 Rom, i find gameplay on this quite good, i got quite a lot of lag on NXT. I use Doomkernel V3. Also Darkforest ICS is good, but i like Xdark as it is closer to sony stock look.

My Fix For HOX Tegra Heat Problem

Hi I don't know if you guys read my last thread about me being really wanting to extend battery life and reduce heat on my HOX. What I did was simply using Blade Rom + used only 2 cores instead of 4. Performance wasn't really affected (except for gaming) and I was really happy.
But now I really wanted to try something new and was tired of the Sense interface. I ended up flashing tons on mods and bricking my phone. So I had to wipe it fully and reflash. I installed Blade ROM v4.6. Two days later I saw that it had a de-sensing script which sounded nice to me since I was tired of sense. To my amazement (though i don't have exact temperature values), the device is now running much cooler and it feels much nicer in my hands. Still a little warm but much less than on stock or custom(with sense).
I believe Sense to be causing a big percentage of that heat ... well at least this can be derived from my observations. Im not really sure if this has been posted before but I saw a lot of threads dealing with this problem and I hope this helps someone.
P.S When I de-sensed i think its now using Nova Launcher

TheRippingGhost said:
Hi I don't know if you guys read my last thread about me being really wanting to extend battery life and reduce heat on my HOX. What I did was simply using Blade Rom + used only 2 cores instead of 4. Performance wasn't really affected (except for gaming) and I was really happy.
But now I really wanted to try something new and was tired of the Sense interface. I ended up flashing tons on mods and bricking my phone. So I had to wipe it fully and reflash. I installed Blade ROM v4.6. Two days later I saw that it had a de-sensing script which sounded nice to me since I was tired of sense. To my amazement (though i don't have exact temperature values), the device is now running much cooler and it feels much nicer in my hands. Still a little warm but much less than on stock or custom(with sense).
I believe Sense to be causing a big percentage of that heat ... well at least this can be derived from my observations. Im not really sure if this has been posted before but I saw a lot of threads dealing with this problem and I hope this helps someone.
P.S When I de-sensed i think its now using Nova Launcher
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Theres something wrong with your HoX , my hox never gets *warm* or *hot* on regular use even with all 4 cores on, when playing demanding 3d games (nfs for sintence) it reaches around 35-40C max, while playing it being on charger then it gets *warm* or a little bit *hot* HoX shouldn't be getting *hot* if you're using it normally lol, only while playing 3d games on charger. At least that's how it is for me.

what heat problem??? heat is now ancient history ever since the JB OTA
your HOX or your custom ROM has a problem

Exactly. Now even when playing taxing games like GTA 3, GTA Vice City, NFSMW, the phone stays cool. I remember on ICS< the thing heated till 50 degrees + and shut off by itself ...Thank the lord for the JB update :victory:

RohinZaraki said:
Exactly. Now even when playing taxing games like GTA 3, GTA Vice City, NFSMW, the phone stays cool. I remember on ICS< the thing heated till 50 degrees + and shut off by itself ...Thank the lord for the JB update :victory:
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Lol i must admit that heating issue was good for me my hox kept me warm this winter but now hes dead and cold >.<

AW: My Fix For HOX Tegra Heat Problem
Hallo guys my hox overheating too when i play 3d games, this is the only problem i have whith this phone, if there is a solution for that then it will be the best phone ever....
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Shan89 said:
Theres something wrong with your HoX , my hox never gets *warm* or *hot* on regular use even with all 4 cores on, when playing demanding 3d games (nfs for sintence) it reaches around 35-40C max, while playing it being on charger then it gets *warm* or a little bit *hot* HoX shouldn't be getting *hot* if you're using it normally lol, only while playing 3d games on charger. At least that's how it is for me.
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And btw what rom are you using ?
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TheRippingGhost said:
And btw what rom are you using ?
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My phone gets overheated when playing games on charge. I'm on stock JB Rom. When I was on stock ICS Rom the phone didn't get overheated regularly, but when I updated to JB it gets overheated so fast.

sekhar546 said:
My phone gets overheated when playing games on charge. I'm on stock JB Rom. When I was on stock ICS Rom the phone didn't get overheated regularly, but when I updated to JB it gets overheated so fast.
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You shouldn't be even playing intesive 3d games while on charge , that kind of stuff are killing your battery , not straight away but over the time, anyway once someone said about this *gaming while charging is same as $hitting while eating* =) , anyway it can also depend on your rom/kernel. I used to play games while on chrager due to addictivity of games tho never got really overheating issues, few times since i have it.

AW: My Fix For HOX Tegra Heat Problem
I think the problem its the kernel i have official rom jb and my hox overheatind too lm play games not while charging.
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TheRippingGhost said:
And btw what rom are you using ?
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ViperX 3.3.2 stock kernel, didn't test it for gaming long period , but gaming seems to be smoother then back in ICS days for the time i tested ( up to 10 mins each game) , didn't overheat or anything durring this 30 min test period for me, tho it's expected if you play for example NFS MF for over a hour or so to get little bit warm, but shouldn't go over 35-40C off the charger, anyway you gotta remember heeting on hox can happen as well if you're in warm room , tested that lol, played NFS in warm room at my house , actually very warm room around 30C and in another room with maybe 10C in the room, phone was much cooler then in the previous room , as for playing it on the charge it got overheated in around 20 mins of playtime in the 30C room and in the 10C room stayed little bit warmer but not overheating. So conclusion = one part of overheating depends on the room temperature lol. which means hox should be literally unplayable with charger when the summer time comes =P (btw this heat test was done back in ICS days not JB , anyway JB seams to be much better for this matter )
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sekhar546 said:
My phone gets overheated when playing games on charge. I'm on stock JB Rom. When I was on stock ICS Rom the phone didn't get overheated regularly, but when I updated to JB it gets overheated so fast.
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Arc S is definitely a good upgrade

Xperia Arc S is a 1.4GHz CPU.
I notice the 400 MHz boost increase in some apps:
1. FPse. greatly boost FPS. Comparing 1GHz to 1.4GHz there is a huge difference. I can run Crash Team Racing smoothly on Arc S compared to Arc.
2. Drastic DS Emuator. Greatly boost FPS!
Still experimenting...
So I consider this a major boost even most says it's just a minor one. Is Acro S good?????? Thanks, I was just sharing my experience from Arc to Arc S. I have two of them I need a new Motherboard for the other one(Damaged IMEI, Flashmode fastboot and TA testpoint not working) I think... Where to get Motherboard? What is NAND in android???

Buy a Arc S with cracked display on ebay and then take the mainboard from that.
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I have had an Arc S for two years now and this phone is really good. Flashed it with 4.4.2 ROM couple of days ago and it worked just fine.
I have also used Acro S and it is more powerful than the Arc S and has bigger screen and performs better with 4.4.2.
I suggest you try both and see.