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I haven't ever had FANTASTIC battery life like I'm seeing from some folks around here... when I first started on Starburst (I didn't keep stock for more than about four hours), I was at around 70% at the same time. I'm currently on Calkulin's 2.0.0; about to revert to Starburst and see if it's ROM-related, now that I've given Calkulin's about a week with a calibration to no effect.
I'm currently undervolted by -75 on all steps, and this seems to have made it WORSE if anything, which I didn't think was possible for undervolting to do. I've been monitoring things fairly closely with Watchdog, and nothing jumps out at me. The phone signal in the pic doesn't look good, but I've been in all the same places as I was when I was getting much better life.
What interests me is that I'm seeing absolutely no usage-based change in battery life. Until that sudden dip you see up there, it was going down at the exact same rate whether I was using it or it was sitting on my desk doing absolutely nothing.
That dip started after I played Fieldrunners HD for about ten minutes during a break at work. After I stopped playing, battery life went into a continuous plummet.
I use Tasker (extensively) to keep things in check; generally speaking, nothing is active unless it needs to be, except for Wi-Fi which is always active as it's my primary method of detecting my locations.
Am I missing something simple-stupid here? If not, anyone got any ideas, assuming going back to Starburst doesn't magically fix it?
Not sure if this will help, but improved my battery.
(1) go to your email setting for each account and change sync update, I believe by default it's set up to check every 15 minutes. With 10 email accounts, it took a toll on my my battery. I changed all my accounts to 4 hours.
(2) best way to kill a task is by holding down home button, going to task manager and kill from there. Market task killers were making things worse for me.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the thoughts! Sadly, neither of those really apply in my case. I stick with with the default Gmail app, which is all push, and I don't use task killers at all.
I'm running the stock rom with a custom kernel. I did notice that as soon as I went from stock to a different kernel I started to lose battery life. Maybe its something Samsung did? I am still a novice with Roms and what not, but nothing like this happened on my original Epic or my Hero. Maybe the yellow triangle isn't the only thing Samsung put in there.
Maybe the aggressive undervolt is causing your phone to ramp up to a higher state to perform the tasks? That drop is steep with how little screen on time you have
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Maybe the aggressive undervolt is causing your phone to ramp up to a higher state to perform the tasks? That drop is steep with how little screen on time you have
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For as little as I know, that certainly sounds logical. I still wasn't getting as good as I would've expected even the UV, though.
I just flashed the EK02 modem with today's wonderful developments; I'm going to wait and see if that gets me better reception and thus better life. If not... now I'm not sure whether to try the new ROM first, or scale back the UVs. I want to try one thing at a time, since it's not urgent that I have good battery life ASAP. This gets me through my day, currently, more or less; I'd like to try and find my root cause so that I'm not just trying things wildly in the future.
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For as little as I know, that certainly sounds logical. I still wasn't getting as good as I would've expected even the UV, though.
I just flashed the EK02 modem with today's wonderful developments; I'm going to wait and see if that gets me better reception and thus better life. If not... now I'm not sure whether to try the new ROM first, or scale back the UVs. I want to try one thing at a time, since it's not urgent that I have good battery life ASAP. This gets me through my day, currently, more or less; I'd like to try and find my root cause so that I'm not just trying things wildly in the future.
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Well, the good thing is that as of today, its possible to return back to bone stock and start again so you can mess with a few setups and see what works best for you. I have found that this is the first phone that uses the frequencies well. I haven't undervolted at all yet and I have had great battery life. I did the standard delete Sprint bloat, Social Hub and associated apps, Maps, etc. Also, get BetterBatteryStats. It may give you some insight into what's happening.
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How you return to bone stock? By applying the update?
Odin this
Przekret posted what appears to be a full EG30 RAR archive
Przekret - EG30 full - [post] [direct dl]
- RAR Pass: sampro.pl
- extract HOME.tar from rar file and flash in ODIN using PDA button
- does NOT include data.img so your userdata is preserved
- qbking77 installation video
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1381494
Then update to EK02
Got very slightly better today after flashing the EK02 kernel. 23% at the same time instead of 18%... anything could account for that 5%, though, so I don't really think EK02 had any effect on this. Zedomax kernel with stock voltages is next.
CPU boots pro
(From the market & assuming your rooted)
Settings
~Screen off profile max800 min200
~GPU to Conservative max1000 min800
~Nitrous Widget GPU to on demand max1400 min1000
What this should do is downclock your device when on standby by alot. Second for phone calls and daily stuff a clock of 1k will be silky smooth and be a small downclock. Third when you set up the nitrous widget and activate it you will overclock to 1.4k which is stoopid fast my quad score is at 1.4k I get 4500 scores at 1.6k oc but forget batt when I'm using the nitrous. I like too personally keep my phone at a clock of 800 for daily phone calls and web surfing... if I play a graphic intense game ill oc it with nitrous and not worry about burning up my phone because if I set the phone down it downclocks as soon as it stands by and will pick right back up when I'm ready.
Hope it helps here's pics.
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Batt life on my day off doing nothing but trolling forums at 800 clock.... I was on my phone like six hours straight while waiting for jury duty selection to be done.
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Wolf we need to see your app and process details page. I bet your Android OS and cell standby are much higher than they should be.
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Wolf we need to see your app and process details page. I bet your Android OS and cell standby are much higher than they should be.
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If you're talking about the page I think you are, it'll have to wait until at least morning. I just did a full charge.
To wit... I spent 43 minutes on a phone call, and lost almost the same as what I normally lose in that same time period. 6% for a 43 minute call; I'm averaging 5%/hr loss doing NOTHING.
@Dchibro, assuming that's true, what would it mean for me? Does it give me a solution?
So, doing a bit of my own detective work... I've had Watchdog installed for about three days, with aggressive monitoring. I was almost immediately getting a bunch of alerts for two processes:
I initially whitelisted them through Watchdog, dismissing them as system processes that unavoidably needed to run. However, the comment from Dchibro got me thinking and sent me back to those, and I started Googling around. Here's what I've turned up so far:
http://goo.gl/Hsvej (HUGE thread on the issue in SGS2 forums. Haven't had a chance to go through all this yet.)
http://goo.gl/kUcqx (SGS2 forums.)
http://goo.gl/mlWW4 (Nook Color forums.)
http://goo.gl/mNiId (My Google search results.)
Gonna try some of the suggestions on here and see what I turn up. For now, I'm returning to stock voltages, implementing a bunch of those changes and keeping everything else as it is now to see where I end up. Phone will be charged to 100% before bed tonight, and I'll post sometime tomorrow with my findings.
Wish me luck!
So, in stead of waking up to 50% this morning, I woke up to 86%! Which is the same I went to bed at. Six hours of sleep, not a single percent lost. If nothing else, I learned from all this that I can reboot the phone when this bug hits me and and get away from it.
As I suspected. Your Watchdog shot clearly shows that you are/were (sounds like a reboot solved your issue at least temporarily) suffering from the Android OS bug. This bug presents itself most prominently in the suspend and events/0 processes. Unfortunately, a conclusive solution has not been found, but there are some things you can do to hunt the problem down.
This is the best post/thread I've found regarding the AOS bug on Galaxy SII phones ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290020
Im one week into my new sgs2 running full stock. What should normal battery use be? I feel my battery drains too fast. Here is my usage summary since full charge couple hours ago.
I charged too 100%, shutdown, then charged to 100%, powered up and used the phone very sparingly since. Battery is at 91%
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Dchibro said:
As I suspected. Your Watchdog shot clearly shows that you are/were (sounds like a reboot solved your issue at least temporarily) suffering from the Android OS bug. This bug presents itself most prominently in the suspend and events/0 processes. Unfortunately, a conclusive solution has not been found, but there are some things you can do to hunt the problem down.
This is the best post/thread I've found regarding the AOS bug on Galaxy SII phones ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290020
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That bug gave me nightmares on my OG Epic.
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Definitely seeing a bit of an improvement, here.
Watchdog alerted me to the suspend and event/0 stuff again about an hour ago, but I quickly rebooted and nothing seems to have come of it. I'm going to try to make a Tasker profile to do this automatically, kinda like Viper's LoS script.
All in all, I'm considering this a mostly satisfactory alternative to draining 80% of my battery with almost no use in eight hours.
Firstly let me say I'm a long time lurker of XDA, I don't often post but rather keep quiet in the shadows. I've owned many handsets (Including the Inc. and TB, meaning I know bad battery life) and this has always been the site I go to for hacking and general information.
I don't expect definite, for-sure answers. I'm just seeking some advice on this, I absolutely love this phone and a Nexus on Verizon has always been my dream.
Secondly, I'm not posting here asking why my screen uses over 50% of the depletion on my charges, it is supposed to, I know that. I see many threads asking about that, which is why I waited to post not wanting to ask what has been already. But I am asking about my case specifically, and want input.
The main thing here is the amount of screen on time I am able to get.
I have had my GNex since Saturday afternoon, when I bought it the battery was dead and I fully charged it, the first day I used it mostly while plugged into AC, using 4G to install my apps. Since then (the last two days) I have tried depleting the charge almost entirely before charging, shying away from charging mid-depletion. I have tried using CDMA mostly (my area has just marginally good 4G), hoping I could stop some of the bleeding, but to no avail. I should also say I yesterday for the first time threw a custom ROM/Kernel on and that seemed to help marginally, though in truth I don't see that really changing the screen power consumption.
Please take a good look at both screenshots, as said I care nothing about the %.
(I am aware there is still 13% remaining on my charge, but even so this seems just crazy)
In the first screenshot at the bottom it's apparent this isn't a huge amount of screen on time.
I would kill to get 4 hours of screen on time with this thing, heck even in the area of 3, but it doesn't seem to be in the foreseeable future as it looks now. I can get out 2 at most to this point, and that is on almost entirely 3G/WiFi with light/moderate data usage.
I really need to ask. Do I just need patience to let this battery break in? I hear some say this can be a week-long thing, but shouldn't I see some increase by now?
If not, do I seek out a replacement battery or could this be an actual defect of the AMOLED drawing more than it should?
Thanks for your help!
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There were quite a lot of awake time during screen off if I look your stat.
Thats your problem.
Too much sync?
Mine can get up to 3 hours and 45 minutes screen on time, span into 2 days stand by, gsm version.
Good point, looking into playing with sync in settings and JD.
But while that accounts for the drop during the 10hr overnight period (20% of battery/83% of time), I still feel the draw during screen on (80% of battery/17% of time) is just insane, even given the AMOLED.
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Maybe its a rogue app running in the background making the battery drain real fast. Try wiping and running the phone normally without restoring your apps and see if that will improve. I'm having the same problem as you but with the GSM version. I'm looking through my apps though.
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Here's my result
xl DIGITAL lx said:
Maybe its a rogue app running in the background making the battery drain real fast. Try wiping and running the phone normally without restoring your apps and see if that will improve. I'm having the same problem as you but with the GSM version. I'm looking through my apps though.
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Here are some of the usual suspects:
- Facebook for Android app (uninstall it and replace it with Friendcaster and change the frequency of update t less often will do the trick)
- Accuweather widget or any other weather widgets
- Whatsapp
- Viber
- Latitude (google maps) - Login to Latitude and then ensure you select the option where it does not report your location and then sign out of Latitude.
Honestly, I have the GSM version and I've rarely gotten over 3 hours screen time. It's the screen. The battery life sucks, so you'll have to just ABC (always be charging), at the desk/sofa/car.
What I really want to ask is how you got the battery percentage inside the battery icon?!
This is also my exact problem. I can get great life if I don't touch the phone. Every time I use it for a few seconds, that's 2-3% gone. Browse the internet for 15 mins? Forget it, that's 10% gone at least.
I guess it's just the price to pay for such a gorgeous screen.
Black Mirror said:
Honestly, I have the GSM version and I've rarely gotten over 3 hours screen time. It's the screen. The battery life sucks, so you'll have to just ABC (always be charging), at the desk/sofa/car.
What I really want to ask is how you got the battery percentage inside the battery icon?!
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The custom ROM I'm running had it as the default icon: AXI0M 2.3.
9kracing said:
This is also my exact problem. I can get great life if I don't touch the phone. Every time I use it for a few seconds, that's 2-3% gone. Browse the internet for 15 mins? Forget it, that's 10% gone at least.
I guess it's just the price to pay for such a gorgeous screen.
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pcphobic said:
Here's my result
Here are some of the usual suspects:
- Facebook for Android app (uninstall it and replace it with Friendcaster and change the frequency of update t less often will do the trick)
- Accuweather widget or any other weather widgets
- Whatsapp
- Viber
- Latitude (google maps) - Login to Latitude and then ensure you select the option where it does not report your location and then sign out of Latitude.
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What is your total screen on time during those charges?
The only app in that list I really have to check is latitude. Doing so now.
I think op should stop playing wind up knight in his sleep. Case closed. Just kidding. But seriously, probably got something using up cpu cycles when using phone and not using it. If i dont play any games, i easily get 4 hours screen time, and got 5.25 over the weekend.
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@rbiter said:
I think op should stop playing wind up knight in his sleep. Case closed. Just kidding. But seriously, probably got something using up cpu cycles when using phone and not using it. If i dont play any games, i easily get 4 hours screen time, and got 5.25 over the weekend.
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When I flashed this ROM I purposely left games out when setting it back up, the only one is Drop7 which I purposely make sure gets killed when I'm done. All apps which sync I have either at minimal amounts or off entirely.
Are you in north america? Try ugkk7 radio maybe? I am in the usa and xxkk6 was ok, but since i flashed ugkk7 reception is excellent. Oh wait. Youre cdma version. I dont know if the same applies. I do know radios designated UGxx# are north american.
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you could install CPU SPY to see if your device is going in deepsleep, I had a problem that one app was using most of the time 350mhz and was using my battery very fast.
after that i found the app with battery monitor and disabled the app to see if the problem was solved, and that was the case, and i have now a battery life from more then a day instead of 5 hours.
I can get 3.5 hours of screen on time spread over ~36 hours or so on the GSM version.. if LTE is on I would assume around two hours of screen on time was normal for a Verizon version just because of how LTE is but it did look like your CPU was awake a lot as well so also it could be a rogue app, not necessarily a game.
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check here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1387243
joshnichols189 said:
I can get 3.5 hours of screen on time spread over ~36 hours or so on the GSM version.. if LTE is on I would assume around two hours of screen on time was normal for a Verizon version just because of how LTE is but it did look like your CPU was awake a lot as well so also it could be a rogue app, not necessarily a game.
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Will give that a try. Like mentioned though almost none of that time was 4G enabled. (Maybe 10mins of that first green section.) The slope is just as steep.
In truth this was a fairly data-light charge.
Could it be the rogue app would actually sap battery only when the screen is on? Even though there is wake time where there shouldn't, that isn't the main area of drain.
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Hello.How is official ics(4.0.4? on the nitro hd? Is it better than gingerbread in performance, does it have better benchmark results than gb,better battery, is video playback smooth, is the browser and gaming smooth? Would anyone want to go back to GB?BTW if i update does it have any result on the screen?Asking cause im not sure to update. Thx for the answers.
I'm sure no one would go back to gingerbread here, benchmarks don't really matter. Stock ics is super smooth. I just don't use it because atm there are better roms available like hono full throttle and cm10 preview.
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No one would go back to gb
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features vs battery life
I would go back. I can't stand half time of battery life regardless of all ICS features. I already got "double capacity" battery from Amazon, but still it's far from GB longevity on stock battery. There are other ROMs, but you need to root the phone and install some kind of CPU Sleeper app. In my case Android OS consumes 40% of the juice and is awake most of time. In GB the major consumer was the screen and I can afford it because the screen is nice . Here in ICS they fixed it by worsening Android OS power consumption Not good improvement at all.
Check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813378
and other thread about Battery Life and think for yourself.
eshka said:
I would go back. I can't stand half time of battery life regardless of all ICS features. I already got "double capacity" battery from Amazon, but still it's far from GB longevity on stock battery. There are other ROMs, but you need to root the phone and install some kind of CPU Sleeper app. In my case Android OS consumes 40% of the juice and is awake most of time. IN GB the major consumer was the screen (I can afford it because the screen is nice ).
Check the forum thread about Battery Life and think for yourself.
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Did you do factory reset after installing ICS update? You should if you haven't.
Can you please help me root my nitro which I updated to ics via the LG tool. Is there a way to root this device which is already running LG's 4.0.3? Please help!!
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I did factory reset (remember the other thread). It improved the life but not too much actually...
I don't know how you guys are getting bad battery life with the official ICS.
I've been averaging 15 hours of battery life on the official release with pretty heavy use throughout the day... I can provide a screen shot of my battery use screen if desired.
I'm also using the stock LG 1800 mAh battery, and not an extended battery.
eshka said:
I would go back. I can't stand half time of battery life regardless of all ICS features. I already got "double capacity" battery from Amazon, but still it's far from GB longevity on stock battery. There are other ROMs, but you need to root the phone and install some kind of CPU Sleeper app. In my case Android OS consumes 40% of the juice and is awake most of time. In GB the major consumer was the screen and I can afford it because the screen is nice . Here in ICS they fixed it by worsening Android OS power consumption Not good improvement at all.
Check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813378
and other thread about Battery Life and think for yourself.
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Wow you might want to see what is causing that under GB I could never go all day on the HC battery let alone stock the ONLY thing I have found better was CM9 stable but not by much. BTW I am only running RAM booster to manage my apps nothing else. Screen shot with official ICS and stock battery and over an hour of phone calls plus my entire lunch break on the phone:
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I had a chat with AT&T support and folowed their instruction: Do factory reset, DO NOT RESTORE ALL APPS, only restore/update preinstalled apps, install/restore other apps one by one to find "incompatible" apps.
During first 6 hours after reset with only preinstalled apps it was ok. Then I reinstalled Yahoo Mail to sync address book. It also was ok. Then in 3 hours I installed WhatsApp and that was not soo good. Going to stop it and check if it is the problem. May be uninstall is better. Not sure yet. :fingers-crossed:
Also I'll put back stock battery just to do not compare apples to oranges
eshka said:
I had a chat with AT&T support and folowed their instruction: Do factory reset, DO NOT RESTORE ALL APPS, only restore/update preinstalled apps, install/restore other apps one by one to find "incompatible" apps.
During first 6 hours after reset with only preinstalled apps it was ok. Then I reinstalled Yahoo Mail to sync address book. It also was ok. Then in 3 hours I installed WhatsApp and that was not soo good. Going to stop it and check if it is the problem. May be uninstall is better. Not sure yet. :fingers-crossed:
Also I'll put back stock battery just to do not compare apples to oranges
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I am glad you have found the issue!
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As of right now, I would gladly go back. I have an extended battery. Before the update, I regularly got 1½ - 2 full days with moderate to heavy use. No longer. Last night I unplugged my phone at 2 am with 100% charge. Eleven hours later, it sits at 23% with no usage other than 2 short phone calls, 4 or 5 texts, and no gameplay or other usage. Factory reset or no, this is just plain pathetic. I'm pretty confident that if I had the stock battery in right now, I would be lucky to get 3 hours out of it before having to charge.
I have also had issues with lagging, especially while typing text. And finally, my touchscreen seems to be...."off." Touches no longer register completely accurately. Seems to affect the right half of the screen more than the left.
IRingTwyce said:
As of right now, I would gladly go back. I have an extended battery. Before the update, I regularly got 1½ - 2 full days with moderate to heavy use. No longer. Last night I unplugged my phone at 2 am with 100% charge. Eleven hours later, it sits at 23% with no usage other than 2 short phone calls, 4 or 5 texts, and no gameplay or other usage. Factory reset or no, this is just plain pathetic. I'm pretty confident that if I had the stock battery in right now, I would be lucky to get 3 hours out of it before having to charge.
I have also had issues with lagging, especially while typing text. And finally, my touchscreen seems to be...."off." Touches no longer register completely accurately. Seems to affect the right half of the screen more than the left.
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Something must have gone very wrong with your installation of the V20C official ICS.
Not only have I had no problems with my installation, but I also get much better battery life on rooted V20C ICS than on CM9.
Here is my battery usage so far today, on the stock LG 1800 mAh battery (not the 3800 mAh battery).
IRingTwyce said:
As of right now, I would gladly go back. I have an extended battery. Before the update, I regularly got 1½ - 2 full days with moderate to heavy use. No longer. Last night I unplugged my phone at 2 am with 100% charge. Eleven hours later, it sits at 23% with no usage other than 2 short phone calls, 4 or 5 texts, and no gameplay or other usage. Factory reset or no, this is just plain pathetic. I'm pretty confident that if I had the stock battery in right now, I would be lucky to get 3 hours out of it before having to charge.
I have also had issues with lagging, especially while typing text. And finally, my touchscreen seems to be...."off." Touches no longer register completely accurately. Seems to affect the right half of the screen more than the left.
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Your phone is probably staying awake 100%. I had the same problem with the official ICS firmware. I tried installing it thought the official installer and using the flashable version through CWM. Factory reset and froze all the bloatware. Same problem with both of them. Phone stays awake almost all the time and hardly ever goes to sleep. I went back to CM9.
SeriousGeorge said:
Your phone is probably staying awake 100%. I had the same problem with the official ICS firmware. I tried installing it thought the official installer and using the flashable version through CWM. Factory reset and froze all the bloatware. Same problem with both of them. Phone stays awake almost all the time and hardly ever goes to sleep. I went back to CM9.
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Well now I have new problems. Did a factory reset, and now every time I unplug the charger (car OR wall), the phone immediately shuts off. Juuuuuuust great. I wish I had NEVER done the upgrade. Shame on me for not waiting and reading about others' troubles first.
I've had no problems. Battery life is way better (hyperion 3800mah). Super smooth and definitely the best launcher out there. Sucks that telus deleted the themes though.
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IRingTwyce said:
Well now I have new problems. Did a factory reset, and now every time I unplug the charger (car OR wall), the phone immediately shuts off. Juuuuuuust great. I wish I had NEVER done the upgrade. Shame on me for not waiting and reading about others' troubles first.
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You might want to try forceably reflashing the ICS update. Perhaps something got corrupted the first time around or something, I don't know. To do it, you would have to follow the directions from the unbricking guide except use the Telus KDZ from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1838346 . Consider using a different USB cable if you have one just to rule out the possibility of a problematic cable that caused the flashing to get corrupted.
Unfortunately I have no idea why you would be experiencing the problems you're having.
drumist said:
You might want to try forceably reflashing the ICS update. Perhaps something got corrupted the first time around or something, I don't know. To do it, you would have to follow the directions from the unbricking guide except use the Telus KDZ from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1838346 . Consider using a different USB cable if you have one just to rule out the possibility of a problematic cable that caused the flashing to get corrupted.
Unfortunately I have no idea why you would be experiencing the problems you're having.
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OK. Thanks for that info. The factory reset has definitely left me with serious charging issues. Left the phone charging all night, and it only charged to 56%! That was with a solid 8 hours plugged in with the factory cable/plug.
Is there a particular reason I need to use that specific Telus KDZ? Just curious.
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OK. Thanks for that info. The factory reset has definitely left me with serious charging issues. Left the phone charging all night, and it only charged to 56%! That was with a solid 8 hours plugged in with the factory cable/plug.
Is there a particular reason I need to use that specific Telus KDZ? Just curious.
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That KDZ is Telus's version of ICS. It's the same file that automatically gets downloaded by LG's updater tool if you use it normally. The problem is that LG in their infinite wisdom won't let you reinstall ICS because "there is no update available". The unbricking guide basically tricks the updater into applying the update anyway, but you have to manually download the KDZ you want to install.
You don't HAVE to install that one. You could also install Bell's or AT&T's ICS if you wanted to try it. But I don't think there's a good way to get back to Telus Gingerbead unless someone has a backup of it they can post. You could install a custom ROM though.
BTW, is it possible the problem is actually with the battery itself and it's just a coincidence? Are you using an OEM battery?
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The problem is that LG in their infinite wisdom won't let you reinstall ICS because "there is no update available".
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That was something that was REALLY ticking me off last night as I fought with this.
You don't HAVE to install that one. You could also install Bell's or AT&T's ICS if you wanted to try it. But I don't think there's a good way to get back to Telus Gingerbead unless someone has a backup of it they can post. You could install a custom ROM though.
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Didn't really want to go the custom ROM route with this phone...but I might. I'm on at&t FWIW, but I'm not opposed to another company's ROM. I do like several of the unlocking features and other visual tweaks of LG's ICS, but I don't know how the custom ROMs would compare in that regard.
BTW, is it possible the problem is actually with the battery itself and it's just a coincidence? Are you using an OEM battery?
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Anything is possible, but it seems like too much of a coincidence. I'm using a QCell extended battery. It's maybe six months old at the most. With GB I regularly got 2 days on a charge with fairly heavy usage. Immediately upon updating to ICS, battery life dropped to roughly 16 hours. I didn't do the factory reset for roughly one week after updating, as I <stupidly> did not do any research before the update. Immediately after the reset my battery issues compounded with the slow/no charge and shut down on power cord unplug / reboot on power cord plug in. Sadly, my stock battery is 630 miles away. So I have no way of eliminating the battery as being the issue.
My battery life on CM10 has been terrible. I have barely anything running, i've even installed this custom kernel to combat battery life
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1845836&page=31
and i'm still experiencing terrible battery life. my phone drains in an instant. is there anything anyone recommends?
Ditch lean kernel. Do you have Chrome installed? It has an undocumented feature. It does unspeakable things to your battery. There seems to be at least a little incompetence going on in Chrome's code.
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Ditch lean kernel. Do you have Chrome installed? It has an undocumented feature. It does unspeakable things to your battery. There seems to be at least a little incompetence going on in Chrome's code.
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There's nothing wrong with Lean Kernel. It's running very well for me.
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I apologize if I have offended you in some way. But anyone with any experience with troubleshooting will tell you that a problem is easier to pin down when you eliminate all unnecessary variables. And since I've read about and personally experienced anomalies with lean kernel, I suggested it first.
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I apologize if I have offended you in some way. But anyone with any experience with troubleshooting will tell you that a problem is easier to pin down when you eliminate all unnecessary variables. And since I've read about and personally experienced anomalies with lean kernel, I suggested it first.
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What..? I never even pretended to be offended.. lol I understand that I was just saying the way you worded it was as if Lean Kernel was the cause of OP's poor battery life.
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Ditch lean kernel. Do you have Chrome installed? It has an undocumented feature. It does unspeakable things to your battery. There seems to be at least a little incompetence going on in Chrome's code.
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I do have chrome, i guess ill use firefox
I don't have Chrome nor any custom kernel. I agree, cm10 battery life leaves much to be desired, even with juice defender installed. I hope it improves w/future builds. Battery on cm9, on the other hand, was awesome.
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Hmm, Im using CM10 nightlies AND lean kernel, and my phone seems to last well beyond my expectations.
No problems for me. I get 4-5 hours of screen time and 16-18 hours overall.
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No problems for me. I get 4-5 hours of screen time and 16-18 hours overall.
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What version of CM10 are you running? I'm giving it sometime, but just flashed CM10 M1 last night, and am wondering if a change from cyanogenmod's kernel may help with battery. Got about 6 hours of lite-moderate use today on my I747
What things are you running in the background (NFC, GPS, vibration, haptic feedback, etc.)? I'm running CM10 9/15 nightly with ktoonsez's kernel with a 1.9Ghz overclock and my phone lasts from 8 in the morning to 1 in the morning. Today my screen's been on for just over 4 hours.
Another thing to check for is are you located somewhere where you consistently get good signal? If your phone is constantly reacquiring 3G or 4G or constantly searching for signal it's going to cause a severe drain on your battery.
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What things are you running in the background (NFC, GPS, vibration, haptic feedback, etc.)? I'm running CM10 9/15 nightly with ktoonsez's kernel with a 1.9Ghz overclock and my phone lasts from 8 in the morning to 1 in the morning. Today my screen's been on for just over 4 hours.
Another thing to check for is are you located somewhere where you consistently get good signal? If your phone is constantly reacquiring 3G or 4G or constantly searching for signal it's going to cause a severe drain on your battery.
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What governor?
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Galvez03 said:
What version of CM10 are you running? I'm giving it sometime, but just flashed CM10 M1 last night, and am wondering if a change from cyanogenmod's kernel may help with battery. Got about 6 hours of lite-moderate use today on my I747
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9/15-9/18.
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I'm using SmartassV2 with SIO. I know I'm old school with SmartassV2, but comeon the name alone is worth whatever marginal performance increase I could get with some of the newer governors.
Well I notice that when I'm on screen, my battery drains like nuts. I slept 8 hours and I went from 100% to 88% which isn't bad at all, however if I'm texting or w/e, checking the web (keep in mind everything is off, I'm not a retard, and my brightness is at maximum low), battery eats like nuts. Is there a kernel or specific rom I should install?
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What things are you running in the background (NFC, GPS, vibration, haptic feedback, etc.)? I'm running CM10 9/15 nightly with ktoonsez's kernel with a 1.9Ghz overclock and my phone lasts from 8 in the morning to 1 in the morning. Today my screen's been on for just over 4 hours.
Another thing to check for is are you located somewhere where you consistently get good signal? If your phone is constantly reacquiring 3G or 4G or constantly searching for signal it's going to cause a severe drain on your battery.
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h ttp: //rootz wiki.com/topic/33775-kerneltmotwaospics-jellybean 9182012oc-21ghzusb-fc-lightning-kt747-lg8-ktweaker/
This kernel? It says that if you install it, and you want to go back to stock, you need to reinstall the drivers. Wtf does that even mean? Where the hell would you even find the drivers. Sounds too high risk lol
I am running the latest CM10 build and my battery life is terrible as well. Wednesday night I was about 75% charger before bed and when I woke up, less than 7 hours later, my phone was off with no juice. I tested it again last night with about 85% left and it was dead again this morning. I have the same app installed that I had installed on stock and did not have these issues. I absolutely know and understand this things differ from person to person and settings to settings, but I am not sure my settings are that different from when I was on stock. I fairly enjoy the ROM, so I am just dealing with it.
Well, I've charged my phone to 100 last night, wiped battery stats (still on lean kernel), and i put my phone to sleep, and it drained only 8% which is very good (7 hours of standby). Now where my battery drains like a **** is during on screen time. I've put brightness all the way down to low, but I see people who get 20 hours with 5 hours of screen time. I could only wish to get such battery life lol. I wanna try that k747 kernel but I'm scared about losing my original USB and and **** drivers and I have no idea how I would go about restoring them if I no longer like the kernel lol.
CM10 battery life isn't that great. There was one nightly build that had outstanding battery life, but I can't remember which one it was.
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I am running the latest CM10 build and my battery life is terrible as well. Wednesday night I was about 75% charger before bed and when I woke up, less than 7 hours later, my phone was off with no juice. I tested it again last night with about 85% left and it was dead again this morning. I have the same app installed that I had installed on stock and did not have these issues. I absolutely know and understand this things differ from person to person and settings to settings, but I am not sure my settings are that different from when I was on stock. I fairly enjoy the ROM, so I am just dealing with it.
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Well, I've charged my phone to 100 last night, wiped battery stats (still on lean kernel), and i put my phone to sleep, and it drained only 8% which is very good (7 hours of standby). Now where my battery drains like a **** is during on screen time. I've put brightness all the way down to low, but I see people who get 20 hours with 5 hours of screen time. I could only wish to get such battery life lol. I wanna try that k747 kernel but I'm scared about losing my original USB and and **** drivers and I have no idea how I would go about restoring them if I no longer like the kernel lol.
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If you both read his OP all you have to do to get the original drivers back is Reflash your ROM that has those drivers. It isn't a huge deal also to the guy going 80%-0 overnight, you have an app eating processes in the back destroying your battery.
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Hey all,
Just wondering how people are doing on battery life after the update. I moved from BoneStock back to the stock(ish) ROM, and I personally am struggling on battery life right now. It is early though and I'll make adjustments. Just wondering how it's going for everyone else.
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Hey all,
Just wondering how people are doing on battery life after the update. I moved from BoneStock back to the stock(ish) ROM, and I personally am struggling on battery life right now. It is early though and I'll make adjustments. Just wondering how it's going for everyone else.
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May be hard to compare a stock non-rooted phone to a custom ROM even if it stock. Seems like every dev puts in something "for better battery life"
I'm stock, locked, S-On, 4.4 and my battery life is great. Though I'm comparing it to my old phone, Rezound, where I couldn't get out my front door without it dropping 10%
I make it through a full day no problems and I'd consider myself an "average" user.
bigperm71 said:
Hey all,
Just wondering how people are doing on battery life after the update. I moved from BoneStock back to the stock(ish) ROM, and I personally am struggling on battery life right now. It is early though and I'll make adjustments. Just wondering how it's going for everyone else.
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I haven't noticed a huge difference, but Bonestock 4.3 was definitely better. I'm on NuSense which isn't stock but it's pretty close with a few optimizations. Are you checking in the stats to see if it's an app that's killing your battery? I've had a few occasions when Google location services killed my battery for no apparent reason.
I haven't spent much time yet trying to identify and fix the issues, but I'll start looking at it. I wonder what it is they do to improve the battery life in the custom roms...
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I tried the phone back when it was 4.2 and battery was not great, could barely make it till end of work.
Now on 4.4 battery has improved quite a bit. Can easily make it til end of day. Btw I'm s-off stock no root.
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My wife's on a totally stock version of the phone, with the latest OTA. I'm on Santod's odexed rooted version of the OTA. 3.11.605.1 in both cases.
We're both seeing a slight decrease in battery life, but nothing too significant.
It's hard to compare battery life because I'm constantly messing with my phone, playing games, changing icon sets, making and deleting widgets etc., while my wife uses hers for phone calls and email and pretty much nothing else. She's never installed an app. I was going to S-off her phone, just to have it done, but our daughter installed the first OTA update before I got around to it. (The 2.10.605.1). She's 9, and enjoys showing my wife how to do stuff on her phone. Stuff that my wife then enjoys forgetting.
Having said that it's hard to compare battery life, I'll do just that. She gets better life than I do, and could likely go 48 hours on a charge. Her biggest power user is the email function - which is the stock email app that came with the phone.
Battery Guru used to tell me I could go 32 hours on a charge, but after flashing Santod's latest ROM I had to uninstall and reinstall it, and so far it's not giving me the same projected life numbers as it used to. I don't mean it's projecting less hours, I mean it's not giving hours of life expectancy at all. I can't remember if it took a few days last time before it started giving the projections - I only flashed the ROM last Friday.
Before the update I would be at somewhere between 70-80% at the end of a day, my wife would be 80+%. Now I'm closer to 60%, she's in the 70's.
My battery life may well improve still with Battery Guru. Would it make sense to re-install it on her phone and let it "learn" all over again?
the 4.4 update is draining too fast.
I went from the 4.2.2 BoneStock ROM to the new 4.4 version and my battery life easily doubled. I can make it about 28 hours on a full charge.
battery in 4.4 is s*ck.
i would prefer 4.3 for the battery life.
I noticed actually better battery life for 4.4 on bonestock. Im running with the elemental kernel and underclocked it, also i have some tweaks in tasker that keep my phone pretty efficient. overall i'm seeing around anywhere from 15 to 20 hours of battery life with depending on how long i have my bluetooth on and other things like that. ill post a screen shot later when i get home of my actual times.
I am having the strangest battery drain 4.4.2. 6-8 hours with less than an hour of screen time
I text a pretty good bit throughout the day and my battery life seems to go pretty quickly:/ I'm completely stock as well no root or anything.....yet. I'm hoping once they get a root/s-off/unlock method out for the 4.4.2/sense5.5 software, that I can do a custom Rom and fix all that.
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I text a pretty good bit throughout the day and my battery life seems to go pretty quickly:/ I'm completely stock as well no root or anything.....yet. I'm hoping once they get a root/s-off/unlock method out for the 4.4.2/sense5.5 software, that I can do a custom Rom and fix all that.
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With pretty heavy use I tend to see between 6 and 9% per hour according to better battery stats. My screen on percentage is probably within 18 to % most of the time. I'm running rooted stock with xposed and a tweak to stock that allows me to select power saver mode in settings.
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I text a pretty good bit throughout the day and my battery life seems to go pretty quickly:/ I'm completely stock as well no root or anything.....yet. I'm hoping once they get a root/s-off/unlock method out for the 4.4.2/sense5.5 software, that I can do a custom Rom and fix all that.
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temporary fix:
-Settings->Data Usage->(dots)->Restrict background data (yes this does make it harder to synchronize content)
-wifi off (if you have more than one bar of signal)
That temporary fix boosted my battery from a days use to two days. I blame Verizon for wakelocking our phone.
Hi there! Well, I consider myself an average user. Take a look at the screen shot. Numbers talk the best
BTW my SGN II gets about 5 hours of screen on time and has much bigger battery, so I'm happy with what I get on my One running 4.4.2 with sense 6.0 by hawk and ecliptic team powered by Lunar Ellie oc.
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I am having pretty good battery on 4.4. Can't complain since it lasts me all day.
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I am having pretty good battery on 4.4. Can't complain since it lasts me all day.
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I think this should be the best phone for last year. S4 is overated for me since they have added a lot of stuff that we do not really use. here with my HTC one, it is customized the way we use it. And I can say the best part is that my battery can last for a day if my internet is off. If I'm casually using it with internet, it can run for almost 8 hours.
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I think this should be the best phone for last year. S4 is overated for me since they have added a lot of stuff that we do not really use. here with my HTC one, it is customized the way we use it. And I can say the best part is that my battery can last for a day if my internet is off. If I'm casually using it with internet, it can run for almost 8 hours.
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I had the S4 and sold it. I also have a note 3 and before those I had the note2. Htc is a nice change from TW. It gets me through 11 hr work days +some relax time in it .
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I'm pretty happy with this.
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