So, i like many others took the OTA 4.3 update.
And my battery life went all to s***!
So much so, i came to the point that i just wanted to revert to 4.1.2 regardless whether it had trim support or not.
I rooted, installed Philz recovery and Smoothest Rom (i thought what the heck, let me try another MK4 Rom before i go back to MC2)
WIth OTA 4.3 unrooted, i used to get a battry drain of 18% overnight with the device not being used.
After rooting and currently on smoothest rom, i had only a battery drain of 7% overnight!!
I am at 15 hours right now with light use and still have 70% battery charge. And this is with wifi ON, power save set to OFF, Screen set to adapt, GPS ON, Google now activated. This is how it used to be on 4.1.2.
There are those that said one or many of the servoces i mentioned above could have been causing the battery drain. Well. with the new KNOX free Rom, life is back to what it used to be,
OTA 4.3 ruined it. The fix? use another KNOX free Rom. Samsung or Sprint or both dropped the ball on this update. And i for one am gald to be rid of it.
Quick question? - Is there a debloated, light, rooted stock-ish MK4. You know, something with the same feel and functions except without the bloatware and KNOX?
My sincere thanks to those here with the knowledge that have put together these custom Roms, ya'll are awesome!
regards,
asmd.
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Hey guys,
A friend of mine just got an Incredible and for the most part is loving it. The only problem he has is that the battery has a very short life in comparison (I'm on a nexus one and I usually get 4 or 5 hours more than him doing the same amount of activity)
I was just wondering if replacing sense with Launcher Pro or ADW or something would help out his battery life any. I'm not exactly sure how the launcher or custom skins affect battery life. I figure this would be the best place to ask.
Thanks in advance
the best thing I've found to improve battery life within the OS is to go into the sync settings and set everything in there that you don't use to either update manually or update once a day. Even though I never set it up to, it had stocks/news/weather setup to update hourly as the default.
If he uses facebook set that up to update once a day. I personally didn't need it to update every 15 minutes because you can refresh it whenever you want to check it. Wether you use sense or not it still runs in the background since so many apps are built into it.
Use autobrightness or a lower screen brightness. set the screen timeout for 15-30 seconds.
little things like that save big in battery
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Hey guys,
A friend of mine just got an Incredible and for the most part is loving it. The only problem he has is that the battery has a very short life in comparison (I'm on a nexus one and I usually get 4 or 5 hours more than him doing the same amount of activity)
I was just wondering if replacing sense with Launcher Pro or ADW or something would help out his battery life any. I'm not exactly sure how the launcher or custom skins affect battery life. I figure this would be the best place to ask.
Thanks in advance
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Sadly, no it won't help. The Sense UI program (Rosie) continues to run in the background even with Launcherpro installed. His best bet is to root and install one of the Froyo roms we have. My battery life has improved tremendously since I upgraded.
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Sadly, no it won't help. The Sense UI program (Rosie) continues to run in the background even with Launcherpro installed. His best bet is to root and install one of the Froyo roms we have. My battery life has improved tremendously since I upgraded.
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This!
Also, he probably wants to get one of the 1500mAh batteries that fits with the oe back cover. ( I got mine off ebay for $15 )
edit: here is the item: http://item.ebay.com/170500602834
With that battery and SkyRaider's 2.2 rom, I can EASILY get at least a full day out of mine.
Also, like was stated a few posts up, changing the programs that are syncing to do so less frequently will help a lot.
(Hope it's OK to cross post...) see this thread, it has a lot of tips on getting better battery life all compiled into one thread.
http://androidforums.com/tips-tricks-incredible/61755-want-incredible-battery-life-official-htc-incredible-battery-thread.html
Thanks for the help guys.
I showed him this thread this morning and he doesn't want to root yet because he read somewhere about the new update from Verizon un-rooting the phone with the OTA update. I explained that a custom rom wouldnt get the OTA but he wants to wait nonetheless
He did disable sync and purchased the new battery today though so hopefully that kicks the battery to at least 12 hours.
So there is no way to completely shut off the Sense UI at this point without completely loading a new ROM? Boo.
He needs to realize that there is no guarantee that he'll be able to root AFTER the official OTA comes out. If he plans on rooting he should do it NOW, and after the ota comes out the devs will make a rooted rom based on it.
For all we know, the ota will patch the exploit that had allowed us to get root access to begin with.
Make sure he knows that if he is rooted and running a custom rom, the ota will not be loaded, thus his phone will not be "unrooted".
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He needs to realize that there is no guarantee that he'll be able to root AFTER the official OTA comes out. If he plans on rooting he should do it NOW, and after the ota comes out the devs will make a rooted rom based on it.
For all we know, the ota will patch the exploit that had allowed us to get root access to begin with.
Make sure he knows that if he is rooted and running a custom rom, the ota will not be loaded, thus his phone will not be "unrooted".
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What he said.
I'm running Skyraider's latest. It seems to be fairly bug free for me, it has Froyo and all of it's goodness, plus it has some goodies that probably won't be available with the VZW update.
The unrEVOked team isn't confident they can root the update. Within hours of the VZW update hitting the airwaves, the devs will have stable ROMs based on it.
On the other hand...if you don't have any real reason to root...there's not a capability you need that rooted phones have, or you don't like living on the edge of root, or you don't have an experimental side to you...rooting offers no real advantage.
Greetings all,
My wife recently updated her phone to EL29.....and now has horrible battery life.
I have root access on her phone, but I am not really familiar with the S2 family of phone (I have an HTC Evo).
Is there any way to fix this? She wants stock with Wi Fi tethering (the only reason why I rooted the phone for her).
Is there some Kernel fix for this, or some way to roll back to EL26 (I think)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks...
Most here think el29 has the best battery life. Give it a few days to settle and try charging via usb port. My battery always seems to last longer when charged off usb, its a slower charge time so maybe thats why.
Give her a good el29 rom and say its stock
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Most likely it is some app running in the background. That is what causes most battery issues. Install something like better battery stats and see if something is always running.
I noticed that Android OS is at the top of battery usage, so I don't know if that has something to do with it or not. I've been searching around trying to find a fix for it, but all I can find is people complaining that the EL29 update gave them horrible battery life.
I wonder if I could back her apps up and roll back to el26?
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I wonder if I could back her apps up and roll back to el26?
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Just find a stock\rooted el26 ROM...
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Install Blazer ROM and say its the OTA ICS update...
I think there might be something stuck running in the background.
I would suggest a clean install/factory restore. In addition to that, I would double check every app to ensure that they are not syncing constantly. the better battery stats app on XDA would be very useful in this situation to identify any apps draining the battery. Ignore Android OS usage as it truly means nothing. sfhub has an Odin one click package to install stock rooted el26 if you wanted to roll back still but I wouldn't. I suggest giving blazer 4.1 a try.
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So I haven't had the GS3 since a week before the Note 2 came out, and my wife still has the GS3. She's lately been complaining of really bad battery life. Having to charge 2-3 times a day to make it home! So I've flashed CWM and rooted the stock Rom, but I'm looking for the best Rom/Kernel combo to alleviate her problem. She really wants to keep the stock TW look and feel. Just hoping to get a few GS3 users opinions! Even if it mean stock rom but a certain battery efficient kernel. Thanks in advance!
To be honest I've found the best battery life just from the completely stock TW rom and it's kernel. I say if you have battery issues now, try solving them before you go flashing rom after rom trying to fix the problem. Could be an app causing battery drain that just needs to be reinstalled or maybe completely uninstalled. Maybe you should try Juice Defender since you are tired now.
That being said, I just flashed Cyanogenmod 10.1 RC2 a few days ago with the ktoonsez 5/29 kernel and I got very good battery life. Very close to stock, maybe better (haven't spent enough time with it to decide). Last night I flashed RC3 with ktoonsez kernel and everything seems good so far as well.
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I appreciate the response. I've been following her phone usage the last few days, in hopes of finding an app to blame (or her candy crush addiction), but everyday the top battery consumption have been Kernel and Android System. I use GSam Battery Monitor Pro on both our phones. I suppose just rooting the stock rom and bebloating may be an option. I've just always had good luck with battery life in finding a decent stock based TW rom and mild Kernel. CM isn't gonna work for here. She's a creature of habit and is comfortable in TW. I've seen the Ktoonsez kernel but only listed for 4.1.2 TW, does he have a version for 4.1.1? Thanks again for the reply!
Yea don't think there's a kernel version for 4.1.1. Have you thought about an extended battery? Not gonna lie, it is pretty big so it's not for everyone. But I got used to it very fast, and actually strongly prefer the size now because before I always lost grip of my phone and dropped it from how thin it was. If she manages to burn through a 4200 mah battery in a day, give her an award!
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save battery on stock rom
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I appreciate the response. I've been following her phone usage the last few days, in hopes of finding an app to blame (or her candy crush addiction), but everyday the top battery consumption have been Kernel and Android System. I use GSam Battery Monitor Pro on both our phones. I suppose just rooting the stock rom and bebloating may be an option. I've just always had good luck with battery life in finding a decent stock based TW rom and mild Kernel. CM isn't gonna work for here. She's a creature of habit and is comfortable in TW. I've seen the Ktoonsez kernel but only listed for 4.1.2 TW, does he have a version for 4.1.1? Thanks again for the reply!
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Download wake lock detector, let it install, reboot the phone and let her use it for a while, this will tell you what's been running on the phone. The other thing you can do to stretch out your battery is turn stuff off (disable) in settings>> applications
Safe stuff I have disabled so far... Also switch from Gamil app to stock email app since gmail seems to wake the device alot.
App house
ChatOn
Exchange servers
Flipboard
game hub
Google calandar sync
google search
google plus
google maps (use map quest)
market feedback agaent
News daemon
S planner
s suggest
s voice
samsung account
samsung backup provider
samsung browser sync
samsung calendar sync
samsung cloud data relay
samsung contact sync
samsung push service
sns
stock daemon
street view
talk back
topic wall
video hub
weather daemon
weather widget
weather widget main
Yahoo finance
Yahoo news
Whenever I need a very good performing TW ROM I go back to my nandroid of Blandroid 2.7 (4.1.1) and KT747 Mar 6. I'm not sure why but I get outstanding battery life with this combo. Yesterday I had 15 hours worth of usage with 10% left and over 4 hours of screen time. Kernel settings are 384/1512/ondemand/noop.
As mentioned already, there are some apps that really drain the battery. Especially intensive games.
I have a similiar situation on my wifes rooted HTC Vivid. She does not like it when I change/erase everything. Its been so long now, I dont know if there is a process to root without wiping everything, but if you do root, Debloat obviously, but this greenify app is working for me. Simple and so far decent. I am really liking Faux kernel, with his recommended settings on Intilledemand, lately(Chubz ROM), but the best battery i ever had was on DrewGaren's M7 Rom. Like 2% loss overnight on standby.
I've stuck with the last version of ICS, frozen the stuff I don't use with Titanium Backup, and I get pretty good battery life. ICS battery life is better than JB in my experience and I don't see that much of a difference between the two that makes me want to go to JB.
I've had my Galaxy Note II for just over a year and a half. I have loved every minute of it. It's my favorite phone that I've ever had by far.
A few months ago I go an OTA update from T-Mobile to Android 4.3. Since then, my battery life has been so horrible. My phone doesn't last more than 5 hours. I have tried every solution online that I can find. Even running in airplane mode only extends my battery life for a few extra hours. I unplugged my phone at 100% this morning at about 7am. It's only nearing 11am and my phone is down to almost 50%. I only turn on WiFi when I'm using it, I have GPS turned off. I turned off Google Now and I'm running Greenify. This all has managed to add, maybe an hour tops to my battery life when before the update a 100% charge at 4am would last easily until Midnight with moderate use.
What are my options? I'm attaching a screenshot of Wakelock detector if that helps. I haven't had any interest in rooting my phone and running a different ROM but if that's my only choice, I've done it with other phones. Would anyone be able to recommend a good ROM that's similar to stock Android and won't completely wreck my battery life?
so, I can't attach my screen shot because this is a new account. But for a rundown:
Awake 90%
Statistics since ~4 h 25m
IPService 445 times
Facebook 178 times
Kik 99 times
Samsung Push Services 79 times
Calendar Storage 28 times
Exchanges Services 17 times
Alarm Clock Xtreme 6 times
Maps 4 times
Appstore 4 times
System Manager Application 92 times
Google Search 13 times
Ever thought about resetting/wiping your Phone?
Or re-flash the 4.3 Firmware with Odin and then wipe your Phone and everything should be ok.
Eric-Mod said:
Ever thought about resetting/wiping your Phone?
Or re-flash the 4.3 Firmware with Odin and then wipe your Phone and everything should be ok.
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Sorry, I forgot to mention I have done a reset twice. I will look into trying to reflash 4.3 with Odin, thank you.
Try to disable IPService http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31617305&postcount=5452
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Sorry, I forgot to mention I have done a reset twice. I will look into trying to reflash 4.3 with Odin, thank you.
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if you are willing to reflash 4.3....why not go the extra mile, and upgrade to 4.4.....kitkat kernel has sorted out ALL battery life issues i had prior to updating....for example on custom 4.3 kernel, with moderate use...i got almost 30+ hrs.....now...using stock 4.4.2, same usage......over 48 hrs....
note, i upgraded using the nordic release...the first kitkat ever to pop up on sammy's website
stefy_4545 said:
if you are willing to reflash 4.3....why not go the extra mile, and upgrade to 4.4.....kitkat kernel has sorted out ALL battery life issues i had prior to updating....for example on custom 4.3 kernel, with moderate use...i got almost 30+ hrs.....now...using stock 4.4.2, same usage......over 48 hrs....
note, i upgraded using the nordic release...the first kitkat ever to pop up on sammy's website
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Is it possible to use that release with T-Mobile's SGH-T889?
Well I just had a look on Sammobiles website and 4.4.2 still isn't official for this device so that means, 4.3 is still the lastest.
BTW. Android 4.3 has brilliant battery life, recently I got 7h of screen time which is awesome
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Is it possible to use that release with T-Mobile's SGH-T889?
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im afraid not, you might have to use a custom rom on your model in order to get 4.4......but if you wish to remain stock, i guess sammy will provide you with the latest
stefy_4545 said:
im afraid not, you might have to use a custom rom on your model in order to get 4.4......but if you wish to remain stock, i guess sammy will provide you with the latest
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Thanks for the info! I guess I'll be looking into reflashing 4.3 for now. The HD custom rom looks awfully appealing, though...
it's worth it
PartyAssociate said:
Thanks for the info! I guess I'll be looking into reflashing 4.3 for now. The HD custom rom looks awfully appealing, though...
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4.3 custom scene is filled with awesome roms dude, if you want the same bootloader, or stuff ......i recomend any touchwiz based ones you might find....(if you still want the s-pen), some tweaked out kernel for extreme battery life and you're set for another year.....or until the N4 drops onto the stage :highfive:
or go 4.4.4 aosp...
That's y I stay away from tmobile and orange.
So, I just got this phone about 2 days ago (After sending one back due to over heating issues) Anyways, I want to get the most out of my new phone.
So, I have a few questions I can hopefully have answered.
1). I want to know the BEST way to improve my battery life if need be and to avoid any type of heating issues since I am a heavy gamer (Order and Chaos, Brave Frontier, PPSSPP emulator)
2). What is the benefit to rooting my device? Will rooting my device void my warranty, and if so, if I were to unroot, would i still be under warranty?
3). ROMs and Kernels, are they stable? My last device was the Galaxy S4. Ran perfectly never overheated (Got slightly warm, even when hardcore gaming) though. When I installed a ROM (Wicked, Cyanogenmod Android KitKat 4.4.4) to it, it started to overheat from just going on Facebook or about 5 minutes on any game. Continued to overheat even after I flashed back to the Original Stock Rom.
Really loving this device as is right now but would love to learn some new techniques especially when it comes to heating issues or battery drains (So far so good, with the exception that Brave Frontier made my phone really hot earlier when on for about 10 minutes on 100% brightness)
Thanks in advance
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So, I just got this phone about 2 days ago (After sending one back due to over heating issues) Anyways, I want to get the most out of my new phone.
So, I have a few questions I can hopefully have answered.
1). I want to know the BEST way to improve my battery life if need be and to avoid any type of heating issues since I am a heavy gamer (Order and Chaos, Brave Frontier, PPSSPP emulator)
2). What is the benefit to rooting my device? Will rooting my device void my warranty, and if so, if I were to unroot, would i still be under warranty?
3). ROMs and Kernels, are they stable? My last device was the Galaxy S4. Ran perfectly never overheated (Got slightly warm, even when hardcore gaming) though. When I installed a ROM (Wicked, Cyanogenmod Android KitKat 4.4.4) to it, it started to overheat from just going on Facebook or about 5 minutes on any game. Continued to overheat even after I flashed back to the Original Stock Rom.
Really loving this device as is right now but would love to learn some new techniques especially when it comes to heating issues or battery drains (So far so good, with the exception that Brave Frontier made my phone really hot earlier when on for about 10 minutes on 100% brightness)
Thanks in advance
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1. Best way to improve battery life to is freeze un-needed apps and remove their start-up abilities.
2. The benefits to rooting your device are limited only by your knowledge of the apps and why you are rooting it. It is safe to say your warranty is voided. You should just accept that and move on.
3. It depends on what rom and kernel you intend to run. The Alpha AOSP builds are stable but have known bugs. Zone-Rom is a very stable 10m build that i run on my little brothers phone with no issues. I am currently running stock on a modified kernel and will run the aosp roms on the weekend to get test them. The only heating issues i have ever seen are dependent on the cpu governors. If you are running 100% performance with keeping all 4 cpus on they are going to get hot, simple as that.
Browse through the forums. There is a ton of good information for you here.
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1. Best way to improve battery life to is freeze un-needed apps and remove their start-up abilities.
2. The benefits to rooting your device are limited only by your knowledge of the apps and why you are rooting it. It is safe to say your warranty is voided. You should just accept that and move on.
3. It depends on what rom and kernel you intend to run. The Alpha AOSP builds are stable but have known bugs. Zone-Rom is a very stable 10m build that i run on my little brothers phone with no issues. I am currently running stock on a modified kernel and will run the aosp roms on the weekend to get test them. The only heating issues i have ever seen are dependent on the cpu governors. If you are running 100% performance with keeping all 4 cpus on they are going to get hot, simple as that.
Browse through the forums. There is a ton of good information for you here.
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Thanks, I have been browsing since this morning. Found a few thins here and there Like Snapdragon Kernel (WHich I am really interested in) , but not really any help in how to even start.
I have a slight problem that has been on my phone since last ngiht when I switched to ART, whenever I start up my phone, estimated battery time left always says around 3 hours at 100 percent, but increases during the day to about 22 hours lol dont know if its really a problem or not though, but I dont think i should be asking that here...
I ask about Rooting because my device is fresh and I still have my waranty just incase something happens to my phone. I want to know if unrooting and going back to original stock will avoi problems if I need to return it.
If you're able to, I would like to be able to learn what rooting method is best and ho to go about getting the SNapdragon kernel on my stock firmware (This was so much easier on my s4 lol)
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Thanks, I have been browsing since this morning. Found a few thins here and there Like Snapdragon Kernel (WHich I am really interested in) , but not really any help in how to even start.
I have a slight problem that has been on my phone since last ngiht when I switched to ART, whenever I start up my phone, estimated battery time left always says around 3 hours at 100 percent, but increases during the day to about 22 hours lol dont know if its really a problem or not though, but I dont think i should be asking that here...
I ask about Rooting because my device is fresh and I still have my waranty just incase something happens to my phone. I want to know if unrooting and going back to original stock will avoi problems if I need to return it.
If you're able to, I would like to be able to learn what rooting method is best and ho to go about getting the SNapdragon kernel on my stock firmware (This was so much easier on my s4 lol)
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Use purple drake to root in Android development... It will freeze up and require a battery pull. Once you reboot install supersu from Playstore and twrp manager. Once you have twrp installed, create a back up and then install the zip drive for the kernel. This must be loaded on internal storage. Reboot and enjoy
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Use purple drake to root in Android development... It will freeze up and require a battery pull. Once you reboot install supersu from Playstore and twrp manager. Once you have twrp installed, create a back up and then install the zip drive for the kernel. This must be loaded on internal storage. Reboot and enjoy
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Will do that now, but for the Kernel, it says that my phone must be unlocked? How can I tell if it is?
zxandrewxz said:
Will do that now, but for the Kernel, it says that my phone must be unlocked? How can I tell if it is?
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If you are running the T-Mobile d851 we have unlocked bootloader.
Feel free to pm me. This thread should be in questions and the mods can get mad
Toneman07 said:
2. The benefits to rooting your device are limited only by your knowledge of the apps and why you are rooting it. It is safe to say your warranty is voided. You should just accept that and move on.
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That's not true, you can go back to 100% complete stock via CLICK HERE and you should have no problems returning your device and not having to worry about an out of warranty fee if there's nothing else with your phone.