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The last few nights, I have tried a few different JB Roms. All with the same results. My GNex has a full charge before I go to bed, I wake to my phone telling me to charge it 8 hours later. With NO wifi or network data on. This can't be normal.
The roms:
ASCENT 3.0
Jelly Belly 4.0
New Unofficial Cyanogen Release.
No extra apps installed. Purely stock.
Tonight, I'll try it in airplane mode, and see if my network coverage is what's draining the battery. But for the most part I'm never without a signal.
Any ideas or ways I can see if the battery is just bad?
Also, what would the current Verizon radios be? I believe mine are up to date, but I guess that could be an issue if it is indeed my network signal being dropped.
Im on the 07/27 fitsugly cm10 rom with r225 franco kernel and for some reason my battery life has gone through the roof, after 30 hours of being on the battery is still at 56%. Granted im not using it much now but still i've never seen this type of battery life before. Overnight the battery dropped maybe 4% at best, wifi is always on and its fetching emails.
How odd have you tried charging up and resetting the battery stats ? May help
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peachpuff said:
Im on the 07/27 fitsugly cm10 rom with r225 franco kernel and for some reason my battery life has gone through the roof, after 30 hours of being on the battery is still at 56%. Granted im not using it much now but still i've never seen this type of battery life before. Overnight the battery dropped maybe 4% at best, wifi is always on and its fetching emails.
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Do you have a link to the rom?
Newer versions of each are out, i just didn't bother of updating it since it worked so well.
Rom http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/?rom=cm10&device=maguro
Kernel http://minooch.com/franciscofranco/Galaxy Nexus/JB/Jelly Bean/franco.Kernel-r225-384GPU.zip
peachpuff said:
Newer versions of each are out, i just didn't bother of updating it since it worked so well.
Rom http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/?rom=cm10&device=maguro
Kernel http://minooch.com/franciscofranco/Galaxy Nexus/JB/Jelly Bean/franco.Kernel-r225-384GPU.zip
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I installed the newest version of the ROM. I was curios what the different GPU kernels were for. Is there one that Toro should use rather than the other? I think I installed the 512 version. Should I not have?
Minooch + franco.Kernel #223 (see attached files). I haven't used my phone much in past 24 hours, but battery life is awesome. I use latest bootloader and radio firmware, CPU is set on interactive governor, 1420-384MHz, max screen off CPU frequancy - 729MHz, 512MHz on GPU.
I think I tried that ROM before, not sure if its just for maguro. I have a Verizon toro.
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I've yet yo find a from that can beat stock.... Idk
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Bkral93 said:
I installed the newest version of the ROM. I was curios what the different GPU kernels were for. Is there one that Toro should use rather than the other? I think I installed the 512 version. Should I not have?
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If you don't need the higher clocked gpu speeds then just stick with the 384mhz kernel.
MS. said:
Minooch + franco.Kernel #223 (see attached files). I haven't used my phone much in past 24 hours, but battery life is awesome. I use latest bootloader and radio firmware, CPU is set on interactive governor, 1420-384MHz, max screen off CPU frequancy - 729MHz, 512MHz on GPU.
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Pretty much identical battery life im getting right now, battery monitor is saying im sipping 8mA of battery when idling.
Yeah, No MiNCO toro release. :|
Went with the ROM and latest Kernel, and I can't believe the battery life. Tonight will be the real test though.
Bkral93 said:
The last few nights, I have tried a few different JB Roms. All with the same results. My GNex has a full charge before I go to bed, I wake to my phone telling me to charge it 8 hours later. With NO wifi or network data on. This can't be normal.
The roms:
ASCENT 3.0
Jelly Belly 4.0
New Unofficial Cyanogen Release.
No extra apps installed. Purely stock.
Tonight, I'll try it in airplane mode, and see if my network coverage is what's draining the battery. But for the most part I'm never without a signal.
Any ideas or ways I can see if the battery is just bad?
Also, what would the current Verizon radios be? I believe mine are up to date, but I guess that could be an issue if it is indeed my network signal being dropped.
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Try better battery stats... I am on gsm nexus.
I tried jelly belly, minco , paranoid android, and xenonHD plus bigxies stock. I've used Francisco Francos kernel on bigxies and that gave good battery life but the others all burned cpu and battery, specifically via Android.mediascanningservice. and maps.
Right now I am back to stock 4.1.1 rooted courtesy of rom toolkit and with better battery stats and cpu spy I have a cool phone.
One thing you should be aware of is if you have a lot of media on your phone the scanning service can take a long time to run and calm down. I I upgraded my bosses razr to ICS and his phone took all night to update I guess he has lots of music on it...
To increase battery life you can install titanium backup and freeze maps, and wallet when I not in use. You can install rescan media from the app store and trunk off media scanning service. Or just buy a bigger battery.
This is not a knock on the custom roms. The rom teams mentioned above they are all awesome and are the reason us crackflashers have so much fun. I have learned lots from this experience and have a better grasp on how my phone works due to the efforts of these devs. For now I am sticking with stock... I'm sure I'll be flashing again soon.
You can never judge a ROM on battery life within a day. Every ROM I flash gets bad battery on the first cycle and most the time even the second cycle. You really have to stick with a ROM/kernel combination for at least a few days to be able to judge battery life. It may just be a placebo effect but I use a battery calibration app each time I flash
peachpuff said:
Im on the 07/27 fitsugly cm10 rom with r225 franco kernel and for some reason my battery life has gone through the roof, after 30 hours of being on the battery is still at 56%. Granted im not using it much now but still i've never seen this type of battery life before. Overnight the battery dropped maybe 4% at best, wifi is always on and its fetching emails.
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Do you have any sync Apps or Account that's awesome battery life
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jauhari said:
Do you have any sync Apps or Account that's awesome battery life
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I have three email accounts fetching emails every 10 min with the email app, other than that nothing else. Im down to 30% now after two full days, its finally getting some use.
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How odd have you tried charging up and resetting the battery stats ? May help
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Resetting battery stats accomplishes nothing related to battery life or reported percentage. It's been debunked some time back by Google.
Been flashing ROMs for a couple of years and have been among the early adopters when new ROMs come out. Have now tried the Blazer ICS ROM three times and it looks beautiful. First two tries i had odd things here and there, but coupled with horrible battery life, switched back to Blazer's GB 4.1 (which is the best ROM Ive ever used). Decided to try it one more time. Wiped eveything twice, re-downloaded Phantom's latest, and flashed it. Ran well all day yesterday and was excited to try it a full day today. Charged it full, then promptly forgot it when i left for work this morning. Thought it would still be interesting to see what the battery would be like with it on, but never used. No calls, no texts, just on, with the wi-fi on. Gone for 10 hours and it had just 16 percent left. Obviously, had i used it normally today, i would have gotten about 4-5 hours, only. Checked battery stats and the OS was 82 percent. I'm using the ROm's kernel and modem is FC24 (which works wonderfully with GB 4.1).
I've installed just a new browser and Root Explorer, but none of my other apps.
Any huge battery saving tips for this ROM I can try before just going back to 4.1 indefinitely?
Battery sounds about right with wifi fulltime on. As for tips
-Try placebo scripts
-Disable all the animations / backlight
-Use black theme / images as much as possible
-Create a deep sleep profile (disable everything when screen off)
But hey if battery is that important to you, just go back and enjoy GB, I know I would but I love me some current OS. well current by E4GT standards
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Battery sounds about right with wifi fulltime on. As for tips
-Try placebo scripts
-Disable all the animations / backlight
-Use black theme / images as much as possible
-Create a deep sleep profile (disable everything when screen off)
But hey if battery is that important to you, just go back and enjoy GB, I know I would but I love me some current OS. well current by E4GT standards
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Thanks - will search for "placebo scripts" (not sure I know about those). I have screen at minimum (and it was off the entire day), so that probably didnt come into play today. Will fire up setCPU and try your suggestion. I 'll try this one more day.
Battery life isn't everything to me, but it can't drain like it did today when i didnt even use it. I love trying the latest, but I've yet to experience ICS without deal-breaker issues. Any ICS Roms out there that dont have big issues? I really want to like ICS ...
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Thanks - will search for "placebo scripts" (not sure I know about those). I have screen at minimum (and it was off the entire day), so that probably didnt come into play today. Will fire up setCPU and try your suggestion. I 'll try this one more day.
Battery life isn't everything to me, but it can't drain like it did today when i didnt even use it. I love trying the latest, but I've yet to experience ICS without deal-breaker issues. Any ICS Roms out there that dont have big issues? I really want to like ICS ...
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I would install the TR & TN Black Rom in the android development ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1828068 ) and see how that does, if you still don't get good battery life then yeah ICS may not be for you. That Rom consistantly gets absolutely great battery life for me. I have tried them all and the black rom has considerably better battery life.
Try M'ICS 1.3 , calk & venum tweaked stock or wicked sensations 1.6. Then flash Sleshepic's the_governors_v1.2.3. All of those ROMs I've gotten at least 14-18hrs of battery.
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Sounds like something is running in the background. In settings go to development and allow only one background process also flash agat 4.4 kernel. I keep my cpu at 100 min 1000 max with no lag. I get 13 to 16 hours with 3 hours onscreen time.
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Give time infinitys aosp ics ROM a try.
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I bet its the wifi. Ever since ics, wifi would not let my phone go to deep sleep. Try for a day with just 3g. I'm sure you'll get decent battery life. I'm getting about 3 hours on screentime daily. Set wifi to sleep when screen is off. Though there's a problem of wifi connecting back from deep sleep. I just turn wifi on when in need it
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I bet its the wifi. Ever since ics, wifi would not let my phone go to deep sleep. Try for a day with just 3g. I'm sure you'll get decent battery life. I'm getting about 3 hours on screentime daily. Set wifi to sleep when screen is off. Though there's a problem of wifi connecting back from deep sleep. I just turn wifi on when in need it
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Thanks for all the great suggestions. I made a couple of changes and had significantly better results today. Went to a conference all day and left it in the car. Was on for 10 hours, but never used. Two notable changes in my settings today: turned off 4g, and setCPU of screen to 200 max. Yesterday, i was down to 16 percent after about 10 hours of zero use, and today was at 89 percent after 10 hours of no use. Tomorrow I'll use it for about a half-day of normal use and Thursday will be a full day of normal use.
So, for now, I'll continue with Phantom's ICS.
Just noticed that I'm down to 77 percent, having now used it for about an hour. Looks like i need to continue to tweak this. Any more suggestions are greatly appreciated.
In the meantime, how do you set wi-fi to sleep when not in use (besides manually turning it off and on)?
Hmm I have had nothing but good battery life...
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In wifi advanced settings. You can set it to turn off when screen is off.
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I would try doing another very good wipe and some other ICS roms....My current rom went 1 day 4hrs 46min Sunday, That's with texting, Gtalk Tapatalk, couple phone calls, music player and 1 hr 46 mins of on screen time. Running a themed stock ff18 rom. Oh and cpu sleep from the market.
Might also want to try the full FH13 (clearing data) and see how you do with that.
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I would install the TR & TN Black Rom in the android development ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1828068 ) and see how that does, if you still don't get good battery life then yeah ICS may not be for you. That Rom consistantly gets absolutely great battery life for me. I have tried them all and the black rom has considerably better battery life.
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I'm running "black" too. 81% after 8 hours of no use. But I'm in a bad signal area so it's expected. I think it a pretty good ROM and only getting better.
have you tried to uncheck the pulse notification light. for some reason that was making my phone not go into deep sleep.
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have you tried to uncheck the pulse notification light. for some reason that was making my phone not go into deep sleep.
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Great info, guys. On Day 3, using it about a half day, and it got through the day - about 14 hours. Tomorrow, I'll use it like i normally would. Am hopeful it will get 10 hours. Am reading about how to install Agat's 4.4 kernal. Am hoping that will help, too.
Thanks for everything.
I flashed Jellybean for my gnex this last weekend, and I've noticed a severely precipitous drop in battery life (15% in 90 min, 15 min screen on). I found this yesterday when my phone went completely dead after just 6 hours on idle, despite running some pretty severe power-saving options. I can literally see the battery draining as I took the screenshots to post.
Running 4.1.1 stock, Franco Kernel Version 5 (power save powermode), 2100 mAh battery - I tried to provide as much information as I can in the screenshots. The weird thing is that none of the information stands out as an obvious power-drain, its just falling for what I believe to be no good reason.
Please help!
First of all: congrats if providing such detailed information about your battery information! (I'm being serious, not sarcastic)
Secondly, have you tried running it with WiFi only to see if there's a difference? Also, you need to go through about 2-3 charge cycles before you have a good idea of our battery range.
Also, what kernel are you using?
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I have same problem, 1750 stock battery only lasts about 3 hours....
AOKP JB B 1 and franco
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I'm hoping its just running it a few charge cycles fixes the problem, because my battery meter is like a countdown clock right now.
I'm running 3.0.41-franco.Kernel-Milestone5.
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First of all: congrats if providing such detailed information about your battery information! (I'm being serious, not sarcastic)
Secondly, have you tried running it with WiFi only to see if there's a difference? Also, you need to go through about 2-3 charge cycles before you have a good idea of our battery range.
Also, what kernel are you using?
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I reccommend getting cpu sleeper. Its brillant and saves me tons of battery
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eugene373.cpu.sleep&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5ldWdlbmUzNzMuY3B1LnNsZWVwIl0.
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Thanks! However, I'm already running on only one core, from a setting in Franco's app.
My problem is that there doesn't seem to be anything glaring that is draining my battery. Awake time is slightly more than I'd like, but not nearly enough to drain the battery at 10% an hour with the screen off.
And for the above poster, I have not tried running it with wifi only and no mobile data - wifi at my office is spotty, and I'd like the conditions I am testing it at to try to mirror how I would normally use my phone.
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I reccommend getting cpu sleeper. Its brillant and saves me tons of battery
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bmurray said:
Thanks! However, I'm already running on only one core, from a setting in Franco's app.
My problem is that there doesn't seem to be anything glaring that is draining my battery. Awake time is slightly more than I'd like, but not nearly enough to drain the battery at 10% an hour with the screen off.
And for the above poster, I have not tried running it with wifi only and no mobile data - wifi at my office is spotty, and I'd like the conditions I am testing it at to try to mirror how I would normally use my phone.
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hmmm... did u try replacing the battery?
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No - the battery worked just fine on ICS as of last Friday (28 hours standby charge). I would hope that flashing ROMs/Kernels would not actually damage it.
Thanks for trying to help - I'm really confused since all the ratios look comparable to people who get great battery life, but for some reason, just seem to suck about 5x more battery for me, so its impossible to pinpoint one specific culprit. I thought it was a mis-calibration, but apparently that is just a myth.
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hmmm... did u try replacing the battery?
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Let me start by saying that I am not an expert, but the following tips helped me. I agree with the WiFi and the detail you provided was great. I see that you are running 4G, this will eat up the battery. Your ROM may have a toggle for the 4G (LTE) and 3G (CDMA). If you have WiFi available I would use that. You may want to turn off the NFC (system setting>Wireless & Networks More....) unless you use google wallet or share screen alot. Also, I had horrible results with the Facebook app running in the background, which I have taken off my phone. I set a bookmark in dolphin browser instead of using the app.
If you are not seeing any improvements with in the next few battery cycles you may try wiping the battery stats in Recovery. The first ROM I flashed from stock my battery life was all over the map and wiping battery stats helped. I ran the same Franco Kernel and was getting 2.5 -3 hrs of screen time. Hope this helps.
also, get CpuSpy from the market, and see which speeds your cpu is using (or not using).
Not that this will help software issues but Sprint is giving away a free 2100Mah extended battery with the door. You just have to pay for the shipping. No scam at all, I think they know that they have a glitchy piece of product and need to help calm us down. Just call telesales and tell them you own a Gnex.
CPU Speeds
Almost exclusively at 384 or 729 mHz, capped at 1026.
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also, get CpuSpy from the market, and see which speeds your cpu is using (or not using).
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So that means that the CPU isn't going into deep sleep, which is an issue.
All I can suggest is reflash with a full wipe, and reinstall the apps you can, and slowly weed out any rogue apps that could be causing said issue.
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Sorry, I meant that when awake, the vast majority of the clock speeds are 384 and 729. I am in deep sleep approximately 75% of the time.
If no solution comes up in this thread, I will try re-flashing to stock JB/stock JB kernel tomorrow night to see if it just needed a few recharge cycles to stabilize, and if not, if wiping/reinstalling helps.
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So that means that the CPU isn't going into deep sleep, which is an issue.
All I can suggest is reflash with a full wipe, and reinstall the apps you can, and slowly weed out any rogue apps that could be causing said issue.
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I'm getting the complete opposite of u op
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Yeah, that seems to be the general experience here. My phone is down to ~28% since the OP. Again, the proportions in which things are draining power are correct, they are just doing it too quickly (1% per minute of screen time).
I'm going to completely wipe and re-flash JB tonight, keeping the stock kernel this time, unless someone can help me out.
Alton (Halo 2) said:
I'm getting the complete opposite of u op
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Yeah, that seems to be the general experience here. My phone is down to ~28% since the OP. Again, the proportions in which things are draining power are correct, they are just doing it too quickly (1% per minute of screen time).
I'm going to completely wipe and re-flash JB tonight, keeping the stock kernel this time, unless someone can help me out.
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Did u flash francos kernel yet ?
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Yes - every process/screen is drawing the typical percentage of power use (~50% screen, 8% Phone Idle, 8% cell standby), but the battery is draining 4x faster than it should. Francos app shows me running at completely standard voltage, and I'm on the powersave mode. I think it must be a battery indicator/stats issue, otherwise the proportions would be all off.
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Did u flash francos kernel yet ?
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Yes - every process/screen is drawing the typical percentage of power use (~50% screen, 8% Phone Idle, 8% cell standby), but the battery is draining 4x faster than it should. Francos app shows me running at completely standard voltage, and I'm on the powersave mode. I think it must be a battery indicator/stats issue, otherwise the proportions would be all off.
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Try wiping ur battery stats in cwm
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I know that is supposedly a placebo, but in this case, something is clearly wrong. I'll give it a try.
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Try wiping ur battery stats in cwm
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I noticed this for the past week and it's horrible.. any suggestions? Recommended kernel, ROM, etc?
I have:
KT747 kernel
Stock ROM
UV -60 for all voltages
Min/Max : 192/1510
Nothing special, I don't think I have any rogue apps either.
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johnafer said:
I noticed this for the past week and it's horrible.. any suggestions? Recommended kernel, ROM, etc?
I have:
KT747 kernel
Stock ROM
UV -60 for all voltages
Min/Max : 192/1510
Nothing special, I don't think I have any rogue apps either.
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Sounds like something is eating up your battery. Try downloading BetterBatteryStats app. Fully charge the phone, unplug it and leave it for a while (about 1 hour). Then open the app to see what exactly is eating up your battery. You could post the BBS screenshots so we could help. Hope it works out for you.
EDIT: Besides that, you should post more info. Were you using the phone (playing games, browsing, videos) during those 3 hours or it was idle?
I noticed the same thing happening to me once, it turned out to be picasa trying to sync, using my google ID, but I don't use picasa. I was seeing 50-60% drain in four hours while idle. Check your sync settings.
When it happened it showed android system was using over 60%, battery.
I was having this issue. I could charge my phone to 100% unplug and go to sleep and 8 hours later it would be at like 10% i tried everything i mean everything even tried airplane mode it still drained. Put a custom jelly bean rom on it. Now my battery lasts all day. I just cant wait for
The legit update from samsung and att
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I was having this issue. I could charge my phone to 100% unplug and go to sleep and 8 hours later it would be at like 10% i tried everything i mean everything even tried airplane mode it still drained. Put a custom jelly bean rom on it. Now my battery lasts all day. I just cant wait for
The legit update from samsung and att
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Really? I actually love jelly bean on the gsIII, but apparently people are getting horrible battery stats with the latest leak from Bell (unless you're referring to another JB ROM?). So I'm a bit sceptical with all that. I'd rather wait for the official release
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Really? I actually love jelly bean on the gsIII, but apparently people are getting horrible battery stats with the latest leak from Bell (unless you're referring to another JB ROM?). So I'm a bit sceptical with all that. I'd rather wait for the official release
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The bell ones i tried all have great battery life, it's the t mobile ones that suck... that's my experiences at least.
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For me battery has been great but a few times i noticed its gets very hot and when i checked the CPU both cores were lit up at max speed draining my battery, after some googling a found this thread which explains the gsiff daemon is the culprit after a hot reboot.
No one has found what the gsiff daemon is for or what causes the ho reboot, but the solution is just use root explorer and rename the daemon so it does not run.
Have all of you having trouble with battery drain still tried looking at the term "deep sleep"? You can check that with an app called cpu spy. If your having that issue with the phone not deep sleeping, report back and i will post some ideas.
With those who do say they have deep sleep issues, post the ROM, and kernel you are on.
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so lately i noticed my battery dieing super fast. the only thing i can think of it since att expanded lte in my area i basically get lte everywhere now and since then my cell standby is at 60% or higher my phone lasts about 6 to 8 hours now its very annoying... before lte it lasted a ton longer it could be a coincidence but its very frustrating if this is the cause because its pretty ridiculous
Post some screenshots of the battery so we can see more of what's going on.
If you flashed multiple ROMs on low battery then you may need to recalibrate. I did it with my GS3 and I wish I would have known about it when I had the S and S2. Download the BatteryCalibration app from the market and follow the instructions on it. I noticed I was losing battery life bad, but after this I got it back up to stock levels which is amazing.
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was using a live wallpaper that drained my battery REAL fast.
no joke, 1 minute = 1% of drain.
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was using a live wallpaper that drained my battery REAL fast.
no joke, 1 minute = 1% of drain.
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and thats why I don't use live wallpapers
johnafer said:
Really? I actually love jelly bean on the gsIII, but apparently people are getting horrible battery stats with the latest leak from Bell (unless you're referring to another JB ROM?). So I'm a bit sceptical with all that. I'd rather wait for the official release
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Use the tmo one its the new one
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and thats why I don't use live wallpapers
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live n' learn.
they look cool, but drain a battery real quick.
johnafer said:
I noticed this for the past week and it's horrible.. any suggestions? Recommended kernel, ROM, etc?
I have:
KT747 kernel
Stock ROM
UV -60 for all voltages
Min/Max : 192/1510
Nothing special, I don't think I have any rogue apps either.
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I have faced the similar issue as your. After 3 days of constant inspection with various apps I figured out the process causing this problem.
Go to developer options and click on show cpu usage. If the top process is "gsiff daemon" then you have found the culprit. Download system tuner and kill the process and you can see that the cpu usage will go back to normal and your phone will deep sleep afterwards. :angel:
My battery life on 4.3 stock was 8 hours screen time (half brightness I believe)
Rooted and flashed a custom rom and kernel 7hr30min screen time
Flashed different kernels dropped to 6hr max screen time (without factory reset)
After installing Xposed and many many modules the screen time kept dropping to like 5hr to 6hr
Updated to KitKat and rooted 4:30min to 5 HOUR MAX screen time PLUS phone got hot ALOT OF TIMES
***RIGHT NOW*** Flashed a custom ROM HyperDrive with Colonel X latest and Compulsion latest BOTH 3hr30min to 4hr30min MAX screen on (EVEN with Jovy23's kernel settings that got him AMAZING battery life with ConservativeX governor - It still did not fix the issue not even a little - I still like Compulsion which was awesome when I was on jellybean) :'(
Same settings for all the above set ups. Whenever I flash a ROM I ALWAYS clean flash and I DO NOT have Titanium Backup NOR do I use any other restoration app. I tried to clear and format every partition. I formatted SD card. SAME issue. I am frustrated by the battery life; it DOES NOT last me a day when on stock unrooted it was easily 8 hours. Also I do not use auto-brightness cuz the sensor uses more battery, so it was on half-brightness)
Someone please help me. The worst thing about a phone is the battery life. I usually browse Chrome and Facebook and for these simple tasks my battery dies quickly (WTH?!). I can't even think about gaming (and I REALLY want to GAME), but I know the battery life would die so much.
Is my phone defective? I tripped Knox. I already had a warranty replacement in like the first 2 weeks cuz of Knox issues stock. WTH is wrong with my phone. I want to format and clean EVERY SINGLE THING on my phone to get it the 8 hours screen on time I used to get. No matter what I do my battery life right now WILL NOT go above 4hr30min to 5hrs screen on. I used to watch Netflix for quite a while back on my stock Jellybean / rooted Jellybean days, now it dies extremely fast.
What should I do? I was thinking of flashing AOSP so it cleans up whatever Touchwiz and Samsung related is on my phone and then re-flash touchwiz so everything is set up correctly. I tried to use the mega-wipe script for a certain Note 3 model but it stopped at like 10% to 20%, so that route did not go well (I manually wiped everything data, internal, etc, before flashing many ROMs and this problem persisted).
I cannot do anything good on my phone until this issue is fixed. I hate clean-flashing and setting up things (I think titanium backup and stuff screws up your system) all the time. I cannot game, I cannot download good apps, I cannot do anything that is not online based or can be backed up online. Apparently my battery state is stated as "good" on the system.
"... All of this in under one day..." Give it a few cycles over the next few days. It'll change. I've been using HyperDrive with ColonelX with the conservative governor tweaked for performance. Can't really say much about the battery life since I have the 10000mAh battery.
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Dude, if it's all under one day. You need to let a ROM and kernel set In. You can't drive a car without wheels. Just give it 2 or 3 days it will begin to get better. That's what I think too but I give it some days to stabilised if you will . Then my battery goes from normal to good to great. It won't right away start getting great battery life. Unless you have a kernel your phone don't like and flash another it does like battery life improvements where almost instant at least in my case. Like now I'm getting Ok battery life. It's not the best. But it holds. I might switch kernels tonight to spice things up.
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Dude, if it's all under one day. You need to let a ROM and kernel set In. You can't drive a car without wheels. Just give it 2 or 3 days it will begin to get better. That's what I think too but I give it some days to stabilised if you will . Then my battery goes from normal to good to great. It won't right away start getting great battery life. Unless you have a kernel your phone don't like and flash another it does like battery life improvements where almost instant at least in my case. Like now I'm getting Ok battery life. It's not the best. But it holds. I might switch kernels tonight to spice things up.
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I meant the right now part is under a few days. Idk why i said all under one day (it was late night). This has beena problem since February at least
Trust me I know you have to let a ROM and Kernel set in but my phone keeps working harder than its supposed to. Screen off battery is good, so wake locks are not the problem. The problem is cpu wise something is messed up that it puts my cpu to drain huge amounta of battery
Even you tried another or different ROM still happens?
Lorettaa said:
Even you tried another or different ROM still happens?
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Yes tried many roms and many kernels with many governors... i suspect its my battery but my battery state is good for some reason
I had this issue but it went away when I updated my phone to 4.2.2
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The rom and kernels might be the one messing your battery life, since your battery is in good state, but why not try replacing a battery if you have an extra and see the results...
Neroga said:
"... All of this in under one day..." Give it a few cycles over the next few days. It'll change. I've been using HyperDrive with ColonelX with the conservative governor tweaked for performance. Can't really say much about the battery life since I have the 10000mAh battery.
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Lol I to have zerolemons battery and I must say I dont have to worry about on screen time I get more than 10 hrs...but yeah gotta let the roms and kernals sit in for a day to a week...
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Maybe you have the dreadful chip with "1". Mines a "3" so it's OK
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the bigger the better?
chuko303 said:
Maybe you have the dreadful chip with "1". Mines a "3" so it's OK
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How do you find that out?
There is an app that can report this value. The premise is that certain cpu's have different values which indicate how the cpu will perform. The problem is, the same cpu can over time end up reporting different values which pretty much means it is not really a set hardware value and most likely means nothing.
You can find the large thread about it if you look, but it was pretty much debunked as a really value at the time.
first download the new rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709867
put it on a sd card
make sure you have a custom recovery
1 go to setting back up and recovery do a reset from there
2 let the reset be done then restart the phone and go to recovery
from recovery do a full wipe factory restet
3 install the zip from the sd card
4 pick the apps you want with aroma installer and install compulsion kernel
4 finish installation and boot up
set up the phone and enjoy it bro.....
mrej201 said:
first download the new rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709867
put it on a sd card
make sure you have a custom recovery
1 go to setting back up and recovery do a reset from there
2 let the reset be done then restart the phone and go to recovery
from recovery do a full wipe factory restet
3 install the zip from the sd card
4 pick the apps you want with aroma installer and install compulsion kernel
4 finish installation and boot up
set up the phone and enjoy it bro.....
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Nice battery life enhancer.
You have to let the rom settle before you can get accurate battery life akin to the rom and kernel. Trust me I know this as a fact. I have been flashing roms like crazy since the days of the Samsung admire and the rom takes days to settle.
messiahfreedom said:
You have to let the rom settle before you can get accurate battery life akin to the rom and kernel. Trust me I know this as a fact. I have been flashing roms like crazy since the days of the Samsung admire and the rom takes days to settle.
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Yes he let it settle but still no good for him.
I have the same problem. 4.3 battery life was 6 hours screen time, 4.4 down to 3 hours screen time. Note 3 used to be my ideal, perfect phone. 4.4 ruined that.
hfuizo said:
I have the same problem. 4.3 battery life was 6 hours screen time, 4.4 down to 3 hours screen time. Note 3 used to be my ideal, perfect phone. 4.4 ruined that.
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You made sure to toggle allows allow scanning off?
Toggle either power-saving or GPS only under location?
Power saving mode if applicable?
Turning of haptic feedback?
The always allow scanning seems to be the number one battery killer for me. I turned that off and noticed immediately better battery life. Almost akin to an extra minute per one percent, which adds up.
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You made sure to toggle allows allow scanning off?
Toggle either power-saving or GPS only under location?
Power saving mode if applicable?
Turning of haptic feedback?
The always allow scanning seems to be the number one battery killer for me. I turned that off and noticed immediately better battery life. Almost akin to an extra minute per one percent, which adds up.
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Yep, did all that stuff from day 1 back on 4.3. Updating to 4.4 was the most frustrating thing ever. Many people here report great battery life with 4.4, but many like myself had it slashed in half upon upgrading. It ruined an otherwise perfect phone.