Hey XDA,
I am experiencing fairly poor Battery performance while using the HTC. I am currently running CM 11. Majority of the time I have to turn off mobile data, because that's the main contributor. Otherwise games heavily affect the battery and also makes my phone incredibly hot. I normally keep my cpu governor on interactive, but when playing music, I need to set it to performance as the music kicks otherwise. Is it the custom rom? Is there anything I can do? Or is that merely how the HTC One X rolls?
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James
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AOSP ROM usually less battery friendly when being compared to SENSE ROMs, but when it comes to games , most of games I have tried on my device isn't battery friendly at all ,
There are couple of threads here at HOX forums may help you of with tips and tricks to improve your experience
Check this , it was a great help for mehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156311 [URL]
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Thanks Venom, will check it out
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Hello,
My main criterion in deciding which of the many custom ROMs to go with is amount of battery life improvement I will have.
I see that the AHRD rom is the most popular, but does it also have the best battery life?
Or will the battery life improvements only occur when the source code is released and the One X runs on an ICS Kernel? I am under the impression that for some strange reason, the One X is running on a gingerbread kernel.
Thanks
This should properbly be in the Q&A section.
But anyway if you want great batterylife you should try Cyanogenmod. Those are the most basic ICS roms. Without any Sense gimmicks to suck the power.
That coupled with the Franco kernel should give you good battery life.
At the moment I'm using insertcoin with bricked kernel. And i have about 30% left at the end of the day. And I'm a fairly heavy user. So I find that to be acceptable.
And sorry if my spelling or grammer sucks, I'm from Denmark, so English is not my first language
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Charmeleon Rom giving me 24 hours battery life with auto brightness on.
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Charmeleon Rom giving me 24 hours battery life with auto brightness on.
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ARHD gives me 57h battery life with autobrightness on The question is how much screen on time you get
And one more question, where are the mods to move that thread to Q/A section
6 hours of on screen time.
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6 hours of on screen time.
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what kernel do u use? Oo
muamers said:
ARHD gives me 57h battery life with autobrightness on The question is how much screen on time you get
And one more question, where are the mods to move that thread to Q/A section
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What kernel are you using?
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Robert1dk said:
What kernel are you using?
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Using stock kernel for now (signature) ... will give a try faux kernel after the next official release.
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what kernel do u use? Oo
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Franco r9
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Virtually everything that is asked on this board is a question. In fact, the majority of people who visit this board come to get a question answered. So the distinction is odd to me. People ask questions within threads that have declarative sentence titles all the time.
So if I had said "AHRD ROM gives insane battery life" then I guess it belongs in the general forum. Then if someone replies that Chameleon does even better as post #2, and I reply, why is it so much better as post #3. Then I have asked a question. My point is that in every thread there are questions, whether it's post #1 or post #3 seems like an arbitrary distinction. The fact that the Q&A section is not growing very quickly suggests confusion, since I still believe that if you analyzed the content of each post, and dare I say the overarching purpose of the board, is to ask questions. Newbies also see that he Q&A section isn't nearly as well frequented, so they post in the general section.
I think that the Q&A forum and the FAQ overlap in purpose. Anyway, just my 2 cents.
Thank you though for the answers to my question. I had expected, given the Anandtech review, that the One X would have comparable battery life to the iphone 4. However, I am finding this to be anything but the case, and I recently installed AHRD (wiped battery stats, etc). When trying to run down the battery (max brightness at 550 nits and surfing over 3g), I'm dead in 2 hours. My 2 yr-old iphone 4,with a peak brightness of about 500 nits, lasts approximately twice as long under identical conditions. I am finding the One X no better than the HTC Amaze, which has notoriously poor battery life. On the positive side, the One X's battery life is not as bad as the original EVO 4G, and the One X's standby battery drain is extremely low. I shudder to think what the battery life would be like if I had a US version which has LTE.
I have not noticed any improvements with any custom ROM thus far, but it's possible that using the screen at 75% brightness is basically such a determining factor that any gains in battery life are imperceptible to me. If someone can confirm that it is possible to drain the battery if you surfed at max brightness for 3 hours continuously and that that's just the state of phones today, then I can accept that. I just want to make sure that my phone is behaving normally and that any battery tweaks, cpu undervolting, wont' make a huge difference.
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Virtually everything that is asked on this board is a question. In fact, the majority of people who visit this board come to get a question answered. So the distinction is odd to me. People ask questions within threads that have declarative sentence titles all the time.
So if I had said "AHRD ROM gives insane battery life" then I guess it belongs in the general forum. Then if someone replies that Chameleon does even better as post #2, and I reply, why is it so much better as post #3. Then I have asked a question. My point is that in every thread there are questions, whether it's post #1 or post #3 seems like an arbitrary distinction. The fact that the Q&A section is not growing very quickly suggests confusion, since I still believe that if you analyzed the content of each post, and dare I say the overarching purpose of the board, is to ask questions. Newbies also see that he Q&A section isn't nearly as well frequented, so they post in the general section.
I think that the Q&A forum and the FAQ overlap in purpose. Anyway, just my 2 cents.
Thank you though for the answers to my question. I had expected, given the Anandtech review, that the One X would have comparable battery life to the iphone 4. However, I am finding this to be anything but the case, and I recently installed AHRD (wiped battery stats, etc). When trying to run down the battery (max brightness at 550 nits and surfing over 3g), I'm dead in 2 hours. My 2 yr-old iphone 4,with a peak brightness of about 500 nits, lasts approximately twice as long under identical conditions. I am finding the One X no better than the HTC Amaze, which has notoriously poor battery life. On the positive side, the One X's battery life is not as bad as the original EVO 4G, and the One X's standby battery drain is extremely low. I shudder to think what the battery life would be like if I had a US version which has LTE.
I have not noticed any improvements with any custom ROM thus far, but it's possible that using the screen at 75% brightness is basically such a determining factor that any gains in battery life are imperceptible to me. If someone can confirm that it is possible to drain the battery if you surfed at max brightness for 3 hours continuously and that that's just the state of phones today, then I can accept that. I just want to make sure that my phone is behaving normally and that any battery tweaks, cpu undervolting, wont' make a huge difference.
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None of the custom ROMs change anything to do with battery consumption. A custom kernel could help, however I have tried them all and none of them make any appreciable difference.
Browsing over 3G seems to kill battery fast, I have never been able to get more than 3 hours screen time, and most of the time it is 2 or 2 and a half hours.
Hi thanks alot for the reply. I was thought that custom ROMs were supposed to improve battery life (one of the major reasons, if not the major reason, to install a custom ROM). In fact, in most of the intros for ROMs, they say something like "excellent battery life".
But you're saying that it is at the kernel level where improvements in battery life are made?
I agree with your conclusions--each custom ROM is about the same regarding battery life, and it is possible to surf and kill the phone in 3 hours of screen time, if I want my max brightness glory and over 3g.
The one x development is going so slowly I think it will take more then ages to reach that satisfactory level where a user has customisation satisfaction..
The custom kernels and roms out there are more or less the same thing..adding nothing new or satisfactory..
Maybe it is bcoz of lack of devs like razorx chainfire and odia..
For kernels I have been in some kickass kernel which can include some serious undervolting capabilities like voltage control certified which is serious need for getting decent battery life without loosing performance..and for more best governors like lulzactive or smartassv2..
But looking at current development rate I think it would take at least 6 more months to get that..
This thread is a request to developers to advance the development of our device to further make it awesome..
If everybody agrees with me I could start a poll for the same request..
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The one x development is going so slowly I think it will take more then ages to reach that satisfactory level where a user has customisation satisfaction..
The custom kernels and roms out there are more or less the same thing..adding nothing new or satisfactory..
Maybe it is bcoz of lack of devs like razorx chainfire and odia..
For kernels I have been in some kickass kernel which can include some serious undervolting capabilities like voltage control certified which is serious need for getting decent battery life without loosing performance..and for more best governors like lulzactive or smartassv2..
But looking at current development rate I think it would take at least 6 more months to get that..
This thread is a request to developers to advance the development of our device to further make it awesome..
If everybody agrees with me I could start a poll for the same request..
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+1
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sumeshd said:
The one x development is going so slowly I think it will take more then ages to reach that satisfactory level where a user has customisation satisfaction..
The custom kernels and roms out there are more or less the same thing..adding nothing new or satisfactory..
Maybe it is bcoz of lack of devs like razorx chainfire and odia..
For kernels I have been in some kickass kernel which can include some serious undervolting capabilities like voltage control certified which is serious need for getting decent battery life without loosing performance..and for more best governors like lulzactive or smartassv2..
But looking at current development rate I think it would take at least 6 more months to get that..
This thread is a request to developers to advance the development of our device to further make it awesome..
If everybody agrees with me I could start a poll for the same request..
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You don't think the devs would have furthered development if they could? They can't do much without kernel sources... HTC releases nothing, what do you expect the devs to do without the required tools needed in the first place?
Pointless topic. Be thankful for the small strides in the development section so far. And if nothing is 'satisfactory' for you,learn to code and do your own ****.
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Rather than demanding things from the devs who are doing this for free in their spare time you could learn and do it yourself.
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Considering that it is primarily screen on time that uses battery to any significant degree there really isn't much the devs can do. Even the brightness doesn't have much effect, you will always only get between 3 and 4 hrs screen on. Just as an s3 will only get between 5 to 6 hours.
Adjusting fractional voltages to CPU is not going to give you much.
If you don't believe me just do this - completely drain batt, then fully recharge, turn all your radios on, Bluetooth, gps, WiFi, 3g, NFC, the lot. Now lock the phone and leave it on a shelf, do not turn three screen on at all. You should get 3 to 4 days before the battery low warning light comes on. The one X running on companion core is extremely efficient.
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I just installed MIUI (2.8.10 version) and noticed that the device gets REALLY hot when using it for a little bit of browsing and sending text messages.
Now as much as I know it is caused by the newest Build of HTC, therefore every other ROM that is based on the newest release of HTC suffers from this heat development.
Can anyone give me some feedback how this heat development is on other ROMs like the Android Revolution ROM or any other sense-based ROM?
Are the CM9/CM10 based Roms also affected by this issue? Maybe a better kernel can solve this? If yes.... any recommendation? --> looking for low temperature and long battery life... not interested in OC.
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I just installed MIUI (2.8.10 version) and noticed that the device gets REALLY hot when using it for a little bit of browsing and sending text messages.
Now as much as I know it is caused by the newest Build of HTC, therefore every other ROM that is based on the newest release of HTC suffers from this heat development.
Can anyone give me some feedback how this heat development is on other ROMs like the Android Revolution ROM or any other sense-based ROM?
Are the CM9/CM10 based Roms also affected by this issue? Maybe a better kernel can solve this? If yes.... any recommendation? --> looking for low temperature and long battery life... not interested in OC.
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What? People are saying heat is the cause of the latest official firmware (2.17)? I've browsed on ARHD rom today for around 30 minutes early this morning and to be honest i was astonished by how great the heat management is. The highest i've had my HoX reach with browsing, texting and calling on version 2.17 is 36 degrees Celsius. Simply amazing!
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What? People are saying heat is the cause of the latest official firmware (2.17)? I've browsed on ARHD rom today for around 30 minutes early this morning and to be honest i was astonished by how great the heat management is. The highest i've had my HoX reach with browsing, texting and calling on version 2.17 is 36 degrees Celsius. Simply amazing!
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Yep, that really is amazing. I'm sitting in my office (it's an air-conditioned room, so not very hot) and my HOX just lays there in front of me and is at 40.8 °C. Just from lying there and doing nothing.
So therefore to get better (lower) temperature we need to use pre 2.17 ROMs? I hope that HTC will fix this soon!
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2.17 greatly reduced heat generation and battery consumption compared to previous builds, what are you guys smoking?
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2.17 greatly reduced heat generation and battery consumption compared to previous builds, what are you guys smoking?
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You are fully right. The best bway is upgrade to 2.17
I'm using arhd 9.1.0 with faux 006u oc @ 1.6 uv @ 1137mv and the phone has never overheated even under intense use
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NeoCream said:
I just installed MIUI (2.8.10 version) and noticed that the device gets REALLY hot when using it for a little bit of browsing and sending text messages.
Now as much as I know it is caused by the newest Build of HTC, therefore every other ROM that is based on the newest release of HTC suffers from this heat development.
Can anyone give me some feedback how this heat development is on other ROMs like the Android Revolution ROM or any other sense-based ROM?
Are the CM9/CM10 based Roms also affected by this issue? Maybe a better kernel can solve this? If yes.... any recommendation? --> looking for low temperature and long battery life... not interested in OC.
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On Sense 4.0/4.1 and EvolutionHD, i notice very hot HOX under regular work. Ok i understandi it's quad ~ 1.5, but can some lighter ROM decrease temp, or what use to simply undervolt CPU (maybe GPU) at all stages? I don't have plan to underclockit and make it slower.
When udervolt my phone only get hot when charging and usin when of charge I can use it as much as I like and hardly gets warm and battery life better and I haven't lost any performance
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So udervolt it my phone only get hot when charging and usin when of charge I can use it as much as I like and hardly gets warm and battery life better and I haven't lost any performance
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Getting ready for some kernels and tools. Any figures avg -mV that i can expect?
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Use faux 006m or 006u for overclock and system tuner to udervolt
Here's a link for repacked kernels for arhd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1654982
Hit thanks if I helped
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And a tool to flash them this tool make everything so easy just do what it say and have fun with your new kernel
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1734365
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Hi ive been reading this forum for a while though I have just signed up and am currently making my first post.
I am currently on SFR Htc One X International Edition Tegra 3 v3.14 (the jellybean one version).
I currently experience heat problems as many on this forum even while web browsing with chrome and listening to music.
I have already rooted my device. My question is : what rom should I use ?
I am looking for a rom which doesn't have all that extra stuff like ViperX like extra options when pressing power button. I am looking for a rom (with sense or without ) that without many alterations except performance tweaks and which will reduce my device temperature.
Thanks for your suggestions
You could try the blade rom, its very stripped down and fast !
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You could try the blade rom, its very stripped down and fast !
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Thanks i have just flashed it .... It is really fasterthan usual ... Im hoping it will also run colder Thanks for helping me out
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You could try the blade rom, its very stripped down and fast !
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I finally installed Blade rom and was very satisfied with it Though it was really fast it still had some heat issues. What I did to fix it was since it was already so fast, I disabled 2 of my cores and the UI was still silk smooth with almost no difference to the naked eye.
Then my battery temperature stayed under 30 degrees when doing normal operation. While web browsing and listening to music a slight heat sensation is present but its okay with a battery temperature not going over 35 degrees.
I tested playing temple run for 25 min and end result was battery temperature of 40-45 degrees and with only a little stuttering. The latter happened only once when i think some auto sync program requested some cpu time but overall i am now very satisfied and my battery life also got really extended.
hey,
i've been flashing a few roms on my htc one x and i liked viperx as it offers lots of customization. but i found out that the battery and performance of android revolution hd is better. now, i've tried several custom kernels & also played around with governors and schedulers, yet i'd really like if there is a way to get the battery/speed of ARHD into viperx. i tried "repacking" ARHD boot.img at nibble.cc
and flashed it, but stuck on bootloop.
any help would be appreciated.
thankyou.
Nope, you can't have everything. viper has all those extra amazing features which would probably result in degraded performance or battery life.
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Battery usage is all very specific to how you use your phone, what apps you have etc.
Im on viper x / xm305 and getting a good 24 to 27 hours with several hours screen time.
I use greenify on some apps and cap cpu at 1300 - happy days.
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herbie13 said:
Battery usage is all very specific to how you use your phone, what apps you have etc.
Im on viper x / xm305 and getting a good 24 to 27 hours with several hours screen time.
I use greenify on some apps and cap cpu at 1300 - happy days.
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i am also on xm305. but the battery is not predictable, sometimes, it is consumed like anything, at other times, even after heavy usage for a time, not a single % down. i tried to cap cpu at 1300, but can sense minute lags here and there.
for eg. i pulled the plug yesterday @ 10 am, when battery was 81%, this morning at 10 it still was 81%. used wifi for 3-4 minutes, baam! down to 73%.
btw, i've disabled most of the apps that i dont use frequently.
anyways, not that i have any complaint about it. but i'd have liked to see if cream features of each rom could be taken and combined to make one powerful rom. just a dream
That does sound screwy. What does gsam tell you about it ?
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That does sound screwy. What does gsam tell you about it ?
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i dont use the gsam app, though when checked in settings-power-usage, it showed media server at the highest, then facebook, whatsapp and so on. but battery life is not a major issue for me, it is good enough.