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To those using "CurrentWidget"

i'm having battery consumption issues, and somewhere on the forum the guys talked about a widget that shows current battery discharge amount in ma (miliamps). so i installed the widget and it shows 44ma no matter what i did, i turned on everything, and then all off, changed radios, changed roms(was using leedroid2.2f then flashed opendesire4.0.36)...
what ever i did, 44ma was the number showed by the widget. i installed another widget, and it gave the same number...
any one has any clue about this?
also yesterday i charged the phone to the point where the lock screen said it was "Charged". but i didn't unplug the charger, 30 minutes later "CurrentWidget" changed the number from 44ma to 8ma, so i thought, maybe now its fully charged.
used the phone for a while(maybe used up 10% or a bit more), and then "CurrentWidget changed back to 44ma, and its been the same since then.
now my battery's at about 40%, and its the same still...
anyone??!!

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I installed it and it gave the same reading (44mah).
The problem is i want to know what it means for the reading to be the same at any given point. Whether the screen is on or off, or the cpu is at 1Ghz or at 652Ghz(using setcpu).
Can someone shed some light here please?

mean no disrespect!! do you wipe when you flash roms? try to wipe battery stats also. do you use a task killer that somehow prevents the system from reading correctly? i know that this might sound dumb but you never know, i have seen alot of weirdness from the last expected.
edit:do you use setcpu profiles? if yes try and deactivate profiles or change governors.
jaikat said:
I installed it and it gave the same reading (44mah).
The problem is i want to know what it means for the reading to be the same at any given point. Whether the screen is on or off, or the cpu is at 1Ghz or at 652Ghz(using setcpu).
Can someone shed some light here please?
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mariosraptor said:
mean no disrespect!! do you wipe when you flash roms? try to wipe battery stats also. do you use a task killer that somehow prevents the system from reading correctly? i know that this might sound dumb but you never know, i have seen alot of weirdness from the last expected.
edit:do you use setcpu profiles? if yes try and deactivate profiles or change governors.
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i really appreciate the help you guys are offering... thanks.
alright, i'll tell you what i did:
1- i wiped everything (data, cache, ext, dalvik)
2- flashed the rom (defrost 6.1a)
3- after everything was up and running i charged the phone to the point where clarus battery(battery info widget) showed the phone was charged, also current widget changed the reading from 44 to 8 mah at this point.
4- rebooted into recovery and wiped battery stats
after i used the phone for a while and the battery lost about 10% or more, current widget went back to showing 44mah, all the way to the moment my phone turned off by itself cause the battery was empty (this was almost 18 to 20 hours later)
i use setcpu, the cpu speed is set to 245-728 using the On-demand governor. and there's one profile set for when the phone is on standby(screen is off), that one is set to 245-530(approximate) using either the conservative or the On-demand governors.
another thing is autobrightness, which i have turned OFF.
and lastly, i don't use a taskkiller, and i advise anyone not to use one as i got better battery life without one...(anyone who reads this, try it and see for yourself)..
the amount of the mah current being used by my phone is whats bugging me, i'v read another topic where people who were using Desire phones and the current widget were getting 25-40 when using the phone, and 3-8 when the phone was idle. but in my case, the number is always the same...
too much talking i know, forgive me, but this is in case anyone who wants to help has other questions ...

[Q] Battery issues with CM7 alpha anyone?

I've had CM7 on my t989 since the day after alpha 2 came out, and I've never had any serious issues I haven't been able to solve.
I've been trying to track down what's causeing my phone to stay awake, and I can't figure it out at all. In the android battery usage, it shows that my phone is almost always awake when it's sitting in my pocket with nothing running, even after a fresh reboot. No relevant application shows up in either the 'partial wake usage' list or the main android battery usage list.
Is there a way to get more accurate information about partial wake usage or per application usage then I'm aware of? I'm currently using Battery Monitor Widget to figure this stuff out.
I could be an application I have installed that is causing it, but how would it be ducking the android battery usage monitor AND the partial wake usage list?
Anyone else experience something like this?

If you go to Settings, About phone, Battery Usage, what are the top apps?
Liquid5n0w said:
I've had CM7 on my t989 since the day after alpha 2 came out, and I've never had any serious issues I haven't been able to solve.
I've been trying to track down what's causeing my phone to stay awake, and I can't figure it out at all. In the android battery usage, it shows that my phone is almost always awake when it's sitting in my pocket with nothing running, even after a fresh reboot. No relevant application shows up in either the 'partial wake usage' list or the main android battery usage list.
Is there a way to get more accurate information about partial wake usage or per application usage then I'm aware of? I'm currently using Battery Monitor Widget to figure this stuff out.
I could be an application I have installed that is causing it, but how would it be ducking the android battery usage monitor AND the partial wake usage list?
Anyone else experience something like this?
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Try Better Battery Stats. It has really helped me increase my phone's deep sleep.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

germania said:
If you go to Settings, About phone, Battery Usage, what are the top apps?
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There are apps there, but they aren't the ones that are draining my battery, considering none of them are the ones keeping my phone awake while the screen is off and it's idle.
There is battery usage going on that isn't listed on the battery usage page, which is why I made the thread.

orangejulio said:
Try Better Battery Stats. It has really helped me increase my phone's deep sleep.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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I've used better battery stats, it exposed the same information that battery monitor widget does, just in a much less user friendly way.
What ever is keeping the wake lock, my phone isn't tracking it, making me think it's something in the OS, not an app I have installed.

I'm willing to bet its something with calls/proximity sensors. Is Android system 2nd on battery usage behind display?
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mikeyinid said:
I'm willing to bet its something with calls/proximity sensors. Is Android system 2nd on battery usage behind display?
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Yeah, android system is almost always second, is there anything I can do to help that besides switch back to a samsung rom?
Is this happening with other people on CM7 alpha with this phone?

Liquid5n0w said:
Yeah, android system is almost always second, is there anything I can do to help that besides switch back to a samsung rom?
Is this happening with other people on CM7 alpha with this phone?
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It happens on a bunch of phones with cm7. Not just this one. There's really nothing you can do about it. Are you getting that bad of battery life?
Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk

Yeah, the battery life is really bad sometimes, but other times it's fine.
So no one knows the cause? It just happens? I'm confident CM9 will fix it, mostly because they have the ground up reword the ROM to make it work.

Liquid5n0w said:
Yeah, the battery life is really bad sometimes, but other times it's fine.
So no one knows the cause? It just happens? I'm confident CM9 will fix it, mostly because they have the ground up reword the ROM to make it work.
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The times its good is when you don't make many calls? Or your calls or later in the day? What happens is after you make a call there is a partial wake lock triggered by the proximity sensor. Pay attention to that.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk

Thanks, does restarting after a call solve the partial wake lock?

Liquid5n0w said:
Thanks, does restarting after a call solve the partial wake lock?
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yes, thats what i did sometimes on my evo. i also like to do a battery pull at night before putting my phone on the charger. kills any crazy processes

no battery issue but i can't make calls.

Battery Issue (Battery Stats Inside)

Hi all, I have been having what I think is less than stellar battery life, so I recently installed Better Battery Stats.
I took the phone off the charger this morning and noticed that the battery was dropping, so I opened up the app and noticed a couple of things in the partial wake locks (attached). I have not opened Google Maps at all since yesterday nor used any location apps (Latitude is disabled), so I think it is odd that it is showing up in the list, especially considering I've only used the phone to send 3 or 4 texts.
Anyone else have anything going on like this, or that could shed some light on my situation? It'd be appreciated....

Have you calibrated you battery using the Battery calibrate app?

Xpertss said:
Have you calibrated you battery using the Battery calibrate app?
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I have not..not sure how that will affect processes running though...

Open Maps>location settings>uncheck "report from this device"

Xpertss said:
Have you calibrated you battery using the Battery calibrate app?
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No need to do that the phone automatically does that after you hit 100 percent anyways or do it through recovery
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda premium

dtugg said:
Open Maps>location settings>uncheck "report from this device"
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Saw that after my last post..will try and report back..

Bad Battery Life since KitKat

Hi Guys,
i have a bit of a problem with the battery in my GNex maguro.
I'm an avid Rom flasher, but when i have something that works well i usually settle with it for a while. So i flashed Cataclysm (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995801) sometime in the last months and it was running great. Best bettery life i had so far.
Then with the release of Android 4.4 i looked for a rom to test it. I flashed XP (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2539201) and i really like the 4.4 changes.
But since then my battery won't even last a day in standby mode. I thought maybe it's an issue with 4.4. still, but even after flashing back to Cataclysm (newest release) i still had the same issues. I thought it may well be, that the final version isn't what it used to be, so i flashed another rom again. This time Purity (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2012706) aaaand... still the same problem. So now i'm pretty much lost. I also tried different kernels (lean kernel specifically) but to no avail.
My battery used to last 2+ days in idle mode. Now i can see my battery drop every minute. It barely holds over 10 hours. I already did a full phone wipe and flashed back to stock before installing cataclysm again but still no improvement.
I hope someone can help me here or point in the right direction.
Sorry if this topic already exists, but the search funtion doesn't seem to work right now and google didn't show something helpfull.
Thank you all in advance.

I don't know why you would still have bad battery life moving back to the original rom you used but.. on 4.4 it is most likely the new Google Now features that constantly listen for voice commands. Disable it by long pressing on an empty part of the home screen and go to settings. Slide Google Now Off and go to voice and turn off hotword detection as well.
I get great standby battery life on 4.4. I'm running the 11/29 ART build of cmetal(toro), 150ish hours of uptime without any issues so far.

Re: Bad Battery Life since KK
What kernel are you running? Are you just using whatever kernels come with each ROM?

I'll try turning off google now and the voice stuff and report back.
It still seems really weird to me, that the problem still persists after flashing back to 4.3. My guess would be, that 4.4 flashes something hidden that messes with the battery. But i don't know where or what.
Especially since it persists after a complete wipe (/data, /system and /cache).
Well, i'll see how it behaves without google now.
What kernel are you running? Are you just using whatever kernels come with each ROM?
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Well i used mostly lean Kernel with 4.3 roms but i can't find any 4.4 kerneles besides CM. I have XP installed right know which uses CM Kernel.

Re:Bad Battery
Make sure your governor is set to interactive or ondemand...it could be seeing power drain from being set to one of the performance settings.
It's also possible that your battery is just going bad...do you have a backup battery you can try?
Well i used mostly lean Kernel with 4.3 roms but i can't find any 4.4 kerneles besides CM. I have XP installed right know which uses CM Kernel.[/QUOTE]

It could just be that you need to replace your battery. They are only good for so many charges and do degrade.
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Reporting back. After deactivating google now yesterday my battery is still ****. It's at 50% after 2h idle and 30 minutes screentime. Before the 4.4 flash it would be at around ~85-90% now. I suspect that 4.4 flashes something in some hidden partition that i don't have access to, that messes with the battery. Users on other boards report the same issues as i have.
dwoods1983 said:
Make sure your governor is set to interactive or ondemand...it could be seeing power drain from being set to one of the performance settings.
It's also possible that your battery is just going bad...do you have a backup battery you can try?
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Just checked. Governor is set to interactive. It's also the default setting.
I sadly don't have a backup battery.
It could just be that you need to replace your battery. They are only good for so many charges and do degrade.
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Could be, of course. But it's kinda weird that the decline is so dramatic and it has to be a pretty big coincidence that it just happend after a 4.4 flash. Seems unlikely to me.
edit: I'll order a new battery just to eliminate the battery as the source of error.

Mine is pretty bad but it's running google play to death so maybe gapps flash was bad? dunno

merid14 said:
Mine is pretty bad but it's running google play to death so maybe gapps flash was bad? dunno
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this maybe issue of ram management.. try some good apps to control those background & foreground app from running without control. dont use any task killer.. please
i recommend using greenify.apk. donate version much better.
sorry for my bad english
galaxy nexus i9250

Same problem here. Since I flashed Kitkat on my phone, battery life isn't enough to last a day on standby. I tried installing another kernel (ASKP) but to no avail. Please keep in mind that I'm not very experienced with custom roms and rooting my phone. Does anyone have some good tips to improve battery life?

Update: After fiddling around a bit with better battery stats, greenify and a bunch of other stuff... i still don't have a solution. I made some screenshots of my stats, but can't post them here because i don't have permission to do that...

So i reflashed swordrune's cm11 rom and it seems to be working better with 1080p kernel w/o art enabled. i'm 11 hrs in with 80% battery on the extended battery (toro btw)

Un4s said:
Update: After fiddling around a bit with better battery stats, greenify and a bunch of other stuff... i still don't have a solution. I made some screenshots of my stats, but can't post them here because i don't have permission to do that...
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are u sure greenify didnt helping??? already got rooted & exposed installer running??
can u state your screen on time??
usually gnex can handle 3-4 hour screen on depend on battery condition n phone performance... not include idle n stanby time.
galaxy nexus i9250

memaro_maro said:
are u sure greenify didnt helping??? already got rooted & exposed installer running??
can u state your screen on time??
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Yes, i am rooted, but i didn't have the donate version of greenify. Bought it now and will test again.
Screen on time ~1:30h

Un4s said:
Yes, i am rooted, but i didn't have the donate version of greenify. Bought it now and will test again.
Screen on time ~1:30h
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that will help.
if u lightweight user, i suggest u to optimized performance. use apps such trickster mod, rom toolbox, or in addition of any light battery saving apps ( for optimization)
should be improve on screen time.
galaxy nexus i9250

Not to hijack your thread, but I'm also experiencing battery issues after flashing the XP 4.4 rom. I did enjoy it but the battery drain was terrible. Not only that, for some reason my charger drains on a 1A charger but charges slowly on a .7A somehow. I only have 1 micro usb cable so I can't test if it's the cable and I can't find any apps to check the current speed. I tried downgrading and flashing to Slimbean but so far it's been no dice.

memaro_maro said:
that will help.
if u lightweight user, i suggest u to optimized performance. use apps such trickster mod, rom toolbox, or in addition of any light battery saving apps ( for optimization)
should be improve on screen time.
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Ok, back again. hibernated every app and system-app that was running in background. Still wasn't getting better. I then saw the only services still running are google location services. I deactivated them now to see if these are causing it.
The biggest wakelocks i have are "wlan_rx_wake" which seem to be a known problem with KK:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2519294
I then researched again and found several threads in google groups which describe the same problems that i have. Across several devices (though mostly Nexus 4, 5 and 7).
Google seems to be aware of that issue and is working on it.
Not to hijack your thread, but I'm also experiencing battery issues after flashing the XP 4.4 rom. I did enjoy it but the battery drain was terrible. Not only that, for some reason my charger drains on a 1A charger but charges slowly on a .7A somehow. I only have 1 micro usb cable so I can't test if it's the cable and I can't find any apps to check the current speed. I tried downgrading and flashing to Slimbean but so far it's been no dice.
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Yes, same for me. Charging is really slow since 4.4 as is the bootprocess of my phone. From the first vibrate when switching the phone on it takes ~10 seconds until the google logo pops up.

i dont know any about gapps issues bcoz not running any gapps in my phone since last year.
1. try searching for updated radio.img (baseband/ radio) if got any network issue.
2. try install trickster mod app. this app can help you for tweaking into deep sleep, also help for optimizing.
galaxy nexus i9250

crayjin said:
Not to hijack your thread, but I'm also experiencing battery issues after flashing the XP 4.4 rom. I did enjoy it but the battery drain was terrible. Not only that, for some reason my charger drains on a 1A charger but charges slowly on a .7A somehow. I only have 1 micro usb cable so I can't test if it's the cable and I can't find any apps to check the current speed. I tried downgrading and flashing to Slimbean but so far it's been no dice.
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try this for helping you go into deep sleep
galaxy nexus i9250

memaro_maro said:
try this for helping you go into deep sleep
galaxy nexus i9250
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Hmm I don't know if this is going to resolve the charging problem but i will try it and also try and use a battery calibrater and come back.

Question about battery

Hi there,
Recently I got a secondhand HTC wildfire buzz and the original battery had a remarkable short life. After + / - 6 hours was empty.... without touching the phone!.
I replaced the battery by a new one with slightly higher capacity (1500mah) but after approx. 7 hours this one is empty too!....without using the phone, I mean the phone was closed with the on off button, not used and checked after 7 hours
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Specs:
Android 2.2.1
kernel 2.6.32.21
Build number 2.22.405.8
- Phone was connected to my local wifi
- Only app in background was What's app (didn't send or recieved messages)
- Killed rest of apps with "App Killer"
- Noticed a few processes with the app "OS monitor" and the process "Android-system" used between 8-20% CPU. And the process "System" about 2% CPU
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Kind regards,

thats strange.
diy3dm2 said:
Hi there,
Recently I got a secondhand HTC wildfire buzz and the original battery had a remarkable short life. After + / - 6 hours was empty.... without touching the phone!.
I replaced the battery by a new one with slightly higher capacity (1500mah) but after approx. 7 hours this one is empty too!....without using the phone, I mean the phone was closed with the on off button, not used and checked after 7 hours
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Specs:
Android 2.2.1
kernel 2.6.32.21
Build number 2.22.405.8
- Phone was connected to my local wifi
- Only app in background was What's app (didn't send or recieved messages)
- Killed rest of apps with "App Killer"
- Noticed a few processes with the app "OS monitor" and the process "Android-system" used between 8-20% CPU. And the process "System" about 2% CPU
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Kind regards,
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you dont gave proper description. well yiu are new so i consider you don't know about rooting process and your phone is not rooted.
first of all install wakelock app check from playstore. i will give you a hint wats eating your battery. well on froyo 2.2. plenty of battery monitors are avaliable. at last and the best follow some rooting guides in wildfire fourms. they are sometimes confusing for new users . well follow a method to install recovery and get rooted. install a new rom and recalibrate your battery. its a file that somtime help users .
at last if you dont want to root. simply erase everything and reinstall everything. but i suggest you to get rooted and soff. because froyo users now can not download anything from playstore. google has dropped support of froyo...

sachoosaini said:
you dont gave proper description. well yiu are new so i consider you don't know about rooting process and your phone is not rooted.
first of all install wakelock app check from playstore. i will give you a hint wats eating your battery. well on froyo 2.2. plenty of battery monitors are avaliable. at last and the best follow some rooting guides in wildfire fourms. they are sometimes confusing for new users . well follow a method to install recovery and get rooted. install a new rom and recalibrate your battery. its a file that somtime help users .
at last if you dont want to root. simply erase everything and reinstall everything. but i suggest you to get rooted and soff. because froyo users now can not download anything from playstore. google has dropped support of froyo...
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I dont think that root is the answer here, also wiping battery stats from recovery does nothing except delete a batterystats file from the rom. no actual calibration happens. no need to rush off into s-off without a real need for it
diy3dm2 said:
Hi there,
Recently I got a secondhand HTC wildfire buzz and the original battery had a remarkable short life. After + / - 6 hours was empty.... without touching the phone!.
I replaced the battery by a new one with slightly higher capacity (1500mah) but after approx. 7 hours this one is empty too!....without using the phone, I mean the phone was closed with the on off button, not used and checked after 7 hours
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Specs:
Android 2.2.1
kernel 2.6.32.21
Build number 2.22.405.8
- Phone was connected to my local wifi
- Only app in background was What's app (didn't send or recieved messages)
- Killed rest of apps with "App Killer"
- Noticed a few processes with the app "OS monitor" and the process "Android-system" used between 8-20% CPU. And the process "System" about 2% CPU
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Kind regards,
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To be honest with you friend it could be many things. ive seen many wildfires over the years that had massive battery drains just because they were old, with new batterys not really helping much. your device being on wifi is probably keeping it awake and not allowing for a deep sleep (which conserves more battery) if you go into wifi/advanced settings i think there is a option to have wifi always on during sleep. if that is ticked, then untick it and see if you gain any performance boosts. its also possible that your 3rd party battery may claim to be 1500 but it could be much lower. trusted brands are safer bets in these fields. also consider how you charge your battery, if you charge it excessively (much more that it needs, ie charged overnight while you sleep) then you could be causing permanent wear onto the battery.
as a last resort you could flash an android kernel that supports underclocking your cpu, that would increase your battery life but at the cost of performance. like the above user said try to install wakelock app and see if it pops up with anything useful but i don think it will

thanks
Thank you guys for the answers.
@sachoosaini
I did a successfull ROM flash on a HTC Prophet (QTEK S200) but that was a while ago.
@heavy_metal_man
I agree with you that it's hard to find the cause only with these info. Hard/software are very complex today. Yesterday I completely switched off Wifi but the results where the same.
I've noticed that the phone gets pretty warm while charging so perhaps that's the cause. I charging with a 5V 1.3 A usb charger.
Anyway, I'll try wakelock app to get some more info
Kind regards
.
heavy_metal_man said:
I dont think that root is the answer here, also wiping battery stats from recovery does nothing except delete a batterystats file from the rom. no actual calibration happens. no need to rush off into s-off without a real need for it
To be honest with you friend it could be many things. ive seen many wildfires over the years that had massive battery drains just because they were old, with new batterys not really helping much. your device being on wifi is probably keeping it awake and not allowing for a deep sleep (which conserves more battery) if you go into wifi/advanced settings i think there is a option to have wifi always on during sleep. if that is ticked, then untick it and see if you gain any performance boosts. its also possible that your 3rd party battery may claim to be 1500 but it could be much lower. trusted brands are safer bets in these fields. also consider how you charge your battery, if you charge it excessively (much more that it needs, ie charged overnight while you sleep) then you could be causing permanent wear onto the battery.
as a last resort you could flash an android kernel that supports underclocking your cpu, that would increase your battery life but at the cost of performance. like the above user said try to install wakelock app and see if it pops up with anything useful but i don think it will
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diy3dm2 said:
Hi there,
Recently I got a secondhand HTC wildfire buzz and the original battery had a remarkable short life. After + / - 6 hours was empty.... without touching the phone!.
I replaced the battery by a new one with slightly higher capacity (1500mah) but after approx. 7 hours this one is empty too!....without using the phone, I mean the phone was closed with the on off button, not used and checked after 7 hours
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Specs:
Android 2.2.1
kernel 2.6.32.21
Build number 2.22.405.8
- Phone was connected to my local wifi
- Only app in background was What's app (didn't send or recieved messages)
- Killed rest of apps with "App Killer"
- Noticed a few processes with the app "OS monitor" and the process "Android-system" used between 8-20% CPU. And the process "System" about 2% CPU
I can not imagine that this is normal and I'm wondering what can be the cause of this problem?
Kind regards,
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