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I recently installed the new Kingx Kernel #10 CFS and noticed it had major battery consumption at idle when the screen is off. I would turn off the sync, at setcpu to powersave at 245. In about an hour my battery dropped 10% with absolutely no usage. I noticed this was a problem with King #10 so I switched to King #9 BFS and have the same issue, even when I underclock all the way to 245. My phone lasts about 8 hours with minimum to no usage. What is going on here?
Your phone is probably not sleeping...some apps are known offenders...system panel or maybe default app manager may give you a clue
are you wiping dalvik-cache and cache before you flash?
Uninstall SetCPU and let your processor try to manage power consumption on its own. SetCPU does NOT help with battery life, contrary to popular belief. Do that and report back.
Yes I am wiping cache and dalvik before each flash. I never had a problem with this before. I will try disabling setcpu and see what happens.
Also I believe the phone is sleeping correctly. When I check the awake times and time it from when I turn the screen off, its usually only ahead by a couple of seconds.
check if you have installed tango, that's known to rape your battery
mrono said:
check if you have installed tango, that's known to rape your battery
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Yeah, they need to include a jar of KY with that download.
So I un-installed SetCPU and my battery consumption went back to normal. I dont get it. I also switched to Kings BFS #9. I have never had problems with SetCPU consuming battery at idle. In fact I could easily get 24 hours usage when I set my phone in powersave mode when not in use. Now it drains battery even in powersave.
Im currently running SRF 1.2, twilight kernel. Im interested in trying voltage control but dont completely understand the app as i do setcpu with its profiles and all. I am more into saving battery life while sleep than overclocking. My phone is fast enough. For undervolting, what do you guys suggest? Thanks in advance
There's nothing you can do with voltage control you can't with set cpu. I think vc pro does allow you to over volt but if your hitting your desired freq's without freezing you should have no need.
Cd's or tapes?
MrEpic said:
Im currently running SRF 1.2, twilight kernel. Im interested in trying voltage control but dont completely understand the app as i do setcpu with its profiles and all. I am more into saving battery life while sleep than overclocking. My phone is fast enough. For undervolting, what do you guys suggest? Thanks in advance
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You say you want to save more battery while sleep...then you need to check CPUspy and Spare Parts to make sure your phone is going into deep sleep. No change in voltage (which VC allows you to do) will save or use more battery there. What you want to look for is partial wakes...programs that disturb your phones sleep by syncing or running while sleeping. Change the syncs to manual or uninstall apps using too much battery in standby.
As for any undervolting or overvolting, every phone is different..some can tolerate no changes in voltage where others will take anything you give it. Small changes should be tested thoroughly before applying upon boot so if your phone freezes during a test it will revert to a working voltage upon reboot.
I'm currently running 4.1.2 stock, rooted. With Locked BL. The battery drain has been absolutely shocking. Help
Download from play store this app: Du Battery Saver&Switch Widget! I have this app since last week and it really works...
People in here are right. Greenify it's more than enough. But also Du Battery Saver can do the trick, what's great about it is that is lowering your CPU frequency when screenlock, so try them out.
naeem123 said:
I'm currently running 4.1.2 stock, rooted. With Locked BL. The battery drain has been absolutely shocking. Help
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Use screen settings as low as possible. Trust me, thats the main cause of fast battery drain.
Use Lux auto brighteness. Its a good app.
Next one , use titanium backup to freeze the app that you are not using. Its always a good to freeze app, so it wont run in the background and u can save RAM.
Use greenify. Thats the best app for hibernating the apps. That way both battery and RAM is saved.
And use DU battery Saver , thats also an awesome app. in which u can set the phone to change your profile on time basis, and lower frequency of cpu when screen is locked so battery is saved.
Hope u got some ways to prevent battery drain to a limit
Those apps are all great, but why have a HD Screen phone when you have to lower the screen brightness to a minimum, that sucks.
pannekoek28 said:
Could someone give me a guide to du battery? I dont want to turn off wifi/data because i wont get whatsapp messages
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It's very simple, at du battery select saver at the bottom and create your own custom mode!
Thank you all for the responses, I will try out all the suggested apps and get back to you all. Thank you!
Keep the brightness around 35%. I find it perfect for indoors. Your screen on time should be atleast between 2:30 to 3 hrs on average.
Use darker wallpapers
And underclock to 1.2ghz or something if you dont use resource hungry apps. Use conservative governor and noop scheduler.
Trinity ROM
Screen brightness at 35%
Stamina mode on
Using greenify
Only 2G networks
Moderate Wi-Fi usage
Default CPU frequencies
Also, don't use battery savers like go battery saver and battery doctor, they only turn down brightness and data networks, alot of them don't have a great effect in battery life. Use apps that freeze/hibernate apps like greenify and snapdragomln battery guru.
naeem123 said:
I'm currently running 4.1.2 stock, rooted. With Locked BL. The battery drain has been absolutely shocking. Help
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so i did realise that you had your screen on alot of the time.... that is generaly 1 reason why , i can watch 8 hours straight of movies on my XS where as on a stock rom about 3 hours , so the XS battery realy depends
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sometimes the battery will just need to be used normaly just so it can calibrate its self (some weird reason not using my XS for 2 days fixed my battery issues)
i suggest checking if there are any apps that run in the background, just remove them if you dont need them (could prevent your XS from sleeping and also a posible overheat)
I also suggest making sure that your brightness isnt too high, (obviess)
the more you use your XS the shorter the battery lasts day by day, it is nessicary to not use your xs too much as it will take a few days for the life to go back to normal ,(like i said i had a simular issue)
I can see a strange behavior of Mediaserver process. It consumes too much battery. Usually it points to the problem with scanning your media files.
You can use BetterBatteryStats to find out the cause of it.
Have the h811 and using the app but don't know if it's working. On slumber mode
Which app are you referring too?
The deep sleep battery app? That's the first relevant thing I found in the playstore. And the comments on it don't seem too good.
A lot of folks here will recommend the greenify app instead and picking the apps you want to go into a sleep mode until triggered to wake up.
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Which app are you referring too?
The deep sleep battery app? That's the first relevant thing I found in the playstore. And the comments on it don't seem too good.
A lot of folks here will recommend the greenify app instead and picking the apps you want to go into a sleep mode until triggered to wake up.
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Yeah that's what I am referring to the deep sleep battery app, I as well am using greenify with xposed module for deeper sleep
With the screen off, you can just swipe down on the off screen to see the time. You will see that your mobile data is shut off. At least this works for me. I can clearly see my LTE symbol disappearing.
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With the screen off, you can just swipe down on the off screen to see the time. You will see that your mobile data is shut off. At least this works for me. I can clearly see my LTE symbol disappearing.
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Have you been noticing difference with using deep sleep battery saver?
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Have you been noticing difference with using deep sleep battery saver?
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To be honest, I have. I also know that it's working because I swipe down when my screen is off and I see that my mobile data has shut off. Last night, I fell asleep without charging my phone at 67% and woke up to.... 67%, I was asleep for about 6 hours. I came from the Sony Xperia Z2 and kept stamina mode on 24/7. I was able to pull off well over 30 hours with that phone. Using deep sleep battery saver (which was based off the same idea as Stamina mode) I definitely noticed a difference in idle battery. Of course, once you get into any sort of task with the screen on then that's a different story.
The LG G4 already had pretty amazing idle times but I have a lot of apps that loves to wake up the phone when I'm sleeping. Before the app, I noticed that I'd wake up to maybe a 5% drain at minimum over the course of 6~7 hours. Sometimes, when my apps update on their own, I'd notice a significant drop of maybe even 10%.
I paid for the app since it's pretty cheap but honestly, I don't notice any real benefit to having the paid version. The paid version allows you to set some whitelist apps which is what Sony's Stamina mode allowed. However, if you're okay with not having that control then the free version is more than enough. Who knows, maybe some people will benefit less from it :/
I just want to make a point that I am also using it in conjunction with Greenify. I'm not sure if using the two really bears any great benefits but under my impression, greenify hibernates user apps while deep sleep can basically prevent anything from accessing data since it also shuts off mobile data. I can't see how using the two would hurt so why not? It looks like they both do different things that combined would be a very powerful battery saver.
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To be honest, I have. I also know that it's working because I swipe down when my screen is off and I see that my mobile data has shut off. Last night, I fell asleep without charging my phone at 67% and woke up to.... 67%, I was asleep for about 6 hours. I came from the Sony Xperia Z2 and kept stamina mode on 24/7. I was able to pull off well over 30 hours with that phone. Using deep sleep battery saver (which was based off the same idea as Stamina mode) I definitely noticed a difference in idle battery. Of course, once you get into any sort of task with the screen on then that's a different story.
The LG G4 already had pretty amazing idle times but I have a lot of apps that loves to wake up the phone when I'm sleeping. Before the app, I noticed that I'd wake up to maybe a 5% drain at minimum over the course of 6~7 hours. Sometimes, when my apps update on their own, I'd notice a significant drop of maybe even 10%.
I paid for the app since it's pretty cheap but honestly, I don't notice any real benefit to having the paid version. The paid version allows you to set some whitelist apps which is what Sony's Stamina mode allowed. However, if you're okay with not having that control then the free version is more than enough. Who knows, maybe some people will benefit less from it :/
I just want to make a point that I am also using it in conjunction with Greenify. I'm not sure if using the two really bears any great benefits but under my impression, greenify hibernates user apps while deep sleep can basically prevent anything from accessing data since it also shuts off mobile data. I can't see how using the two would hurt so why not? It looks like they both do different things that combined would be a very powerful battery saver.
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I have Greenify as well and my battery life is TERRIBLE on this phone. I am lucky to get 8 hours before going from 100% to under 50%...I have a ton of bloat frozen and a ton of apps Greenified. What system apps are you Greenify'ing? The battery life is killing me on this phone, thank God I got a free battery with the promotion.
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I have Greenify as well and my battery life is TERRIBLE on this phone. I am lucky to get 8 hours before going from 100% to under 50%...I have a ton of bloat frozen and a ton of apps Greenified. What system apps are you Greenify'ing? The battery life is killing me on this phone, thank God I got a free battery with the promotion.
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I didn't greenify any system apps. I just greenified every single user app that could potentially run while the phone was not in use. I also used tasker to force greenify my facebook app the minute the screen turns off instead of waiting for greenify to activate. I also used kernel adiutor to change the big core's governor to powersave and then changed the LITTLE core's governor to interactive.
Like I said in a previous post, I most use greenify for user apps as I kind of don't want to touch system apps at this moment. I use deep sleep battery saver for anything else that could potentially dodge greenify (like system apps that tries to access data). As all these settings so far are for when the screen is off, the Kernel Adiutor settings are for helping with battery life when the screen is on. I don't think the tasker setting is necessary as it very well could just be a placebo effect but I don't like how facebook isn't hibernated immediately.
So to sum it up; the settings I used:
Greenify all user apps
Use tasker to immediately greenify select apps that are power hungry
Use deep sleep battery saver
Use Kernel Adiutor and set big.LITTLE governors to powersave and interactive
**I should mention that I have the T-mobile H811 model which has an unlocked bootloader with a custom recovery.
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I didn't greenify any system apps. I just greenified every single user app that could potentially run while the phone was not in use. I also used tasker to force greenify my facebook app the minute the screen turns off instead of waiting for greenify to activate. I also used kernel adiutor to change the big core's governor to powersave and then changed the LITTLE core's governor to interactive.
Like I said in a previous post, I most use greenify for user apps as I kind of don't want to touch system apps at this moment. I use deep sleep battery saver for anything else that could potentially dodge greenify (like system apps that tries to access data). As all these settings so far are for when the screen is off, the Kernel Adiutor settings are for helping with battery life when the screen is on. I don't think the tasker setting is necessary as it very well could just be a placebo effect but I don't like how facebook isn't hibernated immediately.
So to sum it up; the settings I used:
Greenify all user apps
Use tasker to immediately greenify select apps that are power hungry
Use deep sleep battery saver
Use Kernel Adiutor and set big.LITTLE governors to powersave and interactive
**I should mention that I have the T-mobile H811 model which has an unlocked bootloader with a custom recovery.
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Awesome, thanks for the informative reply. One question, wouldn't putting the CPU governor on powersave make the phone run really choppy/laggy? Also, I have the Verizon G4 no unlocked bootloader but root.
pettigrew95 said:
Awesome, thanks for the informative reply. One question, wouldn't putting the CPU governor on powersave make the phone run really choppy/laggy? Also, I have the Verizon G4 no unlocked bootloader but root.
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Most day to day tasks are done with the "LITTLE" cores while intensive tasks are done using the faster "big" so you won't normally notice any lag since the governor for the littles is interactive. I figured the only time I would really drain my battery is when I'm using intense tasks that would utilize the big cores. You will notice a little lag when in really heavy apps like the camera but it's really not that bad - it's not like a "I'm-going-to-miss-my-shot-because-it's-so-laggy" bad. Just give it a shot and you'll see what I mean. I don't use my phone for gaming but I do use it for almost everything else including streaming videos and I don't notice any lag other than in the camera - which, like I said, isn't that bad. If you do want to tweak around with the governor though, I high recommend Kernel Adiutor since it is compatible with the big.LITTLE system (meaning it can set the separate governor for both big and little cores) unlike Rom Toolbox Pro.
While I can bear with the slight lag for the extra battery life, you may not be able to take it. Your mileage may vary I guess. Battery life is much more important to me than high performance since I don't do anything intense like gaming or heavy rendering and I'm always on the go so I'm willing to make that sacrifice.
For me deep sleep has been giving me battery drain issues and uninstalled it after two days of use on slumber and my custom mode that didn't let no app awake and also the force tune cpu and what not yet still battery drain. With it off battery drains much much more less
Someone help me! I'm facing a deep sleep issue. I have been monitoring for days and this is the result (attachment). I enabled Intel Deep Sleep before. I'm not talking about the SoT because it depends on my daily usage. But my deep sleep seems....bad. The weird thing is: CPU Spy shows deep sleep at 54% (see attachment).
My info: Z008 4.21.40.122, Boretsx kernel, Govenor interactive_pro. Ondemand seems the same.
I disabled all in Autostart manager, except Superuser, Greenify and Amplify.
The battery seems to drain faster while screen on in the time period when the deep sleep issue happens. In the time period when deep sleep issue doesn't happen, the battery drains more slowly
this is a very common issue. some people do not factory rest device after updating firmware. factory reset your device. you will definitely get the issue resolved. if that do not helps, the other thing u can try is you can let the battery drain completely. then charge it for 5 to 8 hours without turning on mobile
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Someone help me! I'm facing a deep sleep issue. I have been monitoring for days and this is the result (attachment). I enabled Intel Deep Sleep before. I'm not talking about the SoT because it depends on my daily usage. But my deep sleep seems....bad. The weird thing is: CPU Spy shows deep sleep at 54% (see attachment).
My info: Z008 4.21.40.122, Boretsx kernel, Govenor interactive_pro. Ondemand seems the same.
I disabled all in Autostart manager, except Superuser, Greenify and Amplify.
The battery seems to drain faster while screen on in the time period when the deep sleep issue happens. In the time period when deep sleep issue doesn't happen, the battery drains more slowly
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If you like Stock Firmware, just flash RussianBear + Greenify + Amplify..
6-7 SOT + ~24-30h iddle.
Epic battery!
gREENNNNN said:
If you like Stock Firmware, just flash RussianBear + Greenify + Amplify..
6-7 SOT + ~24-30h iddle.
Epic battery!
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Yes, i'm using RNB
But something weird happened. I left it charge overnight, very slowly. In the morning, it reaches 74% and now it's perfect again