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Has anyone else had any battery life problems with the new Rom by ookba? I have one of those extended life batteries in my excalibur ( it is a 2400 mAh ) and I have found it loses power much quicker after I installed the new Rom by ookba. By the way I love the Rom it is awesome! But I was wondering if there is something I could do to increase the battery life more like it was befor I installed the new Rom. I do not want to take the new Rom off cause it Rocks!
I would like to have the battery last a bit longer though.. I don't know if it is the titanium panels or what that is making it lose power so quick after I have it on all day ( with bt off and wi-fi only occasionally ) it drops to 70 to 60 percent power by nightime. I have the normal stuff set up on the phone to use the best possible battery life but uses a lot more battery than befor I put the new Rom by ookba in.
I am looking for some answers but do not want to take this super Rom off my phone.
Thanks!
Personally my battery life has drastically improved since I moved from one of the Rose's Roms to 3VO's Rom. I had no idea that a Rom could make such a big difference in terms of battery life.
My battery life has gone down since upgrade to "3VO Rom ver 2.50 080809"(But still I like this rom). It only lasts 18hrs without any extensive usage. I will suspect that its radio which is causing this drain.
ramfan43 said:
I have one of those extended life batteries in my excalibur ( it is a 2400 mAh ) and I have found it loses power much quicker after I installed the new Rom by ookba.
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That is reallly odd. I have a 1550 mAh extended battery, and in one day of decent usage I only go down to 80% on a daily basis.
What I do notice is that once I hit 35-40%, battery usage increases insanely (but i am assuming that this is due to some anti-fail methods used to preserve the phones functions and whatever you may be working on , but i may be wrong). But besides that, i have had no real power issues...
jharag said:
My battery life has gone down since upgrade to "3VO Rom ver 2.50 080809"(But still I like this rom). It only lasts 18hrs without any extensive usage. I will suspect that its radio which is causing this drain.
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same thing here. i switched back to 2.0 and have been very happy with the battery life...
This has been a well documented issue with the 2.50 version of the ROM. Ookba is aware and has mentioned reverting to an older core but keeping the same UI tweaks and feel of 2.50. If the drain is that much of a concern try version 2.00, 071809. It supposedly has a 'hole' in it but I never noticed it. The icons are a little different and there aren't as many UI tweaks but I had GREAT battery life on it. But if you can deal with it for a while Ookba I am sure will have something for us to try when he gets done over on the Maple page. The Dash 3G needs 3VO too ya know. So its up to you. Try the other ROM that doesn't have as much eye candy but has better life until a new release, or deal with the battery drain like the rest of us and wait for a new release. I just close out my programs as much as I can. I have a 960 maH and I get about 24 hours with regular use. Up to you.
battery life is so good so far
the battery life was good and improved and the mobile changed totally as i feel i got new one thanks for 3vo rom
I have noticed that my battery is also going low very quickly after this rom upgrade. today I'v removed omap clock settings from startup and looking what will happen. I think the OMAP is eating more power from my battery. the battery is 960mah and lasted 3-4 days with previous NRG rom.
well i completely agree i am using same battery and it was draining very quickly so i switched back to kavana 6.1 and every thing was normal again
idinaxui said:
I have noticed that my battery is also going low very quickly after this rom upgrade. today I'v removed omap clock settings from startup and looking what will happen. I think the OMAP is eating more power from my battery. the battery is 960mah and lasted 3-4 days with previous NRG rom.
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I improved battery performance by using the OMAP Clock GUI and setting the low-end to 180 and the high-end to 252.
I agree, it must have something to do with the last version because the previous versions didn't drain so quickly...
I disabled omap and nothing significant happened, during the night in standby mode the battery was drained from 60% to 25%. now I disabled titanium panels and changed back to sliding panels. And there is IT! the battery life is much better, I think the "power eater" was titanium panel. You can give it try and post results.
remove check status mscr
its in the startup folder. helped me alot. before with my phone habits i would make it about 3hrs if that.
ookba posted this in his ROM thread.
idinaxui said:
I disabled omap and nothing significant happened, during the night in standby mode the battery was drained from 60% to 25%. now I disabled titanium panels and changed back to sliding panels. And there is IT! the battery life is much better, I think the "power eater" was titanium panel. You can give it try and post results.
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There's no way that's possible. If anything, HTC Sliding Panels will eat more battery than CHome because it's a loyout no longer native to the OS. checkstatus.mscr is the culprit. Almost positive.
I Do Completly Agree ...
Yes I feel the 3VO Rom Ver 2.50.080809.. makes the effect on the performance of the Battery Life, I would indeed like make a STRONG APPEAL on behalf of all the users of 3VO Rom Ver 2.50.080809, to MR. OOBKA that he should get us some way of it , because we love and admire his hard work a Lot.
Regards
Karan Adhikari
World War-III - No option but only WIN
Battery Patch
Guys, I built a patch file that makes a few changes in an attempt to help battery life. Please install it and reboot.
Also could be found on the second post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=224547&d=1252178358
well i'm 3 hours into testing the patch.. gonna see if i can beat my normal 24-36 hours limit. i'll let you know tomorrow if i see any improvement
for me its a big improvement almost half day since i last charge my dash and with normal used im on 93%, before it will eat up 20% just texting from time to time.
tomorow i'll post again, before i can used my dash with the newest rom for just 1 1/2 day or less.
*70% left for 24 hrs
im in the middle of figuring out something. Its highly unlikely this is ookba's problem but, i installed the patch and got great battery life for 2 days about 5 hours longer than normal. I fully recharged before i went to bed and woke up this morning with my battery at 38% thats a 62% lose in less than 8 hours... anyone have any ideas. I'm used to running 18-30 hours non stop on this battery
2.50 and 2.60 rom update
i keep getting an error on my phone from time to time
Tmobile Dash 3G Mapl100
error: Cannot find window "DesktopExplorerWindow"
ive done hard reset's and everything still comes up on both roms
Hello people, after having used my Touch pro 2's GPS function extensively one day on battery, I have realized that the battery's life has shortened by huge amounts of time. It lasts for less than 24 hours now, so I was wondering if I needed a new battery or is there something I can do to restore it back to the previous state. Thanks!
I don't think using the GPS should ruin your battery, just doesn't make sense! Are you sure you shut off the GPS after using it? Are you running any other programmes in the background? Did you flash a new ROM?
My battery started going down twice as fast after swapping to the new "official" Sense 2.5 ROM.
you can try a couple of things that may extend your battery life. try first turning off the auto speakerphone when the phone is face down. i just did this and i can tell a marked difference in just a couple of days. also search battery life reg edits. theres a ton out there here and on ppcgeeks that will definetly help. in general i noticed that when I use GPS the battery drain is pretty high. hope that helps
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Hello people, after having used my Touch pro 2's GPS function extensively one day on battery, I have realized that the battery's life has shortened by huge amounts of time. It lasts for less than 24 hours now, so I was wondering if I needed a new battery or is there something I can do to restore it back to the previous state. Thanks!
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Using the GPS all day will def drain your battery much faster, especially if you're using aGPS and/or an app that also downloads data to compliment the location info (like google maps). The GPS radio isn't 2-way like the phone or 3G or wifi, but it's still a radio and will give a noticible hit on your batt life when used even moderately, let alone all day.
If you're going to be using GPS a lot, you might want to try different radio roms to see if any of them make a difference in the batt life for you, but I don't know that will make as much of a difference as it does for the phone reception, etc. I would also suggest evaluating various GPS apps, with an eye on relative battery drain
Well guys, thanks for the answers, but that still doesn't solve my problem because I don't use the GPS function often at all, but the battery still drains quickly. Also, there are no programs running in the background. There is however a data connection that is always on and the mail checks for mail every hour. But the thing is I don't want to change any settings to enhance battery life, If it worked fine with the same settings before, why wont it do the same now? Do I need a new battery? Thanks!
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Well guys, thanks for the answers, but that still doesn't solve my problem because I don't use the GPS function often at all, but the battery still drains quickly. Also, there are no programs running in the background. There is however a data connection that is always on and the mail checks for mail every hour. But the thing is I don't want to change any settings to enhance battery life, If it worked fine with the same settings before, why wont it do the same now? Do I need a new battery? Thanks!
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Ahhh sorry, I misunderstood, I thought you were just saying it drains faster while you use the GPS like that, not since you used it...I get it now.
That one day of heavy use shouldn't have killed your battery, take a look at THIS thread, others with the same issue/question have posted different things that have worked for them...you might want to give the steps in post #31 a try before thinking about buying a new batt.
Dimitri Stephan said:
Well guys, thanks for the answers, but that still doesn't solve my problem because I don't use the GPS function often at all, but the battery still drains quickly. Also, there are no programs running in the background. There is however a data connection that is always on and the mail checks for mail every hour. But the thing is I don't want to change any settings to enhance battery life, If it worked fine with the same settings before, why wont it do the same now? Do I need a new battery? Thanks!
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You can install " battclock " and you can continuously see what the battery drain actually is during different functions.
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You can install " battclock " and you can continuously see what the battery drain actually is during different functions.
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Yes, great recommendation! (why didn't I think of that? lol)
And with battclock you can now see your CPU usage in real-time, which is probably one of the best coincidental indicators of battery drain (much more so than memory load, in my opinion)
Hi Dimitri,
I experienced the same problem where my battery life suddenly "shifted" from 48 hours to 12 hours on regular use..
I thought the problem was the battery and I replaced it, this did not help at all..
The only cause of this problem that I can think was loading the official HTC UK 6.5 ROM (1.86.401.0)..
hilt49 said:
Hi Dimitri,
I experienced the same problem where my battery life suddenly "shifted" from 48 hours to 12 hours on regular use..
I thought the problem was the battery and I replaced it, this did not help at all..
The only cause of this problem that I can think was loading the official HTC UK 6.5 ROM (1.86.401.0)..
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This is exactly what I am experiencing. (This together with not being able to connect the device to PC)
Installed several 6.5 ROMs and suddenly the battery lasts only half a night.
My question is: When the battery is full, when you turn the device off (completely off, not in standby mode!) does the battery drain then?
As far as I see, the battery has only 50% left after a night rest while it is off. So, the only way to keep the battery full is to remove it from the device.
What are your experiences with this?
Bright.Light said:
This is exactly what I am experiencing. (This together with not being able to connect the device to PC)
Installed several 6.5 ROMs and suddenly the battery lasts only half a night.
My question is: When the battery is full, when you turn the device off (completely off, not in standby mode!) does the battery drain then?
As far as I see, the battery has only 50% left after a night rest while it is off. So, the only way to keep the battery full is to remove it from the device.
What are your experiences with this?
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If you are truely turning it completely off, the battery should NOT drain at all. Have you tried a new battery? I bought a pair of batteries and an external charger on flEabay for like $12. The batteries are good as originals as far as I can tell.
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If you are truely turning it completely off, the battery should NOT drain at all. Have you tried a new battery? I bought a pair of batteries and an external charger on flEabay for like $12. The batteries are good as originals as far as I can tell.
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Yes, I have two batteries, even an external charger.
Even when a battery is charged with the external charger, then put in the phone it drains the battery
hey guys can anyone link any of the forum topics to tweak battery life? the only things I have done is the general setting on the phone and the power management options with advance config are there more options and tweaks available?
thanks for all help!
worwig said:
If you are truely turning it completely off, the battery should NOT drain at all. Have you tried a new battery? I bought a pair of batteries and an external charger on flEabay for like $12. The batteries are good as originals as far as I can tell.
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I will test this (again) tomorrow night.
Bright.Light said:
This is exactly what I am experiencing. (This together with not being able to connect the device to PC)
Installed several 6.5 ROMs and suddenly the battery lasts only half a night.
My question is: When the battery is full, when you turn the device off (completely off, not in standby mode!) does the battery drain then?
As far as I see, the battery has only 50% left after a night rest while it is off. So, the only way to keep the battery full is to remove it from the device.
What are your experiences with this?
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Bright light...I'm also having BOTH of those problems...stock ATT rom. Within the past week my battery life has dropped exponentially, and when I went to sync last night, had not done so in a week or so, I get nothing...none of my PC's will recognize the phone as even being plugged in, let alone sync. I'm thinking maybe an ATT botched update?
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Bright light...I'm also having BOTH of those problems...stock ATT rom. Within the past week my battery life has dropped exponentially, and when I went to sync last night, had not done so in a week or so, I get nothing...none of my PC's will recognize the phone as even being plugged in, let alone sync. I'm thinking maybe an ATT botched update?
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So it seems I'm not alone.
Mine is a universal one, no brand whatsoever. I will try to reflash the original (6.1) stock ROM, including radio.
Have you flashed yours already?
@Bright.light @VirtualHomer:
I have the crap battery + no activesync issue.
I'm on the Josh's Black 1.7 ROM. I tried hard reseting, reflashing, going back to the stock ROM, but no improvement.
I have heard that removing the battery overnight is a possible fix for the USB issue (maybe for both?), but I haven't tried yet, will try tonight.
If anyone out there has any potential soultions here... would be great. Right now, I only get 1/2 a day (~6 hours) out of the battery & no hotsync at all (other than BT).
One thing I am pretty sure of: The bad battery life and the activesync issue came up around the same time. Wierd.
Cheers
Fingaluna said:
@Bright.light @VirtualHomer:
I have the crap battery + no activesync issue.
I'm on the Josh's Black 1.7 ROM. I tried hard reseting, reflashing, going back to the stock ROM, but no improvement.
I have heard that removing the battery overnight is a possible fix for the USB issue (maybe for both?), but I haven't tried yet, will try tonight.
If anyone out there has any potential soultions here... would be great. Right now, I only get 1/2 a day (~6 hours) out of the battery & no hotsync at all (other than BT).
One thing I am pretty sure of: The bad battery life and the activesync issue came up around the same time. Wierd.
Cheers
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You are right in assuming that battery life and connectivity issues came at the same time.
I was assuming this was because of a (bad?) flash, or maybe a bad ROM which changed something in a position that should not be changed and which is not restored by flashing another ROM.
A night without battery won't help, I think, because my device has been numerous times without any power and without any battery. However, I will try it again.
Could this be a faulty device? Or a design error?
@Bright.Light
I confirm that a night without the battery solved nothing. I have had my phone on for 5 hours now, taken 5 calls, none of them too long, checked email every 10 minutes (automagically) and I am down to 27% battery.
Also, I confirm that a replacement battery solves nothing, as I have also tried this.
I am planning on returning my device to an ATT store next week for a replacement... We'll see how it goes.
Cheers,
Matt
I'm in the same boat with mine. About two weeks ago the battery just started draining fast. Fast enough that it wouldn't make it to 4-5 hours without being charged. You could watch the battery meter drain. And what was weird was that there was no ROM change or anything that started this. Came out of the blue. Calling Spring tomorrow and getting a replacement is the best solution I can think of.
A few months ago I had paranoid rom that was great on batt life. 3% loss from midnight till 6am.
I was blown away that I could use this phone so much and it hardly ever drain batt.
Kept telling me there was an update so I did and battery life went to hell...
Tried some others, Aokp and now liquid smooth. LOVE the Liquid smooth, but 25% over night is un-acceptable. this thing on the last few roms is constantly needing charged.
I tried restoring that one version of paranoid, but just wasnt the same.
so curious on suggestions on a better ROM or something.
There is no answer to this question. Different people have different preferences and experiences. If there was a ROM that was clearly better than the others, almost everyone would likely be running it.
Your best bet is to find out why your battery is draining. Use something like Better Battery Stats to figure out what apps may be draining your battery. Perhaps it is an app or two that is synchronizing a lot. Perhaps there are wakelocks.
Alternatively, it could also be hardware. Perhaps the battery is dying. Perhaps the USB port is having issues, and it wakes the device/screen up from time to time.
thanks cup... i just wiped and put that old one back on... will check it tonight. then ill put that better batts stats on.
ShannonPricePhoto said:
A few months ago I had paranoid rom that was great on batt life. 3% loss from midnight till 6am.
I was blown away that I could use this phone so much and it hardly ever drain batt.
Kept telling me there was an update so I did and battery life went to hell...
Tried some others, Aokp and now liquid smooth. LOVE the Liquid smooth, but 25% over night is un-acceptable. this thing on the last few roms is constantly needing charged.
I tried restoring that one version of paranoid, but just wasnt the same.
so curious on suggestions on a better ROM or something.
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You may want to start with trying a different kernel and see if that helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2115590
Greetings everyone!
I'm facing battery issues using Gimmeabreak 2.0.6, but (maybe) read somewhere that is a cyanogenmod related problem, but I still can't find a way to solve this problem.
I got huge battery drain by screen from (40% to 50%), with auto backlight, 1 min shut off.
Battery is 2 months new, cleaned cache and dalvik cache from recovery, recalibrated battery.
Is a rom related problem or a cyanogenmod problem and there a way to fix this?
Thanks!
GAB 1.1
antanigoni said:
Greetings everyone!
I'm facing battery issues using Gimmeabreak 2.0.6, but (maybe) read somewhere that is a cyanogenmod related problem, but I still can't find a way to solve this problem.
I got huge battery drain by screen from (40% to 50%), with auto backlight, 1 min shut off.
Battery is 2 months new, cleaned cache and dalvik cache from recovery, recalibrated battery.
Is a rom related problem or a cyanogenmod problem and there a way to fix this?
Thanks!
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Thats an awesome rom by an awesome developer.. If you concerned about battery use Gimmeabreak 1.1.. Best battery backup and most features as 2.0.6... Dirty flash over it...
Thanks, I'll try that later!
I think that for most ROMs, custom ones at least, the biggest battery drain is often from the display/screen. I'm currently using Jellytime 4.2.2 R11 and my battery drain from the screen is ~40% but I still get a decent 15-18 hours of usage daily before recharge. You could try saving battery life by disabling other features such as Google location reporting and turn auto syncs off your accounts
Hope my input could help :good:
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I think that for most ROMs, custom ones at least, the biggest battery drain is often from the display/screen. I'm currently using Jellytime 4.2.2 R11 and my battery drain from the screen is ~40% but I still get a decent 15-18 hours of usage daily before recharge. You could try saving battery life by disabling other features such as Google location reporting and turn auto syncs off your accounts
Hope my input could help :good:
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I have all disabled, and problem persists even with 1.1! Any other idea?
antanigoni said:
I have all disabled, and problem persists even with 1.1! Any other idea?
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The only other things I could think of would be to:
1) Wipe battery stats via recovery
2) Recalibrate the battery (but I see you've already done that)
3) Use the app BetterBatteryStats to find out what apps are keeping your phone "awake" cos it could most probably be just an app causing battery drain.
4) Worse-comes-to-worst, buy a new battery?!
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The only other things I could think of would be to:
1) Wipe battery stats via recovery
2) Recalibrate the battery (but I see you've already done that)
3) Use the app BetterBatteryStats to find out what apps are keeping your phone "awake" cos it could most probably be just an app causing battery drain.
4) Worse-comes-to-worst, buy a new battery?!
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eheh! Done everything, used another battery, still no solution!
I think I'll wait for a stable kit-kat rom!
Same case here
I have the same battery drainage issue. The battery drains from 80-70 or 50-40 in matter of mins or sometimes seconds when the screen is on. I guess its something to do with the CM ROM. I also use Greenify and i've hibernated most of the apps that relies on GCM.
Any good battery saving kernel's for CM10.1?
Wipe battery stats via recovery seems to help a little
It seems like a normal drain, I have the same drain for screen, is pretty big for the battery...
antanigoni said:
Greetings everyone!
I'm facing battery issues using Gimmeabreak 2.0.6, but (maybe) read somewhere that is a cyanogenmod related problem, but I still can't find a way to solve this problem.
I got huge battery drain by screen from (40% to 50%), with auto backlight, 1 min shut off.
Battery is 2 months new, cleaned cache and dalvik cache from recovery, recalibrated battery.
Is a rom related problem or a cyanogenmod problem and there a way to fix this?
Thanks!
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My battery is 2 year old, normally the screen uses about 50% to 60% with also auto and 1 min. I think your battery drain is not very normal.
huanggun122 said:
My battery is 2 year old, normally the screen uses about 50% to 60% with also auto and 1 min. I think your battery drain is not very normal.
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I think you should consider replacing the battery after 2 yrs. It.s cheap, at least on ebay, you can buy one of 2-3000mah. I did so and the problems stopped, but I didn't had such a battery drain. Try a different rom, I.m on JellyTime R10, and I find it most stable and no battery drain.
SirXro said:
I think you should consider replacing the battery after 2 yrs. It.s cheap, at least on ebay, you can buy one of 2-3000mah. I did so and the problems stopped, but I didn't had such a battery drain. Try a different rom, I.m on JellyTime R10, and I find it most stable and no battery drain.
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Normally the battery can hang on about 1 day for a regular use, and I have 3 backups, after this one dead I will use another one. After randomblame release the stable 4.4 I will try. Maybe it's a cure for all problems, haha
Cheers
SirXro said:
I think you should consider replacing the battery after 2 yrs. It.s cheap, at least on ebay, you can buy one of 2-3000mah. I did so and the problems stopped, but I didn't had such a battery drain. Try a different rom, I.m on JellyTime R10, and I find it most stable and no battery drain.
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Don't know, seems to affect every rom I try... On slimbean 4.3.1 the screen drain the 80%
antanigoni said:
Don't know, seems to affect every rom I try... On slimbean 4.3.1 the screen drain the 80%
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Seems you need a new battery too
I'm thinking if it's not because of the battery life or the ROM, maybe it's some apps are using too much resource. I've tracked my CPU usage, one weather app was always using about 20% CPU.
huanggun122 said:
Normally the battery can hang on about 1 day for a regular use, and I have 3 backups, after this one dead I will use another one. After randomblame release the stable 4.4 I will try. Maybe it's a cure for all problems, haha
Cheers
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Sorry to bother you, bit which brand and model of batteries do you buy and use?
I already searched many and many opinions, reviews, etc...
And all say the best ones are OEM, Mugen and Anker.
I really want the brand with the best battery life 100% to 0% , bit also the best life and reability to end of life (years) based onde old users that buyed.
And best quality too, this is with temperature sensor and protection overcharche, trust legit laws, that things =D
Which are your recomendations guys/girls?
Thanjs so much
PS: sorry errors of keyboard correction prediction, and english not my native language. Lol.
MacPryden said:
Sorry to bother you, bit which brand and model of batteries do you buy and use?
I already searched many and many opinions, reviews, etc...
And all say the best ones are OEM, Mugen and Anker.
I really want the brand with the best battery life 100% to 0% , bit also the best life and reability to end of life (years) based onde old users that buyed.
And best quality too, this is with temperature sensor and protection overcharche, trust legit laws, that things =D
Which are your recomendations guys/girls?
Thanjs so much
PS: sorry errors of keyboard correction prediction, and english not my native language. Lol.
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It was just some batterys without a brand, haha. I think it's not gona be a big problem if we use a third party brand, just don't use too cheap one I think. I'm using it even with CPU overclock to 1.5GHz.
One of the great things about the mate is the great battery life.
Or used to be, as mine seems to be going down the drain.
I'm running CM 10.1 by joe stone, and have enjoyed using it as my daily driver. But I thought that battery life was getting worse lately.
Well, today it has shown a horrible performance:
From fully charged to 13% in 9 and a half hours, with according to stats, 75% used for Android-system.
Can an android system get "dirty" over time or "clogged up" and is this a software thing, or is my battery dying?
Can you recommend any tests I can do?
Guess youve tried another charger/chargercable?
Actually, no I have not, did not know that can make a difference. So thanks, I'll see where that takes me.
I use the original charger with a long after market cable.