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[Q] Battery Life after Blu Kuban

Hey all,
I recently put Blu Kuban on my phone and I'm loving the look and feel, but I'm having REALLY bad battery life. I couldn't get through the day with only a little use. I download the battery calibration app and tried that. Its also been about 4 days since I flashed the new ROM. Anymore suggestions? I bought an extended battery at 3800 mAh and I'm getting less than a day with the new ROM. Before the update I was getting at least a day and a half with MUCH more usage.
So long story short, BAD battery life. Any suggestions? If I cant get this figured out, I'm going to have to go back to stock.
Thanks in advance.

http://e4gtcm.blogspot.com/p/customization-guide.html?m=1
Read power saving options. There are tons of battery life guides.
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Hi. I've noticed you posted two separate threads relating to RUJELUS' Blu Kuban ROM. I would suggest you ask in his thread if you haven't already due to the fact that he may offer more assistance.
However, there are many different battery solutions. The problem is, if you were previously running Stock Gingerbread, you must get used to the fact that until Kernel source drops, battery life will not be as good on ICS as it is on GB.
To address your ICS battery problems, I suggest you turn here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668853
Also, if possible, it would be nice to see your battery stats. Take screenshots and post them up here.

I would definitely post in the thread if xda would let me. I tried because I had that thought originally and because I don't have 10 posts yet it wouldn't let me post in the thread. I will post battery pictures tomorrow but its pretty much saying like 36% android OS, 20% display at one hour of use.
Thanks for the help so far guys. I checked out the first link and changed a few things. Hopefully it helps.

Still rocking Gingerbread ;p

How old is your battery?
How old is your phone?
How much do you have running in the background?
Do you keep WiFi on at all times (so that it might be searching for signals constantly)?
Use the apps listed above to try and get an idea of what could be causing the drain.
Hopefully it will improve so you can fully enjoy the ROM.

Esoteric68 said:
How old is your battery?
How old is your phone?
How much do you have running in the background?
Do you keep WiFi on at all times (so that it might be searching for signals constantly)?
Use the apps listed above to try and get an idea of what could be causing the drain.
Hopefully it will improve so you can fully enjoy the ROM.
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My phone was purchased in October. My battery is about 2 weeks old. I don't believe i have anything but gmail sync in the background. However, I'm not used to all apps I used staying open after I use them so I've been kinda bad about closing them. Is there something I can change so this goes back to closing most things after I press the back button. I do not keep WiFi on.
My extended battery got about 18 hours and was at 15%. I slept for 11 hours last night with nothing on. I used facebook for 15 minutes, just responding to a post and scrolling through messages and battery dropped at least 10% if not more. Granted, I was trying to download the update but doing that for 10 minutes dropped my battery over 20%. I'm very concerned.

i get good battery life im using trexcell extended battery and you realling expecting to last a whole day in one charge hell no no way unless you dont use your phone

mrej201 said:
i get good battery life im using trexcell extended battery and you realling expecting to last a whole day in one charge hell no no way unless you dont use your phone
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I essentially didn't use my phone for half the day. I can't expect with a battery double the size to get 12 hours of light use?

are you on the latest build? Im on 1.0.4.1 and my battery is pretty solid, Id say give it a few days. are trying different modems?

I experienced the exact same thing on that rom. It is definitely one of my favorite roms but I would get half the life that I would on the others I tried.
Were you having issues with battery at all before you flashed the Blu Kuban?
I'm running Blazer ICS now and getting almost as good of battery life as I had on Gingerbread.

So here is my screenshot. In next post ill type how long each process was running.

lovetosing4678 said:
So here is my screenshot. In next post ill type how long each process was running.
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So 3 hours and 46 minutes. Less than 50%.
Android OS CPU total: 20m 36s.
Stay Awake: 1 hr 8m 34s
Screen: 34 minutes 17 seconds (last 10 minutes or so has been trying to get this post up)
Facebook: CPU Total: 10m 25s
Stay Awake: 2m 34s
GPS: 3 seconds (turned off immediately after realizing it did that)
Android System: 7m 10 s. CPU foreground: 8 seconds. Stay Awake: 4m 27s
Cell Standby: Time without signal 4%
I figure thats enough but if not let me know. I just updated to the new version so I guess I'll have to give it another few days, however this was typical of the last version. Please help, I really like Blu Kuban.

lovetosing4678 said:
So 3 hours and 46 minutes. Less than 50%.
Android OS CPU total: 20m 36s.
Stay Awake: 1 hr 8m 34s
Screen: 34 minutes 17 seconds (last 10 minutes or so has been trying to get this post up)
Facebook: CPU Total: 10m 25s
Stay Awake: 2m 34s
GPS: 3 seconds (turned off immediately after realizing it did that)
Android System: 7m 10 s. CPU foreground: 8 seconds. Stay Awake: 4m 27s
Cell Standby: Time without signal 4%
I figure thats enough but if not let me know. I just updated to the new version so I guess I'll have to give it another few days, however this was typical of the last version. Please help, I really like Blu Kuban.
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1. You're addicted to Facebook lol
2. Your signal seems very low...could be your phone is running up its battery trying to get signal
3. What are your wifi settings? Use one band only and leave sleep mode "always"
4. What is the brightness on your screen? Set it lower and unselect auto adjust
5. Sync can kill your battery, either remove some things from sync (like Facebook) or remove them all and only sync manually
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lovetosing4678 said:
My phone was purchased in October. My battery is about 2 weeks old. I don't believe i have anything but gmail sync in the background. However, I'm not used to all apps I used staying open after I use them so I've been kinda bad about closing them. Is there something I can change so this goes back to closing most things after I press the back button. I do not keep WiFi on.
My extended battery got about 18 hours and was at 15%. I slept for 11 hours last night with nothing on. I used facebook for 15 minutes, just responding to a post and scrolling through messages and battery dropped at least 10% if not more. Granted, I was trying to download the update but doing that for 10 minutes dropped my battery over 20%. I'm very concerned.
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Wow, that is incredible!
You slept 11 hours? I have not gotten that much sleep in years!
In all seriousness, I have recently gone back to Blu Kuban and the battery life will get better after at least two full charge cycles. I am currently at 9 hours and 75% remaining. I am in a low signal area and keep data off and use wifif when available. I do use Juice Defender to automatically turn wifi off when the screen is off, so when I am not using my phone, I can still receive calls and SMS.

My battery life on Blu Kuban is really good... been getting like 25-30 hours for the past couple of days. One thing that you can do to maximize battery life is turn off haptic feedback and also turn off pulse notifications. Pulse keeps your phone from entering Deep Sleep and haptic feedback also uses a lot of unnecessary battery.

I found out what my problem was. My extended battery has gone to ****. I took my extended battery out yesterday and put in my standard battery and it is running better than the extended battery. What is crazy is that I replaced my stock battery because it was running poorly and not getting good life. Therefore my 3600mAh battery is running worse than a BAD 1800mAh battery.
Tips though to improve battery life that I found:
Download CPU Spy
Download GSam Battery Monitor (Previously known as Badass Battery Monitor)
- Use this to see what is using your battery up.
Turn off any data syncing you don't need
Turn down screen brightness to an acceptable level
Make sure you close the facebook app because its a crazy battery drain
Give your battery a few days on a new rom to even out
This is what I can think of right now.
Good Luck all!

Increase battery life

Since I bought a G3 I was suffering with the battery life. After a couple of days looking what was happening and found some wakelocks.
To resolve I've downloaded the Xposed module Unbouce (http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-nlpunbounce-reduce-nlp-wakelocks-t2853874) and add some wakelocks and alarms to unbouce every 480.
Wakelocks:
LocationManagerService
DataTracker-FD
Alarms:
com.android.internal.telephony.ACTION_CHECK_NETSTAT
Ps: In the images you can see others wakelocks also.
I used to have 8 hr of battery, now I can make easy 16 hr. I hope this can help others.

drmspidi said:
Since I bought a G3 I was suffering with the battery life. After a couple of days looking what was happening and found some wakelocks.
To resolve I've downloaded the Xposed module Unbouce (http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-nlpunbounce-reduce-nlp-wakelocks-t2853874) and add some wakelocks and alarms to unbouce every 480.
Wakelocks:
LocationManagerService
DataTracker-FD
Alarms:
com.android.internal.telephony.ACTION_CHECK_NETSTAT
Ps: In the images you can see others wakelocks also.
I used to have 8 hr of battery, now I can make easy 16 hr. I hope this can help others.
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Interesting. I too am having poor battery life. What effect does the above have on the stability of the system?

shaxs said:
Interesting. I too am having poor battery life. What effect does the above have on the stability of the system?
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So far dind't noticed any difference.

Hi can you post steps by steps on what you did to get more and better battery life. and is that 18hours of mild or heavy usage?

Oneplus 3 battery depleting very fast...

I got my OP3 on 17th June....since then I can see that my battery draining very fast.... Its like draining 15% overnight (within 8-9 hours) there's nothing running in background except facebook, truecaller ... I tried factory reset twice but same problem.... also playing high end games like asphalt 8 will run down battery from 100 to 10% within an hour, with device getting too hot ...
Is it the fault in my OP3, or it is normal?
Should I replace my device.... I still can return my device to amazon (before 27th June).... Plz suggest guys...

anupam_luv said:
I got my OP3 on 17th June....since then I can see that my battery draining very fast.... Its like draining 15% overnight (within 8-9 hours) there's nothing running in background except facebook, truecaller ... I tried factory reset twice but same problem.... also playing high end games like asphalt 8 will run down battery from 100 to 10% within an hour, with device getting too hot ...
Is it the fault in my OP3, or it is normal?
Should I replace my device.... I still can return my device to amazon (before 27th June).... Plz suggest guys...
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I don't think it's Normal. In the initial 1-2 days it can behave weirdly and disappointing but post that things should come to order. But your situation sounds chaotic my friend. Try some app which can give battery stats so that you will know for sure whether it's some software setting messing up or hardware problem.

r u rooted, if so u can download wakelock detector b/c something is running in the background, i only drop about 4% or 5% in an 8hr period, or what shows that is being used the most on settings>battery, i don't think it may be a defect i think its something that could have been installed that is causing ur device not to sleep properly

Bradl79 said:
r u rooted, if so u can download wakelock detector b/c something is running in the background, i only drop about 4% or 5% in an 8hr period, or what shows that is being used the most on settings>battery, i don't think it may be a defect i think its something that could have been installed that is causing ur device not to sleep properly
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Hey...im faceing same issue and also im rooted plese give me some suggestions..

I'm going through the same problem. If you check the battery stats, you'll notice that Android System is continuously working the cpu. This, in turn, is causing the battery to drain quick. I tried turning off every setting, turning off sync, even disabling apps like Hangouts and Photos but nothing worked. Even after 2-3 charge cycles, it was the same. Standby time was good but the moment I picked it up to use it, the drain kicked in.
I have already requested a replacement. My return pickup is scheduled for today but the replacement won't be shipping until after 27th June when the phone will be back in stock.

My battery life been good so far, some LTE and mostly WiFi, browsing and played some dokkan.

Apologies for double post, thought this would also help provide more info, I do have greenify and amplify, xposed installed.

Can somebody analyse my OP3 Battery stats and tell me whther I should go for replacement OR is it normal??? (Pics attached)
Is there any tool/app to test battery performance.....?

tofuboi01 said:
Apologies for double post, thought this would also help provide more info, I do have greenify and amplify, xposed installed.
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Hey . Will you please tell me how to configure greenify and amplify..to get more out of each single charge
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gourang said:
Hey . Will you please tell me how to configure greenify and amplify..to get more out of each single charge
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For greenify, i used xposed and paid donation for pro features.
Greenify + Xposed: Select any apps you want hibernated and enable the following:
Wakeup timer coalescing, telephony wakeup, dont remove notifications, GCM push for greenified apps.
Amplify: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884
Follow this guide, only select ones you want though as some could break push notifications and location service.
Hope this helps!
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anupam_luv said:
Can somebody analyse my OP3 Battery stats and tell me whther I should go for replacement OR is it normal??? (Pics attached)
Is there any tool/app to test battery performance.....?
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I think your battery life is good in my opinion, seeing as over a 24 hour period you have had just over 2 hrs SoT and still over 20% battery life.

anupam_luv said:
Can somebody analyse my OP3 Battery stats and tell me whther I should go for replacement OR is it normal??? (Pics attached)
Is there any tool/app to test battery performance.....?
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From screenshot, it seems that you have around 25-30% battery left with around 2.5h of SOT and device was up for almost 18h without charge. That's decent in my opinion. By the time it reaches 1-2% you would have gained 1 more hour of sot. Also usage of apps matter from one person to another.

At 22% I started played a 3d cricket game... after about 20-25 min of play ... the battery is down to 13% ... Is it normal ?

anupam_luv said:
At 22% I started played a 3d cricket game... after about 20-25 min of play ... the battery is down to 13% ... Is it normal ?
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That's 9% or around 22% per hour. Seems pretty normal.

Disable bluethoot and wifi scanning in location settings.

Huge decline in standby time.

For the last 2 days I've been seeing a huge decline in standby time. Last night I went to bed at 100%. A little more than 6 hours later and I was down to 88%
The battery settings shows no apps using battery and the full device usage only shows Android System, Phone Idle, Android OS and Mobile network standby.
GSam shows 70% of battery for app usage but won't say which apps and as already mentioned the battery settings shows no apps using battery.
I also haven't installed any new apps in the last two days either. I even rebooted my phone last night right before I unplugged it when I went to bed.
I usually lost like 2% over 7-8 hours of standby. Now I'm losing like 12% in just over 6 hours of standby.
That's a standby power usage increase of like 6x for what seems like no reason.
Any ideas of what could be going on?

jimv1983 said:
For the last 2 days I've been seeing a huge decline in standby time. Last night I went to bed at 100%. A little more than 6 hours later and I was down to 88%....Any ideas of what could be going on?
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1%/hr is common and yours is 2%/hr. (2x) Repeat in safe mode to rule out one of your user apps.

v12xke said:
1%/hr is common and yours is 2%/hr. (2x) Repeat in safe mode to rule out one of your user apps.
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In my experience 1%/hr while in standby not being touched at all(doze) is NOT common. It's usually like 0.333% for me. Your claim of 1%/hr would result in an 8% drain in 8 hours. I usually see 2-3% over 8 hours.
I will try to remember to use safe mode when I go to sleep tonight but since I haven't installed any new apps in the last several days and the battery stats don't mention any apps using a lot of battery I don't expect much difference.

jimv1983 said:
In my experience 1%/hr while in standby not being touched at all(doze) is NOT common. It's usually like 0.333% for me. Your claim of 1%/hr would result in an 8% drain in 8 hours. I usually see 2-3% over 8 hours.
I will try to remember to use safe mode when I go to sleep tonight but since I haven't installed any new apps in the last several days and the battery stats don't mention any apps using a lot of battery I don't expect much difference.
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Is it after the January update? Maybe clear cache of play services and google services framework?

pipnmike said:
Is it after the January update? Maybe clear cache of play services and google services framework?
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I had like 2 or 3 normal days after the January update so I don't think that's the issue but I will try that. Thanks for the suggestion.

I had a similar issue, lost 30% overnight
I disabled background data in Facebook and that helped loads.

retsilred said:
I had a similar issue, lost 30% overnight
I disabled background data in Facebook and that helped loads.
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FB app is the devil!
When on the 6P I was losing a ton of batt life after installing the FB app.
I uninstalled it and used a bookmark on my home screen to access FB via browser, and my batt life immediately jumped back to where it was.
FaceBook app or 25% less batt life? See ya FB!
As far as the OP question: I'd suspect something is going on in the background as I have two apps that are recognized as using battery in the background and I only lose 3-5% overnight.
Could you have changed a setting and forgotten about it (GPS, WiFi scanning, sync, etc,) or is it possible your service/signal has been really poor the last few days?
Good luck figuring it out!

Az Biker said:
FB app is the devil!
When on the 6P I was losing a ton of batt life after installing the FB app.
I uninstalled it and used a bookmark on my home screen to access FB via browser, and my batt life immediately jumped back to where it was.
FaceBook app or 25% less batt life? See ya FB!
As far as the OP question: I'd suspect something is going on in the background as I have two apps that are recognized as using battery in the background and I only lose 3-5% overnight.
Could you have changed a setting and forgotten about it (GPS, WiFi scanning, sync, etc,) or is it possible your service/signal has been really poor the last few days?
Good luck figuring it out!
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so what apps besides FB are known for being battery drains? i get really good battery life as is but I'm definitely not against getting even better battery life

razgriz1234 said:
so what apps besides FB are known for being battery drains? i get really good battery life as is but I'm definitely not against getting even better battery life
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FB was the one that really stood out as a huge batt life killer. Any app that's constantly checking for and sending notifications will likely put a good dent in your batt life as well.
Sorry I couldn't be more specific.

razgriz1234 said:
so what apps besides FB are known for being battery drains? i get really good battery life as is but I'm definitely not against getting even better battery life
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snapchat is another common one
there are also a decent bit of ram/storage "cleaner" apps that besides being useless drain your battery

Do you have an exchange account syncing with Gmail?

Battery life debugging/drain

Hi all,
i recently installed the lineage 17 for my device.
And i have to say i am super happy.
After some investigations i found that AOD is not the best for battery life.
And now i am trying to find another issue. Hopefully i can get some hints here.
so for the timeline in the attached images...
at like 7 am i turned off AOD.
i did those screenshots at like 9 am.
- the device went down to like ~0.5% per hour. (betterbatterystats and battery history)
- and some (10 per hour) wakeups.
at like 12 am i did some more screenshots.
so it looks like 9:30 ish sth. started to use my phone again. not bad but just more.
it seems like this is:
com.android.systemui with ~60 wakeups per hour (1 per minute)
if i look at the battery historian screenshot the current is 16mA vs 60 mA. And you can see that in both cases the screen is off. (created with "bugreportz" on a root terminal and uploaded to https://bathist.ef.lc/ )
I just dont know what is causing this.
(assuming that the battery health did not change in that time)
does anyone have an idea?
maybe this is not phone related, so might be good to put it to a more general forum.

Hi,
i am not sure why but i guess my battery life is now way better.
3 Days without charging. and (as far as i can tell) the same usage as regular.
well only on wifi, not longer than an hour on mobile data.
but i love it