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Hi guys. I'm new to the Android modding scene and I just installed my first ROM yesterday. Now my Droid Incredible is currently running MIUI 1.9.9 with the latest Incredikernel, undervolted by about 100 units.
When the phone is in sleep, the battery is no problem. Over the course of 1.5 hours I lost 2% of battery. However, I sat down and opened up browser (on 3G Data) to read a couple of articles, and in the course of 3-4 minutes, my battery went from 77% to 72%.
I don't know if this is normal, this is the first time using a text-based battery readout instead of a graphical, so maybe I never noticed it before...but I can't help but find this to be unusual. Are there any ways to fix this? Should I undervolt more? Switch to a different kernal? Flash my radio (I'm at Stock Froyo)?
I've looked around and can't find much on the issue (1.9.9 is new, I figure that is part of it), but perhaps you guys have some ideas for fixes?
EDIT: Upon closer look, it's only happening when using 3G Data, using wifi for the same thing and my battery has stayed at 71 for 10 minutes of browsing now. Also Camera drained 3% really quickly...but that was trying to use burst mode for 20 seconds, so I'm sure that was why, but just adding it as a note.
Battery Drains like HELL!!!
amuench said:
Hi guys. I'm new to the Android modding scene and I just installed my first ROM yesterday. Now my Droid Incredible is currently running MIUI 1.9.9 with the latest Incredikernel, undervolted by about 100 units.
When the phone is in sleep, the battery is no problem. Over the course of 1.5 hours I lost 2% of battery. However, I sat down and opened up browser (on 3G Data) to read a couple of articles, and in the course of 3-4 minutes, my battery went from 77% to 72%.
I don't know if this is normal, this is the first time using a text-based battery readout instead of a graphical, so maybe I never noticed it before...but I can't help but find this to be unusual. Are there any ways to fix this? Should I undervolt more? Switch to a different kernal? Flash my radio (I'm at Stock Froyo)?
I've looked around and can't find much on the issue (1.9.9 is new, I figure that is part of it), but perhaps you guys have some ideas for fixes?
EDIT: Upon closer look, it's only happening when using 3G Data, using wifi for the same thing and my battery has stayed at 71 for 10 minutes of browsing now. Also Camera drained 3% really quickly...but that was trying to use burst mode for 20 seconds, so I'm sure that was why, but just adding it as a note.
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You are doing much better. I recently flashed 1.9.9 and initially it was choppy and lagged a lot. Then someone recommended Fugumod kernel. Although, it appeared as if the lags were removed, the display became dull and yellowish. I installed Voodoo color app to fix this issue to some extent but it was of no use..
This is just the beginning... I caliberated the battery yesterday and used it until 89% before I went to sleep.. Today morning, the battery had come down to 59% for no apparent reason. I searched the 'Battery monitor' for some information about this and found none of the services/apps were used for more than 15 minutes and yet the battery had drained the hell out.. The 'display' was at 60% and its duration was the max(~4 hours) and around 4mA of current..
To make matters worse, I rebooted the phone and the charge fell from 59% to 8%... just for a REBOOT!!! and Fugumod kernel doesn't allow me to charge with the phone switched off... This is annoying too.
I am severely disappointed I've never encountered such a disaster before.. There is absolutely no evidence as to what caused this battery drain.
Is there a solution for this? .. I'm charging my phone so that I can flash back to 1.9.2 and the stock kernel..
Any sort of help would be appreciated.. Thanks
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
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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.
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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!
Mine has. Sure I have a custom Rom (wanam )but I've gone from averaging 12hours first month to about 8-9 now.
How bout you all?
You've probably installed something that's chewing battery up
Yep I still get 19 hours with 6 screen on time
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I don't get 6 hours of screen time, but I do always get between 4-5 (since day 1) and that's with all the IM apps I have (everything I do is over the radio).
I did notice that the first day I didn't have anything installed I was going to get crazy hours! Because everything I did was in the menu, play around with options, etc etc.
But after installing ALL my apps, my battery life has settled down on with WIFI & 3G on most of the day, and tons of instant messaging over various apps between 4-5 hours of screen time average.
It depends on your apps and what's going on with your phone. Your phone should get about 500 charges before getting to 80% charge capacity. The phone hasn't been out that long to get to 90%!
I'd suggest looking at your apps (not the battery consumption list, because it could be a combo of TONS of apps that do very little and don't show up on your battery list).
Download "Carat" from the play store, run it and give it a few hours to a day. It'll tell you exactly what's going on.
Greetings,
Mine got better after updated to official 4.1.2 ( Poland version ).
I am very satisfied with battery life .
Vatis
If anything mine has gotten better as I've weeded out the apps that were keeping it awake. Easily going from 6 am to 10 pm, 5+ hours of screen time, and still have 30-40% battery left.
i got 23h total on with almost 9 hours screen on, this was on heavy usage although with powersaver on, lowest brightness and most of my work involved the screen being aorund 60% black so it helped a lot
Hey guys,
after dropping my beloved Nexus 4 to the concrete floor in May, I bought a new S4 mini in the electronic market because of it's decent size and all the fuzz about having a very good price-performance-ratio.
After a few weeks I already was fairly disappointed.
On an average work day (without WiFi) and little use (~30min OSD) the battery wouldn't last a full day. I tried the usual things like turning off GPS, bluetooth and using Wifi whenever possible (turning it off, when not in range), etc. I also used the App greenify which boosted my deepsleep in Wakelock Detector to stable 85+%.
When using GMaps/navigation my phone is getting hot (~50°C) and battery is drained within minutes. When trying to navigate out of the city (<15min navigation) one day my phone was discharged within 3 hours after a full charge. I got Wakelock Detector, Better Battery Stats and Battery Monitor Widget installed.
The only thing I found out, that when I am connected to Wifi the drain is a lot lower 1-2%/hour compared to when I am using 3G/H+ which results in 7-15%/hour (both when not using the phone), although there is no problem with signal quality. Recently my phone started to bottoming out rly hard when hitting the 20% mark. From there I can watch the battery dropping to 0% within a few minutes.
Things I tried so far:
- turning off features that are not in use (GPS, bluetooth, Wifi when not in range)
- make sure phone gets into deep sleep/greenify apps
- recalibrate akku
- reduce brightness & disable auto-brightness
Setup:
GT-I9195 bought in May 2015 from electronic market chain
CM 12.1 (Android 5.1.1, serranoltexx)
Standard CM Kernel
Baseband I9195XXUBML4
I can provide Screenshots from BMW, WD and BBS. Any ideas how to solve this or what else I could do?
Probably you should use something like better battery stats, to check
- if a service is going mad, then turn it off with disable service to test (most times happens with unclean flash)
- if you have an app with wakelocks
If you can't find anything that way, might be a hardware fault.
Personally if I came across this problem I would return the phone to stock Android and do some tests, see if the same happens again. CM12.1 can have issues across different same model phones. Try the Samsung Phone Info app to see how old your phone is. I'm guessing it was second hand? Some older revisions of the Mini had battery problems. Maybe a new battery is needed? Maybe.. As for the battery draining 20%-0% in minutes I have also suffered this on a brand new March 2015 device. Not all the time though it only happens with randomly once a week. But I put that down to the battery not been fully calibrated and then drained and recharged over the next 3 4 days, as I use a spare battery and swap out the batteries regularly which means my battery is very rarely calibrated.
All that said though I can easily get through an entire day if not 2. And using stock I'm able to get 4 and a half hours on average every time, maybe 4 hours of screen on time when using 3G a lot and GPS etc.
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Hey guys,
When using GMaps/navigation my phone is getting hot (~50°C) and battery is drained within minutes. When trying to navigate out of the city (<15min navigation) one day my phone was discharged within 3 hours after a full charge. I got Wakelock Detector, Better Battery Stats and Battery Monitor Widget installed.
The only thing I found out, that when I am connected to Wifi the drain is a lot lower 1-2%/hour compared to when I am using 3G/H+ which results in 7-15%/hour (both when not using the phone), although there is no problem with signal quality. Recently my phone started to bottoming out rly hard when hitting the 20% mark. From there I can watch the battery dropping to 0% within a few minutes.
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I have had the same problem as you.
I return twice my phone to vendor. But they could do anything.
I solved it with undervolting and underclocking my phone (only the low frequency).
I read from someone, you can undervolting 150 millivolt.
My experience, is undervolting 125 milivolt. and underclocking the low frequency at the minimum.
You didn't feel any difference, behalves that the phone is cooler and battery live is better.
My WiFi and Bluetooth are always on. I don't have to recharge my phone during the day.
It is so effective en transparent that I don't understand why Samsung didn't do it natively.
Hey,
I tried to apply some of your advice and flashed the newest stock rom for S4 Mini (Kitkat ...COE4).
In that process I recognized that the Baseband is not updated by CM and that the one that was installed when I bought it was fairly old (from 2013). Do you think that this might be part of the problem? (I sort of hate the Samsung Rom)
This week when working and not having Wifi all day, I managed to get 2h of SOT and still had around 25% left which I couldnt have gotten before imo. I only lose 1-4% per hour when the phone is not used. But still thats not pretty good, when ur saying you can get 4h with GPS and everything. I also didnt use GPS. And today when I restarted my phone it just went from 40-ish % to 15% without any reason. Any more ideas?
I installed BetterBatteryStats today and will try to give some more insight the next days. Wakelock detector said that I had 85% deep sleep (timeframe 1 day 2 hours).
Try the Samsung Phone Info app to see how old your phone is. I'm guessing it was second hand? Some older revisions of the Mini had battery problems. Maybe a new battery is needed?
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No I bought it new from a electronic store (Media Markt). The app says that is was made on Oct 19th 2014 in Vietnam and that it is original/not refurbished.
How much do you gain by undervolting (SOT or % per hour when idle)?
How do you do it?
maybe the best way is to downgrade by flashing CM11 for example ...
(another way with stock + Alexax kernel + own debloat&freeze ... )
I have the same consumption problem with Resurection Remix LP too ..... very strange !
Lollipop is supposed to be less angry than Android 4.X.X ... but it seem have problem somewhere for our S4-mini sources maybe ,i don't know ...
This night I did some BBS tests:
Setup:
Stock Rom I previously installed (see posts above)
charged phone during evening
set up custom timepoint before I went to sleep
WLAN disabled
all apps greenyfied except those I deemed significant that they keep running (Whatsapp, calendar, Swiftkey, BBS, BMW, etc). Forgot newly installed app hoomn.
I had to upload the logfile to pastebin because it was too long for the xda forum: pastebin.ca/3256568 (I am not allowed to post URLs, sorry)
I lost 14% of battery during 9hrs (-1,6%/h). That's probably not too bad?
93% deep sleep, 33min awake time
Weird things I discovered/things I did not understand:
- negative Voltage loss?
- Wifi runtime 100% although I disabled it
- dominant wakelocks (count > 100, all of them < 30s): Alarm Manager, RILJ1, *net_scheduler*, GCM_CONN, ContextManagerWakeLock, Event Log Service, AlarmManager (com.sec.spp.push.Samsung Push Service), SyncLoopWakeLock, GCM_HB_ALARM
- dominant KWLs (count > 100): ril-fd (25min), bam_dmux_wakelock (13min), radio-interface (7min), PowerManagerService.WakeLocks (3min), mmc1_detect (1min), alarm_rtc, alarm, sec-charger-monitor, smdcntl0, pm8921_soc_lock, power-supply, KeyEvents, smsm_snapshot, qmuxd_port_wl_0, qmuxd_port_wl_1, smdcntl1, mmc0_detect
- Alarms (>20): ccc71.bmw (Battery Monitor Widget), android, com.google.android.gms, com.sec.spp.push
any ideas/assessments?
What kind of battery life is everyone getting now that they've had the phone for a while? I'm down to having to charge the phone twice a day, with less than 2 hours of screen time usually. I'm at 8 hours total, 1 hrs 50 minutes screen time, and down to 25% as I write this. I feel like I got more than twice that when I got this phone 4 months ago. Latest update to MM hasn't made any difference besides it blaming all battery life on screen instead of android system. Total time is almost identical though.
After upgrade to MM my battery is the worst it has ever been. Down to 10% in 10hr with 1hr screen time , this is sick.
Really mine gives me a whole day with heavy use
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Two days for me, on a single full charge. Loving MM.
I just did another factory reset. Going to test it today, but the battery life combined with WiFi issues may just make me do an early upgrade to the 7. I couldn't get two days on this phone even if the screen never came on.
What the hell are u guys running in the background, sheesh. Less than 2hrs SOT is crap. Im at 4:40hrs SOT and currently at 30% battery
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Hail2theskins said:
I just did another factory reset. Going to test it today, but the battery life combined with WiFi issues may just make me do an early upgrade to the 7. I couldn't get two days on this phone even if the screen never came on.
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That is exactly what these manufacturers and carriers want us to do. Make us wait for a major upgrade, then release a new model phone, then finally upgrade last years flagship but release it with bugs to encourage us to buy the newer model. My .02
My Edge + is currently Stock running MM 6.0.1
(Have a 2nd Edge Plus for rooting and tinkering) heh
I can get 4-5 Screen On time and get around 17-20 hours battery Life.
I'm satisfied with it as I'm a power house user and my Phone is just packed with loads of games and time-wasting apps that take up a lot of cpu power
3 hrs SOT Average. Normal to heavy use. Voice calls with VoLTE on eats more battery than screen! But again, I get good network coverage with VoLTE on. It's a tradeoff!
After 3 resets marshmallow now gives me about 3 hours screen time over a 10-12 hour period, much better. I'll stick with the phone for now!
Two days of light use. All excess garbage like NFC and beaming services turned off or frozen/uninstalled, bloatware frozen or removed with titanium, force doze app (which is awesome).