Hi,
i am very disappointed with the battery life of my swift.
Currently i am on CrDroid including Foxy Kernel.
The battery lasts barely 14 Hours, most of the time its even less.
I tried many things including:
spare battery -> no effect
Fully drained the battery and charged it for two days while off -> no effect
different ROMS (including Official ROM, CM, Dirty Unicorn, CrDroid) -> no effect
kernel adiutor mod - turn down frequencys and change governours -> minimal effect (just a couple of minutes)
Tried different "battery" apps like Greenify or GSam Battery Monitor -> minimal effect (just a couple of minutes)
Switch off LTE and WLAN constantly: Here is some weird behaviour. Sometimes it seems that the battery really lasts longer and i can see minimal drain through a couple hours, but thenn all of a sudden there are huge drops in the remaining battery percentage from 70% to 40%.
Maybe someone can give me further advice what to do because right now i think of buying a new device although i love my wileyfox.
Just one more hint: When i bought the phone at first the battery life was really good and with wlan and lte switched off i could easily go through several days.
I've noticed that as well,
But also noticed if I turn off one of the Sims it help a bit.
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Has anyone experienced sudden rise of battery drain that is not related to firmware? I am facing issue with 9 months old battery, usually re-charged slightly with rare full cycles, that shows 4-5% drop per hour in standby/screen-off mode (all connectivity off). I have tried couple different clean ROMs installations without changes to this effect (Runnymede AIO v4.0, then v6.5 and less resource consuming Cyanogenmod 7.1 too). I tried to calibrate battery (at least in three different ways, with wiping battery stats etc) with no success. In desperation I did full cycle keeping device turned off for one night with charger plugged in, no results either. Battery starts at 100% and constantly goes down somewhere to 5-10% when it forces device to shut down.
I am curious why is that happening, especially that 3 months ago I could run for 2-3 days using phone from time to time, now on screen-off it cannot last more than one day? BTW I did not change my habits for last 2 months, I have not kept battery in freezing cold or kitchen oven when charging etc I would expect that Li-ion battery capacity degradation is constant and rather linear process.
Now I can look for someone that borrow me second battery for comparison, or I need to buy a new one (something like cheap Andida 1800mAh one).
Any other suggestions except for recycling the phone?
EDIT: Now I am completely astonished... saying "connectivity off" I meant everything except for regular cellular network. After switching to "airplane mode" my currently used runnymede AIO v4.0 drained battery only 1% per hour! First thought was "roaming problems" (because I came from Europe to Abu Dhabi / UAE in business last week) and I googled some complains on battery drains when traveling. I wish that would be a problem but I added another variable to the equation -- I installed MIUI ROM which gave me 1-2% per hour with GSM switched on. Radio is untouched when reflashing ROM, MIUI is close to Cyanogenmod (same kernels, also lightweights) but the latter was also sucking down on 5% level... so what is it? damn this pocket computers
cheers,
-andy.
To help others struggling with battery issues - mine is solved. It was roaming problem specific to United Arab Emirates !!! After returning home everything is fine, less than 1% per hour. Also roaming in Germany did not cause drain even though signal strength was on similar level as in UAE. Thread closed.
there is a thread for battery drain issues
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334052
My G2 gets ghastly battery life. I've tried Juice Defender and I've recalibrated more times than I can remember. Most notifications are turned off and I'm conservative about powering off the various radios when I'm not using them. It wasn't always like that. I felt like I was getting most of a full day on one charge and loving it for many months, but something happened last summer I think. Maybe dust or moisture affected the phone. I've got a total of six batteries and three external battery chargers. No battery whether it's the OEM original, 1500mah spares that were amazing before, or the new 1800mah evo shift 4g batteries I tried out, will last more than about four hours from full charge to the 15% warning sound.
I've tried only charging in the phone. I've tried rotating batteries charged in the external chargers. Like I said, I've tried calibration scenarios of various kinds.
Last night, I took a fully charged 1800mah battery and put it in my phone and then charged the battery in the phone. The orange led never turns green when the phone is off. When the phone is on, I can just barely get the led to turn green at about 91% (starting from what should be a full charge that is reported as 80% by the phone). This takes a good 10 hours of charging. As soon as I woke the phone this morning, the battery meter started dropping while the phone was still plugged in. After unplugging, the meter drops to 80% in a matter of a few minutes.
Like I said, I tried juice defender. It only helps a little but the cost is waiting for the data radio to reconnect every time I wake the phone. I thought BT was the culprit for a while, but now it really doesn't matter if I leave it on or turn it off.
At the other end of the charge, the phone can run for several hours when the battery is supposedly between 1 and 3%. I know we are told to start charging again at 15% but my phone drops to that level in 3-4 hours of regular use. I haven't seen the phone report 100% charge on any battery in six months time, but it runs and runs at 1%. This is what bugs me. Is the phone just mis-reading how many milivolts are coming out of the battery? Why can't I complete the first step of calibration (charge overnight to the 100% mark)? Is there a hardware component that can be causing this or should it be entirely fixable in software?
Thanks for any ideas or tips
Did you wipe battery stats?
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Did you wipe battery stats?
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Yes I have many times but thanks for the suggestion.
Figured so.. Too bad, would have been too easy. I'm starting to see some batttery drain on my desire z now too. Im wondering if mine is a radio issue.
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Figured so.. Too bad, would have been too easy. I'm starting to see some batttery drain on my desire z now too. Im wondering if mine is a radio issue.
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I changed radios and did RIL matching last fall based on other's comments about better battery life, 4G and GPS. While I've had faster GPS locks and maybe better 4G performance, my battery life did not improve. It may have even gotten worse.
Today I'm trying out some different CPU governor settings. The CM 7.2 RC1 default is 'interactive' and I wouldn't normally touch those settings. I think the powersave governor helped a lot, but the phone became almost unresponsive. Trying 'conservative' now. I should have read This long ago, but just got around to it today. I might invest in the SetCPU app as well.
OK, I can count on a good six hours of normal use if setCPU is holding down the max cpu frequency at night or when the screen is off. I'm still tweaking. Today, the phone crashed while playing music over A2DP and tracking a run with runkeeper. I think it needs to tick faster than 368Mhz when the screen is off.
Are you seeing improvement? I changed radios and like you havent seen much improvement. But I am a little better off than you are. My battery drain is terrible (1-3%per minute) only when connected to the internet (4g or wifi) or using navigation. If the screen is off, or if Im using non-internet apps I seem to get regular battery use. Good luck with your cpu settings.. I have ordered a new battery, but I doubt it will solve my issue. I may try tweaking my settings too soon, but Id better research more.
Just wondering do you have SuperCharger V6 installed? On my Desire Z I had some serious battery problems just as you mentioned. After I would flash my ROM (wiping the caches + reinstalling) my battery life would return to normal. But whenever I would flash SuperCharger v6 my battery life would spiral out of control. My suggestion for a ROM that handles battery life fairly well is Andromadus Audacity B2, just make sure you download and flash GAPPs (google apps). For example running that rom I have been getting very good battery life, approx. 16-20 hours of battery life with moderate use) with default CPU settings and data always turned on. I'm sure if you use Juice Defender to control your data you'll get above average battery life.
Note: Andromadus is an ICS (android 4.0) ROM
Qwerty_Uieo said:
Just wondering do you have SuperCharger V6 installed? On my Desire Z I had some serious battery problems just as you mentioned. After I would flash my ROM (wiping the caches + reinstalling) my battery life would return to normal. But whenever I would flash SuperCharger v6 my battery life would spiral out of control. My suggestion for a ROM that handles battery life fairly well is Andromadus Audacity B2, just make sure you download and flash GAPPs (google apps). For example running that rom I have been getting very good battery life, approx. 16-20 hours of battery life with moderate use) with default CPU settings and data always turned on. I'm sure if you use Juice Defender to control your data you'll get above average battery life.
Note: Andromadus is an ICS (android 4.0) ROM
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Thanks (and thanked) Ive been waiting till ICS roms are bug free and having working cameras, but I think I may just jump on it now. My battery issues are untenable at the moment on a CM7 based rom. Thanks for the advice.
I was seeing some improvement due to SetCPU profiles. However, now if I have GPS and Bluetooth on so that I can listen to music and track my run in runkeeper, the phone seems to 'crash' after about 35 minutes or so. The battery meter shows that the battery takes a nose dive and I think the phone shuts down at 1%. If I restart the phone, it might say I have 30 or 40% charge left but then it drops rapidly again. It seems like it hates the warmth of my pocket. If I let the phone out in the cool air like on my desk, I can reboot at get back to 60 or 70% even though it was just saying 3%. I'm not running SuperCharger.
I'm trying to find cheap G2s for parts on ebay now. Maybe I can at least test out my six batteries in a different phone to see if any of them are shot. They all seem to have the same problems in my phone.
This will be my final update. I bought a used G2 off ebay. The same batteries I used before now show as fully charged when I expect them to be fully charged. I will be getting a feel for general battery life over the next few days, but I expect battery life to be roughly the same. I just won't have to guess at what the current battery level really is.
I'm seeing now that the new phone will show a 60% charge when the old phone shows 15% for the same battery at about the same time.
The new phone shows 100% when topped off but if I put the topped off battery in my old phone, I see 75-80% charge.
I may try sending the old phone to HTC depending on what they offer for repair services.
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I bought a used G2 off ebay. ... the new phone will show a 60% charge when the old phone shows 15% for the same battery at about the same time
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I think what's happened to your old phone (and mine!) is that the onboard voltmeter chip is reading low. I've compared the on-board mV reading to a multimeter-measured battery voltage and what the phone reads as 3.9V the multimeter gets 4.2V (a fully charged Li-Ion battery).
Who knows what's behind it, but it seems like a hardware problem to me.
Hi I have: HTC Wildfire with CyanogenMod 7.2.0-RC1
In about the past 2 days my battery life has dropped considerably with the phone not lasting more then 12 hours, as opposed to the previous life of 2-3 days.
I charged it too 100% last night and this morning when I checked it it was at 20%
I have not installed any new apps, my screen usually runs on low brightness and the data connection only running on 2g/Edge and I have changed no settings lately.
I tried a battery stats wipe, no change.
I remember having that problem just after I flashed a new recovery.
It was about 80% before I sleep And when I wake up I find it 55%
I installed Sympfinity kernel and it really improved battery life.
now only 10% (sometimes less) are lost through the night.
Try Sympfinity kernel.
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I Flashed CM7.2 RC2 it seems to have fixed the problem.
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Hi I have: HTC Wildfire with CyanogenMod 7.2.0-RC1
In about the past 2 days my battery life has dropped considerably with the phone not lasting more then 12 hours, as opposed to the previous life of 2-3 days.
I charged it too 100% last night and this morning when I checked it it was at 20%
I have not installed any new apps, my screen usually runs on low brightness and the data connection only running on 2g/Edge and I have changed no settings lately.
I tried a battery stats wipe, no change.
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I advise you to install battery calibration from play store, sometimes after flashing a new rom, battery may be miss-read
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the battery life is also affected depending on the time you have automatic update on your phone because if you have updated very often it spends considerably battery not in use so the phone .. hechale a look at this and help us a lot of your battery greetings
Welll i used to have a similar problem on my wildfire,so i downloaded power max and used it on standard mode and used Go power master with autoswtching and other stuff...just before exchanging it for a Nexus, i had the battery to last around 40 hours with 5 hours of browsing, 3 hours of listening to music and 2 hours of gaming with heavy use of whatsapp and texting and 30-40 minutes of calling...previously my battery use to last only 10 hours...hope this will help you...you can also go up to ebay and buy an extended battery for just Rs.960 which is 3000mah...cheaper than the original smaller battery....link to the extended battery http://www.ebay.in/itm/3000MAh-Exte...4-HTC-Wildfire-G8-/140533335447#ht_1453wt_907
Hello,
I've read the threads about battery in the desire, BATT FIX with new kernels etc but can't really find a definite answer for my problem.
I bought my phone 18 months old and from the beginning it has shut down at about 20%. Tried the battery thing with charging, on/off, charing again etc, wiping battery stats etc but it doesn't seem to matter. So, I thought I'd just buy a new battery and be done with it.
The new battery arrived yesterday (actually, it's a used battery from customer returns but seller tells me it's been tested to be in mint condition). So this battery shows 3% when I first start up with it, "good, this seems to work" I think. But when at 75% the charger indicator (LED light) all of a sudden turns green and battery % jumps straight to 100%. I do the battery calibration trick with on/off charge and wipe battery stats. Stuck at 100% for some time as reported by others trying this "trick", have been using it all day and it shuts down at 25% even worse than the other battery...
The best voltages I've seen on this supposedly new battery is 4,144 and somewhere above 3.5 (nowhere near 3.2 and 4.2). What strikes me as odd is that I get very close to the same values with my old battery so I'm starting to think that maybee both battery are good but the phone reports way wrong values...is this possible?
Battery life with phone and data connection on, 1 gmail account but disabled backup feature (no GPS, BT etc) gives me -5% after 10 hours standby and I can use the phone for browising, light gaming for about 3 hours and 40 minutes before it dies (more or less constant usage at very low autobrightness levels and Turbo 3G enabled).
If someone has some insight into this it would be really helpful before I contact the eBay seller for this particular battery.
Regards, Olle
Same thing
My phone shuts down at 35% now... Is that a problem with the chipset or what? Only with Alex-V's calibrated kernels my phone shuts down at 0%, and sometimes it decalibrates too, but after calibration is Okay. I wonder if i need a new battery or my chipset has issues.
Hi all,
Over the last three days I've been having some trouble with my S3's battery. Recently I've been experiencing large battery drain while not using the phone excessively. Today within 20 minutes of unplugging the phone from a full charge it read 40% charge. It's almost as if I am lacking 60% of my battery.. From when I got the phone (on release day), I had never found the battery to be very impressive. The advertised 800 hour standby time has always been far out of reach, and I often found myself having to plug the phone in after 7-8 hours, (I'm a student, so it's away all day as I'm in class, i.e, low use.)
I don't use WiFi (I have 7GB/mo data), I don't use automatic brightness (held between 5-20%), GPS is on (For some Tasker profiles, but is rarely used), and I have never used NFC/S-Beam.
I have done factory resets, two since having issues with the battery. The phone is rooted and is running CM 10.1-20130203-NIGHTLY-d2att, I thought that updating the CM build might help (Feb 3rd as you can see), but hasn't. Also it is underclocked to MAX 810mHz. Battery usage statistics pins the main user as the screen, but I feel this is false.
I'm thinking of buying a new battery, might that help?
TL;DR: I'm having battery problems, and have tried all the normal fixes I could find online. See the attached images for battery details.
Any suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks!
Zev.Isert said:
Hi all,
Over the last three days I've been having some trouble with my S3's battery. Recently I've been experiencing large battery drain while not using the phone excessively. Today within 20 minutes of unplugging the phone from a full charge it read 40% charge. It's almost as if I am lacking 60% of my battery.. From when I got the phone (on release day), I had never found the battery to be very impressive. The advertised 800 hour standby time has always been far out of reach, and I often found myself having to plug the phone in after 7-8 hours, (I'm a student, so it's away all day as I'm in class, i.e, low use.)
I don't use WiFi (I have 7GB/mo data), I don't use automatic brightness (held between 5-20%), GPS is on (For some Tasker profiles, but is rarely used), and I have never used NFC/S-Beam.
I have done factory resets, two since having issues with the battery. The phone is rooted and is running CM 10.1-20130203-NIGHTLY-d2att, I thought that updating the CM build might help (Feb 3rd as you can see), but hasn't. Also it is underclocked to MAX 810mHz. Battery usage statistics pins the main user as the screen, but I feel this is false.
TL;DR: I'm having battery problems, and have tried all the normal fixes I could find online. See the attached images for battery details.
Any suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks!
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Get the app BetterBatteryStats to narrow down what's draining your battery.
Also, being so UV = takes longer to load stuff = longer screen time = more battery usage. UV too much results in higher battery drain.
Okay but...
BWolf56 said:
Get the app BetterBatteryStats to narrow down what's draining your battery.
Also, being so UV = takes longer to load stuff = longer screen time = more battery usage. UV too much results in higher battery drain.
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Okay I just bought Better Battery Stats, I'll let it analyze whats going on for the next few days.. And I assume UV means under voltage? Either way I put the processor speed back up to default (1512 mHz). But that still doesn't explain the 60% battery drop in 20 minutes after being unplugged.
I don't think it is possible for your phone in any case to drain 60% in 20 minutes. That's a ton of power usage, your phone would probably melt if it was using that much. Sounds like your phone is not reading your battery level properly. You may want to try resetting your battery stats, however I have heard that the s3 battery monitors its own level. In this case you probably would be better off just getting a new battery.
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