Hey everyone,
I've been playing around with some ICS roms (Energy and revolution roms) amd noticed that the battery life is AMAZING on idle/standby, but when using the phone, the battery drains VERY fast.
Are all the ics roms like this atm? Are you guys getting similar drains? I'm going to try another rom and see what happens in the meantime.
Here's a screen cap of my battery life.
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i completely agree.i'd like to post in development but can't as yet(forum rules).i'm running arhd 2.2.1.s-off.my battery drains out approximately 6 and a half hours on moderate use(music etc.)i wonder if it's due to the stock kernel or as u said if ics is like this.apart from that the rom is solid and very ice.
Same here, the only problem im having with the ics leak is the battery drains extremely quick. And I have my brightness all the way down.
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sherman8or said:
Same here, the only problem im having with the ics leak is the battery drains extremely quick. And I have my brightness all the way down.
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I'm on the Leak ICS and I haven't seen that problem... I think it's improved my battery since I've updated.. before I would have to swap batteries half way through the day.. now I just charge when I get home.. and I work 12 hours a day.. Monday to Saturday.
After resetting battery stats this is what I saw and was impressed with. I have email set to auto sync from 7am to 6pm for work along with my gmail account, facebook set to sync once a day as I don't really care to be notified every time someone posts. Screen brightness set to auto, however this phone did not see sunlight on this day so I'm sure the screen was never maxed out.
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I'm on the Leak ICS and I haven't seen that problem... I think it's improved my battery since I've updated..
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Ditto. The first day I was on the ROM I noticed a huge increase in battery life.
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After resetting battery stats this is what I saw and was impressed with. I have email set to auto sync from 7am to 6pm for work along with my gmail account, facebook set to sync once a day as I don't really care to be notified every time someone posts. Screen brightness set to auto, however this phone did not see sunlight on this day so I'm sure the screen was never maxed out.
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How did you reset the battery stats? I've got 4EXT installed as my recovery, and DID notice a "Wipe battery stats" option. Is that the same thing?
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How did you reset the battery stats? I've got 4EXT installed as my recovery, and DID notice a "Wipe battery stats" option. Is that the same thing?
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it is
Ill try wiping my battery stats, but i been getting really bad battery life since upgrading. down from 2-3 days to 6-12 hours.
edit: forgot to mention, i can't charge via USB anymore, as it says it does not provide enough power. It used to work just fine with same cable, same usb port on my computer at work. Now it can't charge, have to bring wall charger to work.
auiotour said:
Ill try wiping my battery stats, but i been getting really bad battery life since upgrading. down from 2-3 days to 6-12 hours.
edit: forgot to mention, i can't charge via USB anymore, as it says it does not provide enough power. It used to work just fine with same cable, same usb port on my computer at work. Now it can't charge, have to bring wall charger to work.
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wow, that sucks. Personally I would wipe / reflash the ruu. then slowly add applications back. Not sure what apps you have running, I have about 150 installed, however I limit what can sync. there is a paid app called better battery stats that can help identify rouge apps too.
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Ill try wiping my battery stats, but i been getting really bad battery life since upgrading. down from 2-3 days to 6-12 hours.
edit: forgot to mention, i can't charge via USB anymore, as it says it does not provide enough power. It used to work just fine with same cable, same usb port on my computer at work. Now it can't charge, have to bring wall charger to work.
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Wow, with stock GB on TMO I got maybe 7 hours max. With stock ICS I got over 12 hours and was very pleased. I just flashed a yesterday, so I'm not sure what I'll get now, but from the drain it looks like about 20 hours or so with moderate usage. I suspect my normal day will be OK (about 16 hours).
I'm not having any problems with charging on the leak or NRG.
What does wiping batter stats do? Is it more like just resetting a timer or does it do something more like recalibrate your battery so the phone doesn't shut down your phone prematurely due to a perceived lack of juice? (when there is actually still more juice remaining)
Edit myself: according to other posts, a Google engineer said it's a myth that this does anything useful.
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What does wiping batter stats do? Is it more like just resetting a timer or does it do something more like recalibrate your battery so the phone doesn't shut down your phone prematurely due to a perceived lack of juice? (when there is actually still more juice remaining)
Edit myself: according to other posts, a Google engineer said it's a myth that this does anything useful.
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It is supposed to delete the battery statistics so that the device builds up an accurate battery stats file. If the stats file had statistics for a smaller battery (or poorer battery), it could be telling the OS that it was out of power when in fact power was still available. I can't speak to how well it works, but I do it whenever I flash a new ROM.
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What does wiping batter stats do? Is it more like just resetting a timer or does it do something more like recalibrate your battery so the phone doesn't shut down your phone prematurely due to a perceived lack of juice? (when there is actually still more juice remaining)
Edit myself: according to other posts, a Google engineer said it's a myth that this does anything useful.
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Actually, I am not sure about that myth anymore. I had CWM installed and I flashed 4EXT. My battery died within 4 hours and I barely used it. I was at 55% and I had everything turned off as well as the screen, 5 minutes later, I was at 40%. The next day, I fully charged it to 100%, booted into recovery, and wiped the battery stats. My phone lasted for 17 hours without even charging it in the day.
I guess wiping the battery stats does work?
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Actually, I am not sure about that myth anymore. I had CWM installed and I flashed 4EXT. My battery died within 4 hours and I barely used it. I was at 55% and I had everything turned off as well as the screen, 5 minutes later, I was at 40%. The next day, I fully charged it to 100%, booted into recovery, and wiped the battery stats. My phone lasted for 17 hours without even charging it in the day.
I guess wiping the battery stats does work?
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Thank you! MrMako debated this with me... I called it the BEST DAMN PLACEBO EFFECT EVER... cuz it works
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Thank you! MrMako debated this with me... I called it the BEST DAMN PLACEBO EFFECT EVER... cuz it works
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haha. Well I can confirm that it works. Oddly, it happened when I flashed the new recovery, but overall, the battery is ALOT better than ever!
You know It's weird. Battery life hasn't been great on the custom ROMS the stock RUU seems to have the best battery life.
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You know It's weird. Battery life hasn't been great on the custom ROMS the stock RUU seems to have the best battery life.
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Ditto--stock has the best battery life for me as well. Cache wiped, super wipe, dalvick wiped. everything wiped.
Left my phone charger in the car last night. Before I went to bed my phone was at 3%. I expected for it to turn off at any min so I just laid it next to my bed. Woke up 7 hours later to my phone at 3%.... I received 4 text during that time, but was not read until morning.
Stock amaze no root or s-off with ics
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You know It's weird. Battery life hasn't been great on the custom ROMS the stock RUU seems to have the best battery life.
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Tell the rom developer - I have gotten surprisingly little feedback on mine.. I tried flashing a few roms before I chose a base to work with, and the only one that didn't have any errors in the logcat, didn't have any wakelock issues, was Android Revolution HD. I've picked out every htc app I could constantly checking both logcat for errors and wakelock issues from rogue htc apps looking to keep the phone from deep sleep- and all is well.
But amazingly today someone using my rom(pdcrzylazy) posted this article on an easy flash that is supposed to "ten fold" battery life- I researched it, I made sure it flashed well.. and have had immediate big differences, even under heavy use.
There is specifically one process on how it handles memory that I think makes the biggest difference- but it HAS made a big difference! It flashes perfectly and I was able to confirm the settings took effect..
If anyone tries it you can run this command in terminal on the phone before and again after and you'll see the settings took.
Code:
sysctl -a| grep vm
The output is crazy long, so if you wanted to you can run it as an adb command - "adb shell sysctil -a > /whereeveryouwantit/name.txt"
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Well... I reciece my extended battery from assesoryswap.com today. Its the 3500 mah.. i put it in today at 1:30 p.m. at 72% and i havent charge it yet. Im gonna let it die and charge it all night and give u guys an update tomorrow and let u know how much life i get out of it.. until tomorrow. Later....
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I can't wait to get mine in on Friday. Hopefully it works just as good. Although I only paid 10 bucks so what's to be expected.
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Ok. I took the phone off the charger at 7:10am and it started with a 96% and 70% 12:37 pm , now its 9:52 and i still have 51% left of battery time... Im guessing this was a great investment. Mine u. I had wifi and Bluetooth running from 7:45 am until 5:30 pm ,those are my working hours.. The only thing i change is my phone brightness, because i know that runs down a battery for sure. Im freaking amazed..
Heres a couple screenshots..
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Extended battery's are awesome...sure you have to sacrifice size, but not that much....but its well worth it.
Looking at your battery stats will be a thing of the past.
And the car charger, I don't even know where I left it at
E3D comes off the charger at 830am
I have everything on, all full time..Gps get used about 1 to 2 hours worth every day ,wifi,4g,bluetooth,auto bright is off and brightness is on max,3 apps updating every hour,150 text,3 hours more or less talk time,moderate to heavy internet use with 4g..
When I get home at night about 9pm I have About 20 to 30% left
On the weekends I don't use the phone as much only on talk time.
I unplug from charger on saturday 7am and by sunday night i have 80% left
4000 mah seido
I just received my extended battery any tips for first use of it. Do I need to wipe battery stats? As I understand all you do is put it in the phone as soon as you get it and then drain it completely then charge it to 100% unplug take battery out then repeat until you take it out put it back in and it reads 100% immediately, is that correct?
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Mrdiaz09 said:
I just received my extended battery any tips for first use of it. Do I need to wipe battery stats? As I understand all you do is put it in the phone as soon as you get it and then drain it completely then charge it to 100% unplug take battery out then repeat until you take it out put it back in and it reads 100% immediately, is that correct?
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I think you have to wipe your battery stats, but first let it drain it completely. If you are rooted use the current widget while it is in charge, and when ONLY this widget shows to you 100%, then from Rom Manager boot to recovery (do not unplug the phone), then wipe the battery stats from there, reboot the phone, and when it goes to 100% again, then unplug the phone. I use the stock battery and the battery lasts for 30 hours, having the data always on, calls around 1 hour, screen time around 3.5 hours. Its not bad at all i think.
Antonios76 said:
I think you have to wipe your battery stats, but first let it drain it completely. If you are rooted use the current widget while it is in charge, and when ONLY this widget shows to you 100%, then from Rom Manager boot to recovery (do not unplug the phone), then wipe the battery stats from there, reboot the phone, and when it goes to 100% again, then unplug the phone. I use the stock battery and the battery lasts for 30 hours, having the data always on, calls around 1 hour, screen time around 3.5 hours. Its not bad at all i think.
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you must be in an area with kick-ass signal strength. I am always barely hovering above 0 bars and get like 16 hours of normal (heavy) use and can get 24 hours out of it if I mellow out data use, screen on auto brightness, wifi off, bluetooth off, 4g off, toggle mobile data off when I know I won't use it for a while, disable background data and syncing.
Shoot I was lucky if I got 8 hrs of light use on my stock battery.
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I bought 2x Galilio 2000mAh Batteries. I recommend you stay away from these. 100% charge @7am, using the phone once to make a 2 min call and to check face book 3 times. Battery was dead at 5pm. Everything except for mobile data was turned off. Screen at 40% brightness. Garbage.
Maybe I've done something wrong but last night this new battery drained completely. I followed my instructions in the last post. Wiped battery stats when the app said 100% and not before. My phone has now been off the charger for 30 mins and I've already lost 12% I wasn't using my phone I was outside mowing my lawn. This is the 3500mah battery from handheld
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Very Useful post good job guys! I have the Otterbox defender so im stuck with a standard size battery. I will get a 2000MAH today. However I use Virus Rom and there is the battery saving mode built in and man it rocks! I get up at 8 am and by time I am home around 9 ish 10 ish I am still with about 30-40% and I am a pretty heavy user. I recommend virus rom for battery saving.
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Extended battery's are awesome...sure you have to sacrifice size, but not that much....but its well worth it.
Looking at your battery stats will be a thing of the past.
And the car charger, I don't even know where I left it at
E3D comes off the charger at 830am
I have everything on, all full time..Gps get used about 1 to 2 hours worth every day ,wifi,4g,bluetooth,auto bright is off and brightness is on max,3 apps updating every hour,150 text,3 hours more or less talk time,moderate to heavy internet use with 4g..
When I get home at night about 9pm I have About 20 to 30% left
On the weekends I don't use the phone as much only on talk time.
I unplug from charger on saturday 7am and by sunday night i have 80% left
4000 mah seido
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bahaha. i have the same battery. i dont look at the usage stats either... ever. i unplug the phone at 6 am in the morning, go to work, where i get HORRIBLE reception, use my phone a lot throughout the day, and usually don't have to charge it till mid afternoon the next day.
BOSS
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Very Useful post good job guys! I have the Otterbox defender so im stuck with a standard size battery. I will get a 2000MAH today. However I use Virus Rom and there is the battery saving mode built in and man it rocks! I get up at 8 am and by time I am home around 9 ish 10 ish I am still with about 30-40% and I am a pretty heavy user. I recommend virus rom for battery saving.
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imagine......... virus rom...............
with the seidosupersex4000
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Linophryne said:
I bought 2x Galilio 2000mAh Batteries. I recommend you stay away from these. 100% charge @7am, using the phone once to make a 2 min call and to check face book 3 times. Battery was dead at 5pm. Everything except for mobile data was turned off. Screen at 40% brightness. Garbage.
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not surprised....
thats not a whole lot bigger than the stock one bruh. lol
if you are gonna spend the moneys you might as well go balls out right?
seido... u mirin??
I take my previous statement about this battery back. I've had my screen on watching and downloading 3d movies all day and just now it hit 10%. Screen on the whole day. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005G6571U/ref=mp_s_a_2?qid=1315691427&sr=8-2 this is the battery I bought this is the first day it can only get better from here.
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Not to get off topic, but do they make a full body hard case that will fit the phone since the battery sticks out?
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Yes they do @seidio.com
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Yea he has a good point
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My Battery was draining so dang fast.. 6 hours and it was dead... I looked in the usage and noticed that it was 40% Screen.. A quick look reveled that the rom defaults to full brightness with auto brightness off.. I turned it on.. put in my extra battery and it seems to be doing much much better with the screen only using about 15% now..
Just wanted to throw that out there for those that are having issues with their battery drain.
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I will fully test it today when I am at school. What I noticed so far was when I was at 20%, the low battery message popped up and said there was 14% or less battery.
battery life is awful. reporting says over 90% of my battery use is from the screen which is set to ~25% and im getting ~8 hours on a charge. i have noticed the backlight appears to be alot brighter as the typical light bleed looks a lot worse than when i was on gb
I've just switched over to the Amaze and have noticed a precipitous battery drain as well, the main culprit being the screen according to the "battery use" stats. Suffice it to day, I'm quite disappointed.
I'm rooted, S-off, super ID, running Energy ROM.
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I've just switched over to the Amaze and have noticed a precipitous battery drain as well, the main culprit being the screen according to the "battery use" stats. Suffice it to day, I'm quite disappointed.
I'm rooted, S-off, super ID, running Energy ROM.
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If you're running Energy Rom, it's based on the first leak (The old one). Many people were reporting bad battery life and phone overheating on the first leak.
My battery life is much better on any of the 2nd leak/official based roms.
based on this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1625871&page=2
battery life is awful if u didnt wipe battery stats or instlld leak without being fully charge
oh and there are 2 leaks the first one has horrible battery life ... the 2nd leak
i have it and it works the same as gb if not better by a tiny bit
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If you're running Energy Rom, it's based on the first leak (The old one). Many people were reporting bad battery life and phone overheating on the first leak.
My battery life is much better on any of the 2nd leak/official based roms.
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Which ROM are you currently using? I'll give that a shot and hopefully that was the issue because the drain's pretty bad.
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based on this
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battery life is awful if u didnt wipe battery stats or instlld leak without being fully charge
oh and there are 2 leaks the first one has horrible battery life ... the 2nd leak
i have it and it works the same as gb if not better by a tiny bit
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I'll check that out after work. Thanks!
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Which ROM are you currently using? I'll give that a shot and hopefully that was the issue because the drain's pretty bad.
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I've been testing for RMS all day, I was running Iced bullet. Over on Android-dev.
If you want the stock feel, try fastamaze v2.1 It's based on the latest.
Miked (arhd) is rebasing his rom also, not sure when he's going to be done, I heard he was having some problems.
According to Google engineer battery stats hold only statistics about apps and parts that use battery and system resets these once phone is charged.
For me completely discharging, power up again until battery was 0 and then charging overnight helped a bit.
Screens below, the display is mostly browser. I just left screen on for 10min and the battery didn't drain at all. You need to be doing something, the screen on itself does not cause much drain, just a side note.
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I've been testing for RMS all day, I was running Iced bullet. Over on Android-dev.
If you want the stock feel, try fastamaze v2.1 It's based on the latest.
Miked (arhd) is rebasing his rom also, not sure when he's going to be done, I heard he was having some problems.
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Sweet, I'll try them all and report back. Thanks a lot!
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jjdeveau said:
My Battery was draining so dang fast.. 6 hours and it was dead... I looked in the usage and noticed that it was 40% Screen.. A quick look reveled that the rom defaults to full brightness with auto brightness off.. I turned it on.. put in my extra battery and it seems to be doing much much better with the screen only using about 15% now..
Just wanted to throw that out there for those that are having issues with their battery drain.
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6 hours....lucky bastard
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My battery life has improved sooooo much since flashing the official ICS. I disabled a crap ton of apps, and now I get 10-12 hours of normal use, when I used to get about 6 when I was rooted stock with no bloat.
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So this is what I've done so far, I'm still on Energy Rom, but I've done what calmtea & Hasoon2000 suggested:
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I fully charged it to 100%, booted into recovery (via 4ext Touch Recovery), and wiped the battery stats.
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Then flashed Sysctl.conf as instructed in this thread:
2) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621808
Remember to do a nandroid backup before trying. Initially I thought I was in a bootloop, but eventually my phone did load up with no problems.
And finally, I tried this as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1628457
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...go to settings>developer settings>and change the background process limit to 4 or less..
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Thus far, I have not really noticed an appreciable decrease in battery drainage, but I have noticed the standby has dramatically improved. I went to bed at 22% and woke up with the battery at 19% after 6.5 hrs.
So I've also tested out other roms (FastAmaze, Iced Bullet, SpeedRom) and the drain rate seems to be the same as Energy Rom. CapRomCE may have performed slightly better than Energy, but not enough to make me switch.
I haz a sad now.
Is there any better way 4 long lasting battery?
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Maybe its not the Rom..maybe its your battery.
Batteries have came from the factory defective. It sucks but it does happen. I have no complaints about up time with this phone.
I'm running stock official ics .3 debloated.. no other tweaks except a theme. Getting a good 10-16hrs depending on use. Data on all the time unless the system shuts it off. I don't use a CPU tuner...just try to re-condition your battery and you should get better results....unless you're a heavy user.
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Maybe its not the Rom..maybe its your battery.
Batteries have came from the factory defective. It sucks but it does happen. I have no complaints about up time with this phone.
I'm running stock official ics .3 debloated.. no other tweaks except a theme. Getting a good 10-16hrs depending on use. Data on all the time unless the system shuts it off. I don't use a CPU tuner...just try to re-condition your battery and you should get better results....unless you're a heavy user.
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I've already ordered the Anker battery and am hoping that's the case because this is a quality phone and I love it!
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Anker batteries finally arrived today, gonna test them out and see if I experience better life. In the meantime, I've changed my usage habits to make due with the stock battery and am hoping the Anker batteries will give an extra boost.
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So after a day of using the battery, it has been noticeably better. However, the discharge rate is all wonky. I don't really care about that as long as the battery life lasts.
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So I dont know whats going on but when I ran stock it was great! When I loaded surom it was still decent and great. But havent reset or anything in awhile, But Battery just seems to suck. Unplugged it this morning and about 1 hour later already at 83%! Only sent 4 texts and it brought it down that low. And that was in the middle of town with full bars on 3G. its been like this for about 2 weeks now Im not running the latest surrom cause I dont like the status bar framework change look to it so never upgraded it. I ran CPU spy and below is the screen shot of it being left on over night and such. But any idea? could it just be the battery sucking itself? or is it the phone doing it?
Also yesterday I plugged it up at 54& around 3:25pm yesterday. At 7pm it was only at 85% when I unplugged it! I was using a Sony Eccerison Charger but it was 1amp or whatever ive always used that charger when at this location without a problem.
And I don`t belive it is a app either.
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How are you unplugging the phone after a charge? It's been proven that if you do NOT wake the phone up, unlock it THEN remove the charging source, it'll drain battery faster due to NOT getting into deep sleep while on standby. I see at some point it shows it was in deep sleep but maybe not after your latest charge cycle.
Maybe this could be your issue?
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How are you unplugging the phone after a charge? It's been proven that if you do NOT wake the phone up, unlock it THEN remove the charging source, it'll drain battery faster due to NOT getting into deep sleep while on standby. I see at some point it shows it was in deep sleep but maybe not after your latest charge cycle.
Maybe this could be your issue?
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No I dont think its that as I usually do that anyway
I had terrible battery on everything. Currently I am running Saurom using Juice Defender with a custom setup. I also turn on the phone and unplug and get great standby time. There is a thread on setting up JD in themes and apps, at least I think its in that forum. Check it out.
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Well i just tried the whole unplugging thing, and at least with Saurom, it appears as though it goes into deep sleep regardless of the unplugging steps...!
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So I dont know whats going on but when I ran stock it was great! When I loaded surom it was still decent and great. But havent reset or anything in awhile, But Battery just seems to suck. Unplugged it this morning and about 1 hour later already at 83%! Only sent 4 texts and it brought it down that low. And that was in the middle of town with full bars on 3G. its been like this for about 2 weeks now Im not running the latest surrom cause I dont like the status bar framework change look to it so never upgraded it. I ran CPU spy and below is the screen shot of it being left on over night and such. But any idea? could it just be the battery sucking itself? or is it the phone doing it?
Also yesterday I plugged it up at 54& around 3:25pm yesterday. At 7pm it was only at 85% when I unplugged it! I was using a Sony Eccerison Charger but it was 1amp or whatever ive always used that charger when at this location without a problem.
And I don`t belive it is a app either.
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You might want to check what version of kernel you have
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You might want to check what version of kernel you have
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Under status it says Unavalibble?? which one can a flash that will work with this rom??
Okay happened again. Fully charged earlier not to bad. From 100% to 68% of maybe 10 min phone ccall and 20 min online radio in 1 hour and 35 mmin already 68%
What kernal should iI use with this T
Rom. I'm also underclocked now to see if it would help and it's not
I would try and flash one. But last time I had to do a wipe ccause my phone would be in a constant loop
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If it says unavailable then it is my kernel. It would have said at the bottom of cpuspy. You can try flashing dag 's kernel, but i doubt that it is the issue as mine is a fork of his with only the touch fix added.
If you try flashing any kernels be sure to have dagr8 's kernel fix as you will need to flash it following flashing a kernel.
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If it says unavailable then it is my kernel. It would have said at the bottom of cpuspy. You can try flashing dag 's kernel, but i doubt that it is the issue as mine is a fork of his with only the touch fix added.
If you try flashing any kernels be sure to have dagr8 's kernel fix as you will need to flash it following flashing a kernel.
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Oh okay. Any other reason that would cause this:/ Its horrible an hour and half usage takes half my battery
There has to be a rogue app at play. There is a "known battery drainers" thread in the gs2 section. Review those. Also download better battery stats and use it to identify the rogue app
Stay thirsty my friends
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There has to be a rogue app at play. There is a "known battery drainers" thread in the gs2 section. Review those. Also download better battery stats and use it to identify the rogue app
Stay thirsty my friends
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Already did. The Highest thing is Phone and Messaging. Which is BOTH stock
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Already did. The Highest thing is Phone and Messaging. Which is BOTH stock
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Have you checked cpu spy to see if it's going into deep sleep.
Stay thirsty my friends
See screenshot. Not really mostly staying at 385mhz or whatever
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See screenshot. Not really mostly staying at 385mhz or whatever
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Try these steps:
1. Turn off wifi + data (uncheck use packet data to turn off data).
2. Install Better Battery Stats.
3. Charge your phone to full. Wait for it to tell you to remove charger, then unplug your phone.
4. Open CPUSpy and reset timers.
5. Turn screen off, and let it sit for an hour.
6. Refresh CPUSpy and check the percentage of time it is in deep sleep, and check battery level. Normal deep sleep time should be 95-98%
7. If battery drops by more than 2% and/or your phone isn't going to deep sleep, then check Better Battery Stats for partial wakelocks and kernel wakelocks and report back.
Will do in the morning.
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If it says unavailable then it is my kernel. It would have said at the bottom of cpuspy. You can try flashing dag 's kernel, but i doubt that it is the issue as mine is a fork of his with only the touch fix added.
If you try flashing any kernels be sure to have dagr8 's kernel fix as you will need to flash it following flashing a kernel.
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For what it's worth, I flashed your kernel on my stock ROM and had HORRIBLE battery life. It almost never went into deep sleep at all. if the OP has your kernel then this is definitely the problem.
last night I reset my phone and loaded ICS UCLC5 or whatever
Well my phone wouldnt EVER go into deep sleep.
Time Unplugged 1 hour and 36 min
Time in 384MHZ 1 Hour and 34min.
And this is with NOTHING AT ALL INSTALLED!
so whats going on? Different kernal and rom
also battery is only at 98& but why during that entire time my phone was running at 384???
ASLO betterybattery stats says awake time is 1Hour and 34 min as well
hyelton said:
last night I reset my phone and loaded ICS UCLC5 or whatever
Well my phone wouldnt EVER go into deep sleep.
Time Unplugged 1 hour and 36 min
Time in 384MHZ 1 Hour and 34min.
And this is with NOTHING AT ALL INSTALLED!
so whats going on? Different kernal and rom
also battery is only at 98& but why during that entire time my phone was running at 384???
ASLO betterybattery stats says awake time is 1Hour and 34 min as well
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My phone had deep sleep and battery drain issues with ICS ROM too.
Do yourself a favor and install the stock ROM, stock modem, and do a factory reset. Then install CPUSpy and give it a go.
Also, charging from a USB based power source will cause the phone to not deep sleep. You have to reboot after a USB based charge before it will deep sleep.
EvoXOhio said:
My phone had deep sleep and battery drain issues with ICS ROM too.
Do yourself a favor and install the stock ROM, stock modem, and do a factory reset. Then install CPUSpy and give it a go.
Also, charging from a USB based power source will cause the phone to not deep sleep. You have to reboot after a USB based charge before it will deep sleep.
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I never charge via USB hate it lol
Hello guys,
As the title says, I too am running into some battery trouble (shocker, I know). I'd like to point out that first I did my research in the HOW+ forums + faqs. So, here's the situation:
Today with 80% of battery i played sonic dash for 45min. After that It shows 40% left. I shut down the phone. Put it in the freezer for 5mins (why not?) then turned it on again. Then it shows less than 16% at startup.
Two weeks earlier i used Navigon gps for 1hour on a full battery, after that i had 50% left. Restarted the phone and it showed 40% and afterwards started going down fast as hell in 1 hour without me turning the screen on. Seriously, at the end I had the 4 low battery alerts in a quick row (14%, 9%, 3%, 1% and then shutdown in 5-10minutes).
I bought the phone in march and used it heavily at first. I was all about thd games (which all push the phone to its limits) + occasional big downloads + uzipping heavy files. Then later i calmed down and mostly used the phone in the evenings before sleep: loads of browsing + youtube + emulators (which, all three combined, don't drain the battery that much even after a long time).
The phone has been rooted for 1 month. I'm still on stock rom. I greenified most of the processes (like every apps and games except viber, tango, whats app skype, line, twitter, facebook, vine) and froze (with titanium backup) google+, gmail,chrome, htc tips, play books, play movies, play kioske, play music, htc tips, htc watch.
Here is my question : do you guys think i should try some battery recalibrating or should replacing the battery do the trick? Or maybe there's nothing to do and the one x+ is just doomed in that area.
In one month I am going to Japan for a couple of weeks and I'll be needing a lot of my HOX+ so I sure wouldn't want to spend money on a new phone (with the next gen devices right around the corner) or on a pricey mugen external juice case. Any piece of advice or info is welcome.
Thanks in advance for your time guys.
Hey dude,i had similary problems with my battery.i tried everything from flashing special customs to battery doctor apps/widgets stock rom.but nothing solved the problem.only one thing,a replacement part for 23€ from ebay.the battery its selfs.
Sorry for my english,i'm german and mine is not so good.
Hope it is useful for u
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KickYaAzz said:
Hey dude,i had similary problems with my battery.i tried everything from flashing special customs to battery doctor apps/widgets stock rom.but nothing solved the problem.only one thing,a replacement part for 23€ from ebay.the battery its selfs.
Sorry for my english,i'm german and mine is not so good.
Hope it is useful for u
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Danke.
So you say you had the battery replaced. May I ask if you did see a significant difference once the new battery was installed? Also im curious, after how many months did you replace it and how heavy were you using your phone before?
Again, thank you, much appreciated.
I've had similar issues with my battery. It has definitely gotten worse as time goes by. I did however just get a response from HTC about what to do about the quick battery drain when my phone hits 15%.
This is what they said:
I apologize for this behavior that you are having with the battery on your HTC One X+. The culprit in this situation is not the battery, it is the charging logic. Therefore, I advise you to recalibrate the battery/charging logic with the following steps:
1. Charge the device for at least 10 minutes
2. With the device truly OFF while still being plugged into the wall outlet, push in and hold volume up and volume down AND power button, for 2 minutes.
3. Let go. Device will boot up, and battery/charging logic are re-calibrated.
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I cannot test this as the current ROM I have can only do a soft reboot, thus I cannot shutoff my device. Hope it helps at least a little.
jogirider said:
I've had similar issues with my battery. It has definitely gotten worse as time goes by. I did however just get a response from HTC about what to do about the quick battery drain when my phone hits 15%.
This is what they said:
I cannot test this as the current ROM I have can only do a soft reboot, thus I cannot shutoff my device. Hope it helps at least a little.
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Thank you, I will try this method and report.
Rapid drain from 15% -> happens most of the times to EVERYONE, its not individual phone problem..
So unless HTC's calibration method doesn't help just need learn to live with it :/
ivicask said:
Rapid drain from 15% -> happens most of the times to EVERYONE, its not individual phone problem..
So unless HTC's calibration method doesn't help just need learn to live with it :/
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I suffer a lot from this issue (rapid drain from 15%->0%).
I think the battery capacity is measured/reported wrongly by the OS, because battery stats app measures the battery at 1832mAh (fully charged), not 2100 which is supposed to be...
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I had this problem and I left the phone at the service for a warranty change of the battery.
They've changed it and I must admit that the problem has been resolved. I can now see how the battery drains step by step: 15, 14, 13, 12, 11 etc. It does seem to last a bit more now, maybe half an hour.
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I had this problem and I left the phone at the service for a warranty change of the battery.
They've changed it and I must admit that the problem has been resolved. I can now see how the battery drains step by step: 15, 14, 13, 12, 11 etc. It does seem to last a bit more now, maybe half an hour.
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I shattered my phone screen, and send it to service, and i told them about battery problem, now they replaced battery, and earpiece speaker as i had low volume, will see how it works after i get it back in 3 days.
The battery bug was introduced in the only update for HOX+, everything was fine before the update. It starts mostly after a few days without a reboot. One time I've had theoretically more than 40% battery level, while in the next hour my phone wouldn't even start because of empty battery. Recently I was goofing around with Tasker. When the battery level showed 20%, my phone shutdown.
Did anyone test the recalibrate thing? Can someone explain me how am I supposed to hold 3 buttons for 2 minutes ?
So got my hox+ from HTC back now, with battery replaced, and now its working properly, listening music since 14% -> 1% for like 45 mins and turning screen here and there to change track, and phone turned OFF after being few minute on 1%.
Not to mention battery lasts about 20-30% longer now, hope it holds like this
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So got my hox+ from HTC back now, with battery replaced, and now its working properly, listening music since 14% -> 1% for like 45 mins and turning screen here and there to change track, and phone turned OFF after being few minute on 1%.
Not to mention battery lasts about 20-30% longer now, hope it holds like this
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Thanks for the info!!
Did you relock the bootloader/return to stock before sending it in, if it was unlocked?
And did the relocked bootloader raise any issues with the warranty?
Candlemass said:
Thanks for the info!!
Did you relock the bootloader/return to stock before sending it in, if it was unlocked?
And did the relocked bootloader raise any issues with the warranty?
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I returned to stock ofcourse, bootlaoder says RE-LOCKED, no issues.
Hi everyone,
I have exactly the same problems that what has been told before... (Very bad battery life, specially when I'm using 3G data... and when the battery is under 20%, the phone stops completly only few minutes after...)
(My HOX+ is on ViperX+ but before I flashed this rom the problem was the same...)
I tried to do a recalibration of the battery but it didn't solved the problem...
I also tried the HTC instructions listed on the topic before, but it absolutly changed nothing.
My HOX+ is still on waranty but I ordered a new battery to change it by myself (I don't want to change the rom and relock the phone to send it on warranty, I prefer to do it by myself...), and the battery (annonced as genuine) cost about 26€ on Ebay delivered ($35 approximatly)...
I will come back here to tell you if it solved the problem!
ivicask said:
So got my hox+ from HTC back now, with battery replaced, and now its working properly, listening music since 14% -> 1% for like 45 mins and turning screen here and there to change track, and phone turned OFF after being few minute on 1%.
Not to mention battery lasts about 20-30% longer now, hope it holds like this
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Let's talk about this in the next month...
Small update about this.
I contacted HTC support and told them about this bug. Of course one of a consultant's suggestion was "factory reset" and "repair it", as always . But he suggested to wipe android cache via recovery. I did this 10 days ago with no hope this will help, but so far it is working. It seems as if the battery percentage goes quicker up when charging and the level shows now correct values. I will wait one or two more weeks to see if this really solved the issue. So far, it might have been simply luck .
I asked HTC's consultant also about the "hold three buttons while charging to calibrate battery" trick. He said that this trick is not present in their fix database. Weird.
I found this trick on another android website
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ht...g-red-while-charging-rapid-battery-drain.html
It looks as if it is not a safe solution?
I really hate to be that guy asking stupid battery questions, because we all know that battery stamina is subjective, but this is really hard for me to understand.
I am coming from the Note 3. My general weekday use with the Note 3 would get me 14-15 hours off the charger with 50% left by quitting time. I bluetooth stream music/podcasts for 8-9 hours a day. Pandora for maybe a couple hours on some days and average screen on time of 1.5 hours. I never had to do anything special in regards to battery life. Auto brightness and just regular use and it always lasted the day easy.
Today was my 2nd day with the HTC One Max and I managed to get just over 10 hours off the charger before it was completely depleted and shut off and it died in the middle of a work shift. Normal use for me, auto brightness, maybe 1-1.5 hours screen on time (estimation). Very depressing.
Battery use in settings looked pretty normal to me although I'm not seeing a place for actual screen on time? But my question is this, is this the kind of battery life you guys are seeing? Will it get better after a couple cycles? Based on the reviews I had read before purchasing the One Max, it was stated that the Max battery out lasted the Note 3 battery in testing so I wasn't even the least bit worried about it when making my purchase.
Not sure what my issue is but I won't be able to keep this device if I can't figure this out.
GrandMasterB said:
I really hate to be that guy asking stupid battery questions, because we all know that battery stamina is subjective, but this is really hard for me to understand.
I am coming from the Note 3. My general weekday use with the Note 3 would get me 14-15 hours off the charger with 50% left by quitting time. I bluetooth stream music/podcasts for 8-9 hours a day. Pandora for maybe a couple hours on some days and average screen on time of 1.5 hours. I never had to do anything special in regards to battery life. Auto brightness and just regular use and it always lasted the day easy.
Today was my 2nd day with the HTC One Max and I managed to get just over 10 hours off the charger before it was completely depleted and shut off and it died in the middle of a work shift. Normal use for me, auto brightness, maybe 1-1.5 hours screen on time (estimation) Very depressing.
Battery use looked pretty normal to me although I'm not seeing a place for actual screen on time? But my question is this, is this the kind of battery life you guys are seeing? Will it get better after a couple cycles? Based on the reviews I had read before purchasing it was stated that the Max battery out lasted the Note 3 battery in testing so I wasn't even the least bit worried about it.
Not sure what my issue is but I won't be able to keep this device if I can't figure this out.
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That's not normal. Factory reset it and don't load your apps in right away and see what you get. I have 50% remaining most nights when it goes on the charger.
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dottat said:
That's not normal. Factory reset it and don't load your apps in right away and see what you get. I have 50% remaining most nights when it goes on the charger.
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pretty much the same for me too...you must have a rogue app or process sucking your battery
dottat said:
That's not normal. Factory reset it and don't load your apps in right away and see what you get. I have 50% remaining most nights when it goes on the charger.
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wase4711 said:
pretty much the same for me too...you must have a rogue app or process sucking your battery
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I hadn't really had time to set anything up like I usually would. The only 2 apps I had installed were Pandora and PlayerPro but I'm more than happy to wipe and start from scratch. I've downloaded everything I need for S-OFF, recovery, ROMs etc, I was just waiting to make sure everything else was in order before I start tinkering. Just curious, are either of you guys running a custom ROM?
yeah, I am running viper max,and its fantastic!:good:
GrandMasterB said:
I hadn't really had time to set anything up like I usually would. The only 2 apps I had installed were Pandora and PlayerPro but I'm more than happy to wipe and start from scratch. I've downloaded everything I need for S-OFF, recovery, ROMs etc, I was just waiting to make sure everything else was in order before I start tinkering. Just curious, are either of you guys running a custom ROM?
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Stock rom... Rooted after s-off...using exposed framework for all of the tweaks I like.
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Stock rom... Rooted after s-off...using exposed framework for all of the tweaks I like.
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My phone on Stock Everything S-Off last a whole day with usually 50% left when I get home.
GrandMasterB said:
I hadn't really had time to set anything up like I usually would. The only 2 apps I had installed were Pandora and PlayerPro but I'm more than happy to wipe and start from scratch. I've downloaded everything I need for S-OFF, recovery, ROMs etc, I was just waiting to make sure everything else was in order before I start tinkering. Just curious, are either of you guys running a custom ROM?
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You don't need a custom ROM, this phone is perfect out of the box. Check with better battery stats what exactly is causing the issue. Could be Google play services.
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You don't need a custom ROM, this phone is perfect out of the box. Check with better battery stats what exactly is causing the issue. Could be Google play services.
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This is the kind of usage I am seeing. Very light usage today, maybe an hour of bluetooth music and 0 phone calls, several texts (12-15). Not sure what this means in the overall picture. I also installed BBS but not sure what I am looking for, I just know my stamina is weak sauce. :crying: I'm not sure I understand why Android system is using 75% of my battery and only has 4 minutes CPU, 24 minutes keep awake and 4mb data sent.
This is what I'm getting. I have the power flip case, but it only adds 1/3rd more battery..
*note the screen on time*
You must have an issue with something keeping your phone awake.
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Could you post your partial wake locks from better battery stats..
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Something like this would help to debug...
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Something like this would help to debug...
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Oh bummer. I threw it on the charger as soon as I got home so there isn't really anything to see right now but I look forward to seeing how this looks tomorrow after work. Thanks.
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Oh bummer. I threw it on the charger as soon as I got home so there isn't really anything to see right now but I look forward to seeing how this looks tomorrow after work. Thanks.
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Oh yeah you surely need it.. Do also dump all the data to text file using the share option..
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There is definitely something wrong there. based on your shot, it looks like a verizon phone that doesnt have the power save.
Mines an international version my girlfriend got for me, Not rooted, S-On, completely stock out of the box, and this is my stats, mines based on moderate to heavy usage: (Note: the battery power saver turns on at 14% by itself) And my battery charges in 2 hours to 100%.
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Oh bummer. I threw it on the charger as soon as I got home so there isn't really anything to see right now but I look forward to seeing how this looks tomorrow after work. Thanks.
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I have recently started listening to music over the Bluetooth and remembered this thread. were you able to able to find the issue?
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I have recently started listening to music over the Bluetooth and remembered this thread. were you able to able to find the issue?
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I haven't been able to figure it out yet. Most days its fine. Like Friday I listened to 4 hours straight of Pandora just because I wanted to see what would happen. Like usually I would stop it if I had to run errands or when I talk to people but I let it go for 4 solid hours. After bluetooth streaming 4 hours of Pandora and about 2 hours saved podcasts and 9:51 off the charger I still had 63% battery left. Thats really great results IMO. If I can get through and entire workday with 50% battery left I am thrilled. I think it was 1:13 screen on time or close. Not a lot of screen on time but that is a lot of Pandora use and that usually hits my battery the hardest.
But Tuesday earlier in the week I didn't listen to Pandora/Slacker at all, a little less than 2 hours bluetooth podcast,less than 2 hours screen on time and hit 38% by quitting time (about 10 hours off the charger). Every now and then there is a day like that where the battery just disappears even with super light use. I have GSAM installed and am trying to keep an eye on use but I always forget and plug it in when I get home (on days like Tuesday) or I plug it into the PC at some point to transfer files or photos and that reset the stats.
I tried that Snapdragon battery Guru and was really excited. The first day after it finished "learning" my routine I got through the whole day with 77% left but all day long I would stop getting texts and Gmails and the data connection would no longer work if I tried to open Facebook or Chrome. I would check status and mobile data is on, connected to the network, good signal but I couldn't get any data to work until I toggled airplane mode or rebooted the phone. SO I finally got frustrated with it, reset defaults and uninstalled it.
One thing I do notice is that I usually use 10-12% of my battery to wifi while I'm at work and the only wifi I use is when I am at home. If I turn the wifi off while I am at work I forget to turn it back on when I get home and now that I no longer have unlimited data that is a pretty big problem. I need to set an alarm or something that reminds me to turn it on/off everyday I guess.