Battery discharging very fast. - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi. I have my s2 with 2000 mAh Samsung battery, and on official firmware, and the battery is discharging very fast: 62% in 6h and 23 minutes on normal use. On F1 GalaxyNexus rom i have about 70% after 8 hours of normal use. There is a sollution to fix this huge drain?

Checking it simply, it can be guessed that your phone isnt going into deep sleep at all. Install betterbatterystats found free in xda and see whats causing the wake lock.

davidsgs23 said:
some drivel about "normal use"
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Your screenshots give no useful information to diagnose your alleged problem.
There's no such thing as "normal use".

Hi!
Have you installed any applications? It might be one of theese that holds a wake lock which prevents the phone from going down in "sleep mode".
Regards!
/Thomas

Uninstall Facebook
Galaxy S2 * Tapatalk 2

A bit of basic arithmetic tells me you've had a bit over 2 hrs of screen on time (that's a rough calculation), and you've used a bit more than a 3rd of battery capacity, so that indicates (again roughly) you'd expect to get ~6 hrs of screen on time.
What's the problem

Nothing wrong here if you didn't use a charger than 6 hours with 60% left means 12 hours easy.

I agree with the guy in the above post, Facebook potentially is the main culprit. Give it about 3 battery cycles? What kernel are you using?

Facebook is fine, he is using it that much, so are the calls. heck if I get that kinda battery while mostly idle I'll be happy.

davidsgs23 said:
Hi. I have my s2 with 2000 mAh Samsung battery, and on official firmware, and the battery is discharging very fast: 62% in 6h and 23 minutes on normal use. On F1 GalaxyNexus rom i have about 70% after 8 hours of normal use. There is a sollution to fix this huge drain?
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For me this is normal or probably we have some issues before...LOL...
Right now, I use F1 GalaxyNexus ROM...I can describe it for one word "AWESOME"!

Get better battery stats from xda and cpu spy from play store. Bbs will see if you have any rogue app that's draining battery and cpu spy will see if your phone is deep sleeping
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

Related

ATT version of SG2 sucks your battery?! *Fixed*

Update and FIX!
My phone is no longer draining massive amount of batt life when idle (3-5% after 7 hours of idle), android system usage is now down to 5-15% instead of 78-97% from before.
My fixes.
1. Turn off data syncing
2. Turn off wifi while on the road (so wifi doesn't constantly look for signals).
3. Clear memory
Yes, att installs a lot of bloatware that constantly update for changes.
If killing those services AND disabling data syncing doesn't help your problem, then you have a kernel problem (like myself).
If this is the case, do the following:
1. Take phone back to att and get a replacement
OR
2. Re-flash your android with the STOCK kernel found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
OR
3. Reflash with cognition x2 (reported to solve a member's problem, I didn't try this myself).
NOTE** This will root your phone, you will NOT get the exclamation mark during boot up, but kernel counter may be at "1" after this process.
Re-flashing my phone AND applying the three tricks I mentioned above worked for me..finally my phone is no longer crippled with crappy battery life and recharging is A LOT faster now.
I must be going crazy but this sg2 is killing me. I got it from Att yesterday and the battery life has been pretty HORRIBLE. (First time android user btw).
The phone will eat up 10% of my batter life after only 90 mins of idle. I checked the battery usage and Android OS is at around 78%!!! How do I fix this problem? I downloaded OS monitor and didn't really see anything that uses a lot of CPU, except for certain files syncing from time to time (but 2-3% usage usually).
Checked with battery spy and apparently the majority of the time, the phone was hovering around 200mhz 70% of the time and not deep sleep.
It's sad to have only 1.5 hours of display time with a battery of 45% left (7 hours total time)...coming from an Iphone 3gs, this is just unacceptable. I almost flashed to the 2.3.5 firmware but noticed it's NOT compatible with ATT's version of SG2.
I see people who have a total time of 2 days AND a screen time with 3 hours with 30% battery left. I wish I can get half that!
Running on 2.3.4, can't be the infamous drainage bug right? Thought that only happens with the 2.3.3s
Wifi on, application sync on, GPS off, brightness at 25%, using live wallpaper (the windmill). No active apps on. Downloaded aim, epocrates, battery monitor, cpu spy, and os monitor..rest of the apps are stock.
Update
According to my CPU spy
For the past hour that the phone was in idle
2:20mins at 1200mhz
4:52mins at 1000mhz
8:33 at 800mhz
1:28 at 500mhz
10:11 at 200mhz
33:36 in deep sleep
Currently Android CPU usage is @ 97%, display time of 7mins(2%)
2h 30mins since last charge (97% charge)..current power is 79%. Did nothing but idling and checking battery life.
So...that's 30 mins out of the hour in which my idling cellphone was hacking the pentagon....
Also the cellphone is a tiny bit warm to the touch (not cold)
I have 35% battery life remaining and have been unplugged for nearly 11 hours. This is significantly better than what I was getting with a Thunderbolt on Verizon, where I was needing to charge after about six hours of use. 11 hours and 35% remaining isn't the best in the world, but it's only been two days. The phone needs a few days to charge and discharge to determine true battery stats and will probably get better.
Being that this is your first Android battery life will not seem great but let it settle in for a few days it should get better.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using xda premium
Used Nexus S, LG Thrill, Samsung Focus, Infuse, This is the best Android phone for battery. I have 40% left with normal use (emails, calls, music, read news) at the end of the day. Huraaaaa
Singuy1234 said:
I must be going crazy but this sg2 is killing me. I got it from Att yesterday and the battery life has been pretty HORRIBLE. (First time android user btw).
The phone will eat up 10% of my batter life after only 90 mins of idle. I checked the battery usage and Android OS is at around 78%!!! How do I fix this problem? I downloaded OS monitor and didn't really see anything that uses a lot of CPU, except for certain files syncing from time to time (but 2-3% usage usually).
Checked with battery spy and apparently the majority of the time, the phone was hovering around 200mhz 70% of the time and not deep sleep.
It's sad to have only 1.5 hours of display time with a battery of 45% left (7 hours total time)...coming from an Iphone 3gs, this is just unacceptable. I almost flashed to the 2.3.5 firmware but noticed it's NOT compatible with ATT's version of SG2.
I see people who have a total time of 2 days AND a screen time with 3 hours with 30% battery left. I wish I can get half that!
Running on 2.3.4, can't be the infamous drainage bug right? Thought that only happens with the 2.3.3s
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If you only got the phone yesterday, its way to early to make any judgments on battery life. Battery needs at least 3-5 days to settle in and build consistent battery stats.
Also, what are you settings? Auto Brightness, Bluetooth, GPS, auto syn(exchange emal, gmail, facebook, etc). If your not using these, they should be OFF. It's easy to manually refresh email, etc.
I've seen some people reporting very high Android OS(over 50%) but still getting solid battery life.
I'm at 1hr display time, heavy texting. 72% left, been unplugged for 12hrs
no people what this guy is talking about is the android os bug. i have it too. hopefully an upgrade or different rom will fix it. my phone has been unplugged 11 hours with only 1 1/2 hour display but android os has ran for 52 minutes and now im at 32% battery life. once this bug gets worked out the battery life will be amazing.
I don't think that there is an android OS bug. My android OS shows as being 42% with 13hrs of moderate use and I am still at 67% battery remaining. This is by far the best battery use I have ever experienced on an android device! My cappy would not even come close to this performance and this is on stock ROM and kernel.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using xda premium
I'm very happy with mine, this was the first total drain on a new battery so I know it will only get better.
Total time: 18hr 25min
Display time: 4hr 48min
I think it's the system os, not the hardware. There were a few times when the battery didn't discharge itself at 7%/hour (had it idle for 3 hours and it went down like 2%).
And yes, everything is turned off except the sync app data and wifi. There's no option to turn off 4g btw. It's just weird how sometimes it's in this mode of power drainage, and then sometimes it doesn't drain much..but most of the time, it's draining.
I seriously doubt the phone can only run 2.5 hours worth of heavy usage or 12 hours of standby (it should last days!). If this is "normal" for android, then maybe I should have a visit back to att and exchange for an iphone (and I really don't to!)
Sledutah said:
I'm very happy with mine, this was the first total drain on a new battery so I know it will only get better.
Total time: 18hr 25min
Display time: 4hr 48min
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that is freakin incredible. i am gonna try a restore or something im down to 28% life. 1:40 display android os 1 hour.
can you please post the cpu total time in android os so i have an idea
VFO said:
I don't think that there is an android OS bug. My android OS shows as being 42% with 13hrs of moderate use and I am still at 67% battery remaining. This is by far the best battery use I have ever experienced on an android device! My cappy would not even come close to this performance and this is on stock ROM and kernel.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using xda premium
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can you please post the cpu total time in android os so i have an idea
VFO said:
I don't think that there is an android OS bug. My android OS shows as being 42% with 13hrs of moderate use and I am still at 67% battery remaining. This is by far the best battery use I have ever experienced on an android device! My cappy would not even come close to this performance and this is on stock ROM and kernel.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using xda premium
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I agree - as I said in the Android OS drain thread, even in "good" situations, Android OS displays way high on our systems. I think it's a reporting bug.
I dropped 2% in 5.5 hours completely idle (sitting on my shelf) last night - Android OS was at over 60%. It seems that so far for me, the higher it is, the better my battery life is.
I drop around 15-20% in 9 hours of being mostly idle at my desk at work - it's a weak-signal location so the radio eats much more battery.
One thing is that unlike first-generation GalaxyS devices and interim ones like the Infuse, the GS2 has a coulomb-counter type of battery gauge. This type of gauge sometimes needs to be calibrated with multiple charge/discharge cycles or it will misreport battery state of charge. (However, when calibrated, it's much more accurate.)
Edit: I do have some power management tweaks in the kernel I'm running, but they don't make that much off a difference except in some high-drain corner cases in my experience. I'll be releasing it sometime later this week depending on how well these antibiotics do their job.
Do i need to install a battery app to see the percentage? or we have a way?
Install this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15869868#post15869868
If you see "DataTracker-FD" or "Fast Dormancy" as the top wake lock, go into dialer
dial *#*#9900#*#*
disable Fast Dormancy (FD).
By default, the Samsung Galaxy S II has Fast Dormancy support enabled. One of the goals of Fast Dormancy is to increase the battery life of a device, by limiting the amount of signaling between the phone and the cell network. But, when Fast Dormancy it is not enabled in the network and is enabled on the phone it ironically works the other way around, and actually drains more battery than before.
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That applies to the I9100.
As far as I can tell, the I777 has FD disabled by default. (This may change once I9100 ROM ports start showing up)
Okay, charged my battery to 97%(I got a beep saying it's fully charged). Idled for the past 2 hours and 22 mins. Battery is at 86%.
According to the battery, my screen account for 2%, and the android system accounts for 97%.
This is a stock phone guys, I have no apps installed!
Entropy512 said:
One thing is that unlike first-generation GalaxyS devices and interim ones like the Infuse, the GS2 has a coulomb-counter type of battery gauge. This type of gauge sometimes needs to be calibrated with multiple charge/discharge cycles or it will misreport battery state of charge. (However, when calibrated, it's much more accurate.)
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How do you calibrate it?
sweetboy02125 said:
Do i need to install a battery app to see the percentage? or we have a way?
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Settings > About phone > Battery usage
WillEat4F00d said:
How do you calibrate it?
Settings > About phone > Battery usage
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I'm talking about live battery display. I installed no lock and have no lock screen to see how many % left.
sweetboy02125 said:
I'm talking about live battery display. I installed no lock and have no lock screen to see how many % left.
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Just search up "battery indicator" in the Market and you'll get a few to choose from.
I too got mine yesterday and started tinkering around with installing apps and such to test out all functions before I rooted it and move onto cm7 most likely. The 1 things I noticed was that the battery was NOT completely full when it was first turned on at the store so once it got a little lower after playing with it I charged it up overnight. Today the battery was WAY BETTER and was not dead yet. I have been using it NON STOP today, rebooting it, testing it, trying to root it, rebooting some more, some time using tango to test it out, watched a Netflix movie, pretty much taking full advantage of it all day. I finally decided to charge it up and use my Captivate a bit. I didn't keep track of usage and times today but I KNOW it lasted a WAY LONGER time with all I was doing with it than my Cappy. Tomorrow I will check more out possibly before putting on a rom.
So LOOOONNNNGGGG STORY short make sure you charge it up once you get it before messing with it too much and then it will LAST LONGER.
Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.5Ghz/Undervolted
After two nights of completely draining then recharging the battery to full, the battery has gotten significantly better. I'm trying to drain it again before I go to bed tonight but I don't think I'll make it.
I played the entirety of Toy Story 3 on max brightness, and only burned 20% of the battery!

[Q] Do I need a new battery?

Hey guys,
I have been running unnamed rom lately, but on any other rom including stock. My battery lasts for like 8 hours with little use and 4 hours with moderate use. When I see what is draining my battery it looks normal as the display uses the most, but I only have it at 30% brightness most of the time I have insurance should I see if I can get a new battery? Or any other tips?
Can you post a pic of your battery usage?
Have you tried to calibrate the battery yet?
Sent from my SGH-I777 using XDA
kingsfan917 said:
Hey guys,
I have been running unnamed rom lately, but on any other rom including stock. My battery lasts for like 8 hours with little use and 4 hours with moderate use. When I see what is draining my battery it looks normal as the display uses the most, but I only have it at 30% brightness most of the time I have insurance should I see if I can get a new battery? Or any other tips?
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Many things could cause battery drainage, such as oc-ing. You could find the original Samsung battery on eBay for a cheap price. Before buying one, try doing the following:
Clear OC/UV settings (i.e. put to defaults)
Download Battery Calibration by NeMa (on the Play Market)
Charge your phone and wait until it reaches 100%*
Tap on "Battery Calibration" and done
Once calibrated, use your phone as you normally would until the battery dies. Only when it dies you can charge it. You can charge as you please from then on.
Note: If it does not reach up to 100%, go to CWM and clear battery stats.
kingsfan917 said:
Hey guys,
I have been running unnamed rom lately, but on any other rom including stock. My battery lasts for like 8 hours with little use and 4 hours with moderate use. When I see what is draining my battery it looks normal as the display uses the most, but I only have it at 30% brightness most of the time I have insurance should I see if I can get a new battery? Or any other tips?
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Which other firmwares? Anything UCKK6-based has known documented wifi drain issues.
The usual applies - look in battery statistics, use BetterBatteryStats to hunt wakelocks.
sykoj82 said:
Have you tried to calibrate the battery yet?
Sent from my SGH-I777 using XDA
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THIS DOES NOTHING ON ANY SAMSUNG GALAXY S DEVICE!
never tried the battery calibration?... does it actually work or no?
have you installed any new apps recently? those apps that use a lot of apps in the background are a pest to your battery life as they usually won't show up in the battery monitor. try disabling your data when not in use and see if that helps. if the current rom you are on does not have a toggle bar with data use the "data enabler widget" by Farproc.

[Q] normal battery drain rate for CM7.2?

I got a battery app installed which shows % in the top bar. It stays at 100% for a while but when it starts draining with the screen on I lose about 1% every 1-2 minutes, I think its somewhere in between, if I am taxing the cpu it more frequeent than every minute, this would give me about 2-3 hours usage which seems extremely low.
Brightness is min.
wifi/3g off.
auto sync off.
accuweather is installed (mentioned as it has a service running).
I get the drain simpley from doing things like scrolloing app drawer and checking sms.
With screen off in sleep mode battery drain is ok less than 5% in 12 hours. I have this issue confirmed on 2 different batteries.
If this is normal fine, I just want to compare to others on this.
I used to get around 1 day for heavy use ( like wifi, games, etc.) and 1.5 to 2 days for moderate use Which ROM are you using ??
Cm7 based roms use more battery than stock, cuz also their performance is a lot better.
Use uot Kitchen to get the % battery instead of an app.
Also the launcher u use affects battery. ie Go launcher drains plenty of battery.
If you can't squeeze a day's worth of battery from ur phone ur probably using it too much (how much does a laptop last on battery, seriously!)
Sent from the other side... of the screen
dxppxd said:
Cm7 based roms use more battery than stock, cuz also their performance is a lot better.
Use uot Kitchen to get the % battery instead of an app.
Also the launcher u use affects battery. ie Go launcher drains plenty of battery.
If you can't squeeze a day's worth of battery from ur phone ur probably using it too much (how much does a laptop last on battery, seriously!)
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you mean a day of constant use screen on or would there be periods of it sleeping?
My phone lasts more than a day mostly 3-5 days but thats mainly because its idle most of the time. However I plan to transfer some tasks to it and it seems I will need to keep the charger in during the day.
Compared to stock CM I think isnt too bad, the drain was also bad on stock with the screen on and during calls but the only reason I specified CM is that I didnt have the % meter on my stock rom which means I dont have the same comparison.
My current rom is vo-1's 30 may build. I had bugs on official nightly that vo-1's resolved (including force reboot when using market) so is the reason I am using it.
Incidently my laptop drains its battery slower than my android.
Why I read that so many use thier phones like 2 days, and I can't even get a 12 hours fair use.
I use 2G (3g drains my battery really quick), some whatsapp, some FB and some calls. Music it's only in the morning on my way to work.
I've buy a new battery from ebay, but, it's the same. Using CM 7.1 rom "The End 4.0"
yeah my hunch seems right that it wasnt overall much diff to stock (that also drained superfast when screen on). IN fact during sleep it seems improved over stock.
I am over 4 days at the moment with 35% charge left. mostly sleep. It lost 3% during the time it took me to fetch the below stats. Note that calls like my earlier hunch as well seem to drain battery far more than display.
4 days 8 hours 38% left
display on 40mins used 4%
voice calls on 1hr 5mins used 33%
mobile standby 41% 4hrs 8 mins
phone idle 4days 7hrs 23%
chrcol said:
yeah my hunch seems right that it wasnt overall much diff to stock (that also drained superfast when screen on). IN fact during sleep it seems improved over stock.
I am over 4 days at the moment with 35% charge left. mostly sleep. It lost 3% during the time it took me to fetch the below stats. Note that calls like my earlier hunch as well seem to drain battery far more than display.
4 days 8 hours 38% left
display on 40mins used 4%
voice calls on 1hr 5mins used 33%
mobile standby 41% 4hrs 8 mins
phone idle 4days 7hrs 23%
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That's insane... either you DO NOT have data connection (an internet plan) or you are just a lucky guy. 2 days are barely believable but 4??? Give me a break!!!
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chrcol said:
yeah my hunch seems right that it wasnt overall much diff to stock (that also drained superfast when screen on). IN fact during sleep it seems improved over stock.
I am over 4 days at the moment with 35% charge left. mostly sleep. It lost 3% during the time it took me to fetch the below stats. Note that calls like my earlier hunch as well seem to drain battery far more than display.
4 days 8 hours 38% left
display on 40mins used 4%
voice calls on 1hr 5mins used 33%
mobile standby 41% 4hrs 8 mins
phone idle 4days 7hrs 23%
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Surely, you're not using WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, handling e-mails or any of the like. If you're just using the SGA like a normal phone, OF COURSE it can give you that kind of performance. If I'm wrong, please correct me.
nanox_al said:
That's insane... either you DO NOT have data connection (an internet plan) or you are just a lucky guy. 2 days are barely believable but 4??? Give me a break!!!
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He barely touched his phone Anyone can get 5-6 days like that! And being on Stock, it's extremely probable.
Well mate you can't expect battery on a cm rom. Performance and good battery isn't an option on cm. Performance is great on cm but battery, nah!
Sent from my Galaxy S IV
yeah sadly it seems noone has a comparison that I need.
Which is time needed for 1% usage whilst screen is on.
This isnt on stock tho the phone is on CM7.2 vo-1 build.
From what I see the battery life is around the same as stock.
Now I am over 5 days with 17% left. Just did a phone call and it stayed at 17%. When below 20% on stock the phone was unuseable.
abhibnl said:
Well mate you can't expect battery on a cm rom. Performance and good battery isn't an option on cm. Performance is great on cm but battery, nah!
Sent from my Galaxy S IV
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Tru that! I'll try with a stock one. The only BIG problem, is that WIFI keeps disconnecting...
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[Q] My 10.1 tab battery running out very fast

Hi everyone master..
My tab's battery suddenly running out very fast..I put at home (59%) then go to work. Come back home (20%). About 12 hour 14 hour interval loss 39% without processing anything.
Also, the wifi,bluetooth GPS is disable. Do you know what is the problem. I didnt have this problem before and suddenly feel the battery getting die faster on last saturday.
Can i claim from Samsung? and what is the procedure of claiming?
really need your consultation.
manryan11 said:
Hi everyone master..
My tab's battery suddenly running out very fast..I put at home (59%) then go to work. Come back home (20%). About 12 hour 14 hour interval loss 39% without processing anything.
Also, the wifi,bluetooth GPS is disable. Do you know what is the problem. I didnt have this problem before and suddenly feel the battery getting die faster on last saturday.
Can i claim from Samsung? and what is the procedure of claiming?
really need your consultation.
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Did you just flash a rom, kernel or model? You usually have to let it go through a few battery cycles before the true battery life is known.
You can also download better battery stats from xda, and cpu spy from play store to see your wakelocks and if your tab is deep sleeping
Sent from my GT-P7510 using xda premium
kilometers4 said:
Did you just flash a rom, kernel or model? You usually have to let it go through a few battery cycles before the true battery life is known.
You can also download better battery stats from xda, and cpu spy from play store to see your wakelocks and if your tab is deep sleeping
Sent from my GT-P7510 using xda premium
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Hi Bro, thanks for your prompt reply.
FYI, I didn't do anything on my tab, is just that its battery suddenly drain very fast. I will try the suggestions of yours.
rapid battery drain
Hi,
I was having the same problem on my unrooted Tab 10.1 a couple of weeks ago. This progressed to it barely keeping up with the amount of battery discharge during use. At first I assumed the cord was wornout. B ut when new corde arrived no better. Now determined to be bad female end on tab itself as charging was positional, while it still worked at all. Upside? New tab arrives tomorrow. Hope this helps.

[Q] Expected battery life on CM9?

There are loads of battery threads(almost too many to get any useful info out of!) but I just wanted to check that there is not actually something wrong with my Galaxy S2 in regards to battery life so can someone please let me know what the expected battery life is when running the following:
CM9.1 Stable
CM9 stock Kernel
BVP7 modem
I have the following apps installed along with the standard gapps:
Facebook
Flipboard
BBS
CPU Spy
Flipboard
Whatsapp
Chrome
Titanium Backup
Dropbox
IMDB
Swiftkey 3
Viber
Twitter
Superuser
I have also tried the last 3 Siyah Kernels and pretty much the same battery life of about 14 hours max with between 2-3 hours of Screen on time before the battery dies to 0%!
In BBS there is about a 20% Kernel Wakelock constantly and about 8% Partial wakelock resulting in CPU Spy showing the phone never gets into more then about 82% deep sleep!
So simple question, what type of battery life are others getting with similar setups as I am starting to wonder if my S2 is actually faulty only getting 14 hours?
Thanks to all that take the time to reply...
Reni10 said:
There are loads of battery threads(almost too many to get any useful info out of!) but I just wanted to check that there is not actually something wrong with my Galaxy S2 in regards to battery life so can someone please let me know what the expected battery life is when running the following:
CM9.1 Stable
CM9 stock Kernel
BVP7 modem
I have the following apps installed along with the standard gapps:
Facebook
Flipboard
BBS
CPU Spy
Flipboard
Whatsapp
Chrome
Titanium Backup
Dropbox
IMDB
Swiftkey 3
Viber
Twitter
Superuser
I have also tried the last 3 Siyah Kernels and pretty much the same battery life of about 14 hours max with between 2-3 hours of Screen on time before the battery dies to 0%!
In BBS there is about a 20% Kernel Wakelock constantly and about 8% Partial wakelock resulting in CPU Spy showing the phone never gets into more then about 82% deep sleep!
So simple question, what type of battery life are others getting with similar setups as I am starting to wonder if my S2 is actually faulty only getting 14 hours?
Thanks to all that take the time to reply...
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I get 2,300 hours only of battery backup with those settings.
Actually, what's the meaning of this thread?
I think that's the average battery life with CM9, but we can't really tell cause we all have different types of usage
Did you let the kernel/rom settle so you could get the best out of it?
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
S2 i9100 cm9 9.1.0 stock kernel xxlpw
Batt with low brightness and almost no use of the phone 22 hours!
With use of the phone low brightness using apps 14 hours
Low brightness and heavy use of the phone 5 hours
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I see some people posting saying they can get 5 hours of screen on time and 2 days from the battery but mine would never be able to get that so is my phone faulty?
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Reni10 said:
I see some people posting saying they can get 5 hours of screen on time and 2 days from the battery but mine would never be able to get that so is my phone faulty?
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app
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NO. Your phone is not faulty.
We all use our phones differently, we have different configurations etc.
Reni10 said:
There are loads of battery threads(almost too many to get any useful info out of!) but I just wanted to check that there is not actually something wrong with my Galaxy S2 in regards to battery life so can someone please let me know what the expected battery life is when running the following:
CM9.1 Stable
CM9 stock Kernel
BVP7 modem
I have the following apps installed along with the standard gapps:
Facebook
Flipboard
BBS
CPU Spy
Flipboard
Whatsapp
Chrome
Titanium Backup
Dropbox
IMDB
Swiftkey 3
Viber
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I have also tried the last 3 Siyah Kernels and pretty much the same battery life of about 14 hours max with between 2-3 hours of Screen on time before the battery dies to 0%!
In BBS there is about a 20% Kernel Wakelock constantly and about 8% Partial wakelock resulting in CPU Spy showing the phone never gets into more then about 82% deep sleep!
So simple question, what type of battery life are others getting with similar setups as I am starting to wonder if my S2 is actually faulty only getting 14 hours?
Thanks to all that take the time to reply...
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You're expecting people to have the same apps and use the device the same way as you.. and then on top of that, find this thread and tell you how long their battery lasted??
I think that is VERY unlikely. Plus, there are already soo many battery threads, you just have to search for them. Good Luck.
Last I used, fb was a battery hogger. What about wake locks? Any major partial and/or kernel wake locks? The stock CM9 kernel is not so customizable, check out fluxii kernel or siyah..... 4-5 hours of screen time is possible, I'll link you to a thread that will help you save battery.
Edit: here is a thread from which I was surprised that my battery could do what I thought it couldn't.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21851909 I followed the CM9 + siyah magic configuration.
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Lots of apps that need sync don't help... betterbatterystats will also tell you if any apps are misbehaving.
Also checking the voltage of your battery to see of its faulty may prove rewarding.
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Spiralzz said:
Last I used, fb was a battery hogger. What about wake locks? Any major partial and/or kernel wake locks? The stock CM9 kernel is not so customizable, check out fluxii kernel or siyah..... 4-5 hours of screen time is possible, I'll link you to a thread that will help you save battery.
Edit: here is a thread from which I was surprised that my battery could do what I thought it couldn't.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21851909 I followed the CM9 + siyah magic configuration.
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I have tried the latest Siyah(with the config in the thread!) and Fluxii kernels now as well and still no where near 4-5 hours screen time!
The most I can get it about 2-3 hours screen time and about 14 hours of total battery time!
Right now after a full charge I seem to have lost 31% in 4 1/2 hours with 35 mins of Screen on time!
BBS is not really helping as it is saying i have 3% kernel wakelocks and 2% partial wakelocks but I cant seem to do anything about them after reading BBS threads for days!
I cant really believe that you have to do all this just so your phone can run for maybe 18 hours without going flat as coming from an iPhone4 I was able to get 2 days out of my phone before i needed charging so very disappointed in the S2 battery life.

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