hello, i have a T mo wing with touch it 2.3. i just install battery status 1.04 beta2. and the battery seem to drain quite fast. Any advice on the battery status setting to slow down battery drain. I do not want to over clock anything by the way. just like the battery icon in the home page. thank you !
Batterystatus wont drain your battery faster unless you overclock it. Anyway here other Options..
1) if you've resco explorer, they bungle today plugin(free with resco explorer(shareware)) with it, which can show battery
2) sbsh ilauncher also shows battery
3) spb pocket plus
4) batti(Freeware), while does not show battery info on today screen, shows it right above the topbar
i think what kdskamal was initially getting at (mayb) was that some cooks set batterystatus to overclock as the default setting, so you should check that this has not been done first.
I know you didn't want to try overclocking but if power consumption is such an issue you should consider trying the cpuscaler...i don't use it myself but I've heard that it makes a noticable difference. Apart from that all you can do is change the WLAN setting to best battery, (if you use WLAN alot) and keep the screen brightness down (yeah no sh*t!.)
hope that helps
Backlight may be the case. In touch it, the backlight is set on the extreme. This can be the cause of quick battery drain. Try stepping it down a little
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I was using SPB Pocket Plus 3 on my MDA Compact, very handy tool as it allowed me to have have the icon launchers and the abilty to see the battery meter and also the close all option. Only bad this is it really drained the battery.
I have an M500 and was wondering if there is an alternative out there that didn't drain the battery so much. Or is there a way i can run it to save battery power.
Cheers
pda said:
I was using SPB Pocket Plus 3 on my MDA Compact, very handy tool as it allowed me to have have the icon launchers and the abilty to see the battery meter and also the close all option. Only bad this is it really drained the battery.
I have an M500 and was wondering if there is an alternative out there that didn't drain the battery so much. Or is there a way i can run it to save battery power.
Cheers
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I am using an XDA Mini, and My battery does not run down. I'm not sure what version of SPB Plus I'm using, but I got it about 4 months ago.
pda said:
I was using SPB Pocket Plus 3 on my MDA Compact, very handy tool as it allowed me to have have the icon launchers and the abilty to see the battery meter and also the close all option. Only bad this is it really drained the battery.
I have an M500 and was wondering if there is an alternative out there that didn't drain the battery so much. Or is there a way i can run it to save battery power.
Cheers
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I also use SpB Pocket Plus 3 but i have no problems with Battery drain. Anyway, to answer your question.
Resco Explorer 2005 and iLauncher(v2.2) support Meters on the Today Screen, similar to those in SpB Pocket Plus.
Hi I use TrayLaunch (cut from PHM Powertoys) for shortcuts on the today screen (well taskbar but it’s the same thing) and a program called powerstatus which shows a thin green bar (power) top left of the screen and also a red bar (RAM) top right of the screen.
As for an app to close the programs rather then simply minimising, I did some testing on my Mini and found that it would only allow a maximum of 6 to remain “minimised” in RAM. If you opened a 7th app it would automatically shut down the first app opened and so on. I only lost about 2-3Mb of RAM (I have 25Mb available) leaving the 6 apps running in RAM and had no significant time issues. If I want to close all programs for whatever reason I just use the O2 “Running Programs” app and close them all together.
So i have scrapped the close program idea altogether.
pda said:
I was using SPB Pocket Plus 3 on my MDA Compact, very handy tool as it allowed me to have have the icon launchers and the abilty to see the battery meter and also the close all option. Only bad this is it really drained the battery.
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I've used all the versions of PP on my Xda II and have not seen any evidence of bettery drain. Why do you blame PP? I've not heard anyone else blame PP for battery drain either.
Could it not be a combination of PP and some other software on your device. You should hard reset than load just PP and check, then add each other app. one at a time and see when the problem reoccurs, that would indicate the combination which causes the problem
Try this.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=12
...or this:
http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5896
The thing is I actually quite like SPB but since i installed version 3 and WisBar Advanced, my battery just drained like mad.
I haven't installed Wisbar on the new phone and i'm sceptical of putting Pocket plus on the phone as i don't want to be down to 20% battery power at lunch time when i had 100% in the morning. It wasn't the battery either as i swapped it with my mates battery and the same thing was happening.
Is there a way of monitoring what is using the most amount of battery power.
I run Mortsaver, anyone heard of any issues with it.
For me works on PP. I don't think that your problem it's PP.
pda said:
The thing is I actually quite like SPB but since i installed version 3 and WisBar Advanced, my battery just drained like mad.
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Why are you using WisBar with SPB?
I was....
Installed it to test if it was any good.
pda said:
I was....
Installed it to test if it was any good.
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i am using both of it. Cause P+ has this nice tabbed menus and wizbar the fancy taskbars... cant notice any battery drainage so far?!
I use resco explorer 2005 (5.22) for today plugin (meters and shortcuts) and MagicButton for closing application, tasks managing and to have a little nice battery indicator on the top (between the time and the Ok/X button).
Hope this helps.
PS: i quit using PP 'cos i had the impression it was slowing my magician down (maybe it was just an impression). Actually, resco today plugin requires less ram to run than PP (see this link)
Bye bye,
Isidoro
The battery drain comes from MortSaver. There is an option "turn off device on activation" which, who would have thought, turns off the device instead of only the screen. This, who would have thought, also reduces the battery drain dramatically. Pocket Plus isn't causing battery drain nor significant performance decrease on my Magician.
I have Battery Status 1.04 beta on my 8125..I set the CPU Scaler to underclock to 112mhz when idle (original is 195mhz). It seems to be doing that, but idle battery life so far doesn't look any better, in fact maybe worse. Is CPUScaler not meant to be used like that?
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I have Battery Status 1.04 beta on my 8125..I set the CPU Scaler to underclock to 112mhz when idle (original is 195mhz). It seems to be doing that, but idle battery life so far doesn't look any better, in fact maybe worse. Is CPUScaler not meant to be used like that?
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it does / will / or is supposed to help by slowing down your processor when it isn't actively being used. But 112 seems really low to me. I've heard that some people find their phones won't wake back up when it drops too low (I think 123Mhz is what I've read people use but lower than that caused problems). Personally I set mine to 143 for the min.
If you are running WM6, there just seems to be more power drain. Also depends on what radio you are running (some are better than others) and if you leave WiFI and/or bluetooth turned on all the time.
Also I've read that some apps will cause more power draw due to them running. With BatteryStatus when your phone is idle, does the CPU % go down to 1 - 3%? If so, you should be ok. But if it stays higher, then something is running and that adds to more power draw.
There is also a thread in the Wizard WM6 forum on people finding that playing with the extended rom seems to impact on power draw if you've done a hard reset or similar (they are finding that by going back to an official rom like TMo 2.26 and then reinstalling the custom rom that doesn't have an extended rom the power draw seems to go away).
Hope some of that helps...
Haven't had any missed calls AFAIK, been running it like this for a couple days now. My ROM is Faria's AKU 3.3, which is pretty good might I add.
Idle CPU utilization stays at 1%
The extended ROM theory is interesting, maybe thats whats doing it. My last ROM didn't have anything like that and seemd to have better idle battery life.
If the phone is at idle, what does it matter where it's clocked? When the phone is active, the battery will be drained regardless of clock speed. I have my 8125 set at 192MHz, nd have no problem re-charging the battery.
Is it possible to download any software to give an estimate of how much battery life is leave in minutes etc ?
Also is there any software to allow you to underclock the device and improve the battery performance ?
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Is it possible to download any software to give an estimate of how much battery life is leave in minutes etc ?
Also is there any software to allow you to underclock the device and improve the battery performance ?
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spb pocket plus (or sbsh ilauncher I'm almost certain it's spb though) will display a battery icon with time left.
As for clocking, try this , but I don't think so yet
Try this one:
it also tryies to predict the remaining battery time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364278
I use xcpuscalar for overclocking, it displays % of cpu usage and allows you to enable OC depending on it. Works fine for me
Anyone experiencing unexplainable battery drain on their Atom Lifes? I recently did a hard reset then re-installed the following apps:
Pocket Informant 8
Pocket Plus 4
Hikeyboard
Phoneweaver 1.2.1
Smart Text
Worldmate 2007 Standard
Stow away keyboard driver
E-Wallet
List Pro
My ROM: WWE_RC2170507B2
Can it be one or a combination of my apps is causing this drain? Please help.
Right now, with regular use(phone and sms) I need to charge twice a day!
Thanks,
Bree
Bree said:
Anyone experiencing unexplainable battery drain on their Atom Lifes? I recently did a hard reset then re-installed the following apps:
Pocket Informant 8
Pocket Plus 4
Hikeyboard
Phoneweaver 1.2.1
Smart Text
Worldmate 2007 Standard
Stow away keyboard driver
E-Wallet
List Pro
My ROM: WWE_RC2170507B2
Can it be one or a combination of my apps is causing this drain? Please help.
Right now, with regular use(phone and sms) I need to charge twice a day!
Thanks,
Bree
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Bai!
Try to discharge the battery fully. then charge it. or the batt maybe old na. You may need to replace it, there are many good 3rd party batt available. just search the net
thanks for the suggestion! actually cleaned the battery contacts(read this from another post), feel there's a slight improvement. will try to drain the battery completely, and see what happens.
Yes, more than likely that your battery is dead and you need a new one. I just replaced mine
My battery life is decent, once I started keeping the screen brightness on a lower setting it helped a great deal.
Close software after use.
Hi
There is no issue about battery if i use it for basic phone and 30 minutes wifi browsing each day. GPRS browsing may consume too much power.
Do not use WorldMate if not required. HTC Plugin is 100 times better than it if you want only weather temparature.
Dont install too many softwares. If you opened any application try to close it completely eitehr with O2connect bar or from Running Programs in Memory section of Settings.
My O2 Atom Life uses around 40% battery power each day with basic phone use (1 hours talk) and 30 minutes wifi browsing and few other simple tasks of shorter usage.
Its exactly what they say....... Results may vary...lolz
i have o2 atom life .. if hot pda hence cannot charge.. but if pda normal (not hot) hence charge normaly..
why??
Hi all!
Not sure if this is isolated to the X1 or not, but I found that Batti (yes, I know it's discontinued now... but it is opensource freeware, so anyone can improve it now!), I found on my X1 that the CPU load, while charging and with "colour gradient" on, is constantly about 10-20% CPU load usage. My X1 would actually heat up (the battery temperature would increase) because of this, and not only that, it would take longer to charge up, because Batti was simultaneously draining the battery. And of course the phone was somewhat more sluggish.
I was about to un-install it, but then I decided to turn OFF the colour gradient function. BAM... CPU usage went down to 0-1%.
I tried turning off the "Charging indicator) which is simply stopping it from scrolling the bar left-to-right when it is plugged in, but that didn't make any difference.
The BIG DIFFERENCE is the Colour Gradient function. At least for the X1, i *HIGHLY* recommend you TURN IT OFF.
This problem might affect other phones as well, maybe only on WVGA (since we have a wider high resolution screen, perhaps Batti has to calculate too much to make the colour gradient smooth as it is?)... so maybe the Touch HD which also has the same resolution has the same problem with CPU load / Battery drain?
Anyway, thought I would bring this up, because I know quite a lot of people talk about battery drain while using Batti, and now I have identified the cause (and remedy) for this.
Hope this benefits others, and hopefully someone can maybe optimize the color gradient algorithm so it is not so CPU intensive!
(oh, and sometimes when we slide the keyboard out to change orientation or slide it back in, batti takes some time to redraw the bar... this also improves after you turn OFF this colour gradient function!)
Thanks!
Thanks man I didn't notic that but however I've noticed that something drains the battery very fast. Thanks for the useful info!
linkrage said:
Thanks man I didn't notic that but however I've noticed that something drains the battery very fast. Thanks for the useful info!
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Yeh, I just thought I'd post this here, so that if someone is doing a search, then they can find a solution easily!
no more automatic switch off
Hello, I have a touch HD with Batti installed, and a very important battery drain since installed. I've tried to remove the "gradiant option" as you said, and it seems to be better, but thought, i remarked that my phone doesn't want to turn off its screen after 20 secs of inactivity, as i esked it to do via the autonomy settings ant S2U2 settings, so i think it can explain the battery drain too. Let me know if u have the same problems with your phones, please.
Not exactly resolved, but it's a workaround.
No more prob
OK, good for me, i think my problem was not Batti's fault, but a new transparent theme fot tf3d that disabled the automatic screen shutdown, cause since i removed that (very nice) theme, i have no more battery drain with batti re-installed and "colour gradiant" turned off. Thx for the trick, so ...
Batti discontinued? -- http://code.google.com/p/batti/
May i know how do you guys check for the CPU usage?
I don't ... I'm only talking about the battery drain.
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Batti discontinued? -- http://code.google.com/p/batti/
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Yes, it is, but the author made it open source, so anyone can continue it now!
Thumbs Up!!!!
Yup! This actually did the rick for me. I cant comment on battery consumption yet cause i just tried it but Batti is definitely performng better now. Screen switching is zippy. With gradient on, batti used to take forever to appear when waking up the device from sleep mode (used to show the charging purple colour) but now that is also very fast as well.
I used to think that turning gradient off was ugle but it is actually more pracical now that im using it; the battery is fully green when full, yellow when below 50% (i think) and red when under 10%, even looks neater than with gradient on!
Good job!
Thanks for the post! Confirmed that CPU usage has dropped considerably from 7-8% to 0.2-0.3%. I had switched to a different battery indicator for awhile, but happy to be using batti again for all of its other features!
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May i know how do you guys check for the CPU usage?
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I use this:
http://www.acbpocketsoft.com/Products/acbTaskMan/acbTaskMan-Overview-6.html
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