Database Users

Tips on Getting the Most out of your Battery

Anybody have any tips on getting the most out of your battery. I'm currently rumming WM6 business edition and just want to know how I can get more out of my battery. I have read to turn off wi-fi and gprs when not using it.. is there anything else that can be done. I have all the battery patches but i dont feel as if they are working..any help would be greatly appreciated

turn IR beam off too...

is that set on by default?

Turn off your phone overnight. You can get an app to do this by schedule (I cannot remember the name, sorry).

PaulMdx said:
Turn off your phone overnight. You can get an app to do this by schedule (I cannot remember the name, sorry).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do you mean turn my phone off when i recharge? I ususal recharge during the night

i pretty much never run out of battery and i am running windows mobile 6, all i do is just make sure the screen is off (the button on the top right) and it really helps the battery out

jawnsixteen said:
i pretty much never run out of battery and i am running windows mobile 6, all i do is just make sure the screen is off (the button on the top right) and it really helps the battery out
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do you do this during the night or throughout the day. Thus having the phone set to turn off after 5 mins of inactivity

by the way, how the heck can i disable "gprs always on" thing? i don't need gprs often, so it just hangs out there without a real purpose, and probably draining my battery a bit...

banannq said:
by the way, how the heck can i disable "gprs always on" thing? i don't need gprs often, so it just hangs out there without a real purpose, and probably draining my battery a bit...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can use NoData. Works well for me. Needs registration to the website:
http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=246171&st=0

that just lets you turn it on and off. is there any app that turns on only when needed ie you try to access the internet or get a mms messaging

k2e15 said:
that just lets you turn it on and off. is there any app that turns on only when needed ie you try to access the internet or get a mms messaging
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
WM6 should do this after a standard install...by default! Make sure you have GPRS AlwaysOn turned off (Using a Registry Editor search for "Always" and find your matching Internet Connection. Set the value of the AlwaysOn DWORD to 0, not 1.)
Let me know if you need any other help.

i press the button on the top right whenever its not in use. And of course at night.

i set the display to the 2nd bar from the left. it saves way more battery then having the bar in the middle. i turned off the beam. i set power off to 2mins and backlight out @ 30secs. i push the power button (top right) during any phone call to turn the display off. my battery can last me all day and i talk/txt alot.

Buy an extended battery?

aNiMeMaN14 said:
Buy an extended battery?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
lol I have done that!! but I know that there has to be away to save battery.. THx guys I'm going to try these suggestions!

k2e15 said:
Do you mean turn my phone off when i recharge? I ususal recharge during the night
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I meant turn it off if you leave it overnight without charging it. My point is moot if you charge it overnight anyway.
I charge mine at work mostly, so I don't charge it overnight. Generally I do so every couple of days.

hpspec said:
WM6 should do this after a standard install...by default! Make sure you have GPRS AlwaysOn turned off (Using a Registry Editor search for "Always" and find your matching Internet Connection. Set the value of the AlwaysOn DWORD to 0, not 1.)
Let me know if you need any other help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Found it..but there is not a way to actually turn off gprs if I use it for direct push correct?

ok..not to start something but if uve gone as far to buy a ext battery and ur still not happy w/ batt life sell ur device and buy a nokia they are great on battery.. u cant expect to get good battery life out of this thing..i mean look what it does...

What kind of battery life are you seeing with the WM6 BE rom? I installed it a week ago and so far I've been AMAZED as the battery life. With my reg-tweaked Cingular 2.25 stock rom I'd end the day between 45-55%. Now It's 75-80% solid.
Also, it seems that Wifi uses less power in this rom too...

As of right now I'm not using my extended battery because i wanted to go back to the original battery that came with the phone for a short time since the other battery is bulkier, I only like to use it during the weekends when I'm not close to a power source. I've used all the tips in this thread and they have all worked as my battery has been going strong. thx

Backlight issue for the htc hd2 t-mobile leo

well like the title says its a prob that i have and i do not know how to solve it. the prob is that when i try to change the backlight to a percent i want it to (example from 100% to 20%, in order to save battery) it doesn't show the bar to change it....it just shows the automatic check box (which im using as a default) and the external battery bar which works but not the one before it the battery backlight percentage. maybe someone has the same problem and could find the solution cause it a bothersome to have my phone not use the custom backlight that i want it on not the automatic one which could drain my battery. here is a picture of what i mean.......

To manually adjust the backlight, uncheck the option "Automatically adjust backlight".

my problem is that i can't see the bar that i can use to select the % of the back light i wanna use. Yea when i uncheck the automatic the screen goes to like maybe 20% blacklight which is too dark to see, i wanna change the % to a little higher so i can see but thats the thing i cannot see the bar in order to change the % of my backlight

Sylux said:
my problem is that i can't see the bar that i can use to select the % of the back light i wanna use. Yea when i uncheck the automatic the screen goes to like maybe 20% blacklight which is too dark to see, i wanna change the % to a little higher so i can see but thats the thing i cannot see the bar in order to change the % of my backlight
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
reboot you're phone... is this a stock rom or custom rom? if it's a custom rom, the chef mixed in the incompatible HTC Services (htc util), also could be shared resources.

Sylux said:
well like the title says its a prob that i have and i do not know how to solve it. the prob is that when i try to change the backlight to a percent i want it to (example from 100% to 20%, in order to save battery) it doesn't show the bar to change it....it just shows the automatic check box (which im using as a default) and the external battery bar which works but not the one before it the battery backlight percentage. maybe someone has the same problem and could find the solution cause it a bothersome to have my phone not use the custom backlight that i want it on not the automatic one which could drain my battery. here is a picture of what i mean.......
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This happened to me when I tried installing SPB TV and unistalled it. I had to do a factory reset to get it back. I read somewhere on here that there is a reg-edit to fix it but I don't feel comfortable messing with my registry. So I just did a factory reset and it fixed it

Sylux said:
well like the title says its a prob that i have and i do not know how to solve it. the prob is that when i try to change the backlight to a percent i want it to (example from 100% to 20%, in order to save battery) it doesn't show the bar to change it....it just shows the automatic check box (which im using as a default) and the external battery bar which works but not the one before it the battery backlight percentage. maybe someone has the same problem and could find the solution cause it a bothersome to have my phone not use the custom backlight that i want it on not the automatic one which could drain my battery. here is a picture of what i mean.......
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
HKCU\ControlPanel\BackLight\Brightness Change to 3

For those who do not want to mess with the Registry, I've added the Registry Settings into an easy to install CAB file. Just install to main memory and your Brightness sliders will be returned.
This sets your brightness to FULL (10) on both battery and AC power, so be sure to go in and adjust accordingly for your preferences.

[Q] Battery Issues;BSOD/SOD;EBL?

So, I'm at a loss of what to do here. No matter what settings I seem to use I can't get good/decent battery life.
In fact, I get terrible battery life. With light to moderate usage I have to charge my phone at least two times a day, mostly three. Current widget reads that at standby I'm anywhere between 55mA-70mA and when in use 200mA-500mA. When charging it reaches 400mA-600mA
I see everyone talking about being able to get 5-10mA and I'm amazed at this. I've searched and read most "Battery saver" threads and none of it seems to work.
I was originally using Chucky rom lite and when I noticed the drain was abnormal I switched to the set up that chiasoft uses in his ReadMe for the ROM (stock 2.10ROM/2.08 radio).
Although since switching to the stock WinMo ROM I had repeated BSOD and SOD issues. To the point that it became unusable. I switched over to latest Energy ROM.I installed EBL and on both Stock and this Energy ROM. I am still having BSOD/SOD problems. Could it be the EBL? I plan on upgrading the radio to 2.12 in a few after I test out this EBL theory.
My setup as of this post is this:
WinMo ROM: Energy.BLACKSTONE.21916.Sense2.5.Nov.08 (Switched back to Stock 2.10)
Radio: 2.08.50.08_2 (Switched to 2.12)
Android: MooMoo Froyostone Sense 3.2 w/hastrain kernel
SetCPU:
998max/245min Ondemand on boot
Profiles: Screen off; Priority 100; 384max/245min ondemand
Battery <25% 576max/245min Priority 0 ondemand
Sampling 20000; Up Threshold 40
Advanced Task Killer:
Kill Level Agressive
I really don't want my LI-ON battery to die before I've even had the phone for the year. So if anyone can think of anything to help I'd be ever so grateful.
And of course, thanks to all the people who make all this possible.
(Sorry for the tl;dr post. I wanted to give as much info as possible.)

when you fully charge your batter what is your mV ? use the battery life widget to determine this. If it is not nowhere 4000mV once fully charged, you might need to consider buying a replacement battery.
btw. my mA reading is actually worst than yours. Might have to calibrate the battery again later.

mofoahh said:
when you fully charge your batter what is your mV ? use the battery life widget to determine this. If it is not nowhere 4000mV once fully charged, you might need to consider buying a replacement battery.
btw. my mA reading is actually worst than yours. Might have to calibrate the battery again later.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
idk what it is fully charged. I'll be sure to check it later though. How do you calibrate the battery?
Also, I realized that I made an oversight on my part. When I switched to the stock WinMo rom I hadn't realized fully that it changed my Radio to 2.08 even though I posted it.
The rom chef recommends 2.10ROM/2.12 Radio, so that's what I switched to to check out that combination.

btw change it to interactive not on demand.
you charge the battery when your phone is off. Till your charge indicator turns green.
Once that is off. you can use root explorer or adb and go to rm/data/system delete the batterystats.bin leave your phone plugged in while you are deleting the batterystats.bin file
i prefer root explorer. but its not free and your device has to be rooted.
let the phone drain the battery till its dead and turn it on again to make sure it is completely dead.
charge the phone like you would usually afterwards.

mofoahh said:
btw change it to interactive not on demand.
you charge the battery when your phone is off. Till your charge indicator turns green.
Once that is off. you can use root explorer or adb and go to rm/data/system delete the batterystats.bin leave your phone plugged in while you are deleting the batterystats.bin file
i prefer root explorer. but its not free and your device has to be rooted.
let the phone drain the battery till its dead and turn it on again to make sure it is completely dead.
charge the phone like you would usually afterwards.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't have interactive in my options.

what version are you running?

mofoahh said:
what version are you running?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
2.03 I got it through here.
Just installed 2.04 and there still isn't an interactive.

thats odd. because im on 2.0.4 also and I am able to select interactive.
btw i followed this guide for the battery conditioning.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=827762&highlight=ultimate+setcpu
and this one for my setcpu settings.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8246854&postcount=4

mofoahh said:
thats odd. because im on 2.0.4 also and I am able to select interactive.
btw i followed this guide for the battery conditioning.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=827762&highlight=ultimate+setcpu
and this one for my setcpu settings.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8246854&postcount=4
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah. No interactive settings. Also, that guide recommends 1190 max, but mine only goes up to 998.
Also, I finally got it to down to 7mA in standby. When I changed the radio to 2.12 and using a 2.10 stock WinMo rom.

no issues here getting 48 hours of light use, or a full 24 of moderate use...

I've yet to "condition" my battery. I'm worried it'll do more harm than good. Especially since I just got it finally to a decent mA draw. Although I'm worried my phone won't charge up to 100%. Always stop at 95.
Is conditioning really necessary/important?

easy answer... whats your full charge voltage? shuld be 4.2
if not , your looseing batt life..

t1h5ta3 said:
easy answer... whats your full charge voltage? shuld be 4.2
if not , your looseing batt life..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yes full charge voltage should be around 4.2. Try charging it with the phone OFF till your charge indicator is green. This way you can achieve a full charge.
By the way how the hell are you getting 48 hours on light usage?? excuse my language. What are your setcpu settings, configurations. etc.

mofoahh said:
yes full charge voltage should be around 4.2. Try charging it with the phone OFF till your charge indicator is green. This way you can achieve a full charge.
By the way how the hell are you getting 48 hours on light usage?? excuse my language. What are your setcpu settings, configurations. etc.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, 48 hours seems improbable. I finally got it down to 7-10mA on standby, and I think it charges up to 4.2 but I'll find out for sure tonight.

same
I had the same problem, make sure you use EBL android launcher and set to autoboot at 3 seconds. Make sure you restart your phone anytime youw ant to load android. I assure you this will work.

My HD2, like all others can be flattened in 2-3 hours with windows/android if used hard, the difference seems to be on very light usage/standby win mobile could last 4 days... with everything turned off and basically not used Android would struggle to last 2 days !
Same phone same network/signal levels etc, can only be poor power management within Android, and I think that means voltages for all the processor and comms modules, not just a simple case of turning down speeds.
What do others think ?

Update: Upon switching to WinMo:2.10 and Radio:2.12+ MooMoo's MMS fixed froystone3.2 I was achieving 6-10mA in standby. The phone would last all day with a two-three hour charging period with moderate usage. Low battery use, rare DC's. Perfect. Best build I've used so far.
I'm noticing a new problem however, and I wonder if it's happened to Chiasoft who recommended this build. I'm getting serious touch screen freezes since last night. Anytime before that the set up was working AMAZINGLY.
Now? It's almost unusable sometimes. This morning it was happening in Android so I switched to WinMo and surprisingly enough it happened in there too. So I read touch freezes are Radio problems mostly. Is this true? Should I switch to a new radio? I'm confused as to why it would just randomly start happening though and worried it would mess up my battery troubles I just solved.
Any advice?

Hmm. I noticed that it almost always freezes when I hold down the end home button to turn off the phone or data or to silence it. I can't actually use the touch screen again until I hit the button again to put it to sleep.
I wonder if it's hardware related because it was happening in WinMo that way as well.

Okay, so now the entire adroid system is acting up mostly related to the touchscreen. Like I use the calculator and it appears that i'm holding a button down. Or I try to make a call and it's not responding. It appears that when I hit end call button repeatedly it allows me to unlock the phone. But when holding down the end call button to get to the Power Off screen nothing in that menu is responsive.
It seems... software related, but I'm not sure. Any info would be helpful. I'm going to reformat my card and reinstall droid and see what happens.
So, called t-mobile. They're sending me a new replacer phone. Oh well. We'll see how that one goes.

pretzdothack said:
Okay, so now the entire adroid system is acting up mostly related to the touchscreen. Like I use the calculator and it appears that i'm holding a button down. Or I try to make a call and it's not responding. It appears that when I hit end call button repeatedly it allows me to unlock the phone. But when holding down the end call button to get to the Power Off screen nothing in that menu is responsive.
It seems... software related, but I'm not sure. Any info would be helpful. I'm going to reformat my card and reinstall droid and see what happens.
So, called t-mobile. They're sending me a new replacer phone. Oh well. We'll see how that one goes.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I give you only a very short suggestion
You have just to DELETE SETCPU
and delete ANY TASK KILLER (you can keep it just to close any apps that could hang, but not to "free up ram")
Android is not Windows, you dont need to free up ram, and you dont need to overclock/undervolt to gain some minutes of battlife despite stability.
Talk to any Dev and they will confirm this.
Good Luck

[Q] Screen Render Rate Drops After Certain Battery Level

Hi,
I'm a Samsung Galaxy S4 user (I9500XXUGNF6). with rooted stock rom (4.4.2) installed.
After the battery level %25-%30; screen render rate drops dramatically (in app's like Candy Crush Saga)
When i plug the charger, it returns to normal. Or when the battery is full or nearly full.
This occurs almost two weeks on my device.
No background processes, wiped ram repeatedly.
Restarted the device and tried,
Wiped cache partition... But no solution.
I'm waiting for your advices.
Thanks all.

It's obviously some battery saving feature which activates at around 30%.
Plugging the charger deactivates the thing because it doesn't require battery anymore.

GDReaper said:
It's obviously some battery saving feature which activates at around 30%.
Plugging the charger deactivates the thing because it doesn't require battery anymore.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
First of all thanks for ur kind reply.
But i dont use any battery saving program. Do u have any advice about reverting back to default settings ? ( except factory reset or smthng else)

janbey said:
First of all thanks for ur kind reply.
But i dont use any battery saving program. Do u have any advice about reverting back to default settings ? ( except factory reset or smthng else)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The rom has an in-built battery saver. I think it was called Power Save. It should be in the status bar on stock kitkat roms.

GDReaper said:
The rom has an in-built battery saver. I think it was called Power Save. It should be in the status bar on stock kitkat roms.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks but i never use that option and checked again and it is still deactivated.

it may be related to DVFS. Dynamic Voltage something. It's basically a performance limiter. Try disabling that.

GDReaper said:
it may be related to DVFS. Dynamic Voltage something. It's basically a performance limiter. Try disabling that.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
disabled dvfs..i was hopeful about that solution but not worked for me..
i will reflash the rom again i think..

[GUIDE][ROOT] Limit battery charge level with Tasker for OP5T

Reference Thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/how-to/guide-limit-battery-charge-level-tasker-t3668059
attached are the xml's that works for the OP5T Oreo. ive been using this for a week now and its seems reilable. you can change the values of battery level and wait times.

oops, mods please move to appropriate forum. thanks

Thank you. I was looking for it.

The battery don't charge more after unplugged and plugged again with 72%

Charging enable has a wait time of 1 hour. You can change this if you want to enable charging sooner. Wait time thats too short will toggle charge and discharge quickly if device is left plugged in. Not sure what that will do to the device. ?

jonahmt21 said:
Charging enable has a wait time of 1 hour. You can change this if you want to enable charging sooner. Wait time thats too short will toggle charge and discharge quickly if device is left plugged in. Not sure what that will do to the device.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
OK. Great.

How should i use this ? ?

repulse said:
How should i use this ? ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I didn't get it work either but as no one hasn't given any answers yet I'm going to try... This is what I tried:
1. Import the tasks to Tasker
2. Create a new profile. Select State -> Power -> Power. The source should be kept as "Any".
3. This one is a wild guess but I think you should use the Charge disabled task as the primary one.
4. Add an exit task to that newly created profile. I think it's the Charge enable task.
I left my phone plugged in to a charger and the charging stopped when the desired battery level was reached. However, it never started to charge again. My phone was plugged in for a couple of hours and I had to use my own task to edit the charging enabled file. Did I do something wrong? Any help would be much appreciated.
Edit. Got it working. The charge enable task was somehow corrupted in the import process.

jonahmt21 said:
Reference Thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/how-to/guide-limit-battery-charge-level-tasker-t3668059
attached are the xml's that works for the OP5T Oreo. ive been using this for a week now and its seems reilable. you can change the values of battery level and wait times.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Could you please explain why actions 1 and 4 are needed in the charge disable task?

Please read the reference thread. It was already explained there. Thanks

How to change battery level? Do I need to edit the xml file or I can do it at tasker?
Thanks.
jonahmt21 said:
Reference Thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/how-to/guide-limit-battery-charge-level-tasker-t3668059
attached are the xml's that works for the OP5T Oreo. ive been using this for a week now and its seems reilable. you can change the values of battery level and wait times.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

lyrebird said:
How to change battery level? Do I need to edit the xml file or I can do it at tasker?
Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can edit it with Tasker. Just change the percentage to your liking:

This doesn't seem to be working on OB9. It will stop charging at set level but it will enable charging again after a few seconds. Anybody have an idea why?

jonahmt21 said:
This doesn't seem to be working on OB9. It will stop charging at set level but it will enable charging again after a few seconds. Anybody have an idea why?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you tried narrowing down the issue? What happens if you manually edit the control file?
It's very unfortunate if Oneplus has started editing the charge control file periodically. I haven't upgraded to OB9 yet and will wait for results before upgrading.

A little more testing...
Removed the charge enable exit task to see if the charging will be permanently disabled, but the charging still enables after a few seconds. Seems like the device is detecting that the device is plugged in and the battery is not at 100% so it enables charging again. Not sure how to get around this. ?

Crap, nevermind, i had a magisk module messing up with tasker. Original tasks still work. Please disregard previous replies. Whew!

Work only on oos or custom rom too
?

Thanks, that's one fewer app.
Running on Liquid Remix.

Duduzinho16 said:
Work only on oos or custom rom too
?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Rom version shouldn't make any difference.