I followed the advice from this post on Android Forums and am getting amazing battery life. If this has been posted elsewhere on XDA, please forgive me.
http://androidforums.com/tips-tricks-evo-4g/125602-htc-evo-battery-life-guide-41hours.html
I am on track to hit 50 hours on one battery charge. I am currently using the stock 1500mah battery. I will report back tonight or tomorrow with the final total.
I am using the paid version of SetCPU and have actually set slightly more aggressive power control profiles. (see below). I am not using live wallpapers. I only use radio control widgets and the HTC calendar widgets. I am running DC 3.2.3 with the latest radio and wimax drivers. I use Advanced Task Killer in Aggressive mode set to kill every 30 minutes. I use Timeriffic to turn on/off WiFi and 3G depending on whether I am at home or away. I use DConfig to ban Sprint Nascar, Twitter and Friendstream. I have brightness set to about 15% with a 2 minutes screen timeout.
These are my SetCPU Profiles. I have no noticeable performance degradation.
Temp >50 degrees C - Priority 100
384max; 245 min
OnDemand
Screen Off - Priority 95
245 max; 245 min
OnDemand
Charging/Full - Priority 93
998 max; 245 min
OnDemand
Battery <25% - Priority 90
460 max; 245 min
OnDemand
Battery <50% - Priority 85
614 max; 245 min
OnDemand
Battery <75% - Priority 80
691 max; 245 min
OnDemand
Battery <100% - Priority 75
768 max; 245 min
OnDemand
on a stock battery? i call bull!
No sweat off my back if you are skeptical. Why not try it yourself and see rather than call someone a liar.
You should be able to hit around 100 standby hours, not 50.
And without setcpu.
In fact, setcpu profiles is probably what's making your phone drain twice as much energy as it should.
my battery
battery after 25+ hrs not charging, using 4G for about an hour, d/l'ing apps, texting, calling, showing off, etc.
I am not talking about taking the phone off charge and letting it sit in stand-by. I am checking Gmail, moderate web surfing, checking Exchange email, phone calls, texting, about 20 minutes of Google Navigation, etc. I have purposely stayed away from games and movies. After this charge drains, I will add those into the equation.
davidboyd said:
No sweat off my back if you are skeptical. Why not try it yourself and see rather than call someone a liar.
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what kernel are you using? because with heavy usage and everything mostly disabled on my evo...running the new damage rom i get maybe 12 hours max.
markus_del_marko said:
what kernel are you using? because with heavy usage and everything mostly disabled on my evo...running the new damage rom i get maybe 12 hours max.
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Firmware - 2.1-update1
Baseband - 2.05.00.06.10
Kernel - 2.6.29-789bf291 [email protected] #1
Build - DamageControl v3.2.3
Software - 1.47.651.1
PRI - 1.34_003
PRL - 60668
davidboyd said:
Firmware - 2.1-update1
Baseband - 2.05.00.06.10
Kernel - 2.6.29-789bf291 [email protected] #1
Build - DamageControl v3.2.3
Software - 1.47.651.1
PRI - 1.34_003
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i must have a defective battery then because that's what im running too.
markus_del_marko said:
i must have a defective battery then because that's what im running too.
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Have you config'd the same SetCPU power profiles and tried what I said I was running? I have edited the original post to provide more details about my setup. Take a look and give it a try.
I have also purchased the $9.98 charger with two batteries from eBay. I plan to run them through the same test later this week.
I am not impressed. I am running stock with no modifications and at the time of writing this I am at 26 hours with 20% left. I have auto sync off screen at 20%. Otherwise I have everything else normal.
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J2the4son said:
I am not impressed. I am running stock with no modifications and at the time of writing this I am at 26 hours with 20% left. I have auto sync off screen at 20%. Otherwise I have everything else normal.
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Not trying to impress anyone. Just letting people know what is working for me. For the record, you are on track for 32.5 hours. While that is MUCH better than what a lot of people get from their EVO, it is still only 65% of what I am on track to hit today. To each his own.
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Not trying to impress anyone. Just letting people know what is working for me. For the record, you are on track for 32.5 hours. While that is MUCH better than what a lot of people get from their EVO, it is still only 65% of what I am on track to hit today. To each his own.
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Yea man I appreciate it, even though I already have my tricks to get mine up. I am at 16% with 28 hours unplugged. The only reason its so low is because I was driving around tryin to get some 4G yesterday, so that drained it about 10%. I am happy with the battery life now because I used to not make it through a 10-12 hr day w/o recharging.
26 hours, 45 minutes with 47% remaining...
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26 hours, 45 minutes with 47% remaining...
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I don't get how people are getting such huge numbers... I currently am running OMJ's 1.5 ROM with Netarchy/toast's kernel for the FPS fix.
I am running the paid version of SetCPU with all the same battery profiles set up. I only get about 12 hours of usage before I'm out... this would be moderate usage - couple of calls, light web browsing, texting, etc.
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26 hours, 45 minutes with 47% remaining...
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I made it 32 hours. I am running a live wallpaper though and I was strugglin tryn to find 4G connections yesterday.
Would love to see some unplugged screenshots
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Would love to see some unplugged screenshots
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Tell me how to take screenshots and I will snap one later tonight.
I am not sure if this has helped, but I also did the battery trick that the Sprint or HTC rep suggested elsewhere on here. Charge to light turns green, power off and charge for an hour.... This did seem to help a bit before trying these new SetCPU settings.
Again, send me the steps for screenshots and I would gladly post them up tonight.
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Would love to see some unplugged screenshots
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check the first page of this thread... i have a screenshot of 25 hours with 23% left
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Tell me how to take screenshots and I will snap one later tonight.
I am not sure if this has helped, but I also did the battery trick that the Sprint or HTC rep suggested elsewhere on here. Charge to light turns green, power off and charge for an hour.... This did seem to help a bit before trying these new SetCPU settings.
Again, send me the steps for screenshots and I would gladly post them up tonight.
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as long as you have root access, just go in the market and type screenshot. I have ShootMe.
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UPDATED MY SETTINGS
So as many other users I've been having lots of problems with battery life. I've done so many things in an effort to try to improve battery life but it doesn't seem to improve as much as it has for other people
This is what I have done:
Installed Baked Snack 9.7
Have brightness set to automatic
Changed the preferred network type GSM Auto (PRL) to CDMA Auto (PRL)
Installed Juice Defender
Installed SetCPU and have it so that my phone is under clocked to 245mhz when screen is off.
Turned haptic feedback off
Turned Off Auto-Sync
Manage my running applications with Advanced Task Manager and have it so that it ends apps every 30 minutes.
Flashed the newest Radio
Reconditioned my battery like HTC representatives suggested
Even with all these changes I'm lucky to get 10 hours of battery with moderate use. Far below the 16-20 hours that other users claim to get.
I don't understand why my battery life is so bad. Any tips? Maybe something I did wrong?
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So as many other users I've been having lots of problems with battery life. I've done so many things in an effort to try to improve battery life but it doesn't seem to improve as much as it has for other people
This is what I have done:
Installed DC 3.2.3 and have it set to the Battery Saver Profile
Have maximum Brightness Set to 25%
Changed the preferred network type GSM Auto (PRL) to CDMA Auto (PRL)
Installed Juice Defender
Installed the OverclockWidget and set it so that when the screen is off the processor runs at 245 mhz.
Turned haptic feedback off
Turned Off Auto-Sync
Manage my running applications with Advanced Task Manager
Even with all these changes I'm lucky to get 10 hours of battery. Far below the 16-20 hours that other users claim to get. I use my phone mainly for texting, send maybe 200 per day. Connect to the marketplace for about 20 minutes in total and and never watch youtube videos or surf the web. I spend around 20 minutes a day on the phone at most.
I don't understand why my battery life is so bad. Any tips? Maybe something I did wrong?
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Perform the HTC suggested battery cycling.
Charge until full, unplug, recharge, unplug, recharge, turn off, recharge, turn on, recharge for a few times.
No comment on the battery life as I have no problems but why did you want this phone in the first place if you only text and don't use the internet? I would own a Blackberry or Nokia E71 if I used my phone in that way.
Minjin said:
No comment on the battery life as I have no problems but why did you want this phone in the first place if you only text and don't use the internet? I would own a Blackberry or Nokia E71 if I used my phone in that way.
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I expected someone to say that, I used the internet heavily for the first few days and saw the horrible battery life so I started limiting how much I went on and this is how much battery I'm getting now. I do use apps sometimes though
jerryparid said:
Perform the HTC suggested battery cycling.
Charge until full, unplug, recharge, unplug, recharge, turn off, recharge, turn on, recharge for a few times.
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I tried that, it worked on the first day but then battery went back to normal the day afterwards
Try running dcpowertop via ADB to see if something is causing a lot of wakes and preventing your phone from sleeping. Also try running Systempanel monitoring to see what is using up the CPU time and draining the battery.
Also, this does nothing unless you are running a custom kernel (You didn't mention if you were, so just sayin'):
Installed the OverclockWidget and set it so that when the screen is off the processor runs at 245 mhz.
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But, even so, you should be well above 10hrs battery life with the other changes you made.
rockethot said:
I expected someone to say that, I used the internet heavily for the first few days and saw the horrible battery life so I started limiting how much I went on and this is how much battery I'm getting now. I do use apps sometimes though
I tried that, it worked on the first day but then battery went back to normal the day afterwards
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Bad luck? Could try replacing battery and getting a 1750.
DanBergundy said:
Bad luck? Could try replacing battery and getting a 1750.
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He's better off with this deal really, many members have purchased them (including myself) and they perform near as well, or just as well as the OEM battery - but you get 2 of them, AND a charger:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715739
Most batteries above 1500mAh do not even perform close to what they say they should. Check out batteryboss.org for details.
Philosuffer said:
Try running dcpowertop via ADB to see if something is causing a lot of wakes and preventing your phone from sleeping. Also try running Systempanel monitoring to see what is using up the CPU time and draining the battery.
Also, this does nothing unless you are running a custom kernel (You didn't mention if you were, so just sayin'):
But, even so, you should be well above 10hrs battery life with the other changes you made.
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I'll give dcpowertop a try.
I just uninstalled overclockwidget and installed SetCPU instead, the new version has the perflock disabler which should allow me to underclock.
If you are in a sketchy service area, your battery will drain fast.
How much do u use your phone? That's right there the key when other people say ILL GET 16-20 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE. Yes cause they don use it as much as i do, maybe u use.ur phone hardcore too, texting mms back and forward like no joke. Lots of them. I do over 600 just the morning. So my battery die around 2 then i use my hero battery that i have as back up. Its BS when other ones say that they get crazy amount of battery. Yes it can be but cause they don't use the phone as much, my buddie has a iphone 4 and we tested it against the evo and yes he's better but not crazy better like when i was on 50% left he was on 62-65 % my phone died first he was on 10% left. ...
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Ok, so SetCPU does actually work and I have successfully downclocked my phone.
If you send 200 texts per day and do little else, as smart phone is not for you. Get a more basic phone that would give you 3-4 days of heavy usage.
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That's very strange especially with how little you use it now to try to get more battery life.
Only other thing I can't think of that's not on your list is disabling Google Talk auto sign-in. Not that I think that will make up the difference you are seeing, but it's something else to try. You seem to be doing everything right, maybe try a clean ROM install?
redditor01 said:
If you send 200 texts per day and do little else, as smart phone is not for you. Get a more basic phone that would give you 3-4 days of heavy usage.
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I started limiting myself to try to squeeze as much battery life as I could.
rockethot said:
So as many other users I've been having lots of problems with battery life. I've done so many things in an effort to try to improve battery life but it doesn't seem to improve as much as it has for other people
This is what I have done:
Installed DC 3.2.3 and have it set to the Battery Saver Profile
Have maximum Brightness Set to 25%
Changed the preferred network type GSM Auto (PRL) to CDMA Auto (PRL)
Installed Juice Defender
Installed the OverclockWidget and set it so that when the screen is off the processor runs at 245 mhz.
Turned haptic feedback off
Turned Off Auto-Sync
Manage my running applications with Advanced Task Manager
Even with all these changes I'm lucky to get 10 hours of battery. Far below the 16-20 hours that other users claim to get. I use my phone mainly for texting, send maybe 200 per day. Connect to the marketplace for about 20 minutes in total and and never watch youtube videos or surf the web. I spend around 20 minutes a day on the phone at most.
I don't understand why my battery life is so bad. Any tips? Maybe something I did wrong?
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Im running "bakedsnacks" latest version, try that. Ive been having insane battery life. It already has the undervolting kernel in it. Give it a try, u have nothing to lose. But you have to remember that the Evo is a beast .
What is your dcpowertop
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Follow the Battery Recalibration instructions in the cyanogenmod wiki.
Doing this, I was at 73% after 26 hours unplugged. Yes, I was using the phone: 20 Text messages, about 20 minutes of pocket empires, 20 minutes of another game, WiFi enabled for most of those hours, and I even ran the "Relax and Sleep" app for half an hour when I went to bed.
DC 3.2.3 with the Balanced profile.
brownmc77 said:
Im running "bakedsnacks" latest version, try that. Ive been having insane battery life. It already has the undervolting kernel in it. Give it a try, u have nothing to lose. But you have to remember that the Evo is a beast .
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I'll give baked snack a try
You don't need to turn off all those features to get better battery life.
If you really have trouble, simply downclock the cpu to something like 460 Mhz and you battery life will double.
Then have someone make an undervolted kernel for you, and your battery life will triple.
When you say managing your apps with ATM? Are you using it to kill your processes? You probably don't need to manually or even schedule task killing with the lowmemkiller in DC.
One thing you didn't mention is what your signal strength in the area is. My 3g reception is utter trash in my office, so I have an extra cable to keep it charged. Overall, my phone drops about 1% while idle and I don't have any task management or cpu throttling apps going.
My battery test is being cut a little short, I need my phone charged for later tonight and I'm not 100% sure it will make it through the day. Here are my results so far though.
2d 5h 23m since unplugged, 12% battery remaining. Yes that is over 53 hours of moderate usage.
Incase you are wondering what im running here its not all that complicated, I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of you getting similar life.
Fresh 1.0.1 with ffolkes kernel and setcpu set to 245 max when screen is off combined with the newest radio does the trick. Anyone able to push this thing past 3 days with moderate usage have anymore tips? I think mine would have made it over 3 days if I didnt play about an hour a day of 3d games.
Also, thinking of switching to netarchy-toastmod kernel, anyone having similar life with that kernel? Wouldn't expect it to be anything different as its mostly the underclocking saving battery.
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Radio - http://geekfor.me/evo/radio/radio205000610/
WiMax Update - http://geekfor.me/evo/radio/wimax-25641/
fresh 1.0.1 - http://geekfor.me/new-release/fresh-evo-101/
ffolkes kernel - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=711964
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My daily usage
30 emails
250 sms
10 calls, 60 minutes (most 3 minutes or less)
1 hour 3d gaming
auto-brightness
15 minutes web browsing
1 hour showing off the phone/someone playing with it
only use gps or music when charging in a car, which i didn't for these three days.
also, live in chicago, really well mapped for coverage, i never roam. also, rarely use 4g i have a usb modem too so no need for tethering.
double u-tee-eff.
I'm lucky to get 18 hours most days.........
EtherealRemnant said:
double u-tee-eff.
I'm lucky to get 18 hours most days.........
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I'm lucky to get 8 hours most days....
Where do you get the newest radio?
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davebu said:
My battery test is being cut a little short, I need my phone charged for later tonight and I'm not 100% sure it will make it through the day. Here are my results so far though.
2d 5h 23m since unplugged, 12% battery remaining. Yes that is over 53 hours of moderate usage.
Incase you are wondering what im running here its not all that complicated, I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of you getting similar life.
Fresh 1.0.1 with ffolkes kernel and setcpu set to 245 max when screen is off combined with the newest radio does the trick. Anyone able to push this thing past 3 days with moderate usage have anymore tips? I think mine would have made it over 3 days if I didnt play about an hour a day of 3d games.
Also, thinking of switching to netarchy-toastmod kernel, anyone having similar life with that kernel? Wouldn't expect it to be anything different as its mostly the underclocking saving battery.
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props, Ive gotten mine to 34 hours, but my android system % was @ 50
Define moderate use?
Surfing the web for 3 hours a day, checking email 10 times a day, Searching the market and playing games for an hour a day?
I don't know what you mean by moderate usage When I'm browsing the web for half an hour, I can literally watch the battery drain.... and when I check usage, it's always display (mostly) and voice calls. I see neither on yours. Did you even use the phone during those 2 days?
DanBergundy said:
Where do you get the newest radio?
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you can find it in any number of posts. first check your radio version, you might already be at the latest version (2.05.00.06.10 ---settings > about phone > software information > baseband version)
tonyh703 said:
props, Ive gotten mine to 34 hours, but my android system % was @ 50
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underclocking mine went from avg 28% to 7%, it should never be above idle or standbye though.
DSwarP said:
I'm lucky to get 8 hours most days....
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I'm just lucky most days.
DSwarP said:
I'm lucky to get 8 hours most days....
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What do you do? Play nonstop games/videos? I get 6 hours of constant gameboid.
Anyway I unrooted for the OTA just once and I got 44 hours of light texting/browsing on wifi, 50% brightness.
I want to see baked snack / toasted users... they should be getting the best battery.
davebu said:
underclocking mine went from avg 28% to 7%, it should never be above idle or standbye though.
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-I dont over/underclock
-I was actually using my phone... I had brightness off though because I was in a room where I could use the phone w/o brightness.. it wasnt constantly at 50% but it was at some point after heavy usage.
patelkedar91 said:
What do you do? Play nonstop games/videos? I get 6 hours of constant gameboid.
Anyway I unrooted for the OTA just once and I got 44 hours of light texting/browsing on wifi, 50% brightness.
I want to see baked snack / toasted users... they should be getting the best battery.
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Pretty much nothing. Unplug phone, go to work, carry it in my pocket and check time occasionally. Browse internet for half hour at break. Carry it in my pocket and check time occasionally. Browse internet for half hour at second break. Carry it in my pocket and check time occasionally. 8.5 hours since unplugged, <15% battery remaining.
Problem is about 0 bars service at work. Constantly switching from Sprint to Roaming.
55 hours of battery. I get 34 hours of battery with constant texting, web surfing and downloading. I'm running cm6 2.2
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I'm sorry, but it's just not possible to get those kind of runtimes if you really use the tool. Try using this thing the way it was intended, not just as some kind of a toy just to see what kind of life you can get out of a charge.
I'm on the phone, got bluetooth going, wifi, ... all day long. Average 75 incoming emails, maybe the same texts, several photos for documentation, about the same or more reply's to emails, couple of hours on the phone, .... lucky to make it to 5pm.
No way anyone can convince me that they can go even 24 hrs with my use. No way.
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I'm sorry, but it's just not possible to get those kind of runtimes if you really use the tool. Try using this thing the way it was intended, not just as some kind of a toy just to see what kind of life you can get out of a charge.
I'm on the phone, got bluetooth going, wifi, ... all day long. Average 75 incoming emails, maybe the same texts, several photos for documentation, about the same or more reply's to emails, couple of hours on the phone, .... lucky to make it to 5pm.
No way anyone can convince me that they can go even 24 hrs with my use. No way.
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WiFi can actually save even more battery if you are in the same location long enough, but I have no need to keep bluetooth on at all times. Updating first post with more info on my usage, probably less than yours but still use a lot.
running the phone with these settings pretty much makes it impossible for it to die on a day's use, even for really heavy users. to kill it you're gonna have to run wifi tether, gps, or 4g for a while. i never use gps unless its plugged in, and i rarely use 4g.
im gonna try it with the netarchy and let u knw at the end of 2morow
oh yea wat r your auto syncs?
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I'm sorry, but it's just not possible to get those kind of runtimes if you really use the tool. Try using this thing the way it was intended, not just as some kind of a toy just to see what kind of life you can get out of a charge.
I'm on the phone, got bluetooth going, wifi, ... all day long. Average 75 incoming emails, maybe the same texts, several photos for documentation, about the same or more reply's to emails, couple of hours on the phone, .... lucky to make it to 5pm.
No way anyone can convince me that they can go even 24 hrs with my use. No way.
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Ill let you know I bet I still get 20 hours of battery life with heavy data and message usage.
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wat ru doin to get that though?
I was surprised by how long the batter lasted when I switched to Ava’s ROM, but I wanted to run some tests and see how I can get the best results. If you have questions let me know, but I will continue to edit this as I go. I am running these tests for at least two days under a certain setting before I move on to the next one. On Day 8 I will/did switch back to using SetCPU to compare the weekends. Ava, you screwed my batter tests by updating from version 8 to 9, but that’s ok . If you want me to run a specific test, let me know. I plan to do King’s 6, 10, and 11.
*I just realized today (10-20-2010) that my Facebook has been refreshing every hour automatically. Since it has been doing this every day, I am going to keep that setting throughout the rest of the tests.
SetCPU set to 245/245 Ondemand with screen off for all of these unless stated otherwise. This test was started 10-9-2010.
Day 1 - Stock kernel - Weekend day - 16.5 hours with 31% left. I didn’t use the music player at all. I did a bunch of texting , web browsing, Facebooking, and some calling.
Day 2 - Stock kernel - Weekend day - 16 hours with 30% battery left. I didn’t use the music player at all. I did a bunch of texting , web browsing, Facebooking, and some calling.
Day 3 - Stock kernel - Work day - 14 hours of usage with 8% battery left. I used the music player for at least 6 hours. I did a bunch of texting, web browsing, Facebooking and only a few calls.
Day 4 - Stock kernel - Work day - 14.5 hours of usage with 6% battery left. I used the music player for at least 6 hours. I did a bunch of texting, web browsing, Facebooking, I only had one phone call.
Day 5 - Stock kernel - Work day - No SetCPU - 15. 5 hours of usage with 9% battery left. I used the music player for at least 5 hours, felt a little less than most days. Normal amount of texting, web browsing, Facebooking, but I had a few phone calls. I was very surprised that I had better battery without using SetCPU. I am testing it again day 5. Interesting note: the battery seems to drain slower while playing music than when I am using SetCPU. I have no idea why this would be.
Day 6 - Stock kernel - Work day - No SetCPU - 15 hours of usage with 7% battery left. I used the music player for a lot more than day 5, at least an hour more. Day 5 and 6 are surprising because I was not using SetCPU.
Day 7 - King’s #10 CFS - Work day - No SetCPU - Test got cancelled. Something happened with my market and it would not let my phone sleep.
Day 8(10-16-2010) - King's #10 CFS - Weekend day - 12 hours of usage with 20% left. Normal usage without any music. The huge variance here is that I let my niece use my Swype keyboard for almost an hour just messing around with the screen on. I was actually surprised that the battery lasted that long to be honest with you.
Day 9 - King's #10 CFS - Weekend day - 13 hours and 45 minutes of usage with 38% left! I am really shocked about this because I used my phone a bunch today. On top of normal usage, my girlfriend's internet stopped working so I started my wireless tether and let her use that for 20 minutes or so. I wish I could continue this test, but the real testing will be done during my work day using my music player.
Day 10 - King's #10 CFS - Work day - 16 hours and 10 minutes with 20% left...wow. This was with pretty heavy usage in terms of music AND my market was not working at all today, it stayed on for 30 minutes before it finally failed a couple of my downloads. This gave me a pretty good indication of what I can expect. Tomorrow I am going to run it without SetCPU
Day 11(10-19-2010) - King's #10 CFS - No SetCPU - Work day - 11.5 hours with 7% left. I have no idea why the battery drained this much. I maybe used the music player an hour more than I normally do, everything else was the same. This is kind of mind boggling.
Day 12 - King's #10 CFS - No SetCPU - Work day - 15 hours and 46 minutes with 20% left. The only thing I did different today compared to yesterday was completely remove SetCPU. I had it set to not allow yesterday, but maybe it was still working? Normal usage all the way around. Great battery life today. Day 13 will be with King's #11.
Day 13 - King's #11 CFS - No SetCPU - Work day - 15 hours and 32 minutes with 21% left. Normal usage. #11 seems to make the screens transition a little bit quicker and things seem snappier. The one thing I noticed about the idle battery life for this kernel is that it barely drains. I was in a meeting for two hours today and it went from 73% as I walked in to 72% at the end. I turned the screen on a couple times to check the time. Overall, the battery life doesn't seem to different between 10 and 11. I will test these settings again tomorrow. I am looking forward to the weekend because I am going out on Bartlett lake and I want to see how it works with less reception.
Day 14 - King's #11 CFS - Work day - 13.5 hours with 5% left. I had my screen on for a solid 90 minutes straight. Other than that, usage was normal.
Day 15 - King's #11 CFS - Weekend day - 15 hours 11 minutes with 2% left. I don't know why the usage is so bad here, things were normal today.
Day 16(10-24-2010) - King's #11 CFS - No SetCPU - Weekend day - 12 hours and 17 minutes with 57% left. This is pretty awesome. I am trying these settings again tomorrow at work.
Day 17 - King's #11 CFS - No SetCPU - Week day but not at work - 13 hours and 45 minutes with 30% left. I had to take the day off. I made a bunch of phone calls, no music, but normal texting and Facebooking.
Day 18 - King's #11 CFS - No SetCPU - Work day - 16 hours and 20 minutes with 18% left. I only used my music player for 5 hours today, so it was less than most work days, but the battery life is still pretty impressive. Normal usage otherwise.
Day 19 - King's #11 CFS - No SetCPU - Work day - 14 hours with 8% left. I had very heavy usage today, web browsing, Facebook, but only 4 hours or so of music player.
Day 20 - King's #11 CFS - No SetCPU - Work day - 14 hours and 35 minutes with 12% left. Normal usage, except I did some GPS. This kernel seems to be pretty awesome, I think I am going to stop this test and only edit it when I make some other changes.
What ROM did you switch from and how much more real-world battery life are you seeing? I switched from Fresh 3.3 the AVA 9 about 5 days ago and without any actual testing my battery seems to last longer, the phone runs smoother too. AVA is a very nice ROM
midaseris said:
What ROM did you switch from and how much more real-world battery life are you seeing? I switched from Fresh 3.3 the AVA 9 about 5 days ago and without any actual testing my battery seems to last longer, the phone runs smoother too. AVA is a very nice ROM
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I was going back and forth from CM6 and Steel. CM6 was the one I was using the most. I'm getting 3-4 more hours now, easy.
I'm not surprised you're getting better battery life without SetCPU. Most guys who compile Kernels for the EVO also recommend against using it.
There's a popular notion that SetCPU increases battery life. It doesn't. In fact, it makes it worse.
i can't wait to see your results. because i also have the same set up now.
i was happy with ava with stock rom. now installed kings cfs 11 kernel with it. no problem. but not sure if i am getting any edge of it.
i will wait for your findings.
midhun said:
i can't wait to see your results. because i also have the same set up now.
i was happy with ava with stock rom. now installed kings cfs 11 kernel with it. no problem. but not sure if i am getting any edge of it.
i will wait for your findings.
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thanks for doing this test. can you also test with kings cfs 11.
Thanks in Advance
midhun said:
thanks for doing this test. can you also test with kings cfs 11.
Thanks in Advance
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That test will start Thursday
Thanks for doing the tests! Can you list which accounts you have syncing and what background apps you have running all the time? ie setcpu/batteryindicator/systempanel etc.
using my phone minimally (like a simple phone), I was able to squeeze out 7 days with superevo with setcpu:
http://edsandroid.blogspot.com/2010/10/7-days-battery-potential.html
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Thanks for doing the tests! Can you list which accounts you have syncing and what background apps you have running all the time? ie setcpu/batteryindicator/systempanel etc.
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Facebook has been refreshing every hour(oops), other than that I have SetCPU on for some of the tests, but not the others. I have Smooth icons installed for a battery indicator. I don't run anything else I believe.
Test is updated to today.
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using my phone minimally (like a simple phone), I was able to squeeze out 7 days with superevo with setcpu:
http://edsandroid.blogspot.com/2010/10/7-days-battery-potential.html
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I read your post. That is cool the battery can last that long, but lowering the CPU that much while you are using is like going back to a stock Droid.
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OP, what's your settings on the phone?
Like haptic feeds, screen settings etc.
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OP, what's your settings on the phone?
Like haptic feeds, screen settings etc.
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I turn off haptic feedback. I have my screen set to 30% when I am inside, 50% when I am outside(if I remember). Any other questions?
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I turn off haptic feedback. I have my screen set to 30% when I am inside, 50% when I am outside(if I remember). Any other questions?
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I'm running on AVA and Kings, and most I can get out of is 12 hours at the most per charge.
Just wanted to see what your settings were. So you do set the screen brightness manually. I'll try the same.
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I'm running on AVA and Kings, and most I can get out of is 12 hours at the most per charge.
Just wanted to see what your settings were. So you do set the screen brightness manually. I'll try the same.
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I have pro widgets and just change it when needed. I turn off all vibrations(unless in vibrate mode), all of my syncing is off except Facebook which is every hour(I only have this on because I started the tests with this on and now have to continue the tests with it), I keep my 3g on all the time everything else off, no window animations, I believe that is it.
I also get awesome battery life with AVA. I was able to get 26 hours today.
Hey guys I got my EVO in the mail on Thursday, and do I love the thing! I have been reading about battery life and was a little concerned at first, but that was then. Last night I unplugged my phone at 7pm and it had a 95% charge. I played with it a bit and texted until around 12am. I did not charge it and started texting and using it for a while this morning around 10am. It is now 4pm and I have 49% battery. If this is what everyone is complaining about, im happy with it haha.
Basically, it's people leaving 4G / Wifi / Bluetooth / GPS all on at the same time that kills the battery life of the Evo. My launch-day Evo has routinely done 20+ hours of usage with no problems.
The only times I've ever seen a marked decrease in battery performance, I could find that some app was hung up in the background draining the juice.
Rooted or just stock non root?
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Hey guys I got my EVO in the mail on Thursday, and do I love the thing! I have been reading about battery life and was a little concerned at first, but that was then. Last night I unplugged my phone at 7pm and it had a 95% charge. I played with it a bit and texted until around 12am. I did not charge it and started texting and using it for a while this morning around 10am. It is now 4pm and I have 49% battery. If this is what everyone is complaining about, im happy with it haha.
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Come back after you try using data for an extended time (texts don't need data connections most of the time), having your mail sync for even every 3 hours or so and facebook, news, weather or any other auto sync feature enabled. Watch your battery die as quick as a witch under water.
My email syncs every 10 minutes, and my weather syncs as soon as it can. (not sure how many minutes). My facebook updates pretty often. And I have news updating as well.
My phone is also NOT rooted.
I get fine battery life, with WiFi connected I get much better standby than when using mobile data. Turn mobile data off when I'm out and about and the battery basically doesn't move. But I still can get 20 hours of use if I'm not on my phone constantly. I only turn off mobile data if I think I need my phone to last more than a day. Like camping or something. I have gmail pushed and weather and all that good stuff synced every hour. Been playing with juice defender which does increase battery life pretty good but you can get the same effect by toggling your mobile data with the widget. Juice defender does turn on data every 15 mins for a minute to sync which is nice but it causes a little lag when you unlock your screen because it turns on data as soon as you unlock, a little annoying.
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My email syncs every 10 minutes, and my weather syncs as soon as it can. (not sure how many minutes). My facebook updates pretty often. And I have news updating as well.
My phone is also NOT rooted.
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I highly doubt this is possible especially on the stock battey. I personally know there is no way to have all those apps syncing at those frequencies on the stock battery and still get MORE than 9 hours of use. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783364
Unless you turned off your phone somewhere in that timeline and are not telling that bit of info. With the sync frequency you just gave, I seriously doubt your battery numbers are even the correct ones you're giving.
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I highly doubt this is possible especially on the stock battey. I personally know there is no way to have all those apps syncing at those frequencies on the stock battery and still get MORE than 9 hours of use. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783364
Unless you turned off your phone somewhere in that timeline and are not telling that bit of info. With the sync frequency you just gave, I seriously doubt your battery numbers are even the correct ones you're giving.
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Well I am not goanna argue about it. It is what it is.
I'd like to see a screen shot of these 20 hours myself
HTC EVO4G A.K.A. Usain Bolt
Linpack: 34-35 MFLOPS Avg
Quadrant: 1500+
Kernel: King's #6 BFS
FPS2D: 54-55 FPS
ROM: Fresh 3.3
PRI: 1.77
Still goin, im at 31%
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Still goin, im at 31%
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Still doubt especially with no screenshoots of awake/uptime and system load.
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Still doubt especially with no screenshoots of awake/uptime and system load.
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It says up time
48:28
Awake time
15:54
Just found this!
23h 15m since unplug
standby 39%
idle 35%
Android system 11%
Display 7%
SMS 4%
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It says up time
48:28
Awake time
15:54
Not sure what they mean.
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According to that, it says your phone has been powered on for 48 minutes and used for 15 minutes. Go back and check the link I gave in my first response and look at the screenshot most people would want to see.
EDIT: Saw your edit and your phone has been in standby most of the time. I personally am not impressed by standby times. But if that's what floats your boat then so be it. I personally have gotten 10 hours of CONSTANT use on the stock battery with apps syncing every hour and get 1.5 days normal use on my extended batteries.
i was able to get 7 days battery life with minimal usage as a simple phone:
http://edsandroid.blogspot.com/2010/10/7-days-battery-potential.html
I got 9 hours out of myn and for 7 I played music, i 5 of the 7 was listening to music on my sd card. The other 2 was streaming pandora, I was proud of the evo. Lol
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proloss said:
i was able to get 7 days battery life with minimal usage as a simple phone:
http://edsandroid.blogspot.com/2010/10/7-days-battery-potential.html
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Where's the fun in that? Standby most of the time except for phone calls! You overpayed if all you wanted was a simple phone.
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I got 9 hours out of myn and for 7 I played music, i 5 of the 7 was listening to music on my sd card. The other 2 was streaming pandora, I was proud of the evo. Lol
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Those are reasonable numbers and I have gotten that same use out of the stock battery. This phone is a joy to play with rather than letting it sleep all the time.
my lastest its not stock but ill take it before i recharged i was 10 mins short of 20 hours
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8708182&postcount=48
Yeah, I have gotten a whole 24 hours out of myn, but that was when it was new with little on it , and its first root and rom.
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I know that people talk about losing the first 10% in like 10 minutes, but has anyone ever noticed how long it takes to lose the last 10% of the battery? That sht is frustrating, going from 90 to 70 for me takes only about an hour, but the last 10% for me can carry me another 3 hours or so. My battery is teasing me.
Just recently got an Incredible. Using the HTC extended battery (2150 mAh) and I'm still only seeing ~14 hours of battery life. Also currently using CM7.
What is everyone else seeing?
I'm using the Redemtion Rom 2.2 with Incredikernel 12/21, and with the stock battery I can easily get over 20+ hours out of it. I'm also always on my phone. What kernel are you running? That might be your problem.
I'm using an 1800 battery and regularly kill my battery in half that time. I'm actually happy if I get 7 hours out of it. Since you have the 2150 battery pick up a wall charger for the stock battery and carry that on you too.
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I'm running SkyRaider Athena 1.2 with Lou's #9, and I get around 20 hours. Pretty standard usage, nothing crazy.
Miui with invisiblek #28 or whatever cyan nightly on stock kernel. 30 hours +/- isn't a problem. Stock battery.
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I am seeing about 18hrs.
Running seidio 3500. Moderate to very heavy use i see around 16 hours. With little use to moderate a full day and a half to two days. Running incredibly re-engineered with ziggy's 012111 bfs kernel ocing to 1.036. How you people are getting 20+ hours on the stock battery is beyond me.
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I'm with you on this. Although I send around 1000 texts a day use the phone probably an hour tops and use the internet a good bit. I call this average usage some call it insane so maybe some peoples average usage is barely talking it.
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Running seidio 3500. Moderate to very heavy use i see around 16 hours. With little use to moderate a full day and a half to two days. Running incredibly re-engineered with ziggy's 012111 bfs kernel ocing to 1.036. How you people are getting 20+ hours on the stock battery is beyond me.
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Well,
I was on the stock 2.2 OTA and I was doing ok. it was better than 1.1.
However I've recently been running 2.3 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865331) and my battery life has improved a little bit.
I'm running virtuous 3.2 and usually after a the day I usually get home with about 60% with pretty light usage.
someone's addicted to/spends too much time texting
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I'm with you on this. Although I send around 1000 texts a day use the phone probably an hour tops and use the internet a good bit. I call this average usage some call it insane so maybe some peoples average usage is barely talking it.
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With very light usage (listening to audible books via audible.com app for about 6-8hrs, 5-10mins of phone calls, limited internet) with the 2150 battery and Lou's #4 kernel I got 52hrs from charger to 14%. That is definitely not the norm, but I thought it was pretty cool =p.
Normal moderate to heavy usage I get 24ish hours from charger to 10-15%.
Na up where I live everyone gets the $5 or $10 Verizon o ly prepaid texting plan. So that's the only way we talk.
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someone's addicted to/spends too much time texting
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Gahh Its Lee said:
I'm with you on this. Although I send around 1000 texts a day use the phone probably an hour tops and use the internet a good bit. I call this average usage some call it insane so maybe some peoples average usage is barely talking it.
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Uh 1000 texts a day. Lets say you get 5 hours of sleep. That's 19 waking hours. Thats like one text message sent every minute for 19 hours. Not to mention received. i hope you're exaggerating hahah
I use mine kind of heavily with texting maybe a couple hundred total per day. 2-3 hours screen on total, maybe 15 minutes of talk time. I get 19 hours according to Battery Left. Running CM7
I'm averaging. Quite honestly there are many times where I don't get a break to actually put my phone down for like an hour or so at a time. But I judge the thousand a day based on me resetting my handcent set counter and two weeks later iI was at just over 15000 sent.
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Uh 1000 texts a day. Lets say you get 5 hours of sleep. That's 19 waking hours. Thats like one text message sent every minute for 19 hours. Not to mention received. i hope you're exaggerating hahah
I use mine kind of heavily with texting maybe a couple hundred total per day. 2-3 hours screen on total, maybe 15 minutes of talk time. I get 19 hours according to Battery Left. Running CM7
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52 hours really? I guess its possible but next time you think you could take a screen shot of Whats been using the battery folder? Im really curious about this.
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Sure, I am playing around with CM 7 nightlies at the moment, but I'll switch back to my old set up and see if I cant get a ss of a number close to that for you.
As I said though, it was very light usage for a few days.
I was running CM6 with invisiblek #18 and getting over 18 hours on the stock battery with pretty consistent use
Using SR 3.5 rom and chad's latest incredikernel.
With mostly having the screen off (no more than 45 min on) it lasted 48+ hours with 22% to spare - note that is not my normal usage, just a test.
Normal usage for me is:
Solid 5-6+ hours of screen on, and it'll last a good 23 hours (as of last night, long day lol) -- Most of the time after a full day I'll plug it in with 40%+ left.
Daily usage also includes
- 45mins of GPS usage
- 2-4 hours of Pandora streaming
- ~50 txts
- ~20 minutes of phone calls
- Youtube for ~45 mins
- E-mail / web ~ an hour
- 20 minute of games
I practically live on my phone but usually make it to the end of the day with 40+% left, depending on the day may be less- but I've never gotten the notification since the Kernel and ROM change.
Overclocking above the standard 998 will drain your battery pretty quickly, more than most other things you're doing. I noticed this and also noticed that overclocking didn't do much for me because 998 was smooth for every game I was playing.
Using HTC extended battery also and I do not bump charge, see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871051
I just find that hard to believe. If i stream pandora for an hour with a full charge it will drain my battery down about 20% thats using lou's #8 kernel and his redemption 2.3 rom. Thats with a 3500 seidio battery after a wall charge not a plugged in charge.
Not doubting you one bit but damn thats alot of tasking on a stock extended battery too end the day with 40% left.
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