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Is anyone having issues with these? Asin Rooted battery not lasting as long as unrooted?
Seen quite a few people saying about this, but just want to clarify or clear things up?
Rooted battery not lasting as long as unrooted. It's true
My findings are as follows.
Generic UK R1BA016 > OTA R2BA020 - Phone doesn't return to idle state
Generic UK R1BA016 > OTA "Root" R2BA020 - Phone doesn't return to idle state
Generic UK R1BA016 > OTA "Root"R2BA023 - Phone doesn't return to idle state
All the above, I have found the phone not to sleep correctly and battery life because of this suffers.
Generic UK R1BA016 > SEUS R2BA020
Generic NCB R1FB001 > SEUS R2BA023
The updates by SEUS, seem to be a massive improvement over the OTA updates they are also much larger in size. This would suggest that a number of files are update unlike the OTA update.
Using the SEUS update I am able to get around 1 / 2 days from my phone now. However, using the OTA update I was lucky to get around 12/13 hours from my battery.
I hope you find this interesting.
Thank you Andy for your findings Interesting ^^
hi my english ar not so good srry
the rooted software R2BA023 need more battpower then unrooted R2BA023??
and seus update are better then OTA ??
greetz HPH
I am using stock launcher(I can use Helix as I know this makes a difference but still like stock), currently Unrooted, getting around 36-48 hours depends upon your usage... On a normal day, 2 hours on mediascape with full volume. GPRS always on with Nimbuzz and Ebuddy logged in..... Calls: 3 hours minimum, at a stretch 1-2 hours max (Depends on GF). Some pictures here and there... Market browsing atleast 30- 45 minutes, then battery is at 7-8%, off to charge...
When my mobile was rooted: same schedule, only SETCPU was set for standyby, it used to stretch till 48 hours minimum.... That made only difference....
Note: I am a normal user not with tweaking and all until it is required...
Not able to connect to market through GPRS.
Hi, i am using Vodafone, i am able to browse using stock browser, but i am not able to connect using FB app or to the market even opera mini 5 isnt working.
any suggestions?
thnks...
^^You have to switch to Vodafone Mobile Connect.
TechGuru_x10 said:
I am using stock launcher(I can use Helix as I know this makes a difference but still like stock), currently Unrooted, getting around 36-48 hours depends upon your usage... On a normal day, 2 hours on mediascape with full volume. GPRS always on with Nimbuzz and Ebuddy logged in..... Calls: 3 hours minimum, at a stretch 1-2 hours max (Depends on GF). Some pictures here and there... Market browsing atleast 30- 45 minutes, then battery is at 7-8%, off to charge...
When my mobile was rooted: same schedule, only SETCPU was set for standyby, it used to stretch till 48 hours minimum.... That made only difference....
Note: I am a normal user not with tweaking and all until it is required...
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sorry, i'm not too good in english reading.
i never understand if with rooted 023 the battery life is increased or still the same.
"SETCPU" is an app that working with root permission?
thanks in advance and sorry for noob questions.
regards
Hey there! Yes setcpu is an "root"app, it's definitely worth it if u have a rooted phone. My batterylife with an unrooted x10 fw14 was around 1 and a half day with average usage. With the correct settings for setcpu and rooted to the latest fw it's 2 to 2.5 times better!! Note that I like most of the x10 users here use a different launcher, first helix now adw-launcher. Dont ask me why but it saves your battery.
Also when u use a lot of widgets which have an update option, set them as low as necessary! i.e. my weather updates every 6 hours because the weather doesn't change often here. I hope this helps a bit
sorry for not answering ur first question but YES fw023 drains more. just a bit, not much
Switch off GPS. I read about it and how it improved batteries. Bloody true. Its great advice.
Got my new firmware via Kies yesterday. This is just a preliminary assessment but the firmware seemed to have solved the battery drain issue, or at least fixed it temporarily. Yes it appears that I'm still on Android 2.3.3.
I, like many around here, am not immune to the battery drain issues. After searching and reading countless threads on this Site, I managed to isolate the issue on my phone which was causing the battery drain issue.
Whenever, I turn on my wifi, two processes appear: Wifi Sharing and Wifi Sharing Manager, both remaining on even when I've switched off my Wifi. These two processes seemed to cause a massive battery drain on my phone, which makes it last no more than a day. This was evident in that the Android OS would take up to 50-60% of my computing power. I worked around this issue by killing those two processes immediately after I've finished my wifi session. Doing this, and remaining on 3G, I've been able to achieve on average two days of battery life (3 days if I turn the background sync off). The result of my workaround is that the display would take up the lions share of battery power, and the OS relegated to 18-20%
Now, with the new firmware, I noticed something interesting. After my wifi session has ended and I have turned off wifi, the to processes now appear to end on their own, without my intercession! However, I also noticed something else. Despite those to processes ending, my Android OS has continued to use 50-60% of my battery power, albeit, my battery life seems fine. As I write this, my phone has been on for 10h 8mins with Android OS taking up 49%, and my battery declining only to 93%. That's with 3G on and background sync enabled.
(I wish 2.3.4 would come out. I had a Nexus One which too had the Android OS bug back in 2.3.3 where the OS would take up 50-60% of the batter power. This problem was completely fixed in 2.3.4 for the Nexus One.)
Has anyone noticed this?
Thanks,
AJW
Thanks for sharing your observations, will observe as well on mine, yea, am also hoping 234 comes out quick. A tweet by SamFirmware implied 234 would be coming this month, not holding my breath though.
Noob question
Sorry guys, noob question - tried searching for this but couldn't find a thread so apologies if it's out there somewhere.
Just curious - in the long 'code' that the firmware is labelled in Kies as (see below), what do the component parts mean? What am I looking at?
Current firmware is: PDA:KE7 / PHONE:KE4 / CSC:KD1 (CPW)
'New' firmware is: PDA:KE3 / PHONE:KE7 / CSC:KD1 (CPW)
What is the 'PDA' part compared to the 'PHONE' or 'CSC' part? I'm guessing the bracket bit at the end is the retailer I brought it from (CarphoneWarehouse in my case).
Usually with improvements numbers go up! Why is the PDA number in the newer version lower than the current?
Told you it was a noob question
Cheers!
full_impulse said:
Sorry guys, noob question - tried searching for this but couldn't find a thread so apologies if it's out there somewhere.
Just curious - in the long 'code' that the firmware is labelled in Kies as (see below), what do the component parts mean? What am I looking at?
Current firmware is: PDA:KE7 / PHONE:KE4 / CSC:KD1 (CPW)
'New' firmware is: PDA:KE3 / PHONE:KE7 / CSC:KD1 (CPW)
What is the 'PDA' part compared to the 'PHONE' or 'CSC' part? I'm guessing the bracket bit at the end is the retailer I brought it from (CarphoneWarehouse in my case).
Usually with improvements numbers go up! Why is the PDA number in the newer version lower than the current?
Told you it was a noob question
Cheers!
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I guessing that the new firmware pda should actually be kF3?
Pda is the actual rom/firmware.
Phone is the modem/radio
Csc is the region/carrier.(iirc)
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Hi,
Since i have updated the my audio call quality is to put it bluntly "rubbish" i have had few calls since updating yesterday to the official version and then rooted, and the call quality is so bad that i can't really understand what the end user is saying, maybe its just me but i might update again when the official 2.3.4 firmware is out.
Thanks
a5ian300zx said:
Hi,
Since i have updated the my audio call quality is to put it bluntly "rubbish" i have had few calls since updating yesterday to the official version and then rooted, and the call quality is so bad that i can't really understand what the end user is saying, maybe its just me but i might update again when the official 2.3.4 firmware is out.
Thanks
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I also noticed the audio quality is no where near as good as it was on KE7
With Nodo my LG has battery life little more than 24h, even when heavy used for gaming, email or internet. Mango version used almost exactly same, has battery life about half of it, and after 16h is totally dead. Turning on batery life saving in Mango does not change anything. I have open-marked phone, and to download mango I had to full flash old european firmware and upgrade to Mango. Any comments or solutions?
I noticed the same, battery drain is going down much faster then before.
elektryk said:
With Nodo my LG has battery life little more than 24h, even when heavy used for gaming, email or internet. Mango version used almost exactly same, has battery life about half of it, and after 16h is totally dead. Turning on batery life saving in Mango does not change anything. I have open-marked phone, and to download mango I had to full flash old european firmware and upgrade to Mango. Any comments or solutions?
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The same happens on my LG
Double wattusage
This is common, I too have experienced this.
I am trying to research the issue.
I got worse batterylife after the pre-update for Mango, where they altered the speech quality and touch sensitivity on the phone. I am assuming this is related to the radio in the phone, so I've ordered a new SIM card to rule out my dated SIM card for the phone.
If you search twitter for mango and battery, you will see that 50% of posts quote better batterylife with mango, so I'm assuming this is a firmware issue from LG, and not a mango issue.
Anyhow, early tests showed E900 using 1,3watts to playback a video, while the iPhone4 used 0,7...
Also the iPhone4 manages 40 hours of music playback. I'm lucky if I get 7-8, might be due to three different apps showing up in the app-switcher when playing a podcast. The music hub start screen, the podcast list and the podcast itself. Should be just one instance...
Will post back later.
Reset your phone
By factory resetting after Mango installation I went from 0 days and 12 hours standby time, to 1 day and 16 hours.
So there is something messed up in the Mango deployment that causes batterylife to be cut in half. To bad.
The same thing
So you recommend. To factory reset or reflash and than install Mango again, don't you?
johagster said:
By factory resetting after Mango installation I went from 0 days and 12 hours standby time, to 1 day and 16 hours.
So there is something messed up in the Mango deployment that causes batterylife to be cut in half. To bad.
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Can anyone confirm a factory reset has resulted in increased battery life as well?
sonus said:
Can anyone confirm a factory reset has resulted in increased battery life as well?
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It worked for me.
I just tried it two days ago, it seems better, but this will be the first day without having a charger handy. So, I'll post later if it actually helped.
On the bright side, setting up the phone again was a snap. Reloading the programs was the slow part, because you had to navigate from the "receant purchases" on your account to find the programs you had installed.
Not for me.
I've even reflashed from StarHub to European Open today.
Nothing changed.
I'll check tomorrow if something will change.
What is your batterytime in batterysaver when fully charged? When going to google mobile search, do you get the featurephone edition or the touch friendly for advanced phones? If you change the language for typing does it work or does you keyboard stay the same? These are all errors I had before.
I waited for my official Vodafone mango deployment, and after it was installed I 100% reset my phone in settings dialogue. No funky xda installhax0r stuff.
johagster said:
What is your batterytime in batterysaver when fully charged? When going to google mobile search, do you get the featurephone edition or the touch friendly for advanced phones? If you change the language for typing does it work or does you keyboard stay the same? These are all errors I had before.
I waited for my official Vodafone mango deployment, and after it was installed I 100% reset my phone in settings dialogue. No funky xda installhax0r stuff.
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I have none of the other issues you descirbed... just the battery life issue. If either changing push email etc doesn't make things better, or I see a few more people saying that a reset helped them, I may go the reset route. Hopefully that doesn't need to happen... seeing as I chose WP7 and not Android so that I could avoid issues like this.
I started thread at MS Q&A
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...-90c3-405e-8073-18e12bfab008?tm=1318370390863
After a factory reset it seems that my battery drain is back to normal. So, for me it worked
Is there a big difference after the factory reset? Does it worth to try?
I am facing this battery drain issue too. Battery falls down by 14% overnight in standby without data connection or WiFi. Factory reset didn't solve the problem. Any solution?
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I had big battery drain problems after mango. now it seems to be more stable. anyways, I think it might have been some kind of program, running under nodo intructions, like facebook, maybe some compatibility issues, I dont know, I only know that after updating all the programs I have to the oficial mango version, battery is doing better. not a lot better, still crap, but better than before!
The factory reset thingy worked for me as well , now I got about 2 days of battery instead of a half day
I have about a week if i use it as a phone only and one day if i use everything.
Gampanat said:
The factory reset thingy worked for me as well , now I got about 2 days of battery instead of a half day
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Two days of battery keeping 3G data connection ON all the time? Or only when needed?
Hi,
Recently upgraded a T-Mobile HU carrier locked device to Marshmallow. Ever since the calls/cell standby is on the top of the battery usage list; the cell standby with around 12-14%, and the calls go up to 50%ish depending on the amount of calls. Tried to read up and saw a couple of suggestions like disable VoLTE, Wifi calls, but none of them are in the menu (see screenshots). Also found the suggestions about clearing the cache, did that one yesterday, now it seems a bit better regarding drain during sleep (only lost 9% overnight opposed to 20% earlier), but the cell standby still on the top of the list (see screenshot) with good signal. Is there any possibility to check for these options without breaking the warranty (so preferrably without rooting/custom rom etc)?
Battery use:
s30.postimg.org/6tc2anso1/Screenshot_20160318_111847.png
Mobile networks:
s30.postimg.org/bt9iilyap/Screenshot_20160318_111910.png
More connection settings:
s30.postimg.org/cwtmukixt/Screenshot_20160318_111924.png
Call settings:
s30.postimg.org/e0dr6j3kx/Screenshot_20160318_111943.png
Thanks in advance,
Balage
Hello,
I am experiencing exactly the same problem with my G928F. I have tried to flash several Marshmallow ROMs yet the issue persists.
The moment I switch to mobile data the Cell Standby drain begins. At the end of the day I barely have 20 % battery left with cell standby on top.
However when I use the WiFi(which disables the mobile data) the battery life is a lot better and I end up with more then 50 % at the end of the day.
I guess there are some problems with the radio/software in that Marshmallow. If that continues I will try to roll back to Lollipop.
Hi there,
Thanks for the feedback. Altho I must admit that since I upgraded to MM, if I dont touch my phone at all (mobile, wifi, bluetooth all turned on), battery holds in standby for 4 days, whats not bad. But if I dont do anything that should drain the battery like web browsing, video watching or games (what I dont do anyways), just do some calls during the day, the battery drops like hell, I'm on 20% by the evening. Cellular service stuff should consume much less battery in my opinion...
best,
Balage
Same issue, On the three network
Same problem here. Cell Standby is on top.
Anyone got any fix to this?
I have contacted Samsung Support and they told me to send the phone to their repair shop.. WTF ? I am sure that is a software issue as it is not only my phone and I doubt they are going to fix it. They will just waste my time...
One more: same problem for me (using TIM in Italy with an unbranded device). I will try keeping the wifi connection on (I usually don't use the wifi connection in my office) just to check if even for me this is the main cause of the battery drain I'm experiencing with Marshmallow! I'm currently using the French stock ROM (PC3) which seems to be the most recent version, but still experiencing short battery life
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m140n1 said:
I have contacted Samsung Support and they told me to send the phone to their repair shop.. WTF ? I am sure that is a software issue as it is not only my phone and I doubt they are going to fix it. They will just waste my time...
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Of course it is not a device hardware problem, given that with Lollipop for all of us it was not like this!
I have the same issue, I simply turn DATA off to get rid of "cell standby drain". I use "wifi" most of the times (office and home) for my data usage, only switch on network data if I am out and just to check for updates and disable it in a minute or so.
Have somebody tried the new UK version rel. PDA PD2?
Just released last night...
Might this new release have sorted out this battery drain issue?
balages74 said:
Hi,
Recently upgraded a T-Mobile HU carrier locked device to Marshmallow. Ever since the calls/cell standby is on the top of the battery usage list; the cell standby with around 12-14%, and the calls go up to 50%ish depending on the amount of calls. Tried to read up and saw a couple of suggestions like disable VoLTE, Wifi calls, but none of them are in the menu (see screenshots). Also found the suggestions about clearing the cache, did that one yesterday, now it seems a bit better regarding drain during sleep (only lost 9% overnight opposed to 20% earlier), but the cell standby still on the top of the list (see screenshot) with good signal. Is there any possibility to check for these options without breaking the warranty (so preferrably without rooting/custom rom etc)?
Battery use:
s30.postimg.org/6tc2anso1/Screenshot_20160318_111847.png
Mobile networks:
s30.postimg.org/bt9iilyap/Screenshot_20160318_111910.png
More connection settings:
s30.postimg.org/cwtmukixt/Screenshot_20160318_111924.png
Call settings:
s30.postimg.org/e0dr6j3kx/Screenshot_20160318_111943.png
Thanks in advance,
Balage
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No VoLTE and wifi call coz TMH doesnt support it and TMH CSC only contain what they support.
ps. Im in TMH too but i have same battery life like lollipop. No battery drain. 6 SOT
I'm hvin de sam prblm here...I'm usin sm-g928f. My battery drain very fast in standby, instead of de 14 days dey re tlkin abt.... dis tym nt even a single nyt
Guys just flash custom rom riverom i have used that phone with data on for 16 hours and t mobile users flash any note 5 t mobile rom with t mobile s6edgeplus kernel for audio fix
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And if u r smg928f and want volte flash dr ketans volte rom
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Same problem here, Optus in Australia. No 4G connectivity, massive battery drain (only when not on wifi). What I have discovered is that the mobile network is continually disconnecting and re-connecting and that is pretty much sucking the battery aswell as rendering data on the phone useless. It cannot connect to 4g, even if the signal strength is 100%. SMS take a long time to send (i guess they go in teh short time it connects. Phone calls either fail competely or like yesterday I had one where I could hear them but they couldn't hear me.
I went into an Optus store, but of course they just want to sell phones. They said I could put it in to them under warranty and would be without a phone for 10 days+! Or could go to Samsung store, which I have an appointment for tomorrow. I don't hold out much hope on that.
Custom firmware is not an option as I need to be able to connect to my work WiFi and that uses vmware air-watch and it doesn't work with rooted devices or custom roms.
Is there a way to rollback to lollipop without losing the ability to use air-watch?
I bought the s8 today from a parallel imported store. I know oreo is a major update, but for my phone it's going to take over 5 hours. My internet speeds are fine and browsing/videos are all perfectly fast on my phone - it's just this update which is slow as a snail. The pic of this is below.
https://imgur.com/a/vye3o
With my other question, I wanted to ask about a feature from the "Phone INFO samsung" app. The s8 is my first Samsung parallel imported phone, so I used the app to check if it's refurbished or not, and the app confirms it's a brand new phone thankfully. The IMEI and serial numbers all match with the box too.
I noticed however that under usage history, the battery discharge cycle number was already 2. Possibly a stupid question, but is that normal for a brand new phone? Before I installed the app, the only charging I'd done was from 44% (the % the phone came out of the box as) up to around 75%.
https://imgur.com/a/Pick8
Appreciate any answers you guys have, thanks!
**EDIT: The update might not actually be Oreo since my phone was only 7.0 before the download, the size is only 500mb - I've had someone tell me that their oreo update was 1.5gb. The issue still stands that the download is incredibly slow!
**EDIT 2:
I believe my phone was originally a Telstra carrier phone that has been unlocked, since I see the Telstra logo whenever I boot up my phone. I'm not sure if this has any relevance to the fact that when I go into Settings > Software Update, I only see the following two options:
"Download updates manually" "Scheduled software updates"
On all my friends galaxy s8's, in addition to the above settings, there is also a "Download updates automatically" and a "Last update information" section. I wonder if this has anything to do with my issue?
It is normal because every device is being charged and stressed out battery test when in production.
Also, based on your screenshot it is not OREO yet. Oreo update is 1.5GB, 500mb would just be security patches and stability update.
5 hours definitely seems odd, especially if that update is only a third of the size of the Oreo update. Oreo took about 5-10 mins to download, and then maybe 20 minutes to install on my Verizon phone.