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Ok, I have only had my new Rogers Magic since last Thursday. I have unlocked it to AT&T and flashed it with the HoFo Community Rom. I am converting from a Blackberry. Email is probably the most important thing to me. First of all, Android OS is absolutely the best thing I have run across. It has everything I wanted and used from Blackberry but in better delivery. It also bridges the gap to the iPhone experience and gives me all the feature I would want and use from that type OS. I hope to make this my new phone and OS indefinitely. There is only one main issue, battery life.
I am a power user. I am on my phone a good bit when I travel but in the office, it can stay on the charger if necessary. I have a couple of apps installed that may be using too much battery but if I can't use them regularly, the phone's advantages no longer become useful. Here is a list:
Touchdown-On (syncs every 15 mins)
Gmail Sync-On (push on)
Youmail-On (syncs every hour)
Twidroid-On (syncs every hour)
Bluetooth-Off
Wifi-Off
GPS-On (read where this does not effect things unless an apps is using it)
3g-On (have switched to 2g and do not gain appreciable life so far)
I also have something showing up in taskiller I do not know what it is. It shows up as com.google.android.apps.maps:FriendService. I do not know if this is killing the battery.
I am also using 4 widgets:
Battery Widget by mippin
Touchdown Calendar
Google Search
Portrait/Picture Frame
I do have 4 toggle widgets for Bluetooth, Wifi, Brightness and Ringer. I did not think these effect battery life but they do show up in taskiller. Screen brightness is set to 20%.
As an example, today I took the phone off the charger from an overnight charge. It was showing 100% battery life. I did this at 8:12 am. I sat it on my desk and did not touch it. I got 3 emails though Touchdown and 3 emails through Gmail. I opened the phone to read and delete. That was all I used the phone for. At approximately 9:45 (1.5 hours later) my charge was down to 76%. Another example. Last night I took the phone off the charger at 100% to make a phone call. I talked for 1 hour and 10 minutes. When I got off the call, I had 54% battery remaining.
I tried to be as detailed as possible here. If there are questions let me know. I hope I do not have unrealistic expectations but overall I am thinking there may be something wrong. I am up for any suggestions and I am going to give this phone all the time I can. I have read through every battery life thread on this forum. I plan on conditioning the battery this week and have read to top it off as often as possible. Sorry for the length but I am actually hoping there is an issue and I can fix it. I still have my Blackberry and don't want to go back but I just can't be looking for a charger in every airport or meeting room I am in.
I Cant tell you what the process is called as I only use gmail, but you can set gmail up to check your other emails & Then use only the native email push to the phone rather then the extra email apps syncing once an hour.. I Can tell you that I too am a power user, but in a different way.. I only have 1 email address, but I use the met on my phone as well as gTalk & sms constantly & I have absolutely no batter life issues.. I am also running nearly as many widgets (you have the rounded labs ones to turn everything on & off?).
With heavy use my battery will end up in the 50% range after a full day away from a charger.
bastage said:
I Cant tell you what the process is called as I only use gmail, but you can set gmail up to check your other emails & Then use only the native email push to the phone rather then the extra email apps syncing once an hour.. I Can tell you that I too am a power user, but in a different way.. I only have 1 email address, but I use the met on my phone as well as gTalk & sms constantly & I have absolutely no batter life issues.. I am also running nearly as many widgets (you have the rounded labs ones to turn everything on & off?).
With heavy use my battery will end up in the 50% range after a full day away from a charger.
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Thanks for the reply.
I can't use Gmail to get my corporate email so that is out. I do have the rounded labs widgets and I am keeping everything off at the current moment. I am trying the top off method to condition the battery. I read about that on here. Maybe things will get better soon.
It might just be a fluke, but ever since I started killing my browser (via taskiller or advanced task manager) when not in use, my battery is lasting much longer now. Also, its not uncommon for it to clear up to 30mb ram that was in use from the browser.
I'm also on the hofo community rom (v 1.10) on a rogers magic and come from a blackberrry myself and have a similar setup (gmail push, touchdown synch 15 minute and push turned on, other email x2 on 15 minute sync, wifi and bluetooth off, but i leave 3g on most of the time).
Cheers.
Did you drain your battery fully in the few days you've got your phone? You're not supposed to drain the battery very often, that's bad for these batteries, but it is recommmended to do it when you buy your phone and every once in a while afterwards. Just let it drain until the phone switches off (do NOT turn it on again trying to drain the battery even more!), then put it on a charger and charge it for a few hours (you can turn it back on once you put it on the charger). Keep it on the charger even after it says it's fully charged. If you don't do this every once in a while (say, once a month or two), the battery meter won't be accurate and will tell you you've got less battery left than you really do.
If this doesn't help, I'd suggest investigating the widgets and/or background applications. Some of the widgets may be preventing letting the phone enter sleep mode, therefore causing unnecessary battery drain (ironicaly, even the battery widget can do this), or may be checking something a bit too often. I'm running my Magic with stock ROM, but pretty much the same setup as you (wifi on, 2G only, Gmail/Contacts/Calendar autosync on, mail and Twidroid set to 30mins, but slightly different widgets and I do close the apps in the background when I don't need them using TaskPanel), and it takes me almost 24 hours of light use of the phone (reading a few mails/SMS/twitts, replying to them, installing updates from Market etc.)to get to something like 70%.
Thanks for the replies. Actually I did drain my battery a few times. Once on purpose and 1 other by accidentally leaving it off the charger over night. I am beginning to see a bit better life from the battery now that I am getting it conditioned.
Also, I did run some tests today while the phone was on my desk. I installed Watts to monitor battery usage. I used Taskiller to kill everything and added the programs that I thought might be using battery back in one by one every hour. I noted the biggest drops. The worst offender was actually Youmail. I had just been notified of a beta version and updated a few days earlier. Turns out it had a pretty bad bug in it where it used 100% CPU resources trying to connect. I emailed Youmail about it and they sent me another download. It seems to be doing better now but I will monitor it closely. Next worst was Background Data. Turning this off helps a bunch. WeatherBug, Twidroid and Touchdown all seem to effect battery life very little depending on how often you have them set up to update. I did all this with 3g on so I know I can save more with 2g. With everything on except background data and just updated Gmail myself, I am seeing = to or less than 5% battery drain per hour. When I really crank things up by browsing or downloading, I see a bigger drop. Phone call also cause a bigger drop.
Overall, I think I am getting a handle on things. I still am a bit upset by overall battery consumption. I just hate having a phone with all this function and flexibility being severely limited by the battery.
I also have a battery issue. Overnight the phone drains about 70% of the battery. I tried the battery on a friends HTC Magic 32A, and it lasts about 2 days.
I no widgets and using TaskKiller and Advanced Task Killer Free to monitor the running applications, but up to now, I haven't been lucky, and it keeps draining the battery.
The ROM I am using is "Smartphone France ROM by spfrance - Based on HTC Magic, dedicated for European users", but while using the original ROM it was the same...
Any ideas on this?
I have already created a topic on this, but up to now, had no luck:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=569319
On my g1 and my new mytouch i have the same ridiculous issue. The battery will charge to 100% and then without using it will read like 50% after an hour or so. I put it on the charger and its at 99% after about 5-10 minutes. The battery just doesnt read properly, it never has for me. Sometimes itll say 30%, 40% or any unbelievable number but its really at 100% percent. The absurdity of it all is absolutely infuriating.
Heard that Magic needs a bit overcharge and topup charging at the first place to keep the battery runs longer.
havn't got the source here but it was form vodafone forum and the message was posted by the official support over there.
i dont have this issue with my vodafone 32B
i can use it for 2-3 days with minimal use
with average calling and medium usage it lasts 1,5 days.
no unusual draining.
just when i play tower defence, it lasts less than a day.
snudel said:
i dont have this issue with my vodafone 32B
i can use it for 2-3 days with minimal use
with average calling and medium usage it lasts 1,5 days.
no unusual draining.
just when i play tower defence, it lasts less than a day.
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Can you tell me what is your ROM and your radio version?
i used qtek 1.6
now i am using RAV 1.6.2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=538645
i am sick of the speed with hero roms. so i am back to non-heroes
battery is even better now because this rom needs less cpu
snudel said:
i used qtek 1.6
now i am using RAV 1.6.2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=538645
i am sick of the speed with hero roms. so i am back to non-heroes
battery is even better now because this rom needs less cpu
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What is your Radio version?
where do i see the radio version?
Turn off the phone, then push the back button + power button, you should see something like this:
SAPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Saphire unknown 32b ship s-on g
hboot-1.33.0007 (sapp10000)
cpld-10
radio-2.22.19.26i
Humm, damn, the same as mine...
The only difference is the spl..
Does anyone knows if the the spl can influence the battery life?
Hi all,
I folowed both part 1 and part 2 to root and unlock nand on my evo. I loaded the freshevo 0.3 ROM and applied the 4g fix from flipz. Now, my Evo lasts about 5 hours in standby before the battery is dead.
My Evo used to last most of the day before I rooted it. Has anyone experienced similar issues?
Thanks,
Rayden1000
Did you flash the new radio?
Did you leave 4g on?
Gps?
Bluetooth?
What are your sync settings for social network, weather, news?
We need more info than my battery sucks.
Flashed the new radio.
4G is on - as before rooting.
Bluetooth, WiFi is off.
GPS is on - as before rooting.
Syncing is at 4 hour intervals.
Exchange is "as items arrive" - as before rooting.
I know that everyone complains about the battery on the EVO, but my phone is dead after just a few hours of non-usage.
My Up time and Awake time are almost the same, so I think something is preventing the phone from sleeping. An hour ago I went to some setting that listed which app is using what percentage of the battery. I can't remember where I went to check that now, and it wasn't the stock battery settings app. It said that HTC Sense is using 97%.
Thanks,
Rayden1000
Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=700601&highlight=100%+time
Also you might have a bug with 4g where it is constantly connecting or trying to connect. See if the fix above works. If not try damagecontrols rom and see if its any better. Or you can try disabling 4g and see if there us a huge huge huge gain.
I do know that right now some of the custom roms have had 4g issues. I'm not in a 4g area so its hard for me to test.
Thanks Aridon,
I already checked out that thread, my phone is set to CDMA auto.
And yes, I did have the 4g bug when I unlocked NAND through method 2. I found the fix that flipz posted and that has fixed the 4g issue. I also flashed the freshevo 0.3 rom that has the 4g fix built in.
I will try flashing the 4g fix again right now, but does anyone have any other suggestions? It seems that battery performance decrease is a common issue after flashing custom ROM's.
Rayden1000
You should consider doing the steps in that thread regardless if what it shows. The hero had a display bug in that regard for some and perhaps so do some evo. Seems odd but there are differences because when you start playing with kernels it will boot on 002 devices but not others so there are differences.
I'd do it, set it and reboot. Don't go back in to see if it changed just start a new battery test And check for improvement
turn off 4g, my evo has everything yours does! but end of the day i get home and still have over 50% battery life left! if you have 4g on it drains the crap out of battery. only turn it on when your going to use it!
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turn off 4g, my evo has everything yours does! but end of the day i get home and still have over 50% battery life left! if you have 4g on it drains the crap out of battery. only turn it on when your going to use it!
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I do understand that 4g decreases the battery life significantly. What I am trying to say in this thread is that after I rooted and unlocked nand on my evo, the battery life is MUCH MUCH worse then before rooting. My phone's battery now goes from 100 to 0 in about 4 hours - while I am not using it at all.
I am just trying to figure out what process is running all the time and prevents the phone from going to sleep.
Rayden1000
Dude download Overclock Widget. Do a google search for: Overclock Widget HTC Evo.
I swear on everything I love that after I installed it and went through the settings my battery lasted 11 hours today. I still had 23 percent left and I streamed some videos on the web, listened to music, played around all day with my phone. It really works and some people claim 30 plus hours of battery life.
It works and I will post a screenie tomorrow of the proof.
Whatever it was, installing Damagecontrol 3.1.2 ROM "appears" to have fixed the issue. My phone has been in standby for about an hour and I have 93% battery left. I will leave it alone for the night and will post the battery status tomorrow morning.
Thanks to everyone for trying to help.
Rayden1000
rayden1000 said:
Whatever it was, installing Damagecontrol 3.1.2 ROM "appears" to have fixed the issue. My phone has been in standby for about an hour and I have 93% battery left. I will leave it alone for the night and will post the battery status tomorrow morning.
Thanks to everyone for trying to help.
Rayden1000
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Baked snack ROM in my observation gets THE BEST battery life of all the roms out thus far.
rayden1000 said:
Whatever it was, installing Damagecontrol 3.1.2 ROM "appears" to have fixed the issue. My phone has been in standby for about an hour and I have 93% battery left. I will leave it alone for the night and will post the battery status tomorrow morning.
Thanks to everyone for trying to help.
Rayden1000
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I may have spoken prematurelly, this morning the battery is dead again. I have tried numerous ROMs with the same result. I also tried old radio ROM ans new radio ROM.
Has anyone been successful at following both part 1 and 2 of rooting and maintaining decent battery performance?
Rayden1000
Not to sound noobish, but did you already disable GTalk auto sign in and then sign out?
Diesektor said:
Not to sound noobish, but did you already disable GTalk auto sign in and then sign out?
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It's off. I don't use it.
Rayden1000
rayden1000 said:
I may have spoken prematurelly, this morning the battery is dead again. I have tried numerous ROMs with the same result. I also tried old radio ROM ans new radio ROM.
Has anyone been successful at following both part 1 and 2 of rooting and maintaining decent battery performance?
Rayden1000
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Did you NOT just read my above post. I clearly gave you a fix SMH. Here's proof of what I'm talking about:
I took a screenshot with the ShootMe app. I'm currently running Fresh's latest ROM. The screenshot indicates that I had it off the charger for over 14 hours. I used my phone today to send a lot of text, skyfire, streaming flash websites, etc. By the way I have about 40-50% battery left.
Installed overclock widget, set it to run at around 247 mhz at all times - same result. Evo battery is dead after about 4-5 hours. Does anyone have the original ROM for the Evo? I tried running the RUUxxxxx.exe files, but they all fail - probably due to me rooting and unlocking nand, therefore modifying the file system.
Rayden1000
I've been running Fresh 0.3 for a few days now and haven't seen a problem. Have you tried getting a task manager and making sure there isn't a program running in the background causing all this? Also, is your phone hot... if it is, it means you go something taking up some major cpu time.
I had a similar issue with my Hero, the cause was it was trying to sync the calendar over and over non-stop. You should look at your account syncing also, there could be a problem there.
Sounds as if you have something running in the background that is killing your battery. When you are flashing your roms, are you doing a wipe first or just flashing over whatever you had before?
I don't see how you're running overclock widget and getting bad battery life. Download Advanced Task Killer and kill those tasks.
I also had an issue like that after installing some ROM (I forget now what one, since it was a while ago) and my battery died over night while I was sleeping. I don't really know how (if I did) fix it, but I wiped everything, factory/data/dalvik/battery stats (whatever that is) all those options, then installed a new ROM and it seemed to work fine.
As for the overclock widget, I downloaded that and tried to use it, but it didn't seem like it worked. It just didn't seem to stick and I didn't really see any increase (maybe even a decrease) in battery life. Probably the best thing that you could do is get a task killer and see if there is something running that needs to be killed. The awake time shouldn't be anywhere near the uptime
Fully charged my phone night before last and went to work in the morning (9am). I didn't touch it all day, didn't even turn it on. On my drive home at 5pm it was dead, off.
I plugged it in with the phone off when I got home and saw that it was fully charged a few hours later around 10pm and I booted it up and left it alone. This morning it was dead, off.
Looking at the apps that take up my battery doesn't work because it doesn't retain information what happened to the phone prior to the last reboot. Not sure what to do. My awake time matches my standby time exactly. It's obviously a 100% awake time problem but what's triggering this?
I'm on Fresh .3 with absolutely no other mods. I don't think I have any apps that ping outside servers. So what the ****!?
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lulz, I just realized I haven't been even able to use the phone in 3 days due to this issue
Something is eating your battery obviously.
Restore to stock and see if you have the same issues.
Bielinsk said:
Something is eating your battery obviously.
Restore to stock and see if you have the same issues.
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That's a PITA. This is a clean fresh .3 rom install with only logmein, dropbox and couple non-online games installed. Why is this phone such ****ing fail right now.
Have you removed the Favorites widget? Doing that stopped all battery drain problems for me. Just delete the widget.
First thing to check is if you have a sufficient cellular signal. If you are getting a weak signal it will cause poor battery life. If cell signal strength is not your problem then it is definitely something you have installed on it eating away at your battery. That said check/do the following:
1) Check how frequently you have your accounts syncing
2) Before the phone dies look in your battery use to see what's eating your battery
3) Install a task manager/killer (I use Advanced Task Killer)
4) You don't have to do this one but it does help. I use a program called Startup Auditor to disable startup on apps I don't need to run when the phone first boots (you'd be surprised how many are in there).
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Have you removed the Favorites widget? Doing that stopped all battery drain problems for me. Just delete the widget.
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delete it completely or remove it from one of the home panels?
the "time without signal" workarounds seem to prove the most effective for me. in addition, reduce background usage and automatic update frequencies as best as you can.
according to this thread [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=709768] (and link within), HTC has acknowledged some issues and is preparing to deploy a few fixes.
You are running someone else's ROM, there could be a problem with the radio, or a problem with the way it was loaded.
If you are in an area where you don't get signal, you are going to drain the battery, and FAST.
Do you have 4g on but not in a 4g area?
I am...
fully rooted and have fresh .3 as well. I am getting over 30hrs with moderate use and the last hour of that I had everything on to purposely run it down to dead. (was doing a toastch recommeded battery meter calibration).
Took my phone off the charger last night at 7:30 pm. It's 2:23pm and I have 31% left. I have Wifi, BT, and Background apps with auto sync turned on.
I would say you might be experiencing the Motorola cell tower problem. HTC has confirmed that the EVO is not playing well with cell towers that have motorola transmitters. It is causing the phone to use more energy to dial in the tower.
To be sure...
1. Set all apps and widgets to manual update or update once a day.
2. Get rid of the people app or widget from any home screen.
3. Go into Gtalk and uncheck auto sign in. Then sign out when you exit the program.
4. charge the phone until the green light comes on. Don't use a battery meter. The second the green light comes on, go into recovery and wipe the battery stats. Reboot the phone and run it until the battery dies and will not longer power the phone. This does nothing for the battery but does recalibrate the internal battery meter.
5. For maximum life...turn off: background data, WiFi, BT, and Mobile networks when not using. keep screen at 1/2 brightness.
If I do the above and manually update mail, weather, social apps, etc... and only turn radios on when I need them, I can get 40 hrs. out of my EVO and this is under moderate to high moderate use.
One other thing....plug your phone in for 10 minutes. Then unplug it and go into immediate stand by for like 30 minutes. Go to settings>about phone>battery>battery use>cell standby. Time without signal should be very low....anything over 10-15% and I'd suspect that if you did everything in 1-5, you have a towers issue robbing your battery.
I was having awake time issues with Fresh .3, so I switched to DamageControl, and everything has been great. Unplugged this morning at 7, and I still have 75% battery remaining. Better battery life than the Hero or BlackBerry Tour!
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That's a PITA. This is a clean fresh .3 rom install with only logmein, dropbox and couple non-online games installed. Why is this phone such ****ing fail right now.
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I don't have any of those problems at all. You probably have a bad battery/phone.
sherman901 said:
I don't have any of those problems at all. You probably have a bad battery/phone.
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i would agree with you but i am having a similar issue and sometimes i get great battery life and other times its just unacceptable. Check out my thread here :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=709704
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Fully charged my phone night before last and went to work in the morning (9am). I didn't touch it all day, didn't even turn it on. On my drive home at 5pm it was dead, off.
I plugged it in with the phone off when I got home and saw that it was fully charged a few hours later around 10pm and I booted it up and left it alone. This morning it was dead, off.
Looking at the apps that take up my battery doesn't work because it doesn't retain information what happened to the phone prior to the last reboot. Not sure what to do. My awake time matches my standby time exactly. It's obviously a 100% awake time problem but what's triggering this?
I'm on Fresh .3 with absolutely no other mods. I don't think I have any apps that ping outside servers. So what the ****!?
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lulz, I just realized I haven't been even able to use the phone in 3 days due to this issue
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I seem to be having the same problem as you and it is quite frustrating. I get a steady 10% battery drain every hour even when its idle. I tried juice defender and setcpu and it is still the same. I turned off all my sync accounts and nothing. I also have systempanel and it doesn't seem like theres a rogue app eating my batteries.I'm going to truth to stock tonight to see if something is wrong with my phone. Did you ever figure out what was wrong with your phone?
AVA9 i get 20 hours a charge
but YES something is eating your battery install system pan have and let it run a bit and check the info id bet its
1 your evo spend a lot of tWOS
2 you have a rogue app eating your battery
Way to bump an ancient thread.
DOH dear god i did not look at that lol
I do apologize for bumping such an old thread, but I feel like this thread has already asked much of what I also wanted to ask but have not reached a conclusion. Therefore I would like to try and solve the problem or provide as much info as I can to solve the problem.
I indeed have installed systempanel and here are the screenshots for the day.
imgur.com/mzAE3.png
imgur.com/zA2Vi.png
imgur.com/OLDtt.png
(sorry my account is not allowed to post links)
As you can see besides the internet, there is nothing else thats taking up the battery. Also I took this pic after I put the phone on the charger for a bit, it was at ~ 13% before. The battery usage information says a majority of the battery was used by #1 android system and #2 cell standby, it was neck and neck almost, with #3 being phone idle. My weather app polls every 3 hours, my facebook syncs every 30 mins, my htc sense facebook syncs once a day, and I have not configured any other emails except for two gmail acconts, which received probably 3 emails throughout the whole day.
I just used setcpu today, it made absolutely no difference. Same results as yesterday when I did not have setcpu. Thanks in advance for the help!
dude you need to try my setup: superevo and setcpu
i got 7 days of battery using the evo as a simple phone.
http://edsandroid.blogspot.com/2010/10/7-days-battery-potential.html
proloss said:
dude you need to try my setup: superevo and setcpu
i got 7 days of battery using the evo as a simple phone.
http://edsandroid.blogspot.com/2010/10/7-days-battery-potential.html
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Why would anyone use an EVO as a simple phone.
I am beginning to think peoples opinions on moderate use vary tooooo much. The EVO is similar to an unplugged laptop. The more you make the cpu work the faster your battery is going to drain.
It seems some people just dont get that.
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scirio said:
That's a PITA. This is a clean fresh .3 rom install with only logmein, dropbox and couple non-online games installed. Why is this phone such ****ing fail right now.
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Sounds like Operator error.
Hi there. I came from a LG Incite right, and I have bought 2 weeks ago a HTC MyTouch 3G. I love the phone, great work to both google and htc. Ok but I ran into a problem. My battery sucks really bad. Everytime I text with google voice, or just browse the web, my battery drains very quickly. I already have bought another battery from ebay and still, the battery drains very quickly.
So the question is, is this serious? Battery life sucks on a mytouch 3g?
Rom Used: (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814142)
Install Apps: Google Voice, IMDB, NetCounter, ZumoDrive, and stock Google Talk.
Thank you!!!
There are a few things you should do to maximize battery life. First and foremost get yourself a task killer from the market to kill apps so they aren't always running. That will help a little.
I get 2 days out of my battery and I'm running Cyanogen 6.1 RC1. The tricks I've learned are as follows:
1) Keep your screen as dim as you can stand it. You might consider getting some kind of widget that can toggle brightness. I use WitchPro Widget to toggle everything. I keep it at like 5% indoors and use my widget to brighten the screen if I'm outdoors.
2) Change your screen to timeout in the shortest amount of time possible. That way your screen isn't staying on for a long time when you stop using the phone.
3) Turn wifi and bluetooth off unless you are using them. They will both drain your battery. Again, I use SwitchPro Widget to toggle both of them on and off.
4) Reset your battery stats. The most simple and straightforward way to do this is to drain your battery to 0% and let the phone turn off. Then plug it into the charger and let it get back up to 100%. I even leave it plugged in a couple hours after that for good measure. That will reset your battery stats.
5) Disable haptic feedback. The way I figure it is do I really need my phone to vibrate to let me know I'm typing or doing something? No. Also, you can disable any sounds your keyboard makes as well.
i did everything u said. i would like to add... turn animation off and carry an extra battery also help
32b myTouch 3g 2.2.1
Cyanogen Nightly 263
Hboot - 1.33.0006
Radio - 2.22.19.26i
Kernel - 2.6.35.9
ADW 1.3.3
ClockworkMod Recovery
Slideit keyboard
do this.
charge phone to 100%. leave charger on. boot to recovery. wipe batt stats. reboot. keep charger on untill it fully reboots.
unplug, use all the way. until you cant turn on the phone. then charge all the way.
with the charger still plugged in, power off the phone. let it charge for about another 30 minutes. then power on. once fully rebooted, it will run very good batt life.
i went from 100% at 6 am to 6pm with little use. and it was at 20%
now, at same times, i listen to music for like one hour. lotta txts. and wifi a lot.
and im at like 64 percent on high use.
Yea i did the above post a while ago. It helped for a lil bit but soon again after it was back to normal.
Just this week my phones battery has lost its mind. I use a my touch 4g with the standard battery and had a usual battery life of 12 hours or more easily. Now from this Tuesday I've had a battery life of 4 hours from 100% to 0%. I have to charge the battery 3 times a day. Most of the battery is used when idle for some reason and I've looked at what uses the most battery in spare parts but the app will constantly crash.
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Just this week my phones battery has lost its mind. I use a my touch 4g with the standard battery and had a usual battery life of 12 hours or more easily. Now from this Tuesday I've had a battery life of 4 hours from 100% to 0%. I have to charge the battery 3 times a day. Most of the battery is used when idle for some reason and I've looked at what uses the most battery in spare parts but the app will constantly crash.
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I'll tell you what's funny. Is my mom and i have the same phone and we are having the same exact problem that you are mentioning. In fact i have Auto Sync off / GPS off / data ON /and i've lost 12% of my battery in the past 3 hours. My battery usage stats don't look that off. but something is seriously going AWOL.
same issue here on 2x phones.. These seemed to correspond to the radio upgrade i did from the official gingerbread release.
I have since backed out of it, going back to the previous version. However, the issue has seemed to continue.
I have done the following (prob didn't need too, but wanted to cover the bases)
* Wipe cache
* wipe dalvik
* reflash rom
* apply kernel update
... I seem to still be experiencing the severe drain, phone is hot..
I did just notice the cell tower GPS was turned on, i disabled this to see if it helps.
Next step will be to remove the market update i recently did that also corresponds to the problem.
Other then this... i'm at a loss as to wtf...
I updated my radio this morning but I was experiencing the problem before the update so I don't think it was that.
I had that same issue when I updated to the newest radio...ate my battery up like a fat kid in a twinkie factory! So I went back to .09.04, wiped battery stats, calibrated battery with the app, and now my battery life is getting back to normal
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Clearing out and resetting gps seems to have yielded positive results on both phones.. battery seems much more stable on both phones
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I was thinking about this last night. t-mobile knows what phones we have by IMEI numbers. And since they are pushing the 2.3.4 update out. I wonder if they are pinging our phones trying to get our phone to accept the update. And since we aren't running a recognized ROM it's sending back the information the computer is wanting and thus the cycle continues. Killing our batteries.
Everything on my phone right now is stock and the battery still drains like mad. Last night I left the phone idle at 100% and by my math I was losing 5% every 10 mins so by the time I finished watching two movies without even glancing at the phone my battery was dead. Now I notice that the phone takes about 5 hours to charge as well.
I have been experiencing the same issue since Wednesday. I've wiped, reflashed, changed from cyanogen to virtuous unity. Nothing stops the drain except putting the phone in airplane mode. There is a pretty serious discussion in the t-mobile support forums where a lot of people, both rooted and not, are experiencing the quick drain. It seems t-mobile has acknowledged this to an extent but hasn't issued any statement with any clarity as to why or when it will be fixed. One thing is becoming more apparent though and that is that it seems to be a network issue. Some people have removed google maps and fixed the problem but that didn't work for me.
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I forget which app is recommended and used by members of the forum most often. I searched the market for 'gps reset' and came up with an app called: GPS Status & Toolbox.
One of its menu options is Tools>Manage A-GPS state> Reset
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I posted this in the RG2.1 thread. I have had this fix the drain issue on 2 phones. Please try it, i'm anxious to see if it works for others.
My phone was getting hot near the bottom of the phone, i believe this is where the GPS chip is.
I only have theories as to why the gps could be the issue...
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I have been experiencing the same issue since Wednesday. I've wiped, reflashed, changed from cyanogen to virtuous unity. Nothing stops the drain except putting the phone in airplane mode. There is a pretty serious discussion in the t-mobile support forums where a lot of people, both rooted and not, are experiencing the quick drain. It seems t-mobile has acknowledged this to an extent but hasn't issued any statement with any clarity as to why or when it will be fixed. One thing is becoming more apparent though and that is that it seems to be a network issue. Some people have removed google maps and fixed the problem but that didn't work for me.
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By Putting the device in AirPlane mode you are bypassing the HSPA network. and cutting all ties with it. There HAS to be something pinging our phones. HAS to be.
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By Putting the device in AirPlane mode you are bypassing the HSPA network. and cutting all ties with it. There HAS to be something pinging our phones. HAS to be.
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airplane mode disables ALL of the radios, including gps...
I seriously doubt something is pinging the phone. I don't believe the update check works like that.
^^^^Just tried the above method to no avail. Battery % just dropped another 3 percent in about 15 minutes. This issue seems to be spreading fast. I proudly consider myself a geek but I am stumped as far as knowing what to do. I guess we are at the mercy of t-mobile.
Interesting..... I've noticed the exact same thing the last few days. Normally when I'm at home and my phone is on wifi, I can go to sleep with the phone at around 95% and wake up in the morning and the phone is at around 91% or 92%. Wednesday I woke up and my phone was at 63%, I was shocked. I'm running Royal Ginger 2.1(I've been running it for some time now). So something has changed and I personally don't think it's the ROM. The suggestion about the official gingerbread update from tmobile seems like a pretty good assessment considering its been happening to a lot of people (rooted and non rooted) over the last week.
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airplane mode disables ALL of the radios, including gps...
I seriously doubt something is pinging the phone. I don't believe the update check works like that.
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you can enable Wi-Fi after putting the phone in AP mode. And i have my A-GPS off and GPS radio off, and i'm still having the problem mentioned.
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you can enable Wi-Fi after putting the phone in AP mode. And i have my A-GPS off and GPS radio off, and i'm still having the problem mentioned.
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did u try resetting the gps with an app? That seemed to be the ticket for me.
I'm currently running updated maps, market, and radio with so far, a normal battery life.
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did u try resetting the gps with an app? That seemed to be the ticket for me.
I'm currently running updated maps, market, and radio with so far, a normal battery life.
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what do you mean by resetting it with an app?
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what do you mean by resetting it with an app?
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please refer to my previous post....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16149738&postcount=10
I had the same battery drain problem for the past few days also. I saw an article on another site about recent battery drain problems for a different T-mobile phone. (i think it was the G2) A few ppl on there named a couple apps that they thought were causing it: the recent Google Maps update, the Market update, and the Google Plus app. So I uninstall the two updates and the Google+ app, let my phone die completely and charged it all the way, with the phone off, uninterrupted.
That was 19 hrs ago and I have 60% left and I've been browsing the web, with wifi on, and playing a few different games for most of the day. I don't know which one of those things fixed it, but I had to be one of them. Before this I was lucky to get through the work day with more than 20% left with little use. Hope this helps some of you fix this.
I was having the same issue and clearing the gps state as mentioned above seems to have worked.
EDIT: This did not work. I was out in a gsm only area so my phone was running on 2g and as soon as I got back to HSPA+ area battery drain started happening again. Might be going to Verizon if this keeps up.