Its rayanza's lag fix i just formated my internet sd card flashed vibrant 6 rom and did not apply any lag fix and guess what the battery is not draining anymore. But the phone lags is there a alternative to rayanza's lag fix?
And for the people with battery problems try it.. You will see
I have the lag fix and not one thing has changed for me but benchmark scores. Although I didnt have battery issues before so I do not know if it helped anything or not lol
flameinthefire said:
Its rayanza's lag fix i just formated my internet sd card flashed vibrant 6 rom and did not apply any lag fix and guess what the battery is not draining anymore. But the phone lags is there a alternative to rayanza's lag fix?
And for the people with battery problems try it.. You will see
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You're wrong.
I have gone through 2 vibrants and now on my third one. First one never would lock a carrier signal to use it, so back it went. The 2nd i rooted and applied lagfix and had all sorts of issues, and than finally it just bricked and would just go to the first image boot over and over and over and never came out of it. Couldnt even get to recovery mode to just put back to stock. Third one now is working great without lagfix but is still rooted. I dont see the need for it to use lagfix just for it to open apps faster. Doesnt really do anything but that to me. Sorry.. im very new to this type of smartphone as i came from using blackberry for over 5+ years. My wifes vibrant has no issue at all so far but only rooted to use the wifi hotspot. As for the battery part i didnt really notice a differnce in battery time on the lagfix and the non lagfix vibrants i have.
no i am not i am speaking from experience there is no need for me to lie.
is there any other lag fix? i just applied it again to see if it makes a difference and it drained 10 percent in 5 mins so.......
The only one that i used was RyanZAEXT2LagFix BETA 2-3 when i used lagfix on my 2nd vibrant. But it just led up to issues after issues until the phone pretty much bricked. But i dont ever recall seeing any difference in battery drain.
You killed 2 vibrants? You sir are a bad bad man and I hope you had to pay for the third one full price. You should know what your doing before you do something to your phone.
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This is the lagfix I use: http://android.modaco.com/content/s...fix-using-internal-memory-and-playlogo1-hack/ If you have Vibrant6 then just use ADB and type the commands in.
I prefer this lagfix,
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compared to RyanZA.. since I actually get more app space, Will I use it all? No. but its nice for whatever reason.
Quadrant Benchmarks:
Stock Kernel.
But when I did use RyanZA.. I didn't notice any battery life drains, so it's most likely something else.
I have the lag fix installed and haven't seen any difference in battery drain.
bauerlucas said:
You killed 2 vibrants? You sir are a bad bad man and I hope you had to pay for the third one full price. You should know what your doing before you do something to your phone.
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Im pretty certain i know i was doing.
The first phone was not even me at all. It was like that out of the box. Brought the phone home, put in my sim and nothing, no carrier network lock. Thought it might of been the sim card itself. Went to tmobile corp store and showed the phone and swapped out for new sim. It had the same issue.
Second phone carrier network locked fine. First thing i did was root it. Piece of cake. than did the lag fix.. no issues after install, than installed setcpu and juice up on it. after i set them up the phone would still get extremely hot and than basically reboot on its on even when i had setcpu clocked down to 800. 400 when screen is off. Even than when i did that the phone would go into a deep sleep and never come out unless i battery pull. uninstalled juice and setcpu seem to work where it wouldn't reboot, but still get extremely hot, not even being on it for 5-10 minutes. Than started to setup my emails and other apps and apps where forcing to close and freeze. phone calls would work but the screen would freeze where i could not get to the dial pad to enter numbers and look for contact info while on the phone, and than one day i was on the phone for like 2 minutes and the phone complete rebooted into the vibrant boot screen and loop at that only never getting past the vibrant boot screen image. It would just blank and go back to it, blank and go back. Took it back to tmobile and they never seen that happen.
Swapped out for third one now. Rooted but no lag fix and installed all same apps i use and emails etc.. and phone works flawless. So i don't think the lag fix is a necessity for me to use at this time. Only thing i saw with using it was that it open apps quicker. I dont see a huge point for me to use that if thats all it does. I dont see any other advantages of using lag fix at this time.
That's bad luck you made it sound like you briked your 2nd one installing the lag fix. I have not had any problems with my vibrant besides the gps. Well good luck man.
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This is the lagfix I use: http://android.modaco.com/content/s...fix-using-internal-memory-and-playlogo1-hack/
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Ummm... That IS the RyanZA fix, just without the scripts to make installing it easier.
I've used all the lag fixes, and run without one. The battery doesn't really change with them. The biggest problem I've found is that something in the System process occasionally goes nuts and runs at 100% all the time. The phone gets hot and the battery drains very fast. You can see it if you get the System panel app and scroll to the bottom. Rebooting fixes it, so it's probably just a firmware bug.
ttabbal said:
Ummm... That IS the RyanZA fix, just without the scripts to make installing it easier.
I've used all the lag fixes, and run without one. The battery doesn't really change with them. The biggest problem I've found is that something in the System process occasionally goes nuts and runs at 100% all the time. The phone gets hot and the battery drains very fast. You can see it if you get the System panel app and scroll to the bottom. Rebooting fixes it, so it's probably just a firmware bug.
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Oh it is? Never noticed, just noticed that when I applied the RyanZA's one-click, it would always appear with a error about low internal space so I tried the adb code one and ended up with more space. Thanks for the clarification!
bauerlucas said:
That's bad luck you made it sound like you briked your 2nd one installing the lag fix. I have not had any problems with my vibrant besides the gps. Well good luck man.
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I dont think it was the lag fix itself. since it installed fine after i got the new phone and first thing i did was root it and applied lagfix very first two things i did with the 2nd phone. so i really dont know what it was or what happened. But oh well.
"Third times a charm" hehe
Have y'all tried disabling the phone's animations to help with lag?
settings > sounds and display > animation > no animation
Just set mine to that setting. Appears to be running quite a bit better.
I had the lag fix on mine last week but it crashed and I had to wipe the phone clean. I'm not too eager about doing it again.
flameinthefire said:
Its rayanza's lag fix i just formated my internet sd card flashed vibrant 6 rom and did not apply any lag fix and guess what the battery is not draining anymore. But the phone lags is there a alternative to rayanza's lag fix?
And for the people with battery problems try it.. You will see
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For some reason, my battery would drain like crazy (stock, non rooted,) after about two weeks of usage. One day, I had pulled out the batter and noticed the 4th quarter of the battery was swelling. I called TMO and they sent me a new battery free of charge. No more battery drains and this one lasted a full day of work while blasting Pandora in my ears to cut out all the idiots yelling at each other. So, before you start blaming apps and lag fixes for battery drain, physically check your battery. These Li-Ion batteries do it, not all of them, just some of them. It also happened on my G1, which TMO would not replace it and I just took the battery out of a friends G1 who was sending it back for warranty work.
Edit: I have now rooted my phone, and with the old swelling battery after 3 hours of up time, and simple usage (mms, two short 5-6 minute phone calls and Terminal Emulator) I'm already at 64% off a full "off-state" charge. Meaning I charge my batteries while the phone is off so it doesn't drain while charging, as they say you should do. With my new battery with an "off-state" charge, 3 hours of uptime and I am sitting at 96% battery life with minor usage.
ttabbal said:
Ummm... That IS the RyanZA fix, just without the scripts to make installing it easier.
I've used all the lag fixes, and run without one. The battery doesn't really change with them. The biggest problem I've found is that something in the System process occasionally goes nuts and runs at 100% all the time. The phone gets hot and the battery drains very fast. You can see it if you get the System panel app and scroll to the bottom. Rebooting fixes it, so it's probably just a firmware bug.
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Ive had a very similar issue happen to me, my battery was daining completely in under 2 hours. But I found restarting the phone corrected whatever process got hung up. I thought it was Ryan's fix.. and it's possible it might be linked to it, but I don't think it's necessarily the cause of it. Just a combination of things going wrong.
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Edit: I have now rooted my phone, and with the old swelling battery after 3 hours of up time, and simple usage (mms, two short 5-6 minute phone calls and Terminal Emulator) I'm already at 64% off a full "off-state" charge. Meaning I charge my batteries while the phone is off so it doesn't drain while charging, as they say you should do. With my new battery with an "off-state" charge, 3 hours of uptime and I am sitting at 96% battery life with minor usage.
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Please, do NOT use bulging batteries! They do that shortly before they fail internally and li-ions go up in a fireball when that happens.
You should dispose of that battery immediately. Don't have it in your home or near anything flammable. Treat it like it will spontaneously combust at any moment, as it has a good chance of doing exactly that.
my story is a bit different
I can personally say that RyanZA one click lag fix is what saved me from ultimately getting a different phone. I installed the lag fix one day and noticed I could go nearly 2 days on one charge with the same amount of usage. I did not install/uninstall anything other than apply the lag fix one weekend and bam, my battery is performing on par with what I'm used to on my old G1.
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Ive spent the last few days fiddling and testing stuff to increase battery life. Here is what i have learnt...
(Im running R2BA026)
Firstly, personally i do not want to lose any functionality/performance in order to gain battery life. I think that if you are going to spend the money to get a phone with awesome hardware it should be able to run at full whack.
This guide will not be useful to all, but hopefully it will be handy to those in my situation.
This is a guide for what i have found to be the best compromise between battery life and user experience, with the emphasis being on user experience.
My specific goals are:
- I do not want to lose any performance i.e cause any slowdown/choppiness.
- I am only looking for a 24h battery life as i can charge every night.
- I want to be able to use my phone without worrying about battery. Specifically I never want to think "i shouldnt do that it might run down my battery". I should be able to use all the features on my phone without questioning if i can afford to.
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In my experience using a task killer resulted in only minimal gains to battery life but it meant that opening up apps could be a lot slower and apps could be choppy just after opening them.
Additionally the idea of setCPU is a good one however when coming out of sleep or opening an app it takes a little while to get back up to speed. This also causes choppiness. Personally I find lag/choppiness a real pet peeve, it irritates me alot, so I do not use setCPU either. It is true that with careful set up the lag can be minimised but then the battery life gains are also minimal, so I choose to keep full performance and dispense with setCPU. Bear in mind that the hardware platform is already very efficient and well optimised so a software solution will pretty much be a straight trade of performance for battery life.
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With those two common options out of the way, what else can be done to save juice?
Well generally the biggest consumer of energy is the screen. The simplest option is just to turn it down to minimum brightness, but in my opinion that is not a good solution, its too nice a screen to have dimmed all the time. Thankfully the auto-brightness does a pretty good job of keeping the back light at a good level. It can be a bit disconcerting if you enable it when using full brightness as the drop can seem somewhat dramatic but don't let that put you off, give at 1/2 a day or so and you wont even notice.
Other easy but important things you can do are turning the screen timeout to minimum and always turning off the screen (power button) as soon as you are finished. They are tiny changes but really do make a big difference.
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Onto wifi...
I think there may be a bug with the firmware because if I disable wifi I get a HUGE increase in battery life when Im at home. I have good 3g coverage here and a 3GB allowance so I only need to turn on wifi when Im browsing the web or market, seeing as it takes seconds with the widget this option suits me fine.
I suspect that when the phone is connected to wifi it doesn't sleep properly so drains very fast.
Only turning on wifi when i want it made by far the biggest difference to me, and as it doesn't affect my user experience in any appreciable way I am happy to do it.
I think its a good idea to mention app/widget updates and refreshes here, personally i have all my widgets and apps set to refresh only once a day, that suits me fine because I can refresh them all manually very easily if I want to to be absolutely up to date and I'm not a twitter or facebook addict Most of my widgets are news/article based so once a day is perfect.
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GPS, again this is rather obvious, if you don't use it, turn it off. Personally i use latitude so I have it turned on all the time. Android seems very good about only using it when it is needed and the phone seems to get a fix very quickly so in reality it doesn't spend much of the day being active.
Same goes for bluetooth, although I don't use it so it stays off.
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Nothing i have said here is particularly revelatory mostly common sense but I have always had battery issues often with the battery lasting ~12 hours before asking to be charged.
Updating to 026 made a big difference and following these rules means my battery drains on average 2-2.5% an hour under normal use.
Normal use for me:
-Wifi Off
-GPS on (With latitude widget)
-Gtalk always running
-3 news widgets + timescape
-frequent texting
-moderate calls
-frequent fiddling
The phone is very very snappy, everything apart from timescape opens as near to instant as makes no odds, the phone is a pleasure to use. My battery life has comfortably doubled without the use of any apps or any loss of performance.
Mission Accomplished
Thanks
Cheers for that. Very interesting .
I definitely agree about the task killer apps, the OS does a perfect job at running itself!
One question, Am i correct in presuming you have 3g always running? Network mode set to GSM/WCDMA preferred? Ive been afraid to do this as i have it in my head that 3g eats up my battery for fun! I'll have to try it out.
Thanks again!
I bought an extended battery for my X10 the sloping sides stop it looking like a brick. The G1 always looked like a brick with an extended battery but the X10 sloping sides do serve a purpose.
helliewm said:
I bought an extended battery for my X10 the sloping sides stop it looking like a brick. The G1 always looked like a brick with an extended battery but the X10 sloping sides do serve a purpose.
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Cheers for that. Very interesting .
I definitely agree about the task killer apps, the OS does a perfect job at running itself!
One question, Am i correct in presuming you have 3g always running? Network mode set to GSM/WCDMA preferred? Ive been afraid to do this as i have it in my head that 3g eats up my battery for fun! I'll have to try it out.
Thanks again!
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Yep, thats correct With the 3g on it seems to stay in 2g when sleeping then switch to 3g when you wake it, you can see the change in the status bar about a second after waking. Pure speculation though ...
Well, let us know how you get on with 3g active all the time
helliewm said:
I bought an extended battery for my X10 the sloping sides stop it looking like a brick. The G1 always looked like a brick with an extended battery but the X10 sloping sides do serve a purpose.
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I love how slim the x10 is, that combined with the fact that the 3rd party backs are ugly and can be poor fitting mean an extended battery isnt really an option for me, whatever suits though ^^
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Nice one where i can get one.
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I certainly plan on getting a pair of bluetooth headphones, will be interesting to see how they affect battery life...
TechGuru_x10 said:
Nice one where i can get one.
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It's from Sanyo. It's being released in Japan in October, but, I'm sure it will come out internationally as well.
James thanks u were helpful
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Some additional tips based on my personal experience:
-Using a third-party task launcher helps too. Some may not agree, but it works for me.
-Use a third-party digital clock widget instead of the stock one. Again, YMMV.
-Use a third-party(AGAIN!) MP3 player instead of Mediascape. I'm using Meridian, and notice an increase in battery life when playing MP3s.
I like having some control so I run task killer but there's no auto-kill enabled and if I know the phone is just going to turn it back on in 5min, I don't bother killing those apps. Maybe I should just remove it altogether, but it seems convenient to be able to kill an app at will (I do it with windows sometimes).
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-Use a third-party digital clock widget instead of the stock one. Again, YMMV.
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I think the reason why you find that the stock one drains your battery is due to the "use network provided values" being checked in the date and time settings.
Interesting article. I am running 024 and my battery is life is poor. I managed to get seven hours use yesterday after a full charge. My usage throughout the day wasn't anything too crazy. Where I work I get only a standard signal (no 3G). I seem to get a better battery life.
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I agree battery life is horrible. It makes me really miss my blackberry.
Even when battery life is low, charging it takes FOREVER, not to mention if you plug it in and play with it at the same time, it charges even slower.
My Blackberry Tour charged fully in what seemed like 45 mins from less than 10% batt life. I know they are different phones, but it just really sucks to me.
I'm debating going back to a blackberry now. The X10 and other android phones (and Iphone), are more toys than anything else.
/end rant.
hehe sorry
Thats odd, my phone charges pretty damn fast, just a few days ago i was pleasantly surprised that it charged from completely empty (id forgotten to charge it) to ~80% in less than an hour.
Ballfuzz said:
Even when battery life is low, charging it takes FOREVER, not to mention if you plug it in and play with it at the same time, it charges even slower.
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Hmm, mine charges from <10% to 100% within 1 - 2 hours.
Make sure you are charging by AC, charging by USB does indeed take forever.
mmsbludhound said:
Hmm, mine charges from <10% to 100% within 1 - 2 hours.
Make sure you are charging by AC, charging by USB does indeed take forever.
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Yeah I agree by USB takes forever.
JamesBarnes said:
Additionally the idea of setCPU is a good one however when coming out of sleep or opening an app it takes a little while to get back up to speed. This also causes choppiness. Personally I find lag/choppiness a real pet peeve, it irritates me alot, so I do not use setCPU either. It is true that with careful set up the lag can be minimised but then the battery life gains are also minimal, so I choose to keep full performance and dispense with setCPU. Bear in mind that the hardware platform is already very efficient and well optimised so a software solution will pretty much be a straight trade of performance for battery life.
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Quite interesting for me, I decided to add some statistical experiment about it.
Under my situation and environment. (I won't go in detail, sorry about that)
With SetCPU were 2.32% per hour without any usage.
W/O SetCPU were 3.18% per hour without any usage.
or approximately 7% maximum saving per day time. (for me)
My SetCPU only effected sleep state.
Not a big deal but still significant different, but it could survive for whole day anyhow.
I'm more interested about Killing app. I might try after this as I see many argument about it.
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Quite interesting for me, I decided to add some statistical experiment about it.
Under my situation and environment. (I won't go in detail, sorry about that)
With SetCPU were 2.32% per hour without any usage.
W/O SetCPU were 3.18% per hour without any usage.
or approximately 7% maximum saving per day time. (for me)
My SetCPU only effected sleep state.
Not a big deal but still significant different, but it could survive for whole day anyhow.
I'm more interested about Killing app. I might try after this as I see many argument about it.
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Ohh figures, good stuff! Always better to have some numbers to work with.
Do you not find that for a few seconds after waking up the phone gets choppy?
I would definitely be interested in seeing the stats with a task killer
Do you guys leave internet/gps on or something? I get 3 hours/percent on idle.
JamesBarnes said:
Ohh figures, good stuff! Always better to have some numbers to work with.
Do you not find that for a few seconds after waking up the phone gets choppy?
I would definitely be interested in seeing the stats with a task killer
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Yup, with SetCPU for sleep state, it was 'choppy' for a few sec, mostly effect lock screen and screen switching.
I've been using it for 2 days and so far I have nothing but good things to say about it. The battery life so far has been top notch. My phone has currently been off the charger for 15 hours and 2 minutes, and I still have 41% battery left. It's very responsive. Everything works on my HW003 Evo. The one problem I have discovered so far is that when I record a video, once I'm done it force closes the video app. But the good thing is that the recorded video is saved intact and I can re-open my camcorder app immediately if I want to record another video. So it's really not a big issue. Other than that everything else sems to be working very smoothly. I have Go Launcher EX running on top of it and everything is super-fast. So far I'm really loving this leaked ROM. What about you guys(and girls)???
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I've been using it for 2 days and so far I have nothing but good things to say about it. The battery life so far has been top notch. My phone has currently been off the charger for 15 hours and 2 minutes, and I still have 41% battery left. It's very responsive. Everything works on my HW003 Evo. The one problem I have discovered so far is that when I record a video, once I'm done it force closes the video app. But the good thing is that the recorded video is saved intact and I can re-open my camcorder app immediately if I want to record another video. So it's really not a big issue. Other than that everything else sems to be working very smoothly. I have Go Launcher EX running on top of it and everything is super-fast. So far I'm really loving this leaked ROM. What about you guys(and girls)???
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how much of that is ACTUAL use ? and not sitting on a desk ?
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how much of that is ACTUAL use ? and not sitting on a desk ?
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Well, I took it off the charger just after midnight last night, and I woke up at 7am. So 7 of those hours it was resting. But since then I've been to the gym and listened to music the whole time, sent a few texts, received about 30-40 texts from twitter, browsed the web for some of the links, viewed some android central youtube videos, updated some apps in the Market, made 2 phone calls, etc.. The point is with my last ROM and kernel, normally I'd be at about 15% battery by now.. There seems to be a noticeable improvement. But I posted this thread because I'm wondering if it's my imagination or if anyone else is having similar experiences.
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Sure your using gingerbread? That battery icon making me suspicious. 0_o
Asop ROMs do typically use less battery than sense ROMs
LOL! Horrible battery life considering you haven't made one call.
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LOL! Horrible battery life considering you haven't made one call.
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He said he made 2....
Pretty decent
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.
Where's a link for it? I wanna try this out and put in my .02!
Fyi my g1 only lasted 4-6 hours on a charge using stock battery, I turned off the radio and let it sit in my sock drawer it stayed on in stand by for nearly a week on that same battery.
These threads bragging about battery life are just BS, im sure if I want all day not using my evo I'd also get 16+ hours on a stock. I typically get a good 14-16 hours using my 3000 mAh battery and being constantly on my phone.
I noticed a lump in my battery last night (SBC maybe?) And now im back on the stock battery, this is my 3rd time today its back on the charger, my point? None but these threads don't mean a thing unless there's any really useful information to significantly extend the battery, especially to us users who do use our phones and not just let them sit idol all day.
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Fyi my g1 only lasted 4-6 hours on a charge using stock battery, I turned off the radio and let it sit in my sock drawer it stayed on in stand by for nearly a week on that same battery.
These threads bragging about battery life are just BS, im sure if I want all day not using my evo I'd also get 16+ hours on a stock. I typically get a good 14-16 hours using my 3000 mAh battery and being constantly on my phone.
I noticed a lump in my battery last night (SBC maybe?) And now im back on the stock battery, this is my 3rd time today its back on the charger, my point? None but these threads don't mean a thing unless there's any really useful information to significantly extend the battery, especially to us users who do use our phones and not just let them sit idol all day.
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If anyone says a phone can last more than 4-5 hours, then using a phone to them is turning the screen on to check the time, then quickly turning it off.
Anyways link? I wanna use Sense with Gingerbread.
He is obviously using his phone because 40 percent of it is the display
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knowledge561 said:
If anyone says a phone can last more than 4-5 hours, then using a phone to them is turning the screen on to check the time, then quickly turning it off.
Anyways link? I wanna use Sense with Gingerbread.
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Last I checked there's a few in the development forum, but they are ports and a work in progress and have a lot of things broken. As son as there is a stable gingersense im all over that.
I loaded the leaked 2.3.3/sense 1.0 that tmartin put together. It is 100% functional for me. Some people were having issues with the screen staying at 100% brightness, and the camera acting strange. I think that may have been a variety of factors, wipe quality, hardware number, and screen type.
The rom was flawless for me. I have a 3500 battery and used my phone like a crackhead for 15.5 hours before the battery died. I was web surfing most of the time, and reading the leak thread that hit over a 1000 posts in a day before the op locked it up.
I am now using the misfit gingersense rom, and it is working 100% for me, apart from some very minor black on black text when word suggestions pop up using swype.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036930
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035438
I flashed the tmartin 2.3.3 sense leak as well. I liked it for the most part...but it wasn't anything really special...some menu changes and it did have the nice fast boot feature. Sense was still a little sluggish when scrolling through home screens. I flashed back to cm7....what I do miss is the stable 4g that I do not get with cm7 final.
knowledge561 said:
If anyone says a phone can last more than 4-5 hours, then using a phone to them is turning the screen on to check the time, then quickly turning it off.
Anyways link? I wanna use Sense with Gingerbread.
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Wtf are you talking about!?
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.
This post was not just about battery life. That was just one aspect of it. I posted it to get feedback from others who are also running the ROM put together by TMartin from the leak. I still don't get why people get so funny acting when it comes to others talking about how long their battery lasts. If you don't like it or don't care to hear about it then move on, as it may not be for you. But others may be interested to see if it improves their battery life. Remember, every post here isn't catered just for you. The world is bigger than just you. Anyway, I use my phone quite regularly, whether it be browsing the web, viewing video, texting, listening to music, etc.
I also forgot to mention that I'm using the stock battery.
For those who asked where they can find the download, here ya go. It's linked in the first post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035438
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I noticed a lump in my battery last night (SBC maybe?)
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Dude, your battery might have cancer. You should do a battery self-exam at least once every month. It's best that you do it in the shower so that the battery can hang low. Make sure you roll your battery through your fingers to check for any abnormal growth or lump.
If you feel a lump or that the shape of your battery has changed at all, don't hesitate to see your doctor. Remember, catching battery cancer in the earliest stages gives you a much better chance at survival!
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Dude, your battery might have cancer. You should do a battery self-exam at least once every month. It's best that you do it in the shower so that the battery can hang low. Make sure you roll your battery through your fingers to check for any abnormal growth or lump.
If you feel a lump or that the shape of your battery has changed at all, don't hesitate to see your doctor. Remember, catching battery cancer in the earliest stages gives you a much better chance at survival!
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I layed on a flat surface and noticed it rocked a little bit, so yea it has a slight deformity. Dr. Abu ghraib can have a look at it tomorrow.
I flashed it and been running it for a few hours now. Its alright, nothing ground breaking or impressive. Im kinda disappointed about no vertical battery or the on/tv off effect like the asop roms have. I thought I was gonna see that in gingersense. No big deal though, its same ol sense on gingerbread. I did notice some improvements in the browser. Fair enough, its cool, but still a little buggy.
Screen dimming works for me BTW, on my 0003.
Tomorrow will be the real test as far as the battery goes.
What bugs have you noticed?
hi guys i've been having a problem that i cant get fixed. ive asked some people and they are not sure what the problem, and also looked in threads and the fixes dont seem to work either.
i flashed the chadogr rom a while ago from cyanogen mod 7 becuz there were certain issues i was having with it.
when i had the chadogr sense rom, the battery would continuously die in barely no time at all, and when i looked at what was consuming my battery, "display" was always using at least 80-90%, and the phone would be dead in about 3 hrs or so.
got sick of it, and went to an aosp based rom called gingerbread evo deck 1.2w. it was very good and light on resources and battery life was good WHEN I DIDNT USE THE PHONE. but as soon as i started using it battery would drop so fast, but that didnt bother me, cuz sometimes i didnt need to use it. but there were somethings that i just couldnt stand with asop.
1. GPS never worked, EVER!! (i tried all the fixes to no avail) it was always searching for satellite everytime i wanted to use navigation.
2. it had awful signal strength (even wifi), constant disconnects, and always giving me this info that im internationally roaming (wtf)
3. a couple of other things not really worth mentioning.
i said eff it and decided to go back to sense, and decided on the synergy rom after reading the thread to great reviews.
i like the rom but im back again with those "high display" use problems again.
what is causing this and how do i fix it. there was a "fix" in the synergy rom thread but it didnt work for me. it said to go to the spare parts app and uncheck the compatibility mode, i did that and im still having those display issues.
here are some pics for illustration purposes:
this is the chadogr rom (sense), and after only about an hr, its down to 65% and look at what the biggest user is
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here is the aosp rom (gingerbread evo deck) and look how much display is using, so little
and now here is the sense rom i flashed yesterday (7/17/11) (synergy), BACK TO THOSE DISPLAY ISSUES AGAIN
sorry this is so long, pls dont bite my head off or yell at me , i dont know what else to do,
i dont have automatic brightness, screen timeout is set at 30s
im lost
pls help, and thanks alot guys
It's more probably a difference of the battery stats plotting rather than the drainage of the display. Display drains the battery most out of all the components in the phone, so that reading must be pretty accurate. If you're battery is draining ridiculously more over AOSP, which Sense ROMs usually do, than you might have a problem with the ROM or kernel themselves and not necessarily Sense, or it could be a more accurate reading for the Displays battery use. I am running Synergy Nightly 7/16 and my battery life is relatively good to CM7.1 RC1. And yes display is at the top at 66% at about 1/4 the time on(Ex. 2 hrs run time since charge, 30 mins display on). Turn of auto brightness too.
Also remember that it is displaying percentage, so the display being higher is actually a good thing. Your display uses the most power of everything on the phone, or it should be, when it is using a higher percentage of the total power available, it means that everything else is using less. The only way to get the percentage of display use down is to either turn the brightness down, or leave the display off as much as possible.
Click on display and you'll get an accurate reading of how much you actually used the display.
Synergy is awesome though, I went from 86% down to 85% when I woke up this morning. 10 hours off the charger and I wasn't even fully charged when I took it off. This thing is amazing with battery.
I have the exact same issue as the OP. I'm posting from my phone right now so when I get home I'll post a more detailed reply with pics but this is NOT NORMAL display usage. I'm getting sick of people telling me and others with this issue that its "just a percentage of what's using the battery and its normal ". Its not normal because this never used to happen to me and the display never used that much battery before. My battery life is horrible compared to a rom that doesn't do it. At most I'll get ten hours from a full charge and I can visibly watch the percentage drop as I'm using the phone. Even when I haven't touched the phone and the screen being off, the display usage will still be at like 90%.
It didn't use to happen, it seemed to just appear out of no where, the first time being with mikfroyo 4.62. I tried downgrading but no luck. I can only comment on roms that I have tried but it also happens with mikg and synergy and a few other sense roms. Aosp does NOT have this issue as I've tried a few differently ones. Currently using CM 7.1 and I'm getting at least 20 hours with heavy use.
I have been trying to get to the bottom of this for a few weeks but it seems that I just keep getting run around in circles. Now that I've seen other people are having this issue too hopefully we can get this worked out with some help. Its keeping me from using my favorite rom, synergy. I like aosp but it just can't match the performance and functionality of sense, oh and looks hehe. Like I said I will post up some pics when I get home to provide more evidence
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Have you checked your wake time on the ROM? Wake lock issues are a more likely culprit than the screen when it comes to bad battery life like you described. Go to menu/settings/about/battery and look at your Up Time and your Awake Time. If they seem close to identical (even though you know you've walked away from your phone for a while and had the screen off, etc.) then you have a problem.
The most likely solution is a PRI downgrade to 1.77. Check your ROM's forum to see whether or not a particular PRI is suggested or not.
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Have you checked your wake time on the ROM? Wake lock issues are a more likely culprit than the screen when it comes to bad battery life like you described. Go to menu/settings/about/battery and look at your Up Time and your Awake Time. If they seem close to identical (even though you know you've walked away from your phone for a while and had the screen off, etc.) then you have a problem.
The most likely solution is a PRI downgrade to 1.77. Check your ROM's forum to see whether or not a particular PRI is suggested or not.
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Its not a simple wake lock issue. My up and awake time are very different, just like they should be. Its not pri either cause I've changed it multiple times with the same issue. How would that even affect display usage? Every pri problem had caused high cell standby or android system but not display. I just bought system panel and I am going to let it run a monitor for a while and see if it brings up any red flags (using synergy). This is something a little deeper than a simple wake lock or radio issue.
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Yep, sounds like it. All I know is that many, many phones (including mine) on gingerbread roms show very high display percentages. However, the phone lasts just as long as normal. The going notion is that gingerbread handles app and service power so much better than Froyo did that the display percentage simply has to be higher. That's how percentages work, of course. However, if your phone is dying at a much faster rate than normal, then yes, something is wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has nothing to do with your display. Not that I have any clue what it might be, just sayin'.
It does it regardless if its a froyo or gingerbread rom. First rom it popped up in was mikfroyo which is 2.2. But weirdly it didn't use to do it on that rom. I achieved my best battery life (30 hours moderate usage) on mikfroyo 4.62.
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I have three different phones.
Hero (rooted with CM7) - high display usage
Epic (Unrooted stock 2.2) - high display usage
Evo (rooted various 2.3 rom) - high display usage
All have high display except when I run Deck 1.2.1.
On my Evo some rom such as Sprint lovers (stock after auto root v2.5) 3.70 gave me high Android system, but most if not all gingerbread rom with the exception of deck all show high display usage including miui.
This lead me to think that high display usage is quite normal IMHO, just thought I'd share.
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I have three different phones.
Hero (rooted with CM7) - high display usage
Epic (Unrooted stock 2.2) - high display usage
Evo (rooted various 2.3 rom) - high display usage
All have high display except when I run Deck 1.2.1.
On my Evo some rom such as Sprint lovers (stock after auto root v2.5) 3.70 gave me high Android system, but most if not all gingerbread rom with the exception of deck all show high display usage including miui.
This lead me to think that high display usage is quite normal IMHO, just thought I'd share.
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How high though? Mine and the OP display usage stays from like 80-90%. I can understand if its a little higher than everything else but this is extremely high. And why would extremely huh display usage be normal even if i haven't touched the phone and the screen is off? Its not normal because it didn't used to happen on the SAME rom. Like i said i used to be able to get 30 hours with mikfroyo 4.62, then this display issue came up and i cant hardly get 10 hours from a charge.
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It's more probably a difference of the battery stats plotting rather than the drainage of the display. Display drains the battery most out of all the components in the phone, so that reading must be pretty accurate. If you're battery is draining ridiculously more over AOSP, which Sense ROMs usually do, than you might have a problem with the ROM or kernel themselves and not necessarily Sense, or it could be a more accurate reading for the Displays battery use. I am running Synergy Nightly 7/16 and my battery life is relatively good to CM7.1 RC1. And yes display is at the top at 66% at about 1/4 the time on(Ex. 2 hrs run time since charge, 30 mins display on). Turn of auto brightness too.
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when i 1st got my evo, display was never the biggest power consumer, it was either android system, phone idle or something else.
its hard to believe the reading is accurate, when i know i havent even woken up the phone that much, currently the biggest user of my phone at home is wifi, yet that shows only like 4% or so.
oh and yes auto brightness is off too as stated on the bottom of my original post
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Click on display and you'll get an accurate reading of how much you actually used the display.
Synergy is awesome though, I went from 86% down to 85% when I woke up this morning. 10 hours off the charger and I wasn't even fully charged when I took it off. This thing is amazing with battery.
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ehh its ok, sure beats the other sense rom i was using (chardogr)
but still not blown away by the battery life.
i swear battery life is gonna be on the top of my list when im upgrading to my next phone, i cant deal with this **** anymore
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I have the exact same issue as the OP. I'm posting from my phone right now so when I get home I'll post a more detailed reply with pics but this is NOT NORMAL display usage. I'm getting sick of people telling me and others with this issue that its "just a percentage of what's using the battery and its normal ". Its not normal because this never used to happen to me and the display never used that much battery before. My battery life is horrible compared to a rom that doesn't do it. At most I'll get ten hours from a full charge and I can visibly watch the percentage drop as I'm using the phone. Even when I haven't touched the phone and the screen being off, the display usage will still be at like 90%.
It didn't use to happen, it seemed to just appear out of no where, the first time being with mikfroyo 4.62. I tried downgrading but no luck. I can only comment on roms that I have tried but it also happens with mikg and synergy and a few other sense roms. Aosp does NOT have this issue as I've tried a few differently ones. Currently using CM 7.1 and I'm getting at least 20 hours with heavy use.
I have been trying to get to the bottom of this for a few weeks but it seems that I just keep getting run around in circles. Now that I've seen other people are having this issue too hopefully we can get this worked out with some help. Its keeping me from using my favorite rom, synergy. I like aosp but it just can't match the performance and functionality of sense, oh and looks hehe. Like I said I will post up some pics when I get home to provide more evidence
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finally someone who understands what im going through, ive done everything and still coming up short with it.
I've had the same problem as the OP, specifically with Sac's Kingdom... Loving Sense 3.0, but the battery drain was a little much. Feeling your pain.
I'm going to PM myn and aamikam with a link to this topic. I don't think we will be able to figure this out unless we get some rom developers involved. Hopefully they actually take the time to read my message haha
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I'm going to PM myn and aamikam with a link to this topic. I don't think we will be able to figure this out unless we get some rom developers involved. Hopefully they actually take the time to read my message haha
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thanks for taking this up brother, 'preciate it.
props
I feel your pain bro. What got rid of my issue was i downloaded battery callibration app from the market. Charged to 100% and then used the app. My battery usage went from 5hrs to 16hrs yesterday. I'm loving it. Everyone give that try and trust me it works. Currently running synergy rc2.
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One thing I noticed, in your pics your signal is very low, if your signal is low your phones gonna use alot of juice trying to maintain and/or look for a better signal.
Try checking in an area with a decent signal.
@OP...as long as your up time and awake times are diffrent Your phone is completly normal...1) when your using sense roms your continuously using your phone,so your display screen is on all the time. Hence the display so high. 2) when your using aosp roms..your taking long breaks from your phone..the flat lines on your graphs...your phone is sleeping,allowing more batt life..your in 20+ hrs of use..when your on sense your in 3-4 hrs of non stop use..it looks to me u enjoy sense more and can't put your phone down LOL..so the more u use your phone the higher your display % is going to be.
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I've had my phone for about a week now(att unrooted) and experienced something very strange this morning. I fully charged the phone at around 5:30 last night and used he phone very moderately. At around 11:30 pm uploaded 3 photos on my google drive and the battery was 80-90%. Woke up this morning and the battery was dead. This is totally out of the ordinary because I never experienced this before even with my old and buggy captivate. Keep in mind that I was on wifi and the phone is not yet rooted. Has anyone else noticed anything like this?
That is strange. Honestly, I dunno what could cause it besides some random app that you installed.
i say download a battery calibrator and then go from there
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i say download a battery calibrator and then go from there
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Battery Calibrator won't do anything.
Install Better Battery Stats, and when your phone turns on after plugging it in, see what was using the most power. It won't work for the first time but will work in the future.
Even better uninstall ****ty apps and disable notifications on this like word with friends, scramble with friends, etc. Go into app manager and disable everything you don't use. Report back in a week.
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I've had the phone for 5 days and gone through maybe 8 batt cycles. I'm not getting more than 2hrs screen time on any cycle. This is stupidly horrible battery life. There has got to be something severely wrong. I don't do much with the phone. I can't even with less than 2hrs to work with. Overnight batt loss is maybe 8%.
Any help is ENORMOUSLY appreciated.
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I was able to reproduce something similar. I opened up market\play to do a few updates and once the update process started, I put the phone down on my desk. Updates installed and the screen remained turned on. Now, I don't remember the exact steps or what other apps were running in the background. All I know is that the screen remained on for a few minutes until I manually turned it off.
This could very well be a bug in Samsung's face\image recognition software that handles smart stay. It might be a bug in google play, a faulty app or a combination of things... Because the battery on this phone is actually quite amazing. I unplugged my phone this morning, went to work, updated a bunch of apps, saved local maps to google maps, hung out on facebook, surfed the web... and after 10.5 hours, I still have more than 50% battery left.
That's a good indication that what I'm experiencing is a software glitch of some kind that if left un-attended, could completely drain your battery.
Try turning battery saver on and check pretty much everything in there. Disable smart stay. Manually turn off your screen when you're not using it. Turn off GPS, Bluetooth, and WiFi when you're not using it. Some downloads hang in the Play store if you "update all"... cancel these and download them one at a time. Do not just assume it all went to plan.
These tips on combination with my first post should help. You should get 4 hours of screen time with some phone calls in a single charge. I find certain apps like Scramble with friends chug charge faster than things like reading xda. Chrome for instance on the PC is less battery friendly and more resources intensive than IE. Perhaps the same is true for the mobile version.
There are way too many variables for us to pick out what your underlying issue may be. Start eliminating things and we'll keep throwing out new ideas. Good luck!
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My phones battery increased off of the charger. Anyone else having this happen? It jumped from 77 to 78 so idk what's going on.
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I just posted a pretty good size list of apps that can be disabled. That helps save battery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740228
I have managed to narrow it down.
- I had 2 updates in market. I pressed update all.
- screen turned off when the first update was almost done.
- I pressed the power key and entered my pass to turn the screen on and left the phone on my desk.
- I kept seeing the smart stay icon, but the screen remained on.
- I moved phone without touching the screen...no change.
- held my hand over the camera at a distance of a few inches and the screen finally dimmed out.
This happened while google play had focus. This is a bug in smart stay or google play.
Somethings definitely up, this battery life is as bad if not worse than my epic 4g.
Did notice one thing... I cleared memory and it said 51 applications closed.... I don't even think i have that many applications on the phone!
Memory eats up a lot of power.
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Somethings definitely up, this battery life is as bad if not worse than my epic 4g.
Did notice one thing... I cleared memory and it said 51 applications closed.... I don't even think i have that many applications on the phone!
Memory eats up a lot of power.
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You're the second person I found that has the same problem as me! I can't even get 2hrs screen time through my day to day. The same day to day that my atrix was giving me 3.5hrs on.
I feel better knowing that I'm not doing something wrong, but could the phone just have that horrible of battery life and all these reports are a fanboi lie with review articles just copying each other?
I'm so glad im not the only one experiencing all of this! Lol, i upgraded from my mytouch 4G, i DID notice smart stay would come on at random times, sometimes when i wasnt even looking at my phone lol, disabled it & disabled a whole bunch of other crap & like many others & i dont get 4 hours screen time, more like 2 which sucks, id also like to have my data on all the time (but im forced to turn it off to save battery ), im rooted & ive uninstalled w.e crap i didnt need/want or felt it was just running for no reason. I'm doing the exact same battery steps i did with my mytouch & its sad =/ i was hoping i wouldnt have to do half of the ones im doing now, i LOVE my S3 but samsung needs to figure out wth is goin on & same with the guy who talked about if the articles r lying) i saw one on tech radar yesterday on battery life on the S3, they r either lying or they got a good phone in a good batch, smh, also experience my screen flickers from time to time while texting (i always close background processes) i notice blotches on the screen while texting at night or in the dark also, again i love my phone but u know, id love to have my data on constantly to check things quick without my battery going down drastically when i barely even touch it =/
I too have strange battery life. I usually leave my phone charging over night. When I unplug the battery in the morning, I lose about 10% every hour. However, when I get to around 80%, I recharge it again and it loses battery at a MUCH slower rate. Around 2% every hour on stand by. I'm not sure why this happens, but it does.
Also, there are some instances when I pick up the phone and it's pretty warm. Even though it's been sitting idle for about 20 min. Then there are times when I pick it up and it's normal room temperature. This leads me to believe that there are some processes going on while my phone is idle. I'm trying to find out what apps are causing this, as I believe it is causing my battery to drain while idle. It's very inconsistent, which is making it hard to track down. I don't even have a lot of apps installed. Most of it is actually the bloatware that came with my phone
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JayFReaZy said:
I too have strange battery life. I usually leave my phone charging over night. When I unplug the battery in the morning, I lose about 10% every hour. However, when I get to around 80%, I recharge it again and it loses battery at a MUCH slower rate. Around 2% every hour on stand by. I'm not sure why this happens, but it does.
Also, there are some instances when I pick up the phone and it's pretty warm. Even though it's been sitting idle for about 20 min. Then there are times when I pick it up and it's normal room temperature. This leads me to believe that there are some processes going on while my phone is idle. I'm trying to find out what apps are causing this, as I believe it is causing my battery to drain while idle. It's very inconsistent, which is making it hard to track down. I don't even have a lot of apps installed. Most of it is actually the bloatware that came with my phone
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I am starting to think it's ATT's LTE connection. I randomly have days where my battery won't make it until 5 pm without really using it very often. Other days, the phone goes all day with 4 hours plus of screen time no problem. On the really bad days, the phone will stay warm despite me closing every app with task manager. I am now experimenting with turning off mobile data (not a permanent solution), and the phone is cool to the touch again. It may be that the phone is burning up the battery in areas where the LTE connection is weak.
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My phones battery increased off of the charger. Anyone else having this happen? It jumped from 77 to 78 so idk what's going on.
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Mine did this as well I think it went up 3-4%.
I have a very strange problem. I can't decide if there's something wrong with TWRP or with my Nexus 4. Here's the series of events:
1) I want to backup my phone using TWRP 2.3.2.3 that I have installed.
2) Battery is at ~58%
3) I plug the N4 into my wall charger.
4) Reboot into TWRP and start a backup, with everything checked to backup, using compression.
5) TWRP shows battery is "58%+" (I assume "+" means charging)
6) A couple minutes into the backup the screen goes dark.
7) I press the power button and get a battery charging symbol. I press again and eventually boot into Android.
8) Battery is at 1-2%
How can my battery go from ~58% to almost 0% in two minutes, especially when it's on the charger?
To make things even more strange:
1) I wait until battery is charged to 100%
2) Reboot into TWRP and start the exact same backup.
3) It completes successfully, reboots into Android, and battery now shows at ~92%
What is going on here?
Slight battery loss is normal upon a reboot. As to your first issue... beats me. I doubt it's a problem with the phone. Maybe a one off.
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Slight battery loss is normal upon a reboot. As to your first issue... beats me. I doubt it's a problem with the phone. Maybe a one off.
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I'm not so concerned about the battery going down when backing up. I would expect that. Although with it being plugged in you wouldn't think...
But the part where it suddenly dropped to near 0%... if it only happened once, maybe, but this has happened twice when my battery was not at or near 100%. I suspect it would do it every time.
I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced something like this?
As a constant ROM/MOD flasher over the past 2 weeks of having this phone I have not had any similar issues.
Loosing 20-30% at once after doing something like backup in recovery is unlikely, but possible.
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As a constant ROM/MOD flasher over the past 2 weeks of having this phone I have not had any similar issues.
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Have you ever flashed/backed up using TWRP when battery wasn't near full?
I have a Nexus 7 and have never had this issue.
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Loosing 20-30% at once after doing something like backup in recovery is unlikely, but possible.
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Even when plugged in?
What about a 50-60% drop after two minutes of backing up?
If I'm the only one, I might have to RMA my phone.
Try 2-3 times the same scenario, then switch to CWM and repeat the procedure. Then you'll know where is the problem, for sure.
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Try 2-3 times the same scenario, then switch to CWM and repeat the procedure. Then you'll know where is the problem, for sure.
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That sounds like a GREAT idea. Thanks, I'll try that. Although I was hoping to use TWRP because it compresses backups, and my N4 is in danger of running out of space. But it would be worth trying just to see if it works.
I doubt you can charge whilst in recovery. I'm sure cwm will not let you charge even of you shat your pants ....
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I doubt you can charge whilst in recovery. I'm sure cwm will not let you charge even of you shat your pants ....
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I thought charging would be a hardware thing, so it should do that no matter what your phone was doing. ?? Besides, TWRP shows a "+" next to the battery percentage when plugged in. It's not there otherwise, so...
I've had this issue happen a few times on my i777 S2. The phone would randomly reboot and the battery would drop down to <10%. I've had it happen at an original 90%, 50%, you name it. I chalked it up to issues with the battery.
Ok, so I installed CWM, but then ran into some threads that said it had issues with JB 4.2. As in, it doesn't know how to properly handle the new "/sdcard/0/" folder structure that was introduced for multi-user support. So, I chickened out and went back to TWRP. But then TWRP did another 55% battery to 0% battery crash again. Only when I have a lot of battery left will it actually complete. *sigh* I will try CWM again, at a similar battery level, to see what happens.
DangKid said:
I've had this issue happen a few times on my i777 S2. The phone would randomly reboot and the battery would drop down to <10%. I've had it happen at an original 90%, 50%, you name it. I chalked it up to issues with the battery.
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So what did you do with that phone? I'm considering an RMA, especially since I seem to be the only N4 owner on here with this issue.
When mine crashes, it doesn't finish the backup and it goes to a blank screen. Only after having it plugged in for a minute or so will it actually start up. Like the battery was completely empty. And it only seems to happen when the % left is under maybe 70%. It's always completed in the 90% range.
RMAing this early in the life of the phone is a waste. How do you it isnt a bug with twrp. I would wait it out for a bit. I also feel nanodroids are over rated. Titanium Backup makes things so easy. Since the bug happens only when doing that one thing it sounds like a bug with twrp.
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Prod1702 said:
RMAing this early in the life of the phone is a waste. How do you it isnt a bug with twrp. I would wait it out for a bit. I also feel nanodroids are over rated. Titanium Backup makes things so easy. Since the bug happens only when doing that one thing it sounds like a bug with twrp.
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I can't imagine a bug in recovery that is able to deplete your battery 50%+ within 30 seconds. Another weird thing happened: I was at ~70% and then rebooted into TWRP, which then immediately had the battery at ~20%. I rebooted back into Android and it had the same thing. I didn't even kick off a backup or anything. ??? See the screenshots here to see the two dramatic cliff drops I've had, one earlier today the other a few minutes ago.
I will wait on the RMA to see how things go WITHOUT using TWRP for backups. I think nandroids are very annoying to make and use, but I didn't want to learn how to use Titanium (it *looks* complicated). I think I'll look into that now though.
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cwappy said:
Ok, so I installed CWM, but then ran into some threads that said it had issues with JB 4.2. As in, it doesn't know how to properly handle the new "/sdcard/0/" folder structure that was introduced for multi-user support. So, I chickened out and went back to TWRP. But then TWRP did another 55% battery to 0% battery crash again. Only when I have a lot of battery left will it actually complete. *sigh* I will try CWM again, at a similar battery level, to see what happens.
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Do us a favor... There is no issues with CWM & 4.2. Do your CWM checks, don't waste time.
ahalford said:
Do us a favor... There is no issues with CWM & 4.2. Do your CWM checks, don't waste time.
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I'm not sure what all the issues were that I was reading about, but one I experienced was not seeing the CWM backup folder when connected to my computer. I like to transfer them there to save space on my phone. CWM puts it in the wrong folder for that in JB 4.2, although I think it can be moved.
I'm looking into Titanium now.
I have to say, as a former iPhone 3GS owner, that Apple made all this backup/restore stuff drop dead simple. Completely and utterly automatic even. Your average user would NOT be able to figure this out on an Android phone.
cwappy said:
So what did you do with that phone? I'm considering an RMA, especially since I seem to be the only N4 owner on here with this issue.
When mine crashes, it doesn't finish the backup and it goes to a blank screen. Only after having it plugged in for a minute or so will it actually start up. Like the battery was completely empty. And it only seems to happen when the % left is under maybe 70%. It's always completed in the 90% range.
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It wasn't that much of an issue for me since I had multiple batteries. It would happen about once a week. The battery would soon and I would pop in a new battery. Ended up selling the phone to fund my Nexus.
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