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battery getting hot

its been doing it for the past 2 months or so just didnt kno if it was normal.. cuz I never really realized it with my last 3 vibrants.. but I might not of been paying attention tho... But my phone is getting up to 121° while on the charger just sitting there
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What rom are you using?
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Axura
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I'm on stock JI6 and I've been noticing my battery getting hot as well.
Gonna try using my spare (and never used before other new) battery and see if that remedies anything.

I'm on stock JI6 also. Never had a problem with hot battery until...
I played Quake 3 Arena for about 30 minutes. Afterwards I noticed my battery was hot and battery life was terrible (from full charge to about 30%) sitting idle overnight. This happened for about 3 days.
I used Astro Explorer and closed Q3A process, no change. Rebooted phone and no more hot battery and normal battery life, all is well again. Strange. I guess some processes are 'hidden' and can't be closed without reboot.

I was getting a hot battery while running TW Core kernel. I flashed JAC XMOD 1.1 kernel and my battery has stayed cool.
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Cyanogenmod 7

Has anyone else noticed a significance in battery life?
I have an average of 56-60 hours my max idle was 81hrs....
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I've gotten slight improvements, but what you're getting is insane... how'd you manage that?

I could never let my phone idle long enough to find out how many hours it would last. But I easily get a full day on cm7 with my regular use.

Only had it a day. But from where i've noticed holding the wildfire/aria next to each-other doing the same tasks with wifi on [ones got service, other doesnt yet] the wildfire was out to 80% in less than half an hour streaming music from pandora. Aria was at 95% with CM7 [even overclocked]. Although the wildfire is approx 3 months older, that seems amazing in my opinion.

Ultimate juice our even juice defender with power control plus..both have free and almost the exact same it's insane.
Anything to toggle data is recommend for battery life, but that's a given....
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Just my 2 cents, A profiling tool for over/under clocking. Over for when your hard at work, playing videogames and whatnot. And underclock for when the device is serving 0% use. That seems something that should be implemented into android.

TKTAB911 said:
Just my 2 cents, A profiling tool for over/under clocking. Over for when your hard at work, playing videogames and whatnot. And underclock for when the device is serving 0% use. That seems something that should be implemented into android.
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I agree thats what I did as well, cm7 seem to make swype better too, idk why... The only straw back is my juice defender doesn't data toggle on screen off/on...i miss that lol att rapes in data lol....
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most custom roms, especially aosp ones, give you a much better battery life because they put the control into your hands; you can customize your phone to be used how you see fit.

ValkyrieLiberty said:
I agree thats what I did as well, cm7 seem to make swype better too, idk why... The only straw back is my juice defender doesn't data toggle on screen off/on...i miss that lol att rapes in data lol....
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Cm7 makes everything better
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My battery life is improved with cm7 over cm6 with most things being equal. A welcome change I might add.
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I think battery is much better on 3G data but much worse via Wifi. I manually change to use them mutual exclusively.
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Xda app is a huge battery drain.......

After doing a battery monitor file. Which I did using the in the samsung program monitor widget. by doing this monitoring will put 2 files on the root of your sd card. 1 battery file and another being a cpu file. After reviewing the cpu file you will see that the xda app has a ton of activity like 2-3 times every minute. Of course the app had not been opened for awhile and no apps were showing to be running. Well I uninstalled it and had less than 4% drain in 7 hours overnight.

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the xda app has a ton of activity like 2-3 times every minute. Of course the app had not been opened for awhile and no apps were showing to be running.
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What did you have set in the xda app under "notifications?"

Agree I begin to notice this app is a juice drainer over a few hours

Is there a reason to even have the app as opposed to going to the website using the browser?
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I've been using tapatalk pro, way less battery drain and access to lots more forums
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I just installed syndicate yesterday and was on xda before I went to bed on the app. I went to bed at 80 percent and woke up at 76. So I'm not sure it had to do with the app.
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I had the notifications turned off. I ran the test and that was showing a lot of activity. Maybe it needed to be re installed to clear up some issue. Possibly

The only reason xda drains for me is because I'm always on it
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jbadboy2007 said:
After doing a battery monitor file. Which I did using the in the samsung program monitor widget. by doing this monitoring will put 2 files on the root of your sd card. 1 battery file and another being a cpu file.
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How did you do this with the Program monitor widget?
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Go to summary tab then there is a button for start monitoring. You can't do this with all roms. I re installed and there is no activity. Problem solved......... no more drain..

jbadboy2007 said:
Go to summary tab then there is a button for start monitoring. You can't do this with all roms. I re installed and there is no activity. Problem solved......... no more drain..
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Oh, well that would be why. I'm stock lol
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Battery Drains QUICKLY!

I got school at around 6 am. By the time I eat lunch it's already at 57%. By the time I get home around 5 and it's already at 17%.
All I do is listen to music (doubletwist/playerpro) and play Cut the Rope, WTF!?
Cell standy by is 46% in batter usage followed by wifi with 11%
any help guys?

What I tend to do is have brightness down to about half. Have you also tried fully charging the phone, taking the battery out and charging back to full? I sometimes find it drops down but regenerates itself.
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is it stock no over clocking mods etc no app keeping phone locked awake?
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Droid117 said:
What I tend to do is have brightness down to about half. Have you also tried fully charging the phone, taking the battery out and charging back to full? I sometimes find it drops down but regenerates itself.
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is it stock no over clocking mods etc no app keeping phone locked awake?
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Brightness is below half,I never go over. WiFi is on but not all the time.
Stock rom 2.3.4 rooted

Do you have data off?

How's your phone signal most of the time? It has been proven that low/bad signal drains battery quicker than good signal.
Sometimes certain buildings/rooms have pretty bad reception making it a huge drain for your phone.

Droid117 said:
What I tend to do is have brightness down to about half. Have you also tried fully charging the phone, taking the battery out and charging back to full? I sometimes find it drops down but regenerates itself.
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This is a useful piece of information, however is not really practical. Ideally we don't want to be turning off our phones on every charge :/
I myself own 3 batteries, and alternate them (I have a wall charger for the batteries)

what ver are you using if 2.3.4 the battery issue is fix.

I get 3 /4 bars, at school right new and yea some times I get nothing, especial ly during the subway ruse which is an hour
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Once I updated my phone to 2.3.3 I noticed that the battery life was sub-par, only lasting 3/5s of the day on a full charge.
I proceeded to root my phone (as I don't have the money to unlock my Big Red Bootloader); after installing SetCPU I took down the clocking meter 1 notch (768MHz) and the phone is stable with not difference in performance (so far). Doing this and removing some unneeded bloatware has increased my battery life 2.5x and I can go almost 3 days on a single charge.
xiEvo said:
what ver are you using if 2.3.4 the battery issue is fix.
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xiEvo is correct and I've read a lot of good stuff regarding battery life with 2.3.4. I can only begin to imagine what kind of battery life I'll have once I get that update.

get juice defender off the market ultimate version is best. this will lookafter everything for you.. juice defender is a must have app for all android devices
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I'm 2.3.4.
Honestly I had the best battery life with 2.3.2, IDK why.

Someone help me! (BatLife woes)

Alright I wasn't going to make a thread on this because this topic is already discussed elsewhere naturally but I feel my situation is different. All over the place I see people reporting great battery life with ICS.. well mine is HORRIBLE. I just flashed the latest nightly for Pete's bugless. I didn't change the kernel. Everything is stock. Only a few apps installed. Noop for scheduler and ondemand for governer.
The phones been off the charger for 55 minutes and I'm sitting at 76%. Idk what's going on. I've tried so many rom/kernel combos and I seem to get the same exact battery life no matter what. Around 6-9 hours with less than 1 hour of screen on time.
Things I've tried to combat this:
Undervolting
Freezing apps
Restricting background data
Underclocking
Brightness set to auto
And I'm sure a few other things I'm forgetting about. I've done all this and still get ****ty battery life. I've flashed the new radio hoping that it would solve my issues but no dice. My signal strength reports at -67 dbm yet the bars never go over 2. 3g or 4g. Even after updating plr.
On gingerbread cm7 I ran brightness at 70%, ocd to 1.4ghz and always got 15+ hours.
For the love of god someone help me. Cuz I think my phone hates the cream sammiches.
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try this kernel, trinity teuv underclocked/undervolted kernel, oc'd gpu http://goo.gl/rY6ga
and do not set brightness to auto, its a battery killer. i keep my brightness at about 20-25%.
also, be sure to fully discharge your battery then charge it completely, after 2 or 3 cycles you should be good.

simms22 said:
try this kernel, trinity teuv underclocked/undervolted kernel, oc'd gpu http://goo.gl/rY6ga
and do not set brightness to auto, its a battery killer. i keep my brightness at about 20-25%.
also, be sure to fully discharge your battery then charge it completely, after 2 or 3 cycles you should be good.
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I do this every day lol I let the battery drain to around 15-30% before I plug it back in.
Screenie: 1 hour later and I lost another 25% this can't be rom or kernel related. As I have tried trinity already and the same thing happens
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Ugh. Another 20% gone. Its only been a half hour from the above screenie. You guys see my dilemma? Lol **** me.
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21% ..
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i was having horrible battery drain after flashing a new rom & kernel - i finally figured it out that my APN settings were messed up and I re-entered them according to the correct carrier settings.
i don't know if that will apply to you since it looks like your 4G data is working properly, but since I was on wifi 99% of the time, as soon as I went off, my data didn't work. but it's something to look at.

4 hours later I'm down to 4% from a full charge.
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Could you try better battery stats to see if something is holding a wakelock?

Turn Data usage off :/ i think Fb or some app is using your 4g

irizwan said:
Turn Data usage off :/ i think Fb or some app is using your 4g
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I would be interested to see what your battle life diff is without 4g switched on. Also in that 4 hrs what was ur screen on time?
Have you thought of trying a new batt? Just got an OEM Samsung for 5 bucks on eBay. Worth a shot.
Oh remove fb app it blows...install friend caster way better less batt make sure you change the sync interval.
You could also try green power from the market to manage your data use while screen is off.
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Ok here's how my battery performs back in cm7 nightly 174 gingerbread. Almost 4 hours and only 25% chipped away. If you look above you'll notice I lost more than 40% in the same time with ics. And I'm doing nothing different. I'm even overclocked to 1.3ghz ondemand with noop for a scheduler.
I think I'm sticking to gbread until official source is out. Maybe then ill get the same battery life.
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That is really weird, if you have time try Milestone 3 and SG's latest kernel and just leave the settings stock . I get wonderful battery life with it hopefully you do to
Oh and are there any apps you are using on ICS that you aren't on CM7?
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Nope. Lately its only been a handful. I actually have more apps installed on gbread to achieve some of the features that are baked into ics. I just don't get it. Ics hates my phone. I even used the GPS today. So weird.
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Try what I suggested unless you did already then ignore lol
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Could it be a faulty battery?

Harbb said:
Could you try better battery stats to see if something is holding a wakelock?
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This. If you are installing the same ol battery-draining POS app then you are not going to fix it with any rom or kernel.

So you guys think my batter watcher widget is preventing my phone from sleeping properly? Ok.. I'm on cm7 right now. Battery is def back to normal. And this is with bacround data on. Ill delete bw and get better battery stats.
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Better battery stats is not the same thing as other (mostly useless) monitoring apps.

Look. 16 hours on gb. If none of my apps are killing the battery then what could it be?
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