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without doing anything new my battery time just droped off the face of the earth.. its down about 75%. i was getting a full day mixed use now all of a suden im getting 6-8 hours with just a few phone calls.
my awake time is at 16%
I havent done anything new that i can think of.
im using (and have been for awhile) the mugen 1800 extended battery.
trying to think what might be doing it and cant come up with anything i havnt found in the forums already.
you probably downloaded some app that is running in the background continuously. check with a task manager to see what's running, and then try uninstalling some recent apps to test it out.
thats what i was thinking but i cant find anything new running with the task manager
kraash said:
without doing anything new my battery time just droped off the face of the earth.. its down about 75%. i was getting a full day mixed use now all of a suden im getting 6-8 hours with just a few phone calls.
my awake time is at 16%
I havent done anything new that i can think of.
im using (and have been for awhile) the mugen 1800 extended battery.
trying to think what might be doing it and cant come up with anything i havnt found in the forums already.
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Could just be a bad battery? I'm having same problem, maybe worse with stock battery. I went from 100% down to 15 in like 5 hours just reading my RSS feeds every hour or so. I think I may have fried my battery using it to tether for excessively long periods.
You're not using your phone to tether are you?
Mine is way down this week too. Initially I thought it was Swype, but not so sure anymore because no other users are reporting problems.
Are you using Modaco's rom and kernel ? or any new kernel for that matter? Ever since I switched kernels my battery hasn't made it through the day.
notrock said:
Are you using Modaco's rom and kernel ? or any new kernel for that matter? Ever since I switched kernels my battery hasn't made it through the day.
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now that you mention it this all did start happening the same timer I flashed modaco custom kernel. trying ghil's now so we'll see.
theresthatguy said:
now that you mention it this all did start happening the same timer I flashed modaco custom kernel. trying ghil's now so we'll see.
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I'm using gbhil's custom kernel and seeing BETTER battery life when used with setCPU (using ondemand setting with 'standby/sleep' profile turned on, and set to 160/480).
theresthatguy said:
Could just be a bad battery? I'm having same problem, maybe worse with stock battery. I went from 100% down to 15 in like 5 hours just reading my RSS feeds every hour or so. I think I may have fried my battery using it to tether for excessively long periods.
You're not using your phone to tether are you?
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No I'm not.. Turned a few more newer apps off and still no good today.. I was at 5% batt left after 9 hours with about 10 minutes web browsing (not wifi) 4 or 5 text messages and about 45 minutes talk time. That's down about 90% from were I was a week ago .
I managed to narrow my problem down to the Taskiller widget. Removed the widget (still running the app full time) and all is well.
Last night I rolled back to before I used a custom Kernel. I rather battery life over speed. I need my phone to last from 6am to at the very least 7pm. I think once people get over the performance boost, we'll see a lot more posts relating to battery issues.
cincij said:
Mine is way down this week too. Initially I thought it was Swype, but not so sure anymore because no other users are reporting problems.
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I did hear report Swype was killing there battery as well over at PPCGeeks. Not sure if so, but it has been mentioned
athlet1c said:
I did hear report Swype was killing there battery as well over at PPCGeeks. Not sure if so, but it has been mentioned
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might be that too, i hope not as i love that keyboard. just having it installed shouldn't drain the battery, should it? im on day 2 with the custom kernel and i too noticed more battery drain. at 1pm my hero was fully charged. i only played a bit with the phone and made two short calls and it's down to 86% already at 4pm. i want to roll back but i do like the speed of the new kernel. ill see how it does tonight.
athlet1c said:
I did hear report Swype was killing there battery as well over at PPCGeeks. Not sure if so, but it has been mentioned
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I decided to uninstall swype and I went from not being able to go a 5 hr shift to today working an 8 hours right now and I should still have little over half battery.
theresthatguy said:
I decided to uninstall swype and I went from not being able to go a 5 hr shift to today working an 8 hours right now and I should still have little over half battery.
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yeah i love swipe but i uninstalled it as well and went back to using touch input. the battery life seems better now. i hope this can be resolved.
fixxxer2008 said:
yeah i love swipe but i uninstalled it as well and went back to using touch input. the battery life seems better now. i hope this can be resolved.
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Yeah going back to regular input sucks. Swype was only some leaked beta version, we don't really have right to complain; however, I bet their end product will be much better. I just hope they'll release it as an app and not as part of custom Android phone so we can get it sooner.
figured I woud resurect this thread rather than start a new one.
yesterday I decided to RUU my phone to pull the completely stock apks out of it. after I did that I restored my backup of fresh 1.1 with gbhils kernel and now I am at 90% awake time spare parts shows that "android system" as something keeping it awake. any suggestions on what this could be? could it have something to do with restoring the back up with the kernel over stock without a wipe?
to get a new battery. I'm pulling 5 hours of life without even touching the damn thing, great signal and nothing running in the background.
Should I flash it back to stock before I go?
Enjoy getting your 2 years reset just for saying hello. That's usually how it works.
bigray327 said:
Enjoy getting your 2 years reset just for saying hello. That's usually how it works.
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What are you talking about?
Zardos66 said:
What are you talking about?
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It was a bad joke.
I got a second battery (both OEM) and the new battery lasts twice as long as the one that shipped with my phone. Hmph.
let me know how it goes. I might be in for the same thing tomorrow.
J3ff said:
let me know how it goes. I might be in for the same thing tomorrow.
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Yes it needs to be flashed to stock first. But before that, go to settings-->Applications---->Running Services-----> and make sure to kill the one that has DRM in it. I went from the same situation at you are in to getting a day and a half of battery life.
Killing DRM hasn't helped me at all.
I've calibrated the battery, run different roms.
It's always terrible.
Turns out it was a ****ty battery.
I'm excited! Fresh battery HO
Zardos66 said:
Turns out it was a ****ty battery.
I'm excited! Fresh battery HO
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Ah Good Luck! Only if I had a Sprint store near me...
AND THEN, when the phone restarts it has more than 50 % battery.
WTF.
Is this happening to anyone else?
Are you running stock, di18, eb13, eco5? More details please!
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sorry, was just wondering if anyone else had this happen, running eb13 viper rom.
This has happened to me, at the
time I had syndicate 1.0.2. It did a soft reboot and didn't actually hang up till my phone finished rebooting. The whole time well it was on the booting video the call still worked. Then it booted to the lockscreen and the call ended.
Reminds me of my palm pre.
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Hey, they called this phone the "Epic" for a reason, it only does things in epic proportions.
I've had that problem on the EB13 Syndicate, then today one the EC05 Syndicate... I fixed it last time, but can't remember how. I just wiped battery stats and did calibration, so I will let you know if that did it.
this happens to me whenever i get a phone call and i have less than 15% battery. it has happened on EVERY rom i have used
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ydoucare said:
Hey, they called this phone the "Epic" for a reason, it only does things in epic proportions.
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Truth LOL
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I made a post about this a few weeks ago. I remember it happening on dk28 and everything since, multiple roms. Right now I am using eb13 with ec05 modem but haven't had a call yet whan my battery was that low. I can't believe not very many people have complained about this.
Sent from an Epic failure of a phone.
Are you STILL here trolling the Epic forums J3ff?
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nerdtaco said:
Are you STILL here trolling the Epic forums J3ff?
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I wouldn't call it trolling if it's the truth.
It just happened to me again.
15% beep, DROPPED CALL, phone reboots, 22% battery on restart.
I can't wait till a new cool phone comes out on sprint.
Mee too, just don't get the same one I get ok?
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Still happens on EC05 with SRF and Rodricks kernal.
well even after loading a new kernal and rom, still happens. I just bought a 3500mah battery, FML
Can't wait to get rid of the epic. Had the issue since EB13. I guess it's not bad as iphone dropping calls all the time, but still unacceptable!
NoSoMo said:
Can't wait to get rid of the epic. Had the issue since EB13. I guess it's not bad as iphone dropping calls all the time, but still unacceptable!
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yup. It's annoying as F - I have to cut the person off and say "My battery is dead I'll call you back" as fast as possible.
Then the phone reboots and it has 30+ % battery.
Seriously stupid.
J3ff said:
yup. It's annoying as F - I have to cut the person off and say "My battery is dead I'll call you back" as fast as possible.
Then the phone reboots and it has 30+ % battery.
Seriously stupid.
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Are you running SetCPU or an Undervolt settings? When a battery gets to a low percentage, the voltage is lower so any undervolt settings will actually be even lower and the phone will crap out. At 40% my phone would not wake and totally black out, needed to pull battery. Found out I had undervolted 200 Mhz by 100 mV. Pushed that back to zero and no more problems.
It could also be a bad battery, especially with the varying percentage from reboots like that.
no undervolt. Just whatever the rom+ kernal settings are is what I run.
I should get the new battery this week. Hopefully that'll fix the problems
J3ff said:
no undervolt. Just whatever the rom+ kernal settings are is what I run.
I should get the new battery this week. Hopefully that'll fix the problems
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You are running the kernel supplied with Syndicate or something else?
Do you BONSAI?
Yes blame the phone for everything when running a custom rom
After I had rooted my r800x I noticed my battery life was barely half of what is was or less. After grabbing BetterBatteryStatus I had found out that "lidswitchd" was using as much cpu as it could get. When I had rooted my phone I had used a different sdcard as one of the sets of instructions had recommended but not wanting to keep putting the back on I had disabled the safe sdcard option (settings->storage->Disable Safe SD card). Once I re-enabled this option my batter life went back to normal.
Not sure if its just limited to the r800x/stock2.3.3 or not so just wanted to let every know my findings, kind of curious if anyone had see this before.
Thanks for this advice. I noticed the same thing of lidswitchd using 94% of cpu. my phone was crawling man. which was causing me to loose my mind. I looked all over to find and answer and most said to factory reset. Your solution saved me from punching kittens and choking out puppies
normb8s said:
Thanks for this advice. I noticed the same thing of lidswitchd using 94% of cpu. my phone was crawling man. which was causing me to loose my mind. I looked all over to find and answer and most said to factory reset. Your solution saved me from punching kittens and choking out puppies
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your sig is amazing :')
不错，再接再厉 。
marwen817 said:
不错，再接再厉 。
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normb8s said:
Thanks for this advice. I noticed the same thing of lidswitchd using 94% of cpu. my phone was crawling man. which was causing me to loose my mind. I looked all over to find and answer and most said to factory reset. Your solution saved me from punching kittens and choking out puppies
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Your signature is violating forum rules. also lagging my pc.
Also to OP.
The lidswitch has a counter that is always counting how many times the device has been slid open and closed. likely the error you see is attached to the counter process having a problem and cpu being increased because of this
very interesting
Seems to have fixed my drain. I noticed it started with 2.3.3. That's when we gained the option, correct?
Hogwarts said:
Your signature is violating forum rules. also lagging my pc.
Also to OP.
The lidswitch has a counter that is always counting how many times the device has been slid open and closed. likely the error you see is attached to the counter process having a problem and cpu being increased because of this
very interesting
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Dude really? What are you using internet explorer on a Pentium II or something? Welcome to 2012 where you might want to upgrade your computer and use a better browser. My phone can handle this minor gif signature of mine. Anyway back to the topic, I used Titanium to uninstall "Anonymous usage stats" among other things. I wonder if that was the root of the problem.
IE.. LOL... if playing animated gif lags his computer.. I think it's better off for him to use a phone to browse.. trolololol...
anyway, mine running stock, rooted, and never had any battery drain. It's been pretty good so far.
Im on Stock, rooted, running 2.3.3, and I havent had any issues yet either. if im lightly using my phone, i can go almost 2 full days without charging, normal use, i can go about 25-28 hours before plugging in. Heavy use, maybe 12-15 hours. (these are just estimates, i havent actually timed it or anything, but now i might cause im kinda curious now.... lol)
The point is, you're still violating the rules. Regardless of whether it's slowing down his pc or not.
Don't start bashing another user just because he points out that YOU are breaking the rules.
XperianceIT said:
Im on Stock, rooted, running 2.3.3, and I havent had any issues yet either. if im lightly using my phone, i can go almost 2 full days without charging, normal use, i can go about 25-28 hours before plugging in. Heavy use, maybe 12-15 hours. (these are just estimates, i havent actually timed it or anything, but now i might cause im kinda curious now.... lol)
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safe sd card enabled or disabled?
neato4u said:
IE.. LOL... if playing animated gif lags his computer.. I think it's better off for him to use a phone to browse.. trolololol...
anyway, mine running stock, rooted, and never had any battery drain. It's been pretty good so far.
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safe sd card enabled or disabled?
3dawg said:
The point is, you're still violating the rules. Regardless of whether it's slowing down his pc or not.
Don't start bashing another user just because he points out that YOU are breaking the rules.
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yep. by lag i mean showing stuff that I shouldn't be seeing because your breaking rules
for your information i use an Asus G74SX. if you know what that is.
Fixed issue
Yes, I noticed this also after rooting my experia play 2.3.3 after re-enabling safe SD card its working great and my battery is back to normal!
I gotta say I am very impressed so far with the battery life on EI22!!
17 hours+ and at 77%? I have never seen the display consume such a small amount??
I am on prerooted stock deodexed with Nubes kernal.
I am using startup manager to stop all unneccesary apps and DRM content, and Using Go Launcher and battery has been great. Actually saw the battery stay at 100% for at least 15 minutes after unplugged. Using standard battery.
I havent heard anybody else talking about how good it is.
How is it for you????
Why does that graph go up?
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qbking77 said:
Why does that graph go up?
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Yeah, looks like it was plugged in and charged to 100%...
Flash the noCIQ, you'll see even better life...
pvtjoker42 said:
Yeah, looks like it was plugged in and charged to 100%...
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Well yea, it was charged to 100%. Doesnt it reset if you plug it in or no?? Either way my battery life is waay better.
Another thing I noticed is that it seems to charge much faster.
k0nane said:
Flash the noCIQ, you'll see even better life...
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I know this is a dumb question, but I will ask, is there just a noCIQ patch, or do we have to install the complete ACS package?
Nothing against your work, so please don't be offended.
Milkman00 said:
I know this is a dumb question, but I will ask, is there just a noCIQ patch, or do we have to install the complete ACS package?
Nothing against your work, so please don't be offended.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340083
This, the standalone mod, was released before any ROM dev added it to their ROMs. I am not affiliated with any ROM dev, group of developers, or existing/future ROM.
k0nane said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340083
This, the standalone mod, was released before any ROM dev added it to their ROMs. I am not affiliated with any ROM dev, group of developers, or existing/future ROM.
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Thanks, but I guess I can't use it anyhow:
Q: Can I flash this on an odexed ROM, including stock?
A: No! You must be on a deodexed ROM.
qbking77 said:
Why does that graph go up?
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My graph went up when I first installed ACS ICS V2..
I charged my phone to 100% then flashed ACS ICS V2 and when the phone came up.. my battery was at 20%.. I was pissed off.. but with in a hour it was up to 80% and the graph was going up as well..
Show the usage list. Percentages don't mean squat.
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My graph went up when I first installed ACS ICS V2..
I charged my phone to 100% then flashed ACS ICS V2 and when the phone came up.. my battery was at 20%.. I was pissed off.. but with in a hour it was up to 80% and the graph was going up as well..
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I had something similar happen. Maybe something about how it deals with battery stats is different. My expectations for battery life are to get the same or slightly better battery life, though I would hope for significant improvements.
Two things stick out at me. First, bigdreco's phone went from 100% to 20% after install. This is obviously a reporting error somehow. Second, Hypnotic2010's phone stayed at 100% for an awfully long time. This makes me suspicious of miscalibration or some battery stat wonkiness that hasn't been sorted out yet.
I definitely feel like there are software improvements to be made, don't get me wrong, but there's that pesky Law of Conservation of Energy that makes me think that 17 hours of operation taking only a quarter of the battery isn't quite right.
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Show the usage list. Percentages don't mean squat.
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The percentage is garbage indeed. I downloaded 300 meg of video with beyondpod today. Of course taking a huge chunk out of my battery since my 3g sucks. Beyondpod shows up as 2%. Lol...yeah 2% CPU usage.