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Is it just me or is the battery life horrible, I can barely go half a day without it dieing?
I have gps off, the brightness down, and kill the task's in task manager all day.
I did update my radio but have not tried 2.0b2
My battery has been getting really warm with the 2.1 ROMs. I have switched back to a 1.5 one. Is that just me? So, yea, haven't had great battery life.
I have been using AOSP roms with no sense so switching to this battery has been alot worse. But when I think about it I do not believe it has been any worse then when I was using 1.5 with sense. Cant wait to get a fully functional 2.1 AOSP
I've been running Fresh 2.0b2 today, with 8hrs uptime and 1hr 30min awake time I have somewhere between 60% and 70% left. I did flash the radio.
definitely sucking the battery down. even after wiping, radio and flash. could have different results from phone to phone, I'm more of a heavy user.
really? i been getting realllllly good battery life. i was BT music for like an hr then i gps'ed for like 20 min and wifi connected to gmote for 2 whole movies. my battery is at 70% right now and its been unpluged all day....i love this rom
try active browsing for an hour straight... sucks my battery straight to hell.
obelisk79 said:
try active browsing for an hour straight... sucks my battery straight to hell.
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turn off flash in the browser... it is a HUGE drain on the battery
justinisyoung said:
turn off flash in the browser... it is a HUGE drain on the battery
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thats some useful info... will give it a shot
No real battery issues thus far. Make sure gps is off the settings are different in 2.1 I thought mine was off it wasn't. Also shut off flash until you need it. I use dolphin for browsing, no blue tooth, no gps and heavy useage with good battery results.
I came from a Pre which has horrendous battery life so perhaps my expectations are low but I go the entire day with heavy useage.
How do I turn off Flash?
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How do I turn off Flash?
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Go to the browser settings and uncheck load flash.
Honestly, my battery life has been better since i switched to Fresh 2.0b. It's really hard for me to gauge actual battery life because I spend most of my time at work where my phone roams constantly. BUT as far as my phone roaming and just regular use it seems that my battery life is way better.
Hard to say. I want to say the battery life is lower, but I also spent a lot more time playing with the phone and downloading/installing apps since 'upgrading' to 2.1.
That could be what you guys are seeing too. You're just using it more without realizing it.
My battery is actually pretty decent.. I have more widgets and programs running than I did on 1.1, but the battery is defiantly tolerable.
This is a BETA ROM and Flipz hasn't even had time to mess with the power management side of things, so just be thankful you have a 2.1 to mess around with, that is almost fully functional.
If you use the power control widget and turn off everything; wifi, BT, gps, AND especially SYNC, i get good battery life.
With sync disabled it doesnt pull gmail or weather but id rather have better battery life and sync gmail manually
13hrs up time,
2hr wake time
Unplugged for 5hrs (according to the Battery Use widget)
65% Battery
justinisyoung said:
turn off flash in the browser... it is a HUGE drain on the battery
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How I do that?
jovera said:
How I do that?
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Couldn't even make it to post 12, huh?
jovera said:
How I do that?
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goto the Browser then Menu/more/settings and uncheck load flash.
So far I've been getting worse battery life with the 2.1 ROM. I was previously using Fresh 1.1 and got like 36 hours with a single charge. With the Fresh 2.0 ROM I get maybe 16-18 hours. I'm thinking of switching back to Fresh 1.1 until the new ROM is tweaked as I'm sometimes more than 24 hrs without being able to charge at work and I need my phone while at work. Great ROM nevertheless.
i use the latest release, 3.3 version and my battery drains in like 10 hrs of normal usage...
the worst part is that upto 95% of battery is consumed just by display?
i used to get 2 days of battery backup previously on the official Rom.
i tried re flashing kyrillos Rom yesterday and i still get the same problem :’(
is there something i am missing?
or should i wait for atleast 1 week after flashing?
I don't know, but you can also install Juice devender from the market
I like that app. Now the battery has a longer life: 2 days.
The battery seems to be a problem indeed with our devices. Mine was on 5% for 12hrs yesterday.
I've read advice from Lestat, I think, to charge the battery completely before flashing.
I've yet to test it though.
Markie16 said:
I don't know, but you can also install Juice devender from the market
I like that app. Now the battery has a longer life: 2 days.
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k will try....
Bubble-be said:
The battery seems to be a problem indeed with our devices. Mine was on 5% for 12hrs yesterday.
I've read advice from Lestat, I think, to charge the battery completely before flashing.
I've yet to test it though.
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thanks for the advice will test it too...
Just found an app specific for this purpose here on the board : [APP] Battery Calibration - EASIEST WAY!
Bubble-be said:
Just found an app specific for this purpose here on the board : [APP] Battery Calibration - EASIEST WAY!
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awesome bro, will reply here with the results soon......
does some1 know a fix to show my battery in units in stead of dozens? srry for my english^^
boom....battery at 60%, 25 hours and still.running ( but can only say its because of this when i get home....because right now my cell phone is in airplane mode)
thanks
i think i know why i am loosing battery very fast
It may have to do with cpu scaling also.I installed cpu master and saw that the cpu is always on 667mhz and not down-scaling when not in use.
Kyrillos 3.3 rom
try using SetCPU...
clarkkov said:
This depends on the network you use, but you can set your phone to use only GSM network or only WCDMA network in the Mobile network settings, if you are located in area where your network switches constantly because of a weak signal your battery will drain itself because of constant refreshing and switching between GSM and WCDMA networks. WCDMA (3G) network uses more battery even if not switching.
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Thanks, mine is set to GSM only, since i don't use 3G..
I tested my phone again now for the past two days and found out that it comes for like 20-24 hrs in moderate (daily usage), which is ok for me....
the battery first reduces to 80% in the first 1 hour (even with minimum usage, don't know why this happens), and then it stays at 80-60% for like 15-16 hrs...
I got this problem in Kyrillos 3.0beta version...but now in 3.3 its fine...i can use mine till 2.5 days...widout task manager!!! :-/ i dunno...!!! Juicedefender works cool for sum ppl!!!! the oder solution try Indroid 3.0 - it has better battery backup!
clarkkov said:
You should callibrate your battery with one of the callibration apps, or charge to 100% and then delete battery stats file manualy. Then discarge your battery completely so the phone switches off. The next cycle should be better. Those first 20% percent do go faster than the rest of the battery.
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I installed the calibration app. It said i have to charge it till 100 % and then click calibrate....
I did and now iam 50% in just 7 hours....
So should i let the phone discharge completely?
By the way i flashed with jpm earlier with half battery left....
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Guys, all in all i blv its rom specific problem..i m tryin the battery calibration app...meanwhile have a look at this article...
VVV.androidpolice.com/2010/12/14/your-battery-gauge-is-lying-to-you-everything-you-need-to-know-about-bump-charging-and-inconsistent-battery-drain/
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After calibration one more cycle will be short. The next cycle will be at least double battery life. I get 30+ hours with moderate use (wifi, calls, sms, light games with GSM non-stop) now. I can also recommend Juice defender as an aid for battery conser ation. setCPU doesn't help.
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true , true, true thanks for confirming
still 30 hours isnt enough, its roughly a day.
With 2.1 original firmware and data activated all day i could get 50hrs minimum of battery life.
I'm done with this phone, done trying different roms, calibrating batteries, charging and discharges in less than a day.
i think this phone rocks, except its battery life sucks!
im selling it to change for something with better battery, maybe bb?
baicunko said:
still 30 hours isnt enough, its roughly a day.
With 2.1 original firmware and data activated all day i could get 50hrs minimum of battery life.
I'm done with this phone, done trying different roms, calibrating batteries, charging and discharges in less than a day.
i think this phone rocks, except its battery life sucks!
im selling it to change for something with better battery, maybe bb?
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Battery problems is from ext4! You can convert all partitions to ext2 with normal battery life but with more chances for data to lost if you remove the battery!
kyrillos13 said:
Battery problems is from ext4! You can convert all partitions to ext2 with normal battery life but with more chances for data to lost if you remove the battery!
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thanks for your reply, do you mean this battery problem doesn't occur in stock 2.2 recently released ?
Hi everyone,
I've read in the update threads that battery life has improved for most since the update.
However, I feel that my battery is draining much quicker now. I re-did all the changes I made after the update (like removing Timescape widget + disconnecting from FB, switching off auto-sync etc). Didn't make much difference, though.
So, has anyone else experienced this? Also, has someone really checked if the camera bug is gone?
Regards,
cherryfish
Yes, the camera bug is gone. Personally tested that.
As for overall battery life, there's not much difference for me. Maybe just slight improvement in idling current. (idling battery drain is still about 1% or less per hour though... almost same as before update)
But I already have really good battery life before update... so maybe that's why I don't see much difference.
Non-rooted. Unbranded. No task killers.
that's weird, my arc's battery life is way better now, lt lasts 1 day 2 hours minimum.
my gf's been complaining about the battery becoming pretty hopeless....I have repaired, factory reset and uninstalled most apps and no respite...used to give 1 n a half days easily on mod-light usuage...now barely lasts a day...
need to figure it out..ill look more into it when I have time..
I have the same problem, looked good the first day now its ****, i can loose the last 20% in an hour while its just idling, today i was down to 9% after 12 hours, but i did use the speaker to listen to music for like 5 hours. Is there Anyone else that use the speaker alot that can tell me if it uses alot of juice?
Hi, I have got similar situation with u.
I have used titanium to backup and restore the system data and apps.
Is it the problem between old ver 2.3.2 system data and new ver 2.3.3 that caused the battery drain problem?
Battery life has doubled for me. I noticed that a lot of Sonys apps are no longer running in the background after flashiing the o2 2.3.3 over my Rogers rom.
Yep, battery life is way better over here too. I did a reset on it and set the phone up again pretty manually. Did sync my contacts etc. Works very well now.
Have 4 email accounts syncing, facebook and twitter syncing every hour and every 30 mins, do quite a bit web browsing on both 3g and wlan and have had w lan constantly on for quite a few hours now. Screen brightness set on 75%.
And now, after 15 hours and 33 min I have 66% battery left.
Battery life is really great & i am loving it. Those who have problems, i doubt there must be an app (if not more) causing problem. My brother got the battery problem on his Arc (battery drain 100 to 10% in 10 hours with moderate usage).. He uninstalled Handcent & started using Go SMS Pro & battery life is again good
For me, I was on work today... Wifi always on, Facbook auto update every hour, weather every hour, 1 hour 30 minutes music listening with bluetooth headset, 50-60 sms, 5 min phone call, half hour browser, played a game in 15 min.. and after 15 hours battery is till 60%... I am very happy
Waiting for the upgrade since camera makes battery die very soon.
Without camera usage battery performance is really good.
i did not transfer any userdata when i updated so taht cant be the problem, and i have the same apps as on 2.3.2 but i do suspect widgetlocker is eating up battery. I have also read that the wather app snowstorm that i have installed is a big batterydrainer but none of those shows up in my battery usage.
I see that the music player dubletwist is the biggest sinner except the screen but im assuming thats because i used the arc speaker for music at work.
But as you can see from the pictures i have drained the battery twice today, though the second charge was only up to something like 80%. And ive hardly used it after that(3-4 minute long calls and maybe 20 minutes of music using in-ear headphones and 30 min browsing). Something is wrong somewhere
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My battery life has definitely improved it now must be about the best I have had on any Android device I have owned.
My battery life has gone from an average of 15 hours to an average of 31 hours with more usage. Im very pleased with the update best smart phone battery life ive ever had now:-D
jjbbb said:
Hi, I have got similar situation with u.
I have used titanium to backup and restore the system data and apps.
Is it the problem between old ver 2.3.2 system data and new ver 2.3.3 that caused the battery drain problem?
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I really don't know, but after a couple of reboots it seems better now... might be the reason.
Edit: I just installed Battery Monitor Widget and it says I it drains ~200-350mA atm. Wifi and 3G all off.
For me I defintely think the battery life is worse. I only ever use my phone on non-3g, all other connections off and got a nice 2 days easy out of it.
Since the update I would say I get just over a day (not sure if that is still good in other people's eyes) One of the killers seems to be the gallery which I presume is because of the new facebook update which pulls in your facebook pictures onto the phone....
Anyone find as well when you play games the phone gets really really hot i.e shadow guardians HD makes my phone just burn.
Easily upgraded today.
So far with using camera alot batt live is fine
and droping very slow on idle. Great!
Upgraded mine on Saturday and it's defo better on the battery. Wasn't using it at work and it was hardly using any power. Then started messing about with wifi and gps, etc, and it's still got plenty.
Haven't noticed many other differences though!!
Dazza
I have to charge my phone 2 days and battery is now at 54%.
I never had such battery life before even with bloatware apps removed with that usage.
Imagine if i remove them now! (Though i wont since i cant root with gingerbreak anymore, hopefully someone will implement it on the next gingerbreak's update)
Agree with everyone else here.
Battery life has improved with upgrade.
Battery life much better for me 50%
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My phone is 1h30m out of the charges and at 78% battery level, out of those 68% is "phone idle". What is exactly "phone idle" and why it eats so much battery where name suggests on it's own that it shall not be using any battery since it's "idle"
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My phone is 1h30m out of the charges and at 78% battery level, out of those 68% is "phone idle". What is exactly "phone idle" and why it eats so much battery where name suggests on it's own that it shall not be using any battery since it's "idle"
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I am having a similar issue. On 2.3.4 HKTW with Faux kernel, battery mod and Battery level fix. Phone Idle is draining the battery.
jiggytom said:
I am having a similar issue. On 2.3.4 HKTW with Faux kernel, battery mod and Battery level fix. Phone Idle is draining the battery.
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Do you have a feeling this started happening after "battery fix"? I feel like it started happening since I install fix yesterday.
I had the same problem, both before and after the battery fix. I cant get my atrix to last 12 hours with light use before its crying to be charged. Just installed the battery fix and Ninja rom last night; ill give that a try and see how it goes.
Man guys, I'm just rooted, and running the latest stock rom, and I'm amazed at how awesome the battery life is. I can go for almost a day and a half. I do most of my rss feed reading on my phone, and I tend to go for hour long jogs with it strapped to my arm running gps.
Maybe my usage model has something to do with it. When I'm not running, I'm either at home or at work, where I connect to wifi. That might have something to do with my stellar battery performance.
i have the same problem it started yesterday well noticed it yesterday
i went with the new recovery and after a bad install of ninja
installed the new cherryblur I had a problem with the new recovery wipeing user data and had to reinstall after a wipe with fastboot. dont know what the problem is.
artisticcheese said:
My phone is 1h30m out of the charges and at 78% battery level, out of those 68% is "phone idle". What is exactly "phone idle" and why it eats so much battery where name suggests on it's own that it shall not be using any battery since it's "idle"
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i had exactly the same issue with Kenn´s rom and Faux kernel...
after a week testing with everything i can tell you that the guilty was the Kernel.
Flash again the rom that you have been using but do not install that kernel.
Cheers!
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i had exactly the same issue with Kenn´s rom and Faux kernel...
after a week testing with everything i can tell you that the guilty was the Kernel.
Flash again the rom that you have been using but do not install that kernel.
Cheers!
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sounds like a good place to start. ill give it a go!
edit: this mornig i set my set cpu profile to the lowest setting while screen is off ond just notices phone idle is down to 45%
ill post back if i have more data
The less you are physically using your phone, the higher the percentage of usage Phone Idle will have. Typically, for a normal user Phone Idle will ALWAYS be the highest usage.
Diviance said:
The less you are physically using your phone, the higher the percentage of usage Phone Idle will have. Typically, for a normal user Phone Idle will ALWAYS be the highest usage.
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this is true. if your not using anything else to drain your battery something will always show up on the list. say you lost 20% of battery in 4 hrs. you have had it sleeping the whole time. well that list looks at what applications have been running so it builds a list on what took out the 20% so if you didnt do anything phone idle would have taken say 78% of the 20% of battery you lost. it doesnt mean its draining your battery more then normal. it means it was the only thing to drain the battery at all. followed by display, android system etc....
International user here with 2.3.4 ORANGEFR. After flashing edgan's kernel my battery issues are pretty much gone. I undervolted as much as I could. At 70% battery right now with 8 hours of moderate use.
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The less you are physically using your phone, the higher the percentage of usage Phone Idle will have. Typically, for a normal user Phone Idle will ALWAYS be the highest usage.
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That's fine but the problem (see original post) that despite low usage I do have big battery drain and in this case "idle" is in fact appears to be eating 2/3 of it.
I'm in the orange already after little use today and i've only been unplugged for 6hours. I just flashed GB on friday.
Normally I would suggest installing the app Spare Parts to monitor which apps run the heaviest while the phone is supposed to be sleeping...however, on the Gingerbread ROMs, Spare Parts can't show you those stats anymore...very unfortunate.
but spare parts+ can
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That's fine but the problem (see original post) that despite low usage I do have big battery drain and in this case "idle" is in fact appears to be eating 2/3 of it.
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you never post what android version you are using, im assuming HKTW on ATT atrix? i had the same problem with that build, its full of problems. dont bother installing apps to try to figure out what is draining your battery, its the build itself it is known to have battery issues. theres def a problem if the phone is using 22% on just 1.5h of idle. there's no fix for it. install either ken's gingerbread rom or one of the other roms based on ATT 2.3.4. theres no battery issues with those
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you never post what android version you are using, im assuming HKTW on ATT atrix? i had the same problem with that build, its full of problems. dont bother installing apps to try to figure out what is draining your battery, its the build itself it is known to have battery issues. theres def a problem if the phone is using 22% on just 1.5h of idle. there's no fix for it. install either ken's gingerbread rom or one of the other roms based on ATT 2.3.4. theres no battery issues with those
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Well, no REAL battery issues. The meter still jumps around wildly unless you have the fix installed if you are using the 1% mod. So you can reboot and suddenly have 20-40% more battery than before.
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That's fine but the problem (see original post) that despite low usage I do have big battery drain and in this case "idle" is in fact appears to be eating 2/3 of it.
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Have you done the battery fix for the GB ROMs? Without it, the drain is reported as being more than it really is.
Have you set up a more conservative profile under the battery management (or wherever the hell it is)?? With light usage, change your settings there to be less performance based, since you apparently don't need it.
And as previously stated...SOMETHING will use your battery. That will either be idle, or Angry Birds. If you aren't using apps, the browser, etc...then idle consumes battery. Use your phone more...or adjust your profile settings to be much more conservative (including turning data off after a shorter time period).
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Well, no REAL battery issues. The meter still jumps around wildly unless you have the fix installed if you are using the 1% mod. So you can reboot and suddenly have 20-40% more battery than before.
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this is a very minor problem that doesnt effect battery life as in it doesnt shorten battery life. it jumps up after reboot but if you use it for a while it will jump back down on its own. there is also a fix that works so its not an issue anymore.
I'm using Kenneth ROM with default kernel. Idle is still top consumer ( more then screen for example). I did not do battery calibration but will do now but I don't think this will fix the issue.
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So...
I always thought that the battery drains really fast (yeah I know it's a smartphone blabla). With every rom and android version it was more or less the same.
I tried everything to get a better battery performance. Never over/underclocked, uv.
Deleting samsung apps brought a better battery life. So I installed betterbatterystats and other programs to achieve even more.
But still... not enough.
And now I disabled Auto screen rotation... and checked with os monitor...
I have android 2.3.6, speedmod kernel 18.
Battery now 1d, 7h and still 40 % left!! android os is 10 % (never had so little)
Oh and screen on 3h 40 minutes... many sms, calls, wifi and data..
try it!
I turned it off when I first got my phone because it can be quite annoying sometimes. But I can't vouch for this because prior to my sgs2 my last Android was when the G1 came out 3 + yrs ago and it used to last me for ever. But this phone's battery lasts a long time for me now so the rotation may be a huge battery drain
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I turned it off when I first got my phone because it can be quite annoying sometimes.
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+1 i'm with you on this
i guess the reason is not the auto rotation.....it's the android version 2.3.6.......the 2.3.5 has a lot of draining the battery........all people who updated to the 2.3.6 said they have a lot better battery life.................
I hated the auto rotation since the Symbian days.