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Battery life stinks...

Hey guys what is up. I'm just wandering.. my Droid is brand new. Got it 2 days ago. Today I had to recharge my battery twice. I did use it a lot... so that may be it.. and when I didn't use it the battery life stayed the same for as long as I didn't touch the phone. Is my battery good? I got the app that tells me the temperature and everything. The hottest was 112F. It says my battery health is "good health". Will my phone hold a charge for a longer period of time after it has been charged then drained... and repeated. Does it just need to be broken in? Thanks for reading this whole essay I wrote you guys.. Haha. Well thank you so much again... and if you can please get back to me as soon as possible that would be great!
- Steven
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You should really search a little bit before you post. There are COUNTLESS threads on battery life.
Your best bet, until HTC fixes it, is to charge until the phone says you're at 100%, then turn it off and charge until the LED turns green. Charging and discharging really won't affect anything - their is no "memory" with their batteries.

Okay, thanks for the quick response. I appreciate it. Sorry. I should've read.. I was just a bit anxious. My apologies.
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You could always trying running one of Hydra's Kernels as well. I don't know if anyone has gained better battery life because of doing so... I use his kernels for the features.

DeeBG said:
You could always trying running one of Hydra's Kernels as well. I don't know if anyone has gained better battery life because of doing so... I use his kernels for the features.
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stock speed undervolt is the way to go. I found battery improvement. Hydra Kernels are the way to go.
Hydra Stock Speed Undervolt Kernel

What is that? Do I get it in the app store? My battery is getting pretty warm now.. even when I touch my screen I feel it.
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When I click The link on my incredible it gives me an error when I download it. How do I run it and or make it work?
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steveng93 said:
When I click The link on my incredible it gives me an error when I download it. How do I run it and or make it work?
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What's the error?
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What's the error?
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It's a a force close with some other words I forgot.
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It says that its just an updater.
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Check Settings > About phone > Battery and make sure up time and awake time aren't the same.
If they are the same, it means something is keeping your phone awake when the screen goes off, which drains battery.

I just got my Droid Incredible a few days ago too, and I knew coming into it that the battery life has issues from a lot of users, but man, it really sucks!
I have it fully charged at 8am, and by 3:30 (with very moderate use), it's already at 20%. I've disabled everything I can (WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, live wallpaper, installed ATK and keep my tasks at none, etc), and still the same.
I really love the phone (it's amazing other than battery), but the battery life is such a big deal for me that I am really thinking about returning it and waiting for the Samsung Fascinate to come (hopefully sooner than later). Thankfully I have until Aug 30 to call Verizon and return the phone... i sure hope the Fascinate gets a definite release date by then.
I'm going to try the full charge + phone off + charge again to see if that improves things, but other than that, does anyone recommend the Seidio 1750mAh battery or the HTC Touch Pro2 OEM (1500 mAh) battery? Does it make that much of a difference?
I read the findings on batteryboss.org, and it appears that the TP2 battery was better but the Seidio battery they tested was a used one, so it wasn't a fair comparison.
Any thoughts/help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Loose atk....and read. I get a full 18 plus hours and I don't bump charge. Lots of info out there
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I purchased a 2150 mah battery from verizon and i can say I wont be having battery issues.. that is one option, but you wont find a case that fits your phone, that is the only downfall

I was just reading reports about the new Facebook app...looks like they are working on that fix if you use that and it is causing a battery drain
http://www.androidcentral.com/facebook-confirms-battery-drain-latest-android-update

Uninstall the 1.3.0 facebook app RIGHT AWAY if you downloaded it. That destroyed my battery life yesterday and I have never had battery problems with my DInc.
You can just use the regular HTC Facebook app until an update is released for the facebook for android.
Try it without the new facebook for a day and see if it changes.
If you don't have the facebook app then just make sure bluetooth, gps, wifi are off when you aren't using them. I recommend trying bump charging but I've never personally and my phone lasts about 26-28 hours+ with mild to heavy usage depending on the day.
-Flawless

Thanks for the replies..I don't use Facebook so that wouldn't be my problem.
I think ATK is good.. I mean I don't have it on auto so I sometimes just kill all tasks and I have noticed any decrease from the already poor battery performance.
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Ionno what it is but I'm running froyo 2.2 n I Thot this issue would be addressed but still nothing.. I'm hoping the VZW push will address it... I get decent battery life when I charge fully then turn off then plug back in til light turns green but its a pain in the ass to do dat.. I believe my awake time is like 3-4 hrs with an uptime of like 18-19 hrs
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I have a Sedio 1750, which I bump charge every morning, and UltimateJuice set to turn on APN every 5 min for 30 sec or until data transfer is done. WiFi is used whenever possible and otherwise turned off.
I easily make it through the day and have battery to spare with moderate to heavy use.
All the battery life horror stories make me wonder what everyone is doing differently. Haha

Lots of OJ Simpsons in this thread...
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Phone battery drains quickly

Recently I've noticed my phone dropping percentages within minutes, I've been on my phone for about 30 min just moderately surfing the web and it has dropped almost 30 percent. I tried juice defender, although it seemed it
worked somewhat it was really messing with my data connection. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
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Also my display is using 59% of the battery consumption but I have it turned all the way down.
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I had this same problem until I reflashed my rom it must have been some background application which rom are you using I didn't have this issue with the stock rom btw
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As of right now I'm just rooted with the update.zip, I did lag fix but unlag fixed shortly after. Didn't have this problem when I was stock battery actually listed a good amount time.

There are bugs with the displayed battery % not being accurate. Especially if you power down the phone while it's charging.

My Vibrant just eats battery by the minute... I am honestly not sure what is going on. IT's 2.30pm and I barely used the phone and it's down to 53% now from 9am.
What can I do to fix this? I have rooted and installed lag fix from this link

I had the same issue before applying ryanza one click lash fix. My battery now lasts aboutlag 2 days. Which lag fix did you apply ?
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I know this doesn't help... but my phone is stock and with normal battery management practices I'm not having any real problems... However, I'm really used to my blackberry which could be left on forever without using any battery at all.

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I know this doesn't help... but my phone is stock and with normal battery management practices I'm not having any real problems... However, I'm really used to my blackberry which could be left on forever without using any battery at all.
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Yea compared to my last two smartphones, the vibrant battery life is no worse. It's definitely better than the n900. But no smart phone's battery life has compared to my blackberry's I used to use.

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Yea compared to my last two smartphones, the vibrant battery life is no worse. It's definitely better than the n900. But no smart phone's battery life has compared to my blackberry's I used to use.
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N900 to vibrant and man what a difference. N900 battery life was absolutely horrible.

reaton33 said:
I had the same issue before applying ryanza one click lash fix. My battery now lasts aboutlag 2 days. Which lag fix did you apply ?
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I reset the phone and applied the raynza lag fix. I'll test it out and see how battery reacts. Thanks!

Fix permissions via recovery! Drain your battery till power down and recharge it fully while off if possible.
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I had this issue. Turns out my battery had swollen due to over heating. Excessive use while on the charger. In the end, it would take 7 hours to charge 80%. Hence why it was on the charger.
Doesn't sound like you have the same issue. But of you start experiencing charging issue coupled with rapid draining get the barry replaced. No issues anymore.
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Fix permissions via recovery! Drain your battery till power down and recharge it fully while off if possible.
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fixing permissions will fix the battery life?

Wow I didn't realize I butchered my typing lol. I was at work and trying to type fast on swype. I'm not all that good yet.
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tarantula78 said:
I had this same problem until I reflashed my rom it must have been some background application which rom are you using I didn't have this issue with the stock rom btw
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How do you go about flashing difffrent roms?

Battery still draining quickly' fully charged and my nephew played ko boxing four maybe 30min and my phone was at 75%. Now I'm at work all day since using the phone for maybe 10m total and I'm at 42%. So basically 40m of use and 9 hrs of stand by I'm at 42%. I also g have everything off. Screen dimmed to 10 via night dimmer app. Could an ebay charger do this because mt car charger I got was from ebay.
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Battery still draining quickly' fully charged and my nephew played ko boxing four maybe 30min and my phone was at 75%. Now I'm at work all day since using the phone for maybe 10m total and I'm at 42%. So basically 40m of use and 9 hrs of stand by I'm at 42%. I also g have everything off. Screen dimmed to 10 via night dimmer app. Could an ebay charger do this because mt car charger I got was from ebay.
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i been having the same problem since i have rooted my device i dont know what else to do.... i am getting a new battery next week lets see how that works out. but i don't think its the battery

How to extend battery life on ANY rom

I am not responsible if you brick you're phone or blow it up/cause world war three. so don't tell me it's my fault because this should all be fine, just don't wanna get legals against me you know how it is
People seem to think that 1-5MA is fantastic but it's all about how long you spend on the phone, i mean if you have it on for 2 hours messing with it. listening to music, angry birds then internet, you are going to have bad battery life no matter what you do, smartphones aren't built for a hell of a long battery life.
First things first!
Battery stats, charge using current widget to 100% untill it shows 0MA usage keeping it plugged in goto root explorer or w.e you use that can Mount and enable write access to DATA/SYSTEM then delete the file BATTERYSTATS.bin then restart phone unplug and you are done.
Display the display is best set at Auto.
Vibration off, for max battery life.
as for the CPU just set the notifcations off and screen off to the lowest setting unless you have it doing ridiculous things it should be fine, if not set it one about that the lowest should be 245MHZ this will save power!
im more of a minimalistic kinda guy so i prefer to have stock apps and the apps i really need not like these iphone types who just want to show you how many apps they have on their phones.. so how many apps you use is upto you, but if you have quite a few download and install a cache cleaner, doesn't matter which one. all do the same (i think)
Other things to prolong battery life:
Turn the screen off when you're not using it!
Turn auto rotate off
Turn onto silent (not recommended if you have a life outside of XDA can cause problems with girlfriends and such)
Turn off things when not using them, this goes for all of the options, WIFI, GPS, Mobile data.
that should prolong battery life.
Hope i helped

what is your definition of pretty long battery life ? At the end of the day we all have to charge the phone.

2 days usually mate
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samuel2706 said:
2 days usually mate
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Not happening. I have a social life xD.
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monstermuffin20 said:
Not happening. I have a social life xD.
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My girlfriend calls me for about 30-1 hour a day, I listen about 2-3 hours to music a day, 10-20 minutes of games, 10-20 minutes internet, halfhour internet, sometimes halfhour MSN, mutch Ping/whatsapp/sms/facebook.
Still got about 2 days? Sometimes a little shorter sometimes a little longer :>

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My girlfriend calls me for about 30-1 hour a day, I listen about 2-3 hours to music a day, 10-20 minutes of games, 10-20 minutes internet, halfhour internet, sometimes halfhour MSN, mutch Ping/whatsapp/sms/facebook.
Still got about 2 days? Sometimes a little shorter sometimes a little longer :>
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Then your phone is a miricale phone

monstermuffin20 said:
Then your phone is a miricale phone
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Yeah friend of mine said it to xD My screen brightness is 50% I don't have any complains about the battery ^^

I get about 6-8 hours on a work day from my phone when stock, 8-12 hours with current rom

1% every 1-2 minutes, on CM 6.1.3 ROM is that normal?
even after flashed new recomended radio
the Battery Drain fix makes my wifi can't find AP and the USB won't be detected, rebooted and still the same.
tried CM 7, stuck at boot loop, can't even enter the phone

I don't know about Cm 6 but I thought the fix was for cm 7 Only. The creator is a man named mad Murdoch ask him he will know more
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I notice that actually reception plays a big big part of battery life, which means this can vary from location to location, country to country, network to network.
If you are in an area (or even a particular room in your house) that constantly require power to hold onto weaker network signal, your battery will be drained a lot of faster obviously.
And to be honest, there isn't much we can do about it except using a known good radio.
my 2 cent.
Franklin

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I notice that actually reception plays a big big part of battery life, which means this can vary from location to location, country to country, network to network.
If you are in an area (or even a particular room in your house) that constantly require power to hold onto weaker network signal, your battery will be drained a lot of faster obviously.
And to be honest, there isn't much we can do about it except using a known good radio.
my 2 cent.
Franklin
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Cheers ill add that in to the first post later on today
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Battery problems

Hi, my s2 is using villainrom 1.4 as an attempt to improve battery life. At the moment i am on 50% battery after 4 hours and a bit with screen on time at 2 hours. Even with moderate usage i hav never gotten over 12 hours...
Could someone give me tips how to get my battery to at least a day, desperate for help. I have auto sync off and use a mixture of wiki and 3g.
I will post the screenshots of battery later as i dont have enough posts yet.
Thanks
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What apps u have installed?
Go to the built in battery monitor and check for wakelocks (when the screen is off, but the device is awake)
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as what BSAKSOUK said, what apps do you have installed?
Try to uninstall all apps you have installed and see if you get some improvements, then install one, test again.
I found that NetCounter kicked in on my SGII and the phone never went to sleep, just screen off but it was awake and drained the battery in 12h
//Mike

I will try and post the sreenshots soon. It seems that awake and screen on is largely related. I may have to factory reset and see how the battery fairs then.
I did a *#1234# and saw my csc is unknown? Do u think there is somethin wrong with my modem? It seem when wifi is on it always drains the battery alot faster.
Ia there any app to monitor how much drain apps cause? Thanks guys
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Their are a number of battery tips in the VR rom thread worth reading .
jje

Use Advanced Task Killer. Nuff said
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Deactivate data network mode

Im trying to go through the vr thread but its extremely long!
Deactivating data mode? Ive read about some people having wifi issues causing battery drain.
Thanks
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twitceh said:
Hi, my s2 is using villainrom 1.4 as an attempt to improve battery life. At the moment i am on 50% battery after 4 hours and a bit with screen on time at 2 hours. Even with moderate usage i hav never gotten over 12 hours...
Could someone give me tips how to get my battery to at least a day, desperate for help. I have auto sync off and use a mixture of wiki and 3g.
I will post the screenshots of battery later as i dont have enough posts yet.
Thanks
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since you say you had the screen on for 2 hours, your battery seems correct. other people on this forum are claiming they get 4 hours of screen on time from a full charge. so if you had 2 hours and 50%, that seems right in line with proper results.

Problems with Epic

I'm on ec05 un rooted.
I've noticed a problem that started a few months ago. Before I get into that...some things to know:
I have 5 batteries. 1 stock and 4 aftermarket.
One issue I have is battery drain. If I'm not on wifi then I get between 2-4 hours. With wifi it is 5-7.
Whenever I change the battery it is a toss up as to whether all of my apps will load. I have rebooted 5 times today within a 30 min period. All the apps still haven't loaded and battery life dropped 20%. I have tried using the keys to reboot and also taking the battery out.
The phone will also get hot when not on wifi.
Any suggestions on how to fix? I have tried factory reset and it doesn't fix it.
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If you're already willing to factory reset, you might as well Odin back fresh and see if it helps. Unfortunately root is needed to calibrate the battery in traditional ways.

If you have 5 batteries and have to swap out every 5 hours then your probably on your phone all day.

Are you just pulling the battery or letting it power down? I know stock has journaling on which protects you from if the battery gets pulled but after o long it ill catch up and do it mine has but I get why better battery life then that. My wifi on I will get about 15 hour with little bit of use but I will get about 6 to 7. When running pandora at work the whole time and maybe mess around with it for 30 mins. Also make sure you back out of everything
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I would bet you've got some app installed that is constantly running in the background, constantly connecting and downloading data and killing the battery. Since WiFi uses less power than 3G you get better battery life on Wifi, but if you are constantly syncing and downloading you are going to kill the battery.
If you go into settings>accounts and sync and look at what's syncing it may give you a start. You could also go int settings>about phone>battery use and see what's using the most power.

The only thing that is set to sync is gmail.
The display is using 91% of the battery. Even if I don't use my phone much during the day, the display still shows 90% or higher.
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jmb521 said:
The only thing that is set to sync is gmail.
The display is using 91% of the battery. Even if I don't use my phone much during the day, the display still shows 90% or higher.
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The display is always the biggest drain. That is based on 100% of what you have used. If your battery is warm while not on wifi you are losing 3G and your phone is constantly trying to connect to sync. Put it in airplane mode for an hour and see how the drain is. My guess is a tower is down near you or under maintenance.
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When wifi is on means 3g is off. And cdma 3g uses ALOT of battery because is has no type of "sleep mode" meaning it is on 24/7 and when you do use it it is a battery hog because it also uses a lot to power the cdma bands. Just another cheap flaw in the life of sprint.
So when you are not on wifi turn off 3g.
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