[Q] How do you see the battery drainage? - HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera

I searched alot actually but either I searched wrong or there just isnt anything about it - is there a widged or app or something that shows how many mA the phone is draining? I see this written on dev's rom posts but I dont know how to measure it and how to check for it. I guess its something easy but I cant finnd it

currentwidget
free from market
you can get a transparent version by looking in the general Android Themes and Apps section, and looking in the transparent widgets thread
(not HD2 section, just general Android Themes and Apps

Battery current widget is also good.
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Sorry, that's battery monitor widget, not current. It seems to work fine as well.
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Thank you!

However I am getting ~300mA drainage when I turn on the phone w/o doing anything. How do they get 6mA ??? And how to check how much it is when the phone is sleeping ?

The battery monitor widget has a history you can watch, other than that I'm not sure.
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You can set CurrentWidget to update every 60 seconds. Leave the screen off for more than a minute, then check it as soon as you turn the phone back on
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huggs said:
You can set CurrentWidget to update every 60 seconds. Leave the screen off for more than a minute, then check it as soon as you turn the phone back on
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Same with Battery Monitor Widget, actually defaults to refresh data every 60 seconds and save history every 5 minutes, giving you average consumption and much lower battery usage! Which is quite important for such tool, isn't it?
Other than test I've just run some tests and BMW consumes less when set with the same settings! See screen-shot!

Funny one.
I think that maybe these monitoring tools can be the issue of these high drainage things. lol
I had my battery monitoring tool set to 60sec and write it to a log on the sd-card.
Waking up the card and writing to it might might cause these higher values.
Trying to set them to 5 to 10 minutes at this moment to check this theory.

lukesan said:
Funny one.
I think that maybe these monitoring tools can be the issue of these high drainage things. lol
I had my battery monitoring tool set to 60sec and write it to a log on the sd-card.
Waking up the card and writing to it might might cause these higher values.
Trying to set them to 5 to 10 minutes at this moment to check this theory.
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AH wondering the same too
One sure thing at one minute it will keep your phone waking-up all the time... then depends for how long...
On my various tests I always noticed draining pikes at very irregular intervals suggesting another app is also consuming... So I usually end-up setting plane mode to ensure nothing should consume and should get a steady 2 or 3 mA!
Now I'm trying Process Monitor Widget to see who's actually consuming the battery... but the app is still in beta and not yet linked to Battery Monitor Widget... waiting for that!
My last test shows pikes of activities every 30-45 minutes (?), whereas battery shows drainage pikes every 4 to 7 minutes (???)! Still searching...
In there various HTC and Google background process are actives... not sure to what extent yet.
Now testing, same setup and plane mode...

If you're running NAND it's probably the 60mA bug you're seeing --- any Notification (Call/SMS/MMS/Email) will draw 60mA until read.

No high drainage
lukesan said:
Funny one.
I think that maybe these monitoring tools can be the issue of these high drainage things.
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Base on you comment I decided to start testing 2 of those tools: Battery & Process Monitor Widget from the Market.
Phone was in plane mode and apps where recording every minute for 3 hours.
In the first-screen shot you can see drain pikes every 4 minutes (3 to 4) or so... at 6:58, 7:03, 7:07, 7:13, 7:17, 7:20...
You can look at CPU utilization, on other screen-shots, total time shows how much CPU was used during recording per application.
Even thouh the system is in plane mode and there's nothing to run, you can see the Android system running who knows what every 3-5 minutes or so...
I found some explanations with 2 background processes doing who knows what too
For the others it's still a mystery to me. But sure enough some of the drain is due to the monitoring tools...
The 3.48s consumed by the battery monitor is pretty good over a 3 hours recording...
So I will make 2 further tests:
- first with only battery monitoring...
- second monitoring also processes but every 5 minutes

hd2k10 said:
If you're running NAND it's probably the 60mA bug you're seeing --- any Notification (Call/SMS/MMS/Email) will draw 60mA until read.
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I got similar issues with a previous NAND build, that was awful... 50mA minimum in plane mode!?
THen I switch to MDJ's build... see previous post, very good now

ccounotte said:
I got similar issues with a previous NAND build, that was awful... 50mA minimum in plane mode!?
THen I switch to MDJ's build... see previous post, very good now
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Gonna switch to MDJ tonight myself, I've managed to find fixes for everything but the 60mA drain and I'm too anal about performance/battery to let it go any more. Time to switch, unfortunately.

Battery Monitor Widget and Process Monitor Widget
Back again with some more tests!
It turns out that both those widgets don't seem to impact battery drain, at least not in a noticeable manner.
3 tests in plane mode:
Test 1: BMW alone, 1 minute logging interval... steady 2mA!
Test 2: BMW+PMW, 1 minute logging interval... steady 2mA!
Test 3: BMW 1 minute, PMW 10 seconds, steady 2mA!
In all tests phone goes in deep-sleep mode as usual!
I have attached a few screen-shot of test 2
Screen-shot 11 shows CPU frequency during test 2, starting/ending with screen-on interactive, with 2 peaks in between when I switched screen on to visually check mA.
This showed me that the app I'm using to set CPU max frequency to 245MHz during screen-off is not working

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[Q] Very High Power Consumption Android On HD2

Hi,
Ive recently installed Android 2.2 Froyo on an SD card on my HD2 and the battery is going down so quick... it wasnt great in Windows mobile but now I'm struggling to get it to last all day...
I'm saying to myself this cant be normal, I'm also trying a Samsung Galaxy S and the battery is so much better!!
Is there anyway I can improve the battery power on my HD2, I know in a HD2 the battery is a 1350mah and the Galaxy S is a 1500mah battery.
Should that make such a difference?
I'm considering going back to Win Mobile but dont really want to but havent got any other choice if the battery carrys on like this....
I also notice the screen and back get really quite warm... I suppose Android is making the system work harder?!?!?!
Its safe to say that you havent read any of the threads about battery life.
Before you say I did a search and didnt find anything Ive already typed in battery in search and found a bunch of threads.
Now what you need to do is find out why its running so warm.
It could be the kernal version you are using.
Ways to improve battery life are using setcpu and underclocking. A lot of members use current widget as a method to see when High drain is occuring.
In sleep mode you should be seeing less than 10ma. If you dont see less then this there is a problem.
Set current widget to 1 min intervals.
Dont use task killers they dont help anything no matter what anyone says.
Dont compare the captivate to the hd2. 2 different phones.
I am using mccm 1.5 customize, and CurrentWidget shows 5mA on standby which I think is good enough. Sometimes, it shows 60mA on standby in a while and my battery drains very fast, even I use Advanced Task Killer but it does not help. I have to reboot the phone to get it back to 5mA on standby.
Anyone has any idea of what may cause my standby power that high (60mA)?
Thanks.
hazard99 said:
Its safe to say that you havent read any of the threads about battery life.
Before you say I did a search and didnt find anything Ive already typed in battery in search and found a bunch of threads.
Now what you need to do is find out why its running so warm.
It could be the kernal version you are using.
Ways to improve battery life are using setcpu and underclocking. A lot of members use current widget as a method to see when High drain is occuring.
In sleep mode you should be seeing less than 10ma. If you dont see less then this there is a problem.
Set current widget to 1 min intervals.
Dont use task killers they dont help anything no matter what anyone says.
Dont compare the captivate to the hd2. 2 different phones.
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Thanks for your tips for better battery life. I was curious about a few things and hope you could clarify a few things for me and some instruction or threads on how to do so. And yes I have searched, that's the first thing I always do before I do anything web based as far as positng.
1. How do you setcpu and underclocking?
2. How do you find the amount of battery that standby takes? i.e. 60mA? How do you get to that setting in android?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Setcpu is an app used to control your cpu speed.
link included
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=394848&d=1283568967
the setcpu dev's site with complete info on how to use it.
http://www.pokedev.com/setcpu/
To check ma's use (current widget)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=776085
long press on the desktop and apply current widget. It will ask you if you want to create a log. Create a log for 1 min intervals. Put the phone to sleep and leave it for a good 5 mins.
You can then open the log file usint astro file manager and check your drainage while sleep.
One thing I found is that If i am having high drain i turn my gps on and restart then it usually settles down and I can turn the gps off.
If you have apps that are syncing you will a higher than normal drain during those times the apps sync. if you set your apps to sync at longer intervals the amount of batter drain will be unnoticable.
I have major battery ocd. I constantly check my battery and have to force myself not to look but still use my phone as any normal person would.
I can pull more than 12 hours easy!
Thanks hazard99!
The first time I ran android I don't think I've had any battery issues and now that I'm looking at the percent on my homescreen Im beginning to feel battery OCD too. It's like I lose 1% atleast every 15 minutes when I look at my screen. But I did take and apply all the tips you told me and I do see that it only uses 5ma when screen is off. I truely don't understand. :/
Stop looking at your screen. Stop worrying. The more you look the more juice you use while the screen is on. There will be more points where the phone is off.
traithudo said:
I am using mccm 1.5 customize, and CurrentWidget shows 5mA on standby which I think is good enough. Sometimes, it shows 60mA on standby in a while and my battery drains very fast, even I use Advanced Task Killer but it does not help. I have to reboot the phone to get it back to 5mA on standby.
Anyone has any idea of what may cause my standby power that high (60mA)?
Thanks.
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Ive also been trying to investigate this, my standby drain is usually 60+ mA, and during use it jumps to the 200's, strange stuff indeed....For you to have 5mA, lol i wish that was for me too =/
otakubakaa said:
Ive also been trying to investigate this, my standby drain is usually 60+ mA, and during use it jumps to the 200's, strange stuff indeed....For you to have 5mA, lol i wish that was for me too =/
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What radio and wm are you using? Do you use SetCPU?
I had high battery consumption, too. But now I found something interesting...
Due I'm not allowed to post links, yet, search for the post with topic:
[SOLUTION] Possible solution for heavy battery drainage.
With this fix: over night I only lost 20% instead of 59% of battery.
uninstall SetCPU
10507 said:
What radio and wm are you using? Do you use SetCPU?
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im using the same radio as you (2.10), energycookie rom 21916, and my setcpu is at interactive 245/729, and for sleep its at 245/384, hastarin kernal.
Use a Battdrv.dll from older HD2 ROM 1.48 Etc. I'm not sure if you recmod the module and replace the current one in Windows if you will get the same benefit as if you cooked the driver in.
i just updated my kernal to the latest zimage in mattc's froyosense's evo tree, and my standby is around 6-11 ma now, guess that solved some issues lol, anyone know whats the normal operating ma power consumption for texting?
EDIT: Now when i try to enable wifi i simply get "error", did i mess up on something? =/
EDIT: Solved above problem. WOOT!

Really Bad Battery Problem. Help.

past 2-4 days.... my nexus just dies suddenly with the battery drained. checking history with system panel shows that the cpu usage just suddenly shoots up to 100%! and i dont know what app is causing it.
just updated locale and extended controls + a lot of other apps. but my main main suspects are locale and extended controls (since EC posted that they are having problems with the update on the nexus)
any ideas? any other apps i could use to target and isolate the rogue app that drains my battery?
get a task manager and see ?
also, it may just be time for a new battery. ebay. $13 shipped, 2400 mah
antikryst said:
past 2-4 days.... my nexus just dies suddenly with the battery drained. checking history with system panel shows that the cpu usage just suddenly shoots up to 100%! and i dont know what app is causing it.
just updated locale and extended controls + a lot of other apps. but my main main suspects are locale and extended controls (since EC posted that they are having problems with the update on the nexus)
any ideas? any other apps i could use to target and isolate the rogue app that drains my battery?
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System Panel HAS a history, and you can see which apps are using CPU, so have you done that? Is the phone getting hot? It would if the CPU was running 100%. And even at that, it wouldn't immediately die, I've never exactly tried to see how long 100% cpu utilization takes to drain the battery but I'd have to guess it's at least 2-3 hours.
khaytsus said:
System Panel HAS a history, and you can see which apps are using CPU, so have you done that? Is the phone getting hot? It would if the CPU was running 100%. And even at that, it wouldn't immediately die, I've never exactly tried to see how long 100% cpu utilization takes to drain the battery but I'd have to guess it's at least 2-3 hours.
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seems fine at first then when i notice its hot... it is already about to restart. couldnt even get to check the app usage on system panel. after reboot... the app usage in system panel goes away. just checked now.. nothing is eating the battery up according to system panel.
guess the rogue app just turns on and eats up all the juice at some point in time. weird.
khaytsus said:
System Panel HAS a history, and you can see which apps are using CPU, so have you done that? Is the phone getting hot? It would if the CPU was running 100%. And even at that, it wouldn't immediately die, I've never exactly tried to see how long 100% cpu utilization takes to drain the battery but I'd have to guess it's at least 2-3 hours.
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seems fine at first then when i notice its hot... it is already about to restart. couldnt even get to check the app usage on system panel. after reboot... the app usage in system panel goes away. just checked now.. nothing is eating the battery up according to system panel.
guess the rogue app just turns on and eats up all the juice at some point in time. weird.
Do you have SetCPU or anything else enabled with a performance-oriented governor or similar? That would likely keep the CPU pegged at the max without really doing anything.
Try disabling as many applications as you can until you can pinpoint which one is misbehaving.
Same Problem Here
My phone is experiencing atrocious battery life, and so is a friend of mine's. We are both on FRG83D, and it seems to have been the trigger for the problem. He is on AT&T and I am on T-Mo. My wife also has an N1 on FRG83D on T-Mo, but her phone is not having the problem. Her phone is set up very Vanilla, my friend and I have more system altering stuff on ours but nothing too wild, and none of the phones have ever been rooted. The two problem phones both use Launcher Pro and Extended Controls, I am not sure what else we have in common in our apps. I installed System Panel today to try and figure out what is happening, but I still can't find an obvious culprit. While the phone is sitting on the dock charging the CPU seems to be idling under 10% and when I pock it up and look at System Panel you can watch the CPU spike to the upper ranges if you scroll the screen but otherwise it is idling under 10%. The display is always the highest on battery usage and the worst app shows as System Panel, but that is basically what I expect to see. I am ready to start removing apps to see if I can get it back to normal unless anyone has an idea of how to better diagnose the issue.
I had this issue a while ago. "system" was taking up all my CPU, and I couldn't find any details about what was really causing the problem. I couldn't remember how I finally found out about the problem (I think I spent a night reading the logcat to see what was wrong). I couldn't even use the phone, it became horribly sluggish, and battery went flat in mere hours. Turns out, I had a bad picture or two in my SD Card, and the media indexer went in a loop trying to interpret the files. For some weird reasons, the same files got Windows Explorer "confused" too.
Try to remove or format your SD card and see if it's doing the same. I know it's more of an anecdote than a real known issue, but it won't hurt trying
oh wow i was hoping someone was having the same problem... left it overnight unplugged so far so good. now im really beginning to think its extended controls. took out the widget and replaced it with the stock one for now.
IDLING at 10% CPU usage??? Mine idle at 0% if nothing is active. Average 3% over time.
You guys should watch and see what's using hte most CPU, SystemPanel can do it if you look at the history (free for a week or 10 days or something, or buy it to keep the function), but also look at Spare Parts, you can install it from the market. It gives you visibility to a few more Android settings/info menus which you can see which apps are keeping the system awake etc, it can help pinpoint what's going on.
Something very bad is happening. When you all figure it out, report back.
When I look at system panel the little CPU circle graph stays at 100% for the most part. I don't understand if its accurate.
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Do you have the app 'Extended Control' installed? The last update is very buggy and is causing bad battery life and broke the camera app on the N1. Check comments on the market. They are working on a fix.
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Looks like Extended Controls
I did some testing and Extended Controls does appear to be the culprit. Dev seems to be aware, hopefully they get it sorted.
Edit-Overnight and battery life is back to normal with Extended Controls uninstalled. I didn't suspect it at first because they had already released an update after FRG83D, but apparently it was broken worse than they knew. I hope they fix it soon, I like the app.
msavic6 said:
When I look at system panel the little CPU circle graph stays at 100% for the most part. I don't understand if its accurate.
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It obviously should not sit at 100%, look and see what app is using CPU, it ain't rocket science.. Mine idles around 3% with my apps, mainly K9 and Tasker, weather etc..
Step 1: Call HTC's exclusive Nexus One Phone number
1-888-216-4736
Step 2: Tell the rep your battery isn't holding charge. (Possibly tell him your earphones blew as well, if you lost them like I did )
Step 3: Wait 3 days for the battery (and headphones?) to make it to your door.
You don't even have to ship your old battery back!
Step 4: ???
Step 5: PROFIT!

battery drain whad exactly to do?

so how do people get 3-5 ma battery drain?
mine always shows around 60ma and around 300 in home screen.
does that depend on the build or the apps installed and settings?
i cant figure out
It depends on all kinds of things. You do know you will only get a low current draw with the screen off right? Here are some things you might like to consider for longer battery life...
1. GPS on all the time?
2. Wifi on all the time?
3. Email sync frequency?
4. Screen brightness setting?
5. Install SET Cpu and create a profile for 'screen off' and set it to just above the minimum
6. Leaving processes and Apps running in the background
7. Time of day ;p
8. Number of widgets
9. Live wallpaper
10. Other stuff I haven't listed.
Usually it works after some resets and sometimes using another build can work. But if you've never had a low drain you might wanna try an other sd card. Borrow one from a friend and see if t that fixes anything.
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yes thats what im looking at is standby drain of 60ma with screen off.
i have a regular wallpapaper some low res pattern.
wifi off, gps on 3g on
email sync every 30 min
im not really sure what counts as widgets(google search bar power panel?)
fuzzysig said:
yes thats what im looking at is standby drain of 60ma with screen off.
i have a regular wallpapaper some low res pattern.
wifi off, gps on 3g on
email sync every 30 min
im not really sure what counts as widgets(google search bar power panel?)
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i make sure the keypad lights are on before clicking haret and i get <10ma standby on the first boot every time
I had the same problem, constant drain of 60-80ma even in airplane mode. I flashed to different radio and now i get 5-9ma all the time, how you boot or what you do in win-mo doesn't mater some builds just work with a specific radio. I use 2.14.50.04 for my t-mobile HD2, works great with desire builds.
Guys, can anyone tell me what does "ma" mean? And how to check it on the phone?
Thanks
dailevn said:
Guys, can anyone tell me what does "ma" mean? And how to check it on the phone?
Thanks
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It stands for milliamp hours and install 'current widget' from the Market to check it. Once installed, turn your screen off, leave for at least two minutes and then the widget will tell you.
PS lower is better.
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dailevn said:
Guys, can anyone tell me what does "ma" mean? And how to check it on the phone?
Thanks
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After doing some research, I figured it out
nobnut said:
It stands for milliamp hours and install 'current widget' from the Market to check it. Once installed, turn your screen off, leave for at least two minutes and then the widget will tell you.
PS lower is better.
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Never thought "ma" is "mA"
Thank you so much
how does a phone go from 70ma to 6-7ma standby consumption overnight?
today my battery was at 90% after 8 hours.
yesterday it was at 46% after similar standby time
nobnut said:
5. Install SET Cpu and create a profile for 'screen off' and set it to just above the minimum
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I haven't used setcpu in ages and I still get 4/5 ma in standby. It's kernel dependant, not cpu dependant. the ONLY thing SetCPU is good for now is overclocking for pointless benchmarks.
fuzzysig said:
how does a phone go from 70ma to 6-7ma standby consumption overnight?
today my battery was at 90% after 8 hours.
yesterday it was at 46% after similar standby time
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Could be you were having reception issues the night you were having high drain and it was searching for signal a lot, or if you have it switching to a roaming service. Had it happen to me a few times.

[Q] Help, what is your battery drain, and why mine is sooo High???

First - let me state - and it is true - that I used the search function.
I read pages and pages of advices to lower battery consumption on my HD2 Android... without success...
First I used an SD ROM. I read that a NAND would improve battery life. So this is what I did.
I am also using SetCPU with a profile when battery <30% and another one when screen is off to LOWER the CPU speed. In normal use, I set CPU speed at 768MHz trying to lower power consumption...
I use a task killer to free memory and prevent silly programs to drain my battery off...
I use Juice Defender to control wifi, data, etc...
And with all of this in place, my "Current widget" shows a consumption of 180mA with screen on doing nothing, up to 350-400-500!!! mA when acutally using the phone wifi+sync...
In the forum I read consumption like 3 mA - 9 mA!!! This is FAAAAAR Way lower than what I ever had with different builds...
So this is an help scream to everybody: what is your battery drain, and why mine is sooo High???
Hint: I am also a fan of LCD Density changer, with setting at 165... can this have an influence on battery drain??? I reverted to the original 240, doesn't seem to have any influence...
Thanks for your help,
Looki
My drain is 3-9 ma in STANDBY ONLY now and again slightly more but mainly the values stated. And my screen on between 120+160ma. Turn off auto brightness if you have it on, and set it at the lowest your comfortable with (display is big batt drainer) I DONT use taskillers as they do more harm than good. I use NO undervolting and only the default settings with my rom. I have low lcd density setting 167 i think. Lcd density has no effect on your battery drain!
Found this here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13151738&postcount=11296 Might be of some use to you? (from hyperdroid gbx thread)
Whats youre rom?
And do u use ext partition on sd?
I dont even use SetCpu anymore. Only taskkiller.
Auto-brightness is on
Auto sync is off.
Im using UD 3.3 nand from crawlingcity
Stansby is 3 -6 ma
Using round 160 to 250.
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How long does your battery last from 100% to self shut down? As for Current Widget, keep in mind that when people say "Standby", its generally referring to the screen being off. Set current widget to update every 30 seconds, and turn the screen of for 40 seconds. Then quickly turn the screen on, unlock, and check what it is reading then.
If its still high, try "Force Stop" applications in the Settings > Applications menu one by one, i've had to do this more than once to locate problem apps that were destroying my battery in standby mode.
I'm knew to Android, let me share you my idea.
I use UD3.3
I removed google stuff
gmail, search, etc
No auto sync
Location off
Always kill market when screen off.
I use beautiful widget for weather manual refresh.
I use battery widget
Auto level for screen
sometimes WIFI on
2g Only
2 or 3 calls,total of 3 to 4 min a day
My battery stay 48 hrs in STBY mode.
I think the most draining factor is
1) google stuff they are battery hog.
2) screen
3) bad written programs (every time they check connection to
internet or looping for doing something, looping will make
CPU in high frequency).
4) bad device driver such as BT which is known as 60ma
drain. it is not the hardware but it is the software doing
the drain.
thanks
pc2058 said:
I'm knew to Android, let me share you my idea.
I use UD3.3
I removed google stuff
gmail, search, etc
No auto sync
Location off
Always kill market when screen off.
I use beautiful widget for weather manual refresh.
I use battery widget
Auto level for screen
sometimes WIFI on
2g Only
2 or 3 calls,total of 3 to 4 min a day
My battery stay 48 hrs in STBY mode.
I think the most draining factor is
1) google stuff they are battery hog.
2) screen
3) bad written programs (every time they check connection to
internet or looping for doing something, looping will make
CPU in high frequency).
4) bad device driver such as BT which is known as 60ma
drain. it is not the hardware but it is the software doing
the drain.
thanks
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Bt drain has been fixed, wil now get you 6-15 ma.
Google stuff aint bad, just set update frequentcy to manual.
(Helps with alot of other programms that require internet.)
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[Ultimate GUIDE] Increase your battery life on Android
Thanks guys for your help!
I made a compilation of all tips I could collect and/or find by myself.
They are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15229416
Regards,
Looki

I solved my battery drain problem

I was having a problem with fast battery drain on my SGS2. I would get 15 hours if lucky from a full charge with light - moderate use. My most recent charge looks like it has doubled the time.
What did I change? I did a factory reset and manually installed all my apps, NOT using titanium backup. I had used titanium backup to restore apps only, that were from my previous phone (Nexus1). I have never used titanium backup for system settings, only apps, but it seems even that is unreliable. I've now stopped using titanium backup completely.
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Can anyone verify this...
Will it matter if it's i9100 to i9100, or just any other phone to i9100?
Well... Ive done several hard resets , because I though I had a network problem , and I many of those I didnt install titanium or even root the device and the battery life was the same.
Just one opinion..
mca1490 said:
Well... Ive done several hard resets , because I though I had a network problem , and I many of those I didnt install titanium or even root the device and the battery life was the same.
Just one opinion..
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+1 for this..
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If you notice a higher battery drainage than normal then you have to see what application you've installed lately. If you can't find it then the only option is to do a Hard Reset. That has worked for me, IF your battery is drained by some app which you've installed lately.
Regards.
I am sure battery drain has to do with the apps we installed and the settings we use.
We are in a fortunate situation that my wife and I have both S II, hers is 2 days older from the same shop, so I assume both devices are from the same batch. Hence no hardware difference.
I installed a lot app and played with lots of settings and if my wife like it, she "demand" to install it on hers too, so hers is a more controlled env.
For some reason my battery drains a lot quicker than hers. I still have to find out which application / settings cause this.
For an experiment, we did not use both phones for a full day (very difficult), so all the drain is due to background processes.
There are several dips in the graph, but those are explicitly usage of the phone for a while. The big last drop on her battery was because she was playing a game for more than 3 hrs.
PS.
A collegue of mine (also an SII) had his battery run out quickly, until he found out his culprit: Settings->Location and security->Use wireless network was ON.
You can see the effect of this as the "almost horizontal bar" in my wife's battery when we turned it off.
thx for info man.
What would happen if i turn that off? I want to try this to preserve my batt life. Thanks!
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PB_2003. You had to use one phone to make a shot of another phone? Just hold down the home key and press the power key. You will be able to take shots like the attached.
I have used TV to restore many times and battery life is fine. I'm would suggest that the issue is some app you are restoring rather than TB
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I wonder if having 3rd party launchers like launcher pro drains the battery quicker. I installed launcher pro without ever having really tested the battery life of the phone with the standard launcher. Has anyone here tested the difference, if any, of the battery life of standard v market app launchers?
pb_2003 said:
I am sure battery drain has to do with the apps we installed and the settings we use.
We are in a fortunate situation that my wife and I have both S II, hers is 2 days older from the same shop, so I assume both devices are from the same batch. Hence no hardware difference.
I installed a lot app and played with lots of settings and if my wife like it, she "demand" to install it on hers too, so hers is a more controlled env.
For some reason my battery drains a lot quicker than hers. I still have to find out which application / settings cause this.
For an experiment, we did not use both phones for a full day (very difficult), so all the drain is due to background processes.
There are several dips in the graph, but those are explicitly usage of the phone for a while. The big last drop on her battery was because she was playing a game for more than 3 hrs.
PS.
A collegue of mine (also an SII) had his battery run out quickly, until he found out his culprit: Settings->Location and security->Use wireless network was ON.
You can see the effect of this as the "almost horizontal bar" in my wife's battery when we turned it off.
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The screen shot on the left is your phone correct? It looks like something is waking your phone up and leaving it in an awake state for far too long. Your graph represents over a day's time and I see those huge chunks of time where your screen is off but your phone is awake; I'd say some program is what do they call it *wakelock* every now and then.
Endoran said:
The screen shot on the left is your phone correct? It looks like something is waking your phone up and leaving it in an awake state for far too long. Your graph represents over a day's time and I see those huge chunks of time where your screen is off but your phone is awake; I'd say some program is what do they call it *wakelock* every now and then.
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By the looks of it, the screen was on the entire time (which seems impossible?).
ithehappy said:
If you notice a higher battery drainage than normal then you have to see what application you've installed lately. If you can't find it then the only option is to do a Hard Reset. That has worked for me, IF your battery is drained by some app which you've installed lately.
Regards.
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it's not just the apps that was just installed. It should include apps that are updated. I had this issue on SGS I when beautiful widget was having issues with updates causing the phone to use more battery power than usual
Morel likely to be a bad app, or a bad app setting causing the app not to close properly then drain power than the mere fact you restored it via titanium.
anyone one trying while sleeping, off your packet data ?
for me i tested,
2350 @100% to 0700 @ 99% (during packet data off)
If on, it will left 70% ++ in the next morning..
why is that so?
This is my battery drain using Litening ROM 1.5
I usually make and receive 30min phone call a day, push email on 2 accounts, wi-fi at work, data always on.
luexi said:
anyone one trying while sleeping, off your packet data ?
for me i tested,
2350 @100% to 0700 @ 99% (during packet data off)
If on, it will left 70% ++ in the next morning..
why is that so?
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Turning off data packet doesn't allow any application going on line (unless you have your wifi on) and cannot download e-mails, synchronize anything, etc..
This saves your battery a lot.
Endoran said:
The screen shot on the left is your phone correct? It looks like something is waking your phone up and leaving it in an awake state for far too long. Your graph represents over a day's time and I see those huge chunks of time where your screen is off but your phone is awake; I'd say some program is what do they call it *wakelock* every now and then.
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Yes, that is also what I suspect. It is just to find out what which application / settings this cause.
I found out that I have 4 apps has an "sync" account, I delete all of them (except gmail), now I got a lot better performance (1 day: still 75%).
I'll post later my picture
ph00ny said:
it's not just the apps that was just installed. It should include apps that are updated. I had this issue on SGS I when beautiful widget was having issues with updates causing the phone to use more battery power than usual
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Of course the updates are included. There should be an app/good optimized app which will allow us to close the apps and thus Auto Sync and Background Data to off when we are not using them, especially at bed time. The in built task manager's RAM Clearance function is crap and frankly I haven't found an app which will optimize the RAM without force losing the apps/widgets. Tried 'Gemini App' but I doubt! This 'Sync' stuff is the main responsible part of high battery drain.
Regards.

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