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I thought I was losing my mind, after installing the OTA, I modified my qwerty.kl file to wake up the phone from the optical button. I noticed that my battery life was lousy, and originally thought it was because the OTA was buggy.
I restored the stock qwerty file, and no more wake-up from the optical button. My battery life improved drastically.
I heard that this change could prevent the phone from sleeping, thus the crappy battery life. Is this true?
Hope this tip helps.
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Anybody else have a faster draining battery because of the optical wake fix?
Could be just because you are accidentally hitting the optical trackball while its in your pocket or somewhere else? I use it on PMF's 2.2 ROM and haven't noticed any additional battery drain.
I think its because we are all forgetting to clear battery stats. It is even required on my rom, jdfroyo
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I think its because we are all forgetting to clear battery stats. It is even required on my rom, jdfroyo
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What exactly does clearing the battery stats do? Do you think it would help me? If my phone completely dies or gets down to the low battery warning, the phone doesn't want to charge at all.
It says it is charging but the battery icon isn't animating and the charging led blinks repeatedly instead of staying lit up. Even if I shut the phone off the led still blinks while it's plugged in the charger.
I have to do several reboots and battery pulls to finally get the phone to start charging.
Didn't have any trouble until I applied the OTA and flashed a 2.2 rom.
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this is very intriguing. i'll check my battery against my fiance's when she gets home and report. i did the optical_wake script on mine and not hers. i'm pretty sure she had 40% when going to bed last night and I was changing out my battery for my backup. i chalked it up to streaming the race for 30 minutes while we were out shopping, but I think the optical_wake script might make more sense.
PS. both have 1500mah HTC battery ordered from bidallies on ebay for $15 =).
No difference. Our batteries were within 5%. I guess flash vids are pretty taxing on our batteries.
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Interesting....maybe I'm just losing my mind and imagining things?
Thanks for your update - after I install the new OTA leak right now, I'll see how my battery life is with the optical wake fix.
Check out jdfroyo when i update it. I tweaked it so you get 15-35 min more battery and no overheating!
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Myself as well as many others would be interested to know what this tweak is to achieve better battery life.
Some of us out there actually like Sense - from what I understand, your ROM is de-sensitized?
Any chance you'll fill us in as far as what tweaks you've made? I'm sure I'm not the only one that would thank you.
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Check out jdfroyo when i update it. I tweaked it so you get 15-35 min more battery and no overheating!
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jp43 said:
Myself as well as many others would be interested to know what this tweak is to achieve better battery life.
Some of us out there actually like Sense - from what I understand, your ROM is de-sensitized?
Any chance you'll fill us in as far as what tweaks you've made? I'm sure I'm not the only one that would thank you.
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I cant do that. Tonite, upon release of jdfroyo v1.5, i will release my tweak. Its nothing major, tweak wize, but it helps battery.
Ps (off topic) my 2150 mah battery should.come friday! Im so excited.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Any ideas when a stable mod will be available?
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it's plenty stable. my only real issue is battery life.
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it's plenty stable. my only real issue is battery life.
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how bad is the battery life? about the same as the GB roms?
Only issues i have seen is random FC on launcher and gallery, and the mic mute/unmute workaround for calls
IMO its good enough to remove the Beta tag though
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How do you change the oc settings?
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How do you change the oc settings?
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I suggest you use Voltage Control.
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how bad is the battery life? about the same as the GB roms?
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worse for some (like me) where for whatever reason our phones wont go into deep sleep mode. not everyone has the problem though, so you might get lucky.
I don't even remember how good/bad life was back on bionix 1.3.1, but if you aren't at a desk job where you can charge your phone for a chunk of the day, you may not see 8 hours.
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Only issues i have seen is random FC on launcher and gallery, and the mic mute/unmute workaround for calls
IMO its good enough to remove the Beta tag though
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mic problem here, but no FC.
I dont know, been running it for two days, and have reflashed it twice and still have fc on launcher, and browser. Maybe it will smooth out this time. Maybe not.
From V7 and I upgraded to V8 and it is awesome!
Only issue I have is when I receive calls, other end cannot hear clearly(Mute/Unmute should work...)
And screen rotate is little slow from CM7 Gingerbread but no complain. I'm hoping it will be better and better with new version.
Only big problem I have is, my Samsung Original Desk Dock and Car Dock sound won't route. Oh, my battery charging indicate is not working sometime. It is charging but indicator won't show. Atleast it is charging...
So far I love Passion ICS v8!
I love this rom!!! but I hate having to deal with incoming calls, having to hit mute and unmute just to have my phone act like a phone. I hope this gets fixed on the next update.
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Guys, if you have bad batt life on ics passion, make sure you have gb bootloaders.. i have Great batt life, better than cm7 because my phone deep sleeps.. last time i checked cpu spy, i had 83% deep sleep rofl, 13 hours on batt, 3 of those screen on and id gone from 80% ->20%
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Guys, if you have bad batt life on ics passion, make sure you have gb bootloaders.. i have Great batt life, better than cm7 because my phone deep sleeps.. last time i checked cpu spy, i had 83% deep sleep rofl, 13 hours on batt, 3 of those screen on and id gone from 80% ->20%
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same story here except i calibrated it once, and i get about 24+ hours if i let it sleep for a long time.
I also have wifi on 24/7
my sync's are set to either 1 hour or 30 mins
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Guys, if you have bad batt life on ics passion, make sure you have gb bootloaders.. i have Great batt life, better than cm7 because my phone deep sleeps.. last time i checked cpu spy, i had 83% deep sleep rofl, 13 hours on batt, 3 of those screen on and id gone from 80% ->20%
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Yes sir, I was reading in one of the i9000 ICS threads (can't remember which) where it was stated by the dev that GB bootloaders were needed for deep sleep, not just to get rid of rainbows.
Stability comes with updated phones meant for running the roms we keep chasing :-/
Yes you can say I'm in the wrong forum blah blah....but I have no interest in this phone and will eventually get another vibrant to run stock 2.2 I'm running 2.3.5 and its no better than 2.2 lol.
But the vibrant is much better in every way......oh and the "4g" ain't **** and I live in Orlando city limits
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Decided to go back to Bionix 1.3.2 for now.
I love the whole ICS layout and it was zipping along when working.
The FC decreased with each update, but the mic issue forced me to switch back for now.
Mic issue affected me mostly when receiving calls. When this is fixed, I'll try it again.
I get Force Closes only on Gallery and sometimes my app menu will close but other than that have found no real problems..
I have noticed downloading seems to be a bit slower than CM7, but it's still fast enough for me.
The other little thing i've noticed is that it takes a little while to install apps... I don't know if thats to due with ICS on our phones, passion, or what... but again I can deal fine with that it's not a big deal.
As for battery, I came from CM7 so it had the GB Bootloader... but until I completely drained the battery, and charged it to 100% then recalibrated, killed it one more time then charged back to 100%..
So far I have 14 hours and 18 minutes on this charge, battery is still at 56%. Usage is light, web, messaging, phone calls, and I played one game of Drag Racing... My battery is from July 2010 so it's not a new battery either. \
Calibrating your battery really will make a difference.
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Really, Bionix... Try to go to CM7...
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Decided to go back to Bionix 1.3.2 for now.
I love the whole ICS layout and it was zipping along when working.
The FC decreased with each update, but the mic issue forced me to switch back for now.
Mic issue affected me mostly when receiving calls. When this is fixed, I'll try it again.
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I also have to agree, now that Deep Sleep is back on my battery life has gone up alot, completely forgot about that. Excuse me, i've been drinking a bit tonight waiting to get picked up for the party. woot
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same story here except i calibrated it once, and i get about 24+ hours if i let it sleep for a long time.
I also have wifi on 24/7
my sync's are set to either 1 hour or 30 mins
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I also went back to bionix due to the incoming call mute and unmute. It was really pissing me off. I hope it will get fixed soon. I love everything else about the rom.
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Ics passion v10 has very nice battery timining
Great battery on v10, had one launcher freeze. The only remaining issue with mine is an 8GB external SD (2GB mounts just fine).
I think I used the phone for at least 8 hours straight since v10 came out.
Ill stick to team toxic until this hits a solid final, that mute issue would drive me bonkers lol
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Alright, nobody probably remembers me, but thats okay! Lol
Anyway, my flashing addiction has unfortunately been starving due to being way too busy with work and such. BUT I FINALLY HAVE FREE TIME! Haha,
So I'm still on Froyo, Syndicate's Frozen ROM (Yeah I know I'm two android versions behind). So I was wondering, whats the steps to going to CM9?
My current setup is:
Syndicate frozen ROM
CWM3
Genocide Kernel
EH17 Modem
Don't get me wrong, I'm not new to any of this, I'm just wondering what the exact steps are if theres anything fancy that needs to be done coming from such an old setup? Or is it as simple as:
Odin stock DK28
Root
Odin CWM(What number are we on now? Link please?)
Flash CM9
Flash Gapps?
Thanks guys!
Flash cwm5 boot into clockword mode wipe "once"
Data cache and dalvik
Flash cm9 it will reboot and install the update then boots up during the animation pull the battery go back in and flash the gapps viola cm9
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So theres no need to flash to stock / reroot / all that jazz I did when going from eclair to froyo? Haha.
Not unless you wanna update the modem. You could flash the new EL30.tar with odin, flash cwm5, then flash cm9 in cwm5.
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Sounds easy enough, Is EL30 modem a big improvement over EH17?
Also hows the every-day-usage capability of CM9?
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Sounds easy enough, Is EL30 modem a big improvement over EH17?
Also hows the every-day-usage capability of CM9?
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Not bad at all for an Alpha only a few weeks old for us. Minor bugs that not everyone experiences. A lot of us are using it as a daily. Battery life is not good because it uses a lot of resources. It was meant to run on phones with twice the RAM.
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Not bad at all for an Alpha only a few weeks old for us. Minor bugs that not everyone experiences. A lot of us are using it as a daily. Battery life is not good because it uses a lot of resources. It was meant to run on phones with twice the RAM.
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Cm9 runs good. Battery life was a deal breaker for me and it was a bit sluggish. I just barely came from srf 1.2 ef02 genocide 2.0 myself (which was rock solid and superfast).
I settled on gleangb for now.
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Battery life is decent enough for my tastes. The only bugs I'm experiencing now is some tearing in video playback and some minor artifacts in video recording (sometimes). Other than that it's pretty rock solid imo.
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Battery life for me is very good on ics. But its not my primary running OS due to its bugs.
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Battery life is not good because it uses a lot of resources. It was meant to run on phones with twice the RAM.
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Please stop talking about things that you don't understand. Battery life has little to do with the RAM usage. CM9 alpha4 for me is easily goes 28 hours battery life with a 1.5 year old original 1500mah Epic battery. The trick is to prevent wakelocks, I'm usually ~90% in deep sleep. I disable LED notifications, all haptic feedback, notifications for anything that uses push data (Facebook, gmail, email, etc.) I get an extra ~8 hours battery life if I use Juice Defender to turn off 3G data and Wifi when the screen is off. It takes a little delay for data to start again, but that is acceptable to me. If all my push data notifications are turned off anyway, why bother having data enabled at all?
If someone really needs to contact me they can SMS or Call, which causes both vibrate and sound. Otherwise I'll see messages when I too often turn on the phone screen.
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Please stop talking about things that you don't understand. Battery life has little to do with the RAM usage. CM9 alpha4 for me is easily goes 28 hours battery life with a 1.5 year old original 1500mah Epic battery. The trick is to prevent wakelocks, I'm usually ~90% in deep sleep. I disable LED notifications, all haptic feedback, notifications for anything that uses push data (Facebook, gmail, email, etc.) I get an extra ~8 hours battery life if I use Juice Defender to turn off 3G data and Wifi when the screen is off. It takes a little delay for data to start again, but that is acceptable to me. If all my push data notifications are turned off anyway, why bother having data enabled at all?
If someone really needs to contact me they can SMS or Call, which causes both vibrate and sound. Otherwise I'll see messages when I too often turn on the phone screen.
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Pretty much my exact same setup, I got tired of using Juice Defender because of the lag to start data back up but when I was using it I was getting around 33 hours. I don't use my phone much except for calls and sms so this works fine for me.
Also, I remember you SemiGamer!
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Please stop talking about things that you don't understand. Battery life has little to do with the RAM usage. CM9 alpha4 for me is easily goes 28 hours battery life with a 1.5 year old original 1500mah Epic battery. The trick is to prevent wakelocks, I'm usually ~90% in deep sleep. I disable LED notifications, all haptic feedback, notifications for anything that uses push data (Facebook, gmail, email, etc.) I get an extra ~8 hours battery life if I use Juice Defender to turn off 3G data and Wifi when the screen is off. It takes a little delay for data to start again, but that is acceptable to me. If all my push data notifications are turned off anyway, why bother having data enabled at all?
If someone really needs to contact me they can SMS or Call, which causes both vibrate and sound. Otherwise I'll see messages when I too often turn on the phone screen.
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I really respect you and all that you do for us but with all due respect, using your phone for more than just a phone on CM9 eats up the battery pretty quickly. Browsing XDA, polling 4 business email accounts, or on the web uses about 50% more battery than it did on CM7. It was mentioned at initial release how it was meant to run on phones with twice the RAM which attributes to it's sluggishness and lower battery life. I know each Alpha just gets better and better and that is awesome but it will be a while if at all that it can compete with something like CM7 for battery life. I am sure with the same setup you have you can get 50% more battery life on CM7.
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I really respect you and all that you do for us but with all due respect, using your phone for more than just a phone on CM9 eats up the battery pretty quickly. Browsing XDA, polling 4 business email accounts, or on the web uses about 50% more battery than it did on CM7. It was mentioned at initial release how it was meant to run on phones with twice the RAM which attributes to it's sluggishness and lower battery life. I know each Alpha just gets better and better and that is awesome but it will be a while if at all that it can compete with something like CM7 for battery life. I am sure with the same setup you have you can get 50% more battery life on CM7.
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Agreed I pulled 5 hours of display on cm7 and can't hardly pull 2h 45m on cm9 same setup no wakelocks no sync browsing xda undervolting as far as my phone will handle..nothing helps. Had to get a 3500mah to compensate the gigantic battery usage and am lucky to 5h45m on it over 13hrs uptime. However we all use our phones differently and to you @wtogami you may see no difference, however for others it drops like a rock.
Anyways semigamer how'd it go?
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Please stop talking about things that you don't understand. Battery life has little to do with the RAM usage. CM9 alpha4 for me is easily goes 28 hours battery life with a 1.5 year old original 1500mah Epic battery. The trick is to prevent wakelocks, I'm usually ~90% in deep sleep. I disable LED notifications, all haptic feedback, notifications for anything that uses push data (Facebook, gmail, email, etc.) I get an extra ~8 hours battery life if I use Juice Defender to turn off 3G data and Wifi when the screen is off. It takes a little delay for data to start again, but that is acceptable to me. If all my push data notifications are turned off anyway, why bother having data enabled at all?
If someone really needs to contact me they can SMS or Call, which causes both vibrate and sound. Otherwise I'll see messages when I too often turn on the phone screen.
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Yeah if you just stare at your phone while the screen is off and dont do anything haha. But even still with my stock battery haha not even 6 to 7 hours it would be dead. with a 3500 it last longer but its not worth it right now.
Once CM9 progresses to CM7 state then it might be worth it. Still ICS requires more ram so yeah your battery is going to die faster because of memory swapping. IDC what anyone says ICS on our phones still would not last as long as GB.
Plus there was no reason to be rude about. I may not be a DEV but I know how Android works with resource swapping and memory clearing.
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Plus there was no reason to be rude about. I may not be a DEV but I know how Android works with resource swapping and memory clearing.
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Exactly i don't understand why everyone starts retaliate and then the only way to reply is retaliating back, if not then they pass on by. Its so frustrating
Hi, I noticed ics charges faster.
I absolutely love when people who don't build the ****, don't know how to, and couldn't possibly in fine detail explain how it functions argue with the people who do. Cause they like, know better. I'd say if one of the EpicCmTeam says the RAM shortage isn't the cause of the excessive battery drain, he's probably right, as he works directly with providing us with the build, on a level none of us understand or have skill in. Kinda like how certain people wanna argue that they know better than a google engineer. That clearing batterystats does in fact change your battery life despite very explicit explanation from said engineer dictating how that file holds nothing more than the statistics displayed to you about your battery under settings.
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Welp I'll stay out of you guy's debate for now.. Lol.
Thank to everyone that helped me with my OP, Got eveything up and running real easily.
One question left, does Voicemail work with CM9? Not getting any voicemails even though I'm told some ppl left me some. Any way to get Visual Voicemail to work?
(Know someone prolly asked / found a fix already, sorry for taking the lazy way out)
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I absolutely love when people who don't build the ****, don't know how to, and couldn't possibly in fine detail explain how it functions argue with the people who do. Cause they like, know better. I'd say if one of the EpicCmTeam says the RAM shortage isn't the cause of the excessive battery drain, he's probably right, as he works directly with providing us with the build, on a level none of us understand or have skill in. Kinda like how certain people wanna argue that they know better than a google engineer. That clearing batterystats does in fact change your battery life despite very explicit explanation from said engineer dictating how that file holds nothing more than the statistics displayed to you about your battery under settings.
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C'mon this type of criticism isn't appropriate.
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I'm currently running 2.4.6 along with nyan colonel 4 but so far I'm not too pleased; I'm getting about 5-6 hours with medium use on a 1800 mAh battery.
Try turning off 3G (mobile data) when not in use. I was getting 6-7hrs w/ it on & now I can squeeze out 12-15hrs. However I left it alone it went 30 some odd hrs w/ only 30mins of screen time though.
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Try turning off 3G (mobile data) when not in use. I was getting 6-7hrs w/ it on & now I can squeeze out 12-15hrs. However I left it alone it went 30 some odd hrs w/ only 30mins of screen time though.
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Nuh uh, that's not gonna fly in this thread. I shouldn't have to be turning off my data to get any semblance of decent battery life. I really do want to get this to work though; I love MIUI. Unfortunately it seems the GB version will never be complete as everyone jumped ship to ICS and the ICS version is awesome but seems to get crap battery life even on 4.0.4
you dont HAVE to turn your data off....but if you wanna save some battery that is one of the best ways. if your phone is in your pocket and you dont need it, why have it on suckin juice....try juice defender, i use it with any rom i run and it helps...play with uv in nstools, just dont go too crazy with it.
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Try turning off 3G (mobile data) when not in use. I was getting 6-7hrs w/ it on & now I can squeeze out 12-15hrs. However I left it alone it went 30 some odd hrs w/ only 30mins of screen time though.
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Nuh uh, that's not gonna fly in this thread. I shouldn't have to be turning off my data to get any semblance of decent battery life. I really do want to get this to work though; I love MIUI. Unfortunately it seems the GB version will never be complete as everyone jumped ship to ICS and the ICS version is awesome but seems to get crap battery life even on 4.0.4
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Uh lol? He just gave you the best tip and you turned it down, you must not be interested in improving battery life, if you're constantly using data and have over 2hrs of screen time you're asking for crappy battery life, and unless you are always receiving important emails, you really don't have a reason to run it 24/7, if you're to lazy to turn it on and off, just use juicedefender, and it'll do it for you. You'll have to make some sort of sacrifice, whether it be monetary or personal. Phone usage is everything, get a bigger battery. Also, logging out of social networking apps when you aren't using them helps as well. I find I have very nice battery life on MIUIgb
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I know that turning off data can save me battery life. That's not the point of this thread. I figured it was implied I was talking about different kernels and versions of MIUI V4, not the way I use my phone.
On that note, what's your setup with MIUI GB? I've been considering going back but I'm turned off by MMS STILL being broken
Sorry dude but that's the wrong question to ask. By now u should know that every phone is different if its what kernel to use & what setting to use this or that app than its simple trial and error. When we were still on froyo I couldn't use one of the very popular kernels bcuz it drained by better like crazy it took me a few weeks but I found the perfect setup to get good battery life. & sorry for misunderstanding your intention for this thread.
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I know that turning off data can save me battery life. That's not the point of this thread. I figured it was implied I was talking about different kernels and versions of MIUI V4, not the way I use my phone.
On that note, what's your setup with MIUI GB? I've been considering going back but I'm turned off by MMS STILL being broken
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Alright.. well I misunderstood, it mighta been better to include that in op but it's whatever now lol, I'm using shadowkernel MIUI, and... 100-800Mhz governorndemand, schedular: Sio. And yes MMS has actually been a pain in the ass today for me, I'm considering going to AOKP again lol. I will apologize if I sounded rude in the previous post though, I didn't understand where you were coming from.
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Is dropping down to 800 MHz noticeable as far as performance goes? Also is MMS the only problem you have with MIUI GB?