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Battery Life

Hungry Man ~
Lately I've been running the latest update of the same ROM (Nonsensikal Froyo - now 15.2) without any CPU apps (no o/c'ing through script either), no autokiller, no battery tweaks (just Juice Plotter) only 1 widget (Fancy Widget Pro), JIT enabled, VM heap @32, compcache @18 (default) and depending on which app I look at, TiB or RE, I have +/-110mb of free RAM, very minimal apps. Also, I upgraded to CFSv9. I even bought a Seidio Innocell 1750mh extended life battery. I recalibrate my battery after flashes ....
Oh yeah, a little more info, I am not a power user, just an average user with poor to ok reception, I tend to use wireless at my house b/c reception out here in the woods ain't good, but turn it off when not needed. I use airplane mode during sleeping hours as well. The max of my battery usage is Display, then And OS.
Ok, now the question ..... If I don't use airplane mode, I get maaaaaay-be 6-8 hours of average phone usage, usually less !!
What finally broke me to PM you now is that (i recently put numbers on my battery icon) while typing a text message earlier (a few minutes tops, not on wireless) I watched my battery click down from 50 to 48 !!!
When I charge my phone full & I easily lose 10% in half an hour (I've tried this with SetCPU, JD, CBT, Super Power, CPUBoost Lite - I think you get the gist) ... and not including airplane mode, I NEVER get more than 6-8 hours of battery life !!!
Is there any knowledge that you can give me on this issue or have I pretty much exhausted my options ? I am this PM short of resigning to crappy battery life
Many Thanks for your time ~
Matt
Swyped from my nonsensikal eris using xda app

What does the phone/Spare Parts say is using all the battery? Have you tried flashing and then using the phone without installing apps (other than the essentials?) Are you leaving the phone idle, screen off, and noticing the same big drop?
You could try going to stock for a bit to see if it improves...or trying a different ROM. Maybe you have a dud battery?
Edit: Sorry, you may have meant this to be directed at someone specifically.

Just an observation. If you're not using anything to overclock the phone maybe the battery life would be better if you at least underclock it. I suggest Conap's CPUBoost Lite, free on the market and here. Just set the minimum frequency to 245760 (my suggestion), and I currently have the screen off Minimum to 19200 and the screen off Maximum to 480000.
Also, I used to use Juice Plotter. I theorized that maybe Juice Plotter wasn't great for my battery itself.

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Also, I used to use Juice Plotter. I theorized that maybe Juice Plotter wasn't great for my battery itself.
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I noticed the same thing when I used Juice Plotter. I got significantly less battery life when i had it. Try deleting Juice Plotter and see if you get more life out of your battery.

well you've noted your in a poor coverage area, and that is your problem, nothing can completely fix other than moving, but you may want to research flashing a new radio, becareful and check your md5 hash sums
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rigbyrobot said:
well you've noted your in a poor coverage area, and that is your problem, nothing can completely fix other than moving, but you may want to research flashing a new radio, becareful and check your md5 hash sums.
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Actually, the Verizon Network Extender can definitely help without moving. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/accessory?action=gotoFemtocell
It's $250, but probably a lot cheaper than moving, and it should help with battery life. It does with me - I get 24-32 hours on a 1750 battery, with WiFi on all of the time (I have the old, non-3G extender.)

I'm running Tazz Froyo and get a minimum of 24 hrs on stock battery. I would try changing roms.

Battery life on my eris was never good, that's why you buy a extended battery. I have the biggest one that they have on amazon and my battery can last for five days with average use

doogald said:
Actually, the Verizon Network Extender can definitely help without moving. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/accessory?action=gotoFemtocell
It's $250, but probably a lot cheaper than moving, and it should help with battery life. It does with me - I get 24-32 hours on a 1750 battery, with WiFi on all of the time (I have the old, non-3G extender.)
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ohh well forgot about those
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so my battery has been draining really fast too, but my question is does the battery recalibration work? some people have said their battery drops even faster but is that only the first time?
PS. ive been on xtrrom for awhile now (like a month and a half) and it just started dropping. spare parts says android system is greater than the rest, if that helps

erisx said:
so my battery has been draining really fast too, but my question is does the battery recalibration work? some people have said their battery drops even faster but is that only the first time?
PS. ive been on xtrrom for awhile now (like a month and a half) and it just started dropping. spare parts says android system is greater than the rest, if that helps
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Yes, it works if you do it propely. Charge phone to 100%, boot into recovery, wipe battery stats, reboot phone. Use your phone as normal until the battery is fully discharged and it shuts the phone off. I sometimes try to turn it back on also just to make sure it is all the way dead. Plug your phone in to charge it, walk away, don't touch it until it is 100% charged. Turn your phone on and use it as normal. It sometimes will take a few times charging it to see a difference. If I missed anything or mistyped anything some one correct me please lol

Wholy crap gingerbread has awful battery

I wouldn't even say I use my phone frequently. When I used the miui or however it's spelt rom I would have 60 percent to 30 remaining each day. On gingerbread? I'm down to 15 percent every day and every night my phone has shut off due to lack of battery.
Isn't there any rom with excellent battery life? That's all I want, I use my phone for tethering.

i put CM7-RC2 on my device yesterday and it's the best battery life i've ever gotten.

Gb battery life owns, u got something else going on

No he doesn't, i've measured religiously since the original nexus shipments and this is by far the worst

My battery was really bad but now it seems to last me 10hrs & up which is weird for a phone to last me that long. I really think theirs an app or bug running the battery crazy I don't use any task managers. Their was a thread somewhere saying to run your phone on recovery mode and to press on the reboot/restart and battery get better I did that so maybe it does work but I highly doubt it.

I can vouch for poor battery too. I am on CM7 RC2 and I can't even make it through a day with light use. By light use, I mean practally not using the phone at all.

My battery life seems to be better than ever. Some 10-20 percentage units more left in the evenings all down the line.
Edit: Stock GB, no task managers.

ttnurmi said:
My battery life seems to be better than ever. Some 10-20 percentage units more left in the evenings all down the line.
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I agree. Gingerbread has been nothing short of AMAZING for my battery life. The battery life is so good now that I stopped using my spare battery altogether!

Macmee said:
I wouldn't even say I use my phone frequently. When I used the miui or however it's spelt rom I would have 60 percent to 30 remaining each day. On gingerbread? I'm down to 15 percent every day and every night my phone has shut off due to lack of battery.
Isn't there any rom with excellent battery life? That's all I want, I use my phone for tethering.
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Did you happen to do an Update or a full install when you got gingerbread?
Some suggest that it's due to the update process.. so you might want to try a full install:
http://android.clients.google.com/p...b119f8.signed-passion-ota-102588.656099b1.zip
Remember to wipe your cache first..

What i noticed is taht custom roms use more battery than stock rom. this is for me i don't say that it is like this for everyone. But with gigerbread i got the best battery life. i also think using apps from SD uses also a lot of battery life, but again i have no other choice to low on memory.

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I had the same problem. I am on stock gb.
Just set wifi sleep policy to never. It will last 2 days after that. It is definetly a bug.

Seems to be a real mixed bag with GB on N1's. Lots of people saying "better battery" many others, myself included, reporting much worse. For me, I experienced very poor battery life right from updating to the stock GB using the singned passion .zip file. Even did a factory reset, and only reinstalled my daily used apps and it made little difference, then I went back onto a MIUI rom for a few days and battery life was wonderful again.
Then early this week I flashed to CM7 RC2, and for two days battery life was the worst I've ever had.
Had been seeing a few comments on different forums of people who had the same problem swearing black and blue that after they changed the wifi sleep policy to "always on" their battery life improved dramatically on Gingerbread.
I know if sounds backwards, and that is why I was sceptical for ages, but last night I made the change to see if it would make a difference for me today and all I can say is WOW!!! Phone had a real test today as I started work really early. As of right now the phone has been off charge for 16 hours.
Half a dozen or more voice calls, minimal text, my usual wifi and 3g data, about 10 min of streaming video over wifi and about 1/2 hour in total running Navigation.
There is no way in hell my phone would have done all that and even lasted me 8 hours prior to changing the wifi sleep policy - so I think there is definitely something in it.
As for the ppl who aren't noticing bad battery, maybe they already had theirs set this way - or maybe it's an issue only effecting certain batches of devices (like the wifi reconnect issue which seemed to be pretty common pre froyo)

it /WAS/ terrible at first. Really, really dire, but it's back to what it used to be, even better now perhaps.
To the OP, do you have WIFI turned on still? I used to leave it turned on and it didn't ever knock down battery as it was going to sleep and not coming back, so wasn't a drain. GB appears to have fixed this, and it was staying on, thrashing the battery.
Turning it off and turning it on as needed only, battery life is now fine.
Do you have WIFI Turned on? Bluetooth? For now, to try and test what's happening, turn off 3g, wifi, bluetooth, automatic date/time sync, and JUST use it as a phone for a day. See what % you're at at the end of the day.
Then we can take it from there.
But I'd be pretty certain that it's wifi related, in that it's now working as it should be, we just got used to it being broken before.

My phone on cm7 rc2 has worse battery than I used to have with wildmonks kernel and cm6.1. Yesterday, the phone was barely used until 8 o'clock at night. It was at 45 percent. After an hour medium use, its gotten down to 23 so I had to plug in the phone....the easiest fix? Keep a charger In the car!
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Using stock Gingerbread and I can say that my battery life is decent, better than Froyo for sure. The phone lasts longer than 16 hours and I use bluetooth to listen to music for 1.5 hrs on my commute home. By the time I get home after a long day (8pm'ish), I still have about 20 to 30% left.

I have no wifi no bluetooth no gps and a dim screen.
Tis is seriously crappy battery life.
Does anyone think they can link me to a good miui rom. For me, it seems that gb just wont work.
I am running stock gb then i flashed the root and my boot loader is unlocked.

bohlool said:
I had the same problem. I am on stock gb.
Just set wifi sleep policy to never. It will last 2 days after that. It is definetly a bug.
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Listen to this person!
For some reason, since 2.3.3, if you have your Wifi policy to sleep when the screen is off, Android will rip through your battery. You'll notice Android OS taking all the battery on the status page.
Set the sleep policy to never and you get better battery life again. Turn off Wifi manually when you're not using it, even better. Until somebody fixes this bug, I guess it's the only workaround we've got.
More info: check issue 15057 on code.google.com - cant post link due to the newness of this account.

Same here on shorter battery life my nexus one as well post gingerbread ota... I will look into detailed system processes and try to find out why...
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bohlool said:
I had the same problem. I am on stock gb.
Just set wifi sleep policy to never. It will last 2 days after that. It is definetly a bug.
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Will give it a try on this, mine is set to turn off when screen is off.
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Log into latitude and log out. Every time there is a map update it defaults to being a battery draining monster. But in essence. Something to do with maps link to latitude (which i don't even use) breaks my phones battery life.

Best radio signal to use? (battery life)

I can use *#*#4636#*#* and I read somewhere that it can help with battery life if I set a certain antenna from there? I forgot where I read it though, if someone can please let me know that would be great. There are NO rogue apps running, I only have about 10 installed.
The phone is 4 days old, so it could be why but I've battery cycled it twice already (letting it run dead and recharging it for 10 hours). All my widgets are off except weather and that is set to update every 3 hours and it is NOT using GPS. Wifi is off, so is bluetooth. Gps is off as well.
Is anyone using maximum power saver or just the regular nighttime setting for those reporting better battery life? I also uninstalled launcher pro, it seemed to glitch my phone a lot with the google toolbar and also seemed to have a slightly bigger toll on my battery. Also battery health is stating "Good". Is that the best or does it still need more conditioning?

You probably shouldn't change things in there. Look elsewhere to conserve battery.
You didn't note what your battery life is like either. But you should still let the battery charge and drain a few more times before trying to squeak out more battery life by modifying something like this....

bongd said:
You probably shouldn't change things in there. Look elsewhere to conserve battery.
You didn't note what your battery life is like either. But you should still let the battery charge and drain a few more times before trying to squeak out more battery life by modifying something like this....
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Well I'll give you an example. The phone was unplugged almost 6 hours yesterday, and I used it around 3 hours and 46 minutes max. It got down to 5 percent and shut off. I had my music i was listening to for 25 minutes. I had my IM program on for about an hour, had a 12 minute phone call. Was texting back and forth mainly, and I checked a few things on the browser and exited out. MY IM program uses GPS to get my location but only when I request to do so, then shut the gps off. I force closed it when I was done to be sure it wasn't gonna drain any more of my battery. My notifications are off mainly except for my texts and such. And this was with JuiceDefender on the last half of the battery.

I don't like programs like Juice Defender to be honest. They usually go buggy and drain the battery more than it saves. People just get excited and leave positive reviews.
I'd honestly reset to factory settings in case there was a one-off glitch. Set things up again and use it like you would normally to gauges things. My battery lasted over 40 hours from the first charge.
With results that bad, I wouldn't troubleshoot beyond resetting it. Take it back if that's the case. That's not right. And it's not worth your time.

bongd said:
I don't like programs like Juice Defender to be honest. They usually go buggy and drain the battery more than it saves. People just get excited and leave positive reviews.
I'd honestly reset to factory settings in case there was a one-off glitch. Set things up again and use it like you would normally to gauges things. My battery lasted over 40 hours from the first charge.
With results that bad, I wouldn't troubleshoot beyond resetting it. Take it back if that's the case. That's not right. And it's not worth your time.
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Thanks. I just got the phone not sure why I would need to factory reset it. Is there a way I can back my data up and such like texts and pics/apps?
Also 40 hours!? Jeeze do you like never use your phone at all? haha. That is insane my iPhone 4 never even got that good of battery life.

tripleh3lix said:
I can use *#*#4636#*#* and I read somewhere that it can help with battery life if I set a certain antenna from there? I forgot where I read it though, if someone can please let me know that would be great.
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That code just pushes your phone to use EDGE only and not 3G. It can increase battery life if your phone is constantly trying to hold on to a spotty 3G signal, which can be common .

gnahc79 said:
That code just pushes your phone to use EDGE only and not 3G. It can increase battery life if your phone is constantly trying to hold on to a spotty 3G signal, which can be common .
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Ah, no I have about 4 bars of HSPA+ in my house, I think i'm good on that, thank you!

Did you do the OTA update? seems to have helped a few people with battery life including myself.

Kaoe said:
Did you do the OTA update? seems to have helped a few people with battery life including myself.
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Yep it's updated I'm wondering if it was the chat program yesterday I was using.. It has notifications on so it was probably connecting 24/7. I'm gonna keep it off today and use regular apps like facebook. Do you guys keep your notifications for those with good battery life?

Kaoe said:
Did you do the OTA update? seems to have helped a few people with battery life including myself.
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(off topic) is that your atrix? and how did you get your lockscreen to look like that?

Banditlol said:
(off topic) is that your atrix? and how did you get your lockscreen to look like that?
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It's an application called WidgetLocker. It's quite an amazing application if I do say so myself.

tripleh3lix said:
Yep it's updated I'm wondering if it was the chat program yesterday I was using.. It has notifications on so it was probably connecting 24/7. I'm gonna keep it off today and use regular apps like facebook. Do you guys keep your notifications for those with good battery life?
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Chat programs are generally notorious battery hogs. Stick with Google Talk.

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Chat programs are generally notorious battery hogs. Stick with Google Talk.
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I've been using PingChat for about a month now and there is no significant battery drain. Very nice and reliable, more than google talk where messages sent would occasionally never be received.

gnahc79 said:
I've been using PingChat for about a month now and there is no significant battery drain. Very nice and reliable, more than google talk where messages sent would occasionally never be received.
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Generally. I allow that there are some that are not battery hogs. I do know the chat program on my Touch Pro (I forget what it was) would suck my battery dry in an hour or two if left running in the background.

Radio post last OTA 2.3.3 power consumption

Do you think the radio part in last OTA 2.3.3 consumes more battery?
I see the battery information consumption much higher in "Phone".
Confirms it for me?
PS. this morning, after 5 hours and 35 minutes battery down to 90%

jackalac said:
Do you think the radio part in last OTA 2.3.3 consumes more battery?
I see the battery information consumption much higher in "Phone".
Confirms it for me?
PS. this morning, after 5 hours and 35 minutes battery down to 90%
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Well, I'm using ARHD 5.1.3 (based on the official HTC's GB ROM) with radio 12.54.60.25_26.09.04.11_M2 and can say that battery consumtion is siginificantly better than with the Froyo. It's normal when you have less consumption from the phone as a whole to have a higher percentage on the parts that require the same amount of energy. In fact you can optimize the radio software only to a certain amount - it still has to emmit energy as specified by the standards (GSM, UMTS, WiFi) and it still has the same losses in the receivers' amplifiers.

Ok, you are right, but if i compare the battery drain in this rom, i can say that is faster then stock froyo 2.2.1 imho...

I'm so happy someone else noticed it too! I'm having bad battery issues with this update. Took it from charger this morning and currently having 42%. I've done nothing fancy, installed few programs and browsed web. The percentage is going down like crazy

Not a lot of good to you, but I recently switched to LeeDroid's custom Kernel, the difference is night and day. Worth a look.

i see a problem too with my battery after update. i dont know what is the cause. if u find it pls tell here.thk

my radio part also consume much battery, i am ready to flash other radio and see the results.

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Not a lot of good to you, but I recently switched to LeeDroid's custom Kernel, the difference is night and day. Worth a look.
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completely agree with this. just amazing!

I noticed something strange with the signal levels when using GSM/WCDMA Auto-mode. While on 3G it only had like 1 bar and went straight to GPRS, then suddenly lost GPRS-signal to 0 bars and phone changed it to full 3G mode. It bounced like crazy. I forced it to GSM-mode and surprise, my battery life tripled.
I made a hard reset last night and let my battery die two times, lets see how it goes.

T-Loop said:
I forced it to GSM-mode and surprise, my battery life tripled.
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Yes you will get much better battery life as the constant trying to locate best signal in WCDMA preferred mode is a big battery drain. Downside is you reduce data speeds.
I wasn't sure if your surprise was genuine or in mock obviousness so have tried to word this carefully.
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T-Loop said:
I noticed something strange with the signal levels when using GSM/WCDMA Auto-mode. While on 3G it only had like 1 bar and went straight to GPRS, then suddenly lost GPRS-signal to 0 bars and phone changed it to full 3G mode. It bounced like crazy. I forced it to GSM-mode and surprise, my battery life tripled.
I made a hard reset last night and let my battery die two times, lets see how it goes.
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the reason while in gsm mode you had a longer lasting battery is because 2G (GSM/GPRS/EDGE) Takes a lot less power than umts/hspa/hspa+ to function; this is regardless of what device from whichever vendor/manufacturer you're using.
if you're still having issues, use the fast wipe rom to completely wipe your phone, then run the RUU (root it with gingerbreak)

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Yes you will get much better battery life as the constant trying to locate best signal in WCDMA preferred mode is a big battery drain. Downside is you reduce data speeds.
I wasn't sure if your surprise was genuine or in mock obviousness so have tried to word this carefully.
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It was genuine cos I didn't have same amount of battery drain with Froyo. I always use it in Auto-mode, and with Gingerbread it's awful. I should have mention this in my post, sorry. But the point is, the signal levels went crazy and battery went down. Froyo was almost perfect what comes to this. My battery last 9 hours yesterday, where Froyo 1½ days.
Maybe I should navigate myself to the dev-section and see other solutions.

For some alien reason after upgrading to 2.3.3 , my battery is doubled, if not tripled. Maybe im just lucky that the new radio comes with the update is more suitable with my carrier in my country. I'm now on 3G, autosync , 23 hours after charge and still at 53% , medium use with calling, sms , taking photos and capturing some videos. Before the update my battery dies after like 5-6 hours with 3G and auto sync on. I'm a happy man right now

Ehi guys do you made a factory reset after ota?
I cant see better battery life after two days....
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Update to my issue. Seems that hard reset did the magic. I now have 81% of battery, took this off the charger 9 oclock this morning. It's still on Auto-mode like it should be. Maybe it was a cell tower fault or a battery calibration problem.
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i forced my phone to stay only in wcdma mode and disabled always on mobile data. i wonder if it helps.will see. i wonder what will change if i do a hard reset.i dont think this is an option.

sedatif781 said:
i forced my phone to stay only in wcdma mode and disabled always on mobile data. i wonder if it helpes.will see. i woder what will change if i do a hard reset.i dont think this is an option.
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also having problems after the update: the situation is this - if I keep wifi on and do not touch the phone, after ~8 hours (during night) I have only 66% battery left and battery use stats says that "Dialer" ate most of the battery. Did not notice this before in batt stats

I did a factory reset on my dhd after ota and also format the sd card, because i had always "Telephone" (dialer) voice on battery stats with high % of usage.
Btw, when my dhd was inactive on desk for 5 6 hours, with froyo 2.2.1 (1.72) the voices in battery stats were phone inactive, standy by ecc ecc, now before the format, the first voice was always "Telephone".
Now i wait for next recharge.

some one tell me!
i had on 2.2 froyo a AURO navigation software, now it does not work!! im so angry now!!!
recommend me other apps tha i can use? maps,navigator?

Pruikki said:
some one tell me!
i had on 2.2 froyo a AURO navigation software, now it does not work!! im so angry now!!!
recommend me other apps tha i can use? maps,navigator?
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Hi,
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863327&page=53
in my post #523 for a apk file to download. Notice: do not manually update the app in the Android market after you installed the attached file, then you will end up with the same problem.
Just follow the instructions in my post. If you have questions contact me.

Android system high, killing battery life. Charge doesn't work right

I am getting terrible battery life, and it happens because the proximity sensor doesn't work right. I don't know how to fix it, I tried to flash another phone.apk or something to disable it, and it just crashes whenever I try to make a call.
The same thing happened on Evo deck as well as Cyclonic.
Another problem is that whenever I reboot, the battery stats are wrong. I will reboot at 57% and it will be 43% when it starts up again. I am almost sure it is a hardware problem, unless this happens to other people.

For the battery part try recalibrating your battery then run it till it dies then charge till 100% and you should see better battery life
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Try flashing the ruu and see if you get the same result. Since you are already rooted, rooting again should be simple.
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Rebooting always causes battery drain because of the boot animations. I have a new update on rom manager with sysctl mods in it that lower the battery temp a lot, puts your phone in laptop mode, and a few other things that seem to help battery. But I try not to reboot very much because of how much it drains. I made the rom on rom manager because of battery drain issues in particular and I was getting pretty sick of it as well.
I am the defender of Light and Truth. Suppressing the truth can incur the wrath of God.

I'm having the SAME problem but I was getting excellent battery life until I started using SS9 App2SD. Does having my apps installed on my SD card because it suuuuucks now. Even before on SS9. Whyyyyyy????

Buy this:
http://shop2.sprint.com/NASApp/onli...PA7373KT&categoryRefName=Chargers+&+Batteries
If you messed up your charging port this will charge your battery directly through AC without needing the phones micro USB port.
As for the "proximity sensor" you might want to take it in to a Sprint store and have it looked at. I would run RUU 2.2 before you do that though.
credit: newkidd
THEsunnypiglets said:
I'm having the SAME problem but I was getting excellent battery life until I started using SS9 App2SD. Does having my apps installed on my SD card because it suuuuucks now. Even before on SS9. Whyyyyyy????
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Try flashing Dodge Kernel 1.6.
Why does using Apps2SD use more battery life? Because your phone uses more CPU to access the SD card while starting an application I would guess. You should ask strapped365 via PM or ask in the SS9 thread.
sparksco said:
Rebooting always causes battery drain because of the boot animations. I have a new update on rom manager with sysctl mods in it that lower the battery temp a lot, puts your phone in laptop mode, and a few other things that seem to help battery. But I try not to reboot very much because of how much it drains. I made the rom on rom manager because of battery drain issues in particular and I was getting pretty sick of it as well.
I am the defender of Light and Truth. Suppressing the truth can incur the wrath of God.
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Constantly switching from 3g to 1x also kills battery life majorly. If you are getting bad 3G service turn off 3G and switch to 4G. This will actually improve battery life. Your phone only needs 1x to receive voice calls and send SMS messages.
credit to newkidd on this too.

Apps2sd incorporated into S.S. "fools" the system to think that the ext partition is part of the system... Majority of the wear is on the sd card, I'm guessing the cpu might be working a little more, but nothing substantial enough to drain your battery.
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Idk. I've tried recalibrating it, letting it run down, charging it up. Even on AOSP roms it's worse now. Could it just be that at this point it's just my battery?

THEsunnypiglets said:
I'm having the SAME problem but I was getting excellent battery life until I started using SS9 App2SD. Does having my apps installed on my SD card because it suuuuucks now. Even before on SS9. Whyyyyyy????
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Having the A2SD on a Rom does not use a significant enough amount of battery life to affect your battery life the way you stated. As you stated " Even before on SS9 " . My guess is you may have a rogue app. You can try booting into recovery and wiping battery stats. Also as VICODAN mentioned, if your on the stock kernel. You can try the dodge kernel, it's quite good.
EDIT : Just saw you post above. If it does the same thing regardless of what Rom your on. Then your battery is probably done.

VICODAN said:
Buy this:
http://shop2.sprint.com/NASApp/onli...PA7373KT&categoryRefName=Chargers+&+Batteries
If you messed up your charging port this will charge your battery directly through AC without needing the phones micro USB port.
Constantly switching from 3g to 1x also kills battery life majorly. If you are getting bad 3G service turn off 3G and switch to 4G. This will actually improve battery life. Your phone only needs 1x to receive voice calls and send SMS messages.
credit to newkidd on this too.
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IDK ever since I rooted this phone my battery life has not been very good. I've followed the cm wiki on troubleshooting battery drain (wipe battery stats, drain battery all the way let charge back up ect), and nothing seems to really help much. I wouldn't say it's the charging port as much as it might be the type of charger. My usb cord for my pc sucks for charging until I went out and bought a cheapo wall charger that seems to do a much better job. So yeah that charger you mentioned would probably help a lot. My battery isn't warped or anything, you should of seen my G1 battery lol.
As far as network I use wifi when I'm at home which drains the crap out of my battery more than 3G. When I'm out away from home my battery is pretty decent though. But differnet roms have differnt wifi settings so that's probably another one of the issues.
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I didn't know wifi drains the battery faster??? I always thought it was saving me battery haha wow i was wrong but even with wifi on all the time i still get over a day of battery life. Now i'm gonna have wifi off and see the results i get

I forgot to mention that I used Spare Parts Plus or its cousin Blade Runner or something to remove boot animations, so I don't think its boot animations. It never did that on my Evo or my Droid.
I have recalibrated the battery, and even used different batteries. The battery life is still atrocious, worst than my Evo ever was.
Sparksco, do you have your rom on here? I would very much like to try it. And was the battery life good before you rooted it?
Does anyone have the high android system usage problem? I don't think I am the only one who has it, but if I am, lemme find my battery stats...

Dratini said:
I forgot to mention that I used Spare Parts Plus or its cousin Blade Runner or something to remove boot animations, so I don't think its boot animations. It never did that on my Evo or my Droid.
I have recalibrated the battery, and even used different batteries. The battery life is still atrocious, worst than my Evo ever was.
Sparksco, do you have your rom on here? I would very much like to try it. And was the battery life good before you rooted it?
Does anyone have the high android system usage problem? I don't think I am the only one who has it, but if I am, lemme find my battery stats...
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It was so long ago honestly I can't make a fair comparison to then and now. But since then I've done a lot of things. Flashed my splash screen, recoveries, radio updates, roms. Which radio are you on? I've heard radio's can effect battery life quite a bit but not sure if it applies to the shift very much. Now that you mention the Evo I'm thinking about trying to port salvagemod gingerbread just for fun to see how it pans out lol.
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IDK ever since I rooted this phone my battery life has not been very good. I've followed the cm wiki on troubleshooting battery drain (wipe battery stats, drain battery all the way let charge back up ect), and nothing seems to really help much. I wouldn't say it's the charging port as much as it might be the type of charger. My usb cord for my pc sucks for charging until I went out and bought a cheapo wall charger that seems to do a much better job. So yeah that charger you mentioned would probably help a lot. My battery isn't warped or anything, you should of seen my G1 battery lol.
As far as network I use wifi when I'm at home which drains the crap out of my battery more than 3G. When I'm out away from home my battery is pretty decent though. But differnet roms have differnt wifi settings so that's probably another one of the issues.
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Disable 3g when using Wifi. Try it.

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Disable 3g when using Wifi. Try it.
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So what your saying is turn off mobile data completely? I don't see the point in just disabling 3G and leaving edge network on when I'm on wifi.
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I don't turn 3g off when I'm on wifi n battery is fine. If it is 4g, now that's a different story
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So what your saying is turn off mobile data completely? I don't see the point in just disabling 3G and leaving edge network on when I'm on wifi.
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wifi or wimax for data, 1x for voice.

sparksco said:
So what your saying is turn off mobile data completely? I don't see the point in just disabling 3G and leaving edge network on when I'm on wifi.
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wifi or wimax for data, 1x for voice.
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The only thing that won't come through is picture mail, but you'll get a message telling you to download it. I think you'll have to turn 3G back on to download it.
Although, doesn't wifi take precedence over 3G in the first place? So essentially wifi shuts off 3G except when a picture mail comes through?

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The only thing that won't come through is picture mail, but you'll get a message telling you to download it. I think you'll have to turn 3G back on to download it.
Although, doesn't wifi take precedence over 3G in the first place? So essentially wifi shuts off 3G except when a picture mail comes through?
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That's what I thought cause it takes awhile after turning off WiFi for me to get 3g
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wifi or wimax for data, 1x for voice.
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I can make calls on just wifi just fine. Maybe because my kernel supports wifi calling?
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