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I have tried both Eugene's and TeamWhiskey's ROM's.. Ginger Clone, OBSIDAN and ONYX. And all 3 have sucked down my battery in about 12 hours flat with me doing nothing to the phone but loading SystemPanel to monitor the CPU and battery. With all the ROM's the CPU usage has been between 3-10% while in idle. zero phone usage. I have refreshed the battery with every new ROM load.
I was previously using TeamWhiskey's 2.1 Bionix Fusion and was seeing between 1-3% CPU usage at idle and had the battery lasting well over 24 hours with minimal use(checking email, couple short phone calls)
Am I the only one having this issue?? Does anyone else use SystemPanel to monitor their CPU usage and can say what their CPU is using during idle??
Thank you for your time and any help/info you may have.
I don't use the modded versions of Froyo but Stock has awesome battery life from my experience. JL5 is looking great as well.
You or anyone else happen to know where I can find a copy of the stock 2.2 ROM/kernel?? I have an unlocked phone in Japan and it's not supported here, so I wont ever get any updates.
Yes the custom roms have terrible battery life. They always have. However, the stock roms have terrific battery life. After a long day of heavy usage I am at 50%
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There isn't really a stock 2.2 Rom for Vibrant because it hasn't been released yet. We have leaked builds (JK2, JK6, JL1, JL4, JL5) that are candidates for release. When they actually release Froyo for Vibrant, that will be your stock froyo rom.
The key to great battery life is using the Stock kernel. Flash that kernel on any ROM and enjoy not having to watch your battery indicator all day.
yea, just read a thread about people complaining about that.
guess I'll just flash back to 2.1..
Thanks for all the help.
I flashed nero v2 w/ voodoo and i reset the battery stats, and now im having trouble draining the battery down to nothing.
Fear the beard...
regP said:
The key to great battery life is using the Stock kernel. Flash that kernel on any ROM and enjoy not having to watch your battery indicator all day.
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Pretty sure I have flashed the stock kernel.. is there any way to tell what kernel im on? phone just says 2.6.32.9
jayprime said:
I flashed nero v2 w/ voodoo and i reset the battery stats, and now im having trouble draining the battery down to nothing.
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I'll give it a try.. nothing to lose.
To drain the battery, I usually turn on Bluetooth, Wifi, GPS, all the good stuff. Then I downloaded this one Flashlight app from the Market which essentially displays one color full screen, default white. Crank up the brightness and run that app on white and it'll really put the hurt on your battery.
Edit: Today I learned that this may be potentially harmful information. Will someone give a good scientific explanation why though? I'm curious to learn more about batteries. However, this is how I've been draining my battery and it is a damn good method if that's what you want done.
Mine says 2.6.32.9 no matter what kernel i flash. Try flashing it just to be sure. I've tried all the ROMs and they all drain hard until I add the stock kernel to them. Though now a days a lot of ROMs include the stock kernel (Macnut and Axura for sure do). The problem with all the custom kernels is they dont seem to let the phone sleep so when your screen turns off the phone keeps draining as if you were using it. Stock fixes this so when your screen turns off barely any power is used. I
But like I said.. reflash it just to be sure.
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Mine says 2.6.32.9 no matter what kernel i flash. Try flashing it just to be sure. I've tried all the ROMs and they all drain hard until I add the stock kernel to them. Though now a days a lot of ROMs include the stock kernel (Macnut and Axura for sure do). The problem with all the custom kernels is they dont seem to let the phone sleep so when your screen turns off the phone keeps draining as if you were using it. Stock fixes this so when your screen turns off barely any power is used. I
But like I said.. reflash it just to be sure.
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You happen to have a link to the stock kernel??
EB-Productions Stock Kernel MOD
*Features*
~ Clock Work Recovery
~ Leaked Stock Kernel
Download > http://www.multiupload.com/ELZHKISZTF
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Taken from Eugene's site.
to the OP, try axura rom. i have tried all the TW, eugene and axura. axuras the only one who gives me a good batt life
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Thats because Axura uses the stock kernel
FDokinawa said:
Pretty sure I have flashed the stock kernel.. is there any way to tell what kernel im on? phone just says 2.6.32.9
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Android is based on Linux and uses the Linux kernel as a base. The Linux kernel your phone's kernel is based off of is version 2.6.32.9
ok.. think I loaded the stock kernel up.. lol I'll let it run for about an hour and see what kind of CPU numbers I get in idle.
Thanks again for everyones help/input.
FYI.. just put it in flight mode for a bit and CPU usage dropped down to almost 0%.. I'm not understanding why it cant do that when the phone is idle.. ahh well.
Idle for an hour should lose no more than 1% battery depending on how much stuff you have polling and updating.
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Thats because Axura uses the stock kernel
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No it doesn't.
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Mine says 2.6.32.9 no matter what kernel i flash.
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That is just the version.
That version won't change like the baseband does.
Hi all!
I have been using CM7 RC1 for a while, and recently upgraded to Builds 6 and 7 in order to get 4G working.
I did not wipe when flashing 6 or 7; just flashed the ZIP from the recovery.
Where I would have previously gotten 18-24 hours of use, I now get 4 or 5! It's amazing.
I'm 4h17m off the charger. Display time is 17% (1h33m), Cell standby is 29% (TWOS 6%), Maps is 20% (used it for a little bit while in the car), Phone idle is 17%, and Wi-Fi is 14%. Battery life is at 9 percent.
I'm just surprised at the bad battery life, especially after having real good life in CM7 RC1. Nothing of substance has changed other than flashing Builds 6 and then 7.
Like I said, I did not wipe anything before flashing. Should I have? I might try it, just to be sure...
Others who have CM7 Builds 6-8, could you tell me how your battery life is now compared to RC1? Is it noticeably different? This has been a tremendous drop-off for me, and I'm suspecting this must be some sort of fluke.
Thanks for the input!
This doesn't belong in Development Section.
You're right. My bad. If there's a mod around, please move it!
More than likely it's because of the lack of wipe.
also, hit up the sig for additional stuff if you're still having issues
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I'm having the same issue, flashed yesterday, I was fully charged when I flashed CM7, but I spent about an hour playing with the phone and was at 60% when I left the house to go to work. My phone died within 4 hours, it was on standby all that time as I didnt get a chance to play with it. It was hard to gauge if the Rom caused the drain or if it was because it was already low on juice. This moring I was at 100%, flashed the Savage 1.0 Kernal (in the hope that it would enhance the battery life), reset the battery stats when the phone was at 100%, it stayed there for about 26 mins then went down to 99% (on standby for 26 mins). I left the house, put my phone away at work, received 2 emails, 1 missed call in 5 hours and the battery is at 46% WTF!!!! I really like this ROM, but I really need to know what is causing the issue. The setup is the same as I had on the last 2 ROMS in regards to WIFI and GPS - bluetooth is always off.
Not running on fresh (for now anyways!)
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Yeah this issue has been plauging me for awhile. I'm all for system panel pro (love the app; one of the first apps I bought), but it won't help in this instance. The problem is that the battery isn't charging as fast as the numbers say they are. The easiest fix (sadly, as I hate the risk) is an SBC kernel. That way, even though your meter will say 100, it will keep charging till it actually gets to 100. Without SBC, your phone will think it gets to 100 from 50 in an hour (it's probably at about 75) and will just start dying down to 65 (instead of 100 to 90). This means that you could unplug your phone at around 50 percent even though it says 100. The SBC is a good way to confirm, as is just turning off the phone and bump charging (check the link in my sig for the how-to). I'm really curious as to what is going on with the battery meter readings, maybe some dev can comment.
Hope I helped!
I'm using build 6 with Savaged-Zen kernel and I'm getting the absolute best battery life I've ever gotten with my phone. Like others have said, try wiping cache and dalvik and reflashing the rom. If you still get bad battery life, try Savaged-Zen kernel. Its fantastic. I'm currently using the CFS version 0.1.2.
Did you flash gapps right after flashing cm7? Also, have you checked if the "Dialer" is causing wake lock using spare parts?
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Its a reaction to a bad rom. No feedback here? Or we just having people endlessly downloading the thing when its obviously flawed? Over and over again?
CM7 with wimax - bites.
Are we supposed to hide that?
Be glad when they get it fixed- but- its flawed as it is. And lord dont try and tether with it....
But you live in a non 4g area dont ya? Best battery life with a crippled rom ...
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Yeah this issue has been plauging me for awhile. I'm all for system panel pro (love the app; one of the first apps I bought), but it won't help in this instance. The problem is that the battery isn't charging as fast as the numbers say they are. The easiest fix (sadly, as I hate the risk) is an SBC kernel. That way, even though your meter will say 100, it will keep charging till it actually gets to 100. Without SBC, your phone will think it gets to 100 from 50 in an hour (it's probably at about 75) and will just start dying down to 65 (instead of 100 to 90). This means that you could unplug your phone at around 50 percent even though it says 100. The SBC is a good way to confirm, as is just turning off the phone and bump charging (check the link in my sig for the how-to). I'm really curious as to what is going on with the battery meter readings, maybe some dev can comment.
Hope I helped!
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Rest of us live in 4g land. Using a generic rom with 4g and tethering working- is better than touting these purist roms- that dont Do what Needs to be done... while some kanger kid seems to make it run just fine....
Working as opposed to crippled- go with working ftw
SBC kernals- dont they torch your battery? People are still using sbc kernels?
Thanks for the info, fellas.
There was nothing out of the ordinary in Spare Parts. "Dialer" didn't appear to be misbehaving.
@noirelion, I should have mentioned that this is with 4G off.
@Leukay, that sounds really great! Would you mind elaborating on what kind of life you're getting, roughly?
I'll probably end up wiping and reflashing. Since I have Titanium Backup, it's not a huge deal. Just was wondering what in the world was going on!
I've been getting 20+ hours with nightly 8 stock kernal. So definitely try wiping
Swyped from a galaxy far far away......
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Its a reaction to a bad rom. No feedback here? Or we just having people endlessly downloading the thing when its obviously flawed? Over and over again?
CM7 with wimax - bites.
Are we supposed to hide that?
Be glad when they get it fixed- but- its flawed as it is. And lord dont try and tether with it....
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CM7 Wimax works fine for me. Tether, etc. Stock kernel, Savage-Zen, both work fine. Battery life is acceptable, even more so if on a SBC kernel.
Something is definitely wrong with your install. I'm running nightly 6 with stock kernel, flashed over nightly 5 without a full wipe (wiped dalvik and cache, flashed gapps) and I just got 68 hours of battery life with 28% still left.
Try rebooting to recovery and wiping dalvik again, sometimes on first boot some strange things get cached, and a second dalvik wipe after the first boot can fix some strange behavior.
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definitely a problem. i was getting 18 hrs (first light then heavy once i got out of school) and now get like 22 estimated with tiamat's noSBC (thats the 3.12 version) same light to heavy situation. try turning off data manually when u dont need it. helped a lot for me. tiamat sleeps like a baby, and gets high 1500's in quadrants.
noirelion said:
Its a reaction to a bad rom. No feedback here? Or we just having people endlessly downloading the thing when its obviously flawed? Over and over again?
CM7 with wimax - bites.
Are we supposed to hide that?
Be glad when they get it fixed- but- its flawed as it is. And lord dont try and tether with it....
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You sir, are an idiot.
damn... and i thought we could be friends because ur alias was a steeler's sign...
did u read my post? like 22 hours sometimes, with almost constant xda/facebook/aim/texting after school. it works... and it works well.
did my homework TETHERED ON 4G TO MY IPAD.
test b4 u speak.
Jimdog420 said:
I've been getting 20+ hours with nightly 8 stock kernal. So definitely try wiping
Swyped from a galaxy far far away......
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Are u experiencing any random reboots at all?
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noirelion said:
Rest of us live in 4g land. Using a generic rom with 4g and tethering working- is better than touting these purist roms- that dont Do what Needs to be done... while some kanger kid seems to make it run just fine....
Working as opposed to crippled- go with working ftw
SBC kernals- dont they torch your battery? People are still using sbc kernels?
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Nobody has managed to get 4G working on an aosp rom other than teamwin for cyanogenmod. The reason sense based roms work is because HTC did the work for them. 4g for cyanogenmod was coded from scratch.
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Bleys43 said:
Something is definitely wrong with your install. I'm running nightly 6 with stock kernel, flashed over nightly 5 without a full wipe (wiped dalvik and cache, flashed gapps) and I just got 68 hours of battery life with 28% still left.
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Umm ... you know the runtime in the status pane isn't the time off battery right? I mean you don't honestly expect us to believe you went nearly 3 days without a charge...
I LOL everytime I see someone crying about how they think SBC is bad. just because a few crappy chinese batteries caught fire doesn't mean your stock battery will...
saw in another post that some guy said although there wasn't real proof he was to afraid to risk it.
there is no real proof that cell phones cause cancer but he carries one of those around.
and anywho, i usually get 2+ days on CM7 nightly 6 with WiMax with savage.zen 0.1.0 and now im about to flash 0.1.2 which hopefully runs better.
I have always had stock ROMS with my i9000, ending with JS7. I read the battery problems people had and I always counted myself very lucky that my phone had a pretty decent battery life.
Daily I would SMS (a lot), the odd phone call, quick blip on the internet (3g), lots of angry birds and doodle jump! I would get at least a couple of days before it went into the red.
Then I made the big mistake of installing Darky's ROM, it looks nice and feels a bit snappier, but now the battery is in the red in the evening after a full nights charge. This is even after severely curbing my phone use to try and extend the life. I have tried all the wiping tips and tricks too.
Same apps, different ROM. Darky's is an absolute nightmare for me and I will be going back to stock.
So is the ROM just another variable in the mix of battery issues, or the main offender?
Hello. I've the same battery drain, and I think it's very annoying when at evening you need to charge it again without using strongly the phone. Otherwise the Darky's rom, (I'm on 9.3) is very nice and marvellous, but this battery drain issue makes it worse.
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Have you tried using spare parts to see which app is sucking baster or cpu? Did you download the rom configure tool from the market? Which gallery did you instal worth the rom?
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stierney said:
Have you tried using spare parts to see which app is sucking baster or cpu? Did you download the rom configure tool from the market? Which gallery did you instal worth the rom?
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This and:
have you let the phone drop below 10-5%?
Flashing screws up the battery indicator (how much depends) and it calibrates itself while in use. Letting the battery fall, or even the phone shut down by itself can speed up the process quite a bit. This helps only if there is no battery hungry app that's eating all your powrz though.
I haven't tried to see if there is an app sucking the life out of it because I never had any issues under the 3 or 4 stock roms and I haven't d/l any other apps. The battery deterioration started instantly I flashed with Darky's. I don't know which gallery it is, it came with the d/l. What ever it is, it doesn't work! No, didn't use the configuration tool.
I must admit I haven't let it run under 10% as I want my phone with me working. But wouldn't this manifest itself when I updated the stock firmwares?
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I haven't tried to see if there is an app sucking the life out of it because I never had any issues under the 3 or 4 stock roms and I haven't d/l any other apps. The battery deterioration started instantly I flashed with Darky's. I don't know which gallery it is, it came with the d/l. What ever it is, it doesn't work! No, didn't use the configuration tool.
I must admit I haven't let it run under 10% as I want my phone with me working. But wouldn't this manifest itself when I updated the stock firmwares?
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ok mate, firstly search the market for the Darky Rom Configurator, shoudl be easy to find, you shoudl be able to reflash without wiping all your apps, run the config app first and pay special attn to the 'Lockscreen wallpaper' of the tool, there aint many options to choose. Got the gallery drain bit mixed up, sorry tired
If i was on my own PC id give a bit more detail but its pretty straight forward.
Im running 9.3 and get a full days mid-heavy use, i normally go to bed at 10-15% which is fine with me
cheers for the advice mate, I've just grabbed the app so I will do the flash in the morning.
I will report back my findings!
Just a thought but Darky's Rom uses JS5 and wondering if has something to do with the modem? Just a theory but wondering if you could replace back to JS7 and see if that helps. Just a thought. I'm used to a day's worth of battery myself these days.
The faster you make the phone go the more power you use darkest Rom are ok but messed with too much
I got really bad battery life for the first few weeks using darky. But now the battery life seems to be longer and more stable and average. I did do calibrations a few times tho.
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You won't get better battery with Darky ever.
I played around quite a lot, 9.2, 9.3, calibration, fresh system, darky rom configurator, different kernels, lagfixes, no matter what, my battery drain was mad. It's a quick and smooth rom, but that's the downside of it.
I switched back to Doc's rom via kithen with same kernel, and quess what? No calibration, no playing around, nothing special I did and battery life is brilliant! Of course it lags here and there, that's Doc's drawback(no lagfix applied tho)
You will often find that if you flash a number of roms you get battery drain . Apart from the actual rom itself you need to flash to a clean firmware reset battery stats use a suitable modem charge battery once using bump charge method then wait a few weeks for it to settle down .
I am using rom kitchin since Darkys killed my battery life months ago .
JPY and JPY modem no complaints about excess battery life .
But i did flash back to clean stock before custom rom and wipe everything .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=817703
jje
but this is true even if i use a kernel mod.. instead of a full flash? i think that a stock rom with custom kernel made for battery lasting is better... or not?
Have u all tried Battery Bump Charging?
Hi, I am not a Galaxy S owner but I am doing a research on this issue for a friend.
I am a Milestone user and I am a ROM slut (I flash many ROMs back and forth)
So I am very familiar with cases where after flashing a new ROM, your 100% fully charged phone is actually 60%/
Here is a posting on a few ways you can do a battery bump charge. When you perform this battery bump charging technique, u will be surprised to see that your 100% fully charged battery is actually not 100%
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=978090
I've seen a couple reports of "horrible" drain when pairing virtuous fusion with faux 123's gb sense kernel.
Running latest clockwork recovery.
Well, I recently flashed the rom (1.1.8) and kernel (LV .0.0.7) and experienced a 400% longer charging time, 65% to 15% drain in about 3-4 hours of moderate use with conservative power settings. If this isn't weird enough, the screen was drinking 92% of this power and the screen was off 80% of the time, auto about 10% and all the way down for about 10%. The battery continued to go down quickly while the phone was idle/screen off. 1 widget, no live wallpaper. No risky apps.
Anyway, I'm going to try to reflash a little less crackily (lol, I just upgraded to this beast from a mt3g w/ cm6!). Also, I'm gonna clear batt stats if it continues to be awful. I will update accordingly. Lastly, I never had time to get setcpu installed.
I just wanted to see if anyone else has a confirmed fix or at least experienced similar issues that remain unresolved.
Thanks button in advance, xda!
you'll get more hits if you were to post this in the Kernel thread and the ROM thread you are referring to.
Yeah, I'm working my way up to those 10 posts.
On faux .7 gb kernel on virtuous fusion I would get 22 hours with heavy usage..and by heavy usage I mean, 5 hrs on screen time, numerous bluetooth phone calls, heavy texting, and xda all day...so I didn't have any battery drain problem
Edit: oh and widgets on all but 2 screens
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Have you tried the .8 bfs lv kernel? Using that in conjunction with juice defender I get around 20+"hours" of heavy use, and that's at 1.3ghz oc. I haven't used .7 so I can't chime in on that issue, but that combo had made vf the first sense rom and the only sense rom I've used since rooting this phone.
And btw thanks for doing a legit thread to boost your post count instead of trolling random threads.
Btw if you do go the .8 bfs route, don't forget to flash the .2 first time kernel (i cried the first time I forgot to flash that then forgot to delete pd15.img off my root.. Talk about looping)
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@marseillesw
I expected similar battery life from a kernel everyone was raving about (and faux seems impressively knowledgeable). I noticed a couple of people were popping up experiencing "the worst battery drain" and "terrible battery life" with GB Sense .7 UV and VF S3 specifically. I read several suggestions that it needed "time to settle" or a good "battery refreshing". However, I think these people were experiencing the same phenomenon as I did and it was out of control.
@Joker
After reading a bit about BFS (I see why we abbreviate it), I think I will give it a shot. It seems like the perfect kernel for the super interactive video enhancements of Sense 3. It's so pretty I find it hard to go back to my hulu/netflix/grooveshark(untested) capable RoyalGinger rom... Sigh...
Yeah, I didn't want to troll and then post on thread. XDA is teeming with info. However, you see a lot of people asking the same questions over and over again because (much love, don't get me wrong) noobs don't use thread search and the major mod/kernel threads get to be a solid 300 pgs of light to really heavy reading.
How does juice defender's tweaking compare to SetCPU's? I thought it was more like a task killer so I never tried it.
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Going in, I knew it was either an issue with my phone or the flash process.
The good news is, some tinkering solved it. I wiped data/cache/dalvik in recovery, reflashed Virtuous Fusion 118, then let it settle. With the included kernel, I got about 14 hrs of life with 4 hrs of XDA, some talk/text, some customization, power management, etc... all OCed to 1.4GHz on smartass in use, 800MHz conservative screen off & @ <15%.
Next, I wiped CACHE/DALVIK (thus, not erasing setCPU) and flash the UV .7 kernel. Booted, let it settle. Reupped on my setcpu schedules and let it fly. It's been going pretty hard for about 13 hours and it just dropped below 40% life. So, I expect a cool 24-25. Wow.
The other difference i noted was that VF turns "fast boot" on which I had to turn off to access hboot (and recovery) again. It's possible that a true reboot of the phone would have saved me the reflashing trouble, I never tried.
The first time I flashed, I flashed the new kernel without first booting the rom w/ original kernel, I didn't have SetCPU (or any on-boot CPU controls), and I never rebooted with fast boot = off.
My next order of business is to nackup my current shiz and see if I can recreate the battery vortex . If I can, I'll pinpoint which of my sloppy moves was the cause.
3Qs:
A) Is flashing Rom and New Kernel with no reboot between a no no?
2) Is Elixir a reliable, power friendly tool for me to be using for reports? Is there a standard utility? So far, it seems pretty dank.
3) Does it take a lot of work to switch governors? Should I not be switching to conservative whenever it's idle?
Last couple times I flashed vf when evil was releasing daily updates I flashed the kernels before first boot and saw no issues what so ever. Normally I do let I cycle and load all flashes though.
As for juice defender, I just use it to manage my data use. Use set cpu to manage the cpu. Use conservative or power saver scheduler in my 4 hour stretch when I don't use my phone at all. Usually lose 1% battery during that period, then use heavy for the rest of the day. I usually have 70 80% left when I get home
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Yeah I think that most people have serious battery drain because they have a rogue app running somewhere in the background that's just eating up resources, so is good to have an app like juice defender or watchdog, that can help pinpoint and identify the culprit...but it sounds like you got a pretty good handle on it now bro..so happy flashing
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Hi,
I started this thread because i'm new to this forum and I can't yet post on the development thread of this rom.
Today i flashed this rom into my atrix, I followed all the instructions, which were, first install the base rom 1.3 from recovery cwm, factory reset, clear cache, clear dalvik, reboot, it booted fine, I used it for a bit, and it was fast. Then I flashed the 2.6C rom from recovery cwm, wiped cache (no factory reset). Well, that didn't work for me, when I rebooted the booting screen got stuck where the Unlocked sign appears, so what I did is restore my stock backup rom and repeat the process (the exact same thing I described before). This time everything was fine, 2.6C booted.
The problem is, that the battery meter is running as if it were a countdown timer, it's draining my battery in a way that I couldn't ever imagine, not even my old blackberry torch was able to do such awful thing.
Also, charging is taking forever (1 hour to get 14% using the dock, which charges faster), not to mention that the phone is hotter than hell, the battery temp is normal though. Also if I connect the phone to my laptop to charge it, it actually discharges, meaning that is consuming way to much power than it is receiving.
Another issue I'm having is that I can't hear any music, winamp crashes when loading the song list, so is the stock music player.
Can I anyone point me in the right direction in case I did something wrong? Or do I just give up and return to my stock rom?
Your help would be much appreciated! And probably others have the same problems as I do, and you'll help them too.
Cheers!
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Hi,
I started this thread because i'm new to this forum and I can't yet post on the development thread of this rom.
Today i flashed this rom into my atrix, I followed all the instructions, which were, first install the base rom 1.3 from recovery cwm, factory reset, clear cache, clear dalvik, reboot, it booted fine, I used it for a bit, and it was fast. Then I flashed the 2.6C rom from recovery cwm, wiped cache (no factory reset). Well, that didn't work for me, when I rebooted the booting screen got stuck where the Unlocked sign appears, so what I did is restore my stock backup rom and repeat the process (the exact same thing I described before). This time everything was fine, 2.6C booted.
The problem is, that the battery meter is running as if it were a countdown timer, it's draining my battery in a way that I couldn't ever imagine, not even my old blackberry torch was able to do such awful thing.
Also, charging is taking forever (1 hour to get 14% using the dock, which charges faster), not to mention that the phone is hotter than hell, the battery temp is normal though. Also if I connect the phone to my laptop to charge it, it actually discharges, meaning that is consuming way to much power than it is receiving.
Another issue I'm having is that I can't hear any music, winamp crashes when loading the song list, so is the stock music player.
Can I anyone point me in the right direction in case I did something wrong? Or do I just give up and return to my stock rom?
Your help would be much appreciated! And probably others have the same problems as I do, and you'll help them too.
Cheers!
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Yes what you need to do this time is not to use the honey atrix 1.3 overclock use the 1.1 overclock because it is just your processor running faster then it should be. If you use the star wars rom and i have had that for about two to three days now it has been fast and smooth. I used v2.6 and NOT 2.6c if you can't find version 2.6 then please try to use alien v4 rom is very nice and stable but star wars give you the more speed and pretty good battery life i think so far.
I hope that helps sir!
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hahmoode said:
Yes what you need to do this time is not to use the honey atrix 1.3 overclock use the 1.1 overclock because it is just your processor running faster then it should be. If you use the star wars rom and i have had that for about two to three days now it has been fast and smooth. I used v2.6 and NOT 2.6c if you can't find version 2.6 then please try to use alien v4 rom is very nice and stable but star wars give you the more speed and pretty good battery life i think so far.
I hope that helps sir!
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can you use the star wars rom without the star wars theme? i like the features of the rom, but im not much of a star wars fan
hahmoode said:
Yes what you need to do this time is not to use the honey atrix 1.3 overclock use the 1.1 overclock because it is just your processor running faster then it should be. If you use the star wars rom and i have had that for about two to three days now it has been fast and smooth. I used v2.6 and NOT 2.6c if you can't find version 2.6 then please try to use alien v4 rom is very nice and stable but star wars give you the more speed and pretty good battery life i think so far.
I hope that helps sir!
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Thank you for your answer!
Isn't supposed to be overclock capable using setcpu, but not actually overclocked by default after install? That's what I thought in the first place, and that is why I was thinking this issue was weird.
I'll keep your advice in mind, actually star wars rom was my first choice, but I didn't like the theme at all. It would be nice if a stock theme version was out, like cherryPI, which the none themed version is called cherrycrust I think.
As of now, seems like my phone is starting to normalize, is charging yaaay! 35% now, I actually just made a 5 minute call and it just used 1%, could it be cured? I really hope so. Also the music players appear to be working.
This is such a weird issue if you ask me.
I'll leave it charging overnight, and let's see how it behaves tomorrow, if the problems are gone, I'll try it for a while, and if not I'll flash star wars.
Thanks a lot!
You should use kenn's alien rom without the theme and then theme it as you wish. It really is the best rom imo.
it works perfect
just flash the non oc if your phone hates it
but yes setcpu is kind of required. it was just assumed everyone has it or knows where to get it..
ill update the op as well
its my rom of choice right now and im getting 14 hours battery
restored two different backups (cyanogen)(and starwars)TODAY ON THIS BATTERY ,
and then restored honeyatrix again in one day
also
made calls
played sprinkle
texted all day
foursquared
internetted
gmailed... all damn day i was getting emails
running wifi searching all day
using google music
ran like 10 tests each quadrant and smartbench(dont ask)
id say thats pretty good
If you don't want to overclock then just flash the rom then flash the stock kernel from fauxs thread.
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I appreciate all your comments, I'll take your advices in mind, and I will try your recommendations.
As of now, my phone is working fine, heat is normal, speedy, and battery is around 40% (I disconnected 7:30 hours ago), which is actually not so different from stock, probably I would have 5 - 10% more.
Thank you all!