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Battery life.

I havehorrible batter life and it takes forever for this phone to charge and it overheats. I'm using the andromeda kernal and OC widget. Can someone tell me some settings I should use? Or tweaks or whatever? I'm talking non-commonsense stuff (not stuff like "turn 4g off")
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A_Flying_Fox said:
I havehorrible batter life and it takes forever for this phone to charge and it overheats. I'm using the andromeda kernal and OC widget. Can someone tell me some settings I should use? Or tweaks or whatever? I'm talking non-commonsense stuff (not stuff like "turn 4g off")
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Turn on Airplane mode and leave it on. Tell people to call you on the house phone. Your battery life will improve dramatically.

The radio really sucks up tht much power, huh? :/ I wish sprint used simcards so I can have a reason to lug around my hero for when I'm out for more than 3 hours
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A_Flying_Fox said:
The radio really sucks up tht much power, huh? :/ I wish sprint used simcards so I can have a reason to lug around my hero for when I'm out for more than 3 hours
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Wow, 3 hours huh? I'm at least getting 8. I was getting 15 or 20 hours, but then started putting lots of widgets on my screens and that really killlllllllllled it

I usemy phone a lot. I was spoiled by my hero. I was getting days on a single charge with the same usage, if not, more. I wish I knew what's killing it so fast :/ spare prts says the screen is a majority of power consumption, but I usually have brightness on 0 (its plenty bright enough. It seems brighter than my hero at 50% ).
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A_Flying_Fox said:
I usemy phone a lot. I was spoiled by my hero. I was getting days on a single charge with the same usage, if not, more. I wish I knew what's killing it so fast :/ spare prts says the screen is a majority of power consumption, but I usually have brightness on 0 (its plenty bright enough. It seems brighter than my hero at 50% ).
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Is the Running time at 100%? If so, check Partial Wake Usage. Click on whatever's at the top of the list and check it's running time. Report back and let us know what you find.

Happy man

Manage to get my sg2 up to 5 days(battery wize) now with allot of tinkering and rom switching =)

Tell me more, tell me more....
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Kanzari said:
Manage to get my sg2 up to 5 days(battery wize) now with allot of tinkering and rom switching =)
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5 days yeah, im assuming you mean 5 days on standby meaning you barely if ever used it in that time because it is practically impossible otherwise to get that amount of battery for 5 days.

One man post on some forum. 7 days
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Kanzari said:
Manage to get my sg2 up to 5 days(battery wize) now with allot of tinkering and rom switching =)
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You need to start using ur phone instead of leaving it on stand by.
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Jeeez you lot are obsessed!
Plug sockets arnt hard to find!

with an intelligent use of the power-off button your battery may last some weeks...

I had 4.5 day on normal use but disabled data.
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Greatz for buying this kind of phone and keeping it unused.
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jangomango said:
Jeeez you lot are obsessed!
Plug sockets arnt hard to find!
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Bang on man! think my worst case I have burned through a whole battery in a 4-5hours (chroot vnc gps etc) you know what though, it's not an iphone carry a spare!!! have a charger, have a battery pack charger, have a car charger!
the slightly more worrying factor for me is the power draw of some apps being greater than the draw on car charge.
I-on road for example probably the only truely useful AR app but V. battery intensive (gps and camera on full time go figure)

Lol - it doesnt matter how many days you got, i bet it was still only 3-4hrs screen on time like everyone else.
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I saw someone post a 8 days screenshot in the extended battery thread.
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i don't see the point...5 days, 7 days, 98 days...whatever...i'd acheive the same by not using my phone at all...
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Dude I can accept 5 and 7 but 98 you are on. ;-)
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"Hey guys I got my phone 2 weeks ago and haven't even had to charge it yet.
It's still in the box."

My granny claims she have't charged her phone for years Must be one of those wired devices...
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Yeah carry a spare battery and don't worry about it, no point on spend $600 on a phone only to use it like a $50 one.
I've burned through a fully charged battery in an hour and half...
curioct said:
I-on road for example probably the only truely useful AR app but V. battery intensive (gps and camera on full time go figure)
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I had to look it up, and jesus god help us if people had to rely on that to drive safely...

Camping and battery life

Hello all. I am going camping for 5 days and I was wondering how I can get the best battery life out of my phone on 1 charge. (I won't have any electricity for 5 days)
I am currently using cnote's port of ice cold sandwich Rossi edition. I will be only using my phone for playing music and taking pictures. The phone will be in airplane mode for 5 days.
My question is if its good to idle it for 5 days in airplane mode or shut it down if it won't be used for more than 5 hours? Does it require more power when booting or does it consume less battery power when idling?
Thanks in advance.
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TDJ CM 7 and under clock
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The Indian's recommendation is good.
I would shut it off at night. Airplane mode will save LOTS of juice, but nothing saves power like being off for hours. Lol.
You might also consider one of those portable external chargers. They're pretty cheap.

estallings15 said:
The Indian's recommendation is good.
I would shut it off at night. Airplane mode will save LOTS of juice, but nothing saves power like being off for hours. Lol.
You might also consider one of those portable external chargers. They're pretty cheap.
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I agree, about the portable chargers. That really helps out a lot when you need some power on the go
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Have back light as low as you can stand have wifi only when you need it.
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md1008 said:
Have back light as low as you can stand have wifi only when you need it.
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They have campsites with wi-fi? Daaaamn. I've got to find one of those.

Sorry for being brief, if you only need it for 5 hours of just listening to music and reading ebooks, any rom other than sense 4 and stock will serve you well. Underclock so CPU max is 700ish (thats all you need) and turn it off completely if you aren't using it. I also recommend buying an external battery from amazon. Anker makes nice big ones of like $20

THEindian said:
Sorry for being brief, if you only need it for 5 hours of just listening to music and reading ebooks, any rom other than sense 4 and stock will serve you well. Underclock so CPU max is 700ish (thats all you need) and turn it off completely if you aren't using it. I also recommend buying an external battery from amazon. Anker makes nice big ones of like $20
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I believe he meant there will periods of, maybe, 5 hours where he won't be using it and he wanted to know if it would be better to leave it on for those periods or turn it off.

Thank you very much for the feedback.
You guys rock.
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Get a solar charger!

simplyrafa8 said:
Get a solar charger!
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Lol you should see the reviews on the Play Store! People are so stupid sometimes...
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I think I will be fine under clocking it and keeping it on airplane mode. I shouldn't need a charge.
I also am taking my nexus one, which already lasts like 6 days on airplane mode running miui v4.
Cheers all!
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simplyrafa8 said:
Get a solar charger!
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LOL I actually saw one of those for iPhone before...
I agree with external charger, will definitely come in handy.
ROM wise, any of them should be good, but its better to stay off ICS+.
GB is guaranteed stable for the Glacier, best battery life too.
-Saranhai

estallings15 said:
They have campsites with wi-fi? Daaaamn. I've got to find one of those.
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Lol wasn't thinking about him being at a camp site. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if a camp site did have a free wifi
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saranhai said:
LOL I actually saw one of those for iPhone before...
I agree with external charger, will definitely come in handy.
ROM wise, any of them should be good, but its better to stay off ICS+.
GB is guaranteed stable for the Glacier, best battery life too.
-Saranhai
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Thank God sckboy and I aren't the only one's around here who think ICS has the best battery life.
GB ftw.
Not that I'm not rocking JB right now, because I totally am. However, when I need stability, full functionality and battery life out that wazoo... Gingerbread.

Hey, i told him to use cm7 too. But I haven't had a crash on cm10 port yet
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My play music has been crashing and now I am upset that I can't use it at all. That was my main source of music. I can't even load it. Force closes as soon as I start it. I need to use the offline mode to save songs for camping.
I cleared cache. Set permissions and re flashed the newest gapp as well. Still crashing. Can't even load play music.
Oh well. Airdroiding songs to SD now.
I should flash cm 7 honestly but doesn't it take a couple of days for a new rom to normalize? I leave tomorrow and icecoldRossi is amazing battery life with frosted cherry now.
Technology ugh....
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Oh I also know that play music only allows a certain amount of devices authorized. I have my desktop, laptop, nexus one and my touch. That's one less than the required amount.
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poexone said:
My play music has been crashing and now I am upset that I can't use it at all. That was my main source of music. I can't even load it. Force closes as soon as I start it. I need to use the offline mode to save songs for camping.
I cleared cache. Set permissions and re flashed the newest gapp as well. Still crashing. Can't even load play music.
Oh well. Airdroiding songs to SD now.
I should flash cm 7 honestly but doesn't it take a couple of days for a new rom to normalize? I leave tomorrow and icecoldRossi is amazing battery life with frosted cherry now.
Technology ugh....
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If you feel like your battery life with that is well enough, go for it then; just because everyone says cm7 will get you the best battery life, doesn't mean your phone will agree. Oh and the play music thing is an app problem.
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Pretty much anything non-sense by TDJ. I swear everything I've gotten at least 3 days with use on every one of his roms/kernels.
I've even gotten 2 days on DARKSIDE sense. But it's always a good idea to keep an external charger if you're going to be gone for a while. Whenever I go on a business trip, even though I know that there will be available outlets, I always keep an external charger in case anything happens. Plus, it's always nice to not have to stick around a wall when you're charging your phone and have to use it at the same time.

Battery life? + Roms

Does anyone know a Rom that has a lot of battery life with moderate usage? I've tried a lot, but I would like your inputs on it.
While I'm at it, might as well ask all of you what roms your using? I'm using Viper touch 2.1.4 right now.
Edit: using sabsa prime now
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Sabsa prime with smartass v2 lasts me a full day
I haven't messed around with my phone too much this morning but its already 11:30 unplugged at 7
And I'm still at 99%
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N_otori0us_ said:
Does anyone know a Rom that has a lot of battery life with moderate usage? I've tried a lot, but I would like your inputs on it.
While I'm at it, might as well ask all of you what roms your using? I'm using Viper touch 2.1.4 right now.
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If you are getting bad battery life i would reccomend getting a Anker Batter for your phone.

Ryangyear said:
If you are getting bad battery life i would reccomend getting a Anker Batter for your phone.
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Naa my battery is alright, it's not bad.
But where can I get anker battery's in Canada. Around Brampton.. Or Toronto.
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I believe the site ships to Canada I would double check. Worst case scenario you can get one off Amazon
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Ryangyear said:
I believe the site ships to Canada I would double check. Worst case scenario you can get one off Amazon
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Which site?
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For me AOSP roms had better battery life than Sense roms.

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For me AOSP roms had better battery life than Sense roms.
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Hell yes lol. I also use Tasker to underclock and overclock at times. Like when my screens off and at night when I'm sleeping. I get a lot of battery now
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N_otori0us_ said:
Hell yes lol. I also use Tasker to underclock and overclock at times. Like when my screens off and at night when I'm sleeping. I get a lot of battery now
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I am using Dark Unicorn 2.5.
I was on CM7 for a few weeks, but the ROM was really slow and everything lagged. For instance, when I turned on the screen and unlocked, it took it roughly 5-10 seconds to respond before I could do anything. Other features didn't work, including the Market. I read over 100 posts about this Market issue, and couldn't resolve it. It led me to Dark Unicorn.
Dark Unicorn is insane amazing. Everything works (except720p recording). I have had no bootloops, no random shutoffs, nothing. I am trying to kill the battery as we speak and I cant! I just had the screen on full bright ON all the time, wireless, GPS, bluetooth, and music on for the last 2 hours and it only dropped 20%. I left it on all night with the screen off, 100% charge and it was still 100% in the morning. That includes the Data + Sync being on. On top of it all, I have it clocked at 1.2 right now.
I am thoroughly impressed with this ROM. I cannot gripe because I appreciate the developers work, however, if I had to have one complaint it's that there is no option to turn of haptic feedback for the screen off and on slide. I have disabled it all across the phone, but when unlocking it vibrates.
For anyone who cares, I am using the MDJ Kernel as well.
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Nice I'll try that ROM again! Last time I had some CPU problems, but that was all my fault lol.

N_otori0us_ said:
Hell yes lol. I also use Tasker to underclock and overclock at times. Like when my screens off and at night when I'm sleeping. I get a lot of battery now
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:good::good:

Biggest battery
What would be the largest battery for this phone. Right now I'm using the one I got with the phone. On the box it says the battery is 1500mAh, and on the battery it says it's 1400mAh. But what is the largest battery in mAh. And would a anker battery be better even though it's the same mAh? And can someone find me a link

Well... I got another question. People say royal ginger gets them Lots if battery life
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Got an HTC red battery that's 1620mah doesn't charge on my phone cuz it's inverted sh*t like that.but gingerbread ROMs last longer with batteries

N_otori0us_ said:
What would be the largest battery for this phone. Right now I'm using the one I got with the phone. On the box it says the battery is 1500mAh, and on the battery it says it's 1400mAh. But what is the largest battery in mAh. And would a anker battery be better even though it's the same mAh? And can someone find me a link
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There are "oversized" batteries but you have to take off the rear metal plate and you can't use cases designed for the OE phone size specs. The largest I think I've seen was something like 3500 mAh (again, no rear metal plate to hold battery in but they come with an extra one that's extended and holds the larger battery in otherwise it would fall out), largest that actually fits inside the phone was like 1600 mAh. Perfect for playing Ingress but terrible for using as a daily driver.

L473ncy said:
There are "oversized" batteries but you have to take off the rear metal plate and you can't use cases designed for the OE phone size specs. The largest I think I've seen was something like 3500 mAh (again, no rear metal plate to hold battery in but they come with an extra one that's extended and holds the larger battery in otherwise it would fall out), largest that actually fits inside the phone was like 1600 mAh. Perfect for playing Ingress but terrible for using as a daily driver.
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Hey, I don't mind a ugly back cover
Can you find me a link to the 3500mAh?

N_otori0us_ said:
Hey, I don't mind a ugly back cover
Can you find me a link to the 3500mAh?
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That's a big battery!

N_otori0us_ said:
Hey, I don't mind a ugly back cover
Can you find me a link to the 3500mAh?
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Here you go;
http://www.amazon.com/Hyperion-MyTouch-Extended-Capacity-3500mAh/dp/B005FGWB56

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Here you go;
http://www.amazon.com/Hyperion-MyTouch-Extended-Capacity-3500mAh/dp/B005FGWB56
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Does it ship t Canada?
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N_otori0us_ said:
Does it ship t Canada?
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Deal Extreme does for sure. Only problem is that it's sold out/back order at the moment.
http://dx.com/p/replacement-3-7v-3500mah-battery-pack-with-back-case-for-htc-mytouch-4g-91765
I think you mentioned in another thread that you were looking for a battery for the MT4G slide? They have this one for the slide, not sure if it's compatible but probably not http://dx.com/p/high-capacity-3600m...er-for-t-mobile-mytouch-4g-slide-khaki-143953

Nexus 4 running hot

Hey guys i have a little problem here, i flashed a few roms over the months and now i flash pacman then my phone starts to run hot then later the same day i flash aokp and it still runs hot.
I don't even have to be doing anything heavy very litght stuff like listening to music or even having the screen on will make my phone run up to 40c or 105f, this has never happened in the past because in the past my phone mostly ran below 31c.
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JayMix said:
Hey guys i have a little problem here, i flashed a few roms over the months and now i flash pacman then my phone starts to run hot then later the same day i flash aokp and it still runs hot.
I don't even have to be doing anything heavy very litght stuff like listening to music or even having the screen on will make my phone run up to 40c or 105f, this has never happened in the past because in the past my phone mostly ran below 31c.
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thats not hot. human body temp is 37C, 98.6F. is it warmer around you now then it was before?

It may be caused by the weather. Summer is coming if you live in the northern hemisphere.

I have only experienced the Nexus getting extremely hot when playing certain games that try to establish a constant connection to facebook.
Other than that no heat issues.

snapper.fishes said:
It may be caused by the weather. Summer is coming if you live in the northern hemisphere.
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I live in Illinois not to far from Chicago and it just hit 90 degrees F a few days ago so its a possibility. But still on these cool nights it gets hot just this morning my phone was at 26c and after sending this message its already past 32c.
Another question is what temps are yall getting after light use with your phones?
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If I browse on websites for too long on my N4, it gets hot in the upper left corner of the phone. I'm in Canada and it's not exactly hot here.

In in the UK. Sat outside with light usage and running at 28°C.
Indoors is normal for me to see 32-40° with screen on.
Unless gaming I wouldnt be concerned with battery temps below 45°
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K thx yall, thx for the feedback too. I guess this is kinda normal, well i hope its normal.
By the way which is the hottest any of you seen a nexus 4 get without shutting down or burning up?
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I knew it! With cm i got about 15 hours light use but with aokp im getting about 5 hours of life from my phone! XD plz help.
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JayMix said:
K thx yall, thx for the feedback too. I guess this is trtinormal, well i hope its normal.
By the way which is the hottest any of you seen a nexus 4 get without shutting down or burning up?
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without shutting down or burning up? 99C. with shutting down, 100C. but i was trying to see how hot i can get it.

Thats not hot, but if you want it cooler you can always UV.