So I have seen a couple users asking about creating a new thread for battery life on CM7 only, so here it is. I am getting ok battery life, but nothing near where it should be.
Here is where you can suggest, try, try again, and submit findings pertaining to the battery life. So let's get this started!!
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So I have seen a couple users asking about creating a new thread for battery life on CM7 only, so here it is. I am getting ok battery life, but nothing near where it should be.
Here is where you can suggest, try, try again, and submit findings pertaining to the battery life. So let's get this started!!
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I've found that turning off the radio saves battery life so I def. think that the radio is the problem for it
Thanks for starting this. It should be interesting to see where this thread goes.....
You mean flight mode? I don't think that is a viable solution, well at least if you need to use the phone. I can't even get xda super power installed for some reason
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try some of the different cm7 modems that are around, i found that on the 2.2 roms the kb5 modem was very efficient... it helps a bit with cm nightly got about 16 hours moderate use.
byt3b0mb said:
try some of the different cm7 modems that are around, i found that on the 2.2 roms the kb5 modem was very efficient... it helps a bit with cm nightly got about 16 hours moderate use.
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Right now I am on the 5-15 initial, I couldn't find the newest nightly
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I turn data off when not in use and it definitely saves battery for me.
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try some of the different cm7 modems that are around, i found that on the 2.2 roms the kb5 modem was very efficient... it helps a bit with cm nightly got about 16 hours moderate use.
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I get better battery life with KB5 too.
I can confirm that data use is probably part of the issue. I live in the sticks, there is no 3G at my house. My battery life is actually descent, no where near what I had with Froyo, but it doesn't seem to be anywhere near as bad as other people are claiming.
turn off background data when you don't need it, don't use auto brightness.
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Personally, I've just read from some ROM thread here, that you need to calibrate your battery if you flash custom ROMS. So far, it has worked out quite nicely.
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Personally, I've just read from some ROM thread here, that you need to calibrate your battery if you flash custom ROMS. So far, it has worked out quite nicely.
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How do you do that?
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How do you do that?
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Charge to 100%, go into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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Charge to 100%, go into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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Yes, also doing that. I recommend to go to the Android Market and search for Battery Calibration by NeMa. It's a great, free application as well to make sure that your battery is calibrated on top of the instruction from the quote.
Using spare parts app change wifi sleep policy to never. Known bug in gingerbread. New wifi drivers were just released for stock builds but I don't know if theyll work on cm7 or if they will be implemented.
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Yes, also doing that. I recommend to go to the Android Market and search for Battery Calibration by NeMa. It's a great, free application as well to make sure that your battery is calibrated on top of the instruction from the quote.
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Ya battery calibration app works quite well, that is something I haven't done yet with this ROM 0_o
I was having terrible, absolutely terrible battery life with CM7 and I decided to do some investigating. On my initial installation I used Titanium backup and Google Backup to restore settings and applications. I could not manage 4-6 hours on a single charge, with calibration.
I decided to do a fresh CM7 install to test things out. I simply booted into recovery and wiped data, cache, and system. I reinstalled the initial package provided on the CM forums and let CM7 boot. After letting the new installation settle down for 10 minutes, I rebooted into recovery, flashed gapps, and then the newest nightly. Again, I let it boot and sit for 10 minutes before performing anything. After settling down, I charged up to 100%, rebooted into recovery again, and wiped battery stats.
I should note that through this I declined google's offer to use backup services and declines google's offer to restore any old backups. I also decided to not restore any apps through titanium backup.
With my screen brightness set to 100%, wifi enabled, bluetooth enabled, and using the phone at amoderate to heavy amount, I have gone 12 hours and am at 5%. I am certain that after the battery stats can calibrate fully and run through a few more charges I will easily hit 15 hours on moderate to heavy usage.
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Using spare parts app change wifi sleep policy to never. Known bug in gingerbread. New wifi drivers were just released for stock builds but I don't know if theyll work on cm7 or if they will be implemented.
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I think they are, atinm said he updated it, but it makes the wifi disconnect from time to time like the earlier cm7 builds.
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Right now I am on the 5-15 initial, I couldn't find the newest nightly
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if you have rom manager pro the nightlies are available for download.
here's a few tips for you guys:
1. turn off 3G, stick to GSM only. Found in settings > wifi and network > mobile network> gsm only
2. use some black themes, anything than the normal grey and stuff should help
3. If you have data, use that instead of wifi, from what I see wifi eats more battery
4. if you're using wifi, go into wifi settings > *menu button* > advanced wifi settings > wifi sleep policy to: when screen turns off or never when plugged in.
hope that helps
This thread has been very helpful. Thanks
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I've seen a bunch of theories all over but have yet to see a method that has been seen to work?
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I've seen a bunch of theories all over but have yet to see a method that has been seen to work?
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What do you hope to gain or expect from calibrating your battery? Better battery life? What is your typically daily usage? How much talk time do you use? How much surfing do you do? Any game playing? Music playing? Do you have push email accounts? Do you use BT and Wifi regularly? Do you turn off BT and Wifi when not using it?
Finally is this a stock Aria setup or have you rooted and flashed a custom ROM? If so, which one?
Lots of factors go into battery consumption and your actual mileage may varying.
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I've seen a bunch of theories all over but have yet to see a method that has been seen to work?
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Theres a method in the old cm6.0 thread if you search within that thread that works. But the technique I use now is time. Eventually the battery meter will calibrate itself with enough cycles. Just wipe battery stats from clockwork on a full charge.
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Thanks
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What do you hope to gain or expect from calibrating your battery? Better battery life? What is your typically daily usage? How much talk time do you use? How much surfing do you do? Any game playing? Music playing? Do you have push email accounts? Do you use BT and Wifi regularly? Do you turn off BT and Wifi when not using it?
Finally is this a stock Aria setup or have you rooted and flashed a custom ROM? If so, which one?
Lots of factors go into battery consumption and your actual mileage may varying.
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Rooted runnong,cm6.1.1 (latest) . I only use wifi no mobile network.never use BT, never talk , play games occasionally, web surfing :a couple hours a day (mostly face book and twitter.) I use push e mail
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Rooted runnong,cm6.1.1 (latest) . I only use wifi no mobile network.never use BT, never talk , play games occasionally, web surfing :a couple hours a day (mostly face book and twitter.) I use push e mail
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So based on my experience with CM 6.1.1 and the usage patterns you mentioned, I would think that your battery should last at least a full day, right? It may even give you part of a second day. As CallMeAria mentioned in his post, I also found that clearing the battery stats and just letting the battery run through its cycles will give you pretty accurate meter readings over time.
Actually since I just updated yesterday I've noticed a reasonably longer battery life coming from fr008 so maybe I wont need it anymore
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You can also do some bump charging but it's a hassle more than anything.
Basically, you just charge the phone to 100%, shut the phone off. After it's off you plug it in again and wait until the LED indicator turns green. Unplug it, then plug it in again and repeat. This method actually does work quite well but will shorten the battery's life span.
[redacted] What are everyone's thoughts? So far for me, i feel it's i3 on steroids, and I feel pretty good about it. GPS didn't work at all for me on i3, and works well enough on bamboozle. I have done three drives successfully and one that gps failed after a few minutes.
Gives me much more hope for our gingerbread future.
Also... just now i experienced a new bug. Screen turned off while i had keyboard open and the keyboard backlight wouldnt turn back on till i closed it and reopened the slider. Never had that on any other rom.
Edit: don't post links to the rom... this thread needs to stay open. [redacted] i love reasonable discussion [redacted]
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It runs really good for me. Only problem is I get freezes to where I have to pull battery. About 2 or 3 times a day. Not really sure why. But other than that its super fast and smooth
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I had the same problem with i3. Haven't had it happen with bamboozle so far. I have had one or two lockups but I am pretty sure they are overclocking related with tegrak (tried to do 1.2 ghz with the default 1.275v, probably need 1.3v on my phone to be stable, and I'm not gonna pay for tegrak when hopefully source and new kernels are around the corner)
how can i freeze the market from updating?
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how can i freeze the market from updating?
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use Titanium Backup.
And this ROM is pretty good from what I've been using so far. After the modem settled in a little, 3G is somewhat about the same as EC05, where it was **** when it first got Odin'ed. Hopefully, it'll be updated to whatever is good about EG22.
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It runs really good for me. Only problem is I get freezes to where I have to pull battery. About 2 or 3 times a day. Not really sure why. But other than that its super fast and smooth
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do you overclock?
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This is one of the best roms I have ever used. Every thing is super functional and also very smoot. Btw I fashed it with stock ec05 and haven't chaned my modem yet. Usually ,,though, govod roms are too good to be true and I randomly get tons of fc's on the third or fourth day. Well see what happens though. I just wish a rom would last me on outings. I often don't feel comfortable leaving the house without stock.
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This is one of the best roms I have ever used. Every thing is super functional and also very smoot. Btw I fashed it with stock ec05 and haven't chaned my modem yet. Usually ,,though, govod roms are too good to be true and I randomly get tons of fc's on the third or fourth day. Well see what happens though. I just wish a rom would last me on outings. I often don't feel comfortable leaving the house without stock.
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Do you have ****ty battery life? Cuz when I used the ec05 modem it prevented my phone from goin into deep sleep and battery sucked.
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everything is working good so far...battery life has been funny though, i'll be at 70% then 21% after a reboot...also using ec05 modem...only problem i get is a fc when using spare parts...but i've only been running this for a day...
edit: anyone use setcpu with this?
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everything is working good so far...battery life has been funny though, i'll be at 70% then 21% after a reboot...also using ec05 modem...only problem i get is a fc when using spare parts...but i've only been running this for a day...
edit: anyone use setcpu with this?
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Lol .. seems like you need a battery calibration.
anyone has a cwm flashable ec05, ef02, ef10 modems?
i don't have any problems untill i overclock more then 1.1ghz and 1.152may last a couple hour the reboots on me. all and all this is a great rom the fact that the voice mail doesn't work isn't a big deal. Bamboozled 1.1 seem to fix that but i not ready to flash just yet to me its not broken so i'm not going to fix it i'll wait for a kernel that lets me use SetCpu.
i'll wait for a kernel that lets me use SetCpu.[/QUOTE]
U do know u can use setcpu with the overcloak app
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I guess im one of the few that doesn't oc/uv lol, rom runs well for me so far, only had it a short time though.
cds0699 said:
I guess im one of the few that doesn't oc/uv lol, rom runs well for me so far, only had it a short time though.
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Well at least you flash roms.
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Lol .. seems like you need a battery calibration.
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There's an app for that!
cd's or tapes?
dunno what happened...but my phone rebooted today and it just stayed at the samsung screen...anyone had this happened?
Flashed last night, and everything works good so far. One strange thing though. Plugged it in in over night so I could wipe battery stats this morning to calibrate. When I got up, it said battery full, blue light was on, icon read 100%, but a soon as I unplugged it, it dropped to 83%.
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I've been using it for about 24 hours; only issue I have is the daily briefing app crashes when adding a city, it force closes. No biggie really.
100% charged and stayed there for a bit; no weird jump down in %.
fastest ROM I've have used.
Whenever I leave my phone charged overnight, I wake up to around 70% charged. It's as though once it reaches 100%, it stops "charging" and it starts using the battery's energy, rather than the AC. Any help?
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Whenever I leave my phone charged overnight, I wake up to around 70% charged. It's as though once it reaches 100%, it stops "charging" and it starts using the battery's energy, rather than the AC. Any help?
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What kernel/rom are you running. The only suspect is that your kernel does not have "trickle charge" in the new kgb kernel you have to enable this with the app.
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I'm running a stock 2.3.5 Gingerbread.
Kernel is 2.6.35.7
What App is it?
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I'm running a stock 2.3.5 Gingerbread.
Kernel is 2.6.35.7
What App is it?
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Using pure stock, like you are, im not too sure why trickle charge isn't working. Are you against flashing custom roms/kernels?
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I'm not sure how the whole thing works... but I'll do it, doesn't seem too bad
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I'm not sure how the whole thing works... but I'll do it, doesn't seem too bad
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Yeah its pretty simple man, find droidstyle's guide for roms and mine for kernels. That'll give you the info you need.
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Is there any Custom ROM in particular that you would recommend?
go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070 and follow step 2, then go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459905 readthrough the first part on TW kernels, choose one of the 3 custom kernels (not the stock one), best advice is to read the op of each one and find one you think will work for you. they are all three well written kernels. one is already oc'd to 1200, which means no need for voltage control if you plan to oc your phone. most phones are stable at 1200 but thats just from doing alot of messing around and odining. the second post is the instructions for flashing the kernel. the first post just explains all of them to the best i could w/o kanging any information from the op. i just ran what i knew off memory. links to each kernel's op are at the bottom of post 1. i did links to the op's instead of posting dropbox files due to the fact that I want people to make sure they know what features each kernel has before they download it.
I would give battery calibrator app a try. It could be that when you flashed your ROM, the battery stats got jacked up
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kadin.zimmerman said:
I would give battery calibrator app a try. It could be that when you flashed your ROM, the battery stats got jacked up
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Actually there are numerous threads and posts online saying battery calibration does absolutely nothing
And besides you can clear battery stats in CWM
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mkuehl06 said:
Actually there are numerous threads and posts online saying battery calibration does absolutely nothing
And besides you can clear battery stats in CWM
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The way I understand it is WIPING BATTERY STATS Is pointless, battery calibration however is recommended. Heard this on many tech podcasts.
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The way I understand it is WIPING BATTERY STATS Is pointless, battery calibration however is recommended. Heard this on many tech podcasts.
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They are essentially the same thing. Battery Calibration is wiping the battery stats and running the phone dead than fully recharging.
I have been having a very similar issue. A buddy of mine (captivate) and I found that the phone wont charge past 98% on CyanogenMod with the Glitch kernel. I set the phone to not lock and keep the screen on while charging and the problem went away. The phone also would not stay on A/C power after reaching 98%. This issue was fixed too.
I think its an inherent problem with the batteries on the phones, since the issue occurs on many different roms/kernels/phones.
whether it's caused by the phone, ROM, or kennel, battery calibrator is a simple app that is at least worth a try in my opinion
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whether it's caused by the phone, ROM, or kennel, battery calibrator is a simple app that is at least worth a try in my opinion
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Imo opinion it didn't help me at all. But ive said that no two fascinates run the same. What works for one may not for the other.
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Hello,
The battery on my S3 is driving me crazy. I originally had an S3 and went to the Note II, but reverted back to another S3 because I couldn't stand the size of the Note. Anyway, this S3's battery is really bad - I barely use it and it drains 5% an hour, sometimes more. I've tried everything, location is turned off, social media is all turned off I just update it manually... I've attached some screenshots. it was 50% and dropped to 34% in just 2 hours and a half, I only used it for 2 minutes during that time according to the Screen data.
Any thoughts, suggestions or miracle solutions are appreciated.
Have you tried turning it on and off again?
Seriously try another ROM dude
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I've tried turning it on and off, tried wiping data.... Forgot to mention I'm running Sotmax Ultimate Stock ROM v8 w/ Yank555 v2.7 kernel. Everybody's reporting great battery life with the setup, can't say the same.
KarimSalloum said:
I've tried turning it on and off, tried wiping data.... Forgot to mention I'm running Sotmax Ultimate Stock ROM v8 w/ Yank555 v2.7 kernel. Everybody's reporting great battery life with the setup, can't say the same.
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I used to have abysmal battery life too, on LK4 stock till I discovered that several stock apps were the culprits. I disabled them and now my battery is almost on par with how it was when running ICS.
Try disabling the below apps. If it works well and good. If not, you've got to investigate what's happening.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34927890
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Op take a look at this thread. It will help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1878828
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Oomahey said:
I used to have abysmal battery life too, on LK4 stock till I discovered that several stock apps were the culprits. I disabled them and now my battery is almost on par with how it was when running ICS.
Try disabling the below apps. If it works well and good. If not, you've got to investigate what's happening.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34927890
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Thanks, I've just disabled them, hope it'll work out
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Thanks, I've just disabled them, hope it'll work out
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Ahlan.
Phone rooted. Since I installed the new JB 4.1.2 my battery live is really good : for example 48% remaining after 17 hours of use with 56 mns calls etc... and I keep everything working (WiFi, Bluetooth and all apps)
Updates from facebook and nova launcher seem to be your worst enemy
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KarimSalloum said:
I've tried turning it on and off, tried wiping data.... Forgot to mention I'm running Sotmax Ultimate Stock ROM v8 w/ Yank555 v2.7 kernel. Everybody's reporting great battery life with the setup, can't say the same.
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Try this. Im using Sotmax as well but with perseus kernel. In stweaks I under volted the CPU by -75mv and gpu by -50mv. Super smooth and completely stable.
I tried other kernels and I just couldn't get good battery life. I'm getting about 14 hours of solid use. Screen on of about 3.5 hours. I used to only get 7-8 hours.
The other thing I did was freeze the following which constantly run in background.
Video Hub
Software Update
SSuggest
Samsung Push Service (for Sammy app updates)
Make sure you remove your Samsung account. It constantly runs in background.
Wifi advanced settings change Wifi policy to only when charging. I find Wifi drains this phone fast.
I highly recommend resetting the battery levels by typing *#0228#
Then choose quick start. Unlock the phone and your battery will show the actual levels. Charge to 100%
Finally, I matched the ril with the modem included with this rom. Install the app getril and download the proper ril and install.
Hope this helps!
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Love it! I Battery is sick now!
Sync was on the whole time.
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New official jb is giving horrible battery backup..
Post your screenshot please...
update:continuous usage time:3.5 hours.
Dude your phone was awake all the time also your mobile network is really bad its better you flash some other modem !
Even if the phone was awake the whole time atleast it should give min 4 hours of backup which we currently get from ics.
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Even if the phone was awake the whole time atleast it should give min 4 hours of backup which we currently get from ics.
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Try turning of Google Now and "report my location" in Google Maps. Most sources of battery drain on LSJ consisted of Google Maps automatically checking you into places.
For this we were waiting for such a long time...
I don't get it what the use of this rom when we can't switch on Google now motions etc.. Means battery will blow away in few hours....
I've everything on, flashing a couple of things in recovery, 86% to 26% , tottal backup 11h with screentime 2h5m. Pretty okay, considering the stuff going on in stock kernel.
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I've everything on, flashing a couple of things in recovery, 86% to 26% , tottal backup 11h with screentime 2h5m. Pretty okay, considering the stuff going on in stock kernel.
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ALso google now which drains battery like hell
anshmiester78900 said:
ALso google now which drains battery like hell
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I use Google Now a lot I had Data on always. (always means when screen was on, i use greenpower premium app)
for me battery on jelly bean official is very good
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Change modem
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Dude your phone was awake all the time also your mobile network is really bad its better you flash some other modem !
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I have changed modem to xxlph seem mobile network improved allot. Thanks for your advice.
I dunno for myself i've always have problems with deep sleep on Samsung stock roms.
deep sleep is working fine here...without deep sleep i think no one can even think of using this rom..
Official JB is good at sleeping very bad while the screen is on, compare to jelly bam.
#blamesamsung
I will factory reset my phone wipe all date internal as well as sd card. All ready installed philz kernel and rather then stock i will give a try to wanan.Hope battery backup will improve..
twinker said:
I will factory reset my phone wipe all date internal as well as sd card. All ready installed philz kernel and rather then stock i will give a try to wanan.Hope battery backup will improve..
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Yes.
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1.Deep sleep is working fine and I have tried to wipe all my data 2 times but data was not wiping, dnt know its a bug or not.
2.but I install philz kernel+ wanamlite rom and here are my results.
twinker said:
1.Deep sleep is working fine and I have tried to wipe all my data 2 times but data was not wiping, dnt know its a bug or not.
2.but I install philz kernel+ wanamlite rom and here are my results.
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Whats your screen-on time? From the screen shot it seems like your phone is mostly off...
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I have changed modem to xxlph seem mobile network improved allot. Thanks for your advice.
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Where i can get that modem?
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oscar73 said:
Where i can get that modem?
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http://www.wuala.com/alonso444/Modems/LPH-Modem-XXLPH-CWM.zip?lang=en