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BB. 67 battery life

As anyone else notices the massive difference in battery life with the new BB .67 I'm on 62% battery 2 days in which is unknown for me!!!
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andddy said:
As anyone else notices the massive difference in battery life with the new BB .67 I'm on 62% battery 2 days in which is unknown for me!!!
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This baseband does appear to improve on battery usage, but it's still early days - weekends tend to have less phone usage than weekdays.
I have juice plotter up and running to be able to meter this somewhat less vaguely.

andddy said:
As anyone else notices the massive difference in battery life with the new BB .67 I'm on 62% battery 2 days in which is unknown for me!!!
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Damn if you really managed to get that i might give it a try too! On what rom are you using it im very curious?
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andddy said:
As anyone else notices the massive difference in battery life with the new BB .67 I'm on 62% battery 2 days in which is unknown for me!!!
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WOW massive! .58 was pretty good for that and the .67 is gettin as good for the moment =)
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shahkam said:
Damn if you really managed to get that i might give it a try too! On what rom are you using it im very curious?
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im on tripsmiui 1.2 with cobratos bb patch.the miuis arent usually great for battery life either. the wifi and data speeds are also improved.im using setcpu also

Oh nice do you have any clue whit what else rom is this baseband compatible and did cobrato update his thread whit the new baseband patch along?
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amus76 said:
WOW massive! .58 was pretty good for that and the .67 is gettin as good for the moment =)
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ive just flashed from .52 so the battery life difference is huge for me,but if you flash to .67 and have experience on battery life with .54 or .58 please leave your opinions on the benefits

andddy said:
ive just flashed from .52 so the battery life difference is huge for me,but if you flash to .67 and have experience on battery life with .54 or .58 please leave your opinions on the benefits
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I have a problem with .67 and .61.
Here's my story:
I am on Froyo MIUI for the past two months, I think.
I had baseband .58 with the baseband patch.
Battery life was damn good, I could easily get 35-40 hours
and even more if I was using the phone less than usual.
With CPU Spy (a great piece of app, by the way) I could see that when I was not using the phone,
it was almost immediately falling to "Deep Sleep" state, meaning minimum to none CPU usage.
After installing .67, I noticed a slightly increased battery drain.
Opened CPU Spy and saw that the phone didn't get enough Deep Sleep.
Half the time the CPU was working, even during the night.
Then I installed .61 but the situation was exactly the same.
Also, in Spare Parts, the Dialer appeared to keep the phone awake for 70-80% of the uptime.
It's very weird, could it be related to my region?
Could those 2 basebands be incompatible with my country's networks?
The signal, however, was vastly improved from .58 .

shahkam said:
Oh nice do you have any clue whit what else rom is this baseband compatible and did cobrato update his thread whit the new baseband patch along?
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i used wolfbreaks v006 and all worked perfectly just crashed the system server. trips miui is made for .52 so i used cobratos usual patch as if i had .54 or .58 and all worked well. should be compatible with most froyos...

My_Immortal said:
I have a problem with .67 and .61.
Here's my story:
I am on Froyo MIUI for the past two months, I think.
I had baseband .58 with the baseband patch.
Battery life was damn good, I could easily get 35-40 hours
and even more if I was using the phone less than usual.
With CPU Spy (a great piece of app, by the way) I could see that when I was not using the phone,
it was almost immediately falling to "Deep Sleep" state, meaning minimum to none CPU usage.
After installing .67, I noticed a slightly increased battery drain.
Opened CPU Spy and saw that the phone didn't get enough Deep Sleep.
Half the time the CPU was working, even during the night.
Then I installed .61 but the situation was exactly the same.
Also, in Spare Parts, the Dialer appeared to keep the phone awake for 70-80% of the uptime.
It's very weird, could it be related to my region?
Could those 2 basebands be incompatible with my country's networks?
The signal, however, was vastly improved from .58 .
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it could be software related,i know theres a few apps that cause problems with deep sleep such as power amp,flikr,meebo/juicedefender atc. what miui rom are you using? also you could try system app remover from the marker and disable the dialler. the region shouldnt make too much difference as my regions isnt compatible either.

My battery usage has been awesome on BB.67.
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andddy said:
it could be software related,i know theres a few apps that cause problems with deep sleep such as power amp,flikr,meebo/juicedefender atc. what miui rom are you using? also you could try system app remover from the marker and disable the dialler. the region shouldnt make too much difference as my regions isnt compatible either.
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Thanks for the suggestions!
Actually, the Dialer is the com.android.phone process, so if I disable it,
I will be disabling radio connections!
I haven't installed any new apps, so it can't be that.
I am thinking about doing a repair with SEUS and then reflashing my MIUI ROM.
I am using Trip's MIUI 1.2 by the way.
Never before have I had such issues though.

My_Immortal said:
Thanks for the suggestions!
Actually, the Dialer is the com.android.phone process, so if I disable it,
I will be disabling radio connections!
I haven't installed any new apps, so it can't be that.
I am thinking about doing a repair with SEUS and then reflashing my MIUI ROM.
I am using Trip's MIUI 1.2 by the way.
Never before have I had such issues though.
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yeah but if you disable it say overnight and check the usage it will pinpoint the problem. try the trip 1.0.9 from what ive read that seems to be the most stable.some of trips releases are better than others. gl

andddy said:
it could be software related,i know theres a few apps that cause problems with deep sleep such as power amp,flikr,meebo/juicedefender atc. what miui rom are you using? also you could try system app remover from the marker and disable the dialler. the region shouldnt make too much difference as my regions isnt compatible either.
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I have power amp and never noticed any issues with Deep Sleep. Today has been 75% deep sleep, for example.
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I flashed the whole update to my X10a and applied the Arc theme. Battery life has been a touch better than with the same setup on the .435 SE stock ROM.
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mdintx said:
I flashed the whole update to my X10a and applied the Arc theme. Battery life has been a touch better than with the same setup on the .435 SE stock ROM.
have you noticed any other benefits on the stock rom?
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My_Immortal said:
Dialer appeared to keep the phone awake for 70-80% of the uptime.
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I originally had this problem, so re installed a fresh 2.1 ROM.
Then flashed the new BB, then new ROM.
This cured my dialer problem, hope it works for you!
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DaveHTC200 said:
I originally he this problem, so re installed a fresh 2.1 ROM.
Then flashed the new BB, then new ROM.
This cured my dialer problem, hope it works for you!
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That's what I did, thanks a lot!
I will observe and report.

21 hours and still @ 47% .. that is an accomplishment D: with everything constantly syncing in the background, always connected to either 3g or wifi and i listened to like 2 hours of music yesterday. on stock 2.1

emijomo89 said:
21 hours and still @ 47% .. that is an accomplishment D: with everything constantly syncing in the background, always connected to either 3g or wifi and i listened to like 2 hours of music yesterday. on stock 2.1
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Wooow this is a lie ommmg I can't believe this! Andy a question ur running wolfbreak v006 whit the hotfix? Because I'm running the same rom as you but whit baseband. 52
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bamboozle discussion thread 2

[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?

kalel_293 said:
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.

Esteway.619 said:
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.

carnivalrejectq said:
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?

kalel_293 said:
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.

shawayne21 said:
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.

Stock atrix battery life sucks!

I can't see how this is one of the biggest batteries out yet after a full nights charge and barely using the phone it needs to be charged again by the middle of the day! I'm tempted to put my sim card back in my iphone... If any one has suggestions I'm all ears.
Oh and I've tried to follow steps to root/unlock etc. but I get errors from the rsnlite 5.3.? installer that it can't install.
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which ROM are u using ? i used to have very good battery life in stock 2.2 2 . about 2 days with 5 hrs display usage.

supermerkin said:
I can't see how this is one of the biggest batteries out yet after a full nights charge and barely using the phone it needs to be charged again by the middle of the day! I'm tempted to put my sim card back in my iphone... If any one has suggestions I'm all ears.
Oh and I've tried to follow steps to root/unlock etc. but I get errors from the rsnlite 5.3.? installer that it can't install.
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Dude, there are like three complete threads here with solutions to battery problems. Why did you create another one?
Two of them are in the very same section where you created this thread.

Solution to your battery life woes can be had by putting your sim back inyour iphone. The atrix and instructions to use this forum seem to be above your level of using technology. Btw, my battery life has been awesome.
I voided my warranty.

Dude seriously if you battery sucks its because you dont know how to use the phone properly i get 15-24 hours with heavy texting facebook and browsing you dont need to complain about somthing its your own issue creating another thread is useless post up on the others not here

Holy snot I in no way was bashing the phone but was venting my frustration in how complicated it seems to be to get the battery to last...
I also posted in the general section not QA where I knew I would get bashed.
Im on stock 2.3.4 and it seems like (due to not being able to install the 5.3 lite program) I'm stuck running stock rom and can't make changes needed you guys can.
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supermerkin said:
Holy snot I in no way was bashing the phone but was venting my frustration in how complicated it seems to be to get the battery to last...
I also posted in the general section not QA where I knew I would get bashed.
Im on stock 2.3.4 and it seems like (due to not being able to install the 5.3 lite program) I'm stuck running stock rom and can't make changes needed you guys can.
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If you aren't comfortable flashing a new rom and/or freezing system apps, give the "2x battery" app a try. It certainly is an improvement to the stock battery life.

I really want to flash one but the program I need to install on my cpu won't install... I keep getting error msgs and no one has been able to give me a solution why yet.
I used to have an htc fuze and flashed roms almost daily so I have the knowledge but my machine isn't cooperating with the needed download to unlock.
Ill try the 2x battery, thank you for the help.
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supermerkin said:
I can't see how this is one of the biggest batteries out yet after a full nights charge and barely using the phone it needs to be charged again by the middle of the day! I'm tempted to put my sim card back in my iphone... If any one has suggestions I'm all ears.
Oh and I've tried to follow steps to root/unlock etc. but I get errors from the rsnlite 5.3.? installer that it can't install.
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User error....
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supermerkin said:
Holy snot I in no way was bashing the phone but was venting my frustration in how complicated it seems to be to get the battery to last...
I also posted in the general section not QA where I knew I would get bashed.
Im on stock 2.3.4 and it seems like (due to not being able to install the 5.3 lite program) I'm stuck running stock rom and can't make changes needed you guys can.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333

Installed 2x battery then fully charged the phone and disconnected it around 4 our so.
wifi on the whole time, I have texted and taken some HD video plus been on FB since and have only dropped to 80%. Thank you for the tip on the program, seems to be helping. Ill leave it unplugged over night and see where I am in morning.
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Stock atrix battery life sucks!
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Could not disagree more. On my stock Atrix, I was getting just over 2 days usage (not just leaving the phone on the table) pretty consistently. Rooted and GB rom now, am getting a day and a half but am probably just getting the battery and rom used to each other lol

I don't get it, I had 80% 2 hours ago then went to 70% powered off and on and now I have 80% again?
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Omg. You have a self charging battery!
I voided my warranty and your mum.

Bender B. Rodgriguez said:
If you aren't comfortable flashing a new rom and/or freezing system apps, give the "2x battery" app a try. It certainly is an improvement to the stock battery life.
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Freezing apps would definitely help. Especially is you use "System Panel" to find the culprits.
Although from what I've heard isn't stock supposed to have better battery life than the custom ROMS?...
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Ill take a look at that one to. Went to sleep with 70% and left wifi on all night to end up with 50% this morning. I'd say that isn't too bad.
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supermerkin said:
I can't see how this is one of the biggest batteries out yet after a full nights charge and barely using the phone it needs to be charged again by the middle of the day! I'm tempted to put my sim card back in my iphone... If any one has suggestions I'm all ears.
Oh and I've tried to follow steps to root/unlock etc. but I get errors from the rsnlite 5.3.? installer that it can't install.
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You, Sir, are a five-star noob.
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supermerkin said:
Ill take a look at that one to. Went to sleep with 70% and left wifi on all night to end up with 50% this morning. I'd say that isn't too bad.
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Which battery saving mode are you using?...
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My battery lasts about 3h max, im living the dream!

@ccrows- It only lets me select the daytime mode due to not having the PRO version. And I dont see in it where I can freeze apps?
It actually seems to be charging faster as well. How long does it take you guys to get a full charge from dead on average?

Display always 75% or higher

I don't know what happened but I'm having issues. I cannot get the display to fall below 75% and it sucks because between my EVO stock battery and my extended battery you can actually see the battery life being sucked away rapidly.
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I am having the same issue with my display can't figure out. What
Rom are you using I am using swag Rom

Iturned of the auomatic brightness on my phone and set it manually since installing cm7
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jerrykur said:
Iturned of the auomatic brightness on my phone and set it manually since installing cm7
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This manual setting will lower it a ton don't need it at full brightness half the time.
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I have the same issue, it is isolated to Sense roms. It doesn't happen with AOSP, which is why those are the only roms I can use due to the battery life. We had a thread going for a while with some other people who had the same problem, but nobody could really get to the bottom of it. I reached out to Aamikam but he couldn't really help or didn't want to. I didn't know if a logcat or anything would have helped but no one really answered me. It happens on froyo and gingerbread sense roms, and I never had the issue for a long time but then I noticed it the first time on MikFroyo 4.62. I've tried everything since then but no results.
Only thing to do right now is switch to an AOSP rom, I highly recommend Team Nocturnal's Xplod. Very smooth with Tiamat 3.3.7 kernel and more eye candy than CM7. I would love to be able to use MikG again but my battery literally dies in 4 hours, regardless if I'm using the phone or not.

Alot of ppl seem to think that 75 percent or more of display is bad. Really it isn't. The battery stats need to equal 100 percent. On sense roms that's the way it is and there is nothing wrong with it. Now if your experiencing high.android system usage, that's a problem. As long as everything else is relatively low, its all good
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Its after I installed the new update. Even downgraded to earlier gingerbread and still 75 plus.
Yes my system is low but I can watch my battery meter lower in realtime. Well I guess its time for a new toy.
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Prene said:
Its after I installed the new update. Even downgraded to earlier gingerbread and still 75 plus.
Yes my system is low but I can watch my battery meter lower in realtime. Well I guess its time for a new toy.
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If your actively using your phone and it drains rapidly that's pretty normal in my experience. But if its draining a lot during idle, check for a rogue running app. Otherwise not using auto brightness is a good mentioned trick along with underclocking with a new kernel should help
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It has to do with the use of a generic power_profile.xml. Neither CM or stock use correct values for this.

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Alot of ppl seem to think that 75 percent or more of display is bad. Really it isn't. The battery stats need to equal 100 percent. On sense roms that's the way it is and there is nothing wrong with it. Now if your experiencing high.android system usage, that's a problem. As long as everything else is relatively low, its all good
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You don't get it...this is not normal display usage. I remember what my battery usage and battery life was like before this problem came up and there was a huge difference. Before, cell standby was my highest usage and I could get 25-30 hours on a charge. Then display usage shot up to 90% give or take some, and battery life dropped to 4-8 hours. I can understand if display was slightly higher than everything else, but display is at 75-95% while everything else is under 5 or 10. There is absolutely no reason why the display usage should be that high even when the screen has been OFF the entire time. That's not normal. I have multiple screen shots to back it up.
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It has to do with the use of a generic power_profile.xml. Neither CM or stock use correct values for this.
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Is there a way to fix or change this? And is there a reason why it happens to some people but not others?
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Well if its been off then I don't have the slightest clue.
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So using bootmanager (finally works now) I loaded miui. And my display is no higher than 1%. So something is very very wrong with sense and 4.5 updates.
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Newbie

I'm new to Xda but not to droid forums.
I just wanted to say wow! What a difference between the two. People are talking about stuff for the droid x and I'm totally lost. That's awesome!!
Can someone point me to where I can get a few questions answered about CM9?
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You should be able to get your questions answered here:
http://rootzwiki.com/index.php?/topic/18589-CyanogenMod-9-[UNOFFICIAL]-[Beta]-(4/24)
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Thanks. That's where I got all my info before I switched to CM9. After week of using it, I'm switching back to stock. The main reason is because the battery life sucks even with all syncing off and touch sounds and a few other things done to try to conserve battery.
My battery was at 40% when I left work yesterday with only light Facebook and web browsing.
Also some apps not working very good on it is another reason I'm switching back.
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s_cuttic said:
Thanks. That's where I got all my info before I switched to CM9. After week of using it, I'm switching back to stock. The main reason is because the battery life sucks even with all syncing off and touch sounds and a few other things done to try to conserve battery.
My battery was at 40% when I left work yesterday with only light Facebook and web browsing.
Also some apps not working very good on it is another reason I'm switching back.
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ICS roms haven't been perfected yet, but if your looking for a good user experience with decent battery life, you should try DefX MIUI.
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infazzdar said:
ICS roms haven't been perfected yet, but if your looking for a good user experience with decent battery life, you should try DefX MIUI.
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yeah, wizard's MIUI has been the best for awhile now in terms of great battery life and full functionality. i've tried the ICS roms out there for the droidx but battery life was abysmal. i like having the latest android system but not if you have to trade great battery life for poor battery life.

I am running cm9 with a build date of April 24th (build number: IMM76D).
And i love it. It is super fast. the only complaint i have is that when long pressing home to get to the recent apps list it takes about 1-2 secs. Other than that its great. everything works except video (sometimes) and panoramic shots. the battery life isnt too bad. but i have had bad battery problems for a while.