Greets,
I'm having a problem with my Prophet.
Sometimes the battery drains very very quickly.
For example, I charged the phone yesterday at 18:00, and today at 16:00 I saw that it was turned off. When I turned it on, it was with 0% battery remaining.
It is strange because generally I get 2 days of battery time, not less than a day.
I did not used the phone since I take it off the charge.
What can be the problem?
I've had this happen too a few times, but never tracked it down.
It seemed to be when the battery got to 40% it dropped very quickly, but I've also had drop to 0% from full in less than a day with very little use.
Hi!
I've made a n interesting discovery with my battery.
3 weekends i have drained my battery until it shut itselfs off, and then i have charged it up again. And now i realy can live with my HD2 battery life.
When i come home from work i have about 80% and now as i write i have 76% left at 20.44.
Before i would have about 30-40% left at this time, i have never drained my battery before to 0, so when it happens the first time i noticed a slightly improvement. So the next weekend i did the same, and this last weekend i unplugged my charger at 06.00 in the friday morning and did not charge before sunday morning at 10.00. And for me THAT's a BIG/HUGE improvement.
Glad you resolved your issues .
I've found that having any kind of TSR apps installed on the device memory instead of the storage card, has made the battery life livable on my HD2 .
ToddeSwe said:
Hi!
I've made a n interesting discovery with my battery.
3 weekends i have drained my battery until it shut itselfs off, and then i have charged it up again. And now i realy can live with my HD2 battery life.
When i come home from work i have about 80% and now as i write i have 76% left at 20.44.
Before i would have about 30-40% left at this time, i have never drained my battery before to 0, so when it happens the first time i noticed a slightly improvement. So the next weekend i did the same, and this last weekend i unplugged my charger at 06.00 in the friday morning and did not charge before sunday morning at 10.00. And for me THAT's a BIG/HUGE improvement.
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yepp same here ..
i was a bit confused why the battery life was so sh itty . well i drained the battery a couple times and now i can run it 2 days without a charge and under normal / heavy use ..
MVH
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xavierdemon said:
Glad you resolved your issues .
I've found that having any kind of TSR apps installed on the device memory instead of the storage card, has made the battery life livable on my HD2 .
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TSR apps? Please explaine to me
Timothye said:
yepp same here ..
i was a bit confused why the battery life was so sh itty . well i drained the battery a couple times and now i can run it 2 days without a charge and under normal / heavy use ..
MVH
/T
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Hey guys!
I really need to try this. my battery life is just so pathetic.I hope it works for me too.
TSR - Terminate and Stay Resident.
Anything like G-Alarm/G-Profile, task managers etc. Any program that stays on or runs in the background I install to the phones memory. I think there is increased battery drain caused by accessing the storage card constantly IMO, so installing stuff like the above has made battery last 48hrs no problems. I too like to do a couple of full drain and recharge cycles a month .
I'm willing to bet that the majority of people who have battery issue probably has like a **** load of apps installed and/or unaware that some of their apps that they installed were running in the background. I've had the t8585 and the newer t9193 and never had any battery issue. The battery will easily last me 50hrs with light-to-moderate usage.
i can only confirm this.
after draining ur battery a couple of times, u need to fully charge it and it lasts longer than the first few days with the HD2
from new my battery life was totally useless. would barely last until 9pm no matter what i did.
two weeks ago my phone decided to forget it's pin lock number so had no choice but to hard reset the phone. since then i get a couple of days out of it and that's with heavy texting and web browsing.
i loved the phone before but battery life drove me up the wall but now i'm getting more life out of it i am now loving the device!
On the first couple of days I had the phone I had <40% by the end of the day but now even though I use my phone alot more I find I get to bedtime with ~50%
charging it unpowered after the drain also helps. (like with USB not the charger)
Most battery "manuals" state that completely draining the battery from time to time followed by full recharge is considered "good exercise" for the batt
mickesjo said:
Most battery "manuals" state that completely draining the battery from time to time followed by full recharge is considered "good exercise" for the batt
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Not to hijack the thread, just wondering if you're the talented skin designer that created some of the BEST for Wizbar? I still use them on all my HP PDA's
Few days ago i bought my HD2, and before that i saw problems about battery life on this forum.
When i bought it I drain the battery until he died, then i left him turned off and let him recharge over night (cca 8h). In the morning I turned him on and i used him all day max...and in the end of the day battery died at 23h, again, when he was off I let him chargeing over night (cca 8h). In the morning I turned him on and used him average, at evening, 23h, the battery was on 54%, I went to sleep and in the morning (after 7 hours) the battery was 52%.
2% in 7 hourse is very good...and 50% over day. I'm ok with that
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Most battery "manuals" state that completely draining the battery from time to time followed by full recharge is considered "good exercise" for the batt
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All that does for Lithium-Ion batteries is to reset the "estimated remaining charge" circuit. It wont increase the available battery life it just makes the battery report more accurately as to its remaining charge.
Smartmob said:
Few days ago i bought my HD2, and before that i saw problems about battery life on this forum.
When i bought it I drain the battery until he died, then i left him turned off and let him recharge over night (cca 8h). In the morning I turned him on and i used him all day max...and in the end of the day battery died at 23h, again, when he was off I let him chargeing over night (cca 8h). In the morning I turned him on and used him average, at evening, 23h, the battery was on 54%, I went to sleep and in the morning (after 7 hours) the battery was 52%.
2% in 7 hourse is very good...and 50% over day. I'm ok with that
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this is awesome...info..
i use energy rom with the gtx, and my battery life is so bad. it hardly reach one day!!
when i sleep at +- 10 p.m, i have 90%
when i get back from school( as most school here don't allow mobile phone), it left at 70/60 %, i get back from school at around 2.00 pm, i don't have any program running, gprs off, running at edge, i use 2.12 radio, how can you guys achieve 2 days?
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i use energy rom with the gtx, and my battery life is so bad. it hardly reach one day!!
when i sleep at +- 10 p.m, i have 90%
when i get back from school( as most school here don't allow mobile phone), it left at 70/60 %, i get back from school at around 2.00 pm, i don't have any program running, gprs off, running at edge, i use 2.12 radio, how can you guys achieve 2 days?
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energy rom's use a lot of power. i didnt knew that untill i flashed the Anastasia rom ( link ) battery life is great and it looks better than energy imo. and it easy runs 2 days for me
I've been very annoyed at the rapid battery loss with Dutty's series of excellent ROMs.
I started from scratch and didn't install any apps to the Storage Card just to be absolutely sure. I even put the phone into Flight Mode.
Tonight I finally nailed the culprit for the huge drain (we're talking 50% in a few hours): it was a 16GB "Memory2Go" SDHC card. With the card removed, I lost just a few percent over a couple of hours.
I also don't get the same drain with an 8GB Sandisk card installed.
Any ideas on how to get the 16GB card to play nicely?
xavierdemon said:
TSR - Terminate and Stay Resident.
Anything like G-Alarm/G-Profile, task managers etc. Any program that stays on or runs in the background I install to the phones memory. I think there is increased battery drain caused by accessing the storage card constantly IMO, so installing stuff like the above has made battery last 48hrs no problems. I too like to do a couple of full drain and recharge cycles a month .
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Damn, I never thought of the install location affecting battery life. But it makes sense, thanks a lot for your explanation!
Dear All,
I don't know really what caused this big improvment but let me share it with you.
First of all I have a Samsung Focus with a standard battery bought it from the USA at 10-2010.
The phone before the NoDo update lasts for more than a day but less than 2 days with little use and with heavy use it lasts for less than a day , Let's say 18 hours or less.
Any way I got the Mango RTM installed without Chevron and at the first week the battery lasts for 1 Day and 18 hours as per the Battery saver indicator.
4 days ago I forgot the phone plugged in for 10 hours and when I removed it the battery said that it will last 3 day and 18 hours?????
I said what the hell?
I thought it was a bad indication and removed the battery and replugged it again and yet it said that it will last for 3 days and 18 hours.
Now I passed the 3 days and 18 hours of using the phone (very little usage just a couple of calls or so) and I still have 10 percent left?
Any explanations of this weird but good behavior ???
I don't think you'll get any
But I'd say enjoy the ride and post back if it happens again. If that happens, please take snaps of your battery and charger and post here.
Also, you didn't mention if you were using GPRS/Wifi or any data connection in the 3+ day period. That affects the battery a lot. Per example, I am on Mango B1 (7661) and I'm getting 1 day and 12h with GPRS on and about 2 days+ with no data connections at all and litttle use (probably close to 3 days). Regardless of the battery projection.
used wifi to sync e-mails for 10 minutes and a couple or more calls not more than 10 minutes also with no GPRS , 3g or so ever.
But that's really something I can't understand it was one day half the battery that I have now...
I will post screen shots after trying again (If I remember to ).
Thanks.
Where do I find something that actually tells me how many days or hrs. I have on a fully charged battery? I was wondering where that was...
On Mango only not any previous OS versions:
Go to Setting then Battery Saver you will see how long is left till you need to recharge.
On any Mango version, in settings you can check the battery status.
Pre Mango you can use a homebrew Battery Meter or read about it.
Thank you for that. Hopefully I'll have Mango in a couple of days...
I just got the X10 a few days ago and i'm loving it.
Apparently the problem is battery life.
Right now I have Dooms kernel with Wolfs ROM and is draining about 10% on very low use.
I have wiped battery stats and tried to calibrate the battery but no help.
Under battery usage I have display @ 54%, Cell standby @ 26%, phone idle 19%.
While being off charger for 30 minutes the screen has been on for 3 minutes and is on lowest brightness.
Could my battery be dying since I bought it used and the person before had it for about a year.
Should I use a different ROM?
Thanks for your help!
read this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871051