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Am I the only one with horrible battery life?

My battery was great when I first got it but now it dies within 8-9 hrs with barley any use...is there anything I ca do to fix this?
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tomthebomb94 said:
My battery was great when I first got it but now it dies within 8-9 hrs with barley any use...is there anything I ca do to fix this?
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need more info what rom are you running? what kernel? what modem? have you reconditioned your battery?

Get about 12-14 of pretty heavy use for me, max I got was 21 hours about 2.5 hours of screen on and 25 min ca

nomadrider123 said:
need more info what rom are you running? what kernel? what modem? have you reconditioned your battery?
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Need more info like he said.......... But Read the Sticky about battery and look at some of the custom roms. They get great battery life.
And Yes, you may be the only one..............

I get horrible battery life. Running the Stock KA6 Froyo build. No custom roms. I think I would like the phone more if it got better battey life. I get 12 hrs max. No heavy usage on phone either. NO GPS OR WIFI on either.

This is probably the most asked question I see here. I recommend the search feature
If you're on a stock or leaked ROM, your battery is going to suck. Root, download Titanium Backup and start by freezing both DRM Processes and Media Hub for starters.
Next, spend the $2 and download an app called "SystemPanel". Run if for 24 hours. It will tell you what is draining your battery. The hardware is perfectly capable of good battery life. The more bloatware (Samsung and T-Mobile Apps) and crap apps you remove from your system, the better. Also, 3G, especially in area's with poor reception, will eat your battery life. In my experience, EDGE + WiFi is MUCH more friendly than 3G with no wifi. WiFi Calling is a battery killer as well. Getting great life is really quite easy once you know what you're doing, and the best way to know what you're doing is to read up.

the drugstore said:
I get horrible battery life. Running the Stock KA6 Froyo build. No custom roms. I think I would like the phone more if it got better battey life. I get 12 hrs max. No heavy usage on phone either. NO GPS OR WIFI on either.
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Just think how much more you'd love the phone if it not only got better battery life, but also preformed like you would expect a 1GHz cpu to perform! Try a new kernel and let the addiction begin!
Sent from my rough sketch of a Vibrant on a brick I like to pretend is running Trigger 2.7 on OverStock 1.3...

I get around 40 hours with light use. Running the latest bionix rom. wifi and bluetooth enabled the whole time, approx 90 minutes with the screen on. You should be able to get close to that.

Quick question: I run system panel. It never show media hub in top apps, why should I freeze it then?
P.s. I don't use media hub...am judge curious.
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Droidificator said:
Just think how much more you'd love the phone if it not only got better battery life, but also preformed like you would expect a 1GHz cpu to perform! Try a new kernel and let the addiction begin!
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Haha beautiful answer, but I have no idea about the addiction you speak of...
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Try out darkys rom I've had 1% loss in an hour with heavy usage compare to like 5% loss if no use on cm7
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duboi97 said:
Try out darkys rom I've had 1% loss in an hour with heavy usage
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No you didn't. The Vibrants are capable of some pretty good battery life, but there's no need to exaggerate so badly.

duboi97 said:
Try out darkys rom I've had 1% loss in an hour with heavy usage compare to like 5% loss if no use on cm7
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dude, your battery is defective, i lose 1% for 2 hours while playing dungeon defensers.
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duboi97 said:
Try out darkys rom I've had 1% loss in an hour with heavy usage compare to like 5% loss if no use on cm7
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Shrivel said:
No you didn't. The Vibrants are capable of some pretty good battery life, but there's no need to exaggerate so badly.
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+1. The above post from duboi97 is complete nonsense.

duboi97 said:
Try out darkys rom I've had 1% loss in an hour with heavy usage compare to like 5% loss if no use on cm7
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No **** that CM7 has bad battery life, it doesn't have optimizations. And 5% is exaggerating it, I lose 2% an hour with 3G on. I'd say that's pretty good.
Yes, it does die VERY quickly when you use it, but I expected that, that's why I use my iPod for heavy usage.
Also, the 1% thing, what kind of weed are you smoking? That seems like some REALLY good stuff.

Okay sorry about that lie. Truthfully moderate usage of 8 hours I lost about 20% I left a screenshot and from 100% I lost that in about 20 min no screenshot.
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Why do people use subjective terms like light, moderate, and heavy? Let us know what your display times are, as well as wifi or 3G connection.

Sdobron said:
Why do people use subjective terms like light, moderate, and heavy? Let us know what your display times are, as well as wifi or 3G connection.
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Good point.

duboi97 said:
Try out darkys rom I've had 1% loss in an hour with heavy usage compare to like 5% loss if no use on cm7
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GUYS HE'S RIGHT! I just flashed Darkyy's rom 2 days ago, and i haven't lost a single percent.
Maybe the phone being off has something to do with it?
Even on standby, it will lose 1-3% in a hour.
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Why do people use subjective terms like light, moderate, and heavy? Let us know what your display times are, as well as wifi or 3G connection.
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It's a general saying;
Light means it wasn't used that much but still a bit
Moderate, you check your phone once in a while, texting phone calls etc.
Heavy is when your phones like on 24/7(not literally, but i'm guessing you know what i mean)

duboi97 said:
Okay sorry about that lie. Truthfully moderate usage of 8 hours I lost about 20% I left a screenshot and from 100% I lost that in about 20 min no screenshot.
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The battery meter doesn't seem to be very linear. You are best off to run it dead and see how many hours your phone lasts. I can make it all day with 75% left, but it will be down to 40% in the morning.

Bionix - Best battery life ever!

;D I'm running Bionix v1.3.1 and the battery life is AWESOME. Yesterday, I did a LOT of texting, gaming and talking. By the end of the day, I still had 90%.
Usually, if I do that on any other ROM, by the end of the day, I'd probably have around 0%-30%
I didn't recondition the battery, either.
BUT ONE THING, I've NEVER EVER experienced a problem with the GPS on my vibrant, but right after flashing V1.3.1, it wouldn't work anymore. It'd take like 15 mins to lock D:<

wow. using any different kernels? What modem? I get stock battery life on bionix. I have no idea how people are getting such amazing battery life. Maybe i need to do a battery reconditioning.

jdm4u said:
wow. using any different kernels? What modem? I get stock battery life on bionix. I have no idea how people are getting such amazing battery life. Maybe i need to do a battery reconditioning.
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Yeah same thing here. How do you recondition the battery?

That's amazing I used it and I ended the day with like 40% i used trigger and I get like. 70% 60% on average
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Same here, running 1.3.1 with the overstock kernel, keeping wifi on all day due to the great wifi sleep policy, after an 8 hour work day of moderate to heavy use my battery is at about 70% everyday. I don't even want to update to the newest version of overstock, too scared to lose what I have.
Edit: And my gps works flawlessly, but I've done the hardware fix on it.
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Battery life on my vibrant using Binoix
Here is the screenshot of battery usage with Bionix...

I swore by bionix since the first rom came around, but recently I strayed and tried trigger. Trigger + overstock 2 kicks any bionix roms in the behind.
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My phone never liked Bionix, regardless of what kernel I ran. I was lucky to get 12 hours with moderate use, mostly texting.

Where can I find the hardware fix for the GPS?
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Search for (I'd link it but I'm lazy) "CORRECT hardware gps fix", but be careful, steady hands and big balls are required.
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dilluj said:
Here is the screenshot of battery usage with Bionix...
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Hows that paperweight? Im got good battery life with bionix, usually under 20% after work(8-6). Im getting great battery life with trigger rom now. Usually around 40% after work. All this is with music playback for atleast 4-5 hrs a day with data running.
Hate calling people liars but I will never understand people who get 2 days wiht an oem battery. I jsut dont see someone besides an extremely light user getting 2+ days without a charge. I got 2 days with my 2700mah extended battery.

can you play angry birds for 2 hours and say how's your battery?
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I also swore by bionix since it's first release but seriously trigger + overstock = fastest rom with the best battery life I've had so far

If you get more than a day on your vibrant...
You need to start using your phone and not just checking time or battery every 10 minutes.

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xriderx66 said:
If you get more than a day on your vibrant...
You need to start using your phone and not just checking time or battery every 10 minutes.
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Does it really last that long when use all day?

zerosource said:
Does it really last that long when use all day?
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it won't last 5 hours with heavy browsing.(web,xda,facebook,twitter etc)
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zerosource said:
Does it really last that long when use all day?
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This is probably as accurate as you can get:
Heavy use: 6 hours or less, MAYBE 7, but unlikely if its heavy use.
Moderate use: 10-14 or less, no more than 14.
Light: a day, and possibly more.

draikz said:
;D I'm running Bionix v1.3.1 and the battery life is AWESOME. Yesterday, I did a LOT of texting, gaming and talking. By the end of the day, I still had 90%.
Usually, if I do that on any other ROM, by the end of the day, I'd probably have around 0%-30%
I didn't recondition the battery, either.
BUT ONE THING, I've NEVER EVER experienced a problem with the GPS on my vibrant, but right after flashing V1.3.1, it wouldn't work anymore. It'd take like 15 mins to lock D:<
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It was good for me but no as good as Trigger,but the rom that lasted more on a charge for me was Azura,it had incredible battery life.

I used to get 2+days battery life on mine when I was running previous version of Bionix. I can't recall which version it was, i think 1.2.0. It was when the froyo was released for the vibrant i believe january-febuary-ish. After flashing to 1.3.1, i can't get passed to 24hours anymore. Also all my settings, syncs, wallpaper (etc..),except the modem,kernel, and 2 scrabble apps, where similar. The KB1 modem was one of the culprits of the drain and i have it replace with the JK and KA variants (still testing which one is the best). KB1 was awesome with my gps locks though with almost 3 meter accuracy with 8/12 sats locked). The speeds were also like +1-2mbs depending on the location and this was tested with a friend that has JKx modem. Also google googles and the 3d gallery up was not shutting down the sensor server which was draining the battery hardcore. Until now I still havent been able to replicate how I got the 2days battery life. I could revert to the previous bionix version because i have a back up too but this battery issue is not really that of a problem.

which for better battery life: Open Soju or GB-ns4G-deck?

Hi guys, I have a Sprint NS 4g. (saw another similar thread, but they are discussing ROMs for the other versions...) I stopped using it because the battery life is miserable even though I have 0% Time Without Signal. (My rooted Evo literally lasts 3x as long at this NS.) Therefore I am looking into alternative ROMs.
Any idea which of the above ROMs has better battery life?
Thanks!

I've been using mikeyinid's rom in the ns4g dev section. It's titled "updated 6/27/11..." using matr1x kernel. Had very good battery ever since he went to the new kernel and I'm using it as-is. No performance tweaks.
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Thanks - would you provide a link? I don't see that one. Thanks

You really get better battery on your evo? My ns4g lasts so much longer than my evo on any rom. I prefer cm7 for the options, with heavy use I can still get 20 hours
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Yeah, my Evo goes for 1.5 days with a lot of use. The recent roms are great on battery life.
My Nexus goes maybe 5 hours with heavy use.

brokentoaster24 said:
You really get better battery on your evo? My ns4g lasts so much longer than my evo on any rom. I prefer cm7 for the options, with heavy use I can still get 20 hours
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Broken, any tricks to get batt life that long? I have had two NS phones, each with dismal battery life.

ronnienyc said:
Broken, any tricks to get batt life that long? I have had two NS phones, each with dismal battery life.
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If you are using your phone non-stop, meaning you have the screen on straight periods of time, 5 hours is not bad, really. You have to remember that the SAMOLED screen sucks battery down. On the weekends when my phone is on all the time, I generally have to swap batteries 2 or 3 times in a day. Thats very heavy use, of course. During the week with moderate use, texts, gtalk, emails, and xda app, I get 10- 12 hours on a charge. Screen on time is a killer with the NS

Why does this thread get more hits than mine?
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I am trying Soju right now - so far it looks and feels elegant.

My NS4G gets way better battery life than my Evo did probably almost twice as long. But aside from that I have had good lick with open soju and Cyanogen. Open Soju was nice because it has voodoo control for headset audio which really takes advantage of the wolfson headphone amp built into the ns. Voodoo makes the audio like night and day once you have tried it you cant go back. Than Cyanogen is great many options but to get voodoo I had to use nets kernel. Both having great battery life but Cyanogen has more options but its still in beta.
Edit: I did not really answer your question about the GB-Deck because I have not used it but have heard good things you have to flash gapps with it like Cyanogen.

There's really something to be said for turning down the screen brightness. Also make sure you have wifi sleep on never. Try james bond kernel and let it settle for a couple days. First day or two of a new rom/kernel will be a little low on battery
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My Evo has been unplugged for 16 hours of heavy use, and there is now 28 percent battery remaining. This is with a current 2.3.3 rom. Well done Google.

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Thanks - would you provide a link? I don't see that one. Thanks
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Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070383
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Thank you sir.

Sense 3.0 rom with best battery life

I am far from a noob, its just that I have been on aosp roms for months now. I have been checking out these new 3.0 roms but I never see information on battery life. Could you tell me your set up and how your battery life is. I also worry about the performance but need the phone to get through not of the day. Thank you
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I was on stock OTA GB for about a month while I wasn't able to root, and my battery life was about 6 hours with constant lowest brightness display (that is, without the display turning off during that time). I could manage about 12 hours of minimal use.
I'm now on Synergy RLS1, and I have not noticed any improvement. I've done battery calibration and conditioning and nothing's changed.
I'm using the stock battery. I have a 3500mAh battery that doesn't seem to live much longer, but I haven't used it since I've rooted.

PwnCloud said:
I was on stock OTA GB for about a month while I wasn't able to root, and my battery life was about 6 hours with constant lowest brightness display (that is, without the display turning off during that time). I could manage about 12 hours of minimal use.
I'm now on Synergy RLS1, and I have not noticed any improvement. I've done battery calibration and conditioning and nothing's changed.
I'm using the stock battery. I have a 3500mAh battery that doesn't seem to live much longer, but I haven't used it since I've rooted.
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Oh wow, I know stock sucks, but I figured that rooted sense would at least be better. Just wondering have you tried to change your kernel? What kernel are you on? Also have you tried any tips on here, to lower down your sync and such? Thanks

I'm using Synergy RLS1 and I have the extended battery as well. I got like 27 hours on a single charge. I don't know if that is amazing or not but, it is better than when I ran the stock rom

Swyzzlestickz said:
I'm using Synergy RLS1 and I have the extended battery as well. I got like 27 hours on a single charge. I don't know if that is amazing or not but, it is better than when I ran the stock rom
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I consider that good lol... I don't have an extended battery but still. What kernal are you running? Thanks

redsoxfan320 said:
Oh wow, I know stock sucks, but I figured that rooted sense would at least be better. Just wondering have you tried to change your kernel? What kernel are you on? Also have you tried any tips on here, to lower down your sync and such? Thanks
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I'm using aggressive Freedom v0.8.5. That's my battery life after 5 or 6 cycles. I don't know what the problem is either. I've seen other people with good battery life with the same ROM and kernel. Even had it underclocked.
I'm going to try CM7 and see if there's any sort of improvement.

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I'm using aggressive Freedom v0.8.5. That's my battery life after 5 or 6 cycles. I don't know what the problem is either. I've seen other people with good battery life with the same ROM and kernel. Even had it underclocked.
I'm going to try CM7 and see if there's any sort of improvement.
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How old is your battery? Also did you flash it right, I usually wipe the device, cache and delvik cache 2-3 times each.

redsoxfan320 said:
How old is your battery? Also did you flash it right, I usually wipe the device, cache and delvik cache 2-3 times each.
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I got the phone new from Sprint just a little over a month ago. I flashed it along with the rom, so I wiped it including cache and dalvik cache.
I bought the extended battery about a week after thinking that my original battery may have been defective and that it would be nice to have a longer lifetime, but it only doubled (which isn't drastic considering how short it lasts with the stock battery).

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I got the phone new from Sprint just a little over a month ago. I flashed it along with the rom, so I wiped it including cache and dalvik cache.
I bought the extended battery about a week after thinking that my original battery may have been defective and that it would be nice to have a longer lifetime, but it only doubled (which isn't drastic considering how short it lasts with the stock battery).
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Oh okay. That may be a bad evol Sometimes phones jut don't work right with a rom. I'm gonna try and flash this rom. You should try a different rom
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I'm running mikg stock with nothing extra and i get a good solid day of moderate usage..

marksedge said:
I'm running mikg stock with nothing extra and i get a good solid day of moderate usage..
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Thanks and congrats on the first post

Haha thanks ..I do way more reading than posting

marksedge said:
Haha thanks ..I do way more reading than posting
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lol I was like that, and i'm still like that on other forums.

I dont think that my rom is 3.0,i believe its 2.1but I may be wrong.anyway,that said,im running Synergy RC2 with godmode.ive noticed an inbelieveable change in battery life.i had about 92% like 9 hours ago, im at 76% now and thats with using a few apps when I woke up.godmode utilizes a hybrid filesystem witg Yaffs2 and EXT.im still learning about it,but I guess using this hybrid FS makes performance.phenominal.ive seen an amazingg improvement in battery life.im using the stock battery as well.it comes with a stock kernel,so im not under or overclocking.
Evo 4G Synergy RC2

Using EVOlved with golden monkey and getting a good 15-18 hrs of moderate use on 3g

Thanks to both of you. Last night I flashed Synergy 3.0 with Freedom. I'm on 60% after about 11 hours. Most of which the phone was sleeping.

Check my Sense setup. A day of moderate usage ends in about 50% battery left
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tropicalbrit said:
Check my Sense setup. A day of moderate usage ends in about 50% battery left
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I will check it out. Thanks

I'm new to the forums, new to EVO - coming from iphone 4, I must say.. have tried atleast 15 different roms, all of which drastically suck the life out of my battery.. gingerbread evo deck definitely seemed to be the best for my battery life.. I'm trying MikG right now and it seems hideous, love how it runs/looks but going from 100-80% battery, in less than 20minutes is not good. All i've been doing is browsing tapatalk forums.
Not sure what I've been doing wrong, I do ofcourse do a complete wipe between rom changes. Wipe cache, dalvik, data, and run superwipe vr - using armon latest. ( think that's what it is called lol)

Im running synergy rls1 with Freedom 0.8.5 morefreedom version and getting a good 16 hrs of moderate use. Also have carasoul 3.0 rosie so it might take it down a little bit.

Best setup for battery life in MIUI V4?

I'm currently running 2.4.6 along with nyan colonel 4 but so far I'm not too pleased; I'm getting about 5-6 hours with medium use on a 1800 mAh battery.

Try turning off 3G (mobile data) when not in use. I was getting 6-7hrs w/ it on & now I can squeeze out 12-15hrs. However I left it alone it went 30 some odd hrs w/ only 30mins of screen time though.
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migmartinez said:
Try turning off 3G (mobile data) when not in use. I was getting 6-7hrs w/ it on & now I can squeeze out 12-15hrs. However I left it alone it went 30 some odd hrs w/ only 30mins of screen time though.
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Nuh uh, that's not gonna fly in this thread. I shouldn't have to be turning off my data to get any semblance of decent battery life. I really do want to get this to work though; I love MIUI. Unfortunately it seems the GB version will never be complete as everyone jumped ship to ICS and the ICS version is awesome but seems to get crap battery life even on 4.0.4

you dont HAVE to turn your data off....but if you wanna save some battery that is one of the best ways. if your phone is in your pocket and you dont need it, why have it on suckin juice....try juice defender, i use it with any rom i run and it helps...play with uv in nstools, just dont go too crazy with it.

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Try turning off 3G (mobile data) when not in use. I was getting 6-7hrs w/ it on & now I can squeeze out 12-15hrs. However I left it alone it went 30 some odd hrs w/ only 30mins of screen time though.
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Nuh uh, that's not gonna fly in this thread. I shouldn't have to be turning off my data to get any semblance of decent battery life. I really do want to get this to work though; I love MIUI. Unfortunately it seems the GB version will never be complete as everyone jumped ship to ICS and the ICS version is awesome but seems to get crap battery life even on 4.0.4
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Uh lol? He just gave you the best tip and you turned it down, you must not be interested in improving battery life, if you're constantly using data and have over 2hrs of screen time you're asking for crappy battery life, and unless you are always receiving important emails, you really don't have a reason to run it 24/7, if you're to lazy to turn it on and off, just use juicedefender, and it'll do it for you. You'll have to make some sort of sacrifice, whether it be monetary or personal. Phone usage is everything, get a bigger battery. Also, logging out of social networking apps when you aren't using them helps as well. I find I have very nice battery life on MIUIgb
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I know that turning off data can save me battery life. That's not the point of this thread. I figured it was implied I was talking about different kernels and versions of MIUI V4, not the way I use my phone.
On that note, what's your setup with MIUI GB? I've been considering going back but I'm turned off by MMS STILL being broken

Sorry dude but that's the wrong question to ask. By now u should know that every phone is different if its what kernel to use & what setting to use this or that app than its simple trial and error. When we were still on froyo I couldn't use one of the very popular kernels bcuz it drained by better like crazy it took me a few weeks but I found the perfect setup to get good battery life. & sorry for misunderstanding your intention for this thread.
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shadowlink217 said:
I know that turning off data can save me battery life. That's not the point of this thread. I figured it was implied I was talking about different kernels and versions of MIUI V4, not the way I use my phone.
On that note, what's your setup with MIUI GB? I've been considering going back but I'm turned off by MMS STILL being broken
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Alright.. well I misunderstood, it mighta been better to include that in op but it's whatever now lol, I'm using shadowkernel MIUI, and... 100-800Mhz governorndemand, schedular: Sio. And yes MMS has actually been a pain in the ass today for me, I'm considering going to AOKP again lol. I will apologize if I sounded rude in the previous post though, I didn't understand where you were coming from.
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Is dropping down to 800 MHz noticeable as far as performance goes? Also is MMS the only problem you have with MIUI GB?