I flashed myns synergy rom a couple of weeks ago and have been getting decent battery life. Today my battery life is blowing me away. Going on 11 1/2 hours since being unplugged with my normal usage and still have 22% battery left. Not heavy use by any means but moderate at least. I have never seen this kind of battery life on any other rom I have flashed. Any other synergy users seeing good battery life?
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Yeah, I am a pretty light user but I can get two full days
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I got decent battery life on Synergy, but its nothing compared to my battery life on my current CM7.1 setup. 20 hours of moderate use and I still have 48% on the stock battery.
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Im at 54% now took it off the charger at 1030 am i set words with friends to not update and it seemed to help.
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Neitmrh15 said:
Im at 54% now took it off the charger at 1030 am i set words with friends to not update and it seemed to help.
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There's a great battery guide in the Q/A section, all kinds of tricks. Might find the guide to kernels there too, another way to drastically improve battery life. The new GB kernel sprint released is garbage, try netarcy-toast "brand" kernels
No where near CM7's battery life, but still very much a daily driver. I usually plugged up at around 40% battery after at least 12 hours usage.
Pretty decent for a Sense rom.
I've had my Evo unplugged for the last 2 days and still sitting at 43%. This is with sending about 60 texts, facebooked, got on frostwire for a bit, made like 12 calls, played a couple of rounds of Angry Birds and been on wifi about 95 percent of the time. Never has this happened with other roms. And I have tried a lot. Only thing disabled was 4G(none in my area)
Unplugged Sunday at about 2pm, it's now Tues at noon, I'm still at 49%.
Light to moderate usage since then, about 200 texts, a few short phone calls, and about two hours combined of facebook and twitter. VERY good life for 2 days worth of usage.
I just recently switched over from CM7 to Synergy RC1... I loved when I went away from Sense to AOSP and was reluctant to switch back. But very pleased and battery life I can confirm is excellent for me as well. My only gripe now is that I'm getting the darn unread email count showing up on my home screen icons even though there is no unread emails. I have found online that it is a known issue and mostly seen in 2.3.3? Can anyone confirm that?
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I have tried several sense 2.1+3.0 roms, Virus Kingdom revolution, and mik g I have never been more happy than once I began using Synergy. Heck I even devoted a whole post on Google+ about it. Very stable and my battery is ridiculous. I took my phone off the charger at 6:30 am cdt its now 12:15 pm and I'm at 78%. That's with heavy usage. Great job devs.
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Seems like people are getting better battery life now that its been out for awhile, aging like a fine wine
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Seems like people are getting better battery life now that its been out for awhile, aging like a fine wine
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When I first flashed I was goeeting okay battery life, the past few days has blown me away. I am used to seeing my battery drop like mad...but it does not do that anymore. I did nothing that I have not done on other ROMs, it just seems to work better after being on the phone a couple of weeks. This will be my ROM for quite some time now!
I'm really trying to get to the bottom of this display usage issue. My display usage stays extremely high compared to everything else. The more I use the phone, the higher it goes. Say if I use the phone a lot, it will be around 90%. If I barely touch the phone, it will go down to 50% but it's still a LOT higher than everything else. And it drains the hell out of my battery. If I barely use it I can get maybe 12 hours at most. If I do use it, I'll be lucky to get 7-8 hours.
It starting happening to me on MikFroyo but it didn't use to do it before. And now I'm noticing the same thing with Synergy. This is driving me nuts because it's keeping me from using my two favorite roms as a daily. I'll post three pictures. One is what my battery life/usage used to look like, one on MikFroyo 4.62, and one on Synergy RC1. I would really appreciate any insight to this.
Edit: It's only these two roms (that I've tried at least) that gives me this issue, and I think MikG if I can remember correctly. CM, Salvage-Mod, and a few other older Sense roms do not cause it.
This is with MikG 1.5, with my usual fairly heavy use.
AMAZING battery life, and 100% stable in my experience.
I have tried many, many ROMs and this one beats all.
no idea how people get battery life like that. i'm lucky to make it a 14 hours~ with similar usage
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no idea how people get battery life like that. i'm lucky to make it a 14 hours~ with similar usage
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I was getting maybe 14-16 hours, then I removed the check mark from Always On Data, and the battery life doubled. (again, this is with MikG only.)
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I'm really trying to get to the bottom of this display usage issue. My display usage stays extremely high compared to everything else. The more I use the phone, the higher it goes. Say if I use the phone a lot, it will be around 90%. If I barely touch the phone, it will go down to 50% but it's still a LOT higher than everything else. And it drains the hell out of my battery. If I barely use it I can get maybe 12 hours at most. If I do use it, I'll be lucky to get 7-8 hours.
It starting happening to me on MikFroyo but it didn't use to do it before. And now I'm noticing the same thing with Synergy. This is driving me nuts because it's keeping me from using my two favorite roms as a daily. I'll post three pictures. One is what my battery life/usage used to look like, one on MikFroyo 4.62, and one on Synergy RC1. I would really appreciate any insight to this.
Edit: It's only these two roms (that I've tried at least) that gives me this issue, and I think MikG if I can remember correctly. CM, Salvage-Mod, and a few other older Sense roms do not cause it.
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let me start by saying that i used to think the same way your thinking untill one of the guys on the synergy post broke it down for me. it's simple, you keep thinking that the display% is an issue but it's only a number and it doesnt represent your actual battery drain. if you hardly use your phone, lets say u make a couple of calls, check some mail and browse the web. well the percentage is correct, your display was on longer than any other application. so it's going to be higher no question. the real question is are you getting good battery life or not? i'm on synergy RLC1 and after some suggestions that i upgrade my PRL, PRi, and wimax. which i did, now im getting great battery life even though my display percentage is still the highest application.
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let me start by saying that i used to think the same way your thinking untill one of the guys on the synergy post broke it down for me. it's simple, you keep thinking that the display% is an issue but it's only a number and it doesnt represent your actual battery drain. if you hardly use your phone, lets say u make a couple of calls, check some mail and browse the web. well the percentage is correct, your display was on longer than any other application. so it's going to be higher no question. the real question is are you getting good battery life or not? i'm on synergy RLC1 and after some suggestions that i upgrade my PRL, PRi, and wimax. which i did, now im getting great battery life even though my display percentage is still the highest application.
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That is only the case if it's maybe a little higher than the rest of the things. It's a percentage of what has used the battery. When the display is at 90% and everything else is at 3% or less, there is a problem. And no, I am getting HORRIBLE battery life. Like I explained, on ROMs that don't have the extremely high display usage I can get 20-30 hours on one charge. The way the battery drains when I'm using it is extremely noticeable. The picture I posted that has been on for 14 hours with 48% left, that's how my battery usage should look. Granted I hadn't used the phone as much as normal that day, it still would be around the range of everything else.
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That is only the case if it's maybe a little higher than the rest of the things. It's a percentage of what has used the battery. When the display is at 90% and everything else is at 3% or less, there is a problem. And no, I am getting HORRIBLE battery life. Like I explained, on ROMs that don't have the extremely high display usage I can get 20-30 hours on one charge. The way the battery drains when I'm using it is extremely noticeable. The picture I posted that has been on for 14 hours with 48% left, that's how my battery usage should look. Granted I hadn't used the phone as much as normal that day, it still would be around the range of everything else.
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ok, may i suggest that you upgrade all PRI, PRL, wimax etc.. you know all that stuff and give it 2 days to see if that helps. it made a major difference for me..
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So I get terrible battery life with .33.4 kernels (925 or 800) but got phenomenal battery on Ravens 800mv from 5/03. Are there any .33.3 kernels that will have the right drivers? How hard would it be to mod?
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Have you considered just sticking with the stock kernel? I'm getting phenomenal battery life with the stock Froyo kernel. Last I checked, i was at 46% after 28 hours unplugged (pretty heavy usage too - streaming music over 3G, several phone calls, tons of texting, youtube, web browsing)
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Have you considered just sticking with the stock kernel? I'm getting phenomenal battery life with the stock Froyo kernel. Last I checked, i was at 46% after 28 hours unplugged (pretty heavy usage too - streaming music over 3G, several phone calls, tons of texting, youtube, web browsing)
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My battery is getting raped on froyo almost to the point that I want to roll back to enoms 2.1
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Have you considered just sticking with the stock kernel? I'm getting phenomenal battery life with the stock Froyo kernel. Last I checked, i was at 46% after 28 hours unplugged (pretty heavy usage too - streaming music over 3G, several phone calls, tons of texting, youtube, web browsing)
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what do you do to get that much battery? my battery life isnt so good on froyo
I tried stock. Wasn't great but was better than avs.
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all kernels are going to depend on how much you play with it, and what you have running. if you don't have a load of widgets, background data, bluetooth, etc running, you should get decent battery life.
the more crap you run, the more energy it takes. common sense.
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all kernels are going to depend on how much you play with it, and what you have running. if you don't have a load of widgets, background data, bluetooth, etc running, you should get decent battery life.
the more crap you run, the more energy it takes. common sense.
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This!
And I am getting pretty good battery life off the stock Froyo kernel. Actually, I am only draining at 2.2% an hour, and have had my screen on for 1hr 57 minutes, and the device off the charger for 14 hours. I have also made about 45 minutes of phone calls, and let it download with the screen off a bit.
Personally I have similar battery life to what I was getting on cm with uv/oc kernal. It does appear like it might be a little worse but I need time to be sure. Regardless I have gained small but real improvements with battery life on both cm and enom using the custom kernals and I have no reason to expect another result with froyo. Since battery life isnt exactly something I would describe as gratuitous on the N1 I will be kernaling up as soon as one looks like it actually works without issues. Right now thats not exactly the situation as I read down in development. There are a few usb mounting issues going one way and no cam going the other. Hopefully there will be a more hashed out kernal soon as the guys get more time to play with it. So getting back to the begining you ought to have something to work with shortly.
So no one will ever get the old kernels working with Froyo, huh?
If only I could find one that worked well without the USB dismount issue or the wifi issue, everything I've tried has failed. IMO 2.6.34 so far has worked best for me but has the dismount issue. I've tried four so far and none of them work well. I did get pretty proficient at moving zip files from dropbox to the sd card though.
Battery life seems to be so across the board dependent on so many variables that it sometimes seems like it's not even worth trying to gauge other people's experiences. I've tried numerous ROM/Kernal/Usage/Setting combinations and have never gotten what I'd consider to be 'good' battery life. 2.2's no exception.
I just ended up buying this 2 battery and external charger pack off of eBay for 20 bucks and admitting defeat. Our superphones are luck of the draw it seems when it comes to battery life. I'd follow someone's set up to the letter and get nowhere near the battery life they claim to get. I can turn off syncing, keep the screen dim, run a kernel that's supposed to get great battery life, and still get around 3%-5% drain per hour on standby.
My morning routine has me use bluetooth stereo headphones for about 25 minutes on the metro while I look at a couple of webpages. From out the door fully charged I'll be down to around 82% when I get into the office. To me, that's laughably terrible, but it's the only life I've ever known with my Nexus One.
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Battery life seems to be so across the board dependent on so many variables that it sometimes seems like it's not even worth trying to gauge other people's experiences. I've tried numerous ROM/Kernal/Usage/Setting combinations and have never gotten what I'd consider to be 'good' battery life. 2.2's no exception.
I just ended up buying this 2 battery and external charger pack off of eBay for 20 bucks and admitting defeat. Our superphones are luck of the draw it seems when it comes to battery life. I'd follow someone's set up to the letter and get nowhere near the battery life they claim to get. I can turn off syncing, keep the screen dim, run a kernel that's supposed to get great battery life, and still get around 3%-5% drain per hour on standby.
My morning routine has me use bluetooth stereo headphones for about 25 minutes on the metro while I look at a couple of webpages. From out the door fully charged I'll be down to around 82% when I get into the office. To me, that's laughably terrible, but it's the only life I've ever known with my Nexus One.
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It is terrible and I was in the same boat as you. I found the kernel from 4/29 800mv and 5/03 800mv to be the big winners for me. Any other kernels and my battery drops like dead weight.
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It is terrible and I was in the same boat as you. I found the kernel from 4/29 800mv and 5/03 800mv to be the big winners for me. Any other kernels and my battery drops like dead weight.
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Hm.. You're talking about Intersect's I'm assuming? How do they fair with Froyo? I'll have to try to track those down.
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Hm.. You're talking about Intersect's I'm assuming? How do they fair with Froyo? I'll have to try to track those down.
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Ya. The two kernels I mentioned are the ones that had me going 1.5-3 days depending on usage.
In right there with you guys. I unplugged at 8am and now its 10am and I'm at 78% this is how its always been.
I downloaded the 5/03 one and I'm trying that one out now, thanks. Maybe we'll see some improvement. It sucks to lose the ability to record video for a chance at battery life on par with what I'd get on a RAZR, but that's the world we live in.
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I downloaded the 5/03 one and I'm trying that one out now, thanks. Maybe we'll see some improvement. It sucks to lose the ability to record video for a chance at battery life on par with what I'd get on a RAZR, but that's the world we live in.
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Your RAZR doesn't have a 1ghz processor and a 3+" screen either... I'm not happy either but I'm just sayin'...
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Your RAZR doesn't have a 1ghz processor and a 3+" screen either... I'm not happy either but I'm just sayin'...
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True enough, but phones in the same category perform much better than ours in terms of battery life, and they never made the claim to be 'superphones'. And AMOLEDs are designed to not use a lot of juice, but HTC somehow botched that idea, from my research.
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True enough, but phones in the same category perform much better than ours in terms of battery life, and they never made the claim to be 'superphones'. And AMOLEDs are designed to not use a lot of juice, but HTC somehow botched that idea, from my research.
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I agree... Hopefully the "final" release of Froyo will have an updated kernel addressing the battery life. To be, it's not a big deal because I am always near a charger but it would be nice to be able to get through an ENTIRE day of heavy usage without worrying about the battery dying.
I havent had a smartphone recently that could didn't need to be charged every night. I would love better battery life as I jmake it through weaker usage days at about 40% moderate usage at about 25% and with heavy use I have to find a way to get plugged in to get through. Still, reading how other similar phones (large screen 1 ghz etc) are doing leads me to believe that the N1 is roughly comparable. I'm not sure how you can compare a modern smartphone to a far less power hungry (and capable) feature phone that a person almost certainly did less with over the course of a day?
So I upgraded my Pre for the EVO when it came out and have been using the same phone and battery since getting it. I found XDA and immediately started rooting and flashing. I started with Fresh and DC when those were about the only options. I use my phone fairly heavily as I am almost always listening to downloaded radio shows either thru a plugged in headset or a jawbone icon BT set. I would say that I averaged about 8 hours of battery life no matter what ROM and kernel combo I tried. This is everything from Fresh, DC, Virus, Warm, CM6, EViO, Evo-NonSense, MIUI, and all of the applicable kernels. The best I had gotten with all of the various combos was a little over 16 hours (with an SBC kernel), which I thought was AWESOME! Needless to say, I used Warm TwoPointTwo (including betas) for a while and touted its look, feel, performance, ease of use, and feature set alongside an SBC kernel.
I ALWAYS keep an eye on the development section for something to pique my interest and pull me away from my current setup. After trolling Lucid's thread for cm7 for a while, I took the dive when the official cm7 nightlies started rolling out. I have been with cm7 ever since. I also took advantage of savage and zendroid kernels and now savaged zen.
The longest I have gone so far is 2 days 10 hours! How? Well...conservative governor on an SBC savaged zen kernel and toggling mobile data off when not in use. Will that same setup work for you? Maybe. Unfortunately all EVO' s are not created equal.
Moral of the story? It takes alot of time, reading, and work to find the thing that works for your EVO. It was a pain to find the right combo, but it is worth all the work.
Thanks for your post. When you got the battery to last over 2 days, it looks like the phone mostly sat there, am I seeing that incorrectly?
I, like you, have tried all different things with the Evo trying to get battery and performance. I am locked on MIUI right now, it gives me the best of both worlds. If you want to try a Sense rom, try Ava's stuff. When I get "bored" with MIUI I will go back to Ava.
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When I get "bored" with MIUI I will go back to Ava.
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God will kill a kitten if you switch from MIUI. You don't want that on your conscience now, do you?
Yeah it really depends on your usage without it the 2 days 10 hours don't mean much. 2 days is no problem if I only use it to make a couple of calls. every 8 hours it only loses 4% charge when untouched with autosync on. The evo battery isn't bad it just takes tweaking like the op says
I get on average two complete days on a charge. With heavy usage I het like a day and a half, with light usage I can go 3 days. MIUI 1.1.28 w/ savage 1.6 kernel. I used to shut off my data too when I wasn't using it but with the MIUI build I'm on, I don't need to.
I really don't trust the battery use(in settings) in CM7 at ALL. I had my phone plugged into my car charger for 45mins on the way home tonight I unplugged it at 7:38pm.
It is now two hours later(10pm) it is showing I have been unplugged for10h55m9s on the posted screenshot. Then if you look at the other screenshot my battery indicator pro is showing the correct amount of time since unplugged.
I've noticed that the battery stats in cm7 do not reset unless you fully charge your phone. Otherwise it continues the count even if you plug a charger in.
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I get on average two complete days on a charge. With heavy usage I het like a day and a half, with light usage I can go 3 days. MIUI 1.1.28 w/ savage 1.6 kernel. I used to shut off my data too when I wasn't using it but with the MIUI build I'm on, I don't need to.
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MetalHead, do you overclock/undervolt? If so, would you mind sharing your settings? Lastly, have you noticed an increase in browser speeds since you flashed MIUI and tweaked your settings?
I know I need to come up with something. my battery drain is friggin' horrid.
Unplug @ 100%, turn the screen on, let it sit with nothing, pretty much, running in the background and in 10 minutes will be down to about 93%....
Tried several different combos, but all are pretty much the same results...
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MetalHead, do you overclock/undervolt? If so, would you mind sharing your settings? Lastly, have you noticed an increase in browser speeds since you flashed MIUI and tweaked your settings?
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I overclock at 1152 with smartass governor 98% of the time. Savage 1.6 is a HAVS kernel so I guess technically it is undervolted. I honestly couldn't tell you about the browser speeds, I've been on MIUI since the beginning of November so I really have no clue what the browser speed on a Sense ROM is. Everything is a lot faster with MIUI so I'm assuming my browser speeds have also increased.
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I know I need to come up with something. my battery drain is friggin' horrid.
Unplug @ 100%, turn the screen on, let it sit with nothing, pretty much, running in the background and in 10 minutes will be down to about 93%....
Tried several different combos, but all are pretty much the same results...
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This is typical, unless you use an SBC kernel, bump charge your phone, or unplug it exactly when the light turns green.
Any non-SBC kernel will not keep the phone at 100% charge while on the charger. Some will argue that doing so is dangerous for the battery or methods like bump charging put too much wear on the battery.
This is most likely the reason that phone companies rarely have a true percentage shown on their batteries, because they all do this. If we didnt mod to get that real number shown, you would think your phone was acting just fine.
Personally, if I am really going to be using my phone a ton in one day, Ill bump charge it, but otherwise I just accept that its going to drop that first 10% really fast.
The best measure imo of battery performance is how much % you lose when the battery is somewhat discharged, and off. Every phone will drain while you use it, but most of the hours of a day, your phone is off and idle. If you lose 1% per hour, or 5% per hour, that will make a huge difference in your up time per charge.
Unfortunately, mine doesn't stop at that 10%. For instance, mine came off the charger at 5:30 AM at 100%.
By Noon, it was down to 70%, and I had 1 - 3 minute call, no texts and maybe 20 minutes of playing Klondike before work.
I guess I'm gonna have to go SBC. Worst that can happen is I end up buying a new battery, just incase it does so it in.
So in 10 minutes you drop 7%, and in the next 6 1/3 hours you drop another 23% with moderate use?
That sounds like pretty typical battery results to me, thats about 26 hours uptime with a fair amount of use. But maybe others could chime in.
Dude, 5 hands of a card game is NOT moderate use. It's practically no use. Klondike doesn't use data, GPS, etc... nothing, except minimal graphics.
The one phone call literally lasted less than 5 mins, so yes, a phone that drops 30% doing nothing is drastic.
I seem to get pretty good battery life on Myns rom.
I can go at least 24 hours with moderate usage, all on the stock kernel.
Looks like I may have found a little better stability with the Netarchy-Toast CFS 4.3.2 Havs SBC less.
30 minutes of moderate use today and it only dropped 5%
The best battery life I have gotten is from Feb 09 Plutonium.
Miks 4.5 4.2 sbc, gps on updating all every hour call, text, surf, angry birds all freaking day, and get 14 to 16hours every day
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Wow i have been wanting to try MIUI for a while and i definitely will now.
I'm getting pretty bad battery life with MIUI 2.11 on hw 003. Can anyone recommend a good kernel? I'm hesitant to try the SBC kernels based on the potential battery damage, so savaged-zen is out, also savage-zen seems to have issues with usb mounting.
Is there a link to savage 1.6 CFS, which I've read in a number of threads now is a good one. Speed is not imp, stability, bt+usb working and battery life is.
I have the device on auto-brightness settings. I will say that the auto-brightness IS pretty bright with EC05. MUCH brighter than other versions. Anyone else noticing this?
I came from EB13 and I got excellent battery life. So far, today, while getting full bars:
Time on: 7 Hours 21 minutes since unplugged
Time on display: 56 minutes (86%)
Voice calls: 8 minutes
Total battery left: 32%. That's a far cry from what I was getting with EB13.
Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with this version! Although, EB13 was awesome as well. I just had a bit more force closes here and there on EB13.
Took mine off the charger around 8am with moderate use mine tanked around 6. I also live in an excellent 3G/4G area.
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Any reason why?
Its probably the brightness broham. Try turning it on manual and keep it as low as possible. The screen is the biggest stress on the battery. The brighter the background the worse the battery life as well.
re: waiting a while... the battery gets 'conditioned'... look up one of the MANY threads on that subject on here... some you have to be an astrophysicist to understand, but interesting nonetheless. Re: brightness, yeah, turn it on manual, set it on lowest poss setting, indoors most of the time its plenty bright, and if your ROM didnt disable it (idunno why they would) hold down your status bar and a little drop thingy comes down, slide L or R for brightness, like for outside, or if you really wanna make an EVO user sad and show off the AMOLED mmmmm..... contrast ratio and black levels....
This is some of the best battery life I have gotten out of this phone period. Its so good I dont even want to flash a custom ROM. I have brightness turned down. F that auto brightness..I hate that feature. I unplugged today at 6 in the morning...Played on it before work....Played while at work.....Some more after work...A little while driving...(dont judge me) ....... And now Im on it playing poker online. I love it. Im so serious about not flashing a custom ROM. I am loving this new update and its battery life.
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I have the device on auto-brightness settings. I will say that the auto-brightness IS pretty bright with EC05. MUCH brighter than other versions. Anyone else noticing this?
I came from EB13 and I got excellent battery life. So far, today, while getting full bars:
Time on: 7 Hours 21 minutes since unplugged
Time on display: 56 minutes (86%)
Voice calls: 8 minutes
Total battery left: 32%. That's a far cry from what I was getting with EB13.
Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with this version! Although, EB13 was awesome as well. I just had a bit more force closes here and there on EB13.
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This is EXACTLY my usage patterns and battery for the last 2 days. The only way I'm getting 14 hours out of this thing is if I don't turn it on once. And fixing the brightness isn't going to help me too much if it loses 80% just sitting there idle is it? I'm pretty close to just flashing it back to DI18, declining updates (or flashing the Syndicate rom from that era) and just living with it. For the record, I also had miserable battery with everything DK28 and EB13. Perhaps my phone just doesn't like Froyo?
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This is some of the best battery life I have gotten out of this phone period. Its so good I dont even want to flash a custom ROM. I have brightness turned down. F that auto brightness..I hate that feature. I unplugged today at 6 in the morning...Played on it before work....Played while at work.....Some more after work...A little while driving...(dont judge me) ....... And now Im on it playing poker online. I love it. Im so serious about not flashing a custom ROM. I am loving this new update and its battery life.
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No playing on the phone while driving.... lol I do it all the time too. Im on here alot while driving.
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I keep hearing about not all batteries are equal I wonder how true that is. I just flashed the ACS SyndicateROM Frozen 1.0.2 and I am curious to see how my battery life is on the road tomorrow..errr...today at this point.
I know if I am using it off and on pretty constantly I get no more than 6hours with moderate activity (email, web, occasional phone call) we will see what happens now that I am on this ROM.
I told myself I wouldn't go to a non-factory ROM but this is stable, runs the processor with less power @1GHz and with the click of a button you have on-demand 1.2GHz.
A few other things I noticed is the interface is MUCH snappier even though I am using the TouchWiz launcher and the "Fully Loaded" Version I can't wait to see how it goes.
After 2 days on EC05 my battery life is ok, but not as good as when I used a custom undervolting kernel. After 12 hours I'm at about 40%. Today I'm going to try using setCPU to run a different profile and see if it works or makes a difference.
i havent seen good battery life since 2.1 :/ i used to get 24 hours of use with epic experience and the phoenix kernel.
no way im going back to 2.1 just for battery life. although it is the most important thing to me
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I have bad battery life with EC05. Tested today with only 3 texts, and two 10 minute phone calls.
8 hours of standby time and I've burned 5.25% of battery per hour.
Wifi on 99% of the time and within range. Policy = never sleep
Same usage for the weekend on DI18 I'd be around ~85% rather than my current 57%.
My battery life is even worse for work days when I have Lotus Notes Traveler sync scheduling every 15 minutes.
DI18 end % of 8 hours of work = ~70-75%
EC05 end % of 8 hours of work = ~43%
worldwidepmp said:
Took mine off the charger around 8am with moderate use mine tanked around 6. I also live in an excellent 3G/4G area.
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Just to follow up, I flashed back to Bonsai 4.0 and unplugged at the same time today(8AM.) it's now 8:00p and I'm at 66% battery with just about the same amount of moderate usage.
usfslacker said:
This is EXACTLY my usage patterns and battery for the last 2 days. The only way I'm getting 14 hours out of this thing is if I don't turn it on once. And fixing the brightness isn't going to help me too much if it loses 80% just sitting there idle is it? I'm pretty close to just flashing it back to DI18, declining updates (or flashing the Syndicate rom from that era) and just living with it. For the record, I also had miserable battery with everything DK28 and EB13. Perhaps my phone just doesn't like Froyo?
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Take it in and tell the sprint rep. Maybe you could get a new battery for free. if not you may want to buy one.
Automatic Brightness says that it will hurt your battery more then manually setting your brightness. Gosh, no wonder why so many people complain about battery life. No one can read anymore. Seriously, my battery life is the exact same as DI18 as it is on EC05. Learn how to use your phone efficiently.
Also take into account EC05 is Froyo, and DI18 is Eclair. A big difference in how they have to be treated. You will hurt your battery more doing certain things in Froyo then you did in Eclair, one example is Task Killing.
And if you dare to have the nerve to disagree with me, I'll redirect you to "Poor Battery Life" threads from EVERY SINGLE DEVICE on XDA. I doubt every carrier and company is making the battery life horrible, nah just the users.
Does that mean we should NOT kill tasks on froyo?
hold down your status bar and a little drop thingy comes down, slide L or R for brightness, [/QUOTE]
See, thanks for that info. I thought that feature was disabled on froyo builds. Even with you saying it works, its very rare that it works for me. On 2.1 it was so easy to swipe and adjust it....
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I'm getting some pretty good battery life with ec05 so far. Right now I'm at 13% battery and here's the usage:
23hrs 39mins
display 78%, 1hr 49mins
cell standby 12%, tws 30% (I still get that bug from time to time, but not always like before)
voice calls 7% 19mins
phone idle 4% 21hrs 50mins
I had odin'd back to di18 and got ec05 ota friday morning, still not even rooted. I keep brightness at the lowest setting and use a black background.
slybarman said:
Does that mean we should NOT kill tasks on froyo?
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Yes, you should not kill task or applications at all in froyo.
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Not sure what the devs changed but I now have a phone that will last a day on a single charge. What sort of black magic is this?
AuroEdge said:
Not sure what the devs changed but I now have a phone that will last a day on a single charge. What sort of black magic is this?
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Voodoo magic
FDro said:
Voodoo magic
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10cha
Only major thing I've changed in a while is I don't sign into Google Talk anymore. But that's got to generate minimal savings at best
My battery still loses about 1% per minute while I am online or on the phone
Another Fascinating post by my XDA app...
not trying to jinx you or anything, but don't get too excited til you've gone through a few charges... lately i've been getting exceptionally good battery life the first few charges on the ED01 roms, and after a couple of days, it gets significantly less battery, i don't really know why.
but i've always gotten pretty decent battery, so when i say i'm getting less, it means it's losing about 1% on standby as opposed to 0.5% and about 5-7%/ hr if i'm watching something or playing a game compared to 3-4%
1.2 had rotten battery life for me. Had it for a week. it would lose more than 15% sitting idle overnight every night. EC01 would lose 7% in the same conditions every night. Same apps installed.
1.3 is better. Still need a few days to see how much better. I don't think I am back to EC01 levels. That was the absolute best battery life I saw with this phone day in and day out.
Love the features of the community rom, just hope it passes the life test.
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So I've been using this phone since 5am (its almost 2pm now), making and receiving phone calls for the last 3 hours, using the internet while in calls (some people are boring to talk to), playing games, and listening to music off and on for a while, and I'm at 74%.
Now, to some people who really tweak their phones, this probably doesn't mean anything to them. However, I have had an Evo 3D, Droid Razr OG, and Galaxy Nexus, all of which I completely tweaked, and wasn't getting this battery life. I am rooted with a stock rom, but my hatred for TouchWiz forced me to use Apex Launcher. Other than that, no modifications at all, no flashed kernels, nothing.
I've only had this phone for a little over 24hrs, so I'm wondering, with all the reviews complaining about battery life, and even threads in various forums with users complaining about battery life, is this normal? Is the battery life great at the beginning then gradually gets worse? Or is it truly dependent on the use I give it? I'm in an HSPA+ zone at my house, but I have LTE when I actually go into town. Any ideas?
It seems like there is some debate on whether there are some people getting "good batteries" and some people getting "bad batteries". I know that my wife and I are both seeing what I'd call phenomenal battery life, and that's with no root, just disabling a few apps, and we're leaving everything except Bluetooth on all the time (and making sure it's not trying to find an LTE signal, since there is none here)... so clearly we got "good" batteries. I also ensure we don't have any rogue apps, or things running in the background that we don't really want there, but that's the extent of "tweaking" I've done. But, like I said, there's definitely reports of people seeing bad battery life, so not sure what the deal is.
that's not normal...I took mine off the charger at 7 a.m., used it for about 45 minutes worth of phone calls and by 11:30 I was down to under 70%.
My battery life sucks. No where near that. My phone has been unplugged for 2.5 hours and I'm down to 60. That sucks.
I only got into this phone because of the battery life. I may switch out. I'm not getting anywhere near the advertised life
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Thanks for rubbing it in. I'm lucky to get 16hrs or moderate usage. I saw on amazon there's a three pack of batteries. Maybe I'll try those and get lucky
I'm not getting any where near that wither going in for a replacement battery soon, that and I just ordered a couple spares.
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LTE makes a huge difference.
I am getting better battery life after uninstalled Chrome. But since I live and work within an LTE area, it's still not phenomenal.
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Just in case. Standy used to take a toll on my other phones, particularly the Razr (which had horrible battery life, easily charged twice to three times a day), but not so much here.
bmanhooch said:
LTE makes a huge difference.
I am getting better battery life after uninstalled Chrome. But since I live and work within an LTE area, it's still not phenomenal.
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What was chrome doing.?
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composi said:
Just in case. Standy used to take a toll on my other phones, particularly the Razr (which had horrible battery life, easily charged twice to three times a day), but not so much here.
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How much screen-on time? Means nothing without at least that number to compare against.
jiggytom said:
What was chrome doing.?
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I second this question as I'm using chrome as default.
composi said:
So I've been using this phone since 5am (its almost 2pm now), making and receiving phone calls for the last 3 hours, using the internet while in calls (some people are boring to talk to), playing games, and listening to music off and on for a while, and I'm at 74%.
Now, to some people who really tweak their phones, this probably doesn't mean anything to them. However, I have had an Evo 3D, Droid Razr OG, and Galaxy Nexus, all of which I completely tweaked, and wasn't getting this battery life. I am rooted with a stock rom, but my hatred for TouchWiz forced me to use Apex Launcher. Other than that, no modifications at all, no flashed kernels, nothing.
I've only had this phone for a little over 24hrs, so I'm wondering, with all the reviews complaining about battery life, and even threads in various forums with users complaining about battery life, is this normal? Is the battery life great at the beginning then gradually gets worse? Or is it truly dependent on the use I give it? I'm in an HSPA+ zone at my house, but I have LTE when I actually go into town. Any ideas?
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composi said:
I second this question as I'm using chrome as default.
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I don't know man. I would definitely send it in for a replacement. Good battery life can't be good.
radeon_x said:
How much screen-on time? Means nothing without at least that number to compare against.
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Honestly, not much. I had been on the phone for about three hours so the screen was mostly off during that time. About an hour or so of screen time.
akarol said:
I don't know man. I would definitely send it in for a replacement. Good battery life can't be good.
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Trolls, trolls everywhere.
composi said:
So I've been using this phone since 5am (its almost 2pm now), making and receiving phone calls for the last 3 hours, using the internet while in calls (some people are boring to talk to), playing games, and listening to music off and on for a while, and I'm at 74%.
Now, to some people who really tweak their phones, this probably doesn't mean anything to them. However, I have had an Evo 3D, Droid Razr OG, and Galaxy Nexus, all of which I completely tweaked, and wasn't getting this battery life. I am rooted with a stock rom, but my hatred for TouchWiz forced me to use Apex Launcher. Other than that, no modifications at all, no flashed kernels, nothing.
I've only had this phone for a little over 24hrs, so I'm wondering, with all the reviews complaining about battery life, and even threads in various forums with users complaining about battery life, is this normal? Is the battery life great at the beginning then gradually gets worse? Or is it truly dependent on the use I give it? I'm in an HSPA+ zone at my house, but I have LTE when I actually go into town. Any ideas?
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So based on what you said, in 9 hours you used 26% of the battery. This would mean that the 2100mAh battery was sustained at an average of 61mA over the course of your usage. This seems almost impossible considering what type of use you put the phone through, Unless you phone is idling at under 20mA (mine is around 30-50) your battery stats might be inaccurate. If you continue using your battery at this rate and usage it should last you 34-35 hours with what looks like heavy use. You can use battery monitor widget from the play store to view your current usage and see what type of power your phone is actually consuming, as it is directly related to your battery life.
BonesHopkins said:
that's not normal...I took mine off the charger at 7 a.m., used it for about 45 minutes worth of phone calls and by 11:30 I was down to under 70%.
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More like that's not normal.
d1ez3 said:
So based on what you said, in 9 hours you used 26% of the battery. This would mean that the 2100mAh battery was sustained at an average of 61mA over the course of your usage. This seems almost impossible considering what type of use you put the phone through, Unless you phone is idling at under 20mA (mine is around 30-50) your battery stats might be inaccurate. If you continue using your battery at this rate and usage it should last you 34-35 hours with what looks like heavy use. You can use battery monitor widget from the play store to view your current usage and see what type of power your phone is actually consuming, as it is directly related to your battery life.
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Your argument is completely valid which is why I posted this thread to begin with. I wiped battery stats and all that, so it might be giving me an inaccurate reading as I pretty much never let my phones die, although I read in some places that wiping battery stats makes no difference at all and is basically useless. I'll download the app and let it run and I'll post back. I did post a screenshot with the time I was on battery and the battery percentage that was left, but as mentioned before, since most of the actual usage was phone calls, I didn't have the screen on that much.
I've had mine for about two weeks and I consider my usage to be medium-high a lot of the time. I can't complain with these results. I'm completely stock, no root, no apps disabled.
As far as Chrome, I don't know what it does but I've read in other threads that it does drain battery.
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composi said:
I second this question as I'm using chrome as default.
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I kept seeing Chrome use CPU even when I had all the tabs closed. Quick internet search revealed several threads about it draining battery so I decided to uninstall it until it gets out of beta.
However, my battery drained dead over night again. I did hear my notification go off prior to bed. I am now thinking the led is killing my battery so I turned off just now for notifications.
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If people are having very bad battery issues it's due to how the phone is set up and syncing. Sure there are the super rare cases where the phone is actually broken in some way.
S3 has the best battery life stock behind the razr maxx on Vzw at least.
Any good current apps like "current widget"?
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