2.3.4 battery life solution - Atrix 4G General

Requires root
Download setcpu, make a new profile for screen off, set max cpu at 216 mhz, min cpu and 216 mhz.
Check "set on boot" and open up setcpu everytime you boot up your phone. (so it obtains superuser root access and loads the profile)
This will save battery life substantially. Went from 60% battery use phone idle to 13%.
If you're noticing issues recieving calls/texts then simply change the profile to 216 min 315max.
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Good idea, I forgot about profiles... Used to use them on my nexus.
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sounds legit, trying this out..

Get a new sim card
Just jumping in as I saw the title figured it can’t hurt ...please ignore if not relevant.
I got a new sim card and my battery life improved tremendously
I couldn’t get through a day and now it lasts until the morning after with room to spare…

Stimpy0030 said:
Just jumping in as I saw the title figured it can’t hurt ...please ignore if not relevant.
I got a new sim card and my battery life improved tremendously
I couldn’t get through a day and now it lasts until the morning after with room to spare…
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How does a new sim card improve your battery life?

Used the screen off profile thingy since i got my atrix...n sadly on gb still getting baaaad battery drain...20+ hours in froyo with heavy usage n just getting 11+ hours in gb with the same kinda usage

Just checking if anyone tried this out....Mine is running 54% at phone idle. Charged to 100% yesterday, let sit overnight and looked and it this morning and it was at 70%. I rebooted the phone and it showed 90%. Not sure if this might fix it or if I need to install a zip fix.

Freeze apps
You could also freeze apps. Look at this thread for apps to freeze. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1182663

Terrible idea if you want to use your phone. Phone takes too long to wake up. I personally set mine at 4xx or 6xx mhz. A balance between waiting and getting to a usable state faster.
Sent from the coolest phone ever.

I use 216-216 and my phone seems to wake as fast as ever
Sent from my Att Atrix 4g unlocked.

216 is to low guys. go for something that only cuts about half the power
in the 400 and you should be okay

samcripp said:
216 is to low guys. go for something that only cuts about half the power
in the 400 and you should be okay
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216 is way too low this can cause your phone to have some serious lag on wake up. My settings that give me foot battery life I run my phone on 816mhz as the highest
From unlocked/rooted GB Atrix

phone turns on instantly on 216 for me, but i do have the nolock app installed.
the problem is that when receiving calls it takes a while for the answer button to show up

franciscojavierleon said:
phone turns on instantly on 216 for me, but i do have the nolock app installed.
the problem is that when receiving calls it takes a while for the answer button to show up
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with any type of password entry it takes FOREVER. especially the pattern lock. i upped it to 4xx because it was too frustrating.

whats the default kernel behaviour I wonder (ie when does it sleep at 216 normally)

New discovery.......
The original motorola battery is the cause of the drain!
I think not all the Atrix holder has problem with battery drain.
Most of the user think that it is caused by ROM setting.
Since I have another brand battery for Atrix, I find that if I plug-in
the original motorola battery, my Atrix become hot even it is on standby.
(Surely, I swipe the battery status before I use this original battery.)
When I use another brand battery, I get no problem and with more than
24 hours standby time, whether I swipe or not swipe the battery status.
That's my conclusion is the battery deficit. Don't buy Moto original battery!
http://item.tmall.com/item.htm?id=10653765407&prc=1
This is a cheap price batter which work very good on my Atrix.

All of you should be using juice defender. Getting about 60% more battery life on average for each charge. There's a beta version on the market that's completely free.
I keep my CPU at 100-1100 with the on demand gov. No need to clock down to save battery.
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I just flashed navalynt's πCrust rom fully charged, cleared stats through cwm, booted and now i'm close to 3days.
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Jonous said:
I just flashed navalynt's πCrust rom fully charged, cleared stats through cwm, booted and now i'm close to 3days.
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why do you have in battery usage the highest value on phone idle, it must be not on the top , am i right?

maggedo said:
New discovery.......
The original motorola battery is the cause of the drain!
I think not all the Atrix holder has problem with battery drain.
Most of the user think that it is caused by ROM setting.
Since I have another brand battery for Atrix, I find that if I plug-in
the original motorola battery, my Atrix become hot even it is on standby.
(Surely, I swipe the battery status before I use this original battery.)
When I use another brand battery, I get no problem and with more than
24 hours standby time, whether I swipe or not swipe the battery status.
That's my conclusion is the battery deficit. Don't buy Moto original battery!
http://item.tmall.com/item.htm?id=10653765407&prc=1
This is a cheap price batter which work very good on my Atrix.
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Not sure if serious:roll eyes:
We need to do something guys. For those with poor battery life, does you unit run hot? I never had a phone run as hot as the atrix before. I always said the atrix was a HOT phone since its release, but this isn't what I meant
I just installed the DarkSide rom, lets see how this goes...

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I get pretty crappy battery life on my poor little N1. Cell standby takes up 49% and phone idle 49% when I go into the battery information. I am considering setCPU but I'm scared that if it's changing the clock speed every time I turn the thing off isn't that bad? I mean having the clock speed adjusted so many times, couldn't that hurt the device's life span?
by default on stock it already scales the CPU to conserve battery
My battery life has increased since I've used this program its awesome
Cell standby and phone idle at 49% each isn't a problem if that's all that's been using it. It doesn't mean each one will take up 49% of your entire battery. If you just unplugged it and let it sit without using the screen or anything, then the only thing using your battery is the standby and idle. So after 2 hours or so of that, you might be down to 90% battery, and both cell standby and phone idle are using 49% of that 10% each. In other words, it used up 4.9% of the total battery each.
As for changing the speed all the time, it will not hurt the CPU, as Android already does that for you all the time. When sleeping it under clocks to the lowest, and when you need to use an app, it clocks it back up to full power.
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Cell standby and phone idle at 49% each isn't a problem if that's all that's been using it. It doesn't mean each one will take up 49% of your entire battery. If you just unplugged it and let it sit without using the screen or anything, then the only thing using your battery is the standby and idle. So after 2 hours or so of that, you might be down to 90% battery, and both cell standby and phone idle are using 49% of that 10% each. In other words, it used up 4.9% of the total battery each.
As for changing the speed all the time, it will not hurt the CPU, as Android already does that for you all the time. When sleeping it under clocks to the lowest, and when you need to use an app, it clocks it back up to full power.
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I've been using it for 4 hours and they're both 49% and the screen is only 2%, is my phone defective?
Have you been using the screen during those 4 hours? Like using it to browse or run apps or anything? Or has it just been sitting there for most of the time?
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Have you been using the screen during those 4 hours? Like using it to browse or run apps or anything? Or has it just been sitting there for most of the time?
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Sitting there mostly. Here's a screenshot I took yesterday:
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Absolutely no use whatsoever and it's lost 12%?
That seems perfectly normal. Don't worry about it. It does have to use power to idle there, it is still a running computer, and it also needs to stay connected to the closest cell tower in case you get a call.
When it is sitting all by itself that is all it has to do. Your screenshot shows that in 10 hours it only took 12%. That is very good.
If you used the screen for 5 of those hours, your battery could be down to much less than half, and the screen would be about 90% on that graph, while the idle and standby would be less than 5% each.
Clarkster said:
That seems perfectly normal. Don't worry about it. It does have to use power to idle there, it is still a running computer, and it also needs to stay connected to the closest cell tower in case you get a call.
When it is sitting all by itself that is all it has to do. Your screenshot shows that in 10 hours it only took 12%. That is very good.
If you used the screen for 5 of those hours, your battery could be down to much less than half, and the screen would be about 90% on that graph, while the idle and standby would be less than 5% each.
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I only get 2-3 hours if I'm using it for internet I'm not sure if I need setCPU or of it does it for me
I really wanted a desire rom but everyone goes on about how bad the battery life is on them. It doesn't make sense because the desire has a 1300 battery when we have a 1400.
Ok, that is a problem. When it is idling your phone seems normal, but I am able to get more than 2-3 hours when browsing the web.
SetCPU won't help you that much, well it can help, but it is best to find out why you are so low in the first place. Fix that first to get it to a normal length first, then you can look at extending the normal time to longer with SetCPU and other things.
As for right now, what brightness do you have the screen on, what are you normally browsing on? I usually use it at a pretty low setting because I am indoors, and browse pretty simple websites.
If you use full brightness and watch youtube videos you probably would drain the battery insanely fast.
What are you normally doing when it drains so fast?
30% brightness and just casual browsing, some forums mostly.
Since your battery isn't draining by itself, I don't think it is a rogue program taking the battery.
If you are using 3G with a really bad signal it could do that, as it has to boost the power to reach the tower.
Otherwise I am at the end of my suggestions, you could try reading through a few of the large battery threads until something sounds like it could be your issues. I doubt you're the first person to have whatever issues you have.
I live in rural Canada. I think it's rather mutual that I get crappy service
I would love an extended battery, but unfortunately I know nobody who's actually used one who could tell me how good they are, or where I could even obtain one where I am in Canada.
It's mostly the desire rom I really want though, but the blasted battery is supposedly so bad for it!
Macmee said:
I mean having the clock speed adjusted so many times, couldn't that hurt the device's life span?
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I don't think so because I've been adjusting clock/bus speed on my psp for over two years now and the battery life seems perfect and the processor too...
Macmee said:
I live in rural Canada. I think it's rather mutual that I get crappy service
I would love an extended battery, but unfortunately I know nobody who's actually used one who could tell me how good they are, or where I could even obtain one where I am in Canada.
It's mostly the desire rom I really want though, but the blasted battery is supposedly so bad for it!
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turn off bluetooth, gps when not using. Use a task Killer to end all tasks that you arent using to stop them polling for updates and what not. If using Facebook, Twitter and rss feeds they need to be set to update at intervals >3/4hours otherwise your battery will be absolutely ****e.

My Battery Life WOW! *Pic for Proof*

Using Myn's ROM with the Battery Tweak, I have FaceBook syncing and I have 2 gmail accounts syncing along with Weather every 3 hours, Facebook every 2 hours.
Nothing else as of now and using Itching Thumb App.
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I get that stock with fairly heavy usage.
now lets see that screen on time.
ronron23 said:
now lets see that screen on time.
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Not needed. From the pic he attached it's obvious the phone was in standby most of the time.
Man, you even use ya phone?
What is with this obsession of battery life goin on 'round here? I say, as long as you can get better battery life than a stock rom, you've won. Keeping the phone on for a day or two without charging seems like a good idea, but everyday isn't the same, and one day you may need to use it way more than any other day..if you start that day off with only 30% just because you wanted to see how long your battery would last, then you really gotta limit how often you use your phone just so that it can make it till the next time your around a charger.
How do u check wake time?
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I agree, but it want a heavy day. When I finally did have 14% left and used tv flash battery seasoned super fast. I forgot, I'm using juice defender too
Globetrahter
The battery needs to be charged? I bought my phone back in June. The battery is now at 70%. I figured I just had to buy a new one when this one runs out.
Barely used phone. Come on.
Display 4%? Is that possible?
I can go a full day and a half, 36 hours, without a charge and I am using the original sense android... and I use my phone normally, I text, read usatoday, tmz, check email a few times, use the xda app... and I have wifi on all the time! What's this beef with battery life on these forums? Mine lasts forever! I just have things update manually, I don't let anything run without my permission.
I do, however, turn my phone off the 6 hours I am sleeping.
wifi is on = low battery usage, atleast in my experience.
Indeed. I got 1 day and 19 hours on stock nonrooted 2.2 back. and i used it for some medium texting. and some gps applications...maybe 2-3 hours max awake time. i dont think you used it much...the excessive 3G usage from FB doesnt mean anything.
g0ldenchild562 said:
How do u check wake time?
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You should be able to get what you're looking for from the Spare Parts app.
According to my calculation thats is 69min of display usage.
g0ldenchild562 said:
How do u check wake time?
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Menu > Settings > About Phone > Battery
drsiaca said:
According to my calculation thats is 69min of display usage.
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According to mine, it's 122 min of screen on usage.
I had this scenario on my phone running myn's rls2 + king cfs #11 yesterday:
since unplugged - 24 hours
display on - 1 hour 25 minutes
charge remaining - 50%.
so i wanted to find out how long the battery would last on standby, and to my surprise.. it turned out to be nearly 58 hrs!!! that was on stock sense rom. non-rooted. and of course with very very minimal use. i basically just left the phone alone on my desk or in my pocket all day.
here is the screenshot i took back in july:
but that kind of battery life is unrealistic with normal usage. I am a moderate user (on the higher side), and i typically put my evo on charge everyday in the morning when i get to work (on weekdays). so, the charge on my phone lasts about 25 hrs with normal usage, that usually means about 4-5hrs of Awake Time. this is after rooting the phone. and i am using a stock rooted sense rom. i have had similar results before rooting the phone as well.
on weekends, i find myself charging the phone about 3 times (over 2 days), as the usage of the phone goes very very high.
i have a charger on my desk at work for the weekday charging, and a charger in my car for the weekends.
i have recently installed setCPU, and havent really seen that making too much of a difference, but that perhaps has to do with my usage pattern.
as pointed out in many a threads, signal strength is one major factor when it comes to battery drain. i live in Atlanta and i have great Sprint coverage where I am located, and that makes a world of difference.
Globetrahter said:
Using Myn's ROM with the Battery Tweak, I have FaceBook syncing and I have 2 gmail accounts syncing along with Weather every 3 hours, Facebook every 2 hours.
Nothing else as of now and using Itching Thumb App.
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it would help if you indicate the battery life that you were getting on stock or any other rom you were using prior to this. because there are so many variables that come into play as far as battery life is concerned. so that will help put your claim into some perspective
GaryJ51 said:
The battery needs to be charged? I bought my phone back in June. The battery is now at 70%. I figured I just had to buy a new one when this one runs out.
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hahah.. funny

I'm Getting Great Battery Life!

I installed OMGB-6 when it was released. Then flashed invisiblek #21 kernel and the new market. Since I last charged it, I've talked on it for about an hour, used the web-browser (Skyfire) fairly moderately, sent a few emails (Gmail), and spent a total of about an hour of GPS through the application WAZE. I'm left at 22% battery left after about 22 hours of use.
I've been fairly lazy with regards to changing the screen brightness, so it's been on about 50% brightness. I've left sync and gps on during the whole time.
I've been using Watchdog as a smart task manager. I have SetCPU installed, but I haven't used it at all.
Here are some pics:
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I have not installed the kernel but my battery life is terrible. I barely have any apps and I do not use my phone a lot. I love the rom (favorite by far). Should I try to install the kernel.
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Should I try to install the kernel.
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Can't hurt, just nandroid first, or have a spare kernel handy.
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I chewed through my battery in about 10 hrs today with the same kernel.
Guess I use mine a lot more. I've also got 26 hrs out if it when I barely use it.
Don't think you get great battery life when you don't use it much.
I'm in CM 6.1 but that wont really matter.
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True, I haven't been using it all that much. But compared to other ROM's I've used, this get much better battery. Everything else I've tried out got me a max of ~12 hours even on idle the whole time.
Definitely try to install the kernel. Can't hurt! Just make sure you always have a nandroid backup available.
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I installed OMGB-6 when it was released. Then flashed invisiblek #21 kernel and the new market. Since I last charged it, I've talked on it for about an hour, used the web-browser (Skyfire) fairly moderately, sent a few emails (Gmail), and spent a total of about an hour of GPS through the application WAZE. I'm left at 22% battery left after about 22 hours of use.
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Stock Battery?
50% Brightness?!?!?! Wow....battery life is not worth looking at a dull screen. 100% all the way for me...im using 1800mah from ChiChitech that I got for $20. Seems to help enough.
I'm also running a Gingerbread ROM (Evervolv a17) but can't tell what difference it's making on battery.
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50% Brightness?!?!?! Wow....battery life is not worth looking at a dull screen. 100% all the way for me...im using 1800mah from ChiChitech that I got for $20. Seems to help enough.
I'm also running a Gingerbread ROM (Evervolv a17) but can't tell what difference it's making on battery.
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the screen is not dull when it's set low...lol 100% brightness is like staring at the sun for me.
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Hydra 1.13 overclock kernel, stock ROM, stock battery, auto-brightness. I'm currently at 20% battery after 2.5 days. Light usage over the weekend, but there is an hour and a half of talk time in there and a half hour of reading.
The trick to DI battery life is keeping the data network usage/standby under control. If you're trying to send/receive data with no signal, the phone will burn through its battery in 4 hours and I've used 20% in 15 minutes trying to book a flight on a low signal connection.
Realizing this took me a few months since I live in NYC and as such, go through a lot of signal shadows. Some days my phone would be at 50% battery after 12 hours, other times it'd be dead after 6. I now realize that the short days were caused by sync services trying to run when I was in a shadow. You can diagnose this for yourself by going to the cell standby section of the battery usage. If you're over 10% or so without a signal, you have this problem.
You can handle this manually by holding down the power (on the stock rom) and enabling/disabling mobile network. This is a pain in the ass.
I handle this with some simple Locale rules along with the Mobile Signal and Mobile Data plugins. The first is to shut off the data when there's no signal. The second is to shut off the data at work where I'm usually but not always on a wireless network. The third is to shut down the data during my normal sleep hours and airplane mode if I'm at home.
These easily got me to 36 hours so I grabbed an undervolt kernel, which gets me to 2 days of regular use. Daily I do about 15m of talk, 40m reading news/email on the subway, and another 30 mins browsing/messaging/misc. My monthly data use is ~350MB.
While it is likely true that the OP and others have good battery life under their specific use conditions, battery life in general on smart phones is mediocre to poor at best. I have friends with various different models of smartphone (including iphone) and across the board battery life is not good. The exception is blackberry, but I don't consider those competitive from a tech and feature standpoint. Obviously different people are going to have different opinions and experiences based on the various factors that influence battery longevity.
The solution is to stop worrying about it, get a spare or two or three and pop in a new battery when one dies. This imo is one of the best things about the Dinc and Android phones in general. Just my 2c.

[Official] battery stats thread

Once we get charged up (and back down), let's see how the battery life in the S4 compares to the quad core.
Please make sure to include your screen on time, as that is the best indicator of light/heavy use.
pleasantly surprised
I can't believe how good the battery has been so far, 84% after 13hours (over night)
I am a light user. still - that is impressive for stock. I never got close to that with my OG Epic on stock which was usually 3% per hour.
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Once we get charged up (and back down), let's see how the battery life in the S4 compares to the quad core.
Please make sure to include your screen on time, as that is the best indicator of light/heavy use.
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Mostly on WiFi
Screen brightness set to max
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1h, 3M Battery down to 76%.
screen on for 38 min, 33% of battery usage.
Heres mine on a first day full charge...
Not too bad for first day with moderate to heavy use!
This is heavy usage. Screen on time of 3.5 hours. Downloading Max Payne and a lot of apps. Downloading and listening to audio on Google chrome. Lots of Pulse usage. Games, YouTube, and 30 minutes of phone calls.
*edit* Bluetooth and wifi on all day long.
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More information is better for those of us living vicariously through you guys. Remember to include screen-on time. Thanks!
Here's mine for the first full day. Should my cell idle be taking up that much of the battery?
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one thing im NOT noticing here is Allshare Service taking up a high percentage in your guys battery stats...
on mine its been at 7-9% and i dont know why, i have something waking up my phone when the screen is off and it might be that... ive forced stop, but i check later and its active again, ive disabled the service and the Allshare play in the application manager but still comes back on... hmmm i think im gonna have to root and just get rid of that file, or freeze it or something
Question... Does having all the motion settings on effect the battery? Also does having the NFC and sbeam on hurt the battery?
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Question... Does having all the motion settings on effect the battery? Also does having the NFC and sbeam on hurt the battery?
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in addition, the eye tracker thingy?
This is only the 2nd cycle. Going to wipe stats after this charge
I'm still waiting for the second cycle to finish I have the motion controls on and the eye thing and I had no drop at all overnight
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This is only the 2nd cycle. Going to wipe stats after this charge
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I wish I could get some stats like that. The screenshots are while I was sleeping and 7% seems like a lot of drain for it just sitting there. Only thing on was wifi. Cell standby time on is always the same as the time on battery, is that normal?
edit: the phone now shows 79% battery left with time on battery of 12h 46m; cell standby the exact same; screen on at 9% with time on of 48m. I'm fully stock and running power save mode.
Here are my stats. I think the battery life isn't too bad so far but we will see.
are the battery stats suppose to reset when you restart the phone? For dinner reason my persist even after a reboot
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are the battery stats suppose to reset when you restart the phone? For dinner reason my persist even after a reboot
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No, they will carry over until you re-charge or change the battery.
I was going to make a thread like this, but it was already here! Here are my results after my second full charge and regular usage. The results are on par with my fully modified and decked out Epic. Of course, this device has a bigger battery, but it also has a larger screen. Between the hardware and software upgrades, I'm very impressed with the stock battery life. This includes wifi on at all times as well as signal w/data. Some motion features are enabled, nfc is not, and google sync is off (I use stock email). Now how much further can this be improved?? Remember not to be discouraged, Screen On times will vary depending on what the phone is used for. Showing pictures is much less battery intensive than watching YouTube videos.
DEVICE: Sprint Galaxy S III
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ROM: Stock
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Calibrated
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What is involved in calibration?

My battery is dismal on 8.0. Can anyone help?

Now. This is bad.
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Ugh. I need some assistance. I've done all I can to maximize battery life, but my phone is just not going to cooperate. According to battery apps my battery is healthy, but you have got to be kidding me. Look at this. It's quite terrible.
Is that like 1 hour into a new rom or something...looks like you have no battery stats to go by. Plus if your stock 8.0 stand by is horrible... Flash a custom kernel and underclock the large cores...that has really changed my battery life.
noXcape said:
Is that like 1 hour into a new rom or something...looks like you have no battery stats to go by. Plus if your stock 8.0 stand by is horrible... Flash a custom kernel and underclock the large cores...that has really changed my battery life.
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It is just a few hours after turning on my device. I will record my battery percentage throughout the day and repost a new image. It's pretty dreadful
It gets better. Don't worry to much. I still recommend flashing a custom kernel.. there are some really good ones around here and underclocking the big cores has really changed this device for me
AlphaRidl3y said:
Now. This is bad. Ugh. I need some assistance. Look at this. It's quite terrible. :crying:
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Check your battery capacity with a program like Accubattery like everybody else does. Have you not read the 25 or so other battery threads here on the exact same topic? Step #1. Test your battery!
Gsam battery can offer some good battery stats as well. You will want to enable ADB on your 6P and then you can enable more stats in Gsam. ( google Gsam enable more stats)
What helped my battery life was turning off bluetooth scanning ( search bluetooth scanning in settings). Gsam was showing a bluetooth wakelock using a lot of battery.
v12xke said:
Check your battery capacity with a program like Accubattery like everybody else does. Have you not read the 25 or so other battery threads here on the exact same topic? Step #1. Test your battery!
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I probably should have stated that I have done this and attempted to root and use gsam and the like to disable wakelocks, and mess around with alarms and services. No increase of screen-on time.
I put in a new battery and with stock 8.0 it was about 2.5 sot. Got rid of stock kernel and started tweaking some things and get like 4 sot. I don't really trust the battery apps. They have done nothing for me
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I put in a new battery and with stock 8.0 it was about 2.5 sot. Got rid of stock kernel and started tweaking some things and get like 4 sot. I don't really trust the battery apps. They have done nothing for me
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I can't even get 1 hour screen on.
noXcape said:
I put in a new battery and with stock 8.0 it was about 2.5 sot. Got rid of stock kernel and started tweaking some things and get like 4 sot. I don't really trust the battery apps. They have done nothing for me
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I can't even get 1 hour screen on.
I haven't used my phone virtually all day and I'm down to 60%
PS. Any suggestions for a custom kernal?
I'm stock 8.0 ATM using ElementalX
I underclocked the big cores to 1500 /small leave stock at 1500
Leave off all the gestures to wake
Also turn off WiFi and Bluetooth scanning
I turn off location until I need it and keep brightness at 50%
If that doesn't help u prbly should replace ur battery
I bought a new back when I did my battery... it was pretty easy.
About 40 $ total..that's battery and back with new glass and bottom trim
If you do it urself just use suction to separate the body from the screen and watch out for the display ribbon under the center of the battery
noXcape said:
I'm stock 8.0 ATM using ElementalX
I underclocked the big cores to 1500 /small leave stock at 1500
Leave off all the gestures to wake
Also turn off WiFi and Bluetooth scanning
I turn off location until I need it and keep brightness at 50%
If that doesn't help u prbly should replace ur battery
I bought a new back when I did my battery... it was pretty easy.
About 40 $ total..that's battery and back with new glass and bottom trim
If you do it urself just use suction to separate the body from the screen and watch out for the display ribbon under the center of the battery
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Alright, thank you so much! I will be trying both of these.

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