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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.

Amazing battery life!

Tweaky Rom 4.1 (JVH), Supercurio's Voodoo kernel, JV9 Modem, with Armani battery (1650mAh).
Loving my SGS now.

Sorry but this is not great battery life.I used to have 5days standby with 3hours of display usage and wifi always on in Froyo.But overall its a great Rom i use it myself .
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3 hours display usage is pretty typical for me at normal 1GHZ clock. at 800MHZ i get about 15 minutes more.

I'm on MIUI and with moderate use I get up to 2 days^^

I'm on MIUI and with moderate use I get up to 1/2 days^^

Top this if you can

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Top this if you can
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Have you wired your galaxy to your car battery?
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leroys said:
Have you wired your galaxy to your car battery?
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No, he got wired to a car battery. The electrical shock deleted his memory and he forgot where he had left his phone. After nine days of not touching it at all, he finally found it and took a screenshot ...
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skypyy said:
Top this if you can
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Very nice you won !!

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That's on stock 2.2.1 (and it should be noted that the battery wasn't empty, it was at 15%) ... On 2.3.3, at best I got 5 days.

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That's amazing
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That's on stock 2.2.1 (and it should be noted that the battery wasn't empty, it was at 15%) ... On 2.3.3, at best I got 5 days.
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More Amazing

Not using anything isnt the exact description For a smartphone.
I finally topped the 2 Day mark with my 2.3.3 juwe rom. I had problems before to reach at least the 24 hours, sometimes i had to refuel during the Day,caused by the massive drauf bug which keeps android awake. First i deinstalled the latest maps update and undescribed from latitude.i also did Not touch any gameloft game. Wifi was on Most of the time when awake. See the battery historie below
m.flickr.com/photos/squealer/5752311245/
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Wow!
I am lucky to get 2 days out of my SGS. The most I get is about 24 hours.
Mind you, I have Exchange active sync on. haha.

I have gmail + 2 other imap and one pop3 Mail account syncing every hour.
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Hey i new to this, i have a UK I9000, that i recently updated to JVO on kies. I previously had my phone replaced by samsung due to battery issues. but my new one seems to be the same. I can just about get 14 hours or so of use out of it. I have brightness set to outo, auto sync on, have an gmail and an exchange email, also am on 2g/3g auto. i am unsure if i should flash to custom? i keep reading that people are getting 2days out of their battery. i would say that not a heavy user!! could do with some advide! thanks

If I am always in a wifi area I probs get about 4 or 5 days. If though 3G is on i've known it to go from 100% to phyically off within a matter of hours even when not actually using the phone.

Sorry but i am amazed from these screenshot.
I am difficulty arriving to the night.
My phone is having the standard battery, with two google accounts setted on sync and i really use it FEW... 3 hours of display? A dream.
I am on 2.2 because it is branded and i really wonder how u can achieve 2 days. 5 days with moderate use i would shot my head to achieve it.
Someone can give me a good advice?
Also, how are u taking the battery history?

Considering display and mobile data are the biggest battery drainers, we more detailed information than just time on. Give me display usage.

i'm using Darky's Rom V10 RC6 for about 2 weeks and after recalibrating my battery i'm on 3 days now with average use.

Soulrack said:
i'm using Darky's Rom V10 RC6 for about 2 weeks and after recalibrating my battery i'm on 3 days now with average use.
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By average use what do you mean? What functions have you got turned on? For instance are you only using 2G? I would Love my phone to get at least 1 1/2 days worth of use!!

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.

ronnienyc said:
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.

Battery life gone down the drain after firmware upgrade

Hi guys,
A couple of weeks ago, Note II informed me of an upgrade. I did a bit of googling and found out it was to fix some exonys bug. Seemed pretty important so I did the upgrade post haste.
At first the battery life was atrocious (like a 50% drop). The same thing happened with my old iPhone 4 but everything reverted to normal within a week. So, I though maybe things are new and Android will fix itself up after some time.
How wrong was I ? LOL. My phone gives me just a day's worth of battery life. Earlier it was a solid two days. Which was why I justified carrying this brick of a phone. It is pretty ridiculous to see the battery drop by 30% at times in three or four hours (despite zero use).
Any suggestions to improve or remove the pathetic firmware upgrade.
1. Use the nova launcer
2. Auto brightness with the slider dragged to 1/3rd
3. 3G always on
4. The battery screen shows screen taking 70% of the battery! I have the auto off timer set to 15s the minimum.
Any suggestions guys? I am frustrated with this phone post the update. Thinking of switching back to the iPhone as atleast it gave me a day's pf juice in a much pocketable format.:crying:

longgamma said:
Hi guys,
A couple of weeks ago, Note II informed me of an upgrade. I did a bit of googling and found out it was to fix some exonys bug. Seemed pretty important so I did the upgrade post haste.
At first the battery life was atrocious (like a 50% drop). The same thing happened with my old iPhone 4 but everything reverted to normal within a week. So, I though maybe things are new and Android will fix itself up after some time.
How wrong was I ? LOL. My phone gives me just a day's worth of battery life. Earlier it was a solid two days. Which was why I justified carrying this brick of a phone. It is pretty ridiculous to see the battery drop by 30% at times in three or four hours (despite zero use).
Any suggestions to improve or remove the pathetic firmware upgrade.
1. Use the nova launcer
2. Auto brightness with the slider dragged to 1/3rd
3. 3G always on
4. The battery screen shows screen taking 70% of the battery! I have the auto off timer set to 15s the minimum.
Any suggestions guys? I am frustrated with this phone post the update. Thinking of switching back to the iPhone as atleast it gave me a day's pf juice in a much pocketable format.:crying:
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Isn't anything wakelocking your device?
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Isn't anything wakelocking your device?
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The wakelock business, sounds disturbing; Found an old thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827676
I am a very simple user, I did not install any applications (just transferred some music and installed Super Hexagon)after the firmware upgrade.
Could a firmware upgrade cause this much drastic drop in battery life?
Thanks,
longgamma

There is a known battery drain issue with 4.1.2. What firmware did you update too?
http://www.siliconbuzzard.com/2013/01/battery-drain-issue-of-galaxy-note-2-jb.html

roligov said:
There is a known battery drain issue with 4.1.2. What firmware did you update too?
http://www.siliconbuzzard.com/2013/01/battery-drain-issue-of-galaxy-note-2-jb.html
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Yes, but that battery drain issue was only in the first 4.1.2 release, the latest one does not have this issue.
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Yes, I got the 4.1.2 upgrade which has played havoc with the battery life.
But the drop has been extreme in my case.
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Honestly you can't do anything. In American english, you can't do nothing!
Turn 3G off, when you don't need it. Keep brightness at as low as possible.
That's all. 4.1.2 drains juice faster than 4.1.1, it's the truth, doesn't really matter if someone agrees or not.
You could go back to 4.1.1 ROM you know and depend on your luck for that Exynos issue. Otherwise give up on great battery backup and stay with 4.1.2, like I'm doing. Nowadays I don't even monitor how much battery backup/screen on time I'm getting, on 4.1.1 it was the opposite story however.

Hey, so should I just resign myself to a gimped battery? What really hurts is how awesome the battery was before.
Any word on when samsung would release a good update?
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Download better battery stats to make sure there is no wake lock. I will advise despite my best efforts the battery life has plummeted when upgrading to 4.1.2. Stick to 4.1.1 for battery life. It still lasts much longer than an average handset saying that
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longgamma said:
Hi guys,
A couple of weeks ago, Note II informed me of an upgrade. I did a bit of googling and found out it was to fix some exonys bug. Seemed pretty important so I did the upgrade post haste.
At first the battery life was atrocious (like a 50% drop). The same thing happened with my old iPhone 4 but everything reverted to normal within a week. So, I though maybe things are new and Android will fix itself up after some time.
How wrong was I ? LOL. My phone gives me just a day's worth of battery life. Earlier it was a solid two days. Which was why I justified carrying this brick of a phone. It is pretty ridiculous to see the battery drop by 30% at times in three or four hours (despite zero use).
Any suggestions to improve or remove the pathetic firmware upgrade.
1. Use the nova launcer
2. Auto brightness with the slider dragged to 1/3rd
3. 3G always on
4. The battery screen shows screen taking 70% of the battery! I have the auto off timer set to 15s the minimum.
Any suggestions guys? I am frustrated with this phone post the update. Thinking of switching back to the iPhone as atleast it gave me a day's pf juice in a much pocketable format.:crying:
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After updating to 4.1.2 my battery runs down about 20% quicker overall I would say. 70% for your screen seems severe. Mine is always set to 50% auto and takes between 30 to 35% of the battery usage.
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How many hours u getting and hiw many hiurs screen in time?
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If you go back to 4.1.1.... Stock even....you'll have the same battery issue.

After about 2 weeks of having the 4.1.2 (the second update I received) on DBT my battery life one day just magically got better! I had been having terrible battery life (like 1 days worth) for 3 months, and now I get home every day from work with 50-70% battery. I charge it every night, regardless of the %. But it just magically got better. I'd say give it a go for a week or 2, and see if it helps. I don't know what happened with mine, but it looks like the software just "settled in" because I didn't install ANYTHING new, and in fact, I hadn't even uninstalled anything! It just got better after using it. Do a few battery pulls / restarts, too.

I went back to 4.1.2 last night and right now I'm at 50% charge, 17 hours standby time and 5 hours of screen time... I'd say my battery issue is fixed.. for now lol

I also must say that after a week or so of using 4.1.2 battery went much better overnight. I automatically turn on airplane mode during night, and on 4.1.1 I had like 1-2% drain overnight from full charge. After updrage to 4.1.2 it jumped to 10-20% !!! Now, it is down to like 4%, which is not that bad. Still have to see how it behaves during the day, I think it is not any better. Well, at least that standby drain is (much) better....

daz_2000 said:
How many hours u getting and hiw many hiurs screen in time?
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I get about 4.5 hours on average, and was getting about 5.5 before the update.
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49 % down and screen has taken up 57 % with a display time of just 1 hour 18 minutes!
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longgamma said:
49 % down and screen has taken up 57 % with a display time of just 1 hour 18 minutes!
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I hear that a factory reset helps in some cases.
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I decided to dirty flash 4.1.2 and it worked great for me. We'll see how it goes after a week or so of use though
A thanks is always appreciated if I helped you.
Edit: After 50% battery drain in 8 hours of light/moderate use on wifi I'm going back to 4.1.1... I see no benefit of using 4.1.2.... The reason I bought my note 2 was to have a battery that will last me all day and this isn't cutting it.
Thank you MobileOdin for making this easy!!!

This is windows os right? Things not going fine, reinstall from scratch,!
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What screen time are people getting on quad core version (snapdragon)?

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I would like to know this too, im on verizon so I dont have mine yet.

fade2green514 said:
I would like to know this too, im on verizon so I dont have mine yet.
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From a full charge to not even totally dead cause I fell asleep I had over 4 hours screen time on first full charge. Will see how it goes over the next few days.

on my first charge from 100%-14% I got 4 hours screen time.

Ah four hours is a bit disappointing was hoping for 5-6
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100% LTE. No WiFi.
I have most Samsung garbage gimmick disabled though.
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I am very interested to see what people are averaging on their devices. It is the one thing that i was concerned about when i chose the One and made me doubt my selection. So far(3rd charge cycle) I am on 5 1/2 hours screen time and 26 hrs up time. I expect your phones to definitely have better battery life. Will be interesting to see. Wife has a S3 and will be looking at S4 but says battery needs to improve a bit to move to the S4. Will keep an eye on this thread.
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4h20 with 20% remaining, so about 5h30. it's the 2nd charge. But yestesrday I was rather on a 6h basis, it all depends on what you do. I've tried many web browsers and they seem to drain much more battery than the stock one.

Today at work I streamed for about 8 hours on 3g. Bout the same as my og evo with extended battery