I got my quantum on the rtm mango build yesterday or 2 days ago, and the first day it was great, but then next morning, i saw the phone was on critically low battery, and I dont really use it that much, and after charging, after about 2 or 3 hours of light use, I looked and saw it was back on low battery! and the phone performance is sluggish, so I really just want to restore back to my nodo version, I have the backup folder and everything, but am not sure of what to do with it. Help plz?
I'm sure I've seen a lot of posts/threads about the battery fix for mango roms...
To answer your question, following this guide will put you back to stock, which you can update back to nodo.
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I'm kinda curious about this. I'm so astounded by how much it's changed that I feel kinda obligated to post...
Some background:
I have an Xperia X10 from o2 UK and my battery life was /diabolical/
I would unplug the charger at 7:30am, and head off to work.. I have gmail and an exchange server (I hate moxier!) on PUSH mode.. battery life?... by 3:30-4pm at the latest my battery is at 10% warning!
Incidentally I don't have any aftermarket battery.. just the stock one.
Changes:
I ran the root.. so now I have a rooted R2BA023 install.. then I got set cpu and enabled a profile for screen off which locked the max CPU at 384mhz and min at 256mhz.
New batterylife? I dunno, I'm still counting.. 57 hours since last connect and 22% battery remain.
My actual question:
Anyone else done things to their X10, and what battery life are you seeing as a result?
Greetings friend,
To be honest i found out from my testings that firmware .20 with set cpu on auto had the best possible results till now for me.
Now i am on .23 firmware and testing it . i am having a full charge now and i will revert with my comments.
But the results you posted are amazing. Could you please give me your activity ? Calls - sms - wifi etc
Your post:
New battery life? I dunno, I'm still counting.. 57 hours since last connect and 22% battery remain.
Please keep as posted.
Thanks and regards
Vatis
battery has improved a lot(dint root my phone)..its been 5 hours since i updated my phone at dat time it was 64% n after 5 hours i see my battery reduced to 59%% dats awesome
20min of wifi use(timesscape update,installing app from market,facebook)..7 calls(max 12min of talk)..11 messages n 15 min of asphalt 5..loving da new update thx SE
Baseband: 1.1.27
Build No: R2BA023
Yeah people are seeing about 48 hours average standby with the newest firmware (I might note that before debranding the newest my phone would update to was R1BA016! What the hell are o2 UK doing?) however mine is now at like 60 hours and still counting. Getting close to the threshold at 20% battery remaining but still.. more than acceptable now.
Usage:
Little bit of music playback, about 30 minutes..
bunch of missed calls
constant push emails (my exchange account is pretty busy, it'll see dozens of mails per working day), several of which I reply to...
about 30 minutes of talk time
alarm clock every morning
few apps from the marketplace downloaded/installed
few minutes of webbrowsing
about 10-12 photos.
roughly 10 minutes of video recorded.
setcpu will help out your battery, but the r2 firmware greatly improves on the r1 firmware in terms of battery life. i am not rooted and if i leave my phone unplugged and with wifi off the battery life barely changes at all while sitting at idle.
did you have the r2 firmware before rooting? i bet most of the improvement is coming from the updated firmware
I fully charged my mobile and after 5 minutes i lost 5% of battery i dont know why but firmware . 23 seemz thats not working for me , i will keep it for a bit but already thinking to go on . 20 again. I domt know if i am doing something wrong.
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Wow!!!! Battery life absolutely sucks.
I have a Rogers X10. I just picked it up yesterday, so I have done nothing to it yet. It is now almost 5:00 PM where I am and it is dead. I have not even made a call on it. I have not turned on Wifi. I have not turned on Bluetooth. The display is set at about 50% Email is not set to poll. I have surfed a bit. I have sent and received a couple of texts, and downloaded a couple of apps. Otherwise I have just explorered the phone a bit....not a lot.
I'm returning it tomorrow unless you guys have some great ideas. I'm a bit hesitant to root it and flash a ROM of any kind because of the fact that I may return it. I will gladly root, annd flash if I'm confident I can improve the battery life.....and not underclock the processor to any great extent.
how u install it
Paragon said:
Wow!!!! Battery life absolutely sucks.
I have a Rogers X10. I just picked it up yesterday, so I have done nothing to it yet. It is now almost 5:00 PM where I am and it is dead. I have not even made a call on it. I have not turned on Wifi. I have not turned on Bluetooth. The display is set at about 50% Email is not set to poll. I have surfed a bit. I have sent and received a couple of texts, and downloaded a couple of apps. Otherwise I have just explorered the phone a bit....not a lot.
I'm returning it tomorrow unless you guys have some great ideas. I'm a bit hesitant to root it and flash a ROM of any kind because of the fact that I may return it. I will gladly root, annd flash if I'm confident I can improve the battery life.....and not underclock the processor to any great extent.
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What is the firmware on? If it's on R1FA014 then update it ASAP you'll get about twice the amount of battery life you currently get.
Paragon said:
Wow!!!! Battery life absolutely sucks.
I have a Rogers X10. I just picked it up yesterday, so I have done nothing to it yet. It is now almost 5:00 PM where I am and it is dead. I have not even made a call on it. I have not turned on Wifi. I have not turned on Bluetooth. The display is set at about 50% Email is not set to poll. I have surfed a bit. I have sent and received a couple of texts, and downloaded a couple of apps. Otherwise I have just explorered the phone a bit....not a lot.
I'm returning it tomorrow unless you guys have some great ideas. I'm a bit hesitant to root it and flash a ROM of any kind because of the fact that I may return it. I will gladly root, annd flash if I'm confident I can improve the battery life.....and not underclock the processor to any great extent.
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most people found that it takes about a week for the battery to be going at full capacity
and then the r2b...20 update pretty much double my battery again
with everything except gps/bt on i easily get over a day and a half , thats 3g , push email , auto screen brightness , wifi on when the screens on
your most likely using the old firmware which has issues where it uses a lot of power when on standby. with the latest official SE update my phone maybe a 1% per hour when on standby. im very impressed
i dont use anything that needs root to achieve this.
oh and if your worried about warranty then you should still have a warrant with SE if you debrand and use there own updates from SEUS . i did this myself (debranded from uk vodafone) and when i broke my usb port they swapped my phone no problems
thanks guys. I have no idea what firmware is on it. I'll check when I get home and plug it in. Do you have a link to Se's latest firmware, or to debrand it?
Dave
you don't need a link.. go into settings, about phone, software update.. update now...
or it's it's not available over the air then you should try downloading SEUS (Sony Ericsson Update Software).. and follow the on screen instructions.. sometimes the update come out on one of those before the other.. also bear in mind that the new firmware hasn't completed it's rollout yet so may not be available for your region or brand yet..
Check out the other thread that lornova started which shows where, and which brands the update has reached so far.
How do I find which software version I have? I'm on Orange UK and have done run an over-air update (which did provide me with some update) but my battery life is still poor - unplugged at 10am today and it died at about 11pm.
I don;t mind de-branding or rooting my phone if that's what I need to fix the battery life. How do I go about this?
Will rooting also effectively de-brand my phone? It is difficult to see any Orange branding anyway! Would this help battery life? What other benefits does rooting have?
Sorry, I'm a bit of an Android novice (almost 18 months on WinMo 6.1!)
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you don't need a link.. go into settings, about phone, software update.. update now...
or it's it's not available over the air then you should try downloading SEUS (Sony Ericsson Update Software).. and follow the on screen instructions.. sometimes the update come out on one of those before the other.. also bear in mind that the new firmware hasn't completed it's rollout yet so may not be available for your region or brand yet..
Check out the other thread that lornova started which shows where, and which brands the update has reached so far.
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Thanks, I'm on Rogers in Canada so there is no OTA, just went to SE's site and grabbed it. I'll charge it overnight and see how tomorrow goes....thanks for the help.
Dave
Paragon said:
Wow!!!! Battery life absolutely sucks.
I have a Rogers X10. I just picked it up yesterday, so I have done nothing to it yet. It is now almost 5:00 PM where I am and it is dead. I have not even made a call on it. I have not turned on Wifi. I have not turned on Bluetooth. The display is set at about 50% Email is not set to poll. I have surfed a bit. I have sent and received a couple of texts, and downloaded a couple of apps. Otherwise I have just explorered the phone a bit....not a lot.
I'm returning it tomorrow unless you guys have some great ideas. I'm a bit hesitant to root it and flash a ROM of any kind because of the fact that I may return it. I will gladly root, annd flash if I'm confident I can improve the battery life.....and not underclock the processor to any great extent.
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first thing you should do is plug into seus and update to the r2 firmware, next thing you can try is to download a home screen replacement launcher from the market as I have read that this also helps to improve battery life. I use adw.launcher, it is free and works great.
I have owned the milestone, HTC magic, nexus 1 and the x10a and all of them needed several battery cycles to break in the battery
The R2Bxxx update has changed the phone a lot in terms of performance. Im quite happy with my x10 now and I wouldnt bother rooting it. My 2cents..
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The R2Bxxx update has changed the phone a lot in terms of performance. Im quite happy with my x10 now and I wouldnt bother rooting it. My 2cents..
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ya.. indeed true.. i also dont bother to root.
Hi friend
Im also from India. Im planning to buy X10. Sorry for asking couple of questions that are irrelevent to this thread. I need to know some stuff...
> In call quality via the phone earpiece
> Loudspeaker volume
> Is the phone get heats up while using it for more than 15 mins
> Battery life
> Music volume
Pls pls help me with your comments and it'l be of a great help for me to decide on this phone
Thanks is advance
Im currently using the 023 firmware and also setcup with lots of different profiles. And surely, its helping my battery to last long
I'm losing like 12% or so/hr when using 3g/wifi.. I just don't get why its draining it so bad!! hopefully someone has a really good answer??
R2ba020 rooted, same was happening with r2ba023 root an all!
please try avoid simple answers like task killer stuff, startup, etc.. I'm pretty used to all them now hence y I'm looking for a really good solution?
everything else is usually working pretty well..
thanx
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Has anyone noticed a severe drop in battery life with the new over the air update? Since the new update my phone lasts around 12 hours before I'm running looking for a charger.
Yup, having the same problem and I can't figure out why.
Keep an eye on this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9931380#post9931380
Thanks topdawgn8, that seems like that is probably the issue. Unfortunately I am not rooted and it doesn't look like I can revert to an old PRI or software version w/out unlocking. =/
My friend actually had his evo battery die suddenly while it was on the charger after the OTA, he showed me a thread on sprintuser forums that showed several other people having the same problem.
He tried my battery and his phone worked again, his battery didn't work in mine, so his battery just completely died and would not charge, wouldn't boot up for more than a split second either.
He took it in today and asked them to replace the battery, they were out of stock and the sprint salesman gave him the battery out of an evo he was holding lol.
Battery life for me is about the same after the update, but my is phone completely stock.
Hi All
I've had my Dezire Z since launch and it's still on the original software (1.34.405.5) and is perm rooted using visionary (pretty much since visionary first came out and so simple to use). The only thing I really wanted root for really was to be able to use SetCPU to underclock the phone when the screen was off to give better battery life as initially it was terrible!
However, last week the loud speaker died on me, anything that uses it (sat nav, music, ringtones etc) is really really badly distorted and totally unuseable.
I've spoken to HTC who suggested a factory reset (which I'm 99.9% certain won't help), and if that doesn't fix it, then I'll have to get it picked up for repair.
I'm fairly happy about backing up everything etc and unrooting using visionary, so my phone will be fine for sending off.
However I imagine they'll update to the newest version of the software, which If I understand correctly is not rootable? Is that right? I've read so many rooting threads and, to be honest, have been left somewhat baffled by it all!
If it comes back with the latest software, is there any hope for me to be able to root or flash to a difference (still Sense based) firmware?
Any help/advice very much appreciated!
Valve
valve90210 said:
which If I understand correctly is not rootable?
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No, it is not true. I update my Desire Z to latest software, then downgrade easly to low version of 1.3x to get SuperCID, so it will not be a problem, becouse you can downgrade any time and put rooted firmware.
The problem will be if you get firmware, that was not yet published, but even for this it will be possible to do something.
Oh that's good, though I have to say all the guides I've read about downgrading etc have left me rather confused.
I don't really have a huge need for root, except as I mentioned for running setCPU for battery life....
valve90210 said:
Oh that's good, though I have to say all the guides I've read about downgrading etc have left me rather confused.
I don't really have a huge need for root, except as I mentioned for running setCPU for battery life....
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I have also have root on my phone for setCPU, but I dont observe any changes with cpu management and without, so I decide, that I dont need it such, and upgrade to newest software without root.
iDAREK said:
I have also have root on my phone for setCPU, but I dont observe any changes with cpu management and without, so I decide, that I dont need it such, and upgrade to newest software without root.
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How do you find the battery lasts on the newest software? on the original software it was really terrible until I started using setCPU...even now it's not brilliant...
It definately increased the battery life for me,I'm on a stock pre-rooted GB rom.
valve90210 said:
Oh that's good, though I have to say all the guides I've read about downgrading etc have left me rather confused.
I don't really have a huge need for root, except as I mentioned for running setCPU for battery life....
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when i was 1.34 i never had any battery issues. if i left it alone it will last a week or more. but sadly i cant live without music and reading my txt/email, ive managed to get 6 days battery life. but this only happened after 2weeks since i bought the device.
i had to double charge the phone, charge the phone till green when its on then unplug the charger then charge the phone till green when phone is off. only had to do that method once.
better off flashing to stock so its rooted and s-on. It really begrudgingly did this because they will plug it in when it goes back for repair.
I just got a stock rom off the net and they didn't update or downgrade it, they literally just wiped the user data which I have been told is protocol.
I've had my hd2 since it came out, and am a regular tester of various roms and windows roms. When i got WP7 nodo a few months back i noticed that my battery life was, well, terrible. After trying every battery trick, charging method, and the like, the best i could get out of my battery tool is 120ma, which is like 8 hours of charge for me (TMOUS, 3G on, ~30 minutes of gaming, ~30 minutes browsing, ~25 texts per day, ~30 minutes talking, wifi and background stuff off, brightness moderate).
I've switched back to android since, but i was wondering if those problems persist in Mango? I noticed the big dog, Cotulla, released a ROM and if anyone could tell me if the battery problem is fixed? If not, Whats causing the battery problems, besides the camera (idk if that was fixed, but it was a big problem in NoDo)?
Becuase i really want to switch back to Wp7, but that battery life man.....just can't live with it.
Anyways thanks y'all!
Exactly!
I've been using XBmod & Yuki's Back to the future WP7 8107 ROM, and while I LOVE the ROM, and having WP7 on my HD2, my battery life is TERRIBLE! I too have done all the posted "tricks", but I'm still charging my phone all day. If I can't find a way to increase my battery life, it'll be back to Windows Mobile 6.5.x for me.
I have approx. 2 hours of calls each day and with WM7 I must charging my telefon min. 2 times in one day. So its very horrible. Would be nice to find any fix for it
Batteryyyy!!!!
Hi people.
Unfortunately I'm not reply to give you some fix...I have the same problem and I' still waiting for a fix, maybe if we are more the fix come more fast lool
Hi there,
I bought a Galaxy S3 in the beginning of July and it's been great. Everything running smoothly, no problems whatsoever, excellent battery life. I've been getting 10 hours or more most days - I could not have been happier.
The phone is exactly as I bought it from the shop, with the exception that I'm running Nova launcher instead of the stock launcher.
However, The phone downloaded an update in early August and since then I've been having problems. The phone is running as normal, then, for no apparent reason it gets insanely hot, seriously, I could probably iron a shirt with it if I wanted. This appears to drain the battery completely and the phone shuts down within an hour.
This is only happening since the phone downloaded the latest update, it never happened before that. Yesterday it didn't happen, I got the full day out of my phone, unplugged it at 8am and didn't have to plug it in until near 9pm. But most other days the phone is getting really hot at some stage between 11am and 1pm and the battery is dead within the hour. I haven't installed any new apps since before the last update.
Does anyone have any idea what this might be?? If you need any more information please let me know.
I'm running Android 4.0.4
Any advice greatly appreciated.
mal808 said:
Hi there,
I bought a Galaxy S3 in the beginning of July and it's been great. Everything running smoothly, no problems whatsoever, excellent battery life. I've been getting 10 hours or more most days - I could not have been happier.
The phone is exactly as I bought it from the shop, with the exception that I'm running Nova launcher instead of the stock launcher.
However, The phone downloaded an update in early August and since then I've been having problems. The phone is running as normal, then, for no apparent reason it gets insanely hot, seriously, I could probably iron a shirt with it if I wanted. This appears to drain the battery completely and the phone shuts down within an hour.
This is only happening since the phone downloaded the latest update, it never happened before that. Yesterday it didn't happen, I got the full day out of my phone, unplugged it at 8am and didn't have to plug it in until near 9pm. But most other days the phone is getting really hot at some stage between 11am and 1pm and the battery is dead within the hour. I haven't installed any new apps since before the last update.
Does anyone have any idea what this might be?? If you need any more information please let me know.
I'm running Android 4.0.4
Any advice greatly appreciated.
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Its possible that ota update is not so good at it seems like and when you have running apps in background ( i assume). If i get your post correctly i asume that its ota update that causes your problems (correct me if im wrong) for more help go to s3 forums since this isnt s3 forum but samsung galaxy 3 one
Sent from my Viper HOX
Oh right, S3 again. And I was already wondering how the G3 could heat up that much by it's own components^^
Nevertheless I would recommend whereismydroidpower app.
oops! sorry guys, will repost.
thanks for the advice.