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battery lasts only one dayy maximum

i bought my phone in june and i was little bit angry to see, that the battery lasts only one day by normal using it without bt, wlan and gps only sometimes internet and phone. i went to my vendor and it was sent to htc 3 times to get it repaired back, but it still exists the battery problem. now i read, that some roms are less battery catcher than other. which rom is good for saaving battery life.
thank you very much or are there other tricks to improve battery life.
mfg
dietmar

dietmarlechner said:
i bought my phone in june and i was little bit angry to see, that the battery lasts only one day by normal using it without bt, wlan and gps only sometimes internet and phone. i went to my vendor and it was sent to htc 3 times to get it repaired back, but it still exists the battery problem. now i read, that some roms are less battery catcher than other. which rom is good for saaving battery life.
thank you very much or are there other tricks to improve battery life.
mfg
dietmar
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TC,
Are you using stock ROM or..? I've not change my phone's ROM yet and even until today, I get 3 days worth of normal usage (I charge my phone at about 20 ~ 35% range depending). I don't use it much for anything except being a phone, occasional web surfer, and very very importantly, an organizer/calender.
Also, do you leave applications running in the background? Do you close all of em? What is your brightness setting? How long does it take for your phone to dim the screen? Since I don't really care for 3G and HSDPA (couldn't even if I could), did you set it to GSM only? Do you turn off your phone module in signals with very low bars?
My point is, a lot of factors can affect battery drain, I hope the questions I've asked might help you better pinpoint what the problem seem to be. I wouldn't be surprised if the drain is due to the phone being in a constant 0 ~ 2 bar zone.
Cheers.

hello ,
thanks for writing back so fast
no i didn´t change or updated my rom with any roms which are able to be downloaded here. my phone was updatet when i brought it for analyzing in the htc shop.
i charge it always when it has nearly nothing anymore.
i use it for the same reasons you need. i use 3g because it was written, that gsm uses more battery than 3g
i always push down programs in the background only activesync is not easy to close
...... Do you turn off your phone module in signals with very low bars?
that i don´t know what you mean by "in signals with very low bars"
i also use mort player an windows player and by using these programs the battery drains a lot
thanks
dietmar

[Q] HD2 / WP7 / battery life (Mango/Tango)

Hi,
I use ROM from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=953078
When I use Mango verion (up to 1.26 (build 8107)). Battery life is ok (up to 9mAh).
When I tried to use Tango (2.00b, 2.00b2, 200b3), battery consumption is about 40mAh with the same settings as mango ...
Whant can I set to reduce consumption?
(BT off, Location off, WiFi off, data off or email after 15minutes, 3G off, camera trick used)
Thx,
Petr

How I can check usage battery ? (mAh)

you can use HTC Battery tool from this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10762409&postcount=64

Battery current - is this what I am looking for ?

yes, barrety current ... .
if you can check it, leave phone locked few minutes, unlock it and check values.

...and better when status (current battery) is lower or higher ?

if its not on charge then the lower it is the better, if its on charge youd hope it was increasing the available charge

Hi,
please, do you have any experience or knowledge about problem from first post?
(I checked I have problem with BT HF connection too - in tango. I need pair HF again and again.
If I use Mango, connection with BT HF is very quick and I paired devices one time only)
Thx.
Petr

When i run battery tool level battery is strange... For example Battery current is (minus) -456. What is the cause ?

szymciosek said:
When i run battery tool level battery is strange... For example Battery current is (minus) -456. What is the cause ?
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Your battery drain is very high. Check if you have apps running in the background. Are you using WiFi?

Check its charged, it may report high drain but if the battery is half full but showing its full then it can appear to drain twice as fast, also the backlight is the biggest draw of power which doesn't work right,, im amazed its fallen on deaf ears when brought up
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hamoun said:
Hi,
I use ROM from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=953078
When I use Mango verion (up to 1.26 (build 8107)). Battery life is ok (up to 9mAh).
When I tried to use Tango (2.00b, 2.00b2, 200b3), battery consumption is about 40mAh with the same settings as mango ...
Whant can I set to reduce consumption?
(BT off, Location off, WiFi off, data off or email after 15minutes, 3G off, camera trick used)
Thx,
Petr
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I highly recommend you use this ROM instead: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1356833

I experience a much better battery life with 3G and BT on, WiFi and locations off.
Camera trick soesent work, because this rom uses radio 5.71.

Decs222 said:
I highly recommend you use this ROM instead: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1356833
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thx. i'll try it

chrigel27 said:
I experience a much better battery life with 3G and BT on, WiFi and locations off.
Camera trick soesent work, because this rom uses radio 5.71.
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Thank you.
(Mango)
BT on settings is perfect (-5mA), until I connect and disconnect to BT HF ...
If I disconnect, battery is -45mA whole time.
If I set BT to off, battery is -5mA again ...
I have bad 3G signal .. so 3G off is better than 3G on FOR ME.
(Tango up to 2.00b3)
Battery was -40mA for all time ...

extended battery 2300mAh
Is there a rom that works on an extended battery 2300mAh ? I apologize for my language

Tango 2.00b5 - drains battery like a HELL, as other roms too... I don't know those guys were talking about when saying up to 4 days bat life on this forum, but no matter what rom I use, it's less than 1 day bat life without calls, wi-fi and data! With wi-fi - less than 1 hour. Why this crap still can't be fixed since first rom was ported?? It's completely no point to use WP7 in this case.

I use last Mango ...
If I don't use phone, few days (3-5) phone "using" is possible
(BT off, wifi off, Location off, data on, 3g off (bad signal for me), email (15minutes), camera trick after reboote )
If I use phone, 1-2 days are without problem ...
I tried to use Pdaimatejam Rom, but I had problem with restarting and phone temperature ...

Neolo said:
Tango 2.00b5 - drains battery like a HELL, as other roms too... I don't know those guys were talking about when saying up to 4 days bat life on this forum, but no matter what rom I use, it's less than 1 day bat life without calls, wi-fi and data! With wi-fi - less than 1 hour. Why this crap still can't be fixed since first rom was ported?? It's completely no point to use WP7 in this case.
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Same, wifi, bt off, downgraded roms, tried camera tricks, etc. even bought a new battery, still same...
HTC Tool reports anything from -881 to -5

when i used rom from hd2owner battery consumption was large. about -40.
with pdaimatejam rom everything is ok. consumption is about -5.
I have disabled everything for maximum battery life.

Battery life with WP 7.5 / 7.8 - your thoughts?

Hi XDA!
I wonder if anyone is using WP 7.5/7.8 in productive daily environment, as my feeling is that battery life is really short. While fully charged and camera trick applied, i got a drop from 100 to 75% charge while using wifi for around 15 minutes (downloading apps).
With android installed as nativesd, i´m able to use it for max 2 days w/o charging.
What is your experience with these roms?
Thanks for your opinion!

akidone said:
Hi XDA!
I wonder if anyone is using WP 7.5/7.8 in productive daily environment, as my feeling is that battery life is really short. While fully charged and camera trick applied, i got a drop from 100 to 75% charge while using wifi for around 15 minutes (downloading apps).
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Bit of a waste of a thread. Have your searched? First rule of XDA
Are you sure "camera trick applied" properly?
This battery usage seems a bit extreme with camera trick.
Also, maybe your battery is no good/old

akidone said:
Hi XDA!
I wonder if anyone is using WP 7.5/7.8 in productive daily environment, as my feeling is that battery life is really short. While fully charged and camera trick applied, i got a drop from 100 to 75% charge while using wifi for around 15 minutes (downloading apps).
With android installed as nativesd, i´m able to use it for max 2 days w/o charging.
What is your experience with these roms?
Thanks for your opinion!
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Got Lumia 610 updated through NCS yesterday, while battery was fully charged.
Earlier, on WinMo 7.5, on a daily average use, the battery use to shell out at least 3-4 days of power with the mobile data connection enabled.
But, on 7.8, the battery drain is actually more, only after a day of use, the battery level dropped to 43% showing 19 hours of standby time.
That's just the stock ROM, from Nokia, haven't had any experience with custom ROMs.
Maybe the CNN application and Hike messenger are drawing on more power.
Thanks in advance.

advises for all WP7:
- turn off 3G, use E (2G)
- turn off BT and WiFi when not used
- increase or turn off mail checking time
- dont use (or reduce numbers) of Live tiles
- turn off background tasks in settings - applications - background tasks (after that you must manually update this applications but you lower battery consumption
also you can manually turn on Battery saver, go to "Settings - battery saver" and check "Turn on Battery Saver now, until next charge"... notice: with this apps wont work in background, emails not be received automatically...

dxdy said:
advises for all WP7:
- turn off 3G, use E (2G)
- turn off BT and WiFi when not used
- increase or turn off mail checking time
- dont use (or reduce numbers) of Live tiles
- turn off background tasks in settings - applications - background tasks (after that you must manually update this applications but you lower battery consumption
also you can manually turn on Battery saver, go to "Settings - battery saver" and check "Turn on Battery Saver now, until next charge"... notice: with this apps wont work in background, emails not be received automatically...
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Thanks dxdy. I yesterday installed pdaimatejam's "1_HD2 Pdaimatejam Rom Wp7.8 OS 7.10.8858.136 RMT v8.7" custom rom on nand. Battery used to drain very fast. Now did what you said and applied the camera trick too. Whatsapp running in background, with 2G, battery current after 2-3min idle is -19. Thats the lowest I can go. Before it was -178 at idle. So is it normal now ?
And I have not tried nand android ics rom. Do it have a better battery backup than nand wp7 ?

mx900 said:
Thanks dxdy. I yesterday installed pdaimatejam's "1_HD2 Pdaimatejam Rom Wp7.8 OS 7.10.8858.136 RMT v8.7" custom rom on nand. Battery used to drain very fast. Now did what you said and applied the camera trick too. Whatsapp running in background, with 2G, battery current after 2-3min idle is -19. Thats the lowest I can go. Before it was -178 at idle. So is it normal now ?
And I have not tried nand android ics rom. Do it have a better battery backup than nand wp7 ?
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How much battery life are you getting now? I'm also having problems trying to squeeze out life of wp7.8 which is a shame seeing that the rom otherwise is completely functional.
Also what tool are you using to determine the current draw?

[Q] Please help with battery life

Hello all, I am a new comer here. I have a motorola defy plus mb526.
I've been switching between stock firmware android 2.3.5 and CM10 android 4.1.2 many times since I couldn't manage to make 3G/HSPA work properly (I had signal drops, lower signal strenght and no 3G at all, only HSPA worked well).
So after the 4th or 5th time I came back finally to stock firmware, I noticed my battery lasted less than 12 hours instead of the normal 48 hours duration I had before (both android 2 and 4, with even a slight advantage towards android 2).
My battery stats seem to point that my IDLE/Inactive phone consumed 35%, against only a 9% corresponding to the screen consumption. I am 70% of the time connected to WIFI, and sometimes I connect to 3G. It seems my phone is consuming a lot battery when IDLE.
Do you have any suggestions on how to diagnose this issue??
What I did until now:
>> Installed a new battery stats app more detailed
>> Waiting for the battery to clean up, to wipe battery stats and see if that helps (I did it before I installed the new rom though)
Thank you and sorry for my english
JV

First off, for the signal issue you could've changed the baseband from settings/advanced.
And for battery usage problem try a clean sbf flash and wipe data. Then install those apps only which you used earlier when battery life was good. If you get the same level of performance then one of the newer apps is messing with the deep sleep.
Also charge your phone for a couple is hours at 100% to calibrate battery properly
Sent from my MB526 using xda premium

Thanks for the reply, I've been doing some tests and finally decided to go back to quarx CM10. I'm in argentina so 3G pretty much sucks. But i'm gonna have patience and try to make it work.
Apart from this, unfortunately, battery is still down. But I have a new theory. The same day I started experiencing low battery duration (plus the same day I overclocked the phone and flashed it), I removed the screen block (so there was no password or slide needed when turning the screen on), I think that could have been the reason behind the "Inactive/Idle phone" consuming more battery than the screen itself.
I have reverted this and battery seems to last longer (still seems far from the old 48 hours duration =*( ), plus the battery stats no longer report that inactive phone consumes more than screen.
I will be keeping on the diagnostics and hope its not the battery hardware but some crappy battery stats on my phone
Thanks

JeansenVaars said:
Hello all, I am a new comer here. I have a motorola defy plus mb526.
I've been switching between stock firmware android 2.3.5 and CM10 android 4.1.2 many times since I couldn't manage to make 3G/HSPA work properly (I had signal drops, lower signal strenght and no 3G at all, only HSPA worked well).
So after the 4th or 5th time I came back finally to stock firmware, I noticed my battery lasted less than 12 hours instead of the normal 48 hours duration I had before (both android 2 and 4, with even a slight advantage towards android 2).
My battery stats seem to point that my IDLE/Inactive phone consumed 35%, against only a 9% corresponding to the screen consumption. I am 70% of the time connected to WIFI, and sometimes I connect to 3G. It seems my phone is consuming a lot battery when IDLE.
Do you have any suggestions on how to diagnose this issue??
What I did until now:
>> Installed a new battery stats app more detailed
>> Waiting for the battery to clean up, to wipe battery stats and see if that helps (I did it before I installed the new rom though)
Thank you and sorry for my english
JV
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Get setvsl, and change the battery usage... keep ur phone cool, check the temprature with battery solo widget
turn off data when not in use, us 2G if possible.. lower the brightness....

samuellewis47 said:
Get setvsl, and change the battery usage... keep ur phone cool, check the temprature with battery solo widget
turn off data when not in use, us 2G if possible.. lower the brightness....
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whats the medium battery temperature I should target?
Thanks for the tips they're interesting ive used setvsel before ill try lowering the voltages.
But you sound like you understood this happens since ever, while my statement is about this happening only since last device flash.

90%+ of time no network - battery drain

Hi everyone,
Today I've noticed, after installing cm10.1, that my battery life hasn't improved at all compared to color rom. While other Oppo find 5 users say the battery life changes for the good.
The problem is that my device says that it doesn't have signal or an unknown signal. While today, I had 3 full bars of connection the whole time. Also in betterbatterystats the apps says my phone was awake for 5+ hours, while the cm10.1 battery app says my phone was barely awake.
Ofcourse I've got screenshots to show you what I exactly mean.
If you guys need more information on this, please ask me and I'll post it as soon as I can.
I really want to know what's up with my battery drainage, cus just 3 hours of screentime(just 2g or wi-fi) is by far not enough for me.
Thanks in advance!

ahawlery said:
Hi everyone,
Today I've noticed, after installing cm10.1, that my battery life hasn't improved at all compared to color rom. While other Oppo find 5 users say the battery life changes for the good.
The problem is that my device says that it doesn't have signal or an unknown signal. While today, I had 3 full bars of connection the whole time. Also in betterbatterystats the apps says my phone was awake for 5+ hours, while the cm10.1 battery app says my phone was barely awake.
Ofcourse I've got screenshots to show you what I exactly mean.
If you guys need more information on this, please ask me and I'll post it as soon as I can.
I really want to know what's up with my battery drainage, cus just 3 hours of screentime(just 2g or wi-fi) is by far not enough for me.
Thanks in advance!
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If you want to use to CM roms there are a few things to check.
If you are coming from a 4.2.2 ColorRom you need to flash the 4.1 modem for AOSP roms, the 4.2 modem doesn't work.
The modem can be found here (thanks to anders3408): http://d-h.st/BEg
CM10.1 is using a kernel that is not that great compared to other AOSP roms but you can still increase battery life by changing the cpu governor to 'Conservative'. To get access to the performance settings go to 'Settings' --> 'ABout Phone' and tab 'Build Number' repeatedly. The performance sttings will now be visible in the settings menu.
Better IMO would be to use a newer AOSP rom with new kernel. I would suggest to try out the following roms, all of them should offer better battery life:
AOKP official by @DAGr8: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2431666
AOKP by @maxwen: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432755
AOSP by @anders3408: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2430113
Paranoid Android 3.99 by @aaronpoweruser
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