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Hey Guys,
I did a fresh install of phiremod 6.3 and I saw on the post to use the battery calibration app after you install any new rom. So I did. but now it seems that my battery dies at 15% completely, to the point when my nook will not even power on without the charger. Can someone tell me what i did wrong?
I did wait till the battery was 100% before i ran the battery calibration app.
PBD
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098178
I think i fixed my problem. I deleteed the dalvik cache, wiped system cache and deleted the batterystat. Well atleast so far battery is looking good. fully charged 100% at 8am EST its now 6:21 pm est and im at 80% battery. I hope my battery will go down to 1% rather than dropping at 15%. i'll post results when it happens
Hey guys, i have a problem concerning the battery life of my HTC Hero with FroydVillain 1.7.3 (Android v2.2.1)
In the last couple of days my battery goes down by 10-12% per hour without even touching the phone. I tried factory reset, wiped sd card and reflashed, flashed CM7 but still the battery issue didn't go away.
I charge it 100% before i go to bed at 11.30 and when i wake up at 7 the phone is completely powered off..
The thing that consumes my battery is the process "Android OS". I read about it on the internet, but all threads were SGS2..
The strange thing is that it's CPU usage time according to the battery stats is 1h 21m after 3 hours of sleep.. Is this normal??
I have everything turned off - wifi, gps, mobile data, auto sync, background sync and still the drain continues.
Has anyone had this kind of issues and possibly a solution?
Or should i buy a new battery?
f1r3fl3x said:
Hey guys, i have a problem concerning the battery life of my HTC Hero with FroydVillain 1.7.3 (Android v2.2.1)
In the last couple of days my battery goes down by 10-12% per hour without even touching the phone. I tried factory reset, wiped sd card and reflashed, flashed CM7 but still the battery issue didn't go away.
I charge it 100% before i go to bed at 11.30 and when i wake up at 7 the phone is completely powered off..
The thing that consumes my battery is the process "Android OS". I read about it on the internet, but all threads were SGS2..
The strange thing is that it's CPU usage time according to the battery stats is 1h 21m after 3 hours of sleep.. Is this normal??
I have everything turned off - wifi, gps, mobile data, auto sync, background sync and still the drain continues.
Has anyone had this kind of issues and possibly a solution?
Or should i buy a new battery?
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I have also been experiencing battery issues with Froyd lately, but not to the same degree as you are. My solution was to wipe and install another 2.2.1 based ROM. This new ROM is acting normally in terms of battery life.
With Froyd, my battery was acting "weird" in terms of overall battery life. Once I got about 3 good discharge / charge cycles in a row things seemed to improve.
Another thing to consider is did you recently install any new apps? Some apps don't play nice and cause the phone to not enter sleep state OR cause excess CPU usage.
Some people might say "wipe battery stats" but some Google Engineer / Developer has recently dispelled that myth... https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
Good luck!
It's not from any app. Last night i wiped my sd card, wiped everything from recovery and flashed Froyd. I used it all day without installing anything besided battery graph to monitor my battery usage. it's something from the OS itself i guess..
The funny thing is that it seems that in the past two hours the drain has disappeared and now the battery is reducing by ~1% per hour and i haven't done anything during that time, except 2 calls under a minute each and 1 sms.
How old is ur battery? Did you consider that it might be physically related? Not because of the processes or so?
One more thing I noticed - if I charge by ac outlet, it charges faster, and lasts longer, if I charge by computer usb port, it charges really slowly and battery drains way faster... I don't know about battery life, maybe from ac outlet it dies faster, but 2 years of using it and still 1.5 day of normal use...
Thanks for the replies guys! I found the problem, it was my radio.
I flashed the latest radio and now my hero's battery life is better than before!
f1r3fl3x said:
Thanks for the replies guys! I found the problem, it was my radio.
I flashed the latest radio and now my hero's battery life is better than before!
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Which radio did you you use before and after?
Thanks!
f1r3fl3x said:
Hey guys, i have a problem concerning the battery life of my HTC Hero with FroydVillain 1.7.3 (Android v2.2.1)
In the last couple of days my battery goes down by 10-12% per hour without even touching the phone. I tried factory reset, wiped sd card and reflashed, flashed CM7 but still the battery issue didn't go away.
I charge it 100% before i go to bed at 11.30 and when i wake up at 7 the phone is completely powered off..
The thing that consumes my battery is the process "Android OS". I read about it on the internet, but all threads were SGS2..
The strange thing is that it's CPU usage time according to the battery stats is 1h 21m after 3 hours of sleep.. Is this normal??
I have everything turned off - wifi, gps, mobile data, auto sync, background sync and still the drain continues.
Has anyone had this kind of issues and possibly a solution?
Or should i buy a new battery?
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Looks like you have a battery problem. OS does not really kill batteries, you can see more or less the same performance if there are no background apps eating your power.
Check these batteries for your Hero. These are top quality and many users vouch for them.
HTC Hero Mugen Power batteries
@saj222 i'm now running the same radio as the one in your signature. before that i was with 09.05 or sth like that..
@porcupineli my hero is second hand with about a year of usage before me. i have it for about 2 months now. Since the phone costed me $90 i don't think i can pay $70 for a battery.. I was thinking of buying this one
ebay (dot) com/itm/2600mAh-Extended-Battery-cover-HTC-Hero-G3-White-GSM-/250892692348?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3a6a5eab7c#ht_1230wt_1139
Is it any good?
Hello, i'm currently with quarx CM10 last build (2 nov). First time i installed it i noticed it help A LOT with battery consumption.. from 12 midnight till 10 am from the other day it went from 99 to 97... that is.. like a miracle. then i did something stupid.. i used "battery calibrator" and it ruined it. Today it wen from 12 to 10 am in the morning with 99 to 60 then 49 (typical battery jump)...
I repeat, it's in the night, were wifi is off, refresh is off and nothing (that's what i'm planning to discover) is running or updating.
I attach some screens.
1) first install of the new rom. you can see it sleeps like a baby.... plain.
2).. goes down.. and down... even though i'm not using it.
any comments, help or suggestions? thanks in advanced!
missgothika said:
Hello, i'm currently with quarx CM10 last build (2 nov). First time i installed it i noticed it help A LOT with battery consumption.. from 12 midnight till 10 am from the other day it went from 99 to 97... that is.. like a miracle. then i did something stupid.. i used "battery calibrator" and it ruined it. Today it wen from 12 to 10 am in the morning with 99 to 60 then 49 (typical battery jump)...
I repeat, it's in the night, were wifi is off, refresh is off and nothing (that's what i'm planning to discover) is running or updating.
I attach some screens.
1) first install of the new rom. you can see it sleeps like a baby.... plain.
2).. goes down.. and down... even though i'm not using it.
any comments, help or suggestions? thanks in advanced!
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Make your phone recalibrate the battery. Follow the following steps:
1 Use the phone till you have 10% or less battery left.
2 Wipe battery stats from 2ndinit recovery.
3 Boot into CM10.
4 Charge your battery to 100%.
Doing this will make the phone generate a new battery stats file and should solve your problems.
krushnam said:
Make your phone recalibrate the battery. Follow the following steps:
1 Use the phone till you have 10% or less battery left.
2 Wipe battery stats from 2ndinit recovery.
3 Boot into CM10.
4 Charge your battery to 100%.
Doing this will make the phone generate a new battery stats file and should solve your problems.
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i'll try that. but already done it when installed the last build for the second time. i do wipe cache / dalvik / batt stats then flash ROM and all over again with the wipes.
missgothika said:
i'll try that. but already done it when installed the last build for the second time. i do wipe cache / dalvik / batt stats then flash ROM and all over again with the wipes.
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If you've uninstalled your battery calibrator app or if you've not used it after the wipe, then you shouldn't have any abnormal battery drain...
If wiping battery stats doesn't work, then most people recommend reflashing the ROM, but you've already done that, so you shouldn't have the battery drain now.
Just put your phone to sleep for a few hours, and let's see what happens after doing that.
This is what i did after seeing the sudden drop the other night:
- let it drain normal till the day finishes (at midnight, that's when i did the following)
- charged the battery to 100% and turn off phone.
- pull battery., connect charger to wall and recovery.
- install ROM without battery on. Wipe cache, dalvik, stats batt, install rom, wipe cache, dalvik and statts (again)
- boot into cm10, turn off screen and went to sleep.
- THIS morning, i saw it drained me up to 60 all night.
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so as you can see.. i've already seen that after reflashing nothing has happened.
no, i didn't use again the calibrator.
missgothika said:
This is what i did after seeing the sudden drop the other night:
- let it drain normal till the day finishes (at midnight, that's when i did the following)
- charged the battery to 100% and turn off phone.
- pull battery., connect charger to wall and recovery.
- install ROM without battery on. Wipe cache, dalvik, stats batt, install rom, wipe cache, dalvik and statts (again)
- boot into cm10, turn off screen and went to sleep.
- THIS morning, i saw it drained me up to 60 all night.
...
so as you can see.. i've already seen that after reflashing nothing has happened.
no, i didn't use again the calibrator.
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I'm not 100% sure, but as far as I remember, the battery stats gets generated while CHARGING a drained battery.
That's why you should drain the battery, wipe stats and THEN charge it to 100%. As it charges, the battery sensor detects levels (15, 30, 60 and such I think) and generates the battery stats based on these readings.
Afterwards, based on these stats, it generates a reading of battery drain, as the battery sensor itself senses only certain levels.
So, drain, wipe and THEN charge. Do this and let me know if the problem still persists.
krushnam said:
I'm not 100% sure, but as far as I remember, the battery stats gets generated while CHARGING a drained battery.
That's why you should drain the battery, wipe stats and THEN charge it to 100%. As it charges, the battery sensor detects levels (15, 30, 60 and such I think) and generates the battery stats based on these readings.
Afterwards, based on these stats, it generates a reading of battery drain, as the battery sensor itself senses only certain levels.
So, drain, wipe and THEN charge. Do this and let me know if the problem still persists.
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hmmm! never tried that!.. i was just charging it and it's in 90.. so i'll let it drain and tell you later thanks for that suggestion.
Still open to other comments though thanks to everyone who reads this.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
Just read and engrave to your memory folks! Battery calibration never ever had a positive effect on the battery life and the battery usage shown in the android in-built "Battery Use"-app... and by the way, the stats are reset every time you unplug your nearly fully charged phone from the cable.
Hey, rather than blaming your battery stats I'd search for a process running all the time. Looks like something is keeping the phone awake.
The battery calibration IS A MYTH, as explained here, so don't waste your time wiping the values in Recovery. If you don't find any hyper-active processes with the following procedure, the drops might be related to a worn battery (I don't know how old your phone/battery is).
Open a terminal console and type:
$ top -n 1|head
(if you don't have Hacker's Keyboard installed and selected as Input Method you might need to copy and paste the line above, off course without the dollar sign).
Look at the processes listed as output and paste them here.
slimshady76 said:
Look at the processes listed as output and paste them here.
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Hola slim , thanks for answering. here's the screen
You had it coming since you are using Swipe... It's chewing up your CPU, and consequently your battery. Search the site. Off the top of my head I think it was a common issue.
slimshady76 said:
You had it coming since you are using Swipe... It's chewing up your CPU, and consequently your battery. Search the site. Off the top of my head I think it was a common issue.
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Swype? really?? shoot.. i love it.. even though i don't use it that much. Searched a bit but couldn't find much. Gonna try freezing it and see what happens. thanks.
Finally i managed with your help to accomplish some good sleep! here's the screen. i think it's awesome, never ever seen this.
thank you!!
we'll see if it gets better.
There's an interesting lesson to be learned here: if no deep sleep can be achieved, don't blame the ROM, and look for a stubborn process which refuses to stop when the kernel tell is to.
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.
Hi All,
I've attached a screenshot of the battery settings, my screen-on-time at this point was 1h48m - it seems to not be able to calibrate at all and drops and rises as it feels. I unplugged my phone this morning when the alarm went off and snoozed myself for a few hours, the phone was off when I woke up, when I turned it on it was at 66%
I've reloaded my ROM (MIUI v5) and it doesn't seem to have made a difference. Is it my battery dying or is it the ROM? I haven't seen anyone else using MIUI have these issues.
Any advice? Should I think about replacing the battery?
Seems really bad and battery problems really gets fustrating at times..
Check if you have any apps you recently installed that might be causing the drain (Games tend to stay in background hogging batteries)
Reflash your rom if possible, with a full wipe to be assured of no rogue apps.
If the problem persists, then it might be due to a worn out battery. Replacing the battery usually solves most problems :good: