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Hello, Just thought I would post my stats using the new Starburst rom with Pershoot's Kernel. Getting great speed and the system runs very smooth but it feels like my battery is draining quite abit faster...
I have setcpu set as "OnDemand" 300mhz-1400, 256mhz when screen is off. Is this battery drain normal? Ran for 4 hours idle while working, then during break i used my tablet for about 15 min, idle another 4 hours and then after work I only got about 2 1/2 hours of use from my tablet before getting the 15% battery warning (79% to 15% in two and a half hours).
Before installing any TW rom and using Pershoot's older (non-TW) kernel with same settings I was getting atleast 4 hours after having the system idle all day while i work (10 hrs), this was with about 40%+ battery left to spare. Please take a look at my stats and feel free to give any suggestions to help me get more battery
The performance now is very good, but before TW i was getting about 150 less points in quadrant (2950ish)with the extra battery life. Also i dont let any apps run wild while idle and have gps,bluetooth,wifi turned off during working hours.
Quadrant Score, Starburst TW + Pershoot's Kernel Aug/9/2011 builds (score:3100).
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Battery Stats, notice the steep drop at the end? Thats the only time I really used my tablet... about 2 1/2 hours, web surfing (14 hours 35min total on battery).
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/707/sc20110811003248.jpg/
why is your screen on and awake bar completely full if you only used it for the last 2:30?
In GENERAL
Screen on time 8-10 hours
Standby time ~100-500 hours depending on whats on/apps installed.
No idea why it says the screen was on, it was not... And I had the unit on but as far as i know there isn't a sleep option so the unit was awake but not being used.
If you know of a sleep option please let me know, thanks for your reply
Yeah I'm still testing this exact rom/kernel combo and there is something up with it.
On a reboot, does the battery level go up? Does it stay up for a little while then drop back down?
Also have you done a battery calibration? If so, how?
I'm just trying to narrow down what could be causing the problem. I'm no dev by any stretch of the imagination, but for some reason I really want to find out what is causing this. It doesnt seem to affect all machines so in finding the simularities of those that are having this issue, we can squash this bug....
I was using this combo and my google music kept force closing.
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it should goto sleep automatically, and if screen was off it should be indicated as off. maybe something is wrong. im currently on pershoot's kernel as well and have had some issues with battery calibration (reporting bogus stats).
i think pershoot is looking into the issues on his thread.
im using 10.1-Wifi, Touchwiz UX (OTA, GT-P7510)
It's a kernel problem. Try going back to stock or an older version of pershoots.
It'll be fixed today from what I've read.
Late last night reinstalled Starburst with its original rom, after my 10 hour work day it still has 95% battery left (after some galaxy on fire 2 during my break), hella lot better than it was yesterday.
I will wait for Pershoot's revised kernel and test it out again. And thanks again for all the devs making custom roms and kernels! Much love to ya! <3
*Stock Starburst kernel is showing my screen being off (when it is off) and my system as not awake when screen is off under battery usage in settings
Kayak83 said:
It'll be fixed today from what I've read.
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From what I've read, he claims there is no problem with the kernel, the problem is with the user. We havent calibrated the battery correctly according to pershoot himself. Problem is, I cant figure out the secret to a correct calibration process....
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From what I've read, he claims there is no problem with the kernel, the problem is with the user. We havent calibrated the battery correctly according to pershoot himself. Problem is, I cant figure out the secret to a correct calibration process....
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Flash Starburst or stock rom then charge your tablet 100%, once your battery is fully charged flash Pershoot's kernel.
I have not tried this myself but from what I have read it works, right now im happy with the performance on stock Starburst kernel, quadrant is at 2300 compared to Pershoot's 3100 but its running so smooth I cannot notice the difference. Going to wait for Pershoot's reworked kernel and then flash it, I gots to have my voodoo!
Update:
Today I reset my battery, and installed Pershoot's kernel. I'm still getting battery drain, used for 5 min this morning and its down to 80% (just browsing web)... Also my clock got stuck at around 5:08am and my alarm did not work this morning until i turned my screen on. After I installed Pershoots kernel alot of apps were acting up and not running properly but after a reboot my clock and apps started working as normal.
And I have to hit/hold the power button like 5 times to turn on the unit now. Going back to original Starburst for now.
jzen said:
Flash Starburst or stock rom then charge your tablet 100%, once your battery is fully charged flash Pershoot's kernel.
I have not tried this myself but from what I have read it works, right now im happy with the performance on stock Starburst kernel, quadrant is at 2300 compared to Pershoot's 3100 but its running so smooth I cannot notice the difference. Going to wait for Pershoot's reworked kernel and then flash it, I gots to have my voodoo!
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Today I reset my battery, and installed Pershoot's kernel. I'm still getting battery drain, used for 5 min this morning and its down to 80% (just browsing web)... Also my clock got stuck at around 5:08am and my alarm did not work this morning until i turned my screen on. After I installed Pershoots kernel alot of apps were acting up and not running properly but after a reboot my clock and apps started working as normal.
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Darn. I was just about to give this a try. Oh well I'll try it anyways, nothing to lose. Just remember all the issues that may or may not be caused by the kernel is actually user error
Did anyone try the newest version of the kernel? Posted 19/aug/2011.
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Did anyone try the newest version of the kernel? Posted 19/aug/2011.
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I'm using it now & it's a very good finish product. His last version gave me battery issues like no other. I believe he withdrew it after numerous complaints over battery issues.
Working great.
I always wipe Dalvik and Cache before flashing the new kernel.
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Working great.
I always wipe Dalvik and Cache before flashing the new kernel.
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sorry for the noob question but what does dalvik and cache contain?
Edit: Nvrmind. Found out my answer. I shall do this the next round of installing kernel
Hi! I wanted to know if you guys have a problem with the battery life on SwiftDroid RC5. I have a poor battery life and therefore big battery problems.
i had mine and bought a new batt no probs after that
Yes, I do. Since RC4 and RC5 I have very poor battery life. Before it was enough to charge once every other day, now I have to do it daily.
Actually after installing RC5 it was a disaster as battery didn't keep even 24 hours but after recalibration it's better. But even then during the course of the day while doing basically nothing (say, sending and receiving 3 or 4 sms) it goes down from 99% to 40%.
Edit: I should mention that I overclocked to 800MHz, but I used to do it before RC4.
hmskrecik said:
Yes, I do. Since RC4 and RC5 I have very poor battery life. Before it was enough to charge once every other day, now I have to do it daily.
Actually after installing RC5 it was a disaster as battery didn't keep even 24 hours but after recalibration it's better. But even then during the course of the day while doing basically nothing (say, sending and receiving 3 or 4 sms) it goes down from 99% to 40%.
Edit: I should mention that I overclocked to 800MHz, but I used to do it before RC4.
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Same here. I'm moving on Cyanogenmod 6.
yeah swiftdroid is a real battery drainer but
on swiftdroid on average my battery lasted 2 days..
but still i use cyan6!!
good in battery and performance!!
Same here. Experiencing battery problems on SwiftDroid aswell. Like mentioned above the battery drains even when doing nothing. Experience this on basically any mod built on SwifDroid ofcourse. Changed to EleganceSwift, waiting for mike to release AOSP with Bluetooth-free radio ;-)
There's something more to it.
Recently I was playing a bit with my phone, installed couple of applications and then suddenly I realized that battery doesn't drain as fast as it used to. One thing I noted is that for example Videos application doesn't reside in memory anymore. I'm not saying this one was the sole battery hog but I'm starting to suspect that those cases of battery going down very fast may be related to some misbehaving app or apps and not necessarily be Gingerbread's fault.
If that's the case, the solution would be, I imagine, to trim system preferences to have such apps killed fast not to let them stay active.
using ASIS atm, but when I was using RC5 I didn't notice much faster draining. Still, it depends how many apps are running on your device and did you overclock it? I used to have min 250MHz, max 600MHz and it was pretty fine with texting, multiple apps running and music. Now with min 825MHz/max 825MHz it's draining faster ofc
Well,I remember a day when i update to SwiftDroid RC5, the batter drains and there isnt any app running in background after that i changed to a another rom.
btw fdespotovski, Multiverse is my favorite rom, in fact, i wrote on the offcial blog but i have problems with the RC3, statusbar sound widget doesnt work properly for now im on RC2
O.O cant stand the bad battery life of 2.2 or 2.3 so back to the old 2.1 im now using this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1038337
the gold edition
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O.O cant stand the bad battery life of 2.2 or 2.3 so back to the old 2.1 im now using this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1038337
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which 2.2 did u use??
My battery life is alright.. With hard gaming about
one day.. Doing nothing up to 4days!!
androidboss7 said:
which 2.2 did u use??
My battery life is alright.. With hard gaming about
one day.. Doing nothing up to 4days!!
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Project Utopia
bs828 said:
Project Utopia
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i had good battery life with Utopia!
crystalic said:
using ASIS atm, but when I was using RC5 I didn't notice much faster draining. Still, it depends how many apps are running on your device and did you overclock it? I used to have min 250MHz, max 600MHz and it was pretty fine with texting, multiple apps running and music. Now with min 825MHz/max 825MHz it's draining faster ofc
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I'm not using ASIS, still at RC5, and what I reported is that both RC5 and RC4 drain battery much faster than earlier versions. Assuming ASIS is just cosmetic change to RC5 it doesn't surprise me you didn't notice any difference. And again, I do overclock to 800MHz and I do it since M5 if memory serves me well. I know principles of overclocking and I know, and accept, drawbacks that come with it. But when at the same clock RC3 can live two days or more while sometimes RC5 barely manages only one then I suspect something is not right.
I tried to check which applications are responsible for battery drain but system report is not helping when telling that 98% took Android system, 2% cell standby and 2% phone idle.
Sorry for necroposting but I didn't want to litter forum with new thread and the problem itself hasn't go away.
I'm still using SwiftDroid v2.0 RC5 and until recently I still had problem of battery barely keeping one day: whole night on the charger and after moderate to no use during the day on the evening it was almost drained.
Recently I installed one more application (rather unrelated, I'd need really solid proof that CPU Spy directly improves energy usage) and after that the battery easily keeps for two days. Which brings back the theory I have that the short battery life is not necessarily caused by Android itself but by some applications staying in memory and not sleeping properly. If so, installing extra app may help just for this reason that it having higher priority will swap out those misbehaving ones.
Thus I propose little hunt, if anyone's interested. I'd like to stay focused on v2.0 RC5 (maybe RC4/ASIS if you believe the difference is not too big). I need reported both GOOD and BAD battery life. In either case please write down all apps currently in memory (you can skip those you have installed, I'm mostly interested in what comes from ROM). And don't forget to mention which actual version do you use and whether it's good or bad case.
Given some meaningful data I hope to isolate which apps cause excessive battery drainage. I'm not sure what to do with that information next but I think it would be good start anyway.
To make said start, here's what I have:
SwiftDroid 2.0 RC5 / GOOD battery
- DSP Manager
- Usage Timelines Free
- Doit.im
- K-9 Mail
- Auto Memory Manager
- Superuser
- Settings
- TM World Clock
- Go launcher EX (doesn't report itself as staying in memory but I suppose it has to be running somewhere)
custom roms...with gingerbread will definately have faster battery usage!! u cant help it
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use stock roms.... if u want good battery life!
Guys help please, I have a battery/charging problem after installing RC5, this is my first ever custom ROM, it worked great yesterday, but after charging it over night I'm stuck at 99% it won't go up nor down, the phone won't charge and it won't even connect to PC via USB I tried turning it off completely and then plugged in the charger but it just booted up (is it supposed to do that this is my first android?) and that was it. Everything else works fine, wifi etc.... Is there a way to fix this ? I can't transfer a new custom rom to the sd when it won't connect to the PC
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Guys help please, I have a battery/charging problem after installing RC5, this is my first ever custom ROM, it worked great yesterday, but after charging it over night I'm stuck at 99% it won't go up nor down, the phone won't charge and it won't even connect to PC via USB I tried turning it off completely and then plugged in the charger but it just booted up (is it supposed to do that this is my first android?) and that was it. Everything else works fine, wifi etc.... Is there a way to fix this ? I can't transfer a new custom rom to the sd when it won't connect to the PC
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the battery stuck at 99 % is a often coming bug and i don't know any solutions mine goes to 97 % ...
ehen phone is shut down and you plug the charger its normal that its booting(because of fastboot)
connection to pc should work, try another port re-install the drivers
thanks ...............
I also have a battery problem... i have installed this ROM 3 days ago, and now i can't charge my battery over 45-55%. Phone was charging all night long, and batter lasted for a day and a half, but its annoying... btw, what now, do I delete battstats now at 55%, when i can not charge phone to 100%?
When I first got my note, the Android OS was listing about 50% usage in the battery consumption. in the last two weeks I have seen that spike from 50% to 70% then 80% and now today almost 91%
I have many of the apps I never use frozen with Titanium and I am very diligent in killing anything that remains when not in use.
The phone is rooted but I have yet to go to a new kernel or new rom. KK1 is my current Kernel and I am on 2.6.35.7
any ideas
Do you mind trying to disable auto sync under Settings/Accounts and Sync? If that doesn't help try do disable background sync too. I suspect the problem lies there.
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When I first got my note, the Android OS was listing about 50% usage in the battery consumption. in the last two weeks I have seen that spike from 50% to 70% then 80% and now today almost 91%
I have many of the apps I never use frozen with Titanium and I am very diligent in killing anything that remains when not in use.
The phone is rooted but I have yet to go to a new kernel or new rom. KK1 is my current Kernel and I am on 2.6.35.7
any ideas
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If you don't charge the phone and then the first think you do is to play a game or a movie then this is normal. I charged my yesterday 100% I did unplugged it and did go to bed at morning, 6 hours later, battery was at 80-85% with wifi on. I did go to work with the bus 1 hour way exact and was watching Dr.house s1e04 after that 10 min of music on speakers and I check battery the os had 71% with 9+ hours out of charger.
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not sure what that has to do with Android os usage being so hi. I have turned off sync, makes no difference. Pegged at 91%
I had the same problem in the first firmware. After flashing this kernel the problem has gone.
thank you. I assume if I have CF and rooted, I can simply drop that 1.4 file into drop box and use CWM to flash safely?
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thank you. I assume if I have CF and rooted, I can simply drop that 1.4 file into drop box and use CWM to flash safely?
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No, you need Odin or MobileOdin for this.
well I jumped the gun and did it with CWM. All seems good? indicated its updated. OS use is now in the 30% !!!!
Hi All,
I've been playing with my Galaxy Note for a few days now (got it last Friday) and everything is going good.
However, after upgrading to RocketRom v22 I noticed my battery drops relatively fast. For example I used the phone for about 15-20 minutes on the way into work this morning and I'm already down to 92% battery.
Are there any tweaks I can do?
Right now batter usage shows the following:
Display 48% (I have it set on auto)
Internet 15%
Cell standby 14%
Idle 9%
OS 7%
System 4%
Try badass battery monitor
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm
The only app who have found my bad apps
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Also keep in mind most custom roms come with their own kernel and some kernel's etc just tend to work better for some..
The franco kernel gives me great performace but it tends to drain my battery more then abyss kernel..
Right now Im on abyss kernel 4.1 and battery is pretty good..I'm at like 12% battery with close to 4 hours on screen time...I can definitely deal with that..
Also when you change kernels you need to give them time to set in so wait a couple days and see how things are.
with rocket v22 you can change the brightness settings with jkay mod. try the dark setting and keep the auto brightness setting on. the huge note display causes always the biggest battery drain.
and as already mentioned, try different kernels, always with clearing cache/dalvik/battery stats.
download betterbatterystats app in market and check for background apps that are running on your phone..
check for wakelocks , and it's sometimes good to use a different kernel to try to improve battery performance as well..
used Franco's latest kernel before.. it not only heated up my phone.. but it also speed up the battery drain process.
had to reflash back to another kernel - Abyss Note or SpeedMod to get the stability back.
letters_to_cleo said:
download betterbatterystats app in market and check for background apps that are running on your phone..
check for wakelocks , and it's sometimes good to use a different kernel to try to improve battery performance as well..
used Franco's latest kernel before.. it not only heated up my phone.. but it also speed up the battery drain process.
had to reflash back to another kernel - Abyss Note or SpeedMod to get the stability back.
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- try not to judge the kernel performance without 2 full battery charging n discharging cycles.
- prior to flashing any kernel use the kernel cleaning script like jbroid's to remove the trace of the old kernel.
- 2 or 3 reboots would be good before regular usage.
- use betterbattery stats for knowing the wakelocks, cpu spy to know the deep sleep mode, battery monitor widget to know the temperature n drain stats.
- once u have reached a stable state of performance and battery life pls stick to it! This is the most difficult part!
Why open a new thread for a ROM specific topic? You downloaded the Rocket ROM v22 and you have a question concerning this ROM. Then pls ask there - I am sure you'll get (more) help.
But, being polite I'll ask what you did in those 15—20minutes? Listening to Internet Radio, web browsing and playing a game or ... if you could specify what you did, it's easier to get help.
Furthermore you could download CPUSpy, to see whether the phone gets into deep sleep (or not).
If not, there are some apps that'll help you out (better battery stats or badass battery, the ones mentioned in the posts above). And then, it'll be user related and neither ROM nor kernel related.
Next thing (already mentioned as well) is how often did you charge your phone? Sometimes ROMs, kernel and the battery need some time to work well together...
And auto-brightness is sometime a battery drainer as well...
Galaxy Note GT-N7000 - GB.XXLB1
Try using a stock rom, with custom kernel. You'll have less problems than the "custom" rom your using.
Hi,
I do not have enough posts to place this in the developer forum. However I update my Defy with each nightly build and since the 2nd boot nightlies I too have experienced really poor battery drain. I have fixed this by disabling two features in Google Maps.
Go to: system settings--> Google-->Maps and Latitude
Disable both location reporting and enable location history.
Instantly my battery has gone back to previous performance and after 17 hours I have 79% left. Previously this would have been less than 30%.
some people will not like this and it disables google now (actually make sure google now is also off) but if you want better battery life over these features this works for me.
I did the same and the battery consumption is reduced.
But using Better Battery Stats app I found out that my device won't go to sleep because of my WiFi. Wlan_rx_wake is always running. Is it the same for you ? Is there anyway to switch off WiFi automatically.
My config is same as yours.
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Hi,
I do not have enough posts to place this in the developer forum. However I update my Defy with each nightly build and since the 2nd boot nightlies I too have experienced really poor battery drain. I have fixed this by disabling two features in Google Maps.
Go to: system settings--> Google-->Maps and Latitude
Disable both location reporting and enable location history.
Instantly my battery has gone back to previous performance and after 17 hours I have 79% left. Previously this would have been less than 30%.
some people will not like this and it disables google now (actually make sure google now is also off) but if you want better battery life over these features this works for me.
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Hi,
@theclaytons : thanks a lot for your tip about battery drain issue ! I've talked about that in Dev Thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768702&highlight=wait+and+see&page=1129). It works perfectly !
Long life on XDA !
One more thing
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@theclaytons : tkanks a lot for your tip about battery drain issue ! I've talked about that in Dev Thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768702&highlight=wait+and+see&page=1129). It works perfectly !
Long life on XDA !
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No problem and thanks for the stuff in dev forum. This is post number 2 so maybe 8 more I'll be able to do it myself. There is still something else going on as I get occasional battery drain. My latest theory is around the method in wich you charge the defy or airplane mode itself. The last time I charged the defy from my pc via USB and I had amazing battery life and used 12% in 8 hours with some text and data and driving I.e. no wifi. Then it went to airplane mode and the next day the battery drain was significantly worse. So either USB charging is better than wall charger for some odd reason or airplane mode triggers some battery heavy process that never dies. I can't see this in the battery stats other than phone idle and screen. Turning off phone does not resolve either.
I'm continuing to investigate optios but my last full charge got 36 hours and had 19% left before I charged.
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No problem and thanks for the stuff in dev forum. This is post number 2 so maybe 8 more I'll be able to do it myself. There is still something else going on as I get occasional battery drain. My latest theory is around the method in wich you charge the defy or airplane mode itself. The last time I charged the defy from my pc via USB and I had amazing battery life and used 12% in 8 hours with some text and data and driving I.e. no wifi. Then it went to airplane mode and the next day the battery drain was significantly worse. So either USB charging is better than wall charger for some odd reason or airplane mode triggers some battery heavy process that never dies. I can't see this in the battery stats other than phone idle and screen. Turning off phone does not resolve either.
I'm continuing to investigate optios but my last full charge got 36 hours and had 19% left before I charged.
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Ok thanks, good to know that. I will remember if necessary....
An additional great workaround against battery drain in sleep mode!
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... There is still something else going on as I get occasional battery drain. ...
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First of all, thanks for your findings!
I think that I found a workaround for the "something else going on" on the FAQ thread in a post by -=lov=- under http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33159734&postcount=389.
Since I too am not able to post in the dev section yet, I posted myself in the FAQ thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33223114&postcount=398), asking that somebody gives a hint to -=lov=-'s workaround in the dev thread so that Quarx and the others can take notice.
Because I find this workaround important for everybody using the current custom kernel, I copy/paste my post from the FAQ threat to here too:
-=lov=- said:
If someone has battery drain in sleep mode, you can try to do this steps:
1. Reboot phone. Wait for 10-15 minutes.
3. Insert the USB - nothing happens on the phone. (Notifications Debugging and connect via USB does not appear).
4. Take out the USB.
5. Reconnect USB wait minute or so.
6. Take out the USB.
Now device should sleep correctly.
Tested on latest CM10-20121018-NIGHTLY-mb526.zip with update update_for_18.10.zip
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This is a really great workaround against battery drain in sleep mode! :good: :good: :good:
This method works very well for me and is always reproducable!
Before I had about 45 mA/h (2,5 %/h) while deepsleep during day (with 3G on) and about 30 mA/h (1,8 %/h) while deepsleep during night (by using JuiceDefender app, 3G and WIFI are off most of the time).
After appliing this method (which unfortunately has to be done after every reboot), i have just about 25 mA/h (1,5 %/h) while deepsleep during day and about 8 mA/h (0,5 %/h) while deepsleep during night, which are similar to the good numbers I had under Gingerbread.
BTW, using KSM, zRam and Swap don't influence battery drain, at least not significantly, in my experience. I got the above mentioned drains with KSM and zRAM enabled!
However, disabling "settings > location > access to my location" and "google > maps and latitude" options, as posted a couple of times on the development thread, *does* have some impact on battery drain, so I keep these options disabled.
I'm reading the development thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768702 for a couple of weeks now and unfortunately it seems that they haven't taken notice of -=lov=-'s great finding yet. I think that there is something about the USB drivers not properly initialized in the Custom Kernels yet, which leads to the much discussed battery drains. I'm quite sure that this should be fixable by Quarx.
Unfortunately, I cannot post in the development thread yet (actually this is my very first post because I found this topic this so important).
Therefore I would like to ask somebody on this FAQ thread to try this method himself and give a hint
on the development thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768702, so that the
developers and especially Quarx can take notice and finally fix the battery drain caused by the USB driver
bug (or whatever it is). :fingers-crossed: :highfive: :victory:
Thank you for your support!
Thanks to -=lov=- for his great finding and to Quarx for his superb CM10 ROM and Custom Kernel (if he is reading this thread nonetheless...)
Okij
My current config: Defy+, Quarx CM10 2012-10-18 NIGHTLY + Custom Kernel from 24.10.,
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] / Interactive / SIO / KSM enabled / zRam 18%
Hi okij,
I've just shared your last post in dev thread. I hope -=lov=- findings will work for everybody and also that Quarx will take a look at this USB fail...
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Hi okij,
I've just shared your last post in dev thread. I hope -=lov=- findings will work for everybody and also that Quarx will take a look at this USB fail...
Sent from my Defy green lens running last cm10 Quarx build
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Hi @frpriot,
thanks a lot for forwarding the link so quickly to the dev thread! :highfive:
So far there hasn't been a direct response to the USB drivers issue (besides 1 or 2 thanks), but as always there are a lot of issues talked about on this main dev thread at the same time...
So let's wait and hope that the right people pick this issue up! If this shouldn't happen, it might be a good idea to give a hint in the thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1908687 too, since Quarx seems to take part actively there himself. Could you in this case post there too? (I'm now still missing 7 posts to reach the magic 10 first posts... )
BTW, there already are some positive responses to the described workaround in a German forum at http://www.android-hilfe.de/root-ha...el-jb-defy-update-11-10-a-18.html#post4325150 ff.
Cheers
Okij
mohanxpressions said:
I did the same and the battery consumption is reduced.
But using Better Battery Stats app I found out that my device won't go to sleep because of my WiFi. Wlan_rx_wake is always running. Is it the same for you ? Is there anyway to switch off WiFi automatically.
My config is same as yours.
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I had a similar problem some time ago, with the phone connected to my home wifi network it would have unusual awake times, draining the battery very quickly.
I found out using the Network Log app (it's in the Play Store) that something on my network keep sending broadcast packets, that the phone would respond, thus the wifi wakelock.
That something was the NetBios name discovery service, enabled by default on Windows, but hardly used anymore, at least on home networks, turning it off solved the issue for me.
okij said:
First of all, thanks for your findings!
I think that I found a workaround for the "something else going on" on the FAQ thread in a post by -=lov=- under http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33159734&postcount=389.
Since I too am not able to post in the dev section yet, I posted myself in the FAQ thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33223114&postcount=398), asking that somebody gives a hint to -=lov=-'s workaround in the dev thread so that Quarx and the others can take notice.
Because I find this workaround important for everybody using the current custom kernel, I copy/paste my post from the FAQ threat to here too:
This is a really great workaround against battery drain in sleep mode! :good: :good: :good:
This method works very well for me and is always reproducable!
Before I had about 45 mA/h (2,5 %/h) while deepsleep during day (with 3G on) and about 30 mA/h (1,8 %/h) while deepsleep during night (by using JuiceDefender app, 3G and WIFI are off most of the time).
After appliing this method (which unfortunately has to be done after every reboot), i have just about 25 mA/h (1,5 %/h) while deepsleep during day and about 8 mA/h (0,5 %/h) while deepsleep during night, which are similar to the good numbers I had under Gingerbread.
BTW, using KSM, zRam and Swap don't influence battery drain, at least not significantly, in my experience. I got the above mentioned drains with KSM and zRAM enabled!
However, disabling "settings > location > access to my location" and "google > maps and latitude" options, as posted a couple of times on the development thread, *does* have some impact on battery drain, so I keep these options disabled.
I'm reading the development thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768702 for a couple of weeks now and unfortunately it seems that they haven't taken notice of -=lov=-'s great finding yet. I think that there is something about the USB drivers not properly initialized in the Custom Kernels yet, which leads to the much discussed battery drains. I'm quite sure that this should be fixable by Quarx.
Unfortunately, I cannot post in the development thread yet (actually this is my very first post because I found this topic this so important).
Therefore I would like to ask somebody on this FAQ thread to try this method himself and give a hint
on the development thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768702, so that the
developers and especially Quarx can take notice and finally fix the battery drain caused by the USB driver
bug (or whatever it is). :fingers-crossed: :highfive: :victory:
Thank you for your support!
Thanks to -=lov=- for his great finding and to Quarx for his superb CM10 ROM and Custom Kernel (if he is reading this thread nonetheless...)
Okij
My current config: Defy+, Quarx CM10 2012-10-18 NIGHTLY + Custom Kernel from 24.10.,
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] / Interactive / SIO / KSM enabled / zRam 18%
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Thanks for this post. I have just plugged phone into USB attached to PC for 30 seconds. After only 10 minutes I can see the battery life has improved. See attached screenshot.Just after plugging in USB the battery stops draining at the same rate and the % has stayed the same.
Something gets triggered when the USB cable gets connected that stops the battery draining. I wonder if by charging the phone via the wall charger their is a process triggered that does not get killed when the phone is fully charged. By connecting to USB the process gets killed "nicely" at disconnect?
Hey I am currently on JB build 18.10.12 having 4.1.2 and the same kernel on which I had previously flashed 24.09.12 which had 4.1.1.
I am a begginer in this and have read a lot of posts before. But this particular thread has interested me more . Thanks for that but I still facing
1. Battery drain issues.
2. Battery doesn't charge beyond 79%
3. 2G toggle also doesn't work as soon as I switch it on it just says no network found.
The ROM is really good.. love the interface, hats off to those who did it..
Please can someone help me in this..
If u want any logs or screen shot will be posting it.
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Hey I am currently on JB build 18.10.12 having 4.1.2 and the same kernel on which I had previously flashed 24.09.12 which had 4.1.1.
I am a begginer in this and have read a lot of posts before. But this particular thread has interested me more . Thanks for that but I still facing
1. Battery drain issues.
2. Battery doesn't charge beyond 79%
3. 2G toggle also doesn't work as soon as I switch it on it just says no network found.
The ROM is really good.. love the interface, hats off to those who did it..
Please can someone help me in this..
If u want any logs or screen shot will be posting it.
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Hi,
Your kernel is not up to date...
First you should flash last update (update_for_18.10_v3.zip). You can d/l it on Quarx's ftp! After that you will probably have less issues !
Just try it and feedback.
Enjoy !
Sent from my Defy green lens running last cm10 Quarx build
Thanks will do that right away..
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priyank.tapuria said:
Thanks will do that right away..
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You're welcome
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The 2G toggle doesn't seem to work it suffers .. goes into offline mode as soon as I press on it
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priyank.tapuria said:
The 2G toggle doesn't seem to work it suffers .. goes into offline mode as soon as I press on it
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Is 2g mode works if you select it in network parameters ?
Did you try a clean install ?
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Is 2g mode works if you select it in network parameters ?
Yeah i did clean install it.
and i did try in the settings menu to use 2G always option.. it didnt work out.
well i will innumerate the steps i did -
1. after rooting my device i installed the CWM available on the JB thread 4.1.2
2. Switched off the device and charged it to 100%
3. Took out the battery went into recovery mode and reset and erased everything and erased the cache and dalvic too
and flashed the rom 18.10.2012
4. Upon which i flashed the V3 update as advised and then
5. lastly installed the gapps for JB
6. booted it up...
so far no isssues such as rebooting / loops, camera, wifi, etc with the rom except a few problems..its smooth
1. Always gets heated up when put on charge and talk at the same time or use it (which i think its normal i dont really know)
2. 2G still doesnt work..
3. Battery better after V3 update but not that much as before.. lasts a full day on conservable use.. wifi 3g 3-4 hours max but lasts a day
4. And lastly when put on charge again doesnt charge above 82%
dont know which step have i missed.. :/
love the rom though
Can you suggest me another rom which is as stable as this but with awesome battery life.. i also used a Samsung tab 2 a month back of my brothers it lasted about two days on moderate use.. wifi, 3g, music, games , everything..
thanks a lot ..
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priyank.tapuria said:
@fpriot said:
Is 2g mode works if you select it in network parameters ?
Yeah i did clean install it.
and i did try in the settings menu to use 2G always option.. it didnt work out.
well i will innumerate the steps i did -
1. after rooting my device i installed the CWM available on the JB thread 4.1.2
2. Switched off the device and charged it to 100%
3. Took out the battery went into recovery mode and reset and erased everything and erased the cache and dalvic too
and flashed the rom 18.10.2012
4. Upon which i flashed the V3 update as advised and then
5. lastly installed the gapps for JB
6. booted it up...
so far no isssues such as rebooting / loops, camera, wifi, etc with the rom except a few problems..its smooth
1. Always gets heated up when put on charge and talk at the same time or use it (which i think its normal i dont really know)
2. 2G still doesnt work..
3. Battery better after V3 update but not that much as before.. lasts a full day on conservable use.. wifi 3g 3-4 hours max but lasts a day
4. And lastly when put on charge again doesnt charge above 82%
dont know which step have i missed.. :/
love the rom though
Can you suggest me another rom which is as stable as this but with awesome battery life.. i also used a Samsung tab 2 a month back of my brothers it lasted about two days on moderate use.. wifi, 3g, music, games , everything..
thanks a lot ..
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I don't understand why it doesn't work..For me it works perfectly..I have a Defy green lens with last 1018 rom + v4 update...
Perhaps your bootloader version could be the culprit ? Don't know...
For battery drain issue, perhpas your battery is worn ?
For 2G issue, is it working with another rom ?
I advise you to have a look on FAQ section...
I can't suggest you another CM10 rom, i don't know another good ones...
Did you try CM7 stable roms? If yes, have you got the sames issues?
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Okay .. I installed another custom ROM.. over which I installed CW10
Let's see how it goes this time...
Okay the 2G still doesn't work..
Rest will have to find out...
Fingers crossed..
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Is there a difference between 24.09 and 18.10 other than 18.10 is better and newer..
What exactly is a 2nd boot..
how exactly is it different from other nightlys ?
May be I am installing this ROM wrong..
Just guessing.. I read the FAQs nothing that I could find could help me
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priyank.tapuria said:
Okay .. I installed another custom ROM.. over which I installed CW10
Let's see how it goes this time...
Okay the 2G still doesn't work..
Rest will have to find out...
Fingers crossed..
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Is there a difference between 24.09 and 18.10 other than 18.10 is better and newer..
What exactly is a 2nd boot..
how exactly is it different from other nightlys ?
May be I am installing this ROM wrong..
Just guessing.. I read the FAQs nothing that I could find could help me
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18.10 is not just better and newer. It's way better. No lags. With v4, really good battery life. If your battery is not charging above 84, then take off the battery and wipe battery stats. Then you'll be good to go!
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