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I got my galaxy s around 3 months ago with 2.2 jpa installed from vodafone.
I soon got mad with my new toy for being slow and laggy and found this site.
well what a site thank you.
After lots of reading weeks and weeks of reading I decided to flash to 2.2.1 js3 what a rom compared to jpa, fast, smooth, usable at last.
It did not end there -gingerbread came out jvk , I was so excited and use to flashing my and my wife's phone I had to do it.
Being so excited I flashed the rom the one with bootloaders then hard reset entered in my apn setting witch I copied down before first flash, flashed new kernel cf-root 3.1 finished.
Well my impression wow wow wow wow and one more for good look wow.
I had other friends with the same phone and did 2.3.3 jvk flash on there phones but that is were the problems started , not flashing that went well it was battery life so after reading up on this site I found out how to get back the life 3 days of life not far off 4 days with very light use.
well how did I do it
keeping the brightness to auto
and turning off wifi , bluetooth and sync and gps off when not needed.
animated screens did most of the trouble half of it anyway.
Now the second part app's watch them like a hawk these little things drove me mad you see some send your android os mad check your battery stats.
why
some are badly written hog everything even when off need to install one at a time and watch battery stat's to see if they are good or bad
you see some use the internet or gps and other things even when they are switched off. this should not happen may be someone could look into this.
after finding out the the apps that are hogging the battery life I asked the people to drain till the phone turns off to full charge twice FIXED.
so in one go I
removed animated wallpapers back to a normal one.
turned off wifi , bluetooth , gps and sync when not needed.
and drained my battery and fully charged it twice.
changed my wifi sleep policy to when screen go's off.
Installed apps that I can trust and watched other app's I installed
also my battery lasted a lot longer after installing HiAPN app to stop the 3g when out and about you see i am on pay n go and even with everything off something was taking my money for internet use 69c a day hiapn stopped this.
the apps I can trust is
igo satnav
ndrive satnav
angry birds 1 - 2 and 3
hiapn
gael fon free
i runner
shadow guardian
drag racing
pool master pro
raging thunder 2
upm ultimate password manager
speed test
colornote
fat booth
shazam
xda app
cover art downloader
file expert
fancy widget
bubble buster
mx moto
lets golf
hd wallpapers
barcode scanner
free music download
youtube
flash
asphalt 5
google maps
I hope this may help some one with there phone.
I am happy with stock jvk and cf-root kernel and crt screen off mod long live gingerbread.
all of this info is from you people not me from a lot of different topics. thankyou the most important site on the web after spankwire no just kidding.
thanks
maybe if you think the same we can have a good / bad app topic for people to check up on and get in touch with google to vet apps for bad code
You joined in Jan and this is your first post. Seriously weren't kidding when you said "weeks and weeks" of reading - Welcome I guess.
Try JS8- I found the battery life with hardcores kernel to be great. I also don't have to turn everything off. That said, I could never achieve 3-4 days worth of usage - I use my phone way too much. Charge it every night.
very nyc
hey guys .. i'm coming over from milestone, my phones fcked so m planning to buy sgsII .. but few people told me the battery life aint tht good it just barely lasts a day on normal usage ( i knw it vaires from person to person but still )
i wanted to knw if ther r roms arnd which increase the battery life .. or are ther better options available out ther .. like mayb htc sensation or the lg optimus 2x
.. even droid 3 has come out now ..
thnx in advance
rrohanjs said:
hey guys .. i'm coming over from milestone, my phones fcked so m planning to buy sgsII .. but few people told me the battery life aint tht good it just barely lasts a day on normal usage ( i knw it vaires from person to person but still )
i wanted to knw if ther r roms arnd which increase the battery life .. or are ther better options available out ther .. like mayb htc sensation or the lg optimus 2x
.. even droid 3 has come out now ..
thnx in advance
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I'd get an O2X, I've heard great things about it.
Battery life is very dependant on usage, aka the more the screen is on the less time it will last.
I get 14-16hours on a charge, but I do lots of reading via google reader and web browsing, and some gaming.
The SGS2 has some of the best hardware out, an unlocked bootloader, CM hopefully coming so its got a bright future on the community side, and it even seems like samsung might push out a 2.3.4 rom soonish.
Tegra has some small advantages, eg in games, but with Chainfire 3D you can play any tegra games.
YMMV etc.
ive had the gs2 for five days now..and ive gotta say...i LOVE it. right out the gate, the screen smacked me in the face like a flying dildo..simply stunning. the os too is buttery smooth. i have updated through kies once to kf3. my handset is sim free. all stock widgets etc remain. one problem i have is 'software update' and the hubs appear randomly...so i close them, they reappear...i have been.thinking about rooting it, but ive been conditioning the battery. . if i root i can't update through kies..
anyhow, i'm getting roughly 22 hours use, with moderate usage. which is ok. i recommend this phone wholeheartedly...its simply awesome.
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Despite the less than stellar battery life, thisis my favorite gadget bar none .
The battery issue is said to be fixed with the new gb 2.3.4 .some also say that modded firmware helps solve this issue.
I'm still in unrooted stock fw and I have force stopped a wifi process . This seems to have stabilized battery usage somewhat. Still too early to tell.
But with battery issue or not, I can't see myself ever using another phone.
When I carry the sgs2 with me I feel like I'm carrying a part of the future- this is what mobile computing is.
If I didn't play around with my phone so much. ( and play so many gameloft games ) My SGS would last at least 2 days. At the end of a day, where I have sent some texts and called some friends, while playing almost an hour of games. I still have 40-50 battery left.
I can recommend this to anyone. (My mom just got the sensation... It's laggy, and bad battery. Standard HTC)
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
bs828 said:
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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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
mgkilla said:
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%?
well my curret rom is called pilotex which is an israeli rom.
its ok but it keeps getting stuck. the problem is im looking for a rom which will last like this:
3 hours of wifi at least evrey charge
and also 4 hour of playing games like cut the rope\move the box\sprinkle (those kind of games) evrey full charge
pilotex lasts with those game fine but there are some new games that i wana try out that keep getting stuck like dungeon defender and legendery heroes
is there any rom that can survive 4 hours of gameing or 3 hours of wifi and that it will be fast?
i saw that alot of people use cm7 but i also saw that the battary on that rom goes down crazy (people said they lose 30% in 3 hours without using the phone!)
i dont use 3g almost, only wifi!
Think about the facts. You want to play some newer games without lag. And also you'd like the battery to last long. If you play new graphically impressive games it's normal to have "abnormal" battery drains as the CPU an GPU run at much higher frequencies than they do when playing light games.
So no. There's no ROM that can handle all that you want.
well then for the part of surviving at least 3 hours with wifi on and screen on (browsing the web) which will be the fasts rom?
Try Gamerz ROM.
Here is the link. forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1441620
thanks, but i cant manage to download >>JVU Stock Firmware<< multi upload wont load.. were can i get that stock rom? (with these files inside)
CODE_I9000XXJVU_CL851880_REV03_user_low_ship.tar.md5
GT-I9000-CSC-MULTI-OXAJVU.tar.md5
MODEM_I9000XXJVU_REV_00_CL1092175.tar.md5
s1_odin_20100512.pit
Odin3
is it ok to download from the second post?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477839
actully after downloading from the theread above im missing 2 files
s1_odin_20100512.pit
and the Odin3 softwear
were can i get them?
ICS - Dark Knight v3
GB - DarkyROM v10.4.2
I have the best battery life with XWJW1 firmware, Midnight 0.9.0 kernel and XXJVU modem... It's really amazing.
I also tried DarkyRom 10.4.2 and 10.2.2, which were both good, too, but not as good as the combination mentioned above.
Guys,
I no longer use this phone as my phone but I still love using it for games and music and for the kids. What would you recommend as the best performing ROM for this. I want something clean and simple that will allow me to run the stream Pandora, Google Music and games.
thanks!
For gaming, any ICS ROM will do (e.g. NexusHD2) but I'm not sure about pandora and Google Music. Never tried pandora but Google Music seems to work fine for me (bear in mind I mean only listening to music via the app, being in the UK that's all I can use it for)
Pandora is working without problems on ics cm9 from tytung, im not American but Orbot app is giving me chance to use Pandora as American ;-)
About playing games i would suggest you to use Gingerbread roms maybe something like Dorimanx rom.
Also there is script on xda forum which can temporarily disables unused services and apps even sms and call function so you can play games with better performance also.
As alternative buy Ram manager app which have hard gaming mode, again you'll have more resources for gaming.
how is the battery usage on those ICS ROMs? I am using an NRG rom and it works good but I know it might not be optimal for battery drain. I would put low drain very high on my list.
It's not as good as in GB. But 1,5 day is possible without charging.
Rugged96 said:
how is the battery usage on those ICS ROMs? I am using an NRG rom and it works good but I know it might not be optimal for battery drain. I would put low drain very high on my list.
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I have AOK-Paranoid Android ROM on my HD2, and I have to say that my battery life is pretty horrible. Less than 8 hours with very little use...
However, since this is a used phone I got from a friend, I can't say if the problem lies with the ROM or the condition of the battery itself.
I just ordered a new battery off amazon and hopefully that will improve things considerably. I'll let you know what kind of battery life I get with the new one.
If you are not an "update addicted", then HyperDroid ROM might be the best.
It's based on Gingerbread, compiled from source, really fast, stable and "light".
By the way, anyone else have such horrible battery performance with their HD2 and Android ROMs, or is it just me?