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Over 24 hours on a single charge!! Awsome battery life!

I just wanted to share my battery life results of my NS with the community. I was able to get over 24 hours of battery life on a single charge. What amazes me more than that, is the fact that my battery was only at 72% when I took it off the charger. Much to my surprise the battery lasted me for the next 24 hours before it dropped to 16% and I decided I needed to charge it before going out this evening.
My configuration:
Rom: NS Collab 1.0.17
Kernel: Netarchy 1.3.0.2-CFS
Screen Brightness: Auto
GPS: On
Wifi Sleep Policy: Never Sleep
Email: Sync every hour
Facebook: Sync every 4 hours
Clock Speed: No special governors enabled
Most of the time I was connected to a WIFI network
Hope this may help those that have been having problems getting optimum battery life on their NS.

not bad i guess, i've gotten over 48 hours

Yup, awesome battery life with CM7 as well.

bcl0328 said:
not bad i guess, i've gotten over 48 hours
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Care to share how?

limited phone calls equals great battery life.

JOHNGAETANO said:
limited phone calls equals great battery life.
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Yeah SI_NZ pics don't show any usage of the phone. Mine I talked for about 2.5 hours and was using facebook a decent amount. I also did web browsing, some videos for a little while, and I did a couple of video recordings of my son. Overall I used my phone a pretty decent amount during this time period, hence why I was so impressed. The same type of use on my EVO would have resulted in me having to put the phone on a charger before halfway through the day.

Darn... I'm stuck between the Nexus S and the HTC Desire HD, but the battery life on this phone must rock.
But how is battery life on a STOCK OS? I'm not much to root.

mysterioustko said:
I just wanted to share my battery life results of my NS with the community. I was able to get over 24 hours of battery life on a single charge. What amazes me more than that, is the fact that my battery was only at 72% when I took it off the charger. Much to my surprise the battery lasted me for the next 24 hours before it dropped to 16% and I decided I needed to charge it before going out this evening.
My configuration:
Rom: NS Collab 1.0.17
Kernel: Netarchy 1.3.0.2-CFS
Screen Brightness: Auto
GPS: On
Wifi Sleep Policy: Never Sleep
Email: Sync every hour
Facebook: Sync every 4 hours
Clock Speed: No special governors enabled
Most of the time I was connected to a WIFI network
Hope this may help those that have been having problems getting optimum battery life on their NS.
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Could you please test what happens when you do
Email: push
That seems to be a battery killer

I've found a few battery killers, maybe we should make a list and make it sticky. My phone easily lasts like 36 hours with normal use, which include a little gaming and lots of surfing, texting and calling. The apps i have found to drain the battery so far is:
Latitude activated in google maps. This is insane, latitude makes my phone go dead in like 8 hours !!!
a media player that i can't remember the name on :/

zkyevolved said:
Darn... I'm stuck between the Nexus S and the HTC Desire HD, but the battery life on this phone must rock.
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The Desire HD kinda sucks for battery life and I found it was too big/bulky feeling. It wasn't as fast as the Nexus S in everyday use either...the Nexus S is quite quick.
But how is battery life on a STOCK OS? I'm not much to root.
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I'm on stock 2.3.3 out of the box and battery life is very good, better than I expected. I don't have too many specifics yet since I've only had it a few days. But so far it's impressed me again today with over 13h 30m 43s, with 44% display use, and 72% battery left. Perhaps I'll comment on the weekend after I calm down a bit and use it over a more typical day. But as it stands so far, I expect to get 1 day heavy usage, 2 days on daily typical usage, and 3-4 days when using the phone very little (like while camping/hiking).

madfarmer said:
Latitude activated in google maps. This is insane, latitude makes my phone go dead in like 8 hours !!!
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Well 8 hours is quite good since it runs the GPS constantly and updates your location on the Latitude site. I ran other GPS apps on my Desire and typical times were ~4 hours before the first battery low warning. I haven't had a chance to really test the GPS properly, but initial use looks good.

2 days is pretty good. but you barely ever had the screen on. I can normally get 20 hours which lasts me the whole day, so I'm fine with charging every night.
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bfksc said:
The Desire HD kinda sucks for battery life and I found it was too big/bulky feeling. It wasn't as fast as the Nexus S in everyday use either...the Nexus S is quite quick.
I'm on stock 2.3.3 out of the box and battery life is very good, better than I expected. I don't have too many specifics yet since I've only had it a few days. But so far it's impressed me again today with over 13h 30m 43s, with 44% display use, and 72% battery left. Perhaps I'll comment on the weekend after I calm down a bit and use it over a more typical day. But as it stands so far, I expect to get 1 day heavy usage, 2 days on daily typical usage, and 3-4 days when using the phone very little (like while camping/hiking).
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Wow that's fantastic. I'm sold
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I'm on stock 2.3.3 too. Typically I get about 35-40hrs.
WiFi: Off.
BT: Off.
GPS: Off.
Email/Calendar Sync: 1 hour.
Facebook: Off.
No fancy widgets though, just the stock clock and stock calendar. No task killers either.
If I game for about 2hrs during my daily commute, the battery lasts just long enough from 6am to about 11pm.

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Wow that's fantastic. I'm sold
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Forgot to mention how the phone is setup:
WiFi is off most of the time (I have 6gig data plan)
BT is off as I don't use an earpiece
GPS is always enabled (I'm a geocacher)
Gmail is set to manual sync (work is too busy for personal email)
Facebook/twitter/whatever are all disabled/not installed
News widget is set to update every 12 hours
I use a Live Wallpaper, Beautiful Widgets with animations, and I'ver never used a task killer as they're not needed.

Don't know where I have read that, or if it's just an impression. But I think that wifi connection consumes less battery juice than 3G connection. And push-Gmail doesn't increment battery usage.

I came from a blackberry (actually I still use the blackberry) and I was initially annoyed by the quick battery drain. But after seeing my friends with iPhones needing to bring chargers with them everywhere just to use whatsapp and gchat constantly, I was really glad I got the nexus s. I recently went on a road trip where I used the gps constantly to drive 4 hours out to the destination, used the phone there to whatsapp and call my friends, used the internet to look up restaurants, and then used the GPS to drive 2 hours back to our hotel and it lasted me the whole day. I'm stock everything with 2.3.3. I love this phone.
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I managed to get over 48 hours on a single charge.
Thats with around 7-10 short phone calls per day.
Some whatsapp/sms
a few minutes of angry birds here and there
and some web browsing over wifi.
My WiFi is always on and set to never sleep.
sync is off.
GPS off
BT off.
My data is also usually off, since my work data plan is rather small.
Also i have simi clock running that updates the weather every 3 hours when WiFi is connected (which is most of the time).
I am on stock 2.3.3, unrooted.
after 3 days I had around 25% before I connected it to the charger.

The battery on nexus s is great, much more better than my old SE X10.

Could you please all tell whether you are on 9020 or 9023? I heard average battery results were not so positive with 9023 sclcd. Here I can only acquire 9023, and I have been reluctant to buy so far as people don't seem to reach quite the same autonomy as the samoled nexus owners.... Thanks!

short battery life with CM7

I am running CM7 on a D2 and i am experiencing pretty short battery life. I went from Liberty 2.0 rom on froyo last week, and upgraded to GB and flashed CM7.
I have barely used it much today for example. Took it off the charger at 6:30am have done nothing more than sent a few texts and browsed a website for about 10 mins. It is 10:30 and i am already at 70%
I did a proper battery stat reset this past weekend also.
(i have also been getting a lot of random force closes)
since i cannot post pics here's relevant info...
Android version - 2.3.5
Kernel Version - 2.6.32.9-gca08d89
Mem Info - 214/475
Mod version - CyanogenMod-7.1.0-RC0-DROID2-KANG
Build Number - GRH78C
Battery info...
Display - 42%
Phone Idle - 18%
Cell Standby - 15%
everything else is under 8%, Android OS and System at 2%

CM7 GB Battery Issues
I am having this problem as well. Ever since I rooted and installed Rev's CM7 GB build a few days ago battery life has been much worse. I tried installing Jake's Mods V13 but if it is helping it is not helping alot. Yesterday, made 2 short phone calls, sent 3-4 texts, browsed web for maybe 10 minutes total, and was on tweetdeck for maybe 15 minutes. By end of the day was down to 30% battery. Pre-root and CMY probably would have been about 60% - 70%. Here are the battery stats when plugged it in at bed time last night:
15h 16m 23s on battery
Cell Standby 55%
Phone Idle 19%
Display 13%
Voice Calls 9%
Android OS 2%
TweetDeck 2%
Has anyone figured out a solution to this? Really liking CM7 but I am afraid to play a game or something on the phone because I'm afraid I will run out of juice!

CM7 does have a shorter battery life than stock and some other ROMs. It's still the best ROM and it will eventually be back to better battery life. I use SetCPU and JuiceDefender.

Should I go into the CPU settings on my phone to find ways to increase my battery life? If so, which setting should I alter?

I have been using the 1Ghz/undervolt option in Jakebitesmod along with Juice Defender and it seems to be helping. Battery will usually last me all day with moderate use.

You might want to try SBFing back and starting from scratch. I was on Liquid 3.0 and has atrocious battery life due to the 'Idle' process and was seeing 10-15% battery life drop each hour when there was absolutely no use.
I switched to CM7 and things were much happier. Maybe 10% loss after 4 hours idle. FB app did drain the battery once but I think I backed out of it while it was loading so it was trying to load GPS or something but outside of that no battery life problems what so ever.

MIUI 2.4.2 battery drainage and optimal setup

I'm using MIUI 2.4.2 for about one month and i must say that is a very good rom. The only thing that makes me crazy and i cannot find a solution is battery drainage.
My setup
406 baseband, also tried 366
New MIUI 2.4.20 update for DS5!!! (also tried Streak MIUI 2.4.20 English)
240dpi MIUI LED_Notifications_ON (from ternorex Longhorn CM/MIUI Combo Beta ROM in order to have led notifications)
Test 3 Phoenix kernel (without hPa's patch)
WIfi on
Data off
With this setup had no lag, very good sound quality, no wifi issues. I'm not tried voip (skype. etc). The battery has autonomy for about 35 hours which is very low. I changed to 2G network only and now i have about 50-55 hours which is also low compared to other roms.
I love this rom but the battery drainage makes me crazy, so please share your setup and a possible solution (if any).

Do you have many apps installed/run in background?
I get 300h standby on MIUI 2.4.20 when I was using it (in airplane mode/wifi on).
I would expect about 150h standby with the cell on and wifi on.

So if i understand right it's not ok for the miui rom to last at lest 50-55 hours with moderate use. it has to last longer.
But please give us some hint's how are you using it, what applications are you using, phone calls, messaging? In standby with out using it it's not ok to last 50 hours but if your using it battery life seam very good, where you live there is good gsm signal that eats battery like hell, but if you are using it and want more then buy a 4800 mugen battery.

TheManii said:
Do you have many apps installed/run in background?
I get 300h standby on MIUI 2.4.20 when I was using it (in airplane mode/wifi on).
I would expect about 150h standby with the cell on and wifi on.
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I have only the basic setup. I haven't install other apps. 300h in airplane mode tells me that probably the drainage comes from gsm network.
_2bad4u_ said:
So if i understand right it's not ok for the miui rom to last at lest 50-55 hours with moderate use. it has to last longer.
But please give us some hint's how are you using it, what applications are you using, phone calls, messaging? In standby with out using it it's not ok to last 50 hours but if your using it battery life seam very good, where you live there is good gsm signal that eats battery like hell, but if you are using it and want more then buy a 4800 mugen battery.
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I only use it for phone calls at the momment, 5-10 min a day. 50h most of them in standby. I have full signal reception.
Also,i used 2 different batteries, both of them new, so it is not a battery issue.

I'm using miui 2.4.20 with test kernel4, and i have just like you around 50 hours of battery life, but i use messeging about 10-15 a day, around 30-45 minutes phone talk a day, 30 minutes of web with wifi, and other stuff like changing themes.

What's your battery life?

Guys, please post your battery life screenshots. Mine is fine :laugh:

Dont have screenies but my SOT is 3 and half hours . Pac rom Lp 5.1 Caf D802 .

There is already a thread about battery life where users posted their screens...anyway your screen in the first post is useless to determine battery life. Dont mean to be rude but it really is useless, because if you barely use the phone, you can reach 120h+ easily. You have to give more information. Even the screen on time is not accurate to determine battery life, because there are some users who use their phone like an e-reader and get massive amounts of screen time that are impossible to reproduce when using the phone on normal conditions. Not everyone uses the phone in the same conditions. A good way to determine it would be the screenshot like you gave, another one with the apps showing consumption, another one with screen time and a screenshot of cpu spy or any other cpu measuring app(because this will make it easy to spot how those e-readers get so much sot, usually their lowest cpu frequency is used a LOT, unlike normal users)

always 6-6.5 hours sot. can hold up to 3 days or more with light usage using Cloudyg2 2.2.

Fyi, cloudy g2 is not the reason you get 6h+ sot... unless you're significantly reducing performance and/or screen brightness. No rom can beat physics(and logic).
I average 5h sot over 2-3 days with wifi/data/sync/auto brightness on. Can easily go a week in standby if check it a few times a day. Running stock sprint lollipop with latest zvi update.

Well that's depressing....I have a battery life of maybe 4 hours with 1 to 1,5 hours of screen on time........I made a post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/help/battery-messed-t3297770.
If anybody has a suggestion I would be more than pleased. Been using the phone for +2 years. And looking at the screenshots of yours, I hadn't had that in a loooongloooong time

At full charge, plugging in earphone and listening to music or videos on youtube , i get like 3 and half and sometimes 4 hours depending on the rom. Screen is set to the lowest. I dont install much app, especially which connects to the internet silently in the backgroud. Disable location services and all too helps. At idle with wifi on and phone radio is 90% or more good signals, it lasts for about 3 or 2 and half days (depends on kernel too) . What rom you using @deereper ??Have you tried reducing google service battery drain via script and all ?

deereper, and anyone else getting under 3h sot, your battery is shot. I had similar battery performance until I replaced it. In my experience custom roms/kernels may make a very minor difference but have much worse performance and stability.

Yeah, I ordered a new battery.
I really don't want to but a new phone just for the battery.
And yes, with those battery stats it doesn't matter if you run stock or aosp

It's D802 btw, auto brightness 0%, wifi data gps always on. SOT 6-6.5hours only with continuous usage, if add in standby SOT average around 4.5-5 hours

A good stable rom for battery backup?

Hi all
I thought I'd ask the experts about what are in your opinion some good roms for battery backup?
I'm currently on stock MIUI Global 11.0.5.0 (PFGMIXM) but I'm not much satisfied with the battery backup (5-6hours SOT).
I need some stable firmware since I use my phone mostly for work, no gaming, no social media, just phone calls, messaging and some light youtube usage.
Thanks!

Ion OS is brilliant, especially for battery - sourceforge.net/projects/i-o-n/files/device/xiaomi/lavender/ Around 10-11 hours SOT.

Anyone can compare MIUI vs Xiaomi.eu VS Pixel?

flaviopac said:
Anyone can compare MIUI vs Xiaomi.eu VS Pixel?
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Miui right now just being laggy and jerky sometimes with animation, thus pixel based cutom rom just some having like miui and some is dont. I prefer evolution x on latest build, which smooth operation per my multitasking usage(on stock kernel obviously), whilst the battery just doing better other than resurection remix, pixel experience etc.

flaviopac said:
but I'm not much satisfied with the battery backup (5-6hours SOT).
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Could you be more specific about how long the battery lasts, I mean that if you are using your phone for like 4-5 days then 5-6h of SOT is quite normal for this phone but if you meant just one day then it should be about 10-11h of SOT as there will be less energy consumed by things like cellural network.
I had pretty good battery backup with POSP by AmulayaX but i found out that slow-motion isn't working so i switched to StagOS (unofficial EAS by Jimgsey) and i like this rom but i have some small issues and i consider switching to official.

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Could you be more specific about how long the battery lasts, I mean that if you are using your phone for like 4-5 days then 5-6h of SOT is quite normal for this phone but if you meant just one day then it should be about 10-11h of SOT as there will be less energy consumed by things like cellural network.
I had pretty good battery backup with POSP by AmulayaX but i found out that slow-motion isn't working so i switched to StagOS (unofficial EAS by Jimgsey) and i like this rom but i have some small issues and i consider switching to official.
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5-6h SOT in 2 days. I'm not playing games I only use my phone for calls, whatsapp, emails and web navigation.
I'm on dual sim though.
I could never achieve 10h SOT in stock. Any hints for some good rom that can do that?
Thanks

flaviopac said:
5-6h SOT in 2 days. I'm not playing games I only use my phone for calls, whatsapp, emails and web navigation.
I'm on dual sim though.
I could never achieve 10h SOT in stock. Any hints for some good rom that can do that?
Thanks
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Someone already suggested you to try Ion Official for Redmi Note 7 as it is EAS & feature rich also. But for more you can try Bliss ROM as well. Last but not the least LineageOS 17.1 Official. I'm currently using Bliss ROM. It is the best in all others upto now i have tried.

flaviopac said:
5-6h SOT in 2 days. I'm not playing games I only use my phone for calls, whatsapp, emails and web navigation.
I'm on dual sim though.
I could never achieve 10h SOT in stock. Any hints for some good rom that can do that?
Thanks
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U can't reach 10 h SOT by 2 days on battery.
Calculate 0,5 %/h idle drain
2 days 48h - 5 hours Active drain = 43 h idle time
43 x 0,5 = 21,5 %
so round about 20% battery is lost in idle time
so 80 % for active drain.
Charging battery at 15%
80-15 = 60% left for active drain
On mostly all roms i tested i get an active drain by 10% per hour
Wud be for u 6 hours SOT
Seems normal drain with ur MIUI
But aosp roms are so much faster and mutitasking so much better compared to MIUI.
I only got 3 GB model and there no way back to MIUI

I gave PixelE+ a try but I'm experiencing less battery backup than stock (and some random freezes too).
I'll try ION or Xiaomi.eu in the coming days.
Meanwhile what about changing kernel? Any good recommendations please?

I gave PixelE+ a try but I'm experiencing less battery backup than stock (and some random freezes too).
I'll try ION or Xiaomi.eu in the coming days.
Meanwhile what about changing kernel? Any good recommendations please?

for me changing kernel isnt a game changer
its all about SOT, screen brightness for sure and good working deep sleep.
Screen is biggest power consumer.
Kernel maybe change covernor and undervolt cpu. sure this brings a lil power. but trust me it makes just a very lil differece. u cant compare ur drain because ur usage isnt same.
if wanna judge a kernels power consumtion u have to do all the same.
watching 2 hours youtube, play same game aso with same screen brightness with same wifi state aso.
i bet theres no "big" difference.

matthias1976 said:
for me changing kernel isnt a game changer
its all about SOT, screen brightness for sure and good working deep sleep.
Screen is biggest power consumer.
Kernel maybe change covernor and undervolt cpu. sure this brings a lil power. but trust me it makes just a very lil differece. u cant compare ur drain because ur usage isnt same.
if wanna judge a kernels power consumtion u have to do all the same.
watching 2 hours youtube, play same game aso with same screen brightness with same wifi state aso.
i bet theres no "big" difference.
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I'm currently on Pixel and I can make 4h SOT in 2 days. I don't play games or use YouTube. Just phone calls, whatsapp, browser, emails and I'm always on dual sim.
With stock MIUI I used to reach 5-6h SOT in 2 days so with my personal usage Pixel is worse in battery life compared to stock MIUI.
I'm thinking of trying something like Xiaomi.EU now since it's based on MIUI stock...

As i say, for me there are just few differences in battery life from rom to rom.
Miui is slow and bloated compared to non miui based custom rom.
When u just installed new rom u have more drain cause of trying out the rom. U have more usage compared to ur old rom. Lets get rom settle for a while before judge.
At least all rom take power. All rom need display. I think display always takes same power in every rom when u got same brightness.
At home in ur wlan mostly watching YouTube u get better battery (maybe under 8% per hour drain maybe less) than navigating in the sun with mobile data (cost 12% per hourand more) battery

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As i say, for me there are just few differences in battery life from rom to rom.
Miui is slow and bloated compared to non miui based custom rom.
When u just installed new rom u have more drain cause of trying out the rom. U have more usage compared to ur old rom. Lets get rom settle for a while before judge.
At least all rom take power. All rom need display. I think display always takes same power in every rom when u got same brightness.
At home in ur wlan mostly watching YouTube u get better battery (maybe under 8% per hour drain maybe less) than navigating in the sun with mobile data (cost 12% per hourand more) battery
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I'm with you however I'm currently on Xiaomi.eu 11 (debloated) and battery backup is much better than Pixel. I hit 6h SOT on the first run, expected to improve in the coming days after a few charging cycles.
Same usage, the exact same apps running.