Yes, it's really official , my battery life is draining like hell... I actually hope that's a battery problem or a rom problem so i could fix it cheaply, but if it is about the phone , i'm messed up .
so here it goes, i've got that htc hero i've bought from a friend so im not entirely sure if the battery is well, at least it was when it came on my hands. I had the official rom, and i cant be sure how many time did it spend without charging because i did change immediately the ROM . Now i have froydvillain 1.7.2 installed and i can say that i putted my phone on charge before i went to bed, when i woke up there was 15% gone from the battery, not so bad, i guess.. the worse became after. i did the usually stuff with it, texting, one or two calls not so much, always not using wi-fi, bluetooth or anything like that at all. not listening to music... when i arrived home there was been 16 h and 20 min and the battery was totally off. when i checked up which program was affecting battery most, and it was the screen and it was taxed as 51% of utilisation, i dont know why , there was just 1 h and 30 min of using it, and i can say the my brightness settings are automatic. Im really getting crazy, i also turned of 3g, only using 2g now to save battery, what a mess here guys. any help ?????
Model - HTC Hero
Android Version - 2.2.1
Radio - 63.18.55.06PU_6.35.15.14
Kernel - 2.6.29.6-flykernel-12a
ROM - FroydVillain 1.7.2
I have installed elelinux 6.2.0 wifi always on if not connected to 3g.screen at 8% !no bluetooth,no gps...just 2 calls,whattsapp texting and surfing during the day.100% at 8 am 50% at least in the evening.try this.as far as i know there is no memory effect with these batteries.
Try my settings or delete apps that work in the background.
Hope this helps
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Battery Calibration
Hi there,
I have 1.7.2 also and I get approx 2 days of battery life before it hits 15%. Light usage though. My display usage always seems to be approx 30-50% overall so don't worry about that just yet.
What i think you need to do is calibrate the battery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Battery_Calibration
Do that and once you are on full charge, before you turn on your phone boot into recovery and wipe battery stats.
Should be all good .
Also are you running any overclock? 352-576 is more than okay and should help with battery life... Most people run it on smartass but I get screen wake-up issues with it so run it on-demand.
Give that a go then if that doesn't work come back and ask some of the smarter people for some advice as thats about all i know about battery issues.
i had setcpu installed with some settings, i already uninstalled it, i believe the settings were switched off , thats what i hope..
anyway , my battery is fully charged in 2 hours, is it normal ? it could be cracked, perfectly normal i guess. sometimes when im connected to wi-fi , it starts decreasing the battery level and i watch it lol, 71 , 70 , 69.... thats really strange in due that i see people using 2 days or 3 with normal usage. i believe that's nothing about the rom, im going to do that , im going to calibrate and wipe, text u as soon as possible to tell u the results
9unk, should i use the setcpu with those setting to save battery, im order to obligate te phone to use those settings, or should i just let it default ?
How did this survive in /dev
Also check any background processes.
My hero sometimes just drains like hell untill restart it (as I haven't found out which app yet) .
i believe there are no background apps , but if there is , how could i close it ?
Try calibrating your battery. VillainRom have a guide on it in their guides section.
Paulopax said:
i had setcpu installed with some settings, i already uninstalled it, i believe the settings were switched off , thats what i hope..
anyway , my battery is fully charged in 2 hours, is it normal ? it could be cracked, perfectly normal i guess. sometimes when im connected to wi-fi , it starts decreasing the battery level and i watch it lol, 71 , 70 , 69.... thats really strange in due that i see people using 2 days or 3 with normal usage. i believe that's nothing about the rom, im going to do that , im going to calibrate and wipe, text u as soon as possible to tell u the results
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i just want to note something, here you say you are fully charge in 2 hours, thats strange, mine are 4-5hours charge before its full.
in my experience with all is ON, i got 14 hours of battery life, this what i turn on:
- 3G Data is always on, no time schedule, it on all the time.
- Mail (3 account) and Gmail (1 account), (always on, with 15mnt refresh freq)
- Gtalk and Yahoo messenger (always on, cant live w/o it)
- LauncherPro Friends Widget (Facebook and Twitter, always on, with 15mnt refresh freq)
- Weather with Fancy Widget (always on, with 1hour refresh freq)
- Battery Widget
- Game NFS Shift 3D (15mnt a day, is a must, very love the game)
- Browsing (average 2 hours a day)
- and other normal process and background process (network location, contact sync, etc)
can you describe what is you use in your phone and please detail how much hours you get with your hero??
Mine was also draining like a hell , but i let it switch off for one day and now it works great . try that might it will help you
I had similar problems. Very frustrating indeed, but easily corrected.
Calibrate your battery using the above thread. Usually this takes a while, but sounds like it will be quick for you. Follow it closely and carefully.
Install setcpu and start with a conservative governor at 576/176. That alone should give you a day between charges. Play with these settings until you find something you're comfortable with.
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about the screen, i have 5 screens, one has the calendar with my schedule dates, other has youtube and music app, the main one has beautiful widgets that only update 3 in 3 hours, the other has people widget and last one has just power control widget. I believe this is not too much, for instance i already calibrated my battery and look at my stats today :
Activity time : around 17h
apps tha use battery most :
display 41% (45m e 25s);
inactivity of the phone 18% ( 15h e 30 min )
inactived phone 16% (14h e 44 min )
Media Server 11% (14min e 53 s)
the best of this is when im texting there is nothing about the battery when i start to listen to music i can watch my battery drainly constantly, like 59,58,57 per minute sensivily. is there anyway that my battery is cracked or something ? or is just my settings ? i believe i have set all up to save power, i also set up my screen to minimum stats. another thing that i might let clear is that my phone really charges all up from 0 to 100 in 2 hours, really strange that sometime it stucks on 77 for instance other times is draining and draining and it kills me watching other people using 2 days battery with more apps than me
i dont know if this is important or not , my battery drains 6 % on rebooting , dont know if it is normal or not, but im totally sure , aint normal to got all the battery drain in 17 hours with normal using... please i appreciate any kind of help
If you had calibrated your battery, and if you already had uninstalled all the apps that drain your battery quickly, but still no improvements, I suggest you to try the following things:
_ Change rom (I had a lot of problems too with battery life on FroydVillain, I personally recommend Elelinux 6.2 RC, I got an amazing battery life)
_ Make sure you have Update your Radio to the latest version:
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/s...adio-Roms-Download-Links&highlight=hero+radio
_ Try different Kernels, if you are currently overclocking your Phone, I use flykernel 12a, but the 11c is excellent as well for battery life
_ Use sometimes, not set it automatically, some task killer like Advanced task Killer Froyo from the market, to kill sometimes too many running apps.
Make sure to flash the new rom when your battery is full, then recalibrate it again like other suggest you already on this thread.
I personally notice that, when you calibrate your battery, takes a week or more to see improvements on the battery life, so be patient!
Its good as well to restart your new rom fews times to reach the full potential...
Then, when you set up your rom for the first time DISABLE google backup, I've been told that drains battery like hell, don't set the brightness on automatic mode, but just leave it as less as you can, it will helps.
It would be better also to go to setting, under sync, and leave on the automatic sync mode only for the apps that you really need to run..
If none of this will work, if you have can, I would think to buy a new battery, I checked in an official HTC store once and I found it at 30 pounds...
I don't think I have anymore suggestions, I hope it will help you...
Paulopax said:
i believe there are no background apps , but if there is , how could i close it ?
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To close an app or clear cache or data go to:
settings>applications>manage applications>running>
and choose the apps you want to close..
I found a major battery killer is an area with no reception.
So if I know I'll be there a while, I'll put my phone on airplane mode to stop it constantly scanning for a signal.
Today i really noticed something strange about battery, i let it charge when it was off. Ive turnee it on, browsed over the internet and it was stuck at 100 % for 30 minutes, than it decreased for 96 in 5 min..
i went to sleep ( turned wifi off ) 6 hours later it was in 77 % ;( and the best part, i reboot it and it get in 51 someone got a help
Paulopax said:
Today i really noticed something strange about battery, i let it charge when it was off. Ive turnee it on, browsed over the internet and it was stuck at 100 % for 30 minutes, than it decreased for 96 in 5 min..
i went to sleep ( turned wifi off ) 6 hours later it was in 77 % ;( and the best part, i reboot it and it get in 51 someone got a help
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That sounds about normal for most ROMs I've used
I have found a way to solve the problem with the battery in a few simple steps without erasing any battery stats or doing anything.
Firstly, install a Start-Up manager to control the apps wich are started after every boot. Leave only the important ones!
And now you have to recalibrate your battery, so
here is what you do:
1. Charge your phone to a 100% (that will take you about 3:00 hours)
2. Discharge the battery until the phone turns of by itself
3. Try turning the phone on until the battery dies completely and the phone doesn't start.
4.Take the battery of and then put it on.
5.Try to turn the phone on until the battery dies completely.
6.Now charge it up to 100% ( minimum 3:00 hours no matter that the phone says it's charged)
7.Ready! Now enjoy your amazing battery life!
Note: I recommend you to charge the phone for minimum 2:30 hours no matter if it says it's charged. Now, i charge mine for 3:00 hours wich is enough.
Here is one Start-Up manager. I use it.
how many days with wifi, gps and so on... ?
Well, before that I was unable to last for half a day. I had the same problem with all of SwiftDroid versions so I followed these steps and my battery life has increased dramatically up to 3-4 days !!!!!!
I use 2 hours wi-fi, 1 hours listening to music trough headphones and my brightenes is set to 40%.
Hope i helped you!
I see this post on all threads....;-)
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Thats isnt a battery problem. After you take a call some google services are using the CPU with 100%. After ich kill the google services tasks the cpu goes down to 20%
NO. Before that procedure I restart my phone and don't talk with it and the battery drained ... And after that procedure I talk and there is no battery draining so it's not because that.
thanks gonna try it now
mine goes on for about 2 days, with SwiftDroid Milestone1 Version 2.0
LinxAndroid said:
mine goes on for about 2 days, with SwiftDroid Milestone1 Version 2.0
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if u rename system/bin/akmd2 (akmd2_backup) and reboot,
you get another 1-2 days, but lost compass and
accelerometer, this process permanently takes 1-5% of cpu, but there is no other solution
i try what i found on internet
adb shell
echo 250 /system/data
but not sure if something change, i also found some open alternative,
http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=ru#eYOWr2vJSqE/akmd/Akmd.cpp&q=akmd&d=1
..it works very well for me after doing this.... i might even say it lasts a bit longer then on stock 2.1 with cpu tuner and settings ofc.....swiftdroid v2.0 M2...
There is a good application on the Market. BatteryCalibration
You need to have root. Extended my battery life for 1-2 days!
helps a little bit... but nothing like 2.1 stock
I'm on 2.1
Nothing helped. It is possible that battery just reduce its capacity? I dont want to install another android just to see how battery is there...
nah im fine atm. i always charge at night and my battery lasts till about 10 oclock, then it gets to 10%.
I've installed joes 2.3.2 without any battery-problems.
i'm running setcpu with 852max. -> did you set "on demand"? when setting to performance your phone will run out of battery within a few hours.
my battery life is around 2-3 days with AOSP 2.3.2 @ 852mhz max.
before with 2.1 @ quarxblackkernel @ 800mhz max. around 2 days
I am using auroraspv3ce final.
With most of time in sleep with wifi, it goes 8-9 hours.
If i use for example twitter facebook, it goes maximum 4-5 hours.
And mostly applications stop or lag so ihave to stop activity. I am using automemory ptimizer in aggressive mode (100 mb free) but still i have this problem.
For example when someonecalls me, 2-3 seconds waiting, i can see the person name. It shows number first.
What applications do you suggetst or what should i do?
I want to do tests memroy and battery tests to see if something is wrong. How?
I have battery problem too is normal not that much. Did you try to reduce clock speed governor? Interactive is good. Try and report.
dark_vader said:
I have battery problem too is normal not that much. Did you try to reduce clock speed governor? Interactive is good. Try and report.
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I dont know how to reduce and what governor is. Can you please tell me about it?
wHEN i open battery in settings, screen is about %25 at least. But my display is always lowets. %15 cell standby, %15 android %15 phone idle and twitter facebook each %4
Cursed Chico said:
I dont know how to reduce and what governor is. Can you please tell me about it?
wHEN i open battery in settings, screen is about %25 at least. But my display is always lowets. %15 cell standby, %15 android %15 phone idle and twitter facebook each %4
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Yes of course. Go to menu and run application No-frills CPU control. For example select 806 Mhz for Max.clock and 245 Mhz for Min. clock. Governor you can choose Interactive.
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Yes of course. Go to menu and run application No-frills CPU control. For example select 806 Mhz for Max.clock and 245 Mhz for Min. clock. Governor you can choose Interactive.
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I did, it success but what is that for? To reduce battery? It seems now fast, opening apps, closing.
Yes it's for reduce battery. Namely if you don't play games (like me) that clock is perfect for that purpose. Interactive governor is good too mainly if you don't always need screen on aka idle.
You can test others clock for min and max but that governor is excellent.
so eeez
best way to improve battery live is propper calibration
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration
it needs root.
best way to calibrate battery is fully charge then unplug restart device plug in charge till 100% and do it again over and over for 3 times then... calibrate battery
fully discharge and charge again till 100 w/o breaks
also update your soft to soon coming v6 of auroraSP
hope i helpd
Battery Drain Wifi
I have done calibrations and changed clock speeds to no avail, Wifi really chews battery on most ROMs. e.g. Fully charged at 8pm and completely dead when i wake up the next morning.
Might simply be a case of new battery, does poor battery affect phone performance?
jo3fis said:
I have done calibrations and changed clock speeds to no avail, Wifi really chews battery on most ROMs. e.g. Fully charged at 8pm and completely dead when i wake up the next morning.
Might simply be a case of new battery, does poor battery affect phone performance?
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Yes your battery is dead or almost it's not normal take out so fast
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You can buy this battery http://www.bigupbattery.com/T-Mobile-HB4F1-Pulse-Battery-p/bupb1694.htm is good but don't except to be perfect. I have that and phone can be 1,5 2 days without charging.
Look at this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2029032&page=2
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Yes your battery is dead or almost it's not normal take out so fast
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You can buy this battery http://www.bigupbattery.com/T-Mobile-HB4F1-Pulse-Battery-p/bupb1694.htm is good but don't except to be perfect. I have that and phone can be 1,5 2 days without charging.
Look at this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2029032&page=2
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Thanks mate, I bought this one shortly before reading your post http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=638683016 only $6NZD
Looking forward to having decent battery life again!
i changed the phones battery i noticed that it is acting weird. i fully charged the phone and this morning i took the charger out and in 30 minutes without touching it it dropped to 95% and from 7 am until 4 am the battery is now at 26% without even touching it. what happens is when i look at it it says that is still 95 but then when i go to settings/battery then it changed to 26 out of nowhere. i tried putting the old battery but still no go.i tried installing a custom rom and kernel and i even tried 4.2.2 stock and 4.3 stock and even changing radio and i looked online for help but same thing happens. i dont know whether is a battery problem or a software or hardware problem. i really need the phone working and i was wondering if someone had the same problem and also if you used to charge the phone with a wireless charging station because i saw something about using it and then not getting enough power from stock charger. i bought it on ebay and the previous owner had a wireless charging if it helps and he told me a new battery would fix the blinking red light of death. any fixes for this? here is the video of the weird battery problem and it is on airplane mode and safe mode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlFqagJ2v-k here is another video of how slow the device detects the battery drain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blz68xgQcDU
Install the following app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats
You can find a free version that works just as great but I personally like this. Charge to 100% then just use it normally. After it drains, open up the app and see what wakelocks there are. You can Google them and it'll tell you what to disable or uninstall from there
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I have a problem like yours... during the night my phone drain 10-15% of the battery in airplane mode... i've tried to install stock rom, clean install of cm11, some kernels, UV and UC... nothing works...
Last night i went to sleep with 93%, after 8 hours i had 93% but after 5-6 seconds it dropped to 81%.... no sync, airplane mode, greenify on all apps...
I've also bought a new battery... nothing to do... it can be can hardware problem?
Thanks
Is anything wrong with my battery?CM11 with ak kernel @ 1944 mhz, intellidemand, eco mode on, Wi-Fi on, GPS on, auto brightness on
VikramW8 said:
Is anything wrong with my battery?CM11 with ak kernel @ 1944 mhz, intellidemand, eco mode on, Wi-Fi on, GPS on, auto brightness on
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First of all kill that 1.9Ghz OC for gods sake....poor phone
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First of all kill that 1.9Ghz OC for gods sake....poor phone
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Well the graph has started from when the phone was at 1.2Ghz... The battery life just doesn't get worse.. Its the same with 1.2 and 1.9.. Just some minor differences.. There is less heat and low performance on 1.2 and on 1.9 the phone heats up quite a bit but the performance also increases considerable.. But it doesn't seem to affect battery life..
Vikram: Firstly, its bad manners to hijack someone else's thread. You should start your own if you have a question.
It's hard to say if it affects a battery life, because your graph is over the span of two days. One single charge and discharge cycle is sufficient to demonstrate any issues. In any case, it may be unrelated to your overclocked processor, I would install the wake lock detector app and start from there.