Related
Between DamageControl, Aloyious, ZenEXP, and Fresh 2.0D, which ROM has the best overall battery life, I need to test it. Took my phone to sprint because I fully charged, and unplugged and it shot straight to 75%, then died in 2.5hrs. I then charged it for 2hrs and unplugged, straight to 14% low warning, then in 3 mins on NO USAGE, it game me the 9% warning, so which is best on battery
Thanks In Advance,
Tee Jay
Sounds like its a physical battery problem to me. Otherwise, personally i've only tried DC and Fresh. Both have great battery life and ultimately, it just came down to preference between the two for my decision.
on a side-note...don't think this belongs in this thread.
Sorry if this is in the wrong place, i felt like it belonged here because it is a ROM question. Sprint tested the battery, all seems well...said its probably because of my "setup". he said go back to original and see if its better, if not he will replace it. But i dont want original, I want 2.1
thanks,
Tee Jay
Sorry if this is in the wrong place, i felt like it belonged here because it is a ROM question. Sprint tested the battery, all seems well...said its probably because of my "setup". he said go back to original and see if its better, if not he will replace it. But i dont want original, I want 2.1
thanks,
Tee Jay
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
None of the roms I have tested killed the battery that fast. The worst was 6 hours with Fresh Toast 2.0b and that has been fixed. You have a physical problem with the phone or battery. Never believe a Sprint rep.
-------------------------------------
Sent via the XDA Tapatalk App
Yeah.. That's definitely not a ROM issue. Get your battery/phone replaced.
Okay, well I have just put DC back on and I will see what comes of it. About how long should my phone last using moderate texting, maybe 2-3 short calls and about 65% time w/o signal (happens when I'm at work, cant use airplane mode because of my children)?
Thanks,
Tee Jay
teejaymarx said:
Okay, well I have just put DC back on and I will see what comes of it. About how long should my phone last using moderate texting, maybe 2-3 short calls and about 65% time w/o signal (happens when I'm at work, cant use airplane mode because of my children)?
Thanks,
Tee Jay
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It should AT THE VERY LEAST get through a work day. Even when I was using Fresh Toast 2.0b1 with the 100% awake time, I would get to the end of a 7 hour shift at work, albeit, it was at about 18% when I got home.. But thats with the phone being awake for 8 hours straight.
Hm, alrighty, ill run through tomorrow at work with DC on it, and ill post back
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate the input!
Tee Jay
teejaymarx said:
Between DamageControl, Aloyious, ZenEXP, and Fresh 2.0D, which ROM has the best overall battery life, I need to test it. Took my phone to sprint because I fully charged, and unplugged and it shot straight to 75%, then died in 2.5hrs. I then charged it for 2hrs and unplugged, straight to 14% low warning, then in 3 mins on NO USAGE, it game me the 9% warning, so which is best on battery
Thanks In Advance,
Tee Jay
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
dude, i stopped reading once you said "took my phone to sprint"... i would love to see them react to having custom roms installed
Damage Control Battery Usage
I've been using Damage Control ROM with PRL set to CDMA auto. I use the phone for sending and receiving texts/phone calls all day. I check Facebook periodically and I do searches on the internet throughout the day. To give you an idea of my battery statistics for the last 23 hours (off charge):
Up Time:22:34
Awake Time: 1:29
TWS: 0%
Current battery level: 50%
Needless to say, I'm happy with my current battery usage.
Yesterday after 15 hours I still had over 30% remaining using FreshToast 2.0b2 with SetCPU on "performance."
Have you tried calibrating the battery?
1. Charge it to full.
2. Boot in recovery.
3. Select wipe.
4. Wipe battery stats.
5. Use phone until it dies.
6. Recharge phone to full.
Or get a extended battery and not worry bout it.
-------------------------------------
Sent via the XDA Tapatalk App
spiritcrusher33 said:
Or get a extended battery and not worry bout it.
-------------------------------------
Sent via the XDA Tapatalk App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i have the extended battery.. and I barely get a day out of mine with fresh 2.0d. And most of its time is spent in standby.. It was fully charged when I went to bed last night.. and was almost dead when I woke up... 12a to 9a..... the extended battery lasts about as good as the standard, IMO
I am gonna take a guess and say it was 9.95 and from Hong Kong.
redtxstar said:
i have the extended battery.. and I barely get a day out of mine with fresh 2.0d. And most of its time is spent in standby.. It was fully charged when I went to bed last night.. and was almost dead when I woke up... 12a to 9a..... the extended battery lasts about as good as the standard, IMO
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
redtxstar said:
i have the extended battery.. and I barely get a day out of mine with fresh 2.0d. And most of its time is spent in standby.. It was fully charged when I went to bed last night.. and was almost dead when I woke up... 12a to 9a..... the extended battery lasts about as good as the standard, IMO
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There's definitely something wrong with that picture.. If you had it fully charged when you went to sleep, and nearly dead in the AM.. I would say that you've got either 100% Awake time OR A ****ed up battery..
I've went to bed with the phone off the charger at 100% and it was down to maybe 85 when I woke up 8 hours later.
EDIT : Stock Battery, and at that specific time I think I was running IceRom, or DC2.07.2..
teejaymarx said:
...maybe 2-3 short calls and about 65% time w/o signal (happens when I'm at work, cant use airplane mode because of my children)?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Makes sense, all kids are terrified of airplane mode...
lol regardless of roms etc even with my seidio 3500 mAh extended battery with heavy heavy useage i can still make it 10 hours np.. with light 2 days np.. u must have one of those cheap ebay batts. that are between 1500 mAh and 2000 mAh..lol
notasimpleway said:
I am gonna take a guess and say it was 9.95 and from Hong Kong.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nope, I got the seidio one. My husbands phone has the same seidio battery.. but 1.5 and he says his works great.. so, hell maybe its something Im doing. I did just update to the latest fresh 2.1 rom, so we'll see.
It did seem to last longer while roaming, though.. I have a airave at home, but not at the farm... and it lasted well over a day while roaming.
tstack77 said:
Makes sense, all kids are terrified of airplane mode...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
YEah actually, my new born daughter is scared of airplane mode since she was 6 weeks early, spent 3 weeks in west penn NICU and got sent home on a monitor because she has bradycardia and respiratory distress. So just go somewhere else, because ur not needed here if you are just going to poke fun at my post. I'm looking for mature suggestions, which is what these forums are for, people to ask questions and other ppl to give INTELLIGIBLE responses.
didn't use it that much the past few days but atm my battery is at 90%, uptime says 43:42:18, and awake time is around 6 hours. 14 hours since unplugged.
Sent about 30-40 texts, browsed around for some stuff, got 10 or so calls, and was on the map for 15-20 minutes.
Gonna charge it overnight, and use it extensivly tomorrow. See how long it can last.
14 hours and batt is at 90%? I smell fish around here
DirtyShroomz said:
14 hours and batt is at 90%? I smell fish around here
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
actually its ~13 hours, taking a pic. sec.
edit: give me a minute, have to figure out how to take the screenshot on a non rooted phone.
had to take it with my laptops camera, so yea, soz about bad quality.
So what are you running that you are getting such amazing battery life? At this rate you will get 117 hours of battery usage which is 4.8 days....
DirtyShroomz said:
So what are you running that you are getting such amazing battery life? At this rate you will get 117 hours of battery usage which is 4.8 days....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
nothing, just stock everything. It might of been the charger in my car that charged it better than the wall plug, but idk the past few days it's been like this. the days before it would die after 12-14 hours, but now it just like started working better all of a sudden. I was rooted, but had to go back to stock cause of warante deal.
Last-Chance said:
nothing, just stock everything. It might of been the charger in my car that charged it better than the wall plug, but idk the past few days it's been like this. the days before it would die after 12-14 hours, but now it just like started working better all of a sudden. I was rooted, but had to go back to stock cause of warante deal.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
A USB charge always gives me longer life than wall charger. Haven't tried the car charger deal. Anything special you did in between a charge?
DirtyShroomz said:
A USB charge always gives me longer life than wall charger. Haven't tried the car charger deal. Anything special you did in between a charge?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
nope, charged it overnight. took it off, went to my car, plugged it into the car charger, and the sound system. Drove for 30 minutes, unplugged and used it.
Interesting
Last-Chance said:
actually its ~13 hours, taking a pic. sec.
edit: give me a minute, have to figure out how to take the screenshot on a non rooted phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's damn good. I actually just flashed to an almost basic stock rom, with minor tweaks and it has the new unreleased update included, and it's doing damn well.can't wait till the source gets released. They did something that's really helping battery. Itll really be something when the devs get ahold of that source code.
What rom did you end up using. I would like to try and find a rom that isnt using sence. It seams to be the real life of the party and eatting away at the battery life.
your best options are to either go with CM6 for a true AOSP rom this will have no sense wont be based on sense and will have nothing to do with sense. you will however lose 4g, HDMI and FM radio currently; or to use a sense based rom and remove the sense launcher and HC wdigets. this will keep 4g, HDMI, FM radio and will help some on battery though you are still running a sense based rom so not as good as AOSP
As for the battery usage. this isnt bad though i am surprised with the usage you listed that android system isnt in the top 2 and neither is dialer for the phone calls. Looks like the calls where very short if you received 10 of them so i will point out again that this must be with very light usage.
I assume you're not killing any tasks either?
omegasun18 said:
As for the battery usage. this isnt bad though i am surprised with the usage you listed that android system isnt in the top 2 and neither is dialer for the phone calls. Looks like the calls where very short if you received 10 of them so i will point out again that this must be with very light usage.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
this.
in all fairness, I made it to about 15 hours unplugged and still had a good 85% left on my battery with similar usage. I ended up with maybe 23 hours total before I plugged back in at around 30%. That was with baked snack 1.5, btw.
And isn't uptime just the time since the phone was last rebooted? If you don't reboot the phone that number would get into the hundreds, and has nothing to do with battery or charging right?
fachadick said:
this.
And isn't uptime just the time since the phone was last rebooted? If you don't reboot the phone that number would get into the hundreds, and has nothing to do with battery or charging right?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Correct.
Uptime = time since last reboot
yes uptime is since last reboot, but last unplugged is still 13 hours with 90% battery. It went down to 80% last night, after it reached 13:40, and i watched about 30 minute video on it.
and the phone calls were mostly to customer service. Called sprint for insurance and stuff.
Last-Chance said:
yes uptime is since last reboot, but last unplugged is still 13 hours with 90% battery. It went down to 80% last night, after it reached 13:40, and i watched about 30 minute video on it.
and the phone calls were mostly to customer service. Called sprint for insurance and stuff.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
video stored on the phone or streaming? and don't get me wrong, 13 hours and 90% battery is still impressive
fachadick said:
video stored on the phone or streaming? and don't get me wrong, 13 hours and 90% battery is still impressive
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
streaming over wifi.
my uptime is at 52 hours, battery at 10%... Its dying!! lol Havent used phone much other than texts, some facebook and taking pics here n there. Low 3g useage, mostly wifi.
total bs. no way you can use or even have the phone on standby for 13 hours without draining past 90% on the stock battery. no way.
Before I left the house to go to work, my 10.1 Tab (Google I/O Limited Edition, rooted with 3.1) was at around 80%. I get home 9 hours later and the battery is completely drained. I plugged it in to the charger and turned it back on to see the battery at 1%. That just doesn't seem right to me. I can usually go about 2 days without putting it on the charger.
I've attached an image of the Battery Use graph, you can see it just drops like a cliff for no apparent reason. Has this happened to anybody else? Also, I just noticed that the time it was off (approximately 9 hours) is missing from the graph, so it only shows just under 5 hours.
I had the same issue last night. It had ~40% battery left when I went to sleep last night and this morning it wouldn't turn on, so I plugged in the charger and found the battery drained completely.
Interesting that it happened for you the same night. For me, it seemed to have happened around 5-6pm Pacific time on June 23. I don't know the exact time because I didn't have it with me at the time.
Happened the same to me a couple of weeks ago.
Battery was at 40% and overnight went to 0% and the tablet turned off.
Very weird
Came home to find mine with the screen on but completely black so you could BARELY tell it was on. Had to reboot as it wouldn't respond. When it did I only had 20% charge. I had unplugged it about 5 hrs earlier and left it with about 95% charge. Only happened once though so I haven't worried too much, maybe a similar issue though
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA Premium App
If I had to hazard a guess.. it would probably have been a runaway process in the background somewhere that totally drained the battery. If it was the battery itself losing a charge like that, I would be worried.... When batteries discharge like that for no reason, they can actually explode... (it is rare, but possible..not trying to cause a panic).
jvanbrecht said:
If I had to hazard a guess.. it would probably have been a runaway process in the background somewhere that totally drained the battery. If it was the battery itself losing a charge like that, I would be worried.... When batteries discharge like that for no reason, they can actually explode... (it is rare, but possible..not trying to cause a panic).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wouldn't a runaway process drain the battery slowly over time? This seems to have happened instantly.
I really hope i dont find mine doing this... If I watched a laptop do it I would say the battery was shot. Now that its been charged does it hold a charge just as good as it was prior?
Im jealous you got the google I/O tab, was trying to get one on ebay but to hell with spending all that money for an army of androids you wil never see in a case. I heard they were giving them away for free @ the conference...
Happens tome as well
COUPLE of days ago sentries sleep and woke up to a dead tab
Before I went to bed I had at least 50 perent charge
well , twice in 5days usage .... there is a problem ..... weird
Sent from my SHW-M110S using XDA App
mine no response in wall charging ..so worried that i am pondering your words ...'when it did '
were u trying to. say the tab was not being able to boot in quite some time ?
dsEVOlve said:
Had to reboot as it wouldn't respond. When it did I only had 20% charge.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sent from my SHW-M110S using XDA App
I have had my tab 3 days unrooted. I left it last night at 85% and came home several hours later with the battery totally drained.
Will wait and see. Mine boot, battery 44%, not sure a wall charge in 30 some minutes can charge this much. Battery usage found no clues, no sign of sudden drop......
Yep just happened to me Also. This is a real problem.
first to make sure these power saving settigs are alright ,especially gps which will be turned on by so many location iasking apps.
i originally thought it happened twice on me . now i got to. say the first time my gps is on ,second time , the 10.1 looks no response /dead , but press power burton longer, it will be back in desktop without boot,kind of like hibernation on pc ......maybe after a quite long time no activity, 10.1 manage to hibernate itself .....just guessing
Sent from my SHW-M110S using XDA App
i just had this happen to my 7" gt. never happened before.
Maps, for some reason, has been quite active even though I haven't used it in a while. I am not logged in to Latitude or anything so I don't know what gives. Also, CNN and USA Today apps seem to consistently get active on 1-5 hour intervals even though I disabled Notifications, etc. Anyone knows the reasoning?!
Last night I was browsing the web at about 30% battery, when my tab just clicked off out of nowhere. I wasn't able to turn it back on until I'd plugged it in. Once I got it back on it showed 1% battery.
Very weird...
battery issue
So last night im surfing the web battery is about 65% suddenly the remove charger battery full message pops up and the indicator says i have %100 full? I hadnt charged it in 4 hours.
jvanbrecht said:
When batteries discharge like that for no reason, they can actually explode... (it is rare, but possible..not trying to cause a panic).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe if there's dead short and the pack isn't fused. Otherwise I call BS.
As of Saturday evening, my phone will no longer charge past 88%. Earlier on Saturday, the phone was charged to 100% in my car. We lost power and the phone ran down to 3% before I was able to charge it again.
After charging over 8 hours, the phone would not go past 88%. Any ideas?
MacAlert said:
As of Saturday evening, my phone will no longer charge past 88%. Earlier on Saturday, the phone was charged to 100% in my car. We lost power and the phone ran down to 3% before I was able to charge it again.
After charging over 8 hours, the phone would not go past 88%. Any ideas?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you tried to recalibrate the battery? Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16240746
Sent from my Atrix XDA Premium App
Voelker45 said:
Have you tried to recalibrate the battery? Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16240746
Sent from my Atrix XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have not tried that. Weird thing is, the battery calibration app reads 4196mV at 70% while charging and ~4200 while at 88%.
Just go to CWM recovery and wipe battery stats. Do a few charge recharge cycle. It should be OK.
Sent from my MB860 using Tapatalk
anupash said:
Just go to CWM recovery and wipe battery stats. Do a few charge recharge cycle. It should be OK.
Sent from my MB860 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yup wiping the battery stats in cwm will do the trick
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium
Charge to 88% or until you notice it not going any further. Turn off the phone. Plug in the charger and wait until the battery display shows. While the phone is still plugged in, remove the battery. Wait for it to boot up and show a no battery icon (or something like that). Once it does, put the battery back in and leave it for about 30 mins. When you hit the volume buttons, the display will show between 5-10% charged. Anyway, after about 30 mins, turn the phone one and it should show 100%. Re-calibrate the battery after that using the app or recovery.
Are all android batteries like this? I've never had a device with such finicky battery stats. I too have the 88% problem and i feel like im recalibrating every week. I will try again.
s1mpd1ddy said:
Are all android batteries like this? I've never had a device with such finicky battery stats. I too have the 88% problem and i feel like im recalibrating every week. I will try again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't think they're all like this..but I know its as annoying as F***. Every morning almost i'm doing the "battery pop out" trick just so that it'll read full. It would be different if it read 95% or something and stuck there for awhile until the battery caught up to the actual reading..but it doesn't. The battery continues to drain at a normal rate, so you basically lose however many % you had initially.
Definately annoying..
Rickroller said:
I don't think they're all like this..but I know its as annoying as F***. Every morning almost i'm doing the "battery pop out" trick just so that it'll read full. It would be different if it read 95% or something and stuck there for awhile until the battery caught up to the actual reading..but it doesn't. The battery continues to drain at a normal rate, so you basically lose however many % you had initially.
Definately annoying..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
so you're having to do the pop-out trick every day? that's definitely not something you should have to do....... what gives with our battery?
Mine did this before and what I did was run it all the way to 0% and it cuts of and will not start, then charge it to 100% with the power off and and then boot it up. Work like a charm for me.
lilhaiti said:
Mine did this before and what I did was run it all the way to 0% and it cuts of and will not start, then charge it to 100% with the power off and and then boot it up. Work like a charm for me.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same, friends atrix wouldn't get past 86%, calibration app didn't work and neither did wiping bat stats. Draining however did fix but damn was it slow. 6+ hours to reach 100%
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
ChongoDroid said:
Same, friends atrix wouldn't get past 86%, calibration app didn't work and neither did wiping bat stats. Draining however did fix but damn was it slow. 6+ hours to reach 100%
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
do you have the same battery issues on your galaxy?
So I've been sitting at 1% for the past hour. Been playing games, have wifi, bluetooth, GPS all turned on.
Thing will just not turn off!
EDIT: Right as soon as I post this, it turns off. Over 1 hour on 1%.
Will recharge tonight and hopefully it works right.
I had this problem for a while but you should know that it will fix itself eventually. The phone is fully capable of re-learning the limits of the battery and after several days will begin to display the correct charging status. Mine took about a week to start displaying 99% in the morning.
This happened after I did the complete discharge, charge, pull battery, charge again, then boot procedure. It was fine for a couple of days then started displaying 82% as a full charge then slowly got better. I'm fairly confident that I'm not leaving anything on the table in terms of capacity either since with moderate use and turning off wifi when I leave the house I'm getting about two days of charge.
Sounds like a jumping battery problem to me.
1. Click on this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1174349&highlight=battery+fix
2. Download juggernault's jumping battery fix.
3. Follow the instructions there
4. if it solves your problem, thank the dude for his contribution to the Atrix community and also leave him a comment to thank him.
heres what you need to do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ehvLLmEIg
Already have juggernaults battery fix applied. Thinking this is just some freak occurrence.
EDIT: Drained the battery at work. Charged since 6:30 while powered off and phone charged past 88%. All is well in Atrixland!
MacAlert said:
Already have juggernaults battery fix applied. Thinking this is just some freak occurrence.
EDIT: Drained the battery at work. Charged since 6:30 while powered off and phone charged past 88%. All is well in Atrixland!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not a freak occurrence. Happens to me too all the time.. makes me not wanna flash anything . I jump charged my phone to 100 today. Did battery pull, wiped stats and calibrated
Sent from my CM7 Atrix
s1mpd1ddy said:
do you have the same battery issues on your galaxy?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No none, I had battery drain but it was kernel related. I get a days worth of heavy usage out of mine now.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
Figured I'd follow up. After doing all this ... first recharge went to 98. Second recharge overnight.. 85 Max. WTF
Sent from my CM7 Atrix
My N4 started to have battery issues after the kitkat update lasting no longer than 6 hours even turned off. It also started to take longer to charge and gradually this got worse and now all I get is a red light when plugged in but I can't turn it on now.
I guess my battery is stuffed, but could it be that the upgrade did this or (I hope) it was just a coincidence.
I've ordered a new battery and tools but I would appreciate your thoughts on this.
mrirvs said:
My N4 started to have battery issues after the kitkat update lasting no longer than 6 hours even turned off. It also started to take longer to charge and gradually this got worse and now all I get is a red light when plugged in but I can't turn it on now.
I guess my battery is stuffed, but could it be that the upgrade did this or (I hope) it was just a coincidence.
I've ordered a new battery and tools but I would appreciate your thoughts on this.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It has been written that the battery shouldn't be run down past 15%. I don't know this for a fact, but that could be one of the issues. Another issue would be an app that is constantly running, but there's no way to find out if you can't boot the phone.
As far as the upgrade is concerned, it's iffy at best because a lot of people have upgraded with no problems.
Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013)
mrirvs said:
My N4 started to have battery issues after the kitkat update lasting no longer than 6 hours even turned off. It also started to take longer to charge and gradually this got worse and now all I get is a red light when plugged in but I can't turn it on now.
I guess my battery is stuffed, but could it be that the upgrade did this or (I hope) it was just a coincidence.
I've ordered a new battery and tools but I would appreciate your thoughts on this.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Too me, I bought my 2 days ago, my battery is draining too much fast than should be, I think this 4.4.2 have something bugged that start to drain all the battery, only with screen awake after 3 hours my battery is 30% only with browser and menu s...
Try go to 4.3 again and then you see if is the battery or the rom...