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[Q] bad battery life on my hero

Hey guys, i have a problem concerning the battery life of my HTC Hero with FroydVillain 1.7.3 (Android v2.2.1)
In the last couple of days my battery goes down by 10-12% per hour without even touching the phone. I tried factory reset, wiped sd card and reflashed, flashed CM7 but still the battery issue didn't go away.
I charge it 100% before i go to bed at 11.30 and when i wake up at 7 the phone is completely powered off..
The thing that consumes my battery is the process "Android OS". I read about it on the internet, but all threads were SGS2..
The strange thing is that it's CPU usage time according to the battery stats is 1h 21m after 3 hours of sleep.. Is this normal??
I have everything turned off - wifi, gps, mobile data, auto sync, background sync and still the drain continues.
Has anyone had this kind of issues and possibly a solution?
Or should i buy a new battery?

f1r3fl3x said:
Hey guys, i have a problem concerning the battery life of my HTC Hero with FroydVillain 1.7.3 (Android v2.2.1)
In the last couple of days my battery goes down by 10-12% per hour without even touching the phone. I tried factory reset, wiped sd card and reflashed, flashed CM7 but still the battery issue didn't go away.
I charge it 100% before i go to bed at 11.30 and when i wake up at 7 the phone is completely powered off..
The thing that consumes my battery is the process "Android OS". I read about it on the internet, but all threads were SGS2..
The strange thing is that it's CPU usage time according to the battery stats is 1h 21m after 3 hours of sleep.. Is this normal??
I have everything turned off - wifi, gps, mobile data, auto sync, background sync and still the drain continues.
Has anyone had this kind of issues and possibly a solution?
Or should i buy a new battery?
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I have also been experiencing battery issues with Froyd lately, but not to the same degree as you are. My solution was to wipe and install another 2.2.1 based ROM. This new ROM is acting normally in terms of battery life.
With Froyd, my battery was acting "weird" in terms of overall battery life. Once I got about 3 good discharge / charge cycles in a row things seemed to improve.
Another thing to consider is did you recently install any new apps? Some apps don't play nice and cause the phone to not enter sleep state OR cause excess CPU usage.
Some people might say "wipe battery stats" but some Google Engineer / Developer has recently dispelled that myth... https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
Good luck!

It's not from any app. Last night i wiped my sd card, wiped everything from recovery and flashed Froyd. I used it all day without installing anything besided battery graph to monitor my battery usage. it's something from the OS itself i guess..
The funny thing is that it seems that in the past two hours the drain has disappeared and now the battery is reducing by ~1% per hour and i haven't done anything during that time, except 2 calls under a minute each and 1 sms.

How old is ur battery? Did you consider that it might be physically related? Not because of the processes or so?
One more thing I noticed - if I charge by ac outlet, it charges faster, and lasts longer, if I charge by computer usb port, it charges really slowly and battery drains way faster... I don't know about battery life, maybe from ac outlet it dies faster, but 2 years of using it and still 1.5 day of normal use...

Thanks for the replies guys! I found the problem, it was my radio.
I flashed the latest radio and now my hero's battery life is better than before!

f1r3fl3x said:
Thanks for the replies guys! I found the problem, it was my radio.
I flashed the latest radio and now my hero's battery life is better than before!
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Which radio did you you use before and after?
Thanks!

f1r3fl3x said:
Hey guys, i have a problem concerning the battery life of my HTC Hero with FroydVillain 1.7.3 (Android v2.2.1)
In the last couple of days my battery goes down by 10-12% per hour without even touching the phone. I tried factory reset, wiped sd card and reflashed, flashed CM7 but still the battery issue didn't go away.
I charge it 100% before i go to bed at 11.30 and when i wake up at 7 the phone is completely powered off..
The thing that consumes my battery is the process "Android OS". I read about it on the internet, but all threads were SGS2..
The strange thing is that it's CPU usage time according to the battery stats is 1h 21m after 3 hours of sleep.. Is this normal??
I have everything turned off - wifi, gps, mobile data, auto sync, background sync and still the drain continues.
Has anyone had this kind of issues and possibly a solution?
Or should i buy a new battery?
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Looks like you have a battery problem. OS does not really kill batteries, you can see more or less the same performance if there are no background apps eating your power.
Check these batteries for your Hero. These are top quality and many users vouch for them.
HTC Hero Mugen Power batteries

@saj222 i'm now running the same radio as the one in your signature. before that i was with 09.05 or sth like that..
@porcupineli my hero is second hand with about a year of usage before me. i have it for about 2 months now. Since the phone costed me $90 i don't think i can pay $70 for a battery.. I was thinking of buying this one
ebay (dot) com/itm/2600mAh-Extended-Battery-cover-HTC-Hero-G3-White-GSM-/250892692348?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3a6a5eab7c#ht_1230wt_1139
Is it any good?

[Q] Defy+ MB526 bettery discharge too fast

Hello!
This week I bought a new Defy+ MB526.
Tried to root it, no success.
After thinking I flashed:
DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP231_AR_SIGN_UCADEFYEMARAB1B80AA004.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNGIBRRTARAB_P016_A027_M001_Service1FF.sbf
The problem is I have to charge battery twice a day! Yesterday I charged it to 100%, and after 7 hours (WiFi on, BT standby, GPS standby, no calls\sms) battery fall to 50%.
I used to have HTC HD2 with CM9, ICS 4.0.4 and battery could last for 2 days before charge needed..
Does anyone have an idea what causing it and what to do?
Thanks!

ehud83 said:
Hello!
This week I bought a new Defy+ MB526.
Tried to root it, no success.
After thinking I flashed:
DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP231_AR_SIGN_UCADEFYEMARAB1B80AA004.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNGIBRRTARAB_P016_A027_M001_Service1FF.sbf
The problem is I have to charge battery twice a day! Yesterday I charged it to 100%, and after 7 hours (WiFi on, BT standby, GPS standby, no calls\sms) battery fall to 50%.
I used to have HTC HD2 with CM9, ICS 4.0.4 and battery could last for 2 days before charge needed..
Does anyone have an idea what causing it and what to do?
Thanks!
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Sometimes it happens to me a similar problem. Battery get drained within a few hours without any CPU activity. What I can say is that it seems to happen especially in the move while fast hopping from one cell to another. Battery suddenly reaches +40°C which is a good pointer to expect only a few hours of phone activity. As of now I didn't try to reboot the phone, though.

Questions go in the Q&A section

In my case, battery didn't rise ~32 degrees. The only Time it goes over ~40 degrees is when charging.
Currently I'm starting to be sorry for bought this device..

Reflash the ROM. And calibrate your battery.There's an APP for that in the play store (If I remember it correctly)
PS: You're sorry for buying it. M sorry 'cause mine's been stolen & I miss it..

battery discharging soon
using cm 10 on my defy + mb 526
battery discharging very fast which used to last long before rooting my phone
GPS -off , wi fi -off , 2G data - on some times
please help

[Q] Battery percentage/calibration PROBLEM

Hy Guys,
I have a problem with my Defy's battery (not exactly with it.)
If I fully charge it, it "drains the battery" fast and when it says 1% reaming, it lasts about half of the battery time.
So, I tried to use battery calibrators, delete the batterystats file, but nothing. My battery is new and as I said IT LASTS A LONG TIME? BUT WITH BAD PERCENTAGES.
Please help me, because it's so damn annoying

Battery
ToMpI97 said:
Hy Guys,
I have a problem with my Defy's battery (not exactly with it.)
If I fully charge it, it "drains the battery" fast and when it says 1% reaming, it lasts about half of the battery time.
So, I tried to use battery calibrators, delete the batterystats file, but nothing. My battery is new and as I said IT LASTS A LONG TIME? BUT WITH BAD PERCENTAGES.
Please help me, because it's so damn annoying
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I think best combo is full discharge + full%charge (and 1-2 hours more connected after 100%) and then reboot in recovery to clean battery stats.
The battery need autocalibrate with full charging cycles.

please search Battery Calibration app on Play. Use it after dropping battery stats.

I got this screenshot of my battery drain. There are random drops and I didn't use my phone at that time.

[Q] Defy Battery Question Mark

I bought a New Battery For My 3 year Old Defy .. Connected it yesterday for the First Time and Phone switch off , Battery Showed 75% so charged only for an hour ...
Today Morng i tried to replace battd file, heard its bettery than calliberating battery and have tried same on old battery before ...
Now wen Battery drained to 10 % i tried to charge after switch off . when checked after 1 hr ` battery Shows '?' .. So tried to switch on but there battery is 100% and in Setting Battery Status is 'Unknown' ...
Tried to Wipe cache, dalvik and battery stats from CWM Recovery. But Still Phone shows '?' in Off State but 100% in On
Also charging led blinks in Off Condition But In On Its not Blinking ..
Read in another thread to reset the Phone or Flash again the ROM ... Any other Remedy .. I have lot app. so dont wanna reset or Flash unless its necessary .
Please help ....

found something
use search and find this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1932329 for example

Same issue
My original battery is more than 3 years old.
I had got another battery from Amazon around 6 months ago, but now I have misplaced it.
So, I got a new one from ebay and put that it.
The first thing it showed me was a question mark.
So, I tried to charge it and the question mark did not go away.
So, I put that battery into my Defy external charger and charged if for an hour or so. The battery was then put into the phone and was around 60%.
After that I continued charging the phone through my 2 Amps Blackberry charger, which I have been using for last one year with all my devices.
The battery charged upto 99% and did not go beyond even after waiting for several minutes.
After a while, I saw the battery was down to 26%.
Not sure if this is a ROM problem or a battery problem.
I am still investigating and will report on any progress. I am using the latest 4.4.4 nightly (upgraded from the June nightly hoping that will fix the issue, but no luck with that).

Battery Problems need help

Hello guys, im having a battery issues, its draining too fast, and my phone just turn off when it reach 15%, i flashed custom rom, to see if that solve my problem, and i notice something really wierd, the system said is charged to 100% (battery percentage on system) but when i go to TWRP, it said it is only 75% charge, i recently change my battery so it is not a battery problem, so there is any way to re calibrate the battery to get full normal charge?
Sorry for my english.