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[Q] Newly rooted NC having battery issues...

Got a NC for xmas and rooted it and installed cm7.1 and everything seems to be working well except the battery. I went under battery use and i see that Display is eating about 60% of my battery! I turned brightness down to 25%-ish and i have also turned off everything i am not using but the problem still persists. I have seen people saying i need to do some kind of battery calibration but i do not know how to do this. If someone can help me get this issue resolved it would be greatly appreciated.

Unfortunately, you can only do so much about screen battery consumption. Turn brightness down as far as is comfortable, but personally, I don't want to give up the vibrant display. I find 25% is usually adequate indoors. With my screen ON, it consumes roughly 10% per hour of use, which equates to 8-10 hours of use -- not bad. With the screen OFF, it sips less than 1% per hour, and often less than that over a few hours.
Keep in mind, you WANT screen battery consumption to be the largest value. That means it's nice and idle when you're not using it. If something else is using a significant amount of battery, that may be something you can do something about.
As to calibration, I do find that Android battery gauges often are incorrect until you let the battery completely discharge from a full charge once. Then it's calibrated correctly. Of course, that's not recommended for battery health, so don't do it compulsively. I had a device that showed 1% battery remaining for 3 hours while I played MP3 audio.

I wish i was getting 10% an hour, im getting roughly 20% I now have another issue that i did not have this morning, i can not connect to my computer via USB. Is there a setting i might have turned off in my fit to increase battery life?

@Lsjreadingpa Renaming /system/app/phone.apk to phone.bak is a commonly undertaken act that can significantly lower battery usage. Also, you can turn off Account Sync when not using it actively, as it increases battery drain when you are not actively using the NC.
As far as the USB is concerned, make sure you have USB debugging checked in the settings menu.

disynthetic said:
@Lsjreadingpa Renaming /system/app/phone.apk to phone.bak is a commonly undertaken act that can significantly lower battery usage. Also, you can turn off Account Sync when not using it actively, as it increases battery drain when you are not actively using the NC.
As far as the USB is concerned, make sure you have USB debugging checked in the settings menu.
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How do i rename it? Also a bit of an update, i have turned off syncing as well as alot of the other options and i am losing 5%/20min

Last night I cleared cache and battery stats and let the battery die and then charged it to full this morning. Like I said above I turned off syncing and gps as well as removing beautiful Widgets. I just don't know what else to do. I'm attatching two screenshots showing my battery use in the last hour.
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You can use Spare Parts to check what's consuming battery if your DOMAIN supports it.

Anyone able to help?

Are you concerned about battery consumption while you're using it? If so, then your brightness and the applications you're running are going to determine your battery life.
If it's battery consumption while idle (screen off) that you're concerned about, then do you have any widgets that do network access? I found that my battery life dramatically improved when I was no longer using the Twitter widget.
In Spare Parts you can go to Battery History, then check 'Partial Wake Usage'... this can help you figure out if there's an application that's preventing the device from going to sleep.

I would recommend trying a newer nightly or the Mirage/Kang build found in the Android Dev sub-forum here. I forget when they were added, but there were a few big improvements to CM7 a while ago to help with battery life.

Battery consumption while using it is kinda of scary because it drops like a brick. While sleeping, which i don't think it was doing, seemed to get better after i removed beautiful widgets. How different is the Kang build?

The Kang build has an updated kernel and other updates since the last CM7 nightly. It's supposed to fix an SOD issue. I've been running it for a while and am very happy with the battery life.
Like others have said, battery life while using it would most likely be helped by adjusting the display brightness, kernel settings and/or stopping "rogue" apps. You can see the kernel settings by going into the Settings Menu, then Cyanogenmod Settings then Performance. I use the InteractiveX governor (I believe "Performance" is the one that keeps the CPU ramped up constantly) with the highest overclock.

[Test] Battery Draining

Ok, I've been thinking about this for a while now so I'm going to make a test to decide if I really need a battery saver. I'm making this test for myself purely but I thought someone might wanted to see the results as well so here we go.
The gear:
Samsung Galaxy S2, non-rooted
2000 mah Samsung battery
The competitors
Phone on its own
JuiceDefender Ultimate
GreenPower Free
The settings
Prefer Wifi over data
Connect every 30 min to sync
No night settings (to be fair against the others)
Screen brightness: Auto
I know the battery savers are made to save battery when not using your phone so the screen will be locked the phone only used for a small amount of time between chargings.
The phone is unplugged at 100% and I will continue down to 30% before charging again. I will only be testing each one once, as of now at least.
We'll see how it goes over the next days so feel free to ask questions and such.

Many people I know with an S2 use battery saving apps but i really see no point in them, when we used to compare our stock phones running the same stock ROM there was minimal battery difference. Haptic feedback will be off or on? That makes a big difference.
You should put in a custom ROM to see how much better it is compared to stock.
i look forward to seeing the results of this test though

If I got it correctly haptic feedback is phone vibration on touch, right? That's off at least, never liked it. I'd like to put a custom ROM but I don't want to root the phone, yet.. Maybe in a few months or a year...
I will be updating this as we go along. At the moment we are at 96% with 3 hours of sleep time and only a few minutes of screen time.

Ermm, can I ask does task killer drain your battery? Sorry if I ask the wrong question.

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Ermm, can I ask does task killer drain your battery? Sorry if I ask the wrong question.
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task killer will drain battery if the programs you closed restarts, use advance task killer and ignore those that do,you may need it for those apps that didnt close properly
im interested in your trial, juice defender service was failing to run on my s2, it ended up eating my battery restarting the service.
im looking to save power as i lose 15% over night with flight mode while i hear people lose 1,2%

Yes Android is a bit different than computer OS. To start an app drains more battery than just pushing the "back"-button and let it be in stand by so don't use task killers.
Yea I have had trouble some times with the battery saver draining quite a lot over the night but usually it has been because I had a mail as a widget with push-notification so the battery saver wouldn't disable internet but almost push all my other accounts as well. That was my solution at least. We'll see how this goes.
4h in 93% battery
15 min scrren time

A little update. You see where we are.
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And does anyone know what can have caused this? This is a picture from a few days ago. It has happened maybe 10 times over the last 2 months. Simply the phone gets hot and the only way to unlock the screen is to remove the battery, refit it and then start it. And then it shows this massive drain.

Okay we got 1 day 13 hours down to 30% with 30 min of screen time. Next up is the Juice Defender Ultimate with night settings off.

An update for you all. As you can see JuiceDefender has already passed the "vanilla" time.

I had an odd problem. Sometime during night, the battery suddelny decided to drain at much faster rate and it took it only 6 hours or so to drain from 75% to 15%. I checked with BetterBatteryStats but there seems to be no app that has kept it awake. Anyway, I can't continue with this test spimply because I don't have time for reruns.
What I can say in previous experience:
Vanilla
Great that as soon as a message comes in you get notified immediately.
Unfortunately that's because wifi or data is kept on all the time, draining battery.
JuiceDefender
Usually gives my phone 3-4 days of battery.
It does take some time (up to 15 sec or so) when you unlock the screen to connect and that can be annoying if you are in a hurry.
When I have night settings on to set phone in no vibration, no sound but also have different night setting time for weekends the phone vibrates once at midnight between weekdays and what JuiceDefender recognizes as weekend.
Sometimes it doesn't feel like the apps are updating even though settings are set to allow "dumb apps" to update as well as plenty of time to do so.
GreenPower
I have only had time to use it for a few days and it is only the free version. I will probably buy the premium soon.
It has a better UI than JuiceDefender though not so many settings. I'm not really sure if I need those other settings.
Best thing, it connects instantly to data when I unlock the phone so I can get on to the web or viber or such to see messages directly.
If anyone wants to continue this thread you may do so but I won't make more test as for the moment. Bottom line is that the data turning off when phone's locked really do help with battery life.

Find Out How You Can Extend Honor 5X Battery Life Effectively!

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The Honor 5X comes built in with a large 3,000 mAh battery and a integrated power-saving technology within EMUI called the Smart Power Manager 3.0 that allows it to have a long battery life compared to other smartphones. With a foundation such as this and its related features, the Honor 5X in your hands is able to do more.
If you feel that your battery drains quickly, there are some tips you can employ to ensure that your 5X lasts even longer.
Tip 1
Under normal day-to-day usage, selecting Smart Power Saving is recommended for everyone. To save more power, you should close apps that are not in use, as leaving them running on the background will drain the battery quicker.
Guidance: Tap the square button on the navigation bar to clean up some or all the apps running in the background.
Power saving and cleaning up apps running in the background are the most basic requirements for power saving. If you will like to further reduce power consumption and extend battery life, the following contents will be useful to you.
Tip 2
As the display uses the most battery, reducing the screen brightness and setting it under the automatic brightness setting, as well as reducing the sleep duration time will improve battery life.
Guidance: Under Display, deactivate Auto-rotate screen to reduce the use of gravity sensor.
At the same time, shorten the time for Sleep when there is no operation, and change Brightness to Automatic brightness will also reduce power consumption. Power consumption will be reduced if the above three criteria are achieved. In addition, Display network speed will also increase power consumption and deactivate it if needed.
Tip 3
By default the EMUI system will set your Wi-Fi network settings on during sleep, but by setting this to your usage preference, the user will be able to improve battery life.
Guidance: Under WLAN Advanced settings you can choose "Only when plugged in".
If high-speed network is not necessary, the users can only select 2G in network mode.
Tip 4
Audio plays a part too. Under Sound, by switching the necessary alert tones like vibration in the navigation bar will consume more power in the background. Location services can also be switched off as this will consume more power as it searches for your location constantly.
Guidance: Under Sound settings, you can disable"Vibrate on Touch", and change the "Location Mode" to battery saving under the Location Access.
You can also select the low power consumption mode through WLAN or data traffic. Activate GPS when there is need for navigation.
Tip 5
Protected Apps and features like Automatic Startup during Power On can be set up on your preferential needs. The less protected apps, the more power can be saved.
To conclude, you can compare what I have mentioned with your current Honor 5X settings and change the settings in order to enjoy long battery life ahead!

amazing device.
getting excellent battery life.

Seriously, its not so much of the battery issues of Honor 5X, its the memory management of the EMUI. I can't have my Chinese Social App running. Its lags so much as I suspected this device is built from China XD. I tried it for a month as main driver and its disappointing. If you have smartwatch connecting via bluetooth and some Social Apps running. You can misses some phone call as the phone will freezes till the time you need a reboot.I always using Sammy and LG.This is my first Chinese device. And its not my main driver now and its run better. I considering getting the 2016 flagship soon. Should I go for the mate 8, P7 for the Chinese Devices or stick with LG G5. But very disappointed with my G4 hardware problem. And also the cheap WiFi chip they have in Honor 5X can't even have 5G connection.
Look @ the WiFi connection speed. Its can't even optimize my full Home Internet FiOS speed of 150/150 Mbps.
And here my main driver WiFi connection
Sent from my Honor 5X KIW-L24

EMUI Battery Manager - In Depth details

Battery is the crucial inbuilt equipment segment of advanced mobile phones. We would truly appreciate the shrewdness of smartphones when we have a strong and reliable battery.
With EMUI 4.0 Honor introduces an app call “Battery manager”. Battery Manager is a battery-saving software, which enhances the smartphone battery life upto 30 percent. It offers so many options related to battery consumption like power plan, consumption level, power usage details etc.
It is very simple and allows us to prevent specific apps that eat more battery. Apps such as Facebook and FB Messenger have been repeatedly accused of draining battery. When an app appears to be eating battery in the background, we'll get a notification with the option to close the app. Nine times out of ten, we've closed these apps when reminded, whereas other devices we'd have just left them to roll-on.
How Battery manager manages battery?
Battery manager is available inside Phone manager app.
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When you select Battery Manager it gives you so many options related to manage battery consumption. Like power plan, protected apps, power usages, firewall, consumption level, power usages details and remaining battery percentages. All these options gives you different level of control over battery usages.
Features of Battery manager:
1. Power Plan: It allows you to change your mobile battery consumption level by choosing different power plans. By default, the Honor Phone uses the “Smart” power plan. This plan automatically adjusts the CPU speed for balanced performance. For most people in normal daily situations, the “Smart” plan is the best choice. However, if you play a lot of games and watch a lot of videos, you might want to use the “Performance” plan. Or if your phone having low battery you can choose “Ultra” plan. It allows your phone to sip battery to the very last drop.
2. Protected apps: It allows the you to configure which apps can run in the background when the device is locked, we believe this feature enables the user to run only few of the most important applications while the devices is locked. This means saving a lot of unwanted data costs . For example, most users may not want Facebook to run all the time expect for the time when the device is being used and may want to run only WhatsApp to get the message notifications all the time. This also optimizes your battery performance and data consumption while keeping only the important Apps running.
3. Consumption Level: Consumption level is a feature which helps us to know how much battery is consumed by our smartphone. It scans both hardware and software battery consumption.
As it has both options of h/w and s/w. Software option let us to know what percent of battery is consumed by software (System plus 3rd party apps). When we click on software option it shows how much battery is consumed by which app. It tells about both system plus downloaded apps.
Same with Hardware option also. It tells which hardware part of our mobile is consuming how much battery.
Background option is telling about how much power intensive app is running in background.
It shows all currently power intensive app running since from last charged and the type of app like frequently used app or keep awakening kind of app.
From Consumption Level Feature we can observe which apps are consuming which amount of battery.
4. Power usage firewall: Power usage firewall is same as background option of power consumption level. It also tells the currently power intensive app running in background, since from last charged. It also tells about the type of app like frequently used app or keep awakening kind of app. It gives option to select and close the unused app.
5. Power usage details: Power usage details tell about battery usages History.
It shows a graph of battery consumption versus time duration. Like the given image, it explains amount of battery consume between 5am to 5pm or amount of battery consume between 5am to 12pm.
6. Remaining battery percentage: It tells us how much percent of battery is remaining to use. It appears in notification bar near to battery icon.
To show the remaining battery percentage we need to toggle and activate this option.

LG G6 very short SOT

Hi, I have issue with my lg g6 .
The phone is about 1 months old but I reach very poor SoT max 2,5 h.
I check the main forum threads, but i cannot fix the issue
- I use the newest software
- greenify
- during this 2 hours I use only chrome/messenger/instagram
- it does not matter if I used wifi or data
- home app: home
- other apps: swipe, keepass2android, dropbox
BR
dezerb
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dezerb said:
Hi, I have issue with my lg g6 .
The phone is about 1 months old but I reach very poor SoT max 2,5 h.
I check the main forum threads, but i cannot fix the issue
- I use the newest software
- greenify
- during this 2 hours I use only chrome/messenger/instagram
- it does not matter if I used wifi or data
- home app: home
- other apps: swipe, keepass2android, dropbox
BR
dezerb
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install better battery stats, give it permissions via ADB.
Then monitor a full charge and see what partial wakelocks, alarms, processes are using your battery.
https://www.xda-developers.com/stop-wakelocks-android-without-root/

Kaioh_shin said:
install better battery stats, give it permissions via ADB.
Then monitor a full charge and see what partial wakelocks, alarms, processes are using your battery.
https://www.xda-developers.com/stop-wakelocks-android-without-root/
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Hi I did, how you told.
I charged the phone up to 100% and left for 30 minutes without any use and captured following screenshots.
Do I understand correctly that the phone is always awake because of the lg gnss bloatware?

are you getting same battery life on lte and wifi
your lte signal looking too low
if it fluctuate a lot then it will take a lot of battery .

0% deep sleep

I don't mean to be glib, but the advice for battery issues is always the same (and mind-numbing basic):
1. Remove unnecessary apps
2. Factory reset the phone
None of the dozens of other tweaks mentioned here make a difference for most people.
And you can't do anything about signal strength.

Kaioh_shin said:
install better battery stats, give it permissions via ADB.
Then monitor a full charge and see what partial wakelocks, alarms, processes are using your battery.
https://www.xda-developers.com/stop-wakelocks-android-without-root/
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adeelraj said:
are you getting same battery life on lte and wifi
your lte signal looking too low
if it fluctuate a lot then it will take a lot of battery .
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I done some other tests after phone reboot and I becomed result with 87% deep sleep. But it does not matter if I used wifi or mobile data, the sot is always the same short.
jshames said:
I don't mean to be glib, but the advice for battery issues is always the same (and mind-numbing basic):
1. Remove unnecessary apps
2. Factory reset the phone
None of the dozens of other tweaks mentioned here make a difference for most people.
And you can't do anything about signal strength.
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I supposed that all the tweaks can barely help. I had hope that I could find some fix before reset the factory settings. In some way the phone is to be used and it is simply annoing the set the whole setting from scratch after reset....
But I think I don't have any other possibility (or I can wait for a Pie and hope for the improvement after the update)
Br
dezerb

Try to disable the WIFI and Bluetooth searching for improve the location. And then do again the test to see the deep sleep.

With accubattery app, you can estimate how"healthy" your battery is.
In normal usage, you would get about 18% of battery usage per hour with screen on, and max 1% with screen off

I made some tests with AccuBattery and the drain on screen on is unacceptable about 25-28%. The battery health is about 96%.

I use mcs magisk module with 90/80% config since day one with greenify + xposed module and after a year of relatively heavy use I'm still getting ~6h SoT (35% brightness). Maybe you should try to greenify some apps? Without root you have limited options though.