So I made the leap to ICS and the first thing I noticed how long this sucker takes to charge. It's taken about 5 hours to go from 30% to 70%. Is this normal with ICS or CM in general?
On a related note, do I need to flash the SOD patch and the other misc patches each time I flash a new nightly?
Thanks.
Im using CM7 and usually takes around 3 1/2 to maybe 4 hours to charge from 2% to full. But the battery usually lasts about a day.
Guys, how long is your battery life now? Is it getting better?
I'm on my third cycle of charging after getting it recently. Updating it to 4.3 and rooted it too.
Current, the SOT is about 5 hours and I'm expecting it to be better.
Wifi connected all the day, mostly for browsing and so.
How about you guys? I've read a few with 11 hours SOT. That's amazing!
Nexus4 modded with cyanogen.
billy_overheat said:
Guys, how long is your battery life now? Is it getting better?
I'm on my third cycle of charging after getting it recently. Updating it to 4.3 and rooted it too.
Current, the SOT is about 5 hours and I'm expecting it to be better.
Wifi connected all the day, mostly for browsing and so.
How about you guys? I've read a few with 11 hours SOT. That's amazing!
Nexus4 modded with cyanogen.
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Funny you say that, my first charge after 4.3 I only got about 5 hours SOT. Since then it's got much better though, I rarely let the tablet get too empty on charge but I tend to use 50% of the charge (according to the battery meter) in about 3.5-4 hours. Ditching Chrome for AOSP browser helped my battery life a fair bit too I noticed.
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Funny you say that, my first charge after 4.3 I only got about 5 hours SOT. Since then it's got much better though, I rarely let the tablet get too empty on charge but I tend to use 50% of the charge (according to the battery meter) in about 3.5-4 hours. Ditching Chrome for AOSP browser helped my battery life a fair bit too I noticed.
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Yeah, Chrome really hammers the crap out of the CPU. It's got a nice interface and syncing and all, but it's slower, less responsive to touch and uses more power than the AOSP browser...
My battery life is about 5 or 6 hours in 4.3, on stock rom and cyanogenmod :crying:
I went through two charges on 4.3. My battery life was awful, I'd get about 5 hours of SOT at minimal brightness. Flashed back to custom ROM/kernel and I'm back to 9-10 hrs.
Gonna wait for 4.3 to mature before flashing back. Nothing I would use was implemented anyway
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What custom rom do you use? Gona give it a try.
My battery life is nice. I with moderate-heavy usage it's surviving from 8-10h . Running Stock Rooted Android 4.3 ROM
I only get about 5 hours too. I'm on stock rooted 4.3 with custom kernel. Thought kernel would help but not much... This sucks!
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Hey guys i got a s4 for free a few weeks ago and the battery was having issues so i brought a new battery from Samsung for $50. I guess the phone is $50 now huh, still that's a good price. Anyway i have an improvement in standby time over the old battery that seemed to drain no matter what, but i only get around 2hrs to 3hrs screen on time full brightness with a mix of auto. The phone tends to get warm when its below 40% power. Also using the phone drains it at a fast rate, but standby only 1% per 8mins or so witch is good. Im backing up with twrp and titanium backup, ive tried recalibration, and im about to do a factory reset on this (stock touchwiz)
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Battery calibration apps are a placebo.
Anyway, let me tell you a little story:
2 weeks ago I watched a 2 hour movie on my phone. Started from 100% ans towards the end of the movie I was left with about 50% battery.
Screen brightness was around 60%, WiFi was enabled and the mobile reception was 4G.
All things considered I would assume I can get 4 hours SOT, since it took 2 hours to get from 100 to 50.
This is on a custom rom and battery oriented kernel settings.
Also take into account that I was watching a movie, so the CPU was idling most of the time. Doing tasks and switching from one app to another drives the CPU up.
Your screen-on time seems acceptable to me. I have to mention that my battery is one and a half years old, but I always took good care of it (I never let it discharge too much and never left it charge too much, as both of those, over time, can reduce its storage capacity).
Im using Albe95 rom with a custom kernal and the battery is draining slightly less, ive reduced my brightness to 60% and its drained from 100% to 77% in standby and extremely light use in 6hrs (about 4hrs standby drained 6% and 2 hrs of on off use every now and then drained about 17%. I guess im used to my old LG L70 D320n witch could hold up at full brightness forever. Will Cyanogenmod 13 bring much improvement for me?
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Im using Albe95 rom with a custom kernal and the battery is draining slightly less, ive reduced my brightness to 60% and its drained from 100% to 77% in standby and extremely light use in 6hrs (about 4hrs standby drained 6% and 2 hrs of on off use every now and then drained about 17%. I guess im used to my old LG L70 D320n witch could hold up at full brightness forever. Will Cyanogenmod 13 bring much improvement for me?
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I don't know. Maybe Optimized CM13 because it has a custom kernel and you can select battery or performance profiles.
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I don't know. Maybe Optimized CM13 because it has a custom kernel and you can select battery or performance profiles.
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I still dont get why i should have to do that with a BRAND NEW battery
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I still dont get why i should have to do that with a BRAND NEW battery
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You won't miraculously get 5-6 hours SOT even if the battery is new.
Maybe with lowest brightness, WiFi and mobile data off you will.
Underclocking and undevolting might help a little, but I don't see anyway of getting more than 5 hours.
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You won't miraculously get 5-6 hours SOT even if the battery is new.
Maybe with lowest brightness, WiFi and mobile data off you will.
Underclocking and undevolting might help a little, but I don't see anyway of getting more than 5 hours.
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Thats not the problem, im bearly reaching a bit over 1 and a half hours SOT
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Thats not the problem, im bearly reaching a bit over 1 and a half hours SOT
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There's a guide in the general section, _Bon_Bon's tweaks.., Something along those lines is the title.
It has a guide on how to increase battery life.
The guide is based on alucard kernel, though.
Alucard kernel is available for any 5.0 and 5.1 roms. But there is no public build for android 6.
Only JDCTeam roms have alucard kernel for android 6. Those roms are Optimized CM13 and AOSP 6.0 rom.
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There's a guide in the general section, _Bon_Bon's tweaks.., Something along those lines is the title.
It has a guide on how to increase battery life.
The guide is based on alucard kernel, though.
Alucard kernel is available for any 5.0 and 5.1 roms. But there is no public build for android 6.
Only JDCTeam roms have alucard kernel for android 6. Those roms are Optimized CM13 and AOSP 6.0 rom.
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Will take a look thanks
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There's a guide in the general section, _Bon_Bon's tweaks.., Something along those lines is the title.
It has a guide on how to increase battery life.
The guide is based on alucard kernel, though.
Alucard kernel is available for any 5.0 and 5.1 roms. But there is no public build for android 6.
Only JDCTeam roms have alucard kernel for android 6. Those roms are Optimized CM13 and AOSP 6.0 rom.
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Ok so slowly things have improved but today when it was at 9% (6:30pm charged this morning) it froze up and i pulled the battery. Then it jumped down to 2% at restart! This has happened before (cant remember if it was on stock rom or the note 5 rom im using on it now) from 40% freeze, pull battery, restart, 22%! Any idea why this happens. I talked to samsung about the battery performance and they just wanted me to send the phone too as "its not just the battery" just for more money instead of honering their 3 month ****ty warranty! Stick it samsung my next phone will be lg like the rest, even though i only just brought this damn phone
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Ok so slowly things have improved but today when it was at 9% (6:30pm charged this morning) it froze up and i pulled the battery. Then it jumped down to 2% at restart! This has happened before (cant remember if it was on stock rom or the note 5 rom im using on it now) from 40% freeze, pull battery, restart, 22%! Any idea why this happens. I talked to samsung about the battery performance and they just wanted me to send the phone too as "its not just the battery" just for more money instead of honering their 3 month ****ty warranty! Stick it samsung my next phone will be lg like the rest, even though i only just brought this damn phone
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The freezes might be caused by CPU undervolting, if you did any.
But the battery percentage dropping suddenly is a sign of a bad battery. It might drop 2 or 3% during the boot up, but not 20%.
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The freezes might be caused by CPU undervolting, if you did any.
But the battery percentage dropping suddenly is a sign of a bad battery. It might drop 2 or 3% during the boot up, but not 20%.
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Samsung say the phone is the problem. Today i got to 40% and it jumped to 30% within 20 mins. Then i pulled the battery and started the phone up, repeating this multiple times to see the battery percentage. It jumped between 24% 15% and 19% up and down each time i pulled battery and restarted (no crashing just to see what happens). Is this enough to tell Samsung ITS NOT MY PHONE.
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Samsung say the phone is the problem. Today i got to 40% and it jumped to 30% within 20 mins. Then i pulled the battery and started the phone up, repeating this multiple times to see the battery percentage. It jumped between 24% 15% and 19% up and down each time i pulled battery and restarted (no crashing just to see what happens). Is this enough to tell Samsung ITS NOT MY PHONE.
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Apparently they refuse to accept the possibility that they might have sold you a faulty battery, so they blame the phone.
I don't see how the phone might drain the battery from a hardware perspective.
It's possible from a software perspective, but since you changed roms it is unlikely to be software related.
Did you install any apps to check if the phone enters deep sleep? Or if there is anything keeping the CPU at max frequency?
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Apparently they refuse to accept the possibility that they might have sold you a faulty battery, so they blame the phone.
I don't see how the phone might drain the battery from a hardware perspective.
It's possible from a software perspective, but since you changed roms it is unlikely to be software related.
Did you install any apps to check if the phone enters deep sleep? Or if there is anything keeping the CPU at max frequency?
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Wake lock doesnt find anything strange. Even twrp battery indicator in my custom recovery experiences the same effects
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Ok ive done it a few more times and it seems to possibly be a calibration issue. But ive calibrated it multiple times before
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Ok ive done it a few more times and it seems to possibly be a calibration issue. But ive calibrated it multiple times before
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How did you calibrate it?
Battery calibration apps are a placebo. What they do is they delete the batterystats.bin file which, as stated by a Google engineer, has no relation to battery life or the battery display.
Also, that file gets deleted automatically at every reboot by android itself.
What you could do is:
First let your battery fully discharge, until the phone turns off. Then try to turn it back on. If it turns on, proceed to use it until it turns off again. Do this until the phone won't turn on again.
Now the battery is completely empty and you can plug it in to charge. Let it charge to 100% without interruptions.
Take into account that it can take up to 3 hours to fully charge.
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How did you calibrate it?
Battery calibration apps are a placebo. What they do is they delete the batterystats.bin file which, as stated by a Google engineer, has no relation to battery life or the battery display.
Also, that file gets deleted automatically at every reboot by android itself.
What you could do is:
First let your battery fully discharge, until the phone turns off. Then try to turn it back on. If it turns on, proceed to use it until it turns off again. Do this until the phone won't turn on again.
Now the battery is completely empty and you can plug it in to charge. Let it charge to 100% without interruptions.
Take into account that it can take up to 3 hours to fully charge.
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Haha done this before to no avail. Will do again but i noticed battery life is generally better if i leave it charging for 10hours after its charged fully. Instead of taking it off when it gets to 100% but i think a long worded and very angry email is about to be sent to the Samsung repair centre
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on my travels around google I've read many times that with lithium batteries you NEVER want to completely discharge or overcharge them. give it 10 minutes extra once fully charged, not more. you're damaging the poles or terminals or something I can't remember fully when at either extreme. all you achieve is a shorter lifespan for your battery.
discharge it until it turns off but never until it can't turn on again. it has a chip in the battery that needs to stay powered too.
my phone was charged to 90% and dropped to 40% in around 8 hrs at night in standby mode. Also fast charging isn't working. Is there any way to fix this?
PS: i used resurrection remix ROM
Lord Varys said:
my phone was charged to 90% and dropped to 40% in around 8 hrs at night in standby mode. Also fast charging isn't working. Is there any way to fix this?
PS: i used resurrection remix ROM
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Dude its more helpful to the dev folks if you provide more info like your device model, ROM version etc.
This would be pointless without that info
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So basically I have noticed this weird problem which happens on any ROM or stock and even custom or stock kernel. Whenever I fully discharge my phone from 100% to 0 till it you know completely shuts off and then recharge it I can get decent battery life of about 6 to 7 hours on screen time however if say I started re charging my phone from 2 or 5 or 10 % and then use it my SOT time seems to decrease to about 3 to 4 hours which sucks. Does anyone know what might be causing this ?
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So basically I have noticed this weird problem which happens on any ROM or stock and even custom or stock kernel. Whenever I fully discharge my phone from 100% to 0 till it you know completely shuts off and then recharge it I can get decent battery life of about 6 to 7 hours on screen time however if say I started re charging my phone from 2 or 5 or 10 % and then use it my SOT time seems to decrease to about 3 to 4 hours which sucks. Does anyone know what might be causing this ?
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Historically this was a rough way to calibrate your battery although with lithium it's actually detrimental to the longevity of it.
From the years I've had mobile phones (early 90s) and the tests I've done over those years I've come to find that is how you use your phone that effects battery the most, en more so the content on your phone, so if you've got Twitter, Facebook. Snapchat, WhatsApp all running as well as apps which have push ads and live widgets, then your device will suffer for it.
Keeping the device light with only apps that you need and by not allowing it to completely die not over charging your battery will provide the best and longest experience.
I average 2 days battery with around 8-9 hours SOT, with some tweaks and a push I can get over 10 hours with 10 hours 50 minutes being my longest.
There should be no reason why charging from 0 or 10% would have a difference on your SOT.
Lighten the load, use a stock kernel and about overcharging your device and see how you get on
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Historically this was a rough way to calibrate your battery although with lithium it's actually detrimental to the longevity of it.
From the years I've had mobile phones (early 90s) and the tests I've done over those years I've come to find that is how you use your phone that effects battery the most, en more so the content on your phone, so if you've got Twitter, Facebook. Snapchat, WhatsApp all running as well as apps which have push ads and live widgets, then your device will suffer for it.
Keeping the device light with only apps that you need and by not allowing it to completely die not over charging your battery will provide the best and longest experience.
I average 2 days battery with around 8-9 hours SOT, with some tweaks and a push I can get over 10 hours with 10 hours 50 minutes being my longest.
There should be no reason why charging from 0 or 10% would have a difference on your SOT.
Lighten the load, use a stock kernel and about overcharging your device and see how you get on
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Can you share your current ROM+Kernel combo ?
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Can you share your current ROM+Kernel combo ?
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Currently on the latest no limits v10, stock kernel which is always the best fit stamina and stability
Unless you need to mod something like audio, in that case elemental would be.