Im noticing my battery is draining faster than when I had froyo anyone else noticing this.its very disappointing .im using it just how I used it on froyo and it barely last through half the day. And should I use a task killer, droid life said it would save me more battery if I didn't use one
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You might want to recalibrate your battery. I am getting much better life on gingerbread. Definitely do not use a task killer. Android is designed to keep the programs you use most in memory and drop the ones that aren't. Even the ones on memory won't be using much power.
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Charge the battery to 100% and then boot into CWM and go to advanced > wipe battery stats
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You might want to recalibrate your battery. I am getting much better life on gingerbread. Definitely do not use a task killer. Android is designed to keep the programs you use most in memory and drop the ones that aren't. Even the ones on memory won't be using much power.
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It actually was doing pretty good until today and maybe its me not noticing how much im using it since I am trying out gb and all its new features lol
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Another reason that I regretted upgrading to it is the battery seems to run down a lot faster.
I also noticed the keypad lights stay on considerably longer (and brighter too?). Can it possibly be assisted adjusted?
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Another reason that I regretted upgrading to it is the battery seems to run down a lot faster.
I also noticed the keypad lights stay on considerably longer (and brighter too?). Can it possibly be assisted adjusted?
Yea the lights are way to bright for no good reason.
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We just updated my wife's DX to the Gingerbread OTA this morning. (We are running stock)
My wife showed me that her battery was down to about 40% today, when normally she is around 70% by the end of the day.
I don't have CWM on her phone (if I should be resetting data as mentioned above).
Is her battery draining faster, or is it just a battery recalibration issue?
If we need to recalibrate, what should we do without CWM?
Thanks ...
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Is her battery draining faster, or is it just a battery recalibration issue?
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The battery is likely draining faster. It's an issue discussed by many others. I have questionable battery issues following the upgrade. My usage patterns haven't changed, but my battery life seems slightly worse. Moto is aware and hopefully will fix relatively soon.
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The battery is likely draining faster. It's an issue discussed by many others. I have questionable battery issues following the upgrade. My usage patterns haven't changed, but my battery life seems slightly worse. Moto is aware and hopefully will fix relatively soon.
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I'm also experiencing 20 to 30% faster battery drainage on GB. No change in usage or apps.
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The battery is likely draining faster. It's an issue discussed by many others. I have questionable battery issues following the upgrade. My usage patterns haven't changed, but my battery life seems slightly worse. Moto is aware and hopefully will fix relatively soon.
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Are there other threads where this drainage issue is being discussed and potential solutions being posted?
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Yes, and so far the suggestions revolve around disabling any sort of syncing/polling apps, turning down screen brightness, turning off 3G radio and living life with only WiFi, doing a factory reset, and a few others. Some believe it's a 3G signal issue and the radio bumping the power to compensate. I'm betting on this as the phone does get quite a bit warmer when using the 3G radio. Realistically, the only real solution will come from Moto when the issue is fixed.
Motorola claims the DroidX has 480 minutes talk time and 220 hours standby!
http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/U...s/Mobile-Phones/ci.Motorola-DROID-X-US-EN.alt
Anyone here get anything remotely close to those times?
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Definitely not since the GB update. Might have been able to get that before if you remove all widgets, syncing/pushing apps, and only turn the screen on to dial a phone number.
On a side note, I broke down and bought the extended battery and I seem to be getting worse battery life now than before Time to exchange it or get my money back.
I am experiencing the same fast drainage and excessive heat. I am more than ready for a fix & root.
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Just updated to 2.3.3 today and my battery is doing a lot better than on froyo. im unrooted
I was having a similar issue with the battery draining and the phone feeling warmer that usual after I first updated. I fired up OSMonitor and found that there was a motorola service running nonstop at like 20% CPU usage. Found out it was trying to sync my exchange account but couldn't connect. I manually went in to the mail app and refreshed; it sync'd my account and the problem was solved. Great battery life ever since.
Don't know if this is a similar issue that other people are having, but hopefully it helps someone.
I had the same problem (battery would drain in a few hours and the phone would get very hot) and could not determine the problem.
After a few days I tried the "Droid Factory Reset"
under: Reset instructions for DROID X on 2.3 Gingerbread Android:
motorola-global-portal dot custhelp dot com/app/answers/detail/a_id/48517/~/droid-x---factory-data-reset
It worked. The battery life went back to what it had been before the update, or at least to something similar. Of course, all the data and apps were wiped.... but it was a perfect trade off for having a phone that worked once again.
Just waiting for the Gingerbread OTA Root!
funny, cause when i go through privacy to factory data reset and get all the way to the final button to erase everything...the damn button does nothing. Doesnt work.
it's fine cause i can just boot into android recovery and do it there, but wtf.
this OTA GB has been pretty bad thus far. lots of lost functionality such as extended controls / power control widget, task killer widgets...none of them work.
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I was having a similar issue with the battery draining and the phone feeling warmer that usual after I first updated. I fired up OSMonitor and found that there was a motorola service running nonstop at like 20% CPU usage. Found out it was trying to sync my exchange account but couldn't connect. I manually went in to the mail app and refreshed; it sync'd my account and the problem was solved. Great battery life ever since.
Don't know if this is a similar issue that other people are having, but hopefully it helps someone.
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99% of the time, that was the issue with battery drain on GB.
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I thought I was losing my mind, after installing the OTA, I modified my qwerty.kl file to wake up the phone from the optical button. I noticed that my battery life was lousy, and originally thought it was because the OTA was buggy.
I restored the stock qwerty file, and no more wake-up from the optical button. My battery life improved drastically.
I heard that this change could prevent the phone from sleeping, thus the crappy battery life. Is this true?
Hope this tip helps.
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Anybody else have a faster draining battery because of the optical wake fix?
Could be just because you are accidentally hitting the optical trackball while its in your pocket or somewhere else? I use it on PMF's 2.2 ROM and haven't noticed any additional battery drain.
I think its because we are all forgetting to clear battery stats. It is even required on my rom, jdfroyo
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I think its because we are all forgetting to clear battery stats. It is even required on my rom, jdfroyo
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What exactly does clearing the battery stats do? Do you think it would help me? If my phone completely dies or gets down to the low battery warning, the phone doesn't want to charge at all.
It says it is charging but the battery icon isn't animating and the charging led blinks repeatedly instead of staying lit up. Even if I shut the phone off the led still blinks while it's plugged in the charger.
I have to do several reboots and battery pulls to finally get the phone to start charging.
Didn't have any trouble until I applied the OTA and flashed a 2.2 rom.
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this is very intriguing. i'll check my battery against my fiance's when she gets home and report. i did the optical_wake script on mine and not hers. i'm pretty sure she had 40% when going to bed last night and I was changing out my battery for my backup. i chalked it up to streaming the race for 30 minutes while we were out shopping, but I think the optical_wake script might make more sense.
PS. both have 1500mah HTC battery ordered from bidallies on ebay for $15 =).
No difference. Our batteries were within 5%. I guess flash vids are pretty taxing on our batteries.
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Interesting....maybe I'm just losing my mind and imagining things?
Thanks for your update - after I install the new OTA leak right now, I'll see how my battery life is with the optical wake fix.
Check out jdfroyo when i update it. I tweaked it so you get 15-35 min more battery and no overheating!
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Myself as well as many others would be interested to know what this tweak is to achieve better battery life.
Some of us out there actually like Sense - from what I understand, your ROM is de-sensitized?
Any chance you'll fill us in as far as what tweaks you've made? I'm sure I'm not the only one that would thank you.
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Check out jdfroyo when i update it. I tweaked it so you get 15-35 min more battery and no overheating!
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jp43 said:
Myself as well as many others would be interested to know what this tweak is to achieve better battery life.
Some of us out there actually like Sense - from what I understand, your ROM is de-sensitized?
Any chance you'll fill us in as far as what tweaks you've made? I'm sure I'm not the only one that would thank you.
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I cant do that. Tonite, upon release of jdfroyo v1.5, i will release my tweak. Its nothing major, tweak wize, but it helps battery.
Ps (off topic) my 2150 mah battery should.come friday! Im so excited.
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Hey guys what is up. I'm just wandering.. my Droid is brand new. Got it 2 days ago. Today I had to recharge my battery twice. I did use it a lot... so that may be it.. and when I didn't use it the battery life stayed the same for as long as I didn't touch the phone. Is my battery good? I got the app that tells me the temperature and everything. The hottest was 112F. It says my battery health is "good health". Will my phone hold a charge for a longer period of time after it has been charged then drained... and repeated. Does it just need to be broken in? Thanks for reading this whole essay I wrote you guys.. Haha. Well thank you so much again... and if you can please get back to me as soon as possible that would be great!
- Steven
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You should really search a little bit before you post. There are COUNTLESS threads on battery life.
Your best bet, until HTC fixes it, is to charge until the phone says you're at 100%, then turn it off and charge until the LED turns green. Charging and discharging really won't affect anything - their is no "memory" with their batteries.
Okay, thanks for the quick response. I appreciate it. Sorry. I should've read.. I was just a bit anxious. My apologies.
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You could always trying running one of Hydra's Kernels as well. I don't know if anyone has gained better battery life because of doing so... I use his kernels for the features.
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You could always trying running one of Hydra's Kernels as well. I don't know if anyone has gained better battery life because of doing so... I use his kernels for the features.
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stock speed undervolt is the way to go. I found battery improvement. Hydra Kernels are the way to go.
Hydra Stock Speed Undervolt Kernel
What is that? Do I get it in the app store? My battery is getting pretty warm now.. even when I touch my screen I feel it.
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When I click The link on my incredible it gives me an error when I download it. How do I run it and or make it work?
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When I click The link on my incredible it gives me an error when I download it. How do I run it and or make it work?
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What's the error?
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What's the error?
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It's a a force close with some other words I forgot.
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It says that its just an updater.
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Check Settings > About phone > Battery and make sure up time and awake time aren't the same.
If they are the same, it means something is keeping your phone awake when the screen goes off, which drains battery.
I just got my Droid Incredible a few days ago too, and I knew coming into it that the battery life has issues from a lot of users, but man, it really sucks!
I have it fully charged at 8am, and by 3:30 (with very moderate use), it's already at 20%. I've disabled everything I can (WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, live wallpaper, installed ATK and keep my tasks at none, etc), and still the same.
I really love the phone (it's amazing other than battery), but the battery life is such a big deal for me that I am really thinking about returning it and waiting for the Samsung Fascinate to come (hopefully sooner than later). Thankfully I have until Aug 30 to call Verizon and return the phone... i sure hope the Fascinate gets a definite release date by then.
I'm going to try the full charge + phone off + charge again to see if that improves things, but other than that, does anyone recommend the Seidio 1750mAh battery or the HTC Touch Pro2 OEM (1500 mAh) battery? Does it make that much of a difference?
I read the findings on batteryboss.org, and it appears that the TP2 battery was better but the Seidio battery they tested was a used one, so it wasn't a fair comparison.
Any thoughts/help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Loose atk....and read. I get a full 18 plus hours and I don't bump charge. Lots of info out there
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I purchased a 2150 mah battery from verizon and i can say I wont be having battery issues.. that is one option, but you wont find a case that fits your phone, that is the only downfall
I was just reading reports about the new Facebook app...looks like they are working on that fix if you use that and it is causing a battery drain
http://www.androidcentral.com/facebook-confirms-battery-drain-latest-android-update
Uninstall the 1.3.0 facebook app RIGHT AWAY if you downloaded it. That destroyed my battery life yesterday and I have never had battery problems with my DInc.
You can just use the regular HTC Facebook app until an update is released for the facebook for android.
Try it without the new facebook for a day and see if it changes.
If you don't have the facebook app then just make sure bluetooth, gps, wifi are off when you aren't using them. I recommend trying bump charging but I've never personally and my phone lasts about 26-28 hours+ with mild to heavy usage depending on the day.
-Flawless
Thanks for the replies..I don't use Facebook so that wouldn't be my problem.
I think ATK is good.. I mean I don't have it on auto so I sometimes just kill all tasks and I have noticed any decrease from the already poor battery performance.
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Ionno what it is but I'm running froyo 2.2 n I Thot this issue would be addressed but still nothing.. I'm hoping the VZW push will address it... I get decent battery life when I charge fully then turn off then plug back in til light turns green but its a pain in the ass to do dat.. I believe my awake time is like 3-4 hrs with an uptime of like 18-19 hrs
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I have a Sedio 1750, which I bump charge every morning, and UltimateJuice set to turn on APN every 5 min for 30 sec or until data transfer is done. WiFi is used whenever possible and otherwise turned off.
I easily make it through the day and have battery to spare with moderate to heavy use.
All the battery life horror stories make me wonder what everyone is doing differently. Haha
Lots of OJ Simpsons in this thread...
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Okay, my atrix battery isn't too bad but definitely seems like it's not as good as a lot of people's on this forum and I have done EVERYTHING I can think of. The only thing I've been running watchdog and it seems I have no apps misbehaving but there is the "suspend" process that will frequently go over the 20% threshold I set and several times up to 50%, what is this process and could this be the source of my problem? There are also a couple other system processes that go over 20% but rarely, this one just keeps popping up though.
Did a bing, first result http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11126
Yeah I saw that page, every issue I've seen with it has been with the evo with maybe two other phone models, :-/ first issue I've seen on this phone hence me asking if anyone had any other ideas, I figure there has to be a reason I seem to be the only one with the issue on the atrix that I've seen.
I've seen a few people stating they only have the issue with wifi on but I rarely have mine on.
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I had an issues with battery As well I was getting4 hours on light use with setcpu running and limiting use could not make it through the night unplugged, anyways now I'm getting 8 hours on heavy texting and web I was running a kernel that for some reason was killing bat, also recalibrate your battery see if it helps, goodluck
Nimixes
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Thanks for the input but yeah this is my second kernel and tried recalibrating, upgrading my radio, tried a different rom *back on cm7* and nothing, that is the last thing I can think of being the suspend process, your battery life sounds a lot like mine. The other ROM I tried was aliens rom btw. Idk, my battery life isn't too bad I guess, getting eight hours as well, just not as much as other people get it seems. Meh, just the watchdog constantly going off bugs me, even rose the threshold to fifty percent and than it's like suspend automatically got even worse lol
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Thanks for the input but yeah this is my second kernel and tried recalibrating, upgrading my radio, tried a different rom *back on cm7* and nothing, that is the last thing I can think of being the suspend process, your battery life sounds a lot like mine. The other ROM I tried was aliens rom btw. Idk, my battery life isn't too bad I guess, getting eight hours as well, just not as much as other people get it seems. Meh, just the watchdog constantly going off bugs me, even rose the threshold to fifty percent and than it's like suspend automatically got even worse lol
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Mate, Watchdog is probably the biggest battery consumer on your phone right now. Remove it. It's good to install for a little while to find a rogue app but after tgat it becomes the rogue app. Constantly runs in the background!
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I just uninstalled it, my battery has been pretty good so I figure I might as well as well as a few other monitoring apps, juice defender has seemed to really help as well
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Did a bing, first result http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11126
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wtf people actually use bing.com!?!?
Alright, nobody probably remembers me, but thats okay! Lol
Anyway, my flashing addiction has unfortunately been starving due to being way too busy with work and such. BUT I FINALLY HAVE FREE TIME! Haha,
So I'm still on Froyo, Syndicate's Frozen ROM (Yeah I know I'm two android versions behind). So I was wondering, whats the steps to going to CM9?
My current setup is:
Syndicate frozen ROM
CWM3
Genocide Kernel
EH17 Modem
Don't get me wrong, I'm not new to any of this, I'm just wondering what the exact steps are if theres anything fancy that needs to be done coming from such an old setup? Or is it as simple as:
Odin stock DK28
Root
Odin CWM(What number are we on now? Link please?)
Flash CM9
Flash Gapps?
Thanks guys!
Flash cwm5 boot into clockword mode wipe "once"
Data cache and dalvik
Flash cm9 it will reboot and install the update then boots up during the animation pull the battery go back in and flash the gapps viola cm9
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So theres no need to flash to stock / reroot / all that jazz I did when going from eclair to froyo? Haha.
Not unless you wanna update the modem. You could flash the new EL30.tar with odin, flash cwm5, then flash cm9 in cwm5.
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Sounds easy enough, Is EL30 modem a big improvement over EH17?
Also hows the every-day-usage capability of CM9?
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Sounds easy enough, Is EL30 modem a big improvement over EH17?
Also hows the every-day-usage capability of CM9?
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Not bad at all for an Alpha only a few weeks old for us. Minor bugs that not everyone experiences. A lot of us are using it as a daily. Battery life is not good because it uses a lot of resources. It was meant to run on phones with twice the RAM.
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Not bad at all for an Alpha only a few weeks old for us. Minor bugs that not everyone experiences. A lot of us are using it as a daily. Battery life is not good because it uses a lot of resources. It was meant to run on phones with twice the RAM.
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Cm9 runs good. Battery life was a deal breaker for me and it was a bit sluggish. I just barely came from srf 1.2 ef02 genocide 2.0 myself (which was rock solid and superfast).
I settled on gleangb for now.
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Battery life is decent enough for my tastes. The only bugs I'm experiencing now is some tearing in video playback and some minor artifacts in video recording (sometimes). Other than that it's pretty rock solid imo.
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Battery life for me is very good on ics. But its not my primary running OS due to its bugs.
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Battery life is not good because it uses a lot of resources. It was meant to run on phones with twice the RAM.
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Please stop talking about things that you don't understand. Battery life has little to do with the RAM usage. CM9 alpha4 for me is easily goes 28 hours battery life with a 1.5 year old original 1500mah Epic battery. The trick is to prevent wakelocks, I'm usually ~90% in deep sleep. I disable LED notifications, all haptic feedback, notifications for anything that uses push data (Facebook, gmail, email, etc.) I get an extra ~8 hours battery life if I use Juice Defender to turn off 3G data and Wifi when the screen is off. It takes a little delay for data to start again, but that is acceptable to me. If all my push data notifications are turned off anyway, why bother having data enabled at all?
If someone really needs to contact me they can SMS or Call, which causes both vibrate and sound. Otherwise I'll see messages when I too often turn on the phone screen.
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Please stop talking about things that you don't understand. Battery life has little to do with the RAM usage. CM9 alpha4 for me is easily goes 28 hours battery life with a 1.5 year old original 1500mah Epic battery. The trick is to prevent wakelocks, I'm usually ~90% in deep sleep. I disable LED notifications, all haptic feedback, notifications for anything that uses push data (Facebook, gmail, email, etc.) I get an extra ~8 hours battery life if I use Juice Defender to turn off 3G data and Wifi when the screen is off. It takes a little delay for data to start again, but that is acceptable to me. If all my push data notifications are turned off anyway, why bother having data enabled at all?
If someone really needs to contact me they can SMS or Call, which causes both vibrate and sound. Otherwise I'll see messages when I too often turn on the phone screen.
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Pretty much my exact same setup, I got tired of using Juice Defender because of the lag to start data back up but when I was using it I was getting around 33 hours. I don't use my phone much except for calls and sms so this works fine for me.
Also, I remember you SemiGamer!
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Please stop talking about things that you don't understand. Battery life has little to do with the RAM usage. CM9 alpha4 for me is easily goes 28 hours battery life with a 1.5 year old original 1500mah Epic battery. The trick is to prevent wakelocks, I'm usually ~90% in deep sleep. I disable LED notifications, all haptic feedback, notifications for anything that uses push data (Facebook, gmail, email, etc.) I get an extra ~8 hours battery life if I use Juice Defender to turn off 3G data and Wifi when the screen is off. It takes a little delay for data to start again, but that is acceptable to me. If all my push data notifications are turned off anyway, why bother having data enabled at all?
If someone really needs to contact me they can SMS or Call, which causes both vibrate and sound. Otherwise I'll see messages when I too often turn on the phone screen.
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I really respect you and all that you do for us but with all due respect, using your phone for more than just a phone on CM9 eats up the battery pretty quickly. Browsing XDA, polling 4 business email accounts, or on the web uses about 50% more battery than it did on CM7. It was mentioned at initial release how it was meant to run on phones with twice the RAM which attributes to it's sluggishness and lower battery life. I know each Alpha just gets better and better and that is awesome but it will be a while if at all that it can compete with something like CM7 for battery life. I am sure with the same setup you have you can get 50% more battery life on CM7.
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I really respect you and all that you do for us but with all due respect, using your phone for more than just a phone on CM9 eats up the battery pretty quickly. Browsing XDA, polling 4 business email accounts, or on the web uses about 50% more battery than it did on CM7. It was mentioned at initial release how it was meant to run on phones with twice the RAM which attributes to it's sluggishness and lower battery life. I know each Alpha just gets better and better and that is awesome but it will be a while if at all that it can compete with something like CM7 for battery life. I am sure with the same setup you have you can get 50% more battery life on CM7.
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Agreed I pulled 5 hours of display on cm7 and can't hardly pull 2h 45m on cm9 same setup no wakelocks no sync browsing xda undervolting as far as my phone will handle..nothing helps. Had to get a 3500mah to compensate the gigantic battery usage and am lucky to 5h45m on it over 13hrs uptime. However we all use our phones differently and to you @wtogami you may see no difference, however for others it drops like a rock.
Anyways semigamer how'd it go?
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Please stop talking about things that you don't understand. Battery life has little to do with the RAM usage. CM9 alpha4 for me is easily goes 28 hours battery life with a 1.5 year old original 1500mah Epic battery. The trick is to prevent wakelocks, I'm usually ~90% in deep sleep. I disable LED notifications, all haptic feedback, notifications for anything that uses push data (Facebook, gmail, email, etc.) I get an extra ~8 hours battery life if I use Juice Defender to turn off 3G data and Wifi when the screen is off. It takes a little delay for data to start again, but that is acceptable to me. If all my push data notifications are turned off anyway, why bother having data enabled at all?
If someone really needs to contact me they can SMS or Call, which causes both vibrate and sound. Otherwise I'll see messages when I too often turn on the phone screen.
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Yeah if you just stare at your phone while the screen is off and dont do anything haha. But even still with my stock battery haha not even 6 to 7 hours it would be dead. with a 3500 it last longer but its not worth it right now.
Once CM9 progresses to CM7 state then it might be worth it. Still ICS requires more ram so yeah your battery is going to die faster because of memory swapping. IDC what anyone says ICS on our phones still would not last as long as GB.
Plus there was no reason to be rude about. I may not be a DEV but I know how Android works with resource swapping and memory clearing.
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Plus there was no reason to be rude about. I may not be a DEV but I know how Android works with resource swapping and memory clearing.
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Exactly i don't understand why everyone starts retaliate and then the only way to reply is retaliating back, if not then they pass on by. Its so frustrating
Hi, I noticed ics charges faster.
I absolutely love when people who don't build the ****, don't know how to, and couldn't possibly in fine detail explain how it functions argue with the people who do. Cause they like, know better. I'd say if one of the EpicCmTeam says the RAM shortage isn't the cause of the excessive battery drain, he's probably right, as he works directly with providing us with the build, on a level none of us understand or have skill in. Kinda like how certain people wanna argue that they know better than a google engineer. That clearing batterystats does in fact change your battery life despite very explicit explanation from said engineer dictating how that file holds nothing more than the statistics displayed to you about your battery under settings.
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Welp I'll stay out of you guy's debate for now.. Lol.
Thank to everyone that helped me with my OP, Got eveything up and running real easily.
One question left, does Voicemail work with CM9? Not getting any voicemails even though I'm told some ppl left me some. Any way to get Visual Voicemail to work?
(Know someone prolly asked / found a fix already, sorry for taking the lazy way out)
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I absolutely love when people who don't build the ****, don't know how to, and couldn't possibly in fine detail explain how it functions argue with the people who do. Cause they like, know better. I'd say if one of the EpicCmTeam says the RAM shortage isn't the cause of the excessive battery drain, he's probably right, as he works directly with providing us with the build, on a level none of us understand or have skill in. Kinda like how certain people wanna argue that they know better than a google engineer. That clearing batterystats does in fact change your battery life despite very explicit explanation from said engineer dictating how that file holds nothing more than the statistics displayed to you about your battery under settings.
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C'mon this type of criticism isn't appropriate.
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I updated to 4.4.2 a few days ago and am noticing faster battery drain. Just curious if anyone else noticed this?
Yup. Have tried factory resetting twice. Clearing cache. Disabling nearly everything possible. No avail.
Mine was draining a bit faster than normal after the update. I let it run all the way down, and charged it up, and it has been fine since then.
Hope it works out for you guys.
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I updated to 4.4.2 a few days ago and am noticing faster battery drain. Just curious if anyone else noticed this?
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Yes mine is really bad. i even lowered the brightness. like it loses 1% every two minutes even though its screen is off. I gotta get Zerolemon battery or use SetCPU. Does any other 4.4.2 devices have battery drain?
Mine drains extremely fast but seems to charge just as fast
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Ive gotten better battery performance since setting up Battery Guru and disabling all app refresh unless I open them. Still seeing very fast battery drain, but it's definitely improved.
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YUP. I work 3rd shift and used to be able to go all night with one charge. Streaming music on wifi all night. Now I have to recharge at lunch.
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Yeah I've noticed that the battery life is a little worse than the past two updates.
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FAst drain slow charge
The battery on mine would drain quick and charge forever. It would take me close to 12 hours charging it to be full. Any help?
Camera bug = Battery Drain
Did some looking around, and it appears to be a bug related to the camera (i know, sounds a little odd).
Here's one link of many I've found regarding this issue...Samsung has acknowledged an issue and is working on a fix:
"cultofandroid.com/53672/google-vows-fix-android-4-4-2s-camera-battery-drain-bug"
I am thinking this is more regarding the ASOP camera. We don't have that file or app that they say to look for.
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I am thinking this is more regarding the ASOP camera. We don't have that file or app that they say to look for.
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I posted this in the 4.4.2 issues thread, but will post here:
EAS continuously running....I found this out as well after the update. I cant believe its low priority for such a major issue. I switched mine to manual just to be safe. I also found a major battery drain issue when surfing on the internet via LTE service.
Any way, I wanted to see if others could replicate my issue:
-Stock (non-rooted) S4 phone with the recent 4.4.2 update on LTE with 5 bars of service.
-I am using Chrome to surf the internet.
-I have Exchange and Gmail accounts. Gmail is set to PUSH and exchange is set to manual. (My hope is that having Exchange set to manual I avoid the EAS issue described above.)
-Majority of the boatware turned off
Scenario: While using Chrome to surf via LTE service I am literally able to see a 1% decrease in battery ever 2-3 minutes of surfing on the internet. Wifi is better, but still drains faster than 4.3.
Can anyone else try and replicate and respond back? I may have to do a hard reset to see if it will remedy the issue. :-/
Thanks,
Eric
My battery life has been exponentially better since enabling battery guru. Use inactivity power boost to disable all app refresh after 15 minutes of inactivity. Set everything to manual refresh.
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Yes I have had worse battery drain with the KitKat update. Hoping for an AT&T update since we dont have the option to flash roms...
What are you actually seeing for battery consumption?
I have google+ at the top of the list with >30% use. Definitely new after 4.4.2 update.
Seemed to be ok for a day and then popped back up. I'm going to try to see if it's caused by 1st use of the camera.
Live wallpapers causing bigger drain on kitkat I found
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Live wallpapers causing bigger drain on kitkat I found
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I'm not using live wallpapers.
Rebooting the phone and avoiding use of the camera did not help.
I uninstalled all google+ updates that that has worked so far, but definitely not a long term solution.
Well I would up flashing the MK2 revert, then changed my mind and re-updated to NB1 (these two processes involved many full-wipes and even flashing a .pit file). Installed all my apps one-by-one. I'm now getting better battery life. Still higher than previous usage by Android System (usually ends up being 14-17%).
NB1 now works pretty damn well for me. Once we get root I will be able to disable some stupid things like the boot sound and charger connection sound, along with a few apps that just don't need to be running like Knox and Security Policy Updates...
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ryujeff said:
Yes mine is really bad. i even lowered the brightness. like it loses 1% every two minutes even though its screen is off. I gotta get Zerolemon battery or use SetCPU. Does any other 4.4.2 devices have battery drain?
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I have a big battery drain and serious wifi issues, cant connect to wifi cuz some security is blocking it, at the moment I have rooted the device and am going to install a custom rom,screw Samsung and their BS