A question which goes out to people who use themes, or who know about them and their effect.
Do they effect battery life, Or does that depend on the theme itself?
I was thinking something along the lines of Riptide9's full blown theme over a Sense UI
Reason I ask is because I know Sense itself eats up some good battery by just being there, so flashing over may not make a difference?
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So I have updated to the latest RUU leak and things are running great, but I'm having some issues I wonder if anyone can duplicate.
I deodexed the phone and didn't have any issues, I flashed this accurate battery mod and things seemed fine, but when I wiped data after the mod was flashed it's not booting.
Now I've got a nandroid backup, so i'm not stuck or anything, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of an accurate battery mod made for the new leak?
I know two ways you can try to get an accurate reading of your battery. 1. In recovery wipe battery stats after a couple bump charges. 2. Or download battery calibration from the market. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the advice, but I was actually not talking about the battery being inaccurate, I'm looking for a mod that changes the default battery status icon in the notification bar to include a percentage of battery life left.
sonofskywalker3 said:
Thanks for the advice, but I was actually not talking about the battery being inaccurate, I'm looking for a mod that changes the default battery status icon in the notification bar to include a percentage of battery life left.
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If your ROM is deodexed then use UOT kitchen .. because of the framework you wont find a standard mod for a battery with percentages. I personally like the honeycomb battery.
Whoops my bad. Sorry.
Thanks alot, I'll give that a shot.
I recently switched back to the 2.3.3 OTA from CM7 and am so far pretty happy. However, I really liked the battery icons from Cyanogenmod that had the percentage next to the thin battery bar. My plan is to take the icons, put them into the framework-res.apk and push that to my phone. The only problem is that I cannot find those icons in CM7, either in the compiled download or the source. Does anyone know were they are?
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I am brand new to Android and my HTC One X. I just got it about a week and a half ago. I love the Bubbles live wallpaper, but I do have a concern about battery drain while having any live wallpaper active.
So my question is, does a live wallpaper have a significant hit on the battery?
I can get about 12 - 14 hours of "normal" use out of my One X with auto-brightness on, and in a mixed LTE / WiFi coverage. The phone is still new to me so I'm still tinkering and learning. Switched from an iPhone and love Android so far and the One X. I've noticed though that the screen is the biggest consumer of my battery. Usually around the 65% mark. While phone is 2nd and then various other things.
This was certainly true for older phones, like my HTC Aria. However, I didn't really notice that much of a battery hit with this phone. I used the bubbles wallpaper for the first week I had the phone too. I realized that the novelty went away after a while and now I use static pictures.
It could just be that the battery life is so good on this phone anyway that I didn't notice a hit. Either way, yes, it does use more battery. Whether that difference is negligible now, I'm not sure. If you like the wallpaper I suggest you use it.
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I haven't really noticed it, but try it out for yourself and let us know how it went.
Hell, I'll test too.
EDIT: I underclock to 912 MHz most of the time btw. No lag so far.
From my sexy white, Nocturnaled HTC One X
It doesn't make much difference with my galaxy s2
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ECEXCURSION said:
This was certainly true for older phones, like my HTC Aria. However, I didn't really notice that much of a battery hit with this phone. I used the bubbles wallpaper for the first week I had the phone too. I realized that the novelty went away after a while and now I use static pictures.
It could just be that the battery life is so good on this phone anyway that I didn't notice a hit. Either way, yes, it does use more battery. Whether that difference is negligible now, I'm not sure. If you like the wallpaper I suggest you use it.
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I like the wallpaper, but I'm finding that the battery life kinda sucks. And I don't know if that's just because it's a new gadget and I'm playing with it a lot, or if there is something wrong and it's draining my battery quicker than normal. For example. At 12 noon it was 100% fully charged, green LED and all. I unplugged it. At 7:48pm with "normal" use it was down to 54%. I noticed that it was losing about 1% per 15 minutes of standby with screen off. That seems kinda high, I don't think my iPhone drained that fast. Mind you it didn't have a kick ass screen like this One X does.
Oh. You're going to have to install a new Rom to improve battery life. I suggest CleanROM 4.2se since you're new to android and It's very close to stock, but optimized to hell.
There are many stickied topics (guides) that will show you how to get started.
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In my experience, it really depends on the live wallaper. The bubbles one seems to be fine on the battery, meaning it probably drains just a few more a day than normal. Others seem to really drain the beast.
Bubbles is the best stock live wallaper in my opinion.
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Oh. You're going to have to install a new Rom to improve battery life. I suggest CleanROM 4.2se since you're new to android and It's very close to stock, but optimized to hell.
There are many stickied topics (guides) that will show you how to get started.
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Ya, I unlocked my boot loader, rooted my phone, and installed CleanROM 4.2 SE already. Seems to run fairly well, but none of the Multitasking MOD's seem to work.
Maybe now that the Kernel source has been released some stuff will come along that will allow for better multitasking.
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Ya, I unlocked my boot loader, rooted my phone, and installed CleanROM 4.2 SE already. Seems to run fairly well, but none of the Multitasking MOD's seem to work.
Maybe now that the Kernel source has been released some stuff will come along that will allow for better multitasking.
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this will most definitely help solve those issues
celticking said:
In my experience, it really depends on the live wallaper. The bubbles one seems to be fine on the battery, meaning it probably drains just a few more a day than normal. Others seem to really drain the beast.
Bubbles is the best stock live wallaper in my opinion.
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I agree with all this. I've never had an issue with stock live wallpapers affecting battery life on my old HTC phone (Desire Z). I suspect some poorly coded live wallpapers on the Market are the battery drain culprits, and give live wallpapers a bad rap.
I also agree that Bubbles is a cool LWP! I've been rocking it most the time since I've had my One X!
Having brightness on "auto" is probably going to drain a heckuvalot more battery than the LWP will. Go from that to 40-50%, and you will probably increase your battery life by 30%.
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I have bunch of pretty lively live wallpapers, and as far as I can tell, they're not affecting my battery life.
So I tried one day with, and one day without a live wallpaper and didn't notice a significant difference. The only live wall paper I use is Bubbles.
However I have another issue I'm going to create a new thread for regarding battery drain over night while doing nothing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801719
Couple questions;
Does rooting your phone = more drain on the batte? Seems like I got better battery life when it was bone stock.
Does themeing help with draining the battery?
Sorry if these are stupid questions but it seems like I had better battery life out the box on my phone. I'm running SYnergy r60 and it's themed with Eye Candy. I have been checking the things running in the background and it's doesn't seen like anything more is running then in stock. I have WiFi turned on at and work and get pretty good service in the building. But again it still seemed better stock.
gfausey211 said:
Couple questions;
Does rooting your phone = more drain on the batte? Seems like I got better battery life when it was bone stock.
Does themeing help with draining the battery?
Sorry if these are stupid questions but it seems like I had better battery life out the box on my phone. I'm running SYnergy r60 and it's themed with Eye Candy. I have been checking the things running in the background and it's doesn't seen like anything more is running then in stock. I have WiFi turned on at and work and get pretty good service in the building. But again it still seemed better stock.
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If you concerned about battery life then you should try "Clean Rom & Clean kernel". They based on stock rom and provide good performance and very good on battery life.
Different roms will have different effects on battery.
I am stock, stock recovery, bootloader still locked - but rooted.
As far as rooting alone, i'm seeing no difference in battery life.
Once you go flashing things, it's a whole new ballgame.
The problem with flashing roms/kernels is that you are continuously doing it. So every couple days you flash a new rom, or kernel, or new mod. So your phone never really has time to collaborate and settle in. Technically you're suppose to give a kernel and rom a couple days before judging battery. But we rarely do that. Plus files can get left behind from previous dirty flashes that can affect battery life. There's just a lot more ways that battery life can take a hit when flashing roms/kernels, but it can also get you significantly better battery life.
gfausey211 said:
Couple questions;
Does rooting your phone = more drain on the batte? Seems like I got better battery life when it was bone stock.
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Rooting itself makes no difference. Certain services and programs that require root could drain more battery but that is obviously optional.
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Does themeing help with draining the battery?
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It could hurt or help it but only to a small degree. Black uses the least power to display and white uses the most. Overall, it isn't something to stress over too much.
bobloblaw1 said:
Rooting itself makes no difference. Certain services and programs that require root could drain more battery but that is obviously optional.
It could hurt or help it but only to a small degree. Black uses the least power to display and white uses the most. Overall, it isn't something to stress over too much.
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Thanks for the info. I didn't think it would be a huge drain but wasn't sure.
Not sure if it's coincidence, but I reflashed r60 but didn't reflash Eye Candy and it seems the battery is doing much better.
I absolutely love using AOSP ROMs. The experience is much smother, faster, and just plain prettier than the TouchWiz alternative. Unfortunately, when I use AOSP ROMs the screen battery usage is much much higher, and it absolutely destroys the battery. Normally, using TW, the battery usage sits around 30-35% depending on the day. For AOSP its almost always far over 50% regardless of usage. In both cases I have the phone set to auto brightness. The only real difference is that I use power saving mode on TW. I don't feel like there would be that large of a difference based just on that. On TW ROMs I'll get anywhere from 10-14 hours of battery life, but with AOSP I only get around 7-9. To add to the issue, the cell service and data speeds are noticeably worse on AOSP ROMs. I generally get 1 or 2 bars less of signal than on TW ROMs in any given area. I really want to switch to AOSP as my daily driver, but these issues just make it not all too possible. I don't have any specific data I've collected or screenshots to back it up, but I've flashed countless TW and AOSP ROMs on my phone, and it's always been the same. I'm 100% sure that it's not just all in my head or anything. If anyone could provide any help or at least say if they've had similar problems I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
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I absolutely love using AOSP ROMs. The experience is much smother, faster, and just plain prettier than the TouchWiz alternative. Unfortunately, when I use AOSP ROMs the screen battery usage is much much higher, and it absolutely destroys the battery. Normally, using TW, the battery usage sits around 30-35% depending on the day. For AOSP its almost always far over 50% regardless of usage. In both cases I have the phone set to auto brightness. The only real difference is that I use power saving mode on TW. I don't feel like there would be that large of a difference based just on that. On TW ROMs I'll get anywhere from 10-14 hours of battery life, but with AOSP I only get around 7-9. To add to the issue, the cell service and data speeds are noticeably worse on AOSP ROMs. I generally get 1 or 2 bars less of signal than on TW ROMs in any given area. I really want to switch to AOSP as my daily driver, but these issues just make it not all too possible. I don't have any specific data I've collected or screenshots to back it up, but I've flashed countless TW and AOSP ROMs on my phone, and it's always been the same. I'm 100% sure that it's not just all in my head or anything. If anyone could provide any help or at least say if they've had similar problems I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
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Well I hate to break it to you but signal strength is an issue regardless of which AOSP rom you use. As for battery life there are apps for that like Lux for auto brightness and DS Battery Saver for increased battery life. There are others but I can't mention them all.
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Well I hate to break it to you but signal strength is an issue regardless of which AOSP rom you use. As for battery life there are apps for that like Lux for auto brightness and DS Battery Saver for increased battery life. There are others but I can't mention them all.
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Thanks man. So I guess it looks like I have to just make a choice between which things are more important.