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Excellent Battery Life

Took a look at my battery just now and I'm at 70% and the phone has been unplugged for 15+ hrs (I'll include a screenshot). Because of this, I thought I'd share my setup just incase it could benefit someone. This isn't a fluke, I've been experiencing this with the rom/kernel/modem combination for over a week now and I'm hesitant to change roms .
I will say there is nothing different about my battery life while using the phone heavily and that's to be expected. Like yesterday I was on my phone ALL day and the battery lasted about 10hrs (few phone calls, gmail push, HEAVY data use, low reception area for a while, GPS Navigation multiple times). The biggest gain comes from idle time. I use my phone pretty much like everyone else, may take a few calls, normal gmail push, data for streaming vids, twitter, fb... things of that nature. With other roms I've had up to 40% of my battery drain overnight while doing nothing! But with my current setup, I've gone about 36hrs (once again with normal to light use) without plugging the phone up. My setup is as follows:
AT&T Samsung Captivate
ROM: Phoenix 1.0
Kernel: Supercurio's stock + voodoo captivate kernel (Voodoo disabled)
Modem: I897UCJJ4
Theme: Custom concoction put together by me
Now I say I'm hesitant to switch roms, but to tell you the truth I really have no choice lol. I have a release date model Captivate and any non Captivate modems cause me to loose signal randomly therefore I must stick with Captivate roms. As sucky as that may be, I must say I'm not disappointed in this roms performance.
O, one other big thing I've found is that your launcher plays a CRUCIAL role in battery consumption. I've gotten the best life using Zune Home. The dev of that has two programs, Zune Home and Faded home. Zune Home is the one I used. It's very basic and some may not like it. I currently am using Open Home as my launcher and the battery life with it is great as well.
Well I thought I'd share this info just incase it could benefit someone out there. If this is the wrong section please don't hesitate to move it.

That's a beautiful thing. I'm sure lots of people are jealous! Luckily, I haven't had to much of a battery issue. I'm on Serendipity 2.0 and with heavy usage I last HOURS.
Not a big fan of either launcher and that does play a huge role. My launcher usually usually runs about 23-28MBs in the task along with Widget Locker which is about 5-9MBs.

Google+ App - Poor Battery Life?

I'm just wondering if anyone's been experiencing the horrible battery life that I've been dealing with since installing the Google+ app?
My battery went from being able to go nearly 2 days with minimal use, to being under 20% after 8 hours of sitting beside me on my desk during the work day without barely even touching it (maybe sending a text or 2 during the day).
Android OS has now become the main reason for battery drain on my phone where as in the past, it's always been the Display.
Anyone else noticing this with their phone?

I've noticed it to on my Captivate. It seems like data is constantly going in and out and battery life is non-existent. Going to uninstall the app for now and hope that an update is released for it soon.

Ok...
So I wasn't just imagining things then.... I've been contemplating removing it as well, which is too bad since I've found it to be a bit useful

If you do remove it make sure to reboot the phone. I was still getting drain issues before rebooting. I'm watching it now to see if it still is draining or if it's been resolved. I'll let you know in about 30 minutes one way or the other.

I'm having the same thing on my G2x running CM7 nightlies. I'm about to uninstall this to test. Did uninstalling work for you OP?
edit: I just thought it could be related to instant upload? My wife has Google+ installed and no issues, but she's running a stock G2x. I'll disable it and test.

Stock Thunderbolt here. Don't seem to have any issues with the Google+ app.

I am also having this issue. lost over 20% over night. I have a nexus s and can normally get 3+days out of my phone. Since installing Google+ battery has not even lasted a day!!!! i have killed the service and already i am seeing massive improvements with battery.
I dont believe it is to do with instant upload as i have turned it off with no luck.
I hope google fixes this issue soon!!!!!!

I've got a Desire using the Leedroid 3.0.8 rom,
but it doesn't seem to show the mentioned issues.
I do have the instant-upload enabled and
about 70 people divided in circles with not
much activity in the updates-stream yet.
(I'm guessing it's based on push technlogy)

I uninstalled and rebooted my phone yesterday...
Curious to see if I get the battery life that I had prior to installing...
On a Captivate running CM7 Nightlies #54
Wasn't sure if the battery performance was related to CM7 or the app... So we'll see! I was getting some great battery performance when I was on #34, but did the Google+ install and the update on the same day... Haha

same here on epic 4g. uninstalled g+... problem went away. Go figure.

It's because G+ app has push notifications - any app that has that automatically starts up if closed and starts on boot.
Push notifications are a good thing, but only if you have a spare battery

OMg could i have found the cause for my POOR battery life, i cant even get a single day out the battery with my inspire 4g

I have a htc hd2 running RAFDROID HD and i been using the app for about a week now. I can say i haven't seen an increase in my battery usage while using the app. not sure what to suggest, have you tried to disable push notifications? settings/sync/google/uncheck sync google+ notifications. its set to unchecked as default.

I've noticed that Google+ is trying to instant upload all my photos for no apparent reason. They show up in G+ in Photos->Photos from your phone section, but I'd rather not have all my photos uploaded - eats out of my very limited (100mb) internet and lowers battery life. I'm not exactly sure if its only photos and videos either - need to look into it more.

Well....
I uninstalled G+ the other day to see if battery life would increase... And it did.
So I decided to do another test..
I reinstalled G+ last night, and after I took my phone off the charger this AM, I gave it a reboot. My phone's sitting at 72% right now with 8 hours of light usage... So I dunno what to say...
Maybe Google updated it? Maybe installing a different kernel helped me out? No clue...

How do you guys uninstal G+ the safest way?
Its not possible to remove without Roooting it says...

custom ROM battery life issue significant inexplicable drains

Okay I realize this sounds like a stupid question but I'm having legitimately serious problems here concerning battery life on my skyrocket. I'm running mods unamed slim fast rom , link included, and I would've posted this in that thread but after lurking here for years I finally registered the other day so I can't post in dev forums. I'm using whatever kernel it came with cause I don't have enough info on which ones work with it and I didn't flash any radios because I came from stock ics so I was under the assumption that I didn't have to. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway after forty five minutes disconnected from the charger , from full charge, my batrrys dropped to seventy percent. Nothing running in the background, I have a solid mobile data connection and signal, brightness all the way down, nothing running in background . The only thin I've done is text a couple people. I seriously need help on either how to fix this or pointers to a kernel to install that would work with this tom and fix the battery issue. Thanks in advance everybody.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1815263

Battey Life Thread

LET'S MAKE A BETTER BATTERY LIFE FUTURE FOR ALL​
I thought I would start this thread for our phone. I have the AT&T HOX, but any carrier that uses the msm8960(Snapdragon S4 Dual Core
chip) should participate. Sorry Tegra 3, different chips different, battery concerns.
Basicly, I just wanted a place where everyone could
report there battery life, things there doing to get it(if good or bad), and fixes or ideas to increase battery life. This way everyone can
benefit from others knowlage and experiance.
I personally just got my HOX as a replacement for my broken SGSII, and as it is a
refurbished device, I am having a few concerns. One being that my battery life is horrible. Its been on average draining between 20
-30%/hr. So, at the advice of another member I got the better battery stats app and checked it out and found that HTCDm was the
process preventing my phone from going into deep sleep(better battery Stats has pretty good documentation as to how to use it, if you
choose to use this app just read the documentation. It is short but precise). Upon further investigation I found that that process was the
one that checks for firmware updates and throws the message about "there's an important update for your phone". I didn't want it
yet(because of the no root issue on 2.20 and I haven't unlocked yet because I want to make sure that everything is okay with this phone
before I void the warranty). I'm not sure what else HTCDm does besides the firmware update check, but I froze it anyway with TiB and it
drastically increased my battery life as my phone now properly goes into deep sleep. :laugh: But all is not perfect yet, as my phone still
drains at about 20 – 30% per hour when the screen is on:crying:. I'm not sure if it is a battery issue and I am about to call AT&T right now
about it (it really sucks that they can't send me a new battery because it is not removable). But that is just me. If anyone has any
suggestions for me, I would love to hear them.
:fingers-crossed:SO EVERYONE PLEASE POST: :highfive:
YOUR BATTERY LIFETIME
ANY PROBLEMS YOU'RE HAVING WITH BATTERY LIFE AND NEED HELP WITH
ANY PROBLEMS YOU'VE HAD AND THE STEPS YOU TOOK TO CORRECT THEM
ANY PARTICULAR APPS OR TWEAKS YOU'VE USED TO INCREASE BATTERY LIFE
(OPTIONAL\IF YOU CHOOSE)
NUMBER OF APPS YOU HAVE INSTALLED (ESTIMATE)
GENERAL NUMBER OF ACCOUNTS AND THEIR SYNC SETTINGS
WI-FI AND DATA SETTINGS (AND ANY TASKER PROFILES USED WITH THESE, ETC.)
ANYTHING ELSE YOU CAN THINK OF OR WISH TO LIST
P.S. You can Post more than 1 vote in the poll, 1 for normal use and 1 for heavy us. This should give us a good idea of the average battery life across all sorts of roms, kernels, setups, ect.

"TiB"?

Root and don't use a sense rom. Sense is okay, but it drains battery a lot (has been improved with 4.1 but still...). Also get rid of or freeze apps you don't use and/or don't need.
Oh and TiB stands for Titanium Backup I'm assuming.
I'm on 2.20 which I got new, and I disabled as much bloatware as I could. I can go a day from 100% in the morning to ~8:00 with 50% left. I use my phone for browsing XDA, texting, and playing a game or two. I consider it okay battery life, and I'm on stock! Trying flashing a different rom and see how the battery life goes.

We should do a poll with screen time instead.
Mine is 2-3Hr screen time (auto brightness) with heavy usage.
Total time on charge varies from 4 hours to 24 hours.

Already a thread exists for battery stats http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1612612
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

Hey rye-rye! Stopped reading after the second paragraph because I realized this is redundant B.S. but thanks for the incentive. We already have a battery stats thread. :beer:

OOPS!
Sorry that, Isert and could not find one nor did it find one I was creating this thread. I was actually just coming back, because I just got the chance, to update the OP post with a much more detailed breakdown of what I was expecting from the thread and also I was going to delete out all of the stuff about my replacement and yada yada yada because I managed to get all of that fixed and Done and not only that I was also going to post in detail my success story of how I went from 3 to 4 hours battery life to on average 9 hours with moderate use. And as of yesterday I set my all-time record with 6 hours and 5 min. to go from 100% down to 6% battery left. What's that you say? That's not very good for your all-time record! And you would be correct but I haven't told you yet that I was actually on the phone with the screen on using it to make phone calls surf the Internet on Wi-Fi and LTE as well as running various apps downloading new apps and checking them out. So in total the on-screen time was around 5 hours and 45 min. with about 15 min. of sleep. so is the official battery. The one that I just saw on the 1st page that says "battery stats XL", I believe? If so I'll just make my post in that one.

Cusrom ROM's + Dailer Bug?

Hi all, just got my 11yr old son a ChaCha. He wanted a Blackberry for the keyboard, but managed to persuade him to have the ChaCha. Anyway, it seems to have this infamous dialer bug.From reading throu the forums, am I right in thinking that if I put a custom rom on, it will get rid of the dialer bug? He curently takes it to school, at 100% power, and generally comes home with the phone on around 10-20% power!! He is only allowed to use it at break and lunchtime!! Also, as it's for my kid, I would like it to be as close to stock as possible. Any recommendations? As I already own a customised Desire, I am happy to 'play about'. I have already unlocked the bootloader, and rooted, so that I can use link2sd. Without that he could only install 3 apps on it before it got the low disk space warning!! And as he's only 11, he likes to put a lot of junk on his phone!! Any help would be most appreacited. Thanks.

Like I mentioned here, I don't think that the dialer bug really exists. It's just the battery statistics that are not very clear.
The overall battery performance of the Chacha is very bad, so if you play some games they could drown the battery within an hour. There only thing you could do is rooting the phone and using another ROM. You can win a little with this, but for playing games, Chacha has a very bad battery performance.
Best performance was with CM7 - there my battery live was 1 1/2 days (without playing games), with CM9 now it's less then a day again.
So for better battery performance and keyboard I guess the Motorola Pro is the only phone, or non-Android phones.

I agree. There is no dialer bug. Those are many processes that show as Dialer. I don't mean to offend you, but have you considered that your son is using the phone not just at break and lunchtime? It is hard to resist, especially when it comes to new things. You should test it yourself and see if battery drains that much in that specific time frame.
Regards

Custom ROM would be a good option, but as he's 11, he's probably not old enough to appreciate the faster speed of CM7 or CM9, over his front camera. I'm guessing he'd want his front camera to keep on working lol
But when I was using the stock rom, I just turned my 3G data off whenever I was not using it, and that makes the battery last miles longer
For easyness (lazyness). Create a widget on the homescreen, under Settings and Mobile Internet. And then you'll have a widget you can just tap to turn on and off the mobile data as long as your son can get the hang off turning it off when he's not using it, then that should work a treat

go for CM Roms
IMHO I do believe that there's a dialer bug in stock Chacha, I think it is caused by the dialer's continuous polling of the proximity sensor (this bug has been reported in a lot of htc stock gingerbread phones, the app dx battery helped me confirm this.) Custom ROMs helped me solved this bug but only those that are CM-based (stock-based roms still has the dialer bug). CM7 is very stable and has the best battery life for any Chacha ROM but CM9 just looks so damn good and the battery life is still way better than stock (in stock, I get battery drains even if my phone is just idle, wifi off)

Thanks for the advice guys. I think we will leave it a couple of weeks and see how it goes. May end up putting CM7 on it at some stage, as I have a CM7 based ROM on my desire. He is only allowed to use it between lessons, otherwise it's detention!! He also uses it to listen to music to and from school. And yes, I have notice that the battery goes down rather quickly, when I was setting it up for him.

Well, there sure is a bug in the stock rom that drains it within hours. IMO it's coming from the 3G connection... Sometimes, when my coworkers drive me crazy, I turn off the 3G... I live in a neighbourhood with a bad network connection, this means that it is reconnecting all the time. My battery normally went for about 15 hours, with 3G off it works for over 20 hours. But since I've installed CM9 it stays alive for over 40 hours...

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