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What is the Best battery saver kernel for HTC tbolt?

I just rooted my tbolt and I need help with the best battery saver kernel ......... And what is the best Rom ....
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I've been running the latest BAMF DESENSE . By going through the settings and setting up set CPU with some good profiles I've been able to push my TB through the day with battery to spare.
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Imoseyon's Battsaver leanKernel with TeslaCoil has served me well.
Today I had about 13 hours of uptime (with ~5 hours of being powered down,) and about 3 hours 50 minutes awake time. Pretty good, I think.

Thanks.... I think ill give teslacoil a try .... Any other ones ....
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The perfect storm has worked gray for me so far
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I've been running the new BAMF 1.6.3 remix with the new included kernel and its been about the best I've tried so far.
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My problem is that I work as a field engineer, so I spend a lot of time in plants using my phone as a tethered wifi internet connection (in fact, I'm posting from it right now). I have yet to find anything that lets my phone last more than an hour while connected to 4g and using Wireless Tether. I realize those are probably pretty extreme circumstances, and I get by since I bring a wall-charger with me to plug into whatever electrical panel I'm working at, but I can dream, can't I?
Running BAMF Remix 1.6.3 with built-in kernel.

TheStick13 said:
My problem is that I work as a field engineer, so I spend a lot of time in plants using my phone as a tethered wifi internet connection (in fact, I'm posting from it right now). I have yet to find anything that lets my phone last more than an hour while connected to 4g and using Wireless Tether. I realize those are probably pretty extreme circumstances, and I get by since I bring a wall-charger with me to plug into whatever electrical panel I'm working at, but I can dream, can't I?
Running BAMF Remix 1.6.3 with built-in kernel.
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the bigger question here is what kind of plant lets you take your cell phone out around the plant? Those are supposed to be no cell phone areas

jz9833 said:
the bigger question here is what kind of plant lets you take your cell phone out around the plant? Those are supposed to be no cell phone areas
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:rollseyes: you gonna go tell on us? I doubt he is actually using it much IN the plant but more AT the plant. Don't get the best reception with all that steel around.
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I cant see how all of you are getting such great battery life....i am losing 30% at least in the course of an hour and a half on a full charge i am down to 3 % in 5 hours with mild use 3 short calls and a few texts no music
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jz9833 said:
the bigger question here is what kind of plant lets you take your cell phone out around the plant? Those are supposed to be no cell phone areas
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Lots of plants...I too work in field service...

i am runnning bamf remix 1.6.3 with the included 4.4.7 kernel i had 63% battery left when i took this screen shot. I am using the stock HTC 1400mA battery that came with the phone.
take a look at my awake time.....

ncwildcat said:
Lots of plants...I too work in field service...
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Exactly. The majority of my work is in "big 3" automotive plants, and they have "no picture" rules, and "no walking and talking" rules, but cell phones aren't banned.

studiorat said:
I cant see how all of you are getting such great battery life....i am losing 30% at least in the course of an hour and a half on a full charge i am down to 3 % in 5 hours with mild use 3 short calls and a few texts no music
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Yeah, this sounds like me. Battery drains like crazy regardless of what roms/kernels i use. My radio, in CM7, is currently set to CDMA /EvDo Auto. Is there a more efficient one that wont put me down to 2g speeds?

racinwarrior said:
i am runnning bamf remix 1.6.3 with the included 4.4.7 kernel i had 63% battery left when i took this screen shot. I am using the stock HTC 1400mA battery that came with the phone.
take a look at my awake time.....
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Wait, does that awake time mean screen time? It only takes me 2 hours of screen time, at most, to get to 63%

racinwarrior said:
i am runnning bamf remix 1.6.3 with the included 4.4.7 kernel i had 63% battery left when i took this screen shot. I am using the stock HTC 1400mA battery that came with the phone.
take a look at my awake time.....
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Are you overclocking the bamf 4.4.7 kernel at all or running stock speed?

Strife21 said:
Are you overclocking the bamf 4.4.7 kernel at all or running stock speed?
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OC'ed to 1.2

I lasted 1d14hrs with the newest BAMF and imo's batsaver kernal. I have found juice defender pro to quadruple my battery life.
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smashingtool said:
Wait, does that awake time mean screen time? It only takes me 2 hours of screen time, at most, to get to 63%
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uptime: time the phone has been powered on
awake time: time the phone has been on without going into sleep mode (time it has been doing stuff)

Leankernel extreme with setcpu limiting to 1ghz. Also, screen off @ 245mhz. Runs great even when playing music. I set to 3g using lteonoff app but it doesn't make much difference if you're going to be leaving on an app such as skype that constantly uses data. I have set everything to sync manually except for email. At lest it runs all day with light to moderate use now instead of draining 5% per minute from just check my email. My backlight isn't set past 40% (can't see the screen if I'm outside otherwise.

[Q] Kernel Help

Right now I'm running H57 with JT's 4/15 voodoo kernel. For the past few weeks my battery life has been miserable. I've tried several different Kernels, wiping, data, cache, dalvick cache, and battery stats. Ever since the bad battery life, I've noticed that the Android OS is consuming much larger battery percents than it used to 30-50%. It used to stay around 5% or less. Also I been using CPU spy for a couple weeks. My CPU seems to spend almost all of its time at 800 Mhz for some reason. It will not power down to 100 Mhz even if I turn it on and leave it in my pocket for a few hours. Today i've burned 80% of my battery in 5 hrs while it sat in my pocket during an exam. Any advice on what I can do or check to see what exactly the problem is?

Im not quite sure what the issue could be but I can suggest a program called osmonitor that might help you narrow down what rogue process is eating away. i recently just upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2 as well. I am running JTs 4.15 voodoo kernel. My battery seems about the same so far as 2.1, maybe something with H57 ?

Yeah, I can try another rom. It was happening prior to H57 though. I've been on 2.2 for a while now. 2.2 was running great at first. It happened while on PNP. At first it was amazing on battery. I don't remember changing anything specific to ruin my battery life. To the best of my knowledge it occurred after flashing OTB on PNP. I'll download osmonitor and see what i can find. Thanks.

I'm pretty much stock / rooted w voodoo and about same as eclair check the misc section in osmonitor for cpu scaling
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Here's a screen shot.

Er you're roaming?

Yeah, I'm pretty much always roaming. No USCC in Raleigh where I go to school. The only time i'm not is when I go back home, which is not a whole lot anymore.

keenano said:
Yeah, I'm pretty much always roaming. No USCC in Raleigh where I go to school. The only time i'm not is when I go back home, which is not a whole lot anymore.
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That is likely why your battery life sucks. The phones is constantly trying to find a better signal. Also, USCC doesn't always enforce this but they do have a clause in the contract that they can shut down your line for using it more than 50% of the time outside of their network. Just something to keep in mind.

Yeah, I've heard that, but I've had uscc up here for 3 years now. It used to be fine up here. I've had it in raleigh for 6 months and it just start acting up about 2 or 3 weeks ago.
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I'm going to be in uscc service for about 3 weeks here. I'll see if it makes a difference.
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And the answer is no. I charged the phone over night. Left to fish at 5:30 this morning. Unplugged the phone and turned it on when I left, turned off tasker just to be sure that wasn't causing the issue, and left the phone on the table at home. Back at 3:30, phone at 35% not even using it. I can't find anything using osmonitor. When I look at it, osmonotor is usually using the largest amount of resources.
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And in 30 minutes it has dropped another 10%.
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Battery life is not something people can fix for you, there are too many factors that affect it, u just need to troubleshoot. I've had various results with different roms but typically it is your usage and the apps on your phone that are culprit
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I completely understand that. That's why I spent a couple weeks troubleshooting to try and find out what the problem was. Like I said I can leave the phone on all day and never use it and the battery still sucks, so It's not usage. I can not find any apps that are consuming much battery. The only thing I changed between good battery and bad is from JT's voodoo kernel to OTB. Android OS and System began to use 60% of the battery and a 5 minute phone call will burn 5-10 %. I said that sucks, switched back to JT's kernel problem still persists trying different roms and kernels. That's why I posted this to see if something could have been messed up when flashing to OTB.

[Q] Who has NEVER had a reboot?

Folks -
Obviously the Tbolt reboot issue is real. However, I have never had one. Ever. Not One. I've run a variety of ROMs and Radios, though I've mostly used a BAMF variant with an adrynalyne kernel. Currently on BAMF 1.7, 4.4.7 kernel, not overclocked, with the 605.7 radios (both CDMA and LTE). I am in an almost total 4G area...I live in central NJ, and commute to Princeton, NJ, spending only about 20 minutes in a 3G area in between. I also go out to SF quite a bit, which is obviously blanketed in 4G.
So my question: What's driving the reboots? Is this a matter of the Tbolt not playing well with some 3G hardware in the towers (or vice versa)?
If you've never had a reboot, please post and let us know how your tbolt is configured, and where you tend to use it.

I'm stock since mine broke and I get no more 3G anywhere. However running stock before root never had a reboot, running rooted with BAMF Froyo never had a reboot. Running GB I did have reboots few and far between. Most of them because the kernel was overclocked. As long as I installed a kernel and ran it 245 min to 1024 max it never had an issue. Once I tried to overclock then it would happen. The phone is fine for me no overclocked so no reboots!

My only reboots were due to a kernel issue, not the actual phone. So no, I have not had one.

psufan5 said:
My only reboots were due to a kernel issue, not the actual phone. So no, I have not had one.
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Are you in a 4G area? Do you overclock?

Never had any problems with rebooting running das bamf 2.0-5 @1. 4ghz i forget the radio...
THUNDERBOLT

I'm running das bamf 2.0 and applied all the patches and the sense 3.0 camera. Never a reboot, only issue is in the camera. When I use action setting I get a force close. That's it.
DasBAMF 2.0 Thunderbolt

I've had 3 Thunderbolts.
The first was great until the screen turned Green, No random reboots as well. The second was great until it started rebooting 2 times an hour (rooted, Das BAMF), and when i returned it to Stock it would reboot about 3 times a day. My third (a crappy 'like new' replacement), reboots at least once an hour.... Completely stock.
My 4th arrives today! I hope this one works, but i'm honestly not holding my breath.

elliott35 said:
Never had any problems with rebooting running das bamf 2.0-5 @1. 4ghz i forget the radio...
THUNDERBOLT
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Do you live in a 4G area?

lespaul0143 said:
I'm running das bamf 2.0 and applied all the patches and the sense 3.0 camera. Never a reboot, only issue is in the camera. When I use action setting I get a force close. That's it.
DasBAMF 2.0 Thunderbolt
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Thanks! do you live in a 4G area?

Topher227 said:
I've had 3 Thunderbolts.
The first was great until the screen turned Green, No random reboots as well. The second was great until it started rebooting 2 times an hour (rooted, Das BAMF), and when i returned it to Stock it would reboot about 3 times a day. My third (a crappy 'like new' replacement), reboots at least once an hour.... Completely stock.
My 4th arrives today! I hope this one works, but i'm honestly not holding my breath.
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Good Luck! Do you live in a 4G area?

had my thunderbolt since day 1 of launch and haven't gotten any reboots or problems at all, i consider myself one of the lucky ones lol

I am in 3g only area and stock phone...so far. I have reboots and have done the data wipe htc recommended. Hoping this is software problem.

itzjonjon69 said:
had my thunderbolt since day 1 of launch and haven't gotten any reboots or problems at all, i consider myself one of the lucky ones lol
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Thanks! do you live in a 4G area?

Mine has had one reboot. It was when I upgraded to the new radio. I'm in a mostly 3g area. I get fringe 4G but keep it turned off most of the time. I also use WiFi as much as possible.
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Got my phone 2 days ago rooted das bamf 1.7 oced 245 min 1245 Max 3g only area no reboots and good battery life.

bL33d said:
Got my phone 2 days ago rooted das bamf 1.7 oced 245 min 1245 Max 3g only area no reboots and good battery life.
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Thanks, keep us informed. 4G is the big battery kill, I find using wifi whenever possible has transformed my battery life.

I got my replacement phone last friday. it came with the launch day firmware. I updated to MR1 on Saturday, since then I have been having 1-2 reboots every day. Going to call them and see about getting another phone, maybe a Droid Charge or LG revolution.

I've had my phone for a couple months now. Rooted the night I received and been on Bamf remix since day one and continued updating the Roms as they were released but stayed away from GB. I'be had zero.reboot. I'm located in Utah with a 3g only area without ever being in 4g.

I wanted to note that some people may not be noticing reboots depending on what time of day they happen. I've had at least 1 happen over night that I know of. The only reason I know now is that I just started using a SIM password and woke up to the phone asking me to enter the PIN.
I'm running Das Bamf 1.63 w/ leanKernel 2.5.1 in a 3g area.

Mine had it's first reboot today after being up for 90 hours so I really can't say that it is the same thing. I am running in 4g, 3g and wifi at different parts of the day. I run the 3rd radio combo on the radio thread

CM7 USERS. how often do you upgrade

I usually don't flash a new version of cm7 until 8 to 10 nightlies pass. I'm on 51 now so ill prob wait til low 60's to flash again. How often do you flash or upgrade?
ITS ALL WONKY!!!

I usually look at the changelog to see if any big updates have been made and then look in the nightly thread to see if people are having problems. If not, I'll flash.

You're missing out. 56 is a rock!

I flash every 2 to 3 nightlys unless changelog shows they have change something dramatically. On 54 right now
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Every.. single.. morning haha! keep a nandroid backup handy
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jonnyboyca said:
Every.. single.. morning haha! keep a nandroid backup handy
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yup I do the same minus the nandroid backups... I live on the edge
( I do have them but they are like a week or two old)

I upgrade once a week..

everyday unless there wasn't really anything changed. remember all you have to do is flash an old version no need to do a nano since when you flash the old version it over writes what had changed. I also do a titanium backup before each flash since if i need to wipe that puts me back to where i was at anyway.

I just have my stock nandroid backup in case I ever want to go back
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I upgrade daily in the morning.
#55 and #56 have lots of new fixes.
Battery Driver, Dual-Radio bandwidth (doubles bandwidth), Builtin Notification Backlights, etc.
I don't see much difference between #55 and #56 but I'm sure there are some tweaks. So grab the latest and go. Anyone using CM7 should upgrade to #55 at least.

Nightly, and literally nightly.
Haven't run into crashes since well, i reboot every darn day.
While charging overnight it does freeze (known issue seen other have same issue).
That darn battery.
I took a break from CM7 just to try Evil's ROM. Also other reason I stopped was the brightness issue. 55+ the issue went away.

vmartinez39 said:
Nightly, and literally nightly.
Haven't run into crashes since well, i reboot every darn day.
While charging overnight it does freeze (known issue seen other have same issue).
That darn battery.
I took a break from CM7 just to try Evil's ROM. Also other reason I stopped was the brightness issue. 55+ the issue went away.
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The brightness was fixed on earlier roms but came back, then went away, and came back. Brightness bug came back around #53 and fixed on #55.
Mine doesn't freeze, reboot, or lockup while charging over night... on any CM build.

I'll be honest I'm rooting for CM7 and will be my final ROM when it reaches stable/RC version. The crashes/reboots are gone and I don't keep the uptime past 20+ hours because I keep flashing to the latest ROM.
Battery freeze is disappointing, but I blame it on the hardware/LG. Its not perfect but its getting there. Gingerbread update will fix this. It better

I usually look at the channel log to see what has changed, but every 2-3 days. If I am having good luck with the current build I will stick with it, if it is giving me issues, I will update on the next build. I was on 54 for 2 days (with the same battery charge) and updated to 56 yesterday. After only using 20% of my battery after 12 hours of mild use and a lack of any cool/important updates, I will stick with this build for another day or 2.

You really should update. 54 fixed a LOT of problems: the battery meter now gives accurate readings and data speeds are doubled.

Any time there is fresh Gigglebread;-)
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I was updating every morning before work but right now im on 56. Its been running pretty good for me so im probably going to stay on this one for a little bit.
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Every day since I started using CM7. 21:35:33 on #57 so far...

LordButtersI said:
You really should update. 54 fixed a LOT of problems: the battery meter now gives accurate readings and data speeds are doubled.
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I know. I wanna be done with this backloght crap but I'm gonna wait until I need to reboot because I wannna see howblong of an uptime I can have. I'm just about at 105 hours ans no reboots so far.
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I flash almost every day. I keep nandroid backups on my SD, my desktop and my dropbox. I guess I'm paranoid.

What's your longest uptime

What are you running, and what's your longest known uptime?
I'm cm7 51 with faux kernel 2.3 or 2.2. 69 hours at time of this post. No reboots or need to reboot. No hiccups.
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69 hours?!?!? Did you just not touch your phone for 3 days?

Lol just for a second there the tittle got me.....
G2X

I get similar uptimes myself. I use the hell outta my phone. The only time I ever reboot is when flashing.
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fcisco13 said:
Lol just for a second there the tittle got me.....
G2X
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giggity
longest I ever checked was like 200 hours

tackleberry said:
What are you running, and what's your longest known uptime?
I'm cm7 51 with faux kernel 2.3 or 2.2. 69 hours at time of this post. No reboots or need to reboot. No hiccups.
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69??? Seriously? That's crazy. I'm getting 22 hours on CM7 51. Then again I just discovered that maps, camera, and Music Beta was running that entire time so who knows.

In the 2 months I used the phone I manually restarted it many times for different reasons but I never had a single reboot.

oooohhh...we're talking about uptime since a reboot/restart? I thought you were talking about time between charging, lol.
My longest uptime in that case, has only been about 12 hours. Because I keep flashing roms or kernals or mods or updating cwm...or something, lol. But I haven't had a lockup or restart since I got off the plain leaked gb. Although there was that time when I tried undervolting 1500MHz by -100...phone didn't like that.

i think it's wiser to reboot the phone after 48 hours, or at least 24. Some programs get messed up and it's always good to reset the system.

jacob808 said:
i think it's wiser to reboot the phone after 48 hours, or at least 24. Some programs get messed up and it's always good to reset the system.
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I live and die by rebooting my phone every 48 hours. I use a app called Fast Reboot which usually frees us over 150mb of Ram. I'll do that every 12 hours and a system restart every 24 hours. Lets face it. Some of are apps have memory leaks in them and can really tax the system.
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40 hours and counting
No problems, runs super smooth on Faux123 AOSP

jrwingate6 said:
I live and die by rebooting my phone every 48 hours. I use a app called Fast Reboot which usually frees us over 150mb of Ram. I'll do that every 12 hours and a system restart every 24 hours. Lets face it. Some of are apps have memory leaks in them and can really tax the system.
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Any app with a memory leak gets uninstalled. Homie don't play that. At 106 hours, still snappy and no crazy battery drain. EB 1.04 froyo.
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hiko36 said:
69??? Seriously? That's crazy. I'm getting 22 hours on CM7 51. Then again I just discovered that maps, camera, and Music Beta was running that entire time so who knows.
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im not talking about battery life, im talking about no reboots manual or automatic, im at 84 hours now. im gonna see how long i can go with no problems.

tackleberry said:
im not talking about battery life, im talking about no reboots manual or automatic, im at 84 hours now. im gonna see how long i can go with no problems.
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After a day my network always starts getting a little weird and tthen I reboot .. no random reboots tho so its cool
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I'm not gpnna upgrade anything until I have to reboot. I use my phone a lot and sometimes not so this should be a good test to see how stable this thing really is.
ITS ALL WONKY!!!

Whohoo just a hair under 105 hours right now.
ITS ALL WONKY!!!

Just past 118 hours now. I have noticed a slight slowdown at times but overall still good.
ITS ALL WONKY!!!

About 134 hours and I just did a reboot. It was getting real sluggish.
ITS ALL WONKY!!!

come on
not 1 joke about uptime. this is getting boring.
i thought i saw a commercial that said if you have more than 4 hours of uptime you should call a dr.
come on now i know you all wanted to say it.