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So I know this subject has been hashed a thousand times. But... My tb was actually getting fantastic battery. Ten hours without charging. Right now I'm on the latest thundersense, no OC, conservative scaling, juice defender ultimate with data off when the screen's off, and my battery went from 100% to 49% in two hours. Am I doing something wrong, or did I just not quite understand that one day my phone turns on and says "I'm going to have terrible battery life from now on"? Because that's literally what happened. One day I was bragging about how fantastic my battery life is, the next was like I got blindsided by a mugger.
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Charge it fully, calibrate the battery.
I will try that and post back if I have any issues.
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Sorry for being a newb, but I keep on hearing about calibrating the battery in these forums. How do I do that?
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Xpiatio said:
Sorry for being a newb, but I keep on hearing about calibrating the battery in these forums. How do I do that?
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Download Battery Calibration from the Market. It's free. Open the app, it notifies you when you're charged to 100%, hit the calibrate button and you're done. Simple as that.
I had the same problem and set a profile in setCPU to have max and min cpu speed at 245 while the screen is off. Used onDemand at 1.28 i believe and I went from charging by 4pm to still at 50% by midnight. It really was night and day.
shawncrobbins said:
I had the same problem and set a profile in setCPU to have max and min cpu speed at 245 while the screen is off. Used onDemand at 1.28 i believe and I went from charging by 4pm to still at 50% by midnight. It really was night and day.
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One thing I'm having trouble with understanding is the governors. I'm using smartass right now with no profiles. Will it underclock the phone to 245 when the screen is off? I read an article that said it didn't need profiles so I assumed it did this automatically.
i never expected fantastic battery just equivalent to my Dinc which is 9 hrs, on average i get 8 with my TB so it works for me
I get quite good battery out of my Thunderbolt. I ran it on stock battery with light usage almost 60 hours before I needed to charge.
boythatkills said:
I get quite good battery out of my Thunderbolt. I ran it on stock battery with light usage almost 60 hours before I needed to charge.
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Thank you for the amazingly valuable contribution to the thread! We can all rest easy knowing that user 'boythatkills' has good battery life. Pack it up and close the thread, this guy gets good battery so therefore the OP is of no concern!
boythatkills said:
I get quite good battery out of my Thunderbolt. I ran it on stock battery with light usage almost 60 hours before I needed to charge.
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I laughed when I seen this.. I get nearly the same in airplane mode or if I leave it plugged in it almost limitless
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To op first I would ditch juice defender never been a fan of that app plus it also takes resources to enable data again seems counter productive somewhat. Second it does seem these phones have days where they suck down the juice. Also I would use ondemand instead of conservative I have never seen one person even back to my Droid that said they had amazing battery on conservative scaling. I notice way to much lag with conservative as we its only supposed to scale up to the clock speed needed but it takes to long to scale up in my opinion. I've always gotten decent battery life from Droid to thunderbolt and I've always used ondemand with the min clock speed when screen off. Also if you dont have spareparts get it from the market it may have been a rogue app for some reason that day. I have Google voice act up on me from time to time. Hope this helps. Oh and I'm getting 20 to 30 hours out of mine. Whoever said 60 hours must have it hooked up to a car battery haha.
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I don't know about 60 hours on this phone yet. I have gotten 2 days with small usage, but not longer. This might be doable when CM7 starts getting nightly cranked out. Or when our AOSP kernels get better. That is when I started getting 3 days with my evo, but then again, that was with 3G only.
Ever since I did the battery calibration, it seems a lot better. I tend to flipflop back and forth between conservative and ondemand with my main profile- I wouldn't say conservative is a total waste, I'll reserve that for the powersave scaling. So in any case, was it just bad values were written to the batterystats.bin file? And if so, what steps can I take to keep it from happening again? Other than this little bump, I'd say the tb has been the best phone I've ever owned.
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Just wondering if anyone can help me understand how there can be such a drastic difference in battery life between Froyo and GB. I've been using BAMF Roms mostly since I rooted my T-Bolt and with above average use on 4G half the day, on Wifi the rest, and get 20>24 hrs battery life. I flashed All the GB Roms after each update, because the lockscreen keeps calling me back lol, but I'm lucky if I get 6 hrs usage with the same basic setup.
I charge my phone every morning when I wake up to 100% and rarely have to charge again until the the next morning with BAMF 1.7 unless I'm flashing mods or streaming a lot of audio and video. I went to sleep at 11:30pm last night with 19% battery and woke up with 14%, insane! With BAMF 2.1 the night before, I not only had to charge my phone 2X that day after very little usage, but went to bed the same time with 100% battery and woke up with 47%. That was with everything turned off, wifi, mobile net, and underclocked to 245mhz with the screen off.
I would just like to know how there can be such a big difference, especially with standby time. Thanks.
It is a known fact that GB is more resource hogging than Froyo. Plus the fact that the GB builds we see here are all based on an alpha leak.. which may not be the best representation of GB. It perhaps has to do with how GB handles memory and how much resource it sucks in to accomplish that.
Just my theory.
I guess what I really can't understand is the standby time. If the screen is off, shouldn't the phone be using less resources? 5% loss on Froyo at night compared to 53% loss with GB, seems like a huge difference to me.
Having some serious battery drain too since going to 2.1. Was thinking about trying a different kernel. Have you tried anything. Trying to find a link but think I saw some posts that Imoseyen's kernels were pretty good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086518
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Having some serious battery drain too since going to 2.1. Was thinking about trying a different kernel. Have you tried anything. Trying to find a link but think I saw some posts that Imoseyen's kernels were pretty good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086518
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AFAIK, all GB kernels are Imoseyen's or use his as the base.
johnkc1975 said:
I guess what I really can't understand is the standby time. If the screen is off, shouldn't the phone be using less resources? 5% loss on Froyo at night compared to 53% loss with GB, seems like a huge difference to me.
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53% loss overnight in standby tells me you probably have a bad app somewhere.
Mine typically loses about 15-20% max overnight on GB Roms.. (and I've used GB theory, Liquid Roms and Gingeritis)...This itself is more than Froyo Rom which for me has been typically about 5% loss max on standby overnight.
Most importantly.. when I am working on the phone.. GB Roms tend to lose charge a lot faster than Froyo Roms.. which is where the real pain is.
johnkc1975 said:
I guess what I really can't understand is the standby time. If the screen is off, shouldn't the phone be using less resources? 5% loss on Froyo at night compared to 53% loss with GB, seems like a huge difference to me.
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I've seen the same thing. After about 4 hours yesterday on my extended battery I dropped 2%!! With a GB ROM I lose 10% per hour-ish. I'm just sticking with FroYo until we get a better GB leak that is more stable. I was on GB/CM7 on my Inspire and the battery life was great so I know GB isn't as bad as it is on our device we just have an early build of GB. It will get better hopefully sooner rather than later.
I'm not sure if its GB or the roms but there are additional features in GB/GB roms that contribute to the battery loss. These battery tips are in chingy's gingeritis post. Go through these and hopefully these will increase your battery life. I didn't come up with these tips. Credits to Boskoel03
Battery Tips From Boskoel03
Disable "Tell HTC" service: Settings -> About Phone ->Tell HTC -> Disable
Disable Software Updates: Settings -> About Phone ->Software updates -> Uncheck Software Updates
change Wi-Fi Sleep policy: settings -> wireless & networks ->Wi-Fi Settings ->15 min
Disable Phone Finder: Settings -> Location
Disable Weather Sounds & Clock Widget Full Screen Animation
Increase Facebook/Twitter/Stocks/Anyone otther accounts sync interval to 4hours or more
Use Auto-Brightness
Disable Haptic Feedback
Use Wifi when available
Set screen timeout to 30 seconds
Standalone GPS should be OFF when not using navigation
Refrain from playing angry birds while on the pooper
fotd said:
Having some serious battery drain too since going to 2.1. Was thinking about trying a different kernel. Have you tried anything. Trying to find a link but think I saw some posts that Imoseyen's kernels were pretty good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086518
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Other than re-flashing after the Rom's are updated, no, I have not tried any different kernals because I assume the devs know a lot more than me, so I like to stick with the kernals that come with the Roms.
kriskmk said:
53% loss overnight in standby tells me you probably have a bad app somewhere.
Mine typically loses about 15-20% max overnight on GB Roms.. (and I've used GB theory, Liquid Roms and Gingeritis)...This itself is more than Froyo Rom which for me has been typically about 5% loss max on standby overnight.
Most importantly.. when I am working on the phone.. GB Roms tend to lose charge a lot faster than Froyo Roms.. which is where the real pain is.
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I checked everything for rouge apps and found nothing excessively using resources, and I have had the same results with Gingeritis and Theory.
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I checked everything for rouge apps and found nothing excessively using resources, and I have had the same results with Gingeritis and Theory.
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Use Titanium Backup to Freeze All User apps (under Batch Option). Do this before you go to bed. In the morning see what the % Loss is.. Then you can Unfreeze them all one by one and find out the culprit.
Last night when I went to bed my GB rom had 63% juice left.. this morning I was at 47%.
Also, I am using liquid Rom w/ stock battery.
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Use Titanium Backup to Freeze All User apps (under Batch Option). Do this before you go to bed. In the morning see what the % Loss is.. Then you can Unfreeze them all one by one and find out the culprit.
Last night when I went to bed my GB rom had 63% juice left.. this morning I was at 47%.
Also, I am using liquid Rom w/ stock battery.
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That's a good idea , thanks.
Blame sense.
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darkrom said:
Blame sense.
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This, or the fact that it's an alpha leak. CM7 has ridiculously good battery life in comparison to both froyo and gb based sense roms, especially the latter.
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I really hate creating these threads because it makes me look likr a complete noob but I can' figire this out for the life of me. I bought the charge thinking I could use it for a day and change but I have yet to experience this awesome battery life. Even when I got my first day, the battery life was horrible and even after its first charge, it wasnt any better. Do I just have a bad battery or something?
Heres what I remember doing:
-Flash gummycharge day 2 of owning phone (1.8.5) novoodoo kernal
-An issue came up where I couldnt press my power button without the phone freezing
-so at this point I reverted back to a stock ee2 rom
-i then flashed gummycharged once again (same as above)
-after flashing, I charged my battey up, shutdown, wait for 100%, repeat 3x to wipe battery stats/calibrate my battery
So I unplugged my phone at 5:00pm and it is now 7:07pm. In two hours with about an hour of browsing, my phone is at 73%. I have nothing on any of my homescreens just to be sure it wasnt consuming the battery, cdma automatic instead of 4g lte since my area does not support it yet and manual brightness at 15%.
What is it I'm doing wrong?
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I really hate creating these threads because it makes me look likr a complete noob but I can' figire this out for the life of me. I bought the charge thinking I could use it for a day and change but I have yet to experience this awesome battery life. Even when I got my first day, the battery life was horrible and even after its first charge, it wasnt any better. Do I just have a bad battery or something?
Heres what I remember doing:
-Flash gummycharge day 2 of owning phone (1.8.5) novoodoo kernal
-An issue came up where I couldnt press my power button without the phone freezing
-so at this point I reverted back to a stock ee2 rom
-i then flashed gummycharged once again (same as above)
-after flashing, I charged my battey up, shutdown, wait for 100%, repeat 3x to wipe battery stats/calibrate my battery
So I unplugged my phone at 5:00pm and it is now 7:07pm. In two hours with about an hour of browsing, my phone is at 73%. I have nothing on any of my homescreens just to be sure it wasnt consuming the battery, cdma automatic instead of 4g lte since my area does not support it yet and manual brightness at 15%.
What is it I'm doing wrong?
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Download humble 1.25 and your battery woes will be no more my son....
Will take you suggestion and try it out tonight. I dont mean to derail my own thread but is it possible that when I flashed back to stock ee2, it caused my signal to decrease even though I put gummycharged over it later? Ever since I had to reflash because of the power button issue, I noticed a decrease in signal strength (from mid 80s to high 90s). Sorry for all the questions!
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Download humble 1.25 and your battery woes will be no more my son....
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Hi,
I saw your Humble ROM and was considering installing it to try to improve battery life as we'll.
What about your ROM conserves battery over the stock rom?
Now that p3droid released 2.3.4 I will certainly have to try it, do you plan to make a version of Humble using this new base?
Thanks for your work, I really am loving this new phone!
Ken
(Former DX afficianado)
An hour has passed with another 45 minutes of browsing. My battery is down to 40%. Really now?
f3liC said:
An hour has passed with another 45 minutes of browsing. My battery is down to 40%. Really now?
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If you are getting that bad of battery life, go to EE4 Debloated . Flash P&J OC Kernel. and Undervolt your phone.
Whay would be causing this kind of battery life though?
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Whay would be causing this kind of battery life though?
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No telling, depends on how you use your phone and what apps are running.
Thats the thing. I haven't been doing anything other than browsing. I only went to class and browsed for maybe 2 hours max. Everything else is 2% ish other than the dolphin hd browser. If I look at the battery stats, the display is the only thing thats depleting the battery really. I'm starting to think its because I have weak coverage in my area.
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Thats the thing. I haven't been doing anything other than browsing. I only went to class and browsed for maybe 2 hours max. Everything else is 2% ish other than the dolphin hd browser. If I look at the battery stats, the display is the only thing thats depleting the battery really. I'm starting to think its because I have weak coverage in my area.
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I've had similar battery issues with two different Charge units running each ROM/Kernel (except GB). I also live in a weak coverage area where I average 1 to 2 bars, sometimes dropping to 0 and i'm convinced this has to be it. I had written this idea off initially because I previously had ATT and the same weak coverage with them, but nowhere near the same abnormal battery drain...so I guess there must be a difference between the way CDMA and GSM operate in this respect? I'm in a 3G only area and keep the phone locked to CDMA/Auto also.
danalo1979 said:
Download humble 1.25 and your battery woes will be no more my son....
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I am running 1.25 and have had absolutely no improvement to my battery life (strong 4g area in SoCal).
I've just resigned to the fact that I'll get 6-7 hours (even on an extended battery, same results) and have to charge once or twice a day.
Coming from the fascinate I honestly think the battery life is better. Although I turned lte off since we don't have any coverage for it yet. My mind will probably change when we get it. Running stock ee4 rooted with voodoo kernel. My father is running the same thing and also came from the fascinate, he completely agrees.
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brian1972ct said:
I am running 1.25 and have had absolutely no improvement to my battery life (strong 4g area in SoCal).
I've just resigned to the fact that I'll get 6-7 hours (even on an extended battery, same results) and have to charge once or twice a day.
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I had really bad battery life on my phone running the stock rom and gummycharged. With the phone sleeping and only data on, I was losing at least 5% an hour.
I switched to Humble a week ago and my battery life is exceptional. I am ususally looking at 24 hrs with 4g on and longer with it off.
If you do a lot of browsing and keeping your screen on, your battery is going to burn quickly. No matter what ROM you are using. If it's draining a lot of battery in sleep, flash Humble.
danalo1979 said:
Download humble 1.25 and your battery woes will be no more my son....
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Dude, this isn't the fix. I'll flash Humble 1.25 right now and prove to you that it doesn't fix battery issues. Yes, it's less of a battery hog than the other available ROMs, but flashing Humble 1.25 will not fix your battery gremlin.
I wish Danalo, imnuts and the other gurus would spend more time figuring out this battery gremlin. Charging your battery to 100% then wiping battery stats through CWR doesn't work either. I've tried it countless times.
OP, here's another thread regarding the battery issues many people are experiencing - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1145161
brian1972ct said:
I am running 1.25 and have had absolutely no improvement to my battery life (strong 4g area in SoCal).
I've just resigned to the fact that I'll get 6-7 hours (even on an extended battery, same results) and have to charge once or twice a day.
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Don't give up so soon. The battery life on the Charge can be amazing and I know from experience. My experience also shows that there are funky battery issues that pop up when flashing various crap. Flashing an Odin bundle has not worked for me, at all. Wiping battery stats has not worked.
I was running GummyCharged 1.5 with the PBJT kernel and voodoo enabled and got 17+ hours of medium-hard use EASILY. Since then, I flashed the original GB leak, Gummy, Humble, Stock... I cannot figure out what the heck is going on, my battery life is still crap.
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So I unplugged my phone at 5:00pm and it is now 7:07pm. In two hours with about an hour of browsing, my phone is at 73%. I have nothing on any of my homescreens just to be sure it wasnt consuming the battery, cdma automatic instead of 4g lte since my area does not support it yet and manual brightness at 15%.
What is it I'm doing wrong?
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It really sounds like signal issues to me. My Charge handles weak mobile signals better than my Thunderbolt, but any cell phone will really crank up the juice draw looking for a tower if it can't find one. In my north county office, my Thunderbolt will drain 25% per hour if I don't keep it near the window where it can get a better signal.
You need to post a lot more details.
Are you on wifi or mobile data? Are you 3G or 4G area? How strong is your 3G/4G signal?
Have you dug into the battery use screens to see what's up?
Grab Spare Parts from the Market if your ROM doesn't have it and look into it's battery statistics...things like wake-locks will really kill the phone.
brian1972ct said:
I am running 1.25 and have had absolutely no improvement to my battery life (strong 4g area in SoCal).
I've just resigned to the fact that I'll get 6-7 hours (even on an extended battery, same results) and have to charge once or twice a day.
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Humble isnt going to make a difference, what he should have said was to flash the PBJ OTB kernel. Not sure if he just wants more downloads for Humble or what lol.
If all you are concerned with is battery life on a phone then buy an iphone.... sheesh.
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mbh87 said:
Humble isnt going to make a difference, what he should have said was to flash the PBJ OTB kernel. Not sure if he just wants more downloads for Humble or what lol.
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And no.... im not pimping downloads. Lol
If you calibrate your batt stats and use my rom you will see what alot of people are seeing. Thanks
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danalo1979 said:
If all you are concerned with is battery life on a phone then buy an iphone.... sheesh.
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Then what would we ***** about?
danalo1979 said:
If you calibrate your batt stats and use my rom you will see what alot of people are seeing. Thanks
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I've done this countless times to no avail. I'm going to flash Humble 1.25 again in a bit, but it definitely didn't fix the battery issue earlier today when I flashed it. Yes I wiped battery stats. Yes the battery was at 100%.
I'm going to try the ridiculous procedure laid out in this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1152088
i need help with this, im still pretty new to the whole root/overclock/unervolting thing. currently running gummycharged 2.1 with PBJ and V6 supercharger. Have voltage control maxed at 1200 set on VR and ondemand.
1200 -25
1000 -75
800&400 - 100
200&100 - 150
those are all number i have found that other have been using saying they get 14hours battery life. but in the last hour ive had my phone unplugged ive dropped to 76% battery.
Does anyone have any advice for me?
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i need help with this, im still pretty new to the whole root/overclock/unervolting thing. currently running gummycharged 2.1 with PBJ and V6 supercharger. Have voltage control maxed at 1200 set on VR and ondemand.
1200 -25
1000 -75
800&400 - 100
200&100 - 150
those are all number i have found that other have been using saying they get 14hours battery life. but in the last hour ive had my phone unplugged ive dropped to 76% battery.
Does anyone have any advice for me?
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Ditch gummy. Use a ROM based on EP4D. Also, try to see if you can get more unvdervolting. Here's what I got:
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Should I still use PBJ cause thats the only I've found so far the supports voltage control or setCPU
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Also do a battery calibration after flashing a new ROM, turn off background data, and turn off auto brightness. All this will help considerably with battery life.
How do I do a battery calibration?
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Download the battery calibration app from the market. Just search "Battery Calibration" and it will provide you with the necessary instructions.
hazard209 said:
Also do a battery calibration after flashing a new ROM, turn off background data, and turn off auto brightness. All this will help considerably with battery life.
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*facepalms*
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It's always seems to be the most obvious solutions. Lol.
Unless that's directed at me for saying something wrong?
each phone is different so be careful when undervolting. i tried to set 1200 to -125 and my phone completely crashed and i had to do a factory reset. I'm actually on IMO kernel which doesnt suppost voltage control but after calibrating i got a good 13-14 hours, granted there werent many phone calls which eats up most of ur battery life, but i was playing games alot, downloaded some apps n such. I figure since i read that imnuts is working on an update to fix a couple issues with pjb ill just stick with IMO until the new pjb is posted. Im also using tweakstock, so maybe u should try that ROM, gummy (from waht ive heard) is pretty outdated at this point. depending on what theme u like id chhose between tweakstock and eclipse. both r very stable.
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each phone is different so be careful when undervolting. i tried to set 1200 to -125 and my phone completely crashed and i had to do a factory reset. I'm actually on IMO kernel which doesnt suppost voltage control but after calibrating i got a good 13-14 hours, granted there werent many phone calls which eats up most of ur battery life, but i was playing games alot, downloaded some apps n such. I figure since i read that imnuts is working on an update to fix a couple issues with pjb ill just stick with IMO until the new pjb is posted. Im also using tweakstock, so maybe u should try that ROM, gummy (from waht ive heard) is pretty outdated at this point. depending on what theme u like id chhose between tweakstock and eclipse. both r very stable.
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Hey Imnuts already released the new kernel which fixed the 720p recording and added some more features. Check it out. Version 0130.
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It's always seems to be the most obvious solutions. Lol.
Unless that's directed at me for saying something wrong?
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You can't really calibrate the battery, it will always report the same voltage for a given % charge, within a certain margin of error. Wiping battery stats has been shown to do nothing relating to the indicator of the battery remaining, and is almost always part of a "battery calibration".
buhohitr said:
Hey Imnuts already released the new kernel which fixed the 720p recording and added some more features. Check it out. Version 0130.
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Where did you find the new update for PBJ?
imnuts said:
You can't really calibrate the battery, it will always report the same voltage for a given % charge, within a certain margin of error. Wiping battery stats has been shown to do nothing relating to the indicator of the battery remaining, and is almost always part of a "battery calibration".
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Interesting. So it's just to give a semi-accurate percentage of battery remaining based off of the voltage given by the battery?
EDIT: Saw this. Now enlightened. https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
trevormalachi said:
Where did you find the new update for PBJ?
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You can find it at rootzwiki.com
Thanks for the help. Battery life looked better today. Got almost 9 hours which is way better then the 5 yesterday. Wasn't bring heavily used though. Still hoping I can get better though
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It's not just normal battery loss, it's EXTREME! I usually get 12-13 hours on one battery.
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Your battery will always seem wonky after a flash. At least in my experience it takes some time for your phone to "get used to" the battery. Almost always it seems the 2nd day with a new ROM lasts longer than the first. And the 2nd week better than the first week.
I've had a rooted bolt for a year and 1/2 and always had bad battery life. I even bought a rezound battery hoping it would help. But it barely changed. I u installed Google maps and now I have 60% at the end of my work day where as before I'd charge it by 3 pm due to a dead battery. I hope this helps someone who does.t care too much about using Google maps
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beeholtz said:
I've had a rooted bolt for a year and 1/2 and always had bad battery life. I even bought a rezound battery hoping it would help. But it barely changed. I u installed Google maps and now I have 60% at the end of my work day where as before I'd charge it by 3 pm due to a dead battery. I hope this helps someone who does.t care too much about using Google maps
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Not sure what Rom you're using, if it's Aosp, I suggest trying imo lean 184 kernel. With speedtweak setting on #1 normal, undervolted, cpu min 184 - max 1408. After 15 hrs of light to moderate use, I had 49% batt left. Used to be dead at 6 hrs.
az_biker said:
Not sure what Rom you're using, if it's Aosp, I suggest trying imo lean 184 kernel. With speedtweak setting on #1 normal, undervolted, cpu min 184 - max 1408. After 15 hrs of light to moderate use, I had 49% batt left. Used to be dead at 6 hrs.
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im using thundershed right now. it has seemed to be the most stable and best on battery life for me so far. plus i like the look and feel of it
I've actually been pleasantly surprised by BatteryXL in the market. It doesn't do anything spectacular aside from shutting down radios and services when they're really not needed. It's helped me to get through an entire day with no charging.
Or you could just disable GPS until you need it.
Tshed
beeholtz said:
im using thundershed right now. it has seemed to be the most stable and best on battery life for me so far. plus i like the look and feel of it
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I am also running tshed (imo lean) and 605.9 radios. Common thought seems to point to 605.19 rsdios being a bit more power hungry than the 605.9s...
ya i always have gps disabled but maps was always running in services.... even if you stop it it comes back. probably because im rooted and sometimes things happen at some points id have 2 or 3 instances of maps running. i decided to just uninstall it and im telling you ive never had my battery last like it does not.... never since i got the phone 1 1/2 years ago
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I've actually been pleasantly surprised by BatteryXL in the market. It doesn't do anything spectacular aside from shutting down radios and services when they're really not needed. It's helped me to get through an entire day with no charging.
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What are your settings? Itried batt xl, it seemed my batt life was worse after a week. What kinda savings did you notice?
Unfortunatly, i use the navigation all the time, so this is not an option. But, my car charger works great!
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The charger is like a American express card don't leave home without it
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I have a siedo extended battery and use Juice Defender Ultimate (rooted, stock rom). I can go 2-3 between charges with 3g coverage. I do notice a faster drain when in 4g areas though.
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im an IT tech so i use my phone all day every day. after uninstalling google maps like i stated in the OP i had 55 percent after a whole day at work and 40 percent at 1130 pm. i took it off the charger at 615 that morning. I highly encourage people to try it if you have bad batter life on your bolt. i used to use setcpu etc to control stuff but this works way better
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im an IT tech so i use my phone all day every day. after uninstalling google maps like i stated in the OP i had 55 percent after a whole day at work and 40 percent at 1130 pm. i took it off the charger at 615 that morning. I highly encourage people to try it if you have bad batter life on your bolt. i used to use setcpu etc to control stuff but this works way better
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Is there an alternative GPS app to use that won't keep opening?
buffnutz1 said:
Is there an alternative GPS app to use that won't keep opening?
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i have no idea. my navigation never worked on my bolt since day 1 and google maps only works wel for me if im connected to wifi otherwise it kind of hops around and doesnt get my exact location.
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i have no idea. my navigation never worked on my bolt since day 1 and google maps only works wel for me if im connected to wifi otherwise it kind of hops around and doesnt get my exact location.
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It has been flawless for me since day 1, so good i gave my tom tom away. Cant live without it in my industry.
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Is there an alternative GPS app to use that won't keep opening?
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I used Waze and is the only navigation app that I use.
I fixed my battery life issues just by disabling Verizon's gps service. For some reason it seems to always track you.
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ya even when i disabled my gps i still had battery life issues although it helped. im telling you i uninstalled google maps and now at the end of my work day after heavy to moderate use i have 70 % left. its crazy i never dreamed i could do that from day 1 because of such horrible battery life
I removed maps and I get a little bit better battery life. I don't know if you are using wifi or not while you are working but that could have a lot to do with the increase you are seeing as well.
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I noticed maps runs all the time but because I get decent battery life (CM7, Imo's184hz kernel undervolted even beyond extreme using incredicontrol) I never thought much of it. I did notice when I killed it it runs back immediately. I'm going to freeze it with titanium and see if it makes a difference.