Terrible battery life! - Verizon Droid Charge

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?

f3liC said:
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!

danalo1979 said:
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?

f3liC said:
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.

f3liC said:
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.

f3liC said:
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

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Battery on Bamf 1.8 stripped

So, I just flashed this ROM yesterday.
Full charge over night took phone off charger around 7ish this morning. Did a quick 30 minute run/walk workout w/the Cardio Trainer recording (tracking w/GPS), all while listening to the FM radio. I have had two phone calls totaling about about 7.5 minutes. Maybe 35 text messages in and out. I'm in a strong 4G area, I do not have my phone set to automatically get email. I just turned off the facebook hourly update, just noticed I hadn't done that yet ..... my phone is already barking at me that I need to plug it in.
With the exception of my run and listening to the radio this morning I really haven't done much .... I downloaded a couple of apps and tweaked them, but seriously 3.5 hours of battery before it's telling me less than 10%.
Any suggestions?
I did not clear the battery stats, in my past experiences that really didn't do anything to help (but that was w/the Eris).
I'd love to have GREAT battery life that everybody talks about. Anybody using this ROM have stupendous battery time? Not sure what has sucked the life out of this.
Thanks
I'd say it's the GPS that killed you.
same thing for me on bamf gb 2.1. i was at 20% after 5 hours of use
migueltherocker said:
I'd say it's the GPS that killed you.
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IDK about that, I've gone out for the same 30 minute walk/run w/the battery on yellow (on stock rooted) and the radio going and it hasn't killed it. I think maybe it's part of it, but IDK it's all of it.
I've put the phone on strict 3G, going to totally KILL it tonite and turn it off while charging.
Have you tried recalibrating your battery since installing Bamf 1.8 stripped? Maybe it's not a problem with the ROM, but with the battery calibration.
Sometime at night shutdown your phone and then hold volume down and power to boot up HTC's nice bright white bootloader. Leave it alone until it dies (the phone cannot die properly while running Android, since Android will shutdown the phone when it thinks the battery is low, rather than when the battery IS ACTUALLY low). Plug in the power cord after it dies, but leave the phone turned off. It should take a few minutes for the orange light to turn on because it's so dead. Leave it alone until the green light is showing in the morning. Then start it up. This will get the proper 0% and 100% points for your battery stats. Also check what apps are killing your battery. I was having a problem with Google Maps for a while until I cleared data on it.
I have a similar problem. I will take it off the charger and after a few minutes it will be down around 97%. No big deal. I will set it down and walk away for at most 15-20 minutes and come back and it will be on like 80%.
After that though the battery life stabilizes and I get 12+ hours with moderate use
Running AOSP CM7. I have had my phone off charge since sometime around 6 am ET this morning and at 50% now at 11 pm. This has kept me kept me from getting an extended battery. You should try it.
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lu270bro said:
Running AOSP CM7. I have had my phone off charge since sometime around 6 am ET this morning and at 50% now at 11 pm. This has kept me kept me from getting an extended battery. You should try it.
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How is the stability on this? Is it good enough for a daily ROM? (not that it's not "good", I know their work rocks) - I don't know if I want a "testing" phase ROM. Hope that makes sense?
chimpsnest said:
How is the stability on this? Is it good enough for a daily ROM? (not that it's not "good", I know their work rocks) - I don't know if I want a "testing" phase ROM. Hope that makes sense?
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3g to 4g handoff is the main complaint I hear, but I'm not in 4g area. Have driven through a 4g area and it seemed fine to me. Put it this way, this has been my daily driver for over a month now. And GPS gets near instant lock btw. I don't want to hijack the thread so I will just say that I NEED my phone to work and if too many bugs were present I wouldn't be running it.
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lu270bro said:
Running AOSP CM7. I have had my phone off charge since sometime around 6 am ET this morning and at 50% now at 11 pm. This has kept me kept me from getting an extended battery. You should try it.
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Your display is only at 5% of total usage... You hardly used your phone. Of course its going to last for 16 hours when it just sits there
athorax said:
Your display is only at 5% of total usage... You hardly used your phone. Of course its going to last for 16 hours when it just sits there
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I get awesome battery life on BAMF Remix 1.8, 20-24 hrs with normal to excessive usage. I get about half that with BAMF GingerRemix. You can see I actually use my phone, lol.
johnkc1975 said:
I get awesome battery life on BAMF Remix 1.8, 20-24 hrs with normal to excessive usage. I get about half that with BAMF GingerRemix. You can see I actually use my phone, lol.
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tell me your secrets
i just flashed 1.8 remix i get like 9-10hrs of battery with little to medium use
as ive said i must of lucked out with a solid battery as ive never had the horrid battery life most claim on the net. even with 4g on all the time i get well over 10-12hrs with medium/heavy usage.
a suggestion for a solid kernel is the 3.3.7 lean kernel, don't overclock too high either. i think that's why alot of people have the crap battery life and random reboots.
if you live in an area that doesn't get good 4g coverage id switch to 3g only mode if i were you.
lu270bro said:
3g to 4g handoff is the main complaint I hear, but I'm not in 4g area. Have driven through a 4g area and it seemed fine to me. Put it this way, this has been my daily driver for over a month now. And GPS gets near instant lock btw. I don't want to hijack the thread so I will just say that I NEED my phone to work and if too many bugs were present I wouldn't be running it.
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appreciate the info, don't think you're hijacking at all
I've totally turned off my 4G (even though my home area is FULL 4G) and my battery life seems to have improved. I still have to do the recalibration thing, I keep forgetting.
How is the lean kernel with 1.8 stripped? Any compatibility issues?
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How is the lean kernel with 1.8 stripped? Any compatibility issues?
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ditto I would like to know this as well.
- is this different than what is included in the bamf toolkit?
im using bamf 1.6 and i get 20-24 hours batt life
brightness always on 25%, unless outside then i bump it up and then turn it down when im done. lower than 25% at night when the lights are out and im just watching tv
background data and auto sync both off
moblie data off
use wifi whenever possible
switch to 3g only when youre not in a 4g area and you need to use the internet
chimpsnest said:
With the exception of my run and listening to the radio this morning I really haven't done much .... I downloaded a couple of apps and tweaked them, but seriously 3.5 hours of battery before it's telling me less than 10%.
Any suggestions?
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I get incredible good battery life with the Das BAMF 1.8.6 NTE so I would expect the same out of Stripped. I would consider another kernel, I am very happy with utkanos http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1025199 Are you on MR2's radio or MR2.5? 2.5 seems to do much better with GPS.
chimpsnest said:
So, I just flashed this ROM yesterday.
Full charge over night took phone off charger around 7ish this morning. Did a quick 30 minute run/walk workout w/the Cardio Trainer recording (tracking w/GPS), all while listening to the FM radio. I have had two phone calls totaling about about 7.5 minutes. Maybe 35 text messages in and out. I'm in a strong 4G area, I do not have my phone set to automatically get email. I just turned off the facebook hourly update, just noticed I hadn't done that yet ..... my phone is already barking at me that I need to plug it in.
With the exception of my run and listening to the radio this morning I really haven't done much .... I downloaded a couple of apps and tweaked them, but seriously 3.5 hours of battery before it's telling me less than 10%.
Any suggestions?
I did not clear the battery stats, in my past experiences that really didn't do anything to help (but that was w/the Eris).
I'd love to have GREAT battery life that everybody talks about. Anybody using this ROM have stupendous battery time? Not sure what has sucked the life out of this.
Thanks
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What is using up your battery because if it is the Cell Standby or Phone idle I have a fix for you. I had always had great battery life until last week when it started draining as you describe in your post. I tried everything to get back to where I was but was not successful. I ended up pulling out the 4G card and reinserting it. I was instructed to do this by a Verizon tech. I though he was wasting my time but it fixed my battery issue and I am getting great battery life on BAMF 2.1 and also BAMF 1.86
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What is using up your battery because if it is the Cell Standby or Phone idle I have a fix for you. I had always had great battery life until last week when it started draining as you describe in your post. I tried everything to get back to where I was but was not successful. I ended up pulling out the 4G card and reinserting it. I was instructed to do this by a Verizon tech. I though he was wasting my time but it fixed my battery issue and I am getting great battery life on BAMF 2.1 and also BAMF 1.86
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That's interesting, I wonder what that would do and why it would work? These phones do like to keep us on our toes, eh?
I've made the switch to CM as of yesterday so I'll be playing around w/that for a while.

Engadget lies about Charge battery life

I purchased the Droid Charge based on the Engadget review of the device. In particular, I wanted a device that could get on the LTE network AND have great battery life. This excerpt sold me:
When it comes to battery life, there's no competition. The Charge blitzed through a full day of what we'd consider typical use, coming off the charger at about 9am and not getting slotted back in again until 9pm the next night. Yes, you read that right, two working days of what we'd consider average use with GPS and WiFi on, taking pictures and videos, all powered by a single 1,600mAh battery. Granted, we weren't running our performance benchmarks at the time, but we were hammering the LTE antenna to get some speed results.
I expected to get, at a minimum, a full day's charge using LTE on this device, considering I live in an area where LTE isn't hard to come by (Los Angeles). Alas, I was sorely disappointed when my battery drained within 5 hours with minimal use. 5 hours!!! How can Engadget claim it will last for two days and that "there's no competition." It's totally misleading. The Droid Charge has a serious battery issue which nobody can seem to get to the bottom of. I even tried installing the latest Gingerbread rom to ameliorate the issue, but to no avail. Has anyone gotten a full day's use out of the device when on the LTE network?
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Has anyone gotten a full day's use out of the device when on the LTE network?
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I just got back from a full day's use on 4G with GPS on, WiFi on and Exchange and Gmail pushing mail as needed. I did not, however, text at all. One of my pages has an IP camera app that updates three feeds (snapshots) at least every five minutes. I am in a pretty consistent 4G area except when I'm at home (Philladelphia suburbs by my home is in a geographically challenged location)!
The phone just turned off as it dropped below 2% so I can't give any battery stats; I've been following the battery recalibration procedure listed here.
Keep the faith...you may not reach two days but you should be able to get a lot more than 5 hours!
rmanaka said:
I just got back from a full day's use on 4G with GPS on, WiFi on and Exchange and Gmail pushing mail as needed. I did not, however, text at all. One of my pages has an IP camera app that updates three feeds (snapshots) at least every five minutes. I am in a pretty consistent 4G area except when I'm at home (Philladelphia suburbs by my home is in a geographically challenged location)!
The phone just turned off as it dropped below 2% so I can't give any battery stats; I've been following the battery recalibration procedure listed here.
Keep the faith...you may not reach two days but you should be able to get a lot more than 5 hours!
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Out of curiosity, which ROM are you using to get this kind of battery life? I just installed the latest Gingerbread leak and my phone is leaking battery at a rate of 15-20% per hour. I saw that re-calibration post, but I'm wondering if I can simply charge my phone to 100% and place the same ROM on top of the one I already installed. Just want to make sure I don't brick my phone.
Any thoughts?
If you wondering if you can just replace your current COM with the same one you are using by just replacing the files on the SD card then yes you can. If you're asking about re-flashing the same ROM over it again without wiping during the calibration then you can. It shouldn't harm anything.
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If you wondering if you can just replace your current COM with the same one you are using by just replacing the files on the SD card then yes you can. If you're asking about re-flashing the same ROM over it again without wiping during the calibration then you can. It shouldn't harm anything.
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I've already installed the latest Gingerbread ROM and updated all my apps and widgets on the device. Can I now charge the device to 100%, bump charge a couple of times (per the instructions in another post on the board), and then restart and wipe the battery stats in recovery mode? Or, do I have to charge to 100% and then completely reinstall the same exact ROM on top of the one I just installed?
Stockmoose.
5 hours? That's questionable that you only got 5 hours with minimal use. No Engadget did not lie, and until the 1700 mah phones are released the end of the month, there is no comparison.
Only with Altered Beast and heavy use was I able to kill the battery in under 8 hours. So I would chalk it up to a bad battery. Not everything is perfect.
Gingerbread is a leak, so trying to compare it to the stock rom does you no good.
You can wipe the battery cache without having to re-flash everything again.
Agreed, I was heavily influenced by the Engadget review and was seriously disappointed when I struggle to get a day's worth of usage out of the stock ROM on 4G.
The Gingerbread leaks have some serious battery issues. I reccomend flashing Humble v1.3 (Froyo) and undervolting. Best battery life by far. I can hammer the LTE radio for a few hours straight.
As a side note, all of Verizon's current 4G Android offerings have awful battery life due to having the dual CDMA and LTE radios. That being said, the Charge evidently has the best life out of the three of them. Future phones (when Verizon dumps CDMA altogether in favor of LTE) will have way better life.
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Agreed, I was heavily influenced by the Engadget review and was seriously disappointed when I struggle to get a day's worth of usage out of the stock ROM on 4G.
The Gingerbread leaks have some serious battery issues. I reccomend flashing Humble v1.3 (Froyo) and undervolting. Best battery life by far. I can hammer the LTE radio for a few hours straight.
As a side note, all of Verizon's current 4G Android offerings have awful battery life due to having the dual CDMA and LTE radios. That being said, the Charge evidently has the best life out of the three of them. Future phones (when Verizon dumps CDMA altogether in favor of LTE) will have way better life.
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Curious while running Humble v1.3 and undervolting which kernel are you running atm. And second what undervoltage settings are your using atm currently so yo uare getting random reboots. Reaosn I ask is I just flashed v1.3 this am and updated to Imnut's newest OC kernel but have left it alone right now without touching any voltage settings. So any input would be great and I'd like to set mine nad check it out to see if I can get even better battery life out of it. Thanks
Pro tip: Never buy anything based solely on one review.
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Curious while running Humble v1.3 and undervolting which kernel are you running atm. And second what undervoltage settings are your using atm currently so yo uare getting random reboots. Reaosn I ask is I just flashed v1.3 this am and updated to Imnut's newest OC kernel but have left it alone right now without touching any voltage settings. So any input would be great and I'd like to set mine nad check it out to see if I can get even better battery life out of it. Thanks
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This should help.
I get about 12 hours with minimal to moderate usage throughout the day 4G, wifi/gps off for the majority. I might have to try this bump charging, though. Would be incredible to get a solid day out of this thing.
9 hours of using my phone to check XDA post, playing bubble buster, and texting and my phone is at 77%. Only thing different on my phone is i'm using SetCPU to undervolt. But even with that. if you are only getting 6 hours with minor use. There is something wrong.
I just did a solid 36 hours by staying on my home Wifi almost the whole time. I'm using Gummy Charged 1.8. Before everyone starts calling bull----, I probably used the phone a total of 1 hour over that period of time.
Normally, it lasts 14-18 hours with only Exchange mail and an hour of gaming (no facebook, social networks, etc.)
If I recall correctly, battery life was an issue with the gingerbread leaks.
I did the battery charging cycles as mentioned above and erased the battery stats last night. Now I'm down to 20% after 6 hours of light use. That's pretty much the same way as before. What did I do wrong?
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I just did a solid 36 hours by staying on my home Wifi almost the whole time. I'm using Gummy Charged 1.8. Before everyone starts calling bull----, I probably used the phone a total of 1 hour over that period of time.
Normally, it lasts 14-18 hours with only Exchange mail and an hour of gaming (no facebook, social networks, etc.)
If I recall correctly, battery life was an issue with the gingerbread leaks.
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Not a chance I'll say bull**** that is for sure. When leaving the device on Wifi battery life will DRASTICALLY increase. The radio in the device is what is eating it up. If you want to conserve even more battery I've found and don't ask me why if you actually turn off Mobile data and then turn Wifi on it will help even more.
Ran a test last night and with over 7hrs on Wifi it dropped on 5%
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I just did a solid 36 hours by staying on my home Wifi almost the whole time. I'm using Gummy Charged 1.8. Before everyone starts calling bull----, I probably used the phone a total of 1 hour over that period of time.
Normally, it lasts 14-18 hours with only Exchange mail and an hour of gaming (no facebook, social networks, etc.)
If I recall correctly, battery life was an issue with the gingerbread leaks.
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I've gotten 24 hours with about 20% to spare going in and out of Wifi and 4G. I had 3 gmail accounts sync'd to the phone and I probably streamed about 20 minutes worth of music using Google Music. But, I probably used the phone for a combined total of 1.5 hours over that period, and it was a slow day, so I actually didn't get many emails.
I think I was using one of the Froyo Gummy ROMs.
I don't think it's very fair to use custom ROMs and then complain about battery life. Was your battery life lower than 5 hours on the stock ROM? Did you even use the stock ROM?
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I don't think it's very fair to use custom ROMs and then complain about battery life. Was your battery life lower than 5 hours on the stock ROM? Did you even use the stock ROM?
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Try reading more than skimming the OP. He implied that he started stock there, and about 3 posts down said that it was ridiculous that even the stock ROM couldn't get 5 hours.
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Try reading more than skimming the OP. He implied that he started stock there, and about 3 posts down said that it was ridiculous that even the stock ROM couldn't get 5 hours.
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My apologies, I misread his second to last sentence in the OP.
Either way, 5 hours is not normal and I wouldn't blame the Charge just yet. Not sure if you guys have official 2.3 yet (I'm a Thunderbolt owner myself), but I know the Froyo ROMs on the TB have a very noticeable increase in battery life compared to the Gingerbread leak builds.
I get about 6-8 hours of heavy use on my 2.3 ROM on the TB. Probably closer to 13+ with Froyo.

Horrible Battery Life on Pinnacle 1.3

My battery drops 5% under 1 min without even use of the phone, even when the phone's on standby. After about 3 hours of moderate use (seesmic and whatsapp) it'll drop from 100% charge to about 50%. Sometimes right after I plug it out, I can see the battery drop to 99% then 98 and so on.
I'm running Pinnacle 1.3 now and I was of the impression that it was a great ROM for battery life. Before this I had a stock GB ROM, and then CM7. On CM7, the battery was also horrible.
I've run battery dry then charged it back to 100% and did battery calibration. still horrible.
any suggestions, please?
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My battery drops 5% under 1 min without even use of the phone, even when the phone's on standby. After about 3 hours of moderate use (seesmic and whatsapp) it'll drop from 100% charge to about 50%. Sometimes right after I plug it out, I can see the battery drop to 99% then 98 and so on.
I'm running Pinnacle 1.3 now and I was of the impression that it was a great ROM for battery life. Before this I had a stock GB ROM, and then CM7. On CM7, the battery was also horrible.
I've run battery dry then charged it back to 100% and did battery calibration. still horrible.
any suggestions, please?
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Get a new battery
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The battery life was ok with my stock GB ROM. I'm hopeful there're other solutions that don't include buying a new battery.
Sounds like you have a rogue app.
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Try watchdog lite from the market. It should help to isolate which app is gone rogue.
Ah, thank you. I'll get Watchdog and hopefully find whatever is causing all of this.
kbolt said:
Ah, thank you. I'll get Watchdog and hopefully find whatever is causing all of this.
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If that doesn't work maybe just try reflashing. Make sure you have 100% battery when you flash as well. I've used ROMs before that I knew had good battery life and sometimes when I flashed them my phone died fast. I remember it happening on Serendipity VII before. Didn't make sense cause I had good battery life with it before, but that flash didn't go well or something. Reflash brought back good battery life.
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Reamer09 said:
If that doesn't work maybe just try reflashing. Make sure you have 100% battery when you flash as well. I've used ROMs before that I knew had good battery life and sometimes when I flashed them my phone died fast. I remember it happening on Serendipity VII before. Didn't make sense cause I had good battery life with it before, but that flash didn't go well or something. Reflash brought back good battery life.
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How is your battery life on your Captivate?
kbolt said:
How is your battery life on your Captivate?
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As long as I don't play tons of games then I can get 25-30 hours and that's with many many texts throughout the day (4000-5000 a month) with a little web browsing and streaming Pandora for a little while over BT.
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Reamer09 said:
As long as I don't play tons of games then I can get 25-30 hours and that's with many many texts throughout the day (4000-5000 a month) with a little web browsing and streaming Pandora for a little while over BT.
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25-30hrs? Wow, that's a lot. I'm on 3G a lot during the day, mainly Seesmic and browising (stock browser and Opera Mobile). Watchdog seems to be working, my battery life seems better.
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25-30hrs? Wow, that's a lot. I'm on 3G a lot during the day, mainly Seesmic and browising (stock browser and Opera Mobile). Watchdog seems to be working, my battery life seems better.
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I'm not sure what Seesmic is but if you're doing a lot of web browsing that's definitely what is killing your battery life. The display will use more power than pretty much any app out there. I have my screen brightness as low as it'll go and I don't leave my screen on for a long time when I do turn it on. Plus the white colors of websites uses more energy on AMOLED screens.
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If that doesn't work maybe just try reflashing. Make sure you have 100% battery when you flash as well. I've used ROMs before that I knew had good battery life and sometimes when I flashed them my phone died fast. I remember it happening on Serendipity VII before. Didn't make sense cause I had good battery life with it before, but that flash didn't go well or something. Reflash brought back good battery life.
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Will a reflash help? I put Serendipity VII on my and my gf's captivate, and we're looking at about 7 hrs max battery life with minimal use.
I went from Serendipity VII to Pinnacle 1.2 (and then 1.3) and got a lot better battery life. But I switched to Samurai kernel...
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I went from Serendipity VII to Pinnacle 1.2 (and then 1.3) and got a lot better battery life. But I switched to Samurai kernel...
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Yes I also have the Samurai kernel, along with Voodoo. Still no dice though. I wish I could get the battery life I hear so many people talking about. I've been told to try out dlev 5.0.
Also make sure you have Automatic Brightness, Auto-rotate and Power Saving mode turned off.
i have brightness to the lowest, no auto brightness. i don't like auto-rotate so i keep it off. but i do have power saving mode on. why would that be off?
where is "power saving mode" setting on a captivate? simple questions:
1. when did you flash the rom?
2. Have you seen in settings which process/app is using your battery?
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Will a reflash help? I put Serendipity VII on my and my gf's captivate, and we're looking at about 7 hrs max battery life with minimal use.
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It did for me. I can't remember if I saw the battery life drop after flashing the 4.2 kernel update or not. I think when I reflashed I didn't flash anything and left it with version 3 or whatever it comes with.
Also, on Pinnacle I am using all stock stuff (kernel, modem), not the Samurai kernel or anything.
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where is "power saving mode" setting on a captivate?
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In display settings...
It should be off, it works with auto brightness to keep it dim and "save power" but if you're not using auto brightness its just another process running that is wasting resources.
Auto brightness is pretty useless on tw roms because that handy brightness adjustment by holding down the status bar and moving left or right.
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My battery drops 5% under 1 min without even use of the phone, even when the phone's on standby. After about 3 hours of moderate use (seesmic and whatsapp) it'll drop from 100% charge to about 50%. Sometimes right after I plug it out, I can see the battery drop to 99% then 98 and so on.
I'm running Pinnacle 1.3 now and I was of the impression that it was a great ROM for battery life. Before this I had a stock GB ROM, and then CM7. On CM7, the battery was also horrible.
I've run battery dry then charged it back to 100% and did battery calibration. still horrible.
any suggestions, please?
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1. Like Reamer09 says refash.....BUT don't forget to wipe data, wipe cache and dalvik cache. Wiping data and cache just before reflash.........it helps with my battery issues. I don't think there is any ROM out there with that bad a battery life. No dev would let that pass
EDIT: Just re-read.....your battery dropping like that after recharge can be a kernel issue......it happens to me on a a particular kernel (will not name ! devs all work very hard on their kernels.....) and flashing another one helped.
Ok I will reflash it. I've also noticed some lack of responsiveness while using the phone. For instance when I select an option in a menu anywhere, it pauses a bit (probably a second or two) before it carries out the selected command.
Another example is while I'm typing, I have haptic feedback on and so I feel a vibration everytime I touch a letter. The vibration is usually just a short buzz, but once in a while I feel a strange longer vibration. It's weird, really. I hope reflashing will also help with this.

terrible battery life

ok so here's the deal.. my phone has been off the charger for about 4 hours and im already down to 40% left. I live in a 4g area but it is spotty in many areas, including my workplace. I have gps (for weather updates and nav, when i need it) and wifi on at all times. i am running the EP4P modems on GummyCharged Froyo ROM 2.0. I have the screen brightness turned all the way down. No overclocking.
Kernel: 2.6.32.9 [email protected] #30
I have tried several different methods to calibrate the battery but it doesnt seem to help. When i'm at home and using wifi the battery life is pretty good. so is it my modem? the ROM? my kernel? Can anyone help me get the most out of my phone? I've tried various modems but have stuck with GC since I loaded it back in sept.
If you are in a spotty area, that can happen. Searching for signal and 4G/3G switching can drain the battery very fast. I would try putting the phone in cdma mode while you are at work or any other spotty area.
Turn off wifi and gps if you are not currently using them, wifi scans for networks regularly and you may have apps/widgets that are using the gps/ network location services while you are idle
also, my battery stats say that display is using up 45% (as of now) of my battery life with 23 mins of usage time. I have the wifi turned on for my convenience, but it doesn't scan for networks as i've turned that function off. I will try the cdma switch, but I have also tried that before and I don't think it makes too much of a difference.
leaveone said:
also, my battery stats say that display is using up 45% (as of now) of my battery life with 23 mins of usage time. I have the wifi turned on for my convenience, but it doesn't scan for networks as i've turned that function off. I will try the cdma switch, but I have also tried that before and I don't think it makes too much of a difference.
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The battery usage metrics aren't useful until you've been up for several hours. And having the screen using a high percentage is ideal -- it means that the rest of the system is throttling like it is supposed to.
How long have you been on GummyCharged? A few weeks into having that on my phone happily, battery life took a nose dive similar to what you are experiencing. I flashed back to stock and battery life is much better. Waiting for official GB before trying another ROM.
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The battery usage metrics aren't useful until you've been up for several hours. And having the screen using a high percentage is ideal -- it means that the rest of the system is throttling like it is supposed to.
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i see your point but im now at 5 hours uptime with 23% battery left.. light/medium usage. display still says 46% battery use with 25 mins of usage time. that seems like incredibly too much battery drainage.
also, when i put the phone into cdma mode do i select the home or automatic option, and what is the difference?
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How long have you been on GummyCharged? A few weeks into having that on my phone happily, battery life took a nose dive similar to what you are experiencing. I flashed back to stock and battery life is much better. Waiting for official GB before trying another ROM.
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i flashed GC onto my phone in mid september. since then i've tried calibrating the battery several times. a totally futile exercise it seems. What setup are you running now? 2.2.1 with EE4 modem? Rooted?
The only thing that has solved my battery problems is juice defender. Sitting idle for eight plus hours at night I only drop about 3-5%. Of choose it still drains just as quickly while using the phone but it will help if you're in a spotty area because data is turned off if your screen is off.
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I've never had good luck using a modem from one rom with a DIFFERENT rom/kernel. Always docreased my performance.
I find it odd that Battery is the only issue you are having.
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I have similar issues. After rooting and flashing Humble on my phone, my battery life sucked, much much worse than stock.
I then put the standard 2.3.6 on it and it still sucks. Full 4G all day, barely use it.
It's sat on my desk at work all day today. Sent a few texts. I've installed betterybatterystats and nothing is taking up a large portion of partial wakelocks.
Really don't understand how people are getting such good numbers...
I find that by far and away the best way to increase battery life is to lock my phone in 3G unless I am downloading something & want the 4G speed.
I have a home screen widget that turns 4G on/off & only turn on 4G occasionally. I do not leave WiFi on although I leave GPS on at all times & find that uses almost no battery life whatever.
~John
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I have similar issues. After rooting and flashing Humble on my phone, my battery life sucked, much much worse than stock.
I then put the standard 2.3.6 on it and it still sucks. Full 4G all day, barely use it.
It's sat on my desk at work all day today. Sent a few texts. I've installed betterybatterystats and nothing is taking up a large portion of partial wakelocks.
Really don't understand how people are getting such good numbers...
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I thought my battery was bad then i looked at that graph. I don't even get it... The screen is mostly off and the signal is green most of the time.
It may be some rogue app on your phone. Backup your apps and do a factory reset. If your battery life significantly improves, restore your apps one by one and find the culprit.
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I thought my battery was bad then i looked at that graph. I don't even get it... The screen is mostly off and the signal is green most of the time.
It may be some rogue app on your phone. Backup your apps and do a factory reset. If your battery life significantly improves, restore your apps one by one and find the culprit.
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I see that you're running GC GBE 2.1, did they happen to fix the hotboot issue that im experiencing in the older release?
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i flashed GC onto my phone in mid september. since then i've tried calibrating the battery several times. a totally futile exercise it seems. What setup are you running now? 2.2.1 with EE4 modem? Rooted?
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Just stock EE4, unrooted, will do OTA as soon as I get the notification. Battery life is not that good, I can get 14 or so hours of use leaving it on 3G most of the time, but on Gummy I would get 50+% drain just having it sit overnight. Now leaving it sit overnight doesn't kill it.
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I see that you're running GC GBE 2.1, did they happen to fix the hotboot issue that im experiencing in the older release?
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Hotboots are there but only like one every 2 days. The status bar glitch is still there. I use gc because i can't stand the default lock screen.
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Hotboots are there but only like one every 2 days. The status bar glitch is still there. I use gc because i can't stand the default lock screen.
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hmmm.. and what glitch is that?
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hmmm.. and what glitch is that?
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If you pull out the charger at 100%, it force closes (rest of phone is usable) and comes back inn a few seconds.
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leaveone said:
ok so here's the deal.. my phone has been off the charger for about 4 hours and im already down to 40% left. I live in a 4g area but it is spotty in many areas, including my workplace. I have gps (for weather updates and nav, when i need it) and wifi on at all times. i am running the EP4P modems on GummyCharged Froyo ROM 2.0. I have the screen brightness turned all the way down. No overclocking.
Kernel: 2.6.32.9 [email protected] #30
I have tried several different methods to calibrate the battery but it doesnt seem to help. When i'm at home and using wifi the battery life is pretty good. so is it my modem? the ROM? my kernel? Can anyone help me get the most out of my phone? I've tried various modems but have stuck with GC since I loaded it back in sept.
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you prob shouldnt be using that ROM..its kinda outdated...just flash the new ALL IN ONE ODIN of EP4D...my battery life is pretty sick...i left it unplugged all night and saw a tiny drop..my phone was connected via wifi tho..if my phone is in 4g the battery loses pretty quickly or if my screen is on ultra bright..
I'm running the stock, rooted, manually-debloated EP4P and I've been getting downright stellar battery life.
My kids watched an hour of Netflix this morning while getting ready, and now (almost 10 hours later), I'm still at 63%.
But! (and here's the kicker) - I leave WiFi on all the time (I'm contemplating buying Woofi to save even more battery when I'm not at home or work) and have my WiFi sleep policy set to "Never".
This is (one of) the key(s). It doesn't matter how strong your 3G or 4G signal is, WiFi will always save you battery. 3G is less battery intensive per-time, but much more battery intensive per-byte. 4G is less battery intensive per-byte, but much more battery intensive per-time. WiFi is much more battery intensive per-time, but wildly less battery intensive per-byte.
In other words, for the same download, you'll use the least battery on WiFi (even with a slower than LTE connection), 4g in the middle, and 3G the most.
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I'm running the stock, rooted, manually-debloated EP4P and I've been getting downright stellar battery life.
My kids watched an hour of Netflix this morning while getting ready, and now (almost 10 hours later), I'm still at 63%.
But! (and here's the kicker) - I leave WiFi on all the time (I'm contemplating buying Woofi to save even more battery when I'm not at home or work) and have my WiFi sleep policy set to "Never".
This is (one of) the key(s). It doesn't matter how strong your 3G or 4G signal is, WiFi will always save you battery. 3G is less battery intensive per-time, but much more battery intensive per-byte. 4G is less battery intensive per-byte, but much more battery intensive per-time. WiFi is much more battery intensive per-time, but wildly less battery intensive per-byte.
In other words, for the same download, you'll use the least battery on WiFi (even with a slower than LTE connection), 4g in the middle, and 3G the most.
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is there an odin file for what you have or did you do the manually debloating after rooting?

Anyone having crappy battery life with ICS?

Just curious is it just me or does the Skyrocket have ****tier battery life running on ICS compared to it running on Gingerbread? Anyone else having battery problems. I've been running ICS on my I727r for 2 days now and the battery life is very questionable. Probably a battery stat reset will work :S
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Just curious is it just me or does the Skyrocket have ****tier battery life running on ICS compared to it running on Gingerbread? Anyone else having battery problems. I've been running ICS on my I727r for 2 days now and the battery life is very questionable. Probably a battery stat reset will work :S
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I've found my battery life better. I haven't put down my phone since, and the battery life is on par with GB with my phone in deep sleep in my pocket. Lol
I did do a battery stat wipe and drained it and recharged it to full.
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Yeah, my battery went out pretty damn quick yesterday, but that could be because I've been fussing with my phone more than normal.
The first day of using ics my battery life was okay. The second day my battery life sucked. Why? Because I set up Facebook. Battery manager showed 10% use and I hadn't even checked it. Its the bloat!
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arberthebarber said:
Just curious is it just me or does the Skyrocket have ****tier battery life running on ICS compared to it running on Gingerbread? Anyone else having battery problems. I've been running ICS on my I727r for 2 days now and the battery life is very questionable. Probably a battery stat reset will work :S
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Same, my i727r battery life is horrible since i flashed ICS.
I have noticed that my android system is pulling a lot of juice compared to GB. I made some changes today like freeze all the bloat + installed UCLC4 modem. And wiped battery stats + complete drain and discharge of the battery. Lets see if it get better after a few cycles.
My battery seems a lot better! Way way way better. 25 minutes of web and its still full!
SkyRocket [ICS-Leak 4.0.3]
arberthebarber said:
Just curious is it just me or does the Skyrocket have ****tier battery life running on ICS compared to it running on Gingerbread? Anyone else having battery problems. I've been running ICS on my I727r for 2 days now and the battery life is very questionable. Probably a battery stat reset will work :S
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Battery has been much better for me with ICS.
Freezing tons of bloat helps..
My battery life has been horrible on ICS but when I look at the battery thing, Face Unlock used 35% of my batter (when my batter was 5% left) o-o it takes THAT much?
My battery life is absolutely amazing with ICS.
I have the stock rom debloated completely, and a lot of junk is disabled. Coupled with turning off auto brightness and leaving data off when i don't use it, the battery just chugs along.
This morning I got in my car at 7 AM, started playing music full blast through the stereo for an hour. Got to class, played some temple run, approximately a half hour worth. 30 texts or so, one 1 minute phone call. (data was off the entire time, it keeps facebook from butting in from behind) My battery has literally only gone down 10%, and it's 1 PM
I'm in love.
Seems fine here, I usually have it plugged in but today am testing it without. The couple charge blips are from when I had to get some files off of it.
I froze a bunch of the AT&T bloatware, have had Wi-fi, BT, GPS enabled the entire time. Moderate/light use... I've attached some screens.
I'm running http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1567817 with the flashable ICS modem.
My battery has been horrible but it's only been a day for me and my signal has been fluctuating a lot on day one. It's stabilized now so we'll see after a few days of use. But right now it is horrible.
It seems mine is doing worse.
But I have been adding a lot of stuff since this is my first time rooting.
I am about to get a battery depleted(at 12% right now) and reset the battery statistics and install the OEM battery.
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It seems mine is doing worse.
But I have been adding a lot of stuff since this is my first time rooting.
I am about to get a battery depleted(at 12% right now) and reset the battery statistics and install the OEM battery.
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I thought there was a lot of debating over deleting the battery stats, i remember an article from a google programmer saying that it actually decreases battery performance...i personally stopped doing it a year ago and noticed a better batter experience, most of the time bad battery comes from a bad flash or apps that run in the backround and use location services
My battery life was horrible with ICS so im back to GB. At work with phone in pocket for 2hrs and was already down to 75% off killing battery and charging it fully next day. When I got home after 8hrs of work already at 50% and thats when its in sleep mode. Using it I would drain 1% every couple minutes definitly bloat. Might try new debloated ones but kinda skeptical since GB gives me amazing battery life.
Once the kernel source drops custom kernels will make all you guys stop crying your all used to optimized stuff not samsucks stuff lol give it time
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I thought there was a lot of debating over deleting the battery stats, i remember an article from a google programmer saying that it actually decreases battery performance...i personally stopped doing it a year ago and noticed a better batter experience, most of the time bad battery comes from a bad flash or apps that run in the backround and use location services
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Well condiering I have never reset them and did this first and only flash of the ICS leak, I'm hoping it helps out. We'll see what happens.
I have Juicedefender turning everything off while sleeping(set widgetlocker to deinied so when locked, widget locker stays active to be ready, and juicedefender see's that and turns off data)
On my 2100mAh nexus battery I barely got over a day(was getting 36-40 hours on GB)
Either way, I have two batteries so I'll deal with it until either an official ICS release or a new rom with better battery performance comes around.
I also have the nexus battery. Def have less battery life with this version of ics .
It could be the algorithm the use. At the start of the day is slowly draws down. As the day goes on it seems to drain faster
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Actually, I have been having the Best battery life to date. I will post my list of APK's that I removed. I don't do FB or anything like that, so not sure if that is affecting it. Also, in a non LTE area. on the UCLA3 kernel, I was absolutely getting horrid battery life.
I live in an LTE area and I am getting almost a full day of use. Never got that with GB. I keep wanting to charge it, but I dont have to.
I do have Juice Defender running though, and it disables my data in 15 or 30 min intervals when the screen is locked. And I have SetCPU which limits the CPU to a max of 384 when the screen is locked.
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I also have the nexus battery. Def have less battery life with this version of ics .
It could be the algorithm the use. At the start of the day is slowly draws down. As the day goes on it seems to drain faster
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Battery discharge isn't a linear function my friend.
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