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[REQUEST] Rom with optimized battery life.

So I have seen a few roms released in the last week, but I keep thinking to myself "When will there be a rom that's targeted to optimize battery?" If one of the awesome devs could come up with something that does just this that would be amazing.
TIA.

desairs said:
So I have seen a few roms released in the last week, but I keep thinking to myself "When will there be a rom that's targeted to optimize battery?" If one of the awesome devs could come up with something that does just this that would be amazing.
TIA.
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get busy !!! i get 19 + hours per charge on heavy usage im very happy

Sporkman said:
get busy !!! i get 19 + hours per charge on heavy usage im very happy
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HOW?!?! I get a max of 12 to 13 on heavy usage.

If anyone does do this, I find that I get great battery life now after trying the CDMA/GSM fix (cant find the link).
Might wanna be something to look into for future ROMs. (From what I remember, the glitch shows the phone as looking for GSM networks while it's connected to a CDMA network. I followed the instructions to correct this and it's had a positive impact on my battery life. Getting near double the life now).

You guys are on 3G aren't you? I don't even get 2 hours on 4G with medium heavy usage.

ogwilson said:
If anyone does do this, I find that I get great battery life now after trying the CDMA/GSM fix (cant find the link).
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Right here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651848&highlight=tws&page=2
Waiting to see if it makes a difference, though.

8-14 on moderate use to heavy is all you are going to be getting. I doubt you'll see a rom aimed only at battery life. Find a rom with sense removed (there are a few of them) or asop and further remove junk you don't use especially the social network **** and enjoy.

If anyone does do this, I find that I get great battery life now after trying the CDMA/GSM fix (cant find the link).
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Right here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651848&highlight=tws&page=2
Waiting to see if it makes a difference, though.
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Nice
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Using Froyo and the OC Widget (With recommended settings)
3g
WiFi
No GPS
Disabled data roaming
Low brightness
Moderate usage
I'm at 20 hours with 32% battery left.
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ogwilson said:
If anyone does do this, I find that I get great battery life now after trying the CDMA/GSM fix (cant find the link).
Might wanna be something to look into for future ROMs. (From what I remember, the glitch shows the phone as looking for GSM networks while it's connected to a CDMA network. I followed the instructions to correct this and it's had a positive impact on my battery life. Getting near double the life now).
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Are you referring to this thread?
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=124758
You really don't even need an app from the market like the guy suggests in that thread. If you just dial *#*#INFO#*#*, then go to Phone Information, then scroll down to 'Set preferred network type' and select CDMA auto (prl) from the list.

TREYisRAD said:
Using Froyo and the OC Widget (With recommended settings)
3g
WiFi
No GPS
Disabled data roaming
Low brightness
Moderate usage
I'm at 20 hours with 32% battery left.
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what software is that use to show the CPU and Battery usage.
Thanks

Actually that CDMA/GSM fix, can it be applied through a rom? I'm pretty sure that's a built in phone setting where you have to dial through the keypad. Regardless, think of it this way. Processors and memory run off of voltage. The more it's in use the more power it will take. Now undervolting and underclocking the CPU is an obvious fix but also the memkiller settings. The more memory that is in use the more power is being taken up. This is why AOSP has better battery life than Sense under the same circumstances. With a more aggressive memkiller you can further increase battery life. I am going to build aggressive settings in my next release of my rom but for custom settings you can always get Autokill from the Market, assuming your phone is rooted of course.

I'm getting FANTASTIC battery life on the latest Fresh ROM.
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TREYisRAD said:
Using Froyo and the OC Widget (With recommended settings)
3g
WiFi
No GPS
Disabled data roaming
Low brightness
Moderate usage
I'm at 20 hours with 32% battery left.
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I keep hearing about the OC widget, but cant find it in the market? Are you talking about SetCPU and the widget that comes with that??

frettfreak said:
I keep hearing about the OC widget, but cant find it in the market? Are you talking about SetCPU and the widget that comes with that??
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http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.freecoder.widgets.overclock
Haven't tried setCPU, though it does look nicer.
And SystemPanel, which is excellent.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/nextapp.systempanel

Has setcpu been updated with native evo support, or are people still rocking N1 settings?

You get OC Widget by searching "overclock widget" in the Market. However, I don't see the need for it since the EVO automatically scales the CPU clock, and we can't overclock.

TREYisRAD said:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.freecoder.widgets.overclock
Haven't tried setCPU, though it does look nicer.
And SystemPanel, which is excellent.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/nextapp.systempanel
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THANK YOU!!
TheBiles said:
You get OC Widget by searching "overclock widget" in the Market. However, I don't see the need for it since the EVO automatically scales the CPU clock, and we can't overclock.
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I guess i should have tried spelling out overclock instead of OC (DUH).. lol, and i have heard that, and have no doubt that it is true, but some people are claiming it has given them some improvement in battery life... Maybe its just a placebo effect, but i am gonna run a few tests and see what i can come up with....
I read a post on another forum from a guy that sounded like he REALLY knew what he was talking about and said the same thing you did but with some pretty big words and tech talk to back it up. But hey.. its free, and i like trying new stuff... even if its so i can see it for myself that it doesnt do anything.

Am I the only one that realizes overclock widget and setcpu don't work on our phones? I have tried both on 3 different ROMs and checked through a adb shell the cpu usage while the phone was asleep and neither one works no matter what I set the programs to.

Awesome, I've officially made it >24 hours on a single charge! (Though I did plug it into my laptop for 3 minutes to transfer some stuff)
Started the monitor with a little less than 90%, and now I'm at 8%
http://imgur.com/0wsm9.png
Using the GPS for 15 minutes drained it the most, compared to other apps.

This is ridiculous!

What I hate most about android.
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Do I need to say anything else, what good is a phone if it can't last a day. Dual core my ass.
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you need to upgrade to CM7. i was getting about a day and a half. right now i'm at almost 7 hrs and its just under a quarter of the way down.

This is on xboarders ota update zip, I was running cm7 prior to this, but I'm trying to sell/trade this to get an iPhone 4 so I flashed this over cm7, my battery life wasn't that much of a difference on cm7, stock, faux, eaglesblood, bionx or using the uc /ov faux kernel, its really android in general they have yet to release a phone that I'm satisfied with as far as battery use, if i still have android when ice cream sandwich /cm8 comes out and I still have this issue I'm going to the iPhone.
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Okay. Assumptions just from looking at the graph....
Phone was awake with the screen on for about 2 hours straight? Is that normal usage for you? Screen on for 2 hours may take about half your battery depending on what you're doing while it's on.

kdunn1994 said:
This is on xboarders ota update zip, I was running cm7 prior to this, but I'm trying to sell/trade this to get an iPhone 4 so I flashed this over cm7, my battery life wasn't that much of a difference on cm7, stock, faux, eaglesblood, bionx or using the uc /ov faux kernel, its really android in general they have yet to release a phone that I'm satisfied with as far as battery use, if i still have android when ice cream sandwich /cm8 comes out and I still have this issue I'm going to the iPhone.
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And this will probably continue to happen as I've heard the level of synchronization that Android does is a lot higher than that of the iPhone and there is a lot of data transfer in the background associated with any widgets and apps are running in the background among other things. Never used an iPhone so I don't have any personal experience. Just what I've heard.

kdunn1994 said:
This is on xboarders ota update zip, I was running cm7 prior to this, but I'm trying to sell/trade this to get an iPhone 4 so I flashed this over cm7, my battery life wasn't that much of a difference on cm7, stock, faux, eaglesblood, bionx or using the uc /ov faux kernel, its really android in general they have yet to release a phone that I'm satisfied with as far as battery use, if i still have android when ice cream sandwich /cm8 comes out and I still have this issue I'm going to the iPhone.
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well sell it so you can get your iphone and make sure you have your brain and soul ready to handy over to steve jobs and his minions whenever you walk up to the counter. btw faux's kernel is really good with battery life was getting a day plus.

Yeah that's normal usage for me, but either way I've had a g1, my touch 3g, Samsung vibrant, mytouch4g, it hasn't changed even when I'm not using my phone battery drains fast, I have used juicedefender b4 but now I just want to use my phone without disabling everything that I bought it for anyways, Im just saying I've never had this problem with an iPhone.
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I jailbreak my ****, Steve jobs can't stop me.
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i dont think youre going to get much more battery life that that on any phone with the screen on 3-4 hours will drain your battery, if thats your regular ussage might be smarter to invest in a netbook or laptop.. even those will only give you a couple hours battery lol i dont think manufacturers make phone with users who keep them on 100% in mind =/
specially since youre on 4g too, 4g drains the battery alot faster than wifi, screen on 2hours + 4g 3-4 hours of life on a charge isnt something to get all emotional about
also investing 20$ on ebay for a 3500mah battery or 2 of them, its what people who want to use their phones like that do
might squeeze more life out of the phone if you tone the brightness down to the lowest you can without straining your vision? D:

kdunn1994 said:
Yeah that's normal usage for me, but either way I've had a g1, my touch 3g, Samsung vibrant, mytouch4g, it hasn't changed even when I'm not using my phone battery drains fast, I have used juicedefender b4 but now I just want to use my phone without disabling everything that I bought it for anyways, Im just saying I've never had this problem with an iPhone.
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Hmm honestly I was actually unhappier with the iphone 4 battery life than I was with any of my androids (with the exception of the Milestone). Wouldn't even last me 3/4 of the day. I finally ended up getting the Mophie Juice Pack and then it became reasonable.

Yeah I was gonna buy the extended battery but, if I'm going to get rid of this phone I'm not gonna waste any more money on it.
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dligon said:
well sell it so you can get your iphone and make sure you have your brain and soul ready to handy over to steve jobs and his minions whenever you walk up to the counter. btw faux's kernel is really good with battery life was getting a day plus.
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I agree with this. I am having great battery life with Faux's kernel.
I came to the droid after having th iPhone since day 1 of release. I traded my iPhone4 for my G2x and could not be happier. While the Iphone has a bit better screen you will end up in the Iron Fist of Apple. Yes, you can jailbreak and all that fun stuff much like you can with the droid OS. But Apple spends a ton of money trying to stay ahead of the dev teams and one day the may get it right.
If you want full control over what YOUR phone can or cannot do I recommend staying away from the Apple products.

kdunn1994 said:
Yeah I was gonna buy the extended battery but, if I'm going to get rid of this phone I'm not gonna waste any more money on it.
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iphone wont give you any more battery life with that kind of ussage just keep that in mind, plus the iphone you cant replace battery and put in a larger capacity one,

kdunn1994 said:
What I hate most about android.
Do I need to say anything else, what good is a phone if it can't last a day. Dual core my ass.
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If normal usage for you is that the screen is on for 95% of the time, then to make it through a day, you would need a phone that is capable of 15.2 hours of screen awake time. (Assuming 8 hours if sleep)
I don't know of any smartphone that is or ever will be capable of that.
Your usage is not typical consumer use and I can guarantee you that a company will not invest the money to satisfy your bizarre phone using habits.
You really should consider using a desktop PC if you plan on staring at the screen for that many hours.
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kdunn1994 said:
What I hate most about android.
Do I need to say anything else, what good is a phone if it can't last a day. Dual core my ass.
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Buy a Nokia.

Blackberry. Those things have ridiculous battery life.
diablos991 said:
If normal usage for you is that the screen is on for 95% of the time, then to make it through a day, you would need a phone that is capable of 15.2 hours of screen awake time. (Assuming 8 hours if sleep)
I don't know of any smartphone that is or ever will be capable of that.
Your usage is not typical consumer use and I can guarantee you that a company will not invest the money to satisfy your bizarre phone using habits.
You really should consider using a desktop PC if you plan on staring at the screen for that many hours.
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this is such a bad post

jblah said:
you need to upgrade to CM7. i was getting about a day and a half. right now i'm at almost 7 hrs and its just under a quarter of the way down.
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question.... are you a heavy user? I don't get anywhere NEAR that long with battery. 6 or 7 hours is standard for me with heavy to obsessive use.

Dude, if you play Angry Birds for 3 hours straight it's going to kill your battery. Getting an iPhone isn't going to change that.

Looks like you use your phone as much as me, OP. There are some basic things you can do to improve battery life to some degree, but you wont get much better than that with the stock battery. I wish battery efficiency was advancing as quickly as phone technology. Lol ... If I use my phone primarily as a phone then it lasts a normal day no problem. But I use ALL of my phones features, and I use them constantly, so I opted to get this:
I can go 2 days of my normal heavy usage with absolutely no worries I'm going to run out of battery power. And its a great conversation starter lol.
G2X CM7

Better battery life, need testers

DO NOT USE IF YOU HAVE AN EXTENDED BATTERY!!!
Will cause worse battery life than you had as this is for stock battery
I came up with an idea last night.
To try using a batterystats.bin file from someone that gets up to 15 hours of battery life...so me and jcmaddox1 did the best calibration we could and we are going to upload out batterystats file asap
I am going to make a flashable zip as soon as I can but for now, you will have to do it manually.
1.go to Data/system
2.delete your batterystats.bin while your phone is on the charger(VERY IMPORTANT)
3.copy your downloaded battery stats to the same directory(make sure the permissions are set correctly [rw---])
4.reboot!
Also...it is not a risky thing to do but if you are somewhat satisfied with you battery now...it is a good idea to save current battstats to sdcard
Please test and report if it works or not and if you got better battery life with these files
when you report back please include
Results,the rom you are using,a summery of what you did while testing (eg how much time on internet and calls and how many text and so on)
And a screenshot of the battery history would be appreciated
Proof of concept photo...
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^^^With jcmaddox1 file I will upload mine soon

File 1(my file): http://www.multiupload.com/7UJNUBP6B9
File 2(fellow xda member I mentioned in first post)http://www.multiupload.com/AVZVBDOI2W
It doesn't matter what one you try just make sure you say what file you tried

sounds great！
Thanks for your sharing！
which rom should it works？

peiminglei said:
sounds great！
Thanks for your sharing！
which rom should it works？
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It is universal! same file with all roms
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I can't believe it is April 1st already.

shawkes said:
I can't believe it is April 1st already.
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Haha xD
Edit:you mean that as in to good to be true right?
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I'm curious, which radio revision are you using? @Trh1341

M-2The-O-Squared said:
I'm curious, which radio revision are you using? @Trh1341
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I am using the 12.13 radio
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i honestly don't think this will make much of a difference. i feel like radio/ril combo, as well as apps that have abnormal wakelocks are MUCH bigger determinants of battery life. i've spent the past 2-3 weeks being hyperaware of everything going on with regard to battery life. i've been able to often times flat-line my battery usage curve for hours if i'm not using the phone and often times also in between usage.
but either way, i'm interested to see the results. using my nokia for the time being so i won't be partaking in this but will be watching it closely

nhshah7 said:
i honestly don't think this will make much of a difference. i feel like radio/ril combo, as well as apps that have abnormal wakelocks are MUCH bigger determinants of battery life. i've spent the past 2-3 weeks being hyperaware of everything going on with regard to battery life. i've been able to often times flat-line my battery usage curve for hours if i'm not using the phone and often times also in between usage.
but either way, i'm interested to see the results. using my nokia for the time being so i won't be partaking in this but will be watching it closely
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Stalking the thread.. like an assassin.. ready to pounce if it works how we expect.. right? XD...
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nhshah7 said:
i honestly don't think this will make much of a difference. i feel like radio/ril combo, as well as apps that have abnormal wakelocks are MUCH bigger determinants of battery life. i've spent the past 2-3 weeks being hyperaware of everything going on with regard to battery life. i've been able to often times flat-line my battery usage curve for hours if i'm not using the phone and often times also in between usage.
but either way, i'm interested to see the results. using my nokia for the time being so i won't be partaking in this but will be watching it closely
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Its mainly to save time with out having to calibrate battery every time you flash a rom...but sometimes you can get a perfect calibration and we uploaded those
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I'll be giving it a shot.
Radio - 12.59.60.26u_26.11.04.21_M (matching ril)
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The .bin file is a log of YOUR own battery's depletion, and outputs the battery depletion in percentage,and depletion varies greatly depending on type of Rom, kernel etc. Using someone else's stats is going to do any good. In contrast its going to affect the battery health, giving false readings. The best way is to use battery calibration app, and calibrate after each Rom flash. Once again the .bin file will not boost your battery, and will give false readings if inserted from another rom .
Just flash a new rom and wipe the stats. That's it.
http://ancillotti.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Build-a-Wireless-Network-Without-Using-a-Broadband-Router
Regards

buzzboy said:
The .bin file is a log of YOUR own battery's depletion, and outputs the battery depletion in percentage,and depletion varies greatly depending on type of Rom, kernel etc. Using someone else's stats is going to do any good. In contrast its going to affect the battery health, giving false readings. The best way is to use battery calibration app, and calibrate after each Rom flash. Once again the .bin file will not boost your battery, and will give false readings if inserted from another rom .
Just flash a new rom and wipe the stats. That's it.
http://ancillotti.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Build-a-Wireless-Network-Without-Using-a-Broadband-Router
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This was an idea to save the time from having to calibrate . I don't think you understand the point
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Save time? How? The app is a one button press .

buzzboy said:
Save time? How? The app is a one button press .
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I think he means from having to wait till the battery is fully charged
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insanenyc said:
I think he means from having to wait till the battery is fully charged
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Save time from charging and discharging it completely.
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But the phone needs to be fully charged. End of.
Your phone will give you false readings about the battery health.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359395
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buzzboy said:
But the phone needs to be fully charged. End of.
Your phone will give you false readings about the battery health.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359395
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I meant by charging and discharging as it you won't have to calibrate it, these batter stats were from heavy use so it won't give false readings unless your phones battery its self is messed up
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But the point remains, the stats are from another phone, with a different rom and kernel, inserted into your phone which has a different battery level also, trust me, it's a theory that will not work.
Just wipe stats at 100% after a new rom flash. That's all there is to it.

[Q] Which custom rom/kernel is best for battery life?

I am currently using AOSP+ with the speedy 5 kernel and its chewing up my battery life like theres no tomorrow. I'm dropping at an average of 10% per hour. Autosync, brightness, update intervals disabled or turned down to minimal. My wakelocks are normal. The thing that bothers me the most is the Android OS that's chewing up 45-50% of my battery life. I never had this problem at all with gb. I can go 16-17 hrs without a charge.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Try 2g connection instead of 3g
It's normal for android device that recharge everyday...
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qtwrk said:
Try 2g connection instead of 3g
It's normal for android device that recharge everyday...
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My carrier only supports hspa+.
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I'm using androidme 1.1.0 .it giving me around 16h including 3h on 3g and 3h screen on ( brightness set on 68%).
Not a single issue with this room.i'm on it for longer than a week, not a single reboot ...
Btw my phone is new, if this is relevant.

AsianXL said:
My carrier only supports hspa+.
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..........that's odd , as far as i know , lots lots carriers has 2G and 3G together in order when 3G signal real weak so can switch to 2G to maintain call/SMS

Try haka's kangy-8 with Eugene's speedy 5 sio kernel

Try downgrading to the Speedy-4 Kernel. I'm running the latest AOSP+ rom with the Speedy-4 kernel and my battery life is excellent. I can post a download link to the Speedy-4 kernel if you're interested.

AsianXL said:
I am currently using AOSP+ with the speedy 5 kernel and its chewing up my battery life like theres no tomorrow. I'm dropping at an average of 10% per hour. Autosync, brightness, update intervals disabled or turned down to minimal. My wakelocks are normal. The thing that bothers me the most is the Android OS that's chewing up 45-50% of my battery life. I never had this problem at all with gb. I can go 16-17 hrs without a charge.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
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I have the same configuration, Skype used to eat most of my battery and I think this is because Skype haven't update their app yet. I don't use maps or location services, but I noticed that google location service is always on, I forced closed it ( it gets back sometimes) Anyway, after closing skype my battery performance is ok. I used to lose 10%/ hour even if the phone was idle, after these mods I think I lost less than 5% in three idle hours.

Most of the custom ROMs and kernels are rubbish, aren't they? I mean if people really knew what they were doing, they'd work together with kalimochoAz on the official source. Or at least port it back upstream once they've got it working...

zyrill said:
Most of the custom ROMs and kernels are rubbish, aren't they? I mean if people really knew what they were doing, they'd work together with kalimochoAz on the official source. Or at least port it back upstream once they've got it working...
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What?! No, wtf kind of comment is this?
I personally run AOKP Milestone 2 with Steve Garon's 1.12 kernel and my stock battery runs 30+ hrs with fairly heavy usage.
AOKP/Garon have awesome features above and beyond cm9/kali at this point, and performance has been flawless.
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WTF????????? i need the link to your setup and please elaborate on how much you use your phone? Do you use the music player, 4g? 3g? Phone calls?????? I need your setup links please?
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Braneless said:
What?! No, wtf kind of comment is this?
I personally run AOKP Milestone 2 with Steve Garon's 1.12 kernel and my stock battery runs 30+ hrs with fairly heavy usage.
AOKP/Garon have awesome features above and beyond cm9/kali at this point, and performance has been flawless.
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WTF????????? i need the link to your setup and please elaborate on how much you use your phone? Do you use the music player, 4g? 3g? Phone calls?????? I need your setup links please?

qtwrk said:
..........that's odd , as far as i know , lots lots carriers has 2G and 3G together in order when 3G signal real weak so can switch to 2G to maintain call/SMS
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My carrier has only been around for 3 years, so a 2G network doesn't exist.
raeef said:
I have the same configuration, Skype used to eat most of my battery and I think this is because Skype haven't update their app yet. I don't use maps or location services, but I noticed that google location service is always on, I forced closed it ( it gets back sometimes) Anyway, after closing skype my battery performance is ok. I used to lose 10%/ hour even if the phone was idle, after these mods I think I lost less than 5% in three idle hours.
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I don't use Skype.
Braneless said:
What?! No, wtf kind of comment is this?
I personally run AOKP Milestone 2 with Steve Garon's 1.12 kernel and my stock battery runs 30+ hrs with fairly heavy usage.
AOKP/Garon have awesome features above and beyond cm9/kali at this point, and performance has been flawless.
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I will give these 2 a try. Thanks everyone!

AsianXL said:
I don't use Skype.
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ok, do you use any other always on chat apps?
and did you check the location service that I told you about
you can find it by going to manage app>running> Google services

Braneless said:
What?! No, wtf kind of comment is this?
I personally run AOKP Milestone 2 with Steve Garon's 1.12 kernel and my stock battery runs 30+ hrs with fairly heavy usage.
AOKP/Garon have awesome features above and beyond cm9/kali at this point, and performance has been flawless.
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Which governor and scheduler would you be using?
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yougotcut said:
Which governor and scheduler would you be using?
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Interactive and cfq.

raeef said:
ok, do you use any other always on chat apps?
and did you check the location service that I told you about
you can find it by going to manage app>running> Google services
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Yeah I use Kakaotalk, WhatsApp, and Line. All 3 were running. I've just uninstalled Line, but will keep the other 2 as they are essentials.
Google Services is running in the background. I unchecked all "location services" and even unchecked automatic restore and backup.

Telus SGS4G battery life and ICS

I've tried many of the SGS 4G ROMS after convincing my Telus SGS 4G it was a T-Mobile version. I really like both remICS-UX and UltraGen ports, but battery life is quite disappointing. 3G/4G was not as good on remICS-UX ans UltraGen.
Any Telus phone users out have suggestions on other ROMS to try, or settings to try for our phone (yes I searched the forums, very few Telus folk here).
Cheers,
BHTM

Flash with hefe kod kernel over your Ultragen rom. You should see a big difference in your battery life. Also turn off wifi and GPS if you r not using it.
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The Telus phone is actually the T959P or something and it's reallynot the same phone as they use different bands than Tmobile/Wind does, so I'm surprised the ROM actually works but there could be many things that are draining the battery that are due to the fact that's its not the same phone, and that also would explain why things don't work right in terms in wifi/4g/battery, etc.

Yeah I am totally surprised it worked too. But a few kind Telus users here give easy instructions on how to make it think it is a sgh-t959v. Just hoping they will continue being kind and share there tips and tricks.
Anyway busy thanking and donating to all you kind folks. I'm a happy noob, having fun great fun trying all these custom roms.
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Just curious what you did to make it think it's a 959V ?
When you say battery life wasn't as good, can you clarify that? How long were you using it, how long did you have the screen on for, did you change governors to one better suited, can you take a screen shot of your battery window in the settings like this
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Whatever app is listed at the top, in my example, Screen, click on that and take a screen shot, This will show how much time that app has used
If you run something like CPUspy, it will show you the different "states" of your cpu, IE, what speed it's running at. If the phone is in standy, it should run mostly in deep sleep state. If something is keeping it from sleeping, that will affect the battery.
I just took my phone off the charger, but you can see it used 1000mhz for the bootup at full speed, then when I shut it off, it went to deep sleep mode. If there is no deep sleep, then something is keeping it "awake" and that is the cause of the battery drain. Sometimes installing app's can do that.

>Just curious what you did to make it think it's a 959V ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225593&page=5
>When you say battery life wasn't as good, can you clarify that? How long were you using it, how long did you have the screen on for, did you >change governors to one better suited, can you take a screen shot of your battery window in the settings like this
Much thanks for the tips, I'll give them a try. Playing with CM10 at the moment,but will try UltraGen again later and capture things. Been wiping everything including sdcard, so no media files to confuse media server.
Just realized I should be in Q&A section, bad n00b :laugh:
BTW, do yourself and dao not take donations? You guys are rockin' the SGS 4G with all the ports and help.

bhtm said:
>Just curious what you did to make it think it's a 959V ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225593&page=5
>When you say battery life wasn't as good, can you clarify that? How long were you using it, how long did you have the screen on for, did you >change governors to one better suited, can you take a screen shot of your battery window in the settings like this
Much thanks for the tips, I'll give them a try. Playing with CM10 at the moment,but will try UltraGen again later and capture things. Been wiping everything including sdcard, so no media files to confuse media server.
Just realized I should be in Q&A section, bad n00b :laugh:
BTW, do yourself and dao not take donations? You guys are rockin' the SGS 4G with all the ports and help.
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There is more coming... btw.
someone is sending me a verizon fascinate, and there is some common code between sgs4g, verizon fascinate, and T959P.
The bigger part is cg2900 gps driver, different digitizer, and a few other odd ball differences.
I also have an SK4G that I'm trying to port as well.
A lot of these devices share the same drivers, and our phones are just a little bit different then aries.
Fascinate even has some problems in the aries kernel, although I think they have work arounds for most of them.
So, as soon as I become available (not busy with work from 8am to 3am daily...) and get the verizon fascinate from... someone, I'm gonna start looking at t959p as well.

very ryeartlt
getochkn said:
Just curious what you did to make it think it's a 959V ?
When you say battery life wasn't as good, can you clarify that? How long were you using it, how long did you have the screen on for, did you change governors to one better suited, can you take a screen shot of your battery window in the settings like this
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My daily usage is like this: Get on train, use phone to Netflix, read news (Currents, Flipboard, et al), listen to music from Google cloud or Rdio, screen on the entire time (1 hour 15). Don't use phone for 8 hours. Reverse the train ride. Charge phone when I get home for next day use. Rarely have GPS or Wifi enabled. No media on SD card. Only half dozen extra apps (Currents, Flipbord, Google Play Music, Rdio, Google Maps etc).
The stock ROM from Samsung/Telus did a good job of lasting through day and have enough charge to finish the nightly train ride.
Had a chance to play with CPUSpy and try a few things, no deep sleep on remICS-UX or UltraGen and they would not last through the day (unused, screen black) without being charged. I haven't changed the default ROM performance settings or governors (tried to OC but phone got really hot, didn't really notice any difference is application performance, so set it back).
I've just started trying the SlimBean 3.1 ROM seems to be deep sleeping according to CPUSpy. Fingers crossed it behaves closer to stock ROM as far as battery is concerned (deep sleeps when not in use)
Anyway thanks to mcmerrit for the instructions on how to get this odd variant working with the mod community ROMs. Feels like I have a new phone

I've never been able to get more than 10 hours on a charge with 2+ hours of screen time on any ics roms with the stock battery. I do have wifi on pretty much the whole time though.

Erikmm will have another kernel coming out with battery life as good as GB. Stay tuned.
If it helps, hit the thanks button. It's my motivator to be more helpful.

gizmoscoop said:
Erikmm will have another kernel coming out with battery life as good as GB. Stay tuned.
If it helps, hit the thanks button. It's my motivator to be more helpful.
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You got that right ICS is about to get conquered along with JB
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Slimbeam 3.1 battery life is quite good. Survived my Monday commute. New battery for my HTC amaze arrived today. But I'll switch back to sgs4g as amaze cm is not as stable.
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