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the last couple of days i had to charge my touch pro almost twice per day (heavy usage). I also watched the battery drain very fast.
I have been using a custom taskbar with 1% battery icons. Yesterday i accidentally removed the battery for the taskbar (using the clock now instead) and for some reason i feel that the battery lasts longer. I still have 7/10 bars since yesterday now (2 of them were because i was playing diamond twister which sucks your battery up though).
please noone flame with comments like this is bs etc..as i said i THINK this is the case..i will report back how long it lasts..You are welcome to try it.
It could have something to do with the battery status refresh interval
I have definitely heard that some of the custom battery monitors are huge memory whores because of the problem you noted- they are constantly polling and therefore leading to a heavy drain. If you think the one you installed is doing it I bet it is doing it.
For some reason when I fully charge my phone using the usb , it last much longer. Don't know why. Otherwise my battery is very erratic. I really can't pinpoint any program. I charged my phone in the car for a 3hr trip and then it lasted all day w/hardly any drain...weird... If I turn off the phone and charge via usb, it is the best for me.
ive had loads of htc phones over the years and i agree that custom battery icons do IMHO drain battery alot more
a bit off topic.. but when i got my tp i installed everything i wanted... then uninstalled the things i didnt want.. on and on for about a week..
using sk tools to clean up invalids from uninstalled software..
battery lasted 4 hours...
so i got all the softwares i wanted...
and for some reason, i had to do a hard reset...
so i installed
WAD
WIS
pA
Flexmail
and then the rest of the software i knew i wanted...
for some reason the hard reset... changed something i did, now TP lasts 10-12 hours..
with it checking email every 10 minutes, weather every hour, and me constantly messing with it.
so just a thought.
Same thing happened with my Fuze and also my Tilt.
I dont think that battery drainage is the problem. The battery meter is just inaccurate. I was able to get 8-10 hours of usage before. Now it lasts 2 days with the same usage.
Hey everyone, I am currently running rc33 jfreak 1.42 on my phone. I was running 5.0.1G and. When I was running that rom i t seemed like my battery life was longer. Now tfhat I'm back on jfreak my battery is draining faster. Has any one else seen improved battery life with the magic rom?
I recently switched from JF 1.42 RC33 to 5.0G and saw no noticeable battery life difference. I did however notice a very noticeable increase in browser speed, which was awesome.
Well today I'm on jfreak and my battery is constantly draining, the only reason I flashed back was to test the battery life
I would say that since I started using Haykuro's Magic builds, my battery life has definitely increased. However, I suspect that this is because the device now uses less charge when it is not actively being used (i.e. standby time is longer) - I'm not using it as my primary phone at the moment as I'm on vacation in the US and I've a prepaid Tracfone that serves for the most part.
A heavy user probably wouldn't notice much difference.
Regards,
Dave
My battery life was pretty bad with 5.01H I'm talking like 10% per 15 minutes of use.
My standby time was great on 5.02.h but I noticed it took longer to charge.
I think the H build drains faster than the G
It's the standby times which are greatly increased. For instance, I took my G1 off charge at 6:45am this morning, it just sat in my pocket until lunch break at 2pm and I was at 99% charge. Surfed for 30mins at lunch and it's at 92%. It then sat in my pocket until I checked it again at 5:30PM, where it was 90%. It's now almost 7PM and the battery is sitting at 88%.
5.0.1G. Standard battery, Wifi/GPS/BT off. 3g on. 20% screen. It still drains quite quickly when used, I think it's better but hard to say how much better.
When I had RC9 on there, even in standby it would drain quite quickly.
When i first flashed just 5.0 i charged it to 100% took it off the charger and fell asleep for 2 hours, when i woke up the battery percent was at 92% and i was using the sapphire radio
I agree.
I think google did a lot of battery optimization in standby mode with 1.5.
If I don't turn on my g1 all day, the battery life barely goes down at all.
Of course if you do use the g1, it still drains battery like before because there's not much you can do when you are using 3g, have the lcd turned on, and the cpu chugging along. They all use a lot of power.
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It's the standby times which are greatly increased. For instance, I took my G1 off charge at 6:45am this morning, it just sat in my pocket until lunch break at 2pm and I was at 99% charge. Surfed for 30mins at lunch and it's at 92%. It then sat in my pocket until I checked it again at 5:30PM, where it was 90%. It's now almost 7PM and the battery is sitting at 88%.
5.0.1G. Standard battery, Wifi/GPS/BT off. 3g on. 20% screen. It still drains quite quickly when used, I think it's better but hard to say how much better.
When I had RC9 on there, even in standby it would drain quite quickly.
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When i first flashed just 5.0 i charged it to 100% took it off the charger and fell asleep for 2 hours, when i woke up the battery percent was at 92%
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Do you have any background processes like twitter, IM, etc? Those could be using up the battery even if you aren't actually doing anything with the phone.
The increase in my case is VERY noticable. At minimum a boost of 50% battery life.
yeah the battery life has increased
but ive only noticed it while using just one or two apps every couple of hours
my usual day includes texting alot
2 or 3 phone calls less than 4 min
fb app, twitter app, nba app, a game or two, and other stuff
my brightness is around 25 percent
and my 3g wifi gps auto sync is on all the time
it lasts longer than it used to
but the second i start surfing the web and reading forums or using greed to read a bunch of rss feeds the battery life drains amazingly fast
im on 5.0.1h
gonna give the g build a try and then check out 5.0.2h later this week
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Do you have any background processes like twitter, IM, etc? Those could be using up the battery even if you aren't actually doing anything with the phone.
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i was using gtalk on 5.0.1 and it didnt run my battery down. on 1.42 my battery dies very fast
definite battery increase i actually didnt have to charge my battery allllll day w? moderate use..
I believe the increase in battery life in standby is more due to everyone having to wipe their data and reinstall applications.
Previously you probably had a ton of applications, that start as services, and run ALL day in the background. Applications such as chomp, twitter, hello aim, even stuff like officedroid remain open in the background because they are registered as services. Eliminating a number of these programs due to wipe is probably the reason why the battery life has improved so much.
but i was still using programs i used before, i used all of them except task manager, droid sans, and chomp sms
i'm seeing alot better response from 5.0.1h build. The static rc33 was draining the battery. Actually that's how i got it for so cheap cause the person i bought it from hated that the battery died so quick. I use my phone constantly for work and when i got home tonight i was at half a battery.
I'm back to 1.42 also i flashed 5.0g first and didn't really pay attention to the battery use but did notice a very big increase in the speed (loads very fast) then flashed 5.o.1h and it was crazy how fast the battery was on e............ Im thinking bout flashing back to 5.0g just 4 the super quick speed !
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It's the standby times which are greatly increased. For instance, I took my G1 off charge at 6:45am this morning, it just sat in my pocket until lunch break at 2pm and I was at 99% charge. Surfed for 30mins at lunch and it's at 92%. It then sat in my pocket until I checked it again at 5:30PM, where it was 90%. It's now almost 7PM and the battery is sitting at 88%.
5.0.1G. Standard battery, Wifi/GPS/BT off. 3g on. 20% screen. It still drains quite quickly when used, I think it's better but hard to say how much better.
When I had RC9 on there, even in standby it would drain quite quickly.
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Following on from this.... It's 24hrs since I last charged it and the battery is currently at 73%. Very light usage but shows the battery can last if needed.
Has anyone noticed their battery life seems shorter since the update ? I installed the official froyo update last night and it seems I'm running out of juice much quicker than before.
At first mine ran down faster. I ran it all the way down. Charged it. And ran it all the way down again and charged. It seems back to normal.
I didn't have any issues. Maybe you changed something else as well? Could always try a few recharge cycles and see if it stabilizes..
I was running the leaked 2.2 and I flashed to official 2.2. My battery life is almost double what it was. I can't complain one bit about battery life, although I have other gripes with the official Froyo release.
I'm with icepop on this one.. I was running the stock rogers rom pre-update and now with the official rogers 2.2 I'm getting at least double the use before having to charge again.
I'm having battery issues with the new stock Froyo. I lose a huge amount of juce when in standby. I thought I may have my widgets updating too often so I charged it up and put it into airplane mode last night. The phone lost about 1% per hour in airplane mode. IDK what is normal but that seems like a lot to me. I didn't have any apps running, except my alarm was set for the morning.
I have SystemPanel installed and my cpu load NEVER goes below 10 percent, even in airplane mode. I suspect this is a large part of the issue. In app history, system and system processes are always on the top of the list and are around 3% each. IDK what controls this or how to lower it. I would love some feedback from someone else with SystemPanel just to see how our numbers compare. Overall the battery life I'm experiencing is pretty terrible and a buddy of mine's Fascinate has much better battery life (hence something must be wrong somewhere). He and I were skiing all day over the weekend and when we got back to our cars, my phone was half dead and his had lost almost zero juice. This displeases me.
mine's was better actually. but i didnt stayon it for long
My initial results with 2.2 were very bad (10% drop per hour when idling). I reset the phone back to 2.1 then re-installed 2.2. This did not help. Now I did this again (2.1 then 2.2) but this time I have not re-installed my apps and have not rooted (yet). So far, battery life seems to be normal. I suspect that some of my applications might mis-behave when installed on 2.2. I am planning to add them slowly and watch the battery.
Not here, seems the same to me
Mine is terrible ! I don't know what it might have been on 2.1 as I upgraded fairly quickly. Essentially I charge all night and then disconnect from power at 6:30am and then by 4:30pm I'm out of juice (phone shuts off). Any ideas here? I'm not running anything extravegant (email only) and hardly make any calls.
Whenever you flash to a new ROM, wait for at least a week of normal usage before you judge the battery life. The reason is simple, your battery stats are reset after ROM flash and your new OS needs time to learn how your battery drains before it can give you accurate readings.
If you can't wait for that long, you need follow the battery calibration thread to force a manual calibration of the battery.
I'll give it a week and see how it is then. Definitely is draining much quicker now though. I think It acted similiarly when I first got the phone as well. If I recall correctly the batter life sucked when I first got it, but then a week or so seemed to get much better.
I did the manual battery recalibration (let it die, charge while off, turn on and bump charge...etc). Last night I lost about 2.5% of battery per hour while in standby. This seems improved since calibration but its still pretty terrible IMHO. Is this in line with the amount of drain other are getting or am I draining more than usual?
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I did the manual battery recalibration (let it die, charge while off, turn on and bump charge...etc). Last night I lost about 2.5% of battery per hour while in standby. This seems improved since calibration but its still pretty terrible IMHO. Is this in line with the amount of drain other are getting or am I draining more than usual?
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Running stock since purchasing the Captivate back in August, and so far battery life actually seems to be routinely as good if not better than 2.1. I must admit I didn't use my phone a huge amount yesterday (except for about an hour plus of downloading a bunch of wallpapers off Zedge for some ungodly reason lol), and after 18 hours of the phone being on I was still over 50% battery life left. 2.5% in standby doesn't sound like all is well - you must have something running in the background or similar issue. I have a live background, sync 5 e-mail accounts (granted, only one of those is every 15 minutes - the others are every thirty minutes, every hour, and once a day on two of them), and with light use I am getting over 40 hours with 2.2 so far (about in line with 2.1, but seems maybe just a little better). Heavy use I am dropping more like to the 12 - 18 hour mark (heavy use for me means the screen on more than off, actively playing games or using apps, large amounts of texting, etc. Solid game playing I haven't figured out a drain yet, but on some games it seems like I can drop almost the whole battery in close to 10 hours). At your rate of 2.5% per hour in standby you would only make it forty hours without even using the phone. I have been using mine just a little this morning (FB check, logging in to one of the desktops at work remotely to make some changes, live background running, WiFi sleep policy is set to when screen is off, but to be honest that is about it) and I haven't moved off the 100% mark yet and the phone has been unplugged over an hour and a half.
All that said though, as other users have stated you might want to give it a little more time for the system to recalibrate the battery usage. I would definitely check your processor usage though regularly to see if anything seems 'off'. One thing that caused me problems was that my SNS service would be running but then would get stuck in a pattern of 'Restarting' - would drain my battery rapidly.
It has been said that bettery drain is not linear. First 5% goes real fast. So, you need to judget the average over a day of use, not first hour or so. I'm still in first week of ROM flashing. So I can't confirm anything yet.
See my battery stats recalibration steps here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765656
Also, TheYar has a great write-up on identifying battery drain issues here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=806211
For all those seeking good battery life on the G2x do not give up. I was surprised to see my battery last this long. Usually I get about 12-14 hours max on a charge, but my last charge lasted me almost 30 hours! Now this is with light to medium usage... Some calls, texts, downloading apps, surfing the web. But previously I don't think my phone would last this long even if I left it alone.
Reading the forums, I was skeptical about people claiming they had such good battery life, but here is the proof. I took a screenshot of my usage 'since last unplugged'. And there it is... 1 day, 5 hours 32 mins. About 6 hours was when I was asleep and in the morning not much battery had drained. I've never even seen it go to 1 day before. Sadly to say I'm not sure what the change exactly was. But here are some things that I did.
Get the battery monitor widget. Your phone should be idling at around -5mA. If it's higher then something is eating your battery.
1. freeze bloatware - I think some of them are responsible for eating battery. Also apps like facebook, twitter and the default email app are set to sync automatically. You need to manually disable it inside the app settings to keep it from syncing.
2. When i bought the G2x they just swapped out my old sim card and put it in the G2x. I changed out my old sim card and got it replaced. The metal connectors on the new one looked different. I heard somewhere that the old sim cards had trouble locking into some 4g towers and would waste battery.
3. I think this one might be it... I charged the phone with it OFF. Then turned it on and it charged some more, then off and continued to charge it. Then I turned it on and calibrated the battery. Not sure if that last part had anything to do with it. But it seems that charging the phone with it off helps somehow. It might be something in the android os that isn't letting the battery fully charge.
4. I also did edit the framework-res.apk file to mod my status bar, but I don't think that would affect the battery life. I could be wrong?
So here it is... hope this helps someone.
I have this phone for two months, stock rom, not rooted, don't use mobile internet, only wi-fi, not always on, I would say a moderate usage.
The last week I am experiencing big battery problems, it drains in half a day. Nothing new installed in the last week that could be a problem, I think I had only few app updates from the market, but am not sure if the time is the same as the beginning of battery problems.
The first time I have charged the battery in the evening, disconected the charger after the light turned green, it was about 10pm, the next morning at 6 am the battery was at 4%?! The second time the battery was charged from 15% to 65% (I had no time to full carge), from 4pm to 10 pm it went down to 3% again.
Last night I made a full charge, disconected the charger at 6am this morning, now at 8 am the battery is at 75%, I don't understand...
I don't let the apps sync automatically and I use wifi only, everything is setup not to drain the battery, no problems till the last few days...I have installed GO launcer a month ago but I don't think it could be a problem, it worked all well till now.
Any thoughts or suggestions what to do?
When you go to settings,about phone, battery usage, what does the statistic point out as the biggest user? You can also download battery monitor widget to see what is usung what.
Goodluck
It says display 58%, cell standby 15%, voice calls 14% (3 voice calls), phone idle 13% (for 4 hours after disconnecting the charger), this last one, phone idle, seems to much considering others?
Anyway, I have powered off the phone, pulled the battery out and put it back in, seems the situation is better, I will see later on.
Now I remember that few days ago the phone got frozen and I had to pull the battery out to restart it because I couldn't restart it regularly. I think it is after that the battery draining problem has begun, is it possible?