CM7 Battery Life - Thunderbolt General

So, after a full charge, this is where I am.

If that's on 4g I would say it's pretty good even if your not using the phone, mine gets about 10 hours with average use and only 3g.
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I can go 31 hours with my screen on for 30 minutes too! Fun!

Impressive.

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How are you doing on battery?

So I'm wondering how you guys are holding up with the battery. Can you last all day?
If not, do you have a spare battery or anything? Thanks.
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Mine lasts about 16 hours on moderate use. I have Set CPU to be around 700mhz while screen off. That seems to help and the fact that im on the optimized TPC ROM makes it all better.
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wolf0491 said:
hmmm only 16 hours for you :/
this phone will take getting used too lol...
im used to like over 30
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Figure 20 hours till the phone starts nagging. I do a lot of texting and emails throughout the day. Phone goes off charger at 6am and is back on charger by 11:30pm. Display brightness auto adjusts a lot too since I work outside a lot.
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Sorry. Had to edit my post. Did a more accurate calculation according to my day of use.
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I use TPC stock rooted ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982963
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Oh ok; I'm using aa N1 right now and I can get a full day with moderate use; I know the battery is smaller and it has a bigger screen so... yea; well thanks guys, I'm running to ATT to get this off contract tomorrow.
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FLAC Vest said:
Oh ok; I'm using aa N1 right now and I can get a full day with moderate use; I know the battery is smaller and it has a bigger screen so... yea; well thanks guys, I'm running to ATT to get this off contract tomorrow.
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No problem. Let us know how you like it when you get it.
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wolf0491 said:
Thanks if i cant get good battery out of the Coredroid im currently running will switch to this or the other on that claims 24HRS at least
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with core droid I could not get more than 12 14 hrs
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Mine seems to last the day. Well night in my case. But I just plug it in when I goto sleep. I ordered an extra stock battery from ebay for 6.98 shipped
Wait till you guys get ginger bread, they improved idle power drastically. I'm unplugged 15 hours right now and still at 71% battery on my nexus. Granted this was over night, but it was never this good before. Idle current stays around 10mA which is excellent.
wolf0491 said:
wow thanks for your input..
man i like the theme though :/
haha
have you switched to something with better?
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Not right now. I was on revolution then on Lee droid and now on core droid. Just checking out all the ones out there. As of now I like Lee driod for battery and speed.
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RogerPodacter said:
Wait till you guys get ginger bread, they improved idle power drastically. I'm unplugged 15 hours right now and still at 71% battery on my nexus. Granted this was over night, but it was never this good before. Idle current stays around 10mA which is excellent.
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My idle, on my inspire with TPC's froyo Rom, is anywhere from 1mA to 5mA with the occasional spike to 30mA.
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Honestly you can ask, but in all its relative to: amount of use/what you are doing (ie:games or texting)/ROM/kernel/radio/health of the battery. Expect anywhere from 8hours-48hours depending on your usage. Though I have never played angry bird for 8hours straight....
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My idle, on my inspire with TPC's froyo Rom, is anywhere from 1mA to 5mA with the occasional spike to 30mA.
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That is very impressive. I need to try some more ROMs out there. The stock inspire here is at 24mA idle pretty regularly which isn't bad but not great.
I get about 12 hours of battery life with heavy use and 20 hours of moderate use. Usually I have the display on for three hours and sending about 100 texts a day about an hour calling with email coming in all day.
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This post gives me hope. I am so sick of my iPhone 4, but have been scared the battery will suck on the Inspire. Anyone have/had an i4 and can compare with their Inspire?
IPhone 4 will definitely get better battery life than any android phone. But not too bad and totally worth it.
I pulled my phone off the charger at 8am, it's now just after 10pm and I have 46% remaining. I was browsing on wifi and playing words with friends for about two hours this afternoon, made a few calls, sent a few messages and regularly checked emails.
Battery life on my Inspire hasn't been as good as the Streak, but definitely better than my Captivate. I'm using SetCPU 1024 max/245 min ondemand for my main profile and 245 max 245 min ondemand for screen off.
The key indicator for me is screen-on time. Taking the phone of the charger at ~8am, by about 10pm, with gps off all day, and WiFi on only as needed (~1hr total), I'm at around ~15-20% battery remaining, with the total screen-on time being ~4.5 hrs for that day.
Most of that screen time is playing angry birds, so I'm sure that factors in somehow, as the screen doesn't seem to drain as much battery doing other stuff, as it does playing a processor-intensive activity like a game.
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The key indicator for me is screen-on time. Taking the phone of the charger at ~8am, by about 10pm, with gps off all day, and WiFi on only as needed (~1hr total), I'm at around ~15-20% battery remaining, with the total screen-on time being ~4.5 hrs for that day.
Most of that screen time is playing angry birds, so I'm sure that factors in somehow, as the screen doesn't seem to drain as much battery doing other stuff, as it does playing a processor-intensive activity like a game.
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That's good, 4.5 hours of screen on time is a lot.

Battery Life

Guys, how's the battery life on this phone? From having it only one day, I'm not too impressed. With the screen on auto bright at its lowest setting, I'm losing 5-7 percent every 10 minutes just browsing the net or using the xda app. Is this normal?
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mike2518 said:
Guys, how's the battery life on this phone? From having it only one day, I'm not too impressed. With the screen on auto bright at its lowest setting, I'm losing 5-7 percent every 10 minutes just browsing the net or using the xda app. Is this normal?
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I'm getting 13-15 hours on a charge with 2.5-3 hours of phone calls and at least 2 hours screen on time. When I'm not using my phone I'm losing about 3% per hour (connected to wifi). I have facebook syncing and push email going also. Overall I am liking the battery life.
mike2518 said:
Guys, how's the battery life on this phone? From having it only one day, I'm not too impressed. With the screen on auto bright at its lowest setting, I'm losing 5-7 percent every 10 minutes just browsing the net or using the xda app. Is this normal?
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Go into the task manager and close all running apps. Also try bump charging. I'll find the link for the thread about it
bump charging is only going to buy you that last 5% or so. that's great if you need an extra 20 - 40 min, but in reality, if battery life is "short" even an extra hour won't save you because when people cry about long vs short battery, it's something like 2 days of charge vs 1 day....
mike2518 said:
Guys, how's the battery life on this phone? From having it only one day, I'm not too impressed. With the screen on auto bright at its lowest setting, I'm losing 5-7 percent every 10 minutes just browsing the net or using the xda app. Is this normal?
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Hi,
Any new battery will take at least couple of complete charge cycles to reach their optimum capacity. Also the phone needs few charges to build up the battery stats to report it correctly.
Just use it for a week and the battery life should improve. You can also fully charge the phone than discharge it in one go, wait for few hrs and charge up again.

My sensation only last about 15 hrs. Is it normal?

I expected to use it like 24 hrs. I only use it a couple calls and some txting (google voice) and no games at all.
I've got the phone for about 10 days!
15 hours sounds good. Will probably last longer when CM7 is released.
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Yup 15 is normal
I'd like to me that mine lasted 15 hours on this depends on your use, I usually takes me about 8 to 10 hours without using a lot, some call whatsapp, Tapatalk ...
Voice calls seem to burn a lot of battery life imho. Way more than my n1 did.
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I just got 50 hours since the 2.3.4 update which supposedly makes it better, and still had 16% left when I charged again,
But I wasn't using it that much, just a few calls, emails and texts.
And it was powered off over the two nights.
EDIT: you forgot to say how long you had had it for? I was only getting 6-8 hours for my first few charges, the battery takes a few charges to get to full capacity.

New question about battery life

*New* How much does your battery drain per hour. I can't remember what it was with the Note but I think it was 1% an hour. I'm at 90% currently after 5 hours so that's more than 1%. *New*
*Old* Man I have the absolute worst luck in the world. I had a phone with great battery life but had to return it because of light bleed. Now this phone is down to 92% after only 20 mins off the charger with 19 mins of use. I'm literally watching the battery decrease. That seems unacceptable to me. I never noticed it draining that fast on my previous one. But everything else on this phone is prefect. I can't win.
After 5 hours it is down to 59% with 44 mins screen on time.
I'm pretty sure I'd still be around 80% on the phone I had to return. I can post pics of that phone's battery life also if you want. *Old*
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How about using it for more than 20 minutes before making your judgement call?
My battery meter is always a bit off, sometimes I am below 90% before I even get into work at 9 AM but it ends up lasting until 2 AM.
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KitF said:
How about using it for more than 20 minutes before making your judgement call?
My battery meter is always a bit off, sometimes I am below 90% before I even get into work at 9 AM but it ends up lasting until 2 AM.
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This, definitely.
I definitely think there are some serious calibration issues on my phone as well...
TWRP recovery always shows 10-15% more battery than I see in the ROM ...also, when I reboot the phone the battery% comes down by around 5-10% and when I connect it to a USB cable to transfer some files , the battery% goes up by 5-10% in 2 mins ...
but the good part is , my phone still shuts down when the battery % reaches "0" ... so I am good with it
Hmm. Interesting. In all the smartphones I've hard previously (Sanyo zio, HTC EVO 3G, HTC Inspire 4G, HTC ONE X), the battery drains quickly. I'm a field technician so I drive a lot. I've found that usually the battery will die near the end of the day if I don't keep it on a charger at some point in the day. Normally when I'm driving, its plugged into the car charger. And really I don't think I do a whole lot with it. Well actually, I do everything with it. But I'm not gaming or anything like that. Mostly bluetooth calling, browsing the web, sending emails, taking photos, etc.
I do agree, don't make a judgement call when its 92% battery.
I was getting 1 day and 5 hours with 3 hours screen on time consistently with the previous phone. The best I've gotten with this one is 20 hours and an hour and 45 mins screen on time. Maybe I just need to put this through its paces longer. Who knows.
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KitF said:
How about using it for more than 20 minutes before making your judgement call?
My battery meter is always a bit off, sometimes I am below 90% before I even get into work at 9 AM but it ends up lasting until 2 AM.
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That's what I usually do but it seems this one doesn't last nearly as long. About half of my previous one.
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Battery meter isn't calibrated out of the box. Charge to full, and use until 10-20%, repeat a couple times to calibrate the battery meter. Then make judgement on battery life.
redpoint73 said:
Battery meter isn't calibrated out of the box. Charge to full, and use until 10-20%, repeat a couple times to calibrate the battery meter. Then make judgement on battery life.
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Completely agree with this.
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Alright here are some pics. Tell if you think this is acceptable. I did record about a 10-12 min video early in the day.
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SkizzMcNizz said:
Man I have the absolute worst luck in the world. I had a phone with great battery life but had to return it because of light bleed. Now this phone is down to 92% after only 20 mins off the charger with 19 mins of use. I'm literally watching the battery decrease. That seems unacceptable to me. I never noticed it draining that fast on my previous one. But everything else on this phone is prefect. I can't win.
After 5 hours it is down to 59% with 44 mins screen on time.
I'm pretty sure I'd still be around 80% on the phone I had to return. I can post pics of that phone's battery life also if you want.
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On my previous phone I was on it for like 20 mins and it didn't drop at all from 99%. I'm literally watching this drop from 63% to 53% in the 10 mins it took me to posts these and a few other replies. So frustrated. And it makes it worse knowing I sent back one that had phenomenal battery life.
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That looks relatively the same stats I get on a slow(er) day... But with that said, I use my phone for everything and scrambled eggs. So far today, as I'm on the train to work, I'm getting a LOAD of screen-on time; 1.5 hours of screen on time (lots of reading, lots of emails, lots of music going on all at once, all the time) and I'm at 58% after 2.8ish hours of total "up time".
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Aviras said:
That looks relatively the same stats I get on a slow(er) day... But with that said, I use my phone for everything and scrambled eggs. So far today, as I'm on the train to work, I'm getting a LOAD of screen-on time; 1.5 hours of screen on time (lots of reading, lots of emails, lots of music going on all at once, all the time) and I'm at 58% after 2.8ish hours of total "up time".
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Makes me feel a little better.
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After the update to 1.85 my battery drained really quick. Then the battery completely drained and phone died while idle. I charged it while off and the battey life was much improved after.
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2 hours and only 14 mins of screen on time and down to 90%. WTF is wrong that they can't make every phone relatively the same?! I feel like I only paid 5 bucks for this phone. Seems like that's all it's worth. Out of the five One X's I've had, every single one was different. That's bs. I'd still be at 99% with every one of the four previous ones I had.
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If they can't make these phones consistent for every user them they shouldn't sell then at all. If they took more time making the batteries insteadof rushing them through the line as fast as possible then maybe there wouldn't be so many problems.
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Rogers HTC One X (2 days old)
- Day 1: At 40% out of the box; charged to 100%
- Day 2: 1 hour screen time, auto-brightness, auto-sync, disabled bloatware apps; at 78% with 1 hour of screen time.
I'm lovin' this! I got ****ty battery life on the Tegra 3 Quad-core HTC One X. I guess kernels does make a big difference =P
I figured WiFi is really efficient on HOX. Here is what I got exclusively on WiFi.
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john_tillman said:
I figured WiFi is really efficient on HOX. Here is what I got exclusively on WiFi.
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That's fantastic battery life, you sir are a magician lol

Horrible battery life Verizon model

After 7 hours, I'm at 14%. Screen was on for 2 hours and I haven't been doing anything intensive (3d games or movies etc) just some web browsing. On automatic brightness. Are other people getting battery life this bad?
what about gps, nfc, app update intervals, there can be a lot going on in the background.
What is the top battery consumer under your battery usage?
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ptaros said:
What is the top battery consumer under your battery usage?
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Screen is, with 48%
Wifi is on, Bluetooth, NFC, and gps are off.
to be fair, my gf's verizon GS3 is ridiculously efficient. granted she was on wifi most of the day and doesn't use internet as much, but she was at 53% with 13 hours and 2 hours 14 min of screen time.
my att on the other hand, wifi off and on LTE, was at 53% with 6 hours and 2 hours of screen time.
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to be fair, my gf's verizon GS3 is ridiculously efficient. granted she was on wifi most of the day and doesn't use internet as much, but she was at 53% with 13 hours and 2 hours 14 min of screen time.
my att on the other hand, wifi off and on LTE, was at 53% with 6 hours and 2 hours of screen time.
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But both of those are higher than 15% after 7 hours with 2 hours of screen time
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Screen is, with 48%
Wifi is on, Bluetooth, NFC, and gps are off.
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How is the LTE signal in your area, if its not strong and swapping back and forth from 3g to LTE all day it can take a huge toll on your battery.
Try it without wifi and 4g. ONLY use 3g. I have a theory...
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Forgetfull said:
Try it without wifi and 4g. ONLY use 3g. I have a theory...
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I'll do that tomorrow and get back to you
Mine seems to be doing great. The signal isn't that great in my house either. This is more real time use as I was asleep for a while. But when I woke up at 10am this morning it was at 92. I've been using it moderately ever since. I get about 8 hours with ridiculous use(4+hr screen on time).
Never on wifi.
Edit: I realize its kind of a bad example since it was in standby more than awake. But I'm getting great battery.
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Screenshots for those of you wondering
I had the same problem as you did. What made a significant change for me was changing amount of apps to keep running at 4 instead of default. Also I found the xda app runs in the background, continues to drain the battery. I have to manually kill the xda app every time I exit it. For today I'm at 12 hour running, and screen on 1.5hrs and 59 percent battery life.
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But both of those are higher than 15% after 7 hours with 2 hours of screen time
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right, and im saying my gf's VERIZON model spanked mine.
Give the battery sometime.
I've been getting worse battery on wifi than 4g for some reason. I also noticed my idle power usage is around 115mA, where on my thunderbolt it was around 20mA
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I had the same problem as you did. What made a significant change for me was changing amount of apps to keep running at 4 instead of default. Also I found the xda app runs in the background, continues to drain the battery. I have to manually kill the xda app every time I exit it. For today I'm at 12 hour running, and screen on 1.5hrs and 59 percent battery life.
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Ditto on the xda app, it was burning up cpu cycles while in the background, enough to make my phone warm. So I just close it every time I'm done using it.
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I have gps, wifi, data, and sync on still netting 27-30hrs battery life. The key is rooting and debloating....
d1ez3 said:
I've been getting worse battery on wifi than 4g for some reason. I also noticed my idle power usage is around 115mA, where on my thunderbolt it was around 20mA
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Woh how are you getting your current draw? The apps that I've tried won't support the s3.
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I have the Verizon model of the S3 as well. I have had it for over a week now because I was an early pre-order so I got it really early. For the first few days I was getting really bad battery life. I would maybe only get 8 - 9 hours with moderate usage, that being about 2 hours of screen time. I would play no games, and just browse the web and text. I am a big texter though, but on my DINC as long as I had mobile data switched off I could get plenty of life out of my phone. With this phone for some reason after about 70 percent, mine will start to drain much faster regardless of what I am using it for, even if the screen is is off. Just to test it I left all the radios on while the phone was at 100 percent over night, and the next morning it was at 96. The next day I tried the same test when my phone was at 50 percent battery, and when I woke up it was at 10 . I don't really understand what is going on here either. I keep seeing all of the reviews for the device even the Verizon version to point towards great battery life, but I am just not seeing it. Maybe rooting and a re-flashing the stock rom plus removing bloatware will help. I also got another battery just to see if that was the problem, but it doesn't seem to be. I'm hoping this is just a software issue, because I don't know why some can get such great battery and some can't. I would also hate to have to get a replacement phone.
im getting around 10 hours with Heavy use ... 6 hours of pandora, youtube, email, facebook, twitter, web
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