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Gingerbread so far...

So from a GR-12 standpoint I must say gingerbread handles just about everything better. with the random odd bugs here and there... so far gingerbread is already showing some awesome stability and speed. much kudos out to the devs here! You guys do a great job and from what I've seen here so far... you put up with maybe one too many ignorant rude individuals. BUT! I would like to extend my thanks to all you devs and helpful members here... and for making my switch to android not only an informative one but a great experience all together.
So... anyway. loving gingerbread (GR-12 mainly). After loading up launcher pro almost every single bug or issue has vanished. seems the twlauncher has some deep seated issues lol.
Looking forward to the new releases!

I totally agree, Ive been running GR-12 for a couple of weeks now and its silky smooth. Oh and im also using launcher pro for the same reasons. lol

A different launchere makes all the difference doesn't it!? After I realized that every time I had a snag or crash it was "twlauncher"... I figured I'd try replacing it. and sure nuff... Awesomeness came spilling forth. Honestly haven't had a issue since. (well I flashed the kc1 modem which gives me the gps performance I need... ).
Outside of my own retarded moment bricking my phone while flashing it... Tearing through 3 old power supplies to get the right combo of resistors to build my own jig.... lol! But all is well that ends well.
What's everyone else's setup / experience with ginger on their cappy's?

MadGoat said:
A different launchere makes all the difference doesn't it!? After I realized that every time I had a snag or crash it was "twlauncher"... I figured I'd try replacing it. and sure nuff... Awesomeness came spilling forth. Honestly haven't had a issue since. (well I flashed the kc1 modem which gives me the gps performance I need... ).
Outside of my own retarded moment bricking my phone while flashing it... Tearing through 3 old power supplies to get the right combo of resistors to build my own jig.... lol! But all is well that ends well.
What's everyone else's setup / experience with ginger on their cappy's?
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Does GPS work on your Gingerbread ROMs? I know the Vibrant it doesn't and I am on ATT, so I am looking to trade for a captivate if it does.

nateysmith said:
Does GPS work on your Gingerbread ROMs? I know the Vibrant it doesn't and I am on ATT, so I am looking to trade for a captivate if it does.
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worked for me. I was able to pick up a signal within 30 seconds and hold it for almost the whole way to my destination. Not amazing but I've accepted that, now - lol

nyydynasty said:
worked for me. I was able to pick up a signal within 30 seconds and hold it for almost the whole way to my destination. Not amazing but I've accepted that, now - lol
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How is battery on the captivate? On the Gingerbread ROMs I am saying.

nateysmith said:
How is battery on the captivate? On the Gingerbread ROMs I am saying.
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For me has been better than Froyo

tcortinag said:
For me has been better than Froyo
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Ive reading lately gingerbread's battery isnt as good as the froyo

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How is battery on the captivate? On the Gingerbread ROMs I am saying.
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significantly better than froyo (at least for me). There are some people with a battery drain issue but I'm thinking its an app thats not optimized for GB. I dont think its a ROM or KERNEL issue - but I'm not a dev so I can't back my statements up.

Both battery and gps are better on GB. Gps is wayyy better...
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Are you able to give me like how many hours on average you are getting? I appreciate all the solid feedback.

Gingerbread has been horribly buggy. The battery life is just plain awful, it's laggier than 2.1, and it killed my dog.
Someone was bound to say something negative, so I just got that out of the way. Lol
Actually, GR-12 makes my Captivate run as smooth as my Inspire. I got about 12 hours heavy usage with the screen almost max.
CM7 Inspire 4G

nateysmith said:
Are you able to give me like how many hours on average you are getting? I appreciate all the solid feedback.
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that's a loaded question because it depends on MANY factors:
-signal strength in your area
-3g vs wifi connection
-general phone use (phone calls, sms, games, etc...)
For me, the phone lasts MUCH longer. I can go about 20-24 hours until I need to charge again. Thats with medium use and wifi connection 80% of the day. On standby, my phone usually drains 1% - 2% an hour.

nyydynasty said:
that's a loaded question because it depends on MANY factors:
-signal strength in your area
-3g vs wifi connection
-general phone use (phone calls, sms, games, etc...)
For me, the phone lasts MUCH longer. I can go about 20-24 hours until I need to charge again. Thats with medium use and wifi connection 80% of the day. On standby, my phone usually drains 1% - 2% an hour.
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Thank you for all the help. The response here is much more positive than the vibrant forums.

glad to help out. hope it works out for you.
EDIT: I should add, though, that when I'm not on wifi (using 3G), my battery doesnt last as long. So I prefer to be on wifi as much as I can.

nyydynasty said:
glad to help out. hope it works out for you.
EDIT: I should add, though, that when I'm not on wifi (using 3G), my battery doesnt last as long. So I prefer to be on wifi as much as I can.
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That is good to know. I will keep that in mind.

So far on continuum its been rather smooth, using go launcher btw.
Battery life is bad though. Less than 8hrs with moderate to heavy usage. I need to fully recharge two to three times a day now.
On froyo I'd get 12-15 hours with similar usage.
Gps works fine, but then mine did on froyo before.
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nateysmith said:
How is battery on the captivate? On the Gingerbread ROMs I am saying.
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I'm experiencing battery drain, GR, Continuum and Mosaic, I leave wifi on and after 9 hours (fully charged, battery stats reset, standby mode [literally 0 use, I was asleep]), cell standby had used 33%, wifi 30%, .... I had 52% battery left.
GB is smoother, for sure, once kernel development ramps up for GB (JVB, JVH and JVO, ... JV#) i'd expect to see more tweaks include power and performance.
If you need battery life and don't want to risk flashing GB, wait.

battery life *IS* going to depends heavily on how much you use your phone. It's hard to compare battery life amongst people that cannot stand next to each other and compare phones because describing "heavy" use is different for everyone. My version of heavy is not the same as the next person.
the only real determinant of battery life that we can all use as a comparison is to see how much battery drain you have on standby or to run some sort of application that runs videos (ie. benchmark apps) because we can all do that. If your phone drains 2x as fast as mine on standby, then we have a problem with a rogue app or something else.
(clarification: I dont mean to use a benchmark app to see the results of the app itself. I just mean to run something on the phone to drain the battery quicker and view the battery life at the end of the test).

I've always experienced better battery life with Froyo, and I use my phone every single day for reading PDF's, listening to music, texting, calling and surfing the web. Maybe Gingerbread has better standby battery life, but when getting a "full" use out of my phone I've always lasted longer on Froyo builds.

[Q] Battery Life Froyo Vs. GB

Just wondering if anyone can help me understand how there can be such a drastic difference in battery life between Froyo and GB. I've been using BAMF Roms mostly since I rooted my T-Bolt and with above average use on 4G half the day, on Wifi the rest, and get 20>24 hrs battery life. I flashed All the GB Roms after each update, because the lockscreen keeps calling me back lol, but I'm lucky if I get 6 hrs usage with the same basic setup.
I charge my phone every morning when I wake up to 100% and rarely have to charge again until the the next morning with BAMF 1.7 unless I'm flashing mods or streaming a lot of audio and video. I went to sleep at 11:30pm last night with 19% battery and woke up with 14%, insane! With BAMF 2.1 the night before, I not only had to charge my phone 2X that day after very little usage, but went to bed the same time with 100% battery and woke up with 47%. That was with everything turned off, wifi, mobile net, and underclocked to 245mhz with the screen off.
I would just like to know how there can be such a big difference, especially with standby time. Thanks.

It is a known fact that GB is more resource hogging than Froyo. Plus the fact that the GB builds we see here are all based on an alpha leak.. which may not be the best representation of GB. It perhaps has to do with how GB handles memory and how much resource it sucks in to accomplish that.
Just my theory.

I guess what I really can't understand is the standby time. If the screen is off, shouldn't the phone be using less resources? 5% loss on Froyo at night compared to 53% loss with GB, seems like a huge difference to me.

Having some serious battery drain too since going to 2.1. Was thinking about trying a different kernel. Have you tried anything. Trying to find a link but think I saw some posts that Imoseyen's kernels were pretty good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086518

fotd said:
Having some serious battery drain too since going to 2.1. Was thinking about trying a different kernel. Have you tried anything. Trying to find a link but think I saw some posts that Imoseyen's kernels were pretty good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086518
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AFAIK, all GB kernels are Imoseyen's or use his as the base.

johnkc1975 said:
I guess what I really can't understand is the standby time. If the screen is off, shouldn't the phone be using less resources? 5% loss on Froyo at night compared to 53% loss with GB, seems like a huge difference to me.
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53% loss overnight in standby tells me you probably have a bad app somewhere.
Mine typically loses about 15-20% max overnight on GB Roms.. (and I've used GB theory, Liquid Roms and Gingeritis)...This itself is more than Froyo Rom which for me has been typically about 5% loss max on standby overnight.
Most importantly.. when I am working on the phone.. GB Roms tend to lose charge a lot faster than Froyo Roms.. which is where the real pain is.

johnkc1975 said:
I guess what I really can't understand is the standby time. If the screen is off, shouldn't the phone be using less resources? 5% loss on Froyo at night compared to 53% loss with GB, seems like a huge difference to me.
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I've seen the same thing. After about 4 hours yesterday on my extended battery I dropped 2%!! With a GB ROM I lose 10% per hour-ish. I'm just sticking with FroYo until we get a better GB leak that is more stable. I was on GB/CM7 on my Inspire and the battery life was great so I know GB isn't as bad as it is on our device we just have an early build of GB. It will get better hopefully sooner rather than later.

I'm not sure if its GB or the roms but there are additional features in GB/GB roms that contribute to the battery loss. These battery tips are in chingy's gingeritis post. Go through these and hopefully these will increase your battery life. I didn't come up with these tips. Credits to Boskoel03
Battery Tips From Boskoel03
Disable "Tell HTC" service: Settings -> About Phone ->Tell HTC -> Disable
Disable Software Updates: Settings -> About Phone ->Software updates -> Uncheck Software Updates
change Wi-Fi Sleep policy: settings -> wireless & networks ->Wi-Fi Settings ->15 min
Disable Phone Finder: Settings -> Location
Disable Weather Sounds & Clock Widget Full Screen Animation
Increase Facebook/Twitter/Stocks/Anyone otther accounts sync interval to 4hours or more
Use Auto-Brightness
Disable Haptic Feedback
Use Wifi when available
Set screen timeout to 30 seconds
Standalone GPS should be OFF when not using navigation
Refrain from playing angry birds while on the pooper

fotd said:
Having some serious battery drain too since going to 2.1. Was thinking about trying a different kernel. Have you tried anything. Trying to find a link but think I saw some posts that Imoseyen's kernels were pretty good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086518
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Other than re-flashing after the Rom's are updated, no, I have not tried any different kernals because I assume the devs know a lot more than me, so I like to stick with the kernals that come with the Roms.

kriskmk said:
53% loss overnight in standby tells me you probably have a bad app somewhere.
Mine typically loses about 15-20% max overnight on GB Roms.. (and I've used GB theory, Liquid Roms and Gingeritis)...This itself is more than Froyo Rom which for me has been typically about 5% loss max on standby overnight.
Most importantly.. when I am working on the phone.. GB Roms tend to lose charge a lot faster than Froyo Roms.. which is where the real pain is.
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I checked everything for rouge apps and found nothing excessively using resources, and I have had the same results with Gingeritis and Theory.

johnkc1975 said:
I checked everything for rouge apps and found nothing excessively using resources, and I have had the same results with Gingeritis and Theory.
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Use Titanium Backup to Freeze All User apps (under Batch Option). Do this before you go to bed. In the morning see what the % Loss is.. Then you can Unfreeze them all one by one and find out the culprit.
Last night when I went to bed my GB rom had 63% juice left.. this morning I was at 47%.
Also, I am using liquid Rom w/ stock battery.

kriskmk said:
Use Titanium Backup to Freeze All User apps (under Batch Option). Do this before you go to bed. In the morning see what the % Loss is.. Then you can Unfreeze them all one by one and find out the culprit.
Last night when I went to bed my GB rom had 63% juice left.. this morning I was at 47%.
Also, I am using liquid Rom w/ stock battery.
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That's a good idea , thanks.

Blame sense.
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darkrom said:
Blame sense.
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This, or the fact that it's an alpha leak. CM7 has ridiculously good battery life in comparison to both froyo and gb based sense roms, especially the latter.
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Terrible battery life!

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.

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Thats the thing. I haven't been doing anything other than browsing. I only went to class and browsed for maybe 2 hours max. Everything else is 2% ish other than the dolphin hd browser. If I look at the battery stats, the display is the only thing thats depleting the battery really. I'm starting to think its because I have weak coverage in my area.
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I've had similar battery issues with two different Charge units running each ROM/Kernel (except GB). I also live in a weak coverage area where I average 1 to 2 bars, sometimes dropping to 0 and i'm convinced this has to be it. I had written this idea off initially because I previously had ATT and the same weak coverage with them, but nowhere near the same abnormal battery drain...so I guess there must be a difference between the way CDMA and GSM operate in this respect? I'm in a 3G only area and keep the phone locked to CDMA/Auto also.

danalo1979 said:
Download humble 1.25 and your battery woes will be no more my son....
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I am running 1.25 and have had absolutely no improvement to my battery life (strong 4g area in SoCal).
I've just resigned to the fact that I'll get 6-7 hours (even on an extended battery, same results) and have to charge once or twice a day.

Coming from the fascinate I honestly think the battery life is better. Although I turned lte off since we don't have any coverage for it yet. My mind will probably change when we get it. Running stock ee4 rooted with voodoo kernel. My father is running the same thing and also came from the fascinate, he completely agrees.
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brian1972ct said:
I am running 1.25 and have had absolutely no improvement to my battery life (strong 4g area in SoCal).
I've just resigned to the fact that I'll get 6-7 hours (even on an extended battery, same results) and have to charge once or twice a day.
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I had really bad battery life on my phone running the stock rom and gummycharged. With the phone sleeping and only data on, I was losing at least 5% an hour.
I switched to Humble a week ago and my battery life is exceptional. I am ususally looking at 24 hrs with 4g on and longer with it off.
If you do a lot of browsing and keeping your screen on, your battery is going to burn quickly. No matter what ROM you are using. If it's draining a lot of battery in sleep, flash Humble.

danalo1979 said:
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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?

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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

Battery life is better on sense than aosp.

Is it just me or do i get better battery life on sense froyo roms then i do on aosp gingerbread roms. On aosp i lose anywhere from 7-10% battery per hour, standard use, and on sense i lose 3-7% per hour, standard use. I am on Bamf Remix 1.8.6 with the desense script, and the aosp roms i tried were cm7 and omfgb. I really wish i got good battery life on aosp, it is so much smoother and quicker, but I need my battery to last as ling as possible. Am i alone here or what?
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You're going to get better battery life on Froyo over Gingerbread.
What are your setting though, I go all day with pretty good usage (browser/text/facebook/youtube/Music) and I'm always good to go.
I'm running CM7 stock kernel. Display at 40%, 4g disabled when not needed, Wifi disabled when not home and I can't really say I have any complaints.

ScoobarSTI said:
You're going to get better battery life on Froyo over Gingerbread.
What are your setting though, I go all day with pretty good usage (browser/text/facebook/youtube/Music) and I'm always good to go.
I'm running CM7 stock kernel. Display at 40%, 4g disabled when not needed, Wifi disabled when not home and I can't really say I have any complaints.
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I thought always thought that aosp GB was supposed to have better battery life.....
I had imoseyon lean kernel on battsaver and ondemandX, wifi off because I'm almost never home, 4g on, all the same settings I run on BAMF. Display at 25% usually unless the sun is blaring.

just curious did you wipe batt stats do a full drain and recharge and see what you got after that?

No, I'm guilty of not doing that. I guess I should try that shouldn't I?

I found the best battery life on Liquid ROM, which is GB.

xCHPx said:
No, I'm guilty of not doing that. I guess I should try that shouldn't I?
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Can't hurt. I wipe batt stats every time I flash a rom.

Yknow, I'm on the 'stock' BAMF 3.0 rc4 and I'm at 57% after 8 hours with moderate usage, but using juice defender. I also use the OTA Mr2 mod.
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xCHPx said:
I really wish i got good battery life on aosp, it is so much smoother and quicker, but I need my battery to last as long as possible.
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There is a simple solution. Get an extra or extended battery, and you won't have to worry about it.
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sublimaze said:
There is a simple solution. Get an extra or extended battery, and you won't have to worry about it.
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Although that's an obvious solution. There's more he can try before he goes to spend the money for an extra battery. I honestly don't see a need for an extended battery and I play around on my phone all day. When I get in the car charge it. When Im at home on the pc charge it.

I definitely get better battery life on Froyo sense than aosp gb. I, personal, think I get the best battery life on a stock version. I'm currently running the rooted OTA and the OTA MR2 radio and am getting great battery life (4g off, don't have it in my area till the end of the month).
I wish CM7 got good battery life. I like it better than any ROM I've tried, but can't get over the battery drain. It's ok though, I like Sense a lot too.
But you know what they say: To each his own.

to each his own is right
But on the same platform (froyo vs gb) i just dont think you are going to get tremndous variations in battery life. There may be an outlier rom that uses it quickly by most of the roms are in the same ballpark. i think we are talking about squeaking out an extra 20-30 mins which is not nothing but 8+ hours of a battery charge i would be more inclined to go with whatever rom i like best. When GB is released for real, then we may see some improvements across the board.

dhy8386 said:
to each his own is right
But on the same platform (froyo vs gb) i just dont think you are going to get tremndous variations in battery life. There may be an outlier rom that uses it quickly by most of the roms are in the same ballpark. i think we are talking about squeaking out an extra 20-30 mins which is not nothing but 8+ hours of a battery charge i would be more inclined to go with whatever rom i like best. When GB is released for real, then we may see some improvements across the board.
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Agreed
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???? I get much better battery life on CM7 over froyo and TB sense. I'm talking 50% more per day. CM7 wont be leaving my bolt anytime soon.
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That's great but that's not the norm. Its clearly your setup. I'm only saying that because if it were true then we would all be using it
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bhazard451 said:
???? I get much better battery life on CM7 over froyo and TB sense. I'm talking 50% more per day. CM7 wont be leaving my bolt anytime soon.
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I have to agree. CM7 has been way better than any other rom i've tried.

CM7 with Kang Bang does best on mine, but you can't compare sense froyo to aosp GB. That's too many different factors. That's a different framework, different kernel structure, different ROM. How do you know what the culprit is?

I'm running BAMF 1.8.6 as well on standard battery.
I just charge at night, take the phone to the car or motorcycle for commute and place on charger. When at work, I have another USB charger with micro USB cable. Charge when at desk. Reverse procedure for drive home.
Battery is great when only off the charger for ~4 hours per day. :-|

It seems that sense battery life is better. I've been on cm7 for a couple weeks now and my battery will be nearly dead by this time every day. So I'm getting 5 to 6 hourz max with cm7. I'm on gingertheory now with dream kernel and setcpu running a few profiles, battery life is at 70%. May have been using it a little less today but still that's a big difference.
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Getting the 2750mah extended was the best investment you can make into this phone, hands down. If your phone goes naked, then the difference in thickness is not that bad. In fact I love the new added thickness. It keeps my camera lens off the surface when I put it down flat. Not to mention it adds a certain heftyness that just exudes quality.
Sadly though I got an unlucky battery cover which creeks if you squeeze just a smidge on the sides
Other than that, man is it great. I can go about 48 hours without charging on CM7.1. At the end of the 48 hours, my screen would have been on for roughly 5-6 hours. That means nearly 3 hours of screen on time a day. If you sleep for 8 hours a day, that leaves 16 hours of awake time. 3/16 means nearly 20% of my time awake was spent looking at my phone. Hardly minimum usage, and if its not considered heavy then I fear for future generations. Screw these kids today 12 years old with a smartphone lol. I didn't get my first cellphone till I was a senior in highschool (2004) and even then, it was a crumby flipphone just for the sake of making calls and in case I was in trouble.

Tweaked v.2.0 will be my next venture

I'm very excited to flash Dwitherell's Tweaked v2.0 rom . I liked both the Minimal and ICS theme for Tweakstock. The best battery life I've seen with normal usage was on Tweakstock 1.4 and the 3/20 IfinityRom .

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I'm very excited to flash Dwitherell's Tweaked v2.0 rom . I liked both the Minimal and ICS theme for Tweakstock. The best battery life I've seen with normal usage was on Tweakstock 1.4 and the 3/20 IfinityRom .
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Been playing with it for two hours or so now (setting things back up and tweaking it a bit more) and it is GREAT. You will love the experience, at least I do so far.

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Been playing with it for two hours or so now (setting things back up and tweaking it a bit more) and it is GREAT. You will love the experience, at least I do so far.
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What were some of the additional tweaks that you applied ? If you don't mind sharing .

check out the thread in the DEV section, there are too many for me to list/explain. He has them in the OP

Is anyone gonna up some screenshots please?

fadac said:
Is anyone gonna up some screenshots please?
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Look at the TweakStock screenshots. It looks identical, other than having more options.

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I'm very excited to flash Dwitherell's Tweaked v2.0 rom . I liked both the Minimal and ICS theme for Tweakstock. The best battery life I've seen with normal usage was on Tweakstock 1.4 and the 3/20 IfinityRom .
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Unfortunately I have been having a lot of trouble with my battery, on average my battery will last about 4 hours with minimal usage. It should last over night, but even after a 100% charge it dies by the morning. I have been on Tweak's 1.4 with PBnJ Kernal for a few weeks and I am attempting to calibrate it as I type this. Did you have to calibrate yours? And how long would your battery last if you don't mind?
Thanks.

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Unfortunately I have been having a lot of trouble with my battery, on average my battery will last about 4 hours with minimal usage. It should last over night, but even after a 100% charge it dies by the morning. I have been on Tweak's 1.4 with PBnJ Kernal for a few weeks and I am attempting to calibrate it as I type this. Did you have to calibrate yours? And how long would your battery last if you don't mind?
Thanks.
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That is extremely low battery life. Maybe you should try getting a replacement? Something is definitely defective there.

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Unfortunately I have been having a lot of trouble with my battery, on average my battery will last about 4 hours with minimal usage. It should last over night, but even after a 100% charge it dies by the morning. I have been on Tweak's 1.4 with PBnJ Kernal for a few weeks and I am attempting to calibrate it as I type this. Did you have to calibrate yours? And how long would your battery last if you don't mind?
Thanks.
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I flashed Eclipse 2.0 because I can't get with the Tweakstock Theme.
But on Tweakstock 1.4 with the PBJ Kernel I had excellent battery life. I'd wake up at 5 am and listen to music for about 2 hours. Throughout the day I would check my email , the weather or text between classes. By the time track practice started at 2:30 I would have 80%+ life . Then at 5 pm until like 7pm I would listen to music and come to a battery life of 70%+ . The key is turn off data and WIFI when you don't need them . I also use ScreenFilter Pro to adjust my screen brightness because my Display is always the biggest factor in my battery drainage.

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That is extremely low battery life. Maybe you should try getting a replacement? Something is definitely defective there.
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I second that, sounds like a defective battery or something like that

Tweakstock 2.0 has great battery life for me. I easily get through a full day off of one charge. And that's with playing games and using bluetooth headphones to listen to music!

I am having bad battery life also, but this is just the first day with it. I have looked at one YouTube video and within 15 minutes I have dropped 10%.
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Plilus, is amyone having problems with the camera?
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I am not... Works great
Charged up post!

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I am attempting to calibrate it as I type this. Did you have to calibrate yours?
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fwiw, 'calibrating' is not going to help. you should look for a new battery

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I flashed Eclipse 2.0 because I can't get with the Tweakstock Theme.
But on Tweakstock 1.4 with the PBJ Kernel I had excellent battery life. I'd wake up at 5 am and listen to music for about 2 hours. Throughout the day I would check my email , the weather or text between classes. By the time track practice started at 2:30 I would have 80%+ life . Then at 5 pm until like 7pm I would listen to music and come to a battery life of 70%+ . The key is turn off data and WIFI when you don't need them . I also use ScreenFilter Pro to adjust my screen brightness because my Display is always the biggest factor in my battery drainage.
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Wow! You are definitely getting the most out of your battery. I will have to look into turning my data on and off since 4G eats a lot of battery and thanks for the app suggestion. My screen also is eats up more then 60%+ of the battery usage. I am still on Tweaks 1.4, but im about to upgrade to 2.0 when i get some time. If you don't mind me asking, what else makes you choose eclipse over tweak?
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fwiw, 'calibrating' is not going to help. you should look for a new battery
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Yeah you're completely right. As I have heard from other users on this site, the phone measures the percentage directly from the voltage on the battery. So erasing your battery stats and the excessive charging and draining is not going to help.

Been running Tweaked 2.0 for a few days with zero issues. Anything I've wanted to do as far as customizations, etc, I've been able to do either through TSM Parts or TweakTools. Awesome stuff. And battery life is as good as it was when I was running Eclipse.

Please take notes guys, I have reiterated this FAR too many times, ROMs have almost nothing to do with battery life. It's almost solely based on the kernel, if you came from a ROM with PBJ to Tweaked2.0 then you would notice a difference whether better or worse since you'd now be on a stock kernel. ROMs can impact battery life if it's an AOSP ROM but since we don't have any of those it's majorly on the kernel. Don't make ROM decisions on battery life and don't "review" ROMs based on how good the battery life is either, please and thank you

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Please take notes guys, I have reiterated this FAR too many times, ROMs have almost nothing to do with battery life. It's almost solely based on the kernel, if you came from a ROM with PBJ to Tweaked2.0 then you would notice a difference whether better or worse since you'd now be on a stock kernel. ROMs can impact battery life if it's an AOSP ROM but since we don't have any of those it's majorly on the kernel. Don't make ROM decisions on battery life and don't "review" ROMs based on how good the battery life is either, please and thank you
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Good point, I should have stated I was on Eclipse with PBJ kernel, now on Tweaked with stock kernel...with little to no change in battery life...meaning battery life is still good for me.

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Wow! You are definitely getting the most out of your battery. I will have to look into turning my data on and off since 4G eats a lot of battery and thanks for the app suggestion. My screen also is eats up more then 60%+ of the battery usage. I am still on Tweaks 1.4, but im about to upgrade to 2.0 when i get some time. If you don't mind me asking, what else makes you choose eclipse over tweak?
My only reason for switching to Eclipse is the beautiful theme. I love the theme . Performance is great , I would like to give Tweaked 2.0 another run but I don't like the theme. I know it's a great ROM but I'm picky about interfaces.
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