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[Q] Best Rom Desire S. Battery Wise!

What is the best ROM for Desire S in terms of battery.
I used virtuous unity 1.29.0 and it's battery backup was quite good then my original ROM.
But after updating to new virtuous unity 1.31.0 the battery backup goes quite bad.
Anyone know a good battery backup ROM for desire s?

Calibrate your battery, really works!
Instructions:
1. Turn your phone on and charge it for 8 hours our more
2. Deplug charger, turn your phone off And charger it fit one hour
3. Turn your phone on, wait 2 minutes,turn your phone off and charge it for one hour
4. Turn phone on and your battery life should be much better now
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Don't forget to sacrifice a virgin and hire a shaman.
Cmon ppl! Li-Ion and Li-Poli batteries do not require forming (yeah its forming not formatting). Ni-Cd and Ni-MH were the types that required this.
In extreme situations (charging over 20hrs) you can even damage/reduce capacity of your phone's Li-Ion battery.

ptenteges said:
Don't forget to sacrifice a virgin and hire a shaman.
Cmon ppl! Li-Ion and Li-Poli batteries do not require forming (yeah its forming not formatting). Ni-Cd and Ni-MH were the types that required this.
In extreme situations (charging over 20hrs) you can even damage/reduce capacity of your phone's Li-Ion battery.
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So are you saying NOT to calibrate your battery that way?

Yeah.. is that really works?
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try miui rom.......... my battery life is superb.. i tried every custom rom in my point of view miui is perfect... try it once......

olyloh6696 said:
So are you saying NOT to calibrate your battery that way?
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I'm saying that the type of the battery used in Desire S is not formable. Additionally in extreme situations you can damage it by overcharging it. This is more complicated, because it also depends on the type of charger, and charging hardware in the phone.
What DesisreS says looks exactly like forming process, hence my response.
What you (possibly) can do, is calibrate your device/os to properly read battery status and use it more efficiently. But this is done through some software tricks I don't know.

Our battery is smart.
Overcharging it won't do anything. It just cuts off the electricity when reaching 100%. Full voltage is around 4.2V. If you look at your voltage while charging, it's already at 4.2V at around 70%. I have no idea why it does that.
And at 0% it's not really empty. It still has around 3.5V. It gets dangerous at 3V where it won't be able to charge again.
Just clear your battery stats in recovery or use an app from the market and see what happens.
Read and search around the forum for more info.

ptenteges said:
I'm saying that the type of the battery used in Desire S is not formable. Additionally in extreme situations you can damage it by overcharging it. This is more complicated, because it also depends on the type of charger, and charging hardware in the phone.
What DesisreS says looks exactly like forming process, hence my response.
What you (possibly) can do, is calibrate your device/os to properly read battery status and use it more efficiently. But this is done through some software tricks I don't know.
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You can use the app called battery calibration from the market for the calibration
Charge battery to 100% & run the app
This does not increase battery life but helps the OS read the battery more accurately & this needs to be done after installing a new ROM

kartkk said:
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You can use the app called battery calibration from the market for the calibration
Charge battery to 100% & run the app
This does not increase battery life but helps the OS read the battery more accurately & this needs to be done after installing a new ROM
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Uhuh, this is what I mean. But lets go back to the original question, what are your experiences with different ROMs and battery life? I'm going to be Desire S user soon so I'm curious too.

ptenteges said:
Uhuh, this is what I mean. But lets go back to the original question, what are your experiences with different ROMs and battery life? I'm going to be Desire S user soon so I'm curious too.
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LeeDroid ROM. Offers great battery life and very close to stock ROM. I got 1/2 day use on stock ROM with heavy use when I first got it, then put leedroid on, now I'm having 1 full day heavy use before I have to charge my phone (15%)
(Includes a lot of syncing, WiFi, web browsing, music,games etc the whole day)
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Thanks guys.
I decided to go with virtuous rom. it's new version is coming out with very good battery life.

vishalduggal said:
Thanks guys.
I decided to go with virtuous rom. it's new version is coming out with very good battery life.
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not just good battery life but many more awesome features
@olyloh6696 i think you should also try the vu beta im impressed by it

i really hope the next version of miui for desire s will have better battery life, i think it's the best looking rom and i will definitely keep it when battery is improved!

Battery must be recalibrated on each rom update?

Hi every one,
I was wondering if there is need to recalibrate the battery on each rom update, custom and lg official releases?
Also i bought a 1900mAh battery so I think it need to calibrated for better performance?
Any advice will be great
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no.
Battery calibration does not affect battery performance, it just changes the accuracy of the battery %age display. There is also no way of calibrating the battery, as it is directly read from the li-ion battery itself. Deleting the batterystats.bin Does nothing besides resetting androids About Phone>Battery Use data - which already resets itself on a full charge (And also broken on O3D GB Roms)
Its actually likely that calibrating the continually will eventually result in considerably worse battery life, as li-ion batteries are best operated between 20-80% charge.

oyanezg said:
Hi every one,
I was wondering if there is need to recalibrate the battery on each rom update, custom and lg official releases?
Also i bought a 1900mAh battery so I think it need to calibrated for better performance?
Any advice will be great
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I saw on the battery calibration app, that it must be recalibrated, since each rom has diferent files to manage power, and it will actually help the battery managment.
Thats what i know, im not an Expert.

tachi_do said:
I saw on the battery calibration app, that it must be recalibrated, since each rom has diferent files to manage power, and it will actually help the battery managment.
Thats what i know, im not an Expert.
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I saw that too, on battery Calibration by NEMA it says:
calibration needs to be done after flashing a new ROM. but you calibrate.. etc. the whole message that why my initial post was about, I saw other posts saynig that it must so ill do it just in case I dont think that will do anyharm at all.

wasn´t calibration just a matter of charging till 100% when off, then remove battery, insert battery and then start phone and plug again??
i do this and my battery it's all good, although i cna't watch a video for more than 3 hrs hahahaha

It actually worked on my ZTE Blade. I believe it's called overcharging.

hi
i dont think so need callibration after each new rom!
it might harmful for battery!

2450mAh battery?!?!

has anyone tried this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2450mAh-Hig...755988?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3f1a4652d4

Grooby97 said:
has anyone tried this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2450mAh-Hig...755988?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3f1a4652d4
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Yes I'm using it right now.. :laugh:

Fakhri 19 said:
Yes I'm using it right now.. :laugh:
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what is your opinion of it? also is it the same size as the original battery?

Im using it along with an anker 1900 battery. They both preform the same to my usage
It is a heavier battery than my anker though.

Grooby97 said:
what is your opinion of it? also is it the same size as the original battery?
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yup, same size with the original. It felt a lot better, few hours longer battery life.
E.g. : if you just keep the phone idle for 5 hours, it sill 100% remain.
sorry for my english

Grooby97 said:
has anyone tried this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2450mAh-Hig...755988?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3f1a4652d4
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I bought this battery in 2011y on ebay that claimed to be 2450mAh but it was only 1400-1500mAh.
Original battery works for me (on JB ROM) around 18-24h, with this fake - around 20-26h.
Sry my english... =)

Buy batteries from a reputable dealer, too many counterfeit ones going around! I just bought mugen 3600 directly from mugen, it's been amazing! Highly recommend! It's worth the cost !
sent from HTC sensation, soff, 3.33 firmware, viper Rom, sense 4.1, mugen battery. please press thanks if I helped in anyway.

Just bought one in Spain from eBay too. 8.5 eur, free shipping. I'll discharge it first to 0( it came 70% charged), then I'll run nova battery tester benchmark and post results. The stock battery gave me 1420mah until the phone switched off at 1% on the long test of that app. Using pydx kernel, elegancia 5 rom.
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Sorry, can't test it. This app shows me 0mah with that battery and always 25C temperature
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2450mAh battery
i also bought it before 1 year ago,actually is not 2450mAh but around 1500-1600mAh but it does jobif you want buy it its cheap you dont have nothing to loose
DREAMkin said:
I bought this battery in 2011y on ebay that claimed to be 2450mAh but it was only 1400-1500mAh.
Original battery works for me (on JB ROM) around 18-24h, with this fake - around 20-26h.
Sry my english... =)
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^ wow, not too shabby.
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bcome said:
How well does it perform compared to the Anker one? The most I've gotten out of my Anker so far is three and a half day, but that is without using it a lot. I find that it mostly depends on the ROM you're using tho, and due to that I prefer the sensless ROMs, because they seem to run a lot lighter than their Sense counterparts. But hey, that's my observation.
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What's your screen on time?
Someone got 4 days, 2h40m screen and 45 min in call using anker battery.
Skipjacks said:
Okay I want to put this business about bad battery life and battery bugs and all that jazz to bed.
Look at my battery graph. I rest my case.
Any battery problems are not with the ROM. It's clearly capable of having disgustingly good battery life.
That's 4 DAYS since unplugging with 8% battery life left as of right now.
That includes 2 hours and 40 minutes of screen on time
45 minutes of phone talk time
This is on the April 26th build. And this is the FIRST charge since flashing that build. So the battery use probably isn't even maximized yet.
My settings are OnDemand 192 - 1242
Anker battery
Auto Brightness is off and I use the notification bar swipe to adjust brightness as needed
Alterations made to the Google Services Framework to eliminate Google Wakelocks (this has nothing to do with Albino's code, hence it's not the ROM) Click here for more details
Greenify to keep other wakelocky apps on a short leash. (I'm looking at you T Mobile's My Account app. You're so useful but you think you own the place!)
Haptic feedback is off for everything. The only thing that's allowed to use the vibration function is the ringer (I don't use a ringtone, vibrate only) and reminder notifications. If you have haptic feedback on for every press on the screen and keyboard you are basically giving up battery power to run a small electric motor. That's not an efficient use of limited battery life.
Full disclosure. I don't keep mobile data on all the time. I turn it on as needed. And I've been very busy doing other stuff the past 4 days so there hasn't been a ton of use time. Obviously if I had been using it more it wouldn't have lasted 4 days. But if the ROM can idle for 4 days and not drain itself dry, then battery problems aren't in the ROM. They are with apps, settings, or user error. Albino's ROM can be configured to run for what may as well be for freakin' ever on a single charge. I'm half expecting him to add "sustainable cold nuclear fusion" to the changelog of the next build.
So if you've got battery issues, go buy an Anker before you do anything else. Even if you have other problem that will make everything better. And stop talking about battery issues in this thread. Come to the FAQ thread (see link in my signature) and ask questions about how to improve battery life there. We'll take all battery questions there with a smile and be glad to help you, where in this thread battery questions will be met with verbal beratement for clogging up the thread with whining.
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dont mess with these batterys
they usualy fake, has a wrap that can be removed, and then you will see its says 1600~mah
the anker and mugen 1950 are real 1950 mah and the max power u can get without extending the case(anker is cheaper thou so its more recommended)

New Battery Required

Hello I live in Karachi, Pakistan and using my galaxy for about year ever since I jumped to ICS the battery is awful I could barely WIFI 1hour or internet surfing.
I am looking to buy powerful extended battery with a range of $15 to $20. can anyone recommend me a battery?

I bought a 1800mAh battery from Polarcell a few days ago on ebay. Same size as the original 1500mAh battery so you dont need an extended back cover.

+1 for PolarCell
This 1650 mAh is also good, it's meant for the I9001 and I9003. Original Samsung battery...

thETImo said:
+1 for PolarCell
This 1650 mAh is also good, it's meant for the I9001 and I9003. Original Samsung battery...
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good! I'm going to buy Polarcell
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occ hio said:
good! I'm going to buy Polarcell
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my actual battery duration is about 6h... no good

I recently bought two Pisen 1700mAh batteries from dx.com (Deal Extreme), and I've been very happy with their permormance.
Running CM10, Semaphore kernel with Deep Idle my phone easily goes two to three days of moderate use without recharging.
Battery drain during sleep is pretty much nonexistent, 8h of sleep results in max 2% drain.
Might be better stuff out there, but I'm happy, and they were dirt cheap
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Hr Kristian said:
I recently bought two Pisen 1700mAh batteries from dx.com (Deal Extreme), and I've been very happy with their permormance.
Running CM10, Semaphore kernel with Deep Idle my phone easily goes two to three days of moderate use without recharging.
Battery drain during sleep is pretty much nonexistent, 8h of sleep results in max 2% drain.
Might be better stuff out there, but I'm happy, and they were dirt cheap
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Do you happen to have the link or the sku number? I can't seem to find it on DX

lukesan said:
Do you happen to have the link or the sku number? I can't seem to find it on DX
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i guess this is the one http://dx.com/p/replacement-3-7v-17...msung-i897-i9000-i9003-i9010-i9088-more-93330
Although i found 3 more comparable (if anyone can give some opinions about them that would be great) :
1700mAh: http://dx.com/p/replacement-3-7v-1700mah-extended-battery-for-samsung-i9000-galaxy-s-132216
1800mAh: http://dx.com/p/replacement-3-7v-18...23?rt=1&p=2&m=3&r=2&k=1&t=1&s=132216&u=127723
2430mAh: http://dx.com/p/replacement-3-7v-24...387rt=1&p=2&m=3&r=2&k=1&t=1&s=132216&u=136387

After half year of usage i can say that the Pisen 1700mAh is a good replacement. Medium usage of the phone = 3 days of battery life, 3g internet on all the time, running JB4.2.

thETImo said:
+1 for PolarCell
This 1650 mAh is also good, it's meant for the I9001 and I9003. Original Samsung battery...
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My batteries also on its way out, so I'll probably go for the PolarCell.

sk4doosh said:
My batteries also on its way out, so I'll probably go for the PolarCell.
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I have the 1800 from Anker and it is still good after 6 month.
Take longer time to charge on usb or car adapter, but it is bigger... so probably normal.

i m using samsung galaxy gt i-9000.
I want good battery for my mobile.
pls give me suggestion & online link where can i get it
thanks in advance
KIYOSH

KIYOSH said:
i m using samsung galaxy gt i-9000.
I want good battery for my mobile.
pls give me suggestion & online link where can i get it
thanks in advance
KIYOSH
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http://dx.com/p/replacement-3-7v-17...msung-i897-i9000-i9003-i9010-i9088-more-93330
Check it out when it will be back on stock or else you can also check this one out http://dx.com/p/replacement-3-7v-1800mah-battery-for-samsung-galaxy-s2-i9100-127723

i can recommend oryginal 1650 mah for sgs advance

What can i do for more battery life?

Hello,
What can i do for more battery life?
Is 2000 mAh battery enough to increase battery backup for "Galaxy Core i8262"?
How many hours do you think i'll get with 2000 mAh if i watch video's and browse the web?
From which company do you suggest me to purchase a battery for "Galaxy Core i8262"?
How much is the maximum amount of mAh battery which i can add to my "Galaxy Core i8262"?
What happens when i add large battery more than 5000+ mAh??
Please advice.
Thank you!

You really can`t put bigger battery, beacuse you know... it`s bigger!

1. Debloat it.
2. Use Greenify
3. Use App Quarantine Pro to disable apps.
4. Use battery doctor once just to check which app is draining much battery and then freeze or disable it and remove Battery Doctory

I guess no one on this forum tried this

MirXas said:
I guess no one on this forum tried this
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Hello,
Do you think this Battery is good for my phone? won't it harm it as it is high mAh Battery...
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Please reply
Thank you!

Millioniare said:
Hello,
Do you think this Battery is good for my phone? won't it harm it as it is high mAh Battery...
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Please reply
Thank you!
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It should work good. Of course It will take longer to fully charge, but it alsi it will last much longer,

ya bt a very high power batyery isn't gud
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mAh is not power, it's capacity. Can you tell me why it's bad for a phone?
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Guys, don't take this battery serious. You CAN'T put bigger battery in it, beacuse if you want bigger amperage, you need bigger space, whitch you don't have!
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The_Rencis said:
Guys, don't take this battery serious. You CAN'T put bigger battery in it, beacuse if you want bigger amperage, you need bigger space, whitch you don't have!
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No, we have space, that's why they provide a larger back cover. The aftermarket battery is thicker than the original one, so as the capacity is bigger.

There's a kernel bug. To see if it applies, look into battery stats, see list of apps. If "Android OS" uses more than, say, 8%, it's affected.
Got as much as 30% when launching apps a lot. This causes memory pressure and the bug happens.
Known as "kswapd bug" and affects many devices, as it isn't even Android or ARM specific. Same can happen on a regular PC.
hxxp://github.com/sthalik/gcore_kernel/commit/c1e717d0b2c11c11015db9274645f073ddd2ad1e
Here's the fix. Believe the original's from CM. you can search web for "contention_wait_kswapd" to see where it applies.
While the kernel provided there works (running on my phone always, latest revision), I'm not providing binaries.

M_E_G_A_T_R_O_N said:
1. Debloat it.
2. Use Greenify
3. Use App Quarantine Pro to disable apps.
4. Use battery doctor once just to check which app is draining much battery and then freeze or disable it and remove Battery Doctory
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its good, but can you links downloads for us.....
thanking you for the suggestions

For more battery life you can turn off WI-Fi when you are not using it and also use task manager to watch unwanted background application which runs behind and uses battery, so Free NCDEX Tips, Great post.

Do not use battery other than 1800 mah for ur samsung galaxy core.
Do not use batteries other than 1800mAh for ur samsung galaxy core. Bcuz it can damage ur device's hardwares..
It's tooooo dangerous!!!!
3000+ mAh batteries can surely damage ur device. So take care of ur device even if it an big budget or small budget..
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