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[Q] Current Widget

Guys, I'm currently using Revolution 3.3. First time flashed, I got over 24h of battery life with overnight only about 1%/hr drop on sleep, but now it's draining like crazy. Trying to use current widget to log usage but it always reads 0mA. I'm not sure if there is something with the ROM that prevents the widget to monitor CPU.

gordec said:
Guys, I'm currently using Revolution 3.3. First time flashed, I got over 24h of battery life with overnight only about 1%/hr drop on sleep, but now it's draining like crazy. Trying to use current widget to log usage but it always reads 0mA. I'm not sure if there is something with the ROM that prevents the widget to monitor CPU.
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battery would drain like it would like when you first took it out of the box when it is ON.(?)
but if thats not the case..ummmm reflash it??

P00t said:
battery would drain like it would like when you first took it out of the box when it is ON.(?)
but if thats not the case..ummmm reflash it??
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I'm not sure what it was likie out of the box cause I flashed right away. But the first time off charger after flash was great over 24 h. I think there some apps I put on there that are drawing power just trying to figure it out, but the only app I know that logs usage is Current Widget and it doesn't work with Revolution 3.3.

i think that ROM doesnt have the right current file because someone else posted the same issue a few weeks ago. something about the ROM they were using did not work with the current widget, it always showed 0mA. a different ROM is all i can suggest. and i dont know why this would happen in the first place. all ROMs should be using the same battery driver, which outputs the same sysfs files that the current widget reads.
though i have seen this be different. if your ROM is say, based on the desire HD, which may use a different battery driver, then the file would be different, hence current widget breaks. you would have to "trick" the current widget into looking for the other phone's current file and use that.

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So apparent Setcpu interferes with current widget. After removing setcpu mA displayed fine. Worth a try for those having similar issues.

gordec said:
So apparent Setcpu interferes with current widget. After removing setcpu mA displayed fine. Worth a try for those having similar issues.
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This should not be the case. I have had current widget and setcpu both working on my device before. At the time I would have been running CoreDroid.
However, I'm now using LeeDroid and current widget is showing a constant 0mA. Setcpu is also installed and working fine.
I'm not sure exactly what's going on under the hood for all this, but I'd like my milliamps back!

My idle MA shows nothing less than 37mA - I only have gmail sync on - stock rom, BUT not OEM battery (using the Seidio 1300mAh battery) http://store.androidcentral.com/seidio-innocell-1300mah-extended-battery/8A37A8029.htm
Any other reason I might be experiencing this much drain when idle?

born_fisherman said:
My idle MA shows nothing less than 37mA - I only have gmail sync on - stock rom, BUT not OEM battery (using the Seidio 1300mAh battery) http://store.androidcentral.com/seidio-innocell-1300mah-extended-battery/8A37A8029.htm
Any other reason I might be experiencing this much drain when idle?
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Maybe some sort of difference in readings due to different battery sizes? Thats my best guess.

born_fisherman said:
My idle MA shows nothing less than 37mA - I only have gmail sync on - stock rom, BUT not OEM battery (using the Seidio 1300mAh battery) http://store.androidcentral.com/seidio-innocell-1300mah-extended-battery/8A37A8029.htm
Any other reason I might be experiencing this much drain when idle?
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This is my overnight current draw using inspired saga.
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harlenm said:
This is my overnight current draw using inspired saga.
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I'm assuming the lower idle mA is from using gingerbread?
I would think the larger battery would last longer (theoretically it should right)
I'm going to give stock ROM a day or two more to give it some break in time
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Mine is not quote that low overnight but I don't turn anything off and range from 4-7% with spikes every half hour during syncing on inspired saga.

harlenm said:
This is my overnight current draw using inspired saga.
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Damn you that is freaking good numbers.
To the person seeing 37 mA, may be your ROM, or likely you have stuff running using CPU cycles. Try system panel, over night test, and see what shows up in your list. Only the paid version does that though unfortunately, but its so worth it to own that app.

This is the most relevant topic I could find to post in.
So when I originally rooted the phone and was running the stock rooted ROM, I tried Current Widget and my log was showing drops of between -1 and -5 mA's, but I tested again recently and I'm regularly showing drops of between -60 and -70 mA's.
I've tried with both the stock radio (26.06.04.06M) as well as the updated radio from the recently released HTC WiFi update (26.06.06.30M) and several different ROMs (MIUI, CM7, Inspired Saga, Inspired Ace) and am still noticing significantly higher drain then when I first got the phone. I've since RUU'd back to stock and am now testing that way.
I have noticed that with WiFi OFF, I'm only seeing the expected -1 to -7 mA drain. As I understand it, WiFi is supposed to be more battery efficient than the mobile network, so this I don't get.
Can anyone explain why this might be happening or a possible resolution?

Battery damaged?

I have an Problem with my battery, when i have full charged it, it stays some hours at 100% and current widget tells me about 250mA on standby. It was only active when screen was on,after a night it still hast 100%.I tryed leedroid and coredroid after a superwipe ,did calibration several times and tryed the Last 2 Radios with matching rils. Someone with the Same Problem? Or a solution? ;-)
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Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e

The current widget doesn't work properly on Sensations.

This is how the phone works. First percent drop takes quite a while.

Battery Monitor Widget. Has fix for Sensation's battery meter.
Sent from my Bricked Energy ROM Sensation.

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Gunkk said:
Battery Monitor Widget. Has fix for Sensation's battery meter.
Sent from my Bricked Energy ROM Sensation.
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Battery calibration is your best shot

Battery Monitor widget Shows me ~15 mA when i use the phone...
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e

i have done a couple of full recharge cycles , but still the battery shows after some hours 100%, and when its @ 11%, or 9% it stops again a long time.
Is anykind of controller in my battery broken or all the others have the same problem with the calibration?

Same problem for me ...

The same for me, right now my phone running CM7 has said 5% left, meanwhile I've had a hour phonecall and browsed the internet at the same time, so it's not reporting the correct battery. I ordered a new battery from HTC fearing this one might be going out... I've calibrated many times, even after a reset it will say 1 or 2 more percent more then it'll drop down but then still get's stuck at one level and doesn't drop or power off.

I've got the same problem, tried different rom and radios, calibrated the battery a few times and nothings fixed it. Just like everyone else my battery will stick at a % but if i reboot it will unstick for a few % then stick again. Really annoying as i have no way of knowing how much power i have left without restarting. CurrentWidget is showing around 500mA usage constantly which means i dont even get a full day out of the battery.

xdviper said:
I ordered a new battery from HTC fearing this one might be going out
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Please Post your results when u get ur battery.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e

Xdviper told me over pm that his new battery shows the right % and a better battery life now.
I will buy me an anker battery in the next days and post results.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e

I got my battery yesterday, I'm calibrating now, but it still shows me with batterybattery widget that it uses about 200-300 ma on standby in the night, but when that's true and i use 500-600 ma when i use it normally, the phone would be empty after the night.
So what about you guys do you get also this strange ma reading?
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e

suicide monkey said:
I got my battery yesterday, I'm calibrating now, but it still shows me with batterybattery widget that it uses about 200-300 ma on standby in the night, but when that's true and i use 500-600 ma when i use it normally, the phone would be empty after the night.
So what about you guys do you get also this strange ma reading?
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I use Battery Monitor Widget. Settings > Monitoring > mA corrections. Then it gives more realistic mA readings, but still not perfect. But that's a HTC problem, not a BMW problem.
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Try to wipe battery stats
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Nikecrosoft said:
Try to wipe battery stats
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Wiping battery stats is a part of battery calibration, i wrote in the first post that i did that.
So but you get normal battery readings?
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So nobody gets real ma readings?
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No.
The Sensation's ammeter is poor, so they have to estimate the actual current.
I believe the battery monitors calculate an effective mA from dV/Dt w/ and % from voltage with capacity from calibration data...
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Mugen battery dying?

hey guys i bought a 3600Mah mugen battery and its seem like its dying faster, anyone feels the same?
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kernel 2.6.35.14
rom xboarderMOD V3.0.1
android version 2.3.5
brightness: 60-70%
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i'm sitting on 30% right now
i dont think i can get a full day like most of everyone, i already delete the battery stat and its still not working

How long have you had it? New batteries should cycle afew times though before the gauge can be trusted.
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I get two days out of regular use from my mugen 3600. I've had it for about 5 months now. Still runs strong.
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I get 2 days of regular use and over 3 days with little usage on my 1800mAh battery, you should get LOADS more on yours, 4 days at a minimum.
Charge up to 100%, let it rest on charger for 2 more hours.
Go to recovery and wipe battery stats.
Use the device as normal but do not charge until it dies at 0%.
Charge to 100% and again let it rest a bit, then resume your normal usage.
Every once in a while or after flashing a new ROM, let it discharge to 0 to get accurate readings.
And also be aware that google GPS-based apps have problems on CM7 based ROMs and the GPS sometimes stays awake or some such bug. It doesn't show on battery usage graph but every time you use google maps, google goggles or similar I recommend rebooting because there's a chance it's slowly draining your battery in the background.

nik3r said:
I get 2 days of regular use and over 3 days with little usage on my 1800mAh battery, you should get LOADS more on yours, 4 days at a minimum.
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My normla usage is more then your normal usage, end of story.
Play n64oid daily on your phone and see how much faster it dies.
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G1_enthusiast said:
hey guys i bought a 3600Mah mugen battery and its seem like its dying faster, anyone feels the same?
little info:
kernel 2.6.35.14
rom xboarderMOD V3.0.1
android version 2.3.5
brightness: 60-70%
i'm sitting on 30% right now
i dont think i can get a full day like most of everyone, i already delete the battery stat and its still not working
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Just a thought: Do you really use google maps so much that it can account for 22% of energy consumption on a 3.6k mah battery? That seems kind of excessive to me.
I mention this since I used to have problems with google maps starting on its own in the background and it really drained the battery like crazy. (oddly enough it would only start whenever i opened the stock mail client.)

The latest google maps does not run in the back ground even after exiting like previous versions of maps (you would have to either reboot the phone or use a 3rd party app to manually kill everything related to maps).
So my recommendation is to do what the above said with the calibration and then make sure you are on the latest maps.

nik3r said:
Charge up to 100%, let it rest on charger for 2 more hours.
Go to recovery and wipe battery stats.
Use the device as normal but do not charge until it dies at 0%.
Charge to 100% and again let it rest a bit, then resume your normal usage.
Every once in a while or after flashing a new ROM, let it discharge to 0 to get accurate readings.
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A lot of people give the advice to drain the battery until it dies. Very poor advice, and you can kill the battery that way. Just drain to 20% or so. No need to go any lower, its not going to make the battery meter any more accurate.

Mog said:
My normla usage is more then your normal usage, end of story.
Play n64oid daily on your phone and see how much faster it dies.
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I do actually and I get probably 10 hours extremely heavy usage! Light usage to no usage I get 24 hours plus on 1900 mah chichitech. I've gone 4 hours before my phone ticked from 100 percent to 99 lol.

Sensation battery lasting about 5 hours. Help

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Hey everyone. Here's a screenshot I took of my phones battery use. I was just wondering if this rate of discharge is normal. My screen brightness is always let to the lowest possible, all power saving settings enabled, phone overclocked at 1.6 with ondemand governor. I am using the sensay XE35 v 2.1.0. How could I improve battery life, any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Screens of the battery use screen would be very helpful.

Did u let ur phone battery cycle a couple times?
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using XDA App

Thanks for the reply guys, stabro I've had this Rom for about a week now shouldnt the battery be calibrated by now, or does it need a little longer. And matt, isn't that what I uploaded or is there something else that I need to upload
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The screen you were at before you clicked the graph to get what you already posted. It shows a bunch of apps with how much of the battery it's been using.

Oh haha sorry, blacked out for a moment
Here's the shot of that.
I have no idea why it doesn't show actual apps, but I havnt messed with it. I'm assuming its rom related?
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Was your wi-fi on the whole time, and is your cellular service always on even in standby? Changing those can have a large impact. Did you have better battery life on a previous rom? Is it the stock battery, cause if so, the life on it is typically not very good.
I've found in all the Sense roms I have used, display is always right at the top in battery use. I would normally have mine at a set brightness like 45% during the day and 25% at night which would drop display usage a bit. Plus try underclocking instead of your overclocking to 1.6.

That might be because you had plugged it in for a few minutes. It shows the battery usage since the last time it was disconnected.

LBN1 yeah I always keep WiFi on, my phone is always on 2g mode. Before this Rom I was using miui, the battery on that wasn't the best but it would see me get through the day with medium use, and prior to that, ARHD by far best Rom for battery imo. Yeah I still use the stock battery, though I'm thinking about buying another battery.
I've read somewhere, cant remember where lol, that a low signal uses a lot more battery as its constantly searching for a Signal, I think u guys have noticed from screenshots that my house, has very bad reception
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA App

Do you use your phone alot? I am gaming alot on the phone during schooltime, and it DRAINS battery (1% per minute almost) And I usually charge my phone when I come home again. And what kernel do you use? I use Bricked 1.6 beta, and it's awesome (1.5ghz ondemand)
Some things that helped me a bit was:
-Calibrate battery
-Undervoltage (download system tuner and hit 6 times on the -12.5v button)
-Juice Defender ultimate (It works really good for me)
Hope it helps

[Q] Problem with battery consumption with Team Venom's ViperS 5.1.0 rom

Hey,
because I have fewer than 10 posts so far I can't write in the rom development thread and need to post here although it is the wrong place.
So I installed ViperS 5.1.0 rom on my sensation two days ago and calibrated the battery after loading to 100%. Did two fully discharge/charge cycles after that
Now I let the mobile phone untouched from tonight ~0 am till morning ~6 am and checked the battery stats. It went from 95% to 78% in 6 hours of idle. Wifi and mobile data options were on but it gets automatically disabled over night, atleast it was when I woke up the phone at 6 am the first time.
That's almost 3%/h while at sleep and seems high for me. Anyone running the same rom and can check the consumption?
Thanks in advance.
tayfun369

I just searched the rom thread and found this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51020469&postcount=5994
His battery stays at the same level for over 6 hours over night and with wifi on.
I just made a screen of mine for comparison and I hope I can get some help.
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since you have done only two charges i suggest to wait a little more
for example 2-3 more circle charges
then battery will settle down and you will be able to see how it behaves

also how old is you battery and what battery you have?

rzr86 said:
wait a little more for example 2-3 more circle charges
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I will check it tonight again but do you really think it can make such a big difference?
jkolner from the link above has <1% drop in his screen over night, I have like ~17%...
Mile_zdr said:
also how old is you battery and what battery you have?
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My battery is a german brand 1800mAh and exactly 1 year old. Battery Monitor is showing a capazity of ~1600 mAh.

tayfun369 said:
I will check it tonight again but do you really think it can make such a big difference?
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probably yes
i have seen difference into mine

Do you have a lot of sync to Facebook, Twitter, weather and mail?
You could try to undervolt a bit in tweaks.
Remember to run through a couple of complete charges befor you can see how your battery life is.
And last, perhaps your need a new battery.

jkolner said:
Do you have a lot of sync to Facebook, Twitter, weather and mail?
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Weather once a day. Furthermore dropbox, google and whatsapp if they matter.
I will wait 2-3 more charge cycles then before trying something like UC/UV or even new battery. I hope it won't be needed.

whatsapp - Battery Killer

I saved up a lot of battery by uninstalling g+ and google now, not freezing them or hibernating

tayfun369 said:
Hey,
because I have fewer than 10 posts so far I can't write in the rom development thread and need to post here although it is the wrong place.
So I installed ViperS 5.1.0 rom on my sensation two days ago and calibrated the battery after loading to 100%. Did two fully discharge/charge cycles after that
Now I let the mobile phone untouched from tonight ~0 am till morning ~6 am and checked the battery stats. It went from 95% to 78% in 6 hours of idle. Wifi and mobile data options were on but it gets automatically disabled over night, atleast it was when I woke up the phone at 6 am the first time.
That's almost 3%/h while at sleep and seems high for me. Anyone running the same rom and can check the consumption?
Thanks in advance.
tayfun369
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Time to get a new battery. Team venoms rom are the best for a lot of reasons, best battery life being one of them.
Sent from my HTCSensation using xda app-developers app

stupid question ... which viper is the best? ...regarding to the battery life

fast battery drain ?!?!?
Why my battery fast drain.The battery is new ! Why cpu gpu ?? Thanks!

What is best alternate battery for Senny?

lhdxda said:
What is best alternate battery for Senny?
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I use the the Anker 1900mAh, easily gives me over a days use on ViperS 5.2.0

Try to buy later. Thanks.