Horrible Battery Life on Pinnacle 1.3 - Captivate General

My battery drops 5% under 1 min without even use of the phone, even when the phone's on standby. After about 3 hours of moderate use (seesmic and whatsapp) it'll drop from 100% charge to about 50%. Sometimes right after I plug it out, I can see the battery drop to 99% then 98 and so on.
I'm running Pinnacle 1.3 now and I was of the impression that it was a great ROM for battery life. Before this I had a stock GB ROM, and then CM7. On CM7, the battery was also horrible.
I've run battery dry then charged it back to 100% and did battery calibration. still horrible.
any suggestions, please?

kbolt said:
My battery drops 5% under 1 min without even use of the phone, even when the phone's on standby. After about 3 hours of moderate use (seesmic and whatsapp) it'll drop from 100% charge to about 50%. Sometimes right after I plug it out, I can see the battery drop to 99% then 98 and so on.
I'm running Pinnacle 1.3 now and I was of the impression that it was a great ROM for battery life. Before this I had a stock GB ROM, and then CM7. On CM7, the battery was also horrible.
I've run battery dry then charged it back to 100% and did battery calibration. still horrible.
any suggestions, please?
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Get a new battery
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The battery life was ok with my stock GB ROM. I'm hopeful there're other solutions that don't include buying a new battery.

Sounds like you have a rogue app.
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Try watchdog lite from the market. It should help to isolate which app is gone rogue.

Ah, thank you. I'll get Watchdog and hopefully find whatever is causing all of this.

kbolt said:
Ah, thank you. I'll get Watchdog and hopefully find whatever is causing all of this.
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If that doesn't work maybe just try reflashing. Make sure you have 100% battery when you flash as well. I've used ROMs before that I knew had good battery life and sometimes when I flashed them my phone died fast. I remember it happening on Serendipity VII before. Didn't make sense cause I had good battery life with it before, but that flash didn't go well or something. Reflash brought back good battery life.
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Reamer09 said:
If that doesn't work maybe just try reflashing. Make sure you have 100% battery when you flash as well. I've used ROMs before that I knew had good battery life and sometimes when I flashed them my phone died fast. I remember it happening on Serendipity VII before. Didn't make sense cause I had good battery life with it before, but that flash didn't go well or something. Reflash brought back good battery life.
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How is your battery life on your Captivate?

kbolt said:
How is your battery life on your Captivate?
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As long as I don't play tons of games then I can get 25-30 hours and that's with many many texts throughout the day (4000-5000 a month) with a little web browsing and streaming Pandora for a little while over BT.
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Reamer09 said:
As long as I don't play tons of games then I can get 25-30 hours and that's with many many texts throughout the day (4000-5000 a month) with a little web browsing and streaming Pandora for a little while over BT.
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25-30hrs? Wow, that's a lot. I'm on 3G a lot during the day, mainly Seesmic and browising (stock browser and Opera Mobile). Watchdog seems to be working, my battery life seems better.

kbolt said:
25-30hrs? Wow, that's a lot. I'm on 3G a lot during the day, mainly Seesmic and browising (stock browser and Opera Mobile). Watchdog seems to be working, my battery life seems better.
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I'm not sure what Seesmic is but if you're doing a lot of web browsing that's definitely what is killing your battery life. The display will use more power than pretty much any app out there. I have my screen brightness as low as it'll go and I don't leave my screen on for a long time when I do turn it on. Plus the white colors of websites uses more energy on AMOLED screens.
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Reamer09 said:
If that doesn't work maybe just try reflashing. Make sure you have 100% battery when you flash as well. I've used ROMs before that I knew had good battery life and sometimes when I flashed them my phone died fast. I remember it happening on Serendipity VII before. Didn't make sense cause I had good battery life with it before, but that flash didn't go well or something. Reflash brought back good battery life.
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Will a reflash help? I put Serendipity VII on my and my gf's captivate, and we're looking at about 7 hrs max battery life with minimal use.

I went from Serendipity VII to Pinnacle 1.2 (and then 1.3) and got a lot better battery life. But I switched to Samurai kernel...

pupochek said:
I went from Serendipity VII to Pinnacle 1.2 (and then 1.3) and got a lot better battery life. But I switched to Samurai kernel...
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Yes I also have the Samurai kernel, along with Voodoo. Still no dice though. I wish I could get the battery life I hear so many people talking about. I've been told to try out dlev 5.0.

Also make sure you have Automatic Brightness, Auto-rotate and Power Saving mode turned off.

i have brightness to the lowest, no auto brightness. i don't like auto-rotate so i keep it off. but i do have power saving mode on. why would that be off?

where is "power saving mode" setting on a captivate? simple questions:
1. when did you flash the rom?
2. Have you seen in settings which process/app is using your battery?

Bish0p34 said:
Will a reflash help? I put Serendipity VII on my and my gf's captivate, and we're looking at about 7 hrs max battery life with minimal use.
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It did for me. I can't remember if I saw the battery life drop after flashing the 4.2 kernel update or not. I think when I reflashed I didn't flash anything and left it with version 3 or whatever it comes with.
Also, on Pinnacle I am using all stock stuff (kernel, modem), not the Samurai kernel or anything.
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watsa said:
where is "power saving mode" setting on a captivate?
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In display settings...
It should be off, it works with auto brightness to keep it dim and "save power" but if you're not using auto brightness its just another process running that is wasting resources.
Auto brightness is pretty useless on tw roms because that handy brightness adjustment by holding down the status bar and moving left or right.

kbolt said:
My battery drops 5% under 1 min without even use of the phone, even when the phone's on standby. After about 3 hours of moderate use (seesmic and whatsapp) it'll drop from 100% charge to about 50%. Sometimes right after I plug it out, I can see the battery drop to 99% then 98 and so on.
I'm running Pinnacle 1.3 now and I was of the impression that it was a great ROM for battery life. Before this I had a stock GB ROM, and then CM7. On CM7, the battery was also horrible.
I've run battery dry then charged it back to 100% and did battery calibration. still horrible.
any suggestions, please?
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1. Like Reamer09 says refash.....BUT don't forget to wipe data, wipe cache and dalvik cache. Wiping data and cache just before reflash.........it helps with my battery issues. I don't think there is any ROM out there with that bad a battery life. No dev would let that pass
EDIT: Just re-read.....your battery dropping like that after recharge can be a kernel issue......it happens to me on a a particular kernel (will not name ! devs all work very hard on their kernels.....) and flashing another one helped.

Ok I will reflash it. I've also noticed some lack of responsiveness while using the phone. For instance when I select an option in a menu anywhere, it pauses a bit (probably a second or two) before it carries out the selected command.
Another example is while I'm typing, I have haptic feedback on and so I feel a vibration everytime I touch a letter. The vibration is usually just a short buzz, but once in a while I feel a strange longer vibration. It's weird, really. I hope reflashing will also help with this.

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Your favorite ROM?

I just started to use a ROM on my phone and I'm not satisfied with the battery life at all. I've done all I can to increase the battery life and even with very minimal use I can still see my phone being almost dead in just a single night of use.
So with that said...what is your favorite ROM and how is the battery life??
What have you done to increase batt life? Cleared battery stats? Works for me on every flash.
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Right now I get great life with the i9000 roms and setirons kernel....i dont turn off wifi, data, just let everything sync as normal and I see 12 ~15% drop per hr with constant use and 1% / hr at most when phone is idle
newter55 said:
Right now I get great life with the i9000 roms and setirons kernel
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Ditto, blazingly fast with the ulf lagfix and plenty of themed i9000 roms to choose form, nothing beats that combination.
Doc's Froyo with setiron kernel. The ROM and kernel rock. But, my battery has sucked from Day 1. (As in on Stock Eclair.) I only ever remember one ROM I had decent battery life with and that was cog 2.1.4. None of the tricks have worked for me... but I'm reasonably sure I've got a bad battery. Can't test theory until payday tho. Dangit. I also have random shutdowns, 1-2 a day, which I think may be battery related also. I get that idea from reading around in the forums. As always, YMMV
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Right now I get great life with the i9000 roms and setirons kernel....i dont turn off wifi, data, just let everything sync as normal and I see 12 ~15% drop per hr with constant use and 1% / hr at most when phone is idle
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peachpuff said:
Ditto, blazingly fast with the ulf lagfix and plenty of themed i9000 roms to choose form, nothing beats that combination.
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I've had this ROM running about 2 days now. The best one so far for me. The only big issue I have with it is the headphone jack don't work right. I'm hoping for an update soon as I don't use Bluetooth on here as of yet and driving without some sort of headset is illegal here.
P.S. Install this. It removes the references to video chat and whatnot throughout the system.
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Right now I get great life with the i9000 roms and setirons kernel....i dont turn off wifi, data, just let everything sync as normal and I see 12 ~15% drop per hr with constant use and 1% / hr at most when phone is idle
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Agreed.14 hours since unpluged,screen has been on over 3 hours and still got 48% of juice left as I'm writing this.I think the undervolting contributed alot to the battery life.
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i need to get better battery life out of my phone
i will take any suggestions that does better than this, especially if its running cog 4.
thankssss
ps. 1006 build but i dun think that matters too much
There is already a tread about this
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There is already a tread about this
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thank you for your informative response but i believe that peoples experiences may differ and im just looking for someone to chime in and say:
"hi. ive used perc 10.2 but im getting better battery life now that im using..." rom+kernel+modem
hope its not a bad question
maybe my gallery sensor battery usage shouldnt be as high as it is and i should change it with xxx.apk?
thanks
When I went from Percept10 to Cog4, my battery life about doubled. I didn't realize how bad it was until I got to Cog4. Now it is excellent.
Before it would go 7AM to 5PM and be drained.
Yesterday it went 7AM to 7PM and was at 70% when I threw it on the desk dock.
the answer is in your picutes, top right,
advanced task killers, antivirus, ect KILL THE BATTERY
I know I know task killers are supposed to help...
they dont, i was running a task killer and voltage control, had it to under clock with screen off, underclock default, stock speed under certain contitions and overclock when plugged in only. That had the system "running" slower and less power than stock only doing stock speeds when needed, and my battery was DEAD in 8 hours. Removed them and Im going 24 hours between charging. (battery swap).
and i just dont see the point of antivirus.
try removing them and see how your battery does. also the first month of the phone it will be all over the place....
I've run the following setups:
Cog 3.04 w/: Good battery life once I swapped in JK4 modem and Speedmod Kernel, still had random shutdown error, switched to Paragon.
Paragon 5.1: Again, JK4 and speedmod get me the best battery life so I made sure I had this set up. Ok battery life, phone screen would occasionally go black with no response until I removed and re-inserted the battery, switched to Firefly.
Firefly 2.1-2.3: Battery life is great (JK4 and speedmod by default), I usually get through the day with moderate use and 50% remaining. I'd say that's about 50% in 15 hours. It's fast and the GPS is much better than cog or paragon. I'll wait to see what the devs do with Firefly but I'm curious about cog 4 running on the KB1 Froyo. I also use CPU Tuner to eek out the most battery life when it starts running low.
@G35tr
thanks im gonna give it a try
@Trusselo
yeah, i definitely had 10.2 since the beginning (christmas?). i feel like the sensor gallery issue could be a culprit as well the the task manager and lookout programs but the battery stats info just doesnt reflect the latter.
on top of that its a reoriented i9000 kernel so i feel there are some inherent battery performance losses in that.
i got my phone pretty well customized at this point so it may be time to take that step in search of better battery and flash something new.
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That not all that bad but seriously get rid of the taskiller and antivirus. Been using android for 3 years and never had a need for antivirus. Newer android versions don't need taskillers as they store unused apps in memory without cpu usage.
I am using torch 1.5 and did a full charge overnight and have been using it this morning for 20 mins with wifi and it is still at 100 percent. if you search around or download a few of the roms...there is a modded gallery.apk that fixes that battery drain. And im using whatever the torch 1.5 setup is didnt pay attention to kernel or modem but it is using the new official froyo.
Change modem file or try super power tht extend life of bettry.
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thank you for your informative response but i believe that peoples experiences may differ and im just looking for someone to chime in and say:
"hi. ive used perc 10.2 but im getting better battery life now that im using..." rom+kernel+modem
hope its not a bad question
maybe my gallery sensor battery usage shouldnt be as high as it is and i should change it with xxx.apk?
thanks
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Why not post in the stickied thread in q&a
Tried nearly every rom here and, in my experience, Cog 3.04 has given me the best battery life by far. Kept default kernel and modem.
My usage is generally as follows:
-2 hours playing music
-10-20 sms
-1-2 hours browsing on mixture of wifi and 3g
Battery drain is generally about 30-40% during the day. Very minimal batter drain when idle.
What did you use to show your battery history? the second screen print.
Thanks.
i get between 25-39 hours of battery life running SuperNova JS5, SpeedMod Kernel K13C, ZNKP1 Modem. I run my phone hard all day long and can't ever seem to get it to die.
when was the last time you cleared the battery stats?
1. Connect the phone to the charger with the phone powered on, and allow the phone to charge until it shows 100%
2. Disconnect the phone from the charger, and power it off.
3. Reconnect the phone to the charger with the phone powered off, and allow the phone to charge until the battery indicator shows 100% (you can use vol-up/vol-down to make the indicator come back up when the screen goes to sleep).
3a. Repeat step 1, 2, 3
4. Disconnect the phone from the charger and power it on.
5. Once the phone is powered completely on, power it off again and reconnect it to the charger until the battery indicator shows 100%.
6. Disconnect the phone, power it on, and use it.
7. Use ADB or a Terminal Emulator to run the following command:
Code:
su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
7a. Reboot into clock work Recovery, and choose advanced CWM features and select wipe battery stats
do that, then let it die completely before you charge it again.
Glad to see this thread because it has taught me a couple of things. I was one of those people who made the mistake of running Advanced Task Killer. Got rid of that. I also run AVG, but I think I will try to get rid of it and see if it helps me any. I am glad to hear several say that an antivirus is not necessary.

Battery on Bamf 1.8 stripped

So, I just flashed this ROM yesterday.
Full charge over night took phone off charger around 7ish this morning. Did a quick 30 minute run/walk workout w/the Cardio Trainer recording (tracking w/GPS), all while listening to the FM radio. I have had two phone calls totaling about about 7.5 minutes. Maybe 35 text messages in and out. I'm in a strong 4G area, I do not have my phone set to automatically get email. I just turned off the facebook hourly update, just noticed I hadn't done that yet ..... my phone is already barking at me that I need to plug it in.
With the exception of my run and listening to the radio this morning I really haven't done much .... I downloaded a couple of apps and tweaked them, but seriously 3.5 hours of battery before it's telling me less than 10%.
Any suggestions?
I did not clear the battery stats, in my past experiences that really didn't do anything to help (but that was w/the Eris).
I'd love to have GREAT battery life that everybody talks about. Anybody using this ROM have stupendous battery time? Not sure what has sucked the life out of this.
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I'd say it's the GPS that killed you.
same thing for me on bamf gb 2.1. i was at 20% after 5 hours of use
migueltherocker said:
I'd say it's the GPS that killed you.
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IDK about that, I've gone out for the same 30 minute walk/run w/the battery on yellow (on stock rooted) and the radio going and it hasn't killed it. I think maybe it's part of it, but IDK it's all of it.
I've put the phone on strict 3G, going to totally KILL it tonite and turn it off while charging.
Have you tried recalibrating your battery since installing Bamf 1.8 stripped? Maybe it's not a problem with the ROM, but with the battery calibration.
Sometime at night shutdown your phone and then hold volume down and power to boot up HTC's nice bright white bootloader. Leave it alone until it dies (the phone cannot die properly while running Android, since Android will shutdown the phone when it thinks the battery is low, rather than when the battery IS ACTUALLY low). Plug in the power cord after it dies, but leave the phone turned off. It should take a few minutes for the orange light to turn on because it's so dead. Leave it alone until the green light is showing in the morning. Then start it up. This will get the proper 0% and 100% points for your battery stats. Also check what apps are killing your battery. I was having a problem with Google Maps for a while until I cleared data on it.
I have a similar problem. I will take it off the charger and after a few minutes it will be down around 97%. No big deal. I will set it down and walk away for at most 15-20 minutes and come back and it will be on like 80%.
After that though the battery life stabilizes and I get 12+ hours with moderate use
Running AOSP CM7. I have had my phone off charge since sometime around 6 am ET this morning and at 50% now at 11 pm. This has kept me kept me from getting an extended battery. You should try it.
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lu270bro said:
Running AOSP CM7. I have had my phone off charge since sometime around 6 am ET this morning and at 50% now at 11 pm. This has kept me kept me from getting an extended battery. You should try it.
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How is the stability on this? Is it good enough for a daily ROM? (not that it's not "good", I know their work rocks) - I don't know if I want a "testing" phase ROM. Hope that makes sense?
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How is the stability on this? Is it good enough for a daily ROM? (not that it's not "good", I know their work rocks) - I don't know if I want a "testing" phase ROM. Hope that makes sense?
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3g to 4g handoff is the main complaint I hear, but I'm not in 4g area. Have driven through a 4g area and it seemed fine to me. Put it this way, this has been my daily driver for over a month now. And GPS gets near instant lock btw. I don't want to hijack the thread so I will just say that I NEED my phone to work and if too many bugs were present I wouldn't be running it.
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lu270bro said:
Running AOSP CM7. I have had my phone off charge since sometime around 6 am ET this morning and at 50% now at 11 pm. This has kept me kept me from getting an extended battery. You should try it.
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Your display is only at 5% of total usage... You hardly used your phone. Of course its going to last for 16 hours when it just sits there
athorax said:
Your display is only at 5% of total usage... You hardly used your phone. Of course its going to last for 16 hours when it just sits there
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I get awesome battery life on BAMF Remix 1.8, 20-24 hrs with normal to excessive usage. I get about half that with BAMF GingerRemix. You can see I actually use my phone, lol.
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I get awesome battery life on BAMF Remix 1.8, 20-24 hrs with normal to excessive usage. I get about half that with BAMF GingerRemix. You can see I actually use my phone, lol.
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tell me your secrets
i just flashed 1.8 remix i get like 9-10hrs of battery with little to medium use
as ive said i must of lucked out with a solid battery as ive never had the horrid battery life most claim on the net. even with 4g on all the time i get well over 10-12hrs with medium/heavy usage.
a suggestion for a solid kernel is the 3.3.7 lean kernel, don't overclock too high either. i think that's why alot of people have the crap battery life and random reboots.
if you live in an area that doesn't get good 4g coverage id switch to 3g only mode if i were you.
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3g to 4g handoff is the main complaint I hear, but I'm not in 4g area. Have driven through a 4g area and it seemed fine to me. Put it this way, this has been my daily driver for over a month now. And GPS gets near instant lock btw. I don't want to hijack the thread so I will just say that I NEED my phone to work and if too many bugs were present I wouldn't be running it.
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appreciate the info, don't think you're hijacking at all
I've totally turned off my 4G (even though my home area is FULL 4G) and my battery life seems to have improved. I still have to do the recalibration thing, I keep forgetting.
How is the lean kernel with 1.8 stripped? Any compatibility issues?
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How is the lean kernel with 1.8 stripped? Any compatibility issues?
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ditto I would like to know this as well.
- is this different than what is included in the bamf toolkit?
im using bamf 1.6 and i get 20-24 hours batt life
brightness always on 25%, unless outside then i bump it up and then turn it down when im done. lower than 25% at night when the lights are out and im just watching tv
background data and auto sync both off
moblie data off
use wifi whenever possible
switch to 3g only when youre not in a 4g area and you need to use the internet
chimpsnest said:
With the exception of my run and listening to the radio this morning I really haven't done much .... I downloaded a couple of apps and tweaked them, but seriously 3.5 hours of battery before it's telling me less than 10%.
Any suggestions?
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I get incredible good battery life with the Das BAMF 1.8.6 NTE so I would expect the same out of Stripped. I would consider another kernel, I am very happy with utkanos http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1025199 Are you on MR2's radio or MR2.5? 2.5 seems to do much better with GPS.
chimpsnest said:
So, I just flashed this ROM yesterday.
Full charge over night took phone off charger around 7ish this morning. Did a quick 30 minute run/walk workout w/the Cardio Trainer recording (tracking w/GPS), all while listening to the FM radio. I have had two phone calls totaling about about 7.5 minutes. Maybe 35 text messages in and out. I'm in a strong 4G area, I do not have my phone set to automatically get email. I just turned off the facebook hourly update, just noticed I hadn't done that yet ..... my phone is already barking at me that I need to plug it in.
With the exception of my run and listening to the radio this morning I really haven't done much .... I downloaded a couple of apps and tweaked them, but seriously 3.5 hours of battery before it's telling me less than 10%.
Any suggestions?
I did not clear the battery stats, in my past experiences that really didn't do anything to help (but that was w/the Eris).
I'd love to have GREAT battery life that everybody talks about. Anybody using this ROM have stupendous battery time? Not sure what has sucked the life out of this.
Thanks
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What is using up your battery because if it is the Cell Standby or Phone idle I have a fix for you. I had always had great battery life until last week when it started draining as you describe in your post. I tried everything to get back to where I was but was not successful. I ended up pulling out the 4G card and reinserting it. I was instructed to do this by a Verizon tech. I though he was wasting my time but it fixed my battery issue and I am getting great battery life on BAMF 2.1 and also BAMF 1.86
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What is using up your battery because if it is the Cell Standby or Phone idle I have a fix for you. I had always had great battery life until last week when it started draining as you describe in your post. I tried everything to get back to where I was but was not successful. I ended up pulling out the 4G card and reinserting it. I was instructed to do this by a Verizon tech. I though he was wasting my time but it fixed my battery issue and I am getting great battery life on BAMF 2.1 and also BAMF 1.86
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That's interesting, I wonder what that would do and why it would work? These phones do like to keep us on our toes, eh?
I've made the switch to CM as of yesterday so I'll be playing around w/that for a while.

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:
Download humble 1.25 and your battery woes will be no more my son....
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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
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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.
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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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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?
danalo1979 said:
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 problems.

Hello, I'm currently running cm 9, however the battery life is just awful
When the phone is on sleep it loses like 1 percent every 5-10 minutes
I am using an extended battery as well, please tell me what to do I was on GB before and the battery was outstanding, I could go on one charge the whole day with heavy usage, now i dont think I can make it through the day with light usage on this
thank you
EDIT: This could be a sleep problem, because when the device is on, the battery is normal
If you flashed the Feb 27 cm9 you should flash proton kernel so you can watch videos. Battery life isn't as good as gb no matter what you do. Also give it some time to settle in. It takes more than a couple hours.
alright thank you... I just flashed the newest version of cm9 a few hours ago, I was flashing a bunch of roms and this one seemed the best... do you know how to force a device into deep sleep cause that seems to be the problem i believe
OK I was just on 20 percent, then i rebooted my phone, and now im on 2 percent... im seriously considering going back to gb
Sounds more like a battery thing? With CM9.? + Proton I'm getting at least a day* with light use. Maybe a bad app or combo of apps? What does BBS say is eating the charge?
* - I say at least a day because I can't not use it for that long.
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Stuck on hold said:
Sounds more like a battery thing? With CM9.? + Proton I'm getting at least a day* with light use. Maybe a bad app or combo of apps? What does BBS say is eating the charge?
* - I say at least a day because I can't not use it for that long.
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just the screen and the android system... very interesting thing though is happening
I'm running a bunch of quadrants to get the battery down to 0, and the battery is all the way down to 1%, however it's been on 1% for like 6 quadrant tests... maybe its just a problem with the indicator, however another indicator also says it's at 1%... very interesting
If you are on CM9, I suggest you flash Hefe or Proton.
I use Hefe because according to the posts being made it puts your phone into deep sleep, which means longer battery life.
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OK I was just on 20 percent, then i rebooted my phone, and now im on 2 percent... im seriously considering going back to gb
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Definitely a battery problem. This happens to me on one of my batteries but not on another. Time to buy a new one. I haven't tested it fully but it does appear to be just a display issue. Sometimes the bad battery will make the phone display 1% but it will still act as if it had way more than 1% charge left. I haven't done any testing on that regard but that's what it appears to do.
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Definitely a battery problem. This happens to me on one of my batteries but not on another. Time to buy a new one. I haven't tested it fully but it does appear to be just a display issue. Sometimes the bad battery will make the phone display 1% but it will still act as if it had way more than 1% charge left. I haven't done any testing on that regard but that's what it appears to do.
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I don't believe it to be a battery problem, because I've been on GB with absolutely no problems and exceptional battery... I just upgraded to ics not long ago, and the battery life instantly screwed up
Have you set the cpu governor to anything silly like performance?
Have you let it charge up fully at least once?
Search xda for "better battery stats" app, use it to see if you're getting deep sleep.
Flash hefe over release 8 and youll have a little better battery. Proton doesnt deep sleep
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Proton DOES deep sleep. That was one of its major features.
Certain scheduler/governor combinations work better on different kernels, though. If the specific one you like most sleeps better on Hefe, great. If the one you like does best on Proton, great. Just be aware that most issues are either physical or user-inflicted...
In this case, your battery is almost certainly dying. The variance in power over a reboot is a definite tell that your battery is probably swollen. If you can spin it on a table, the cells are starting to die. This does not mean you can't keep using it, but it does mean that your battery life will be irregular. It also means that you'll have significantly "higher" battery levels if you reboot the phone with external power connected, but the battery will discharge very quickly if it hasn't actually reached whatever level it believes it should be at.

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