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Ok, I have been flashing for a few months trying to optimize my phone. My last rom was serendipity 6.2, with sp 59 and jl2. I restored to stock (bc I wanted to try something else and hadn't done that in a few weeks) my battery life on serendipity was atrocious.. 6 hours with medium usage. (hardly any calls or messages, looking things up or reading xda briefly) . I spent today on stock, after about 20 hours of light usage I am at 60% left. Now I did flash with a full battery serendipity, wiped battery stats and cleared cache and after several charge cycles and a few days battery life was still awful. I was about to get a new battery. Now I don't mean to single out serendipity, I've had bad battery life on paragon, dilli, and a few others (this time it just got unbearably bad), but why should battery life be so bad on custom roms? Am I alone on this? I hesitate to flash again bc I'm loving having a phone that won't die if I touch it, but I miss the functionality of the device with a custom 2.2.1 on it. Advice or opinions please.
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I'm having the same problem. Everybody keeps saying they've got excellent battery life and what not with custom roms but mine doesn't seem so good. Wifi is off, I've wiped battery stats, I've used the rom for several days letting everything get situated before I begin thinking about if its good battery life or not. Maybe I'm just expecting too much or I watch my battery a lil bit too much, idk it just seems pretty bad. If I stay on the internet for 20 minutes I've already dropped about 3%
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The normal Batt live on this phone with normal use is between 12 to 16 hours
I'm thinking part of it may be psychological and part may be usage.
Psychological in the sense that I have an expectation of an improvement, practical in that with my stock rom I haven't reinstalled certain apps like xda and pulse where I spend a lot of time reading and thus using the screen.
That being said I was still experiencing drains of 8% or more per hour when the phone was idle, wifi and gps off.
There is a way to check the cpu's time in each state, but I can't remember where the file is. If someone can, please let me know. I'm curious if under the custom rom my phone wasn't properly scaling down.
I'll probably flash something new tomorrow morning unless I see something shiny and new in the dev forum.
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So 6 hours seems a bit low then? Could it just be a cumulative effect of flashing rom on top of rom with restoring to stock?
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So 6 hours seems a bit low then? Could it just be a cumulative effect of flashing rom on top of rom with restoring to stock?
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Yeah 6 hrs does seem a bit low. There are many things that can contribute to it. If you are bouncing between H and 3g on a custom rom will drain it like crazy, I had to disable H and stick with 3g and that helped. could also look at OS monitor to find what is running in the background.
Ok, I did notice that recently I was jumping between h and 3g. I was experimenting with some of the new modems. Should I try finding a better modem for my location?
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eccezarathustra said:
Ok, I did notice that recently I was jumping between h and 3g. I was experimenting with some of the new modems. Should I try finding a better modem for my location?
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I would try others, as well as disable H in the hidden menus, and see how it fairs
@ zelendel.... so by H i assume you mean data... i see alot of back and forth when data is on. i know when data is off i'm still using wcdma from the gsm status, but it doesn't show the 3g icon.
i need my data because i'm from the states but living in australia and alot of my comunications are thru email/facebook.
when i look at battery usage i see rarely more than 5% from cell....usually 90 something from display ( i fiddle with it alot).
can't expect too much cause it's a powerhouse with a tiny battery........
for me the big Q at present is... can we top up the charge regularly or is it always best to let a full cycle run? if i knew it was fine to keep it topped i'd stay 50%+ most of the time i think................
It is not great to keep it topped off. The lithium battery will wear out faster and lose charging capacity over time. this process is sped up the more time the battery spends at a high charge
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Visit the Samsung web site and read the battery specs for the Captivate. The stock battery is only rated for 5 hours and 50 minutes of active phone use (which means the display is active). In sleep mode (display and other features of the phone are shutdown) the battery is rated for up to 300 hours (12.5 days).
I have NEVER seen a stock Captivate last for over 3 days in sleep mode. As for active phone use (display is active) my experience with several of the custom ROMS (Cognition, Paragon, Andromeda, and now my favorite, Continuum) is that the battery life is either on par with the stock ROM, or exceeds it. The kernels on some of these custom ROMs are more efficient than that of the stock ROM due to the many tweaks and cleaning up of bloated apps and code by the developer.
I can't bring myself to keep a stock ROM now that I have used some excellent custom ROMs like those I name above.
As for flashing custom ROMs and seeing fast battery drain goes... I have had that experience with those I listed, but usually I was able to resolve the issue by ensuring my battery was at 100% (meaning showing that amount both on and off) and reflashing, or finding the cause of the high battery usage and going from there (e.g. I have had to reflash modems). Another thing I do, mainly out of habit from compiling code and deploying it in dev and test environments, is to make sure that I am working from a known good baseline ROM before flashing a custom ROM. In this case I always return to the stock ROM you can flash through Odin One Click. That way if you have battery problems after flashing a custom ROM you can have a good idea as to what is causing those problems. This is, of course, just a matter of personal preference. Some have repeatedly flashed one custom ROM over another with no issues. YMMV
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@ zelendel.... so by H i assume you mean data... i see alot of back and forth when data is on. i know when data is off i'm still using wcdma from the gsm status, but it doesn't show the 3g icon.
i need my data because i'm from the states but living in australia and alot of my comunications are thru email/facebook.
when i look at battery usage i see rarely more than 5% from cell....usually 90 something from display ( i fiddle with it alot).
can't expect too much cause it's a powerhouse with a tiny battery........
for me the big Q at present is... can we top up the charge regularly or is it always best to let a full cycle run? if i knew it was fine to keep it topped i'd stay 50%+ most of the time i think................
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No what I mean is disable HSDPA I think is the term lol. Sense you go back and forth I would say to disable that and just use 3g only.
If you don't know the code to get too the menu download sgstools it has the hidden menu keys.
Sorry but where can I find the hidden menus?
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I am the opposite, I got horrible battery on stock. Could not even make it through my work day without it dying on my way home unless I charged it midday. Now I am running Serendipity 6.2 and unplug at 7:30am and it is now 8:30pm my time and I have 30% remaining....
I have also tried other customs roms with noticeable improvements in battery life over stock but for me Serendipity gives me the best performance and battery.
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try apex5.1 room with tl3 modem comb
i used about 50 phone call, 2 hour websurfing, email sending, checking.
i still have 41% left, 1day 10hour 50 min.
Could I have a faulty battery? I rooted and rommed cuz of my battery life being terrible but It still is bad
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I had the exact same issue as you. I tried Darky's 9.3 first, then Serendipity 6.2, then Cognition 4.2.1. Each had major battery drain, meaning 6-8 hours with moderate use, and even without any usage it would drain 25% over 3 hours.
Use One-Click to flash back to stock JF6, then immediate do a Master Clear from the One-Click program after it has finished booting. Obviously move everything to an external SD or the computer prior to all of this, and make sure the external SD and SIM are out when flashing.
My battery has lasted for 14 hours today, and I'm only down to 54%. This is with about 1hr 20min screen on, ~30min voice calls, and always connected via 3G/H with background sync on, weather widget, and moderate web browsing.
Current setup: Serendipity 6.2, Speedmod K13C, JK4 Modem
Trying again
I couldnt keep myself away from custom roms, how i missed tethering, the custom theming, non marketplace apps and so much more...
Im trying Dilli's 7.1.1, bump charging at the moment...
Last night I drained my battery to 5% when i finally fell asleep... 6 hours later it was at 4%. Finally it drained and would not power on at all. Not even the backlights. Plugged it in for an hour and thought to take the sim card out so i would have a phone for the hours it would take to charge. When i plugged it back in the phone jumped from approximately 10% to 40% charged...
Oh well.
I have also been bouncing around flashing diff roms like crazy. I have to say though, I am using Continuum v4 with Hardcores speedmod Kernel K13D. I have been doing pretty good on this combo. Lasts for most the day with normal use.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That's a good idea , thanks.
Blame sense.
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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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hi all,
i know the battery life of the sensation isn't that great but I make 5 hours with about 1 hour of spotify (music streaming) some browsing and email checks. Also installed couple of apps but that's it.
(3g on when wifi not availible)
This just does not seem normal to me? Would like to hear your opinions.
running on:
stock battary
android revolution HD, feux kernel.
Wow, just 5 hours and your phone dies? That is AWFUL. Something is going on there, have you tried another rom?
maybe your rom is not very compatible with your radio? I am on InsertCoin (always latest) and I changed the energy mode from "maximum performance" to the middle option (don't know the name right now) and reactivated auto-sync and I can use the phone for 1.5 days on normal use. (so on gameplaying or benchmarking all the time) =)
Call HTC and have them to send you a new battery.You get one free replacement.just let them know that you're only 5 hours of life out of it.
Thanks for the replies all,
@KAwAtA,
i've only had stock and my current both ware equally ****ty.
@brandi,
I did flashed the radio that was mentioned with the android revolution ROM, do you have any suggestions?
@dunbar28205
Mabey your right, I'm starting to believe this isn't normal I did already purchase a mugen power 1950mah battery though. Will keep this updated with my findings on that one.
Is your governer on "performance"? Or is your second core somehow forced on?
battery works great for me im at 12 hours of run time and im around 50% left. check your rom and basic settings that kill battery. I also have an anker battery so that helps but really i think its the kernel and rom thats making all the difference
spiritonline said:
hi all,
i know the battery life of the sensation isn't that great but I make 5 hours with about 1 hour of spotify (music streaming) some browsing and email checks. Also installed couple of apps but that's it.
(3g on when wifi not availible)
This just does not seem normal to me? Would like to hear your opinions.
running on:
stock battary
android revolution HD, feux kernel.
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God, that's awful...and sounds oh-so familiar...
Try checking out my post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351430
Maybe it helps... Sadly, one would think you get a functional device bought from the store, but all this technology is still a bit new and shiny, so it takes a lot of tinkering to get the most out of your device... It's what I've been doing with my phone for the last month, and it's a work in progress, but so far I've made some improvements
No solution works for everyone, as everyone uses their phone differently in a different environment... So all I can say is read my thread, keep reading XDA and the best of luck on your quest
P.S. That new battery will also help... I bought 2x Chichitec 1930mAh Evo 3D batteries and stuck them in my Sensation, although they are really just 1730mAh (false advertising, meh...or I just got a bad set of batteries?) I've seen a slight improvement over the stock battery
Damn man that sucks. I was having the same issue except I was average 10 hours with pandora usage, and moderate emails/txt/mms etc ....
I flashed the latest ARHD 3.6.7 XE. I followed the proper batter calebration thread on this forum (don't have the link) and after a full charge the next day, I average roughly 19 to 23 hours on a full charge. I'm still at a very moderate usage with pandora/streaming/mms/txt/blah blah blah you know the deal. I am extremely impressed. I'm on stock battery btw. I'm probably going to hook up that aweseom 1900mha battery from anker. I should be pulling over 24 hours no problem after that.
What I do also is when I initially set up ARHD I turn off fastboot in the power menu, I turn off "quiet ring on pick up", "pocket mode", and "flip for speaker" in the sound menu, and I ESPECIALLY turn off the automatic boot up of the task manager as task managers are useless from android 2.2+ and can cause conflicts that drain more battery. You can turn off boot up of task manager in the applications menu. That's pretty much it I don't know what else to say other than I'm doing awesome on stock battery atm.
Try a different kernel. I'm using bricked 1.5. First charge got me 14 hours so far at 31 percent. After the first charge run it to 5 percent and charge full. Rinse and repeat a total of three times and also don't forget to go into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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Battery Calibration
And here's the link on how to propperly calibrate your battery, at your convenience
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=827355
To go easy on the new people and spare them some search time in this mess
I don't know about you guys, but there's so many threads on EVERYTHING, it's pretty damn hard to find some information on here
Oh well, now I'm just rambling... Enjoy
5 hours is really awful. Got 2 days with moderate use with the energy ROM. I would try to calibrate and maybe buy a anker 1900 mAh
What version of ARHD are you running on? 3.6.5 and 4.1.6 had battery issues..
Buy another battery, or ask for replacement. I had 5-8 hour battery life with my original stock battery on stock ROM, bought Anker battery on amazon, I get 40-50 hours now.
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Buy another battery, or ask for replacement. I had 5-8 hour battery life with my original stock battery on stock ROM, bought Anker battery on amazon, I get 40-50 hours now.
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I've ordered both the anker and the mugen power 1900mah
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What version of ARHD are you running on? 3.6.5 and 4.1.6 had battery issues..
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I'm running the latest version 3.6.7 I believe (with the new faux kernel)
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And here's the link on how to propperly calibrate your battery, at your convenience
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=827355
To go easy on the new people and spare them some search time in this mess
I don't know about you guys, but there's so many threads on EVERYTHING, it's pretty damn hard to find some information on here
Oh well, now I'm just rambling... Enjoy
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Thanks a ton! I checked it out but isn't it correct that when you flash a rom the battery is auto calibrated? Battery monitor widget Pro says my voltage is:
min 3386 max 4209. Does that give reason to calibrate the battery?
thanks again everyone for all the help
I used to suffer from this issue too. After doing some research I found out that the kernel is the problem.
Try Bricker 1.5 as Galaxa12 suggested and you should notice a massive improvement in terms of battery life.
Also do some digging in Daemon Controller (tip as others suggested: Governor).
Ofc battery calibration is important, but you won't archive better battery lifetime after calibration.
I get horrible battery life with nearly every ROM Ive used on my Sensation, sometimes drains 10 percent an hour with the screen OFF. I have all data off, no wifi on, no apps running, juicedefender ultimate, and underclock when screen is off, and I read about people who can get a full day while using the total potential of the device. I had the same problem on my old device, so I returned it to T-Mobile and still have problems on the device I got in return. I dont expect to get two days on battery, I just find it crazy that I can barely use my device without the battery draining rapidly. I've considered undervolting but every rom ive downloaded didnt support it, so I was curious if you guys know of any efficient ROMs that save a ton of power and can be undervolted. I'm not very experienced with this kind of stuff and every ROM ive used has been poor on battery life, so help would be appreciated.
I am using InsertCoin ROM and it is running fine.
I used to have a 3% battery drop per every hour the phone was sleeping on stock rom and ARHD ics. Then I tried Virtuous Inquisition and it fixed the issue. Be sure to install the rom with its appropriate radio.
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ICS isn't fully stable yet, but seriously.. give that a try. My battery has doubled its lifespan. I have NO idea what htc/google did, but I get about 12 hours moderate usage and still around 50%. Getting 12 hours back then was what I was hoping I could hit! Now it lasts beyond my expectations
I've also read that you tried undervolting and everything. I just stayed stock and it's great, no effort! no custom kernel, OC/UC , it's amazing. If you read through the threads, I'm not the only one experiencing awesome battery
If you must know, I'm using InsertCoin but I think ARHD and all the other ICS roms will pretty much solve your problem
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I get horrible battery life with nearly every ROM Ive used on my Sensation, sometimes drains 10 percent an hour with the screen OFF. I have all data off, no wifi on, no apps running, juicedefender ultimate, and underclock when screen is off, and I read about people who can get a full day while using the total potential of the device. I had the same problem on my old device, so I returned it to T-Mobile and still have problems on the device I got in return. I dont expect to get two days on battery, I just find it crazy that I can barely use my device without the battery draining rapidly. I've considered undervolting but every rom ive downloaded didnt support it, so I was curious if you guys know of any efficient ROMs that save a ton of power and can be undervolted. I'm not very experienced with this kind of stuff and every ROM ive used has been poor on battery life, so help would be appreciated.
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im still using stock rom. it using 1% nearly 3-4 hours when its in sleeping
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Ok thanks guys ill try various ICS roms over the next week and see if there's a difference.
I am running ARHD 6.5.5 with faux kernel at stock cpu freq. I also have the ICS AOSP aroma theme, with mostly AOSP apps.
You can see from my screen shots that my battery life is terrible, and that is with juice defender on too!
Can someone tell me if theres anything i can change to get better battery, or if there are any ics ROMs out there that will give better battery?
I have wiped battery stats off a full charge but that made no difference. One thing I thought it could be is that I may not have had full battery when flashing the ICS firmware update - but this would have been fixed by battery stats wipe right??
Thanks to anyone who took the time to read this!
Could be a few things....
First thing is to make sure you give it time to get a good battery profile. Let it charge all night, then clear the battery stats in the morning. Then let it go all the way down to 0 and shut off without interruption. (Meaning don't restart it if you can avoid it)
The first day will be pretty bad. The second day should be much better. The 3rd day should be really good.
If you've done that properly and you're still getting 10 hours of battery life, something's wrong.
You could have a wakelock, something that's keeping the phone running all the time even with the screen off. An app could cause this, but it doesn't look like the case based on your screen shot.
The battery could be bad. This can be tested with another ROM to see if the problem replicates itself.
The ROM install could have gone screwy somehow. (Though for the life of me I can't think of how.) But wiping clean and starting over might help.
You can also underclock the CPU. Make it run at like 350 mhz when idling. That'll help a lot.
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Could be a few things....
First thing is to make sure you give it time to get a good battery profile. Let it charge all night, then clear the battery stats in the morning. Then let it go all the way down to 0 and shut off without interruption. (Meaning don't restart it if you can avoid it)
The first day will be pretty bad. The second day should be much better. The 3rd day should be really good.
If you've done that properly and you're still getting 10 hours of battery life, something's wrong.
You could have a wakelock, something that's keeping the phone running all the time even with the screen off. An app could cause this, but it doesn't look like the case based on your screen shot.
The battery could be bad. This can be tested with another ROM to see if the problem replicates itself.
The ROM install could have gone screwy somehow. (Though for the life of me I can't think of how.) But wiping clean and starting over might help.
You can also underclock the CPU. Make it run at like 350 mhz when idling. That'll help a lot.
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Thanks a lot for the reply, you seem to know what your talking about... What about the firmware bit I mentioned, could that have anything to do with it?
I will re-try the battery calibration procedure you suggested - if it does not help what rom do you think I should flash to rule out a bad battery?
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You didn't mention anything about firmware. But that should be a factor either.
Also, now that I think about it I think ARHD 6.5.5 might have had battery issues. I know one of the 6.5.x versions had poor battery life.
I run 6.5.3 myself and it's super ultra ridiculously battery efficient. I mean like 2 days between charges efficient. And I plug it in at the end of the 2nd day with like 20% left still.
Try starting over with 6.5.3. Or bump up to 6.6.2 that's out now.
I also never had luck with those juice defender things. But that's me. Some people swear by them. I found them to just be in the way.
I have the same issue with battery and I don't understand why the battery is so crap
I'm also using ARHD 6.5.5 with faux kernel. The first two three days were not spectacular but after that stabilized. I first ran it at the faux stock Cpu freq of 1.5 ghz and when I plugged for charging at night was usually at 40-55% depending on use. I'm running it now at 1.2 ghz (is a sensation 4g after all) and is usually 65-85% when I'm back home, depending on use.
I might add that I ran Rom Cleaner 3.5 to slim down the rom and also shnizlon AOSP them with the option of removing HTC apps and widgets
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The problem was ARDH 6.5.5, updated to 6.6.2 and now got awesome battery life! Also re flashed the firmware off a full charge, that could have helped but I'm not sure cos I did it all at once.
Thanks guys
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