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[Q]Mango Battery Life?

All right, so here's the big question. Okay, one of the big questions. For all yous who have DL'd and installed the Mango beta, how's the battery life?
I have a NoDo'd DVP and I generally can get 9 and a half to 12 and a half hours on a single charge depending on what I'm doing. Games being the biggest battery vampire I've found, thus far. Streaming vid a close second (perhaps tied).

Can't tell any difference. Never been an issue on my Arrive. It says I have 16 hours left(with battery saver kicking in if it gets critically low), and it has been 12 hours since my last charge.
I play a few games a day. Some web. Music. Testing of Mango features. Getting features to work. Lot's of texts. And my 3 email accounts syncing frequently.
I do have wifi disabled as that was preventing speech recognition from connecting to MS servers for some reason. So that may have improved battery life a little.

Good to know. Figured it would be about the same. The real test is how it will do once the LTE/HSPA+ devices hit.

I'm actually noticing better battery life. I definitely have been playing with the phone a lot since Mango, even more than normal, and the battery has been pretty awesome so far. Course its not scientific, but it appears that I'm getting more hours out of it than pre-Mango.

I think it's better in Mango but it's hard to say how much and if any better at all. If I had 2 windows phones I'd love totest it to find out.
Anyway I'm really happy with mango, I have to stop using facebook chat or I'll not get any work done today!

the battery life is better,just remember that multitask is in now
In previous version you don't have it

In my situation (lg optimus 7) battery life seems a little bit shorter than NoDo...
I turn on the phone in the morning (8-9 am) and I've to plug in for charge at night (11pm-12am)..
I've 2-3 live tiles active in the home screen... with NoDo i Could permform 1 and a half day of usage... I think this is a mango bug, or my battery just need a recalibration for the new O.S.
I'll check it in the upcoming days

I feel like my battery life has gotten worse, but I have 4 live tiles running and facebook chat on, although I had the same on my nodo device save facebook chat. And I think the battery saver option basically just allows you to turn the feature off. Wasn't the whole stopping push notifications done automatically in nodo when the battery was low? Now you just have to option to disable and kill your battery faster.

Hmm, I too have the feeling the battery life is worse. I just recharged to 100% and battery saver says I have 23 hrs left. After 1 hour without doing anything I have 80% (17 hours) left . I turned on airplane mode and disabled location now to see if it's getting better.

I also feel the battery life got worse. However, remember this is a debugged build, it's logging alot more as you are using it and I'm sure there's still alot more optimizations to go.
With that being said, I'll gladly take 2-3 days instead of 3+ days on a single charge for the features added. For those only getting 12+ hours, somethings wrong with your phone. There's not that much more getting executed vs NoDo until more devs take advantage of background services and live tile updates.

Hmm, yeah maybe my battery is quite exhausted already. I use the phone daily listening to music at the train, playing a game or two and browsing. That is, I recharge every single night and sometimes again in the afternoon. So I guess I have recharged the phone ~300 times since I purchased it last year.

Overall, better. I did opt for the 1800mah battery for my Trophy and it did help a little (keep the OEM one always charged, just in case). I think it works better

Its quite a bit better for me. I can usually go through a full day with battery saver generally kicking in near the end of the day (9-10pm). Bluetooth headsets for music does kick it down a bit but not terribly, usually my BT headset runs out before my phone.
Focus/mango.

redviper666 said:
Its quite a bit better for me. I can usually go through a full day with battery saver generally kicking in near the end of the day (9-10pm). Bluetooth headsets for music does kick it down a bit but not terribly, usually my BT headset runs out before my phone.
Focus/mango.
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Interesting, I knew back in WM 6.5 using a BT headset would take a 12 hour battery and make it last no more than 6 and that was if you didn't talk on the phone much.
Is Bluetooth better with WP7 where it's a very minor battery loss ? ( might pick up a new bt headset)

Mine is better. But only slightly. Eg. 45min to 1 hr better.
I'm using a Focus

cohowap said:
I also feel the battery life got worse. However, remember this is a debugged build, it's logging alot more as you are using it and I'm sure there's still alot more optimizations to go.
With that being said, I'll gladly take 2-3 days instead of 3+ days on a single charge for the features added. For those only getting 12+ hours, somethings wrong with your phone. There's not that much more getting executed vs NoDo until more devs take advantage of background services and live tile updates.
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how do u know that its doing logging??

if yr sim card is more than 2 years old y will experience battery drain

There is definitely a bug in battery saver

There are to things to think about: The first one is that we have update our phones to Mango, but not the manufacturer so we have old drivers with new OS. And the second is that at least I, i've been so far 8 months with my HTC Trophy so the battery also losses capacity (mAh) in this time. In 1 year usually a battery only has 80% of its original capacity.

I have actually feel the better battery life.

[Q] Has anyone noticed battery life took a nosedive with the Gingerbread update?

Having waited months for this update, I was just as excited as many to put this update on. Unfortunately, even though it has fixed many issues it created a new one for me: battery life, surprisingly.
The battery life on my phone is now back to what it was at out of the package with all of the bloat and Froyo. All I did on my Froyo was root it, freeze all of the bloatware, and unroot it. The battery would go the entire day and then some with moderate use. The phone became very stable.
Fastforward to yesterday- the phone rebooted, so I had enough and I put Gingerbread on. Everything was fine yesterday, and battery consumption was great with all the radios on. After I woke up this morning from charging (USB), the phone felt hot. Battery Monitor was saying it was at about 101F (normally around 96F). I unplugged, and immediately the consumption was at about 250mA. Throughout the past few hours, it has gone from 150mA to 600mA consumption. I did a factory reset, and it didn't help. Nothing has worked yet to get the power consumption under control today. The primary things running are (not surprisingly) the bloat. Telenav I noticed was constantly noted as "Restarting". Appmarket gets force-killed, and it opens back up a split second later.
It might possibly be the data radio, as JuiceDefender can't even shut it off.
Has anyone found their battery consumption got worse with the GB update, and not better? Short of flashing a bloat-free rom on it, has anyone found a solution?

When an app constantly closes and goes into a endless restart cycle is what kills the battery the most. It also makes the phone hot. I had this happen with the NFL app a few updates ago.
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After I updated yesterday my battery did also die fairly fast. I did a hard reset and now it seems the same as froyo. But I was one the lucky folks with almost no problems so I never rooted. From my understanding gingerbread suppost increases battery life mines about the same now
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Guys you have to keep in mind that this is not the official release. LG either leaked this build out by accident or on purpose to quiet down the hungry stomach's that wanted a gingerbread build. Lets just cross our fingers and graciously hope that a more fresh and tasty build will be released.
For now just try and enjoy your phone. If you are having random reboots that are a little too often then try completely wiping your phone and then literally wait 10 minutes for the software to settle down, once settled then reboot and enjoy.
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I was just about to make this thread. I've got from 100% to 38% in about 3.5 hours and it wasn't particularly heavy usage.

omnibot80 said:
I was just about to make this thread. I've got from 100% to 38% in about 3.5 hours and it wasn't particularly heavy usage.
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That sounds about right. There has to be a broken sensor or something improperly calibrated. It isn't warm anymore, but it is just gulping down the power right now faster than any device I've ever had. I have a feeling it may have thought it was fully charged. It was perfectly fine on the original charge left over from Froyo consuming only about 30-60mA. Overnight charge on Gingerbread? Getting this massive consumption. It was done on USB. Once it dies in the next few minutes, I'll do a full wall charge and hopefully it gets more than a few minutes.

You guys using the bloated version or the EB release with bloat removed?

My battery life has been fairly good so far.
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my battery is incredibly good after the update today after 4 hours of usage my battery had only went down 3%

cgonz92 said:
my battery is incredibly good after the update today after 4 hours of usage my battery had only went down 3%
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Have you charged it since you ran the update?

I just plugged my phone in about 30 minutes ago and it went from 20% battery to 80% in 30 minutes. That seems very fast for the G2x. I really think the culprit here is it isn't charging properly. I did a factory reset already, and it didn't help.

DroidNaN said:
Have you charged it since you ran the update?
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yea ive charged it

My battery life got so much better ......its like a whole new phone

My phone is on for 18hrs now and I still have 15%. Am draining this battery because I calibtrated it.
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I just got tired of disabling all the features that made my phone a smartphone, using juice defender...etc I decided to order an extended battery for $10 shipped off of eBay, 3500ma , I suggest u do the same.
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One thing I have noticed is my Camera is apparently responsible for about 20-30% of the power consumption even though I've forced quit it and rebooted.

I am going on 14 hours now and am at 64%... light use, wifi on half the time, screen on for little over an hour. I have HORRIBLE reception at my house in ohio, the damn thing is usually just trying to hold 1 or 0 bars where i very frequently have dropped calls or text messages that go out slow or come in in packages because it finally found a signal again (aka my phone loves to spend juice looking for a signal)... I would say its pretty good and i used the hell out of it yesterday and killed it in like 6 hours so this is my second charge...

Luckily I'm in the second Category. I was on ultimate Rom and loved it but I just wanted to change it up so I rolled back to froyo. Then did the update, reflashed clockwork and charged it to 100%, booted into clockwork, deleted the battery stats, boot it up, pulled the charger and I'm on 15 hours now and still have about 20% left. I'd say they did something positive. I still need to freeze the bloat however. I'll worry about that later when we get a CM7 or EB build based on this rom that is stable.

After I turned off GPS on the camera and killed it, my battery life skyrocketed. Even though I was killing the camera, it wasn't helping. I had to actually turn off the GPS before exiting. I'm not sure if its coincidence, but I left it unplugged overnight and it used almost no battery.

Just for a bit of proof.. I took these after the update, in the one with the estimate you can see it only expected me to get 5 more hours of battery life based on the history, but it's going to last a lot longer I think.
All I did was wipe battery stats, charge to 100%, wipe again, waited 30 minutes, wiped one more time then unplugged and let it go. that was 17 hours ago.
I'm anal like that, I really did wipe the battery stats three times and let it charge to full again after wiping just to make sure it was maxed out. I'm a noob still so not sure exactly how the battery stats reporting works.
Oh yeah, this includes 1.5 hours of Order and Chaos. Streaming music from Google music for two hours while driving across town, 45 minutes of GPS while locating a business I've wanted to visit and about 5 chapters of I, Robot in google books.

Just some things I've noticed.....

Here's some things I've discovered about my phone and thought I would post them in case some one else has the same problems.
I've had my Tbolt for a few months now. For the first month I used the stock rom and it sucked really bad, I hated the phone. It was so laggy, tap on something and wait 2 or 3 seconds for anything to happen. So I went to a GB AOSP rom. Loved it, nice and fast BUT I hate and despise the whole gingerbread keyboard experience. I loved the keyboard on my stock Incredible. I endured for a couple months with the GB keyboard.
In that time my battery started not charging to 100%, it only goes to 89%. Come to find out it is being charged all the way because I checked the voltage with a meter and it reads 4.2 volts after being charged for several hours. No big deal other than an annoyance. I get 6-7 hours of pretty much non stop use with the seidio 3500 mah battery. The other annoying thing is it drops pretty fast and when it get's to 2% it will stay on 2% for 2-3 hours of non stop use before it finally dies.
So I set out to remedy this with every kernel I could finally, several different GB aosp and sense roms, resetting battery stats in CWM, different battery calibration apps and nothing worked. So I gave up on that, after all I was still getting full use of the battery.
Then I noticed not too long after I started using GB AOSP roms that my d/l speed dropped way down. With the stock rom when I first got the phone I would consistently get 15+ mbps speed, awesome. When I went to GB AOSP it dropped to 5 mbps, usually alot less than that, but would occasionaly go up 10 mbps. The internet was slow, youtube vids were grueling to try and watch with the HQ setting on. Took at least 10 seconds before the vid would start and then it would stop and buffer constantly during playback on HQ setting. That really pissed me off so I tried every radio I could find but nothing changed. The only thing I noticed was after a fresh restart the d/l speed would go up to 10 mbps for a few minutes but would quickly drop back to 5 or less, usually around 3. I was pissed because I thought it was Verizon's fault.
So a couple weeks ago I decided screw it, I really hate the GB keyboard so I went back to my stock Froyo rom. It was slow and laggy as usual but I like the keyboard experience better and noticed my freakin d/l speed was back to normal. With Froyo it never drops below 10 mbps and is usually 15+. So I decided to install Lancher Pro and see what happened, I'll be damned if most if not all the lag was gone. Tap on something and bam there it was. I was happy....until my fully charged 3500 mah battery died after only 2-3 hours of use. I was like what the hell??? So I started installing various Froyo sense and de sensed roms in order to keep my froyo keyboard and great d/l speed but see if I could improve battery life. Every Froyo rom I tried would kill the 3500 mah battery in 2-3 hours of non stop use no matter what I did. So I decided to check the voltage on the "dead" battery and it showed 3.9 volts which is NOT dead. 3.6 to 3.7 volts should be dead. So where the GB roms would at least give me full battery use (and cut my internet speed to nothing) the Froyos won't for whatever reason, they just won't read the voltage right. And by the way, no battery app I've ever used will read the right voltage on the phone. It's usually off by .3 or .4 volts. When the battery dies the app says it at like 3.3 to 3.4 but the meter says 3.6 to 3.7 so don't trust those battery apps too much.
Anyway, so I had a dilemma, use a GB rom with full battery life but crappy d/l speed and a keyboard I hated, or use froyo with a keyboard experience I loved with great d/l speed but not full life of my battery. I would go thru 3 3500 mah batteries in one night at work and still have to put it on the charger before the end of the night. 2 were cheap ebay batteries, wouldn't last no time really with Froyo. (and Yes my job has a lot of downtime most nights so I use the hell out of my phone. lol)
So a couple nights ago I decided to try a sense 3.5 rom. Love it!! Love the keyboard experience, my d/l speed is freakin awesome with the 906 radio, and my awesome battery life is back!! And it's pretty fast too, not quite as fast as an AOSP but I can live with it. Videos on youtube with HQ on start within a couple seconds and I have yet to have one stop and buffer. Awesome devs we have here!! I just wish one of them could fix the battery issue so it would actually show 100% charge instead of 89%.
Anyway, just thought I'd share the problems and fixes I've had with this phone over the last few months.

Try wiping battery stats in recovery?
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That is interesting. My guess is that your issue has something to do with your hardware because of you getting different voltage readings from a meter vs phone app. At least you have found an acceptable fix to your problem for now.
Have you ever updated your radio software? That may be the answer to your dilemma.

[Q] Worse Battery Life-Is it same with you?

Hello,
I bought new HTC ONE S (Factory Unlocked-nothing rooted or fishy stuff) two days ago.
As soon as I purchased it I upgraded my OS from ICS to Jelly Bean using HTC auto-update.So I was unable to test battery life on ICS however it is pretty bad now. This is new phone so I don't know whether the JB update has caused this problem.
It can't last more than 2 hours on full use. Just played temple run for 10 minutes and battery dropped down to from 70 to 65% . So in 10 minutes of game play battery dropped by 5% . On this speed it won't last more than an hour on any hd video. Similarly on Wifi use or google market browsing it drops down quicker than my laptop battery.
So is it normal for HTC ONe S or upgrade is causing this? I also turned on power saver option in new Jelly Bean but no improvement. What is the solution please I need help and I love this phone. (No apps stand out in draining battery life).
Thanks
Ahmar.

ahmar2 said:
Hello,
I bought new HTC ONE S (Factory Unlocked-nothing rooted or fishy stuff) two days ago.
As soon as I purchased it I upgraded my OS from ICS to Jelly Bean using HTC auto-update.So I was unable to test battery life on ICS however it is pretty bad now. This is new phone so I don't know whether the JB update has caused this problem.
It can't last more than 2 hours on full use. Just played temple run for 10 minutes and battery dropped down to from 70 to 65% . So in 10 minutes of game play battery dropped by 5% . On this speed it won't last more than an hour on any hd video. Similarly on Wifi use or google market browsing it drops down quicker than my laptop battery.
So is it normal for HTC ONe S or upgrade is causing this? I also turned on power saver option in new Jelly Bean but no improvement. What is the solution please I need help and I love this phone. (No apps stand out in draining battery life).
Thanks
Ahmar.
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Battery will improve after a few full charges / discharges as it conditions the battery! I dont play games on it but i've never had less than 18 hrs!

I play games every now and then. With heavy games and USB controller I get roughly 2-2.5h of batterylife. Oh, thats with Wifi on as well.
If I play without the USB controller I get maybe 3-3.5h batterylife.
With my use, excluding the games, I get at least 2 days worth of battery.

Why me
Goatshocker said:
I play games every now and then. With heavy games and USB controller I get roughly 2-2.5h of batterylife. Oh, thats with Wifi on as well.
If I play without the USB controller I get maybe 3-3.5h batterylife.
With my use, excluding the games, I get at least 2 days worth of battery.
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Then what do you think why my mobile is showing such poor battery life?

Ive never used stock JB, so dunno if that might be the cause. I havnt had any battery problems on stock ics, viper 1.2.1 or dark jelly CM10.

ahmar2 said:
Then what do you think why my mobile is showing such poor battery life?
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With stock JB I got 3-4 hours of screen-on time, and roughly about 24-30 hours of battery life total. That included a little gaming but mostly web browsing. I don't have experience on ICS because I also upgraded to JB straight away when I got the phone.
Your battery life seems normal to me considering the age of your phone. See if it improves within the next 5-10 empty-full cycles. As mentioned, the battery needs a couple of cycles before it reaches its' full potential.
Now I've been running CM10 for about a day, so can't really compare to it just yet. It feels lighter on the battery, but it might be placebo. I took it off the charger at around 7:00 this morning and now I'm at 85% and local time here is 14:45.

Current status on mine. Ive used it for a couple of hours total browsing the web and remotecontrolling my PC, done a couple of short calls and sent a few texts. In other words - quite light work.
Still, I think its quite acceptable batterylife
Edit: and as you can see, it never really goes into deep sleep for long periods of time.

Goatshocker said:
Current status on mine. Ive used it for a couple of hours total browsing the web and remotecontrolling my PC, done a couple of short calls and sent a few texts. In other words - quite light work.
Still, I think its quite acceptable batterylife
Edit: and as you can see, it never really goes into deep sleep for long periods of time.
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hmm I guess like others said I will have to let it charge/discharge few times and then see how it goes. Will update after two days.

[Q] Severe battery drain, have viperS 530 ROM

Hi, I installed the viperS 530 ROM on my Sensation 4G almost 2 months ago, and I basically like the ROM. Battery life was never great on this phone, but now seems twice as bad. From a full 100% charge, 1 short less than 5 minute call will make it go down to 90 to 95%. If I connect to T-Mobile data and use the browser, I actually see the battery level drop 2-3% every *minute*! I tried watching a Youtube video, from 100%, dropped down to 3% within less than 2 minutes, and shut itself off! I rebooted, and it then said 27%. I pit it on charge and it took more than 12 hours to get back to 100%. I have the original battery that came with it, and a different brand battery that I ordered, both around 1500 mah. But they are about 3.5 years old, and when I'm home the phone is almost always on charge. I have GPS, location, sync, bluetooth and data normally turned off when I'm out somewhere, unless I need the data or wifi to connect. Seems to drain just as fast whether wifi or data. I keep my phone at 30 or 45 seconds for the display. If nou used at all, will seem to stay at or near 100% for a few hours, then start dropping.
Is it worth me ordering a new battery, or is there something in the settings I'm overlooking? Like I said, seemed to get worse with the new ROM. Thanks much.

i think your battery is dying since it is 3.5 years old

Thanks rzr86, gonna look fora new battery on ebay or Amazon, prolly one of the higher mah ones. Strange that both my present batteries are at the same level of weakness, for example on each, when online, battery level drops 2-3% per minute, you would one would be somewhat better or worse than the other.
In the meantime I just installed Wakelock Detector and Greenify that I was reading about at another site, so hopefully those will help somewhat.

its battery issue

dannykewl said:
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Is it worth me ordering a new battery, or is there something in the settings I'm overlooking? Like I said, seemed to get worse with the new ROM. Thanks much.
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I'll go ahead and chime in on this as well.
I picked up this Sensation as my friends wife got a new Sammy after the Sensation suffered horrible battery life, just as you described. She even got a new factory authorized battery, and still the exact same issue after a month or so. Needing a decent backup phone, I took it off her hands. S-off, new viper ROM.
Never had this model before, but I knew battery wasn't the greatest to begin with.
So after messing with it for a few days, I realized the battery was crapped out. Same as you wrote, loss of percentage just looking at it! :laugh::laugh: Reboot, different percentages every time. At the most, maybe one hour usage. Did the usual, flush battery stats, full charging, wipe stats again, etc. No help.
Finally bought a new battery couple days ago. Did a halfway charge, and the difference was seen immediately. Still discharged rather fast, but at least the percentage readout was consistent. Better but not acceptable.
So today, I tried "bump charging" about 4 times. First full charging resulted in about 5hrs (and a couple minutes) straight mp4 video via MX Player till battery shutdown. Now fully charged and bump charged and testing the second go around, only this time with normal usage and you tube playback.
Question (as being unfamiliar with this device). Is 5 hours Mp4 playback about normal for this device?
One thing I notice immediately, is that Youtube requires more battery power than standard video via MX Player. 8% in 15 minutes playback. This equates to roughly half available playback time compared to normal video. I suppose this can be attributed to the usage of constant wifi streaming using more CPU and GPU. Just a guess anyhow.
Will hope a couple more "full charges" will extend the usage some.
BTW, Running Sultan's CM11 with Sultan kernel at mostly default settings. Testing done with mostly only default apps running in memory.