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My battery seems to be REALLY bad. Worse than most peoples from what i gather from reading threads. I get about 8 hours from a full charge with minimal use. It seems that my screen is taking up most of the battery, according to my battery use page.... Any one else having major battery drain like I am??
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My display is taking a huge percentage as well. Everything else is low percentages. Don't know why. My screen is always either on auto brightness or completely dim.
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Give it a while and a few recharges. It should get better. Same thing happened to me. It's slowly getting better. I have it about a week now.
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I was getting 7 to 8 hours at first, had my phone almost 2 weeks now and am now getting just under 20 hours with moderate use.
Give it time. My sensation has far better battery life compared with my DHD.
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Peeps, you missed most important thing. Look at the AWAKE line. Either OP is playing a lot with th phone, or something is not letting it sleep.

Yeah, the battery really plummets when you actually use the phone (even on low brightness) but it idles quite efficiently at least...

Did u try juice defender? Just asking ify bout the sensation dnt knw either to get it or wait for sumthing else
mt4g royal ginger v2.1

Gregory.u317 said:
Did u try juice defender? Just asking ify bout the sensation dnt knw either to get it or wait for sumthing else
mt4g royal ginger v2.1
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Would help if you used proper language.
bcpk
Yeah, noticed same thing

I downloaded juice defender beta? whatever the free one was. To me that app does not have a good layout at all, either that or I was missing something. There dont seem to be any personalization settings at all. I dont trust apps to work when they just say "im doing something!!" ya know?
Now that I think about it on that charge I was playing music while I worked on my car for a while, that would explain the awake time. Even without doing that battery life is still really bad and the screen takes up 80%+. I will post another pic after my battery dies today. Dont plan on using it much so hopefully it will last longer.
That is good news about life getting better after a week or two though cause 8 hours with moderate use is unacceptable. My MT4G got a good 24 hours with pretty heavy use, I expect this thing to get at least half that.

i use juice defender and under normal use and a few hours of pandora streaming on wifi im at 35 hours at 40% battery

My phone was also drained like madness, within 6 hours it was empty, even if I didn't do anything with it. At the moment it is better, I did a factory reset through the startup of the phone (turn phone off, remove batt, place batt, hold volume down and push on/off button). There is an option to factory reset.
Strange thing was that when I turned off my phone before the factory reset, it was telling 34% batt. Right after the factory reset is was at 89% ???
I use Battery Status Bar app to display my batt in percentage...
But the good news is, my problem is now solved. Battery lasts for more than a day at normal use and 6-8 hours while very actively handeling it.
Looks like it was a reading wrong information or something...

Got 11 hours out of a battery today. So far its been charging for 4.5 hours and is at 94% charge. Takes about half as long to charge it as it does to kill it!
I will give juice defender a try. Seems like it works for a lot of people.

silentsnow31802 said:
Got 11 hours out of a battery today. So far its been charging for 4.5 hours and is at 94% charge. Takes about half as long to charge it as it does to kill it!
I will give juice defender a try. Seems like it works for a lot of people.
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I had same kind of long charging last night. Battery died at about 7:30pm. I plugged it and did not turn the power on. Went to play some ice hockey and after that I turned the power on again at about 10:10pm and it was still charging. At about 11:20pm(still charging) I unplugged for a couple of seconds to see the specs of the charger and then plugged back, surprisingly percentage jumped to 100. It was still on 100 this morning at about 8:00am.
Now I found out that phones own battery monitor tells me that time on battery is roughly 8 hours But when I check the time from Battery Indicator it tells me that time on battery is roughly 15 hours, which is correct.

Seems that a lot of people are getting false battery readings, me included. I did a factory reset last night and this seemed to fix this, at least until now it seems to report correct (realistic) values. I haven't charged the battery after the reset so we will see if charging messes it up again...
I hope this is a software problem, i really don't want to exchange my phone, i don't have any of the other problems.

what sort of battery times are acceptable for this phone? many are suggesting factory resets and all i wonder if i should do it or not. if i charge the phone overnight it goes to power saver mode usually say 8-9pm and then the power saver mode (basically dim screen and no gps wifi remains on) is managing to hold the power till i go to bed and charge it. is this ok?
juice defender seems to be recommended eh? maybe one should should try that before the factory reset. btw if factory reset done whats the best way to restore your phones contacts to how they are now? i mean it took forever to link all the facebook, phone and microsoft exchange contacts and offcourse gmails. dont want to go through that again.

I tried juice defender last night and it didnt seem to help. I lost 45% overnight without me even using the phone! When I fell asleep the battery meter said 100% still and I woke up to 55%. The phone says there is some awake time, wonder what it could be? As much as I dont want to do it I think a factory restore may be an option since nothing else is really helping. Should I wait until the battery is 100% before I reset it?
Some new pics, keep in mind I was asleep for all of this use except for what the screen awake time says.
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what sort of battery times are acceptable for this phone? many are suggesting factory resets and all i wonder if i should do it or not. if i charge the phone overnight it goes to power saver mode usually say 8-9pm and then the power saver mode (basically dim screen and no gps wifi remains on) is managing to hold the power till i go to bed and charge it. is this ok?
juice defender seems to be recommended eh? maybe one should should try that before the factory reset. btw if factory reset done whats the best way to restore your phones contacts to how they are now? i mean it took forever to link all the facebook, phone and microsoft exchange contacts and offcourse gmails. dont want to go through that again.
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I would say you battery life isnt that bad, if it lasts a day then it sounds about right. People are saying the batteries last longer after a couple weeks or so. If you do factory reset try and connect to wifi when google is restoring your contacts and such, it makes things go a lot faster.

I managed just over 9 hours on my first charged but I'm recharging it now and it went straight up to 31% when it booted up again :S

Me and my gf both have a Sensation now(i upgraded from HTC Desire, and she a HTC Legend), we are both pleased with the battery on the phones, she uses stock Sense, and i use LauncherPro, though we did learn something from our older phones, the thing that drains battery extremely much is all the notification emails Facebook automatically send(gmail push), these are almost turned off to 100%, next thing is to turn off all syncronisation in the phone you don't use, ex. i use Launcherpro therefore i don't need the phone to update Sense's own weather, and so on.
We both normally charge the phone every night, but i guess my phone would last almost 2 days on days i don't use it that much.
I must say i am extremely satisfied with my phone, the thing that i dislike the most is the camera, or to say it in a different way, if i didn't know the SG2 had a slightly better camera i may have been more satisfied

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The phone says there is some awake time, wonder what it could be?
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You should not have anywhere near 100% awake time unless you're using the phone at all times. You have some app that is not shutting down or auto-updating far too often. That's your culprit - find it and your battery life will improve.

bcpk said:
Yeah, the battery really plummets when you actually use the phone (even on low brightness) but it idles quite efficiently at least...
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What app is this???

[Q] Any type of battery fix?

Insert whiny post about how much my battery life sucks.
Now that I've just rooted my Inspire, are there any fixes that are available that will help improve battery life? I am using the RCDMix3D rom, and my phone barely lasts 6 hours. I take all of the suggested actions like turning off bluetooth, gps, wifi, autosync, and background data, but it doesn't seem to help much. I even bought a 1600mAH battery, which lasts no longer than the standard 1230mAH one.
So, looking for anything I can flash, or download, or whatever that will help improve it. Good battery life is something I really need in a phone, and the Inspire's is the one thing that is making me consider switching phones. (which I'd rather not do, I love this phone!)
Thanks!

honestly if you are only getting six hourse with the setup you have, im tempted to say something is wrong with your phone......
unless you are getting 4 or more hours of screen-on time. how much screen on time?
i was getting 15 hours out of the box with 2 hours of screen on. now with leedroid, slightly underclocked, im getting about 24 hours with 3 hours screen time.

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honestly if you are only getting six hourse with the setup you have, im tempted to say something is wrong with your phone......
unless you are getting 4 or more hours of screen-on time. how much screen on time?
i was getting 15 hours out of the box with 2 hours of screen on. now with leedroid, slightly underclocked, im getting about 24 hours with 3 hours screen time.
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OP, if you're talking 6 hours to go from 100% to 0%, you've got something else going on. Big time. Especially of you're turning off all that stuff and *still* only getting 6 hours.
Now, if you had the screen on that entire time, I'd actually say you have great battery life, but I suspect that's not the case.
If it happens with both of your batteries, there has to be something else running on your phone, perhaps as a background service, that's sucking that much juice.

@ OP:
I get like 1 hour call per 18-20% battery on 3G/H. So 6 hours of call time from 100 to 0 is good in my opinion.
If not on calls: I did a stress test 2 days back. I got ~6.5 hours display time for movies from 100 to 5% battery with display at 25%.
So like people pointed out above, unless u r continuously on calls or having display on for atleast 3-4 hours with data transfer on 3g/h, something is wrong.
Here are my normal stats:
1 hour calls, 2 hours display exclusively with data transfer, all these on 3G/H, with about 12 hours standby, I come home with about 35-40% battery left.

I agree with the posters above there is definitely something wrong. Slightly UC & UV I get 6-7h screen time.

elijahpr said:
Insert whiny post about how much my battery life sucks.
Now that I've just rooted my Inspire, are there any fixes that are available that will help improve battery life? I am using the RCDMix3D rom, and my phone barely lasts 6 hours. I take all of the suggested actions like turning off bluetooth, gps, wifi, autosync, and background data, but it doesn't seem to help much. I even bought a 1600mAH battery, which lasts no longer than the standard 1230mAH one.
So, looking for anything I can flash, or download, or whatever that will help improve it. Good battery life is something I really need in a phone, and the Inspire's is the one thing that is making me consider switching phones. (which I'd rather not do, I love this phone!)
Thanks!
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A lot of testing with legitimate lab equipment has proven that ProdiCell batteries are not actually 1600mah, rather 1060mah which is actually lower than stock. Sorry if you bought one of their batteries.
I wasn't able to find the blog I was reading last night, but I can link you to the amazon comment thread where I first started my online research. >> Link <<

Yikes, that would suck if it was something wrong with the phone. I bought it off someone and was practically brand new, but I think it is out of warranty now.
It did this both before and after I had rooted my phone, so I'm not sure what background processes there could be that would be causing this? I know that some of the AT&T bloatware was always running in the background before (like Blockbuster), but I have since removed all of that crap.
I planned on doing some stress-testing today just to see. So far it has been unplugged for 56 minutes with 15 minutes of display time on, a 3 minute phone call, and using the internet for 5 minutes. Also sent/received about 20 SMS. Battery is at 94%.
Maybe I will switch back to the stock battery that came with the phone and see if there is any improvement. The one I am using now is meant for an HTC Desire, but I had read that those with an Inspire were able to use it with improvements. Not sure what brand makes it, but I do know it came from eBay That could be it by itself hah.

elijahpr said:
Yikes, that would suck if it was something wrong with the phone. I bought it off someone and was practically brand new, but I think it is out of warranty now.
It did this both before and after I had rooted my phone, so I'm not sure what background processes there could be that would be causing this? I know that some of the AT&T bloatware was always running in the background before (like Blockbuster), but I have since removed all of that crap.
I planned on doing some stress-testing today just to see. So far it has been unplugged for 56 minutes with 15 minutes of display time on, a 3 minute phone call, and using the internet for 5 minutes. Also sent/received about 20 SMS. Battery is at 94%.
Maybe I will switch back to the stock battery that came with the phone and see if there is any improvement. The one I am using now is meant for an HTC Desire, but I had read that those with an Inspire were able to use it with improvements. Not sure what brand makes it, but I do know it came from eBay That could be it by itself hah.
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Have you tried a battery calibration? It's easy to do manually, but there's a convenient app on market called, wait for it... battery calibration, that makes it a one-click process.
I really doubt it's the phone hardware itself. Probably some combo of battery/calibration/rom/kernel/radio.
BTW, the phone just came out in mid-February, so technically it's not out of warranty. It's like a year or year and a half or something.

I'll try that app for sure. Thanks!
When I called HTC in May to order replacement battery/SIM door covers, they said my warranty would run out in the next month. Maybe the CS rep was a moron.

Do a fresh install and calibrate your battery. Use titanium backup to freeze user apps. Add your apps one by one to find out which apps are hogging your battery. Also, try charging it before you go to bed. Take it off the charger, and when you wake, check to see if your phone uses more than 1% battery per hour.
Sent from my Inspire 4G running TPGB Ninja

Also make sure to turn off WiFi & mobile data when not using it, that will extend your charge.
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dxwilliams40 said:
Do a fresh install and calibrate your battery. Use titanium backup to freeze user apps. Add your apps one by one to find out which apps are hogging your battery. Also, try charging it before you go to bed. Take it off the charger, and when you wake, check to see if your phone uses more than 1% battery per hour.
Sent from my Inspire 4G running TPGB Ninja
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I literally just rooted/flashed my ROM yesterday. I charged the phone back up to 100% today and used that calibration app, and so far it seems to have helped. It definitely uses more than 1% an hour. So far it's at 45% after having been unplugged for 5 hours and 37 minutes, with 2 hours and 4 minutes of display time, 10 minutes of phone calls on 3G, sent/received about 100 texts, checked/downloaded about 20 emails, and taken 10 or so pictures.
Of course, WiFi/Background data/auto-sync/bluetooth/GPS are off, and brightness is at about 40%.

I've got a weird one on this particular battery cycle. I used the battery calibration app before I went to sleep last night and unplugged the phone at 100% charge. While I was asleep...the dialer used 16% of my battery according to my battery stats and the total battery was down into the 60%'s...I searched google, and other sources / forums report a reboot fixes it, and the issue likely occured from a "Wake Lock State" occuring at my last previous phone call the previous evening...ugh hell of a bug...I haven't rebooted it yet, and still notice even plugging and unplugging all day dialer still in low teens for batt. %...seems to be an Android thing although thre seemed to be a preponderance of HTC's...but they are popular devices and there was a Samsung tablet in there with the same thing...

I just got a whole day with 3 hours screen time and gmail and htc sense getting updates, more than 100 texts and 40 minutes of calls and wifi on half the time the battery on this phone is awesome. At night i get maybe 2-3% drain in about 7 hours. I suggest you find a ROM with some UV capabilities, the ones with the oc/uv daemon are great as they already have the settings built in.
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I just got a whole day with 3 hours screen time and gmail and htc sense getting updates, more than 100 texts and 40 minutes of calls and wifi on half the time the battery on this phone is awesome. At night i get maybe 2-3% drain in about 7 hours. I suggest you find a ROM with some UV capabilities, the ones with the oc/uv daemon are great as they already have the settings built in.
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Wow, that's pretty good. What ROM are you using?

Doing a nandroid backup, and then gonna flash Gingerbeast after work to see if battery improves or not.
That's another weird thing about my phone; one of the places I work my shifts are only 4 hours long. I go in and the battery is at about 95% because I've been streaming music on the way there. I come out, and it's down to 30%, or less. The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there, and when I do I send and receive maybe 20 texts during that time. Nothing else. Don't even turn the display on aside from that.
So, for Gingerbeast, is there a different kernel I need to flash? I was reading a little about it, but as I am still new to this whole thing, I'm not entirely sure what that is. Do I just flash it using CWM? I downloaded one from LordMod that is supposed to help.
Thanks again all!

elijahpr said:
Doing a nandroid backup, and then gonna flash Gingerbeast after work to see if battery improves or not.
That's another weird thing about my phone; one of the places I work my shifts are only 4 hours long. I go in and the battery is at about 95% because I've been streaming music on the way there. I come out, and it's down to 30%, or less. The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there, and when I do I send and receive maybe 20 texts during that time. Nothing else. Don't even turn the display on aside from that.
So, for Gingerbeast, is there a different kernel I need to flash? I was reading a little about it, but as I am still new to this whole thing, I'm not entirely sure what that is. Do I just flash it using CWM? I downloaded one from LordMod that is supposed to help.
Thanks again all!
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Someone asked which ROM I'm using, its the one in my Sig...when you dont have signal I would put it in airplane mode because your phone will search and search for a signal and that kills battery fast.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA App

elijahpr said:
Doing a nandroid backup, and then gonna flash Gingerbeast after work to see if battery improves or not.
That's another weird thing about my phone; one of the places I work my shifts are only 4 hours long. I go in and the battery is at about 95% because I've been streaming music on the way there. I come out, and it's down to 30%, or less. The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there, and when I do I send and receive maybe 20 texts during that time. Nothing else. Don't even turn the display on aside from that.
So, for Gingerbeast, is there a different kernel I need to flash? I was reading a little about it, but as I am still new to this whole thing, I'm not entirely sure what that is. Do I just flash it using CWM? I downloaded one from LordMod that is supposed to help.
Thanks again all!
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The reason why you are losing so much battery is your phone is trying to connect to a tower in order to gain service. Switch to airplane mode when at work.
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elijahpr said:
The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there
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There's the culprit!!! When phone does not have proper signal, it increases the radio power so that it may not lose connection. And when connection comes in, and is good enough, it starts to slowly scale down the power to the radio.

Hahaha, that's awesome. I was thinking the exact same thing as the three posts above me when I was working today... kind of an "oh, duh!" moment, then I come back and check the thread and ya'll confirmed it.
Flashing Gingerbeast right now, so hopefully that will show if it's the ROM or my hardware that's causing the battery drain. Gonna try it out for the rest of the day, though I will miss my Sense 3.0

OTA 2.3.4 Upgrade - Battery Issues

So I have had the OTA upgrade on my phone for the past few days and the battery life has gotten unbelievably bad. I'm so confused because it seems to have helped a lot of peoples batteries. I have not changed any habits at all and can barely get through the morning. I'm losing 20% just on the 25 minute train ride to work.
Any ideas?

I'm on the same boat as you I hope we can get a helpful answer.
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Still no improvement. There have to be more than just 2 people that have experienced something this drastic. I have made absolutely NO changes other than the update and the battery life is absolutely pathetic --- like 3-4 hours pathetic.
And no I have nothing synching.

ark2612 said:
Still no improvement. There have to be more than just 2 people that have experienced something this drastic. I have made absolutely NO changes other than the update and the battery life is absolutely pathetic --- like 3-4 hours pathetic.
And no I have nothing synching.
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That isn't good at all...may I suggest an extended battery? This is my battery stats for today thus far. I have a chichitec battery. I have 13 widgets, 3 email accounts, and a twitter account syncing every couple of hours.
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Still no improvement. There have to be more than just 2 people that have experienced something this drastic. I have made absolutely NO changes other than the update and the battery life is absolutely pathetic --- like 3-4 hours pathetic.
And no I have nothing synching.
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I'm no expert, but perhaps it'd be worth installing an app that monitors CPU usage. I remember having such battery problems with the Desire HD and it came down the the CPU constantly running at 100%. Perhaps you have an app that took a dislike to the update?
Just a thought...
Craig.

This is my situation also. Battery is the worse battery of any smartphone I've owned, since the update. No root, nothing. I'm either too lazy or not savvy enough to pinpoint this down, as far as apps, what is syncing, how often, blah blah. All I know is I am using it as little as possible b/c of the battery. I have had it 8 days, and REALLY need to call Cust Serv asap so I can get a replacement and see what happens, but I just don't want to go through the hassle of them trying to troubleshoot the phone. I'm also experiencing the HTC Sense reloading when exiting out of apps, and a few other small bugs/glitches, like web pages jumping/skipping around when I am scrolling through them. Sorry to unload on this thread I know it's about battery...

Same problem, but my battery get way way way too hot. All that energy loss getting hot is killing my battery. It gets up to 50+ degrees C. Way to hot and ever since using these 2.3.4 ROMs.

Try calibrating the battery.

You guys also might have gotten a bad battery. I'm pretty sure if you call HTC they'll send you one free if you tell them the battery overheats.

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You guys also might have gotten a bad battery. I'm pretty sure if you call HTC they'll send you one free if you tell them the battery overheats.
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This would make perfect sense if I didn't have my phone from the initial launch day at Walmart and the battery had been great for me UNTIL the upgrade. It's not the battery's fault.
And yes, I have recalibrated. And no, synching is not the issue since everything is the same from prior to the upgrade.

Actually you do need to recalibrate the battery. I had really bad battery life after the ota upgrade, spare parts app and wiping battery stats and now much better battery life than before ota. I have 64% at the moment, unplugged at 7:30am. I used to get 8 hours to a charge right after ota
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Before the Update, my battery life was great, except that occasionally I'd wake my phone up to a Battery meter showing a big grey !, instead of the color-coded indicator. A quick glance online said there was something possibly wrong with the battery, or that it was an unsupported 3rd-party battery
After the update, the battery will suddenly decide its ~70% lower than it was several minutes before, and shut itself down. I had to take the battery out, then put it back in, before the phone would recognize that the battery was actually still mostly charged.
The warning symbol mentioned above was infrequent enough, I could believe it wasn't noticed by everyone having these troubles. I think there's simply something wrong with the batteries, but since the 2.3.4 update, the phone treats the problem differently

kponti said:
Actually you do need to recalibrate the battery. I had really bad battery life after the ota upgrade, spare parts app and wiping battery stats and now much better battery life than before ota. I have 64% at the moment, unplugged at 7:30am. I used to get 8 hours to a charge right after ota
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How did you use "Spare parts"? I downloaded it and I can't find where to wipe the battery stats. I pick battery history and it tells me I'm using gingerbread ROM which does not contain battery stats reporting activity.

An app could be playing up. I know it's annoying but you could try a factory reset and reinstall everything from scratch. I find this helps tame apps that misbehave.
If your phone was fine prior to the update it's unlikely its a battery/hardware issue.

lianw said:
Try calibrating the battery.
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+1, your battery stats got wiped from the update, so you need to do a few complete charge to 0%'s.
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rosedog said:
How did you use "Spare parts"? I downloaded it and I can't find where to wipe the battery stats. I pick battery history and it tells me I'm using gingerbread ROM which does not contain battery stats reporting activity.
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If I remember correctly from my n1,, spare parts was for rooted phones
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Add me to the list of people whose battery life died after the upgrade. I even tired a factory reset over the weekend to no avail. I also tried switching batteries from another Sensation that I have which wasn't being used but no luck there either. In my mind it definitely is a software issue. And to think I used to brag about this phone's battery life!
I just need to root this thing and move on. Was hoping the HTC root process would come out soon. The instructions make rooting HTC's seem more complicated than my Samsung Vibrant which was pretty simple.

How do you calibrate the battery? lawl

If you're rooted, you can download an app called Battery Calibration that will help with calibrating the battery.
Otherwise, basically run your phone up to 100%, then drain it down to 0 until it shuts off, then recharge it back to 100%. Do this several times over the course of a few days and it should be calibrated.

Been experiencing the same thing. Finally got around to checking wakelock, and found that HTC sense had wakelocked the phone for 9 hours (the awake bar in system settings was solid). Some quick googling suggests that in certain cases, the HTC Sense sync can do this, so our common denominator may be that we all have a sense account set up.
I've disabled sense in my accounts, and killed the sense service. We'll see if that "fixes" it.

[SOLVED] Bad/unstable battery life

I know about calibrating my battery via cwm and apps. My issue is that after flashing a new rom, calibrating battery and charging (with the power on and off) the life gets sucked dry pretty much either after a reboot or flashing a tweak. I'm never able to get it calibrated correctly afterwards. What can be done to get the battery life back so I can enjoy the benefits of the rom and tweaks?
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digitallure said:
I know about calibrating my battery via cwm and apps. My issue is that after flashing a new rom, calibrating battery and charging (with the power on and off) the life gets sucked dry pretty much either after a reboot or flashing a tweak. I'm never able to get it calibrated correctly afterwards. What can be done to get the battery life back so I can enjoy the benefits of the rom and tweaks?
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Battery calibrating is more to make you feel better than for making your battery run better. You might have your battery tested to see if it is going bad. You can search for the thread in the general section about google debunking battery calibration.

I'm with Lumin; your battery needs to be tested or possibly replaced. Wiping the batterystats.bin file does not actually calibrate the battery. Good luck to you.
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When you say after flashing do you mean immediately or are you waiting a couple days to allow the phone to settle in?
After flashing anything that wipes the dalvik, system, data, files it takes some battery power to rebuild them. Also rebooting the phone several times will use more battery than just letting it run. So many more operations need to be ran after a power cycle.
Not discounting the posters above but more info is needed to make those assessments. You could have a bad battery but if your powering the phone on and off several times or flashing files frequently battery life will be affected.

eollie said:
When you say after flashing do you mean immediately or are you waiting a couple days to allow the phone to settle in?
After flashing anything that wipes the dalvik, system, data, files it takes some battery power to rebuild them. Also rebooting the phone several times will use more battery than just letting it run. So many more operations need to be ran after a power cycle.
Not discounting the posters above but more info is needed to make those assessments. You could have a bad battery but if your powering the phone on and off several times or flashing files frequently battery life will be affected.
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It's a mixture of both. What would happen, say i have about 75% battery life, my phone will start acting funky (sluggish, slow to respond or no response for some time) I'll either pull the battery, or reboot (depending on how funky it's acting) then it'll go from 75% to 20% or less.Sometimes it'll build back up if i'm not actively doing anything with the phone. Haven't seen how much the battery will build back up to because i'm using it for something or need to charge back up so i can get through the rest of the day.
I've seen posts about the calibrating thing being useless, which all makes sense, but i've been doing it out of habit for the most part. Im not discrediting what you are saying but it's just a puzzle trying to figure out why this happens.
Here's a screenshot i took a while back of the example i'm experiencing.
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That, to me, would indicate a bad battery. I could be wrong.

I want to say that I flashed a tweak when that happened. can't remember exactly but that's basically what happens.

If you think it was a tweak, maybe try going back to stock and use Thomas' Gremlin remover. Let it soak in for a few days and see if it makes a difference.

You mean just use the stock rom for a few days?
BTW, I went to t-mobile and ordered a new battery. So we'll see what happens when it comes
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digitallure said:
You mean just use the stock rom for a few days?
BTW, I went to t-mobile and ordered a new battery. So we'll see what happens when it comes
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Yes irrc that rom is debloated. So it wouldnt be too bad.
Not sure why but I cant see the picture.
I hope your battery issues are fixed with the new battery.

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You mean just use the stock rom for a few days?
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Yeah. And it's not debloated; it's the full ROM.
BTW, I went to t-mobile and ordered a new battery. So we'll see what happens when it comes
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Cool. Keep us posted; let us know how it goes.

My Gremlin remover should help with your issues... Find it in my signature... Follow the OP to the letter...

Also, I would check your running processes, and see if you have any "bad apps" that are running in the background hogging up memory, and/or fetching updates every 15 minutes or something.
i.e. Facebook

What would be a good app to see what is running and how long (how much power) they are using?

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My Gremlin remover should help with your issues... Find it in my signature... Follow the OP to the letter...
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Yeah, I've been using that since you released it.
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Also, I would check your running processes, and see if you have any "bad apps" that are running in the background hogging up memory, and/or fetching updates every 15 minutes or something.
i.e. Facebook
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I found an app that does that but it's showing my usual apps I use plus a few others that just run, but it wouldn't make my battery drop dramatically like the screenshot.

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Yeah, I've been using that since you released it.
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When you restore your data, are you only restoring your apps/data that you downloaded and not system apps/data?
How long have you onwed your phone? How often do you let the battery die out completely? It has been brought to our attention, fairly recently, that allowing our batteries to die fully and recharge can be a bad thing. The effect is much similar to a laptop battery in the since, if you leave the laptop plugged in and never let the battery die fully, then it will burn out. However, our batteries, being of a different type, are just the opposite, in that, the more often we recharge, the better battery life expectancy we will have. With that being said, it is possible that your battery has reached the end of it's life, and you may need a new one since you have performed the Gremlin Remover, and I can only pressume that you have tried all 3 parts of the Gremlin Remover.
Try SuperManager, it is a very useful app for finding out what is running, removing useless apps, clearing data cache a dalvik cache, etc. But it can be a memory/battery hog if you use the app killer and what not. I personally just keep the apk on my sdcard and only install it when needed, then uninstall it when I am done (as well as titanium backup and a few other tool type apps that I use).

thomas.raines said:
When you restore your data, are you only restoring your apps/data that you downloaded and not system apps/data?
How long have you onwed your phone? How often do you let the battery die out completely? It has been brought to our attention, fairly recently, that allowing our batteries to die fully and recharge can be a bad thing. The effect is much similar to a laptop battery in the since, if you leave the laptop plugged in and never let the battery die fully, then it will burn out. However, our batteries, being of a different type, are just the opposite, in that, the more often we recharge, the better battery life expectancy we will have. With that being said, it is possible that your battery has reached the end of it's life, and you may need a new one since you have performed the Gremlin Remover, and I can only pressume that you have tried all 3 parts of the Gremlin Remover.
Try SuperManager, it is a very useful app for finding out what is running, removing useless apps, clearing data cache a dalvik cache, etc. But it can be a memory/battery hog if you use the app killer and what not. I personally just keep the apk on my sdcard and only install it when needed, then uninstall it when I am done (as well as titanium backup and a few other tool type apps that I use).
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I've had my phone for I guess a year now. I'm using titanium backup to restore my apps and data. No I don't restore the system apps all but Facebook and YouTube. (always seem to be in the system apps) I guess as of recent I don't let it die out much but when I get home from work, sometimes I let it die out then charge overnight. I may try and uninstall apps I don't use much and install them on a need basis. I guess from the response, my battery may be bad. When I went to t-Mobile,the guy said it sounds like a battery issue and to see what the new battery does. It should be here Friday or next week.

Go to settings/apps/running services and list them here.
Also go to settings/accounts and sync and list the accounts that are there and if they have sync "on".
I only have my gmail account set to sync. All others (like facebook) are off - I can manually sync them when I decide to open them

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thomas.raines said:
How often do you let the battery die out completely? It has been brought to our attention, fairly recently, that allowing our batteries to die fully and recharge can be a bad thing. The effect is much similar to a laptop battery in the since, if you leave the laptop plugged in and never let the battery die fully, then it will burn out. However, our batteries, being of a different type, are just the opposite, in that, the more often we recharge, the better battery life expectancy we will have. With that being said, it is possible that your battery has reached the end of it's life, and you may need a new one since you have performed the Gremlin Remover, and I can only pressume that you have tried all 3 parts of the Gremlin Remover.
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Where did you get this information Thomas? I would like to read this and investigate further since I have been one of those people that let my battery die out completely every time before I charge it. It worked fine for my razr phone but maybe the sgs4g is different. Perhaps it is time I change my charging habits.
As always, your work is appreciated and your comments are insightful.

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Where did you get this information Thomas?
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Lots of reading on this site:
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries

[FIX] Battery Drain Issue Solution

I was always having the problem of when I would turn my device off for the night when I turned it on in the morning I would have lost anywhere between 15% and 40% of my battery. The easiest solution (only if I remembered to) was to pull the battery every night after I turned the device off, if I remembered. Well this was an annoyance for both having the battery drain if I forgot and to have to remove the batter every night and then put it back in every morning. I know it seems like I am just complaining with that last statement but I just like to have a phone that just works.
Now, back to the problem. I was always running either a port of MIUI or a CyanogenMod Stable release with both 'stock' kernels or one of faux's for CyanogenMod or morfic's for MIUI (as they got along better for some odd reason). Well, no matter the combination of kernel type (OC, UV, or Stock) I always had the battery drain problem and stability issues (depending). Then when the new baseband was released I installed it after I found out that the CyanogenMod RC3 supported the new baseband to see if that would fix the problem, just it still didn't work even with different kernels.
I was starting to get fed up with these issues so I decided to try one last thing: I used the LG support tool and went back to completely stock! I did root it with SuperOneClick though so I could use all the apps that I was using before (Titanium Backup to restore all of them). I have been running my phone like this for two weeks now and have never once had the battery drain problem. And what is even better is I am getting an average of 40 hours of use out of one charge in and out of WiFi with WiFi calling and 4G when not on WiFi (mind you I am not a really heavy user). I hope this helps!
Well, I know this is a long post but I figured some back story would be good for those to see if you have had the same issues to be able to see if this solution could work for you too. Please click Thanks if this helped you.

So, It sounds like the custom roms issues then. I had the same issues and did evevy thing you have done except using stock rom.

Could you post a picture of your battery usage?

Might have to try that I don't know how long I could stay stock tho
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I will post a screen shot when my battery gets low, I just charged it up yesterday morning.
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This is my battery usage so far and I was going in and out of data using google maps cause of the fire on intestate 5. So medium usage and 9 hours later at 61%.
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I've had the toughest time with this phone. I originally bought it from a guy off craigslist to replace my wife's MyTouch 3G. It was completely stock when I bought it and after messing around with it for a few hours I decided the phone seemed to be in good working condition. I have plenty of experience rooting/flashing the MyTouch 3G and my Samsung Vibrant and I have never had any problems. So I read around here for the LG G2x and went ahead and rooted it/ flashed ROM and soon after I updated to the newest baseband. I started noticing that the battery drained really quickly, to the point that my wife couldn't use her phone for long. She would play Scramble with Friends for maybe an hour and the phone would be dead. I tried flashing other ROMs to no avail. I went back to stock ROM and unrooted it but the battery still was terrible.
I started thinking maybe it is the battery, so I bought a 3500mAh battery off Amazon, but no luck. I have searched and read many many threads about this phone trying to fix this issue. I've tried downgrading the baseband but was never able to get it done. I'm sorta stumped on what to do next. The phone seems to hold a charge magnificently if nobody uses it lol. I charged the 3500mAh battery to 100% and then I left the phone for 24 hours and it was still at 99%, but as soon as you use the phone it dies quickly. My wife already gave up on the phone and I ended up getting her a Samsung Blaze which has been fantastic. Now I have to fix this phone and sell it or use it myself, but I don't know what to do. Any ideas or detailed instructions? I'm tired of searching for help on this issue, was about to make a new thread about this when I saw your thread.

Stock has good battery life but I actually got the best on EB 2.3.7. Decided I would try an ICS ROM again but it seems they all burn up battery like crazy and there's no way (that I've seen at least) to turn off background data which I've noticed is the biggest culprit as it drains the battery fairly quickly when the phone is idle.

This ROM by BuROM is really good. It's only slightly modded Stock and gets great battery life because of that.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661610
Another problem may be that you are using different services on the stock kernel. If the battery is draining really fast when there is a network connection then something is probably constantly on the network. I always (meaning sometimes) test ROMs on airplane mode overnight, on WiFi only and on 4G only just to see what their drain times are. The stock kernel is pretty good but the newer CM7 kernels are fine too. I only get about a 1 hour difference after 2 days on a ROM. For some ROMS the first day is horrible as the software is doing all sorts of things. After about 2-3 resets and as many fix permissions it usually settles down into a similar battery drain to the stock kernel.
@Kingfanpaul: If that G2X drains the battery with only BuROM installed and gapps (without any other apps) then it's a hardware problem. I'd NVflash stock, check APN settings and then run it for a day to see what happens.

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I was always having the problem of when I would turn my device off for the night when I turned it on in the morning I would have lost anywhere between 15% and 40% of my battery. The easiest solution (only if I remembered to) was to pull the battery every night after I turned the device off, if I remembered. Well this was an annoyance for both having the battery drain if I forgot and to have to remove the batter every night and then put it back in every morning. I know it seems like I am just complaining with that last statement but I just like to have a phone that just works.
Now, back to the problem. I was always running either a port of MIUI or a CyanogenMod Stable release with both 'stock' kernels or one of faux's for CyanogenMod or morfic's for MIUI (as they got along better for some odd reason). Well, no matter the combination of kernel type (OC, UV, or Stock) I always had the battery drain problem and stability issues (depending). Then when the new baseband was released I installed it after I found out that the CyanogenMod RC3 supported the new baseband to see if that would fix the problem, just it still didn't work even with different kernels.
I was starting to get fed up with these issues so I decided to try one last thing: I used the LG support tool and went back to completely stock! I did root it with SuperOneClick though so I could use all the apps that I was using before (Titanium Backup to restore all of them). I have been running my phone like this for two weeks now and have never once had the battery drain problem. And what is even better is I am getting an average of 40 hours of use out of one charge in and out of WiFi with WiFi calling and 4G when not on WiFi (mind you I am not a really heavy user). I hope this helps!
Well, I know this is a long post but I figured some back story would be good for those to see if you have had the same issues to be able to see if this solution could work for you too. Please click Thanks if this helped you.
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I have the EXACT same problem. I've already gone through 5 different batteries but still cant manage to get my G2x to last more than 8 hours and thats best case scenario with VERY lite use. Your post is making me think it's these custom roms. Going to try stock 2.3.4 and hopefully I get the same result as you.

airnique23 said:
I have the EXACT same problem. I've already gone through 5 different batteries but still cant manage to get my G2x to last more than 8 hours and thats best case scenario with VERY lite use. Your post is making me think it's these custom roms. Going to try stock 2.3.4 and hopefully I get the same result as you.
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What is your screen on time? I'm on latest stock CM7 with stock CM kernel and I get 2+ of screen on time easily with a 1year+ old battery. Battery depends on how you use your phone too. mAh and kernel can only do so much.
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Something odd that I have noticed is that while my phone has more consistent battery life, some of the issues that I have had with this phone are due to a bad device. My phone tends to go crazy every so often and just burn through the battery to the point of over heating. From what I can tell this is just a problem at the hardware level with my device, so while sometimes going to back to stock does help the battery if it keeps up it may be more than just the ROM.

Try to turn mobile data off / wifi off ? I have similar problem with battery drain... Right now, at deep sleep the phone sometimes works as expected : 4-7mAh, but sometimes it drains way higher : 20-50mAh.

Not sure my on screen time. I know its definitely less than an hour. I'm averaging about 5 to 6 hours of use. About 20% drain per hour on light/medium use and 10% a hour when idle.
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I used to have this issue on my old g2x even on stock roms and it seemed hopeless no matter what I did it came back. Then that phone got run over by a car. The one I have now doesn't have this issue at all on any rom or kernel....well.. almost. Some kernels are sorta battery hungry, but nothing like what I had before.

So you think it just may be a hardware issue? Bad phone?
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I guess it's possible. Have you tried a new battery?
Edit: o. I see lol
The things I tried were the nullifier and the other wipe tool who's name escapes me... nvflash based. By mansa_noob. And the day it got ran over I had flashed buru's rom and I was hoping that took care of it but I didn't get the chance to find out.