Battery dying fast - Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)

Im on Fb version of VB and its amazing. Only problem dies so fast, 6hrs and a full charge is gone. Any suggestions on how to fun this??
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It's because it utilizes Bryan's SMS KJ6 RC3 kernel. It's a known "issue" with that kernel. A couple of previous versions of that kernel had a random reboot issue. Unfortunately the "fix" (doesn't really fix the crux of the issue per Bryan but rather prevents the issue from occurring) causes the battery drain.

Iirc, it's not rc 3 that drains the battery.. That was 0.2.0 - rc3 still has potential reboots.
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You are correct, sir. My bad
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Oh okay. Well thanks for the quick reply. But I think ima go back to icbinb.
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lilsk8ernick said:
Oh okay. Well thanks for the quick reply. But I think ima go back to icbinb.
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Unless you use BLN, I'd say going back to icbinb is probably a good idea for stability and great battery life.

It sounds more like something else is going on. I'm on FB's build also, w/ the same modem and kernel but my battery lasts just fine. So it isn't the rom or the kernel.
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P06o said:
It sounds more like something else is going on. I'm on FB's build also, w/ the same modem and kernel but my battery lasts just fine. So it isn't the rom or the kernel.
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Also try fix permissions in recovery.
Yup. Working on it. It's a pita...
(rather... there are some kernel issues, and some rom issues.)

Ok, so it's the rom and the kernel. I stand corrected
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Battery life on CM7

How is it? I'm on BAMF 1.7 now.
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I got 30 hours this weekend on the extended battery. Running cm7.1 RC 0.6.
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Kernel and radio?
aBolt said:
I got 30 hours this weekend on the extended battery. Running cm7.1 RC 0.6.
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I averaged about the same on cm7 as the last guy stated with an extended battery. I used the stock shipped radio with imo's kernel.
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I get anywhere from ~17-25 hours depending on what I'm doing. I did get 36 hours several weeks ago right when it RC0.6 was released.
Stock battery, stock radio, imo's kernel.
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Kernel and radio?
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2.6.35.13 kernel from Slayher. And the most recent froyo approved radio. Sorry the name/number of it escapes me right now. I know a lot of people really like Imo's kernels and I've used them in past. But for now this is my set up.
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aBolt said:
2.6.35.13 kernel from Slayher. And the most recent froyo approved radio. Sorry the name/number of it escapes me right now. I know a lot of people really like Imo's kernels and I've used them in past. But for now this is my set up.
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Don't fix what isn't broken right? Slayer's Kernal works just fine.
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15-20 hours stock battery with dream kernel
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Radio 0422r or 0223r (officially released froyo radios).
CM7 0.6 is much better than the previous pre-alpha versions. I'm very happy.
I can get up to 30 hours if I'm just doing regular use a few phone calls or texts. It's hard to tell though because I have it connected almost everywhere I go. Work, car, home. the couple of times I haven't had it on a charger for a while it's lasted a day and a half or so with extended battery
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Don't fix what isn't broken right? Slayer's Kernal works just fine.
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Exactly my thought as well. I may try one of those ultra lean kernels eventually but last time I tried that wifi stopped working. I should note that I live and work in bfe Indiana and my phone fights tooth and nail for a signal all day long which I'm sure further hurts the battery.
The MR2 and MR2.5 were the best by far for my reception but cm7.1 doesn't use them currently. So for the time being I usually spend 50-75% of my time searching for a signal. Wifi at home helps this out but still. The MR radios were more likely to be in the circa 50% area of time spent looking for a signal.
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The V6 Supercharger

The first post alone in that thread is huge and yes I've read it. I'm just curious if anyone has tried it on their Infuse and it worked for them and if they would recommend it to others. Or any other input basically.
[SAMSUNG-SGH-I997R XDA Pre~App, Infused 2.0.2]
Its worked for me, after some testing, i found that dynamicRAM's tweaks felt a little better to me. I also have the auto memory optimizer that my friend loaded for me to tweak the min free values.
Using it as is. No problems.
Is there any way to back out this script? I just tried this script and found that my 4G indicator is gone. I have Zeus 5.2 ROM. If there any way to get my 4G back, please advise.
Thanks!
Ummm...theres no 4g icon in Zeus... I didn't put one in
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Ummm...theres no 4g icon in Zeus... I didn't put one in
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That is strange. I flash this ICS theme after your ROM. Is this from you?
ICS_THEME__Revamped_Fix2
I think I see it showed 4G Lite...something like this.
I put it in for a day, and took it back out...
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dman3285 said:
I put it in for a day, and took it back out...
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Well, I flashed again this theme and my 4G Lite come back. It looks like my battery got better after applied this script. It discharged only 1% every 2 hrs. Before is 1% every 1hr on standby. Hmmm...I read the OP and it doesn't say anything about better battery.
Still, I would like to know how to back out this script...just in case. Re-flash the ROM will do?

Could use some suggestions.

I've used every rom on XDA and they're all great in their own way. I'm currently running the latest miui by whitehawkx. At first it was great but now I'm getting slow down and random loss of signal that only returns with a restart. I also have problems with the screen not turning back on properly. I press the lock button and the screen will light up like its about to turn on or it will flash the lockscreen for a second then go blank. Only fix is to relock then unlock again, quite a pain.
I'm looking for a daily rom that will get me at least 9 hours of battery life, is fast and responsive. Like I said, I've used all of the roms here but I don't want to go through the hassle of setting everything up for each rom and testing for multiple days to make a choice. Personal choices are welcome but please say why you like it.
On a side note, does anyone know why updates have pretty much stopped for all the roms our phone can use?
Thank you!
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wgrant said:
I've used every rom on XDA and they're all great in their own way. I'm currently running the latest miui by whitehawkx. At first it was great but now I'm getting slow down and random loss of signal that only returns with a restart. I also have problems with the screen not turning back on properly. I press the lock button and the screen will light up like its about to turn on or it will flash the lockscreen for a second then go blank. Only fix is to relock then unlock again, quite a pain.
I'm looking for a daily rom that will get me at least 9 hours of battery life, is fast and responsive. Like I said, I've used all of the roms here but I don't want to go through the hassle of setting everything up for each rom and testing for multiple days to make a choice. Personal choices are welcome but please say why you like it.
On a side note, does anyone know why updates have pretty much stopped for all the roms our phone can use?
Thank you!
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Try Weapon 3. I have been using it for a few weeks without any problems. Better battery life is accomplished with turning off GPS, Bluetooth and data when you're not using them. As well, don't run unnecessary apps and don't overclock.
Core Memory said:
Try Weapon 3. I have been using it for a few weeks without any problems. Better battery life is accomplished with turning off GPS, Bluetooth and data when you're not using them. As well, don't run unnecessary apps and don't overclock.
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Was actually in the process of downloading weapon. I can't shut data off since I need constant access to my email but otherwise I already do the other things. I've only been able to get about 10 max on my phone regardless of the rom, might have a bad battery.
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wgrant said:
Was actually in the process of downloading weapon. I can't shut data off since I need constant access to my email but otherwise I already do the other things. I've only been able to get about 10 max on my phone regardless of the rom, might have a bad battery.
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I used GiggleBread with Trinity kernel and got over 25 hours as a max. On average I'd be around 16-18 hours with that combo. Try that. And this is with moderate use.
Wtf is gigglebread? If its on xda then I stand corrected in my statement that Ive used all the roms.
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wgrant said:
Wtf is gigglebread? If its on xda then I stand corrected in my statement that Ive used all the roms.
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Haha I think he ment to say GingerLaugh but idk for sure... hmmm
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Wtf is gingerlaugh? Ok now I'm sure my previous statement was wrong....
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wgrant said:
Wtf is gigglebread? If its on xda then I stand corrected in my statement that Ive used all the roms.
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http://rootzwiki.com/topic/6291-gig...-a-cylon-device/page__pid__151937#entry151937
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Latest cm7 nightly using faux .45 kernel is a winner, long battery life and stability.
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mackster248 said:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/6291-gig...-a-cylon-device/page__pid__151937#entry151937
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Thanks I saw that but hadn't used it, perhaps its time to give it a whirl.
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Battery draining

Alright so I thought my battery was draining due to the backlight (it would show 40%-60% use), now it's it's doing it from the Android OS. All this happens even when I'm not using the phone and it's never done the Android OS thing before. Any suggestions or ideas on why it's doing it would be greatly appreciated
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What ROM & kernel are you using? Also, someone mentioned the BetterBatteryStats app can show you what, exactly, is using the battery. It's $2.89 in Google Play.
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What ROM & kernel are you using? Also, someone mentioned the BetterBatteryStats app can show you what, exactly, is using the battery. It's $2.89 in Google Play.
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I'm using Erik's SCOM and bhuden's kernel (the new version)
Weird thing now it went to the display being used and I haven't used my phone since I posted this question. It went from 76% to 45% within that time frame
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stephen_w said:
What ROM & kernel are you using? Also, someone mentioned the BetterBatteryStats app can show you what, exactly, is using the battery. It's $2.89 in Google Play.
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Don't get it from google play!!! The app author made it free to xda users.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15869886#post15869886
Zombie138 said:
I'm using Erik's SCOM and bhuden's kernel (the new version)
Weird thing now it went to the display being used and I haven't used my phone since I posted this question. It went from 76% to 45% within that time frame
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Yeah, a few people are seeing the battery drain since installing Bryan's latest kernel. I have that issue, too. Bryan said in his kernel thread that it's beta & right now he's working on stability more so than anything else. I like this kernel as my phone had the random reboot issue. I'm ok with the battery drain trade-off for now. You could fall back to a previous version of the kernel & the battery issue should stop.
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Yeah, a few people are seeing the battery drain since installing Bryan's latest kernel. I have that issue, too. Bryan said in his kernel thread that it's beta & right now he's working on stability more so than anything else. I like this kernel as my phone had the random reboot issue. I'm ok with the battery drain trade-off for now. You could fall back to a previous version of the kernel & the battery issue should stop.
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Yea I haven't had a reboot yet since flashing it. Ugh damn custom stuff lol jk. At least that narrows it down, thank you tho for pointing that out and FB thanks for the link. I guess I'll just deal with it, now that I know where it's coming from
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Try going back to rc3 kernel as it does have bln working and if I read correctly doesn't have the fix that is causing the drain
if you ain't first you're last
erikmm said:
Try going back to rc3 kernel as it does have bln working and if I read correctly doesn't have the fix that is causing the drain
if you ain't first you're last
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I was looking for that one but I didn't find the link
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Zombie138 said:
I was looking for that one but I didn't find the link
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/teamacid/files/kernels/
FBis251 said:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/teamacid/files/kernels/
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Thanks fb
if you ain't first you're last
Thanks FB
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Alright so the rc3 seems to be better on the battery. Thanks guys for the help
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I've been having issues where google services is using 70% +. I've froze the aps in the service calendar sync, network location extra and now is slowly going down in percentage. I'm using valhala final, went from the newest kernel to rc 3 and modems kj6 to kd1, and now ki3.any thoughts?
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I'm down to 45% for google services.. What would be an extension of that service a kernel or modem to make it run so heavy?
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I had severe battery drain when I first put on the unnamed ROM. Seems like a fixall, but I did the Gremlin remover thing and the problem went away.

Hotweiss' Radio mod

I was very skeptical as to how much this would work but damn, my net browsing flies now!
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What exactly is this power?
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Apex_Strider said:
What exactly is this power?
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Not even sure but its an option in the spare parts app, says it may increase wifi/data speed.....cant confirm data just yet but it surely increased wifi speed!
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Not even sure but its an option in the spare parts app, says it may increase wifi/data speed.....cant confirm data just yet but it surely increased wifi speed!
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what rom are you on? Spare parts never seems to wok in scv6.
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what rom are you on? Spare parts never seems to wok in scv6.
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Im on scv6....the phone and contacts mod didnt seem to work but i dug deeper and found this radio mod and its a noticeable difference indeed!
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Checking it out now...I haven't noticed much of a difference. Hardly any of the other settings in the first menu of Spare Parts on SCv6 work, the regular Spare parts stuff works as normal. I've been playing around with it since installing SCv6, I got excited with all of the options in there but the excitement died when I could get almost nothing to work.
This sounds cool, but surely there is a catch if it randomly improves speeds so dramatically, right? Does it shorten the lifespan of your phone or something (lol)? And what exactly does it modify to achieve this speed boost?
My downloads are faster, net based apps like xda, engadget and sac bee load up faster, even gmail loads and syncs faster. This is how it should be!
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I tried it......seems to speed up both wifi and 4g connections. Not sure on battery life tho.....only did it yesterday. Thanks for the heads up.
I'm on SCv6
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Can the "spare parts" be pulled/pushed from one rom to another?
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Can the "spare parts" be pulled/pushed from one rom to another?
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No idea. But if you can, make sure to enable this radio mod!
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I would like to know where I can get this. There's a lot of talk of how great it is, but no talk of where to get it. I know there is a spare parts app on the store.
Or is this something that is a mod on the ROM you're using?
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I would like to know where I can get this. There's a lot of talk of how great it is, but no talk of where to get it. I know there is a spare parts app on the store.
Or is this something that is a mod on the ROM you're using?
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Yeah, its included in the scv6 rom
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Spare parts doesn't really work right most of the time with our phone. It is in a few roms, but most options don't work.
Can someone upload screenshots?
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Here is a screenshot for you. It's in the Miscellaneous Options on Spare Parts in Scv6 rom.
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I need to figure out how to use the netspeed and ram tweaks in Bullet (I think that's the one) into other roms. I travel a lot for work, and noticed on Bullet I had better radio connectivity. Maybe some porting since its coming from the Indian based rom? Hmm...
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Here is a screenshot for you. It's in the Miscellaneous Options on Spare Parts in Scv6 rom.
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Took the .apk and incorporated into another. Hit 10520kbps without Hotweiss' Radio mod, and after enabling the mod I hit 106960kbps on data speed test. So far, so good... I'll keep playing with it, but seems to be a winner as far as I can tell!
I've noticed some minor improvement, but I seem to have a less reliable connection.
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