Is this good battery life??? - Verizon Droid Charge

This was my battery life today... I downloaded a 1.4G movie on this life today. And watched two episodes of burn notice... is this good for our stock battery....?
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stebomurkn420 said:
This was my battery life today... I downloaded a 1.4G movie on this life today. And watched two episodes of burn notice... is this good for our stock battery....?
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...and what was this battery life then?

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...and what was this battery life then?
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My screen capture photo isn't loading for some reason.. gonna try to repost...
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This jpeg has the incorrect file extension...? What should I do to get my phone to stop saying this when I try to uploaded an image on here...?
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stebomurkn420 said:
This jpeg has the incorrect file extension...? What should I do to get my phone to stop saying this when I try to uploaded an image on here...?
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Upload the picture (screen shot) to picsa with your google account and Upload via XDA thru your Chrome browser on your computer.

jager420 said:
Upload the picture (screen shot) to picsa with your google account and Upload via XDA thru your Chrome browser on your computer.
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Well yes I could do that... but I was uploading screen captures before straight from my phone no problem... I want that again!!!! Haha... thank you very much for your feedback though jager420...
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If you're using ShootMe there's an option to change your screencaps to save as jpg
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JihadSquad said:
...and what was this battery life then?
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Its not bad, but it could be better. It looks like u lose signal a few times throughout the day. The phone searchin for signal will def drain ur battery. That was really the only thing i noticed. Looks like ur awake time and screen on time r pretty dead on (better than mine) so ur peob not havin wakelock problems. Do u use the facebook app? It is a huge battery hog.
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cnoevl21 said:
Its not bad, but it could be better. It looks like u lose signal a few times throughout the day. The phone searchin for signal will def drain ur battery. That was really the only thing i noticed. Looks like ur awake time and screen on time r pretty dead on (better than mine) so ur peob not havin wakelock problems. Do u use the facebook app? It is a huge battery hog.
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Yea I use the fb app... maybe I should start using the browser..? I would say I'm a pretty heavy user thanks for the pointers any other advice is greatly appreciated...
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I like the Friendcaster app for Facebook. It does everything the official app does and it's a lot more resource-lean. It's also easier to use, IMO.

I use the mobile sites for fb and twitter n it def saves on batt life. I also turn off google location (only turn it on wen i need navigation). And also lower the brightness of ur display to abt 20% or so
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shrike1978 said:
I like the Friendcaster app for Facebook. It does everything the official app does and it's a lot more resource-lean. It's also easier to use, IMO.
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Friendcaster is less of a hog, but still a hog none the less. Mobile site looks exactly like the app, but only runs wen its open instead of 24/7
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cnoevl21 said:
Friendcaster is less of a hog, but still a hog none the less. Mobile site looks exactly like the app, but only runs wen its open instead of 24/7
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Also runs a ton faster.

Properly configured, Friendcaster uses C2DM for notifications which is already running anyway, so there's nothing extra polling in the background.
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cnoevl21 said:
Friendcaster is less of a hog, but still a hog none the less. Mobile site looks exactly like the app, but only runs wen its open instead of 24/7
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I've got notifications disabled with Friendcaster and it uses 1mb of RAM when it runs in the background. The upside is that I have the option of "sharing" with my other apps.
I'm one of those annoying people who always posts pics of their kids and articles that no one else likes to read, so having this option is important to me.

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Personal battery life record

Just passed 48 hrs on single charge. Zeus rom, Infusion kernel, new B1 modem. Fixed wakelocks with Better Battery Stats.
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seano666 said:
Just passed 48 hrs on single charge. Zeus rom, Infusion kernel, new B1 modem. Fixed wakelocks with Better Battery Stats.
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Qkster! Post your pic.. That's not even close to the best.. Just wait til you see that one.. But PR congrats.
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Erik_T said:
Qkster! Post your pic.. That's not even close to the best.. Just wait til you see that one.. But PR congrats.
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lol..no, Sean has me beat, Erik.
How you do that? Perhaps It's no record but it's good...
Some questions I have:
Did you use data?
It's true that using an app killer so often, it's no good for battery b/c, of the open and closing of apps...?
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ntorresla said:
It's true that using an app killer so often, it's no good for battery b/c, of the open and closing of apps...?
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No. That is not true. BUT you are right. Task killers like ATK and others do nothing for battery. All that they do is screw up the way that gb handles your ram. Do not use. Period. They DO NOT help you.
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Thanks! That's the opinion I wanted to hear..
But how yu can get the crazy battery life?
I use ki3 modem (mi 2g and 3g data are slow here) with entropy kernel, and almighty Zeus rom
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Erik_T said:
No. That is not true. BUT you are right. Task killers like ATK and others do nothing for battery. All that they do is screw up the way that gb handles your ram. Do not use. Period. They DO NOT help you.
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+1 I never use aftermarket task killers, the built in one is way better. I have a shortcut on the home screen that I use often. Usually I kill all tasks and clean RAM when shutting off the phone (If I have been using apps). Yes I use Data and Wifi. Over half of the time on the screenshot was with both on. The new modem has made a pretty good difference as far as I can tell. Some of them are really bad on battery, I've noticed L2 is one of the worst. Probably the biggest factor is uninstalling a few apps that were keeping my phone from going into deep sleep. An Alarm app was the worst culprit, and a couple of others with automatic notifications that I disabled. I hate automatic notifications.

Battery life draining fast

I have no idea how to fix this. I've tried three roms eaglssblood ice singhui and Hellfire Phoenix. I installed Trinity on Phoenix yet it is still draining battery. Why?
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Try calibrating your battery.
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There is a rogue app in your drawer. download watchlist app, it will keep track on other apps which are hogging your system.
Battery calibration won't and doesn't do anything useful... its more then likely an app or something running constantly. What's your screen on times? Post a screenshot of your battery usage.
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Get the app BetterBatteryStats.
Use it to check partial wakelocks.
It will change your life.
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I'm on 2.3.4 with practically all the bloat and more removed, holy hell battery is terrible for me... if testing to find rouge apps doesn't work I'm gonna factory reset and just not install any thing. Today I didn't hardly use my phone (no work) sat around on the computer, paid some bills watched some movies and TV, sent two text messages and read 3 emails battery was at 65% after 3 ½ hours... 3 of which was idle time and screen off. Never had it so bad before.
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mt3g said:
I'm on 2.3.4 with practically all the bloat and more removed, holy hell battery is terrible for me... if testing to find rouge apps doesn't work I'm gonna factory reset and just not install any thing. Today I didn't hardly use my phone (no work) sat around on the computer, paid some bills watched some movies and TV, sent two text messages and read 3 emails battery was at 65% after 3 ½ hours... 3 of which was idle time and screen off. Never had it so bad before.
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Look for odmaclientprovider.apk or something like that name wise in system/app and freeze it or delete it. Its lgs ota update app and its always running in the background.
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kwes1020 said:
Look for odmaclientprovider.apk or something like that name wise in system/app and freeze it or delete it. Its lgs ota update app and its always running in the background.
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Alright deleted it, will report tomorrow, phone is fully charged now so I will unplug it, and let it sit over night on 4g and report back tomorrow.
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mt3g said:
I'm on 2.3.4 with practically all the bloat and more removed, holy hell battery is terrible for me... if testing to find rouge apps doesn't work I'm gonna factory reset and just not install any thing. Today I didn't hardly use my phone (no work) sat around on the computer, paid some bills watched some movies and TV, sent two text messages and read 3 emails battery was at 65% after 3 ½ hours... 3 of which was idle time and screen off. Never had it so bad before.
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and i thought it was just me...
kwes1020 said:
Look for odmaclientprovider.apk or something like that name wise in system/app and freeze it or delete it. Its lgs ota update app and its always running in the background.
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gonna give this a shot
lowrider262 said:
and i thought it was just me...
gonna give this a shot
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Same here. Hopefully this will help but will also dig deeper
Lost 20% in 7 hours, much better!!!! Thanks kwes
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mt3g said:
Lost 20% in 7 hours, much better!!!! Thanks kwes
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Anytime. That's usually the first thing I do when I install a rom based on lg stock. That app runs constantly eating data and ram. You will usually gain almost 1mb of open ram by just deleting it.
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Ya I knew there was something I was missing, considering my average use on most 2.3.3 roms would be at least 16-20 hours, I was barely getting 10-11 hours after the update. So thanks again!
mt3g said:
Ya I knew there was something I was missing, considering my average use on most 2.3.3 roms would be at least 16-20 hours, I was barely getting 10-11 hours after the update. So thanks again!
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On what type of usage? I can hardly get more than 8 hrs on medium usage .
What the hell is qem_warlock .it's been on my kernel warlock since I unplugged.
I pretty much don't play games and don't stream music or anything like large data usage. I call text browse and read articles and such, XDA and Facebook is about it for other usage though, light in most eyes, and I under-clock the phone to 700's usually.
mt3g said:
I pretty much don't play games and don't stream music or anything like large data usage. I call text browse and read articles and such, XDA and Facebook is about it for other usage though, light in most eyes, and I under-clock the phone to 700's usually.
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Not to say anyone wont do it, but that's a hard thing to do, 700 underclock Most Oc of to 1.4 lol.
Funny though at 700 it probably runs just as fast as default 1ghz speed.
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As far as these phone have come battery are a step behind,more on dual core phones.Although if battery is such a big deal and you absolutely need it just buy extra battery and chargeable adapter,problem solved
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daxecutioner24 said:
Not to say anyone wont do it, but that's a hard thing to do, 700 underclock Most Oc of to 1.4 lol.
Funny though at 700 it probably runs just as fast as default 1ghz speed.
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Ya I agree, the phone at 600ish on stock kernel runs just fine for texting and calls and checking Facebook... usually what I run when I'm out at bars with my friends cause it usually ends up being a weekend without my charger, I've over clocked the phone maybe twice, no point in my eyes lol.
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daxecutioner24 said:
Not to say anyone wont do it, but that's a hard thing to do, 700 underclock Most Oc of to 1.4 lol.
Funny though at 700 it probably runs just as fast as default 1ghz speed.
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When underclocked to 750 or below 1 processor is not running and vice versa
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kwes1020 said:
Look for odmaclientprovider.apk or something like that name wise in system/app and freeze it or delete it. Its lgs ota update app and its always running in the background.
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i can confirm this helped battery life, thanks! also if any of you still have telenav on the 2.3.4 update, getting rid of that helped me out too

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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916x10 said:
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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Apex_Strider said:
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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DusThis said:
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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Boxer and battery life....

Does anyone use the walkie-talkie app voxer? I am seeing it killing my battery on 2.3.4 android. I read thy fixed the app so it doesn't drain battery but on my Evo and wife's shift, I see it show up in the battery monitor with high usage. Any comments would be appreciated.
thanks ...
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Try tikl instead, me and the fiancee use it constantly with zero issues
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SammyM00782 said:
Try tikl instead, me and the fiancee use it constantly with zero issues
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Well some of us don't know many reasonable woman, you would think or hope it would be as easy as just using another app, unfortunately it's not always easy to talk some woman into doing things, even something as simple as installing an extra app to talk to you, no the guy has to just live with the fact the stupid app she uses to talk to everyone for some reason hates specific phones and uses 10% battery per hour even when it is supposed to be idle/sleep.

Fixed my battery drain

Uninstalled Gallery and installed Quickpics.
For some unknown reason, Gallery has started to work uncontrollably and use the battery up in less than six hours making my phone a portable pocket heater. Using titanium backup I uninstalled Gallery and the problem went away. Now I get normal battery life.
Quickpics is now my picture viewer of choice.
On Tweaked 3.0
alan310 said:
Uninstalled Gallery and installed Quickpics.
For some unknown reason, Gallery has started to work uncontrollably and use the battery up in less than six hours making my phone a portable pocket heater. Using titanium backup I uninstalled Gallery and the problem went away. Now I get normal battery life.
Quickpics is now my picture viewer of choice.
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interesting. did you have your picasa web album synced? if so, then that could cause the gallery app to drain a little faster, as this app references your pics on picasa.
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interesting. did you have your picasa web album synced? if so, then that could cause the gallery app to drain a little faster, as this app references your pics on picasa.
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Nope. I am happy with my battery life now. It took me awhile to narrow down which application ran wild, but it is Gallery for my phone.
This is interesting, I wouldn't expect the change to matter unless something was syncing.
Cool
COOL :good:
for a while..
always glad to see a new problem and fix posted as the same time lol. i found the gallery app too buggy ages ago and have been using quickpics instead for some time, good app
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always glad to see a new problem and fix posted as the same time lol. i found the gallery app too buggy ages ago and have been using quickpics instead for some time, good app
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Thanks for the heads up on the app...
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Curious to know how you figured out it was a particular application? My battery drains 10% in < 1hr and phone feels like a pocket heater as well.
thanks
scuba_bald said:
Curious to know how you figured out it was a particular application? My battery drains 10% in < 1hr and phone feels like a pocket heater as well.
thanks
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Use BetterBatteryStats, it's free on XDA.
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kvswim said:
Use BetterBatteryStats, it's free on XDA.
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What version are you using? 1.12RC7 on XDA makes my Charge unstable using Tweaked 3.2 and stock kernel.
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What version are you using? 1.12RC7 on XDA makes my Charge unstable using Tweaked 3.2 and stock kernel.
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I'm on 1.12RC6
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I'm on 1.12RC6
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Do you enable the root features?
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Rich
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rholm said:
Do you enable the root features?
Cheers,
Rich
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Yes.
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Use BetterBatteryStats, it's free on XDA.
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Nice!
Link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15869886&postcount=2

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