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[REQUEST] Rom with optimized battery life.

So I have seen a few roms released in the last week, but I keep thinking to myself "When will there be a rom that's targeted to optimize battery?" If one of the awesome devs could come up with something that does just this that would be amazing.
TIA.

desairs said:
So I have seen a few roms released in the last week, but I keep thinking to myself "When will there be a rom that's targeted to optimize battery?" If one of the awesome devs could come up with something that does just this that would be amazing.
TIA.
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get busy !!! i get 19 + hours per charge on heavy usage im very happy

Sporkman said:
get busy !!! i get 19 + hours per charge on heavy usage im very happy
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HOW?!?! I get a max of 12 to 13 on heavy usage.

If anyone does do this, I find that I get great battery life now after trying the CDMA/GSM fix (cant find the link).
Might wanna be something to look into for future ROMs. (From what I remember, the glitch shows the phone as looking for GSM networks while it's connected to a CDMA network. I followed the instructions to correct this and it's had a positive impact on my battery life. Getting near double the life now).

You guys are on 3G aren't you? I don't even get 2 hours on 4G with medium heavy usage.

ogwilson said:
If anyone does do this, I find that I get great battery life now after trying the CDMA/GSM fix (cant find the link).
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Right here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651848&highlight=tws&page=2
Waiting to see if it makes a difference, though.

8-14 on moderate use to heavy is all you are going to be getting. I doubt you'll see a rom aimed only at battery life. Find a rom with sense removed (there are a few of them) or asop and further remove junk you don't use especially the social network **** and enjoy.

If anyone does do this, I find that I get great battery life now after trying the CDMA/GSM fix (cant find the link).
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Right here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651848&highlight=tws&page=2
Waiting to see if it makes a difference, though.
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Nice
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Using Froyo and the OC Widget (With recommended settings)
3g
WiFi
No GPS
Disabled data roaming
Low brightness
Moderate usage
I'm at 20 hours with 32% battery left.
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ogwilson said:
If anyone does do this, I find that I get great battery life now after trying the CDMA/GSM fix (cant find the link).
Might wanna be something to look into for future ROMs. (From what I remember, the glitch shows the phone as looking for GSM networks while it's connected to a CDMA network. I followed the instructions to correct this and it's had a positive impact on my battery life. Getting near double the life now).
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Are you referring to this thread?
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=124758
You really don't even need an app from the market like the guy suggests in that thread. If you just dial *#*#INFO#*#*, then go to Phone Information, then scroll down to 'Set preferred network type' and select CDMA auto (prl) from the list.

TREYisRAD said:
Using Froyo and the OC Widget (With recommended settings)
3g
WiFi
No GPS
Disabled data roaming
Low brightness
Moderate usage
I'm at 20 hours with 32% battery left.
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what software is that use to show the CPU and Battery usage.
Thanks

Actually that CDMA/GSM fix, can it be applied through a rom? I'm pretty sure that's a built in phone setting where you have to dial through the keypad. Regardless, think of it this way. Processors and memory run off of voltage. The more it's in use the more power it will take. Now undervolting and underclocking the CPU is an obvious fix but also the memkiller settings. The more memory that is in use the more power is being taken up. This is why AOSP has better battery life than Sense under the same circumstances. With a more aggressive memkiller you can further increase battery life. I am going to build aggressive settings in my next release of my rom but for custom settings you can always get Autokill from the Market, assuming your phone is rooted of course.

I'm getting FANTASTIC battery life on the latest Fresh ROM.
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TREYisRAD said:
Using Froyo and the OC Widget (With recommended settings)
3g
WiFi
No GPS
Disabled data roaming
Low brightness
Moderate usage
I'm at 20 hours with 32% battery left.
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I keep hearing about the OC widget, but cant find it in the market? Are you talking about SetCPU and the widget that comes with that??

frettfreak said:
I keep hearing about the OC widget, but cant find it in the market? Are you talking about SetCPU and the widget that comes with that??
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http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.freecoder.widgets.overclock
Haven't tried setCPU, though it does look nicer.
And SystemPanel, which is excellent.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/nextapp.systempanel

Has setcpu been updated with native evo support, or are people still rocking N1 settings?

You get OC Widget by searching "overclock widget" in the Market. However, I don't see the need for it since the EVO automatically scales the CPU clock, and we can't overclock.

TREYisRAD said:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.freecoder.widgets.overclock
Haven't tried setCPU, though it does look nicer.
And SystemPanel, which is excellent.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/nextapp.systempanel
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THANK YOU!!
TheBiles said:
You get OC Widget by searching "overclock widget" in the Market. However, I don't see the need for it since the EVO automatically scales the CPU clock, and we can't overclock.
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I guess i should have tried spelling out overclock instead of OC (DUH).. lol, and i have heard that, and have no doubt that it is true, but some people are claiming it has given them some improvement in battery life... Maybe its just a placebo effect, but i am gonna run a few tests and see what i can come up with....
I read a post on another forum from a guy that sounded like he REALLY knew what he was talking about and said the same thing you did but with some pretty big words and tech talk to back it up. But hey.. its free, and i like trying new stuff... even if its so i can see it for myself that it doesnt do anything.

Am I the only one that realizes overclock widget and setcpu don't work on our phones? I have tried both on 3 different ROMs and checked through a adb shell the cpu usage while the phone was asleep and neither one works no matter what I set the programs to.

Awesome, I've officially made it >24 hours on a single charge! (Though I did plug it into my laptop for 3 minutes to transfer some stuff)
Started the monitor with a little less than 90%, and now I'm at 8%
http://imgur.com/0wsm9.png
Using the GPS for 15 minutes drained it the most, compared to other apps.

Any tips for saving battery in bad signal area?

I know this is normal but it seems like its the worst with my thunderbolt. If I'm in a bad signal area, my battery just tanks. Worst then any other smartphone I've ever had. I'm running CM7, but I'm pretty sure it did the same when I was stock. I know I could technically go into airplane mode but I don't want to do that. Does turning off data help at all? I don't have any sync turned on so I don't think anything is trying to connect that can't but I'm not sure. Any hints or suggestions?

when I'm home I constantly have X cause I'm in my basement. I just have the Toggle switch set to 3g since 4g isn't available.
Go into this and whats your biggest drain? (i keep display at 50% 100% of the time)
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Right but doesn't your phone still search for signal then?
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tu3218 said:
I know this is normal but it seems like its the worst with my thunderbolt. If I'm in a bad signal area, my battery just tanks. Worst then any other smartphone I've ever had. I'm running CM7, but I'm pretty sure it did the same when I was stock. I know I could technically go into airplane mode but I don't want to do that. Does turning off data help at all? I don't have any sync turned on so I don't think anything is trying to connect that can't but I'm not sure. Any hints or suggestions?
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Well IMHO, one of your biggest issues is that you're using CM7 in the first place. I know plenty of people have great battery life with it etc. etc., but I'm with you on this one. I work in a restaurant 14 hours a day with horrible cell phone reception cause the building is just all concrete. My phone just diesssss, but when I check into my battery life, its all ass backwards.
Take scoobarSTI's picture, and look at your battery info. You'll see that Display for you is probably taking up 5% of your battery life. 5 F-ING percent. While android system, cell standby, and cell idle take up an estimated combined 70% or so. It's just something with CM7 i guess. Hes using a sense based rom. For right now, CM7 clearly still has is quirks, but for great battery life with bad reception, CM7 just ain't gonna cut it.
I did help myself just a teeny bit, and that was by setting profiles in SetCPU. It gave me maybe an hour extra a day to my battery life.

tu3218 said:
Right but doesn't your phone still search for signal then?
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lol I dunno. I know pretty much the whole time I'm in my room I have n X for service. Been here all day because with heat index it was like 108 today.
I'm running Gingeritis 1.2 it's a different GB build then the leaked version out now.
I was running cm7 and loved it, but wanted to try this new GB build out and I'm loving it.

xebryus said:
Well IMHO, one of your biggest issues is that you're using CM7 in the first place. I know plenty of people have great battery life with it etc. etc., but I'm with you on this one. I work in a restaurant 14 hours a day with horrible cell phone reception cause the building is just all concrete. My phone just diesssss, but when I check into my battery life, its all ass backwards.
Take scoobarSTI's picture, and look at your battery info. You'll see that Display for you is probably taking up 5% of your battery life. 5 F-ING percent. While android system, cell standby, and cell idle take up an estimated combined 70% or so. It's just something with CM7 i guess. Hes using a sense based rom. For right now, CM7 clearly still has is quirks, but for great battery life with bad reception, CM7 just ain't gonna cut it.
I did help myself just a teeny bit, and that was by setting profiles in SetCPU. It gave me maybe an hour extra a day to my battery life.
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Weird thing is, is that if I'm in decent to good signal I get awesome battery life. So for me its not like I always get bad battery life, just wanted to know if there was any tips to help with this.

xebryus said:
Well IMHO, one of your biggest issues is that you're using CM7 in the first place. I know plenty of people have great battery life with it etc. etc., but I'm with you on this one. I work in a restaurant 14 hours a day with horrible cell phone reception cause the building is just all concrete. My phone just diesssss, but when I check into my battery life, its all ass backwards.
Take scoobarSTI's picture, and look at your battery info. You'll see that Display for you is probably taking up 5% of your battery life. 5 F-ING percent. While android system, cell standby, and cell idle take up an estimated combined 70% or so. It's just something with CM7 i guess. Hes using a sense based rom. For right now, CM7 clearly still has is quirks, but for great battery life with bad reception, CM7 just ain't gonna cut it.
I did help myself just a teeny bit, and that was by setting profiles in SetCPU. It gave me maybe an hour extra a day to my battery life.
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Cell standby is reported incorrectly on cm7 btw just something to note
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tu3218 said:
Weird thing is, is that if I'm in decent to good signal I get awesome battery life. So for me its not like I always get bad battery life, just wanted to know if there was any tips to help with this.
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try this app and see if it helps. Your phone may be searching for signal but I know finding 4g signal kills its quick.
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.andirc.lteonfoff&feature=search_result

automatically connect to wifi "if" the place you are at has it.
get extended battery
try another rom
thats about all i can suggest. good luck!

ScoobarSTI said:
try this app and see if it helps. Your phone may be searching for signal but I know finding 4g signal kills its quick.
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.andirc.lteonfoff&feature=search_result
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Bad idea to use that if on an AOSP rom
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joshnichols189 said:
Bad idea to use that if on an AOSP rom
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Not arguing, just wonder how come? It worked fine for me on Cm7

ScoobarSTI said:
Not arguing, just wonder how come? It worked fine for me on Cm7
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All that app does is do the same thing as hitting #*#*4636*#*# on your dial pad. Take you to a "testing" menu and hit "Phone Information". On sense roms, you'll have "CDMA Auto/LTE" (or something like that) selected under "Set Preferred network type". On the AOSP roms, we have it selected as "Unknown". If you switch out of "Unknown", i'm pretty sure, you can't reselect it, which means no 4g. We have the equivalent to this in our network setting menu.
I just never found much of a difference in toggling between 3g and 4g in AOSP anyhows

ScoobarSTI said:
Not arguing, just wonder how come? It worked fine for me on Cm7
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Not positive why, but Slayher used to tweet that it could bork your data to the point you would have to reflash the rom
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Well today I went with just toggling data off and it seemed to have helped with my battery life. Not sure if I just got lucky and had a good day at work or what. It happens every once in awhile but hopefully that works for now on.

Switch your phone to CDMA auto (PRL) to disable the LTE radio at least, otherwise all you can really do is put it in airplane mode. IMO signal loss is the number one problem with battery life on the TB, especially if you don't have a 4g signal.
Depending on the rom you're using, there may be a shortcut in settings, otherwise dial *#*#4636#*#* to get to the radio options.

Better battery life, need testers

DO NOT USE IF YOU HAVE AN EXTENDED BATTERY!!!
Will cause worse battery life than you had as this is for stock battery
I came up with an idea last night.
To try using a batterystats.bin file from someone that gets up to 15 hours of battery life...so me and jcmaddox1 did the best calibration we could and we are going to upload out batterystats file asap
I am going to make a flashable zip as soon as I can but for now, you will have to do it manually.
1.go to Data/system
2.delete your batterystats.bin while your phone is on the charger(VERY IMPORTANT)
3.copy your downloaded battery stats to the same directory(make sure the permissions are set correctly [rw---])
4.reboot!
Also...it is not a risky thing to do but if you are somewhat satisfied with you battery now...it is a good idea to save current battstats to sdcard
Please test and report if it works or not and if you got better battery life with these files
when you report back please include
Results,the rom you are using,a summery of what you did while testing (eg how much time on internet and calls and how many text and so on)
And a screenshot of the battery history would be appreciated
Proof of concept photo...
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^^^With jcmaddox1 file I will upload mine soon

File 1(my file): http://www.multiupload.com/7UJNUBP6B9
File 2(fellow xda member I mentioned in first post)http://www.multiupload.com/AVZVBDOI2W
It doesn't matter what one you try just make sure you say what file you tried

sounds great！
Thanks for your sharing！
which rom should it works？

peiminglei said:
sounds great！
Thanks for your sharing！
which rom should it works？
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It is universal! same file with all roms
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I can't believe it is April 1st already.

shawkes said:
I can't believe it is April 1st already.
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Haha xD
Edit:you mean that as in to good to be true right?
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I'm curious, which radio revision are you using? @Trh1341

M-2The-O-Squared said:
I'm curious, which radio revision are you using? @Trh1341
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I am using the 12.13 radio
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i honestly don't think this will make much of a difference. i feel like radio/ril combo, as well as apps that have abnormal wakelocks are MUCH bigger determinants of battery life. i've spent the past 2-3 weeks being hyperaware of everything going on with regard to battery life. i've been able to often times flat-line my battery usage curve for hours if i'm not using the phone and often times also in between usage.
but either way, i'm interested to see the results. using my nokia for the time being so i won't be partaking in this but will be watching it closely

nhshah7 said:
i honestly don't think this will make much of a difference. i feel like radio/ril combo, as well as apps that have abnormal wakelocks are MUCH bigger determinants of battery life. i've spent the past 2-3 weeks being hyperaware of everything going on with regard to battery life. i've been able to often times flat-line my battery usage curve for hours if i'm not using the phone and often times also in between usage.
but either way, i'm interested to see the results. using my nokia for the time being so i won't be partaking in this but will be watching it closely
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Stalking the thread.. like an assassin.. ready to pounce if it works how we expect.. right? XD...
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nhshah7 said:
i honestly don't think this will make much of a difference. i feel like radio/ril combo, as well as apps that have abnormal wakelocks are MUCH bigger determinants of battery life. i've spent the past 2-3 weeks being hyperaware of everything going on with regard to battery life. i've been able to often times flat-line my battery usage curve for hours if i'm not using the phone and often times also in between usage.
but either way, i'm interested to see the results. using my nokia for the time being so i won't be partaking in this but will be watching it closely
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Its mainly to save time with out having to calibrate battery every time you flash a rom...but sometimes you can get a perfect calibration and we uploaded those
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I'll be giving it a shot.
Radio - 12.59.60.26u_26.11.04.21_M (matching ril)
Roms
MIUI
Virtuous
ICS

The .bin file is a log of YOUR own battery's depletion, and outputs the battery depletion in percentage,and depletion varies greatly depending on type of Rom, kernel etc. Using someone else's stats is going to do any good. In contrast its going to affect the battery health, giving false readings. The best way is to use battery calibration app, and calibrate after each Rom flash. Once again the .bin file will not boost your battery, and will give false readings if inserted from another rom .
Just flash a new rom and wipe the stats. That's it.
http://ancillotti.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Build-a-Wireless-Network-Without-Using-a-Broadband-Router
Regards

buzzboy said:
The .bin file is a log of YOUR own battery's depletion, and outputs the battery depletion in percentage,and depletion varies greatly depending on type of Rom, kernel etc. Using someone else's stats is going to do any good. In contrast its going to affect the battery health, giving false readings. The best way is to use battery calibration app, and calibrate after each Rom flash. Once again the .bin file will not boost your battery, and will give false readings if inserted from another rom .
Just flash a new rom and wipe the stats. That's it.
http://ancillotti.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Build-a-Wireless-Network-Without-Using-a-Broadband-Router
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This was an idea to save the time from having to calibrate . I don't think you understand the point
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Save time? How? The app is a one button press .

buzzboy said:
Save time? How? The app is a one button press .
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I think he means from having to wait till the battery is fully charged
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insanenyc said:
I think he means from having to wait till the battery is fully charged
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Save time from charging and discharging it completely.
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But the phone needs to be fully charged. End of.
Your phone will give you false readings about the battery health.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359395
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buzzboy said:
But the phone needs to be fully charged. End of.
Your phone will give you false readings about the battery health.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359395
Regards
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I meant by charging and discharging as it you won't have to calibrate it, these batter stats were from heavy use so it won't give false readings unless your phones battery its self is messed up
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But the point remains, the stats are from another phone, with a different rom and kernel, inserted into your phone which has a different battery level also, trust me, it's a theory that will not work.
Just wipe stats at 100% after a new rom flash. That's all there is to it.

Telus SGS4G battery life and ICS

I've tried many of the SGS 4G ROMS after convincing my Telus SGS 4G it was a T-Mobile version. I really like both remICS-UX and UltraGen ports, but battery life is quite disappointing. 3G/4G was not as good on remICS-UX ans UltraGen.
Any Telus phone users out have suggestions on other ROMS to try, or settings to try for our phone (yes I searched the forums, very few Telus folk here).
Cheers,
BHTM

Flash with hefe kod kernel over your Ultragen rom. You should see a big difference in your battery life. Also turn off wifi and GPS if you r not using it.
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The Telus phone is actually the T959P or something and it's reallynot the same phone as they use different bands than Tmobile/Wind does, so I'm surprised the ROM actually works but there could be many things that are draining the battery that are due to the fact that's its not the same phone, and that also would explain why things don't work right in terms in wifi/4g/battery, etc.

Yeah I am totally surprised it worked too. But a few kind Telus users here give easy instructions on how to make it think it is a sgh-t959v. Just hoping they will continue being kind and share there tips and tricks.
Anyway busy thanking and donating to all you kind folks. I'm a happy noob, having fun great fun trying all these custom roms.
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Just curious what you did to make it think it's a 959V ?
When you say battery life wasn't as good, can you clarify that? How long were you using it, how long did you have the screen on for, did you change governors to one better suited, can you take a screen shot of your battery window in the settings like this
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Whatever app is listed at the top, in my example, Screen, click on that and take a screen shot, This will show how much time that app has used
If you run something like CPUspy, it will show you the different "states" of your cpu, IE, what speed it's running at. If the phone is in standy, it should run mostly in deep sleep state. If something is keeping it from sleeping, that will affect the battery.
I just took my phone off the charger, but you can see it used 1000mhz for the bootup at full speed, then when I shut it off, it went to deep sleep mode. If there is no deep sleep, then something is keeping it "awake" and that is the cause of the battery drain. Sometimes installing app's can do that.

>Just curious what you did to make it think it's a 959V ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225593&page=5
>When you say battery life wasn't as good, can you clarify that? How long were you using it, how long did you have the screen on for, did you >change governors to one better suited, can you take a screen shot of your battery window in the settings like this
Much thanks for the tips, I'll give them a try. Playing with CM10 at the moment,but will try UltraGen again later and capture things. Been wiping everything including sdcard, so no media files to confuse media server.
Just realized I should be in Q&A section, bad n00b :laugh:
BTW, do yourself and dao not take donations? You guys are rockin' the SGS 4G with all the ports and help.

bhtm said:
>Just curious what you did to make it think it's a 959V ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225593&page=5
>When you say battery life wasn't as good, can you clarify that? How long were you using it, how long did you have the screen on for, did you >change governors to one better suited, can you take a screen shot of your battery window in the settings like this
Much thanks for the tips, I'll give them a try. Playing with CM10 at the moment,but will try UltraGen again later and capture things. Been wiping everything including sdcard, so no media files to confuse media server.
Just realized I should be in Q&A section, bad n00b :laugh:
BTW, do yourself and dao not take donations? You guys are rockin' the SGS 4G with all the ports and help.
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There is more coming... btw.
someone is sending me a verizon fascinate, and there is some common code between sgs4g, verizon fascinate, and T959P.
The bigger part is cg2900 gps driver, different digitizer, and a few other odd ball differences.
I also have an SK4G that I'm trying to port as well.
A lot of these devices share the same drivers, and our phones are just a little bit different then aries.
Fascinate even has some problems in the aries kernel, although I think they have work arounds for most of them.
So, as soon as I become available (not busy with work from 8am to 3am daily...) and get the verizon fascinate from... someone, I'm gonna start looking at t959p as well.

very ryeartlt
getochkn said:
Just curious what you did to make it think it's a 959V ?
When you say battery life wasn't as good, can you clarify that? How long were you using it, how long did you have the screen on for, did you change governors to one better suited, can you take a screen shot of your battery window in the settings like this
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My daily usage is like this: Get on train, use phone to Netflix, read news (Currents, Flipboard, et al), listen to music from Google cloud or Rdio, screen on the entire time (1 hour 15). Don't use phone for 8 hours. Reverse the train ride. Charge phone when I get home for next day use. Rarely have GPS or Wifi enabled. No media on SD card. Only half dozen extra apps (Currents, Flipbord, Google Play Music, Rdio, Google Maps etc).
The stock ROM from Samsung/Telus did a good job of lasting through day and have enough charge to finish the nightly train ride.
Had a chance to play with CPUSpy and try a few things, no deep sleep on remICS-UX or UltraGen and they would not last through the day (unused, screen black) without being charged. I haven't changed the default ROM performance settings or governors (tried to OC but phone got really hot, didn't really notice any difference is application performance, so set it back).
I've just started trying the SlimBean 3.1 ROM seems to be deep sleeping according to CPUSpy. Fingers crossed it behaves closer to stock ROM as far as battery is concerned (deep sleeps when not in use)
Anyway thanks to mcmerrit for the instructions on how to get this odd variant working with the mod community ROMs. Feels like I have a new phone

I've never been able to get more than 10 hours on a charge with 2+ hours of screen time on any ics roms with the stock battery. I do have wifi on pretty much the whole time though.

Erikmm will have another kernel coming out with battery life as good as GB. Stay tuned.
If it helps, hit the thanks button. It's my motivator to be more helpful.

gizmoscoop said:
Erikmm will have another kernel coming out with battery life as good as GB. Stay tuned.
If it helps, hit the thanks button. It's my motivator to be more helpful.
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You got that right ICS is about to get conquered along with JB
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Slimbeam 3.1 battery life is quite good. Survived my Monday commute. New battery for my HTC amaze arrived today. But I'll switch back to sgs4g as amaze cm is not as stable.
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Xposed + GravityBox Killing Battery

Hey Everyone,
Been an android user for quite some time and know the system well, but this has me confused.
I rooted the phone the minute it came out of the box.
I recently decided to install Xposed and GravityBox on my Nexus 5, and tweak a few things.
However, after installing it, I noticed that my battery dies much faster. And I mean, incredibly fast. If the phone just sits in my pocket for 3 hours, I'm down to about 40%. I leave my house at around 8, and have to top off my battery by noon.
I know that the issue is not the battery though, because if I go into Xposed and disable gravitybox, my battery lasts for almost 2 days.
I have tried BetterBatteryStats, but it didn't give me any unusual wakelock info. Only the normal powermanagerservice and wlan wakelocks.
In the battery menu, Android OS and Android System would use up a ton of battery with GravityBox on.
All help is greatly appreciated, since I really enjoy the features of GravityBox.. but not so much to have horrible battery life.
Thanks,
Dom

DjDom said:
Hey Everyone,
Been an android user for quite some time and know the system well, but this has me confused.
I rooted the phone the minute it came out of the box.
I recently decided to install Xposed and GravityBox on my Nexus 5, and tweak a few things.
However, after installing it, I noticed that my battery dies much faster. And I mean, incredibly fast. If the phone just sits in my pocket for 3 hours, I'm down to about 40%. I leave my house at around 8, and have to top off my battery by noon.
I know that the issue is not the battery though, because if I go into Xposed and disable gravitybox, my battery lasts for almost 2 days.
I have tried BetterBatteryStats, but it didn't give me any unusual wakelock info. Only the normal powermanagerservice and wlan wakelocks.
In the battery menu, Android OS and Android System would use up a ton of battery with GravityBox on.
All help is greatly appreciated, since I really enjoy the features of GravityBox.. but not so much to have horrible battery life.
Thanks,
Dom
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Version number of GB?

Aerowinder said:
Version number of GB?
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2.9.1, Sir. Running on 4.4.2 stock.

DjDom said:
2.9.1, Sir. Running on 4.4.2 stock.
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Download 2.8.6, install, reboot. See if that makes a difference.

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Download 2.8.6, install, reboot. See if that makes a difference.
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Alright, 2.8.6 installed.
I'll leave it unplugged over night and report back in the morning.
Thank you.

That's really odd. I've seen a few other people who also seem to be having crappy battery life with GB, which hasn't been my experience at all.

maxpower7 said:
That's really odd. I've seen a few other people who also seem to be having crappy battery life with GB, which hasn't been my experience at all.
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Yeah me too. Its strange
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I have no issues with my battery usin gravity box at all

Good to see I'm not the only one.
After switching to version 2.8.6, this is what I'm getting:
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"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
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Much better than before.. but still not quite as good as without Xposed and GB.

This is me, Xposed and latest GB, stock 4.4.2 ROM. Had to reboot it earlier but it's been off charge since 7:30am. Hardly any use as I'm in work but it's not draining fast at all IMO

Just out of curiosity, are you guys running the stock kernel??? I've been running Gravitybox(and a few other modules) for a pretty good while and I haven't seen the drain you guys are getting. But I run the latest Franco kernel. With a full charge and leaving my phone untouched for 3 hours I get down to 93%. Has anyone looked for wake locks??

I've personally never had any problems with battery life on either my N7 or N5 using GB. Running stock 4.4.2, ElementalX kernel and v2.9.0 of GravityBox. Just to throw a wild suggestion out there and I have no real idea of what kind of impact it might have, or not, but I always have the newest version of busybox installed.

Decimation said:
Just out of curiosity, are you guys running the stock kernel??? I've been running Gravitybox(and a few other modules) for a pretty good while and I haven't seen the drain you guys are getting. But I run the latest Franco kernel. With a full charge and leaving my phone untouched for 3 hours I get down to 93%. Has anyone looked for wake locks??
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Yes, I'm 100% stock bar rooting and latest Xposed/GB combo
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wantabe said:
I've personally never had any problems with battery life on either my N7 or N5 using GB. Running stock 4.4.2, ElementalX kernel and v2.9.0 of GravityBox. Just to throw a wild suggestion out there and I have no real idea of what kind of impact it might have, or not, but I always have the newest version of busybox installed.
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I don't have BB installed as Xposed doesn't require it (or it installs it itself when updating the framework)

EddyOS said:
I don't have BB installed as Xposed doesn't require it (or it installs it itself when updating the framework)
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I thought at one time it did but I could be mistaken.

Ok, so it looks like downgrading GravityBox worked.
Here are the stats:
Any idea why the old version doesn't do it..?

DjDom said:
Ok, so it looks like downgrading GravityBox worked.
Here are the stats:
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Did you check for wake locks?? WakeLock detector may come in handy for you.

Decimation said:
Did you check for wake locks?? WakeLock detector may come in handy for you.
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Yes. I stated in the op that I checked for them.
Nothing unusual.
I'm happy now though, it seems to be working on the old version.
But I would really like to find out why the battery is killed so quickly on newer versions. Eventually.. I will want to upgrade to the latest gravity box.
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Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but I recently rooted and installed Xposed + GravityBox and I'm having the same issue. Has anyone found a fix for this?
I went to sleep the other night at 30% battery and when I woke up 8 hours later my phone was dead. Before installing GravityBox I would only lose 2-4% overnight...what gives?
I am on stock kernel BTW...which has always treated my battery well...

bekyndnunwind said:
Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but I recently rooted and installed Xposed + GravityBox and I'm having the same issue. Has anyone found a fix for this?
I went to sleep the other night at 30% battery and when I woke up 8 hours later my phone was dead. Before installing GravityBox I would only lose 2-4% overnight...what gives?
I am on stock kernel BTW...which has always treated my battery well...
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Are you sure it isn`t caused by one or more apps you installed? Have you installed BetterBatteryStats for montoring app usage/power consumption.

I seem to be getting drain also I decided to try out better battery stats it seems to be the top App doing most of the drain
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