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HELP! Where did I go wrong?

So I just got a brand new D2G and thanks to the info in this forum I rooted it and installed fission rom and FRM...Im loving the phone, its fast, smooth and beautiful but the battery is AWFUL. I have read all the info about how to get the most out of your battery and everything on these forums but mine is waaaay worse than anyone has said before.
For instance, last night my phone was charging oernight, at 6 am when i woke up to pee it was at 100% so I unplugged it and went back to sleep, come 10 am when i woke up my phone was down to 15%!!! From just sitting there with the screen off...
Ive set the network to CDMA/Evduo automatic, installed Jrummy's overclock app...Can anyone explain in detail what exactly the settings in the overclock app mean? "set scaling frequencies at boot, cpu scaling frequencies etc?" for instance if I set scaling frequencies not at boot to ultra low voltage and 1 ghz and lower, do i need to also go into cpu scaling frequencies and make profiles and stuff?
Any information is greatly appreciated, Ive been reading up for days but this stuff is hard to find clear answers on specific issues. Thanks!

This is probably the most basic first thing to ask/do, but have you checked the battery useage to see which apps are using the most power? try doing what you did where you charged, and then let it sit for 4 hrs, and after that see what's using the battery, I bet there is some app that just nonstop uses the gps or 3g data or something wearing your battery life out super fast.

Yeah i looked at that this morning to see and all it said was suspend took up like 90% of the battery...Doesnt make any sense

1. Set at boot isn't what you're thinking. Set at boot means that whatever your current settings are will be set the NEXT time the phone boots. This is used when you have a setting you like. The reason you DON'T want to set at boot is that if you accidentally pick a setting that your phone doesn't like, and it makes it crash, then next time it will boot up with normal settings. Otherwise, you'd be looking at some work doing a recovery with either CWR or RSDLite... There are better ways to spend 30 minutes. Disclaimer: I use SetCPU, but the settings are all essentially the same.
2. For scaling, unless you're a power user (read: Geek) who's really up on his stuff, you should just stick with ondemand. This means your CPU will run at the lowest frequency possible, but will scale its speed up when processes call for it. This is efficient.
3. Yes, you should still make profiles. The setting on the main screen where you choose "Set at Boot" (Again, I'm speaking from SetCPU experience, but it SHOULD be the same) is just the main profile, setting the global minimum and maximum. You should leave the minimum on this at 300. The phones don't like to run much lower than that, even with the screen off; They start not ringing for calls, not waking up, etc. Set the maximum to whatever you want the max to be. You can overclock, which will obviously hurt your battery life. You could underclock and set the maximum to 1GHz, or even 800MHz, which would have a decent effect on battery life with no noticeable performance decrease to the average user. I run mine at the stock 1.2GHz and it's fast enough for my needs.
4. I wrote this thread to help people maximize their battery life. It's pretty detailed, you should give it a thorough read, it works well for me, and seems to work for others. I'm at 32hrs unplugged and my battery has gone from 90% to 20%. That's pretty light use, and I have an extended battery, but I still see over a day on my stock battery when I use it. There's a list of my SetCPU profiles there too, that might be helpful in setting up your own.

Thanks for the info on overclocking, I think I have it figured out now...
I will definitely read through your thread, but is it possible that I just had a bad battery? due to a shipping error, when verizon sent me my phone they sent 2 by accident so I just swapped out the battery for the other one and it seems to be doing much better already...

What does the 1.5ghz overclock do to the battery?

Meaning, does the battery life take a dip when you overclock to 1.5ghz. Does it get any hotter? Is heat an issue at all on this thing? Also, any performance or battery changes from installing the tiamet kernel itself? I'm in the wifi xoom btw.

Strangely enough battery life seems to be about the same. Heat has not been an issue mainly due to having the dual core, however its something you always want to keep an eye on.

Battery life is affected most by the screen. Screen> Network connections > CPU > RAM
There was a thread that someone made a while back about the things that affected battery life the most. If I can find It ill send it your way. After seeing the charts I figured Id try changing some settings.
things I did:
1. Set my max cpu freq to 1.19 min to 488 same for all my cpu tunner profiles ( I wanted to have my phone running the same all the time)
2. Lower'd my screen settings. I didnt need a pocket flashlight EVERYTIME I unlocked my phone.
3. Turned off un needed network connections. Its not hard to turn them back on when you need them.
4. I then looked for things that were running but were not needed by anything ( google maps are used by a few apps so dont disable it haha) I used Uninstaller for root users to get rid of some things.
After all these steps my battery life went WAY up. I have been doing the same thing on my Xoom now and my batt lasts the same at 1.5 as it did at 1.

I still get VERY respectable battery life at 1.5ghz, I can easily get through the day with normal usage. Yesterday night in fact, I left the house with maybe 75% battery life, used my tablet quite a lot throughout the evening(left the house around 9, went to sleep around 1am) and used it all morning basically constantly from 7am to around noon and came home with 9% battery left.

No problems here either. Woke up around 8:30 yesterday and used it all day sometimes pretty heavy. Finally had to plug it in around 6:30. I'm home all day with a broken hip and femur, so I've been putting it through the paces. Running @ 1.5ghz with interactive gov.
Chris

+1 on 1.5GHz having little effect on battery life. I didn't have to change anything else, either.

thats all great to hear! I suppose ill start looking into rooting my wifi xoom tomorrow then. Thanks for the help!

Im very happy with the battery life on this thing. I expected 4 hours max after a few weeks of use/charges. I never thought that it would keep up with anything Apple, Lets face it.. Apple knows how to make stuff run forever. But I was plesently suprised. Xoom +1000

yeah, the battery is good, but i won't know any damage to the cpu when overclocked ?

I wouldn't worry about any CPU damage- too many people have reported success (and no reports of failure).

Anyone else notice with the tiamat kernel that their xoom becomes very unstable overclocked at 1.5 using setCPU? Mine was essentially a soft brick at 1.5 constant rebooting and never able get pass the unlock screen, I had to rewipe with bootloader. I can do 1.2 no problem but don't even want to try going higher.

All of our chips have variations, so the overclock isn't universally guaranteed. That being said, I've been using the Tiamat kernel @1.5GHz since it was released with no problems.

Should have stated that mine is the wifi model, but yea thanks for info.

Here was that post I was looking for on this stuff. http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=946

How to reduce high 'Display' usage?

So I have the HTC sensation and have noticed that my battery doesnt last as long as it has done previously, i've gone into settings > about phone > battery information and can see that my usage is being raped by the Display which is currently at 70%! I have nothing else taking up the usage.
How can I reduce this? I've followed the instructions of turning down the brightness, turning off background sync, bluetooth, wifi, 3G etc and I always use the task manager to kill off tasks that i've used previously in the day that I dont need sitting there anymore.
I recently flashed to the Android Revolution HD ROM with beats audio, is there anything I can do regarding the ROM? I didn't wipe my phone completely before installing the ROM so i'm thinking to try that... also now the CPU is 1.5ghz as it's an XE ROM, how can I reduce the CPU back to the standard 1.2ghz the sensation originally comes with?
I appreciate any feedback guys!

Before installing a rom do the factory reset ... As for the processor just like you install SetCPU and put the maximum frequency you want

PurpleWeed said:
Before installing a rom do the factory reset ... As for the processor just like you install SetCPU and put the maximum frequency you want
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So will doing a factory reset AND THEN installing the ROM stop my display from being constantly 70%? it seems to stay at this level and doesn't drop at all. Since installing the ROM i've noticed the battery dropping faster than it did before, i'll use SetCPU to change it back to it's original 1.2ghz
Thanks for the reply!

The display on my HTC Sensation sometimes even consumes more battery, but I think it's normal since it is a 4,3inch-LCD-display and it surely uses more bettery than a AMOLED or a smaller display. But that's a problem for most of the smartphones.

May sound silly but try Go Power Master.
I use it on a Nexus S and I can eek out about 36 hours of use on one charge.

LG Nexus 5 - Overheating, Battery drain.

Starting a month and half ago my LG Nexus 5 would get hot near the camera (Where the CPU is) and drain the battery unusually fast, even without an active app opened, now I can not keep it on outside because of the drain and even if it stays connected to a charger, it slowly builds a charge because of the drain.
I recently changed the battery and the problem continues to persist.
This started happening around when I went over all the settings in the phone and apps, I fear I might of turned on something that is causing it in the background but I can not figure out the exact problem.
Please help.

minun said:
Starting a month and half ago my LG Nexus 5 would get hot near the camera (Where the CPU is) and drain the battery unusually fast, even without an active app opened, now I can not keep it on outside because of the drain and even if it stays connected to a charger, it slowly builds a charge because of the drain.
I recently changed the battery and the problem continues to persist.
This started happening around when I went over all the settings in the phone and apps, I fear I might of turned on something that is causing it in the background but I can not figure out the exact problem.
Please help.
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Check the frequencies of the cpu, sometimes the minimum value gets stuck to a higher than needed frequency.
You can do so by using Kernel Auditor (root) or CPU-Z. Obviously if they're higher you'll need to set them lower, 300 MHz is the normal minimum freq. If that is not the case then install Gsam Battery Monitor and enable extra stats, you should be able to figure something out with that one app.

CriGiu said:
Check the frequencies of the cpu, sometimes the minimum value gets stuck to a higher than needed frequency.
You can do so by using Kernel Auditor (root) or CPU-Z. Obviously if they're higher you'll need to set them lower, 300 MHz is the normal minimum freq. If that is not the case then install Gsam Battery Monitor and enable extra stats, you should be able to figure something out with that one app.
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thank you, it was the outlook app going rouge

s9 plus exynos cpu issue ( battery drain and heat)

my cpu frequency is stuck at 1.79 gghz and this is why my phone is lagging and heating and draining battery .
is there any way to check what is spiking the cpu so much ?
i checked in cpu process app and it says system server is taking the cpu .
And in my battery stats the android system is at the top.
I have done factory reset 4 times still the same issue.
Help appreciated .
Thanks
This issue gets temporarily solved by restarting the phone but after a few hours its still the same.