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I need help my battery life is terrible and I don't know how to fix. I have a battery information app and the battery chart drops.
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We're going to need more information than that to help you out.
ROM?
Kernel?
Name of "Battery Monitoring" App?
Current Data use?
Signal strength in your area?
All of these will be very helpful in figuring out what your issue is.
Try to be patient, I'm a little new. But here's what I know.
Froyo 2.2
Kernel 2.6.32.9
Battery Monitor Widget App
Data usage isn't high.
I don't know how to find ROM
My display takes 93% but my brightness is all the way down and my signal is always pretty strong.
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Im guessing your one the stock at&t froyo. Think about going into the captivate android development section and flash a custom rom. They seem to provide better battery life and are much better than what came with this phone.
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You can also disable wifi, bluetooth, and GPS when not in use - that should help.
In my experience the fastest way to better battery life is flash a new kernel. speedmod-kernel-i897-k13e is very stable. Also turn off auto-rotate and auto brightness.
A big battery killer for me is background data and auto sync, I leave it all off, along with the stuff every one else said.
Also, try calibrating your battery.
The only thing I've done to my phone is root. And I've turned off all the auto stuff, I have no idea how to "flash the rom" or anything else.
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If your display takes up 93% of battery that's usually a good sign, it means that there's probably nothing in the background sucking up all the juice. Have you tried "bump charging" or replacing the battery? They do tend to go bad or lose calibration if you've overheated them one too many times.
Whenever I charge my phone it seems to get extremely hot. The battery app said like 115° to 120°
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If your display takes up 93% of battery that's usually a good sign, it means that there's probably nothing in the background sucking up all the juice. Have you tried "bump charging" or replacing the battery? They do tend to go bad or lose calibration if you've overheated them one too many times.
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Is that f or c? My battery temp is 33 degrees c.
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In my experience, the jk4 modem has the best battery life.
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Try Juice Defender in the Android Market, made a big different for me.
In my experience Froyo roms have all been garbage battery life *first leak, stock, Perception, Cognition, SuperNova, Phoenix Unleashed* I could never get more then 10 hours on the battery and less with wifi on. Now with GB *perception 2 beta 3*, I get 18 hours with Bluetooth on, Background Sync On, under H *3G*, and the original battery that came with the phone. I am putting up with some of the issues that 2.3.3 has but to me I cannot go back to froyo as my battery life has never been this good Including with jf6 2.1 that originally shipped with my phone.
HTH,
Charlie
I put it on the charger. Only went up to 35c (95f)
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jbo12 said:
Is that f or c? My battery temp is 33 degrees c.
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For F.
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ameedi600 said:
In my experience, the jk4 modem has the best battery life.
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While that may be the case, it doesn't always provide for the best signal. You have to test each one and see what works best for your area/situation.
Your battery temp seems very high. You may want to swap the battery before trying other things. Is the phone new? If so, At&t store should agree to swap it out for you.
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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.
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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.
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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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...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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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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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.
Hey so I know I'll get crap for another battery post but I just wanted to post this because I'm amazed whenever someone on Any rom gets a full day or more of battery. It's ridiculous how much mobile data drains on ANY rom for me. I'm running aokp 9/9 right now but I've been through cm9, cm10, vincoms rom, sky ics, paranoid. No differences really it's just data that drains. Here is today's battery, and this is normal when it's mobile data the whole way through. Mostly H, H+, and 4g. As you can see, u have pretty good reception, and screen on for only 2 HOURS. that's why it amazes me when people get 5-7 hrs screen and like a day+ of battery.
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Also if anyone got the new aokp rom before R4ins got pissed, I'd love to get a link. Thanks!
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2 hours screen time sounds about right for me til the battery runs down. But I tend to only use that much in a whole day, so it lasts me to the next day... even on LTE. I'm using SkyICS.
You sure you don't have any funky wakelocks or anything? Your phone was awake for pretty much the whole time It should be sleeping most of the times that you're not using it.
there are days where i can get 16 hours with an hour or 2 of screen time, but i also have the Gnex extended batter (2100 mah) so that helps. But ive come to realize that on most days, i will never ever see the stellar results that some people get, becasue i use my phone... a lot... im talking twitter constantly, hundreds of texts every day, and the occasional phone call. But it is fine for me, ive never had my phone die on me while im out, and im almost always near a charger so it is never a problem. If i feel like i might be away from a charger for a while, i turn off sync, turn brightness down, etc to prolong my battery life and im good to go.
Download better battery stats and find out what is keeping your phone awake,it looks like its staying awake for long periods of time
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holeindalip said:
Download better battery stats and find out what is keeping your phone awake,it looks like its staying awake for long periods of time
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This. You have a truly massive wakelock.
kchen96 said:
Also if anyone got the new aokp rom before R4ins got pissed, I'd love to get a link. Thanks!
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R4INS is over on rootzwiki. You can grab his builds there or on his goo.im site. Check out boobah's post in the general section.
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Download better battery stats and find out what is keeping your phone awake,it looks like its staying awake for long periods of time
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I have the app.don't know how to use it literally the most confusing app ever
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Most def a wake lock. I can get upwards of 20 hours with regular usage. aokp cm10 and superlite cm 10. Sometimes less sometimes more. I also don't pick up lte here either. Just H+
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akwhite23 said:
Most def a wake lock. I can get upwards of 20 hours with regular usage. aokp cm10 and superlite cm 10. Sometimes less sometimes more. I also don't pick up lte here either. Just H+
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How...when I have data on and using it,it drains a percent every 2 minutes. Can anyone tell me what to loom for on better battery stats and where?
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Hwres an update. On this is with data off almost all day you can see the screen off and awake matches up pretty nicely.(at the end I'm listening to music so that's why its awake) is it possibly just straight up the data connection that keeps my phone awake?
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kchen96 said:
How...when I have data on and using it,it drains a percent every 2 minutes. Can anyone tell me what to loom for on better battery stats and where?
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There's an entire thread on it here maintained by TJ above. And several tutorials in other forums on xda. It's really not that hard. Just do some research.
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What I don't get is why WiFi causes a wake lock.
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specter07 said:
What I don't get is why WiFi causes a wake lock.
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That image doesn't show wifi causing a wakelock? Unless you actually didn't have wifi turned on for the past 4 hours. I see it's not turned on in that image, but maybe you just turned if off. Which I'm betting you did about 2 minutes before taking that picture, and then turned data back on?
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There are plenty other battery life threads this post could have been made in. Locked
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It kinda looks like that you did not use the phone at all!
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Nice wait but that jump upward toward the end, were you charging it there, send a screen of the graph with the usage pattern under it
And you recharged it abit
Hehe. But seriously I get around 17 hours of pretty good life. Moderate to heavy use with still about 30% remaining
Just sick and tired of these people complain about horrible battery life
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Post the screen usage!
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Post the screen usage!
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If thats directed at me obviously I did if you look up
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If thats directed at me obviously I did if you look up
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Haha nope not quite we mean like tap the "screen" entry so we can see how many hours of screen-on time you've had, and also possibly tap the usage graph then it shows when your phone was awake, when WiFi was on/off, when it was charging etc.
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Hehe. But seriously I get around 17 hours of pretty good life. Moderate to heavy use with still about 30% remaining
Just sick and tired of these people complain about horrible battery life
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As much as I do like the phone. I'm quite annoyed at the battery life and am thinking of ways to improve it and etc. but it doesn't seem to be working. I get like 8 hours and by then it's at 30% MAX. Usually around like 20 or so. 10 hours and it's pretty much dead. Am I doing something wrong? my screen is only on for about an hour and a half or so, maybe 2 hours. Lowest brightness setting, 4g off, 2g on, wifi on.. that's about it. I mean as much as I love HTC, I can't love this battery life...
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As much as I do like the phone. I'm quite annoyed at the battery life and am thinking of ways to improve it and etc. but it doesn't seem to be working. I get like 8 hours and by then it's at 30% MAX. Usually around like 20 or so. 10 hours and it's pretty much dead. Am I doing something wrong? my screen is only on for about an hour and a half or so, maybe 2 hours. Lowest brightness setting, 4g off, 2g on, wifi on.. that's about it. I mean as much as I love HTC, I can't love this battery life...
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Yes you're doing something wrong or have a faulty unit. Make sure you flash a good ROM (I'm using aokp) and that's it. I have my screen at about 25% brightness and here are my stats which is quite acceptable.
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I have freezed so much default htc and adroid crapp apps with Titanium backup. It differs a lot! Also a lot of system apps i dont use.
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Inferi0r said:
I have freezed so much default htc and adroid crapp apps with Titanium backup. It differs a lot! Also a lot of system apps i dont use.
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Yeah, Freezing apps helps a lot!
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@devgee Lol wow 5hr37min screen and almost 10hrs thats quite impressive, all things considered hang on how is your phone still ON at 1% not charging? Mine shuts down at 4% generally...unless I charge it till 7% and unplug, then it runs to 0% before powering down?
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@devgee Lol wow 5hr37min screen and almost 10hrs thats quite impressive, all things considered hang on how is your phone still ON at 1% not charging? Mine shuts down at 4% generally...unless I charge it till 7% and unplug, then it runs to 0% before powering down?
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Might be the 1% battery mod which has been added to the viper Rom (Don't know really)
I was too surprised when it was 1%
Usually it shuts down at 3% or 4%!
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Yes you're doing something wrong or have a faulty unit. Make sure you flash a good ROM (I'm using aokp) and that's it. I have my screen at about 25% brightness and here are my stats which is quite acceptable.
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Well this is what I got.
This was back on CM. That rom game amazing batt life.
I don't have the screen time pic but it was just over 4 hours. Still had 1/5 of the battery left too! With this phone I just leave gps, wifi, antenna and sync on. It's so rare for me to NOT last a full day that I see no point in being conservative about use anymore.
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This was back on CM. That rom game amazing batt life.
I don't have the screen time pic but it was just over 4 hours. Still had 1/5 of the battery left too! With this phone I just leave gps, wifi, antenna and sync on. It's so rare for me to NOT last a full day that I see no point in being conservative about use anymore.
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Nice... CM 10?
Yup. Before the problems that nightlies started having a couple of weeks ago.
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Yup. Before the problems that nightlies started having a couple of weeks ago.
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Do you still have the build you were using? Id like to try it out
I believe it was just the Oct 10 CM nightly on goomanager.
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I've been having pretty bad battery life for some reason.. I was wondering if maybe its bad to use my phone while its plugged in? Like just browsing at night while charging? I can see the battery percentage drop really frequently while using it. Any thoughts?
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goldenshibby said:
I've been having pretty bad battery life for some reason.. I was wondering if maybe its bad to use my phone while its plugged in? Like just browsing at night while charging? I can see the battery percentage drop really frequently while using it. Any thoughts?
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I use my phone all night while it's plugged in, haha.
And is the battery dropping WHILE charging? If so, your charging plug or your wire itself is damaged. It's odd to see battery declining, even during use, while charging.
Oops.. Sorry I phrased that wrong. I meant that the battery percentage drops fast just in general. One minute its at 100 and then in a minute or two its down to 99. Not sure what's up.
By the way I'm on hyperdrive 7 with stock kernel.
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Oops.. Sorry I phrased that wrong. I meant that the battery percentage drops fast just in general. One minute its at 100 and then in a minute or two its down to 99. Not sure what's up.
By the way I'm on hyperdrive 7 with stock kernel.
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Oh, haha okay.
Well it's normal for your battery to drop down to 99% in a minute or two, because the battery can't sustain 100% max for too long. If your battery life can last you throughout the day, I would say you should be fine. But, if you're like me, I would use a conservative-based governor, no matter the kernel. I use KTweaker.
Mind showing a screenshot of your battery stats?
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The weird thing is that the battery goes down fast even when I'm not using the phone. Yeah I'll upload a screenshot tonight. Thanks.
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goldenshibby said:
The weird thing is that the battery goes down fast even when I'm not using the phone. Yeah I'll upload a screenshot tonight. Thanks.
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Like how fast you think?
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