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Can switching between the stock battery and the anker battery cause problems?

So, my boyfriend and I are having a debate. We both have the Doubleshot, bought on the same day. We are both rooted, and he is stock and I am running Bulletproof. I exclusively use the Anker battery, while he constantly switches back and forth from the stock battery and the Anker battery.
Here is the issue, he is having a lot of reboots, and freezing issues, he says it seemed like any time he launched an application that seemed to use a lot of processing power. I have none of these issues, and have come to believe it is because of his constant battery changing between two different capacity batteries, what do you guys think?

Well i think his is acting ****y because hes running tmobiles crappy rom, tell him to root it and it will stop
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wiswis said:
Well i think his is acting ****y because hes running tmobiles crappy rom, tell him to root it and it will stop
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I did make him root it months ago, I am trying to convince him to flash Bulletproof.

I think he should stick to one battery and reset the battery stats via recovery and do a few recharge cycles.

the_mentor said:
I think he should stick to one battery and reset the battery stats via recovery and do a few recharge cycles.
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That is exactly what I told him to do, but he doesn't believe me that it will help, and won't do it. I am was hoping that you guys could sway him.

the_mentor said:
I think he should stick to one battery and reset the battery stats via recovery and do a few recharge cycles.
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I would have to agree with you "the_mentor"
@ OP:
Show him the link posted a few times by Blue about Li-Ion batteries and it might tell him a few things.
Us guys are so stubborn
Typed by ---- oh wait! I'm schizophrenic!

battery calibration app
Should run this app at least to get the battery stats updated.
Swapping back and forth between the batteries is probably confusing the batterystats.bin file and making it work harder to keep it right - if the batteries were the same capacity it would be a non-issue.
I don't think that's the source of the troubles though -
When's the last time he did a factory reset?
On the stock ROM that's something you'll have to do from time to time to keep it running right, it just gets jammed up after a while from all the bloat, rogue libs, and other random crap floating around in it.
Tell him to backup whatever he can, get it to a pc, then do a factory reset AND wipe the sdcard in the process - start fresh.
It'll take a few hours to re-install all the apps, get your contacts back in, etc...etc... but it should run well after that. Also make sure you have a full and fresh battery for running the install - it'll all be better that way.
If he's S-OFF, make sure he stays that way, and if he wants to run stock then have him flash the most recent PG59IMG.zip after doing the factory reset and before he puts all his stuff back on.
Here are the restore to stock directions and links to mirrors i'm hosting for the packages:
Restore to stock
...and here is the above mentioned battery thread:
Everything you wanted to know about Li-Ion batteries but were afraid to ask!
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To me it just sounds like his ROM (stock one) is just full of random libs from uninstalled apps and whatnot, leftover directories unused and generally just not very 'clean' anymore - factory reset or a refresh of some kind along those lines should get him squared away.
( might be best if you just do it, so it gets done right, since you seem to be the more tech inclined of the two of you? )
oh...and if possible just toss that stock battery in a drawer somewhere and forget about it. Once a month run a charge through it to keep it working, and carry it with you as a spare for trips or something, but try to keep it out of the general rotation.
If he does want to swap back and forth, then do it with the two stock batteries you guys have (your old one and his) and leave the anker out, or split another two-pack between you and have him work with two anker batteries. As long as he's using batteries of different capacities it's gonna play hell on the batterystats.bin file.

Blue6IX said:
battery calibration app
Should run this app at least to get the battery stats updated.
Swapping back and forth between the batteries is probably confusing the batterystats.bin file and making it work harder to keep it right - if the batteries were the same capacity it would be a non-issue.
I don't think that's the source of the troubles though -
When's the last time he did a factory reset?
On the stock ROM that's something you'll have to do from time to time to keep it running right, it just gets jammed up after a while from all the bloat, rogue libs, and other random crap floating around in it.
Tell him to backup whatever he can, get it to a pc, then do a factory reset AND wipe the sdcard in the process - start fresh.
It'll take a few hours to re-install all the apps, get your contacts back in, etc...etc... but it should run well after that. Also make sure you have a full and fresh battery for running the install - it'll all be better that way.
If he's S-OFF, make sure he stays that way, and if he wants to run stock then have him flash the most recent PG59IMG.zip after doing the factory reset and before he puts all his stuff back on.
Here are the restore to stock directions and links to mirrors i'm hosting for the packages:
Restore to stock
...and here is the above mentioned battery thread:
Everything you wanted to know about Li-Ion batteries but were afraid to ask!
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To me it just sounds like his ROM (stock one) is just full of random libs from uninstalled apps and whatnot, leftover directories unused and generally just not very 'clean' anymore - factory reset or a refresh of some kind along those lines should get him squared away.
( might be best if you just do it, so it gets done right, since you seem to be the more tech inclined of the two of you? )
oh...and if possible just toss that stock battery in a drawer somewhere and forget about it. Once a month run a charge through it to keep it working, and carry it with you as a spare for trips or something, but try to keep it out of the general rotation.
If he does want to swap back and forth, then do it with the two stock batteries you guys have (your old one and his) and leave the anker out, or split another two-pack between you and have him work with two anker batteries. As long as he's using batteries of different capacities it's gonna play hell on the batterystats.bin file.
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Thanks for the reply. He wants to learn how to do this stuff for himself, so this weekend I am going to show him how to do all of this stuff, and maybe get him on bulletproof. I like showing people how to do this stuff, but most of my friends are just not interested.

Is anyone else getting massive battery drain?

Since I upgraded tp 4.0.4 my battery life has been completely terrible (nexus s GSM, stock, latest glados kernel) even though I don't use it the entire day, it drains over half in about 4 hours. Anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this? It was perfectly fine before the update and would last days if I didn't use it, and about 12 hours if I did. Right now it's just unusable.

BetterBatteryStats and/or a fresh install (data/factory reset, format /system, optionally format /boot, install ROM).

HosainH said:
Since I upgraded tp 4.0.4 my battery life has been completely terrible (nexus s GSM, stock, latest glados kernel) even though I don't use it the entire day, it drains over half in about 4 hours. Anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this? It was perfectly fine before the update and would last days if I didn't use it, and about 12 hours if I did. Right now it's just unusable.
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Are you using a custom ROM?
I've had the same problem when I was in stock 4.0.3, which is why I decided to root my phone and resort to custom ROM's and kernels. Now my phone is doing ok in the battery department and is also much more snappier and smoother. Oh and most custom ROM's are already using 4.0.4 anyway.
Let's try and be scientific about your problem, here are some things you may want to try out first to improve battery life:
turn off wifi when not in use
turn off automatic syncing if you don't need it
set your network mode to 2G only if you're not using the internet
turn off mobile data when not browsing/using the internet
install the watchdog lite app/widget from the Google Play store so you can monitor rogue apps that are sucking up juice
do not set your screen brightness to AUTO, but manually adjust it when you need to. you can do this either in the settings menu or thru the power control widget
This are the things I can think of off the top of my head. If this doesn't improve your battery life, even just a bit, you may have no choice but to resort to drastic measures....and go to the dark side.
Hope this helps! Cheers!

mine is okay
Batt I think it quite good on 4.0.4. I can get about 23hrs of usage. Some wifi, some 3g (fb, whatsapp, updating apps, email), some music. Stock ICS.

I had this issue after stock 4.0.4 update from 4.0.3.
I found mediaserver using more battery than it should, so I;
1) Copied all files and folders from /sdcard to PC
2) Re-format /sdcard
3) Re-store all files and folders back to /sdcard
Mediaserver process is now minimal and battery is good again

Ok thanks for the suggestions guys, reformatting my phone would be alot of effort on my part due to how much time I spent setting it up so I would like to use that as a last resort.
I installed battery stats but I can't decipher what it's saying so if someone would be as kind to explain? I took screenshots of everything in an album and I would really appreciate it if someone had a look in the album below.
http://imgur.com/a/RAtmF

Well for one, you have chunks of bad signal(red bars). That right there can kill a battery quickly. The other stuff you may be better off saving the dump file and posting it as an attachment over at the BBS thread. The guys over there are pretty informative and may be able to give you more stuff to look at to help you out.

The red bars are when I was using the underground, the battery drains just as fast overnight. I will look for that thread, thanks.
Edit: I do not stay on the underground overnight, and I have a good signal in my apartment (you can see it's fine when I arrive)

HosainH said:
The red bars are when I was using the underground, the battery drains just as fast overnight. I will look for that thread, thanks.
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yep...a weak network signal will drain your battery a lot faster. if you're not using it to text, call or surf, or if you're just going to play games, might as well go airplane mode for a while, or at least until you get above ground where the signal is stronger.

After a good couple of hours not using the phone in a good signal area create a log and post it. Preferably get the hours just after charging.

Harbb said:
After a good couple of hours not using the phone in a good signal area create a log and post it. Preferably get the hours just after charging.
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ok will do.
Edit: should mention I just remembered I had it on airplane mode overnight once and it still drained.

Ok here is the dump file:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14208458/BetterBatteryStats-2012-05-03_062227218.txt

Ok nevermind just did a reformat new rom etc.

Sorry guys, but after reinstalling I am STILL getting the battery drain issue.. Was a clean install but reinstalled all my old apps and settings. from full to 28% in 5 hours with very little usage.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14208458/BetterBatteryStats-2012-05-05_014902302.txt
Please someone take a look!!!

I'll have a good look tomorrow with some suggestions. Had a fair bit on the last couple days with minimal internet access.

What ROM and Kernel are you using right now?
There are a couple of interesting details there but nothing that i can point out that will take you from 100% -> 30% in that time.
Some things to test:
-Turn phone off (noting charge), remove battery, replace battery, leave phone off overnight and turn it on in the morning, again noting the new charge
-Keep data off and see if battery is still draining / Airplane mode
-Uninstall half of your apps and see if it still happens. If not, add half of the apps you uninstalled. If so, uninstall half of the apps you have left, and so on.
-Do a clean install and try for 2 - 3 days, see if it still happens (preferably a stock ROM, preferably from fastboot images)
-Attempt going back to Gingerbread and try for 2 - 3 days (preferably a stock ROM, preferably from fastboot images)
These steps can (and should) be done pretty much in order and will rule out ALOT of possible reasons and give possible solutions some merit. Let me know how this goes.

Harbb said:
What ROM and Kernel are you using right now?
There are a couple of interesting details there but nothing that i can point out that will take you from 100% -> 30% in that time.
Some things to test:
-Turn phone off (noting charge), remove battery, replace battery, leave phone off overnight and turn it on in the morning, again noting the new charge
-Keep data off and see if battery is still draining / Airplane mode
-Uninstall half of your apps and see if it still happens. If not, add half of the apps you uninstalled. If so, uninstall half of the apps you have left, and so on.
-Do a clean install and try for 2 - 3 days, see if it still happens (preferably a stock ROM, preferably from fastboot images)
-Attempt going back to Gingerbread and try for 2 - 3 days (preferably a stock ROM, preferably from fastboot images)
These steps can (and should) be done pretty much in order and will rule out ALOT of possible reasons and give possible solutions some merit. Let me know how this goes.
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Using latest stable cyanogenmod + tried glados and netarchy and matrix kernels, all the same result. Will try what you said, also I bought a replacement battery to see if the actual battery is faulty (weird because it used to be fine). As for the airplane mode thing I already tried that, to no avail.
edit: should add that was using stock 4.0.4 before cyanogenmod.

[Q] Cell Standby / Phone Idle Drain - Embryo 3.2 / UCLE2 / Cymbaline 1.5

Hey Guys,
Let me start by saying that I've spent the better part of 3 days searching XDA, google, reading various other forums for answers to my problem before I decided to post this. Even if the answer was close, or for a different phone I tried all the recommendations to no avail.
I recently just got into the whole rooting and flashing thing. I first tried cyanogenmod9 nightly, and then Embryo 3.2 which I immediately fell in love with. When I flashed, I followed the instructions step by step - wiped all the data, cache, dalvik, formatted then did it all again. Everything is working without a problem. My issue is that cell standby and phone idle is absolutely crushing my battery. I went from getting 17+ hours of normal use with room to spare before charging for the night to barely getting through a day of work.
I installed better batter stats, badass battery monitor, and as a last ditch effort juice defender - hoping that if I let it control the radios and have them off it would curb the problem. Juice defender checks my emails n' all once an hour and it's no help at all. I've burned up almost 20% in 4 hours and i haven't even touched my phone except to see if JD was actually working. Badass battery monitor shows the radio as the biggest drain, and better battery stats... well, frankly, the info it reports is WAY over my head..
My phone is a fresh install of Embryo 3.2, UCLE2 radio, and cymbaline 1.5 kernal. I'm running go launcher, beautiful widgets for time/weather, and go contacts widget. That's it. I read about the phone idle, charged it to 100%, cleared the battery stats in CWM trying to calibrate it and it seems to have done nothing.
Also, I understand the radio works different for everyone. I think my issue is that if UCLE2 is from 2.3.6 OTA, which is what I was using post root/rom, and what i'm currently using now.. why is it a problem now vrs before?
Should I just download all the available radios for the skyrocket, and try a new one every few days to see which works better?
I'm really just seeking a comprehensive answer to my problem which I can't seem to find anywhere. I wouldn't have posted this if I didn't believe I exhausted all my available options. sorry for the wall of text and thanks for taking the time to help!

It's very obvious that many, many people have this problem, but everyone tries to tell you to battery saving tips that just help to cope with the problem but don't fix it at all.
UCLE2 is not from 2.3.6, it's from the second most recent 4.0.4 leak, by the way. I don't really think this is a radio issue, though I did notice I have a problem in UCLF3 and UCLD2 Odin, but not in UCLE2 or Gingerbread. I'm convinced it's something to do with how these ROMs are flashed. I'm going to try CWM to UCLF3 from UCLE2 and see how that goes.

Yea, please let me know what you find. I'll try a new radio when I get home. I'm not going to bother trying to flash a new rom, or this one over again as i've already done it multiple times - the issue has not changes...
cell standby, phone idle..

Get rid of jd first. It makes ics worse. In fact better battery stats is the only "battery assistance" you should keep. Then reflash everything. If you restore with titanium backup, don't restore system data. You'll have to re enter your email accounts and stuff but your contacts should sync once you do. And every time you flash a new ROM it needs a few days to settle. It will burn extra battery in those few days. And I don't know how go contacts widget works, but it may have some interaction with the phone apk that mohan hasn't engineered for, keeping it awake. I'd go without it for awhile too and see if that helps.
Also get CPU spy. To see if your phone's getting any sleep. You could be having some kind of wake lock. Reboot when you pull it off the charger.
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I think it is in part a wake lock problem, however rebooting after taking it off the charger doesn't help.

st0nez0r said:
Yea, please let me know what you find. I'll try a new radio when I get home. I'm not going to bother trying to flash a new rom, or this one over again as i've already done it multiple times - the issue has not changes...
cell standby, phone idle..
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New radio won't change that. Unless you're not using the one mohan provides in the embryo thread. Something is bugging out the phone apk. You may want to try embryo 3.2 without the cymbaline kernel also, and see if that's any better.
Also I should say again, whatever is causing your drain problem, jd is making it worse.
Anything that might be keeping the phone awake. Maybe a Bluetooth or like I mentioned, possibly the go contacts widget.
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Get rid of jd first. It makes ics worse. In fact better battery stats is the only "battery assistance" you should keep. Then reflash everything. If you restore with titanium backup, don't restore system data. You'll have to re enter your email accounts and stuff but your contacts should sync once you do. And every time you flash a new ROM it needs a few days to settle. It will burn extra battery in those few days. And I don't know how go contacts widget works, but it may have some interaction with the phone apk that mohan hasn't engineered for, keeping it awake. I'd go without it for awhile too and see if that helps.
Also get CPU spy. To see if your phone's getting any sleep. You could be having some kind of wake lock. Reboot when you pull it off the charger.
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Alright, thanks.
I've done as you suggested and will report back.
I've installed BBS and CPUSpy. (I don't know how to read bbs, so perhaps point out some things i should keep an eye on would help.. )
I've removed juice defender, go contact widget, and badass battery monitor. I'm pretty much stock except for go launcher ex and beautiful widgets for time/weather.
I'll also remove and reset the battery cache in CWM
When i get home tonight i'll re-wipe/format etc etc and start from scratch again... *pout* lol

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New radio won't change that. Unless you're not using the one mohan provides in the embryo thread. Something is bugging out the phone apk. You may want to try embryo 3.2 without the cymbaline kernel also, and see if that's any better.
Also I should say again, whatever is causing your drain problem, jd is making it worse.
Anything that might be keeping the phone awake. Maybe a Bluetooth or like I mentioned, possibly the go contacts widget.
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Yep, thanks for the info. I won't change the radio, and i'll keep using whats in mohans embryo thread. I'll re-flash and leave off the kernal (which, i like because when i talk on phone it doesn't get hot like it used too).
I removed JD, contacts widget, and everything else except data is off.
What specifically should I be looking for under CPUSpy and BBS
THe phone has currently been on for an hour and 50 minutes
spu spy states deep sleep of 80% for 1:26:28
and bbs under "other" reports 69.4% for both no or unknown signal and no data connection for 1hr and 16 min both

st0nez0r said:
I'll also remove and reset the battery cache in CWM
When i get home tonight i'll re-wipe/format etc etc and start from scratch again... *pout* lol
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No, don't do any of that and don't reset the battery cache in cwm. This might be your problem actually. When you reset battery in cwm you essentially make a new 100% mark. Like, if you do that when you're at fifty percent battery, you just cut your Max battery life in half. So do THIS when you get home. Turn the brightness all he way up. Download angry birds or something and play it until your phone is dead dead DEAD. Then plug your phone to the OEM charger. The one that has a USB plug on the wall end. Let it charge all the way when it's turned off. Then when you turn it back on, hold power and volumes and go straight to recovery. That's the correct time to reset your battery cache in cwm.
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st0nez0r said:
(which, i like because when i talk on phone it doesn't get hot like it used too).
I removed JD, contacts widget, and everything else except data is off.
What specifically should I be looking for under CPUSpy and BBS
THe phone has currently been on for an hour and 50 minutes
spu spy states deep sleep of 80% for 1:26:28
and bbs under "other" reports 69.4% for both no or unknown signal and no data connection for 1hr and 16 min both
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Keep everything the way you have it now and do he charger thing. If you're at&t. If you're rogers change to ruxlf3 radio. Actually trying a different radio may not be a bad idea but give each one a day to see how it does. See if that "no or unknown signal" in bbs changes. You aren't having wake locks. Deep sleep is what you're looking for in cpuspy. I think jd turning on and off the data and searching for a new signal caused a lot of the burn so far. Are you in an LTE area? The other thing to do is make sure your apn (settings > more > mobile networks > access point names) matches what is listed in the embryo thread. Keep your kernel and don't reflash anything except a radio. Try ruxlf3 or u...f5 tomorrow.
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Are you in an LTE area? The other thing to do is make sure your apn (settings > more > mobile networks > access point names) matches what is listed in the embryo thread.
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I'm in AT&T and I work smack dab in the middle of an LTE area with good signal.
I live 60 mi from work, in a non LTE area but still have good signal.
My apn settings were actually set by the phone when i received a call straight after flashing. Att PTA - internet + mms, i'll check mohans thread and see what's up there.
THanks a lot for your help, I really appreciate it.

Ok, I've had some luck getting normal-ish battery life (~15 hours). Still seems a little below what it should be and performance is also slightly sluggish compared to stock, but it's clearly miles better than the dead in 7 hours life I was getting.
Now, I don't know if I just got lucky finally or if any of this actually helped, but here's what I did:
* Flashed UCLE2 with Odin.
* Ran battery all the way down
* Charged battery all the way up with phone off. Unplugged it, left it off, and recharged it a few times.
* Wiped battery stats
* Odin flash CWM (NON-TOUCH version this time)
* Darxide Superwipe (x2)
* Flash CM9, Gapps
* Boot
* Darxide Superwipe again
* Flash CM9, gapps again
* Boot, drain battery all the way down
* Charge battery all the way up while phone is off.
Again, not saying this is a fix just saying what I did in as much detail as possible in case it helps anyone.

just go download embryo 4.0 fast and stable.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1754473

Battery Drains After Crash

My phone has been acting really weird the last few day. I had [ROM][MTD]CyanogenMod 9.0.0-rc2 UNOFFICIAL by TeamAcid[R5][Jul-20-2012 installed on my phone. But it would crash all of the time. Afterwards when the phone rebooted the battery would go from 100% to 9%. If I dont boot the phone back up right after a crash and wait a little while. When I boot it up the battery will be around 40-45%. I used [Heimdall][One-Click] The T959V Heimdall One-Click Collection [05/20/2012] earlier today, Just to see if I continued to have the battery problem. I only had the phone crash once while on the stock rom, and the battery did drain about 50% but I also started having a problem where I would lose my data connection all together. Rebooting the phone brought it back, only to lose it again after around 30min to 1hr. It has not crashed for about 3hrs now and I have not lost my data connection either. Anyone have any ideas what might be going on here? I tried deleting the battery stats with the battery at 100% before going back to stock but that did not seem to help at all. I downloaded a batter calibrator from the market place and tried that as well. Used it when the battery was at 100%. None of this has worked. Now that im back on the stock rom its only crashed once, but the battery did still drain. Any ideas? I would really like to go back to CyanogenMod 9 but its not worth it if the phone continuously crashes and kills the battery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Try Gremlins Remover.
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So you don't waste any more time, "battery calibration" is snake oil, lithium ion batteries don't need "conditioning" (and actually suffer from both high temperatures and deep discharge cycles), but the moon is made of cheese. Ok, at least the first two are true.
As you're having problems with one of the most stable and reliable GB ROMs for this phone, I suspect that you may have one or more of:
Bad battery
Bad user-land applications
Corrupt application data
Corrupt media data (for example, music on your microSD)
Bad phone
Bad luck
A "start over" approach with a complete clean-out either using the above-mentioned one-click, or doing the equivalent by hand (wiping all partitions, flashing stock, starting with a fresh microSD), then seeing how the phone/battery behaves without any apps would be the path I would take. If it passed that, I'd slowly start adding back apps, and only restoring data/preferences where you really need them.

Im doing the gremlin remover right now. I will let you guys know how to goes. Thanks for the advise, this has been driving me crazy.

Tried the gremlin remover last night and played with my phone today. Its still crashing and then when I boot it up back the battery is pretty much dead... I think i have a bad battery. Never had these problems with the phone before. Thanks for the help guys. I guess Ill get a new battery and see if that fixes the problem.

I have this EXACT same problem. I'm on AOKP and the battery with go from having a decent charge and die. Then if I take the batt out, hold the power button for 15 secs and let the phone sit with no batt for 10 minutes or so, the phone will go back to around 50% batt life. After gremlin remover and Bryan's one click back to stock multiple times, I've finally come to the conclusion that I need a new battery.

I ordered a new battery today. I will let you know how it goes.
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Mine does the same thing... doesn't really crash often.. once in a blue moon. But if I reboot. . I get that instant battery drain ...GR didn't fix it.... I just attribute it to ageing battery.
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So I looked I to this issue more. For anyone having this problem, remove the battery and place it on a hard flat surface to see if it has swollen any, if it has then the battery is defective. My battery actually rocks a little. I could actually tell it had swollen before I even put it on my desk.

That is only for seeing whether a cell has busted. It is normal wear and tear. That is kind of like how u lose battery life after hundreds of cycles because it is just how the current li-ion battery technologies work.
I would download the one click and also reflash boot loaders and repartition your device.
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Tried that, even with bootloaders. OP also stated they used gremlin remover as well. As we we're both having the exact same problem, I was giving him a better solution that wasn't the standard "reflash, repartition, etc."

I finally got my new battery in. And all is well now. Thanks everyone for the advice and help
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thats crazy swapping you battery worked. lol, mine does it too. not so much the crashing just a simple reboot and it will be drop down from 70% to 1%. This was doing the same thing with my phone before my charging port got busted. So i had to swap out the guts from my old galaxy s with broken screen. When i put the new internals in i started with bh's one click back to stock and flashed antonx kernal. Then flashed cm9 and it still does it. i will try a new battery as well.

My thought (AFTER being solved)
Well, I don't mean to come off as rude, but come on guys! I've had this problem for a while, and as soon as it happened I knew I needed a new battery. On top of my phone being somewhat "old", the fact we all play around with it so much, and do so many battery pulls most likely does NOT help the matter. At least I screw around with my phone and try out many ROMs...
But I'm glad I have confirmation that a battery swap will do the trick. It sucks that stores don't carry the t959v battery anymore... Guess I'll be ordering online tonight.

[Q] How to increase battery life?

hey im a noob here so im sorry if this has been asked before but right now i upgraded my phone to ics and the battery life is horrible and im too cheap to get a battery extender so is there anything i can do to improve it or am i just going to have to deal with it?

Get your phone to 100% battery and then just play whatever you like until it completely dies. Then, plug it in to charge and dont touch it until it gets back up to 100%. That is supposed to increase the battery lasting time by 20%. It only works once...so dont do it 5 times hoping for results. This is supposed to be done when you first get the phone, but if its never been you've never done it, its worth the shot.
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rygtuu said:
hey im a noob here so im sorry if this has been asked before but right now i upgraded my phone to ics and the battery life is horrible and im too cheap to get a battery extender so is there anything i can do to improve it or am i just going to have to deal with it?
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Let the ROM 'soak' in. It'll get better. You are probably busy messing with it figuring out all the features which is normal and makes the battery seem terrible. But overall it is pretty good.
And the post above is an old wives tale these days. It's funny to read people still recommending it.

lumin30 said:
Let the ROM 'soak' in. It'll get better. You are probably busy messing with it figuring out all the features which is normal and makes the battery seem terrible. But overall it is pretty good.
And the post above is an old wives tale these days. It's funny to read people still recommending it.
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Kinda, when you first flash with a factory reset, you don't have a battery stats file. This is another good reason to flash when your battery is 100% charged. When Senior Members here say "soak in", they are saying that the first boot all of the system apk (application packages) are cached to /cache. Doing too much while these apps are being cached screws up the statistics of the battery stats. If I really want good battery life, I totally wipe, and let the phone sit for 10-15 minutes. I leave usb plugged in till it's 100%, then pull the usb and use the phone until it totally dies.
By this time, the day is over and it needs to be charged anyways. I plug it into the charger before bed and let it charge up all the way with nothing running (no wifi, no bt, no background apps running).
After that charge, battery life seems soo much better. ymmv. it would be good to know if that works for you too.
Otherwise, everyone uses their phone differently, and some people install stupid apps that have intensive background services running that eat batteries, then complain about the rom sucking instead of introspecting about how they use their phone.

bhundven said:
Kinda, when you first flash with a factory reset, you don't have a battery stats file. This is another good reason to flash when your battery is 100% charged. When Senior Members here say "soak in", they are saying that the first boot all of the system apk (application packages) are cached to /cache. Doing too much while these apps are being cached screws up the statistics of the battery stats.
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Just to clarify - battery stats file have nothing to do with battery performance and the battery stat file "is reset every time you unplug from power with a relatively full charge (thus why the battery usage UI data resets at that point)." Google Engineer Dianne Hackborn

ahh ok thanks guys ill do what you guys said and see if it helps

you can also install one of the battery saver apps on the market, like juice defender or similar. They will typically help and some can control how often background services are allowed to collect data.

mike-y said:
you can also install one of the battery saver apps on the market, like juice defender or similar. They will typically help and some can control how often background services are allowed to collect data.
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These arent as helpful as they use to be. I have seen and challenged people to run with and without and the added battery life is either very minimal or actually worse with these apps.
Battery saver apps where created when android was very young and had bad management of the battery power. The way it works now it should lower the power to the radios low enough to save battery but not completely shut off the radios. Shutting them off will actually harm battery life because it takes so much more power to turn them on and off repeatedly then to let them idle.

no i think it was more designed for froyo and gb because if you try those battery savers in froyo or gb you can see it works and battery last long but if you test it in ics or jb (i have test juice defender with jb in the sgs3) and what i can see its that sometimes it lags (not always just when you like two or three apps open which for me in the sgs3 was weird) and data sometimes hangs i mean it doesn't load pages
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Download Gemini from the play store and manage the autorun for apps. That's what I do and it saves quite a bit of battery
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solrac1212 said:
no i think it was more designed for froyo and gb because if you try those battery savers in froyo or gb you can see it works and battery last long but if you test it in ics or jb (i have test juice defender with jb in the sgs3) and what i can see its that sometimes it lags (not always just when you like two or three apps open which for me in the sgs3 was weird) and data sometimes hangs i mean it doesn't load pages
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Ill agree with you on froyo but gingerbread towards the end was much better.
The biggest thing is people dont realize how much power is used to start and stop things. Letting them idle will use battery but not nearly as much if you start and stop many times a day. Now at night if you want to turn off those things then yeah go for it. But if you are a frequent phone checker then starting and stopping them everytime will chew through the battery.
A good example is this, its summertime go outside and look at your electric meter when the ac first turns on. It will spin reeal fast for a minute or so while the system gets everything going then it will slow down. This same thing applies to your phone and its radios. Each time you shut it off it has to go through a process so you dont get corrupted data. And when you turn it on it has to use a lot of battery to make sure things dont get messed up and get to the proper operating form.
So any app that shuts off the radios manually and such will end up costing you battery if you are a power user.

If you can follow the steps exactly as i wrote them, then install the team FAH-Q kernel found in the dev section...
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thomas.raines said:
If you can follow the steps exactly as i wrote them, then install the team FAH-Q kernel found in the dev section...
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I put FAH-Q kernal on AOKP and it seemed to help a bit. I was using systempanel and it said facebook was sucking cpu at night while the phone was resting... so i took off facebook for the moment to see if any other apps/processes could be causing a drain.
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I spend 15-20 min in the morning going through stuff on my phone. Then I will listen to music in the car on my way to work 35 min. My phone will be at 80% by the time i walk in to work. I check things during the work day once and a while and by 2pm I will be around 40%. leaving work I will have 35-30% .... ok i'll just quit now and say running 12hrs i will have about 15% left. I think I am an average phone user. not sure how much everyone else uses theirs.

justiz33 said:
I put FAH-Q kernal on AOKP and it seemed to help a bit. I was using systempanel and it said facebook was sucking cpu at night while the phone was resting... so i took off facebook for the moment to see if any other apps/processes could be causing a drain.
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I spend 15-20 min in the morning going through stuff on my phone. Then I will listen to music in the car on my way to work 35 min. My phone will be at 80% by the time i walk in to work. I check things during the work day once and a while and by 2pm I will be around 40%. leaving work I will have 35-30% .... ok i'll just quit now and say running 12hrs i will have about 15% left. I think I am an average phone user. not sure how much everyone else uses theirs.
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Music soaks up a lot of battery as well as display, data, and sync. You can try turning off sync and data when you don't need them. But it sounds like you are doing better. I am still concerned with what else you have running in the background though... however, 12-16 hours isn't bad at all...
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bhundven said:
.... If I really want good battery life, I totally wipe, and let the phone sit for 10-15 minutes. I leave usb plugged in till it's 100%, then pull the usb and use the phone until it totally dies.
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What do you mean by totally wipe? do you mean go into recovery to wipe data, cache, and davlik cache? then restore after the battery is fully charged?

HKSpeed said:
What do you mean by totally wipe? do you mean go into recovery to wipe data, cache, and davlik cache? then restore after the battery is fully charged?
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Yes, as well as /system/ and at least .android_secure on your microSD
I would recommend against fully discharging your battery as a matter of course. While this might have been useful in the days of NiCads, deep discharges and heat are the Kryptonite of LiIon batteries.