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So I had just gotten done posting a smartass remark about how I had gotten two days on one charge with my phone, only to pull it off the charger go to work, and have the sucker die in 4 hours.
I figured out what I did, and you should try it too, it may help you out. I am running the leaked radio btw.
So earlier today I decided to go into ##778# and type the password 000000 and then modem settings and rev A and change it from Enable to eHRPD because I figured with the 4G network back I could use the dual radio 3G network. Well That is when my battery life went to ****. I pulled my phone out of my pocket to it burning hot and at 9%. I quickly changed it back to Enabled, and it survived the 9% all the way to 5% over a period of another 6 hours.
So unless you need to talk and use data at the same time, use the regular 3G network like I am, and see if your battery life doesn't improve. I still am on 4G all day, but this was literally the only feature I changed on my phone between amazing battery life and crappy battery life.
You can still do talk/data at the same time on Rev A with 3G.
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You can still do talk/data at the same time on Rev A with 3G.
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Right and at the moment, no thunderbolt should have eHRPD. No matter what verizon says. So we're all running on rev a right now, and you must have done something else. EHRPD will not waste your battery any more than normal.
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Nikolai2.1 said:
Right and at the moment, no thunderbolt should have eHRPD. No matter what verizon says. So we're all running on rev a right now, and you must have done something else. EHRPD will not waste your battery any more than normal.
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Actually mine is set to eHRPD. Just bought it from Vzw a few days ago, rooted and flashed DBamf 161 along with the new radio and Im still set to it.
Making me think I should switch it hmmm.... hmmmmm
Nikolai2.1 said:
Right and at the moment, no thunderbolt should have eHRPD. No matter what verizon says. So we're all running on rev a right now, and you must have done something else. EHRPD will not waste your battery any more than normal.
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I just checked mine and it was set to eHRPD by default. Does this mean I should change it to enabled or leave it alone?
It doesn't really matter what it's set to. It seems as though Verizon has made all Thunderbolts default to Rev A in 3G areas after the outage rather than eHRPD regardless of what the modem setting is. You can check under About Phone-Network-Mobile Network Type
I use the LTE on/off app and Juice Defender Beta to increase battery life.
Set my phone to eHRPD then rebooted it and it went back to enabled I think Verizon is doing a tower by tower fix.
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Mine is rooted and I get almost 2 days of moderate use out of it. Its the only way to make this phone truly great.
parson33 said:
I use the LTE on/off app and Juice Defender Beta to increase battery life.
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Same here, I can go a good day and a half before I need to charge again.
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Mine is rooted and I get almost 2 days of moderate use out of it. Its the only way to make this phone truly great.
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what kernel/governer do you use?
I'm running das bamf 1.6 remix with the stock radio and the kernel it came with. I know that it isn't really necessary to wipe but I did. I used a battery calibration app and auto brightness.
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worked great for me thanks
I'm also using the smartass setting as well.
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What are you guys using?
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I'm currently using Tesla Coil 1.7.1 with imoseyon's batt saver kernel, setCPU using the smartass governor.
Today my battery life was absolutely horrible: 6 hours from 100% to 19% with 1 hour of screen on time at ~25% brightness, 8 mins of call time and maybe 2 hours of music off of my SD card.
I just can't figure this phone out...
I have noticed that as well. Some days my battery rocks, and some days it sinks like a rock. Not sure why. It's as unpredictable as my wife! LOL
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The other thing I do is if I know I am not going to use my 3G or 4G connection I turn it off until I need it. This Rom I use has a widget for switching it on or off.
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The battery sipper kernel is the only kernel for me. Using the same Rom I went from about 6 hours of constant 4g to over a day of 4g. I do have the extended battery. I leave 4g on ALL day and get more battery life than I did on any other phone. I love that Damn kernel.
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So does changing the modem do anything or not? I just checked and my Rev A setting is eHRPD and under about phone, it says CDMA-eHRPD. I have not changed anything other than turn LTE off when not needed, and when I turn it off I select CDMA auto (PRL). I am using the new radio and BAMF 1.6. I get decent battery life so I am not too concerned, but I am curious.
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About 33 hrs w/ WiFi OFF, 30 hrs on. With use: calls, messaging, Facebook, ect...... maybe about 22 hrs. Running apps all day are GoLauncher, GoPower, Magic Locker.... ect..
i get about 14 hours before i have to charge on a regular day
Cell signal quality and whether the cell radio is on make a huge difference for me.
I spend most of my time where I have wifi and now turn off the cell radio during those times, getting upwards of 30h on one charge (including occasional cell radio usage). Before I did this, I'd usually get through the day but not much more, around 14h.
I'm currently using Easy Battery Saver. It is making a lot of difference. Been playing around with the different settings. I will report back after a full charge than discharge.
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i got 8hrs today. i was using gps nav, camera and text. died on me and then i got lost..
I get around 24 hours on an average day. Have seen 2 days and a few hours before but it was in standby for most of that
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Not bad.
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Blaze has the best battery I've seen
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my next rom update will have more battery saving scripts/tweaks
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All day and then some. I'll post a screenshot tonight.
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Why does it seem like my battery sucks. Or at least when i listen to tune in radio at work. 8am ill be at 100% and if i listen to radio for a couple hours by 12 noon ill be at 15%. That listening threw Bluetooth, wifi and GPS off, brightness all the way down. I no 4g kills ur battery way faster. But even if i turn 4g off battory still dies fast while listening to internet radio.
Any ideas why
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Why does it seem like my battery sucks. Or at least when i listen to tune in radio at work. 8am ill be at 100% and if i listen to radio for a couple hours by 12 noon ill be at 15%. That listening threw Bluetooth, wifi and GPS off, brightness all the way down. I no 4g kills ur battery way faster. But even if i turn 4g off battory still dies fast while listening to internet radio.
Any ideas why
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Are you the type of person to press the home button when switching in between apps? If so they're running in the background, and apps like Facebook can eat up CPU usage. Bluetooth and radio apps will do the same.
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I took it off the charger at 6:30, used it until 8:30, turned it off until 12:30, had a good signal until 6:00, had bad\no signal until 10:00.
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Bulletblitz27 said:
Are you the type of person to press the home button when switching in between apps? If so they're running in the background, and apps like Facebook can eat up CPU usage. Bluetooth and radio apps will do the same.
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Actually I do always hit the home button, to get from one app to launcher to another app, ext. If nor home, how do u get out of the app? Back button?
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Fairly typical. GPS is always on 24-7 and wifi on most of the time when home. Often end up charging and then taking off charge before bed so I get a 7 or 8 hour cruise mode with no activity to start off each battery stat as you can see by the plateau at the start. Over clocked @ 1344 w/ screen on, flat clocked with screen off and no undervolting so its not too bad. As soon as I move/copy/paste files or anything leaving screen on I see drastic drops in battery life but typical medium use lasts all day no prob and battery left to spare.
Sorry edit...... this is on my G-Nexus with Paranoid Android and trinity kernel.
My a500 on Flexreaper Extreem does about 25-30 hours with fairly heavy use. 40-48 hours when mostly idle. Overclocked @ 1504 screen on, 1000 screen off w/ Minor undervolt. Lovin custom roms !
WOW.....EDIT !!!! : I'm a tard. I could have sworn this was a Galaxy Nexus thread. I apologize, don't know how I ended up here.
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trevor7428 said:
Actually I do always hit the home button, to get from one app to launcher to another app, ext. If nor home, how do u get out of the app? Back button?
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Yes.
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trevor7428 said:
Why does it seem like my battery sucks. Or at least when i listen to tune in radio at work. 8am ill be at 100% and if i listen to radio for a couple hours by 12 noon ill be at 15%. That listening threw Bluetooth, wifi and GPS off, brightness all the way down. I no 4g kills ur battery way faster. But even if i turn 4g off battory still dies fast while listening to internet radio.
Any ideas why
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Tune in itself will drain your battery. Love the app but I use it sparingly as it kills any phone I've used it on.
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I am using the the latest sky pics, is there anyway to turn on/off the lte/3g
Thanks
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Not aware of anyway to switch to 3G only, but I know gingerbread has an option for hspa/GSM and GSM only mode. I just use a different apn to access atts hspa+ only network, gets me around throttling. Running sky ics ucle2
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Yeah thanks, just came from captivate with slim ics, and it had that option to turn off 3g. Just hope there is way to turn it off to save some battery
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Yeah thanks, just came from captivate with slim ics, and it had that option to turn off 3g. Just hope there is way to turn it off to save some battery
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Use seans sky ics rom, incredible battery life. TIP: Some dont know this, but if you go into wifi where it shows what access points are in reach, hit menu and an advanced menu will pop up. Tell wifi to only stay on while charging.
If i am on wifi and pocket the phone, wifi will turn off while sleeping, it will still use cell data though, but saves battery big time while sleeping. I have had the skyrocket for a few months now and I am pretty normal to heavy user and I can easily get a whole day. 16 hours+ with data on at all times.
The sky ICS rom does allow you to tuen data off completley within the 15 toggle mod that is baked into the rom.
Yeah that's the rom I'm using, but I was just wondering if I can have data on but lte and 3g off, thanks for trying to help anyways
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Tests have shown that the LTE radio is on even if using a different APN or 3G Only mode (Rogers GB)
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This is probably one of the worst phones on battery life that I have ever had... No matter what I do, what tweaks I use of what rom I'm on... I always only get 7 to 8 hours of battery with 1 hr screen on time.
I honestly have no idea what to do... I'm so sick of it. Anybody have any suggestions?
Seriously?
I have been on my phone all day with a full charge and I still have about half the juice. I am on stock 4.0.4 ICS. The one that droidstyles has in his guide. The Rom that came with my phone sucked on battery. This Rom works great for some reason.
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What are your settings on? Post your settings (like screen, whether GPS is on, ect), a lot of times it has to do with your settings. I used to have so-so battery life but I tweaked some stuff in my settings and am very pleased with the phone.
Believe me, if you want bad, try the Droid Charge. Worst 4g phone I have ever had in terms of battery life.
This is on clean rom. Ignore the screen percentage, going down since this was a recently flashed rom.
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I have nothing running... Only thing that I actually did was run v6 and I am running kt kernel
I'm on pure motives rls7
I'll add a screen shot of my battery status tomorrow cause I just plugged in
I get 30 hours with 5 and a half hours screen time.
Idk why your battery life is so bad.
I have power save on, no vibration, and sync set to manual. That's about it. Battery life for me is amazing.
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Don't know if this problem could occur with different ROM's, but I had issues with a runaway process that kept showing up. Maybe try Developer Options -> Show CPU Usage. I noticed that one called gsiff_daemon kept showing up at the top and was making my battery drain extremely fast. Everyone on this forum said it was a common issue and that it wasn't a crucial file, therefore I should just change the name so it wouldn't get accessed.
On RLS7 and kt kernel? This kernel has capabilities for overclocking/underclocking & overvolting/undervolting. By default your min Mhz is set to 384. Go into ktweaker and lower it to 96, test your phone out with a scaled stress test (play store app for stress testing). Then you can also go into the extra settings of ktweaker and set the Mhz for when your screen is off in addition to the governor (many options of which some are powersaving labelled).
If you want to save more battery read the kernel's thread to see starting undervolting values and lower from there while testing your phones limits. More undervolted you are, the less battery your phone uses for that particular frequency.
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You obviously never had the thunderbolt, now that battery sucked. You have to let the rom settle in and your battery will improve. Usually for me the first day not so good after that everything is fine.
mikeman45 said:
You obviously never had the thunderbolt, now that battery sucked. You have to let the rom settle in and your battery will improve. Usually for me the first day not so good after that everything is fine.
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I had a Thunderbolt. Yep, now that was poor battery life.
My S3 gives me 12 hours if I use it heavily. Typically, at 16 hours, I still have 40% remaining. I leave WiFi, bluetooth, and GPS on 100% of the time.
As bad as your battery is, I would suspect that you have a poor radio signal.and the radios are cranking up the power to work. Try using WiFi or turning off mobile data for a while to get the LTE radio turned off.
man, i barely get 8 hours at times
PureLife90 said:
This is probably one of the worst phones on battery life that I have ever had... No matter what I do, what tweaks I use of what rom I'm on... I always only get 7 to 8 hours of battery with 1 hr screen on time.
I honestly have no idea what to do... I'm so sick of it. Anybody have any suggestions?
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Its not the phone.
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worwig said:
As bad as your battery is, I would suspect that you have a poor radio signal.and the radios are cranking up the power to work. Try using WiFi or turning off mobile data for a while to get the LTE radio turned off.
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This. For example, I have a 4g tower nearby at work, normally (4-5 bars). But sometimes it disappears, and I end up on a 1-2 bar 3g tower for the day. On those days, my battery life is around 8hrs max, barely using it. On good signal, even with crazy heavy usage (4hrs screen on and lots of 4g web browsing) I can get over 8 hours.
Signal strength has a LOT to do with battery life.
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I get amazing battery life. Stock battery too.
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Check your Google account sync - could be something in there is not syncing correctly. Settings / Accounts / Google.
I had this - Internet Sync was not working but kept trying burning CPU, network, and battery. Disabled the failing sync and all was better.
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Is it switching between 3 and 4g a lot? Constantly searching is rough on a battery.
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Wow. I've never gotten that bad of battery life. This thing is amazing on battery life!
Devices:
Samsung Galaxy S3 - stock JB leak
HTC Incredible - JB Inc RC3
Here is my battery life.
Sgs 3
Rom Wicked jb v1
Kernel stock
Uc 1.35
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I seriously doubt you guys are getting 7 plus hours of screen on time with the stock battery. If you are then you are charging it at some point.
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I seriously doubt you guys are getting 7 plus hours of screen on time with the stock battery. If you are then you are charging it at some point.
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I am using stock battery on stock jellybean leak and get 30+ hours with 5.5 to 7 hours screen on time you can see from the pics above that we are not charging. The bar would go UP at some point if we were.
I just have my phone set up the perfect way to get maximum battery life.
It's simple. I personally have nothing to gain from lying about something so silly as battery life.
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So basically I'm trying to understand why 3G reduced drastically my battery life. I'm not saying that I'm using it "actively", but I really need it idling.
Sometimes I have poor signal, and sure, it drains a lot of my battery... But while I have good reception battery drains fast too. I'm rooted and using stock Jelly Bean. My network have no support to fast dormancy (I'm assuming it's true because Better Battery Stats used to show a lot of time spent on FDCompleteTime wakelock before disabling it), so I disabled it. After about 7 hours mostly with 3g turned on I have 52% of my battery. A hour and a half of screen time. I do understand 3G drains my battery while I'm using it, or while I use the phone. That's ok, I accept it. But while idling is really something I want to know why...
Anyone else is facing the same?
You can try to use juice defender.
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GottaProblemBro said:
You can try to use juice defender.
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As you're using Nexus 4 I got to ask you about it: how long your battery stand with 3G?
vctrrl said:
As you're using Nexus 4 I got to ask you about it: how long your battery stand with 3G?
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I'm on h and h+ most of the time and occasionally 2g but no 3g. I'm rooted, stock and Franco kernel. My battery life is great I can get up to a little over 4 hours and sometimes 5 of screen on time.
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GottaProblemBro said:
I'm on h and h+ most of the time and occasionally 2g but no 3g. I'm rooted, stock and Franco kernel. My battery life is great I can get up to a little over 4 hours and sometimes 5 of screen on time.
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Sorry, I said 3G but I mean H and H+. Besides the screen time, how long a cycle lasts?
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Sorry, I said 3G but I mean H and H+. Besides the screen time, how long a cycle lasts?
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On an average day 12-15 hours.
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still lasts way more than I would expect from it...