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Amazing battery life all of a sudden?

Not sure what I could have done but since yesterday my battery life has been nuts. I installed and am using a livewallpaper but that's it. Phone has been on for 5 days and it just got better yesterday. Is it even possible that lwp could help battery life?
Doing well today too will post screenshot later on. I've been using it as normal so its not due to change in usage at all. Again the only link I can find is the lwp!!
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Wow. That's amazing! Wish I got that kind of usage!!
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I'm pretty sure live wallpaper won't be saving you battery, having a constant animation on your background is only going to increase your CPU load and RAM usage, which will surely impact on your battery life.
What ROM/ kernal are you using?
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I wish my phone would do that too, I need to charged it everyday.
I knew it was going to be like this before i got it, but sometimes is just annoying.
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Since i have my acer iconia a500 my sensation lasts 2 days with 1 charge
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One of the most effective things I have ever done for battery life is, after the first full drain/charge Calibration I did four more full drain/full charges before using normally. Then I remained patient with imperfect battery life until those steps were done.
Battery life is great.
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Jealous!
Wish I got those kind of results. After the update to 2.3.4 my battery life has been terrible and nothing I seem to do is helping

It simply looks like you've been on wifi a lot. It's known that being on wifi puts A LOT LESS strain on your battery than does using the network.

Same here battery life is not as good as expected but I guess there's not much we can do, either buy a much bigger capacity battery or be contended with what the stock could offer.
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How much screen in time? It can last forever on stand by.
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This is what I have now. With just casual texting and facebook, auto sync is off on all accounts except weather for the widget , no games. So I'm sure by the end of the day ill only get atleast 8hrs on my battery if I get lucky. From 100% to 65% in 3hrs I don't know if its good or not but oh well what can we do.
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Yeah wifi and wifi calling help a ton. This is today with hardly any wifi and a little more usage. Still it gets me through most days from waking up to sleeping.
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me too have a great battery life
since rooted and using leedroid ROM, my phone could last 12 hours with casual fb, sms, and calling. with some note-taking.

Got the Anker, and haven't really been following their recommended instructions. I guess I'll suck it up for the next week and just do it.

I'm 100% stock and unrooted but using LPP instead of Sense. That's it.

azwan92 said:
me too have a great battery life
since rooted and using leedroid ROM, my phone could last 12 hours with casual fb, sms, and calling. with some note-taking.
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Mine gives me double that, also using Leedroid's rom and also same usage pattern.
All in all very happy with my Sensation

What's LLP? Sorry for the question I'm a noob just got ny first android so I'm pure stock.
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jhobert said:
What's LLP? Sorry for the question I'm a noob just got ny first android so I'm pure stock.
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Launcher Pro Plus!
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Good battery life here, 18 hours use with ~25% left when i plugged in last night. Rooted running Revolution HD ROM over clocked at 1.56GHz

Using Leedroid and a 7 quid 1900mA battery off Amazon. Auto sync off a few phone calls moderate to high texting and tweeting. A little gaming.
I can easily get over 2 days on 1 charge

Battery life question

Thinking of getting a Sensation, but I want to know what the average battery life for a rooted, custom ROM with me being a light to medium user. Will it get me through a whole day of use without recharging?
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I get 10 hours medium use, 13 hours light use. Don't let that put you off, I have problems with my battery.. most people usually get more than me! You can also get extra batteries which can last you two whole days.
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Yea battery life is ok. Its really good on cm7 & miui. More so on miui. Love this phone though. You gotta pay to play.
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I'm able to last till 8-9pm in the noon with Wifi - Data On and my Email Synchronising every 30 minutes. Of course I'm on the ArHD rom,
If you are really keen on battery life, you can always try replacement batteries.
One of such that achieved some fame is the Anker Battery.
Proven by various XDA users that it's working.
You can give it a try

Cell standby: AOSP vs. Sense

Okay, I've been meaning to ask everyone about this for a while now. Has anyone noticed extremely high cell standby use in battery stats? The reason I ask is, when I am running a sense ROM it reads right around 5% usage. But when I am running any AOSP ROM, it usually between 35-40% and causes me to get really poor battery life. Has anyone else encountered this? Thanks for any info.
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No, i have used both and havent really noticed anythiing like that. It may be just crappy cell signal, what roms were you comparing

I've flashed just about everything available for Mt4g except the ICS ROM's. I'm running team Inferno's arhd at the moment, but have in the recent past tried coredroid, tdj's sense ROM and a few others as well as cyanogenmod, MIUI, and some other AOSP roms too. I get great service in my area, and this has been an issue on all three mt4g's I've had.
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I remember someone posting on here about sense or aosp roms, that you could open titanium backup and delete something called "Google Backup Transport" to help a lot of battery issue. I'm not sure if its related to what your problem is though..
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I'll look into it. Thanks for the tip.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1532000
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Thank you for the link! Sounds like the exact problem I've been having.
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Well, I removed the Google transport apk. Looks like I have the same problem with really high cell standby. I'll keep looking for fixes, but until then, I guess I'm running sense.
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Look into getting BetteryBatteryStats (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809). This will help you figure out exactly which process is draining your battery, as it isn't always Google Transport.
Also, this is a long shot since you said you have this issue on all AOSP ROMs, but have you tried changing the kernel just to see if that makes a difference? I know each ROM comes with a different kernel, but maybe there's a combination of ROM + other kernel that will work for you, instead of the default. I know that was my issue at one point.

morbidmrmartin said:
Okay, I've been meaning to ask everyone about this for a while now. Has anyone noticed extremely high cell standby use in battery stats? The reason I ask is, when I am running a sense ROM it reads right around 5% usage. But when I am running any AOSP ROM, it usually between 35-40% and causes me to get really poor battery life. Has anyone else encountered this? Thanks for any info.
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On the AOSP Roms I always thought that it was normal for cell standby to be the highest battery drainer in the list because that's just how it was reported for some reason. I could never get the Display's battery drain to be higher than the cell standby. But either way I got the same battery life whether I used Sense or AOSP. The only difference was that AOSP just displayed the battery usage wrong.

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On the AOSP Roms I always thought that it was normal for cell standby to be the highest battery drainer in the list because that's just how it was reported for some reason. I could never get the Display's battery drain to be higher than the cell standby. But either way I got the same battery life whether I used Sense or AOSP. The only difference was that AOSP just displayed the battery usage wrong.
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+1...I do receive better battery life on AOSP tho, unless I debloat Sense. But the cell standby is always high on AOSP

I've tried most kernels that are out there, and still have the issue. I thought at first that the readings might just be different in AOSP vs. Sense. I usually let the ROM settle in for a day or two to make sure, but cell standby is usually double what display is in battery stats. I can literally watch the battery get crushed. Average battery life is about 8 hours on any given AOSP ROM and close to 24 hours on sense roms. I just seems like it should be the other way around haha. I really appreciate all the help I've received from everyone! You're all great!
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morbidmrmartin said:
I've tried most kernels that are out there, and still have the issue. I thought at first that the readings might just be different in AOSP vs. Sense. I usually let the ROM settle in for a day or two to make sure, but cell standby is usually double what display is in battery stats. I can literally watch the battery get crushed. Average battery life is about 8 hours on any given AOSP ROM and close to 24 hours on sense roms. I just seems like it should be the other way around haha. I really appreciate all the help I've received from everyone! You're all great!
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Hmm, well one thing is for sure when your on AOSP and your in a area with bad coverage the battery drains significantly trying to connect to T-Mobile. Have you tried putting on airplane mode in those situations? It's what I do when I'm in school because I have literally no service there.
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That's the strange thing, I get great service in my area. Otherwise I would put the phone in airplane mode like you suggested.
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morbidmrmartin said:
That's the strange thing, I get great service in my area. Otherwise I would put the phone in airplane mode like you suggested.
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Did you try disabling mobile data when not using it? Or using juice defender where it would turn of data when the screen turns off?
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I've got juice defender plus. It adds around an hour and a half of life. The problem is, it seems that most of the battery isn't used up by data being enabled, but the phone being connected for voice and text. I'm not willing to shut off all radios for extra battery life because what use is a phone that people can't call you on?
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Did you try the MOD Shot of Awesomeness? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572153
they have one for AOSP GB ROMs not just ICS.

I'm not sure what I did different this time, but I installed cm7.2 and flashed tdjs kernel over it. After about a day, everything settled in and cell standby is now staying under 15% its really strange, I've run this combination before and had issues, but not this time! I'm not one to question a good thing thanks for all your help everyone!
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morbidmrmartin said:
I'm not sure what I did different this time, but I installed cm7.2 and flashed tdjs kernel over it. After about a day, everything settled in and cell standby is now staying under 15% its really strange, I've run this combination before and had issues, but not this time! I'm not one to question a good thing thanks for all your help everyone!
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It's a miracle! Lol, congratulations!

[Q] Battery life is horrible all of a sudden?

For the past couple of days my battery has been draining at an unbelievable rate. I've been using the same rebel rom for a while and this is a new issue to me. Does anyone have ideas of what I can do to fix this? I can hardly last a single day on one charge when before I could last almost two.
Here are some screenshots.
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commarag said:
For the past couple of days my battery has been draining at an unbelievable rate. I've been using the same rebel rom for a while and this is a new issue to me. Does anyone have ideas of what I can do to fix this? I can hardly last a single day on one charge when before I could last almost two.
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Same thing happened to my friend, turning off LTE fixed it.

I used to get24 hrs total time and 5 hours screen time. Now I'm averaging 8 hours total and 2.5 hours screen time. No crazy wake locks or anything. Started happening after flashing cleanrom 4.5 and all the different radios. May go to stock ruu reunlock and install 4.5 again see if it helps.
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sounds like a rogue app

HTC One XL

I'm thinking should i get this phone, because battery life is IMPORTANT to me! How long can i get just by using 3G instead of LTE?
I'm currently using Galaxy S2 btw ..

Just leave your internet off when you aren't using it.. switching to 3g doesn't really so anything for me
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If battery life is all that's important to you, have you considered the Droid Razr Maxx? It has nearly double the battery that this phone has

I charge the phone while sleeping and unplug it during the day. I get 12-16 hours of use with 4-8 hours of screen time. I use WiFi/3g when I need speed otherwise edge for all other times just for notifications.
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954wrecker said:
I charge the phone while sleeping and unplug it during the day. I get 12-16 hours of use with 4-8 hours of screen time. I use WiFi/3g when I need speed otherwise edge for all other times just for notifications.
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What is your Rom and kernel setup?
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Rebelmod Liquid smooth beta 1. With rohan b5 kernel settings as he suggested. Both are awesome together. Justunbean inverted gapps also.
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954wrecker said:
Rebelmod Liquid smooth beta 1. With rohan b5 kernel settings as he suggested. Both are awesome together. Justunbean inverted gapps also.
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Are those gapps in that thread of liquid? Also, do you get that high squeal on the recorded video playback?
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4-5 hours screen on time standard

Hmm ... i don't mind going ahead to root & flash rom & kernel. But, is there alot of rom out there available to ONE XL?

For times I know I'll be taking pics and vids I switch to a rom with the sense camera. I tried a ton of settings and the new 4.2 cam but I'm just not happy with the pics or vids unfortunately. The switch takes me less than 5 minutes to backup then restore and reboot so its no big deal.
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Kelvinjkke said:
Hmm ... i don't mind going ahead to root & flash rom & kernel. But, is there alot of rom out there available to ONE XL?
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Take a look in the dev sections. There probably aren't as many roms as with Samsung phones but I think the quality of the ones we do get are better.
4 hours of on screen time with this phone is typical.
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Will i be able to get a day of battery life with 3G on, but only on light usage such as whatsapp/fb/twitter?
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With light usage you'll get 20+ hours, that's what I get on stock, screen time about 2 hours.
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Kelvinjkke said:
Will i be able to get a day of battery life with 3G on, but only on light usage such as whatsapp/fb/twitter?
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I get around 48 hours, with around 2 hours of screen-on time on LTE at work, WiFi at home. Light usage, including browsing, FB, XDA, etc.
I mostly use stock Sense ROMs, or custom ROMs based on Sense. I got a bit less on earlier firmware build (1.73/1.85). But as of 2.20 and later builds, its 2 days if my usage is low.
Its going to depend a great bit on the cell coverage in your area. If coverage is good, battery life will be just fine for a day or more with light usage, regardless of 3G or LTE.

LTE does use battery faster. You can limit it to wcdma and still get 4g and battery is definitely better. Still very respectable battery life even with LTE. If you turn off mobile network when you don't need data, and turn on as needed, you will easily get a full day or around 6 hours on screen time.
And redpoint said the most important part in the post above. Signal strength is a huge factor. If you are close to the cell site and have great signal, battery life is awesome. If you have poor signal, it will eat your battery fast.
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