I have a Nexus S with a jellybean stock ROM. Batterylife is currently very poor. I only can do like 5-6 hours on one charge. When you google on battery life Nexus S you see that many people have this problem as well.
I was wondering if I root the phone and install Cyanogenmod if battery life should be better. Any comments?
It depends on how do you use your phone and on your battery's state.
With cyanogen (CM stock kernel) I do 2-2.30 of screen usage, 30-60 minutes of calls, 30-40 minutes of navigation and minimum 30-40 whatsapp messages ( I have disabled all syncronization services except those fo Google)
Well, I have a ns4g and I would say it depends on your usage. I'm getting about 2.5 hours of screen time. If I disable sync & data and such it idles pretty well but I also have 3 accounts that I sync. JB is definitely worse than ICS, where I didn't really need to care that I own 3 chargers and 2 spare batteries.
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guzzi333 said:
I have a Nexus S with a jellybean stock ROM. Batterylife is currently very poor. I only can do like 5-6 hours on one charge. When you google on battery life Nexus S you see that many people have this problem as well.
I was wondering if I root the phone and install Cyanogenmod if battery life should be better. Any comments?
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How long have you used the phone? If its more than 1 year and a half (like me), I just did something that gave me a better battery life.
wait for it..
I bought a new battery. no kidding. I got 13 hours battery life with 2 hours of screen on time. All Stock, like you
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im on cm10, and i update daily with the new nightlies. however the greatest problem i have is the damn battery, i drains fast. this is the main problem i have with it, and im thinkin of goin back to stock sense. can someone give something how to resolve the battery thing
In almost every ROM thread that is NOT sense based, you'll discover that the battery life isn't as good as it is on sense based ROMs. The suggestions that I have read over and over deal with turning off auto-sync or at least Facebook. FB and location services in maps seems to be the largest causes of battery drain... Along with screen brightness. I'm on AOKP nightlies and I get about 14 hrs with about 2hrs of screen time. I haven't tried shutting down Facebook yet so maybe that will help... Ultimately I just deal with the battery issue.
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In almost every ROM thread that is NOT sense based, you'll discover that the battery life isn't as good as it is on sense based ROMs. The suggestions that I have read over and over deal with turning off auto-sync or at least Facebook. FB and location services in maps seems to be the largest causes of battery drain... Along with screen brightness. I'm on AOKP nightlies and I get about 14 hrs with about 2hrs of screen time. I haven't tried shutting down Facebook yet so maybe that will help... Ultimately I just deal with the battery issue.
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From the sounds of it, the battery life's been getting better and better as time goes on. I'm waiting for things to settle down a little more before switching from clean rom, but I definitely want to get on cm10 eventually.
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That's odd because I found that my battery life got much better after installing CM10.
Have you tried to calibrate your battery?
I'm hoping given some time the battery life will increase on the aosp ROMs. Back on the Desire it was the opposite, Sense ROMs sucked battery and the CM7 ROM was better (from my experience anyway).
I'm currently using the AOKP nightly and my usage can vary pretty wildly. On a work day (with mobile data turned off unless I need it, and I always have auto sync off) I can get about 14-16 hours with 2-3 hours of screen on time. On weekends when I use it more it can drain in just a few hours of mid to heavy usage, with a couple hours screen on time.
I have Facebook notifications turned off, and location sharing etc in Google maps turned off too. The worst battery drainers for me are hanging with friends and scramble with friends, after just a few games on either I'll lose about 10% battery. Plus hanging with friends makes my phone insanely hot (highest temp was 51° celcius). Browsing Facebook and XDA for an hour will usually drain about 20% battery too.
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Hello,
I bought new HTC ONE S (Factory Unlocked-nothing rooted or fishy stuff) two days ago.
As soon as I purchased it I upgraded my OS from ICS to Jelly Bean using HTC auto-update.So I was unable to test battery life on ICS however it is pretty bad now. This is new phone so I don't know whether the JB update has caused this problem.
It can't last more than 2 hours on full use. Just played temple run for 10 minutes and battery dropped down to from 70 to 65% . So in 10 minutes of game play battery dropped by 5% . On this speed it won't last more than an hour on any hd video. Similarly on Wifi use or google market browsing it drops down quicker than my laptop battery.
So is it normal for HTC ONe S or upgrade is causing this? I also turned on power saver option in new Jelly Bean but no improvement. What is the solution please I need help and I love this phone. (No apps stand out in draining battery life).
Thanks
Ahmar.
ahmar2 said:
Hello,
I bought new HTC ONE S (Factory Unlocked-nothing rooted or fishy stuff) two days ago.
As soon as I purchased it I upgraded my OS from ICS to Jelly Bean using HTC auto-update.So I was unable to test battery life on ICS however it is pretty bad now. This is new phone so I don't know whether the JB update has caused this problem.
It can't last more than 2 hours on full use. Just played temple run for 10 minutes and battery dropped down to from 70 to 65% . So in 10 minutes of game play battery dropped by 5% . On this speed it won't last more than an hour on any hd video. Similarly on Wifi use or google market browsing it drops down quicker than my laptop battery.
So is it normal for HTC ONe S or upgrade is causing this? I also turned on power saver option in new Jelly Bean but no improvement. What is the solution please I need help and I love this phone. (No apps stand out in draining battery life).
Thanks
Ahmar.
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Battery will improve after a few full charges / discharges as it conditions the battery! I dont play games on it but i've never had less than 18 hrs!
I play games every now and then. With heavy games and USB controller I get roughly 2-2.5h of batterylife. Oh, thats with Wifi on as well.
If I play without the USB controller I get maybe 3-3.5h batterylife.
With my use, excluding the games, I get at least 2 days worth of battery.
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Goatshocker said:
I play games every now and then. With heavy games and USB controller I get roughly 2-2.5h of batterylife. Oh, thats with Wifi on as well.
If I play without the USB controller I get maybe 3-3.5h batterylife.
With my use, excluding the games, I get at least 2 days worth of battery.
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Then what do you think why my mobile is showing such poor battery life?
Ive never used stock JB, so dunno if that might be the cause. I havnt had any battery problems on stock ics, viper 1.2.1 or dark jelly CM10.
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Then what do you think why my mobile is showing such poor battery life?
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With stock JB I got 3-4 hours of screen-on time, and roughly about 24-30 hours of battery life total. That included a little gaming but mostly web browsing. I don't have experience on ICS because I also upgraded to JB straight away when I got the phone.
Your battery life seems normal to me considering the age of your phone. See if it improves within the next 5-10 empty-full cycles. As mentioned, the battery needs a couple of cycles before it reaches its' full potential.
Now I've been running CM10 for about a day, so can't really compare to it just yet. It feels lighter on the battery, but it might be placebo. I took it off the charger at around 7:00 this morning and now I'm at 85% and local time here is 14:45.
Current status on mine. Ive used it for a couple of hours total browsing the web and remotecontrolling my PC, done a couple of short calls and sent a few texts. In other words - quite light work.
Still, I think its quite acceptable batterylife
Edit: and as you can see, it never really goes into deep sleep for long periods of time.
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Current status on mine. Ive used it for a couple of hours total browsing the web and remotecontrolling my PC, done a couple of short calls and sent a few texts. In other words - quite light work.
Still, I think its quite acceptable batterylife
Edit: and as you can see, it never really goes into deep sleep for long periods of time.
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hmm I guess like others said I will have to let it charge/discharge few times and then see how it goes. Will update after two days.
This another battery post... I'm seriously starting to think that there is something wrong with my battery. Yesterday I got a day's use only with three hours sot. I didn't even use it heavily just browsing with chrome. Right now I'm getting 9 hours and down to 65 percent. 1 hour 50 mins of just browsing with chrome. Havent used any other apps either. I'm running mahdi ROM and before I had some battery problems with cm11s battery. I don't have anything waking up my phone so no wakelocks and I haven't been playing music either.
I don't have a lot of apps open and I do use greenify. Screen brightness is below 50% for 95% of my usage time. Reception is soso as I am on At&t and for some reason I can't get good signal on 4g so I go on 3g which is better. I also use wifi quite alot.
I have been told that my Android System usage is very high and I don't know why it is doing that. I got better battery life on cm11s but it is still low in comparison to others. Other people have not even modded their system in anyway and they are getting better SOT and total battery hours.
Pictures: imgur(.)com/a/6MUy2 (Mahdi Rom) Note: I didn't want it to drain overnight because then it would have be skewed results as I would be sleeping and not using it. Hence the screenshots at 35%
Pictures: imgur(.)com/a/xWmWh (CM11s) Not running this anymore
Hi there,
I bought my one plus a month ago, and am getting around 3.5 screen time.
It is disappointing as I see screenshots of people with one plus who are getting 6 -10 hours screen time.
I am on battery saver mode, not using music, whatsApp, wase games or facebook, just a little bit email and browsing.
At night it is not going down a lot, but when I start using the phone, it goes down quite quickly.
(1 percent every 2 minutes, sometimes every minute). It seems to get worse every day.
If I start using GPS or video or music, my battery will be finished by noon.
I replaced the battery, and it is the same.
Attached three screenshots. (Including the night)
Help please?
Thank you!
I share you the same feeling when I see others having impressive battery performance specially screen-on time.
I have exactly the same drain behavior of yours, when my phone in deep sleep its sleep like a baby. but when I wake it its become beast awakening.
I run 3g when I am out and wi-fi at home, also running regular apps, whatsapp,snapchat,2emails,1gmail,instagram,web browsing, auto brightness,greenify. I checked with BBS and WLD but no culprit. I am on stock rom with root for the apps, no system tuning.
So you can see my setup is like most of regular users will do but noticeable difference in term of battery performance. I have no clue
Your battery life is fine, better mine
Who has a lot of SOT usually doesn't turn off/on the screen that much. The secret to achieve a lot of SOT is making long session on the screen (and having few apps, like you). So no worries I'm at 64% now with 1 hour of SOT, but I flash updates (CM 12) everyday and wake up the phone only when I need it, with 1-2 minutes sessions.
hyuratzu said:
Your battery life is fine, better mine
Who has a lot of SOT usually doesn't turn off/on the screen that much. The secret to achieve a lot of SOT is making long session on the screen (and having few apps, like you). So no worries I'm at 64% now with 1 hour of SOT, but I flash updates (CM 12) everyday and wake up the phone only when I need it, with 1-2 minutes sessions.
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That isn't really true, I have over 100 apps installed and I turn my screen off whenever I'm not actually using it. I'm a heavy user. I get roughly six hours of screen on time.
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zevozki said:
I share you the same feeling when I see others having impressive battery performance specially screen-on time.
I have exactly the same drain behavior of yours, when my phone in deep sleep its sleep like a baby. but when I wake it its become beast awakening.
I run 3g when I am out and wi-fi at home, also running regular apps, whatsapp,snapchat,2emails,1gmail,instagram,web browsing, auto brightness,greenify. I checked with BBS and WLD but no culprit. I am on stock rom with root for the apps, no system tuning.
So you can see my setup is like most of regular users will do but noticeable difference in term of battery performance. I have no clue
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Hi,
Well, at least I am not the only one....
The problem is that it is getting worse every day and now I lose one percent in a minute!
Horrible! I have to charge it twice a day, and I barely use it.
I have no root, am not using any of the apps, only a little bit of browsing, and checking mails.
If I try to use waze for a half of an hour or a little bit of music (max 30min, I get only about 2 hours screen time!
It seems really poor from a brand new battery.
I have no clue what to do, or what is causing it. If anyone have suggestions, i will be glad to hear!
Are you using the stock OPO rom? because I always had a poor battery life, I had all kind of protections to keep battery life but when I saw, from 100 I had 70, it was awful, one solution I saw was to flash one custom kernel, somehow improved my battery life, but the final solution was to use a custom rom, I have experienced better battery life with 5+ roms rather than the ones with 4.x.x, maybe you should taste another android flavor and check if the battery life increases
How hard was it to change the battery? Was it soldered? Where did you get a replacement ?
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dandan112988 said:
How hard was it to change the battery? Was it soldered? Where did you get a replacement ?
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Hi
I have warranty and they changed it for me.
It didn't help at all.
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BryanHR27 said:
Are you using the stock OPO rom? because I always had a poor battery life, I had all kind of protections to keep battery life but when I saw, from 100 I had 70, it was awful, one solution I saw was to flash one custom kernel, somehow improved my battery life, but the final solution was to use a custom rom, I have experienced better battery life with 5+ roms rather than the ones with 4.x.x, maybe you should taste another android flavor and check if the battery life increases
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Hi,
Thanks for your comment.
Sorry, I don't understand much in roms ... I bought the chinese version color os, and changed it in fast boot to cm11.
My cm version is 11.0-xnph44s , android version-4.4.4
I believe this is app related. Some apps keep phones awake. I encountered this problem with my S3 because I have lots of apps. But since I made sure I only install apps I absolutely need in my oneplus, I get a fantastic battery life.
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apartmentpasig said:
I believe this is app related. Some apps keep phones awake. I encountered this problem with my S3 because I have lots of apps. But since I made sure I only install apps I absolutely need in my oneplus, I get a fantastic battery life.
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I don't have so many apps , and I installed all of them. I keep closing apps that are running on the background through the settings.
The funny thing is that it is getting worse every day.
Now my battery is going down one percent in 30-60 seconds!
I don't know what to do anymore.
Howdy folks,
New OnePlus One user, coming from a Galaxy S3 after years of holding out on an upgrade.
Looking to keep the phone reasonably stock for now (although some of those custom ROMs sure look tempting!) so I've decided to stick with CM12 (which is what I believe it came loaded with) until the OTA to CM13.
But I'm finding the battery life a bit tough to swallow - I'm getting about 60-80 minutes SOT with a total battery life of about 8-9 hours (email checks, browsing the web 3-4 times a day, one GPS check daily) before I hit 5%. Ideally I'd like to have 100-120 minutes SOT with a total battery life of 16-18 hours before I have to charge.
So I'm thinking an underclocked kernel may be the way to go. Problem is - I'm not sure which kernel is even compatible with CM12 at this point, or what would fit my needs, as everyone seems to have moved on to CM13 already, and I'll be honest with you all - I feel lost.
Can anyone suggest a path to better battery life through kernel?
Thanks in advance!
Go back to CM11S. 8 hours sot on Wi-Fi, slightly less on mobile data. No new features are worth the crippled battery life. All roms after 4.4, both custom and official are plagued by the mobile radio active bug and it hasn't been fixed yet. So stick to 4.4 stock and you will get mind-numbing battery life.
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Go back to CM11S. 8 hours sot on Wi-Fi, slightly less on mobile data. No new features are worth the crippled battery life. All roms after 4.4, both custom and official are plagued by the mobile radio active bug and it hasn't been fixed yet. So stick to 4.4 stock and you will get mind-numbing battery life.
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Thanks for the advice, but I'm looking to try an underclocked kernel first on CM12 before I downgrade. Besides, with CM13 around the corner that should help with battery life, no?
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Thanks for the advice, but I'm looking to try an underclocked kernel first on CM12 before I downgrade. Besides, with CM13 around the corner that should help with battery life, no?
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underclocking doest do anything when the phone itself doesnt sleep. I'm on CM13 nightlies and doze doesnt work half the time, the other half battery drain is just insane from all kinds of sources (Cyanogen System and mobile radio active). I've had this phone for a year and a half now and I've tried all the roms and kernels one can try but nothing so far has come even close to any 4.4 rom. Again, if you want the newest features and don't give a damn about battery life over extended periods, if you don't spent more than 4~ hours per day staring into your phone, if you charge daily, go for any rom you want. If you want a dependable phone that could keep you going for even 4~ days on a single charge with moderate usage (messages, light browsing, bit of gps) then go for a 4.4 rom. Preferably stock CM11S.
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underclocking doest do anything when the phone itself doesnt sleep. I'm on CM13 nightlies and doze doesnt work half the time, the other half battery drain is just insane from all kinds of sources (Cyanogen System and mobile radio active). I've had this phone for a year and a half now and I've tried all the roms and kernels one can try but nothing so far has come even close to any 4.4 rom. Again, if you want the newest features and don't give a damn about battery life over extended periods, if you don't spent more than 4~ hours per day staring into your phone, if you charge daily, go for any rom you want. If you want a dependable phone that could keep you going for even 4~ days on a single charge with moderate usage (messages, light browsing, bit of gps) then go for a 4.4 rom. Preferably stock CM11S.
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Okay, thank you for your input. Doesn't really answer what I'm looking for, but I guess I'll keep it in mind.
Update - decided to stray from stock and loaded Sultan's CM12 ROM - currently have 3.5 hours SOT and 20 hours total with 40% left. That's good for me!