So I've been flashing a bunch of different roms and have found a combo that I love... But have noticed that my battery life decreases much more with wifi on...
If I turn off wifi..the phone can last 30+ hours of use..if I have wifi turned on...maybe 8 hours
I seem to remember in the post people talking about a wifi drain fix.. I can't find anything on it though...
does anybody know of such a thing?
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i beleive you need a newer wpa_supplicant file...
Any chance there is one hanging out on these boards anywhere?
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i think yes, or just grab it from another rom... for example Andromeda
Right on! Cool
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What do you guys mean by GPS lock? Simply showing where you ate on maps? Or the time it takes navigation to start giving you direction s? My GPS will find me on maps almost instantly however....it takes it almost twenty minutes sometimes to start giving me directions
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I think it might be how long it takes your GPS to lock into your current location. I don't know if its CM7 or what but my gps is always off by like a mile.
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It's how long the phone says "Searching for GPS". Sometimes it takes a while.
Will leaving my standalone GPS on all the time actually drain my battery, or does it only get powered on when something requests it?
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I have noticed mine searching for a GPS signal when it needs too. Doesn't seem to be on all the time. I am getting 15+ hours out of my battery.
JihadSquad said:
Will leaving my standalone GPS on all the time actually drain my battery, or does it only get powered on when something requests it?
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Turning off GPS to save battery is one of the biggest myths of the Android world It only uses GPS when an application requests it. Otherwise, it doesn't use it at all. All you are doing with that toggle is making it unavailable to apps.
I have noticed that Facebook likes to fire up the GPS every time I open the app. Annoying, but it is also the only app I use that doesn't "need" GPS that tries to use it. Any way to disable that?
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Hey so I know I'll get crap for another battery post but I just wanted to post this because I'm amazed whenever someone on Any rom gets a full day or more of battery. It's ridiculous how much mobile data drains on ANY rom for me. I'm running aokp 9/9 right now but I've been through cm9, cm10, vincoms rom, sky ics, paranoid. No differences really it's just data that drains. Here is today's battery, and this is normal when it's mobile data the whole way through. Mostly H, H+, and 4g. As you can see, u have pretty good reception, and screen on for only 2 HOURS. that's why it amazes me when people get 5-7 hrs screen and like a day+ of battery.
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Also if anyone got the new aokp rom before R4ins got pissed, I'd love to get a link. Thanks!
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2 hours screen time sounds about right for me til the battery runs down. But I tend to only use that much in a whole day, so it lasts me to the next day... even on LTE. I'm using SkyICS.
You sure you don't have any funky wakelocks or anything? Your phone was awake for pretty much the whole time It should be sleeping most of the times that you're not using it.
there are days where i can get 16 hours with an hour or 2 of screen time, but i also have the Gnex extended batter (2100 mah) so that helps. But ive come to realize that on most days, i will never ever see the stellar results that some people get, becasue i use my phone... a lot... im talking twitter constantly, hundreds of texts every day, and the occasional phone call. But it is fine for me, ive never had my phone die on me while im out, and im almost always near a charger so it is never a problem. If i feel like i might be away from a charger for a while, i turn off sync, turn brightness down, etc to prolong my battery life and im good to go.
Download better battery stats and find out what is keeping your phone awake,it looks like its staying awake for long periods of time
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Download better battery stats and find out what is keeping your phone awake,it looks like its staying awake for long periods of time
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This. You have a truly massive wakelock.
kchen96 said:
Also if anyone got the new aokp rom before R4ins got pissed, I'd love to get a link. Thanks!
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R4INS is over on rootzwiki. You can grab his builds there or on his goo.im site. Check out boobah's post in the general section.
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holeindalip said:
Download better battery stats and find out what is keeping your phone awake,it looks like its staying awake for long periods of time
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I have the app.don't know how to use it literally the most confusing app ever
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Most def a wake lock. I can get upwards of 20 hours with regular usage. aokp cm10 and superlite cm 10. Sometimes less sometimes more. I also don't pick up lte here either. Just H+
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akwhite23 said:
Most def a wake lock. I can get upwards of 20 hours with regular usage. aokp cm10 and superlite cm 10. Sometimes less sometimes more. I also don't pick up lte here either. Just H+
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How...when I have data on and using it,it drains a percent every 2 minutes. Can anyone tell me what to loom for on better battery stats and where?
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Hwres an update. On this is with data off almost all day you can see the screen off and awake matches up pretty nicely.(at the end I'm listening to music so that's why its awake) is it possibly just straight up the data connection that keeps my phone awake?
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kchen96 said:
How...when I have data on and using it,it drains a percent every 2 minutes. Can anyone tell me what to loom for on better battery stats and where?
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There's an entire thread on it here maintained by TJ above. And several tutorials in other forums on xda. It's really not that hard. Just do some research.
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What I don't get is why WiFi causes a wake lock.
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What I don't get is why WiFi causes a wake lock.
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That image doesn't show wifi causing a wakelock? Unless you actually didn't have wifi turned on for the past 4 hours. I see it's not turned on in that image, but maybe you just turned if off. Which I'm betting you did about 2 minutes before taking that picture, and then turned data back on?
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There are plenty other battery life threads this post could have been made in. Locked
I'm traveling and I want a rom where the gps locks quickly and stays locked. Any suggestions?
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If you don't mind Touchwiz, Synergy is great. I use it and have never had any GPS issues nor read about any in their thread. Locks very quickly even inside.
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If you don't mind Touchwiz, Synergy is great. I use it and have never had any GPS issues nor read about any in their thread. Locks very quickly even inside.
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Thanks. I will download it now.
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achandler2 said:
I'm traveling and I want a rom where the gps locks quickly and stays locked. Any suggestions?
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I hate to break the news but gps issues, at least for me, were not ROM related. Sometimes it seems that they have more to do with hardware than the ROM you choose. I use Synergy and I absolutely love it so I recommend that you flash it and stick with it. However, If you do still have gps issues try this link and read ALL of the OP. I did and I no longer have any issues. 5 seconds and I'm locked everytime!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1880411&highlight=agps+patch