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Wth is with the battery drain?

My phone is charging and it's draining...-_-. Using VMax Kernel 1.2 @ 1ghz with CM7 Nightly #34. How is this happened?
Also my phone gets really HOT at the top. I'm just doing normal stuff on it too.
Trying Bionox v1.3 with Trinity Max 1.1 @1ghz and it's still happening.
Do I need a new battery or is this a whole hard ware problem?

Having everything on gps, Bluetooth,wifi, max screen brightness, as well as using it at the same time will give very little charge if not drainage. If the above is true, you're just draining more mA than your charger can keep up with. Which is completely normal.
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peeturr said:
Having everything on gps, Bluetooth,wifi, max screen brightness, as well as using it at the same time will give very little charge if not drainage. If the above is true, you're just draining more mA than your charger can keep up with. Which is completely normal.
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Only thing that's on from the things you mentioned is the brightness (which is at highest level) , but bluetooth and gps is off.

James_Caliber said:
My phone is charging and it's draining...-_-. Using VMax Kernel 1.2 @ 1ghz with CM7 Nightly #34. How is this happened?
Also my phone gets really HOT at the top. I'm just doing normal stuff on it too.
Trying Bionox v1.3 with Trinity Max 1.1 @1ghz and it's still happening.
Do I need a new battery or is this a whole hard ware problem?
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You're overclocking and complaining about battery drain? Try stock and see if the same thing happens first?

I believe the stock wall charger is rated at 700 mA. If you're consuming more than that with your screen on then you'll see drainage. You can check your drainage with the battery monitor apps on the market. If you have a lot of bright colors as well as max brightness then yeah, you,really probably draining more. Vmax kernels use more power as well.
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cigar3tte said:
You're overclocking and complaining about battery drain? Try stock and see if the same thing happens first?
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I was running at stock though. No overclock, I'm not an idiot lol. I tried stock, I reverted back to stock Kernel and Rom and the battery draining stopped, I have to now figure out which kernel and rom are the best for my phone :/ Phone runs REALLY hot though doing normal stuff, is that normal?

James_Caliber said:
I was running at stock though. No overclock, I'm not an idiot lol. I tried stock, I reverted back to stock Kernel and Rom and the battery draining stopped, I have to now figure out which kernel and rom are the best for my phone :/ Phone runs REALLY hot though doing normal stuff, is that normal?
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Use setcpu to see how hot your phone actually is and post here.
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peeturr said:
Use setcpu to see how hot your phone actually is and post here.
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Okay nvm the battery still drained by 1%, it was charging for about 40min, with the screen off and everything with stock kernel and stock rom, I feel like this is either a battery problem or a hardware problem. WTF I'm mad.

peeturr said:
Having everything on gps, Bluetooth,wifi, max screen brightness, as well as using it at the same time will give very little charge if not drainage. If the above is true, you're just draining more mA than your charger can keep up with. Which is completely normal.
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lol I frequently run like that while I'm driving somewhere new. Always have my BT in, of course I have GPS on, and the screen might be a little bright. Usually, I leave on WiFi just out of laziness. I always charge my phone while I'm doing this using a $4 charger I got off of Amazon and it always shoots up very quickly. An hour or two long drive will give me almost a full charge.

Potential fix for Battery Drain

First and foremost, I completely understand the battery reporting is inaccurate.
I, like most of the G2x users, have occasionally experienced excellent battery life and at other times barely lasted 5 hours. We all know this has to do with the LG battery drivers. I think I may have found a potential stop-gap fix though.
Another preface:I'm running CM7 nightlies.
Now, using SET CPU you can set a screen off profile that will underclock the cpu to be more efficient and save battery life, anyone worth their salt knows that. The other aspect of this that I have been doing is underclocking the CPU during normal usage. With min set at 312 and max at 760, I've gone 4 hrs and 13 minutes with 96% left. Even underclocked, this phone performs. The only issue I've noticed is a little bit of buggery with the lockscreen reactivating but honestly it's worth it to me to have a phone that lasts.

The issue is with the battery drivers, nothing else, your "fix" are just ways to increase battery life
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stefan.buddle said:
The issue is with the battery drivers, nothing else, your "fix" are just ways to increase battery life
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I'm 90% positive that's what the big red lettering at the beginning of my post says.

Thunderbolt battery...lol

So I know this subject has been hashed a thousand times. But... My tb was actually getting fantastic battery. Ten hours without charging. Right now I'm on the latest thundersense, no OC, conservative scaling, juice defender ultimate with data off when the screen's off, and my battery went from 100% to 49% in two hours. Am I doing something wrong, or did I just not quite understand that one day my phone turns on and says "I'm going to have terrible battery life from now on"? Because that's literally what happened. One day I was bragging about how fantastic my battery life is, the next was like I got blindsided by a mugger.
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Charge it fully, calibrate the battery.

I will try that and post back if I have any issues.
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Sorry for being a newb, but I keep on hearing about calibrating the battery in these forums. How do I do that?

Battery Calibration

Xpiatio said:
Sorry for being a newb, but I keep on hearing about calibrating the battery in these forums. How do I do that?
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Download Battery Calibration from the Market. It's free. Open the app, it notifies you when you're charged to 100%, hit the calibrate button and you're done. Simple as that.

I had the same problem and set a profile in setCPU to have max and min cpu speed at 245 while the screen is off. Used onDemand at 1.28 i believe and I went from charging by 4pm to still at 50% by midnight. It really was night and day.

shawncrobbins said:
I had the same problem and set a profile in setCPU to have max and min cpu speed at 245 while the screen is off. Used onDemand at 1.28 i believe and I went from charging by 4pm to still at 50% by midnight. It really was night and day.
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One thing I'm having trouble with understanding is the governors. I'm using smartass right now with no profiles. Will it underclock the phone to 245 when the screen is off? I read an article that said it didn't need profiles so I assumed it did this automatically.

i never expected fantastic battery just equivalent to my Dinc which is 9 hrs, on average i get 8 with my TB so it works for me

I get quite good battery out of my Thunderbolt. I ran it on stock battery with light usage almost 60 hours before I needed to charge.

boythatkills said:
I get quite good battery out of my Thunderbolt. I ran it on stock battery with light usage almost 60 hours before I needed to charge.
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Thank you for the amazingly valuable contribution to the thread! We can all rest easy knowing that user 'boythatkills' has good battery life. Pack it up and close the thread, this guy gets good battery so therefore the OP is of no concern!

boythatkills said:
I get quite good battery out of my Thunderbolt. I ran it on stock battery with light usage almost 60 hours before I needed to charge.
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I laughed when I seen this.. I get nearly the same in airplane mode or if I leave it plugged in it almost limitless
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To op first I would ditch juice defender never been a fan of that app plus it also takes resources to enable data again seems counter productive somewhat. Second it does seem these phones have days where they suck down the juice. Also I would use ondemand instead of conservative I have never seen one person even back to my Droid that said they had amazing battery on conservative scaling. I notice way to much lag with conservative as we its only supposed to scale up to the clock speed needed but it takes to long to scale up in my opinion. I've always gotten decent battery life from Droid to thunderbolt and I've always used ondemand with the min clock speed when screen off. Also if you dont have spareparts get it from the market it may have been a rogue app for some reason that day. I have Google voice act up on me from time to time. Hope this helps. Oh and I'm getting 20 to 30 hours out of mine. Whoever said 60 hours must have it hooked up to a car battery haha.
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I don't know about 60 hours on this phone yet. I have gotten 2 days with small usage, but not longer. This might be doable when CM7 starts getting nightly cranked out. Or when our AOSP kernels get better. That is when I started getting 3 days with my evo, but then again, that was with 3G only.

Ever since I did the battery calibration, it seems a lot better. I tend to flipflop back and forth between conservative and ondemand with my main profile- I wouldn't say conservative is a total waste, I'll reserve that for the powersave scaling. So in any case, was it just bad values were written to the batterystats.bin file? And if so, what steps can I take to keep it from happening again? Other than this little bump, I'd say the tb has been the best phone I've ever owned.
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Nexus S battery only charging to 95%

Hello,
My Nexus S battery is only charging to 95% and it is not rooted(at least i dont think it is).
What should I do? Any way to fix it?

aspirex said:
Hello,
My Nexus S battery is only charging to 95% and it is not rooted(at least i dont think it is).
What should I do? Any way to fix it?
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Its set up that say in order to protect the battery life
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aspirex said:
Hello,
My Nexus S battery is only charging to 95% and it is not rooted(at least i dont think it is).
What should I do? Any way to fix it?
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its not broken. its working just as it was intended to work.

It's built in that way
Custom roms would make them go away (i.e, M4 makes your battery look like 100%> yet in fact, it's 9X % charged
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Flash a custom kernel such as Matr1x or GlaDOS. Then install NSTools from Play Store. Bump up battery charge level to 100% as you like.

[email protected] said:
Flash a custom kernel such as Matr1x or GlaDOS. Then install NSTools from Play Store. Bump up battery charge level to 100% as you like.
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its not really a 100% with those kernels, he will still actually charge to his 95% even though itll say 100%. its just a cosmetic fix. if you actually want to see 100%, charge it to your normal 95% then charge the rest of the way with your screen on. itll eventually hit 100%.

i finally found the answer to my battery
thanks to this thread...
95% is normal

Mine says charged, 100%. on a 1500m milliamp batt and the Sprint backup batt I bought that's a 14xx.

wchrisyu said:
Mine says charged, 100%. on a 1500m milliamp batt and the Sprint backup batt I bought that's a 14xx.
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If you have support, run this BLX
echo 100 > /sys/class/misc/batterylifeextender/charging_limit

What is the normal battery temperature? Phone getting heated up

My normal battery temperature is staying upto 37-38 degree Celsius and CPU temperature is staying 47-48 degree Celsius.. I just got my one plus one.. Its been only 4 hours.. I've installed many apps (similar apps I had installed on moto g 2014 and it didn't get heated up at all).. What is the normal temperature?
Edit : I'm on cyanogen mod 12.1 out of the box
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Please someone reply.. If it's not normal than I can replace my device from amazon
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It's normal I have temperature of cpu and battery in same range. yours are actually better than mine.

Arun320617 said:
It's normal I have temperature of cpu and battery in same range. yours are actually better than mine.
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I just cleared my cache and now the battery stays below 35 and cpu below 45 i hope it stays this way for long.. And what is the average screen on time on this stock rom?
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pranshubatra707 said:
I just cleared my cache and now the battery stays below 35 and cpu below 45 i hope it stays this way for long.. And what is the average screen on time on this stock rom?
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It depends on how you use it
If you use your device only on WiFi with low brightness, you'll get more than 6:30 Hrs SOT
If you keep your data on with most of the services running in background, you'll get 3-4 Hrs SOT
Most of the users are reporting better battery life on KitKat ROM than on Lollipop ROM with similar usage scenarios.
Suggestion: Do not compare your SOT with others because you never know what their usage is. Some of them may simply keep the screen on for reading and can get 7-9 Hrs SOT
SOT = Screen On Time
I hope this helps.

Mr hOaX said:
It depends on how you use it
If you use your device only on WiFi with low brightness, you'll get more than 6:30 Hrs SOT
If you keep your data on with most of the services running in background, you'll get 3-4 Hrs SOT
Most of the users are reporting better battery life on KitKat ROM than on Lollipop ROM with similar usage scenarios.
Suggestion: Do not compare your SOT with others because you never know what their usage is. Some of them may simply keep the screen on for reading and can get 7-9 Hrs SOT
SOT = Screen On Time
I hope this helps.
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What is the best kitkat rom or best version of stock rom? I personally love kitkat more than lollipop
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pranshubatra707 said:
What is the best kitkat rom or best version of stock rom? I personally love kitkat more than lollipop
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CM11S builds
44S or 05Q
I'm currently on 44S. Pretty much satisfied with the battery life. My next ROM will be sultanxda's CM13 builds once it is stable without any FCs.

Mr hOaX said:
CM11S builds
44S or 05Q
I'm currently on 44S. Pretty much satisfied with the battery life. My next ROM will be sultanxda's CM13 builds once it is stable without any FCs.
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Is there any heat up problem on that rom? I'm still experiencing heat issues.. Temperature of cpu goes above 50 degree Celsius so easily
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pranshubatra707 said:
Is there any heat up problem on that rom? I'm still experiencing heat issues.. Temperature of cpu goes above 50 degree Celsius so easily
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Just because of hot climate in India, I have to undervolt the processor with the help of custom kernel like Franco.
So I never experience any heating issues on any KitKat or Lollipop ROMs.

Mr hOaX said:
Just because of hot climate in India, I have to undervolt the processor with the help of custom kernel like Franco.
So I never experience any heating issues on any KitKat or Lollipop ROMs.
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Without undervolting is it going to continue overheating like this?
I'm seriously very disappointed with this phone.. It gets heat up so easily.. It remains between 50-60 now! Its not been even 24hrs since the phone arrived! What should I do? Please suggest! Should I try replacing it? Or is this the normal temperature for one plus one? If yes then I'll return it
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pranshubatra707 said:
Without undervolting is it going to continue overheating like this?
I'm seriously very disappointed with this phone.. It gets heat up so easily.. It remains between 50-60 now! Its not been even 24hrs since the phone arrived! What should I do? Please suggest! Should I try replacing it? Or is this the normal temperature for one plus one? If yes then I'll return it
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Do not use your OPO when it's on charging. It'll heat up!
I suggest you to perform a factory reset and use your device.
If it still heats up even when it is on standby, return and replace your OPO
You can directly opt for return and replacement if you don't want to troubleshoot.
Other device at this price point is Moto X Play which is fair enough to buy!

Mr hOaX said:
Do not use your OPO when it's on charging. It'll heat up!
I suggest you to perform a factory reset and use your device.
If it still heats up even when it is on standby, return and replace your OPO
You can directly opt for return and replacement if you don't want to troubleshoot.
Other device at this price point is Moto X Play which is fair enough to buy!
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On stand by or on charging it dosen't heat up at all! On stand by the temperature goes upto 36-37 max, but as soon as I start to use it, the temperature starts rising so easily!
On normal usage the range stays between 43-49 always! Is that normal or should I replace it? I'm sorry if I'm being hyper but honestly I saved money to buy this phone.. And now it's not working as expected
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pranshubatra707 said:
On stand by or on charging it dosen't heat up at all! On stand by the temperature goes upto 36-37 max, but as soon as I start to use it, the temperature starts rising so easily!
On normal usage the range stays between 43-49 always! Is that normal or should I replace it? I'm sorry if I'm being hyper but honestly I saved money to buy this phone.. And now it's not working as expected
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Just try to factory reset your device, if still you face heating issues, replace it
That's all I can say.

Mr hOaX said:
Just try to factory reset your device, if still you face heating issues, replace it
That's all I can say.
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I don't know what happened but today I charged the phone 100% for the first time and its been 15hrs since and the phone's normal temperature is staying below 43 and the battery temperature is also stable.. I played Nova 3 for 15 mins and the temp went max 53 degree and.. I hope it stays this way! Fingers crossed! Thanks for replying
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