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I have had the Nexus S 4G since November and i like it but it always only charged to 94%. But recently (last month and to now) I have somehow gotten it to sometimes charge up to 96% or even 98%. Well just 15 mins ago from when i'm posting this, the phone just shut down and it still had like 45% or so left of battery, it wouldnt turn on so i pluges it to my laptop and it says its charging so i turned it on while its charging and its still on 0% battery for the past 15 mins now. I go to school every weekday and i need it each day so i need to fix this as soon as i can.
I have it rooted on the OTA 4.1.1 JellyBean.
What I can remember was it started to slow down and kick me out of kik, opera, text+ and so on so i deleted a N64 emulator that sent me ads in my notifications, along with Orbot, NSTools, Kernel Manager, Rom Manager, and a couple more apps. So it may have to do with one of those being uninstalled. Just someone please help because I have alot of people I talk to that get angry at me when i dont msg them soon and I cant hace it pluged in all the time..
xBr4v3x said:
I have had the Nexus S 4G since November and i like it but it always only charged to 94%. But recently (last month and to now) I have somehow gotten it to sometimes charge up to 96% or even 98%. Well just 15 mins ago from when i'm posting this, the phone just shut down and it still had like 45% or so left of battery, it wouldnt turn on so i pluges it to my laptop and it says its charging so i turned it on while its charging and its still on 0% battery for the past 15 mins now. I go to school every weekday and i need it each day so i need to fix this as soon as i can.
I have it rooted on the OTA 4.1.1 JellyBean.
What I can remember was it started to slow down and kick me out of kik, opera, text+ and so on so i deleted a N64 emulator that sent me ads in my notifications, along with Orbot, NSTools, Kernel Manager, Rom Manager, and a couple more apps. So it may have to do with one of those being uninstalled. Just someone please help because I have alot of people I talk to that get angry at me when i dont msg them soon and I cant hace it pluged in all the time..
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Sounds like you have either a power hungry app, or you rbattery calibration is way out of whack.
Power-Hungry Apps:
Check your battery stats and see how much battery a certain app is using by going into Settings>Battery then check for apps that are using a lot of your CPU and using much of your battery charge.
Battery Calibration:
Litium-Ion batteries like the one found in your Nexus S have a small memory chip inside of them to report battery stats to your phone amog other tasks. This chip can become un-calibrated and not report proper stas causing your phone to think you have no battery when you actually do have some juice left.
As you are rooted, you have many options:
Apps:
- http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration
- http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ignisoft.battery.calibration&hl=en
- http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.jonrichards.batterycalibrator.ui&hl=en
- http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.liteup.calibratebattery.free&hl=en
Recovery:
This depends on your recovery, I will assume you use ClockworkMod or vanilla recovery. If so, you can us this detailed guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1616598
Good luck! If you need anymore info, don't hesitate to ask and please don't forget to click the "Thanks" button if I helped you
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1.To overcome battery drain you can also use app Greenify from Google Play, which allows you to hibernate (in time) such of your apps. But, be carefull, not all apps work properly when hibernated (sms, calender etc). You have to try.
2. Also, you can check how it looks with so called "wakelocks" (ratio between awake and real screen on in your phone) with BetterBatteryStats (also from Play). It is a little bit complicated app, but when you understand, its can help a lot.
Really, it comes down to installing Xposed framework and Greenify.
Sometimes we need to be told straight up what works, and its installing XPosed Framework, and installing Greenify to identify what's waking up and consuming battery - and then telling Greenify to put it to sleep.
I'm doing this write up because it's something I know a lot of us are facing with our Relay's as they age and we try to stay current with new roms.
Like quite a few of us I've sacrificed battery life for an updated rom that looks decent and runs fast. Between builds and Kernels I was lucky to get through the day let alone to 24 hours without my phone needing a charge - even if I didn't play any games.
I tried flashing clean and not using titanium backup - didnt have any effect once I had the apps I desired installed.
I checked OS Monitor, wakelock detector, battery usage things, juice defender... nothing really extended or identified what he true cause, things said Android System UI or Display or Graphics was eating it all up. I started wondering if it was the latest roms with the transparent pull down notifications or the annoying pop ups that show you text messages and emails in the top foreground of the screen ..
Turns out for me, it was my "Transparent Weather Widget" I wanted something that showed a 5 day forecast and this sucker was DRAINING my battery.
I'm now running SlimKat initial build (Mar 15 2014) with Xposed framework, Juice Defender and Greenify. Everything is working perfect on my phone now. I keep checking in greenify and sleeping apps that don't need to be using any resources until I execute them. One item about SlimKat is you need to 2 finger pinch together the recent tasks to close all apps at once, other than that it has every feature I wanted, less annoying pop ups than the most recent KitKat's and my battery today - 50% after 14 hours. Usually at the most by a day like today I would have is 15% but more likely 6%.
This may be long winded, but its the steps we've all been mystified on why System UI or Display is the leading cause of battery use.. I think it has to do with the transparency of my widgets .. Food for thought if it helps others.
yohan4ws said:
Really, it comes down to installing Xposed framework and Greenify.
Sometimes we need to be told straight up what works, and its installing XPosed Framework, and installing Greenify to identify what's waking up and consuming battery - and then telling Greenify to put it to sleep.
I'm doing this write up because it's something I know a lot of us are facing with our Relay's as they age and we try to stay current with new roms.
Like quite a few of us I've sacrificed battery life for an updated rom that looks decent and runs fast. Between builds and Kernels I was lucky to get through the day let alone to 24 hours without my phone needing a charge - even if I didn't play any games.
I tried flashing clean and not using titanium backup - didnt have any effect once I had the apps I desired installed.
I checked OS Monitor, wakelock detector, battery usage things, juice defender... nothing really extended or identified what he true cause, things said Android System UI or Display or Graphics was eating it all up. I started wondering if it was the latest roms with the transparent pull down notifications or the annoying pop ups that show you text messages and emails in the top foreground of the screen ..
Turns out for me, it was my "Transparent Weather Widget" I wanted something that showed a 5 day forecast and this sucker was DRAINING my battery.
I'm now running SlimKat initial build (Mar 15 2014) with Xposed framework, Juice Defender and Greenify. Everything is working perfect on my phone now. I keep checking in greenify and sleeping apps that don't need to be using any resources until I execute them. One item about SlimKat is you need to 2 finger pinch together the recent tasks to close all apps at once, other than that it has every feature I wanted, less annoying pop ups than the most recent KitKat's and my battery today - 50% after 14 hours. Usually at the most by a day like today I would have is 15% but more likely 6%.
This may be long winded, but its the steps we've all been mystified on why System UI or Display is the leading cause of battery use.. I think it has to do with the transparency of my widgets .. Food for thought if it helps others.
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Really good post, I can say I using 20140315 version (last working camera) and last kernel for it (don't remember the version) get really good performance and similar battery, using the same xposed
OmniToad now includes methods to turn off specific alarms and wakelocks at a lower level than greenify and/or Xposed.
Magamo said:
OmniToad now includes methods to turn off specific alarms and wakelocks at a lower level than greenify and/or Xposed.
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You can try the battery performance already?
yohan4ws said:
I'm now running SlimKat initial build (Mar 15 2014) with Xposed framework, Juice Defender and Greenify. Everything is working perfect on my phone now. I keep checking in greenify and sleeping apps that don't need to be using any resources until I execute them. One item about SlimKat is you need to 2 finger pinch together the recent tasks to close all apps at once, other than that it has every feature I wanted, less annoying pop ups than the most recent KitKat's and my battery today - 50% after 14 hours. Usually at the most by a day like today I would have is 15% but more likely 6%.
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What kind of wireless networks do you use throughout the day and what kind of screen on time are you juicing out in your 14 hours??
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What kind of wireless networks do you use throughout the day and what kind of screen on time are you juicing out in your 14 hours??
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30 second timeout on the screen, i check it to read emails and texts, the odd phone call, sometimes i will run a wifi diagnostic for the networks i support using fing and wifi analyzer.. i keep my phone off and locked otherwise. in the car bluetooth is enabled. i was going wifi diagnostic yesterday when i got such great battery life.
today i have android weather and clock widget (cant recall the exact name) running w 3hour update .. after 8 hours i have 58% remaining, im in an area with horrible cell coverage , stats say 38mins screen on time.
there is nothing different of my usage over the passed cpl weeks, just enabling greenify and sleeping a voip app, facebook, google maps and the weather widget.
yohan4ws said:
there is nothing different of my usage over the passed cpl weeks, just enabling greenify and sleeping a voip app, facebook, google maps and the weather widget.
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I'm using dashclock with 15min weather update, greader app with over 120feeds (aggregated in feedly) with 15 min update interval too and lots of other apps including the evil facebook+messenger. I switched recently from latest LiquidSmooth to Omnitoad and the result is I got the battery dropped by 9% overnight (10 hours) in idle mode.
Nota bene: without any tweaking.
I installed the Xposed framework and successfully used it to get rid of the "Just Once" app picker annoyance.
Edit: the play store has a Greenify which requires Xposed framework. Tutorial on Greenify use is on Youtube. Up and running now, but noticed that I am not getting a GPS fix now ever since the altrnt app picker MOD. It's always something!
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How can install xposed on cm 11?
subzerobob said:
I installed the Xposed framework and successfully used it to get rid of the "Just Once" app picker annoyance.
Edit: the play store has a Greenify which requires Xposed framework. Tutorial on Greenify use is on Youtube. Up and running now, but noticed that I am not getting a GPS fix now ever since the altrnt app picker MOD. It's always something!
Sent from my SGH-T699 using XDA Free mobile app
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Hi! Do you have your relay with CM11 or stock ROM? I can't manage to install xposed with CM11. Thanks!
ninguno2 said:
Hi! Do you have your relay with CM11 or stock ROM? I can't manage to install xposed with CM11. Thanks!
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I'd be curious to know too. I recently tried to install xposed again (last time I used it was probably a couple of years ago) on my Relay running the last official CM11 nightly, and it didn't work either. First the installer complained that xposed isn't compatible with my version of the Android SDK, but there is a fix for that (I forget where, but it is somewhere on XDA). But even when I applied the fix, it still failed, I started getting bootloops. So yeah, I'd love to know how to install xposed on the Relay too...
I have to say, I have been using my Relay more lately, as my main phone has been having some issues, and the main thing that keeps me from using it more is battery life. I'm not crazy about the screen, but I can live with it, and I have just about everything else running fairly smoothly - and the keyboard is just a joy to use. This thing is a real workhorse. But when the battery plummets down to ~70% or 60% within a couple of hours of use, that's just not cool...
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I'd be curious to know too. I recently tried to install xposed again (last time I used it was probably a couple of years ago) on my Relay running the last official CM11 nightly, and it didn't work either. First the installer complained that xposed isn't compatible with my version of the Android SDK, but there is a fix for that (I forget where, but it is somewhere on XDA). But even when I applied the fix, it still failed, I started getting bootloops. So yeah, I'd love to know how to install xposed on the Relay too...
I have to say, I have been using my Relay more lately, as my main phone has been having some issues, and the main thing that keeps me from using it more is battery life. I'm not crazy about the screen, but I can live with it, and I have just about everything else running fairly smoothly - and the keyboard is just a joy to use. This thing is a real workhorse. But when the battery plummets down to ~70% or 60% within a couple of hours of use, that's just not cool...
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Hi, i got it working with the files in this posts
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72133164&postcount=210
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72133164&postcount=209
I download both files, first I install the apk and got a bootloop, and then flash the zip from recovery. That fixes the bootloop and keep xposed installed.
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Hi, i got it working with the files in this posts
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72133164&postcount=210
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72133164&postcount=209
I download both files, first I install the apk and got a bootloop, and then flash the zip from recovery. That fixes the bootloop and keep xposed installed.
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So - install .apk, then flash the .zip - correct? And xposed is working well now for you?
[EDIT] So the .apk you posted worked just fine for me, no need to flash the .zip! Odd, but grateful this worked. Thanks!
Just wanted to confirm: Greenify (root) + Greenify xposed module + Amplify xposed module make a huge difference. Battery lasts much longer, and I have this sneaking suspicion the phone is generally smoother and less laggy. Might well be placebo, I know, but with useless background processes being sht down it might well have an effect on performance...
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So - install .apk, then flash the .zip - correct? And xposed is working well now for you?
[EDIT] So the .apk you posted worked just fine for me, no need to flash the .zip! Odd, but grateful this worked. Thanks!
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Great! I don't know why, but i had to flash the second one too.
Could you tell me which options have you check in Greenify and Amplify with xposed to get better battery life?
Thanks!
Greenify: Root mode + Xposed, of course. I've got automatic hibernation set, and for xposed features, I set all of them except Deep Hibernation
Amplify: even just selecting the default wakelock blocks in the free version helps a lot, but I use the paid version and I limited just about every wakelock that the app said was safe to limit (but only ones that were also described as safe in their blurb - some in the "safe" list are described as "we don't have any information for this wakelock yet") except for a few that were really light wakelocks.
I have now stock COS 12.1YOG4PAS3JL with root, unlock bootloader, Boeffla Kernel and TWRP recovery.
I uninstalled unnecessary google apps, done factory reset, and installed Greenify+Xposed.
But on this ROM I have only 4h SoT, in the night battery falls from 80% to 70% but wakelock detector didn't show anything process draining battery.
Phone have lags, and sometimes soft reboot.
I'm searching for best package(ROM+Kernel) for best battery life and system stability. Can anyone help me?
Don't install XenonHD. While it is fast and smooth, I am encountering random reboots of up to 6 times per day. It also sometimes fails to wakeup properly and reboots instead. I'm still searching for a good rom, just like you.
I'm on the snapshot channel of CM, and everything works just superb. I have 5+hrs of SOT, and I'm happy with that.
Try brokenOS, 6h SOT.
I only manage 4.30hours display on with the same rom as op, being from a nexus 5 I'm having trouble finding that rom
Tried broken os, I couldn't find the option to disable the capacitive buttons yet.
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I have now stock COS 12.1YOG4PAS3JL with root, unlock bootloader, Boeffla Kernel and TWRP recovery.
I uninstalled unnecessary google apps, done factory reset, and installed Greenify+Xposed.
But on this ROM I have only 4h SoT, in the night battery falls from 80% to 70% but wakelock detector didn't show anything process draining battery.
Phone have lags, and sometimes soft reboot.
I'm searching for best package(ROM+Kernel) for best battery life and system stability. Can anyone help me?
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I use stock cos12.1 with stock kernel
Nothing you describe affect mine
I have disable google administator and play service usage from security settings
I do not use grenify or amplify
I use lean droid and i have easy 5 hours sot
I have now Resurrection ROM 5.5.9 and works fine. I have 5h SoT now.
But I'm looking for camera app with fast autofous, becouse stock camera app is terrible.
I need fast autofocus and nothing else
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I have now Resurrection ROM 5.5.9 and works fine. I have 5h SoT now.
But I'm looking for camera app with fast autofous, becouse stock camera app is terrible.
I need fast autofocus and nothing else
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Me too since 3 months now,its stable you made the right choice try changing your governor to smartmax eps.
any 4.4 KitKat rom, 8h SoT easily.
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any 4.4 KitKat rom, 8h SoT easily.
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This. If you want good battery life, any 4.4 Rom will do you fine.
Yes, they are right about K.K ROMs but if you must move up Slimsaber 5.1.1 rock solid good battery life and fast and smooth. Than for 6.0.1 DARKOBAS best damn ROM out right now.
And which KK custom ROMs had best battery life and smooth system?
I would recommend SlimKat for best battery life.
I had even 6hour SOT. Probably it isnt a lot, but keep in mind that my phone has a touch screen issues so fix drains my battery a bit more.
Not in any particular order,
Lollipop Rom's- CrDroid 5.1.1 (favourite ) ,sultanxda CAF rom, Dirty Unicorns. TipsyOS ( favourite ) BrokenOS 5.1.1 - enable all the init script options available under setting, , Resurrection ROM.
kitkat- Defiantly better battery life but you probably struck with systemupdateservice bug. I tried all the available fixes but no success.
Gapps- slim
kernel - inbuilt (Do not change it unless Dev specifies ) .You can always tinker with kernel options to suit your needs.
Heavy Battery draining apps: whatsapp, facebook.
Custom roms are already optimized for better experience and sleep like a baby when it is not in use and it doesn't need any battery saving apps.
If you still face any issues with battery drain, use betterbatterystats.apk to find the root cause and fix it or find alternatives.
My setting:
Remove unused apps: email, nfc, live wallpaper picker,..
Alternative- Dual boot patcher (snapshot)
Primary rom with all required apps - home use,
secondary rom without gapps - office use ...(no drain whatsoever )
Hope i had answered your question to some level. Have a nice day.
I use exedus 5.1.1 with AK kernel and loads of changes , most importantly:
under clock to 1420
on demand governor
1420mhz input boost all cores
Suspend Max frequency 729mhz
268mhz under volt to 630mhz ( on my phone)
462mhz gpu undreclock
This has input lag than stock or cm nightlys and 9 hour SOT with Facebook ,WhatsApp and mostly chrome use.
When you want to game just take off the 1420mhz undreclock and its super smoooooooth
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 and the battery was doing fine. A few weeks ago the phone started getting quite slow and the battery life went way down. I had installed a few apps around then, so I removed them and still battery life was bad. I tried restarting the phone and that didn't help. At the time I was running Marshmellow and I was using OSMonitor to watch the system. I was finding that Android OS was taking most of my battery and 30% of the CPU all of the time. Not long after that Nougat became available and I upgraded thinking that might help. It didn't help and OSMonitor no longer worked. I switched to GSam Battery Monitor and used adb to give it the permissions to see all app information. I'm still finding that the Kernel is taking 28% of my battery and Android System is taking 37% of my battery and I can't figure out why. I would rather not need to do a full reset and install all of my apps and settings again, so I'm asking if anyone out there has ideas on things to try and fix this. This is a non-rooted phone running the stock image from Samsung/Verizon.
Thanks for any help.
try activate the Battery Saving option and use it for a day and see if helps
I've had this happen to me before. The phone was getting seriously hot while it was happening too. I decided to do all I can without doing a factory reset (I was on vacation at the time, so no access to something to backup my data).
I cleared the cache of all apps. Then I disabled all of the stock apps I didn't need (like Gear VR). I also shuttered apps running in the background to about a max of 3 apps open at any given time. That stopped the insane heat issue, but Android System was still sucking 30% of the battery. I turned off Always On Display, that got me down to about 25%. A factory reset got the phone down to around 10%, and I never saw the issue again.
Before you do that I would recommend checking out this thread below as there does appear to be a bunch of other possible solutions provided by others.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/help/how-experiencing-android-battery-drain-t3327730/page51
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try activate the Battery Saving option and use it for a day and see if helps
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But then my background syncing is turned off too...
I didn't need this before, so wondering why I should need it now.
I had same issues and was able to fix it. See the following thread for details.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=71558514
Try this , it helped me a lot .
Download from the XDA forums the Kernel named : "Apollo Kernel" v7
Just flash it , and when you install it , if you dont use your phone for high end games or hard work,that requires high end specs , then you can underclock the cpu/gpu .
It s a battery life saver, plus , your components will be much better in terms of thermals/life
Started to use 1080p with 386 or somethig dpi to see if there is any improvements.
I'm running latest Three uk nougat , rooted with supersu, with magisk i always lost root in the first minutes.
Been running it for 2 daya now and yeah the ui is more liquid the phone is colder and I've gained around 100 mb of ram BUT i feel that most apps are still running on the original res and caches resources accordingly.
The best example i had was with waze which had pois icons enlarged.
Did a reinstall and all was good but i cannot do that with everything or it doesn't work , for example fb app.
Android os is reporting 30 mins wake time at 24 hrs, never had wake time before rooting only had on gapps services and android syatem.
The phone was a btu from ro and i managed to flash the three firmware so that i get wifi calling in the uk on three and all of this after repiting, bootloader updates, nand erase all and thinkering with the efs backup.
Most I've got was 5 hrs sot on 24 hrs. Phone brand new.
Any way to deknox it? I deleted every apk with knox in the name and after that when i opened supersu it asked me if i want to disable knox so i clicked yes
Also made some small debloating of preinstaled apps, but just small stuff like instagram, ebay etc, if i start to delete more system apps like update manager, enterprise stuff, user manual and so on , nothing that gets me fc or limits functionality i experience faster battery drain for example the usual battery drain is something like 2 hrs sot from 100% to 80% but if i debloat it really hard i get like 1 h of sot 100% to 80%. And another thing is that no mater how hard i debloat it i cant pass the 700mb to 1.3 gb of free ram it always finds something else to cache to ram for example the calculator or the barcode scanner app what ? Why none of them have a start at boot trigger