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Degraded Performance after Rooting?

Hello!
I bought Nexus S few days ago...it had pretty good battery life which lasted for 3-4 days....but after rooting...i feel that its only left for about 2 days....
Does rooting degrade the performance of the phone?
maybe a n00b question but still any help in appreciated!

No one is going to take you seriously when you start off by claiming to get 4 days of battery life.
Do you just boot up your phone and let it sit for 4 days? Do you power it off for long periods of time during those 4 days? Can you explain how you were getting 400% longer battery life than anyone else with this phone ever?
Also, no, rooting does not affect battery life. It does one thing: give you superuser permissions. That's all.

matt2053 said:
No one is going to take you seriously when you start off by claiming to get 4 days of battery life.
Do you just boot up your phone and let it sit for 4 days? Do you power it off for long periods of time during those 4 days? Can you explain how you were getting 400% longer battery life than anyone else with this phone ever?
Also, no, rooting does not affect battery life. It does one thing: give you superuser permissions. That's all.
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Ha ha. Four days of battery life. I'm real sorry. Coudn't resist. And the OP puts it well!

No seriously! I had an uptime of 81 hrs! I know i know...i had no PROOF! but plz...!! BELIEVE
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I don't know guys, my battery lasted 4 weeks before rooting. I think he is onto something...

No seriously! I had an uptime of 81 hrs! I know i know...i had no PROOF! but plz...!! BELIEVE
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Well I believe u I've seen 5 days on Sgs2 maybe you have draining ur battery
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HAKA said:
No seriously! I had an uptime of 81 hrs! I know i know...i had no PROOF! but plz...!! BELIEVE
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Wow. I would have loved to see that screenshot. Would have restored my faith in android's battery.
And if so. I'm sort your battery irs messed up now. Right from the stock I have had no luck with battery.
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uptime != battery time

No, but seriously, this has to be the most retarded thread to ever be started on XDA. If you had installed a custom ROM or a custom kernel, battery drain would be possible. Otherwise, you aren't going to see 400% less battery life because you rooted. lrn2android

khartaras said:
No, but seriously, this has to be the most retarded thread to ever be started on XDA. If you had installed a custom ROM or a custom kernel, battery drain would be possible. Otherwise, you aren't going to see 400% less battery life because you rooted. lrn2android
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Actually 4 days is 400% more than 1 day, but 1 day is 75% less than 4 days. Math nerd alert.
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Only can charge to 94%

Hey guys, just picked up a nexus the other day and noticed that no matter what I can only get it to charge to 94%. Any tips or ideas?
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Use the search function on xda or google. That's my recommendation.
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xsteven77x said:
Use the search function on xda or google. That's my recommendation.
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Yea i'm at work so that's not going to happen but thanks for nothing
kid
Ooh btw since you're using the app too, tell me how a search goes and you'll see why I posted this topic.
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.OmEgA said:
Yea i'm at work so that's not going to happen but thanks for nothing
kid
Ooh btw since you're using the app too, tell me how a search goes and you'll see why I posted this topic.
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You're asking people a question with that tone? Good luck finding the answer alone...
BTW for the other interested and more polite members of these forums here's my answer - that's a common "issue" with the Nexus S and I found this without even searching for it... This "issue" or also called a feature is here to prolong the battery's life, to reduce rapid degradation (because they don't "like" to be charged to the maximum nor staying in the empty state).
If you don't like this "feature" try bump-charging the battery or "hack" the charging process.
Want to know how? Google it

atirage said:
You're asking people a question with that tone? Good luck finding the answer alone...
BTW for the other interested and more polite members of these forums here's my answer - that's a common "issue" with the Nexus S and I found this without even searching for it... This "issue" or also called a feature is here to prolong the battery's life, to reduce rapid degradation (because they don't "like" to be charged to the maximum nor staying in the empty state).
If you don't like this "feature" try bump-charging the battery or "hack" the charging process.
Want to know how? Google it
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Lol thanks. I asked in a nice tone in my op if you're referring to my reply to the second post, then yea, that tone its well deserved. I did ask nicely.
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The Nexus S does this on purpose,
to give you the technical reason why, I can't answer that. Should be something about overall battery life.
Heeter

This is by design.
Samsung and Google are watching your wallet by trying to prolong your phone battery's physical life.

Gelladuga69 said:
This is by design.
Samsung and Google are watching your wallet by trying to prolong your phone battery's physical life.
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Cool, makes sense now. thanks everyone.
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Heeter said:
The Nexus S does this on purpose,
to give you the technical reason why, I can't answer that. Should be something about overall battery life.
Heeter
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But i can charge the battery to 100% in a block charger, and it keep well when i use it.

lshking said:
But i can charge the battery to 100% in a block charger, and it keep well when i use it.
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The feature is built into the phone, not the battery.
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Gelladuga69 said:
The feature is built into the phone, not the battery.
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So, why not just let our battery full and make it works more.
I really don't know yet.
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Or maybe it is just a imperfection, not a feature.

If your rooted go into recovery and wipe battery stats to recalibrate may be off a bit
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lshking said:
So, why not just let our battery full and make it works more.
I really don't know yet.
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Or maybe it is just a imperfection, not a feature.
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Because charging to 100% isn't needed and hurts the physical life of the battery.
The battery only stays at 100% for a couple seconds off the charger.
97% is close enough, those 3% wont help you.
its definitely not an "imperfection" though. Seeing as, crespo and crespo 4g users all have this.
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if you use matr1x kernel v9.0 .. it takes this feature off. the battery charges all the way to 100%

surveysays said:
if you use matr1x kernel v9.0 .. it takes this feature off. the battery charges all the way to 100%
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Our at least reports that it does.
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No really it does xD
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Gelladuga69 said:
Because charging to 100% isn't needed and hurts the physical life of the battery.
The battery only stays at 100% for a couple seconds off the charger.
97% is close enough, those 3% wont help you.
its definitely not an "imperfection" though. Seeing as, crespo and crespo 4g users all have this.
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well it could be implemented so that 100% is the new 95%.
after all it's an arbitrary number (more or less)

Oh, for the love of... NO-ONE READ MY REPLY??
Here, get on reading and getting some knowledge...
And if you must charge to 100%, maybe try this.

Simply let the phone not go to sleep when charging (stay awake) and it will charge to 100%. Easy. Done.
Dunno why people couldnt just simply reply with this.

matr1x 9.0 can truly charge to 100 or it's only digits ?

Just got Andida 2250 mah from Amazon (Breaking In)

Going to post some screenshots tomorrow
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would love to get an improved battery. let us know real world results and if you loose NFC.

I guess you need one of those ugly covers huh?

I also bought this battery and just started using it yesterday. When I bought it I got it for just less than $15, including shipping.
Will report after a few days of use.

megagodx said:
I guess you need one of those ugly covers huh?
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Nope! Its about the same size as the stock, a little tight but no bulge when in phone
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marvin02 said:
I also bought this battery and just started using it yesterday. When I bought it I got it for just less than $15, including shipping.
Will report after a few days of use.
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That's the one I bought, the company name is andida
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i just received an andida one but when i pop it in to charge, it causes the phone to keep vibrating in 2 second intervals?
did this happen for you guys too?

projectvirtue said:
i just received an andida one but when i pop it in to charge, it causes the phone to keep vibrating in 2 second intervals?
did this happen for you guys too?
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Nope
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Kenneth.Torres said:
Going to post some screenshots tomorrow
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I purchased a couple of these batteries and during the first week they seemed to work well, but after that, battery usage was horrible. I was lucky to get 6-8 hrs out of them.
EDIT: Weird, this was not the post I select to respond to???
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trajik78 said:
would love to get an improved battery. let us know real world results and if you loose NFC.
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These batteries do not support NFC.

Kenneth.Torres said:
Going to post some screenshots tomorrow
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I've been using this battery since mid February. It has given me more juice over the stock battery by quite a few hours.

projectvirtue said:
i just received an andida one but when i pop it in to charge, it causes the phone to keep vibrating in 2 second intervals?
did this happen for you guys too?
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remove the orange sticker on the terminals

How does this one perform compared to the Nexus extended? Do any of you have both?

lirong said:
How does this one perform compared to the Nexus extended? Do any of you have both?
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I have both and the andida just isn't as good as the extended battery from Samsung. I've seasoned it like the instructions say and it just doesn't last nearly as long. It's only been a week and I'm still testing it.
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dr_w said:
I have both and the andida just isn't as good as the extended battery from Samsung. I've seasoned it like the instructions say and it just doesn't last nearly as long. It's only been a week and I'm still testing it.
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Agreed, it's only a tiny little bit better or if any better than the original battery.

I ordered 2 of these and a stand alone charger off Amazon for $30. Hope I didn't waste my money! Will know when I get back home in a week and get to test them out.
Does anyone that has had luck with them have any suggestions for how to "break them in", I think the instructions show to cycle them 5 times before use?

After receiving and using an Andida for about a week I was pretty disappointed. Its about the same as the stock. Nexus Extended is better.

I have the Andida battery and I feel that it does give me 2-3 hours more on a charge. No hard facts, just my impression from using it for about a week.

My experience, it gave me about 2-3 hours like what others said. I usually got 10-13 hours. I'm personally using the Qcell 3850 mah battery now, 24+ hours
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Im getting 20+ hours of medium use right now with new ICS Smoothie ROM. Used to only get about 10+ hours with Rooted GB. I'm just hoping these batteries are at lease up to par with stock battery so I have some spares and an extra charger.

i needa get one of these...

Should i order the nexus 5 ?

With all those defect threads around,i'm a little bit scared to be honest ....My friend will be ordering it for me because the play store doesn't take Paypal.If there's a defect,how does it work ? Do they charge you the second device until you send back the first one ?

Yes they charge you for the replacement then after 5-10 days or so u well get the money back. Even before they get the original device back u will get your money back.
BTW this should be in the questions and answers area
>^.^< Sent From Meow nexus5

You are saying you will refrain from having sex just because people around claim that you can get hiv...

caribouxda said:
You are saying you will refrain from having sex just because people arouns claim that you can get hiv...
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LOL wut?
Nice analogy pal
But you are right, you don't need to be afraid, everything is going to be ok
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wetcave said:
With all those defect threads around,i'm a little bit scared to be honest ....My friend will be ordering it for me because the play store doesn't take Paypal.If there's a defect,how does it work ? Do they charge you the second device until you send back the first one ?
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Don't be scared. It's a great phone.

No issues here..great phone
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If you look at other device forums on XDA, you will probably find defect threads too. There is not a perfect Android device.

Are the chance of receiving a defective nexus 5 high right now ?I don't wanna bother my friend with the rma,i mean how is he gonna react when he's gonna see the 420$ extra $ charged on his card ?

wetcave said:
Are the chance of receiving a defective nexus 5 high right now ?I don't wanna bother my friend with the rma,i mean how is he gonna react when he's gonna see the 420$ extra $ charged on his card ?
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They're very low. You're hearing from a vocal few in the defect threads

Janzen254 said:
If you look at other device forums on XDA, you will probably find defect threads too. There is not a perfect Android device.
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The Moto X is pretty damn close.

jd1639 said:
They're very low. You're hearing from a vocal few in the defect threads
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The thread had over 113 pages tho.

wetcave said:
The thread had over 113 pages tho.
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It's your choice dude. All I can say is I'm very happy with it

_MetalHead_ said:
The Moto X is pretty damn close.
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Traded mine for the G2 and couldn't be happier. Cellphones are subjective to the user
>^.^< Sent From Meow nexus5

DowntownJeffBrown said:
Traded mine for the G2 and couldn't be happier. Cellphones are subjective to the user
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You're absolutely correct because I returned my G2, started using a nexus 5 and now I'm about to see what the moto x is all about. The G2 is a really nice phone tho. I almost kept it...

My device dont have any problems..speaker is excellent only in play music, battery is not that good and camera is also excellent
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mssam said:
You're absolutely correct because I returned my G2, started using a nexus 5 and now I'm about to see what the moto x is all about. The G2 is a really nice phone tho. I almost kept it...
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In the end all 3 are great phones. Probably the best 3 out at this point
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+1 for having received a good quality device. No issues others have been reporting with my N5.

_MetalHead_ said:
The Moto X is pretty damn close.
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Yes sure because it was made in usa right hahahahaahahahaha

caribouxda said:
Yes sure because it was made in usa right hahahahaahahahaha
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Yeah! Let's soil it and flash miui on it lol!
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First one I ordered was a 16gb, it had a dead pixel and light bleed on top left corner. The 2nd one, a 32gb, had perfect screen, but has the weak noisy vibration motor issue. Gonna call later to do an RMA for another exchange. If the 3rd one also has problems, then I'm done. They cut too many corners to keep this phone inexpensive, it really is like a lottery trying to get a perfect one. And that's too bad because I really like this phone.
Side note: My Note 3 was perfect out of the box. Also got a Moto X and is perfect as well. It's pretty sad I've gone through 2 Nexus 5's already. :/

Battery case?

Anyone here rocking a mophie/zero lemon battery case? Persuade me in buying one please.
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Yuck. Makes the phone too big.
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liquidraven said:
Anyone here rocking a mophie/zero lemon battery case? Persuade me in buying one please.
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I never used one but read good reviews about them. I would say go for it if you really need the extra juice. I personally don't need it, I get four days between charges so it's not a issue here. I'm not a gamer so mine lasts for me.

Misterxtc said:
I never used one but read good reviews about them. I would say go for it if you really need the extra juice. I personally don't need it, I get four days between charges so it's not a issue here. I'm not a gamer so mine lasts for me.
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How in the world are you and others getting such amazing battery life. I'm happy when I don't have to charge it at least once day. Mind sharing your settings and secrets?
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liquidraven said:
Anyone here rocking a mophie/zero lemon battery case? Persuade me in buying one please.
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Sounds like you've already talked yourself into it so my thoughts are this, go find one in a store and try it out and see if you like the way it feels to you. If you like it buy one.

animal7296 said:
How in the world are you and others getting such amazing battery life. I'm happy when I don't have to charge it at least once day. Mind sharing your settings and secrets?
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It's more to do with my usage of the phone or lack of. I don't play games, watch movies or play music with my phone. I have other devices that do a much better job for those. My radios are off until I need them and I use greenify paid version. Attached is my block list from package disabler pro.
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I got my zero lemon case for free by messaging the marketing team on xda and reviewing their unit. It's okay, seems like in regular use it only gets about a 60% increase in battery.

gerbetta33 said:
I got my zero lemon case for free by messaging the marketing team on xda and reviewing their unit. It's okay, seems like in regular use it only gets about a 60% increase in battery.
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Thanks for the info, have you tried any others by chance?
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