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[Q] Best Rom Desire S. Battery Wise!

What is the best ROM for Desire S in terms of battery.
I used virtuous unity 1.29.0 and it's battery backup was quite good then my original ROM.
But after updating to new virtuous unity 1.31.0 the battery backup goes quite bad.
Anyone know a good battery backup ROM for desire s?

Calibrate your battery, really works!
Instructions:
1. Turn your phone on and charge it for 8 hours our more
2. Deplug charger, turn your phone off And charger it fit one hour
3. Turn your phone on, wait 2 minutes,turn your phone off and charge it for one hour
4. Turn phone on and your battery life should be much better now
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Don't forget to sacrifice a virgin and hire a shaman.
Cmon ppl! Li-Ion and Li-Poli batteries do not require forming (yeah its forming not formatting). Ni-Cd and Ni-MH were the types that required this.
In extreme situations (charging over 20hrs) you can even damage/reduce capacity of your phone's Li-Ion battery.

ptenteges said:
Don't forget to sacrifice a virgin and hire a shaman.
Cmon ppl! Li-Ion and Li-Poli batteries do not require forming (yeah its forming not formatting). Ni-Cd and Ni-MH were the types that required this.
In extreme situations (charging over 20hrs) you can even damage/reduce capacity of your phone's Li-Ion battery.
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So are you saying NOT to calibrate your battery that way?

Yeah.. is that really works?
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try miui rom.......... my battery life is superb.. i tried every custom rom in my point of view miui is perfect... try it once......

olyloh6696 said:
So are you saying NOT to calibrate your battery that way?
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I'm saying that the type of the battery used in Desire S is not formable. Additionally in extreme situations you can damage it by overcharging it. This is more complicated, because it also depends on the type of charger, and charging hardware in the phone.
What DesisreS says looks exactly like forming process, hence my response.
What you (possibly) can do, is calibrate your device/os to properly read battery status and use it more efficiently. But this is done through some software tricks I don't know.

Our battery is smart.
Overcharging it won't do anything. It just cuts off the electricity when reaching 100%. Full voltage is around 4.2V. If you look at your voltage while charging, it's already at 4.2V at around 70%. I have no idea why it does that.
And at 0% it's not really empty. It still has around 3.5V. It gets dangerous at 3V where it won't be able to charge again.
Just clear your battery stats in recovery or use an app from the market and see what happens.
Read and search around the forum for more info.

ptenteges said:
I'm saying that the type of the battery used in Desire S is not formable. Additionally in extreme situations you can damage it by overcharging it. This is more complicated, because it also depends on the type of charger, and charging hardware in the phone.
What DesisreS says looks exactly like forming process, hence my response.
What you (possibly) can do, is calibrate your device/os to properly read battery status and use it more efficiently. But this is done through some software tricks I don't know.
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You can use the app called battery calibration from the market for the calibration
Charge battery to 100% & run the app
This does not increase battery life but helps the OS read the battery more accurately & this needs to be done after installing a new ROM

kartkk said:
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You can use the app called battery calibration from the market for the calibration
Charge battery to 100% & run the app
This does not increase battery life but helps the OS read the battery more accurately & this needs to be done after installing a new ROM
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Uhuh, this is what I mean. But lets go back to the original question, what are your experiences with different ROMs and battery life? I'm going to be Desire S user soon so I'm curious too.

ptenteges said:
Uhuh, this is what I mean. But lets go back to the original question, what are your experiences with different ROMs and battery life? I'm going to be Desire S user soon so I'm curious too.
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LeeDroid ROM. Offers great battery life and very close to stock ROM. I got 1/2 day use on stock ROM with heavy use when I first got it, then put leedroid on, now I'm having 1 full day heavy use before I have to charge my phone (15%)
(Includes a lot of syncing, WiFi, web browsing, music,games etc the whole day)
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Thanks guys.
I decided to go with virtuous rom. it's new version is coming out with very good battery life.

vishalduggal said:
Thanks guys.
I decided to go with virtuous rom. it's new version is coming out with very good battery life.
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not just good battery life but many more awesome features
@olyloh6696 i think you should also try the vu beta im impressed by it

i really hope the next version of miui for desire s will have better battery life, i think it's the best looking rom and i will definitely keep it when battery is improved!

[q] battery drain!!

I want to use a higher mah battery in my fit......so it will be ok if i use a 1500mah battery insted of its original 1350mah battery??
thanks in advance !!

kartik.ansal said:
I want to use a higher mah battery in my fit......so it will be ok if i use a 1500mah battery insted of its original 1350mah battery??
thanks in advance !!
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OEM batteries will give you best performance than Non-OEM, higher value batteries. Your Stock 1350 mAH battery will definitely give better performance than 1500 mAH non OEM battery. The battery drain problem is in the root of Android 2.2 Froyo, Install Gingerbread if you want more backup

Using ur cell wisely also helps
Reduce your screen brightness and avoid vibration whenever possible
Also Live Wallpapers suck up lots of juice
Using the FIT moderately gives a decent 2 days battery backup (on a stock battery)
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And where do u source a 1500 mah battery for the FIT from ???

Upgrading your firmware or installing a custom rom may help with the battery problems. Also kill the apps running in background ,if not in use .
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Use wipe Battery status in CWM.its have good effect.

mahdi mahdavi said:
Use wipe Battery status in CWM.its have good effect.
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really...??? i'll try. thank you

Where do u get a1500 mah battery ??
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fvd23 said:
Where do u get a1500 mah battery ??
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Probably Ebay
Xperia x10(Feralabs Rom) After trying all roms it was my Fav.
Now on the RAZR.
I see you Drinking that ¥Hateraid¥

i bought one on ebay its pretty cheap, 4 $ witch isnt a lot so i will try it when i get it, will tell you if its good or not..

How about calibrate the battery? Does it really works???

calibrating only show correct stats, it has nothing with battery life

Use android software for calibration. Calibration helps to see the real level of the batery. It is a good thing to wipe batery stats when you reflash ----from cwm.

cygnus39 said:
How about calibrate the battery? Does it really works???
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No, is better buy a new battery when the problems apears.

Download Batery calibrator from playstore it helps it restarts your batery stats rom will correctly read your batery data

slobo14 said:
i bought one on ebay its pretty cheap, 4 $ witch isnt a lot so i will try it when i get it, will tell you if its good or not..
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Please give the link...

Battery drain is the common problem in all the low end android mobiles...

buntyrewa said:
Battery drain is the common problem in all the low end android mobiles...
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it happens with high end phones like S2 also!
every smartphone has same problem, there is nothing you can do about it until hydrogen batteries becomes safer for house hold gadgets like cell phones
buy Motorola RAZR MAXX if you really need a decent battery life!

yea battery drain is natural
I think these batterys are limited to charge and it damages
Only way is to buy a new battery
but you can use battery saver apps in idle times

Battery must be recalibrated on each rom update?

Hi every one,
I was wondering if there is need to recalibrate the battery on each rom update, custom and lg official releases?
Also i bought a 1900mAh battery so I think it need to calibrated for better performance?
Any advice will be great
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no.
Battery calibration does not affect battery performance, it just changes the accuracy of the battery %age display. There is also no way of calibrating the battery, as it is directly read from the li-ion battery itself. Deleting the batterystats.bin Does nothing besides resetting androids About Phone>Battery Use data - which already resets itself on a full charge (And also broken on O3D GB Roms)
Its actually likely that calibrating the continually will eventually result in considerably worse battery life, as li-ion batteries are best operated between 20-80% charge.

oyanezg said:
Hi every one,
I was wondering if there is need to recalibrate the battery on each rom update, custom and lg official releases?
Also i bought a 1900mAh battery so I think it need to calibrated for better performance?
Any advice will be great
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I saw on the battery calibration app, that it must be recalibrated, since each rom has diferent files to manage power, and it will actually help the battery managment.
Thats what i know, im not an Expert.

tachi_do said:
I saw on the battery calibration app, that it must be recalibrated, since each rom has diferent files to manage power, and it will actually help the battery managment.
Thats what i know, im not an Expert.
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I saw that too, on battery Calibration by NEMA it says:
calibration needs to be done after flashing a new ROM. but you calibrate.. etc. the whole message that why my initial post was about, I saw other posts saynig that it must so ill do it just in case I dont think that will do anyharm at all.

wasn´t calibration just a matter of charging till 100% when off, then remove battery, insert battery and then start phone and plug again??
i do this and my battery it's all good, although i cna't watch a video for more than 3 hrs hahahaha

It actually worked on my ZTE Blade. I believe it's called overcharging.

hi
i dont think so need callibration after each new rom!
it might harmful for battery!

Horrible battery life

Im the proud new owner of the Samsung galaxy s2 skyrocket from Rogers. I've owned the phone for about 3 days now and i am very impressed with it's performance. The one thing I am not pleased with, however is the battery life. My battery is being drained by 1% every few minutes. Im a lightweight user. I've sent maybe 20 texts and received less than 10 phone calls, all lasting under 10 minutes. Im running mhx's superlite ROM alongside faux's kernel. I've tried waiting for a full charge then wiping battery stats. Still have horrible battery life. I've tried waiting for the battery to drain to about 10%, then when it reaches 100% charge I leave it in a couple of hours. I still have a horrible battery life. Wi-fi, GPS, Bluetooth, auto-sync are all off and brightness is set to the lowest possible value. I even underclocked the processor to 1.2GHZ. I do use Go Launcher, go locker, go sms and go powermaster. Is there some way to check out whats eating my battery? Maybe I should invest in a new battery?

Betterbatterystats

Thanks for the speedy reply. I will try that out and post if there's an improvement.

Kagenui said:
Thanks for the speedy reply. I will try that out and post if there's an improvement.
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It will tell you what is causing wakelocks

best bet is to consider an extended battery. it's the only real way to extend your battery life.looks horrible with a bulky backside on phone but believe me your have peeve if mind! my first post guys. hope something happens!!
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fida khan said:
best bet is to consider an extended battery. it's the only real way to extend your battery life.looks horrible with a bulky backside on phone but believe me your have peeve if mind! my first post guys. hope something happens!!
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Not really mine lasts 1 day or longer with moderate use.

xcrazydx said:
It will tell you what is causing wakelocks
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It seems that go locker was the culprit. Uninstalled it. And I just might buy one of those heavy duty batteries as suggested by another poster. Any recommendations? I think I read somewhere that some batteries designed for the SG2 won't work for the skyrocket.

best bet is to consider an extended battery. it's the only real way to extend your battery life.looks horrible with a bulky backside on phone but believe me your have peace of mind! my first post guys. hope something happens!!
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Kagenui said:
It seems that go locker was the culprit. Uninstalled it. And I just might buy one of those heavy duty batteries as suggested by another poster. Any recommendations? I think I read somewhere that some batteries designed for the SG2 won't work for the skyrocket.
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The extended nexus battery will fit but cause a little bit of lift on the stock cover.

I've got a freakin 3500mah bat on my gs2 an yep i just get about 12-14 hours of heavy use. pretty dismal!. but still better than 6-8 hours on 1650mah original Batt.
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Kagenui said:
Im the proud new owner of the Samsung galaxy s2 skyrocket from Rogers. I've owned the phone for about 3 days now and i am very impressed with it's performance. The one thing I am not pleased with, however is the battery life. My battery is being drained by 1% every few minutes. Im a lightweight user. I've sent maybe 20 texts and received less than 10 phone calls, all lasting under 10 minutes. Im running mhx's superlite ROM alongside faux's kernel. I've tried waiting for a full charge then wiping battery stats. Still have horrible battery life. I've tried waiting for the battery to drain to about 10%, then when it reaches 100% charge I leave it in a couple of hours. I still have a horrible battery life. Wi-fi, GPS, Bluetooth, auto-sync are all off and brightness is set to the lowest possible value. I even underclocked the processor to 1.2GHZ. I do use Go Launcher, go locker, go sms and go powermaster. Is there some way to check out whats eating my battery? Maybe I should invest in a new battery?
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Try installing different ROMS which help save battery life.

how come you're saying it'll fit standard back cover. my 3500 mah Batt came with a back cover. doubt if standard cover will stay on.it'll probably just POP of:banghead:
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'heavy use' in phones is a pretty subjective thing. but one thing extends Batt life more them anything else bar widgets and having wi-fi etc on -it's having or rather using BLACK themes in your apps , black goog and black background. man you can even use a black background white text in kindle Android. think about it, amoled screens live for dark backgrounds and I've put some serious time into researching Batt life and what does and doesn't work. try black backgrounds as amoled screens consume most of their power from light backgrounds and almost minimal power from black backgrounds!
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fida khan said:
'heavy use' in phones is a pretty subjective thing. but one thing extends Batt life more them anything else bar widgets and having wi-fi etc on -it's having or rather using BLACK themes in your apps , black goog and black background. man you can even use a black background white text in kindle Android. think about it, amoled screens live for dark backgrounds and I've put some serious time into researching Batt life and what does and doesn't work. try black backgrounds as amoled screens consume most of their power from light backgrounds and almost minimal power from black backgrounds!
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I thought that the whole thing about using a black background to save battery power was just a rumour. Thanks for the tip.

Does anyone know if battery saving programs such juicedefender, Go Powermaster, etc. really make a difference in battery life?

juice defender is a total waste of time.it's market as a quality app ie. lots of settings etc but in my errrr 'research' and testing for Batt life i read about and found out through 'personal insight' (by that i mean common sense) that it just uses more Batt than it saves. for one it's always using phone resources - processor etc and two it's basically running continually trying to SAVE Batt life and therefore really defeating itself. tried it and quickly spat it out. not worth it.i.had the paid version too.
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also definitely stay away from app killers etc. Android just restarts the apps it needs anyway end you'll just be killing them , Android will be restarting them. you get it. app killers just hog more resources than they save.
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I knew it was too good to be true. I guess those people who claim it works were under a heavy placebo effect.

don't know if you've tried it but the xda app -premium version anyway- which i'm using at the moment to post also has a dark theme (black background) in settings SIMPLE VIEW or something like standard view. can you believe it!
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All and l mean all the geezers (the top brass anyway) at xda are going to send hitmen for me for thus next comment : DEEP BREATH and here goes - It could be the roms , flashing etc , or to placate any er hitmen the particular Roms that you're using could be to blame you know! Android or Samsung or both also have had a problem with some phones having a runaway processor BUG . By that i mean the Android OS (you'll find it underbattery usage) goes crazy on some phones and decimates Batt life. check it out and think about your errrr emm ROMS. OH dear there's a knock at the door........!!!!
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3500mah battery

Got this oem samsung i9000 3500mah battery from one of the battery retailers over here n I'm quite impressed for what it can do for me. Take a look guys. Heavy usage in whatsapp, twitter, facebook and some other random stuffs and i could still last for this long. With cm10 oc'ed up to 1140
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13hours plus and still ongoing.
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How long did your original battery last on your kind of heavy use?

4hours maximum with stock battery
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4 hours stock with orginal battery? What did you do to it, stick it in fire?
My 2 year old battery still holds +24 hours with moderate use + sync.

fackamato said:
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4 hours stock with orginal battery? What did you do to it, stick it in fire?
My 2 year old battery still holds +24 hours with moderate use + sync.
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He said: 4 houts on heavy use. Not just letting it sit in your pocket. Quite realistic if you ask me.
@OP: how much does the battery last in standard standby (+maybe background sync and some light use)?

nagi603 said:
He said: 4 houts on heavy use. Not just letting it sit in your pocket. Quite realistic if you ask me.
@OP: how much does the battery last in standard standby (+maybe background sync and some light use)?
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Sure. Mine has wifi on 24/7 with corp account (push), gmail (push), music every now and then (poweramp) + browsing. Never under 60% under 12 hours.
But, I don't play games.

How to get these "big" batteries for the phone ?

Strange. You probabily have some background processes or apk, wth this drain on 35000 baterry. I have with my 3000 mAh baterry so:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/210/sc20120824222736.png/
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Where can I buy a 3000mAh or 3500 mAh battery?

miro666 said:
Strange. You probabily have some background processes or apk, wth this drain on 35000 baterry. I have with my 3000 mAh baterry so:
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What is your battery ?
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Hi people! Are these 3500 mAh batteries Samsung original or not? At ebay.com I can buy one about 15 Eur.. with rear cover, but I don't know if these are safe for smartphone or in general..

GalaxySWifi4 said:
What is your battery ?
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It is my battery:
http://www.batteryupgrade.com/shopB...rtmentProductId/42252157/shopGroupId/46205854
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I might think it is not original one. By the comments from my friends it doesnt really better from stock battery.
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Hello,
all these super/hyper batteries are unpredictable... If you are lucky, you will get efficient one, but if not... you will have the same situation as author of this subject.

I have 3000 mAh battery for 2 years without any problem.
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Hmm.. fortune, this is the problem) Thanks for the info.. maybe I'll buy it, at the moment I'm testing a new ROM that should have a better battery drain.. I need at least 1.5-2days with WiFi/3G and screen at 30-40%, not so much, maybe an "unlucky" 3000mAh should be good too.. which ROM/Setting do you use for better battery performance (OT? Should I open new thread??).

were did you get the 3500 battary from and for what price?
beacuse i see the ebay ones for 7 dollers is it worth it?