Generally happy with EG 5.5 but I have a few issues to report so far.
1.) I was in a call and had to navigate through an automated system by pressing numbers. This worked for about a minute or so of me pressing a number then putting the phone back to my face (at which point the screen went off as it should) and repeating. After the fourth or fifth iteration the screen stayed off and I had to take out the battery to reboot.
2.) Browsers still crash when I change orientation.
3.) Battery drains really rapidly compared to other builds (including 5.0). This may simply be the indicator not actually reporting properly though as I noticed my phone was stuck at 48% for three hours yesterday no matter what I did with the phone.
All of that said, I really appreciate all of the effort that's gone into these releases. At the moment though, I'm tempted to switch to the latest EG gingerbread release as I'd like hardware acceleration again, even though I vastly prefer the UI improvements in ICS. Meh.
Thanks for all of you hard work.
Clear battery stats from recovery I had the Same issue with the battery I haven't charged my phone since yesterday around 7 and I have around 45% right now .when the screen shuts off and doesn't want to turn on press the power times 2 times or 3 but quick. When u reboot your phone make sure u let it sit for around 5 min before you start using it . Dolphin HD works like a charm no issues so far. navigation works too p.s make sure u calibrate ur battery
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Clear battery stats from recovery I had the Same issue with the battery I haven't charged my phone since yesterday around 7 and I have around 45% right now .when the screen shuts off and doesn't want to turn on press the power times 2 times or 3 but quick. When u reboot your phone make sure u let it sit for around 5 min before you start using it . Dolphin HD works like a charm no issues so far. navigation works too p.s make sure u calibrate ur battery
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Battery stats has nothing to do with calibrating your battery.
Battery stats only shows what has been using your battery like which apps you run... that's it, it does not store your battery's information.
It fixed the issue I don't know what I did but it worked
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Clear battery stats from recovery I had the Same issue with the battery I haven't charged my phone since yesterday around 7 and I have around 45% right now .when the screen shuts off and doesn't want to turn on press the power times 2 times or 3 but quick. When u reboot your phone make sure u let it sit for around 5 min before you start using it . Dolphin HD works like a charm no issues so far. navigation works too p.s make sure u calibrate ur battery
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I had forgotten to recalibrate, still not getting great battery life but at least the indicator is working properly. Haven't had a repeat of the screen blanking during a call as yet. Dolphin HD still crashes when I change the orientation. I even did a clean install and still the same issue sadly.
Thanks for your responses...sorry it took so long for me to reply.
My desire s battery drops from 100% to ~15% after about an hour of surfing with edge mobile network.(with different roms) And my friend tell me that this is unusual. I have tried calibrate the battery with the battery calibrate app and it didn't help . It's there anyway to solve this such as flashing baseband?
Thanks for helping.
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My desire s battery drops from 100% to ~15% after about an hour of surfing with edge mobile network.(with different roms) And my friend tell me that this is unusual. I have tried calibrate the battery with the battery calibrate app and it didn't help . It's there anyway to solve this such as flashing baseband?
Thanks for helping.
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first open battery usage and investigate which app eat a lot of power.
sometimes just restart the phone will clear out the issue.
The app which eat many power is the browser but I have tried other browsers too but same problem happened.
I have restarted and flashed tons of times and ROMs but same happened.
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- which rom are you using? official or custom ?
- try to restart phone, donot open any browser and see if the battery still drain?
I tried cm stable, miui stable , HTC sense ROMs. It only drain when I surf with my edge mobile network. If I use WiFi its normally draining , about two to three hours.
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I tried cm stable, miui stable , HTC sense ROMs. It only drain when I surf with my edge mobile network. If I use WiFi its normally draining , about two to three hours.
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with the same radio? or different?
if the same radio, try to flash another one
if problem with different radio, may be bad coverage in your location?
Try to move to another place with good coverage and give it a try
As i remember i never flashed the radio. Can u suggest which radio should i use?
Does baseband affect the battery life? If yes l, which baseband should I flash? Thx
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you can find it in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178001
Should I flash the latest one or it should be flashed refer to the rom?
And thx for helping
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Can we use that if i'm using hboot 2.00.002?
- firstly check to see what radio version are you using now?
- make sure your phone was rooted when calibrate battery. Is it rooted?
serious battery problem
OK, I have a serious problem. I updated official RUU, and my phone is running smooth. Battery lasts 1-2 days, everything is working fine. But last night battery was on 17% and I put it to charge at 12pm, woke up at 6am and it was on 33%. I'm charging it right now and it's up to 41% then drops to 39% and so on. Tried another charger - same thing. It won't charge! No new apps, no new settings, battery stats shows the same power use,.... Battery health is good, Auto sync is off,.... I have Go Power Master, Juice Defender, shows no problems. 3G is off, it's on GSM only, Wi-Fi is off, GPS is off and so on, my phone is fully optimised and this happened last night. I charged it while off and now it's on 37%! So I guess it's not a software issue. Anybody has an answer or a clue what could be the problem, please? Is my battery dead (year of use)? Thanks in advance.
try to restart your phone?
Tried that. I'm currently charging it power off, turned it on and it's still draining. While it's off!
i guess it's battery problem. Borrow another battery from your friend and try again.
Well, it was a strange thing... I've noticed that GO Power Master is killing like 25 apps and prolonging time for some 2 and a half hours when you hit optimise button every 2 minutes. So some apps are running in the back and draining the battery. So I uninstalled some of them (clock widget, Noom, Zoner antivirus,...) and restarted phone and by the end of the day it was all stabilised like before. I don't know what happened. I'm still testing it but I've managed to charge it to 100% and there was no drain over night. We'll see.
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Well, it was a strange thing... I've noticed that GO Power Master is killing like 25 apps and prolonging time for some 2 and a half hours when you hit optimise button every 2 minutes. So some apps are running in the back and draining the battery. So I uninstalled some of them (clock widget, Noom, Zoner antivirus,...) and restarted phone and by the end of the day it was all stabilised like before. I don't know what happened. I'm still testing it but I've managed to charge it to 100% and there was no drain over night. We'll see.
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maybe you should look at this man..http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
Noom
I have a S2 and every day, at 20:00 the phone starts a process and gets very hot and also drains the battery.
I discover that if I freeze the Noom app, it doesn't happen.
So, I blame noom for your draining issues and mine.
Does anybody else having this problem?
Regards
I didn't had a problem since uninstall, but it happened again later, I think it was from Firefox. While it was on charger, I got popup note saying something like "phone is using more than current can deliver, try to kill some apps or turn phone off while charging." First time I see that note. Probably because it was on Sense, not on launcher. I've noticed that Firefox is using a lot of memory, uninstalled it and it was all normal like before.
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OK, I have a serious problem. I updated official RUU, and my phone is running smooth. Battery lasts 1-2 days, everything is working fine. But last night battery was on 17% and I put it to charge at 12pm, woke up at 6am and it was on 33%. I'm charging it right now and it's up to 41% then drops to 39% and so on. Tried another charger - same thing. It won't charge! No new apps, no new settings, battery stats shows the same power use,.... Battery health is good, Auto sync is off,.... I have Go Power Master, Juice Defender, shows no problems. 3G is off, it's on GSM only, Wi-Fi is off, GPS is off and so on, my phone is fully optimised and this happened last night. I charged it while off and now it's on 37%! So I guess it's not a software issue. Anybody has an answer or a clue what could be the problem, please? Is my battery dead (year of use)? Thanks in advance.
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I had this problem, but svery time it was solved with rebooting. It showed normal percentage. I think, you just need to reboot device sometimes, may be once in two days. I suppose to think the couse of ghis problem is a kernel) it can be engaged with not an exact process, so battery drains. Try to change kernel, or rom, or battery)
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Hi everyone,
This is the problem. Most of the time when I reboot, there will be battery loss like 20-30 percent.
Tried to Google it but no real answer. Is it normal? Is it related to the batterystats file?
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i think this is just normal. i also experienced that everytime i remove the battery
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i think this is just normal. i also experienced that everytime i remove the battery
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Normal? I hope not. I reboot my unrooted Sony w8 and it don't even lose battery. But my Samsung did. In XXLE4 gingerbread. After using new rom, still same prob. It makes me scared to touch the reboot button when there's no charger around.
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i think this is just normal. i also experienced that everytime i remove the battery
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no it isnt , this is a big problem.
its happend when i flash roms too.
i dont no why but some time the battery Earns some charges after the phone sleep.
I don't know why but it happens very often. I experience it usually when i reboot on Recovery mode. Usually if I left the phone in Sleep mode it recovers some chargue.
it simply happens after you flash roms, as the battery stats are not working proper anymore, what you can do is callibrate the battery (look in play store) but in my case they dont seem to fix it 100% (when the battery is lower than 30% and i restart it's still not properly shown)
and don't worry the battery is not actually lost after restarted, just the indicator is not working proper...if you let the phone in sleep mode for a while and check back you will see it returns to the actual valuea
Ohh. let it sleep.. that should show real bettery level. Thanks all!
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Hi,
I am on a rooted stock rom DDLF2. Couple of weeks i am observing high battery drain though none of the apps are running. I dont put any fancy live wall papers or widgets. I have stopped all the background apps like google play, maps etc and Background data unchecked. I always us GSM only and do not use any wifi or data network. Screen brightness is at around 15%. I use the phone very less hardly get around 5 to 6 calls in a day lasting 1 or 2 mins per call. If i charge the phone fully to 100%, after 8 to 9 hours the battery is coming down to 30%. After it comes down to 15% the lock screen shows it is charging with the percent symbol even though it is not connected to the charger.
I tried resetting the phone, cleared the dalvik cache and the cache partition but no use. I suspect this is a software bug.
Has anybody faced similar problem? Any solution would be much helpful.
I am also facing the same problem.. can anybody plz help??
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user28 said:
Hi,
I am on a rooted stock rom DDLF2. Couple of weeks i am observing high battery drain though none of the apps are running. I dont put any fancy live wall papers or widgets. I have stopped all the background apps like google play, maps etc and Background data unchecked. I always us GSM only and do not use any wifi or data network. Screen brightness is at around 15%. I use the phone very less hardly get around 5 to 6 calls in a day lasting 1 or 2 mins per call. If i charge the phone fully to 100%, after 8 to 9 hours the battery is coming down to 30%. After it comes down to 15% the lock screen shows it is charging with the percent symbol even though it is not connected to the charger.
I tried resetting the phone, cleared the dalvik cache and the cache partition but no use. I suspect this is a software bug.
Has anybody faced similar problem? Any solution would be much helpful.
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Have u tried clearing battery stats..?
Do it once. then charge your phone to 100%.. allow it to discharge it to 20%..
Again repeat the cycle for 3-4 times..
this should solve the problem hopefully..
kishankpadiyar said:
Have u tried clearing battery stats..?
Do it once. then charge your phone to 100%.. allow it to discharge it to 20%..
Again repeat the cycle for 3-4 times..
this should solve the problem hopefully..
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Yes i already tried it. Cleared the battery stats. But did not solve the problem. Surprisingly the moment battery charge drops to 15% it starts showing the line "Charging (15%)" on the lock screen even the charger is not connected to the phone. Not sure what is wrong.
So i am thinking of downgrading the version. Can anybody suggest me any good stable stock rom which can be used for India (since i am in India) particularly with good battery life.
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Yes i already tried it. Cleared the battery stats. But did not solve the problem. Surprisingly the moment battery charge drops to 15% it starts showing the line "Charging (15%)" on the lock screen even the charger is not connected to the phone. Not sure what is wrong.
So i am thinking of downgrading the version. Can anybody suggest me any good stable stock rom which can be used for India (since i am in India) particularly with good battery life.
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Kpu? It is quite stable.
try putting some other Kernel, may be BAM kernel it might help!
U might want to check if your battery is dead.
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loneagl said:
U might want to check if your battery is dead.
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Even i was feeling that phone's battery is dead, but trust me, I reverted back to DDKP3, and installed BAM kernel .. I find battery backup much improved, I have kept GPRS on for 5 hours now ..11% battery drained. On the LF2 ( for india without BAM ) and on the ICS drain was huge.. like in 6 hours i have seen drain more than 45%
I have even bought new battery also.. but testing on Old battery only.. You can try combo of DDKP3+ BAM or DDKP3+titanium!.
Update
It's 8 hours 11 mins, GPRS on since phone was charged to 100%, battery is drained to 86% ( 14% drained) Display On for 7 mins 21 seconds!
It seems like my old battery is still well and can work!
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Thanks for all your responses.
@emptyragnarok -- DDKP3, do u mean the Build Number: Gingerebread.DDKP3 or the Baseband version -I9003DDKP3 ? Can u please clarify?
Also i need two things for the downgrade;
1) Any posts or links which describes the procedure of downgrading in detail
2) Links on how to flash the other kernels like BAM etc and reverting back to stock if needed.
Thanks.
All your responses proved that i am not alone. All your responses made me feel confident that I can still use the device and solve the problem.
here is the procedure to flash BAM custom kernel...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355675
holy crappp! i lost again! where as I! :silly::silly:
In the past 2 days, my phone has been burning up in my pocket. Nothing is on. Recent apps are cleared and it runs at 42 C by itself. And its running my battery down before I even get halfway through the day. Any help?
I think the battery is messed up too. I turned battery saver on at 11%. Then next time I look at it it's 4%. Then for the next hour it stayed at 4%. I then plugged it in and it went down to 3%....
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In the past 2 days, my phone has been burning up in my pocket. Nothing is on. Recent apps are cleared and it runs at 42 C by itself. And its running my battery down before I even get halfway through the day. Any help?
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It is not normal maybe you installed an app that cause you this wakelock. Try to identify what app cause you this problem. Also you have 5.1.1 (latest firmware)?
No. It's at&t. So 5.1 probably won't happen.
I started deleting all apps that I wasn't sure about. It's still hot and destroying my battery. I needed a quick solution, so I factory reset. It seems to be fine now.