[Q] Help/advise needed on Droid and battery life - Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh

Just purchase my phone about two weeks ago, I been noticing that the battery runs out quick is there a rom you guys advise I should get to work out my battery problem? if so can you give me a link to it? and yes I have use the "search" tool but I would like some input from people actually using the roms and what they think.

Are you rooted? Are you using a task killer? Have you checked in settings to see what's using your battery? Mine always showed the screen using the most, set to auto.
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If you open up the app menu, and go to the "Help Centre" it gives tips on how to "Train the battery". Haven't tried them yet, but seems to be a logical solution, so hope it helps even jus' a bit innit.

Thank you guys for the response I rooted my phone and installed a custom room its working great and battery life is better
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hmmm....
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Just to add some information to the thread. If you use a task killer, be careful not to use a kill all function. The task killer will kill processes only to have Android start them again, leading to an endless loop of restarts, which will drain your battery and adversely effect performance.
I get excellent battery life using Cyanogenmod or Sapphire, where I'm at right now.
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Thanks for the info Bateluer, by the way im using SimpleROM v1.0 on my droid haven't had any problems with it.

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Battery calibration

Hi
I got nexus battery calibrator but I don't get how it works. Its a simple question. How do I have to calibrate? The text in the app doesn't make any sense imho. I don't get it.
Also which settings should I set it to
Not a urgent question but any help is much appreciated
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Try reading this...
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/11823-battery-calibration-thread/page__pid__100892#entry100892
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Just set your age to 100%, then drain till the pop up tells you to plug in. That's basically it.

Indepth battery usage stats?

Is there an app that dispays what's actually draining the battery?
My cappy seems to randomly drain fairly steadily and quickly some days but not others with the same type of usage so I want to find out exactly whats happening.
Im currently using watchdog and systempanel but neither really show what's going on.
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Spare parts?
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Hm, I even have that app already but never really looked at it. I think ill see what it has for me, thanks!
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Hi, Nooby question coming up.
recently rooted my SGS2 using the Chainfire Kernel and now have noticed that Android OS is prominent in my battery usage, sometimes around 50%in an hour,
Is this normal?
I also run a HTC IS stock and I have not yet seen ANdroid OS on the usage stats.
What is Android OS doing as I have also noticed Android System in the list at times?

Battery values changes in increments of 10

The battery changes in increments of 10%. This makes me sad
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I noticed that too. Didn't make me sad, but I thought it was really strange.
It's a smart phone dangit! Should be able to count battery percentages to the ones place. j/k.
It's just weird. I hope root will come soon.
Accurate Battery will be here once we can get a clockwork recovery.
Not really sure why most devices only show it in increments of 10% since the internal APIs totally support it.
However, to get around this I use "Circle Battery Widget" which will show the battery level to the 1% on pretty much any motorola phone.
You can download it for free by searching for "fr.depoortere.android.CircleBatteryWidget" in the market.
(Sorry, XDA won't let me post links yet )
I also use circle battery widget, works flawless
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dotson817 said:
I also use circle battery widget, works flawless
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Yes that is a great app to use. I dont have a droid 3 until tuesday but hey i know alot lol. The 10 % battery increase is a motorola thing. Its like that on all of their droid phones.
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Task manager

Does anyone use the task manager that comes default on droid 3? Anyone just use advanced task killer? Just wondering because the one that comes default has an auto kill list and wondering if thats safe to use with all the roms that get rid of some bloatware and all the changes that modify our phones. just want some of your thoughts/opinions. Thank you
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Doh delete me..
Huh?
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This is a perfectly reasonable question to ask. A BUILT IN task manager on our phone? New roms and modifications --> more development in the future--> can lead to problems. Just want peoples thoughts and opinions on what they use, if this is safe etc. If you dont like this post or think its stupid then you dont reply its that simple.
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It is a good question. I was under the impression that all task killers were bad. From reading other forums I came to the conclusion that android should be left alone to manage tasks on its own, and killing tasks would just cause android to restart them, which would end up causing more cpu and lead to worse battery life.
I have never tested it myself, though.
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willdo7474 said:
It is a good question. I was under the impression that all task killers were bad. From reading other forums I came to the conclusion that android should be left alone to manage tasks on its own, and killing tasks would just cause android to restart them, which would end up causing more cpu and lead to worse battery life.
I have never tested it myself, though.
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willdo7474 said:
It is a good question. I was under the impression that all task killers were bad. From reading other forums I came to the conclusion that android should be left alone to manage tasks on its own, and killing tasks would just cause android to restart them, which would end up causing more cpu and lead to worse battery life.
I have never tested it myself, though.
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Thats interesting willdo. I never thought of it like that. I appreciate your response
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Android manages RAM on its own efficiently since 2.2. Task killers actually cause more battery loss and cpu strain as stated above.
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Android manages RAM on its own efficiently since 2.2. Task killers actually cause more battery loss and cpu strain as stated above.
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So i take it you dont use any task killers? Lol
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If you want to improve it all you got to do if you are rooted is to download Autokiller and set a higher preset. I like Strict.
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[Q] THE SOLUTION to poor battery life

This is getting really annoying... battery gets charged to 100%, drops slowly then after <50% the phone starts to get hot and just start dying rather quick. I have changed batteries, actually bought a new one - still having the prob. I think i know the culprit but not sure how to attack it. Unfortunately because of my post count, i can't upload a link to the screenshot
!!! HELP !!! :crying:
Well...tell us what u think the culprit is, plz.
And more info from ya would help.
What Rom are u running, Overclocking, Undervolting, etc. Thx.
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Well...tell us what u think the culprit is, plz.
And more info from ya would help.
What Rom are u running, Overclocking, Undervolting, etc. Thx.
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I'm running ParanoidAndroid v.2.50 | Devil Kernel 3.0.31 | Modem I9000ZSJPG (which is rumored to give excellent battery life)
No overclocking or undervolting - don't really mess with those things.
Anyway, when i check battery usage "Media" always use the most when i notice the phone start loosing battery life n running hot. There is a time when i saw Media at 88% while everything incl. screen was less than 20%.
...maybe a rogue app or something syncing constantly ??
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4-2ndtwin said:
...maybe a rogue app or something syncing constantly ??
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highly doubt it... even after flashing and letting the phone sit idle wit no apps install - i get the same prob :/
You probably have com.Android.Media process running all the time..
I had the same with all recent kernels until I have reformatted my both SD cards internal and external.
Media scanner should be out of running processes after five minutes after boot.
I check them via terminal from :
top -m 10
command
Or
busybox top
In five minutes after boot I have almost zero CPU usage from top statistics
Hope it could help you
Regards
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