[Q] How to tell when you need a new battery? - Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm posting this question because I'm sort of confused, I've had my hero since July and since then have ran every rom to date. Now I'm running AospMod 9.9.2 and have never witnessed such horrible battery life. I know it has nothing to do with this rom because I used to get f*cking awesome battery life almost 2 days without charging. Now I'm lucky if I get 6 hours moderate use... Charged to 93 this morning, still on charger rebooted to install keyboard, loaded back up dropped to 73...
I've done all sorts of calibration nothing works, Can I please get some insight on my problem before I buy a new battery? Thanks in advance!
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It might be the ROM. Did you change back to a different one to see how it worked? If it went for almost 2 days a few days prior then drops to a 6 hour usage I highly doubt it's the battery itself. When my G1 battery went it started to lose time very fast at the end but it did it gradually over months before I had to get a new one.

Texas Spectre said:
It might be the ROM. Did you change back to a different one to see how it worked? If it went for almost 2 days a few days prior then drops to a 6 hour usage I highly doubt it's the battery itself. When my G1 battery went it started to lose time very fast at the end but it did it gradually over months before I had to get a new one.
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Well when I had my best battery life it was with AospMod 9.6 - 9.7.
I might go back to an older version and see..
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The reason I ask about a new battery is, when my phone just sits on the homescreen with only google sync on gmail, beautiful widgets 3 hour for weather check, and some icons the battery ia draining 1% every like 5 mins without me doing anything...
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try Collins or Deca's battery tweak in the dev section

Meh already running collins battery tweak..

igtheactt1 said:
Meh already running collins battery tweak..
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try switching interactive with um whatever the other common setting is

igtheactt1 said:
I'm posting this question because I'm sort of confused, I've had my hero since July and since then have ran every rom to date. Now I'm running AospMod 9.9.2 and have never witnessed such horrible battery life. I know it has nothing to do with this rom because I used to get f*cking awesome battery life almost 2 days without charging. Now I'm lucky if I get 6 hours moderate use... Charged to 93 this morning, still on charger rebooted to install keyboard, loaded back up dropped to 73...
I've done all sorts of calibration nothing works, Can I please get some insight on my problem before I buy a new battery? Thanks in advance!
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If You Open Your Dialer, & Press *#*#4636#*#* It'll Take You To A Menu Where You Can Check The Battery & A Bunch Of Other Hidden Settings, But Not Sure If It Works With All Dealers? I Know It Works With Sense!
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You might have a zombie process or an app with a mem leak something is really eating that battery. Some apps/Widgets are poorly written and can cause battery issues. Typical life of a battery should be about 2 years(if that) before it starts to not hold a charge anymore though. There's a way to check which zombie process or mem leak could be killing your battery it would easily tell you. I wish I could give you the link but I'm on my phone. Flipz tells you how to do this on his site.
UPDATE: I found the link dude.
http://geekfor.me/news/why-is-my-android-phone-running-so-slow/
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Battery killer help (Axura rom)

I have recently gotten into flashing custom roms, and am currently running Axura 2.5 with SetiroN's 1.4.3
After initial battery conditioning and what not, I have been having good life out of my phone.
I do every now and then wake up to a warm phone which has dropped nearly 40% battery in 6 hours of sleep.
The culprit as per OS Monitor is system/bin/mediaserver
It seems to use a constant cpu of 10%-20%
Trying to kill the process just results in it restarting and burning up cpu again.
Only way to kill it is to reboot the phone.
Since the Axura development thread has been closed and appears Adam is either upset with people complaining or maybe just taking a breather (love the rom) I am not able to get more information there, though when I did bring it up there, others also noticed similar findings.
Anyone know what this file is, what is causing it to go spastic and kill my battery, and how to make it behave?
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Could be gallery. Not really sure
Install SGS tools from market, and install Gallery 3D from there. The default Gallery on phone has a bug that keeps the sensor on draining battery.
is this true? Will that truly solve the battery issues? Let me know because if so I wanna flash back to it.
I was watching my battery drain like 1 percent every 2 minutes , I watched it. I absolutely loved the rom tho, let us know if it works
Yep its true. There were issues for awhile. But not sure if the fixed one was included or not. But worth a shot.
Krooked22 said:
is this true? Will that truly solve the battery issues? Let me know because if so I wanna flash back to it.
I was watching my battery drain like 1 percent every 2 minutes , I watched it. I absolutely loved the rom tho, let us know if it works
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Yes. This is the first thing I do on every ROM I set up now. Gallery by Samsung that is distributed by default has a sensor bug that keeps the sensor all even after closing gallery.
Thanks for the tip.
I know I've done that in previous flashes, must have forgotten this time.
Will see how my baby does now.
Definately love Axura Froyo compared to AT&T Eclair.
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thanks for the tip..installed gallery 3d and im seeing much better battery life ..

[Q] Battery life unusually short

Hello all!
Here's my problem. For the past week I have noticed that the battery life's very short. And by short, I mean less than 10 hours fully charged. I got no new applications since this problem appeared, and everything seemed to be working perfectly. Then suddenly I woke up one day and noticed that the phone is turned off. Any ideas on what could be the problem?
I'm running Android 2.3.3 I9000XXJVK.
Here you can see battery use, if it helps.
Thanks in advance!
Battery Drain on 2.3.3
Flash JVR 2.3.4
Thats problem in JVK...go to setting > account and sync > disable background data + auto sync.
Hope this work if not then left 2.3.3 abd come to 2.3.5 JVS
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ohmygod1986 said:
Battery Drain on 2.3.3
Flash JVR 2.3.4
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll wait for a while though, if someone comes up with something.
ali_khalid5518 said:
Thats problem in JVK...go to setting > account and sync > disable background data + auto sync.
Hope this work if not then left 2.3.3 abd come to 2.3.5 JVS
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But I've always had background data and sync enabled and it always worked perfectly fine. Why would this suddenly be the reason for battery drain? Also, at night I always turn off WiFi and data network.
Well disable this when ur not using....i think u should give a try and close them...because high android os usage is due to this....
Background data is a process that using OS of ur phone heavily.
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Ok, I'll try this and we'll see how long the battery will last once it's full. Meanwhile, any other ideas would also be appreciated.
i have also problem with battery
then i install
_(¯`·._(¯`·._ Revolution_.·´¯)_.·´¯)_|2.3.4-JVR|10lock|Beauty,Fast,Stable
then my battery problem is gon now i m happy with this rom
for my opinion check this rom
sory for my bad english
Hi
I too have this problem with my sgs but only since i flashed darkyrom 10.2.1 final with touchwiz 4
Does anyone know if tw4 drains so much more battery? (8h is max right now)
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Wts ur battery stats....no one reply
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ali_khalid5518 said:
Well disable this when ur not using....i think u should give a try and close them...because high android os usage is due to this....
Background data is a process that using OS of ur phone heavily.
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Since disabling background data didn't help very much with battery drain(it extended battery life by 1-2 hours), I decided to try another ROM. Now, it's unplugged for 11 hours and it's still at 90%. So far, I'm completely satisfied with F1 Galaxy S II V6 ROM.
That was the awesome rom i dnt know what special ingrediant he use in his rom...i test F1 innovation and i got 3200 quadrant score and long battery life...but the major problem is touchwiz 3.
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On first run, I got around 1800. Second run was 2180. Pretty much as expected.
Try doctorz rom....hope u ll hav long battery life
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NiN0o0 said:
Since disabling background data didn't help very much with battery drain(it extended battery life by 1-2 hours), I decided to try another ROM. Now, it's unplugged for 11 hours and it's still at 90%. So far, I'm completely satisfied with F1 Galaxy S II V6 ROM.
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Using V7 and after 8 hours on doing almost nothing it ate all the juice from my battery
So much bad info here...
Notice how 'Android OS' is eating a disproportionately large amount of your battery? This is called the 'Android OS' bug, which appeared shortly after the release (and use) of JVK—which just so happens to be what you're running. Just for the record, your display should almost always be the highest consumer of battery. If it isn't, you have problems... just like you do now.
Reboot your phone to get rid of it. Battery pull if that doesn't help. It inevitably will show up again, however; it's merely a matter of time. If you'd like to permanently solve this issue, simply upgrade to 2.3.4 (JVP) or newer.
Please, all of you... just look at your battery stats. It's a built-in, handy feature—so use it.
EDIT: As it appears, this is an old thread. Please don't bump old threads...
Androids OS uses <= 5% on semaphore on JVT
Hello Ali Khalid, Nice work ..being a medico and cooking up a rom is tough job ..but ur ROM is awesome..but brother i have one problem..its not with your ROM but it is with all the custom ROMs i flashed..i have gotta big problem with Battery Life..i dont know why this happens..i always follow the proper procedure...still my battery drains like from 100 to straight 91 in 5 minutes..but after flashing stock rom ( currently on JVT ) itall back to normal life. Can u help me on this???
NiN0o0 said:
Hello all!
Here's my problem. For the past week I have noticed that the battery life's very short. And by short, I mean less than 10 hours fully charged. I got no new applications since this problem appeared, and everything seemed to be working perfectly. Then suddenly I woke up one day and noticed that the phone is turned off. Any ideas on what could be the problem?
I'm running Android 2.3.3 I9000XXJVK.
Here you can see battery use, if it helps.
Thanks in advance!
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2.3.3 has a very high frequency of Android OS and Android System battery drain. The best solution is to flash 2.3.4 or 2.2.1.
2.3.4 has a much lower frequency of the battery drain bug, while 2.2.1 has no battery drain bug.

Phone/Battery screwed up

Hi guys!!
My phone is seriously screwed up. I'll get to the story.
A couple of nights ago, I couldn't copy files to sd card both from the phone and the computer. So I took it out and tried to format it in Windows but failed. So then I tried to format in linux and succeeded :good:
Then I tried to copy files to it, eventhough it seemed like files were copied, when I tried to read it again after ejecting the card, it was empty No files were copied!!
My SD card had failed and so I removed the SD card and let the phone be. ROM was CK MIUI 2.4.6. I noticed that battery started to drain faster through the night; around 40% for 8 hours
I tried using various other ROMs, tried the battery friendly CM9 too - both elols and rcset's. Still no avail. :crying: :crying:
I think its a hardware error. Can I claim my warranty??
whyzee said:
Hi guys!!
My phone is seriously ...
I think its a hardware error. Can I claim my warranty!!
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That's bad :crying:
Yeah try to claim the warranty and see what happens, good luck. And please don't change your phone.
My Experience with Service Center in Bangalore was good .. they gave me a replacement phone (Some cheap dual SIM phone) when i had issues with display and wanted to replace it .
Lead time given was 1 week as it had to be sent to some central location but they guy called me up within 3 days and asked me to come and collect my phone ..
So they treat the Mi 400 owners well as it was the costliest phone in there arsenal some time back .
@whyzee, any updates on the phone and battery backup?
paarkhi said:
@whyzee, any updates on the phone and battery backup?
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no bro, not yet. The phone is still with me and I'm currently getting ~19 hr usage with only calls/msg.
I'm on Bumblebee and I'm getting nice backup, can you try it once (ya I know it still has ICV) but gives nice backup and each and every feature works (excl. FM, HDMI) or sharp Modded (.35) Fix1 which also gives nice backup, but the condition is that you need to stay on any of these 2 ROMs for few days and not flash any other ROMs immediately, I've seen that constantly flashing ROMs also reduces battery backup no matter on which ROM you are on (means you don't get good battery backup even if you are on battery friendly ROM), if you want you can try it as a last solution...
paarkhi said:
I'm on Bumblebee and I'm getting nice backup, can you try it once (ya I know it still has ICV) but gives nice backup and each and every feature works (excl. FM, HDMI) or sharp Modded (.35) Fix1 which also gives nice backup, but the condition is that you need to stay on any of these 2 ROMs for few days and not flash any other ROMs immediately, I've seen that constantly flashing ROMs also reduces battery backup no matter on which ROM you are on (means you don't get good battery backup even if you are on battery friendly ROM), if you want you can try it as a last solution...
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thanks for the tip paarkhi! I guess I too have been flashing too many ROMs recently. Right now, I'm on MIUIv4. I'm gonna try to hang onto this for a while. keeping my fingers crossed ...
ok, how is your experience with MIUI4
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ok, how is your experience with MIUI4
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nice.... I havent really tested it yet - no GPS,data,wifi or anything. Just using it for calls and stuff and as I said, battery life is about 19h...
Hi Whyzee
First how old your battery is and did the service center guys replaced the battery?
Do one thing wipe everything, cache, delvik cache battery stats and revert to stock GB for sometime. then check the performance for your device and tell us
I'm on sharp mod fix 1 and getting better battery life (I think) currently testing it and update after a few days
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Im on elol SOB ICS. This thing is kick ass battery saver. So smooth yet saves ton of battery. I've attached current stats. Been browsing wifi over an hour and battery still shows 100% I got 25 hours by charging up to 90 % yesterday. So I think that's what the secret was. When u flash a rom recharge it to 90% first time and then 100% the next time. Will report tomorrow
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whyzee said:
Im on elol SOB ICS. This thing is kick ass battery saver. So smooth yet saves ton of battery. I've attached current stats. Been browsing wifi over an hour and battery still shows 100% I got 25 hours by charging up to 90 % yesterday. So I think that's what the secret was. When u flash a rom recharge it to 90% first time and then 100% the next time. Will report tomorrow
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That rom is one of the best rom... I've tasted it.
May be you can taste rcset's cm9... some said it great also, but I haven't tried it yet.
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whyzee said:
Im on elol SOB ICS. This thing is kick ass battery saver. So smooth yet saves ton of battery. I've attached current stats. Been browsing wifi over an hour and battery still shows 100% I got 25 hours by charging up to 90 % yesterday. So I think that's what the secret was. When u flash a rom recharge it to 90% first time and then 100% the next time. Will report tomorrow
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Congrats that now you are getting nice battery backup and very clever to go in Airplane mode (that says lot of battery) while using WiFi.
paarkhi said:
Congrats that now you are getting nice battery backup and very clever to go in Airplane mode (that says lot of battery) while using WiFi.
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yeah, I guess thats what saved the battery for so long
whyzee said:
Im on elol SOB ICS. This thing is kick ass battery saver. So smooth yet saves ton of battery. I've attached current stats. Been browsing wifi over an hour and battery still shows 100% I got 25 hours by charging up to 90 % yesterday. So I think that's what the secret was. When u flash a rom recharge it to 90% first time and then 100% the next time. Will report tomorrow
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when i was on BB 101.3... i got this
Something is wrong with my phone! I'm sure of it!! Damn! if I could only find the bill receipt!!
whyzee said:
Something is wrong with my phone! I'm sure of it!! Damn! if I could only find the bill receipt!!
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Since yesterday I'm already out of warranty and now on God's support for this phone but even I've seen that Spice people asks for bill when I went for some camera problem to them so hope that you find it...
paarkhi said:
Since yesterday I'm already out of warranty and now on God's support for this phone but even I've seen that Spice people asks for bill when I went for some camera problem to them so hope that you find it...
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that sucks paarkhi!! Be careful with your phone now....
Search for this on XDA. The dev had it for free there for a while some time ago. At least have a peek. Good Luck!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.ynfo.batteryrepair
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Not getting good battery life on my ONE

Hi, I have had this phone for almost a week now and have noticed that battery life for me is shocking. I JUSSST about manage to get through a day and some days have to charge the phone a little half way through the day to make it last the extra mile. After the first few days of heavy usage I went back to my regular usage pattern but still the battery hasnt been good. I have posted many screenshots and posts in the 'battery life' & 'battery stats thread' in the ONE General section so check em out. I downloaded GSam battery monitor and found out that my phone has many wakelocks from 'wakelock mediaserver'...at one point I had almost 900 wakelocks from it :/ I tried everything to fix this but couldnt. Plus the phone in general would lose 1% battery every 50 seconds to a minute. I had to resort to a factory reset in the hope that it would fix the issue but that wasnt the case. At first the mediaserver wakelock was nowhere in sight and battery drain was ok compared to before, but then again its back to draining insanely fast and the mediaserver wakelocks are back. Anyone else have this problem? Or anyone else finding that their battery is draining quick?! Because if this persists then im gonna take it back to p4u later in the month and get a new one. Just want to know if this is only happening to me and if anyone has any solutions. Thanks
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I'll be honest I didn't have hope for the one and it's battery. I got this one a week ago. It's on it's 5th charge. That's good! Are you a heavy user?
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arknailed7754 said:
I'll be honest I didn't have hope for the one and it's battery. I got this one a week ago. It's on it's 5th charge. That's good! Are you a heavy user?
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Well I think I'm a medium to heavy user. But most other people, especially reviewers who probably used the phone heavily are easily getting over a day of use.
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Yeah suprsingly I am almost. It's weird. I think blinkfeed helps in a weird way. Instead of checking your facebook. Twitter.news apps etc it's all there to look at. Might save juice I don't know.if your worried return it though dude
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lte ...
Try disabling lte ! This did the trick for me ...
chuckbert said:
Try disabling lte ! This did the trick for me ...
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I don't have lte :/ lol
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yvibes said:
Hi, I have had this phone for almost a week now and have noticed that battery life for me is shocking. I JUSSST about manage to get through a day and some days have to charge the phone a little half way through the day to make it last the extra mile. After the first few days of heavy usage I went back to my regular usage pattern but still the battery hasnt been good. I have posted many screenshots and posts in the 'battery life' & 'battery stats thread' in the ONE General section so check em out. I downloaded GSam battery monitor and found out that my phone has many wakelocks from 'wakelock mediaserver'...at one point I had almost 900 wakelocks from it :/ I tried everything to fix this but couldnt. Plus the phone in general would lose 1% battery every 50 seconds to a minute. I had to resort to a factory reset in the hope that it would fix the issue but that wasnt the case. At first the mediaserver wakelock was nowhere in sight and battery drain was ok compared to before, but then again its back to draining insanely fast and the mediaserver wakelocks are back. Anyone else have this problem? Or anyone else finding that their battery is draining quick?! Because if this persists then im gonna take it back to p4u later in the month and get a new one. Just want to know if this is only happening to me and if anyone has any solutions. Thanks
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If you loose power so quickly on new phone you have two options - battery not good or you have too many things going on!!! I will bet it is the second option! Under too many consider all processes you have running on the device.... less job for processor(S), more battery live! All phones come with a lot of crap installed form the vendor(map, wheather, location services, etc...) I will recommend to kill(dissable/enable) all processes you do not need!!! Make a test, but get all important staff out of the phone, so you may need to factory reset if you kill something important. Do not worry, with fact. reset will be like new..... and all the crap already started So good luck
Found this in another device forum, but it could (possibly) help you with your wakelock problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1717237
I've never had the mediaserver wakelock (nor do I have the One yet), so don't know how well this will work. I suppose it's worth a try. If not, you might try Googling the mediaserver wakelock problem to try some other solutions. Seems to be a relatively common problem.
I'm guessing you're a heavy user!
What apps to you have installed? how many apps to you have?
My phone lasted 1 day and 9hrs on one charge with moderate internet use, txt messaging, phone calls - and that was without power saving mode enabled.
chuckbert said:
Try disabling lte ! This did the trick for me ...
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LTE actually uses almost as little battery as being connected to wifi...

Possible AOIP battery life issue???

OK, I know the battery life issue for 4.2 ROMs has been beat to death, but I've got something weird happening with AOIP on my phone that doesn't happen with other ROMs.
Basically, when I'm at work, the battery graph (from Battery Monitor Widget Pro) looks like in the AOIPbattery image attached below.
As you can see, it ate all but 3% of the battery in about 11 hours. At times Battery Monitor Widget Pro indicated it was using the battery at 11%/hr or more! This is while I'm at work, and the phone is not doing anything, just sitting on the desk with the screen off, connected to a wifi network but not doing anything with that either.
After a few days of that, I decided I needed to try something else. Originally was going to go back to my "old reliable" backup of 4.1 Rootbox, then thought instead that I'd try the last build of 4.2 Slimbean I still had as a backup. Restored that and got all my current data for the apps reloaded, seemed to be working fine (though still had the stuttering and dumping of apps issues, which was why I wuit using it). Thing is, it's using battery not much faster than the Rootbox one did. See the SlimbeanBattery image to see how it did at work. Same scenario (sitting on the desk, connected to wifi, screen off almost all day). The little bit of high usage was while I was at lunch, reading some web pages and rss feeds, so the screen was on for about a half hour.
So, I'm wondering what the heck is making it use batter so fast on AOIP? I tried several things before switching to Slimbean. Airplane mode made no difference. Used Wakelock Detector to see what was using it up, and it was some part of Android OS making AlarmManager go nuts with wakelocks.
I even backed everything up, factory wiped it a couple times, then loaded the base AOIP 6/3 ROM and loaded GAPPS to see if it still did it.
Nothing seemed to make any difference.
In one sense, I'm hoping the new build that keeps getting hinted at might correct some of this, but I kinda doubt it considering how everyone who brings up battery issues usually gets treated.
That's normal for 4.2 Roms
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I see your point, why does one 4.2 room use that much more battery life then the other, it makes no sense to me. Maybe camcory can shed some light in this issue
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That's how my battery life has been on all 4.2 Roms. If aoip is worse for you then most obviously you need to switch Roms.
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I really was hoping that you would see that there might be something wrong with AOIP and take a look at it at least, and not throw out the same tired response. While I do appreciate the work put into AOIP, forum thanks have not happened due to the refusal to notice the glaring issue that everyone else does.
I would really like to know if you even read my post, Smartguy? Seems not or you would have noticed that AOIP in that scenario eats battery three times faster than another 4.2 ROM. Why?
I'm not trying to upset anyone, just trying to hopefully get this resolved in an amicable manner.
Some people don't have battery drain issues that bad with AOIP. You should keep in mind that this phone was never intended to run anything above gingerbread. Every one of these phones handles issues differently, which is unfortunate, but if a Dev doesn't have the same issue it is hard to address. Its just how it is.
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Yes I read your post I wouldn't respond if I didn't. I have ran all the 4.2 Roms and with all of them I might get 10-11 hours of life. So no I don't see a problem with the ROM and if you do use another one.
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smartguy044 said:
Yes I read your post I wouldn't respond if I didn't. I have ran all the 4.2 Roms and with all of them I might get 10-11 hours of life. So no I don't see a problem with the ROM and if you do use another one.
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Wow hard to believe (well not really) this horse has been beat to death more times than a cat has lives! I'm pretty happy with battery life for the performance and OS I'm getting with AOIP. No hiccups and I have access to all the latest android features. The phone has a small battery anyway so if you want better battery life, time for a new phone or switch to a Gingerbread OS. I charge the phone once a day typically so that's hardly an inconvenience.
Thing is there is something major different in AOIP, as I can typically get just over 24 hours out of this battery in anything other than AOIP, including while I'm at work where the battery usage is a little higher than at home in every ROM I've tried (4.1 and 4.2 based included).
AOIP for some reason eats battery at more than 10% per hour only when I'm at work (less than 3% per hour at home) even when I haven't loaded any apps.
Every time I look at what is using it, it is either "cell standby" or "android os" that is using the most with the other of those two second and the screen usage following in a distant third.
I've tried to figure out what specific item in those two are the source, but it always comes back to some generic service or component in the os that is used by almost everything.
Really any advice to try and improve this, other than "use another ROM", would be appreciated.
Try putting your phone in airplane mode while at work and turn on WiFi. That might help with eating the battery. Especially if where you work had a poor cell reception
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get a new battery. i dont know what else to tell you. if you are getting 24 hours out of every other 4.2 rom youll be the only one. as i stated i get 10-11 tops on ANY 4.2 rom. so you have 2 choices new battery or different rom
Best thing to to is kill background data turn off Bluetooth WiFi sync and locations when not using your phone for a couple of hours. But your best bet would spring for an 2900mh battery.
tazmaniondvl said:
Try putting your phone in airplane mode while at work and turn on WiFi. That might help with eating the battery. Especially if where you work had a poor cell reception
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That was the first thing I thought, but it acts the same.
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im going to vote you get a new battery if its that big a deal....:good:
go back to gingerbread OS. we gave you suggestions already. 1) new battery. 2) gingerbread OS. simple as that
I just don't understand this. Why is it that everyone refuses to see that there might be something wrong with AOIP compared to other _4.2_ ROMs?
I wasn't complaining about battery life on 4.2 ROMs, just noting that ONLY AOIP has this issue that I saw.
All other 4.2 ROMs used less than half the percent per hour as AOIP.
Telling me to just buy a larger battery when I don't have the money for it is not an acceptable answer. Neither is telling me to go back to the crapload called "gingerbread", whose only advantage is battery life, at the drawback of making everything else run like crap.
Guess I shouldn't have bothered, since it seems the developers may be able to code, but sure could learn a thing or two about listening to others with valid issues they should be addressing in their code.
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dwolfman said:
I just don't understand this. Why is it that everyone refuses to see that there might be something wrong with AOIP compared to other _4.2_ ROMs?
I wasn't complaining about battery life on 4.2 ROMs, just noting that ONLY AOIP has this issue that I saw.
All other 4.2 ROMs used less than half the percent per hour as AOIP.
Telling me to just buy a larger battery when I don't have the money for it is not an acceptable answer. Neither is telling me to go back to the crapload called "gingerbread", whose only advantage is battery life, at the drawback of making everything else run like crap.
Guess I shouldn't have bothered, since it seems the developers may be able to code, but sure could learn a thing or two about listening to others with valid issues they should be addressing in their code.
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sorry dude, i think your the one refusing to see. you seem to understand your way around, you sure your not doing something goofy on the install ?
dwolfman said:
since it seems the developers may be able to code, but sure could learn a thing or two about listening to others with valid issues they should be addressing in their code.
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maybe you can code in a "battery fix" and share it with all of us.
Just use a different ROM. Jesus Christ!
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sorry dude, i think your the one refusing to see. you seem to understand your way around, you sure your not doing something goofy on the install ?
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It didn't matter what I installed or didn't install. Once I got the phone at work with AOIP on it, it ate the battery three times faster than any other 4.2 ROM. One time, to rule out anything I was setting or loading, I loaded AOIP, gapps, then put in my account info and disabled auto updates with nothing else changed. It still did it.
As QA software tester, I know how to identify software issues and bugs. The only explanation for what I have happening is there is something going on with AOIP itself to cause this. Like I've already demonstrated other 4.2 ROMs only use the battery a little faster than RootBox 4.1 (RB about 0.6%/hr vs slimbean 4.2 using 1.1 to 1.5 %/hr) with that screenshot in my OP. AOIP uses about 2.5 %/hr at home but over 10%/hr at work.
In any case, it's quite apparent now that this little group of ostriches with their heads still stuck in the sand isn't interested in hearing the truth, so consider this a closed thread.
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