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I've had Incubus26Jc's Super FroYo 2.2.1 RLS16 on my Vogue for a while, and there's been times when my phone battery died out quickly when I really needed to use it the most. My phone seems to use up a lot of battery while it's sleeping too, so I don't know what the problem is. I barely have any widgets installed, but I do leave my phone in my pocket a lot. Are there any methods I can try out that will boost battery life even just a little bit?
turn off background data, auto-sync and GPS.
This way my touch's battery seems similar to WM 6.5.
GPS especially. Also, if you are using a task killer, uninstall it. I also uninstalled the battery meter that came with superfroyo, it is to inexact. The default android one seems more accurate.
Getting rid of a task manager? Don't they free up memory and kill unneeded processes?
Spalla said:
Getting rid of a task manager? Don't they free up memory and kill unneeded processes?
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No. They spend resources shutting things down that Android then re-opens. Read more here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6426198
Android is not WinMo. And from personal experience, uninstalling Advanced Task Killer was the single best thing I ever did for increasing battery life and making Froyo run faster. Just try it for a week and you'll see.
The best way to boost battery life, imho, is to not use the phone to charge your battery.
I've recently gotten my hands on HTC ELF0160 battery charger and used it to charge my battery. After using this particular charger my STANDARD (stock) battery is now reading ...
78% after 8 hours and 16 minutes on battery
57% on Display
28% on Standby
15% on Phone Idle
2% on Voice Calls
As you can see its been pretty idle. All I've been running is Google Talk 1.3 and Facebook, and the random admiration of the new found battery life.
Note I'm using scoots latest rom, without any modifications other than installing a couple of apps.
So if you could get an external charger I'd suspect you'd get much better battery life. Prior to this I'd be lucky to get 8 hours of battery. I suspect that the phone isn't fully charging the battery for whatever reason.
Regards,
EDIT...
After 21 hours my readings are
47% display
33% standby
18% idle
4% voice calls
Again my usage I'd categorize as very low. Currently my battery level is reading 27%. note this is the same battery as above, the standard 1100 mah one.
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I've recently gotten my hands on HTC ELF0160 battery charger and used it to charge my battery.
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The vogue battery works with an Elf charger? Thought they weren't compatible.
That's what the charger is called. I have a couple at work that I'm using. My batteries have yet to explode.
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The thing is, that I'm having this issue for a while now. Battery drains extremely fast both on stock, stock + ext4, cyanogenmod, no matter what. Now I decided to install the stable version of Darky 10.1, but it's just about the same... It's like it drops 2-3% percentages in couple of mins (~10m). I'm using my phone at minimum brightness (btw, display uses 9%! only of the battery), no OC/UV, no animations, only 2g, no wifi, no gps, no account sync, so I'm like really trying to get more...
Okay, and here comes the thing: It used up 70% of the battery in less than 5 hours, and the battery stats looks like this:
Android OS 62%
Android system 10%
Display 9%
Cell standby 5%
Phone idle 2%
Dialer 1%
Dead Rider (just a game..) 1%
In my opinion, everything looks great, but the Android OS. Now what the *** is that, that this crap uses 62% and growing ?! PLease help, thanks!
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The thing is, that I'm having this issue for a while now. Battery drains extremely fast both on stock, stock + ext4, cyanogenmod, no matter what. Now I decided to install the stable version of Darky 10.1, but it's just about the same... It's like it drops 2-3% percentages in couple of mins (~10m). I'm using my phone at minimum brightness (btw, display uses 9%! only of the battery), no OC/UV, no animations, only 2g, no wifi, no gps, no account sync, so I'm like really trying to get more...
Okay, and here comes the thing: It used up 70% of the battery in less than 5 hours, and the battery stats looks like this:
Android OS 62%
Android system 10%
Display 9%
Cell standby 5%
Phone idle 2%
Dialer 1%
Dead Rider (just a game..) 1%
In my opinion, everything looks great, but the Android OS. Now what the *** is that, that this crap uses 62% and growing ?! PLease help, thanks!
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Hmmm what apps r u using ? how many apps do u have installed ?
Did u buy ur phone used or from new and if u got it from new did u do the over charging for 16 hours or more ?
android OS is a huge problem for battery drain with a few causes and plenty unknown.
to fix it completely will require some skill full people from a closed source.. Download an app such as juice plotter or similar to find out a cause of the battery drain.
there are things you can do such as undervolting for extra battery life.
But the best thing to do is type in Android OS battery drain, in the search bar and have a good read up. i had this mega battery drain a few weeks back but i have it under control now
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The thing is, that I'm having this issue for a while now. Battery drains extremely fast both on stock, stock + ext4, cyanogenmod, no matter what. Now I decided to install the stable version of Darky 10.1, but it's just about the same... It's like it drops 2-3% percentages in couple of mins (~10m). I'm using my phone at minimum brightness (btw, display uses 9%! only of the battery), no OC/UV, no animations, only 2g, no wifi, no gps, no account sync, so I'm like really trying to get more...
Okay, and here comes the thing: It used up 70% of the battery in less than 5 hours, and the battery stats looks like this:
Android OS 62%
Android system 10%
Display 9%
Cell standby 5%
Phone idle 2%
Dialer 1%
Dead Rider (just a game..) 1%
In my opinion, everything looks great, but the Android OS. Now what the *** is that, that this crap uses 62% and growing ?! PLease help, thanks!
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Charge your phone till it reads 100%, reboot into recovery and I think in Darky's Kernel under advanced you will see wipe battery, do this, boot your phone and let it charge back to 100%, then unplug your phone, let it die to 0 and charge again.....something weird is happening because it shouldn't be that bad....if the above doesn't work and you can rule out apps possibly you have a bad battery?? To rule out apps, wipe everything and do a fresh install of a stock ROM if it still drops then i would say it's a bad battery, but try what I suggested first (wipe battery stats)
The last maps upgrade causes bettery drain....
how to slove this problem?
Hi!
I have the exact same Problem..some say this is a bug in the gingerbread versions and can only be solved by samsung...is this true? Any ideas?
Well, I've had a pretty big read-up on it, and tested it myself, what's more tried out other things too. So I came to a conclusion, that this is absolutely true. It's said to be enough the 'freeze' the apps that cause this problem, but it's just not true. With frozen, they somehow still did it. So here's what I've done, and it looks like solved (far not as good battery life as 2.2.1, but still, at least acceptable...):
- format internal sd card
- removed the suspicious apps (msyncml, syncml, it depends on your rom, the important is, that it has "sync" it its name, and NOT account sync!)(I also removed Samsung account, and everything **** that I didn't need)
I'm having BUJV9 on right now with newest FuguMod and it looks good.
It does not mean Android OS is using 62% of your battery over the time in question .
Its a measure of what has used the power not the power drain on the battery .
Though useful on a heavy drain as your figures show display off OS using a lot but what time span at the top of your figures ..
I would guess from figures posted you have something working away in the background . A factory reset usually cures that problem .
Or find the culprit .
PowerTutor from the market may help .
jje
I was having the Same Problems with Battery Drain. (Dropped 70% in 6 Hrs.)
It is related to 2 Services on Gingerbread.
Software Update & Samsung Account.
Clear Data and Freeze Programs using Titanium Backup and Your Battery should be back to Normal.
Huge drain on battery SGS i9000 android gingerbread v.2.3.3
I did like some other users have done I quess!?!
I upgraded via KIES from earlier version of android. After upgrade I did a reset to factory settings, but didn't set the "Format USB storage".
I installed a few programs and used the phone for a few days. After short time of usage I noticed that the battery drained really fast. Like 20% within 1 hour or so. Normally 20% battery drainage happens in a day with little use.
Then I thought something must have gone wrong with the last upgrade. Many time the tip is to clear the phone again and this time I set the "Format USB storage". It worked. Now the battery drains about 30 percent during a normal day with little use.
Since I have a backup of everything, I just installed the backup so the phone is back to normal again.
I hope this might lead to solving battery drainage issue for other users or at least and idea of what could be wrong.
First of all, I do not trust this solution, but it work to me
Solution is simple, remove your memory card from the phone
That is all
After check, found that the scan media always running to scan the memory card
This might deal to corrupted card
People say backup the data from memory card, format the card, put back the data
I haven't try format the card
But after my phone remove the card, now already 13 hours, I still have 82% and I did few phone call as well
there is an app by the name of battery calibration...follow instruction from within the app and it should solve the problem of android OS drain .. i shifted from darky 10.1 to MIUI 7.7 and 100% to 30% in 3 hours with normal usage and no wifi .. after this app battery lasted for two complete days ... so try it
There is another MORE SERIOUS BUG in ALL GB ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134741
After full charge in GB, phone start using batteries ONLY instead of CHARGER ONLY like in Froyo and lower version builds.
Samsung folks goofed up BIG TIME by making phone use batteries instead of charger after full charge while stopping the charge cycle. Because of this OS thinks its running on CHARGER (or USB POWER) and shows batteries as full charge when in reality it runs on batteries after full charge and will eventually make the phone dead through full discharge of batteries.
You could test this by keeping the phone connected to the charger after full charge for a prolong period. When you disconnect, based on the usage during that time, the batteries will instantly show lower charge than around 100% (could be close to 0% as well depending on usage after full charge if you disconnect charger before phone going dead at 100% drain).
Did you flashed Darky in 100% battery? The tutorial suggest you to do that. You can try to wipe battery in recovery mode.
So my X1 running Code Butter NAND ROM is experiencing a 3% battery drain per hour. It's not really that much of a big deal since I can make it last a day on idle state, but what's the use of that? I even bought a new battery. I did all the drain the battery first procedure and charge it fully thing already. Last night, I charged it. At 6:00 AM, I unplugged it. When I came back home, the battery readings were at 60%. It was at 100% when I unplugged it. Please help me with this problem.
Before giving any tips, here's what I have already done since I did some research on the forum...
I have reflashed my device. I have been flashing different kinds of ROMs but still experiencing the same battery drain.
I don't have any apps which may be the cause of this. If there is an app, it must be Swapper 2. It's kind of famous already.
I always calibrate my phone after flashing. I just flashed it 2 days ago. Calibrating actually fixed the battery indicator.
I have used CPU Spy. According to the readings, my phone enters deep sleep.
I don't use any task killers. I do have a rebooter app which can hot boot the device. However, I don't use it very much because of the speed Swapper is giving.
I have cell radio turned on. That's it. I don't have any other connections. I don't have 3g or whatever.
Even though my phone enters deep sleep, I have installed betterbatterystats XDA version. Unfortunately, I didn't find anything interesting.
I don't have any battery saving apps. I used to have JuiceDefender Ultimate. However, it didn't do much. It still drains 3% per hour.
Please help me with this problem. I think I'm starting to annoy people for asking so many questions. This shall be the last thread I'll ever make. I only start new threads if I can't find any solutions. Please help me.
Well, the battery driver in the kernel isn't optimized nor completed, so there is a major general problem with it... Currently CoolrunnerII is "playing" with an X1 to try to map everything, but as Elibl discovered, the battery driver isn't correct and should be replaced with the same as x10... But until then, the battery is draining just like this.
Yes, but there might be a solution.
I'm getting tired of all these android issues. I'll just install Windows Mobile 6.5 with the HARET.exe thing. Thanks for the help anyway. What's the best "HARET" android for your opinion?
Twizdroid or sensedroid
Hi there, if you will be trying again someday a NAND ROM, here is a solution that worked for me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16808932
I have bought a new battery and now on NAND ROM ZeamDroid v.7.2.1 my battery drain is about 1% per hour in sleep mode. Apps that I use: SetCPU and Battery Monitor Widget.
We don't have the same device but we seem to have the same issue.
Did you ever find out how to fix it ?
Hi everyone just got myself a HTC One and I've been experiencing quite bad battery life, usually start the day on full battery around 8am and by 4-5 it's dead or near enough, this seems quite bad for me since my iPhone with a much smaller battery lasted a lot longer, so I downloaded GSam battery monitor and something called kernel (android os) is taking 30% battery usage, is this normal or some kind of bug? I took some screenshots of the battery usage so if anyone could help me out or wants to see the screenshots please let me know, thanks
I've done a factory reset and also running stock version of android updated to latest firmware
i'm facing this problem that battery of my droid turbo draining to fast as it is having 3900mAh battery but draining really too fast tell me solution so that i can recover my battery life
im Having Adroid version Lollipop 5.1
Humza Arain said:
i'm facing this problem that battery of my droid turbo draining to fast as it is having 3900mAh battery but draining really too fast tell me solution so that i can recover my battery life
im Having Adroid version Lollipop 5.1
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Are you using the version that came with your phone, or are you using something custom (i.e. CyanogenMod or Resurrection Remix)? Did you see what "supposedly" is the highest percent drainer under Settings->Battery?
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Are you using the version that came with your phone, or are you using something custom (i.e. CyanogenMod or Resurrection Remix)? Did you see what "supposedly" is the highest percent drainer under Settings->Battery?
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im using orignal software of verison and it is draining battery so fast
high percent of battery drainer is my display and cell stand by
Humza Arain said:
im using orignal software of verison and it is draining battery so fast
high percent of battery drainer is my display and cell stand by
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Based on that, the only thing that I can think of is to turn down your display brightness (even try setting to auto if you haven't already) and if your cell service is often weak/non existent, then put it in airplane mode temporarily to turn off your cell radio (which will also kill calling and texting though). It also depends on just how fast your battery is draining. How much time are you getting with it on? How quickly is it draining (percentage wise per hour for example)?
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Based on that, the only thing that I can think of is to turn down your display brightness (even try setting to auto if you haven't already) and if your cell service is often weak/non existent, then put it in airplane mode temporarily to turn off your cell radio (which will also kill calling and texting though). It also depends on just how fast your battery is draining. How much time are you getting with it on? How quickly is it draining (percentage wise per hour for example)?
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i think its about 10% per hour when i use wifi internet on my phone .. and except this while i play game draining battery also fast i not getting its my battery issue or my software issue my 11% of battery consumed by my screen and cell standby consume 5% of battery as per my battery monitor in my phone
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i think its about 10% per hour when i use wifi internet on my phone .. and except this while i play game draining battery also fast i not getting its my battery issue or my software issue my 11% of battery consumed by my screen and cell standby consume 5% of battery as per my battery monitor in my phone
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It sounds like some of that is just the software then as well. Before I unlocked the bootloader and installed CyanogenMod on mine, I used to see it drain quite a bit faster (especially during standby when the screen was off). A big part of that was being able to change the CPU clock speeds (which I lowered on mine) and adjusting it to where many apps couldn't wake up the phone anymore. When doing heavy gaming though, it's pretty much always guaranteed to drain quickly.
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It sounds like some of that is just the software then as well. Before I unlocked the bootloader and installed CyanogenMod on mine, I used to see it drain quite a bit faster (especially during standby when the screen was off). A big part of that was being able to change the CPU clock speeds (which I lowered on mine) and adjusting it to where many apps couldn't wake up the phone anymore. When doing heavy gaming though, it's pretty much always guaranteed to drain quickly.
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but im having lillipop 5.1 orignal with latest update but my battery draining bit fast
Humza Arain said:
but im having lillipop 5.1 orignal with latest update but my battery draining bit fast
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I'm not saying the version you are using, but the actual stock software in general. It's definitely not optimized as well for battery life as it can be in a custom ROM and the bloatware doesn't help either. Using the phone for gaming will also take a hefty toll, regardless of what you are running.
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I'm not saying the version you are using, but the actual stock software in general. It's definitely not optimized as well for battery life as it can be in a custom ROM and the bloatware doesn't help either. Using the phone for gaming will also take a hefty toll, regardless of what you are running.
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so which thing i do to get more battery life? guide me
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i think its about 10% per hour when i use wifi internet on my phone .. and except this while i play game draining battery also fast i not getting its my battery issue or my software issue my 11% of battery consumed by my screen and cell standby consume 5% of battery as per my battery monitor in my phone
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Do you mean 10% per hour of screen on time or screen off time? If you lose only 10% for an hour of screen on, you probably get 8-10 hours of screen on time per charge. I only get less than 5.
battery draining MM droid turbo
Hi Friends; after updating to MM, my droid turbo seems to have a 2000mah battery...done wipe cache partition before and after the new MM, an hard rest but in stanby or in aiplane mode the battery sucks 10 points and more in a few hours...could you help me? Please...
p.s. idle 22% standby 22%...no gps, no bluetooth, no notification, just a few applications...
Hi Friends; since updating to MM, my droid turbo seems to have a 2000mah battery...done wipe cache partition before and after the new MM, an hard rest but in stanby or in aiplane mode the battery sucks 10 points and more in a few hours without doing anything...could you help me? Please...
p.s. idle 22% standby 22%...no gps, no bluetooth, no notification, just a few applications...I tried, after charging to 100%, leaving the phone for some days without doing anything (no wifi, no connection, no signal) and I was surprised to read such draining as in the screenshot.
Anyone can reply and help me? What's the difference between idle and standby? The phone has a stock firmware, never rooted