Develop Bugs

Battery life just terrible, need since help plz!!

As title says guys, I don't no why but my battery life is just really bad since I moved from stock 2.1 Rom to custom ROMs :-(
Is it my phone? I can't work pig wot it is. I checked the battery usage #*#*4636*#*#) and it seems the Android system is using A LOT of it. I tried charging with phone off, clearing battery stats, not overcharging, but just can't resolve this issue.
Also, I have sync set to update manually and have mobile internet off always, only on wen needed. Same with WiFi. Screen is on auto and time off screen lock set to 30 seconds
I am using OpenDesire sense Rom
Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

I could feel WiFi siginal of 2.2 is much better that stock 2.1,
I suppose that the better performance will bring the fast battery drain,
if your custom ROM support WiFi N mode,
that really makes your battery life short that before.

I have the same problem and same settings as you. I read on other forum that people who updated to official 2.2 have even better battery life.
I cant even squeze 20 hours out of my battery :/

You guys should always post what ROMs you are using...

Opendesire 3.3, its the same with defrost.

i also had really bad battery life on those 2 roms
even doing nothing the phone would just keep dropping
go to official froyo 2.2
neophye roms for me have amazing battery life = 48 hrs..

Agree with cygnet
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Neophytes's battery life +1

I'm using OpenDesire sense Rom
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Is there another non sense rom? I really like stock better...

Check if the phone goes to sleep correctly. Spareparts > battery usage: other usage, since last unplugged.
I had the same problem, until I found out that the phone was not going to sleep. (running and screen on percentages were way off. Almost 100% running and a lot less for screen on.

update to the last radio

I found that after forcing everything to install to SD card my battery life plummeted. There were apps/widgets that should have stayed on the phone. Once I moved these back, battery life was back to normal.
I use Systempanel to see the battery drain graph and could see a pattern to it.

Same issue here, Will try Neophyte tonight
Using this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741663, and it's fantastic! However batt life on .08 and .20 radio is a shocker. I watched a 1 min trailer on youtube, in and out and I lost 4% battery. Before with OpenDesire I'd be shocked if the battery percentage even twitched slightly.

jamran said:
As title says guys, I don't no why but my battery life is just really bad since I moved from stock 2.1 Rom to custom ROMs :-(
Is it my phone? I can't work pig wot it is. I checked the battery usage #*#*4636*#*#) and it seems the Android system is using A LOT of it. I tried charging with phone off, clearing battery stats, not overcharging, but just can't resolve this issue.
Also, I have sync set to update manually and have mobile internet off always, only on wen needed. Same with WiFi. Screen is on auto and time off screen lock set to 30 seconds
I am using OpenDesire sense Rom
Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I use Defrost 1.5a and I just use about 2% every hour when the phone is sleeping, and that's with auto sync and mobile data enabled. (disabled it's 1%/hour)
Always underclock to the lowest mhz when the screen is off using SetCPU and when you do use your phone make sure the brightness isn't too high.
I could make a whole list of tips, but I'm sure you'll find more than enough of those on the net.

djind said:
Check if the phone goes to sleep correctly. Spareparts > battery usage: other usage, since last unplugged.
I had the same problem, until I found out that the phone was not going to sleep. (running and screen on percentages were way off. Almost 100% running and a lot less for screen on.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I may be dumb but how do you force your phone to go into sleep once screen is turned off ?

nb8k said:
I found that after forcing everything to install to SD card my battery life plummeted. There were apps/widgets that should have stayed on the phone. Once I moved these back, battery life was back to normal.
I use Systempanel to see the battery drain graph and could see a pattern to it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Which apps were they?
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

djind said:
Check if the phone goes to sleep correctly. Spareparts > battery usage: other usage, since last unplugged.
I had the same problem, until I found out that the phone was not going to sleep. (running and screen on percentages were way off. Almost 100% running and a lot less for screen on.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How did u resolve this issue?
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Metalazzo said:
I may be dumb but how do you force your phone to go into sleep once screen is turned off ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
jamran said:
How did u resolve this issue?
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
(using Cyanogenmod 6)
When your screen is off, your phone should automatically go to sleep. Sometimes widgets or apps keep this from happening (like the music player), making it use battery as if you are constantly working on it.
How I resolved this issue was to find out what app or widget caused this. I ended up starting from a fresh reset, installing first all apps I really use (calendar/message widgets, powerstrip etc.)
I tested by installing an app, rebooting (or sometimes not), check the running time of the phone, turning screen off, and check again in 5 minutes. The phone should go to sleep in about 30 - 40 seconds. I am telling you this, because most apps causing this are widgets/apps running constantly.
However, I found in spareparts also that 'settings' was taking alot of usage time in usage statistics. A simple reboot did the trick from here on. But I am guessing I had installed something which made some app not close properly..
Maybe it is better to have a task manager/killer for these situations.
Running and Screen On percentages should not have too much of a difference if your testing and not using the phone while screen is off (music, bg stuff)

You could try juicedefender, it helps improve battery life by disabling unneeded connections while the phone is not in use

50ma battery drain on stock and cm7

Hi wildfire users,
my girlfriend got her wildfire yesterday.
The first thing I've fine, was to root it and check the standby battery drain.
It was between 27 and 50ma in AIRPLANE mode, without sometimes at 120??
My device got 1-2 in airplane and 3-5 without.
Thought it would getting better after flashing cm7, took the rc1...not really.
Any suggestions? Iam an experienced android user, but my options are running out, what else I can do.
What I've done:
Checked drain with current widget,
checked partial wakelocks with spare parts-seems okay.
Uninstalled all custom user apps I had installed.
Read here, that reflashing the radio fixes some issues...didn't tried that yet.
Any other ideas?
What drainages do you've got?
Waiting for your answers.
Edit: perhaps it will help to let it charge it to 100% and check again...maybe let it also discharge one time ^^.¿?
....think i was perhaps a bit over motivated...
Jan
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA Premium App

Battety drain will be above normal just after flashing a ROM. You need to make a full charge and then go to recovery and wipe the battery status.
Then do few complete charge-discharge cycles. Then it will be definitely better than stock rom. And use CPU settings in smart way. Work on the minimum setting and governor. Also depends on other factors like live wallpapers etc..,
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

bharatgaddameedi said:
Battety drain will be above normal just after flashing a ROM. You need to make a full charge and then go to recovery and wipe the battery status.
Then do few complete charge-discharge cycles. Then it will be definitely better than stock rom. And use CPU settings in smart way. Work on the minimum setting and governor. Also depends on other factors like live wallpapers etc..,
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
wow, thanks for the fast reply!
Got a similar thought - edited my post some secs ago : D.
thanks for the tip, my HD2 dont behave like that, so this was new for me.
...why i didnt ask that ealier here, got only 4 hours sleep tonight because of this behavior
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA Premium App

How does calibration the battery prevent from it from draining faster ?.
Suggest some thing that makes sense.

bynge said:
How does calibration the battery prevent from it from draining faster ?.
Suggest some thing that makes sense.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
http://autom8r.com/2011/05/batterystats-bin-android-battery-calibration-explained/

Check this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1197800

bynge said:
How does calibration the battery prevent from it from draining faster ?.
Suggest some thing that makes sense.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Battery calibration gives accurate reading only, it will not improve the weared out battery.
When shifting between roms, the battery will not give accurate reading because not all roms utilize the battery in the same manner (Rom saves the details in batterystats.bin file). So, what if it gives wrong reading. There might be a possibility that it shows 100% even when not fully charged. So we think battery drains faster, but the fact is we haven't charged it fully. (correct me for any errors).
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

Yes showing 100% wrongly must be the only situation where battery calibration be blamed. But 8-10 hrs of charging from deep-down-zero should definitely make it full, right ?
Whats your general time taken for charging in standby mode (WiFi, Mobile Data, Bluetooth Off).
I am experiencing heavy battery drain with WiFi, since I installed Sunabh ROM. (He adds a switch off wifi notification to hide this fault. Cunning.)
Any solutions ? May be re-flash the radio or change the kernel ?

Dude, attack the CID bug.
I resolved my issue without even switching of my phone once, let alone flashing anything.
Running for more than 2 days now. \m/

From 100% to 40% battery in an hour and a half?

I have admittedly only just re-flashed the ROM (full wipe beforehand) on this device and it's only been through a single charge cycle since I wiped battey stats after calibration, but I am still disappointed that after only 90 minutes of web browsing and im-ing I am down to 39% battery.
Should I expect battery life to improve in the coming days/weeks?
end_of_message / COMPUTOR4500

I'd try re-flashing the ROM again.

How would that change anything? I'm not saying it couldn't I just want to know how that could improve battery life since I would be flashing the same ROM, with the same kernel over the same radio...
end_of_message / COMPUTOR4500

I had the same problem with Cool Sensation v7 ROM. Battery drain was terrible after about a week of flashing it so I uninstalled all my apps planning to re-install them gradually, a few at a time to see which of them was draining the battery but it was still a problem after uninstalling all user apps. I then did a full wipe in recovery and reflashed the ROM, added the user apps gradually and my battery life is just great now.

Please define gradually. One app a day, or what?
Do you advise against Titanium restore of all apps and their data?
end_of_message / COMPUTOR4500

I tried re-installing about 3 apps at a time and then checking the battery drain over 24 hours. But, like I said, it turned out not to be any of the apps it was the ROM, but I can't explain why. Once I did a full wipe and reflashed the same ROM I could have just re-installed all the apps using TB anyway as it was the ROM flash that was the culprit.
What I actually did was - Full wipe > Flash ROM > Batch restore all apps that I've had for a long time using TB > Restored all newer apps (downloaded in the last 2 weeks) a couple at a time each day.
I didn't need to do the last step really because I'm convinced the problem was just a bad ROM flash.
Reflashing a ROM can help solve many problems, though I don't know the mechanics of this actual issue.

Right... Thanks man, I guess I'll just re-flash then.
end_of_message / COMPUTOR4500

This sounds about normal to me.
60% in 90 minutes isn't that bad.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

mercianary said:
This sounds about normal to me.
60% in 90 minutes isn't that bad.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It's 60% gone in 90 minutes, not 60% left.

zgomot said:
It's 60% gone in 90 minutes, not 60% left.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah I know, my phone drops 1% a minute under heavy use. That would be 90% in 90 minutes, taking into account my phone turns off at 20% you can see where I'm going with this.
As I said, its not that bad.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

mercianary said:
my phone turns off at 20% you can see where I'm going with this.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'd say you need to calibrate the battery. My phone goes beyond 8% and doesn't turn off.

Get watchdog from the market and see if you have any rogue apps
Sent from my Inspire 4G using xda premium

dsmitty166 said:
Get watchdog from the market and see if you have any rogue apps
Sent from my Inspire 4G using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I use it and it has no alerts.

I've been using Insertcoin Rom, my battery just went from 90% to 75% in about an hour. I'd say 10-20 min heavy use, and the rest is just standby. I don't know if what i'm experiencing is normal or not, but right now i'm trying to find a Rom that has better battery life

zgomot said:
It's 60% gone in 90 minutes, not 60% left.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
60% in 90 minutes.... OMG
How is the battery life after re-flashing the ROM?

Sadly it's still crap - I lose about 1% every 2 minutes.
end_of_message / COMPUTOR4500

zgomot said:
Sadly it's still crap - I lose about 1% every 2 minutes.
end_of_message / COMPUTOR4500
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
the question is: using it or on sleep? using it to brows wep pages under wifi then that is normal
in the first post u said this:
zgomot said:
.. I am still disappointed that after only 90 minutes of web browsing and im-ing I am down to 39% battery
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thats is nice..only 60% lost in 90 minutes (1 hour and half) while browsing web...this is ok

Wow that's a massive drain issue u got fella...my desire is running on my carriers stock Rom with all their bloatware (i had to remove root to get my power button fixed under warranty ; ) ) and I get from 9am til about 2am on an average day.when I was running a custom Rom I was still getting the same time out of my battery with the same usage as I do now
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

andQlimax said:
the question is: using it or on sleep? using it to brows wep pages under wifi then that is normal
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah it was constand web browsing for 90 minutes, just that it was over 3g/hsdpa and not wifi, but the drain is the same over wifi.
end_of_message / COMPUTOR4500

Hsdpa or rather mobile internet in general is a battery drainer. But with WiFi this is really high. With oxygen I have 10% per 30 minutes screen on using WiFi (brightness set to 25%).
I would recommend to try another rom.
TouchPaled from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App

[Q] huge battery drain

Hi all , my lt18i face a big drain while 3G on and it could take 20% over even more per hour...:crying:
and i wonder if there someone can help me with it,i'll attach some screenshot and the dump by betterbatterystats.
here is some information about my ArcS
BB:77
Kernel:VDS 2.0
Rom:Xperia Ultimate HD 2.0
CPU Control
Max:1.024
min: 245
smartassV2
noop
thanks in advance!!!

I use the rom aokp milestone m1-r1 with kernel 4.0 fusion and also notice this problem. if I use the 3g, the battery dies quickly. I am always on 2g with data off and only use when needed. wifi does not occur with this problem.

TexChu said:
Hi all , my lt18i face a big drain while 3G on and it could take 20% over even more per hour...:crying:
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yep. that's pretty normal for me Just buy a second batttery to carry around :highfive:

Change kernel
Sent from my LT15i using xda premium

TheHaso said:
Change kernel
Sent from my LT15i using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Rather change ROM to something more battery friendly!
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app

Actually,I have tried many different kernel lol,guess the solution is just buy another battery...
BTW,does anyone know that should i wipe battery state in CMW after changing another batttery?
Thanks for your response
Sent from my LT18i using xda app-developers app

I have the same problem but even with 2g i get 20% of battery drain (tested with two different batteries) im using CM10 with fusión kernel and the same settings you have
Sent from my Xperia Arc S using xda app-developers app

TexChu said:
Actually,I have tried many different kernel lol,guess the solution is just buy another battery...
BTW,does anyone know that should i wipe battery state in CMW after changing another batttery?
Thanks for your response
Sent from my LT18i using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Another battery will not help.
Another kernel will not help.
Wiping battery stats does nothing, all stories about "improving battery life" are complete bull**** - it has nothing to do with battery!!
All ICS and ICS-Based ROMs, yes that also means all Jelly Bean ROMs,that are based on ICS, have that ICS bug, which causes battery drain after every charge. You need to restart your phone in order to fix it. Restart after charging and no more massive drain should occur.
If it does, it must be something in your personal settings.

Someguyfromhell said:
Another battery will not help.
Another kernel will not help.
Wiping battery stats does nothing, all stories about "improving battery life" are complete bull**** - it has nothing to do with battery!!
All ICS and ICS-Based ROMs, yes that also means all Jelly Bean ROMs,that are based on ICS, have that ICS bug, which causes battery drain after every charge. You need to restart your phone in order to fix it. Restart after charging and no more massive drain should occur.
If it does, it must be something in your personal settings.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Justo charged my phone i will give it a try
Sent from my Xperia Arc S using xda app-developers app

No difference at all
Sent from my Xperia Arc S using xda app-developers app

TexChu said:
Hi all , my lt18i face a big drain while 3G on and it could take 20% over even more per hour...:crying:
and i wonder if there someone can help me with it,i'll attach some screenshot and the dump by betterbatterystats.
here is some information about my ArcS
BB:77
Kernel:VDS 2.0
Rom:Xperia Ultimate HD 2.0
CPU Control
Max:1.024
min: 245
smartassV2
noop
thanks in advance!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Flash 72 baseband...Baseband 77 has battery drain issues...Also facebook eats some battery in standby...Change the refresh interval to 30 min and see...Also alarm app eats the battery. I know that. Dont set a daily alarm, instead set it just before gng to sleep.

I'm experiencing quite the same problem on my Arc (LT15i) although I don't think it occurs after every charge, and I'm not even sure it does only appear when I charged the phone.
I remarked that the radio is going a bit buggy (switching from Wi-Fi to 2G/3G or constantly reconnecting to the mobile network) and when this appears, I have to reboot the phone or the battery dies in 6 to 8 hours (when the problem don't occurs, it can go on for 36-48h).
Anyone has noticed the same thing or am I experiencing another battery drain problem ?

Not trying to hijack or anything, but as my problem relates to yours, I thought I'll write to this thread.
My LT18i battery drains around 10-20%/hour even when put to airplane mode and rebooting before. I just tested last night and charged the battery full, left the phone to airplane mode and at the morning after 7 hours there was 20% left!!! I even checked from betterbatterystats and the phone had been on deep sleep almost all the time.
Have had this problem for a while, but havent found any solution to it, if anyone can help, PLEASE do!
P.S running on stock GB

Xtremerer said:
Not trying to hijack or anything, but as my problem relates to yours, I thought I'll write to this thread.
My LT18i battery drains around 10-20%/hour even when put to airplane mode and rebooting before. I just tested last night and charged the battery full, left the phone to airplane mode and at the morning after 7 hours there was 20% left!!! I even checked from betterbatterystats and the phone had been on deep sleep almost all the time.
Have had this problem for a while, but havent found any solution to it, if anyone can help, PLEASE do!
P.S running on stock GB
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There is an app or something, that is using lots of battery. Check sync settings (some apps have it in app settings), turn off WiFi/3G/Bluetooth/GPS, make sure app is working.
And do not use taskkillers.
And if you can, post a screenshot of Battery Usage screen, with the list of apps consuming battery.

I flashed Stock ICS .587 on my arc last night and charged it 'till today in morning so i took my arc restarted it and 'till now worked just fine,my battery is almost dead but i used my phone today at max.I did some callings,played Asphalt 7,used wifi and internet,dolphin browser,installed some basic apps from market,done a cwm bacup,installed some cam mods cyber-shot,tested the camera.but hey even the battery is dieing now it's cool.I had fun with it for today,i hope this battery will last always ss today.
Apps kills the battery,so i deleted FB,i frezzed some apps that i don't use everyday,and i have my brightness on 50%.
I know i didn't help to much but i'm sharing my expirence.
And yeah sry for my english.
Sent from my LT15i using xda premium

Someguyfromhell said:
There is an app or something, that is using lots of battery. Check sync settings (some apps have it in app settings), turn off WiFi/3G/Bluetooth/GPS, make sure app is working.
And do not use taskkillers.
And if you can, post a screenshot of Battery Usage screen, with the list of apps consuming battery.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Pretty sure, theres no apps running and I have everything turned off, I even took the sim card off for testing purposes.
Betterbatterystats shows 98% deep sleep at my tes period of one night.
Now it gets even weirder...A friend of mine suggested that I try to turn the phone fully off (power totally off).
I charged the battery to 100% last night and pulled the battery, putted it back on and let the phone sit on the table untouched for the night. When I turned it on on the morning battery showed 4% left!!!
So theres a huge drain even when the phones power is turned fully off. I dont know does this indicate a broken battery (battery 2 months old) or something wrong with the hardware ???

Turn phone off. Charge to 100% when 2-5% left
After fullcharge, use ur phone. When it drops to 50% exactly shut it down. Remove battery for a minute. Reinsert battery and dont turn it on.
Charge it again to 100%
Done
This worked for me
Sent from my LT15i using xda premium

TheHaso said:
Turn phone off. Charge to 100% when 2-5% left
After fullcharge, use ur phone. When it drops to 50% exactly shut it down. Remove battery for a minute. Reinsert battery and dont turn it on.
Charge it again to 100%
Done
This worked for me
Sent from my LT15i using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I tried something similar, but I will try this also when I get home from work.
By the way, is it normal that the phone warms up quite lot from the top back (about under camera) ?

Xtremerer said:
I tried something similar, but I will try this also when I get home from work.
By the way, is it normal that the phone warms up quite lot from the top back (about under camera) ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yep it's normal if u use it alot.It's not normal if it's on sleep.
Sent from my LT15i using xda premium

Xtremerer said:
I tried something similar, but I will try this also when I get home from work.
By the way, is it normal that the phone warms up quite lot from the top back (about under camera) ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Didn't help. Charged full allright, but even on idle, all apps closed and no comms on, I get 12% battery drain

[Q] Battery charging too fast

Hi guys.
I have a strange problem. My Gio charges from 3% to 100% in 3 minutes. It says fully charged...
Of course it's not real charging, if i unplug it, and start to play a game or just see my mails with wifi, it consumes that 100% on 5-10 minutes...
I've tried to charge the phone all night and the result is 2-3h of working time. If i use power consuming apps, like games, than it's just half an hour... I think that the phone stops somehow the charging process if it reaches to 100%.
I've tried to calibrate the battery, with program from market, and wiping batterystats from CWM too... It didn't help...
The strange thing is, that last week it worked well. Now something happened and it's ruinig my life...
I had THIS ROM when it started.
I've changed to THIS ROM, and it didn't solve the problem. All caches were wiped during flashing...
Any ideas?
Thanks for any help!

Anybody? Please...

Kuyte said:
Anybody? Please...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hm you said you tried to calibrate the battery so it`s weird. I have sometimes the same problem but after a calibration it is fixed. I can only recommend to charge it overnight , make sure you`re not overclocking it , make sure you don`t use wifi , mobile data , gps , see if there`s an improvement keep it only with calls and messaging for 1 day see how that goes. Check also the battery maybe it has a spillage altough i don`t think that`s the case. Sorry that`s all i can say

Thanks for the advices.
I've just set the CPU governor to smartassv2. It was on Ondemand. Now I can discharge the phone with playing within 15 minutes. It's better than it was on ondemand...
I will try to use it like a regular phone, let's see how it works...

R: [Q] Battery charging too fast
Also, how old is your battery?
Sent from my GT-S5660 using xda app-developers app

ItachiSama said:
Also, how old is your battery?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The phone is 1.5 years old. On the battery the date is: 2011/07/26

Flash a stock rom with odin if doesn't solve the issues buy a new battery maybe your's dead.
Sent from my GT-S5660 using xda app-developers app

also remove any apps or games you have installed since you encountered this problem, I have tried enhanced rom it gives a stable battery life, but its worth changing to a different rom like cm 7.2 by phiexz, I am currently using it and it gives a good battery life.

Kuyte said:
The phone is 1.5 years old. On the battery the date is: 2011/07/26
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've a battery old as yours (04.05.2011)
With any custom ROM my battery life is of 3 hours...
With stock is kinda 5 hours with 2G connection activated.
I'm waiting for a new battery, but if you want to keep your phone alive up to then:
- flash a stock ROM
- install as few apps as you can (I've G+, Stream (FB client), FB messanger, Viber, WhatsApp, App Cache Cleaner, AppZorter and xda app, nothing else T_T)
- do NOT use kernel different from stock
- hope you good luck because first times battery will be strange, after some full usage and discharge now I've the battery life I told before
Hope this could help

I have galaxy gio and it problem is whaen i charge my galaxy gio 3 min later to touch to 100 percent and then i plug out and on it then it show battery is zero