Hi everyone. I've bought my new xperia arc s on Wednesday and unfortunately I'm very disappointed with the battery performance. It is worse than my 3 years old iPhone. I've read many advices in the internet concerning this issue, but none of them gave any improvement for me. I want to emphasize, that I switched off: wifi, auto-sync, GPS & wifi localization etc. My display is at 30% of brightness. The only functions which are turned on are: 3g network and background data.
However, my smartphone needs to be charged after around 10 hours of not very heavy using (web browsing, ca. 20 minutes playing games such as angry birds or cut the ropę and 20 minutes of listening music player.
Today's performance was just tragic: 5 hours of working (less than 3.5 hours of the turned on screen; only 3g connection on). What should I do to improve these results or maybe the battery is broken and I should send the phone to the warranty service?
Thanks for help
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Wait a week, it improves
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Of course I'll wait, cause I don't want to miss my phone, which looks and works amazingly great. But do you have any tips which would help me to increase battery performance? All I need is 3g or wifi constantly turned on for google talk and facebook messenger.
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TheHaso said:
Wait a week, it improves
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I using this for 4 months, still ~6 hours with usage, ~8 hours normal usage, 10~ hours no usage
Using doomkernel v19,stock .62, smartass v2 133~1400, undervolt 100mv
Even without using this kind of setting and kernel i still get same result
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I using this for 4 months, still ~6 hours with usage, ~8 hours normal usage, 10~ hours no usage
Using doomkernel v19,stock .62, smartass v2 133~1400, undervolt 100mv
Even without using this kind of setting and kernel i still get same result
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You scared me. I hope it'll get better. Guys, please write some tips to extend battery life. I know that my performance is not normal and I'm 99% certain, that it is a software issue. What am I doing wrong?
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You scared me. I hope it'll get better. Guys, please write some tips to extend battery life. I know that my performance is not normal and I'm 99% certain, that it is a software issue. What am I doing wrong?
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Anyhu, if ur battery does get better, dont forget to PM me
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I using this for 4 months, still ~6 hours with usage, ~8 hours normal usage, 10~ hours no usage
Using doomkernel v19,stock .62, smartass v2 133~1400, undervolt 100mv
Even without using this kind of setting and kernel i still get same result
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Are you kidding me? It cannot be that bad.
My phone isn't arc s it's only arc but my battery lasts over 24 hours.
I run wifi and 3g always, usually there's over 1h of calls some web surfing and stuff. With this kinda usage it normallly last something like 36h. If i don't use phone it's over 48h.
You should check what has been using the battery.
Muurahainen said:
Are you kidding me? It cannot be that bad.
My phone isn't arc s it's only arc but my battery lasts over 24 hours.
I run wifi and 3g always, usually there's over 1h of calls some web surfing and stuff. With this kinda usage it normallly last something like 36h. If i don't use phone it's over 48h.
You should check what has been using the battery.
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I don't know how it's possible. I have only 3g data transfer turned on, while everything else is turned off. I checked in settings and it is screen which consumes 60%-70% of energy in my case. Is it normal? Moreover, could you tell me what is your maximum time of the screen turned on achieved without loading the battery?
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Muurahainen said:
Are you kidding me? It cannot be that bad.
My phone isn't arc s it's only arc but my battery lasts over 24 hours.
I run wifi and 3g always, usually there's over 1h of calls some web surfing and stuff. With this kinda usage it normallly last something like 36h. If i don't use phone it's over 48h.
You should check what has been using the battery.
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Not kidding. Usually if i dont touch the phone, just the normal stuff that use the battery (display,idle etc.)
I use an app called my battery drain analyzer and it shows even when in idle the battery lose about 7%-8% in an hour.
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Ill give u few suggestions
Turn the screen brightness to 30 40 % this will give you 4 5 hours more of stand by
Turn off 3g(data internet) it eats as much battery as the screen,use when u need it 4 6h more on stand by
GPS turn it off lol u dont need it to be turned on all the time,use it just when u need it
Im using this setup for 2 months not and its awesome im on 54% battery and the phone is charged before 21h.. i will have 30 + for sure
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Ill give u few suggestions
Turn the screen brightness to 30 40 % this will give you 4 5 hours more of stand by
Turn off 3g(data internet) it eats as much battery as the screen,use when u need it 4 6h more on stand by
GPS turn it off lol u dont need it to be turned on all the time,use it just when u need it
Im using this setup for 2 months not and its awesome im on 54% battery and the phone is charged before 21h.. i will have 30 + for sure
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Thanks for the suggestion,i already did that. Its common sense not to open those battery consuming stuff if i dont need it. Anyhu, its still the same
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maliceomalice said:
Thanks for the suggestion,i already did that. Its common sense not to open those battery consuming stuff if i dont need it. Anyhu, its still the same
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433309
this will help you identify the culprit.
Pvy
Hi, just some suggestions.
1. Do you use latitude?? That puts a huge dent in your battery.
2. Do you travel around during the day?? I find that my battery drops a lot quicker when the phone is forced to switch between towers a lot.
3. Try and check the date of manufacture on your battery, It may be old.
4. Did you properly condition your battery when you first got the phone (Takes about a week to do it right but well worth it in the long run)
5. See if you can borrow some one else's battery for a couple of days and see if it makes a difference?? (Isolation testing its called)
Or you could just have a bad battery, that happens.
baylock said:
Hi, just some suggestions.
1. Do you use latitude?? That puts a huge dent in your battery.
2. Do you travel around during the day?? I find that my battery drops a lot quicker when the phone is forced to switch between towers a lot.
3. Try and check the date of manufacture on your battery, It may be old.
4. Did you properly condition your battery when you first got the phone (Takes about a week to do it right but well worth it in the long run)
5. See if you can borrow some one else's battery for a couple of days and see if it makes a difference?? (Isolation testing its called)
Or you could just have a bad battery, that happens.
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I always thought i have a bad battery.....maybe thats why
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I don't know how it's possible. I have only 3g data transfer turned on, while everything else is turned off. I checked in settings and it is screen which consumes 60%-70% of energy in my case. Is it normal? Moreover, could you tell me what is your maximum time of the screen turned on achieved without loading the battery?
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I'm not sure how much my screen uses battery. I haven't evaluated screen always on usage.
I'm running currently at 46% 23h 3m 54s
voice calls 38% (1h 5m 20s)
wifi 19% (23h 3m 54s)
cell standby 14% (23h 3m 54s)
phone idle 12% (21h 45m 47s)
display 11% (47m 32s)
after these come other less significant stuff like Android OS, Android System, Web browser etc.
In my use are: DoomKernel v20 undervolted -75mv and Juice Defender.
I have also removed many softwares that are useless for me like support.apk etc.
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I always thought i have a bad battery.....maybe thats why
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It must be bad battery. If no apps are draining your batt.
read this thread get the betterbattery stats and check it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433309
it will identify it down to a specific app or a module in the kernel, where the drain is coming from.
Pvy.
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read this thread get the betterbattery stats and check it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433309
it will identify it down to a specific app or a module in the kernel, where the drain is coming from.
Pvy.
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Yeah..i already use that before. I only see the basic app that i use and some system app. The system app only working for like a few seconds. Well, i might try for a couple days, and if its ok, can u have a look at the report log?
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Man, this is a problem that occours in every android phone, even those ones which have a more powerful battery.
I use an Arc S overclocked (but not too much) and the battery lifes varies a lot, depending on which kernel and which rom I use. The best battery life i've find so far was DoomKernel ICS v4 with Arconium ICS v5. But it was a little bit laggy and now I'm using KA13 with the same kernel. The battery life is not bad, but not really good.
Sony knows this issue and I'm sure they're working in order to fix this on the official release of ICS. Just wait
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changing kernels usually helps
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I have no idea how to solve it. I have charged my Desire to 100% and after 3 hours I have only 20% left. I have not been using it much. Before upgrade it took about 24h to be only 20% left... Moreover the phone is hot when I touch it. How to solve it...?
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I'm having the same issue!
It seems that the phone does not go to sleep (up time same as awake time)
Any help is appreciated as my phone dies within hours
Mine has done the exact same thing... With in approx 3 hours it had gone from 100% down to 50%, in the same normal usage in 2.1, it would of been lucky to drop 15% if that!!!
Mine dropped from 45% when i went to sleep, to 0 this morning!!
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I cannot reproduce this, my battery life is a little better than with Eclair. However, I'd recommend downloading Android System Info from market. In the CPU Panel, you have the statistics of CPU clocking, it should give you heads up concerning a phone not going to sleep.
As for reference: my phone's CPU runs at 250 MHz 85% of the time, 1 GHz for like 10% and the rest is somewhere in between.
If you find anything, you should consider downloading Auto Task Manager as well and try killing anything unnecessary. It is not recommended to be using a Task Manager, but it might help in this case. Good luck!
Wich one?
There are 2 with same name. Google's and an other one
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Did you all restart after reboot? And did you flash the latest radio?
I flashed to froyo 7 hrs ago, played an hour with it to see the new features and went to bed and woke up still 80% of battery (after mentioned 7hrs, 6 of which my phone and i were sleeping )
Seems to be 245 mhz 50% of the time and 1ghz around 40% of the time, the problem is that I can see that my phone isn't going to sleep according to the battery info
The new radio is already flashed with froyo, isnt it?
And how do you flash a radio without rooting?
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Have you tried a factory reset aka hard reset? It could also be some app that keeps the phone awake.
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Wich one?
There are 2 with same name. Google's and an other one
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The one from ElectricSheep. The other one is probably not from Google, but from Googe. I'd also recommend looking at battery draining apps in the settings (certain bad live wallpapers can harm battery).
As said before, if you aren't using your phone all time and CPU clock at 250 MHz is less than 80% of the time, something is seriously wrong.
I have the same issue..
After froyo update, the battery lasts only a few hours not even using the phone much. If i put in flight mode the battery not discharge ..
I think it's a problem with radio and not of applications. I already tried hard reset..
Moreover, the phone become very hot..
I hope the htc resolve the problem. I'm in holiday
excuse me for my english
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I have no idea how to solve it. I have charged my Desire to 100% and after 3 hours I have only 20% left. I have not been using it much. Before upgrade it took about 24h to be only 20% left... Moreover the phone is hot when I touch it. How to solve it...?
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mine is the exact opposite. battery seems a lot better after hours of wifi browsing and updates it seems to be holding out better.
Thks rant, using 50% at 980 Mhz but i use it all The time now.
Will wait for a full day for statistics
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jaztim said:
mine is the exact opposite. battery seems a lot better after hours of wifi browsing and updates it seems to be holding out better.
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Same to me! I suppose your batteries are out.. maybe bad from the start? Better check it with customer support..
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jaztim said:
mine is the exact opposite. battery seems a lot better after hours of wifi browsing and updates it seems to be holding out better.
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I think HTC did good work here, but I'm sad to hear other people are having issues. Anyhow, I don't think our impression of better battery life is purely due to real improvements, but also because they fixed the battery icon (like Apple did with the signal, but in the other direction...).
Prior to FroYo, my battery icon would look like "50%" when there would still be like 75% power, "90%" would look like 75% and so on. I noticed that when I tried several battery widgets. You know, it's all psychological
I had 55% yesterday night and at the morning i had 49%
idk if its bad or good
Found the problem!!! It was an LED widget stopping my phone from going to sleep, if you have it make sure to get rid of it ASAP!!!
Cheers guys!!
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Please tell us which one, what is it called!
And please send the dev a message, so he/she can fix it, seems like a nice thing to do at least
It was called LED light by picolyl
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Hi all,
I've got a slightly strange one here which I wasn't expecting.
My Arc S was on .6, downgraded to .4, rooted, then upgraded to .6 with root still on. So I'm on a stock ROM, and have even removed a ton of unnecessary apps - otherwise, everything is as it should be.
However, where I previously got 2 days out of my Arc S, I'm now getting only about one. As before, I have background data, Wifi, Bluetooth and virtually everything else permanently turned off.
As I'm on a stock rom, and the same one that I was on before I rooted, is this normal and/or expected?
Thanks in advance,
schnide
Download a boot editor, or check the KERNEL, if you are using the stock kernel is normally. Idk how you can stay 2 days with an arc, without charging. Check the brightness.
Heck, im suprised how anyone can keep the battery last even for a day. If i fully charge the arc s, unplug it and then just leaves it there, the longest i can get is ~10hours.
I heard that arc/s battery will get better over time, maybe thats why, coz i only got mine like 4 months ago...
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You can save power using apps like "green power" and cie but I'm impressed by the autonomy of your arc. Mine survives 1 day and two hours when I don't use it. You also can reset the battery stats on recovery but it's an extreme solution...
It's known issue, worse battery performance is because of .6x version
Velcis Ribeiro said:
Download a boot editor, or check the KERNEL, if you are using the stock kernel is normally. Idk how you can stay 2 days with an arc, without charging. Check the brightness.
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I conditioned my battery when I first bought the phone. Conflicting reports say this doesn't do anything with modern batteries, but I've always done it and had better battery life than some.
maliceomalice said:
Heck, im suprised how anyone can keep the battery last even for a day. If i fully charge the arc s, unplug it and then just leaves it there, the longest i can get is ~10hours.
I heard that arc/s battery will get better over time, maybe thats why, coz i only got mine like 4 months ago...
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Two days and 20 hours is my record
(uptime)
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+1 I did manage to push it around the same with a few two minute calls bit of browsing and some xda posting
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Install supercharger, use a task killer to determinate what apps are running on the background and kill the unnecessary ones frequently. I'd suggest you to install another kernel and arconium if you have unlocked bootloader
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2days O.O
Do you people even use your phones ?
1day of usafe ~Moderate is normal
20/30min calls
Edge- Always on
Brightness-Medium - indorrs Full-Outdors
Wifi - off
I,m now almost 2 day,s with 15% left
6 hours displaytime
30 min calls
wifi almost on
brightness 30%
Arc s stock .62
undervolt -100 Mv
stockspeed 134-1400 Mhz smartassv2/bfq
v19.2 kernel
removed a lot off crapp.
With 3g the battery time is worser,but still good.
jejeh said:
I,m now almost 2 day,s with 15% left
6 hours displaytime
30 min calls
wifi almost on
brightness 30%
Arc s stock .62
undervolt -100 Mv
stockspeed 134-1400 Mhz smartassv2/bfq
v19.2 kernel
removed a lot off crapp.
With 3g the battery time is worser,but still good.
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What kernel u use?
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doom v19.2 highboot.
I flashed Jellybean for my gnex this last weekend, and I've noticed a severely precipitous drop in battery life (15% in 90 min, 15 min screen on). I found this yesterday when my phone went completely dead after just 6 hours on idle, despite running some pretty severe power-saving options. I can literally see the battery draining as I took the screenshots to post.
Running 4.1.1 stock, Franco Kernel Version 5 (power save powermode), 2100 mAh battery - I tried to provide as much information as I can in the screenshots. The weird thing is that none of the information stands out as an obvious power-drain, its just falling for what I believe to be no good reason.
Please help!
First of all: congrats if providing such detailed information about your battery information! (I'm being serious, not sarcastic)
Secondly, have you tried running it with WiFi only to see if there's a difference? Also, you need to go through about 2-3 charge cycles before you have a good idea of our battery range.
Also, what kernel are you using?
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I have same problem, 1750 stock battery only lasts about 3 hours....
AOKP JB B 1 and franco
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I'm hoping its just running it a few charge cycles fixes the problem, because my battery meter is like a countdown clock right now.
I'm running 3.0.41-franco.Kernel-Milestone5.
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First of all: congrats if providing such detailed information about your battery information! (I'm being serious, not sarcastic)
Secondly, have you tried running it with WiFi only to see if there's a difference? Also, you need to go through about 2-3 charge cycles before you have a good idea of our battery range.
Also, what kernel are you using?
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I reccommend getting cpu sleeper. Its brillant and saves me tons of battery
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eugene373.cpu.sleep&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5ldWdlbmUzNzMuY3B1LnNsZWVwIl0.
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Thanks! However, I'm already running on only one core, from a setting in Franco's app.
My problem is that there doesn't seem to be anything glaring that is draining my battery. Awake time is slightly more than I'd like, but not nearly enough to drain the battery at 10% an hour with the screen off.
And for the above poster, I have not tried running it with wifi only and no mobile data - wifi at my office is spotty, and I'd like the conditions I am testing it at to try to mirror how I would normally use my phone.
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I reccommend getting cpu sleeper. Its brillant and saves me tons of battery
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bmurray said:
Thanks! However, I'm already running on only one core, from a setting in Franco's app.
My problem is that there doesn't seem to be anything glaring that is draining my battery. Awake time is slightly more than I'd like, but not nearly enough to drain the battery at 10% an hour with the screen off.
And for the above poster, I have not tried running it with wifi only and no mobile data - wifi at my office is spotty, and I'd like the conditions I am testing it at to try to mirror how I would normally use my phone.
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hmmm... did u try replacing the battery?
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No - the battery worked just fine on ICS as of last Friday (28 hours standby charge). I would hope that flashing ROMs/Kernels would not actually damage it.
Thanks for trying to help - I'm really confused since all the ratios look comparable to people who get great battery life, but for some reason, just seem to suck about 5x more battery for me, so its impossible to pinpoint one specific culprit. I thought it was a mis-calibration, but apparently that is just a myth.
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hmmm... did u try replacing the battery?
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Let me start by saying that I am not an expert, but the following tips helped me. I agree with the WiFi and the detail you provided was great. I see that you are running 4G, this will eat up the battery. Your ROM may have a toggle for the 4G (LTE) and 3G (CDMA). If you have WiFi available I would use that. You may want to turn off the NFC (system setting>Wireless & Networks More....) unless you use google wallet or share screen alot. Also, I had horrible results with the Facebook app running in the background, which I have taken off my phone. I set a bookmark in dolphin browser instead of using the app.
If you are not seeing any improvements with in the next few battery cycles you may try wiping the battery stats in Recovery. The first ROM I flashed from stock my battery life was all over the map and wiping battery stats helped. I ran the same Franco Kernel and was getting 2.5 -3 hrs of screen time. Hope this helps.
also, get CpuSpy from the market, and see which speeds your cpu is using (or not using).
Not that this will help software issues but Sprint is giving away a free 2100Mah extended battery with the door. You just have to pay for the shipping. No scam at all, I think they know that they have a glitchy piece of product and need to help calm us down. Just call telesales and tell them you own a Gnex.
CPU Speeds
Almost exclusively at 384 or 729 mHz, capped at 1026.
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also, get CpuSpy from the market, and see which speeds your cpu is using (or not using).
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So that means that the CPU isn't going into deep sleep, which is an issue.
All I can suggest is reflash with a full wipe, and reinstall the apps you can, and slowly weed out any rogue apps that could be causing said issue.
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Sorry, I meant that when awake, the vast majority of the clock speeds are 384 and 729. I am in deep sleep approximately 75% of the time.
If no solution comes up in this thread, I will try re-flashing to stock JB/stock JB kernel tomorrow night to see if it just needed a few recharge cycles to stabilize, and if not, if wiping/reinstalling helps.
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So that means that the CPU isn't going into deep sleep, which is an issue.
All I can suggest is reflash with a full wipe, and reinstall the apps you can, and slowly weed out any rogue apps that could be causing said issue.
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I'm getting the complete opposite of u op
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Yeah, that seems to be the general experience here. My phone is down to ~28% since the OP. Again, the proportions in which things are draining power are correct, they are just doing it too quickly (1% per minute of screen time).
I'm going to completely wipe and re-flash JB tonight, keeping the stock kernel this time, unless someone can help me out.
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I'm getting the complete opposite of u op
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bmurray said:
Yeah, that seems to be the general experience here. My phone is down to ~28% since the OP. Again, the proportions in which things are draining power are correct, they are just doing it too quickly (1% per minute of screen time).
I'm going to completely wipe and re-flash JB tonight, keeping the stock kernel this time, unless someone can help me out.
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Did u flash francos kernel yet ?
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Yes - every process/screen is drawing the typical percentage of power use (~50% screen, 8% Phone Idle, 8% cell standby), but the battery is draining 4x faster than it should. Francos app shows me running at completely standard voltage, and I'm on the powersave mode. I think it must be a battery indicator/stats issue, otherwise the proportions would be all off.
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Did u flash francos kernel yet ?
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bmurray said:
Yes - every process/screen is drawing the typical percentage of power use (~50% screen, 8% Phone Idle, 8% cell standby), but the battery is draining 4x faster than it should. Francos app shows me running at completely standard voltage, and I'm on the powersave mode. I think it must be a battery indicator/stats issue, otherwise the proportions would be all off.
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Try wiping ur battery stats in cwm
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I know that is supposedly a placebo, but in this case, something is clearly wrong. I'll give it a try.
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Try wiping ur battery stats in cwm
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Hi I've just recently decided to swap my xperia ray for a second hand HTC one x and unfortunately the battery life is horrid, under 4 hours and the battery is below half. 3g is on 24/7 and I didn't browse the internet for even a second , only text and call and I can't believe it, seriously considering taking this back unless somebody can convince me otherwise. All I use is the internet and calls and texts, and if it can't even handle those , then how am I going to be able to use the internet ..
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Hi I've just recently decided to swap my xperia ray for a second hand HTC one x and unfortunately the battery life is horrid, under 4 hours and the battery is below half. 3g is on 24/7 and I didn't browse the internet for even a second , only text and call and I can't believe it, seriously considering taking this back unless somebody can convince me otherwise. All I use is the internet and calls and texts, and if it can't even handle those , then how am I going to be able to use the internet ..
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are u using a custom rom ...? if not then say which base it is...3.14 oder 2.17 ...
You might try searching the forum, there are LOTs of battery related threads.
Install BetterBatteryStats (search here for it and how to use it), and check wakelocks and partial wakelocks, should tell you what is preventing the phone from entering deep sleep.
i like the battery life of my phone very much but also think, when you are using a custom rom, the rom and the kernel need to settle and i think, this take a time.. try one and give it 1-2 days, until you see the real battery draining
Came from Xperia arc myself, but wasn't expecting tremendous battery life, tbh. That said, there's virtually no drain in screen off on any stock based rom, so it evens out. Haven't tried aokp, cm10 or miui due to the pretty horrific battery life on the arc with them.
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mine hox have nearly 1 year, but no better or worse battery performance. max 1 day :crying:
the battery life of the htc one x is an enigma to me (no other word can do justice to how much confusion it's causing)....I understand everyone uses their phone differently but the battery life shouldn't be all over the place as it is. My battery is lasting between 24 and 48 hours regularly with normal use i.e. normal everyday use on my one x, calls texts, camera, finding a place on maps while lost etc etc
screenshots attached.
I understand a lot of the problems are being caused by the phone not going into deep sleep. One of the ones I pinned it down to was if you go into Maps and check the location settings through there...i've turned them all off (and i still get correct google now information).
If someone wants to try that and then let us know what its like then that'd help everyone.
ace9988 said:
the battery life of the htc one x is an enigma to me (no other word can do justice to how much confusion it's causing)....I understand everyone uses their phone differently but the battery life shouldn't be all over the place as it is. My battery is lasting between 24 and 48 hours regularly with normal use i.e. normal everyday use on my one x, calls texts, camera, finding a place on maps while lost etc etc
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I understand a lot of the problems are being caused by the phone not going into deep sleep. One of the ones I pinned it down to was if you go into Maps and check the location settings through there...i've turned them all off (and i still get correct google now information).
If someone wants to try that and then let us know what its like then that'd help everyone.
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well not quite sure what you're doing with your phone - in that image, your mobile signal is only on for about half of the total time? did you have it in airplane mode or something?
my battery is pretty terrible - actually shocking the past few days. I can't even get through a full work day without it being down to <30%, which is only 9 hours or so. I've had power saver turned on all the time, too. I use it a bit for texts during the day and that's about it - no heavy data use. so I have no idea what's sapping it so heavily. it's quite bizarre. even if I try to micro-manage my data by turning it on only when I need it, I still get down to 40%.
this is on a stock ROM by the way. considering changing to a lighter weight custom ROM to see if that helps, as this is just ridiculous!
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well not quite sure what you're doing with your phone - in that image, your mobile signal is only on for about half of the total time? did you have it in airplane mode or something?
my battery is pretty terrible - actually shocking the past few days. I can't even get through a full work day without it being down to <30%, which is only 9 hours or so. I've had power saver turned on all the time, too. I use it a bit for texts during the day and that's about it - no heavy data use. so I have no idea what's sapping it so heavily. it's quite bizarre. even if I try to micro-manage my data by turning it on only when I need it, I still get down to 40%.
this is on a stock ROM by the way. considering changing to a lighter weight custom ROM to see if that helps, as this is just ridiculous!
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im getting same type of drain also. i made a thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2090024&highlight=+q+battery+life
idk if this is normal or not cause its new. also im coming from 2 hr battery drain on g2x so idk what is normal nowadays
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actuallyi just glanced at ur screen shot and for u it might be the mobile radio. It seems like ur signal is spotty for most of the time. this drains battery like no other when trying to find a good signal this goes with wifi too
HOX's battery live was terrible at first. (ICS & Old kernel)
Now it seems that it has reached its max capability. It saves the day, but it would be great, if the battery had been 2100 mah. :angel:
flame_ said:
well not quite sure what you're doing with your phone - in that image, your mobile signal is only on for about half of the total time? did you have it in airplane mode or something?
my battery is pretty terrible - actually shocking the past few days. I can't even get through a full work day without it being down to <30%, which is only 9 hours or so. I've had power saver turned on all the time, too. I use it a bit for texts during the day and that's about it - no heavy data use. so I have no idea what's sapping it so heavily. it's quite bizarre. even if I try to micro-manage my data by turning it on only when I need it, I still get down to 40%.
this is on a stock ROM by the way. considering changing to a lighter weight custom ROM to see if that helps, as this is just ridiculous!
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I actually don't know what happened then since i had gone to sleep when the mobile network decided to go off... But i haven't turned on airplane mode ever
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*****zzz please
XD
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How about ....
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Vad1 said:
How about ....
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Oo impressive if u didn't have that with WiFi off and airplane mode
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XxVcVxX said:
*****zzz please
XD
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how the fck??
Wifi is on about 50% of the time...no airplane mode
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Vad1 said:
Wifi is on about 50% of the time...no airplane mode
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so what rom and kernel are u using?
XxVcVxX said:
*****zzz please
XD
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Yes man how the hell ?!?!?!?!?
What rom and kernel ?
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XxVcVxX said:
*****zzz please
XD
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How much was your screen on time tho? I could just leave my phone doing nothing and have over 1day battery.
@op you could try the battery calibration. Charge phone till green light, once fully charged unplug and switch off the phone and charge again till green light now switch on and use phone.
You should now have better battery.
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How much was your screen on time tho? I could just leave my phone doing nothing and have over 1day battery.
@op you could try the battery calibration. Charge phone till green light, once fully charged unplug and switch off the phone and charge again till green light now switch on and use phone.
You should now have better battery.
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Calibration doesn't do nothing and certainly not gonna give you better battery life.
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Hi guys,
I used to have an LT22i with GB, and even though I was not thrilled with its battery life, I could perfectly live with it.
Right now I'm using an LT28h with ICS, and I was expecting to get much better battery life because:
. the battery is something like 1900 mAh, rather than the LT22i's 1380 mAh
. It's running ICS instead of GB
. I know the screen is bigger, but I often use it with less brightness than the gorgeous LT22i display did
Nevertheless, my feeling is that battery life on LT28h is roughly the same as what I had with the LT22i.
I checked the battery menu and I can see that Android System is what uses the most battery. On LT22i, it was the screen.
On the battery menu, when I click on Android System, I get:
CPU total: 4m21s
Keep awake: 5h48m36s
The keep awake time seems huge!
So, I've installed BetterBatteryStats in order to find the main battery consumers included in "Android System". But BetterBatteryStats tells me that the phone is in deep sleep most of the time.
I also have installed SystemPanel but I don't see any System Processes taking away much CPU.
Any clues on what's going on here?
Thanks in advance!
Bigger screen = bigger battery consumption
Well other than that,ics use much battery
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Yes..bigger screen use more battery usage..I'm suggesting you to use app Greenify to hibernate apps that always running at background..Updating to JB rom is better than ICS because it have extended battery mod..It's similar to Juice Defender..
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I think there is something wrong with Ion's buttery. Maybe my Ion. My brother XS hold atleast 12 hrs when my Ion hold 8 hrs with same usage. Tried many ROMs but with no luck.
Ps. This thread goes to Q&A section. Thread reported.
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pharix said:
I think there is something wrong with Ion's buttery. Maybe my Ion. My brother XS hold atleast 12 hrs when my Ion hold 8 hrs with same usage. Tried many ROMs but with no luck.
Ps. This thread goes to Q&A section. Thread reported.
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Well can't exactly compare between this 2 phones like that because you need to take note with background apps etc....
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UchihaDareNial said:
Well can't exactly compare between this 2 phones like that because you need to take note with background apps etc....
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Nop. I compared with untouched stock firmware on both. Using exactly same apps. (6 hours of different is too much)
When I bought my phone it hold for 2-3 hours with ICS (too little for a phone). But now when I use JB at least I an use for 6 hours with less usage.
pharix said:
Nop. I compared with untouched stock firmware on both. Using exactly same apps. (6 hours of different is too much)
When I bought my phone it hold for 2-3 hours with ICS (too little for a phone). But now when I use JB at least I an use for 6 hours with less usage.
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Hmm maybe screen size is factor of this?It is true that Ion got 1900 mAh,but its screen 4.6" HD + 1900 maH vs 4" qHD + 1350 mAh...soo...maybe that's the only factor?
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UchihaDareNial said:
Hmm maybe screen size is factor of this?It is true that Ion got 1900 mAh,but its screen 4.6" HD + 1900 maH vs 4" qHD + 1350 mAh...soo...maybe that's the only factor?
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I think it is.
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Try Greenify.
MegaSharkXDA said:
Hi guys,
I used to have an LT22i with GB, and even though I was not thrilled with its battery life, I could perfectly live with it.
Right now I'm using an LT28h with ICS, and I was expecting to get much better battery life because:
. the battery is something like 1900 mAh, rather than the LT22i's 1380 mAh
. It's running ICS instead of GB
. I know the screen is bigger, but I often use it with less brightness than the gorgeous LT22i display did
Nevertheless, my feeling is that battery life on LT28h is roughly the same as what I had with the LT22i.
I checked the battery menu and I can see that Android System is what uses the most battery. On LT22i, it was the screen.
On the battery menu, when I click on Android System, I get:
CPU total: 4m21s
Keep awake: 5h48m36s
The keep awake time seems huge!
So, I've installed BetterBatteryStats in order to find the main battery consumers included in "Android System". But BetterBatteryStats tells me that the phone is in deep sleep most of the time.
I also have installed SystemPanel but I don't see any System Processes taking away much CPU.
Any clues on what's going on here?
Thanks in advance!
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Any help?
Thanks!
well for me battery in JB is good but battery life in ICS is way better. well you must need to have an app called greenify.. it helps you to hibernate all the apps you dont use and also you dont need that consumes the battery juices from your phone. my ICS ion .68 is indeed superb well why i love the ics rather than the jb? stock JB makes my ion freeze when using 3g/4g conectivity and most likely to happen when downloading in the play store so i used the ics which suits me way better since im an data user not a wifi user.
so try it out pal and hope it will help you..
Keep awake times of 5+ hours is definitely huge and wrong. I have had the same issue many times, usually it comes down to Google's location services. Check your location settings and see which ones are turned on, and also go into Google maps and find the settings there, it has it`s own location settings too. If no luck there, try turning off auto-sync for different apps, go into e-mail settings and click auto update every hour instead of every minute, check wifi settings to make sure it`s always on only when plugged in, because if it`s not off when your phone is sleeping and you go out it will try to find networks. Play around with it until keepawakes are under half an hour or so each day.
simonwood13 said:
Keep awake times of 5+ hours is definitely huge and wrong. I have had the same issue many times, usually it comes down to Google's location services. Check your location settings and see which ones are turned on, and also go into Google maps and find the settings there, it has it`s own location settings too. If no luck there, try turning off auto-sync for different apps, go into e-mail settings and click auto update every hour instead of every minute, check wifi settings to make sure it`s always on only when plugged in, because if it`s not off when your phone is sleeping and you go out it will try to find networks. Play around with it until keepawakes are under half an hour or so each day.
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Hi there,
here's a screenshot of my battery usage (the fact that "screen" isn't the first one on the list is what made me try to figure out what is happening).
In terms of settings:
. Google location services are on (though not GPS). My Xperia P also had them on and "Screen" was always on top of the list
. Google maps is a bit useless without location, but I'll try to disable it... Once again, my Xperia P had Google maps location on
. I've turned autosync off for pretty much everything (and I use JuiceDefender to connect once every hour)
. e-mail is set to update once every hour
. wi-fi is only on when plugged in
Thanks.
The only other thing that's worked for me when android system or android os starts glitching with wake locks is restarting my phone right after I've finished charging it. Most of the time after doing this a couple times it seems to sort itself out.
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Hi guys,
after having disabled all Location Services yesterday, battery life was not short at all - last night I still had 46% battery after a 16h40m on battery time. Nevertheless, Android System is still using 42% of battery and has a keep awake of over 6h (see attached screenshots).
Other notes:
. I don't restart the phone every morning after charging (actually I do restart the phone every night before charging) but today I did it and battery life is not appearing to be better - actually it appears to be worse
. I can't use greenify because I'm not rooted
So what is going on here exactly?
I'm out of ideas simply because android system has so many processes under its name its hard to tell which one exactly is acting up. I've put a couple screens of mine to show it is possible lol. All I got left to say is update to jelly bean and hope things get sorted out.
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I'm out of ideas simply because android system has so many processes under its name its hard to tell which one exactly is acting up. I've put a couple screens of mine to show it is possible lol. All I got left to say is update to jelly bean and hope things get sorted out.
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The strange part is... battery life is not exactly bad... it just isn't spectacular, and maybe it could be if keep awake time was less.
Note: I will update to JB only after I manage to un-soft-brick my Xperia P... just as a precaution... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2262035&page=3
All the luck to you. And yea, your battery life is pretty good considering, but if you use your phone a lot and have quite a bit of screen on time then it'll all add up.
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MegaSharkXDA said:
The strange part is... battery life is not exactly bad... it just isn't spectacular, and maybe it could be if keep awake time was less.
Note: I will update to JB only after I manage to un-soft-brick my Xperia P... just as a precaution... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2262035&page=3
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Btw what's the worry about the update? Why the precaution? Shouldn't be any reason not to update the ion
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Btw what's the worry about the update? Why the precaution? Shouldn't be any reason not to update the ion
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'Coz I (soft)bricked the Xperia P and if the same happens to ion I'll have to return to a argh-BlackBerry.