Anyone replace their battery after ICS?

[blars1206]

If you are getting better battery life, consider yourself extremely lucky (and perhaps the only one), because my battery "drops like a rock". From reading on this and other forums, I am not alone. :'(

I know the ICS update on my phone is "the issue" - Samsung Galaxy 2 Epic 4G Touch from Sprint.

Hmm, my battery is great and so are many others. I'm on a custom Rom but my wife is stock OTA ICS and she is getting basically the same as I am. It is almost always use apps and settings that cause battery drain. You should get the app betterbatterystats and see what's going on with your phone.

 

[Murphy5111]

Turned wifi back to not go to sleep and notification light back on. Left off charger over night starting at 100%. After 8 and a half hours lost 34% of battery. The only reason you see screen on time at all is because I didn't take the screen shot rigt away. I didn't enable any of the sounds that I had turned off.

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[norstarguru]

I think I have found the problem after going nuts for about a week- (ics update is not completing)pull battery-hold vol up and power at the same until u get a funky screen- scroll with vol button to clear cache, once complete do a system reboot and you should get a MSG that says android update complete, plus all the stuff above should help if it does not I will be back because this 4 hour battery life is not working for me and I have everything off.

 

[Murphy5111]

I think I have found the problem after going nuts for about a week- (ics update is not completing)pull battery-hold vol up and power at the same until u get a funky screen- scroll with vol button to clear cache, once complete do a system reboot and you should get a MSG that says android update complete, plus all the stuff above should help if it does not I will be back because this 4 hour battery life is not working for me and I have everything off.

I think this is part of it - by the way, if you do it again it will also say finalizing android update and android update successful. I thought maybe the system sounds was also a big culprit but mine are still off and I lost 34% battery overnight without using my phone (I did have wifi and bluetooth on but have been able to do that in the past without a problem). So something is still draining the battery that shouldn't. Hopefully you will get better battery life from wiping the cache - keep me posted.

 

[blars1206]

I think this is part of it - by the way, if you do it again it will also say finalizing android update and android update successful. I thought maybe the system sounds was also a big culprit but mine are still off and I lost 34% battery overnight without using my phone (I did have wifi and bluetooth on but have been able to do that in the past without a problem). So something is still draining the battery that shouldn't. Hopefully you will get better battery life from wiping the cache - keep me posted.

get betterbatterystats app and see what wakelocks you have. Your android os category is way high. Something isn't right. I don't think your phone is going into deep sleep and just staying there.

 

[Murphy5111]

get betterbatterystats app and see what wakelocks you have. Your android os category is way high. Something isn't right. I don't think your phone is going into deep sleep and just staying there.

Has anyone tried this(who is having this problem) ? I looked in the market and the recent reviews say that it crashes. Thanks

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[JayWill]

Has anyone tried this(who is having this problem) ? I looked in the market and the recent reviews say that it crashes. Thanks

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I use it frequently. It's how I found out about the AudioOut_1 partial wake lock that can be caused by having system sounds enabled on CM9. It's a great app and absolutely required for proper battery life diagnosis.

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[Murphy5111]

Juice defender sent to aggressive seems to be helping. Lost 7% in last 5 hours with phone idle. Sounds are still off but I left wifi and bluetooth on.

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[Murphy5111]

Ok, back to stock Gingerbread and all is right in the world. I haven't turned off a thing, not wifi, bluetooth, sync, etc. and I only lost 5% battery overnight with my phone unplugged and turned on. Not 34% like I was getting on ICS. Wish I could post a screen shot but getting the 404 not found error again.