Bad Battery Life w/ Root

[OgreMkV]

I don't know what to tell you. I'm rooted with BAMF 1.6.2 (or .3)... 3G only and with minimal use, I'm at 48% after 36 hours since last charge. I've had 3 calls, done some light downloading and app installation (two or three) and some light e-mail and texting.

 

[Iceycold]

Yep some people have good battery some people have bad, and I'm talking about the phyiscal thing.

If you see that after extensive tweaking your battery is still bad then you got that "bad batch".

I was going to vzw to change it, and they just talked me into getting the 2750mah extended and I got it coming on friday or saturday I'll report back with results.

 

[NotJustAPhone]

The extended battery isn't a bad option, but if you think your original battery is bad you insist they replace it. It's covered under the warranty.


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[bigdonpaul]

Once I get the extended battery Friday, I will report back. Running 1.6.3 right now.

 

[tazman19]

I am going to call Verizon tomorrow. I dont want the extended battery as the bulk it adds to the phone is not what I am looking for.

In total, I lasted 6:30 with 2 hours of display on. I have all my settings tweaked, battery at 30%, timeout to 30 secs, etc.. in addition to running the latest BAMF remix rom. GPS and WIFI (when I cant access it) off. I did a wipe before installing the ROM and re calibrated the battery.

 

[tazman19]

I am definitely not a 'minimal' user but should be getting alot more than that even out of the stock battery with the ROM tweaks. I wonder if all these people saying they are getting exceptional battery life are either already on the extended battery or only use their phone very minimally.

 

[bigdonpaul]

I unplugged at 845. With a bit of 4g and wifi, it is down to 81. Screen has been off most of the time. I don't know how to improve the battery. Any advice? Running 1.6.3. Just installed 4.4.7 kernel.

 

[OgreMkV]

The only thing that I can think of is to make sure your GPS is off. I have my CPU set to 'ondemand'.

One 5 minute video on youtube took about 3% of my juice.

 

[tazman19]

Just called Verizon and within 5 minutes they are sending me a new battery overnight.

 

[Ed Witles]

How does one calibrate the battery? Still have 'pathetic' battery life rooted. But all in all, not too shabby.

 

[djinsydius]

How does one calibrate the battery? Still have 'pathetic' battery life rooted. But all in all, not too shabby.

Download Battery Calibration app from market, charge all the way up, while connected click calibrate battery, then unplug