Battery life is horrid!

[thexxoffspring]

The battery life on this phone is so awful. I think it's so much worse than the OV use to be. Listening to pandora for a half hour in the morning causes me to lose 15% battery. That's insane. Is there anyway I can improve my battery life?

 

[tylermich7]

Its your data use consumtion. Learn to turn it off while not using it and it should last you a good day and a half. If your not a heavy user.

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[danieljc1]

Try installing the Gelato ROM and the GingerKernel v07.1 from this forum to see if that might improve your battery life.

 

[mknollman123]

i have to agree that this device eats battery faster than the OV, but it should as it is the same specs with a faster processor and a KB to power. I have not noticed it as badly as yu though. Make sure that you give the phone 3-5 days to get some good battery stats going before you pass jusdgement.

i did go to the gelato rom myself butt I did it for more memoey - cant really comment on battery life just yet as I switched just a few days ago.

I will say that I can get thru a day with moderate use, but it is cutting it close. By around 8 PM i have the old 15% plug in your device warning.

I do have my gmail on push (cant change that I think), my email on hourly, and my rss reader on eery 4 hours - so that may be draining me some.

 

[thexxoffspring]

Its your data use consumtion. Learn to turn it off while not using it and it should last you a good day and a half. If your not a heavy user.

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Try installing the Gelato ROM and the GingerKernel v07.1 from this forum to see if that might improve your battery life.

I do shut off 3g and I have both of those installed. No difference really

 

[tylermich7]

Underclock your CPU.

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[economichitman]

The default governor on these phones is set to performance, which means it runs at 800mhz constantly with no scaling. You need to root, install no-frills cpu control or setcpu, and change the governor to on-demand. It's a pretty serious bug to ship a phone with, easily fixed though.

 

[Sento]

no joke broskis

root

get setcpu

set governer to "on demand" from "performance"

i swear my battery last longer than a nokia....

 

[Sento]

read this - deffinately shood be stickied!

This is what I did, in order:

1. Charged up stock phone while OFF, removed batterystats, ran phone down until it completely turned itself off. I then charged up the phone, still OFF. The next day, I got 18 hours of battery life, and did for many days after!

2. I then got SetCPU installed. I set the default governer to "ondemand" with minimum at the lower it could go and the maximum at 800Mhz. No profiles were set, nothing else. That day I got close to 23 hours of use, next day I got 30 hours. No reseting of battery stats; I changed nothing else. Phone seemed to work fine, except that I did notice that a few times the phone took a bit longer to wake up from sleep; up to 8 seconds one time. So that got me tweaking around with profiles.

3. I then adjusted SetCPU by setting the default governer still at "ondemand", max=800 mhz min=196 mhz, then enabled profiles. I have two profiles set now: Screen Off which is ondemand max=480 mhz, min=196, and In Call, which is performance max=800 min=800 (I don't think the max/min settings on performance actually matter). I haven't run my phone down completely, but I am getting about 40 hours when I still have about 10% left on my battery at the end of the day. The wake on sleep issue still happens, but it's less than 4 seconds when it does, and the performance when I'm interacting with it is just as zippy as it was when it was set to performance.

I haven't had a desire to tweak with it further - it seems to perform just great now, and getting almost 2 full days worth of battery life is good enough for me.

 

[primetechv2]

FYI world, removing battery stats frequently will probably result in early termination of your battery.

Sent from my Wildfire S

 

[thexxoffspring]

FYI world, removing battery stats frequently will probably result in early termination of your battery.

Sent from my Wildfire S

thats what ive heard with previous phones