How To Improve Battery Life

[mm247]

glad to help. dont forget to thank sharkster.

Opps, I downloaded Terminal Emulator by ZTA tech. and keep getting force closes. Is this the right one, I noticed other Emulators in the Market? What do you think.

 

[gunnermike53]

Opps, I downloaded Terminal Emulator by ZTA tech. and keep getting force closes. Is this the right one, I noticed other Emulators in the Market? What do you think.

i just used android terminal emulator.

 

[Lttlwing16]

Hey sorry, but I've read over this post, and can't find an answer, if it's there and I over looked it I apologise...I try not to ask questions that have been answered, but..

I am confused if I need to do the whole reboot thing AND the Landshark method of charging, clearing bstats, dialing *228 opt 1 and 2.

I followed the Sharks method, but then felt like I may have overlooked the whole gunnermike method..

In other words does steps a-d on post 1 need to be re-written with Landsharks method, followed by steps e and f.. or do I just need to follow Landsharks method..

I see the note at the bottom, but it's more of an order of operations thing for me..

Thanks

 

[gunnermike53]

Hey sorry, but I've read over this post, and can't find an answer, if it's there and I over looked it I apologise...I try not to ask questions that have been answered, but..

I am confused if I need to do the whole reboot thing AND the Landshark method of charging, clearing bstats, dialing *228 opt 1 and 2.

I followed the Sharks method, but then felt like I may have overlooked the whole gunnermike method..

In other words does steps a-d on post 1 need to be re-written with Landsharks method, followed by steps e and f.. or do I just need to follow Landsharks method..

I see the note at the bottom, but it's more of an order of operations thing for me..

Thanks

follow the steps in post one. if that doesnt work THEN add sharksters method to it. when i get the chance, i will redo the whole post. i have been crazy busy.

 

[Lttlwing16]

follow the steps in post one. if that doesnt work THEN add sharksters method to it. when i get the chance, i will redo the whole post. i have been crazy busy.

Thanks gunnermike. Your doing awesome work. I'll try the full method (except clearing bstats which I will use Terminal) although I am not looking forward to rebooting uptillion times, but thats the price, thats the price..

Also my cell standby is running real high (45%). I feel this can't be right since i have a connection almost always, you think this could be a little "wonky" as some say..?

 

[gunnermike53]

Thanks gunnermike. Your doing awesome work. I'll try the full method (except clearing bstats which I will use Terminal) although I am not looking forward to rebooting uptillion times, but thats the price, thats the price..

Also my cell standby is running real high (45%). I feel this can't be right since i have a connection almost always, you think this could be a little "wonky" as some say..?

there are some hardware sleep issues, they are being worked out.

 

[Lttlwing16]

there are some hardware sleep issues, they are being worked out.

Thanks again. I'll give this a try when I get some time..

 

[Landshark]

follow the steps in post one. if that doesnt work THEN add sharksters method to it. when i get the chance, i will redo the whole post. i have been crazy busy.

+1 on this line of thinking. Different people have had varying degrees of success with both methods, and Gunner's method is more involved therefore may do better job. Kind of like flashing back to DI01 to get a deep wipe on your phone rather than just flashing to DL09. Then give it some time to take effect. If it works, great. If not, you can try my method. Make sure when you do the bstats, you do it when the battery is 100%.

 

[chromium]

so from what I understand you charge the battery fully to 100% and then use terminal to clear bstat and then after it reboots keep rebooting till you deplete the battery to a consitent low percentage and the charge fully again ? And you're done ?

And I didn't read the full post like a ****** so I went into red cwm and pressed clear battery stats under advanced then rebooted and did it with terminal after charging to %100 and now my battery went from 100 to 99 what do I do?

 

[vi3tboiii54]

so from what I understand you charge the battery fully to 100% and then use terminal to clear bstat and then after it reboots keep rebooting till you deplete the battery to a consitent low percentage and the charge fully again ? And you're done ?

And I didn't read the full post like a ****** so I went into red cwm and pressed clear battery stats under advanced then rebooted and did it with terminal after charging to %100 and now my battery went from 100 to 99 what do I do?

The bstats wiping in red CWM doesnt work. Try charging the phone to 100% with it on, then turn off the phone with the charger still plugged in until you reach 100% again, after that unplug it and boot up you should be at 100% when you run terminal emulator.

Also another question for the rest of the guys on this thread. I just performed a bstats wipe on sunday but being so busy i havent had the time to run it all the way to 5%. Instead ive have been changing out between my two batteries. Is the only way the phone can learn is to run on one battery from full to nearly dead? I figure the phone is getting confused from me swapping out batteries at 30% back to back.

 

[Landshark]

so from what I understand you charge the battery fully to 100% and then use terminal to clear bstat and then after it reboots keep rebooting till you deplete the battery to a consitent low percentage and the charge fully again ? And you're done ?

And I didn't read the full post like a ****** so I went into red cwm and pressed clear battery stats under advanced then rebooted and did it with terminal after charging to %100 and now my battery went from 100 to 99 what do I do?

If you really want to, you can charge back up to 100% and run the bstat in terminal emulator again. But the percentage displayed on your phone and the actual percentage of your battery are only going to be off by 1%. I'm juuuuust a tad bit OCD and an extreme perfectionist , and that 1% wouldn't bother me. You're battery life isn't going to suffer because of what you did.

 

[Landshark]

The bstats wiping in red CWM doesnt work. Try charging the phone to 100% with it on, then turn off the phone with the charger still plugged in until you reach 100% again, after that unplug it and boot up you should be at 100% when you run terminal emulator.

Also another question for the rest of the guys on this thread. I just performed a bstats wipe on sunday but being so busy i havent had the time to run it all the way to 5%. Instead ive have been changing out between my two batteries. Is the only way the phone can learn is to run on one battery from full to nearly dead? I figure the phone is getting confused from me swapping out batteries at 30% back to back.

Gunnermike53 posted earlier in this thread he is working on a rewrite of the OP. He and I will be working on this issue and testing out the different methods to hopefully come up with the best method to use. Just remember, any of these methods are probably not going to produce a massive change in battery life because of how that is tied in to the kernel we are using. We won't see a significant improvement in battery life until after the official release of Froyo for our phone and our wonderful devs can give us custom and undervolted kernels.

 

[chromium]

If you really want to, you can charge back up to 100% and run the bstat in terminal emulator again. But the percentage displayed on your phone and the actual percentage of your battery are only going to be off by 1%. I'm juuuuust a tad bit OCD and an extreme perfectionist , and that 1% wouldn't bother me. You're battery life isn't going to suffer because of what you did.

And it does matter how fast you deplete the battery when you're done ?

 

[gunnermike53]

And it does matter how fast you deplete the battery when you're done ?

as fast as you can. you want as few things as possible influicing the stats as possible. it took me darn near the whole day. i had to do my stupid job too.

 

[Landshark]

Oh yeah, I forgot. Your boss annoys me too mike

 

[gunnermike53]

Oh yeah, I forgot. Your boss annoys me too mike

lol. thanks for the support mike.

 

[Lttlwing16]

Boarding pass checked, setting sail on the sea of reboots..will report when I land

 

[justoffthecoast]

It would be clutch if someone wrote a battery reconditioning app/script that would reboot the phone automatically until the battery was nearly dead. Unless something like that pops up, this sounds like a Saturday project

 

[gunnermike53]

It would be clutch if someone wrote a battery reconditioning app/script that would reboot the phone automatically until the battery was nearly dead. Unless something like that pops up, this sounds like a Saturday project

lol. that would be cool.

 

[Lttlwing16]

10:55 am to 3pm continually rebooting, now at 31 %.

Edit: Done discharging at 4:05. Roughly 5 hours.

Edit: Final recharge finished.

Total time for whole process (starting at 100% charge): 10:52am-4:05 reboot to 2%: 4:05-7:00pm recharged to 100%.