Time Without Signal 50% ED01, supposed to be fixed or is everyone just dealing?

[MrBigFeathers]

I just got a Fascinate about a week ago. I'm running the deBinged ED01 ROM with stock ED03 kernel and modem. Everything has been good besides the battery life and my time without signal (under Cell Standby in Battery Use) is at 50% every time I reboot. I have to toggle airplane mode to get it to settle down. I did some searching and saw a few posts about it but not many. Is the time without signal bug supposed to be fixed or is everyone just used to it and dealing with it?

 

[Landshark]

I just got a Fascinate about a week ago. I'm running the deBinged ED01 ROM with stock ED03 kernel and modem. Everything has been good besides the battery life and my time without signal (under Cell Standby in Battery Use) is at 50% every time I reboot. I have to toggle airplane mode to get it to settle down. I did some searching and saw a few posts about it but not many. Is the time without signal bug supposed to be fixed or is everyone just used to it and dealing with it?

I don't think it's necessarily a bug. I get terrible reception when I'm in my office, so when I leave work my time without signal will be above 50%. But then it starts to drop during the night since I have signal after I leave the office. Just depends on the signal strength you get. Over time that should continue to drop.

 

[Lttlwing16]

Don't know what this is worth... but i'll put it out there.

After the release of SC 2.9.2 I did some very rigorous tests with the phone battery. I mean scientific type work in the manner I tested.

What I found is that ...Cell Standby was completely off and I decided that I would never pay attention to that when it comes to the battery. I found of all the variables it didn't follow a direct correlation to battery life.

For instance,

One would expect a lower battery on a day that you had the display on 2hrs versus 45 minutes. I.E. Battery life is inversely affected by Display time on.

Increased Display time---Decreased Battery life.

However, it wasn't so with the time without signal.

On more than one occasion, with all other drains on the battery consistent, but different TwoS (time without signal) the correlation wasn't correct. The day with higher Tw/oS (50%) for instance would actually have better battery life than a day with lower Tw/oS (10%). This happened multiple times, so I concluded it was bunk, and the reporting was off.

I don't know if this applies to KB, or ED01, just thought I would put it out there. If the bug still exists, which it may, than you can disregard your Tw/oS in regards to your battery life.

 

[MrBigFeathers]

Cool thanks. So the bug is only that it shows the percentage incorrectly? I can deal with that if it isn't actually affecting anything.

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[Kevin Gossett]

Yeah, I do believe it is just reporting inaccurately. I don't it is actually going that long without signal

 

[Lttlwing16]

Cool thanks. So the bug is only that it shows the percentage incorrectly? I can deal with that if it isn't actually affecting anything.

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The bummer is that you may actually have times without signal that DO affect your battery life, like in Landshark's situation. I'm not saying that time without signal doesn't exist, I am just saying take the battery usage reporting of it with a grain of salt.