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[HTC Inspire 4G] cappyandroid:
Hi,

I just recently bought my Inspire and rooted/s-off/eng s-off.

I flashed Android Revolution and I can't stand that I can't have my phone for more than 6 hours before 15% battery.

Is there any other ROMs that have better battery life? I'd rather have something like an optimized stock, but I really would love better battery life.

If you're wondering, I don't do a lot on my phone--just music, texting, and mild web. No video, and some e-mail.

Thanks~
[HTC Inspire 4G] tmt64:
For me, CM7 has better battery life than AR.

It's AOSP though so no sense. Though honestly I don't miss sense at all. In my experience the only feature that sense has over stock is the dialer and camera.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mrro82:
How long were you using Revolution? ROM's need some time to even out in the OS. At first they'll rip through the battery like nobodys business. Also, did you reset the battery stats? I'm pretty sure that is in the Revolutions FAQs. I could be wrong though. Also, the ROM in my sig is a great one to try. He also had a sense version if that's your bag.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Little_Ant:
Phone Battery usage statistics

I flashed CoreDroid V5.1 two days ago, and i'm sad to say i'm experiencing similar DISMAL battery performance. I've ran specific tests on it all day today, and this is what i have seen thus far:

08:12 - 95% - Airplane mode ON

09:46 - 91%

11:32 - 86%

12:30 - 83% - Airplane mode OFF

13:27 - 73%

14:33 - 62% - Airplane mode ON

16:30 - 44%

These stats were taken with the phone NOT IN USE. The screen was off and it was sitting on my desk. So, as you can see from the list above:

with AIRPLANE MODE ON - a loss of ~3-4% per hour

with AIRPLANE MODE OFF - a loss of ~10% per hour!

This is patently ridiculous!

When airplane mode is on and the phone is not in use, it should be basically on standby, using maybe a percent every hour or two.

When airplane mode is off, 10% /per hour?! That is just INSANE! No WONDER i can't get until even 7pm before my phone is dead!

If it can be determined what is sucking down the battery with Airplane Mode ON, and that 3-4% is eliminated, then the phone should have no problem lasting >14 hours.

(As a note, i saw similar performance before i rooted, so it's not just the ROM)
[HTC Inspire 4G] Mr. Clown:
Moved as not android development.
[HTC Inspire 4G] cappyandroid:
I don't know if it's just how Sense works, but whenever I view the Applications in Settings, ALL my apps are running, ALL the time.

I don't remember it being the case with my Captivate, though..
[HTC Inspire 4G] doktor buknasty:
Charge your battery till it completely charged. Turn the phone off and boot into ClockMod Recovery. Wipe the battery stats and hopefully that should help with the battery.
[HTC Inspire 4G] hiltun:
If i leave my phone alone over night while i sleep after 8 hours it will be at 93/94%.

Download an app called CurrentWidget. It will tell you how much your battery is being used.

Remember to enable logging so you can check the log latter on your sd card .

With my phone idle I normally get ~3mA or less per minute with spikes of ~160mA once an hour or so.

The max "Screen On" time is about 2 hours per charge.

There is also an app called Traffic Monitor Widget to see how much data each app is using.

These may help you understand what your battery drains so fast.

I'm not Rooted.
[HTC Inspire 4G] wastegate13:
I'm seeing some pretty decent battery life on CM7 RC4. Here are some screen caps.
[HTC Inspire 4G] hiltun:
How long was your screen on for?
[HTC Inspire 4G] wastegate13:
I dunno really. I just took two more screen caps from today. Just my general days usage. I've had the phone for only a week now so I expect the battery to break in a bit more like my nexus did. I was a bit worried about the battery life and this thing lasting me throughout the day but I have been impressed so far. I never even used it with the stock ROM so I can't compare, I dislike Sense.
[HTC Inspire 4G] hiltun:
I've been off the charger for 13hours. I'm at 50% with 1h10min screen on time too. I've had mine for about two weeks now.

Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G
[HTC Inspire 4G] codyperez86:
I'm running coredroid 5.1 and I fail to see that I'm loosing 10% an hour. Here's how my day was in battery faintly remembering. Woke up at 9:30 took of charger and left for work by 10. From then to I say around 1 I had around 90% only cause I was messing with my build.prop so I was restarting my phone like 20 times doing some test. Also I was ebbing a lot to look for info on what I was doing. And near the end of work around 5 I had even been playing music and games. And was around the 60% I wanna say in the high 60% I played with my phone a lot today and as of right now the same day I'm talking about I'm at 44% and been on my phone like crazy even rebooted a few times again. From what I have been doing to my phone I highly don't see how u could loose so much battery. So from now 10 to to 8 I'm at 44% that 10 hours I was playing with my phone like crazy.

Tips. Use recommended radio's. Charge to 100% clear battery bin. Also give it a few days for the Rom to get built in a little bit. also go download frail CPU its free. It'll help you save some juice when screen is off. Hope this helped.
[HTC Inspire 4G] buddy17:
thats because your phone is sitting in standyby 90% of the time. I've never checked my battery use and NOT had display at the very top using at least 50%. Its not wonder your battery life is great :rolleyes:
[HTC Inspire 4G] metaldood:
I have been on many Roms but cm7 rc4 is the best for me. I get about 18 hrs of life with normal usage and gaming. I think Sense is the culprit on other ROMS. Also the free memory on cm7 is 200mb more than on Sense. And this is 90% of the time for me.

Inspired from my Inspire 4G using XDA Premium App
[HTC Inspire 4G] mj0528:
I don't think you can beat miui. Pulling 1-4 per min. Of all the roms, I tried this is the best. Ginger with OC kernels too.
[HTC Inspire 4G] hiltun:
If your talking about mA per minute. I get that with my non rooted inspire.

Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G
[HTC Inspire 4G] 3GOD:
I have noticed something funny about the battery stats on different ROMs. In particular, on CM7, I would never get display as using more than about 10%. On the other hand, when I am running stock rooted ROM, my display always uses about 60%. This is all with similar usage patterns and similar brightness settings. What is going on there I wonder?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Little_Ant:
I have also never seen my display less than 40%! Even today.

Attached are screen caps of my usage, based on what was happening earlier.

So lets see, display was on 1 hour out of 15 hours. And that = 40%. yea. i call bull****.

Thank you to all for your suggestions thus far. I will try them all out and report back what i have found!
[HTC Inspire 4G] SNadler:
I am heaving very good battery life with CorDroid 5.1 But I also had good battery life with Rev roms. When I am in a fringe service area I switch to GSM only and it more than doubles my battery life with the radio I am using. :) If I dont need the high speed I leave it off if it is not a strong signal.
[HTC Inspire 4G] RogerPodacter:
i did tests on the stock inspire at the ATT store last night, and it was pulling 1mA in idle mode with the stock ROM. went back and forth from 1mA to 3mA. pretty impressive, i wonder if this is the new snapdragon improved power management at work here.
[HTC Inspire 4G] djeaton:
I'm on Revolution as well. Did a test overnight. Fully charged the battery (I'd reset battery stats a couple of days ago when I ROMed it) before going to sleep. It was at 100% and had been for an hour or two. I closed all running apps, unplugged it and went to sleep. Over the next 9 hours, I got alerts for 6 emails, a couple of Android Police alerts, and 2 text message alerts. The phone did a nightly MyBackup to the SD card, a Titanium Backup to DropBox via wifi, and also updated my contact images from Facebook (again via WiFi). This was the ONLY activity on the phone. But when I turned it on in the AM, I was down to 30% battery. Granted, the phone was *on* for 9 hours, but had ZERO calls, no streaming audio or video, or anything else. Just some alerts, updates of my contact photos, and two backups via WiFi. Even though I have my screen timeout set to 30 seconds, it said my Display was using 66% of my battery. That's nuts. I'm going to try resetting the battery again to see if that helps, but might just have to try out cm7 to see if it gets better life.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Divinedark:
That's definitely not normal. My Inspire has one of the best stand by battery life's I've ever seen. I took the sim out of my Inspire to put in my Atrix, and went to work. The Inspire was at 100% battery when I left, with WiFi on, and was at 98% 9 hours later when I retured. I thought that was pretty great. My focus just commits suicide without a sim/wifi on, over a workday.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Focustom:
I tried Current Widget and I only get the 0mA reading :( Running leedroid
[HTC Inspire 4G] RogerPodacter:
definitely not normal. i am unplugged right now for 8 hours, and i am still at 94% because i left my phone on all night connected to wifi, pulling 2 gmail accounts, etc. idle standby battery life is very crucial, and should be under 5mA using current widget.

now i'm at 79% after a few hours at work, total unplug time 10 hours. this is how it should be, normal performance. yours seems like something is wrong.
[HTC Inspire 4G] RogerPodacter:
that ROM must not have the correct current file, cause the widget is not finding it if its showing zero.
[HTC Inspire 4G] darkoon@yahoo.com:
what were you running on the system that used 35% of battery?

based on the reports that i have seen, it looks like stock rom (modified) offers the best battery life. I am using TPC built, i like it the best compared to two other roms that I installed, it offers best battery life as well as stability.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Little_Ant:
I ran the current monitor sense widget, and it unfortunately seems totally useless. It shows usage anywhere from 30ma to 350mA, instantaneous. Over a couple of hours, even with AIRPLANE mode on most of the time, it almost never dropped down to single digits. In addition, in one instance when it went from 7 to 320, it listed the same exact apps running for both cases. This means that nothing new was started, yet one or more running processes massively increased their battery usage. Which ones, i have no idea.

The app basically gave me no useful info in determining what is sucking my battery life. :(

It did show that the usage in airplane mode hovers around the 50s, and when not in airplane mode hovers around 250s. But that's pretty obvious anyway. Nothing even close to the 1-4ma you guys are reporting...
[HTC Inspire 4G] Focustom:
Ok so I downloaded elixer and it works but in airplane mode it idles at -31mA that's bad isn't it?

Sent from outside your window with my Inspire 4G
[HTC Inspire 4G] hiltun:
The option to log running process In currentwidget list the same process all the time. So it did not help me either.

Having GPS on can drain the battery faster too.

Try rebooting your phone and see if that helps the battery drain.

Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G
[HTC Inspire 4G] dstevens:
I've tried all the ROMs mentioned above and can say that LeeDroid (at least for my usage - heavy push email) provides the best battery life (by a lot). The biggest thing I've noticed is that LeeDroid handle the automatic screen brightness better than the others. And looking at the battery stats, this seems to be one of the biggest draws on the battery.

I would recommend you flash the ROMs mentioned in this post and see what works best for you. It's also important that you match the correct radio with each ROM as the wrong radio can drain your battery quickly.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Focustom:
Which radios should I flash? Or is it already there?

Sent from outside your window with my Inspire 4G
[HTC Inspire 4G] RogerPodacter:
Apps will do things all the time. If gmail is pulling down new messages then your mA will spike to 130mA, but you won't see new opened apps from that.

The current file only updates from the driver once per minute. So you won't see instant readings, only the reading it was one minute ago. You have to use the widget to get your average.

If you want instant readings, you'd have to edit the driver like I did in the link in my Sig.
[HTC Inspire 4G] RogerPodacter:
That's not too great for standby readings.
[HTC Inspire 4G] RogerPodacter:
Check out what I did with the nexus driver.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=998544&goto=newpost

Beginning of thread. The same could be done for inspire since it uses the same ds2784 chip.
[HTC Inspire 4G] djeaton:
An update

As a followup to my last post where I knew something had to be wrong, the problem I was having was NOT with Revolution, but with the monitoring. Last night, I duplicated my test from the night before. At midnight, I was at 97% battery. I reset the battery stats and rebooted the device. I then didn't use the phone for the rest of the night until I fell asleep. When I awoke at 11am, it had done the MyBackup of my whole system to the SD card, the Titanium backup to Dropbox over WiFi, and the nightly sync of Facebook profile pics to my contacts (about 300 folks) - again over Wifi. I also got some alerts from email, sms messages, and Android Police. After my basic overnight type usage (minus some web browsing or other things I might do), I was down to 73% battery - a drop of 24% battery over 11 hours. Here is how it broke down.

I also did a battery log overnight. If anyone is interested, they can see/analyze the CSV file here. I'm going about my normal usage today and will see what my battery percentage is at midnight tonight. Should make for a great test of battery life of a HTC Inspire running Revolution.
[HTC Inspire 4G] RogerPodacter:
Your log is missing the most important value, mA current!
[HTC Inspire 4G] booty hater:
Im approaching 36hrs since my last unplug.Im using di11i's v1.0 w/sense.
[HTC Inspire 4G] SNadler:
This was from my test yesterday.

I am 100% satisfied with the results achieved using this rom so I have stopped testing it. It is my daily rom.

17 hrs and 55% remaining! But the main thing is everything works! :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] Little_Ant:
How to use Current Widget to solve battery problems

The key to the current widget is that it tells you how much power is being used. THAT's it. So now knowing this information, do the following.

1) Enable current widget (at 60 sec. intervals) Turn off everything except mobile network.

2) lock your phone and don't touch it for 15 -30 minutes.

3) download the currentwidget.log file to your PC and check out the average usage over that time. The number of entries will vary as your phone may be in deep sleep (and hence skip some updates).

4) uninstall (or 'freeze') an application that u suspect may be responsible for power leeching. write the name of the app down so you can re-install it later.

5) return to step #2.

DO THIS over and over until you find your culprit. Most of your apps will result in no change, which means it gets a free bill of health.

You may see large spikes occasionally, and that's ok. What you are looking for is a consistent narrow range of values. For example, i am getting mostly 2ma and 7ma readings. This is very good. I have seen reports of people getting only 1ma-4ma, which is the absolute best you can get.

Don't get frustrated, if you put time into this, you will eventually find your power vampire and SLAY THE %#^@$H!# out of it!
[HTC Inspire 4G] RogerPodacter:
Exactly. The second step is using system panel which gives a list of all apps that use the CPU, in order highest to lowest, on a timeline. That's what I use to find offending apps and its easy as pie.
[HTC Inspire 4G] kofrad:
I'm wondering if there is a compilation or list somewhere of apps known to be heavy on battery. I think it could be a great resource for anyone trying to squeeze the most juice out of this phone.

I'm still working out the battery life of my phone, but it seems to have gone up with the CoreDroid 5.1 out now. I'm considering LeeDroid as that seems to get the best battery life. CurrentWidget usually shows around 8ma when I bring the phone back up from sleep. I'm also using SetCPU to downclock whenever in sleep or battery is less than a third.
[HTC Inspire 4G] californiarailroader:
Mine shows the Display at 64%, I only have the brightness turned up to about 30%, and it's set to go off after 15 seconds. Everything else, including WiFi is at less than 10%.
[HTC Inspire 4G] SNadler:
What he said!

Tried and True! Usually not a rom but something burning up the juice!
[HTC Inspire 4G] SNadler:
This was after making sure there was no apps using power for no reason.

I truly beleive the rom is not as much to do with power consumption as the user and what they have running, syncing, background etc.

3G was the biggest problem for me. I live in a fringe area and the phone would only get 2 bars most of the time and I would see it switch to Edge sometimes. The constant searching for 3G used up my battery twice as fast as when I switched to GSM only! Now I only use WCDMA when I am in a area when it will actually work. Battery life is now 17 hrs with 55% remaining on a regular basis. Worked for me....

I spent a week watching with power widget and adjusting and i am happy with the results.:)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fr3quency:
So, I have installed the Cyanogen 6. Then I tried installing the Music App from Android 3. But, while I was installing it, the phone froze and restarted itself. After that, the music app was gone. I can't find it in the menu.

I also tried searching how to install the new Music app, but none of the guides helped me. Can you guys please help me? Some guide with good steps by steps installing the new Music app...? :(
[Windows Phone 7 General] alix776:
at 2200 gtm tonight i got a update message on my hd7 nothing strange in that you might think but hang on i forced the update last night using the chevron7 updater hand had nodo on my device

ive just updated my hd7 with the official update now so it looks like the m$ scare mongering was all a bluff so has any one else had this update message from there carrier i think its interesting that the the update notification came through after id forced and applied the update

the os version is 7.07390.0 and it has copy and paste
[Windows Phone 7 General] landwomble:
I forced the nodo update unofficially a couple of days ago. Last night I got an "official" notification of an HTC update for my phone (Mozart on Orange, UK) which I'm applying now over the top...
[Flipout and Charm General] bagers:
This is an ridiculous problem, one that I can hardly believe myself.

There are some applications which are freeware and which might not be installed using the market because of a bug which probable will never get fixed.

For example, the offical google youtube app, worked for a long time on my flipout. I had to install the youtube app by downloading it manually from some third party site. Even when the app wasn't availble in the market it still worked perfectly.

I try to explain the problem. Even when the applications are freeware, they are still protected by some copy protection. There is an article about this topic. (Unfortunately in German, I haven't found an English one yet.) http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Smartphone-Diskriminierung-950840.html

I try to summarize. "It seams that out of the firmware version and the SIM-ID an identification is created which is sent to Google. If this identification is valid the user will see all applications. Unfortunately the maintenance of adding these identifications is very customer-unfriendly slow. The producer says it's Google's fault and Google says it's the producer's fault. The newspaper asked Google for a statement but Google didn't answer."

Not sure, but I think it's similar to this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=973919

Could someone please convert these instructions for the Flipout?
[Flipout and Charm General] yelo3:
How did you solve the youtube problem?
[Flipout and Charm General] bagers:
I downloaded it from some third party website. It worked for a while, but doesn't work anymore.
[Galaxy 3 General] isdfoa:
Hi guys, do you think i should get the Galaxy Apollo (basically same thing as Galaxy 3) or the LG Optimus One?

I've looked and searched in many places, and really theres a lot of mixed reviews. Im a fan of Samsung, but the Optimus One seems really nice... + theres a lot more info on the optimus, which prob means its more popular.

opinions? thanks :)
[Galaxy 3 General] divzzen:
This depends on what you want from it. Froyo out of the box with optimus one, but froyo can be flashed in 6 mins! Check the specs on gsmarena and compare.
[Galaxy 3 General] Giosiken:
To be honest, if you want a good looking phone with superb sound quality, pick up galaxy 3.but if ou want preformance, more resolution, 2.3 in the future, gpu, more ram, pick lg optimus one
[Galaxy 3 General] eKulzz:
What do you mainly intend to do with the phone? If you wanna play games the g3 doesn't have that good of a gpu, but idk how the lg is though

Sent from my GT-i5800 Kyrillo's Rom v3.0 Extreme Edition JPM
[Galaxy 3 General] stubborn_d0nkey:
none, geeksphone zero if you can buy it :D
[Galaxy 3 General] moole:
I'd go with optimus one because of the slightly better resolution. But I guess if I had LG now, I would be saying the opposite. :P
[Galaxy 3 General] Giosiken:
Lg. optimus has a crappy sound, but at least it has gpu casually, is the same Chipset in galaxy ace, and t has official froyo, LG stated that optimistic will be upgraded to gingerbread
[Galaxy 3 General] devilgod18:
Go with the optimus...coz better Ram and GPU...
[EVO 4G General] Bielinsk:
Stole this Evo phone thing he had and found this forum.

It's pretty neat.

What Rom should I put on it?
[EVO 4G General] mmegalodon:
LOL!
[EVO 4G General] kingdazy:
bwaahaahaa! brilliant trolling, bro.

Sent from my calculator watch.
[EVO 4G General] d-evo_me01:
this is why we can't have nice things. Dirt bag
[EVO 4G General] iitreatedii:
Well did you already clone the esn to work on a different provider, that's what thieves do with bad esn phones that are stolen lol
[EVO 4G General] Bielinsk:
I should put MUIU on it and Craigslist it as an iPhone 5 prototype.
[EVO 4G General] iitreatedii:
Lol be like iPhone 5 now has flash lmao
[EVO 4G General] sand1303:
This is funny

Sent from my rooted HTC EVO using the xda app!
[EVO 4G General] EndlessDissent:
What makes it funnier for me, is that when I saw the thread, it was directly under the one that started "Mugged today, stole my Evo". Brilliant post, my man. Thanked.
[EVO 4G General] Papa Smurf151:
I was drinking a monster and it almost came outta my nose when I read the tittle and it was right under the original thread.
[EVO 4G General] tke0834:
I think I just peed my pants, that was amazing!
[EVO 4G General] psirex:
You ain't right....
[EVO 4G General] TurboX2:
yep
[EVO 4G General] starplaya93:
The general section is already as useless as it can get on this forum...

At least this is is funny and original (:

lol.

Can't hate.
[EVO 4G General] Papa Smurf151:
This is how it went down...

But I was OK and went home and this is what happened...
[EVO 4G General] cordell12:
To Funny!10 char
[EVO 4G General] im0rtalz:
LOL thanks epic even though kind of harsh in a way but LOL
[EVO 4G General] Rydah:
About time we have something worth reading on xda. :) lol
[EVO 4G General] chubbzlou:


Ha ha too funny.
[EVO 4G General] ryrytii:
What's really ****ed up what are the odds I had miui lost my phone.. hope you don't live in the valley!
[EVO 4G General] samsunghater:
OMG i can see dumb**** bein like all drools over an iphone with actual functionality lol