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[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
Ive been having this issue too, if you click on my name and click on my posts, i have posted a crap ton on this issue.

the standard response I seem to get is "you flashed wrong"

this is not my first time around the block.

however, kejar31 posted an exact method to flashing and resetting battery stats. I have reset battery stats, and did the charge up thing, but never in the order he stated. so I am going to do it exactly.

refer to this post (1105) by kejar31

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1116086&page=111

I will report back once this is completed.
[Verizon Droid Charge] rami98:
This was happening to my phone where it would start charged at 7 am and die by 3 pm with no use at all. What i did to fix it was install the new Cwm test.tar and then install the touchwiz 4 theme. i then installed pbj kernel (non oc) and charged it to 100% and wiped battery stats. then i let it die and recharged it and wiped battery stats again. Worked like a charm. my battery can now easily run the whole day and still have 40% by 10 pm. And the touchwiz 4 theme is really nice. gets rid of the terribly ugly brown and orange theme and you are still on stock ee4. you can use debloated if you want but custom roms always destroy the battery on this phone for now. And if you wait another day, p3droid is going to release leaked gingerbread on the team blackhat app. that will surely be amazing because on my DROID X, on froyo the battery life would be good, and it would be amazing with an undervolt. But with gingerbread, i got better battery completely stock than with undervolted froyo. Gingerbread will be amazing. here is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crt5xhLWmnM
[Verizon Droid Charge] r00t beer:
Where are you getting this information? This sounds completely false. And it's not going to calibrate from 5 hours of idle battery time to an acceptable amount.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
1. Can you post a link to the CWM test.tar you're referring to?

2. Also post a link to the PBJT kernel you're referring to.

3. I was using GummyCharged after the EE4 update and had incredibly awesome battery life. I'm not exactly sure which update screwed up my battery life, but I had installed various themes and updated GC when the battery nightmares began. Since then, I've flashed various packages and have not had any luck getting back to great battery life.

4. How do you know the Gingerbread leak is coming out tomorrow?!

EDIT: I followed this post in hopes that it would clear my battery usage issue, but sadly, it did not :( - http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14660877&postcount=1
[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
I just followed the battery wipe instructions to a T.

I went from 98% battery to 92% battery in less than 10 min during setup and installing XDA.

This is my usage stats (tracked by me)

I was running stock EE4, no root, stock kernel.

i was getting 12 to 15 hours of battery with moderate heavy use.

I unplug my phone at 7am every day, and plug it back in at 10pm. my average battery percent at 10pm over the course of 5 days is 26%.

Using gummy, starting with 1.7 through 1.85 with the same usage, unplugging at 7am ever morning, I did not make it till 10pm without charging. not once.

I have data for 8 days using gummy, unplugging at 7am, on average I was able to make it to 1pm before getting the battery dead warning.

After reading all the posts on the "proper" flashing method, today I followed the directions exactly.

To re-cap this is what I did:

1) From a stock phone at 100% battery, I powered down the phone

2) Removed the battery

3) Removed the SD card

4) Plugged the phone into the PC, holding volume down to enter download mode

5) fired up odin 1.30

6) using odin, I pressed the PDA button, and selected "New_CWM_Recovery.tar"

7) once flashed, I removed the USB cable, replaced the battery, held "home", "volume up" and "power" to enter recovery.

8) inside recovery, i wiped user data, wiped cache, wiped davlik cache, wiped battery stats.

9) I powered down the phone, and repeated steps 7 and 8

10) I then installed ZIP "0602_charge_voodoo.zip"

11) I restarted phone and repeated steps 7 and 8

12) Installed "GummyCharged1.8.5" and booted the phone.

while typing this post (about 10 min) my phone has dropped 4% battery.

I will use the phone until the battery dies completely, I will then charge it back up to 100% and , according to every other person, this should fix my battery and the phone will run all day.

I will update shortly.
[Verizon Droid Charge] deadwolfbones:
I guess I'll report my findings as well...

I received my phone yesterday and had flashed the PBJ kernel and GummyCharged before it even finished charging up for the first time. Didn't wipe battery stats or do any other battery-related tweaks. Let it finish charging last night and kept it plugged in all through the night. Got up at 7am and took it off charge at about 7:30...

It's now noon and I've got 85% left. Data connection is on (3G) with steady coverage, all other radios are off. Most of the time has been spent in my pocket or idle on my desk, but I've also downloaded/configured a few apps and used gmail and SMS. I have NoLED running but the notifications haven't had to stay on much since I'm at my work computer and the phone is sitting right next to me.

My previous phone was a Droid 2 running the Fission ROM and during a normal day's use I'd dip as low as 60% at worst... I'm guessing I might get near the bottom of the bucket with the Charge, but we'll have to see how it actually goes.

edit: 1:30pm now and at 83%...
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Haha, dude, I did the same exact thing as you earlier today and I'm in the same boat -- still having crappy battery life!
[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
are you using the imnuts pbjt kernel ? im starting to think this may be kernel related.

also, i was discussing this in the IRC channel, and someone told me it had to do with formatting the SD card? Im not sure what he was talking about. im going to research that further.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
i am posting some of the stats I have collected this far.

this is my 4 hour comparison chart.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12361411/4_hr_comps.pdf

These tests were done using the same apps and same pattern of usage. in all cases, Bluetooth was off, wi-fi was on and I am consistently in a 3g coverage area with good signal.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Yeah, but I was using the PBJT kernel 1-2 weeks ago when I had insanely good battery life. So I'm not so sure that it's the kernel :(

I just flashed the Gingerbread leak in hopes that it'll help with poor battery life.
[Verizon Droid Charge] DJsRed:
I'm in the same boat as you guys. I was running stock rooted with imnuts' PBJT (non overclocked) kernel and getting crazy good battery life. It was the same as it was when I was completely stock. Since messing around with custom ROMs, I've had a nosedive in battery life. I used to go to work and put my phone in airplane mode when I got there due to extremely poor cell coverage in the building and would lose at most 2% over 2-3 hrs. Now, I lose 7% or more. I really enjoy GummyCharged and I don't want to go back to stock, but I don't know what to do. Like you guys, I've tried a lot of these black magic rituals of wiping/flashing orders to clear up my battery issue, but I've had no luck.

Right now, I've at 55% battery life left after 10 hrs 40 minutes, which sounds pretty great, but my phone was in airplane mode and sitting in my pocket for 7 hrs 30 minutes of that time. Its not completely awful, but its not what I was getting before. Also, when using the phone to do something light like return a few texts via Google Voice, I can watch the battery meter count down. :\ If you guys have a method to try that you want me to be a guinea pig for, let me know.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Yeah, that's pretty bad. When my battery life was good, my phone dropped from 100% to 99% overnight while I slept, which was about six hours. I had turned off mobile data and auto rotate but nothing else. The alarm clock was running since I use my phone as my alarm clock.
[Verizon Droid Charge] DJsRed:
Yeah, that's what my battery life was like too! Ah, the good old days... ;)

So I just saw this method of battery wiping in the GummyCharged thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1116086&page=114

Its the first post on the page. I'm gonna give it a shot and I'll report back afterwards to let you guys know how it works out.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
well, i did the battery wipe this morning on a fresh install of gummy and voodoocharge kernel

at first my battery dropped like a rock to about 70% (in about an hour and a half) and now, 10 hour later, im at 47%

so it looks like it worked

Ive been waiting for the phone to die so i can do the "let it die and charge it back up again" but the damn thing wont die lol.

however, it looks like this was the ticket to getting the battery working correctly.

Tomorrow i will see if i get the same initial 30% drop.
[Verizon Droid Charge] DJsRed:
Sounds promising! I did the wipe a little while ago, so hopefully this does the trick. I guess we'll see how successful we are tomorrow!
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
I just tried it and it didn't work. This is really getting annoying :confused:
[Verizon Droid Charge] DJsRed:
Yeah, I can already tell this isn't working for me either. I pulled the phone off the charger 50 mins ago after following the procedure to the letter and I'm already down to 91%. I don't know what else to do aside from going back to stock rooted. I saw a new ROM (called Humble) posted in the development forum that looked like it was geared towards good battery life. Maybe I'll try that.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
this happened to me, but after it dropped to about 70% it held there all day, 15 hours after i flashed, i was only at 17% battery.

for some reason there is a large initial drain.

but I dont know if its really a drain, because my phone dropped from 100% to 70% in an hour, but then from 70% to 69% in over 3 hours..

use the phone like normal for a few days and see if you get the same amount of hours usage.

My battery life was HORRIBLE, before i wiped battery stats. read all of my posts in this thread and in the gummy thread, i have been *****ing about it for weeks.

but wiping battery stats sure as heck fixed it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Haha jesus, this battery issue will be the death of me. My previous post may be incorrect.. The steps posted above may have fixed my battery drain issue.

My battery also dropped from 100%-90% pretty damn fast, but it's been draining slower since then. Perhaps I'll need to run this battery down to 0% to see the full benefits?

Gurus - would I have to follow the "fix" from above for each of my batteries? I have two stock batteries and one extended battery.
[Verizon Droid Charge] PeterDLai:
I'm not sure if I'm also having battery life issues or if I'm just expecting too much out of my battery. Are you actively using your device when your battery life goes down? I know that when I actually am browsing or whatnot with 4G on and the screen on low brightness, I lose 1% of battery every 2-3 minutes, which seems problematic to me at first but if I think about it, that's still potentially 300 minutes of battery life when browsing on 4G, which is 5 hours of straight browsing time (which seems somewhat reasonable to me). With the screen off, I lose about 2-3% every hour, which I guess is maybe a bit high but I do live in a fringe area for 4G and 3G is very spotty here as well.

So when you guys are talking about battery problems, you guys are actually having major drain issues even when the phone isn't being used, right? And my battery life is normal? I never really paid attention to my battery life when it was stock because the battery meter only changed every 20% interval.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
for me, it was losing 10% an hour with the phone sitting on my desk with the screen off.

I wake up and i check news and facebook and what not for 30 min or so, and in that time i could easily use 20% battery life.

seems that resetting battery stats did the trick tho.

your battery drain seems slightly high,, but i have read that in 4g the battery goes down quick. you should compare the same usage while on wifi and see if you get the same drain.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Well I know I'm having battery issues because I was having terrific battery life after the EE4 update. I was using GummyCharged v1.5, PBJT (non OC) and Voodoo enabled and I was getting 20+ hours out of my phone with moderate to heavy use. I was getting 15+ hours with heavy use!

Before this battery gremlin appeared, my battery drained from 100%-99% overnight while I slept for six hours. I had turned off mobile data and auto rotation, that's it. That's pretty damn nice.

For the last week, I've been dealing with a very annoying battery issue, but I think I finally got it resolved by following the instructions posted earlier in this thread. It's 2:00pm EST right now, the phone has been off of the charger for 16 hours and the battery is at 54%. Not bad. Not amazing, but not bad. Moderate to heavy use so far today.

Last night, after the battery fix, I charged my 2nd battery in my media dock and threw it in my phone. After 1.5 hours, the battery was still at 100% :D And yes, I was using it a bit during that time, but nothing heavy.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/94iy2dKI-MXr8rOysA7jQwPe9kmYe3QCLhxBaZhwIA8?feat=directlink

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/XDou4OFxahtXckUfiTmAogPe9kmYe3QCLhxBaZhwIA8?feat=directlink
[Verizon Droid Charge] ColonelSeitan:
Which method seemed to work for you?

I got up about 20 minutes ago and my battery's already at 94% after doing practically nothing on the phone except checking my email.

I did the wipe recommended in this post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1116086&page=114

Edit: When I had initially installed GC 1.5 + PBJ, My battery life was around 20-24 hours. Now I'm on 1.85 GC
[Verizon Droid Charge] deadwolfbones:
fyi, there are a couple of battery calibration apps on the market that do the steps outlined above for you. :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] bandguy:
i did the wipe method posted earlier in this thread. So far my phone has been on 1.5 hours and it's still at 100%. My battery life was absolutely terrible before the wipe. One odd thing though...Once I killed the phone completely it took over 7 hours to charge the battery to 100% with the phone off. But whatever, it seems to work!

EDIT: 4 hours since removing it from the charger and at 90%

EDIT: 15 hours after removing from charter and battery is at 53%
[Verizon Droid Charge] rmanaka:
Question...when you flash a ROM with ODIN and wipe the cache and dalvik with CWM, will the battery stats remain or do you have to recalibrate the battery with the new ROM?

Thanks!
[Verizon Droid Charge] ColonelSeitan:
I had an odd glitch earlier...I charged my phone overnight, took it off charger this morning and after 45 mins I was still at 100%. That made zero sense. I was getting worried, so I plugged it back in for just a moment and unplugged to see if maybe there was a glitch and it forgot it wasn't on charger. Then within a minute it was down to 99%, and 96% within 10-15 mins or so, ahhh back to normal, lol.
[Verizon Droid Charge] SigmunDroid:
Dude, I feel your pain.

I'm not even rooted yet and my battery dropped from (get this)

100% at 6 am to 55% now: 2PM!

I only made 3 calls, and surfed a few pages for about 10 minutes total!

(throughout the time period)

I think it's 4G related/Verizon network tinkering.
[Verizon Droid Charge] SigmunDroid:
Classic. "My phone was at 100% and I got worried!"

^^^ Must be a charge or T bolt owner:D
[Verizon Droid Charge] ColonelSeitan:
lol hahaha!

True indeed.

My battery was way worse though before I rooted. I could only get 6-8 hours usually. And I've always had 4g turned off since it's not available in my area.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Delicate Donut:
HAHA! Really awesome that the battery has improved for you guys. Don't forget to hit the thanks button ;)
[Verizon Droid Charge] DJsRed:
It looks like my battery issue is mostly solved. The post from the GummyCharged thread that I linked to before is what I followed, but the first charge after completing those steps didn't really net my any real benefit, so I decided to try the Humble ROM. I wasn't a big fan of that, so I flashed back to GC (each flash was done on a 100% battery) and saw a mild improvement in battery life. A couple of charge cycles later, I was getting battery life similar to what I got before all this tomfoolery started. I'm thinking the flashing between ROMs probably didn't have anything to do with it, more than likely, it took several charge/discharge cycles for the battery stats file to have enough info to properly display my battery percentage.

I guess that ends my battery saga. I hope this thread is of some use to anyone else running into this issue in the future!

Oh and Delicate Donut, I already did. ;)
[Verizon Droid Charge] pestilent:
I think that I may have found the culprit of my battery woes. Until yesterday I was burning about 10% an hour with 4g off and the PHP e totally idle. Finally I have up and completely wiped everything I could in cwm and reinstalled gummy 1.8.5 . After doing this I got 20 hours with normal use.

This had me a but annoyed until I went for a run and used the GPS (along with a gps locking assistant app) and my battery starting going to hell.

I am still trying to figure out the exact culprit, but it is clear that one if the gps related processed keeps polling even after I close it. For now I was able to fix it by killing all gps related processes and rebooting the phone.

Hope this helps some people.
[Verizon Droid Charge] K.AuthoR:
Which directions are you referring to? And which ROM/kernel did you stick with to get better life? I'm pretty much stuck in the same boat as everyone else, but I use my phone for work so having ****ty battery life isn't really an option for me right now. :(
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Well I believe my gremlin returned.. My batteries are getting raped again.

I'm going to flash back to stock ED2, accept the OTA of EE4 then reflash a custom ROM/kernel. Hopefully then I'll have great battery life again.

I would give that a shot. I'll let you know my results when I do it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Delicate Donut:
awesome keep me posted!
[Verizon Droid Charge] K.AuthoR:
That's actually what I did the most recent time, and it's pretty terrible right now. :( Does it matter what % of battery I have when I do the actual flashing?
[Verizon Droid Charge] dlang123:
Yes, you always want to flash at 100%. Maybe even after bump charging it first.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
No luck :mad:

I returned to stock and accepted the EE4 update. After that, I flashed ABv3/CWR/Voodoo/Kernel via Odin. Following the ABv3 flash, I flashed ABv5 via CWR. I wiped data/cache in between flashes.

I still have abysmal battery life.
[Verizon Droid Charge] aznxk3vi17:
I really think people are overthinking this. The Charge is a massive battery drain when using GPS, the display is on, and when signal is weak. End of story.
[Verizon Droid Charge] brian1972ct:
You and me both.....extended battery and all!
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
For one, I never use GPS. It's never on. So yeah, that can't be right. Two, the battery shouldn't drain 1% per minute when browsing the web. Three, I have plenty of screenshots that show great battery life and crappy battery life.

My friend and I both have Charges and we've both flashed various ROMs/kernels, etc. We both have seen what great battery life the Charge has to offer as well as the horrible battery gremlins that appear when flashing the phone.

I'm not over thinking this battery issue. It's pretty evident that it exists.
[Verizon Droid Charge] aznxk3vi17:
Well, I wish you luck in your quest then. Be it a futile one.
[Verizon Droid Charge] letsgophillyingeneral:
Did you even bother reading anything I said? Your one big claim was that GPS was a battery hog and I told you that I never use GPS. What figures?

Here's how my battery acted when it was working properly (EE4) - - I don't get anything CLOSE to these kind of results:

Phone idling overnight with mobile data off:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] zhouzian:
This is an official OTA (March 30th 2011) from Canada Bell for Desire Z which contains radio 12 28h 60 140fu_26 06 02 25_m2. This radio has not been published by any threads in xda, but it works very very stable with Bell network.

Is there any body can extract the radio file from the OTA zip, and make it as a PC10IMG.zip with super CID? Hopefully it helps Canada Bell Desire Z users.

Warning! DO NOT flash it unless you are running official Bell 1.34.666.5 rom.

This radio HAS NOT been tested on other Desire Z/G2 versions.

This is the download link for the OTA zip file.

http://d01.megashares.com/dl/15a48f7/OTA_Vision_BellMobility_WWE_1_84_666_2-1_34_666_5_release_172473wagbpno61mgwg4k0.zip

UPDATE 1: I've extraced radio.img from the file, but I do not know how to make PC10IMG.ZIP...

http://d01.megashares.com/dl/6e26329/radio.img

UPDATE 2: This is the RIL files contained in zip file.

http://www.MegaShare.com/3392203
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] coooki:
Fresh radio!

Interesting ... I'm waiting for the "PC10IMG.zip" version.

thanks for the share!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] hobjob:
Any ideas what would happen if I go from 1.34.666.1 to this?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] zhouzian:
I do not recommend you apply the update upon 1.34.666.1. You can find there are many path files which are only compatible with 1.34.666.5. Before any body release 1.34.666.5 RUU, you cannot upgrade you phone...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ptesmoke:
Im on rogers canada but id love to try this radio, maybe blah or rmk can help us?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jzhyok:
see if this works:

http://www.mediafire.com/?4lvkazravzhq8ol

File: R:\PC10IMG.zip

Size: 11648292 bytes

Modified: 2011年6月29日, 9:04:14

MD5: 9806E75DD33FE9775D154864ADD68AB1

SHA1: A2B0A592B8240217724521F3BE66F0F34E0439C8

CRC32: 866FE7C7
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ptesmoke:
Works! Thank you much! Signal is about average, but i notice it switches from wifi to H a hella lot quicker than my previous radio which was .16 i believe.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] hobjob:
Thanks for the reply.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] slopes:
I also have a Bell Desire Z, but it's rooted running CM7.0.3, do you think it would be safe to install using that file? I still have the stock radio and it (my phone) scrambles calls pretty frequently, I'm hoping this radio will be more stable and do the trick...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ptesmoke:
Im on nightly 121 no issues here bro
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] BiscuitBee:
No problems so far on CM Nightly 116. Using Rogers towers and I normally get pretty poor reception at my office. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to check the signal.

Thanks for posting the .img!

(Flashed via fastboot flash radio radio.img)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] slopes:
Perfect thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] taob:
I've always had issues with my TELUS phones (MiKE before, then HTC Hero, now the DZ) dropping calls while sitting in my bedroom/home office. I'm in a condo, across the street from the cell towers but about 12 storeys above them. Phone always shows full bars, but many times I cannot even complete the initial connection. It would be great if an updated radio would solve that problem! Bell and TELUS share their HSPA network, so it should work, no?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ptesmoke:
Oh itll work for sure, tho i think bell and telus are to blame, we used to be with both and 98% of the time couldnt even place a call....useless...so we jumped to rogers and havent even dropped a call yet. And yes bell and telus share..