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[Motorola Atrix 2] Jack Sparrow xda:
No, never, I already said you not to use anything which says to improve battery performance in anyway, they actually ruin battery (be it hardware or software).

On the name of battery app, I have only used Motorola Smartaction to use the phone in more efficient way but that app doesn't do anything with the battery. Rather thats just a phone management app where we can set rules when the WiFi or data should remain on or off. What features should turn on or off when battery level reaches tot certain level, or what set of feature work or turn off at particular location etc. Unfortunately I am missing that app now in the custom Kitkat ROMs. Couldn't find working APK of Smartactions till now. :(

I am using stock CM11 latest build only.

I just follow basic battery maintenance schedules. :D

To start getting optimized performance from the battery, you need to have patience. Follow these steps (applicable to all phones/ROMs):

Maintanance Cycle:

1. Clear the battery stats after flashing new ROM or upgrading the official firmware.

2. Fully charge the phone after flashing the ROM

3. Let it discharge fully and let the phone shutdown.

4. Try to switch the phone on without plugging power. Some phones keep some reserve battery power so they may restart again with little bit of reserve battery power. Now let it shut down again. (This step is not applicable with Atrix2)

5. Now again fully recharge the phone.

This is one cycle. Sometimes you may even have to follow couple of cycles back to back to see the results if battery is old and such steps never been followed in it's life.

This is a long but surely effective procedure for optimized battery performance. Applicable for other gadgets also which run on battery like laptops, tabs etc.

Its beneficial to follow these steps every once in while like every 2 months or so for battery health.

If your battery is alright and there is nothing wrong with your ROM then it ill definitely work.

Ideal procedure for regular charging :

1. remember that always charge the phone using wall charger only. Avoid laptop or car charger if not necessary.

2. Always charge the phone in one go, avoid short 15-20 minutes charging.

3. Avoid overcharging. Usually there is inbuilt protection once battery gets fully charged but still little bit of power keeps entering inside.

4. Do not let go the battery too low more frequently other than the maintenance cycles i describe above.

5. Regularly keep charging between 20-30% to 90-95%.

And yeah, turn off the circle battery icon and the percentage in the status bar and replace the battery icon to default stock like battery icon. The circle icon with percentage makes us feel scary because we see the percentage keep dropping constantly with the usage and we end up believing that there is something wrong with our battery even if its normal. :D

Hope this helps everyone having issues with batteries. :)
[Motorola Atrix 2] swaggy123:
Ok..so formatted system..data...cleaned everything...every inch of filth...

Even re-downloaded the 13/7 build...Flashed on main system....

Full charged by switching off phone

Switched it on...

VOILA!!... It drained 20% in 2 hours....to 75 battery

I thot may be an unlucky boot....I rebooted phone and put it in fight mode....for umm 5 hours....

The screen was off for full 5 hours...To my amazement it still drained 55% in 5 hours and battery read 20% :crying::crying::crying:

This build surely has deep sleep issues for me....and i really cant zero in on the issue...Because most of the previous builds gave good deep sleep battery life.....

P.S : I even didnt install greenify or any apps actually...stil lthe drain...m sure device not entering deep sleep :\ :confused::confused::crying::crying:
[Motorola Atrix 2] Jack Sparrow xda:
Well if your battery is alright then there is something wrong with the configuration. I am also using the same build and getting 1 full day with ease. Rather getting one full day hasn't been concern for me in any of the ROM.

See the battery stats and try to find out whats eating up most part of the battery. See what background processes constantly running. Do you keep internet on?

Few settings I have made on my phone after flashing the ROM which you can also try:

1. Switched onto ART immediately after the first boot. This is first thing I do after flashing Kitkat ROMs.

2. Setting>About Phone>CyanogenMod Updates > and set it to manual so that it doesn't run in background.

3. I switched over to Google Now Launcher since the beginning.

4. Turned off auto sync, even if the internet is not on. Autio sync eats too much of battery.

Also do note that once you flash the ORM first time and setup your phone, you won't get any remarkable battery backup during first cycle. Do all the settings, installations and configurations during first cycle. And once everything settles down then notice the battery performance during 3rd-4th cycle of normal usage because battery will start performing in optimized manner only once it settle down and builds up fresh battery stats data. Sometimes battery reporting app reports things in wrong manner.

Also note the battery figures in the BMM and see if there is any big difference.

I am confidant that if your battery is healthy enough then you will also get backup like me with this build. :D
[Motorola Atrix 2] swaggy123:
I use wifi....I never switch on mobile data...I have network on 2G...and i have been turning off synch since i was on ICS..I follow all good practices for better battery...btw i just reverted to my JB Leak backup....and battery is sane again :D..So my battery is not dead as i can say...

And one more thing i noticed...Better battery stats cant read battery stats on Kitkat 4.4.4....:confused::confused::confused:

And i am pretty sure Apex launcher has pretty lower battery consumptions than Google Now launcher :P

Switching to ART didnt make much difference to my device coz there were already deep sleep issues

A big reason for switching back to Stock JB is that now i can store data on internal memory which was not possible with kitkat roms on system 1 and offcourse the uncomparable battery i get consistently
[Motorola Atrix 2] radu990:
Your battery is f****d up. Change your battery.

What I've observed. The battery life on Kitkat Roms (I have practically the same results on all KK roms) is quite ok. The main problem is in the RAM use. Will explain it more deeply.

1. Here are some screenshots of my battery life . It's aprox 1% per hour with slight use

(after a fresh restart, just Idle time) http://s7.directupload.net/images/140720/6wzn3xkl.png

(after a slight use during the day: screen 20 min, music - 1hour) http://s7.directupload.net/images/140720/srqeo8f2.png

Now if I'll compare again the battery life with my other days, when I use the phone definitely more, the battery in idle is 1.5-1.8% comparing with almost 1% as in the screen above (after a fresh restart). During the day (after the phone use), the idle mode is taking about 2%. Soooo, even though I'm not doing it, I would recommend to restart the phone before going to sleep and leave it idle. You'll see yourself that the results are different

2. As mentioned earlier, the RAM use on KK roms are very badly implemented. Not sure if it's on other stock/custom ROMS the same (for other phones), but for sure for our is the same on all KK roms.

I remember very well, when on JB 4.1.2 wang Rom, I always had above 450 RAM free. Now with the same settings I have always bellow 300 MB Ram free. Also, after using Greenify and Clean all recent apps on that wang JB 4.1.2 ROM i was always getting back my RAM, now in Kitkat after doing it I see no difference.

Example: Before greenifying and clearing all recent apps

http://s14.directupload.net/images/140720/w76f5js5.png

http://s7.directupload.net/images/140720/tdgjjimd.png

After greenifying and clearing recent apps

http://s1.directupload.net/images/140720/2dj76ue8.png

http://s14.directupload.net/images/140720/mp6qyx8q.png

During this, I've got even less RAM that I had initially. You can try it yourselves, you'll see that you will get no changes after doing this (or might get just a small raise in RAM). In JB 4.1.2 I could get from 300MB free RAM to 400MB very quickly and easily. And for those who thinks it's just a matter of time, check this screens, done after 20 min after I've greenified and cleared the recent apps, with the phone staying with screen off in idle - http://s1.directupload.net/images/140720/tmmw6jta.png

http://s14.directupload.net/images/140720/2khtbvjm.png

So where is the RAM going in this ROM? I'm more than sure, that solving this RAM issue, we would get more battery life.
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
New build on AFH (and mirrored on Drive soon).

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[Motorola Atrix 2] uwanfodawin:
changelog latest release?
[Motorola Atrix 2] noranora:
Probably updated with cm's latest changes. Nothing major for our device. If there is, altered would have told. Anyway, download and flash to try it out.
[Motorola Atrix 2] swaggy123:
I really wanted to move on with the 13 th build....Thanks a lot for a new Build....will get it on system 1 straight away...:)
[Motorola Atrix 2] adnanschat:
Anyone BaNKs minimal GApps 4.4.4 link please. Thanks
[Motorola Atrix 2] h1ms3lf:
here you go!
[Motorola Atrix 2] adnanschat:
Thank you.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Jack Sparrow xda:
One strange issue I have been noticing in the CM,

Sometimes when some call comes on the phone, the screen just remains black with the bottom buttons glowing. Now I just hear the ring but can't pick the call because there is no response from scree. If I try to unlock the screen then also it doesn't wake up.

Second type of this same issue is sometimes when I pick the phone and unlock it, it doesn't wake up. Screen just remains black. It doesn't wake even after waiting for minutes and. I am left with no other option other than removing/inserting battery again. :( This issue is CM specific. Haven't faced in other ROMs.

One query for all the Kitkat ROMs - Whenever some call comes on the phone, the screen doesn't immediately show the caller id, it takes long time before showing the caller id, like 5-6 seconds of pause before showing the caller id. Its very irritating and had been happening in all the Kitkat ROMs for me. Is there any setting which I am missing? :confused:
[Motorola Atrix 2] swaggy123:
wow...

This device really amzes me...every peice has unique behaviour :P

well i am on 20/7 build....and i face none of the issues you mentioned above....Only issue i face is battery....I dont knw again wat is fault with CM on your device but i can assure i face none of such Call related bugs...its as good as JB leak 3 for me wen it comes to Call related bugs but only bug i face is battery :(...but m sure you get good battery...cz every peice of A2 is a unique beast

EDIT : Your problem is Black screen...which happened to most users in the intial phase of JBX..that bug has been fixed a long time ago for both CM kernel and JBX...i am surprised u face this issue in this latest CM build because i never faced any such issue..
[Motorola Atrix 2] sbetatester:
Most people still face this issue...

But there is a way out except pulling out the battery i.e. click power button when only the button light glows then double tap screen and wait for 10-20 second then try to unlock again.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Jack Sparrow xda:
By then the incoming call ends and we miss out the call leaving the guy on other side feel embarrassing :eek: This is still happening with me at times. :(

BTW I haven't got answer my other query that I don't see caller id for first 5-10 second in any of the Kitkat ROM I have tried out so far. Caller id appears after 1-2 rings. Is there some setting to make the caller id show up instantly in the ROMs for the times when the black screen issue is not bugging ?? :confused:
[Motorola Atrix 2] bajwa768:
Working Well

Have been using this ROM for some time and all is working well. Day before yesterday updated to the latest version and was testing it all day yesterday and for most part of the day today...

Battery Life: I will say quite decent. Yesterday the phone lasted almost 13 hrs with moderate use, screen time was around 2.5 hrs, about 15 emails from 3 accounts. Calendar and Contacts set to sync, 15 mins facebook, 30 mins Google+, around 30 mins call. 3g on for all day, WiFi on for around 4 hrs with usage of about 2 hrs. This also includes changing the runtime from ART to Dalvik. ART has not been good to me, the phone lags, I have tried it on earlier builds and have given it few days to settle down but nothing improved. On the latest build I was on ART for around 15 hrs but couldn't stand the slow launch time for apps including the dialler and the settings menu...Overall I say the battery life is decent as the phone is almost 2 years old :D. Yep I do get better battery life on stock ICS but I am very much happy to sacrifice a few hrs of battery life to enjoy the latest android build. Just to reiterate I am on Dalvik, no Greenify, no Xposed and absolutely no changes to the Performance settings. Noted 1 thing though...once the battery indicator reaches 34% it then suddenly drops to 19%...I believe this is quite a common issue...and the battery still last a good time after reaching 1%.

GPS: From cold start it was taking around 300 seconds for the first lock, the subsequent locks were within 30 seconds. Checked the gps.conf and it had the North American GPS NTP. So just replaced the file with an Asian one and now the first lock from cold start is with in 30 secs and the subsequent one are within 10 secs.

Delay in Screen light up for incoming calls (don't know what else to call it): there is a slight delay but nothing huge. For the incoming calls, the phone starts vibrating immediately (I keep my mobile mostly on Vibration) but the screen lights up during the second ring. In stock ICS and JB leaks the screen used to light up half way during the first ring...again not much of an issue:D

Overall I am quite happy with the ROM...have it on system 1 as my daily driver.

Sorry for the long post...just wanted to share my experience of this wonderful ROM.
[Motorola Atrix 2] adnanschat:
Similar experience what [MENTION=960304]bajwa768[/MENTION] has to say about this rom.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Jack Sparrow xda:
Looks like CM is getting more stable:

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/cyanogenmod-11-m9-now-available/

I am facing a very irritating bug which leaves me feel embarrassed and that is sometimes screen remains black during incoming calls. This is something I can't live with since it leaves bad impression on the other person trying to contact me.

I am running 20140713 build. Hope this gets solved out in next version.
[Motorola Atrix 2] swaggy123:
There is a 20/7 build on Drive and AFH..you can try that and see if the call bug is fixed
[Motorola Atrix 2] Gr8mobiPro:
Feeling same bug with slim too. Apart from battery backup i think slim and mokee is least buggy and feature rich Kitkat Roms.

(But slim has black screen issue)
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
New build on AFH and Drive. (Untested)

Besides the upstream CM updates, I added a couple commits from nx111 (this and this) - maybe the second will help the wake upon call issue..(?)
[Motorola Atrix 2] Jack Sparrow xda:
Thanks for the new build, is it M9 mentioned in this link : http://www.xda-developers.com/android/cyanogenmod-11-m9-now-available/ :)

Are you sure the second one will help in fixing the wake during call issue? The link says its related to CPU freq. :confused:

I am desperate to get this issue fixed, yesterday itself two important calls came but couldn't pick both of them at that time and had to revert back after rebooting the phone. :(
[Motorola Atrix 2] Gr8mobiPro:
i am facing the same issue now :crying: :crying: and i have to push power button twice to pick up calls.

and yesterday i flashed JBX kernal latest buid. and my Antutu raiting raised from 10217 to 11891 bug phone become more laggy even i haven't touched any setting yet :mad:
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
You did catch a hint of my uncertainty when I used the word "maybe" and the question mark, right?

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[Motorola Atrix 2] Jack Sparrow xda:
No, no, just went into the links you posted title of the later was saying something about CPU so got curious if it will really help in fixing the call bug :D Not into the scripting etc, tried reading but all went over my head. :cyclops:
[Motorola Atrix 2] swaggy123:
Blank screen occurs due to improper scaling of frequencies..Mostly because CPU stays on a lower frequency when a call comes and it doesnt handle it ...Now if the frequency stays on max or above appropriate levels it can easily handle the incoming call when device is in sleep.

libpower: restore scaling_max_freq from settings when wakeup.

This was the commit he was talking about....And i think this should fix the blank screen call issue...Do report your battery experience if you flash the latest build
[Motorola Atrix 2] Mindvisi0n:
so that means battery backup will decrease.
[Motorola Atrix 2] xdduser:
Why is there no snapshot (M9?) for Atrix 2 here:

http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=snapshot

I wanted to download the latest version of CM11 for my A2
[Motorola Atrix 2] Aceofzeroz:
Because we're not officially supported by Cyanogenmod and hence, don't receive any nightly builds- that's why.;):p

Sent from the Ace's MB865 using Tapatalk
[Motorola Atrix 2] XploitMachine:
Because Atrix 2 isn't in the official devices list.
[Motorola Atrix 2] xdduser:
Hey

I go here and see that there are so many types of GApps. Which one do I need in which cases?

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=15797

Thanks.

GOT THE ANSWER: They are google apps and I need one depending on how much bloatware I want.
[Motorola Atrix 2] turffe:
Proximity sensor

Short story - my Atrix 2 digitizer was completely cracked. So I buyed new digitizer via Ebay. But it's bad glued to housing - blame adhesive... So after I end call i need constantly press digitizer - so proximity sensor will wake my device... I remember in CM10/10.1 where was option "Inaccurate proximity" which force wakes up device after call. It seems i cant find that option in CM11. So can you guys share any alternative ways for that?? I don't want to disable it completely i want to force wake up device, but if it impossible - that wont be big deal... Any help??

Edit: Looks like problem solved by installing Mokee. It has that option in settings. I don't know why CM hasn't included that option yet.
[Motorola Atrix 2] adnanschat:
Been using the latest build for 2 days. Major problem, have to press power button twice to wake it up from deep sleep.

Screen is completely blank when we pull it from pocket while receiving a call, have to wake it up using power button. Battery backup is better in this ROM. Ciao.
[Motorola Atrix 2] xdduser:
Tried this ROM. Sucked donkey balls. Battery backup 5 hours with moderately heavy use and wifi on!! I get 10hours in ICS under similar situation. Felt weird using this ROM. Went back to good old ICS.
[Motorola Atrix 2] shubham1120:
Bro that's awfully low!! I know that ics would give better battery but this is very poor. I'm guessing your phone wasn't entering deep sleep. Did you try reboot? When this happens to me, most of the time it's the cache partition that's deleted for some reason and phone doesn't enter deep sleep. So you can either create one manually or bmm will do it. Was it installed on sys1?
[Motorola Atrix 2] uwanfodawin:
did u guys have this call bugs? blank screen after press power button, cant end call .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd9KcJNXtAs
[Motorola Atrix 2] Jack Sparrow xda:
Not this one but had another one. The issue many of us have faced is screen remains locked/blank when other incoming call connects. We can not wake the phone in that situation and the call is left unattended. Though we can hear ring and hardware keys also illuminate. Few users mentioned that pressing the power button twice in quick succession wakes the screen but it didn't help me in my case. Finally we have to restart the phone after the call disconnects.

I had to ditch CM due to this crucial bug and had to go back onto Slim which has tuned out least buggy so far in my case.
[Motorola Atrix 2] swaggy123:
Are you on CM 11 4/8 build ???

Well i have no such issues on CM...But similiar issues with SLIM...Guess every piece of A2 is an unique piece of hardware :P
[Motorola Atrix 2] Jack Sparrow xda:
LOL... yeah.. One mobile phone full of wonders :D

To put one difference here, few A2 sold in same region are running at 1.0gh and few are running at 1.2gh CPU clock as stock. I think the same phones either have different CPUs or if same CPU then those CPUs are made/configured differently. Similarly maybe other components are also different in different batches of A2. So I think these different A2 face driver issues in different ROMs where few roms run better in one particular A2 and few run better in another one.

My bet is there are atleast two types of Atrix apart from ATT, Chinese, Indian versions etc.

Putting another similar example : Me and one of my relative have same model Acer Laptops bought at different times. Those laptops also have similar type of varied configurations. Mine has different WiFi modem than my relative's. I got to know when we were fixing driver issue in my relative's laptop where we got to know we were trying to install mine drivers which are not compatible with my relative's laptop. So search lead us to different set of drivers and that fixed the issue.

:)
[Motorola Atrix 2] holeshot77:
Use this on my 5 year old son's phone just as a media device..everything works great with jbx kernel. Much better than numa. Great build. Thanks.

Sent from my nuked G2...
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
New build up, for old times sake.. On AFH and Drive.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Mindvisi0n:
any bug fixed ?
[Motorola Atrix 2] swaggy123:
Old times sake !!

There were no bugs to b fixed , CM is bugless already

[MENTION=4523997]alteredlikeness[/MENTION] is this the last build we gonna get from you :crying::(:rolleyes:
[Motorola Atrix 2] shubham1120:
I'm almost crying if this is true...!

Thanks altered for everything! And like you said "for old times sake! " :beer: :beer:
[Motorola Atrix 2] radu990:
Thanks. Any chance of seeing a Slim update?
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Not sure yet... I am not using my A2 anymore, but, I still have all of my ROM sources synced. There's a good chance I'll spit out a few more updates before I wipe everything.

Slim to none:)

Just kidding, I'll try to run the Slim builds this week if [MENTION=4287139]dtrail1[/MENTION] is not planning on it soon...

___

In other disappointing news: https://github.com/TheMuppets/propr...mmit/e5cdef112467fb7707b8fa6a7efaf4d454b7eff1 - of course, I reverted this commit and added back edison to the MO4 fork.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Uzayr:
Goddamn...

why did TheMuppets decide to remove anything edison related all of a sudden?

did they follow up your comment?

thanks a lot for re-adding 'em back to mo4
[Motorola Atrix 2] Aceofzeroz:
WHOOOOAAAAAA, what happened to all those commits? :eek::eek::confused:

Sent from the Ace's MB865 using Tapatalk
[Motorola Atrix 2] dmroeder:
Lol, I ran into that the other night when I ran a build. I switched to mo4!
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Well, they say "remove deprecated device", and deprecated means despised or hated :) But, I think they meant *depreciated.

The fact is that edison was never officially supported, and they were cleaning up the repo and tossed edison out with the other trash (so to speak).

And, yea, it's was more an expression of shock than a comment, but no one responded yet..
[Motorola Atrix 2] Uzayr:
Well...as long as we have MO4 it doesn't pose a big problem :/

i don't think TheMuppets recently did any updates to the edison commits though...

but this could mean..PAC-Man nightlies builds could be out of order. As it uses the A2 Dev Team's commits..

EDIT: PAC-Man has a different revision..thankfully.

Sorry for going off-topic
[Motorola Atrix 2] adnanschat:
Which ROM can run NFS most wanted apart from stock ROM?