[Micromax A116] gaurav3445:
Need Assistance...

Dear cmahendra

First up fantastic ROM and I am Big fan of your work!

I have been here on XDA for donkey years now starting w/ my Omnia days to G1 to Galaxy (s, 2,3) and now on CHD (well mostly because I have a habit of leaving behind all my previous phones for Mumbai Autowalas... sigh!)

I never really post issues here because i have usually been successful in doing my research and figuring out the solutions. Today after being on the ROM for two days I am unable to resolve the battery drain issue! (i understand that people here swear by the battery and are going to bash this post but as a developer i know you would be interested in getting to the heart of the problem and come up with a solution)

About the device configuration:

1. the first custom rom i installed on my CHD: (11-Feb-14): Final Stable Version 1.5 SLD (i usually root and custom rom it the day i buy the phone but i waited almost a year to do so because none met my standards and your ROM fulfilled all the criteria)

2. I use SWYPE keyboard (purchased) instead of stock keyboard as suggested

3. I use AVIATE launcher instead of Nova launcher as suggested

4. Greenify is also configured to my usage

5. Barring 2&3 everything else on the ROM is as is

6. after the first custom rom install i did the battery calibration as suggested and managed 14 to 16 hrs of battery usage daily for over a month. charge times of 4 hours to fully charge my phone on wall adapter (AC)

7. Excited with the March 5 update (which i saw only 3 days back) the following actions were carried out (after MD5 checksum verification of the download)

a. Titanium back up phone while on 90% charge

b. Recovery backup while on 90% charge

c. Installed the new ROM as instructed (full wipe)

d. Ensured cache and dalvik cache were wiped as well

e. Ran the Titanium Restore while at 85% charge (also now connected it to the wall adapter)

f. After restore updated apps from Google Play (Status showing charging at 86%)

g. on wall charge for 5 hours (battery charge 90%) - while using whatsapp, twitter and few calls.

h. left for home (1 hour drive) battery discharged to 8%

i. put phone in airplane mode while AC wall charge at 10 pm and at 2 am it was 56% charge!

j. shut down phone at 2 am while charging and at 6.30 am i had 99% charge

k. at 7.30 am 100% charge (ran battery calibration)

l. at 11.15 am battery discharged to 4%! using whatsapp twitter 4 phone calls (5 mins avg) aviate enabled swype enabled GPS disabled.

Finally i decided to write this account. the phone is now on AC wall charge again and i will charge it continuously (as recommended by the battery calibration app) and hope for a miracle but it seems unlikely as the battery charging time has increased as well!

it would be great if you can help me with this. i am also fully aware that i can always go back to the previous rom as i already have the backup for it ;)

looking forward to your response.

PS - for the non developers of this ROM request you to please refrain from replying unless you have had a similar issue and can help positively. and for your information I will repeat it is a great ROM but there seems to be a problem that needs resolve at some trivial level.