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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] jayb800:
Just got a new MBuyNow 2650mAh battery for my i9192. It's still on it's first full charge, but impressed so far! If I could post images, I would. Nearing 3 days now... was released from full charge at 16:00 on 17 April.... just got down to under 10% around mid-day on 20 April.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
Happy with CM 13?

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
Intensive use at a party with CM 12.1??

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ukicar:
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Rom: Exodus serranoltexx

Tweaking APP: L SPEED
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] xWhiskey:
Here's my battery stats, starting just before I went to sleep and ending about 17h later at <5%. I use CM 12.1, f4k kernel, some OC, some UV, interactive governor with row I/O. Managed to pull off just above 2 hours SOT with decent usage all-around. Played some VR games which is represented by two brutal drops close to the end. Fairly certain I could've gotten over 3 hours SOT without that.

However, Android battery stats (save for the graph) were pretty much useless to me as the percentages shown didn't match actual usage nor did it match the percentages shown in other apps installed to track this (I've tried GSam and Wakelock Detector). This could be due to the Mobile Radio Active reporting bug that most Lollipop devices/ROMs seem to have. In short, apps that use mobile data constantly get pushed up the stats, accounting for more and more battery „lost“, while in reality no new CPU cycles are spent, no packets were spent nor received, the wake times are not increased, but the Mobile Radio Active time just keeps going and going, sometimes over 5h even though my SOT is about 2h and mobile data wasn't used much at all. I say again – this completely differs from other battery reporting apps where I see relatively normal usage patterns. I've attached Google Play Services screenshot to demonstrate this (and e.g. - cLock is using 8%, are you serious?).

Taking the above into account, I don't think there's any real (additional) drain involved, and supposedly there's an Xposed module that can fix the reporting bug. Can anyone confirm this? Xposed works for me but I'm not up for installing it just to use one module (don't need it for anything else).

Then again, the battery stats were useful for deducing why my WiFi time used to be on constantly, even though I wasn't using it (some apps, like Viber, have a „keep WiFi on“checkbox for whatever reason – can't say if it relates to additional drain). Also, I've noticed that Google Now doesn't quite care about Mobile Radio Active nor my data plan nor battery and just keeps downloading... something. So I deactivated it but left Google in the phone because I really like and use Ok Google functionality.

In any case, I think this battery drain is just about normal, especially considering that I use the phone often and that it was two years in use already when I bought it off a friend. What also surprised me that using only 2G didn't noticeably improve battery life in comparison with 3G, whereas in my previous phone there was a world of difference. 4G spends visibly more, but I have no need for it (yet). 3G is a nice compromise between the two.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Dead-end. E:
Can anyone tell me if this is normal?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
Try Exodus MM and look

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Dead-end. E:
Sorry I'm not familiar with that. Is that a rom? I'm quite happy with using CM in general, is there not an app or something that can assess my battery?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
Yes is a Pure Aosp Rom and the battery is more good

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
Very good and my battery is damaged, but it is surviving with L-Speed?

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] JimmyRay:
Is there any way to overcome the sudden ~10% drop from full charge with our devices?

For example, I notice in [MENTION=7019289]DarkJoker360[/MENTION] 's screenshot above, that battery falls quickly from 100%~95%, then steadies out.

I notice the same thing on my 9195 (running the current CM13 snapshot).

However, I notice that in [MENTION=3581194]ukicar[/MENTION] and [MENTION=4974750]xWhiskey[/MENTION] 's screenshots, the battery discharge is steady from 100%.

I read an article about smartphone batteries naturally not wanting to hold a full charge, so immediately discharge by ~10% in order to be more efficient, but am still curious as to why this appears to affect some devices but not others.

I use BBS to monitor battery life, however the rapid 10% drop after full charge distorts the readings somewhat.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
On my cm 13 the battery is the problem beacause is damaged

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] JimmyRay:
So that means my battery is potentially also damaged?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] xWhiskey:
I don't think this is the case if you're getting relatively normal SOTs (perhaps over 3 hours with normal use?). The behavior you mentioned seems normal to me - the first 10% seems to last forever until you actually start using the phone. Then a sudden drop happens until the point where the true state of your battery % is revealed. No idea why this happens but I've seen it on a lot of phones. On this one I also notice that the last 10 % gets burned real fast, at least on mine it does.

This is why I feel it's best to take stand-by percentages with a grain of salt. Someone might tell you 1% of battery was spent during sleep time. That person is probably from a parallel universe because that's about three times better than the inflated stand-by time report by Samsung. Perhaps it's that new optimization app he recently installed? Maybe it's because he turned off Location Reporting by Google? It's a classical placebo. Unless something keeps the phone awake most of the time, no optimization can yield bonus battery time that brutal.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] JimmyRay:
Thanks for your reply.

I'm a very light user...during the week, while at work I'll maybe use my phone max. 1 hour per day, so have never really checked how much SOT I could achieve.

For me it's the other way around: the first 10% drops like a stone immediately after disconnecting from the charger, even when the phone is in standby (e.g. disconnect phone, put into case, put case in bag, go to work - the display never even turns on). However, from 90% onwards, the drain is relatively slow and steady.

Really? 1%/hour during standby is expecting too much? The display is off, the phone should be sleeping...maybe just some light calendar/weather/mail syncing...but nothing to warrant causing the battery to drain significantly.

Actually, I always have GPS turned off unless I'm cycling and wish to log my rides, or I need to use Google Maps.

Here some screenshots from today. The phone was fully charged when I left for work in the morning, 10 hours or so later the battery level is approximately 75% However, bear in mind that 10% of this drain seems to have occurred at the very beginning, when nothing was really happening. As you will see, the phone has been sleeping for most of the day, apart from when I listened to a 30 minute podcast during my lunch break (but with the screen turned off).

Again, this is an 9195 running last month's CM13 stable release.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] xWhiskey:
[MENTION=5931546]JimmyRay[/MENTION] Yeah, just noticed it's the other way around regarding the 10 %. Sorry, my post was precoffee :silly:

In my case I was not using the phone when I pulled off the charger... went to sleep. In the morning, I reveled in the 2 % lost overnight. However, minutes in from starting to use the phone, I went about 10 % down. I agree this fusses up the battery stats but I don't think much can be done here. Might be best to start observing from 90 % and down.

As for stand-by, 1%/hour is okay, but not during 8 hours of sleep. Samsung on their website claims this phone can reach up to 300h stand-by on both 3G and LTE. This is usually by itself a bit inflated statistic, as they probably don't use any apps on the phone when measuring this. This would suggest 0,33 % of battery lost per hour, or 1 % per 3 hours. And then someone comes along claiming 1 % lost for 8 hours during sleep (I claim 2 % lost!). This would account for 3 % lost in one whole day, which would further account for about 33 days of stand-by. I'm not a tech but intuition tells me something is fundamentally wrong here.

Your wakelocks actually look almost identical to mine and to other screens I've seen so far, save for the AudioMix. But I suppose that accounts for the podcast. Really, your battery usage is as normal as it can be. You might eventually want to test some other ROMs and see how the battery behaves there if that is what you need.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
[MENTION=5931546]JimmyRay[/MENTION] you must to use l speed

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] JimmyRay:
[MENTION=6164342]darkjoke[/MENTION]360, thank you for the suggestion.

I installed L Speed yesterday and enabled the 'Battery Optimisations' setting.

Another full charge from 8am today, so let's see if there is any improvement upon checking again at 6pm.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
Now I have look my battery and on 7h standby it drop from 100% to 82%

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] JimmyRay:
Well, after another 30 minutes or so of listening to podcasts during my lunch break, and the rest of the day on standby, by 6pm the battery showed 74%. So it seems that L Speed's battery optimisations did not have any affect on the battery life of my S4 Mini.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
Intensive use Mail,whatsapp, music, youtube and gaming the damaged battery look good with l-speed

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] xWhiskey:
It might be possible that some of those optimizations are already included in your ROM. Also, seeing your wakelocks I don't really see much possibility for improvement - Greenify and Amplify typically affect wakelocks. Without the podcast, your phone is awake 5 minutes while the screen is off in 10 hours of uptime, which is great. I'm not an oracle, but I don't think those two apps would have made much difference for you either.

A lot of people mention Exodus having great battery life, might want to give it a shot?

Also, here's the thread about the aforementioned first 10 % of battery:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=871051
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
It' s very good, i have discharged my phone at 97% and i have a damaged battery but with l speed i have rianimated it.

So my phone haven' t drain, only at 10% but the problem is my battery.

And the pitchblack theme help with battery because the screen is super amoled.

Very very good?

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
Intensive use with exodus MM. In my opinion Exodus is a perfect aosp because it have a good battery life and performance without complete CM personalization and my damaged battery with this rom is very good.

I use my phone without L-speed?

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] rayzen6:
Getting this much of sot on exodus6 on my i9192.

Nearly averaging 5:30 to 6:00 hrs on every CM ROM too with cellular and WiFi on all time. :)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
Which theme are you using?

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
Good cm 13

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
I have new battery.

I' m satisfied with cm 13, i have descharged it at 91% and i have used it for more time and i have do 1h on standby.

Very Happy?

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] obaidmuneir:
Idk y but battery is awesome in stock as of my testing ROMs

I tried many ROMs but battery is not so good as I want for my S4 Mini LTE except only on some ROMs

But still I love CM :v

I am always using using internet at all time on my cp in case the more time runner ROM was RR, Broken and XOSP

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] JimmyRay:
Can a battery 'heal' itself?

Hello chaps,

I previously asked about the rapid ~10% battery drain experienced on my GT-9195 here, and came to the conclusion that this was simply because I had purchased a refurbished device from an AliExpress merchant.

However, yesterday I noticed the battery consumption chart showing a steady drain from 100%, and again this today, after unplugging from a full charge, the rapid drain to 90% has not occurred.

I switched from the CM 2016-04-18 snapshot to nightlies, and have updated every week or so since (currently running the 2016-06-22 nightly), but other than this, cannot think why the initial battery drain has stopped. Is it possible that the battery simply 'healed' itself? ;)

Screenshots attached below - BBS shows 0.7% standby drain, and this is with the stock kernel, and no other service tweaks etc. Note that WiFi appears on the battery consumption chart and in BBS, despite WiFi being disabled. I will flash the latest nightly over the weekend to see if anything changes.

Cheers!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
Downgrade to cm 11, very good battery in my intensive use

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] matesurano:
Here is mine.........................
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] xWhiskey:
Probably it's not healed per se, but the software used to determine the percentage has changed? Did you notice any significant differences in your total battery uptime?

For the Wi-Fi - you might want to check if some of the apps force keeping it active all the time. In my case, I assume Viber was the culprit but I can't be sure as I did change the usage settings in several of the apps simultaneously.

Your wakelocks and battery standby % look really good. I also saw you trying Exodus for a while. How did that go for you, battery-wise?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] JimmyRay:
Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I had wondered if perhaps the battery calibration has changed. The other day I check the battery graph and noticed a rapid 10% drop from around 60%-50%, instead of 100%-90%. However, it's possible that I was using the phone during this time. As I'm such a light phone user, it's difficult to truly assess how much battery uptime I am getting on this device. However, the standby drain is less than 1% per hour, which I think is pretty good for a CM13 rom without any tweaking.

I went back and check the Location settings and noticed that WiFi scanning had re-enabled itself. I turned this off, rebooted the phone, WiFi no longer appears in the battery stats (unless explicitly turned on).

To be honest, the standby life didn't seem any better than CM13. However, at that time I was still experiencing the 100%-90% rapid drops, making it difficult to assess things objectively. I guess I could return to Exodus, however I actually find the CM13 builds to be more polished (personally). The nightlies are trouble-free for me, while the battery life and performance is great.

Cheers!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] xWhiskey:
This typically happens when you use the phone after a longer period of standby, no idea why it happens seemingly at random for you (might be due to a refurbished battery, as you said earlier). But as long as you have a normal battery uptime, and it looks like that you do, there's nothing much you can improve upon anyway... perhaps nothing short of buying a replacement battery and seeing how it behaves? BTW, I'm also thinking of switching over to CM 13 as a daily driver so I'm glad to hear it works for you.

@ others What I'm left to wonder is how is it that some of you people manage to get over 5 to 6 hours SOT over a 24 hour period? For me, light usage yields 48h of uptime with just over 2 hours SOT. More heavy usage - 3.5 hours SOT in under 24 hours. This seems relatively consistent with a majority of users, but the battery was used for two years prior.

Did you buy an extended battery? Did you just leave the screen on for 6 consecutive hours doing nothing else? Some miracle app? Oh, teach me :angel:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Berecz:
I'm playing soo much. :)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Sureshtuty:
RR LP rom with Remix Kernel :cool:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ADR USR:
I bought S4 Mini in June 2014.

My use is general. I use S4 Mini for everything except games.

Since SilviuMk solved bug in the original kernel my SOT times have always been above 4H20M and sometimes reaching 5H depending on usage.

After nearly two years of use, from a few months ago this behavior began to change :reached 3H or 3: 30H SOT With sudden discharges, etc.

I solved this with undervolt. But even so sudden discharges continued.

A few days ago I acquired new battery (ORIGINAL) and everything returned to normal. 4h:30m - 4h:45m 5h SOT e no sudden discharges

I have tested with KK default SAMSUNG ROM + SilviuMk kernel (and without undervolt, etc.) and soon will test CM roms based.

That was my experience with Battery S4 Mini. Only after almost two years the battery needed to REALLY be replaced. But beware: It is very difficult to get the original battery for the model.

In some countries like Russia, you can buy in the Samsung official site.

But when this is not possible, I advise to seek authorized service reliable. Batteries sold on sites like Amazon, Ebay, etc. They are unreliable. The same vendor sells some original units and false in most units.

Good luck.

information about batteries in the Amazon (in German language) :

http://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2015...chgebaute-Akkus-als-Originalware-2604617.html
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] xWhiskey:
This is very useful info, thank you! I'll look into it, especially given that my phone is bought off a 3-year long user. Will report results here when I get the new battery running.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ADR USR:
As I wrote, I tested the autonomy of the original new battery I bought.

*In stock ROM KK + Silviu kernel was perfect. With general use (except games) I could always more 4:30 SOT when the level reached 20%.

With CM 13 based ROM (AOKP) + default kernel : autonomy is lower. Using the same settings for CPU (On Demand / NOOP) and the same use I could only get a maximum of 3: 30H SOT.

do not happen sudden discharge or any abnormal consumption of apps. But the autonomy is much worse.

To try to achieve the same range of KK + silviu kernel you will have to test other settings in the CM kernel. Or you can change the CM kernel and use tricks like undervolt, etc. Unfortunately it is a known fact: Android M consumes more battery than KK. In fact, Google promises that M consume less battery never materialized.

Then that's it.

If you want good autonomy without tricks just use KK ROM STOCK + Silviu kernel. It comes easy in 5 hours SOT. (No games).

In MM you will have to test kernel, change settings, etc. You can probably get close to KK STOCK ROM autonomy. I have not done such tests. When I have time I will.

EDIT : For those using AOKP ROM with the default kernel: you can use On Demmand / Noop and Max Freq 1242 MHz Min Freq 384 MHZ..

There will be big difference in SOT time.

At this point I have 2H:20M SOT. Charge: 95% to 59%. ( 36% discharge)

Great result,

ROM: AOKP (latest version)

Kernel: AOKP

Settings: On Demand / noop

CPU MAX FRQ 1242 Mhz CPU MIN FREQ 384 MHz

SOT: 5h 57m

Battery: New Original Samsung B500Ae

charging up to: 95%

Battery remaining: 17%

NOTE: I do not use apps for battery (Greenify, etc.)

main use: Browser, Twitter, FB, Whatsapp, youtube...

Secondary use: camera, calls, tasker, etc.

NET: WIFI (mostly) and 3G
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] DarkJoker360:
Hard Work for cm 13 today!!?

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[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] xWhiskey:
Hey, people. Not to resurrect an inactive thread or anything, but here's the said report regarding battery life of a new battery bought recently.

This is the battery: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/172078066714?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

The battery is probably not original, but seems to behave reasonably well as a replacement. Even with a horrible signal, SOT gets easily over five hours during a day while playing games and watching Youtube.

As far as regular use is concerned, I don't have the screenshots, but three days uptime with two hours SOT is the norm, and I believe about 3% battery is spent during night-time.

The new battery also fixed the problem of rapid % drops and some false reporting. Still having that reporting bug with what exactly uses the battery but battery life doesn't seem to be affected.

So there you go, if you have similar issues a new battery might solve it.
[General Questions and Answers] vvstorm2:
I have xperia sp and i can stream media to my smart samsung hdtv connected to wifi.

Can i use iphone to stream media to my tv?

Do i need to have apple tv? Or it can be used as is with xperia sp
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Messier82:
Hello!

Bought this phone 2 days ago, and decided to update it from 4.1.2 to newest version. After big update(4.1.2->4.2) my touchscreen STOPPED working. It's just won't recognize ANYTHING, as well as home&back buttons. What can cause this problem and how can I solve this problem, without unlocking bootloader and bringing it by the warrantly?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Messier82:
Anyone?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bored_stupid:
Try using an OTG cable with a corded mouse attached, then reset rom either from OS or from bootloader
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
Yes, try resetting the ROM and/or update to newer 4.3/4.4
[Moto X Q&A] d0g:
I'm thinking of buying a used "unlocked" Sprint Moto X from someone local.

1. Is it possible / easy to root it & flash custom ROMs?

2. Is it true that it supports GSM as well as CDMA? E.g., could I use it with Sprint locally, and then with a GSM card overseas?

thanks
[Moto X Q&A] KidJoe:
Sprint X can have its bootloader unlocked. If it isn't already unlocked, you can request the code from Moto's web site. NOTE: this does void the warranty, then again, the warranty paperwork says the warranty is non-transferable, so buying one used means no warranty anyway.

Once the bootloader is unlocked, you can easily root it. Follow this -> http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/moto-x-qa/instructions-unlocking-rooting-dev-ed-t2649738

as for GSM side... The Sprint X is sim locked, and you can only get the sim unlock code from Sprint, and only if the phone is on a currently active account and met their conditions. 3rd Party SIM unlock is not available.

I think the Sprint X supports quad band GSM. I'm not sure about its UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ abilities.
[Moto X Q&A] lswiggins:
SIM unlock for Page Plus

I am currently using a Sprint Moto X on Page Plus but cannot get the data to work. I read that it get it APN info from the SIM card. Does this mean I would require a SIM unlock to use data with Page Plus?

Thanks
[Moto X Q&A] KidJoe:
You might want to ask in other thread.. see -> http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/general/guide-flash-sprint-moto-x-to-page-plus-t2732342

actually, never mind., I see you have since posted there.