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[Captivate General] lost2030:
You really must not be using your phone at all. I've easily kept my phone at 100% well over an hour after unplugging it, but that's without any use....there's no point in not using it.
[Captivate General] amdsupport:
my battery life

I've been ok with my battery life. I was running pandora all the time the screen was on...took no calls though. I have email sync on and a weather widget that updates every 30 min until the battery reaches 30% (then it turns off).
[Captivate General] \/icious:
I use my phone a lot and obviously its pointless to own a phone like this only to not use it. The point of my post is that you can get great battery life in standby. No sense in having all sorts of things running when you are not using the phone.
[Captivate General] anilkuj:
Guys here are my results after i exchanged for a new phone

1. bought the phone home did a factory reset , and charged it up to 100% in 2 hrs ( it was initially 50%) .

2. After very heavy usage of web emails , app install music tethering etc my battery drained in 8 hours .

3. Without turning on the phone charged it all the way to 100% and left the phone untouched for another 2 hours .

4. and then turned on the phone and left it on standby for 2 hours the battery stayed at 100% even after 2 hours of stand by.

5. then used the phone for 30 minutes of heavy usage battery dropped to 95%

6. as of now its been 6 hours since i took it out of charge, 27% of the time its been idle and the rest of the time i have using the phone downloading/installing apps

browsing music , benchmark etc, now battery is at 74%

i definitely see better battery life since i exchanged although to be fair i dint power cycle the first phone, i used it as soon as i got it and charged intermittently without ever letting it charge to 100%

will post more results later.
[Captivate General] mterrence5:
never had this problem with blackberrys
[Captivate General] grinr:
Ok, update time.

It's been almost 24 hours (23) after factory resetting my phone and charging it from 30%ish to full (powered down during charge). I changed absolutely nothing aside from the following:

turned off GPS, turned on network location discovery.

added my gmail account to access market and email, downloaded no apps.

That's it.

So I have 32% battery still left right now. Last night, I was txting like crazy, listened to two albums (so about 2 hours of mp3 playing), browsed the web for about an hour and was on the phone for about an hour. That's an ENORMOUS performance increase from the battery.

I'm going to add things slowly over the next few days to see if I can find what I did/installed that was killing the battery. Beautiful widgets? live wallpaper? account sync?

We shall see!
[Captivate General] eatkabab:
I deeply apologize to everyone on this thread. I am IMMENSELY WRONG about this phone. (and yes, I've seen the batt of my bberry's nearly double over time as well. But even from a fresh start, bberry's have excellent batt life so its not as noticeable. I attribute their batt life to the fact that they have little functionality(and screen) compared to android)

I'm on maybe my 6th power cycle and my phone just dropped 6% in 45min of full reception standby and 3min of screen use to send one email (everything else off). Although it has gotten a LOT better, this is still abysmal batt life.

Many are now reporting that a factory reset seems to help. Can I ask what does a factory reset entail? I ask because there are a number of ways I've found to reset the phone and I don't know which one is considered what I'm assuming to be a hard reset.

How do I do a "factory reset?"

Thank you all for your continued patience and infinite wisdom.
[Captivate General] orateam:
I've always gotten good battery life with the Captivate. Used throughout the day as an mp3 player with lunchtime surfing and gameplaying it drains from a 100% charge to about 64%. when i get home at 6pm, if i don't use the phone that evening, i will wake up to about 55%. which means i get 2 days of moderate use of the phone before chaging again overnight.
[Captivate General] Battlehymn:
I haven't had any battery problems at all ...

I have not charged my phone in 2 days 6 hours and 31 minutes, I have nearly 2 hours of calls, 70+ mins of video using the video out, my wife used it yesterday to browse for a resturant to eat at (then read every review), also used it to navigate to said resturant and have G-Mail and facebook syncing every 3 hours.

My battery is at 50%.

I do turn off the WiFi, BT and GPS when I'm not using them.
[Captivate General] grinr:
Settings ---> Privacy Settings ---> Factory Reset
[Captivate General] eatkabab:
Thank you. I also researched and realized that all the ways to rest the phone are considered hard resets...
[Captivate General] G35tr:
Has anyone tried a factory reset and "not" had it help any?
[Captivate General] phishie:
I did a reset today but in the interest of testing the pure results I've only installed launcher pro and xda forum reader and no battery monitor application. I reset it at 100% so I'm going to use it like I normally do and just see how long it takes to die. Verdict TBD.
[Captivate General] phishie:
So here's the verdict after the factory reset this afternoon.

Battery was unhooked from the charger at 99% 7.5 hours ago and my phone is just about to die; getting the low battery warnings now.

67% of my battery went to the screen and 15% to standby according to the battery history in the setting s menu.

In terms of usage I installed three apps, did about an hour to hour and a half of web browsing, an hour of pandora out of the speaker, and twenty minutes on the xda app. I had wifi and blue tooth off the whole time and gmail syncing on (default sync setting). Launcher pro was also running the whole time.

This seems pretty damn weak. If the battery life doesn't improve after the next few charges I'm going to chalk it up to a bad phone or battery or both.anyone else agree?
[Captivate General] golemaw:
I was getting bad battery life also. I didn't do a factory reset. I just did 1 full power cycle and now its great. I left the phone on standby with wifi on last night and 6 hrs later only 2% lost.

Basically I did was drain the battery until the phone couldn't power on anymore. Then charge it until 100 WITHOUT turning it on. The charging is much slower but after that my battery was much better.
[Captivate General] systoxity:
phishie, thats what i would call light usage. i use my phone way more and it lasts around 16-18 hours on a charge.
[Captivate General] eatkabab:
I just did a factory reset this morning. The results have been shocking. I haven't paid much attention to it, but it appears as if my battery keeps going on and on. Compared to what it was like before the reset, I'm MUCH more comfortable using the phone leisurely rather than on a tight power budget. I spent a few hours on a plane today and was zipping around on the phone while listening to music the entire time and I had plenty of batt to google maps my way home, then get home, and show off my new phone for maybe 30 min.

Cross fingers, so far the results have been VERY good. Will report measured results later.
[Captivate General] nolanta:
67% for screen? Set a static wallpaper for a day or 2 and report back.
[Captivate General] Main Target:
I went to sleep with the phone at 95% and woke up with 69%.

I have been through 2 phones now.
[Captivate General] Main Target:
By factory reset do you mean odin's 1 click?
[Captivate General] phishie:
I should have stated I turned live wallpaper off immediately.
[Captivate General] phishie:
Thanks good to know.I'm going to monitor for the next few days and if it doesn't improve over time.
[Captivate General] eatkabab:
No I just used the "factory reset" option in the settings menu. Its the same as the "clear data" when you boot the phone in recovery mode. Haven't messed with Oden but I'm definitely thankful I have it on hand.

So it appears that having the google finance stock widgets on my home screen seem to drain the batt noticeably. which is weird because it never did on my last android phone.

currently been off the plug for 30 min, checked my email once or twice and I'm still at 100%. Before I'd have droped 3-4% by now already.

oh I also only lost like 2% batt overnight
[Captivate General] phishie:
What kind of apps/widgets do you have running? Have you considered that maybe the battery monitoring app might be draining your battery?
[Captivate General] pjs2004:
For comparison, my phone has drained from 98% to 63% in about 49 hours.

This is with ultra-light usage, but yours wasn't used at all since you were sleeping. My GPS and bluetooth were off the entire time. WIFI is set to sleep when screen is off. I really think GPS is THE major battery killer. I used it last week to test out navigation and it drained my battery like 15% in 10 minutes. Maybe it'll get better with the update or as the battery gets conditioned, but I think it's causing a lot of battery issues right now.
[Captivate General] nammyczc:
I would charge full before I go to sleep wake up no change then light use and some games by the end of the day I would get like 20-25% battery life left, I constantly kill background apps and only leave

-gmail

-gvoice

-task killer

-wheres my droid

never really faced fast drain on standby
[Captivate General] \/icious:
I use a black screen and the lowest brightness setting and my screen is now rarely at the top of the battery percent drain
[Captivate General] phishie:
What are you using to track your battery percentages?
[Captivate General] G35tr:
I'd love to see some of the consumption charts for some of these phones. My battery definitely seems better today. Actually went all day without dying, from 10:30pm (yesterday) till now(9:15pm) with moderate use. 100% to 20% in 24 hours. I was pretty strict about turning off all radios and refreshing, and did a full discharge and recharge yesterday. Also removed rotating globe wallpaper.

Went from 4% per hour loss while I slept, to 1% loss per hour. Definitely an improvement, but I'm hoping for a little more.
[Captivate General] systoxity:
more will come, as it stands, with my phone in wifi while i sleep, i lose about 1% every 2 to 3 hours.

to follow my setup, just check the pimp my captivate pdf for the battery optimization part.
[Captivate General] Main Target:
I check the battery by going to settings/about/status, no app monitoring it.

As for apps,

I have gmail, gvoice, wifi connected right next to my router, and k9 mail doing push.

And a task killer to boot.

Widgets are only the launcher pro plus widgets, which I would imagine shouldnt affect much.

I just did a odins 1 touch and a factory reset on the phone. I will see how the battery goes tonight.
[Captivate General] phishie:
I'm amazed anything could rate higher in battery drain than the screen. What drains your battery more than the screen?
[Captivate General] lost2030:
At first I hated the battery on this phone cause I was used to the Bold 9700 battery. It sometimes lasted close to 8 hours and other times it barely reached 5!! I consider myself to be a heavy user and this phone just couldn't keep up like the Bold did.

I'm currently on the 11th day with it and I'm truly loving it! The battery has improved drastically. Yesterday it went 14 hours unplugged and it still had 4% left. Today I unplugged it at 8:30 and it is still going! These are the only changes I did:

I drained the battery 3 times and did 1 factory reset. I turned off the haptic feedback and audible selection. I have it check for email every hour. I have the facebook refresh interval set to 4 hours. Bloo notification set to 20 minutes. I don't have any widgets running. I have wifi, bt, and gps off always. I do not use a task kilter of any sort!!

I do have a live wallpaper and my display is set to auto. Screen time out is set to 1 minute, but I make sure to manually turn it off when not in use. I'm still a moderate to heavy user!

I don't know if this makes a difference, but my battery has the date of early July.
[Captivate General] mgxplyr:
A previous poster suggested that the phone stops charging once the battery is full and does not resume until the usb cable is re-inserted. I usually let the phone charge overnight, but today when I woke up, I unplugged the phone and plugged it in again. I didn't get the battery full warning for a good half hour. This means that the phone actually lost charge while plugged in overnight, ever since reaching full charge. After doing this, with heavy use, I had 30% left at the end of the night. I think with the re-insertion, I gained some of the lost juice. You should all give this a try and see if it helps a bit.
[Captivate General] gbrown2036:
Is anyone else unable to charge the phone while it's off? Whenever I plug in my cable (either to computer or AC) while the phone is off it immediately powers up. When I first got it I charged it while off and got the large battery icon but not anymore. Any ideas?
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
These guys did in Talk tests:

http://www.tested.com/news/manufacturer-cell-phone-talk-time-claimstested/955/

I don't have a problem with the ratings - video may be pushing it though.
[Captivate General] PixelPerfect3:
This happened to me when I installed the Cognition ROM. Battery would drain really quickly and my phone would get very warm if I tried to do much on it (Like my ear would feel hot if I talked on the phone).

I tried the whole discharge thing but it didnt help. I just ended up doing a ODIN reset to stock and then restoring all my data/apps.
[Captivate General] mmm_tacos:
This was the best battery life I ever got. I would say about 35 minutes of phone conversations. 1 hour of wifi. Some mms/email. Using 3 email accounts all push + one gmail account.

Used NoLed with a 5 minute timeout to notify when I had the phone on silent at work so I didn't keep checking it.

I was pretty busy those few days and had no phone time ;)

:Edit: Also this was stock JH7. I controlled the brightness and shut off GPS/Wifi when not in use.
[Captivate General] Lee1733:
Are these all of the tips everyone is talking about from the pimp my captivate.pdf? I could only find the "new" version of the guide so I just want to make sure nothing changed.

1) Change wallpaper to a black wallpaper

2) Ditch the widgets you don't absolutely need

3) Use Advanced Task Killer

4) Turn off wifi/gps/bluetooth when not in use.

5) Delete AT&T bloatware

For the record, I'm not getting horrible battery life, but not quite what I hope to be able to get. So far it's probably around 16-17 hours with light-moderate use. I just charged it up to 100% for the first time (well, it actually stopped charging and told me to take it off the charger at 97%) and I'm going to let it fully drain before recharging it back to full while it's off.

Since that 16-17 hour drain I made a few adjustments; set wifi to sleep when the screen turns off. Turned off GPS and turned on network location services. Gmail is still set to push. Facebook contact syncing is set to once a day. I am using a weather widget (updates every 3 hours), google search widget, google calendar widget, and last.fm widget (that doesn't do anything unless I press play as far as I know). I set the display back to automatic instead of having it about 1/5 of the way turned up permanently. After doing all that I charged it up to full and I'm letting it completely discharge. I'll keep you posted on this cycle as well as the next, after I completely discharge/recharge the battery again.

EDIT: I should also mention that I am running launcher pro, once a day appbrain syncing, as well as the Cognition 2.2 beta rom. Also, I'm in an area without 3G, though I'm not sure if that matters since you can't easily turn it off (I haven't and won't try to turn it off since we are supposedly getting 3g within the next few months.)
[Captivate General] Lee1733:
Quick update:

1d 2h 0m since unplugged, 22% battery remaining

Display - 55% (Time on: 1h 34m)

Voice Calls - 14% (Time on: 38m 54s) - Although only about 39 minutes, this was actually 12 separate calls.

Camera 360 - 12% (CPU usage: 15s) - Used the camera for maybe 5-10 minutes, not sure if that is included in the 12%, but if it's just the 15 seconds of processing then that's quite high.

Cell Standby - 9%

Wi-Fi - 4% (Time on: 7h 23m 57s) - Not sure why this is over 7h, I have it set to sleep when I'm not using the phone and I definitely haven't used it for 7 hours today.

Phone Idle - 4% (Time on: 1d 0h 26m)

I'm pretty satisfied with this amount but hopefully it continues to improve even more. Once it completely dies, recharges, and dies again I'll re-post my findings if they have significantly changed.
[Captivate General] Oh Okay:
I would recommend getting an app called Dimmer in the marketplace. It allows you to dim the screen to an even lower brightness than you can in the settings. With this and these settings.

Gmail sync on

Beautiful widgets weather sync hourly.

Wifi Off - when i don't need it

GPS Off - when i don't need it

BT Off

I'm getting down to about 60 % at the end of the day with moderate usage. For me this is a 5-8 texts, 20 minutes or so on gchat. 20 minutes or so on phone calls. Checking email throughout the day and light web browsing.

I'm running Cognition 2.16 with atimn's HSUPA kernel btw. Hope this helps
[Captivate General] orlandoxpolice:
when you go to sleep just turn off everything. there is no point in having notifications while you are asleep. mine lose about 5% over 7 hours at night.

also, what ROM are you running?
[Captivate General] PombeirP:
Galaxy S battery tests

I own a Galaxy S (international version) and I was experiencing the same drop in battery level during standby mentioned in the post title. I decided to turn off every setting possible, and start enabling them one by one, each day, to figure out which was the culprit. Right off the bat on the first day, I had lost only 11% over 18 hours (with 3 hours on airplane mode):

Cell standby: 34% 14h 54m; 3% without signal

Phone idle: 27%

Display: 19%, 27m 26s

Voice calls: 16% 4m 44s

Android system: 2%

On the second day, I enabled background data, and that didn't seem to have an impact on battery life. 11% over 20 hours, 8h:30m of airplane mode.

On the third day, I enabled Wireless Network Location, and boy, after 7 hours, my battery was already at 81%. It seems that once you enable this, other things kick in, like Google Maps sharing my location. The time without signal raises inexplicably. This setting also causes a system service (system_server) to use a lot of CPU, most likely due to some bug.

Cell standby: 35% 6h 52m; 15% without signal

Phone idle: 21% 6h 32m

Display: 25%, 20m 9s

Voice calls: 4% 27s

Android system: 7% 8m 42

Maps: 2% 1m 34s

So for me, I'm going to keep Wireless Network Location off, and only enable it if I ever need it.

BTW, I keep 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS off when not in use.
[XPERIA X10 General] digitall1982:
today I got message on my phone that update is available ! month ago i was updated to 024, what is this now? and it says that cannot be update ota, says connect to seus
[XPERIA X10 General] TanMak:
Same here, also got the prompt about an hour ago ... haven't had the opportunity to check it out via a PC
[XPERIA X10 General] metcard:
I got this message last week with Generic UK 020 firmware.

I updated and noticed nothing different, the firmware number and everything else remained the same.
[XPERIA X10 General] POLO_i780:
Is yours a rooted X10 or running standard Vodacom fw R1FA014?
[XPERIA X10 General] kyrotech:
I just updated my x10a to 024 and it got the exclamation mark

oh well, just have to redo everything again :)

ok, so a few minutes has passed and my x10a is back up and running....guess what, my WiFi is working...

such strange things that happen.

oh well, on to more testing
[XPERIA X10 General] digitall1982:
I'll try tomorow what is this update.. maybe is 2.1 :D
[XPERIA X10 General] suzed:
Digitall.... are you asleep and dreaming already;):p
[XPERIA X10 General] guachanchoya:
Idd. But who doens't want to dream?
[XPERIA X10 General] Luhccas-X10:
R2BA026 are available in some places...

First impressions by a Esato member

Changes in the 026 firmware - initial impressions:

1) Timescape much faster and smoother. Sharper photos i feel. Even setting "Timescape as Home" - much less lag than before... Setting timescape as home might be considered by me now

2) Themes still the same - only in Timescape - cannot be used for the entire android interface...

3) Mediascape loads noticeably faster. Smoother scrolling of the photos.

4) TrackId still there - working fine

5) PlayNow has been taken off. No more playnow for me. can't find it anywhere - not integrated in mediascape either

6) Creatouch Icon Seems different .. not sure

7) There is some weird "com.sonyericsson" icon now in my application drawer - clicking on it seems to do nothing but force close the android application and everything reloads again...
[XPERIA X10 General] piercewei:
What is your previous firmware no?
[XPERIA X10 General] dundun1701:
It is seem that all updates which we need, such as: in-call volume, .. didn't include in this new FW, so sad
[XPERIA X10 General] kannanX10:
R2BA026 FW now available in india,intially SEUS said my phone was up to date,but by using reinstall/repair option i got R2BA026 firmware(baseband 1.0.31)......
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sko95fr:
Hello,

I buy yesterday a Diamond 2 on WM 6.5.?

the look of home is similar at HD2 (weather under

clock, 3 square under calendar and colors icons)

For more information :

Systeme 5.2.21887, Rom 2.53.406.4, Radio 4.29.25.91

- I d'nt know exactly my version : 6.5, 6.5.1 ...6.5.x ?

I am not a specialist, I want only 1 modification :

- disable sms thread to have normal sms (like old WM)

In this version (6.5.?), I can setting in Sms / More /

Menu / Parameter / Mode Thread or Normal : But it d'nt

work correctly

- If I clic on a sms to reply (in normal mode), the

sms in open in thread mode to reply .... Grrrr

- I want to disable sms thread permanently (have old sms)

Can you tell me a tweak to do this : I know Advanced Config

Tools 3.3 to disable sms thread (I use it on WM 6.1) by I

d'nt know if it is compatible with my 6.5.x version. There

is many tweak for many version .. I d'nt know ....

Sorry I d'nt want to crash my new D2 because I c'nt install

it if it crash.

Thx for your help

Serge (France)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] innovativebug:
Hi Everyone,

first of all,i would like to assure you that i have searched the XDA forums completely but haven't got any solution.

I tried to update the SPL and now it doesn't reboot.I have already tried different suggestions such as " back+power, volume down+power, home+power, menu+power, combination of keys+power with both usb plugged and unplugged"

I can't even get the fastboot work, on my computer, I only get "< waiting for device >"

The only response I get is the blue led light when i press track ball+power.I think I've posted on the right place because as far as i believe,only XDA team has the potential to solve my problem.It's a humble request to all XDA Team and members to solve my problem as soon as possible and I am quite sure that my problem will now be solved as the XDA team has solved thousands of such bricks and problems.Regards
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Hemant_B:
If its in Warranty,Send it to HTC

Or

Try Jtag Solution / ORT tool ...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] innovativebug:
warranty of htc magic is over.....But,can you tell more about JTAG solution/ORT tool in detail......thanx in advance
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Hemant_B:
For JTAG http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=JTAG_for_Dream/Magic

For ORT visit :

http://www.omnia-repair.com/

All the best!!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Hemant_B:
Working with frind of mine on cheaper solution for JTAG - OCD thing...but can test only when I will be back in India...
[Desire General] shyrka:
Hi all.

Is it possible to run the Official Sense 2.2 rom with a UVOC kernel?

I have tried the home-grown 2.2 roms with UVOC but they're not quite as sweet as the actual Official 2.2 Sense enabled rom.

Can I just flash a kernel??
[Desire General] GANJDROID:
No, not yet anyway.