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[Desire Android Development] spocky12:
Not sure it's really related to CM, but as a few people mentionned this before, I thought I'd report it here. Since around rc2, I'm also experiencing battery drain (7% per hour)(I never had more than 2% before).

I used to flash nightlies over my current roms, just wiping cache, nothing more. I have this bettery drain since rc2. So before flashing 6.1 final, I did a factory reset, wiped everything and didnt use Titanium to restore apps (although android restored them automatically after my account configuration). I didn't change radio since a few monthes so I assume it's not related to it. Unfortunately, this battery drain is still there. Yesterday, I left my desire on my desk for a little bit more than 2 hours (doing nothing, wifi on, screen was off) and spare part's "battery history" gave me this:

Running : 84% (time spent without sleeping : 1h54).

So obviously, something prevents android from going to standby mode, although I don't know whether it's related to CM or not. Do you have any idea of how I could track the thread responsible from this issue ?

Thanks
[Desire Android Development] r5ingh:
Hey

Can someone mirror Firerat's A2SD script for me? I can't seem to access cyanogen forums for some reason, I just get "You are not allowed to visit this forum."

:S

Thanks in advance!
[Desire Android Development] mbroeders:
Here you go...
[Desire Android Development] MusiQ1:
Hi!

Whenever I use my camera for pictures of video my phone reboots for no reason.

I am fairly new to this (been a user of custom roms for 2 months now, loving it more and more every day) so I can't really figure this one out.

Read something about update radio or something, what is the use of this?

So, I just want to use my camera normally! Recording video's is pretty cool =)

Please help someone =), thank you in advance!
[Desire Android Development] echohack:
Noticed the same, Bleeding out of my ear.

My battery is great. Running a defrost kernel, 13 hours 97% battery left, on standby most the time tho.
[Desire Android Development] mbroeders:
For radio's look in this thread, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=687464

For Cyanogen, 30_2 is recommended, but anything newer will do just fine... If you already have one of the newer radio's then you want to try a full wipe and install CM again.
[Desire Android Development] sjgore:
I've noticed that the "time spent without sleeping" is now roughly twice the percentage of "screen on", whereas before it was only marginally ahead. This wasn't the case with the 195 and 200 nightly builds, so I wonder what's changed? I'll do some monitoring with System Panel and investigate further.
[Desire Android Development] MusiQ1:
Thanks for the quick reply. So basicly I should update my radio (where to find my current? recovery?) and it should solve the camera problem?

Cheers!
[Desire Android Development] mbroeders:
I see you've posted in two threads and I answered them both ;)

Anyway, you can check which radio you have in settings -> About the phone. If you have lower than 30_2 then update your radio. If you already have 30_2 or above, then check if it only happens when taking multiple photographs or also when you take only one shot. If it only happens when taking multiple shots, make sure you wait long enough in between. If that doesn't help, you might want to try to wipe and install the rom again...
[Desire Android Development] echohack:
I would recomend the 32.48.00.32U_5.11.05.14 radio. Flash with http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=823315
[Desire Android Development] MusiQ1:
Lol, just seen it. Sorry 'bout that. But I have an older version, that's what i figured out. Will update at home to latest =)

PS: radio = smalbandversie zo te zien? daar staat een nummer wat overeenkomt met radio versies ;-)

PPS: Sorry for the Dutch.

PPPS: Uh, what about this step when flashing?

6. Run the recovery-windows.bat script from modaco r5 root pack

Sorry for all the asking ;-)

@echo, will take a look with that program, but i don't want to much applications doing other applications work, trying to stay on top of it! ;-) Still, thanks, might work for me =)
[Desire Android Development] kielkiam:
Hi

I updated from RC1; I had Firerat a2sd (sd with fat and ext3 partitions) and original Desire partition.

In RC1 I had about 65Mb ("internal") space free

Updated 6.1 , it restored some application; I run Firerat's script and it restored all other applications.

But now I have 51 Mb ("internal") space free.

Any reason for this?
[Desire Android Development] mbroeders:
Haha, radio is inderdaad smalbandversie ;)

I recommend the 30_2 radio. Download it from the radio thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=687464) and flash it in recovery. Make sure you nandroid backup first just in case! Succes!
[Desire Android Development] marinierb:
Good for you. Really. But the person with the battery drain is running CM. Thanks anyway.
[Desire Android Development] marinierb:
I've been having battery drain since somewhere in the 190's builds. If there is anything you want me to check, please let me know.
[Desire Android Development] r5ingh:
Thanks very much buddy! :D
[Desire Android Development] spocky12:
A little bit more information about my battery drain issue. I left my phone in my pocket while I went eating. I didn't even touch one button. As I came back to my office (approximately 1h30min later), my battery indicated 86% (was 94% 1h30 before)

Here's battery history :

Running : 88,6% (time spend without sleeping : 1h16m)

Screen On : 0.4% (22s)

Wifi On : 100% (1h26m)

Wifi Running : 12.1% (10m30s)

To any linux/busybox gurus out there, isn't there any ps / top / whatever command to see the most active processes that might have prevented to phone from going to standby or check what it's been doing during this time ?
[Desire Android Development] wingphil:
In spare parts battery history, look at 'partial wake usage' to see what's keeping your phone awake.
[Desire Android Development] papabol:
when i tried to install this rom on the recovery it says

E:cant find MISC?

whats the problem?
[Desire Android Development] spocky12:
@wingphil unfortunately, nothing relevant there :

Android system : 4m56s

Uid 10011 : 3m36s

gmail : 9s

dialer : 6s

Hence I was looking for something lower level.
[Desire Android Development] mbroeders:
Have you edited the zip file, i.e. removed certain apps? If so, first disable signature verification then flash again...
[Desire Android Development] traspler:
"Woah!!!!" was what I thought when someone called me. The in-call volume is loud, like bleeding ears loud!

The other thing I had to find out the hard way was: Updating from RC to final deleted all my alarms. Not funny.
[Desire Android Development] dvanders:
Hey mine too! Thanks for the warning.
[Desire Android Development] MusiQ1:
Because of the problems I have with my camera I want to update my radio.

What radio is the beste atm for 6.1? Or in general? Because i'm hearing a lot of versions ;-)

and i can't really find out how to install it? do I have to rename the downloaded file to update.zip? Do i follow the guide step by step? I read different things...

Thanks!

*edit*

Installing now, going through his reboot cycle...

Jezus, was thinking to hard again, it's pretty easy :P

*edit2*

camera working flawlessly, thanks a million!
[Desire Android Development] Cholo981:
No chance to download for me.

Neither via ROM Manager (very slow even in wifi, usually stuck on 40-50%) or from the 1st page's link:

The download "ends" after some seconds, like completed. So you have to restart from the beginning every time. Very frustrating.

It's just me?
[Desire Android Development] KroonBerg:
Nope, I can't seem to be able to download either..

Anyone mind sharing it?
[Desire Android Development] Renzzie:
right mouse click on it -> save target as

this should do the trick (im downloading now and i am at 70%)
[Desire Android Development] Bl@ck:
i think there's a problem with chrome, with mozilla the download is going smooth.
[Desire Android Development] KroonBerg:
Neither helped, tried IE, FF, Chrome and Opera all with both mirrors and right click ---> save as..
[Desire Android Development] kielkiam:
GSM version

http://ul.to/vbtvel

Check MD5Sum from first post
[Desire Android Development] KroonBerg:
Thanks a bunch!
[Desire Android Development] Cholo981:
Great, thank you.
[Desire Android Development] sjgore:
Right...

Time spent without sleeping: 2 hrs 37 mins.

Screen on: 54 mins 39 seconds.

Battery gone from 72% to 41% in 8 hours.

According to System Panel which has been monitoring for 8 hours, the "Top App" is System Processes which has been running for 4 mins 46 secs. All the other processes add up to about 7 mins.

So what on earth is all the other time spent without sleeping?
[Desire Android Development] Bl@ck:
So... i wanted to try Firerat a2sd solution but can't register on cyanogen site :\ looks like the forum is locked.

Anyone can kindly share a mirror for his S-On zip and a2sd script? Thanks
[Desire Android Development] Zappza:
What is the key combo to soft reset?
[Desire Android Development] leadfoot9281:
I think it's power + volume down and click the track ball

Sent from my HTC desire with swype...pardon the spell errors lol
[Desire Android Development] nachtschicht:
I just watched a video with the YouTube app, pressed the back key at the end of the video. Then my Desire froze and rebooted after some seconds. This happened twice now :(
[Desire Android Development] LuffyPSP:
can mirror to Megaupload or Mediafire? i cant seem to be able to download it from that site. Thanks!
[Desire Android Development] 19blacktiger77:
Hi to all. I had Nightly 184 with VorkKernel, and since CM 6.1 stable came out i decide to flash it.

I had only a little problem: i execute the procedure for calibrate battery, as i always did:

1. Please connect the phone to the charger with the phone powered on, and allow the phone to charge until the notification LED is green, indicating the device is fully charged.

2. Disconnect the phone from the charger, and power it off.

3. Reconnect the phone to the charger with the phone powered off, and allow the phone to charge until the notification LED is green.

4. Disconnect the phone from the charger and power it on. Once the phone is powered completely on, power it off again and reconnect it to the charger until the notification LED is green.

5. Disconnect the phone, power it on (OPTIONAL: Enter Recovery at this point and Wipe Battery Stats (from Advanced menu), and use it. You need to use this sequence only once.

But when i plug the Usb cable, the percentage in notification bar and Battery Pro Widget don't change... :(:(:(

Stay at the same level, the phone won't charge!!! If i turn off the led change from red to green. But with phone turn on, no charge at all... :confused::confused::confused:

What can i do?

Thank you very much!
[Desire Android Development] 19blacktiger77:
And no, i don't have Winamp installed! I upgrade from 184 to 6.1.0 Final, without wipe, calibrate battery, see that doesn't work, wipe Cache and Dalvik...

Still not work! :(:(:(:(
[Desire Android Development] 19blacktiger77:
Now i remember, i turn off phone, and pull off battery to take the SD card... :confused:

Any idea???
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Is anyone else having problem connecting to PEAP+MSCHAPv2 networks (Eduroam in my case) on 6.1? It just keeps flashing "Connecting" and nothing happens. Subsequently the phone won't connect to ANY WiFi networks until I reboot.

Anyone else? :(
[Desire Android Development] remalifrank:
U try now and forum is locked?

Here is the link but need to register .
[Desire Android Development] marinierb:
Battery Drain

Arrrrrrgh! 17% drain in 3.5 hours. This is not good. I will be going back to nightly 170, or maybe I'll give Oxygen a try.
[Desire Android Development] traspler:
Had this problem at my University with the last 6.1 RC but since I installed final, I did not have this problem anymore (at least until now).
[Desire Android Development] jarb5ly:
I've found the same issue after upgrading from RC1. "Time spent not sleeping" was at 89% over the last 5 hours (where battery had dropped by about 30% - way more than normal).

Then I tried turning wifi off, and suddenly usage has dropped - only 11% over the last hour (and the battery only dropped 1 or 2 percent, which is much more like normal). So sounds like a wifi issue.
[Desire Android Development] marinierb:
Where do I see "Time spent not sleeping"?

I keep WiFi and BT on at all times. This was never an issue until somewhere after nightly 180 it seems. With everything configured the same, my reference, build 170, works flawlessly. I get 2% an hour battery drain. With all of the builds that I have tried lately, it's more like 5 to 7% an hour.

WHY THE DIFFENCE??????

I'm getting very frustrated with this issue. Very few people are reporting it, it seems, and I get the impression that the devs don't really care?
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
Interesting, RC1 worked fine for me... :confused:
[Desire Android Development] Kendoji:
I came here to ask about possible battery drain on 6.1 and just saw that I'm not alone. I had RC1 before this and battery life was great. Since installing the latest 6.1 release, however, my battery life seems to be noticeably lower. It's hard to pinpoint what's causing it, nothing really jumps out at me when looking at the usage stats (mostly display eating up juice, like always).

To be honest I can't be 100% sure there is a difference, but I am finding my battery to be consistently more drained at the end of the day.
[Desire Android Development] rover.prince:
Well I am a regular user of Nightly since 164, what I learnt from most of my experience with 6.1 is that battery is awesome even with wifi on for whole night.

In start I felt it's eating batter, I just went into recovery cleared the battery stats, kept it for charging in off mode for one hour they powered it on and kept it on charging for next 2 hours and since then, it's awesome....! 1% in two hours is great ;)
[Desire Android Development] jarb5ly:
Do you have wifi turned on? If so try turning it off and see if this reduces the battery consumption.

The stat to check is "Running" (which displays as "Time spent not sleeping" when you click on it) in Spare Parts under "Battery history". With wifi turned on, I was getting 89% over many hours, but with wifi off it's dropped to about 11%.

Does anyone know why the wifi is using so much more battery?

I'm tempted to try patching the bcm4329.ko module for constant awake mode, to see if this makes a difference (I used to have this patched on RC1).
[Desire Android Development] marinierb:
Running (Time spent without sleeping): 71.71%.

This is not right.
[Desire Android Development] ziggy1001:
If you are one of a few people suffering high battery drain how would a dev know what's causing your phone not to sleep? Bugs cannot always be replicated by someone else, there are lots of apps and ways of analyzing your problem, up to you to do the donkey work
[Desire Android Development] JoeSixAtPack:
Well I also run into the battery drain with 6.1. Just installed (for testings) oxygen 1.0 and accroding to CurrentWidget my power usage decreased from ~50mA (CM 6.1) to ~6mA in Oxygen 1.0

As I just flahsed without wiping (cache, dalvik, ext3) and the problem is gone it seems it is related to CM6.1
[Desire Android Development] eXelero:
guys, the in-call volume on the CM6.1 is way too loud even if turned down to the minimal option. is there a setting to turn off some kind of a boost which is imo enabled? pls help, my ears are hurting!
[Desire Android Development] bemymonkey:
It's not related to CM6... I have 4-6mA of battery drain in standby on CM6... been this way for months.
[Desire Android Development] marinierb:
And this is what I've been hearing here for weeks: "There is nothing wrong with CM".

Which is why this problem will never get fixed.

I'm gonna go try another ROM, now...
[Desire Android Development] devil snake:
Bug!!!

i`m Toatlly new to this thing as this CM 6.1 is the first Rom i`ve ever flashed

But when i did everything according TUTs and start setting up the ROM i arrived to the "Sound" tab at the settings pressed that but it Force Close!!!! is that happening to everyone or just me? if to everyone is this supposed to be like this or will it be fixed?

i can`t set ringtones.

so now after 2 hours, my first STRESSFUL successful flash is worthless T_T ... i`m downloading a HUGE ROM now hopefully i`ll be more lucky :(

:(:(
[Desire Android Development] ziggy1001:
I assume you rebooted and tried more than once:rolleyes:
[Desire Android Development] eduits:
Just reboot
[Desire Android Development] ziggy1001:
So why are there still nightly builds and people working on it!
[Desire Android Development] eduits:
No battery problems at alll.

Using 6.1 Final. At night with wifi on, i lose 6% in 7 hours.
[Desire Android Development] jonmall1441:
I don't know if it's battery drain but i lose abround 5% an hour with very minimal use a few texts and a couple of short calls (about a minuted each).
[Desire Android Development] Zappza:
That caused a hard reset, not a soft one. The device reboots and starts the boot from the bootloader. Easier than pulling the battery, but it takes a while.
[Desire Android Development] 19blacktiger77:
Why battery charge work only if level is under 90%??? There is a way to fix that?

Thanks!
[Desire Android Development] rover.prince:
Battery charge works even after 90% butt life light turns green after 90%, it's normal behavior of cm roms

:-)
[Desire Android Development] sjgore:
I get this too. Nightly 200 was fine.

No, this is a bug introduced recently. If the phone is connected when battery is greater than 90%, it doesn't start charging. I have to wait until charge is 89% or less.
[Desire Android Development] rover.prince:
Really strange mate, i was on Nightly 203 and every thing was fine with that too. I think U should clear battery stats in recovery. Then bring out the battery without powering off . Turn the phone again and see. (It worked for me).
[Desire Android Development] 19blacktiger77:
Yepp! Fault of new battery driver, here's the solutions:

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...100892__hl__charge__fromsearch__1#entry100892

I can't edit file setreg in point 2 ( neither Root Explorer, or Nano command in Terminal Emulator... :( ) , but just point one restore the "normal" charge. :D
[Desire Android Development] aleksei87:
I didn't know it was a bug, but I like it. Why would you want to start recharging your battery if level is already above 90%?
[Desire Android Development] 19blacktiger77:
Because if you plug the phone to the computer you get this:

Full Charge -> Disharge until 89% -> Recharge and again.

I think is not good for the battery, and plus, when the battery is charged, the phone use the Usb power.

So probably the battery will live longer... ;)
[Desire Android Development] jarb5ly:
Update: I've found the issue causing the massive battery drain!

Because I'd already found that turning wifi off fixed it, I googled and found various pages talking about an android bug with high battery drain if wifi sleep mode is enabled.

I checked what mine was set to (wifi settings->menu->advanced) and found that the upgrade from RC1 to 6.1 final somehow caused my "wifi sleep policy" to get changed from "never" to "never when charging", despite the fact that none of my other settings seem to have got lost.

Changing back to "never" fixes the battery drain (and the time spent not sleeping drops back down to around 11%). Quite ironic that sleep mode causes MORE battery drain not less... definitely seems like a bug to me.

The other interesting question is why this setting got changed simply by doing an upgrade (without wiping the data partition). I guess the format in which the settings are stored got changed?
[Desire Android Development] guidojusto:
Mmm that did not help me. My WiFi settings were already like the one you described but not changed at all with the battery drain issue.

I'm also having troubles related to battery not charging if my battery is between 90 to 99%.

I hope Kali or another developer can go deep on this problem because it is the only issue with Cyanogenmod 6.1 final that can lead of making someone not using this rom.
[Desire Android Development] spocky12:
On my side, Wifi sleep policy is set to "When screen turns off".

I never changed this value before (and I factory reset my device before flashing cm6.1), so I assume this is the default value (or it got changed by a third party app ?).

Anyways, I'll try to set it to never, and report back in a few hours.
[Desire Android Development] Roscopcoletrain:
yeah mine was always set to never, and battery life is still terrible.
[Desire Android Development] sjgore:
Same here, I'm afraid. Has always been set to "Never". Thanks for trying, though! :)
[Desire Android Development] Z0l:
I wonder if you are aware that never means the wifi never turns off -> sucking the battery even more in standby. You should try the more conservative settings if you want better battery life.
[Desire Android Development] aracon:
My Desire won't disable wifi on display-standby since cm 6.1 (settings checked). Can anyone confirm that?
[Desire Android Development] Pedro80:
Battery drain confirmed.

I can confirm this;

I've observed this problem since after Nightly 170 and reported it mulitple times in the nightly thread. I've even observed this on nightlies with full wipe and no Gapps (ie. no Google sign in), only Wifi enabled. I've also experimented with different radios with no luck.

Setting the sleep policy to "When screen turned off" seems to improve the drain on 6.1 stable (when drain was observed it was set to "Never when plugged in"). I haven't experimented with setting it to "Never" although this intuitively should also cause additional battery drain because the wifi radio would be enabled all the time..

Have anyone tried to report this as on the issue tracker?
[Desire Android Development] marinierb:
Thanks to all who are confirming the battery drain. I have been talking about this for weeks and only got the good old "I don't have that problem so it's you" response.

Now I can hope...
[Desire Android Development] spocky12:
As I was having the battery drain problem with policy set to "When screen turned off" (default setting for me after reset + cm6.1 reinstallation), I set it to "never" when jarb5ly posted his solution (thanks, btw ;)).

Results : I lost 6% battery in 4 hours. I'll have to run it for a longer period to be sure, but for now I consider it "fixed" my issue.
[Desire Android Development] marinierb:
That's kinda counter-intuitive, isn't it?
[Desire Android Development] Roscopcoletrain:
thats what Im thinking. I know myself, I want to do as much over wifi as possible. if that means poor battery life, I guess Im stuck.
[Desire Android Development] crankidiot:
48 hours since unplugging.. and 33% left.. i removed a bunch of system apks after fresh install. Browser, LiveWallpaper-Stuff, SpareParts, "Development", TTS-Stuff, QuickSearch, ADW, CMStats, CMWallpapers, Calculator, GenieWidget, Email, CarHome-Stuff, HTMLViewer, Music, Protips, RomManager, Maps (reinstalled later from market), Stk, Talkback, Soundback, Term, VoiceDialer, VoiceSearch, YouTube (reinstalled later from market), SoundRecorder and so on... and all these social network crap..

maybe it has something to do with any of these apps, and keeps stressing some system-related processes, which is preventing the phone from going to sleep.... i do not know...
[Desire Android Development] =jon=:
I had big battery drain problems too, but found a post on the Cyanogen forums saying that the wifi.supplicant.scan.interval set in /system/build.prop was at 15 seconds - which I think means that the phone checks for wireless networks every 15 secs.

I changed this to 60s a couple days ago, and at the end of a normal day my battery life was at about 25% before, now it's around 50-60% the same as it was on RC1. I've not noticed any downsides to this...

You can change it via root explorer if you are s-off (then reboot), or do it via ADB if you are not.

Hope it helps :)