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[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
You need to recalibrate your battery.

I read this thread yesterday afternoon, and decided that I should recalibrate my battery as I haven't done that in a while. So I set about running down my battery yesterday. My phone told me I had around 65% battery left and around 8pm I set my brightness to full, turned my display timeout to 10 minutes, started downloading 42 podcasts (using Google Listen over Wifi) in the background, then started playing Avatar. At around 10pm I got the low-battery warning.

I have 2 gmail accounts syncing, and use Touchdown for Exchange. I listen to music on the loudspeaker for about 30 minutes each morning. On typical days I'll stream slacker for an hour or so, and I'll listen to podcasts or music for an hour when I work out.

It's now 6:46am, some 8 hours later, and after playing Avatar and transferring about 2gigs via Wifi, my batter literally just turned off. 14 hours and 56 minutes - including whatever random browsing I was doing before 8pm, plus watching the entire Avatar movie, plus downloading a bunch of podcasts.

The Vibrant battery is fine. When I first got my Vibrant, the battery was marginally better than my old G1. But I'm on Nerov3 with voodoo now. I'm constantly charging and discharging my battery on most typical days, so my battery meter routinely goes awry. But really my battery seems to last much longer than when I first got my phone.

I think your best bet is to try out Touchdown for your exchange syncing. I was never a fan of the stock Exchange client on the Vibrant anyways, and I also felt that it was draining my battery, but I never really tested it to verify.
[Vibrant General] Haxel:
I have exchange set up on my phone. Reconditioned the battery Sunday night/monday morning. I honestly was a non-believer

Went to work, for the first time ever I got 14 hours life. I normally got 7-8 hours with 10 hours max. I was in the process of troubleshooting battery consumption so all my apps were not installed. Here is what I have to give you an idea for a benchmark since I'm un-modded other than JL5 flashed. This phone has never used Clockwork or anything else other than Odin.

Stock JL5 (rooted with terminal app and TI backup, no other "fixes/mods")

2 Gmail accounts

2 Pop3 accounts (1h sync)

1 Exchange account (30m sync on peak hours 7-5, 4h off peak)

Widgetsoid

AIM (ran for about 2 hours, it IS a battery hog. I liked my old Winmo version better)

TextSecure

GPS ran for about 10minutes total.

Killed Media Hub, and Media hub service. Wificalling cant be killed. (All from "manage applications" and services. No task killers).
[Vibrant General] Haxel:
You know, honestly I'm not to happy with 14 hours. I think 18 hours is my demand of a phone with medium/light use from now on with any future purchase. I really do feel like a junkie looking for a USB port all the time. Pisses me off having to carry a small micro usb cable around with me.
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
Wait, are you guys using Exchange polling, or push?

Just enable push (sync as messages arrive), and you'll save some more battery.
[Vibrant General] Haxel:
I would, but I refuse to pay for SMS/MMS. It is disabled and locked out of my account.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_e-mail

Push also doesnt save much battery if you have a department that is spastic for event notification emails.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Using push with exchange, and to the person above I already said I tried touchdown and moxier...
[Vibrant General] Gigamaster89:
Running Nero v3 with no modifications or battery reconditioning. Flashed two days ago.

I'm at 33 hours 30 minutes with 2% left.

- A couple of texts

- Browsed XDA, Engadget, and the Web

- Watched about an hour of a movie

- Wifi + Wifi Calling on 100% of the time

- Auto Brightness

Pretty good I'd say, much better than the ~15 hours on stock JI6.
[Vibrant General] synaesthetic:
My battery life is awesome for a phone this beastly. Sure, I can watch the percentages tick down 1% every couple of minutes on 3G web browsing, but that's because the S-AMOLED drains loads of power when it displays white.

Yeah, my girlfriend's MT Slide gets tremendously better battery life, but it's an ARMv6 running at 600MHz driving a 3.4" HVGA standard LCD. This is a 1GHz (in my case, running at 1.2GHz!) Cortex-A8 with a big, beautiful 4" WVGA S-AMOLED.

Don't think of the Vibrant as a phone. It won't get days of battery life like a flip phone. It's a tiny computer with a phone grafted onto it. Treat it as such, and you will not feel that the "battery life sux."
[Vibrant General] Haxel:
Second day and second deletion of batterystats.bin. Got 3 more hours today than yesterday, and I absolutely used the phone more. (another extra hour of AIM and alot of emails today).

Now I'll let it be and see if it gets better or worse. I got 15 hours out of it today. I'll wait till Thurs to start slowly adding apps back. Wish I could figure out how to kill the mediahub service and keep it dead.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Get 15 hours out of it, bit only half that with an exchange account hooked up. That is my issue.

I'm going to add a curve 3g to my plan tomorrow for work email. We have BES, and with woek discount its not expensive. I'll still use this one for browsing and apps I guess.
[Vibrant General] Haxel:
Oh my thoughts were a little mixed up as I just noticed I was off, I only got an hour or two extra. I'm just guessing because I dropped my phone at 15% and it had 13 hours and I got a bout an extra 3h after that so my math was way off both ways lol. I'm basically down to about 4% an hour now. I'm estatic.

I'd totally suggest clearing your battery stats according to any of the guides (as they all follow the same process). It helped me greatly.
[Vibrant General] mattchew008:
*Battery Help

Hi all, I've experienced both hit and miss with my Vibrant's battery life.

When I first received it, it was absolutely terrible, I'd get maybe 8 hrs.

I played around with the settings (removing all widgets, turning off wifi, no background data, lowest brightness etc) and was able to get close to a day and a half.

I've then upgraded to Nero V3 and subsequently V4.1 my battery life is better than 8 hrs, but I tend to still struggle getting at least 24 hrs with little-moderate usage.

I've since re-conditioned my battery and installed SystemPanel to monitor what's draining my CPU and battery.

It appears System is draining my battery quite a bit followed by System Processes

- sensorserver_ya - 0.7%

- kswapd0 - 0.3%

- kcryptd - 0.2%

- mmcqd - 0.2%

Anyone have any ideas why my System or System processes are taking up so much CPU?
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
system is normal to show up in the system panel. What you want to look for when monitoring is the applications that are running during the phone is in idle.
[Vibrant General] mattchew008:
Strangely during idle, there is very little activity from any applications.

But while it's on, it's draining what is quite excessive, this is considering as well that I'm not making any calls out with my phone.

Does it seem normal for those 2 processes (system and System processes) to be taking up that much battery?
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
when I tried to monitor my phone, those 2 were also on the top list when using the phone. how many hours can your phone go with the screen on? usually it should take about 3-5 hours.
[Vibrant General] mattchew008:
Is that right?

Only 3-5hrs with the screen on. Maybe that explains it as I probably have the screen on for a total of 3-5 hrs either checking my phone, sending a text etc.

I would have expected better battery life to be honest with you, but if that's the norm then I guess people that are recording over 24 hrs (including idle sleep time) are using their phones pretty minimally.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
yeah that's right. if you see 3-5 hours with the screen on then your battery is low that's normal. so if you use your phone non stop it will really die.

now i'm on 16 hours with 4 hours of usage. the rest is on idle and my phone is at 20 percent.
[Vibrant General] kolyan:
noticed an improved battery life on Nero 4.1. I actually had hard time draining the battery. I always used to get about 11-14 hours of use, this time i got 24 hours. display on for 2h45m, bluetooth and wifi on for 13-14h, and only 4-5min for calls. was streaming music with BT and WIFI for about 45 min.......
[Vibrant General] Gigamaster89:
Update on Nero v3

38 hours with 19% left

No voodoo, wifi on 100% of the time, light use.
[Vibrant General] Deggy:
ok since I started using nerov4.1, my battery is inconsistent. when it is in sleep mode, it goes down with 1% an hour. with heavy usage, it drops 30% in three hours. anyone else experiencing the same thing? is this how it's suppose to be?
[Vibrant General] Hotstuff5964:
I actually use the phone quite a bit. The crazy thing is, no matter what I use, those are the only things that ever come up on the usage screen. I don't use Exchange or Hotmail, I do have 2 Gmail accounts that are on auto sync though.

Before I rooted and flashed my phone I was getting 10 hours max with normal usage. After flashing to Nero I was getting a good 16 hours or so with normal usage. That 45 hour reading I got was just an anomaly after reconditioning the battery, it hasn't been that good again. But I am consistently getting 24+ hours per charge now.

I should also note that I'm using Juice Defender with the default settings. The newest update seems to have done wonders for my battery life too.
[Vibrant General] troby86:
Nero v5 with Voodoo enabled with heavy use on WiFi, 22 hours later...19% left....not bad at all.
[Vibrant General] MailenJokerbell:
On my side I can say mine is total ****.

Though when I got it, it lasted quite a lot, only after I rooted and installed Nero V3 was that my battery suddenly stopped working right.

Now I have upgraded to Nero V5 and still experiencing the same problem.

I am quite the heavy user, but it still lasted more back when I had stock 2.1.

I'm thinking about experimenting with different ROMs or going back to stock but whenever I think about all the hazzle of backing up the apps and everything... Ugh... I will try calibrating the battery with the steps posted a few pages back.
[Vibrant General] Gigamaster89:
Nero v5

Voodoo

Wifi on 100% of the time

Light usage

26 hours (1:30 hour of screentime)

45% Left
[Vibrant General] Deggy:
I calibrated the battery and I still can't results like these.
[Vibrant General] EvilAldo:
As I've been reading through the thread, most of the people who are running Nero are the ones getting bad ass battery life. I'm on Axura 2.2.7.1 and i'm getting about 12 hours with moderate use. I'm going to try reconditioning my battery right now and see what happens. Maybe the roms themselves could be culprit to the battery issues. I know that battery life is taboo to mention the second a new rom is released and I'm sure developers avoid talking about it because so many people ask, but maybe it really is an issue. This thread might be a little more useful if we would all mention what rom we're using and how much battery life we're getting so we can compare and contrast with a little more efficiency. Maybe we can get to the "root" of the problem? HA HA HA GET IT!?
[Vibrant General] felixparley:
I find it interesting that no one quantifies how much battery different things use. Using basic regression and some simple data collection about how long the phone was on between since unplugged, on a call, screen time, etc. We can estimate the usage of each activity.

If you want to estimate 3 different factors say (standby usage, call usage, and screen usage) you would need to collect at least 3 data points. More being better. And, also to note, only collecting these 3 pieces of information means all other activities will be averaged into "standby usage" so it is best to limit other things such as watching avatar when you collect this data.

The summary of my data collection is as follows:

JFD -- fully stock (based on 20 data points)

Stand by 0.5 - 1 % per hour the phone is on

display 5.0 - 10 % per hour the display is on (depends on brightness and color)

calls 25 - 50 % per hour on a call (depends greatly on signal quality)

JI6 -- fully stock (14 data points)

Stand by 0.4 - 0.7 % per hour the phone is on (with 2g only mode using .4 - .5)

display 4 - 7 % per hour the display is on (depends on brightness and color)

calls 20 - 40 % per hour on a call (depends greatly on signal quality)

KA5 -- rooted and removed bloat (6 data points)

stand by 0.4 - 0.5 % per hour the phone is on (with 3g)

display 17 - 25 % per hour the display is on (depends on brightness and color)

calls 15 - 23 % per hour on a call (depends greatly on signal quality)

KA6 -- (the real update) -- sucked so bad I re-flashed to KA7 before I got enough data. Based on other comments I have seen I think it may be due to a bad flash somehow, but anyway, my experience was very poor.

KA7 -- rooted and removed bloat (6 data points)

stand by 0.4 - 0.5 % per hour the phone is on (with 3g)

display 16 - 22 % per hour the display is on (depends on brightness and color)

calls 15 - 20 % per hour on a call (depends greatly on signal quality)

A few extra details. The ranges I provide are approximate predictive intervals (approximately 95% coverage rates) from the posterior of the model I am using (yes it is Bayesian). The model is linear and I am assuming that the battery scale is linear as well.

In summary, I have found that if you want to use the screen a lot, use JI6. Otherwise on the as you can see from the ranges above it is quite easy to kill the phone in a couple of hours or it can last more than 5 days in standby.

I have achieved very fast discharge rates when the signal quality is poor. There is one location at work where I get poor signal and the use per hour on a call used to be > 50% per hour. However on KA7 it has only been around 20% per hour. So I am willing to trade off display time for call time. Someone else may feel differently.

To test if your phone is bad (or battery) the usage amount should be significantly greater than the amounts I have given. What is significantly greater? That is a whole different discussion. But the values I give should provide a pretty good idea of what I think are normal usage rates.
[Vibrant General] bartek25:
i think wrong way to underclock ur proc is to go below 200 mhz stand by thats why your phone lags on wake up
[Vibrant General] bartek25:
funny thing is no matter what we do everyone will get diff battery time like u just said bionix make your batterty last but for me it ate my phone within 6 hours ....and why ka6 or ka7 because samsung did what they could to release best battery life so they wouldnt disapoint customer i dont care what you say i ddint think your bettery life is as good as officia basicly everyting before ka6 sucks ? why becausea u have i9000 source poorted to vibrant instead vibrant for vibrtant my 5 cents
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
bionix-v
[Vibrant General] bartek25:
phone idle 5% ? wow how your battery survived that long ,whats your setcpu frequency 400

my phone idles at 1 % lol and cell stand by is 2 %
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
i don't use setcpu
[Vibrant General] apropos:
Got you beat by some. Battery still at 36%. All stock KA6 from Mini Kies. Rooted with some bloat removed/frozen.

http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/6218387/1/ShootMe?h=26b666
[Vibrant General] apropos:
I made it myself by using a template from lifehacker.com
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
Whew, yeah, that Vibrant battery life sucks!
[Vibrant General] apropos:
this is before I had to plug in the phone. still at 28% battery.
[Vibrant General] dang2327:
Try the "AppKiller" from the marketplace. Once every 3 hours I do this, and it prolongs my battery life significantly.
[Vibrant General] Alex530:
You just revived a 4 month old thread. Why? Comes to mind
[Vibrant General] stanton93:
But.. after all that.. 2days? Really?
[Vibrant General] KWKSLVR:
How do you mean? But yeah, two days. Are you gonna get that with 3G, screen brightness all the way up and staying glued to the device? No, you aren't. But if you keep it on edge, have frozen/removed crap battery draining apps and processes then yeah, you can get 2 days. I get two days by briefly checking email every two or three hours light SMSing (which is a few here and there) and maybe 20 minutes worth of calls. Normal use for me on 3G nets me about 16-19 hours.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capoirrier:
Hello all,

I currently have a captivate, rooted, with lagfix, and the 1.2ghz OC kernel installed. I'm the 3rd device listed under the Linpack scores by device (capoirrier) however when looking at the scores today i noticed a device pulling about 5 mflops higher on the 1ghz kernel. Just curious as to if anybody knew of a new custom rom that could produce those scores at 1ghz? Just always interested in tweaking every little bit of performance out of my device in any way possible. Anyway, if anybody could shed some light on what it could be I would be very appreciative.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Clienterror:
Could be s galaxy s with gimped froyo on it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capoirrier:
Stats to the right tho shows device with 2.1 on it
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] davpel:
Most users here are interested in theming the status bar icons (battery, antenna, etc.) to add flashy elements like battery percentage, etc. I'm looking to do the opposite. I'm using a Sense rom (Fresh 3.2.0) and loving it, but prefer the stock Android status bar icons like those in CM6. Is there any relatively easy way to change from the HTC status icons to the stock ones?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] rujelus22:
Not to hard, you need to get a framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk from a ROM that has the icons that you want then extract them and put them into the framework and resources files from Fresh's ROM. should be in the drawable-hdpi folder. Use adb to push over the new files. Hope this helps
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] davpel:
Thanks. I found the framework-res.apk from the CM6 rom, but could not locate com.htc.resources.apk. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] doronkdoron:
Thank you for the reply. I don't know anything about scheduler. The phone was connected to the power source. How can I cancel it? It is stuck, pressing any of the keys doesn't work...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] RyanZA:
Stuck? Your phone got stuck while writing a file on RFS? Don't think I've heard of that one before. Anyway, just pull out the battery and put it back in. I get the feeling you did something funny somewhere though. ;)

Could even be hardware issues...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] doronkdoron:
Ok, sorry I'm a little afraid. Like I said, the phone stuck on the partition creation stage, during the lag fix running.

I have done a nandroid backup. What could I possibly done wrong?

Can I run this fix with any rom, radio, kernel etc?

and- do I need to see some animation during the partition creation stage? How much time may it take (max)?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] RyanZA:
I don't actually know what a partition creation stage is.

This is what the app does:

1. Makes a big file (long time)

2. Mounts it as loopback (instant)

3. Copies all of your data into the file (long time)

4. Renames your data to .bak (instant)

5. Creates symlinks to the data in the big file (instant)

6. Reboots your phone

As you can see, you can only be stuck on step 1 or step 3

If you reboot your phone at either point, no harm will be done. Just re-run it after.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] doronkdoron:
I pulled the battery out. now when I enter the OCLF, both "one click lag fix v1+" and "undo one click lag fix v1+" are unavailable. When I check free space, It says that I have only 1050MB (before I had about 1700), so some change has been done. what can I do now?

also, can you please give me a little explanation about the scheduler? what should I do with it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] RyanZA:
V1.6.6 will have a cleanup option you can use. It'll be out in awhile.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] doronkdoron:
nothing I can do for now? :( can the restore boot animation work?

can I use my nandroid recovery to rollback changes?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danielt021:
Basicly im not talking about roaming. I just want to know if somehow I can trick my phone into using Verizon's towers as home towers. Roaming works but phone still uses Sprint towers as its base.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kcarpenter:
Best you could do is load a Verizon PRL which isn't the best solution for most people. Aside from that - no.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t12icky0:
hmmm..not be mean but thats like saying i have a 9mm gun would it be possible to put ak47 ammo in it and go. Wont happen.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danielt021:
ok
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanijelDesire:
If i backup my nandroid backup on my PC, will i be able to restore it later once i get it back from the service?

Oh yeah, how do i restore it to the most factoriable factory settings? Without any sight of root or anything..

I once heard/saw that only a doubleclik on a file should do the trick.. That should be the RUU file..

This happenned to me today and i'm bringing it tommorrow to the service shop.

However, i have the OpenDesire rom up. How do i make it old again.

And yeah, is 2.2 rootable? If i get it back on that..
[HD2 General] fradon:
Hello,

this is the problem with my HD2:

Sometimes, i can't receive the incoming calls (while on the caller-side, it seems that the phone is ringing), it doesn't appear anything; besides, in that occasions, I can't do any calls: if I try the bottom "phone" it happens anything.

I can resolve the problem after few shutdown (and taking off and replacing the battery).

It is a very annoying problem; i've tried to solve it with original Rom, hard-resetting and with new unofficial rom.

What i Could try to solve the problem?

Thank you so much!
[HD2 General] skodann:
What rom do you have installed on your device ? An original rom or custom one ? Please give us some more informations , aboit programs , or anything else installed on your device . After that maybe somebody can help you .
[HD2 General] fradon:
I've got always the Original Italian Rom.

Today i've tried the Elegancia Rom 3.0 with radio 2.10.50.08_2 and i haven't installed any other thing but... the problem has happened....
[HD2 General] skodann:
your device is new, or did you acchieved as second hand ? If it is a second hand device, it may been tested before with many custom roms, so if it that you should try to do a task 29 , and after that install an original rom from HTC site .
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] luckyvictor:
What exactly do i have to do to get Android running on my HTC diamond please?

My device now is using Diamond Lover, I have been doing research on this, but found quite a few of posts, and thus I am a little bit confused.

And which version of Android is most stable for HTC diamond (windows based HTC phone) please? are all the problems like camera, wifi, bluetooth and battery drain problems solved?

thanks for the time and advices
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] hidengach:
android 2.2 is stable on diamond ,i use it ,only reman problem is camera ,an usb cable support
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] luckyvictor:
so the camera is still not functioning? so how do I install android on diamond please? and may I know which rom you are using please?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] lakichemole:
Gps ?

GPS is working Too?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] padlets:
Hi, i want to make a rom and use the keybord LatinIME as the default, how can i do that?

Thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cgrec92:
inside the ROM at /system/app

if it is a Sense ROM then the Sense keyboard will be there and it's called HTC_IME.apk

if it is a non-Sense ROM then the Latin_IME.apk keyboard will be there.

just switch them around

or just flash the LatinIME.apk and make it your default by long-pressing on an input box.