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[Galaxy S I9000 General] basti107:
Still the same...

Do you know the "flightmode"? there was no syncing, dataconnection whatsoever...

did you even read my post?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Don MC:
Hmm [reads pictures in german].

Did it drop 30% in 8 hours? In airplane mode?

Something is def eating your battery. Normally, it should be less than 1%/h with everything on (WiFi, 3G and auto-sync). MUCH less in airplane mode.

Do you leave WiFi on when in airplane mode? I know it should automatically get switched off, but anyways...

Also, that "suspend" -process troubled me too for a while (with huge battery drain as well). Then I installed Auto WiFi Toggle to help shut off WiFi when not in range. Now my battery is down to around 0,6%/h in idle with WiFi, 3G and auto-sync (email & calendar) ON.

I still have no idea what "suspend" is.

EDIT: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=777949

Also, I completely uninstalled programs like task managers and power savers (Juice Defender). Otherwise they remain running in the background. I noticed they do me more harm than good, as I want to have my phone online 24/7.

Make sure no third party apps are set to automatically sync or update. They might "hang" when in airplane mode and try to sync anyway. I've turned every app off. Even the Market app is set to not check for updates (I check them manually). Go into Google Latitude and sign out from it (otherwise you remain signed in always).

Repeat these steps for all programs that might be suspicious.

EDIT: I've switched off auto notifications on all programs except K-9 Mail. I don't need notifications on my Facebook account etc. It notifies me by email if needed. And so on...

I have disabled automatic backups in Titanium Backup, because it sometimes has left my display on afterwards. I do backups manually instead.

Most importantly: I've uninstalled every app I really do not need. Especially those "power savers" and "task managers". We really do not need those. The only "power saver" I do have installed is the mentioned Auto WiFi Toggle. This is because my Android sucks at automatically turning off WiFi when I'm away from home.

EDIT: What is "wählen"? Is that the dialer?

And "ausführen"? Was ist das?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Johnny55555555:
This was kind of my point, about everyone being different.

2.2.1 + root + lagfix + setcpu

NO GAMES

NO BATTERY POWER WIDGETS

PLAIN BLACK BACKGROUND, 5 minute screen delay, auto brightness

3G SYNC ON 24/7

Smartphone set up and used as a smartphone.

Now getting 2+ days on a charge, this us USING THE PHONE, sending and receiving calls, sms, emails, gps/navigation, etc.

I'm fairly convinced 95% of the battery issues are user error and scads of crappy battery and power widgets.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Don MC:
+1

For instance, I've just read about the Facebook app possibly being a resource hog as well. Make sure you set that, and all less-critical apps to NOT auto-sync.

And completely uninstall everything you really do not need.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] basti107:
wählen is "dialing" i think

and ausführen means "execute"

on a clean stock-rom i get the same drain... (without any apps installed)

in search for a reason against my problem i did these steps...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
I thought I'd give Green Power a whirl. My battery temp increased to 45 and the battery drained four times faster than normal!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DrunkFuX666:
wow you people all seem so smart and know exactly what your talking about... i on the other hand am an idiot who has no clue what majority of the stuff you ppl are talking about even means... lol

BUT... the reason why im here is because of terrribbllleee battery life... i was on stock froyo 2.2 and just recently put on darkys v9.2 hoping somehow battery life would improve but clearly it didnt... at all... i can barely manage 12-15 hours... barely... thats with not using the damn phone even when i want to... so like since you can prob already judge... im a extreme newbie....

so if anyone can take out some time and explain a few essential things i should be doing as far as apps or settings go in the most layman illiterate terminology as possible... ill really really appreciate it... :D

thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mib1800:
There are TWO scenarios that matter (for most people I think)

1. Active Use (screen on + 3G + auto-bright + web) : 25-28% per hour. This use does NOT depend on what ROM or tweaks you use. Screen is the battery guzzler here.

2. Standby (3G + data + sync on + gmail + data widgets) : Typically reported figures are between 0.5 to 3% and above per hour. Personally I am getting 1%. (doc rom 9.6.6, speedmod k13c + ext4 + all recommended tweaks, jpe modem). I think anything above 3% is high which means you may have some rouge/background apps that are draining the battery. The usual suspects are IMs/voip/schedule-based/widget apps.

So here's the thing. If you use your phone actively (1) is the critical and there is nothing you can do about it. You can also forget about (2) as it really doesnt matter.

If standby time matters a lot then maybe having this phone is an overkill.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] KennyLegend:
i agree with the above poster i

for example. . in 8 hrs yesterday while at work, i used 10% battery.

that was about 15 mins 2g internet, 1 phone call about 5 mins and 4 text messages. not bad. data turned off with screen off.

then i go to bed last night and used gentle alarm. great app but eats battery unreal. lost 42% in 7 hrs overnight.

i don't mind as i was expecting it.

it really is down to usage.

Sent from another GALAXY
[Galaxy S I9000 General] guika:
Absolutly agree with above
[Galaxy S I9000 General] seby79:
I have found interesting information from this thread but to bad that there is no way to find what application or applications, depends on case, is / are eating all the resources of the phone.

For example mine phone, I have given up to use any battery widget, I have the 3G / data plan always on, the brightness of the screen is on automatic, the Wifi is turned off when the screen goes off and some other application which are ''always'' on such as Lockout mobile, beautiful widget, task manager advanced, the alarm(but the alarm I am not using everyday). I have also installed JuicePlotter, but not even with this application I am not able to see what application / process is eating all my battery because my battery doesn't stand for more than 30 hours - which is bad. I have a friend who installed the 2.2.1 version and he said that the battery is standing for more than 3 days with heavy use - I have 2.2 version but I don't think that because of the firmware version my battery drains out so quickly. I am still searching for a way to discover what application / applications / process drains out the battery so quickly. I was thinking to install also the 2.2.1 firmware version but yet I am not ready to go, again, through the process to install after that all the applications and everything.

Any thought is welcome ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] guika:
There is not any magical things. Our screen eats 160-190mah you battery has 1500mah that means you could feed Only the screen for 8 hours continous use. I dont like personally this heavy normal usage words. My collage has sgs as well he was happy with 3 days. I asked his phone and i watched the battery stat. And it said the screen was on dor 30min in three days.

Like this we could achive 3 days. But if you use your phone you will never got it.

There are apps widgets so on which eats your battery it s true.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] KennyLegend:
look. . its very simple.

if you use your phone for 3g internet, email, moderate calls and texts you should get 1-2 days out of your battery.

if you are a very light user you should get 3 days.

all these apps and widgets that monitor this and monitor that are all running processes and will add to your battery drain.

my advice to anyone having battery issues is as follows:

do a fresh install of a custom Rom and kernel. (allow a few charge cycles to for the battery to calibrate itself again).

install minimum of apps after that. the more you have the more that could potentially run in the background. if you use weather widgets etc, set refresh rate to never. Refresh manually when you want to see updates.

turn off data when you are not using the internet, mail etc. set data to 2g if you do not need 3g /H .

i use "tasker" from the market to turn off my data when my screen goes off. it costs about €4 but is the best app out there in my opinion.

i also use it to turn off/on my wifi when out of range and back in range of my router . it can do lots of other things also.

i also set wifi sleep policy to sleep when screen is off. this way all my data connections are automatically off when my screen goes off. this saves a huge amount.

with the above settings i get 2 days from my battery with moderate and sometimes heavy usage.

Sent from my SGS with 900Mb of more usable RAM
[Galaxy S I9000 General] salivaman:
interesting find. i myself personally have spent weeks trying to solve the battery drain problem but to no avail, but i have never tried turning off the "packet data" before because i have been assuming all the while that when the 3G icon disappears in the notifications bar after switching to wifi, data is disconnected.

i am currently testing this right now, and will report the results soon.

also, i would like to add my own findings here, regarding issues with certain routers causing the phone to not sleep (abnormally high running time) while the wifi is connected:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9832200&postcount=4

hope this helps. =)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jackall:
I would have no problem volunteering to flash with KIES, even though I hate that program with passion :). Anyways I would like to spend a few more days studying a bit more the problem before I do.

Anyhow, for another report on my battery

From Settings --> About Phone --> Battery Use

8H 30m Since Unplugged,

Display 68%

Voice Calls 26%

Cell StndBy 4%

Phone Idle 2%

Phone usage as per previous post, with a few more phone calls

Battery Remaining 59%

not too bad, but still a far cry from what i used to get in pre froyo roms.

I was thinking, since in previous firmwares when we left the phone to charge overnight, the battery would keep on charging till it was actually disconnected, if it was mis-calibrated, a full night charge would fully charge the battery no matter what.

However, if with the latest firmwares the phone stops charging when it thinks the battery is at 100% that could be a problem if it is not.

To check this theory out, I would have to go back to JPP or smtg like that, do a full charge, then re-flash JPY and see where we get from there. Will do it after another couple of cycles though.

While at this, wish everyone here a very happy Christmas :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Stefanauss:
Ahah sorry xD I would never have been able to grasp the sarcasm out of it. :D I'm linux user and i only ever use KIES (rebooting on Windows) when it's time to flash, a task which it's been extremely good at, at least for me.

I personally do like the relief of not having to worry to brick the device, a risk which is there with Odin (although very small with SGS).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtluis:
Hi guys, just a thought, in my old (very old) SE w810 there was a know problem with battery drainage if you used large memory sticks (the larger the stick, the quicker battery drained).

My guess is that all of us having battery drained so fast are using an external SD card. I just removed mine to see if this has anything to do with battery, I'll let you know if I had any improvement.

Also, maybe using more space on SD also costs more battery??
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Stefanauss:
I have a 16GB Class 5 Micro SDHC Card, and with that always inserted i had 2 days of battery life with RSJP5.

Never tried without since i had it though, so i cannot rule it out. But i really doubt could be in our "suspects" list.

Are you referring to just the presence of an external card and/or its size, or you are also mentioning the actual space used on the card? (just to understand)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtluis:
Well, I was referring to both actually, I just thought that having more space used consumed yet more battery.... now I don't think this is a problem, I've been using for a couple of hours my phone without external SD card and battery seems discharging at the same rate ( about 1% every minute or two) when connected to wifi.

I will try the "bumping" method and see if there is actually any difference
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ingineru:
Hi guys, my opinions related to battery drainage:

1. roms flashed with odin or cwm do not drain more than ones flashed with kies

2. i had high battery drain when media server was using the cpu ( corrupted file )

Use battery history to find what is preventing phone to sleep : *#*#info#*#*

Use systempanel

Now i am on insanity jpx v 0.1 + hardcore k12a, it's almost 24h since unplugged, i have 78% remaining and i used the phone quite a bit ( few phone calls, 15 min browsing via wifi, 15 min gps, some fooling around, total display usage 45 mins ).

I always disable wifi and packet data when i do not need them , email app ( aosp ) is set on push peak times and manual off peak

Hardcore k12a, all tweaks enabled seems to work fine for me for now.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tackygr:
Hi all and Gratz for this very helpfull post.I ll state some facts in my turn as i remember them,cant be precise though.

Bought my SGS with 2.1 eclair,no battery issue,although the pphone was new,and i was playing all ay with i,lasted average 24 hours.

Updated on 2.2 with registry hack and kies and saw NO noticable deiference in battery,though i used the phone less.Also noticed that my friends Iphone4 and the SGS had almost the same battery drainage( about 8 hours continues playing Angry birds)

Then decided to update in JPU stock with Odin,and there i got freaked out with battery.I work as a barman,and usually wake up late,13:00 is average,with JPU my phone was empty by 12 midnight...

Updated again in JPX stock with Odin and it was the same.

finally flashed Darkys rom v6 JPX no difference what so ever.Woke up today at 14:00,

browse some internet,played a bit of game,total 30 mminutes,wifi on 15 minutes,1 call 2 minutes,some SMS about 5-6 of them,battery is now 12:20 at 8%.

With the above anyone can see that :

Either there is a problem as stated in 2.2.1 firmwares or..

Odin flashed firmwares create this problem.

I not on one side or the other,but i have had a thought that it might have to do with the fact that with Odin we all flash in whatever the battery state is(40%-65%-80%)

whereas in Kies we only flash on 100% even if the registry patcher is disabled to check.Now maybe this has got to do something with it.

i deleted my battery stats last night,did the presedure and so far no difference,so tonight i will charge with phone off and we will see.

Thanks for making this post and sharing with everyne some extra info we didnt know.

Edit:I forgot to mention that on the JPU update on the first night i lost 40% of the battery while i was sleeping.Since i dont use 3G at all,nor i have any e mail sychronise,and wifi always off its a bit to much.Next day all i did on settings was to calibrate my screen,which might helped a it as sisnce then i m losing bout 10% every night.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtluis:
Hello friend, do you happen to have the beautiful widgets weather installed? I have only saw that kind of leakage using beautiful widgets weather... You shouldn't have that kind of drain even in the worst cases, there is probably an app consuming all that battery, your problem might be fixable just by uninstalling that problematic app.

If you use beautiful widgets, I can 100% be sure your problem will be solved by uninstalling, if you don't use it, install the systempanel app suggested here, full version can show you what apps are consuming CPU and therefore battery.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bokbacken:
hi all!

I have browses the latest post, but I will reread them tomorrow to analyse a bit, but concerning the "calibration" of battery, if this is truly needed or not, could you use one of the forensic tools from post #1 and check the mV level at a few different battery % that way we will get a hint if this is the same on all our devices or if this also changes.

So my suggestion is to report the voltage at these levels (all on battery):

100% for all that reach this, I know many loose 100% when the disconnect, in that case report mV and current %

95%

90%

75%

50%

25%

10%

I think this will help us a lot to see if we have the same measurement or not.

FYI:

Currently I have Beatyful widget active with 4 hour refresh, it doesn't seem to cause too much drain.

At 10:00 I had 100& battery (I do get 100%!)

Now at 01:00 (15 hours later) I'm at 67%

Report from SystemPanel

System 1.8% (~26 minutes)

Email 1.4%(~20 m)

System processes 0.7% (9:45)

SystemPanel 0.2% (3:07)

ZEAM 0.2% (2:19) This is the launcher I use

Beatuiful Widget 0.1% (2:06)

At 16:00 I change from my hardcore to voodoo advanced OC kernel, after that I wase using Google Earth for a few minutes (stress test for 1.28GHz).

So far no problems at all, this is the best battery life I had for the latest week!

Ok it's now 1 o'clock in the night for me but I will get back with in the morning and then I will read the posts I got more in detail and give some comments.

Till then, thanks for your feedback, 1½ days after starting the thread I know so much more about battery drain, I'm sure we will get more than a full day out of our I9000:s!!

One more thing: in response to jackall:s first part (want to spend a few more days.....)

To get correct results concerning battery drain issues, dont try to force the issue, we must allow things to take long, not only hours, but days, otherwise we'll be back at guessing and I don't think there is much more room for this, you have all gotten the attitude: "You're just a noob, blame yourself for getting battery drain", "Everybody knows that using/setting up (add just about anything here) drains your battery, your just plain stupid" and the likes

Even if some of us are noobs, we should be able to use our phones.

And remember, if "everybody" knows, why is SGS Email 2.2.1 included in ROM:s? as "Everybody" knows it causes drain!

Never accept that anybody says "Everybody knows" because it's newer true, how can I tell? Because "everybody knows it" or rather:

Common sense is not that common.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zoubidou:
what your christmas partie is already over!!

ok i just flashed k12c

I have purchased the system panel, thus i can give some infos tomorrow.

but i did not flash the other patch, just to make sure i eliminate only one thing at a time.

I use exchange push but use the galaxy tab email client (2 accounts) because i have to, i am administrator of both networks. the clients are set to always push no holidays or off times.

i use also gmail sync.

i use launcher pro for personal reasons.

and i have weather and toggle installed with 3 hours sync.

wifi is set to android default.

it is 3h45 am here no and my battery is 100%

i will let you know tomorrow.

merry christmas again to everybody, and good night to the europeans.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zmafreak:
I was using Darky's v7 JPY ROM and i had the most craziest battery life ever..

A fully charged battery would lose 70% charge in under 6-7 hours.

The modem used on V7 was quite slow the GPS took more time to lock and it was less accurate. The best i got was 15m accuracy using GPS essentials. Call quality was effected. Couple of friends have told my voice sounds low.

I dont play games, i listen to music (3hr a day), attend 10 -12 calls and 15-20 sms.

Switching back to Darky's V6 ROM
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ReiKo90:
Yeah, well can we do something about this on Darky's 7.0? Or wait him to fix it or it's Samsung's fault??
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Lancey:
My phone is showing 98% after unplugging charger at 100%. I wiped battery stats but it didnt help. Anyone know how to fix this? Some say this is samsung battery safer thing
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mithunjo:
Read through the entire thread because I'm facing serious battery issues like the ones mentioned here (more than 12% an hour)

Just wanted to add something about Systempanel. I have the full version, but I've not found it helpful! All it shows me under monitor is very small percentages for Apps, but nothing unusual at all..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hardcore:
Here's another thing to try: Turn off USB debugging. Reboot phone. See if there's any difference.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zoubidou:
ok here i am back

6 hours later

configuration:

I9000 international

Darky's 7.0

Speedmode K12C

Software installed:

launcher pro (which i am using)

Widgetlocker

email - using the galaxy tab email client(2 accounts exchange through push), gmail

widget & toggle weather widget - updates every 3 hours

settings: WiFi (Android default)

3G (on)*

Weather = cold outside stay inside (nothing to do with battery) but i bit of humor in this battery draining time.

battery = 94%

si i had 1% loss per hour (before i had only 2% loss during a similar period)

SystemPanel:

I only give results where it states something différent from 0% except important ones.

Email: 11 seconds (i have received 1 sms and several gmails)

Average consomption = 0%

GMail: 4 seconds

Average consomption = 0%

Maps: 9 seconds

Average consomption = 0%

Messages: 1 second

Average consomption = 0%

Parameters: 13 seconds

Average consomption = 0,1%

SystemPanel = 46 seconds

Average consomption = 0,2%

Weather&Toggle = 52 seconds

Average consomption = 0,2%

Weather forecast addon = 18 seconds

Average consomption = 0,1%

ok conclusion.

the only thing i can see is the above result does not reflect the truth.

why I have lost 6% in 1 hour whilst above only states 0.6%

I have also check system internal processes:

the only thing I can see in there is the system using 0.6%

In fact, i have now lost 4% in 40 minutes (ie 1% per 10 minutes of usage)

during some usage (consulting the stats, reading the sms and some emals).

Originally with my first eclair version not using kies but odin, during sleep time I had only 2% of loss over night.

but that does not make the real difference, I think as soon as you start any activity on the phone, the battery is drained, obviously during the sleeping time it should not do this.

I strongly suggest everybody who has battery drain pbs to buy SystemPanel. It gives excellent indications of whats going on in your SGS.

but I think I have to wait a little longer to come to any conclusion, at least a day or 2, because the stats don't give enough information for the moment. I will also install some of the tools mentioned in post 1.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] darkalchemist:
Reporting back on K12a with JPA wifi driver, it seems to be pretty wierd. It drained a lot during the day but then seemed to stabilise. Left wifi with push on overnight (about 8 hours) and lost about 10% or so battery. Seems like draining the last percentage of battery is taking longer.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rigor.m:
Trying to be useful here.. I do not use wifi, and I turn wifi on only for large data transfers in my home. The battery life is good. Today I tried to leave wifi on and go into my router's settings page... guess what... the phone always shows up with wifi active; it also answers to ping commands...

Conclusion : in my case setting " turn wifi off when screen is off " DOES NOT WORK... Wifi stays on and chews battery...

Try it yourselves... find out your phone ip and ping it ...