x432hz

I noticed a huge battery drain myself. Don't know if it's the 1.2 Kernel or 2.5 CTMod, before I upgraded to 2.5 it would drain somewhat fast, but now it goes from 100% down to 93% in 5 minutes of just looking at the screen. No apps installed other than superuser.

ibdilbert

Anyway to keep the Dalvik Cache on the phone? Maybe that would make this a little bit snappier?

wyelkins

Not with this kernel the way it stands. The entire Data Partition is on sd-ext which includes Dalvik

Lordvincent 90

the problem you are having isnt related to any mods/roms ect. the problem is that when the battery gets to 100% and you dont unplug it, the battery will stop charging and will not start again until it has dropped to ~90%. even though it still says 100% on the display. a reboot will display the correct battery level.
test it for yourself- unplug it exactly when it gets to 100% (yes this means babysitting it, lol) and see if you notice the same 'drain'

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Last edited by Lordvincent 90; February 8th, 2012 at 02:06 AM.

x432hz

I'll give it a try. I do actually notice a really big diference though in how long the battery lasts. It's a fact regardless of the cause.

x432hz

Lordvincent 90, you were right, I did what you said and it worked. But there is a significant drain now compared to when I just had Regular rooted GB with CWM/A2sd compared to what I have now. I found a way to constantly charge my battery with no power source. Problem solved.

Last edited by x432hz; February 8th, 2012 at 04:30 AM.

Lordvincent 90

boot into recovery and (with a full battery) wipe battery stats (advanced>wipe wipe battery stats) let it drain UNTIL IT TURNS ITSSELF OFF. then recharge ALL THE WAY FULL. you should be good then.

Edit: are you saying that youo are having the issue where your battery 'charges' even when unplugged? if so you could try cleaning the contacts. fixed it for my bro

Last edited by Lordvincent 90; February 8th, 2012 at 11:20 AM.

x432hz

You misunderstood me, thats something different alltogether, Don't want to get off the subject. Fact is the battery for the prevail sucks and always has. I noticed a huge difference in battery drain when your adding mods compared to the standard. It's a fact. But I'll deal with it.

Lordvincent 90

what apps have you installed? how much ram do you have free with a 'normal' amount of apps running? have you checked to see what is running in the backgroung? (menu>settings>applications>manage applications, and select the 'running' tab)
also, do you have autosync enabled? this kills battery much faster

i have pretty much gotten the same battery life for the life of this phone... i only had a problem one time when my battery was low and i flashed a new rom (resetting battery stats) i corrected it using the method described above and didnt have the problem anymore...

another factor, that i didnt even consider, do you use your phone MORE now that it is modded? lol, think about it...

what are you using ot determing battery life? an app, or just the ol' look at the display technique? lol
(and lastly, probably a dumb question, but do you disable wifi and gps when not in use?)

edit- thought of another one, try lowering the screen brightness when lighting allows for it. made a big difference for me... i LOVE the notification widgetsfor that very reason.

Last edited by Lordvincent 90; February 9th, 2012 at 12:59 PM.

Lordvincent 90

vodoo? sacrificial virgin? did you add the friction generator from one of those shakable flashlights? lol. do tell!

Carsfanatic

I can actually attest to more battery drain for some reason when going from whatever CTMod 2.5 had at default to KK 1.2.

Yesterday CTMod 2.5 default KK got home from work 76% battery left. Installed KK 1.2 after work and got everything exactly the same it was before putting 1.2 on.

Today just got home from work 24% battery left and been getting the lag trying to wake the phone up.

Don't know what is causing so drastic of a drain but not easy to over look that big of a difference.

I did not have my SD formatted prior to putting on KK 1.2 so it was a fresh format to 1gb and then install KK 1.2 and then I put my TB backups back on the SD card and used TB to restore them all. Also, three times TB froze and had to be force closed by me to get it to respond again.


Was going to try today again fresh sort of. Just have a question if I do a CWM backup and then format to 1/2gb and then do an advanced restore data would that put everything back the way it was before? Or would it be better to just do a total wipe format to 1/2gb fresh install of CTMod2.5 and then KK1.2 and just restore everything via TB again?

Last edited by Carsfanatic; February 9th, 2012 at 01:10 PM.

x432hz

I'm not the only one who noticed a difference.

x432hz

Lordvincent 90 - nothing like that. I will pm you or something to explain what I'm talking about. God knows if I talk about it too much the evil united states government will put a bullit in my head. I love it when I'm told it can't be done but yet I do it anyway. Hey man, don't get me wrong, I love my country, but I hate my Government. If that's what you want to call it anyway. Nicola Tesla was da man.

Imagine sucking electricity right out of the air, and using it to charge your phone, constantly. No bills, no limits, no nothings.
can't be done?, impossible?, ...... ok, I guess your right. ... .. .. ... . ... .. . .
......lol

wyelkins

In the early 20th century a German scientist named Fritz Haber discovered how to pull nitrogen out of the air. Sounds trivial to us now, but it was actually one of the most important scientific discoveries EVER. It feeds the world to this day and allows the earth to support the population we have today.

He later invented chemical warfare in WW I and although a Jew, Zyklon B in WW II.

Extreme Good and Evil in one man who changed the world and no one remembers his name.

One man who won a Nobel Prize and was a sociopathic Monster in two World Wars.

Anything is possible if the human brain is determined to make it happen. Ethics is something else entirely.

Last edited by wyelkins; February 10th, 2012 at 04:59 AM.

x432hz

I know this stuff doesnot belong here, but google this stuff for some cool interesting reading:
Nikola Tesla's Radiant Energy System & Zero Point Energy

I'm certainly not the first to ever do this, but I built a small circuit based off of other people's tests, tweaked it on my own design, the parts cost about $5.00 from radio shack, and now my usb cable plugs into a small box the size of a 9 volt battery, which sits in my pocket, and charges the battery whenever I want, by borrowing, or sucking off the nearby radio waves.

it's so simple it's ridiculous.

Last edited by x432hz; February 10th, 2012 at 08:32 AM.

Xruptor

Seems a few people are using KK1.3 already. I thought Kourma said that it's not an official release just yet and he's going to fine tune it and make some more tweaks before it's official.

The questions is, should I download it and use it or just wait for the official release? A bit confused here.

Heloguy

i must be doing something wrong. i have installed 1.2 repeatedly step by step using the directions. it installs and everything works, however my phone is working at a snails pace. sooooo laggy.

Koumajutsu

What speed is your SDcard? If it's pretty slow, then you'll definitely get plenty of lag. 1.2 definitely isn't a best fit for everyone kernel. I know I have an 8gig class 2 card, I have it split 4gigs for vfat, and 4 gigs for ext4. Though it's a class 2 (2mb/sec), it still runs pretty snappy for me

Heloguy

I'm running a 16g class 10 card, w/a 1gig ext4 partition.
I really appreciate what you and the others have done for the
community.
I guess I'm just jealous when I hear everyone say how fast and responsive their phones are. Lol.

The~Skater~187

What is your sdcard cache set at?

Carsfanatic

I have a class 4(that gets a little higher than 4) and I am getting horrible horrible lag on everything the phone does and waking it up can take sometimes 30 seconds, trying to type anything I am better trying to dig up a telegraph machine to send messages. I haven't been able to get enough time at home to try to work on it yet but something definately isn't working right for some reason.

Still having the huge battery drain too. During my day today I am on my 3rd battery when usually I would still have about 25% left right now on one battery.

Heloguy

I have no idea. How would I check, and what should it be set to?

The~Skater~187

Go to the market and download sd booster. That will tell you the cache size and allow you to change it. A good size is 2048

Heloguy

It was set at 2048. I changed it to 1024, and WAMMO! Lightning fast!
Thanks for the awesome tip!

The~Skater~187

No problem. Glad I could help.

What kernel & rom are you running? Just out of curiousity.
Cause I have a 16gb class 10 with a 1gb ext4 with my 187MoD-HoneyBread3 and Genocide Kernel (which is the same as kouma's 1.2, just compiled from hroarks sourcecode)

Last edited by The~Skater~187; February 10th, 2012 at 08:48 PM.

Heloguy

I'm running CTMod 2.5 w/the unofficial kk1.3
Now that all is well I might try 1.2 again

Carsfanatic

Nice good call Skater I tried sd booster and changed it to 512 and everything seems smooth now. It took me 5 minutes to get to market and get it downloaded and installed and to run it but now everything runs as it did with stock CTMod maybe better but need more time to test.

The~Skater~187

Cars, what Kernel, and rom are you running and how big is your sdcard and partitions?
Trying to get some good reference points for different mods, roms, and cards, so we can maybe get a scale of good sdcard cache sizes, per Rom, kernel, and card. If ya know what I mean?

Purponic

So you think Big Brother is gonna hunt you down for publicly sharing information you found some place else on the internet? They make something for that its called Xanax it works wonders.

The~Skater~187

Sorry, but I lmao when I read this^.

Carsfanatic

CTMod 2.5 KK 1.2 16gb class 4 card that at least in my tests is a little higher than 4. Formatted for SD/EXT to 1gb.

I am still getting some lag issues going to start anew and format SD to 512 and then erase everything and install CTMod 2.5 fresh and then KK 1.2 and then restore my programs with TB.

Purponic

I think everyone is having some lag issues with KK 1.2. I have a class 10 card and I still have lag when opening some programs and stuff. The programs I was having issues with I changed to a system app and its made them much snappier. Unfortunately not all programs will run as a system app.

Carsfanatic

I am having lag with stuff that I just can't have lag with like trying to make phone calls and answering them. So have to fix that before I can keep KK 1.2.

Update: I formatted SD/EXT to 512, wiped everything fresh install of CTMod 2.5 did the first boot then installed KK 1.2 booted up and initially just like everyone else I am sure it lags a bit the first time you open something but after the first time then it seems to be running a lot smoother. Will run it all day Saturday after finishing up the TB restore of everything and see how it goes.

Last edited by Carsfanatic; February 11th, 2012 at 01:46 AM.

x432hz

That was a joke, he aint my brother and Im alergic to xanax.

wyelkins

LOL. Good One X.

You really had me going there for a while...

Xruptor

Guess no suggestions or advice on this one

Lordvincent 90

It's working fine, just not for everyone, lol. 2 options, wait and wonder if your phone can be even more impressive, OR make a backup, give it a shot, and keep/use it if good-2-go, restore backup if not (and let us know pass/fail lol)

Carsfanatic

If it was listed what 1.3(Hroak KK) does compared to 1.2 then I'd give it a go. Can wait for an official KK though.

Carsfanatic

Wiped everything formatted SD/EXT to 512. Installed CTMod 2.5 let it boot once and then installed KK 1.2. Put all of my apps back with TB and seems to be working great. The lag is gone I don't see any at all anymore.

Necrotoxin

OK.. so forgive the nub question but what exactly is "pure app 2 SD"? I'm trying to figure it out and from what I can tell is it should be using my sd-ext partition as my data partition however a fresh ctmod 2.5 followed by kk 1.2 then a fresh sd-ext partition, my phone still reports only ~80mb free in internal memory. Am I doing something wrong or...?

The~Skater~187

After flashing the kernel, you have to mount the sd-ext in CWM before booting, then all should be good.

Necrotoxin

Ok thanks. Do I have to do that everytime I boot or just once?

Nvm answered it myself.

Last edited by Necrotoxin; February 13th, 2012 at 01:59 AM.

x432hz

I never had to mount anything

johnny424

you only have to mount sd ext if you already had sd partitioned and were using some kind of app2sd or link2sd

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Necrotoxin

Just wanted to report in. I have a 4gb class 2 SD with a 1gb ext4 partition on hroark's kk1.3 (unofficial) and my phone runs as smooth as hot butter. I've already used more space than the phone has out of the box. After tesrlting my card I set the sd cache to 1024 rather than 2048 and I've gotten the best performance out of it. I have noticed more battery drain but it's not anything extremely substantial.

The~Skater~187

There is a script I got off xda, that has helped my battery significantly. You can find the link in the op for honeybread. It the build.prop, and init.d tweaks.

Guspeed

are these scripts already in the new HB3 Rom?

The~Skater~187

Which scripts?

Carsfanatic

They are not included in the rom they are linked to XDA in the thread for the rom so you can go there and decide for yourself if you want to install them.

The~Skater~187

Actually some of them are included, but there are more on the XDA link that I did not include. The scripts I included in my Rom I will post on the HoneyBread thread if you want to know. I don't want to take over Kouma's thread.