Root Rooted and now battery life is awful

[jhug]

Hello all:

I rooted my phone and installed E.E. 3.0.

SetCPU with the following settings:
Main Profile: 710/528
Charging AC/Full: 480/245, ondemand (I don't use while charging)
Screen Off: 480/245, ondemand
Temp > 43.9c: 480/245, ondemand
No change to the "Perflock Disabler" setting.

Phone was charged to 100% this morning.
1. Made/received about 5 calls...maybe 5 minutes each
2. Read about 3 gmail e-mails (they auto-synch).
3. Read about 2 exchange e-mails (synchs every 15 min)
4. Maybe 5 minutes total of other miscelaneous activities.

Battery was 100% at 9:00AM...0% and dead at 6:00PM...that's 9 hours total.

Battery Usage (Close estimate, I forgot the exact values):
45% Cell Standby
35% Phone Idle
20% Split amongst phone activities (calls, etc.)

Any ideas on what the issue may be?...Or things I could check?

Thanks.

 

[raphifix]

Hello all:

I rooted my phone and installed E.E. 3.0.

SetCPU with the following settings:
Main Profile: 710/528
Charging AC/Full: 480/245, ondemand (I don't use while charging)
Screen Off: 480/245, ondemand
Temp > 43.9c: 480/245, ondemand
No change to the "Perflock Disabler" setting.

Phone was charged to 100% this morning.
1. Made/received about 5 calls...maybe 5 minutes each
2. Read about 3 gmail e-mails (they auto-synch).
3. Read about 2 exchange e-mails (synchs every 15 min)
4. Maybe 5 minutes total of other miscelaneous activities.

Battery was 100% at 9:00AM...0% and dead at 6:00PM...that's 9 hours total.

Battery Usage (Close estimate, I forgot the exact values):
45% Cell Standby
35% Phone Idle
20% Split amongst phone activities (calls, etc.)

Any ideas on what the issue may be?...Or things I could check?

Thanks.

I would make the main profile lower to about 245mhz or so.

However, if you really want better battery life, I would ditch the OC altogether and/or check out XtrROM.

Originally, I had OC enable on Xtr with similar profiles as yours, and I got bad batter life. However, once I upgraded to the latest version, I decided to keep JIT off as well as OC. Well, wouldn't you know it, my battery life improved significantly. The rom is quite snappy even without those aforementioned boosters, and I was able to squeeze over 14 hours out of my Eris (according to Battery Left app) with moderate phone/data usage.

/shameless plug

 

[Podivin]

I had the same problem when I was OC'd. I removed SetCPU and just run at the default 528 of the phone and my battery life went back to normal (16 hours or so on a charge). *I* wasn't wowed by the difference in speed when overclocked, so I don't miss it now that it's gone. The rooted phone runs so much better (on XTR 3.03) than it did as stock that I'm happy with it the way it is.

 

[Papadroid]

Just out of curiosity, what widgets were you running?

 

[Rav20]

I dont know about other peoples battery issues for me i'm running CELB1.5 froyo OC'ed to 710/710 only profile i use is heat set to drop to 245/245 if it gets above 50c which it never has but just in case.

anyway i unplug my phone at 6:30 am everyday use my phone a lot
texting and email and widgets and what not. and when i go to bed at 10pm i plug my phone back in. and battery is around 30-35%

but thats just me maybe there's another issue

 

[Frisco]

Since I rooted, and overclocked, I've sacrificed a few of my normal settings in order to conserve battery life a bit: no more auto syncing on anything as prn works fine for me, that goes for emails, weather, anything at all that has a setting to poll another source.

The sole exception is a low slot cycle setting.

 

[jhug]

Hi:

Weatherbug
SetCPU
Exchange Mail
Agenda (Calendar appointments)
Pandora (Has not been used - just sitting there)
CraigsList (Think it's called Craigsphone)

Thanks.

Just out of curiosity, what widgets were you running?

 

[Papadroid]

Hi:

Weatherbug
SetCPU
Exchange Mail
Agenda (Calendar appointments)
Pandora (Has not been used - just sitting there)
CraigsList (Think it's called Craigsphone)

Thanks.

Try getting rid of the SetCPU widget and see if that helps. I've heard of that widget causing problems.

 

[frosteddroid]

Hi:

Weatherbug
SetCPU
Exchange Mail
Agenda (Calendar appointments)
Pandora (Has not been used - just sitting there)
CraigsList (Think it's called Craigsphone)

Thanks.

ive noticed if you let your battery die then do a full charge, then go to recovery and wipe battery stats, makes a big difference if you switch roms alot...i get a full day of battery

 

[5thAgent]

ive noticed if you let your battery die then do a full charge, then go to recovery and wipe battery stats, makes a big difference if you switch roms alot...i get a full day of battery

I just saw this on another thread somewhere on the net. Maybe even here. But thanks for sharing the knowledge. Actually doing it for once. I had the time to do it and this reminded me. lol.

 

[Haxcid]

Hi:

Weatherbug
SetCPU
Exchange Mail
Agenda (Calendar appointments)
Pandora (Has not been used - just sitting there)
CraigsList (Think it's called Craigsphone)

Thanks.

Install spare parts from the market and it will tell you what is eating your battery.