Help Question about battery life

[CrimsonToker]

So I've had this volt for probably four or five months now, and I've noticed the battery life has really degraded recently. If I'm interacting with it, and I'm kind of a heavy user, a full charge might last about eight hours. That's enough for me, really. I could deal with that, but it charges so slowly, I can't gain a charge if I'm using it at all, which is a problem when I use it for music while I am at work.

I want to know if getting a new battery would solve it. I am currently running CM11, if that makes a difference.

 

[bg4m3r]

That certainly doesn't sound right. First thing I would do is go back to stock zv5 and make sure it's not the ROM. I think I saw someone else report high battery usage on CM.

I can have my GPS and tethering on with it plugged into the car charger and gain battery. Actually had it go from 50% to full in 4 hours under these circumstances.

It normally goes from dead to full in about 4 hours or less.

 

[CrimsonToker]

I haven't been on zv5 yet, I am kinda nervous about flashing again, but you're right, that's probably the best bet..

 

[bg4m3r]

Just make a backup before flashing and no worries.

You know all you have to do is flash the new ROM zip.

 

[jeffmd]

I've had the volt since day one.. it has degraded from a full 2 days of charge to about 1.5 of normal use. Still never dies on me.

 

[austin316]

I would check 2 things.

-Settings, developer options, select runtime, choose: Dalvik. I don't care what anyone says on here....ART is a battery drainer.

-Make sure you are using the right wall charger and usb cord. The original. I used a 3rd party wall charger/usb cord and it took forever to charge. Literally worthless. Used my original equipment and it recharged so much quicker.

Good luck

 

[CrimsonToker]

Yep still on dalvik and using the lg charger I got with the phone. B4g4m3r I wouldn't need to flash a new radio or kernel? Just flash the ROM? My issue is that I don't have a computer, or even at the moment an SD card. I need to buy a new card, but I want to save for as big of one as I can get. Hoping for the 125 gig. So I can't make backups right now

 

[bg4m3r]

Yep still on dalvik and using the lg charger I got with the phone. B4g4m3r I wouldn't need to flash a new radio or kernel? Just flash the ROM? My issue is that I don't have a computer, or even at the moment an SD card. I need to buy a new card, but I want to save for as big of one as I can get. Hoping for the 125 gig. So I can't make backups right now

I meant that since you have custom recovery you don't have to go through the whole downgrade process. You don't even need a computer.