Help Awful Battery Life?

[droidfan1]

I'm getting 8hours.

This is with:

Wi-fi, NFC, 4G, always off.

GPS/Bluetooth always off.

Screen dim as possible.

I'm doing moderate use - no video games, lot of texting / music playing.

I'm also using the 2100 mhz battery. Why is it dying so fast? Can anyone explain?

 

[trophynuts]

are you in a good 3G coverage area?

also how are you playing music? Streaming it through google Music?

 

[jbdan]

Did you just get the phone? Give it some a few charge ups. So you don't use any data of any kind at all? Or just 3G? Your cell signal is important how strong/weak is it?

 

[sperho]

Please post your exact screen on time.

 

[droidfan1]

 

[droidfan1]

are you in a good 3G coverage area?

also how are you playing music? Streaming it through google Music?

Yes, and not streaming it.

Did you just get the phone? Give it some a few charge ups. So you don't use any data of any kind at all? Or just 3G? Your cell signal is important how strong/weak is it?

I have, at least 5 100% to 0% and back, at least 5 times.. I use 3G, and my signal is constantly 3-4 bars.

Please post your exact screen on time.

Think I did ^

 

[jbdan]

Awake a lot. If you tap your screen (which says 38%) how many hours/minutes was it on in that period?

You say moderate use, but we all have different meanings of "moderate use"

From the graph, if those awake times correspond to you using the phone, than I'd consider that heavy use. A lot of "ifs" there though

My signal (at home) is yellow across the board. Wished I had your signal (green) at my home

 

[droidfan1]

Awake a lot. If you tap your screen (which says 38%) how many hours/minutes was it on in that period?

You say moderate use, but we all have different meanings of "moderate use"

From the graph, if those awake times correspond to you using the phone, than I'd consider that heavy use. A lot of "ifs" there though

My signal (at home) is yellow across the board. Wished I had your signal (green) at my home

Not sure, didn't take a screenshot of it and I just fully charged it. I text people a ton, probably a ton. I basically turn it on, text, and turn it off. Continue to do that + change songs, etc. That's heavy use?

 

[TJGoSurf]

I have nothing to contribute beyond, don't we go thru this with every new phone release? I've always noticed after 1-3 months of using any Android phone that battery life gets better.

 

[sperho]

Think I did ^

You need to touch the 'screen' bar where it says 38% to get to the exact screen on time. Can you post up when you find it?

 

[droidfan1]

We'll see then lol. Hopefully it does.

 

[droidfan1]

Android OS is now > Screen. What is so heavy from the OS?

 

[sperho]

Android OS is now > Screen. What is so heavy from the OS?

From my usage patterns, background syncs for messaging of nearly any sort induce awake time. Also, media streaming - i.e. podcast players, music, etc. Others are working on determining how 3G/4G/wifi signal hunting affect OS time...

 

[droidfan1]

Turned off background sync for facebook/google account (contacts, etc)

Hopefully I see a big increase in battery life. As I have said, no wifi gps bluetooth 4g nfc, anything! I'm using Axiom 2.1

 

[droidfan1]

Wow, this is horrible 1 hour 100% to 80%. Just awful... Hopefully it improves.

 

[droidfan1]

Is there an actual problem with my phone? Is it the rom? The sync?

 

[jbdan]

Is there an actual problem with my phone? Is it the rom? The sync?

So you're getting this bad battery life on axiom...you didn't say that. How was it before you rooted and flashed axiom?

 

[droidfan1]

So you're getting this bad battery life on axiom...you didn't say that. How was it before you rooted and flashed axiom?

Similar. It was never great, I'll say that. Do you think it's my kernel / axiom?

 

[jbdan]

Similar. It was never great, I'll say that. Do you think it's my kernel / axiom?

Possibly. You really need to give it some time it's difficult to say anything until you've given the rom/kernel combo a chance. How long have you been on axiom is it the latest version?

 

[droidfan1]

Possibly. You really need to give it some time it's difficult to say anything until you've given the rom/kernel combo a chance. How long have you been on axiom is it the latest version?

Been on 2.1 since it released, pretty much as soon as. Since then, I've charged / discharged many times, I do it fully. Maybe the kernel sucks?

 

[jbdan]

Been on 2.1 since it released, pretty much as soon as. Since then, I've charged / discharged many times, I do it fully. Maybe the kernel sucks?

Its imoseyon kernel they don't suck at all they are excellent in my experience. At this point I'd start over with a wipe and a fresh flash so you can track it and narrow it down as to what is causing abnormal battery drain.

 

[droidfan1]

On cpu overclock, 1200 mhz, 350mhz.

Should I use hotplug, interactive, or ondemand? And imoseyon tweaks owned on my bionic/x can't remember which, but it greatly improved battery life.

 

[droidfan1]

If it continues to suck, maybe I should try gummy? [ROM][AOSP][4.0.3][CDMA] GummyNex 0.3.1 - 12/28/11 - xda-developers

 

[droidfan1]

After turning off facebook sync, and gmail sync etc, + changing interactive to hotplug, I noticed so far the battery life is improving somewhat. This is 5 minutes of testing. I'll keep testing.

 

[sperho]

On cpu overclock, 1200 mhz, 350mhz.

Should I use hotplug, interactive, or ondemand? And imoseyon tweaks owned on my bionic/x can't remember which, but it greatly improved battery life.

On demand worked best for my Droid.

If it continues to suck, maybe I should try gummy? [ROM][AOSP][4.0.3][CDMA] GummyNex 0.3.1 - 12/28/11 - xda-developers

Get a good baseline one something. Then, and only then, change, if you are trying to optimize battery life... It would take several days of normal usage for me to make a judgement call on what a particular mod was doing to my phone...

After turning off facebook sync, and gmail sync etc, + changing interactive to hotplug, I noticed so far the battery life is improving somewhat. This is 5 minutes of testing. I'll keep testing.

5 minutes?! (see above comment) My battery takes that long to bump back up in voltage after heavy use in that amount of time... Yes, keep testing.