Root Root + OverclockWidget = Insane Battery Life 40+ Hours

SilverStone641 · Jun 11, 2010

Hey guys. i finished up my test. i ran my phone down from 100% starting 5:30pmCST on wednesday and it ran for 32 hours until 1:30amCST friday morning. it was at 8% when i finally plugged it in.(i had to go to sleep and couldn't keep an eye on it in my sleep!) i have no doubt i could have squeezed another couple of hours out of it.

during this period i used several hours of wifi, pandora, music app, gaming, texting.

needless to say, i'm quite pleased!

adseguy · Jun 11, 2010

nick325i said:
Thanks for your positive input.

If what you say is true, i'm happy that probably hundreds of people between here and XDA are reporting 20+ hours of battery with a placebo, where they got 10 previously.

Hey man. Thanks for the topic. I'm probably the first guy who doubted this and I'm still running tests and I am still doubting it, but I hope it works. I just want to tell you that you should lay off people's negative input. It's a negative to it working not to you personally. I HOPE it works...this would be great, but running tests don't show this.

Here's on thing to keep in mind. We have all had this phone (besides a lucky few) for less then 7 days. The conditioning process is now over. Regardless if this app did or didn't work we were getting better battery life everyday. To be honest I think it is working. I see less battery drain in the off state in system panel. Also when I get a message with the OC widget on I get a vibrate then 2 seconds later I hear the noise. A huge delay. With it off the delay disappears. It's a controlled set of data so this almost proves it. I doubted it at first just because the max settings were not respected in linpak. Why include a max setting if it gets overwritten anyway.

Thanks again for the contribution and try not to take a criticism/comment as a negative to your idea. We all want this to work, we just want proof

jollymonsails · Jun 11, 2010

Apologize if off-topic... I thought that the alarm failure might be related... but from what I've been reading on other forums... appears the alarm issue might have been from advanced task killer - my bad - not being set to ignore clock and calendar... kind of important I guess

nick325i · Jun 11, 2010

adseguy said:
Hey man. Thanks for the topic. I'm probably the first guy who doubted this and I'm still running tests and I am still doubting it, but I hope it works. I just want to tell you that you should lay off people's negative input. It's a negative to it working not to you personally. I HOPE it works...this would be great, but running tests don't show this.

Here's on thing to keep in mind. We have all had this phone (besides a lucky few) for less then 7 days. The conditioning process is now over. Regardless if this app did or didn't work we were getting better battery life everyday. To be honest I think it is working. I see less battery drain in the off state in system panel. Also when I get a message with the OC widget on I get a vibrate then 2 seconds later I hear the noise. A huge delay. With it off the delay disappears. It's a controlled set of data so this almost proves it. I doubted it at first just because the max settings were not respected in linpak. Why include a max setting if it gets overwritten anyway.

Thanks again for the contribution and try not to take a criticism/comment as a negative to your idea. We all want this to work, we just want proof

My only purpose for repsonding to the negatives is to stop people from discouraging others to even try it.

This is something we can all benefit from and the glass half empty people just deter the newer people from even trying it at all.

Dr.Evo · Jun 11, 2010

nick325i said:
My only purpose for repsonding to the negatives is to stop people from discouraging others to even try it.

This is something we can all benefit from and the glass half empty people just deter the newer people from even trying it at all.

I've tried this for the past couple days and I've seen little to no change. I used the phone for moderate 3g web surfing and a couple of calls lasting no longer than 40 minutes total. I unplugged yesterday at 2:30 and by 9:30 my phone was at about 45%. That's not bad at all, but I saw the similar battery drain / battery life results without the OC widget.

I'm not trying to hate on this method - I know that it should work. But I think the OC widget is either flawed (not working), or I have it configured wrong (or both). I'm going to cruise over to XDA to see how they're doing with this expiriment..

bandagraph · Jun 11, 2010

I tried this for a few days. I am fairly positive I was doing it correctly. I changed everything to Nick's settings and hit the save button at the bottom. I then restarted (with the button checked for auto start on boot).

I didn't really seem to get results, however, I already get pretty good battery life. I work at home, so I generally have my phone on Wifi. Perhaps my results are skewed by this. It seemed to me like my battery drained faster with battery indicator running...that could be messing with people's results. I use System Monitor which seems to have next to no effect on battery life. It has the added benefit of monitoring which apps are running. I use it to manually kill apps that might be hurting my battery. This is probably the reason for my strong battery life.

For those of you struggling with battery life...make sure this isn't your problem:
http://androidforums.com/tips-trick...killin-my-battery-life-most-likely-yours.html

I may try this method again if people continue to post success stories. For now, I would say that my manual monitoring of apps is probably minimizing any effects I would get from the method. (Android is probably clocking down already since I don't have extra shit running (like google maps, games, google talk).

thegame3202 · Jun 11, 2010

Also agree that apps running in background drain the battery. It turned out I had a few apps that I didn't even use updating every 2 hours, and when I looked at the battery chart, it was a very slight downhill, then every 2 hours it would take a cliff dive. Changed all apps to 3-6 hours, installed OC widget, installed OJC rom, I'm at31% after 17 hours (with 8 of that being asleep. Went to be with about 50%) Seems to work for me. Thanks to OP!

Oridus · Jun 11, 2010

Please forgive me for being semi ******ed.... but where do you get the OC Widget from?

nick325i · Jun 11, 2010

Oridus said:
Please forgive me for being semi ******ed.... but where do you get the OC Widget from?

Market

"OverclockWidget"

Oridus · Jun 11, 2010

nick325i said:
Market

"Overclock Widget"

Yeah - something is preventing it from showing up to me, as that's what i've been searching... to no avail of course. I'll figure it out.

Thanks anyways though

All that shows up when i search for that is

"milestone/droid overclock"

and "open overclocker"

M2Iceman · Jun 11, 2010

Rooted and widget running, been off the charger for almost 24 hrs and battery is around 40% and that was with a couple calls, alot of texts and where I work, battery killer due to computers and phone looking for singal. Prior to any changes, yeah my phone was almost always attached to a charger. I was even thinking of going back to my Pre because I didnt like the battery life and yeah it was enough to almost be a deal breaker. Im happy with the battery life now, works for me!!!!!

teddykgb · Jun 11, 2010

bandagraph said:
I use System Monitor which seems to have next to no effect on battery life. It has the added benefit of monitoring which apps are running. I use it to manually kill apps that might be hurting my battery. This is probably the reason for my strong battery life.

Which system monitor? The paid app in the market?

Oridus · Jun 11, 2010

teddykgb said:
Which system monitor? The paid app in the market?

Free app called "System Panel" from the market

twospirits · Jun 11, 2010

Oridus said:
Yeah - something is preventing it from showing up to me, as that's what i've been searching... to no avail of course. I'll figure it out.

Thanks anyways though

All that shows up when i search for that is

"milestone/droid overclock"

and "open overclocker"

You can't find it because the market is very picky about spelling. its "OverClockWidget" no space in the word.

TS

bandagraph · Jun 11, 2010

Oridus said:
Free app called "System Panel" from the market

oops yup that is it. The full version is free for 1 month. I will be paying for it after that. Definitely worth it.

Oridus · Jun 11, 2010

twospirits said:
You can't find it because the market is very picky about spelling. its "OverClockWidget" no space in the word.

TS

Thanks TS

htc.EVOlution · Jun 11, 2010

have anyone noticed that the evo takes longer to charge when the OC widget is installed?

HoLs · Jun 11, 2010

No fancy apps or numbers or screenshots tracking battery usage but here are my experiences with the OC widget.

After a day of testing, I was amazed that I was able to get a full day's charge with moderate usage (never been able to get this from any phone except my BB. I have used an Iphone, HTC Touch, and Motorola Q9C in the past two years). From Friday to Wednesday, the Evo would die by about 2PM (9AM-2PM) with moderate usage; pretty normal among all my phones. After applying the OC Widget on Wednesday night, I was able to get my battery to last from 9AM-6PM and still have 51% charge. I don't have any exact numbers, but it was the same if not more usage (less calls, but more text and web, same brightness, etc).

My experiences today have been different. When I unplugged my phone this morning, it immediately dropped to 91%. I got to work (10 min commute) and did some mobile banking and watched the battery percentage fall as I used it. It dropped from 90% to 81% in the 5 mins I was on my BOFA app.

I'll see how it works out today and post back shortly.

vipervin · Jun 11, 2010

Seems to be working for me but I don't have any objective results. Regardless, thanks OP for posting this.

rosscan · Jun 11, 2010

I have never been more attracted to a cellphone as I am with my EVO ♥ Thanx OP

SilverStone641 · Jun 11, 2010

HoLs said:
No fancy apps or numbers or screenshots tracking battery usage but here are my experiences with the OC widget.

After a day of testing, I was amazed that I was able to get a full day's charge with moderate usage (never been able to get this from any phone except my BB. I have used an Iphone, HTC Touch, and Motorola Q9C in the past two years). From Friday to Wednesday, the Evo would die by about 2PM (9AM-2PM) with moderate usage; pretty normal among all my phones. After applying the OC Widget on Wednesday night, I was able to get my battery to last from 9AM-6PM and still have 51% charge. I don't have any exact numbers, but it was the same if not more usage (less calls, but more text and web, same brightness, etc).

My experiences today have been different. When I unplugged my phone this morning, it immediately dropped to 91%. I got to work (10 min commute) and did some mobile banking and watched the battery percentage fall as I used it. It dropped from 90% to 81% in the 5 mins I was on my BOFA app.

I'll see how it works out today and post back shortly.

i have a similar story. i'm still getting simply FANTASTIC battery life, but the numbers on Battery Indicator and BatteryLife don't seem to line up. i'll get intense 5+ percentage jumps, then it'll hang on say, 83% for an hour or two, then fall rapidly again. any explanation for the jumping battery percentages?

UTnick · Jun 11, 2010

it's not that folks don't want people to try it -- it's the fact that it doesn't work. it may not be a placebo. OC widget may be doing something, but it isn't scaling the CPU. without a patched kernel the phone does what it was programmed to do. not what OC tells it to do.

ps
my battery life is exactly the same as described by a lot of folks using OC widget and i don't use it. i can leave my phone unplugged all night and still have a ton of battery left in the morning.

B-Ran · Jun 11, 2010

UTnick said:
it's not that folks don't want people to try it -- it's the fact that it doesn't work. it may not be a placebo. OC widget may be doing something, but it isn't scaling the CPU. without a patched kernel the phone does what it was programmed to do. not what OC tells it to do.

ps
my battery life is exactly the same as described by a lot of folks using OC widget and i don't use it. i can leave my phone unplugged all night and still have a ton of battery left in the morning.

Thank you! We're not alone and no we didn't tell anyone not to do this. My battery life hasn't changed, big deal. Their's did change, big deal. We're just offering our experiences, not telling anyone what to do...

Jack Daniels · Jun 11, 2010

is it possible to use OC widget without Root i don't want to root yet tell it becomes more stable

nick325i · Jun 11, 2010

UTnick said:
it's not that folks don't want people to try it -- it's the fact that it doesn't work. it may not be a placebo. OC widget may be doing something, but it isn't scaling the CPU. without a patched kernel the phone does what it was programmed to do. not what OC tells it to do.

ps
my battery life is exactly the same as described by a lot of folks using OC widget and i don't use it. i can leave my phone unplugged all night and still have a ton of battery left in the morning.

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