Root Extending Battery Life

[Goude]

I rooted to Apex 1.4 a few days ago (Im a noob btw)... Is there some things I can do to help my battery life? I'm down to 50% after 6 hours ! Also Ive seen some ppl say that autokiller wasn't good to run... thoughts? (Tried to find some info on here/google... gets to be a mind boggler)

Thanks for the input!

 

[quickaudi]

try undervolting the phone

 

[Airmaxx23]

I use autokiller and I'm on Apex 1.4. I get 36 hours of battery life with a regular battery and 51 hours with an extended battery. My phone is overclocked but is running at lower than stock voltage. Having profiles setup with SetCPU helps a lot with battery life also.

 

[Goude]

Thanks guys... Does running the voltage lower slow up the phone noticeably? I see everybody talking about speeding up with overclocking, guess that drains the battery even more?

 

[Coolguy71261]

also using the juice defender widgwt to turn off mobile data when not using it made mine go over 2 days

 

[C0n57an71n3]

I'm just now trying out Apex 1.4.1, standard battery, under volted using Quick Clock. We'll see how it turns out.

 

[Metfanant]

I'm running ApeX 1.4.1 and im overclocked to 1.15ghz...when i plugged the phone in last night with 10% battery remaining i had been unplugged for 2days 16hours

 

[Airmaxx23]

Thanks guys... Does running the voltage lower slow up the phone noticeably? I see everybody talking about speeding up with overclocking, guess that drains the battery even more?

You can be overclocked and running a lower voltage at the same time.

 

[darkcyber]

Any instructions on how to under volt and/or over clock? I really want to extend my battery life, which up until recently was amazing with Apex 1.4.x. Now I feel like my extended battery is getting no better life than a standard one.

BTW, I have SetCPU and Droid Overclock.

 

[Goude]

Sweet.. I'm gonna try Droid Overclock by JRummy for a few days and see if I can get better results.

 

[colchiro]

QuickClock is a good place to start if you want to overclock/undervolt. I find I have to bump up the min vsel it'll determine by about 3 or 4 to be stable. I used the "balanced" profile. Tap the menu button in QC to find out how to use it.

 

[Greavous]

Im running 1.4.1 with no clocking and get awesome.battery life. I recently added the extended battery and often span two days with normal use. Id say look at your battery use profile and pinpoint what is using up your juice. It could be something as simple as a rouge app.

 

[colchiro]

I switched back to my stock backup and brought it up to date to test my vehicles bluetooth, which wasn't working with my Focused rom.

I charged it before bed, when I got up it was still 100% and dropped to 90% by end of work, even tho I had a 35 minute call while at work. Now I'm at 70% after 34 hours. To be fair, I've only used it for a few calls and normal maintenance (check/delete emails, update apps thru market) since reloading stock. We'll see just how long the battery really lasts. It might be a problem with battery stats.

 

[Goude]

Well I'm overclocked at 1.15ghz and I've been using SetCPU since Saturday but the battery life still seems to be running thru quickly. Been on 4-1/2 hrs and I'm down to 80% and I've only sent a couple txts and opened a couple apps, which have been closed afterwards. Checked my battery manager stats.... Display 37%, Phone idle 23%, Cell standby 18%.. those are my top 3. I have my display setting turned almost all the way down, so I dont understand. And the display has only been on about 20 min.

 

[boostedscooby]

I use autokiller and I'm on Apex 1.4. I get 36 hours of battery life with a regular battery and 51 hours with an extended battery. My phone is overclocked but is running at lower than stock voltage. Having profiles setup with SetCPU helps a lot with battery life also.

what settings as far as low voltage frequency are you running on the droid overclock.

 

[colchiro]

This is what I managed to eek out of stock w/ extended battery:

... and that includes 2 hours of talk time too. I had some unusual FC's so had to reboot the phone or I would have included the breakdown.

My settings: OC/UV to 1250, battery saver profile, wi-fi on when at home, wi-fi sleep when plugged in. I use Y5 Battery saver to turn on my wi-fi on my set places.

OTOH, with Focused 2.0.1, 60% after 11 hrs with 50% attributed to email on an o/w idle phone. Not sure what's going on there. I was good with 2.0, but nothing but issues with 2.0.1. I might need to roll back to a previous backup.

 

[Goude]

This is what I managed to eek out of stock w/ extended battery:

... and that includes 2 hours of talk time too. I had some unusual FC's so had to reboot the phone or I would have included the breakdown.

My settings: OC/UV to 1250, battery saver profile, wi-fi on when at home, wi-fi sleep when plugged in. I use Y5 Battery saver to turn on my wi-fi on my set places.

OTOH, with Focused 2.0.1, 60% after 11 hrs with 50% attributed to email on an o/w idle phone. Not sure what's going on there. I was good with 2.0, but nothing but issues with 2.0.1. I might need to roll back to a previous backup.

So when you say OC/UV to 1250... what exactly are your settings? Dont forget your talkin to a noob here. lol

 

[colchiro]

OC/UV = OverClock/UnderVolt... highest stable speed at lowest stable voltage.

I ran Quickclock and it found settings similar to this:

I used QC to generate the "balanced" profile, which I entered in Overclock. (Press the menu button and view "help" to see how to do this.)

Over time, after every issue/crash/reboot, I incremented that number by one, generated a balanced profile, updated Overclock's profile and ended up with a setting which is very stable for me (every phone is different). This is my profile in jRummy's Overclock:

 

[Coolguy71261]

I think letting my phone die lastnight was a bad idea now its back to its screw you mode

 

[colchiro]

If you let your phone die it takes at least 5 minutes of charging before you can power it up again.

 

[Coolguy71261]

I know

 

[apavolka]

Apex 141... This is after 5+ hours of music (Slacker and music on my phone), internet usage (1 hour), and a few games (1 hour).

 

[RWil85]

This is what I managed to eek out of stock w/ extended battery:

... and that includes 2 hours of talk time too. I had some unusual FC's so had to reboot the phone or I would have included the breakdown.

My settings: OC/UV to 1250, battery saver profile, wi-fi on when at home, wi-fi sleep when plugged in. I use Y5 Battery saver to turn on my wi-fi on my set places.

OTOH, with Focused 2.0.1, 60% after 11 hrs with 50% attributed to email on an o/w idle phone. Not sure what's going on there. I was good with 2.0, but nothing but issues with 2.0.1. I might need to roll back to a previous backup.

stupid question..what app puts those stats in your pulldown bar? tia.

 

[colchiro]

That's Battery Indicator Pro.

 

[RWil85]

That's Battery Indicator Pro.

Damn..I dl'ed battery minder pro last night, which is similar...however, I like the layout of yours a bit better. thanks.