After asking for some tests in the
CWM thread, it was confirmed by several ppl that the phone wont charge with power off, in contrary, plugging it to a wall charger will drain the battery!
Mike hinted that this might be due to a missing "offmode_charging binary" which is present in stock recovery, but somehow his post got overlooked
Anyway, apparently the phone still charges through your PCs USB port, so you are not completely screwed if you let your battery run down (which I believe we should actually be doing the first few cycles :-/ ).
But still, I wouldn't risk it
There is something wrong with battery readings.
It has been confirmed by several ppl now, that you get sudden drops of %. I experience it mostly after a long time of standby, where I would think "wow, great standby drain", only to use the phone for 5 mins and loose ~5%
Check your battery drain grafs, wherever there is a nice and straight decreasing line, that was a sudden %age drop. I'll try to post one tonight to show you what I mean.
I have no idea if this is due to the ROM (not Lees fault fo course, more the htc base) or my hardware, but I also have a feeling the good standby drain actually clouds ppls analysis of the battery drain.
At least I hope so, otherwise it would mean that my battery is faulty...
However, I know something is not right with my battery as the one review I read said that they were disappointed, that 15mins of riptide used ~5% of battery. I would love to see that kind of drain. I played it for 20mins yesterday (used the stopwatch
) and I lost 12%, from 64% to 52%. I hope I will be able to solve it once we can charge when off, then I'll do some full charge to 0 and charge while off cycles to train the battery (is that actually still needed with LiPo batteries?).
Can I maybe ask some of you guys who have the game to actually make a "Riptide" test? Please play it for 15mins and report the drain you see.
Thanks!
