[Q] Cyanogenmod 11 battery issues

liongame · Mar 18, 2014

Since i switched to Maclaw's CM 11 about a month ago and i had no trouble with the phone untill i updated to version 3/8 and the versions after that..the battery gets drained fast even when the phone is always underclocked to 200 MHz which never made an issue for me in terms of being a bit slow.
It used to drop just 1% every 15 min with heavy data use..a lot of the time it even lasted more than that! Now drops 1% every 5 min or less with the same heavy data use!!!

What went wrong?

GXGOW · Mar 18, 2014

It's just CM 11. Remember, it's still under heavy development, so it's not 100% yet. Don't worry, they'll get it fixed.

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liongame · Mar 18, 2014

GXGOW said:
It's just CM 11. Remember, it's still under heavy development, so it's not 100% yet. Don't worry, they'll get it fixed.

Sent from Tapatalk on my GT-I8190 running MaclawStudio's Carbon 4.4.2

I do hope they do.
Does Carbon has that battery drain problem too or is more stable than CM?

GXGOW · Mar 19, 2014

liongame said:
I do hope they do.
Does Carbon has that battery drain problem too or is more stable than CM?

My battery lasts the whole day with moderate use.

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larscn · Mar 19, 2014

I have the same problem, but haven't tracked down what it is that that drains the battery other than Android system.

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liongame · Mar 19, 2014

GXGOW said:
My battery lasts the whole day with moderate use.

Sent from Tapatalk on my GT-I8190 running MaclawStudio's Carbon 4.4.2

I think i'm gonna give Carbon a go if the problem continues .

larscn said:
I have the same problem, but haven't tracked down what it is that that drains the battery other than Android system.

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Yeah but something changed after that 3/25 version. I've updated to the latest version yesterday and will put it under test today; hopefully the problem will be gone.

Aronuser · Mar 21, 2014

liongame said:
I think i'm gonna give Carbon a go if the problem continues .

Yeah but something changed after that 3/25 version. I've updated to the latest version yesterday and will put it under test today; hopefully the problem will be gone.

would be cool to hear if carbon made a chance then

larscn · Mar 21, 2014

Aronuser said:
would be cool to hear if carbon made a chance then

Got a lot better with Carbon without doing any more scientific research into what was eating my battery. If you still have CM installed, maybe a simple "top -m 10" in an adb shell will give a clue to what the power drain is. (I'm new to adb and forget how easy it is can be to have a linux shell on my phone. :silly

Aronuser · Mar 21, 2014

larscn said:
Got a lot better with Carbon without doing any more scientific research into what was eating my battery. If you still have CM installed, maybe a simple "top -m 10" in an adb shell will give a clue to what the power drain is. (I'm new to adb and forget how easy it is can be to have a linux shell on my phone. :silly

hey thank you so far, i just got CM 2 days and i'm not sure about the battery drain so far. but if you found out what it was at you, please tell me. ah and btw. i heard skype has an issue with it, do you have it installed?

also: whats the differencte of CARBON from CM?

/edit: I tried the parameter, and it says 94% sorta is "system server" is this normal?

demonijum · Mar 22, 2014

Aronuser said:
hey thank you so far, i just got CM 2 days and i'm not sure about the battery drain so far. but if you found out what it was at you, please tell me. ah and btw. i heard skype has an issue with it, do you have it installed?

also: whats the differencte of CARBON from CM?

/edit: I tried the parameter, and it says 94% sorta is "system server" is this normal?

I got problem with battery also with cm11. Drain so fast. I installed carbin, its a bit better. But also I order new battery (2450mh) because i think my old one is gonna die

Aronuser · Mar 22, 2014

liongame said:
Since i switched to Maclaw's CM 11 about a month ago and i had no trouble with the phone untill i updated to version 3/8 and the versions after that..the battery gets drained fast even when the phone is always underclocked to 200 MHz which never made an issue for me in terms of being a bit slow.
It used to drop just 1% every 15 min with heavy data use..a lot of the time it even lasted more than that! Now drops 1% every 5 min or less with the same heavy data use!!!

What went wrong?

Hey all looks like i found a way!

check this, i just made a solution thread about it:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=51278758

liongame · Mar 23, 2014

Aronuser said:
Hey all looks like i found a way!

check this, i just made a solution thread about it:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=51278758

Please delete?
What happened to the thread bro?

Aronuser · Mar 23, 2014

liongame said:
Please delete?
What happened to the thread bro?

well i found out that my solution didn't really work. but i now have a new solution which seems to work, i got this from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2683451 by factorexh

1. tick "set on boot" at governor and i/o of cpu, then set governor to abbysplug and i/o to sio

I set it like this and it seems to work but not 100% sure since it's the first day

liongame · Mar 23, 2014

So i installed Carbon and left it for 2 days and the battery was better but then i flashed CM back and the problem was still there. So i flashed the Stock rom back, rooted the phone then installed CM...at first everything seems back to normal but later that day the battery little started draining faster!
I thought that maybe coz i disabled/froze some system and built in apps that it what caused the problem but now i made sure i didnt disable any app, only force stop some non system appsm j and found the battery still draining!m

I have only 4 things running in my "Running apps" section:

1- Settings
2- Greenify
3- Setcpu (underclocked to 200)
4- Smart keyboard trial

THAT'S ALL!!

Aronuser · Mar 23, 2014

liongame said:
So i installed Carbon and left it for 2 days and the battery was better but then i flashed CM back and the problem was still there. So i flashed the Stock rom back, rooted the phone then installed CM...at first everything seems back to normal but later that day the battery little started draining faster!
I thought that maybe coz i disabled/froze some system and built in apps that it what caused the problem but now i made sure i didnt disable any app, only force stop some non system appsm j and found the battery still draining!m

I have only 4 things running in my "Running apps" section:

1- Settings
2- Greenify
3- Setcpu (underclocked to 200)
4- Smart keyboard trial

THAT'S ALL!!

i don't know about that maybe your batt is demaged but still

CM11 the 20th 3rd 14th version mentioned a change about battery life.. they update the zip very often just check if the zip has another date in the name then flash it...

and try to change what i said above.. about stock i don't know how to help but i have my battery now for longer than half a day on and it's on 64 with display on mid-high

larscn · Mar 23, 2014

How fast is the battery charging(with the original charger). If it charges from empty to full very fast, then it's probably a bad battery. Both mine and my wife's battery has died on us after just a year of use, so it seems like the sIII mini's batteries is not lasting much more than 400 cycles.

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liongame · Mar 23, 2014

Aronuser said:
i don't know about that maybe your batt is demaged but still

CM11 the 20th 3rd 14th version mentioned a change about battery life.. they update the zip very often just check if the zip has another date in the name then flash it...

and try to change what i said above.. about stock i don't know how to help but i have my battery now for longer than half a day on and it's on 64 with display on mid-high

It's the original battery, i havent changed it yet. I've just started using this phone like 2 or 3 months ago!
I'll see that governor trick, it may help. I'll update to the latest CM and see if there's any difference and keep you posted.

larscn said:
How fast is the battery charging(with the original charger). If it charges from empty to full very fast, then it's probably a bad battery. Both mine and my wife's battery has died on us after just a year of use, so it seems like the sIII mini's batteries is not lasting much more than 400 cycles.

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It charges from 20% to full in about 3 hours or a bit more. Is that bad? Original battery and charger.

Aronuser · Mar 23, 2014

liongame said:
It's the original battery, i havent changed it yet. I've just started using this phone like 2 or 3 months ago!
I'll see that governor trick, it may help. I'll update to the latest CM and see if there's any difference and keep you posted.

It charges from 20% to full in about 3 hours or a bit more. Is that bad? Original battery and charger.

it's now 17:50 and i woke up at 9:00 and the batt is on 41% with that settings and newest of CM11 maclaw (btw. they update it daily as far as it seems)

also i heard skype can cause problems, but i don't have it installed at the moment

liongame · Mar 23, 2014

Aronuser said:
it's now 17:50 and i woke up at 9:00 and the batt is on 41% with that settings and newest of CM11 maclaw (btw. they update it daily as far as it seems)

also i heard skype can cause problems, but i don't have it installed at the moment

Yeah, i've noticed. It's kinda a pain to keep downloading and flashing on a daily basis though.

Do you have Wifi/mobile data on during those hours?
I dont have Skype nor Viber, Whatsapp, Facebook messenger and all those messenger apps.

Mind if i asked you if you disabled any apps? System or downloaded?
And what's your current LCD density? Mine is 200, i tried to go for 180 but the phone started acting a bit weird.

Aronuser · Mar 23, 2014

liongame said:
Yeah, i've noticed. It's kinda a pain to keep downloading and flashing on a daily basis though.

Do you have Wifi/mobile data on during those hours?
I dont have Skype nor Viber, Whatsapp, Facebook messenger and all those messenger apps.

Mind if i asked you if you disabled any apps? System or downloaded?
And what's your current LCD density? Mine is 200, i tried to go for 180 but the phone started acting a bit weird.

i have standart lcd density of CM cause i don't see any use in alternate densities...

I have the "mini" gapps from maclaw and line messenger, xposed with multi timezone clock, moon calendar, status bar clock in lockscreen. and pimpmyrom and facebook and facebook-messenger...

thats all cause i just installed CM and didn't save the apps...

i had wifi and mobile both on most of the day yeah...

(no need to flash daily when you're happy with it

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