Radio battery usage.

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Can someone please explain this to me, or help me understand this. My battery drops like crazy all the time. Last night I fully charged, cleared stats, fully charged again, pulled the battery, restarted and left sitting in an area of my house with good coverage. This is what I wake up to.

20% drain. Go to the settings and look at what's been eating the battery. Roughly 10% of my battery was consumed by the radio. But, it only shows 2% of the time without signal.

I have os monitor installed. Is there a way to have it record consumption, etc while the screen is off? Or is there another option you guys know of.

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Originally Posted by jsp254

Can someone please explain this to me, or help me understand this. My battery drops like crazy all the time. Last night I fully charged, cleared stats, fully charged again, pulled the battery, restarted and left sitting in an area of my house with good coverage. This is what I wake up to.
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20% drain. Go to the settings and look at what's been eating the battery. Roughly 10% of my battery was consumed by the radio. But, it only shows 2% of the time without signal.

I have os monitor installed. Is there a way to have it record consumption, etc while the screen is off? Or is there another option you guys know of.

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I had the same issue a while back. My phone was dying in 3 to 4 hours with no use. What mine turned out to be was something got screwed up installing a new rom. After that no matter what I flashed nothing changed. Sense, aosp. It didn't matter.

When mine did this I also had trouble even receiving phone calls as well as making them. I would get the call but then there would be no sound whatsoever. Are you having that issue as well?

Anyway the only thing that fixed it for me was to ruu back to stock and then re root. I wouldn't jump to that conclusion yet especially if your not having the same issues I did but I do feel your pain. Good luck
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Iwould try flashing a different Rom. Have you updated your radios? If not I would. But definately try a different Rom. Also be very sure to Clear your device properly before a flash. If not it can cause a lot of strange issues.

TEAM MiK
Mik Roms Since 3/13/11

I use clockwork. When I install a new rom I reset in fastboot, do the same in recovery, wipe cache, then I go to advanced and format cache, dalvik, sd-ext, and system. I think that's all of them. Basicly anything listed anywhere in the recovery that wipes/formats anything but the fat32 portion of my card. Then install. The exception to this is with cm7 anf new nightlies. Then I wipe cache and dalvik. Then install the nightly over the existing install. I never use rom manager to flash anything. Nor do I use kernel manager to install new kernels. I have installed the new radio and wimax although I'll never see 4G around here.

I guess I may do the ruu thing. That sucks.

Also, I've noticed when I fully charge, regardless if I unplug it as soon as it reaches 100% or let it sit for a while longer, when I unplug it the phone drops to 96% or so like hella fast.

I have also considered I may just have a bad battery now.

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If you suspect the battery you can always AnTuTu Tester to check the battery. If it is the battery you can always go to your local Sprint store and ask them to exchange yours.

Cool. Thanks bro. Downloading now. They will just swap batteries?

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They will do a short test on the battery. Then most likely switch it out, free of charge. They've done this for me several times.

TEAM MiK
Mik Roms Since 3/13/11

I'm having the same problem with my wife's shift.
She told me a week ago the battery started draining like crazy overnight, like 60% drop without wifi or 3g turned on.
I have ss8 with dodgekernel and latest radio 1.08
I looked at it and thought maybe a problem with apps, so I put autostarts app on to kill unnecessary apps.
This still didn't fix it.
Also traded batteries, also no fix.
I unrooted and brought to sprint.
They couldn't figure it out and told me to update to 2.3 and if the problem is still there to bring it back for a replacement.
I'll do that and let you guys know.
Right now it's running fresh and the problem is still there.
The signal cuts out completely every 30 sec. or so no matter if it's full signal or not.

i tried the app mentioned. it drained the battery to like 20% before stopping. it rated it a 548 i thing. it places it above the incredible. not really what i thought the test would show.

right now i'm running the nocturnal rom for a while. i'm going to see how it does tonight before adding any of my usual cast of apps. i figure the best test i can do is to let it run naked and see how the drainage is. i plan on having it at 100% and let it sit for 6-8 hours.

tomorrow i'll ad my most important apps and make sure their notification stuff is turned off. this list of apps includes weatherbug paid, dropbox, teamviewer, text editor, andexplorer, and andftp. weatherbug it the only one that runs the backgound updates. i have it set to refresh every 4 hours and have all the other updates/notifications/alerts turned off.

Originally Posted by codygs83

I'm having the same problem with my wife's shift.
She told me a week ago the battery started draining like crazy overnight, like 60% drop without wifi or 3g turned on.
I have ss8 with dodgekernel and latest radio 1.08
I looked at it and thought maybe a problem with apps, so I put autostarts app on to kill unnecessary apps.
This still didn't fix it.
Also traded batteries, also no fix.
I unrooted and brought to sprint.
They couldn't figure it out and told me to update to 2.3 and if the problem is still there to bring it back for a replacement.
I'll do that and let you guys know.
Right now it's running fresh and the problem is still there.
The signal cuts out completely every 30 sec. or so no matter if it's full signal or not.

Updating ( downgrading ) to 2.3 Factory Stock GB will not resolve the issue. As for Autostarts App, it's kind of like a Task Killer. Which have been proven to use more battery and CPU then they save. When you went to Sprint and they gave you a "new" battery. Did the guy go in the back and bring one out? Or did he just hand you a new one in the package? There's a reason I'm asking. I went to Sprint 3x's and they gave me "new" batteries. But it wasn't until I refused the one handed to me opened, and insisted on an unopened packege that I believe I truely received a new battery. I watched that day as they exchanged several batteries for customers. Everytime the employees would go to the back desk, put down the battery they had in their hand and just grab one off the desk. Which was one someone else had bought in obviously for an exchange . That is why I demanded a new one in the package. Also the Stock Factory GB release is plagued with annoying Not a batch restore, or a restore with TB. Just to make sure it's not a rogue app.

Originally Posted by jsp254

i tried the app mentioned. it drained the battery to like 20% before stopping. it rated it a 548 i thing. it places it above the incredible. not really what i thought the test would show.

right now i'm running the nocturnal rom for a while. i'm going to see how it does tonight before adding any of my usual cast of apps. i figure the best test i can do is to let it run naked and see how the drainage is. i plan on having it at 100% and let it sit for 6-8 hours.

tomorrow i'll ad my most important apps and make sure their notification stuff is turned off. this list of apps includes weatherbug paid, dropbox, teamviewer, text editor, andexplorer, and andftp. weatherbug it the only one that runs the backgound updates. i have it set to refresh every 4 hours and have all the other updates/notifications/alerts turned off.

As a rule of thumb when you do a fresh flash. You should let it settle for several hours before installing any apps. When you do reinstall apps, try not to restore data if at all possible. Lastly try to install apps one t a time. That way you know how they're doing with your setup, and if there's an issue. If there is it's alot easier to track down.