[Q] Since updating to JPO, my battery drains at around 8-10% per hour.

---

This isn't a little rise in battery draining. This is an absolutely ridiculous spike in battery usage. I left my phone overnight, and it dropped from 90% to 37% within the 8 hours I left it sleep.

Is there anything I can do? This is stock JPO updated via Kies. Will changing ROM or Kernal fix this? Because quite frankly, I am sick of this. I can't take my phone out for the day without it dying on me.

As far as I can tell, it's not the sensor bug some people are experiencing, as I'm not seeing any suspicious usage in the battery history.

Any help would be very much appreciated as I'm seriously debating getting rid of the phone. I just can't keep it with this appalling battery life.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by HungLikeAMidget

This isn't a little rise in battery draining. This is an absolutely ridiculous spike in battery usage. I left my phone overnight, and it dropped from 90% to 37% within the 8 hours I left it sleep.

Is there anything I can do? This is stock JPO updated via Kies. Will changing ROM or Kernal fix this? Because quite frankly, I am sick of this. I can't take my phone out for the day without it dying on me.

As far as I can tell, it's not the sensor bug some people are experiencing, as I'm not seeing any suspicious usage in the battery history.

Any help would be very much appreciated as I'm seriously debating getting rid of the phone. I just can't keep it with this appalling battery life.

Thanks.

Turn off auto rotation and data connection (3G). That should improve your battery life siginificantly. You don't need to check your emails in your dream do you?

Originally Posted by snapper.fishes

Turn off auto rotation and data connection (3G). That should improve your battery life siginificantly. You don't need to check your emails in your dream do you?

Thanks for the reply.

I have auto-rotation off as default. It is really plausible that data connectivity is consuming this much power? I never had this much battery drainage in Eclair, even with auto-rotation on, data connectivity on and with the screen at maximum brightness.

I've downloaded APNdroid and will see if turning of data connectivity will help, though I very much doubt it. I'll update here in the case that it does though.

Do you have a exchange account configured?

It's known to drain your battery at that rate when not set to "Push" (generic Wake Lock problem in Froyo)


Also, if you don't mind spending a few bucks, install System Panel app and let it monitor CPU, that way you'll find out which apps are the top battery users (while asleep, battery drain is fairly equal to cpu usage, so the top cpu-usings apps will be the drainers). I have 75% battery left after 10 hours of light usage with Bluetooth. Auto Rotation and 3G enabled.

Originally Posted by pwhooftman

Do you have a exchange account configured?

It's known to drain your battery at that rate when not set to "Push" (generic Wake Lock problem in Froyo)


Also, if you don't mind spending a few bucks, install System Panel app and let it monitor CPU, that way you'll find out which apps are the top battery users (while asleep, battery drain is fairly equal to cpu usage, so the top cpu-usings apps will be the drainers). I have 75% battery left after 10 hours of light usage with Bluetooth. Auto Rotation and 3G enabled.

The only email I use is Gmail, synched to my phone. I've noticed that a fair-few people are having battery issues with a number of suspected causes. The exchange email setting being one and the sensor issue being another.

Would flashing to a custom ROM fix this issue? Or would it still persist? I really wouldn't mind flashing to a custom ROM if it fixes this absolutely pathetic battery life I have at the moment.

if you have any task killers installed try uninstalling.

I had advanced task killer installed and was experienced battery drain..not as much as you but if it helps it al counts

Originally Posted by reefy

if you have any task killers installed try uninstalling.

I had advanced task killer installed and was experienced battery drain..not as much as you but if it helps it al counts

I don't use any form of task manager besides the stock one, which I use on rare occasions.

I'm really debating just trying to flash with any old ROM to see if that fixes the issue.

Are I using the ext4 lagfix? If so there's your problem there. Also to fix gallery bug you just need to root phone and use root exeplorer to copy fixed gallery.apk into /system/Apps. Putting new modded Tom won't fix it as thy mostly use old default gallery which has sensor bug. Look in search to find gallery3d.apk file

Sent from my Apple Newton 2100 running at 206mhz

Originally Posted by ickyboo

Are I using the ext4 lagfix? If so there's your problem there. Also to fix gallery bug you just need to root phone and use root exeplorer to copy fixed gallery.apk into /system/Apps. Putting new modded Tom won't fix it as thy mostly use old default gallery which has sensor bug. Look in search to find gallery3d.apk file

Sent from my Apple Newton 2100 running at 206mhz

I'm not using any lagfix at all. It's stock JPO updated via Kies. The only modding I've done to it is rooted it.

How would I go about checking whether or not the Gallery is the cause of the battery issues?