Terrible battery life

[Alton (Halo 2)]

I'm on joelz prime xl 3D r43 and my battery life is horrible. I get and hour everyday and barley using it. When I stare at my battery percentage I can see it goin down ever minute.
Can someone give me tips on how to save battery life or something
Bcuz when I flash Jermains stock its Rom battery life is good again (I get about 3 hours on that)
And there's nothing wrong with my battery or phone

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[jackbtha1]

I'm on joelz prime xl 3D r43 and my battery life is horrible. I get and hour everyday and barley using it. When I stare at my battery percentage I can see it goin down ever minute.
Can someone give me tips on how to save battery life or something
Bcuz when I flash Jermains stock its Rom battery life is good again (I get about 3 hours on that)
And there's nothing wrong with my battery or phone

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Have you ever dropped your phone in water at all? Maybe you have a bad battery, because those battery stats are worse than even running complete stock. Post all of your info, Hboot, radio, kernel, etc. And hopefully we can help you out with your issue.

 

[Alton (Halo 2)]

Hboot: .92
Kernel: Tinys gingersense 11/19
Radio : 2.15.00.0808
And no never dropped it in water

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[miketwoms]

that sounds unreasonably bad. I'm on Joelz Prime, too, but I think only up to R40. I doubt there's anything in those last few commits to cause this, though. Try re-flashing, wiping battery stats, and give it a few cycles then reevaluate things. What apps are shown in the "Battery Use" settings menu?

Failing that, could be some hardware issue causing a short or something that's draining things... There have been cases where water or other damage can kill the battery life. Good luck.

 

[Alton (Halo 2)]

I reflashed 3 times and still horrible battery life .
Water never got on my phone .
And in battery use nothing major is running . Except like display, os ect.


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[miketwoms]

real strange, man... you know anybody else with an Incredible or Evo whose battery you can swap and try for a day?

 

[Alton (Halo 2)]

real strange, man... you know anybody else with an Incredible or Evo whose battery you can swap and try for a day?

I have 3 batterys and they all work the same

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[OnceAMatrixMan]

I've been using Joelz XL 4.0r42 for a few days now and I can say battery life is a little worse than 3.9, but not down to 3 hours. I change overnight, disconnect at 7:30am and charge again at 11pm. But that is with 5 or less calls, 10 texts, and emailing only.

Could email be on push? Did you try the power settings under tweak? I have tried normal and performance and see no difference. Someone said that one of the widgets was killing performance in an earlier post (in the PrimeXL thread), maybe the same widget is killing the battery too?


Related question: When should you wipe battery stats? Full charge, almost dead battery, at ROM flashing only?

 

[miketwoms]

I have 3 batterys and they all work the same

I dunno, then... try leaving it in Airplane mode for a little while, to see if it's something radio, etc.-related. otherwise, something's probably wrong with a hardware element somewhere along the line. I hope you're able to solve the issue.

Related question: When should you wipe battery stats? Full charge, almost dead battery, at ROM flashing only?

I've read a tip to do this:
-get battery full before installing ROM
-wipe battery stats and flash new ROM
-Let it settle in, set it up a bit, then fill up the battery again
-go back to Recovery and wipe stats again, while it's full.

I'm not clear on the logic behind it - could be somebody's superstitions - but it's not a difficult step to take in the hopes that it does some good.

there are others who said they run a script at shut down to wipe them every time the phone reboots. Seems like everyone has their little tricks.

 

[TeeRom]

This may be a long shot, but my guess would be some kind of internal hardware issue. Maybe there's a problem with the micro USB port and it's not actually fully charging the batteries.

 

[watt9493]

Shut the phone off and charge it till the lights green. And if you want any kind of battery life, sense is not the rom to be on. Especially 3.5.

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[rafa0794]

Try underclocking it

Try underclocking it. This saves my battery life by a lot!!!

 

[wayneb02]

Do you use apps that stay using data? Like a messenger?

 

[Alton (Halo 2)]

Nope

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[wayneb02]

What apps you have? if you don't mind

Live wallpaper?

 

[Alton (Halo 2)]

Nope
Btw my battery die so much faster with wallpaper its ridiculous

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[cmlusco]

There are tons of things that effect battery life and tons of things to save battery. Underclocking, undervolting, lengthning time between syncs, increasing wifi scan interval, lowering screen brightness, keeping running services to a minimum. However even with your phone set to max performance settings with all the bells and whistles on, you should still get more than 3 hours out of a charge. If multipul batteries give the same results, i would say its hardware related, or your charger is messed up and its not charging or messing up the batteries.

 

[Alton (Halo 2)]

I wiped battery stats andseeing where that leads me
Right now when I wiped it and I played modern combat 2 for an hour and my percent is 61
So ill say imma get 2 hours out of my batt?
Hey I see progress !

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[wayneb02]

Lol, pretty much any game you play is going to drain your battery

 

[Alton (Halo 2)]

Lol, pretty much any game you play is going to drain your battery

Yea ik but usually wen I play that game my battery would be over in 45 mins

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