Battery life on CM7. Let's hear it...

[brad92]

Nightly 33 is eating my battery compared to 31. I haven't used my phone that much today at all since I have been working on my parent's Duramax (power steering pulley fell off on the freeway), and moving stuff.

I might go back to 31... I also have had a few random hot reboots today.

CM74DX

 

[barski]

Nightly 33 is eating my battery compared to 31. I haven't used my phone that much today at all since I have been working on my parent's Duramax (power steering pulley fell off on the freeway), and moving stuff.

I might go back to 31... I also have had a few random hot reboots today.

CM74DX

Huh, im having the exact opposite results. im on nightly 34 and battery life is phenomenal 6h 21min on battery, at 70% and no reboots.dancedroiddancedroid I also had reboots on 33, but my battery life completely sucked. if you look back a page or 2 you can see my picture. So i recommend you go to 34 for good battery life and no reboots.

 

[fixxxer0]

the change log seems so minor between 33 and 34...
I wonder what the real explanation behind the battery life issue is...

Nightly 33 is eating my battery compared to 31. I haven't used my phone that much today at all since I have been working on my parent's Duramax (power steering pulley fell off on the freeway), and moving stuff.

I might go back to 31... I also have had a few random hot reboots today.

CM74DX

Huh, im having the exact opposite results. im on nightly 34 and battery life is phenomenal 6h 21min on battery, at 70% and no reboots.dancedroiddancedroid I also had reboots on 33, but my battery life completely sucked. if you look back a page or 2 you can see my picture. So i recommend you go to 34 for good battery life and no reboots.

 

[Chillout]

Found this over on the official Cyanogen mod forums...worth a shot, I'm trying it this afternoon.

HOW TO FIX BATTERY STATS!!!



I never believed that cm4dx ate up more battery power than froyo or gingerbread. I noticed something odd when i went to clear battery stats while in recovery, it wasnt wiping them. So i decided to look for an app that would do it properly, the app is called battery calibration. what until your phone is 100% charged and then open up the app and hit calibrate battery.

 

[ldopa]

It's a good app to have. I think I use it too much sometimes! Charge to 100, run the app. Unplug. Run it down to 0 without charging. Then charge to 100 without a break.
Thats it

CM74D2

 

[chefb]

It's a good app to have. I think I use it too much sometimes! Charge to 100, run the app. Unplug. Run it down to 0 without charging. Then charge to 100 without a break.
Thats it

CM74D2

how does your run now? guestimatie with moderate use.

 

[ldopa]

Battery life is my only issue with cm. I'm hoping it gets better with time. It's always a good idea to calibrate the battery tho. It can't hurt.

CM74D2

 

[TeeX]

Found this over on the official Cyanogen mod forums...worth a shot, I'm trying it this afternoon.

HOW TO FIX BATTERY STATS!!!



I never believed that cm4dx ate up more battery power than froyo or gingerbread. I noticed something odd when i went to clear battery stats while in recovery, it wasnt wiping them. So i decided to look for an app that would do it properly, the app is called battery calibration. what until your phone is 100% charged and then open up the app and hit calibrate battery.

link to that conversation please? That's an interesting comment. I always recalibrate my battery states via recovery. Now I wonder if it's working or not.

btw, still get very good battery life on Nightly #31, so I really can't complain. Just interesting.

Wonder why this app would erase the .bin file, but recovery wouldn't erase it?

 

[ldopa]

You can always do it manually as well using root explorer

CM74D2

 

[brad92]

I'm on nightly 34 and it fixed my terrible battery life and all the random reboots. dancedroid

CM74DX

 

[Chillout]

Found this over on the official Cyanogen mod forums...worth a shot, I'm trying it this afternoon.

HOW TO FIX BATTERY STATS!!!



I never believed that cm4dx ate up more battery power than froyo or gingerbread. I noticed something odd when i went to clear battery stats while in recovery, it wasnt wiping them. So i decided to look for an app that would do it properly, the app is called battery calibration. what until your phone is 100% charged and then open up the app and hit calibrate battery.

link to that conversation please? That's an interesting comment. I always recalibrate my battery states via recovery. Now I wonder if it's working or not.

btw, still get very good battery life on Nightly #31, so I really can't complain. Just interesting.

Wonder why this app would erase the .bin file, but recovery wouldn't erase it?

That was the only mention of it when I found it, someone had suggested giving it a try.

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[sigua]

I do battery calibration every time I switch ROMs, and CM7 battery life on my phone still wasn't very good. Right now, I've been on battery for 7 hours and I'm at 70% on aosp Liberty. On CM7 I'd be lucky to be at 60%. Phone idle and cell standby are both at about 10%, and display is at 35%. On CM7, phone idle would always be close to what my display was at, no matter what I was doing. Even with using all the battery tricks, it's tough to get a phone to stop doing what it does when it's not doing anything.

 

[barski]

Nightly #37. Battery life sucks. Yes i realize i have no service but liberty was at 70%+ with the same amount of time on it, and with no service.

 

[Chillout]

Full charge at 9am this morning, by 4pm I was at 65% with moderate use; mostly Seesmic, a few emails, texts, and a phone call. Normally with that type of usage on Liberty I would be at about 80%, maybe 75% with heavy use.

I hope sooner rather than later CM can rival that type of battery use. This ROM beats Liberty hands down but the battery life still blows.

 

[TeeX]

just checked my son's phone. It was dying and he said "that's OK, I've gotten almost a day and a half..."

WHAT?!!
sure enough, I looked and he's used almost 2 hours of display time on, but here's the screenshots I took:


I checked, he's on Nightly #21, no scripts or imoseyon magic.