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Fruban

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Today I had sync, 4g, gps, and wifi all off. I used 4g MINIMALLY today, spend maybe 5% on it. Left the house with 95%, listened to music from my sd card on the phone with earbud headphones for 45 minutes, and was at 50% by the time i arrived at my destination.

On the way back, just prior to leaving, my phone was at 48% and randomly restarted. When it started up again it was at 40%. wtf?

Then again with all options off I listened to music for just over an hour and was at 12% when I got back. Winamp was never a battery hog on my ally... Is BAMF stripped terrible on battery life? Just got this phone within the last week. Not even a week yet.
 
Also, should I be using some sort of background task killer? My brother, who works in verizon corporate doing networky things with towers, said it isn't really necessary anymore for some reason. At least, using Advanced Task Manager Free wasn't worth the trouble. I forget his reasoning. I think he indicated that others felt the same way too. *shrug*.
 
Yea, that's froyo. Have you checked spare parts (in the tool kit) and looked at your "partial wake stats" to see if there's a rogue app killing your battery?
 
everything but winamp was negligible. Winamp's bar is huge, but like I said i had a random restart whihc itself somehow drained my battery from 48% to 40 when it rebooted. then I listened to winamp for 1h26m and went from 40% to 12%. winamp has never drained my ally like that using velocity. no other apps drained any battery worth mentioning..

edit: so between the time it rebooted and the time i got home, in about an hour an a half, my battery drained that much and the winamp bar usage was probably 95% full of blue.
 
Did you do a full wipe before flashing?
Did you wipe Battery Stats before flashing?
Did you use ROM Manager to flash?
 
1) yes

2) no, but i havent had any roms on for more than a day except for stripped offically now.

3) no.
 
I'm not sure what to tell you then. Maybe try reflashing and wiping battery stats. Could have been a bunk d/l? I could routinely go 30+ hours between charges on Stripped (no LTE) and I know others who got great life as well
 
I hear sometimes that batteries on new phones get better life after initial uses, so maybe I still haven't broken it in yet? Also, I haven't done a full comprehensive calibration yet either. Anyway, I went ahead and installed tesla coil 1.7.1 (which includes leanKernel, right?) I like it a little more than bamf stripped so far even though its not that different. Battery life seems better so far with normal use, but I've yet to try and listen to Winamp for 2 hours with everything off for comparison's sake. I've also done a little bit of calibration and wiped the battery stats before this new flash.

We'll see how the battery goes now! Thanks for the effort though. I'll post back if I keep having more issues though. If I don't, it's probably safe to assume one of my fixes might have worked :)

Edit: Oh, and happy 4th!
 
Oh, yea, you will notice better life once it's calibrated itself. I must have missed you saying it was a brand new phone, my fault. My advice for calibrating is let it fully discharge and shut off on its own, then charge it full, discharge all the way again and then use it normally.

I take it you're not a fan of sense by your selection of ROMs? If this is true I would strongly suggest trying the newest CM7 build. I was always on the fence with sense, I didn't hate it, but didn't love it so I always ran senseless builds. I ran CM7 on my Inc a few times, but I wasn't fully ready to run AOSP and leave sense altogether so I always went back to senseless ROMs. Once CM was stable for the TB I tried it again and I'm glad I did because I've never been happier with a ROM in my life. I don't think I'll ever run sense or senseless ever again to be honest, AOSP from here on out. There is also another AOSP ROM available called OMFGB. I haven't run it personally, but I've heard it's on the way to becoming a very good ROM
 
WormDoes said:
Oh, yea, you will notice better life once it's calibrated itself. I must have missed you saying it was a brand new phone, my fault. My advice for calibrating is let it fully discharge and shut off on its own, then charge it full, discharge all the way again and then use it normally.

I take it you're not a fan of sense by your selection of ROMs? If this is true I would strongly suggest trying the newest CM7 build. I was always on the fence with sense, I didn't hate it, but didn't love it so I always ran senseless builds. I ran CM7 on my Inc a few times, but I wasn't fully ready to run AOSP and leave sense altogether so I always went back to senseless ROMs. Once CM was stable for the TB I tried it again and I'm glad I did because I've never been happier with a ROM in my life. I don't think I'll ever run sense or senseless ever again to be honest, AOSP from here on out. There is also another AOSP ROM available called OMFGB. I haven't run it personally, but I've heard it's on the way to becoming a very good ROM
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There are SOME Sense apps that I like, but I don't like the UI itself, its look or organization, and Tesla has some of the apps I like on it and none of the features that I don't like in general. And I like the notion of the LeanKernel. It is my favorite sense based but senseless ROM so far.

I did try CM7 first, briefly, but I seemed to have bad 4g issues. Not the toggle thing, but I couldn't connect to 4g at all. And the GPS connectivity was pretty poor, and I rely on my phone for GPS quite often, so it was a break issue for me. Everything else I got to check out on CM7 was stellar and as soon as those issues are fixed I plan on going right to it! I'm exited for it to come out of test phase...
 
I don't know how recently you tried it, but I get almost instant gps locks and according to Slayher on twitter (main CM7 developer) he has fixed the LTE hand offs and the LTE to WiFi issue some (most) were having.
 
CM7 is the way to go!

I was a diehard BAMF Stripped user since it was released, and there's no comparison. AOSP is superior in every way.

I can get 20-25 hours on a charge no problem.

Although I'd say if you're insistent on staying with a Sense build, follow Worm's advice about charging and discharging the battery. After it's full, I'd bump charge, it until it's at 4200+mv and wipe battery stats.
 
WormDoes said:
I don't know how recently you tried it, but I get almost instant gps locks and according to Slayher on twitter (main CM7 developer) he has fixed the LTE hand offs and the LTE to WiFi issue some (most) were having.
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I tried build 1.1, the newest right? From 6/30. I have MR1 radio version, what are you using with CM7?
 
Ibrick said:
CM7 is the way to go!

I was a diehard BAMF Stripped user since it was released, and there's no comparison. AOSP is superior in every way.

I can get 20-25 hours on a charge no problem.

Although I'd say if you're insistent on staying with a Sense build, follow Worm's advice about charging and discharging the battery. After it's full, I'd bump charge, it until it's at 4200+mv and wipe battery stats.
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Oh I liked CM7 a lot, I want to use it, but the issues I had with build 1.1 from 6/30 scared me off til a more stable version comes along. Also, I've had the 4g radio on for almost 3 hours (on standby though) and it only drained the battery about 5%.. good right? (On Tesla Coil 1.7.1)
 
Fruban said:
I tried build 1.1, the newest right? From 6/30. I have MR1 radio version, what are you using with CM7?
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Yea I'm on 1.1 and the MR1 radio. It's so funny how all these phones are exactly the same and roll of the same assembly line, but they each have their own little quirks and all react and behave differently.
 
WormDoes said:
Yea I'm on 1.1 and the MR1 radio. It's so funny how all these phones are exactly the same and roll of the same assembly line, but they each have their own little quirks and all react and behave differently.
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Technology. Sometimes you understand it, sometimes you don't.

On my last phone, the Ally, the touch screen started to give up and not respond until I literally punched the screen a few times, hard, to make it work again. Slowly but surely, it stopped responding altogether, hence the new Thunderbolt. Why punching it worked? Who knows lol.
 
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