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Root ChevyNO1 killed my battery...

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Prime

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than a day

I flashed the 800mhz kernel last night with my root of petes 2.2 ota

but 2 o clock my battery was dead

it was even the low voltage one too.

any body know if thats normal?
 
Not normal, no. Something else must be going on here. I'm using Chevy's LV @ 1200 right now and I was at 70% battery last night after 14 hours. Have you checked your battery usage to see what's draining it?
 
Prime said:
than a day

I flashed the 800mhz kernel last night with my root of petes 2.2 ota

but 2 o clock my battery was dead

it was even the low voltage one too.

any body know if thats normal?
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I'm using his 1GHz kernel at 900MHz with Pete's FRG01B 2.2 release (what you're using) and getting excellent battery life.

Not all Droid's react the same way to kernels. Try a few different ones and see what happens. Make backups first and make sure 'set on boot' is unchecked in SetCPU while you do your testing. You can check it when your phone is running the way you want it.
 
I don't have SetCPU yet

I will get it and see what its set at

I might just go back to BB.4
 
I will

but its possible that it was my gmail unread notification and a missed call.

but as I said I will look to see what the battery drainer is
 
I'm having problems with battery life to. Tried many different roms. Need to try new kernels. Would switching from ULV to meV make a difference? Since all phones are different.
 
Increasing the voltage should never have a positive impact on battery life. By definition the phone is using more power.
 
^^^ lol, people are looking at me funny at work because i really just did start laughing upon reading that...

diff phones react differently to roms and kernels, right now pete's bbv0.4 running chevy's ulv 1gig kernel is hitting my droids sweet spot. runs smooth, quick, battery life = great.
 
vincentp said:
Increasing the voltage should never have a positive impact on battery life. By definition the phone is using more power.
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Mostly true, but it is definitely possible to have a higher voltage use less battery if the voltage conversion from the battery to the voltage used by the OMAP processor is really inefficient at the low voltage and more efficient at the higher voltage..

Generally as the voltage goes down, so does efficiency, so there is a point where lowering the voltage consumes more battery power..

Does this happen with the droid, hell if I know
 
Check widgets and hours between refreshes that use data. Even battery widgets can drain if it's putting up numbers ever 30 seconds - the widget needs to use resources to get a reading.

Try JuiceDefender as well - awesome battery saver and now working for CDMA
 
so my phone crashed on me 3 times today

with a full battery using pandora.

time for a new kernel?

what would anyone recommend
 
op in setcpu are you set to performance all the time? once I set it to ondemand and made some profiles battery life seems to be way better for me on 1.2 low voltage.
 
I was having terrible battery life with chevys 1.0ghz ulv kernel on RC2, switched to p3 and its a lot better
 
I heard there were some issues with Chevy's kernels if you downloaded them between 8/1 and 8/3, but he fixed the issue, so if you are having issues then you might want to download and flash the new ones.
 
P3 kernel FTW!

working so much better

AMAZING battery life

going on 2 days without a charge and sitting at 80 percent
 
I bet even money it was not the kernel, but the fact that the Facebook app was sucking your battery down - it had an issue that had it continuously synchronizing events or notifications or something.

The new update fixes that - but in the meantime a lot of people probably thought it was something *else* that was causing the battery discharge issues.
 
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