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Root Fix for poor battery life on dj05/dl09 (rooted)

Hi all I did this last night and it worked wonders on my battery. Before this with screen brightness at about 20% and 10 hours of being on the battery would be dead. The screen on time was 3h15m at best before it would die. After I did this I tested my battery by playing a movie, games, web and texting. When I put my phone on the charger last night screen on time was 5h flat. I was amazed. So I thought I'd type this up for anyone with battery woes. ;) You need to be rooted and Clockwork installed.

1. Dial *22899 and let it do its thing. This helped my battery drain while in standby. Now drains about 1% every 3 hours of standby.
2. Charge phone to 100% (phone on)
3. When the charge hits 100% power down the phone
4. A green battery will show on screen and show its not fully charged. Leave it on the charger until it shows 100% (phone will vibrate to let you know and state 100%, do not unplug phone)
5. Once it reaches 100% boot into recovery by holding both volume keys and power until the Samsung logo appears.
6. Choose "apply update.zip" (use the home key for selection)
7. You are now in Clockwork. Use the volume keys to navigate to "advanced" and the back softkey to select it.
8. In the advanced menu select "wipe battery stats" (there will be no conformation)
9. Back in the advanced menu select "wipe dalvik cache"
10. Now back into the main menu and select 'wipe cache"
11. Select "reboot phone" and wait for it to reboot (will take longer than normal)
12. Once fully loaded unplug the charger and run the phone until the 5% warning then plug back in . :D

Edit Nitsuj17 says that wiping dalvik is optional
 
Hi all I did this last night and it worked wonders on my battery. Before this with screen brightness at about 20% and 10 hours of being on the battery would be dead. The screen on time was 3h15m at best before it would die. After I did this I tested my battery by playing a movie, games, web and texting. When I put my phone on the charger last night screen on time was 5h flat. I was amazed. So I thought I'd type this up for anyone with battery woes. ;) You need to be rooted and Clockwork installed.

1. Charge phone to 100% (phone on)
2. When the charge hits 100% power down the phone
3. A green battery will show on screen and show its not fully charged. Leave it on the charger until it shows 100% (phone will vibrate to let you know and state 100%, do not unplug phone)
4. Once it reaches 100% boot into recovery by holding both volume keys and power until the Samsung logo appears.
5. Choose "apply update.zip" (use the home key for selection)
6. You are now in Clockwork. Use the volume keys to navigate to "advanced" and the back softkey to select it.
7. In the advanced menu select "wipe battery stats" (there will be no conformation)
8. Back in the advanced menu select "wipe dalvik cache"
9. Now back into the main menu and select 'wipe cache"
10. Select "reboot phone" and wait for it to reboot (will take longer than normal)
11. Once fully loaded unplug the charger and run the phone until the 5% warning then plug back in . :D

nice write up, but it should be in the root section. also wiping davlik cache will have no effect on battery life
 
Dalvik was just what someone told me and Ive wiped battery stats before but not had results like this so I didnt want to leave anything out just in case. :D
 
I noticed today my battery was draining much faster than usual and I have not made any changes in several days. I looked at details and the android.process.acore is using 55% of the battery which I have never seen before. Tried rebooting but it is showing the same results. I was going to try a new kernel for grin but wanted to see if anyone ever seen this before. Thanks!

Edit..went back to OTB sv1100 voodoo 6 and it was not there initially but eventually came back and seems to be using over 50% of the battery again.
 
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