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Root How-to calibrate your battery!!!!

CrackBurglar said:
do you need root to accomplish this procedure?
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Yes.

I followed this procedure and my phone just went from 100% at 11:48am to 97% at 11:50am. 96% at 11:52am. 95% at 11:54am.

I'm using the info tab from setCPU to monitor my battery.

Don't anybody go thinking any of this means that Jasonb isn't a troll btw.. I was under this bridge the other day and there he was.. Counting a huge stack of money!

It's a joke, don't kill me! :) Battery stats are real though, didn't work for me.
 
mgraham said:
Yes.

I followed this procedure and my phone just went from 100% at 11:48am to 97% at 11:50am. 96% at 11:52am. 95% at 11:54am.

I'm using the info tab from setCPU to monitor my battery.

Don't anybody go thinking any of this means that Jasonb isn't a troll btw.. I was under this bridge the other day and there he was.. Counting a huge stack of money!

It's a joke, don't kill me! :) Battery stats are real though, didn't work for me.
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there ya have it folks.
 
I am not sure what to make of this, it has been 2:31:57 up and 00:22:47 awake since I did this and my battery still has 10 full bars. Usually within 1 hour tops of standby it would have dropped the first bar.

It will be interesting to see how far I make it.... Kinda like Kramer test driving the car in Seinfeld "The Dealership" :D
 
GrandMasterB said:
I am not sure what to make of this, it has been 2:31:57 up and 00:22:47 awake since I did this and my battery still has 10 full bars. Usually within 1 hour tops of standby it would have dropped the first bar.

It will be interesting to see how far I make it.... Kinda like Kramer test driving the car in Seinfeld "The Dealership" :D
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i was just thinking about that episode....when they finally ran out of gas kramer was like...."well, i'll think about it"
 
Guys I don't think this method is supposed to stop the battery from dropping from 100% to 93% as fast as it does. That is just a phone issue with the battery that no user adjustments are going to be able to correct.

I think this is just supposed to help the overall life of the battery with the phone.

I will try this on my days off and see whats what.
 
After getting root for my device (finally) first thing I did was install the unrevoked recovery module. followed by removing cityid, flickr, twitter, and visual voice mail.

Then I fully charged (while on) my seidio 1750, then performed the 1/2 hour powered off trick.

Booted into recovery, mounted systems, deleted batterystats file.

I powered on my device at 14:00 yesterday jul 6. I have been making sporadic calls, taking them as well as browsing, and text messaging.

I am currently sitting at 39% battery remaining, with an estimated dead time of 01:14 AM July 8. (35 hour 57 minutes.) I dont expect it to last till then, but believe me I am 3 hours beyond what my seidio was lasting me already...

I'm not one to make incredible claims that i'm getting 90 hours and still sitting at 70% while using my device as my main computing device. That's just not me.

Simply put, so far this is my experience (24-36 hours) on one charge with moderate use. Up from 18hrs top...

Some may say this doesn't work at all, others may see an improvement. Fortunately I'm in the improvement dept.

Once we're completely dead, I'll reply with the time, and also keep track of subsequent charges in the near future.

If nothing else, rooting for this issue alone was worth the 3 weeks of shear hell it took me to get root.
 
i have to update my last post...

the first charge lasted 34 hours.... Must have been fairly minimal use.... As on my second day with a full charge... 10AM - 11PM I was on a pier on lake erie... Used GPS a time or two... sent a lot of pics... also lots of calls... Heavy Duty use... 13 hours.

So with any new method of gaining battery... Your Mileage May Vary
 
CrackBurglar said:
i have to update my last post...

the first charge lasted 34 hours.... Must have been fairly minimal use.... As on my second day with a full charge... 10AM - 11PM I was on a pier on lake erie... Used GPS a time or two... sent a lot of pics... also lots of calls... Heavy Duty use... 13 hours.

So with any new method of gaining battery... Your Mileage May Vary
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I have a similar situation and I am not sure why my death metal crazed friend. The first day I got 16 hours uptime and 14+ hours awake time with heavy use , Slacker, Tower Raiders, Slimeball etc and still had 30% left when I went to bed . Thats absolutely amazing for me as I have never seen that much usage before.

Then each day after that I have been getting about 12 hours uptime and 4-5 awake and the battery is dead. That is worse usage then I eversaw before. Last night I fully charged before bed (usually charge overnight) and woke up to see it was at 50% within 6 hours and 0 use. Uptime was 6:23:00 and awake was 00:3:17. Something is destroying my battery now and I cannot figure it out :( Most usage was cell standby with 41% followed by wifi 23%. Never been a problem before.
 
I think the process provided in the original post/link is not the best way to make sure the battery is properly calibrated. Here's what I did:


  1. Plug your phone in and make sure USB debugging is enabled.
  2. adb reboot recovery
  3. adb shell (once in recovery)
  4. mount /system
  5. mount /data
  6. rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
  7. /system/bin/shutdown
  8. Leave the phone OFF and charge it FULLY until the green light comes back on. Unplug and replug as many times as you need to in order to make sure you have a full charge.
  9. Power on the phone, you're done.

Why this process? To make absolutely certain there is no state data in memory committed to storage at any point. Thus, all the clearing of stats occurs in recovery.
 
rmk said:
I think the process provided in the original post/link is not the best way to make sure the battery is properly calibrated. Here's what I did:


  1. Plug your phone in and make sure USB debugging is enabled.
  2. adb reboot recovery
  3. adb shell (once in recovery)
  4. mount /system
  5. mount /data
  6. rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
  7. /system/bin/shutdown
  8. Leave the phone OFF and charge it FULLY until the green light comes back on. Unplug and replug as many times as you need to in order to make sure you have a full charge.
  9. Power on the phone, you're done.
Why this process? To make absolutely certain there is no state data in memory committed to storage at any point. Thus, all the clearing of stats occurs in recovery.
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I just got my 2150 so will probabbly do this tomorrow night.
 
rmk said:
I think the process provided in the original post/link is not the best way to make sure the battery is properly calibrated. Here's what I did:


  1. Plug your phone in and make sure USB debugging is enabled.
  2. adb reboot recovery
  3. adb shell (once in recovery)
  4. mount /system
  5. mount /data
  6. rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
  7. /system/bin/shutdown
  8. Leave the phone OFF and charge it FULLY until the green light comes back on. Unplug and replug as many times as you need to in order to make sure you have a full charge.
  9. Power on the phone, you're done.

Why this process? To make absolutely certain there is no state data in memory committed to storage at any point. Thus, all the clearing of stats occurs in recovery.
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This is a great point. And for anybody that doesn't want to mess with running ADB commands you can clear it in the ClockWork Recovery menus,

-Power off phone and charge, bump charge as necessary to get a full charge.
- Power on with Volume Down and Power, boot to recovery.
-Advanced/WipeBatteryStats
-Reboot device and enjoy :)

This worked great for me today.
 
GrandMasterB said:
This is a great point. And for anybody that doesn't want to mess with running ADB commands you can clear it in the ClockWork Recovery menus,

Advanced/WipeBatteryStats
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Really? Cool. Ok going to charge her up full and do this. Thanks man.
 
rmk said:
I think the process provided in the original post/link is not the best way to make sure the battery is properly calibrated. Here's what I did:


  1. Plug your phone in and make sure USB debugging is enabled.
  2. adb reboot recovery
  3. adb shell (once in recovery)
  4. mount /system
  5. mount /data
  6. rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
  7. /system/bin/shutdown
  8. Leave the phone OFF and charge it FULLY until the green light comes back on. Unplug and replug as many times as you need to in order to make sure you have a full charge.
  9. Power on the phone, you're done.

Why this process? To make absolutely certain there is no state data in memory committed to storage at any point. Thus, all the clearing of stats occurs in recovery.
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I lost my Seido replacement battery when my first Inc was run over by a car, but now working with the stock battery and a rooted Inc I can say that this method has been working great so far today.

I performed the steps this morning around 11 and it is now almost 6 and my battery hasn't dropped off of the full level. It's been a light day for me on the phone, so it's not like I drained it, but I would have never been able to go this long without the battery dropping before.

Give it a try guys.
 
I'm just bumping this thread to see how it goes for everyone else. I'm itching to root the woman's Inc, but she's a bit reluctant. But if it means better battery life (which I'm sure I can attain from SetCPU alone), then she'll be more game.
 
I have the OTA Tweaked 1.6 rom installed. I don't think there is a recovery image as I tried to boot into recovery mode it was just the phone and a triangle. So just pulled the battery and pushed batterstats.bin to the system folder. Will this work as well?
 
Turned my phone off and charged all night,(TP2 1500mah) woke up and unplugged, waited and plugged back in waited for green again and did it one more time just to make sure it's fully charged. Then I booted into clocwork and wiped battery stats.

Running for 3 1/2 hours now with quite the usage and only down to 87%!
 
JUST MY 2 CENTS....

IT IS A FACT.... Google it... read up on it... ask your science teacher... whatever.... today's LI-ION BATTERIES CANNOT BE "CONDITIONED" you cant train it, it doesnt LEARN...
These methods may help your HARDWARE condition how it utilizes the power it has, but it in no physical way can condition the actual power source (battery). So bitching over wether it works is rather pointless.
 
Drukan said:
JUST MY 2 CENTS....

IT IS A FACT.... Google it... read up on it... ask your science teacher... whatever.... today's LI-ION BATTERIES CANNOT BE "CONDITIONED" you cant train it, it doesnt LEARN...
These methods may help your HARDWARE condition how it utilizes the power it has, but it in no physical way can condition the actual power source (battery). So bitching over wether it works is rather pointless.
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There is a big difference between conditioning a battery and calibrating the system that reads the battery. This thread is discussing the latter.
 
So let me ask. Does this have to be done every time you recharge? In otherwords does this set the system up to recognize what a real full charge looks like or is this just a way to get it to last longer for the one charge. If it is the latter I will just keep recharging it but if this is lasting for people through several charges I will go to the trouble of leaving my phone off that long.

I am hoping that someday they figure this out and give us an update to recover the lost battery.
 
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