[Verizon] Opinions on clockwork battery cache clear..

[radzer0]

Anybody done this and noticed anything different? Im doing this on a galaxy nexus and i read on other sites you do it at a full charge than let it go completely dead than recharge and thats how you set it. Is this still the same as i was using instructions for a older HTC phone.

 

[An UrgeTo Dance]

Some people believe that this does help with battery but others say it has no affect. I have never done this on my Galaxy Nexus but I have done it my Evo before and depending on the time I did it, it sometimes helped and other times I couldn't tell a difference. It wouldn't hurt anything so you might as well try it out and see how it goes.

 

[scary alien]

Anybody done this and noticed anything different? Im doing this on a galaxy nexus and i read on other sites you do it at a full charge than let it go completely dead than recharge and thats how you set it. Is this still the same as i was using instructions for a older HTC phone.

radzer0,

Hey, I've moved your thread over to the VZW all-things-root area for you (let me know if that's not your proper device's root area).

BTW, just my two cents: I've got four rooted Android devices and I've never reset the battery stats and probably never will (personal opinion is that it doesn't make any difference whatsoever--Android will figure-out what 100% is when it stops charging, etc.).

Cheers!

 

[SolidOrange]

here's what a google engineer has to say about it:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT

Today's myth debunking:

"The battery indicator in the status/notification bar is a reflection of the batterystats.bin file in the data/system/ directory."

No, it does not.

This file is used to maintain, across reboots, low-level data about the kinds of operations the device and your apps are doing between battery changes. That is, it is solely used to compute the blame for battery usage shown in the "Battery Use" UI in settings.

That is, it has deeply significant things like "app X held a wake lock for 2 minutes" and "the screen was on at 60% brightness for 10 minutes."

It has no impact on the current battery level shown to you.

It has no impact on your battery life.

Deleting it is not going to do anything to make your more device more fantastic and wonderful... well, unless you have some deep hatred for seeing anything shown in the battery usage UI. And anyway, it is reset every time you unplug from power with a relatively full charge (thus why the battery usage UI data resets at that point), so this would be a much easier way to make it go away.

 

[radzer0]

What I don't understand is how battery life shoots to 60% so fast.. than goes down about half the speed to 20%.. than 20% takes forever to go down from there

 

[in2uition]

What I don't understand is how battery life shoots to 60% so fast.. than goes down about half the speed to 20%.. than 20% takes forever to go down from there

Many factors can contribute to that. Such as, but not limited to, signal strength, signal hand-offs, phone usage, ROM/kernel configuration and resource intensive apps.

I suggest you look into getting the extended battery, flashing a different kernel and using wifi whenever possible.

 

[radzer0]

Using liquid with the Franco kernal.. have the Samsung extended battery already.. the huge battery isn't a option