nexus one users get thru the whole day?

[T2urtle]

I'm on a tmobile nexus one. one-click rooted on CM 6.0, setCPU to always underclock. battery power under 80% and its clocked at 750. normally its at 920mhz. Screen off its at 500mhz.
I set the screen to turn off in 30secs, wifi, gps is off. all the obvious stuff.

I listen to internet radio for about 3-4 hours and i see i'm near 40-50% in about 6 hours unplugged. My co-worker running stock G2 he starts and hour after me so assume he has a full hour of battery life on top of mines. At the end of the day his G2 is about 65%-75%, he uses the same radio app as me and roughly the same time. While my nexus is in the 20% area.

i'm trying to figure out if this has to do with CM6.0, i've heard MIUI rom is a lot better in terms of battery management then CM. I dont have another nexus to compare to. I've alway thought this was normal because my old mytouch rooted with CM and iphone never made it to the end of the day. Aleast my nexus makes it to the car charger.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I have a bone stock unlocked N1, and it just makes it through the day.

I've heard that CM6 is a battery hog.

Try set CPU see if it helps. Other than that, you'll have to use a larger battery or carry a couple of stock batteries if you stick with CM.

Vshaw uses one as well IIRC...

 

[basslover1]

Maybe because the G2 only runs @ 800mhz to begin with?

 

[zerocool84]

Maybe because the G2 only runs @ 800mhz to begin with?

G2 is underclocked and obviously a newer design so the internals should be better on battery but you never know what you might be running in the background and what he might be.

 

[basslover1]

G2 is underclocked and obviously a newer design so the internals should be better on battery but you never know what you might be running in the background and what he might be.

I was trying to find out what process the G2's Snapdragon was made on but couldn't. Is it possibly built on the 32nm process? Because that would explain the better battery.

 

[vshah]

g2 snapdragon is 45nm, it definitely sips power compared to the 1ghz 65nm in the nexus.

i can get through a day, although I don't see as heavy use as yours.
tmo nexus 1, CM 6.1 rc1. things I think that help:

-surface flinger mod set to N1 calibrated
-pretty much black background wallpaper
-pershoot's oc/uv kernel
-setcpu set to 245/1.13 main, 245/245 sleep, 245/652
- phone radio mode set to gsm prl (auto)
i probably spend an hour or two on the phone each day, check email compulsively since gmail is blocked at work, and listen to a bit of subsonic/pandora during lunch. i unplug at 8:30am, and by 5pm its at around 50%. If i go out to dinner after work, and get home at 9pm, its down to about 25 and needs to go on the charger.


solution: get an extra usb cable and keep it plugged in at work.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I have a handful of cheap ass chargers and usb cables for my crap...

 

[tdawg]

On the weekend's it's very easy to get my N1 through the day with juice to spare, but being at home and near my laptop results in far less usage of the N1 than during the week.

During the week, I use the device heavily, checking email, facebook, listening to music, playing games. I have a usb cable at my desk, so I almost always end up plugging the device during the day while at work. Don't really know how the device fairs sans charging M-F any more.

 

[ew915]

N1 Flashed to UV Kernel, can get through the day about 2.5 Hr checking email, browsing, playing and 1 hr of calling in a day still have 15% left at 11pm

 

[T2urtle]

-surface flinger mod set to N1 calibrated
-pretty much black background wallpaper
-pershoot's oc/uv kernel
-setcpu set to 245/1.13 main, 245/245 sleep, 245/652

WTH is the first one...

wallpaper is a CM one in blue.

i'm on a 950mhz kernel.

setcpu right now is 245/806 main. 245/422 sleep. i'm going to change it to 245/245 sleep.

I dont overclock mainly because i dont do heavy stuff, i dont consider gmail and internet radio heavy CPU hog. thats about 80% of what i do. random google searches and tapatalk forums is about 10-15% of the rest and the obvious text/talk. Plus if the G2 can run 800mhz at a amazing speed, my older CPU should be able to as well.

I haven't had the time to order any micro USB cables. I bought a ton of mini, thinking it was the standard. Big FAIL.


I'm looking into switching up ROM's thinking it might be the MAIN reason but i've read about people having issues with the root. Since i'm on one-click root/rom manager, its default is CM. Just having read up on MIUI

 

[AznAnarchy99]

My Galaxy S lasts 4 hours if I web browse non stop. Needless to say, i have multipe chargers everywhere.

 

[vshah]

WTH is the first one...

wallpaper is a CM one in blue.

i'm on a 950mhz kernel.

setcpu right now is 245/806 main. 245/422 sleep. i'm going to change it to 245/245 sleep.

I dont overclock mainly because i dont do heavy stuff, i dont consider gmail and internet radio heavy CPU hog. thats about 80% of what i do. random google searches and tapatalk forums is about 10-15% of the rest and the obvious text/talk. Plus if the G2 can run 800mhz at a amazing speed, my older CPU should be able to as well.


I haven't had the time to order any micro USB cables. I bought a ton of mini, thinking it was the standard. Big FAIL.


I'm looking into switching up ROM's thinking it might be the MAIN reason but i've read about people having issues with the root. Since i'm on one-click root/rom manager, its default is CM. Just having read up on MIUI

1st one: cyanogenmod incorporates a mod someone made to the display system that allows finer control of the oled's subpixels. he ran a bunch of tests and they showed that using only red subpixels cut the power consumption of the screen by almost 50%. the mod has a bunch of profiles, and the "calibrated" one results in a slightly warmer, redder image. i find it more natural, and I find it helps with battery life.

also i use systempanel, it gives a nice historical graph of battery life vs usage etc.

you can by mini->micro adapters on amazon. i bought 4 for under 10 bucks.

 

[T2urtle]

i see better battery life. not 100% sure WHAT is the reason.

I updated to 6.1 RC1, also changed to a CM black wallpaper. in setCPU i lowered my "screen off" speed from 500 to 245/245. default speed was at 750 but it lagged on youtube vids so i pushed to 850.

overall i came home to 28%, normally i would see about 11%. But i didn't use the radio a lot but i did more youtube then normal. i'm sure more tweaks and learning a bit more i can get a solid 10-13 hours with it and thats is all i need.

everyone states they get 20+ on the miui rom, but that chinese rom looks too much iphone like for me.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I want to say that SetCPU shouldn't affect your usage that much. Your phone won't really clock to 1ghz during sleep unless you have it doing a LOT of stuff like syncing 200 things at once. If anything having a low voltage kernel will do more. Your phone will spend most of its time at 250/500 or so when sleeping and you want THOSE voltages to be low. If your cpu is working at 1ghz while sleeping all the time, then something's wrong with your phone.

 

[vshah]

so far 6.1 rc1 has been a bit worse than 6.0 for me.

 

[T2urtle]

2nd day at work got home with about 30%, little less streaming radio but more tower defense. i bumped it back to up 1ghz instead of 800.

RC1 i see no difference but something is giving me more battery life. +10%, unless RC1 modified how the battery is calibrated.

 

[Monster_Munch]

I found with my HTC Desire (basically the same as a nexus one) the biggest impact on battery life was applications that run as services. When I first got the phone I installed a lot of apps without really taking note of what they were doing and my battery was lasting around 9 or 10 hours. Then I did a factory reset which wiped all the apps and I was getting 2 or 3 full days from a single charge.

Now I'm much more careful - I try to avoid any apps that run services unless I really need them. And my phone will last over 24 hours fairly easily. But I haven't noticed any change in battery performance since upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2.

 

[zoiks]

I reduced the screen brightness and that helps a lot! I also turned off wifi so it doesn't look for a hotspot and do not use live wallpapers. With the MIUI Rom, it does go through the entire day just fine. I don't play a lot of games although I text half a dozen times or so during the day.

 

[T2urtle]

when i first posted my battery life was acceptible at best. coming from iphone 2g and mytouch 3g, i was used to the whole " i need a car with me always" i'm not exactly a power user but i do listen to mp3/podcast and/or stream heavily. texting and email is simply just part of life now. Games are when i'm bored and waiting.

Now either SETCPU being at 245/245/ screen off or the new RC1 battery life is a lot more better. Still i need a charger but i feel ok till the end of the work day. Over the weekend my phone NEVER makes it thru the night when i go out friday night and sleep over a friend's place. But this weekend i had 55% when i woke up. So overall i'm decent with the phone and battery life now.

Obviously its no blackberry lasting like 3 days easily but it works for me.

 

[rudeguy]

500 is way too high for a min.

200 is plenty