Root + OverclockWidget = Insane Battery Life 40+ Hours - Page 25

robotphood · #**241** (**permalink**) 06-16-2010, 07:06 PM

At least double idle battery life for me after this widget. Doesn't do a thing for usage drain but it's nice to know my phone is retaining it's juice when it's doing almost nothing.

**Cicatrize** · #**242** (**permalink**) 06-16-2010, 08:18 PM

Wow, idle drain is definitely slow with this. I stand corrected. I'll only drain 1 or 2% in an hour if I keep the screen off. Nuts.

jdizzle · #**243** (**permalink**) 06-16-2010, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by fenixjn

Overclock widget, you get it from the market but you have to be rooted to used it.

Does it work with revoked root method?

robotphood · #**244** (**permalink**) 06-16-2010, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdizzle

Does it work with revoked root method?

Yes. unrevoked.

fenixjn · #**245** (**permalink**) 06-17-2010, 12:33 AM

Battery problems? Where?

EDIT: I got this using full root and setcpu 1.54 with screen profiles enabled.

EDIT 2: I could have waited a little more on this since the battery was sitting at about 20% at this point. So it would have run on well over 2 days... if I had turned off the BT also as well.

madoc · #**246** (**permalink**) 06-18-2010, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fenixjn

Battery problems? Where?

EDIT: I got this using full root and setcpu 1.54 with screen profiles enabled.

EDIT 2: I could have waited a little more on this since the battery was sitting at about 20% at this point. So it would have run on well over 2 days... if I had turned off the BT also as well.

How much were you using your phone? just curious.

I'm no a battery samuri like you, but I have experienced ~15 hours, sometimes more, using a custom ROM. Before that it was ~8 hours. I am very happy with the custom and its power savings. I haven't been using OC or SetCPU as I've been comparing ROMs with another EVO user (Bugless vs. Damage). Maybe I could surpass 20 with CPU scaling added.

What I am still very confused about is: why have the experiences varied so widely? Several of my co-workers have EVOs. With identical settings, in the same building, with similar use, there is still a large variation. One guy has not pursued ANY tweaks at all, is using it out of the box with Gtalk active, etc. and gets 15-17 hours. I wouldn't bother with any tweaks if I was he either...

thecalip · #**247** (**permalink**) 06-18-2010, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cicatrize

Wow, idle drain is definitely slow with this. I stand corrected. I'll only drain 1 or 2% in an hour if I keep the screen off. Nuts.

I didn't install the widget and it is only draining 1%/hour. I don't think the widget work at all.

Ticklemepinks · #**248** (**permalink**) 06-19-2010, 03:37 AM

LOL still a debate huh lol???

dumpringz · #**249** (**permalink**) 06-19-2010, 08:04 AM

Wirelessly posted (Sprint HTC Evo : Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; Sprint APA9292KT Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

that widget is a$$. after running that is when my major battery problems started to exist n i only tried it as i was hoping to make an less then average battery better. followed the preferrered settings n all ...... since my hard reset n whatever sh!t it wiped out which also may have been causing me issues i get 8-10 hours WHILE USING the device not laying it on a table n not touching it

fenixjn · #**250** (**permalink**) 06-19-2010, 03:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by madoc

How much were you using your phone? just curious.

I'm no a battery samuri like you, but I have experienced ~15 hours, sometimes more, using a custom ROM. Before that it was ~8 hours. I am very happy with the custom and its power savings. I haven't been using OC or SetCPU as I've been comparing ROMs with another EVO user (Bugless vs. Damage). Maybe I could surpass 20 with CPU scaling added.

What I am still very confused about is: why have the experiences varied so widely? Several of my co-workers have EVOs. With identical settings, in the same building, with similar use, there is still a large variation. One guy has not pursued ANY tweaks at all, is using it out of the box with Gtalk active, etc. and gets 15-17 hours. I wouldn't bother with any tweaks if I was he either...

Light to medium-light usage. See the SystemApp graph.

Quote:

Originally Posted by thecalip

I didn't install the widget and it is only draining 1%/hour. I don't think the widget work at all.

I used OC on mine... my battery went nuts draining even faster. I think that Battery Indicator seems to drain power fast too. I got a better result by using setCPU.

I am now trying DamageControl ROM and see how it works in terms of power w/o addons.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dumpringz

Wirelessly posted (Sprint HTC Evo : Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; Sprint APA9292KT Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

that widget is a$$. after running that is when my major battery problems started to exist n i only tried it as i was hoping to make an less then average battery better. followed the preferrered settings n all ...... since my hard reset n whatever sh!t it wiped out which also may have been causing me issues i get 8-10 hours WHILE USING the device not laying it on a table n not touching it

Try setCPU.