Root + OverclockWidget = Insane Battery Life 40+ Hours

[aznmode]

Weird..this morning I took my phone of the charger at 9:20. Got to work at 9:30 and it was down to 97%. Was openning up apps and closing some with ADK, checked email. It's now 9:51 and my battery is at 86%. The phone has been on since I got to work. Weird.

[apristel]

yeah i think my battery is worse. Was off the charger for an hour and was at 87%. I made 2 calls. whoopie.

[dakidobf]

Originally Posted by Ticklemepinks

ok so my issue is I sometimes come out of my txt program and I see the cpu is at 245 but yet I set min to be 576, i don't get it, what the issue??? at 245 some things goes slow until it kicks up!

I was reading in the other forum that the widget doesn't always display the right number, but who knows for sure unless you test the clock with some other app. I don't know, it sounded like a good find but I'm not sure it really does much.

[racerx123]

i've noticed that taking my phone off the charger (after a full charge) will result in the battery torpedo-ing from 100% to 80% pretty fast (within an hour). After that, it seems to hover around there even with use. I uninstalled the overclocking widget because i don't think it works well when the phone is on (seems underclocked), and i didn't get a snapdragon phone just to underclock it. who brags about underclocking?

[dumpringz]

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I have 49% battery left n unplugged this a.m at 830 .. not real heavy usage on the device either ... 4 hours with half juice gone n while idk how much time i have left but its not lookin to great. I double checked settings last night .. maybe a triple check is in order n another test later.

[Riley]

Originally Posted by dumpringz

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I have 49% battery left n unplugged this a.m at 830 .. not real heavy usage on the device either ... 4 hours with half juice gone n while idk how much time i have left but its not lookin to great. I double checked settings last night .. maybe a triple check is in order n another test later.

wow, that's not good. by mid day with no mods other than occasional Atk, Im sitting at at least 75%.

[cmdauria]

When I take mine off the charger it does drop pretty quick. Once it hits about 85% it really starts to slow down. I can very much tell that this app is working for me. Just make sure that if you are using ATK, that it is set up to ignore OverclockWidget and Superuser Permissions. I forgot to do that at first and didn't realize until I noticed that when I turned my screen back on it wasn't saying "Set new clock successful". I hope this helps!

[WarChild]

I think my battery got worse with this. I might have to take the app off Im not liking it.




CW

[Donatom3]

Originally Posted by dakidobf

I was reading in the other forum that the widget doesn't always display the right number, but who knows for sure unless you test the clock with some other app. I don't know, it sounded like a good find but I'm not sure it really does much.

That's because on the app you can set it at what interval to check the current frequency, by default it's set to every 60 seconds

Originally Posted by WarChild

I think my battery got worse with this. I might have to take the app off Im not liking it.




CW

My short test of it yesterday showed it worse and being a bit more laggy. Today is my first day without any special apps to control thing. Got rid of ATK, overclocking. The only modification I'm doing from stock is making sure not to setup the flickr account, keeping 4G and Bluetooth off when I dont' need them, and set the WiFi sleep policy to never.

Edit: Just checked. I've been off the charger for 2 hours 30 minutes, checked a couple of emails sent a text or tw and I'm at 93%. Considering whenever I take it off the charger I go to 96% or so right away I say this is looking promising.

[deolarte]

What setting are ideal to keep the phone running smoothly as is but save battery life as doing so? I look on this thread no mention yet.