Guest hullmackem Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 (edited) This did the trick for me, battery life is great now! Removing /system/app/TelephonyProvider.apk and /system/app/Phone.apk (in this order!) - this will give a repeating error - perform a hard shutdown by holding on/off button for 5 secs - reboot Help, it wont let me delete the files :D I just get an error and ifilemanager closes. Edited January 11, 2011 by hullmackem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zixxy Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 (edited) Sorry folks, my domain name expired! Anyway heres the working link with instructions on how to disable the telephone parts on the Vega Edited January 11, 2011 by zixxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest matthijskox Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Help, it wont let me delete the files :D I just get an error and ifilemanager closes. You need rootexplorer to do this or use adb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ashbash Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Sorry folks, my domain name expired! Anyway heres the working link with instructions on how to disable the telephone parts on the Vega This was discussed here; http://android.modaco.com/content/advent-v...e-battery-life/ if anyone is interested.. A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Thresherinc Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 For some reason, Advent left the phone software components of Android still in the system, and even though there isn't any hardware this is consuming cpu cycles (this is what the Device Standby item is). I have written some instructions on how to disable these functions... I've been running it on my Vega for a week or so, and it seems to improve battery life on standby. Tweak for more battery life on the Advent Vega I used this tweak and so far it looks like it's worked, as stated you get a no signal notification, I also found that Settings > About Device > Device Status just crashes the settings process. Be nice if these gubbins were removed from a MOD and the signal bar removed too. But as I've only just started reading about Android I'll leave it to the professionals. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest matthijskox Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Hmm, it seems that i was a bit premature. Last night i lost 50% (in 9 hours) in standby....... Seems to be some app i must have started that eats the battery since it does not always happen... Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jimh Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Mine is the same too. It loses nearly half the battery overnight. I have now removed the telephone files as above but it still dropped battery last night. I have been through and checked my apps to see what is set to sync. Nothing is being listed as using battery power in the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lennyuk Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Mine is the same too. It loses nearly half the battery overnight. I have now removed the telephone files as above but it still dropped battery last night. I have been through and checked my apps to see what is set to sync. Nothing is being listed as using battery power in the list. if your having battery issues you may need to calibrate the battery. Flashing files on any android phone can potentially mess up what the device thinks the correct battery levels are, so its either best to flash new roms when full and keep the power supply in, or when not full and don't have a power supply in. The best way to fix this would be to drain the battery completely then charge to full, when full turn device off and charge till full again (only problem is no real way to tell when its off is there?) This should reset the level so that when the device says its 100% it should be 100% (now don't get all pedantic on me and say you can never charge 100%... this is not the time :D ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sir Gash Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 if your having battery issues you may need to calibrate the battery. Flashing files on any android phone can potentially mess up what the device thinks the correct battery levels are, so its either best to flash new roms when full and keep the power supply in, or when not full and don't have a power supply in. The best way to fix this would be to drain the battery completely then charge to full, when full turn device off and charge till full again (only problem is no real way to tell when its off is there?) This should reset the level so that when the device says its 100% it should be 100% (now don't get all pedantic on me and say you can never charge 100%... this is not the time :D ) If you have ClockworkMod recovery installed, there should be an option to clear the battery stats. I recommend you do this when fully charged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest matthijskox Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 (edited) If you have ClockworkMod recovery installed, there should be an option to clear the battery stats. I recommend you do this when fully charged. Thanks all! I've tried CWM once but it bricked my vega (temporarily at least) so i am not keen on using this.... Is there another way to clear the stats? Edited January 13, 2011 by matthijskox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lennyuk Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 If you have ClockworkMod recovery installed, there should be an option to clear the battery stats. I recommend you do this when fully charged. yeah I made my post with the thinking that most people here still have not installed clockwork mod :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest matthijskox Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Hi, Thanks for the tips. I will now try calibrating the battery. Now i want to put phone.apk and telephoneprovider.apk back to /system/app. Is it sufficient to just push them or should i also chmod them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sir Gash Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Hi, Thanks for the tips. I will now try calibrating the battery. Now i want to put phone.apk and telephoneprovider.apk back to /system/app. Is it sufficient to just push them or should i also chmod them? Not sure, but out of curiosity, why do you want to put them back? Have you encountered any problems since removing them? I recently did it a couple of days ago and there seems to be a bit of improvement in standby. I used to keep my Vega in airplane mode (which helped) but the battery stats still showed a drain for 'Device Standby'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chrisrich85 Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 (edited) Not sure, but out of curiosity, why do you want to put them back? Have you encountered any problems since removing them? I recently did it a couple of days ago and there seems to be a bit of improvement in standby. I used to keep my Vega in airplane mode (which helped) but the battery stats still showed a drain for 'Device Standby'. wrong thread sorry :D Edited March 12, 2011 by chrisrich85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bhargav27 Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Don't know why but my Vega stays warm even in idle. Also the battery use is quite erratic as I noticed it went from 69 to 33 in about 3 hours on standby. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jastonas Posted March 18, 2011 Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 Don't know why but my Vega stays warm even in idle. Also the battery use is quite erratic as I noticed it went from 69 to 33 in about 3 hours on standby. Any ideas? I am having the same problem :D I just posted it here as well as in xda but I havent found anything :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mancity12 Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 The only time I ever have a problem with the battery on my Vega is if I play a game. For example, my battery was 60%+ and then I turned on FPSE for about 5 minutes (literally 5 minutes at the most) and then powered the Vega off completely and turned it back on and it was at 23%!!! :D This is the only time I get the problem and im going to test it a few more times as surely this cannot be right, but it's definitely only when I play games and doesn't matter if it's only for a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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