[Q] Battery drain while screen is on? topic

Just a quick bit of background: I got this phone in early November and until about early March I could get 10+ hours of screen on time with 2 days of run time. Now my battery drains at about 20% an hour but only while the screen is on. Last night after about 16 hours off the charger the device was at 41% woke up 9 hours later and the device was 41%.

• I have factory reset three times and I've taken it completely back to stock once. Have used the root recalibration app multiple times.


• I have root and mainly use it for Aide and the Xposed Framework. Neither is installed after my most recent factory reset.


• I have uninstalled Google+, turned off Google Now, completely nuked location services, don't use Samsung apps, uninstalled Drive, never use maps, and always have GPS off.


• Apps I use when screen is on: Chrome, Newsstand, Play Music, and Calculator almost exclusively. Frequently use my phone to control YouTube on a Samsung bluray player. I have cast to upnp installed but it's set to disable on inactivity and I hardly use it or Play Music. Almost never use Plex or Splashtop.


• I have a Google and Amazon account. The Google account is set to sync using the default settings and always has been(I played around with the settings to no effect). I also just noticed I have a Verizon backup account that I've never setup? Seems strange.


• I've used titanium backup to freeze tons of unremoveable stuff, I've used Greenify on anything I don't want notifications from. Both from previous trials, not currently installed.

So my question is has anyone else noticed more battery drain than usual while using the device? Is there a (maybe) fix for it? Something stupid I may be missing? Is it already time for a new battery?(Seems ridiculous!)

Another battery drain thread.. (4.4.2 Location..) topic

I know some of you wont even read this thread.. due to it's popularity, but I just have to share my experience with 4.4.2 battery issues.

This is going to be a bit long (I just made 50% of you run away..) so sit back.

About two weeks ago I decided to flash the stock 4.4.2 that came out, and so I did, everything went smooth, no problems what so ever.
I also decided to root my device for the first time, just so I could change some system sounds and use root explorer, nothing more. so I did.
since then I started noticing the battery was not as it used to be, I would usually get home after work (~9-10 hours) and have 50-70% battery left depending on my phone usage that day. Now I was getting home with 30-20% and have to plug it in in the evening.
From what I saw in the battery stats in 'settings', it looked as if the phone is waking up every minute or so, for a couple of seconds, rather than sleeping when the screen is off, it got to the point I had less than an hour of screen time and the phone was about to shut down.

So I installed BBS, cpu spy, wake detector and started monitoring everything, in short I'll just say it got me nowhere, the stats were random at best, making me disable exchange services, Gmail sync, Google plus sync, Google now and more.

So after some time I got fed up, and decided to do a full system wipe, including system\data etc. basically everything, back to 4.4.2 stock, no apps, nothing installed except what comes with the phone.

Again, same behavior, another system wipe, same behavior.

I've been wiping the phone more than I was using it for the past 2 weeks, and yesterday I decided to try a different approach, I disabled EVERYTHING, the phone was basically just a 'phone'. NOW I was getting somewhere, phone was sleeping as soon as the screen was off, not waking up at all. and so I started enabling stuff, first my apps, everything still OK, then Google sync, OK, exchange sync, OK, location - BOOM - phone waking up again..

So, Location is the culprit after all, I started disabling stuff like Google location history, location reporting, WIFI scan networks, set locations to power saving mode, NADA. basically I have to turn off 'locations' all together in order for the phone to last more than half a day.

And that's my 4.4.2 experience for you.
Anyone has the same experience?
I'm this close to selling my S4 and getting a Nexus5.. my wife's Nexus 5 is amazing, everything set to ON, battery lasts 2.5 days..

Thakns for reading people.

Attached are two examples of the phone staying awake all the time, and not sleeping regularly. I did not take a screenshot of when the 'Locations' was off, but it was consistent with the screen on time, when the screen was off the phone was sleeping, no exceptions.

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Battery drain, Bluetooth, help topic

Hello everyone , my AT&T LgG2 is running 4.4.2 and my battery life has been pretty poor. Blue tooth is always on even though the switch is off . I tried a factory reset 2 times and it wouldn't change. Also my battery is drain much faster that on 4.4.2. I can't run any wakelock detectors because I can't root my device and frankly don't understand Most of this rooting stuff.

I installed greenify but that app is limited due to non root mode . any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I've also noticed that my ram is always above 1 gig. And I normally have about 500-600 free. This seems excessively high. I've tried using task killers and they say they have freed 100-300,MB but a few moments later the same thing happens .

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Battery drain CM10.1.3 topic

Hello,

I have a massive battery drain on my CM10 mod. Nothing changed. I can do max. 12hours on 1 battery.
When i go to settings -> battery -> there is standing that Android OS is using 58% of the battery, is this normal?
First there was standing Google+ 63% but i deleted Google+.

And what to do about it? I use Greenify but i doesn't help.

I searched a lot but, i can't find elsewhere why my Android OS is taking up so much battery.

Greetz,
MrC

Battery Drain topic

Hi,

I just recently purchased a "new" Moto X from eBay. I've been trying to calibrate the battery, and it seems to be slowly improving, but the results are not what I was hoping for.

Day 1:
Battery drained from 100% to 70% in two hours of use

Day 2:
Charged 100%, left it unplugged overnight. Drained from 100% to 88% by the time I woke up. Could not make it throughout the entire day without having to supplement the charge by around 7:00pm. Minimal use.. maybe 2 hours of screen time, 14 hours on.

Day 3 (today):
Charged overnight. Took it off the charge at 11:00am. Battery remained at 100% until 11:30, and sporadically skipped 99, 98, and 97% and jumped straight down to 96%. It is now 3:00 pm, and I'm going to post an image of my current battery. [view attachment]

On average, I'm seeing about 35 minutes of screen on time per 10% of battery. Is this normal?


BTW: Yes, I disabled a lot of bloatware. Yes, I end processes as soon as I'm finished using them.

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Exchange Server Battery Drain topic

Short version: does anyone had a mod or guide on how to swap out the Samsung exchange system for stock android exchange? I upgraded to a ROM that I like but get bad battery drain whenever I use Samsung's exchange (ROM does not have option to use stock android email). Preferably a version that works with TW 4.3 ML1 ROMS

Long Version:

I have battled battery drain related to an exchange server for some time now. I am pretty sure my exchange provider (Apptix) is partially at fault, since this started when they migrated us to a new server, but their help team is rather abyssmal and they are not able to pinpoint any issue on their end, claiming a lack of complaints.

I say partially at fault because I am able to use a ROM that has the stock android exchange (rather than Samsung exchange) and that works fine, as does my Nexus 7 and iPad, and everyone else's iOS and Motorola Droid devices. So I had a couple of theories:

1. Somehow, my exchange provider installed some extra security that is designed to recognize Samsung devices and try to work with KNOX or the old SAFE system to implement extra security, but on a ROM'd and Rooted device, those components are missing and exchange services just run in a loop.

2. The stock Samsung exchange services have some memory issue, where they will continuously sync because they run out of memory

3. The stock Samsung exchange services do not deal well with unread messages (I notice that it will not sync read/unread in real time until I launch the email app, whereas the stock android one will not sync read/unread until either I launch the app or a new email comes in.

I theorized about #2 and #3 because my problem seems to get much better if I use a ROM where the security settings of the exchange services have been removed. Drain is still there, and I think it may coincide with periods that I have unread emails, but I am not sure. Data usage is also much lower (Samsung exchange with security would use up to 10MB or more per hour), but not as low as when I use a stock android exchange services. Also, it appears that samsung android services (without security) is keeping the phone awake without actually using the CPU - so perhaps it keeps awake if there is a unread notification? Below are my battery stats.

So for those of you that read the long version - has anyone else experienced this? Has anyone had any luck figuring it out? And yes, I have tried removing and adding back the exchange account, removing the account through OWA. And to pre-empt the inevitable "use third party" - I like having an integrated exchange solution, where I can see calendar next to my gmail calendars.

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nfc drain battery topic

i have installed lg l7 4.4.2 cr3pt pa... on battery status nfc take 50% over...how to fix?????

[Q] Battery drain different? topic

hello all, i have a small question: when my phone more 90% battery over one night it only lose 1-2% but yesterday it left 29% and over the night it lose 10% to 19%. someone have the same issue and give me an solution for it
Thanks

YouTube battery drain? topic

Can anyone tell me why youtube is destroying my battery. Its done this 2 days in a row today it took me from 100% to 15% in 4-1/2 hrs now I was listening to music thru Bluetooth on Google play but this is rediculous battery drain with youtube having 2+ hrs of CPU usage... I am not rooted running stock 4.4 KitKat on this ATT S4
here is my batt stats
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Battery drain is quick topic

Hi.

I've recently bought a SIM-free Galaxy S3 LTE (GT-i9305) smartphone online. I've since changed the battery to an "extended life" 2550mAh one.

I still find the battery draining quick. At 6am its fully charged then by 10pm its down to less than 10%. On my other thread i indicated my normal everyday routine and what i use my phone for. I have had numerous Android phones in the past so i know which ones to turn off, etc.

I understand Chrome can be a drain on the battery so i have disabeld it. I have heard of Knox affects it as well but i am not able to uninstall it. I have installed a battery-saving/monitoring app Greenify but i feel it doesn't do anything. Sync is also turned off and i put my phone on Airplane mode if im at work as the signal tends to be almost zero inside the building.

I also understand the battery tends to improve after a few cycles of charges.

Is there anything else i'm missing here?

Please advice. Thanks.

[Q] Battery Drain 50% in 12 Hours Idle topic

Moto G XT1032 high Battery drain

We have 2 phones both with the latest System software, No WiFi and Location setting on, display shuts down with a magnetic case.

Both have the same App's my wife phone has 4 added app's, mine has the same app's plus more.

My wife's phone was draining the battery very fast 50% at idle in 12 hours.

Checking the battery drain was showing System use of 50% and Keep awake of over 12 hours, Plus NO Included Packages Showing.

My phone was OK.

So ended up removing the 4 added App's, Forced Stop on all app's that I did think that where being used, turned off the Location setting and re powered the phone, after some 10 min's the phone was back to normal System use of 4% and now showing Included Packages.

Its still OK after 2 days, so what was going on, have since added the 4 app's and still OK.

The 4 Added app's are 1Weather, ES File Explorer, Alert Me and Tunein Radio all added from Google.

[Q] S3 Battery drain topic

Hello! I bet you have seen this a heap of times. Well guess what, so have I. Alas, nothing has been found - I checked Android Central, the T-Mobile and AT&T websites and all sorts of other techy places but to no avail. So here I am, scavenging information, doing stuff to my phone - I am finally to the end point - writing a post myself.

So, heres my problem: awful battery and when I charge while using the phone, the battery goes DOWN!

Lets start with this

What I have done:
Factory reset
Cleared cache
Deleted every program (app)
Airplane mode
No sim card
Downgrade to 4.1.2
Rooted and calibrated battery
Full discharge to full charge

Now please check the eye candy down below in the attachments..

So.. What else?! It isn't a hardware problem because when it is turned off and charging, it seems to be fine.

Some system specs:
Galaxy S3
International
OmniRom 4.4 (btw, this ALSO has drain, I install hoping it wouldn't)

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L7 II Battery drain topic

Hello.
I want to know if there's someone else having this issue.
I charge my phone (p712) to 100%, and when I restart it/shut it down and start it without being pluged to charger wire it starts at 94% and it goes to 89% in less than a minute, after that it get slowing down a little but still goes down quickly till 50% and then it takes longer to decrease the %.
I already calibrated the battery.
¿Maybe it's a rom problem? ¿or it's not optimized for battery visualization?
Thanks for comments.

[Q] lg g2 "android system" battery drain topic

Hi guys

I understand there are alot of threads simalar to this, however there are some things i would like to know.
The android system usage is at at 37%, now the battery just drains out faster then it should. I am using wifi and the battery still gets drained, display is at 50%

S4 Battery Drain since 4.4.2 topic

Hello Guys!
Since I Updated my S4 to 4.4.2, i'm getting Huge Battery Drain. Mostly, i have about 15-20% left, and then it just turns off and i have 0%. Can somebody help me please?
Thanks, Atakan

Android 4.3 bug with battery drain by nfc topic

I have NFC turned off ALL the time, and at power magagment is showing that Nfc is draining the most battery! even more than the screen...

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Media Server battery drain topic

i found that i have media server has won the most battery consumption in my phone can any1 help me with it?

[Q] HTC One battery drain on Pac ROM 4.4.2 topic

Hi

First let me say I'm a noob to this forum and to Rooting, ROMS etc.

I've just installed the latest Pacrom on my HTC One and love it! However since installing my battery life has taken a serious hit! I used to get a good 10hrs plus out of it through average use. The last 2 days though I've been lucky to get 6hrs.

I've tried installing Franco Kernel as I had read that was good for battery life. However, although it says it has installed, when I go to About phone>Kernel version, it simply doesn't appear there.

Has anyone got any recommendations?

[Q] LG G2 "Android System" battery drain topic

Hey guys, I've recently got an weird issue with my LG G2, the "android system" process seems to get very high usage, even higher than the screen, It was OK first when I got the phone, but afer couple of weeks it started to get very high usage on "android system" process, and I don't know what causing it.

I've tried several things already - disable google now, disable locations, disable autosync - no luck!

Anyone with an idea what is going on?

I'm on stock 4.2.2, not rooted, no haks

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Extremely Fast battery drain. . N9005 topic

Hi.

Wondering if anyone had seen this before on there note 3. My battery was 100% when I woke up this morning. Within about 2 hours it drained down to about 6%.

When checking battery stats there is a system app that looks like it was the culprit.

My phone was red hot for ages before I noticed it. .

It looks like it's the camera or something to do with the camera.

See screenshot. Can anyone advise add to exactly what it is?

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