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Having bad battery issues on any froyo even stock. My battery seems to die as soon as I use it.when its off I also lose like 5 percent an hour. I've calibrated the battery used uv kernels and done all I think I can. Anyone know any ways to determine if its a harder problem or something I'm doing.
Maybe you have an app that is either updating constantly (radio is on often ) or preventing the phone from sleeping. You might try looking at partial wake usage in the spare parts app. Or maybe turning on airplane mode to see if that helps the drain. You could always wipe and start fresh. Good luck.
Wiped fresh several times. Same issue.checked partial wake and its good. Now that I notice under battery history sensor usage out says android system and its been on 100 percent of the time.even after I unplug.what could that be? I read somewhere it said google maps had a sensor bug so I un installed it and same issue. Anyone else having this issue? I wonder what app its doing that
Really? Afghanistan? That must SUCKKKK how long you gonna be there for?
I saw a thread the other day, this guy had the same problem. It ended up being a defective phone/battery. He got it fixed with HTC.
After weeks of tryna figure our my battery drain on froyo I think I pinned it down. In spare parts under battery history/ sensor usage/ android system is running on my phone 100 percent of the time.I've already wiped and that doesn't help.any help?
b33zy682 said:
After weeks of tryna figure our my battery drain on froyo I think I pinned it down. In spare parts under battery history/ sensor usage/ android system is running on my phone 100 percent of the time.I've already wiped and that doesn't help.any help?
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Ya I have 17 hours of sensor usage in all time (I guess that's since I did a hard reset a few days ago).
Yea and the only solution I've found is factory reset but I can't find it in cm6 settings nor do I know if factory reset does anything to rooted users
Factory reset erases all user data. It's essentially wiping Data and Cache partitions.
Has anyone figured this out yet? My phone has been unplugged for 1 hour and has 24 minutes of sensor usage when I've used the phone for maximum 8 minutes.
rickytenzer said:
Has anyone figured this out yet? My phone has been unplugged for 1 hour and has 24 minutes of sensor usage when I've used the phone for maximum 8 minutes.
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I'd have to bet it's an app doing it... You'll have to figure it out probably.
Definitely it must be some app you have installed. Try nandroid and wipe if you have root and if it solves your problem then nandroid restore back and uninstall apps one by one until you figure it out.
I recommend you to start uninstalling apps which using sensor as first.
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Ya I have 17 hours of sensor usage in all time (I guess that's since I did a hard reset a few days ago).
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My guess would be that the sensor usage is part of the android system, therefore it uses the light sensor to read ambiant light for automatic backlighting for the phone, proximity sensor for the dialer, light sensor for the camera and orientation? sensor for the gallery perhaps???
I would guess that if you turned off the proximity sensor for the dialer, disabled automatic backlighting, etc you wouldn't see the same results. Just a guess tho.
That would be any app that uses the motion sensor. Like the new gesture search that can be triggered by flipping the phone back and forth. Or maybe a Tasker task you set up for some sort of motion gesture. Or a live wallpaper that reacts to 'gravity'.
I'd first look for any programs like those that could be running. They are misbehaving if it is constantly on, even when the screen is off. Or it could be by design 'to shake the screen on' for instance.
I have a similar sort of issue but instead of android being 100%, I have internet at 50% under battery info/sensor usage?
I charged my battery to full last night, set my alarm to wake up this morning, then put my desire into airplane mode.
I wake up this morning and my battery has gone down from full to 88%? How is this possible, and more unusual, how has the internet been the reason when I had my phone in airplane mode?
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Same problem
I have a Desire (running CM-6.0.2) and am experiencing similar problems. Mine is actually much worse than reported here; in 8 hours of over-night table sitting, my phone drained the battery from 70% down to nearly 20%!!
I am careful to check which Apps are running, and meticulously shut things down. I always have my 3G data connection turned off, WiFi off, GPS off...
The Testing > Battery History > Sensor Usage frequently seems to be showing "Android System" with times that even exceed what is recorded as "Running"!!
The battery performance isn't always terrible like this, but I've noticed when BatteryGraph shows steep decline, that the Sensor Usage is really high.
I don't know how to try to diagnose this further, but we've got to figure something out.
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I have a similar sort of issue but instead of android being 100%, I have internet at 50% under battery info/sensor usage?
I charged my battery to full last night, set my alarm to wake up this morning, then put my desire into airplane mode.
I wake up this morning and my battery has gone down from full to 88%? How is this possible, and more unusual, how has the internet been the reason when I had my phone in airplane mode?
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Sorry for reviving this old thread, but I have the same problem. I charged my phone two days ago, didn't use it much before the first night. The battery in the first morning was about 95%.
I then barely used the phone yesterday and just used a default browser for 10-15 minutes before going to sleep. Don't recall the exact battery percentage, but during the second night the battery had drained a lot more than during the first night.
I have disabled auto-rotation and auto-brightness, gps and network connections and the phone was locked in it's pouch.
Under battery history (sensor usage, since last unplugged) I have:
Android system: 1d 14h 56m 48s
Internet: 11h 45m 35s
I didn't use the Internet for more than 15 minutes.
What could cause so high sensor usage?
Was a fix for this ever found?
I'm experiencing the same issue where "Android System" shows the "Sensor Usage" in Spare Parts as running 100% of the time.
Hey guys --
I did a search and while there is much discussion of deep sleep problems, there is no clear way I could easily find to identify the cause.
I have CM7.20, the MiRaGe latest build on my NC, with the settings listed in my thread (see the sig). Recently I noticed that it is not entering into deep sleep, indicated by losing ~20% battery while it is asleep overnight in about 8 hrs. Battery results tell me it's "WiFi" taking like 30% of the battery, which seems quite odd, since I had it set to turn off WiFi while the screen off unless connected to the charger.
Any clues on how to identify the problem with deep sleep?
As for usage, I am using my NC 99% of the time with the following apps:
Moon+ Reader (probably 70% of time)
YouVersion Bible app (most of the rest of the time)
Dolphin Browser HD (maybe 2% of the time)
Enhanced Email and MailDroid - very occasionally but they are checking mail on 15 min intervals when wifi is on.
I have a ton of other apps installed but I almost never use them except for these.
Any help on how to determine what is causing the NC to not go into deep sleep will be immensely helpful. I have a 2-week Euro business trip coming up next month and I would really like to solve this before then.
Thanks!
Better Battery Stats might help. Try turning off sync before bed and see if you still lose 20%. If so, it's definitely some app that's the culprit. Grab something that will tell you what program is using data and how much/how often and you should be able to isolate it pretty quick.
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Hey guys --
I did a search and while there is much discussion of deep sleep problems, there is no clear way I could easily find to identify the cause.
I have CM7.20, the MiRaGe latest build on my NC, with the settings listed in my thread (see the sig). Recently I noticed that it is not entering into deep sleep, indicated by losing ~20% battery while it is asleep overnight in about 8 hrs. Battery results tell me it's "WiFi" taking like 30% of the battery, which seems quite odd, since I had it set to turn off WiFi while the screen off unless connected to the charger.
Any clues on how to identify the problem with deep sleep?
As for usage, I am using my NC 99% of the time with the following apps:
Moon+ Reader (probably 70% of time)
YouVersion Bible app (most of the rest of the time)
Dolphin Browser HD (maybe 2% of the time)
Enhanced Email and MailDroid - very occasionally but they are checking mail on 15 min intervals when wifi is on.
I have a ton of other apps installed but I almost never use them except for these.
Any help on how to determine what is causing the NC to not go into deep sleep will be immensely helpful. I have a 2-week Euro business trip coming up next month and I would really like to solve this before then.
Thanks!
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Better Battery Stats might help. Try turning off sync before bed and see if you still lose 20%. If so, it's definitely some app that's the culprit. Grab something that will tell you what program is using data and how much/how often and you should be able to isolate it pretty quick.
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OK, but it should be turning off wifi, and therefore sync for ALL apps, when it is asleep. Can an app override this setting? That's my guess, is some app is doing this. How can I ID that?
mr72 said:
OK, but it should be turning off wifi, and therefore sync for ALL apps, when it is asleep. Can an app override this setting? That's my guess, is some app is doing this. How can I ID that?
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Like envygreen said use that app to track wakelocks. Even if wifi is off, some app may be applying a wakelock to try to sync.
leapinlar said:
Like envygreen said use that app to track wakelocks. Even if wifi is off, some app may be applying a wakelock to try to sync.
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Alright, I'm on it
So last night I finished charging it and read for a couple of minutes, then put it to sleep to see how it went overnight.
My Wi-Fi sleep policy is set to turn off wifi when the display is off.
When I got up this morning I checked it and it had lost over 10% battery over night, and I checked BetterBatteryStats and I think it is going into deep sleep but maybe not shutting off wifi.
I have attached the screenshots from BetterBatteryStats, and I think I need help interpreting them and finding the cause.
ok, so here I am replying to my own thread... If I am reading this right it seems to be looking like my wifi is on the entire time, not only when the screen is on. Is this the right way to read this? In this case, it looks like "Wi-Fi sleep policy" being set to "When screen turns off" is not actually working... right?
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ok, so here I am replying to my own thread... If I am reading this right it seems to be looking like my wifi is on the entire time, not only when the screen is on. Is this the right way to read this? In this case, it looks like "Wi-Fi sleep policy" being set to "When screen turns off" is not actually working... right?
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It sure looks that way to me too. It says wifi on 8 hours. Did you try toggling the setting a few times? Also you are on Mirage and he may have done something in his tinkering that messed that setting up.
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It sure looks that way to me too. It says wifi on 8 hours. Did you try toggling the setting a few times? Also you are on Mirage and he may have done something in his tinkering that messed that setting up.
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yeah I did toggle the setting on and off, and in fact before I had it set to "On during sleep if plugged" for a long time, recently changed it, thinking maybe this was the cause.
But it does appear that maybe this is what is killing the battery. There doesn't appear to be any network activity when the screen is off, just looks like the wifi radio is powered up.
Any advice?
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yeah I did toggle the setting on and off, and in fact before I had it set to "On during sleep if plugged" for a long time, recently changed it, thinking maybe this was the cause.
But it does appear that maybe this is what is killing the battery. There doesn't appear to be any network activity when the screen is off, just looks like the wifi radio is powered up.
Any advice?
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Switch to CM7.2 stable?
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Switch to CM7.2 stable?
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Hmm. that seems like an extreme step, but maybe ... wonder how much of the snappiness I will lose.
EDIT: OK I switched to CM7.2 stable. Nice I didn't seem to lose any settings. Let's see how it goes. Thanks for the advice, I'll report back here if it still does the same thing.
Also uninstalled beautiful widgets... figured maybe that could be causing an issue.
Oh, and I probably had a SOD kernel patch applied... perhaps that was the problem too
guess I should change only one variable at a time for a good test, but in reality I just want to get it fixed and not really diagnose it.
I was having a similar problem...what I did was run the V6 supercharger script, granted i am running CM9 atm but it took care of any problems I had with battery life and wifi signal.
Question: does having WiFi on keep the phone from going into deep sleep at all?
I have found that my phone is not going into deep sleep. I checked what is holding wake locks, and the time with wake locks is way less than the time the phone has the screen off, so it appears it is not deep sleeping, even though there are not wake locks.
I have an extended battery, so I get good battery life, but always interested in improving it. But I also have this thought that if I have to turn everything off, and only synch when I turn the screen on, that is not ideal either.
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Question: does having WiFi on keep the phone from going into deep sleep at all?
I have found that my phone is not going into deep sleep. I checked what is holding wake locks, and the time with wake locks is way less than the time the phone has the screen off, so it appears it is not deep sleeping, even though there are not wake locks.
I have an extended battery, so I get good battery life, but always interested in improving it. But I also have this thought that if I have to turn everything off, and only synch when I turn the screen on, that is not ideal either.
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Get CpuSpy free on play store. It will tell you exactly how much deep sleep you are getting.
Having wifi on all the time should not prevent deep sleep. Only when things use it does it come out of deep sleep.
leapinlar said:
Get CpuSpy free on play store. It will tell you exactly how much deep sleep you are getting.
Having wifi on all the time should not prevent deep sleep. Only when things use it does it come out of deep sleep.
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I have CPUSpy Free, and that is how I know I am not getting deep sleep. My challenge now is to identify why.
OK, so it seems that CM7.20 stable definitely fixes things. I didn't flash the SOD fix, so maybe the SOD fix was preventing deep sleep before, or maybe something else in the kang build was preventing deep sleep with wifi on when the screen is on.
However the better battery stats still seems to say my wifi is never actually going off. I am not sure I am interpreting the results correctly. It looks like the wifi is on all the time even though it's set to turn off when the screen is off. But I can let the NC sit on my night stand overnight and lose only a couple of % where it was like 10+% before. I still think my problem was due to some app that updated and not the ROM because the problem started weeks after I last updated the ROM.
Hi.
My battery loses abot 2-3% per hour in idle. Is it some software or hardware problem? Or Tegra 4 specific issue? (No Wi-Fi, apps closed etc)
DarthVZ said:
Hi.
My battery loses abot 2-3% per hour in idle. Is it some software or hardware problem? Or Tegra 4 specific issue? (No Wi-Fi, apps closed etc)
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Try to give it a cold boot.
Often that helps.
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Snah001 said:
Try to give it a cold boot.
Often that helps.
Sent from my superfast Asus Infinity TF701with Dock
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Yeah seems to be a common android problem, some apps have runaway processes, others prevent deep sleep and I have also seen kernels lock CPUs. Shame Google can't put some effort into fixing it.
It's not an Android or a Google problem, it's the fault of the developer of the App which is causing this...
Since 4.3 I lose 0 % over night and I can use the table 1 hour every day for reading magazines, e-mail and angry birds for at least 5 days! Just great
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It's not an Android or a Google problem, it's the fault of the developer of the App which is causing this...
Since 4.3 I lose 0 % over night and I can use the table 1 hour every day for reading magazines, e-mail and angry birds for at least 5 days! Just great
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Google / Android should not let an app prevent deep sleep imo. Or runaway with resources. But yes you are right some responsibility has to be with the app developer for sloppy programming as well.
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Google / Android should not let an app prevent deep sleep imo..
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In some cases it could be useful or even wanted. Think of an emergency app with running bluetooth and GPS. You would not want Android to kill the app in the middle of your tour
Cold boot didn't help and no draining app seems to be running(. Is a hardware issue possible? Is there a way to check it?
Here's a screeshot from System Panel (results of this night's battery bleed)
P.S. The back of the device seems a bit warm when I touch it...
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Cold boot didn't help and no draining app seems to be running(. Is a hardware issue possible? Is there a way to check it?
Here's a screeshot from System Panel (results of this night's battery bleed)
P.S. The back of the device seems a bit warm when I touch it...
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You can wathc under "settings" -> "energy management" -> "energy table" which app it is and you can prevent it to wake the device up and to keep the device alive.
A few weeks ago I had a similar but stronger akku draining problem with the google apps but its gone (a pitty that I can´t say what it was: me doing this things in the energy management or google updating its app).
My google play-services still wake the device 869 times in 3 days.
New results. Very strange. No power consuming app seems to be running, but I still got -3%/hour.
Battery statistics shows that 80% most power is consumed by the screen. But it the tablet was in sleep all the time, so the screen was off...
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Battery statistics shows that 80% most power is consumed by the screen. But it the tablet was in sleep all the time, so the screen was off...
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Check in Settings on "Energieverbrauchstabelle" (something like "engery consumption table") from Asus, there you can see the power consumption of the apps without Display. If you click on a specific app you can disable it to keep awake or wake tablet from deep sleep...
If that not helps you you should reset everything and go back to stock. Then you can check without installed additional apps if your "bleeding" still is there. Then install one app after another and wait between every single one to check which is the "bad app"...
So, in fact it was a hardware issue. I took another unit and it works perfectly. For now...
Anyway, thanks for your help, guys
With tablet off (deep sleep) I get 1 % battery loss in 12 hrs.
Best I have ever seen on an android device.
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With tablet off (deep sleep) I get 1 % battery loss in 12 hrs.
Best I have ever seen on an android device.
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Yep, now I've got the same thing. 1% instead of 30%
With my N4 and now N5, I use better battery stats to find the culprit of battery drain. But you have to be rooted
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have you registered a asus account on the tablet?
i did and i got same issue was chewing through the battery like crazy.
go to settings and power consumption and it should say how many times it woke up the tablet or stopped it from sleeping
Hi all,
I know that there are hundreds of threads already about eeking out more from the battery.
I can just about get to the end of the day without charging most days, but not always so I'd appreciate your help.
Using gsam battery monitor shows that TMD4906 proximity sensor has had 294 wakelocks so far today (1h 58 mins cpu time) since I unplugged 4 hours ago.
Battery is down to 69% for just 1h 17mins of SOT today.
Happy to send Gsam screen shots if that helps, but it seems a huge amount of drain is from the above.
CHeers,
Andy
With reset you solve problemes
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With reset you solve problemes
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ah sorry, forgot to mention that I've done a factory reset and manually installed apps one by one.
Same problem
You could try with "force doze" app, has an option to deactivate sensors, there is a thread about it
I'm having the same issue. Try leaving your phone with the screen down over the table. It looks like the proximity sensor wakelock disappears according to GSam Battery Monitoring.
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I'm having the same issue. Try leaving your phone with the screen down over the table. It looks like the proximity sensor wakelock disappears according to GSam Battery Monitoring.
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Where does it show this information on gsam? All I see under Android system within gsam is tmd4906 prox usage 5 hours since 1D 7HOURS.
Limeybastard said:
Where does it show this information on gsam? All I see under Android system within gsam is tmd4906 prox usage 5 hours since 1D 7HOURS.
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Gsam reports tmd4909 prox using only seconds, never more than 14 or 16 of use, I find it strange, because I use gravity screen app which uses prox sensor all the time!
Think I figured it out. Last night I didn't close my wallet style case and the figure remained low.
Basically it seems to be the wallet style case covering the front of the phone causing increased proximity usage it would appear. Will run without wallet style case for a while to verify.
EDIT : THIS WASN'T IT.
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