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[Q] Read battery log after restart

I have an issue I'd like to debug, but I need some information to help myself:
I charge my SGS (JM1) in the evening, when it's 100% full I disconnect the charger and go to bed (23:30), phone switches to airplane mode at 24:00. When I get up 8h after, my phone is off and has absolutely no battery left.
This happens every now and then, IMHO there's no app causing this (haven't installed anything lately). I can't reproduce the issue.
How would I best debug this and try to find out what's causing the battery drain?
Can I still read the battery log after a restart?

What apps Di you have and what Firmware?
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DamianGto said:
What apps Di you have and what Firmware?
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Firmware JM1 (rooted)
Apps:
aContacts
Alchemie
aLogcat
AnDream
Angry Birds
APNDroid
AppsOrganizer
Asphalt 5
c:geo
CallTrack
Coloroid
Explorer
GC Tools
geniewidget
GeoHunter
GPS Test
handyCalc
ICD Auskunft
Jorte
K-9 Mail
Kitchen Timer
Meraki Wifi
N-TV
OpenSudoku
RTM
SGS Tools
Snowstorm
Solitaire
Stats
Terminal Emulator
Timeriffic
wetter.info
Xing

Don't see Amy bad apps.
You can.use sgs toolbox to see the battery usage is.
Some make the phone almost never go in powersave mode.
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Thank you so far.
I looked at the battery usage stats and saw that bluetooth was enabled for more than 7 hours (although it was disconnected). That IMHO shouldn't have completely drained the battery though...

I am seeing the same problem recently; the battery drains out really quickly in no time even when there are no major apps running. Even the battery usage menu shows nothing major. During this time I have noticed that the phone gets really hot and the battery indicator app shows that the battery temperature as b/w 40-50 C (its around 25-35 C when there is no issue). During this time I can't even make calls or send/receive SMS!!! Seems that it just cannot get a network signal.
There were no such issues for the last couple of months. I can't imagine an app directly or indirectly causing this.

If an app keep the phone awake all.the time and use wifi/Bluetooth/gps it will drain the phone fast.
The only solution is to find out where the flaw is.
Personal i would backup the phone and do a complete wipe/ reset of the phone so it will be clean and like new. Then i would test to se if it drain the battery.
If it does then it is broken and need a.repair. Else i would start to intake the apps i need, but looking close what they do.
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SGSI said:
During this time I have noticed that the phone gets really hot
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Ex-act-ly the same for me!
I will disable all self-installed apps via pm disable and see what happens.
I'll then report back...

Have you installed any lagfixes recently? When I had voodoo lagfix on jg4 I would get at best 8 hours of stand by time. As soon as I flashed jpm I get 1% drain per hour
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I have not installed any lagfixes, my phone is on stock JG4 firmware. The battery life is otherwise very good, only at times (very random) the battery starts draining from 100% to 0% in a matter of few hours.I use System panel to check if there is any app that is causing this, but it does not indicate anything like that.
The only thing that I can think of is that the phone for some reason looses network (I can't make a call and send/receive sms during this time) and keeps trying to reconnect without success and hence drains out the battery. Once I reboot the phone everything becomes fine and the battery usage becomes normal. Is there any way to find out that the phone is trying to connect to the mobile network and this is causing the battery to drain out?

Neither do I, never used any lagfix so far, I'm on stock JM1.
The only thing that I can think of is that the phone for some reason looses network and keeps trying to reconnect
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That's possible but I don't know how to log this...
Gnarf, it just happend again. Before going to work it was all normal, now it's frozen.
I connected it to my computer, but WinXP recognized it as an unknown device.
ADB doesn't work, else I had pulled the logfiles.

maybe u should consider upgrading to JM7 or JM9. and before installing apps do a full reset and cache wipe.

MagicOnline said:
maybe u should consider upgrading to JM7 or JM9.
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I'm waiting for CM 6.1 to sort it all out, given that "FroYo by Samsung" still isn't what I expected it to be - at least judging from the betas.

[Q] Not entering sleep mode?

Hi,
I have a issue with my SGS which is rather irritable, my phone won't go to sleep, so I'm expriencing bad battery life.
Right now through the spare parts app, my phone reports the time spent without sleeping is 2 hours and 1 minute since last unplugged.
Android 2.1
Model Number GT-19000
Firmware Version 2.1update1
Baseband Version 19000DTJ3
Build Number ECLAIR.DTJG4
Voodoo lagfix beta4 installed
I figured it may be an app so I did a factory reset but it did not help, so I assumed it was voodoo which lead me to this thread /showthread.php?t=786509
If I apply the Voodoo_3.0_with_stock_JM8_update.zip will my issue be rectified?
and as I do not have 3BR is all i need to do is apply the update through adb recovery mode?

Can anyone tell me how to solve this?

Where in spareparts do you see the sleep time, maybe this is the cause for my bad idle battery life recently.

EarlZ said:
Where in spareparts do you see the sleep time, maybe this is the cause for my bad idle battery life recently.
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Spare parts>Battery History> Select last unplugged (when you unplugged it from the charger)> Press on running bar, and it will tell you how long your phone has been running without sleeping. Mine is not sleeping at all, I'm going to disable voodoo to see if it fixes the issue.

GINGERBREAD and AIRPLANE MODE. Increase in battery drain?

So yes most people know about the general problem with gingerbread and battery drain. Yes tons of solutions have been suggested, some work for some people some dont. None work for me. I think I may know why
I want to ask specifcially about using AIRPLANE mode overnight on a gingerbread ROM. Does anyone else do this?
Ever since moving to gingerbread ROMS from stock Froyo, whether its a stripped out BASE version, or a decked out rom like DARKYS or MIUI, every morning my battery has just been aboslutely hammered.
I have tried most suggestions and nothing seems to really matter much, if at all
I realised that I use AIRPLANE mode everynight or during the day when I dont need the phone, and most people dont. Funnily enough, I can tbe 100% confident yet, but it seems like if I leave the phone on normally and DONT turn on AIRPLANE mode, the battery lasts much much longer
How could this possibly be... I would like to hear other people opinions and tests.
Does the phone not really go into AIRPLANE mode and loop some kind if battery sucking feature?
Here is a great example.
I flashed to DARKYS RE edition ROM 10.1 Last night. I was told it does not have the batter drain issues.
I used the ROM for a few minutes to see how it runs.
I didn't leave anything running or install anything. The rom was blazing fast. I turned on AIRPLANE MODE, pressed the power button to lock the phone and left it for the night, at 93% battery. 8 hours later, in airplane mode and locked, the battery was down to 22%!

splendidtry said:
I want to ask specifcially about using AIRPLANE mode overnight on a gingerbread ROM. Does anyone else do this?
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Same here.
I tried Ginger for a week (it was Darkys RE 10.1).
Draining issue came out only with AIRPLANE MODE during night.
Rolling back to 9.5 solved my problem.

Not for me. Its still the same. I can say that since i use the airplane quite often. Almost every day.
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No problem with airplane mode and battery using XWJVH with Voodoo kernel.
Btw. I did reset the battery stats after a full charge.
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Stock 20L: 3G disconnects then HUGE battery drain

Hello all,
I have confirmed the following issue on my Optimus 2x with stock 20L. Nothing else, nothing special.
When I leave the phone standby for several hours (eg. during the night), when I get back to it and turn on the screen, the network signal/3G indicators are white - meaning no internet connection.
After around 10 seconds, 3G reconnects itself.
While this is annoying, since you don't get any notifications from programs using the internet (WhatsApp, Facebook etc), it gets worse.
After 3G reconnects itself, the battery drains really fast: about 30 seconds for 1%. So in a few minutes your battery will be completely drained.
This even continues while rebooting.
For example: I come back to my phone and it has 46% left. Then I notice the 3G disconneced and reconnecting and then power starts dropping really fast. I reboot at 43% power left. After the reboot, there's only 18% left but the draining has stopped.
I at least had this happen twice in four days.
Is anyone else noticing this, or does any of the developers out here perhaps has a fix or a custom rom in which it is fixed?
I really like 20L for some new features, but I'm also experiencing issues with GPS and now also this... I'm really thinking of going back to 10D.
Thanks for any help or insights you can give me.

vrowdy said:
Hello all,
I have confirmed the following issue on my Optimus 2x with stock 20L. Nothing else, nothing special.
When I leave the phone standby for several hours (eg. during the night), when I get back to it and turn on the screen, the network signal/3G indicators are white - meaning no internet connection.
After around 10 seconds, 3G reconnects itself.
While this is annoying, since you don't get any notifications from programs using the internet (WhatsApp, Facebook etc), it gets worse.
After 3G reconnects itself, the battery drains really fast: about 30 seconds for 1%. So in a few minutes your battery will be completely drained.
This even continues while rebooting.
For example: I come back to my phone and it has 46% left. Then I notice the 3G disconneced and reconnecting and then power starts dropping really fast. I reboot at 43% power left. After the reboot, there's only 18% left but the draining has stopped.
I at least had this happen twice in four days.
Is anyone else noticing this, or does any of the developers out here perhaps has a fix or a custom rom in which it is fixed?
I really like 20L for some new features, but I'm also experiencing issues with GPS and now also this... I'm really thinking of going back to 10D.
Thanks for any help or insights you can give me.
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I also have huge battery drain, but in my case the main culprit is OnScreen Phone. Left my phone with 100% in the evening and in the morning, after exactly 8h, the battery was at 70%. Of that, 50% was used by OSP, and 25% each Idle and Cell standby. With the phone on wireless, froyo used at most 10% instead of the 30% used by GB now.

Yes you should remove all background running apps, especially the sh..y LG one Phone on Screen, but also checking for others, like media share programs and so on.
One time with my present ROM I had a storm in my battery with tremendous drain.. I had to do a fresh reinstall, and since then no problem.

Thanks for your replies, but this is different.
The battery only starts draining when 3G reconnects and you can literally see it happen.

vrowdy said:
Thanks for your replies, but this is different.
The battery only starts draining when 3G reconnects and you can literally see it happen.
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Same happening here. I'm running on topogigi 2.0 SP3.
With Baseband 725 I'm having this issue. Now I'm on 622 will see tomorrow what happens
Edit: I'm noticing, that even if I have full signal with an "H" the phone starts switching from H to 3G and back when I turn the screen on

I think I can confirm that huge battery drain on GB is because of the radio. The reporting of huge consumption by OnScreen Phone or Gallery may be wrong.
I left last evening my phone fully charged on Flight Mode and after 8:30 it consumed a mere 1-2%. With Flight mode off GB uses like 30% and Froyo used 10%. So I suppose the radio is the main culprit. As you can see in my screenshots, the Gallery process is said to have used the most energy, but it wasn't even started. And some days ago OSP was in place of Gallery. In the third screenshot you can notice how the drain started when I turned off the Flight mode and browsed for 45 min or so.
Could it be that we're experiencing this huge radio drain because of the incorrect baseband? I suppose we all have the generic Euro Open/Italian v20L ROM, and maybe our networks need a correct baseband for our specific operator?

rottenpenguin said:
I think I can confirm that huge battery drain on GB is because of the radio. The reporting of huge consumption by OnScreen Phone or Gallery may be wrong.
I left last evening my phone fully charged on Flight Mode and after 8:30 it consumed a mere 1-2%. With Flight mode off GB uses like 30% and Froyo used 10%. So I suppose the radio is the main culprit. As you can see in my screenshots, the Gallery process is said to have used the most energy, but it wasn't even started. And some days ago OSP was in place of Gallery. In the third screenshot you can notice how the drain started when I turned off the Flight mode and browsed for 45 min or so.
Could it be that we're experiencing this huge radio drain because of the incorrect baseband? I suppose we all have the generic Euro Open/Italian v20L ROM, and maybe our networks need a correct baseband for our specific operator?
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The first time i experienced the battery drain problem i had no rooted phone with official Gingerbread update from LG. That was last week. The Baseband was exactly the same as from Froyo 10D (725).
With Froyo I had no battery drain at all. So LG must have messed something up - that was my thought...
since then i rooted my phone and installed topogigis rom on fr, 4th nov. At the weekend i was in areas where the signal strength was very good (H in status bar).
On monday no battery drain on my place of work where signal is very bad (G in status bar).
Since tuesday battery drain is back. I get reconnects after reconnects when the signal is weak. Even when the signal is very good my phone jumps from H to 3G and back. What the hell is that?

You need to flash the GB baseband released with the rom, the 0725 basebands are not the same. Flash the 0725 baseband in the v20l thread of Hell_97 and try again. Without it there are many issues.
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Maybe I was a little uncertain:
- Last Wednesday (2nd nov) I had an unrooted phone with froyo. In the morning I checked for an update with LG Software and boom I had Gingerbread.
- Until friday I had heavy battery drain (9h and battery was at 5%). I was so angry and thought f*** you LG-Guys I'm flahing topogigi's rom. I flashed the Baseband 725 from his thread. On Saturday to Monday evening no problems at all.
- On Tuesday my phone again had very bad signal an it was often active (in the Battery-Usage Menu were much of those blue bars.
- Yesterday I flashed 625 Baseband -> problem not solved
- today I flashed 502 (from LG U660 10S update). I will look how it works.
What I noticed on all Gingerbread roms is, that the phone often Disconnects an Reconnects. I think that's making the heavy battery-darin.
But I have no idea how to fix that...
edit1: Did you mean the Baseband of this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334220
edit2: what problems do appear with basebands different from 725 for GB?

Fast dormancy not working. Making your battery drain. Extensively covered in Hell_97s v20l rom topic.

8ball79 said:
Maybe I was a little uncertain:
- Last Wednesday (2nd nov) I had an unrooted phone with froyo. In the morning I checked for an update with LG Software and boom I had Gingerbread.
- Until friday I had heavy battery drain (9h and battery was at 5%). I was so angry and thought f*** you LG-Guys I'm flahing topogigi's rom. I flashed the Baseband 725 from his thread. On Saturday to Monday evening no problems at all.
- On Tuesday my phone again had very bad signal an it was often active (in the Battery-Usage Menu were much of those blue bars.
- Yesterday I flashed 625 Baseband -> problem not solved
- today I flashed 502 (from LG U660 10S update). I will look how it works.
What I noticed on all Gingerbread roms is, that the phone often Disconnects an Reconnects. I think that's making the heavy battery-darin.
But I have no idea how to fix that...
edit1: Did you mean the Baseband of this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334220
edit2: what problems do appear with basebands different from 725 for GB?
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If you have updated through LG update tool, your Baseband had been updated to last (=the one recommended for Hell ROM), and above all the one recommended by LG for your area...
I think you should put back this one...

wapz said:
Fast dormancy not working. Making your battery drain. Extensively covered in Hell_97s v20l rom topic.
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I've read many threads about this issue, but couldn't find a solution for Optimus 2X because on our phone, the PDP Settings in the HiddenMenu aren't implemented yet, so we can't disable Fast Dormancy.
I've found a workaround when you're at home: you can change the WiFi policy to never sleep, so during the night, the phone will use WiFi only instead of 3G while it's sleeping. But still, this doesn't hep you at all when you have no WiFi available.
I called LG this morning and they sad I'm the first reporting this problem (huge 3G battery drain on newly released Gingerbread)
Has anybody found another solution?

O2x issue - Battery freezes and mobile data stop working

Hi all,
I've got an annoying issue on my O2x. Sometimes when I leave it in standby for a long time (>30mins) with the screen off, the battery percentage freezes and I can't make or receive calls/sms; also mobile data stop working. If I try to activate flight mode, nothing happens. I have to reboot the phone.
Example:
Yesterday I went to sleep (battery: 73%).
I woke up after 6 hours (battery: 71%).
I used the phone for ~2 hours (battery: still 71%).
Then I noticed that Mobile Data were disabled (can't enable it) and signal was fixed to 3/4 bars (even if I tried to go somewhere w/o phone signal - still 3/4).
Tried to make calls, send sms but can't (battery: still 71%).
Tried to turn on airplane mode, it disabled Wi-Fi but nothing else happened (battery: still 71%).
At the end I had to reboot the phone. At boot, battery was 17% (the true percentage, I suppose) and everything with mobile data/signal was ok. Then I received 7-8 messages from people that tried to contact me during this "issue" time. :\
This crappy thing is happening like once a day, so please help me!!
(I'm running Leaked v20o with BB725, but I had the same issue through Topogigi/Thanatos/CM/v20L with different BBs/RILs!)

I have the same problem. Battery freezes at 37%, and I can't receive/make calls. If I reboot the phone then the battery start to show the correct charge. This happens every day. It sucks.

Well, at least I'm not the only one...
Someone told me it could be an hardware problem (battery).. So I think I'll buy a new battery as soon as possible and try... :S

I had the same issues when I upgraded my phone to the official Gingerbread release. Prior to that I was on Topogigi's ROM, which is GB as well, and never had similar problems using two different basebands (but I honestly don't remember what number they were). When I switched to CM7 I never faced this issue again, so I don't think it is a hardware problem.