Hello,
Since a few days my phone keeps giving me the sync logo in the bar on the top of your screen. Once in a while it disappears for a few seconds and then it's there again. I turned off syncing my accounts (facebook, twitter), agenda, gmail & contacts. I have no other apps that use syncing.
The annoying part is that for some reason it lowers my battery level at a huge rate !! I have paid attention that my Wifi was turned off...
Firmware: 2.1-update1
Build: ECLAIR.XWJM2
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Running Froyo - as of today FRF83.
Has anyone noticed problems with the stock Email app and partial wake? I have two accounts set up, one IMAP and one Exchange. Both are set to sync messages Never as I want to sync manually when I access the mail account. I've even stopped all sync of the Exchange calendar. Regardless, I find using the Spare Parts shortcut to Battery History that the Email keeps a partial wake lock for well over half the time that my phone is on standby. I had my phone on complete standby after unplugging for about three hours right after unplugging, and I found a "partial wake" lock was in effect for Email for half that time. My battery life decreases by a few percentage points every hour.
The only way I can avoid this happening is to use a Task killer to kill the Email App along with stopping the service in the Applications setting. If I do this, I see no Partial Wake held by Email. And I find that I can go a few hours on standby and see my battery indicator stay put with no percentage change. Unfortunately as soon as I either launch the Email application or reboot, the Email service is back running and I have to go through the process again.
This also happened on FRF72. I just got my Nexus One and never really had my email set up until FRF72 so I don't know if this is a new issue or an existing one. Hunting around the internet I couldn't find much about Email app sync problems.
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Just some added info. I did a bit more testing, and it appears this is only an issue when an Exchange account is added. If I leave only an IMAP account, I do not have problems with partial wake.
Lately I battery is lasting far the charge all night, switch it off at 9 am, and after 3 hours and the battery was at 75% without using it, I have only synchronize Gmail. It currently (3:48 PM) and the battery is at 30% and have only used it slightly (10 minutes Internet surfing, text messaging)
Another thing I noticed is that the heated screen on top (where the CPU), just 10 minutes surfing the internet and the screen gets too hot, the battery reaches temperatures of 40 ° C - 42 ° C and even in the part where the battery is cold compared to the screen. Is this normal?
Another bug I've noticed is that sometimes the phone gets quite slow and starts to vibrate for 10 seconds and then returns to normal.
It perjuducial the phone to reach high temperatures? Sometimes I get to watch TV series online with Flashplayer and battery runs out fast and I have to leave it connected to the charger, but too hot to disconnect and return to lower temperature. Yesterday at least as I could not sleep with the phone from 11:00 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. and I wonder if the intensive use of mobile phone could end up damaging the phone by high temperatures.
Anything but I could not solve is the automatic locking of the screen is running where it should not, for example: I am on Google Maps and the screen turns off, I also happens in games and when I watch some videos with Flash, in the camera also turns off the screen, I searched through all settings and I could not find a solution.
Another bug that is annoying me is with the WiFi, that when the screen is blocking WiFi stops working I have it set to never stop WiFi but blocked the screen stops working WiFi, Wifi never turned off, but the problem is that it stops sending and receiving data, it is quite annoying because sometimes I need to download files larger than 100mb and I have to configure it not to lock the screen and the battery runs out faster.
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Use android market app OS Monitor to see what's going on in the background. Something is using your processor. OS Monitor should assist you in locating that process.
The only processes that are in the background is facebook (must be push notifications) Gmail, The Go Weather Widget, Google Maps (always stays in the background) and WhatsApp. The rest are system processes, if I'm going to stop using the phone close all unused applications, like Internet Explorer and other applications that need not be in the background. The phone just warms me when I use it for several minutes. The WiFi I have not been solved, as long I have to leave the screen on so you do not pause the download and the phone sometimes it gets slow for 10 seconds and return to normal
I've seen a lot of people complaining about battery life, and while I've had my Atrix HD only for a few days now (coming from an Atrix 2) I've had pretty good success w/the stock battery. I was initially bummed that we can't root yet, and with that comes the inability to turn off 3G/4G/LTE when the screen is off as well as other build.prop tweaks. I will be doing the EB40 battery mod, but before that I wanted to ensure I was getting the most out of my stock battery. I've done some things to get me the most life from my battery and many are just a reflection of my personal habits when I use the phone. Once size doesn't fit all, but hopefully you can use a few of the tricks here to improve your battery life. We can use this thread to share our results and findings.
Yes some of these are no-brainers, and we're not going to discuss the fact that using wifi, bluetooth and GPS all day will drain your battery. I operate on the idea that if I need it, I'll turn it on. I don't need every single one of my accounts synced to the split second. Half the time my phone is sitting next to me while i'm at my computer. Of course others live and breath through their phone. I don't care to be bugged every 5-10 seconds by my phone; got better things to do....but that is my style.
I will post some screen shots of my system as I complete some other tests. The first test I will do is turn off data and background sync and see how many days this phone can last w/out a charge. Other tests are TBD.
So here is what I've done so far.. While all of this is no more than enabling/disabling and configuring items, I still will take no responsibility if disabling any features/apps breaks or harms the your installation of your phone or bricks it.
Enjoy
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Developer Options
Window Animation Scale: Animation Off
Transition Animation Scale: Animation Off
Deep Sleep
This one is critical, in fact I didn't have good battery life until I was positive that the phone was entering deep sleep when it was idle (cellular data on or off, it doesn't matter). I used Better Battery Stats to determine this. I'd set a custom reference point, lock the phone, wait 1-2 minutes and then look in BBS. If i didn't see any Deep Sleep time, i'd uninstall or re-configure apps so that the phone would remain asleep. Even if you see a high % of 384mhz and no deep sleep, you will loose battery power. Low CPU usage is NOT the same as deep sleep. The culprit i've honed in on is Beautiful Widgets. I'm suspect this app, despite telling it to only update the weather every 2 hours does not let the phone enter deep sleep. Further testing is needed to confirm.
Accounts
Sync only contacts
I have one account (exchange) that has its calendar synced
Manually sync other items when you need them
Background Sync
All apps have any kind of notifications and sync turned off, this includes ebay, words with friends, facebook twitter etc. Again, when you need to see an update, manually update/sync.
Social Apps syncing? - NO
Email Client - I'm using Enhanced Email, I'm not using the stock email client or the gmail app.
# of accounts: 3 (2 are gmail, 1 is exchange)
Sync: Check every 15 minutes
Using Gmail client - NO
Smart Actions - This alone is a huge battery saver, over night my phone only looses 1-2 % of battery life. By the time I pick up my phone at 8:30am, my email is already synced and i haven't lost any battery power. My reson for doing this is that I came from a Blackberry about a year ago. They had a great feature that would put the phone into a super deep sleep, essentially a hibernate. Everything was off; this is the closest we can com to on Android, sans turning the phone completely off. I estimate if you use this setting all the time you would be close to the advertised 8.5 days of standby time.
Triggers
Nighttime Battery Saver
Timeframe: 10pm - 8am
Display - Off
Actions:
Background sync Disabled
Cellular Data - Disabled
Wi-Fi - Off
Bluetooth - Off
GPS - Off
Disabled Apps
Amazon Kindle
At&T Code Scanner
AT&T Family Map
AT&T Messages
AT&T Navigator
AT&T Ready2Go
At&T Smart Wi Fi
Audio Effects
Browser Message
Bubbles
Circles
City ID
com.softwareimaging.motoprint.mo....
DRM Protected Content Storage
Email
Face Unlock
Google Search
Lamina
Live TV
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Music Visualization Wallpapers
MyAT&T
Print to Retail
Qik Lite
Quick View
Real Racing 2
Rescue Security
Suggestions
Suggestions Core Rule Checker Sevice
Suggestions Poll Scheduler Service
Swype
Talkback
Vehicle Mode
VMWare Ready
Weather
YPmobile
Reserved
I used to activate sleep mode at night and it really helps a lot.
How do you deactivate apps?
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deeje00 said:
How do you deactivate apps?
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Settings -> Apps -> All
Select an app, click "disable"
Ahhhh didn't realize you had to un install updates first.
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Device: SM-N920I
Software: 5.1.1, build LMY47X,N920IDVU18AOH6
Signal: 3-4 bars
Wi-Fi: On, home Wi-Fi, full bars
Bluetooth: Off
Location: On, high accuracy
No "battery usage high" reported
Power Saving: On
NFC: Off
Sync: on (BBM, Evernote, 1 Google account, Office, OneDrive (Upload while charging only), Path, Pushbullet, WhatsApp, Google Photos while charging only
Smart Network Switch: Off
Mobile Network Mode: LTE/3G/2G auto connect
Display brightness: <40%
Android System and Kernel highest drainers in GSam, followed by Play Services
Google Now off
Use ShutApp/Greenify
Smart Lock off
Fingerprint lock
Facebook not synced, neither is Messenger
All social apps force stopped
And yet, with all of this, my phone drains at about 1.25% an hour, where my two year old S4 gets about 1% and my 2014 Moto X gets about 0.75%/hr. Any solutions?
Anybody here?
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Anybody here?
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Have you tried debloating? http://forum.xda-developers.com/note5/general/guide-bloating-touchwizzing-note-5-t3184563
If not, you should see big battery savings. Mine drains at about 0.5% per hour but I also have a lot less apps syncing and running in the background.
Your account snyc'ing is probably the culprit.
Yesterday my phone lost 35% and i do not know why. Everything was good until 04:00 pm
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If I don't restart my phone after charging overnight, Google Play Services eats more battery than anything else on the phone.
If I reboot it seems to stop as is slowly slips down the list, but with out a reboot it remains the heaviest user and my battery drains significantly quicker.
Is there any reason for this? I have turned off background data for the app, don't have location services or anything like that switched on... It seems like some process starts while the phone is charging that fails to stop when unplugged.
Hello.
Google service include "push" gmail/ contact synchronisation and over things. So that depend on what you use on your phone.
Google Backup quite often starts while the phone is plugged in.
Other services can call GPS to start, sometimes apps request location info that causes location services to fire up. I seem to have an ongoing issue with Google contacts, constantly starting, even though I don't have my Google account sync enabled and the address book is based on a CSV. file import.
Unlock developer options (settings\system\about phone\ press build number 8 times) and look in running services, see if there are some other apps running that may start it.
GPS battery drain has haunted every model and make of phone I've ever had.
How else are Google going to transfer your every button click, movement, location and (if some people are to be believed) voice recording back to their HQ?
hbkid said:
If I don't restart my phone after charging overnight, Google Play Services eats more battery than anything else on the phone.
If I reboot it seems to stop as is slowly slips down the list, but with out a reboot it remains the heaviest user and my battery drains significantly quicker.
Is there any reason for this? I have turned off background data for the app, don't have location services or anything like that switched on... It seems like some process starts while the phone is charging that fails to stop when unplugged.
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I have exactly the same problem on my Galaxy S7. Still trying to find a solution.