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Battery Life Suddenly Dropped

Hey guys,
About a week ago I started rapidly losing battery life.
I've done a bunch of research and installed task killers, OS monitors, Spare Parts, etc. I've uninstalled apps that had wake_lock and done a Reset to Factory Defaults,changed the brightness, as well as performed a recalibration for the battery (one cycle). I also turned the phone to Airplane mode since I moved offices and thought maybe that was a problem.
I am not sure why this is the problem, but I have notices through spare parts that my phone does not go to sleep. The time it gives for Time without Sleeping (under "other Usage->Last Unplugged) is typically about the same time as I have had it off the charger. The phone will not last a full day anymore (Actually I'm lucky if it's still on when I get home from work). The only program that I can think of is the new maps application.
Here are my questions:
1) Is there a good way to find out if there is a specific program that is not allowing sleep (w/o uninstalling everything and adding them back one by one)?
2) How do I fix this problem? Would a hard reset work?
3) Generaloes anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? Why wont my phone go to sleep?
4) Could this have anything to do with the new maps/navigation update that Google sent out OTA last week?
Right now it has not slept for over 5 hours, but I been pressing the power button (not turning it off) when I put it down.
I ca provide a list of programs if that helps, probably some statistics too
Thanks!

In Spare Parts under Battery usage, there is a "Partial wake usage" option. Did you check that to see what is keeping it awake?

Since Last Unplugged:
Android System: 6m 16s (blue bar)
Dialer: 1m 40s (blue bar)
Facebook: 56s
Google: 44s
Media 28s
Google Voice: 20s
Calendar: 20s
Messaging 4s
None of that seems to make sense when you look at:
Other Usage: Time Spent Without Sleeping: 6h 36m 1s..
Maybe I am mis-reading it?
Thanks!

Noob here. Galaxy S major battery problem. Help please???

I bought my galaxy S two months ago. Its a great phone but the biggest problem for me is battery. When i go to sleep (7-8 hours) and my phone is idle, my battery drains like 10-20 % every night, even when i switched off fb updates, no wifi, no gps, dont have a live wallpaper, and my brightness level is the lowest. I dont knwo what rooting is or rom is. i m a fresh noob, and i need some advice to get increase my battery life. Please help me!!! what should i do?

please help anyone?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884816

Put it on charge when you go to sleep like the rest of us

got-petrol said:
Put it on charge when you go to sleep like the rest of us
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but doesnt overcharging the battery damage the battery even more?

How I solved my battery drain problem!
Have you tried turning off 3G?
I also had this issue battery drain was huge. It started appearing suddenly one day. Its a very slow process to figure out the culprit. I did a step by step analysis.
1. Found out that battery drain was happening only when 3G was on. Verified this by switching off data network (long press power button to deactivate).
2. Also verified abnormal data usage in my carrier page when I was not using my phone [like - 3G was on and I was watching a movie at a theater].
3. I also saw abnormal battery drain soon after I started Google Maps after a fresh reboot.
4. So I identified the culprit - Google Maps - but was not sure how to solve battery drain [Google Maps restarts, if you kill it].
5. I installed a variety of apps to identify the battery hog. Finally I went for Task Identifier.
6. Task Identifier finally showed me what programs started while my screen was off, etc. And I started noting them. Finally I figured out that Google Maps::BackgroundFriendService was running frequently.
7. A quick search on Google helped me understand that this is about Google Latitude. It searches for your friend's location every now and then - leading to battery drain!!!
8. I opened up Latitude and signed out from it [I guess the sign out option is in Menu -> Privacy].
9. Do not re-open Google Latitude after this - you will get signed in again leading to battery drain.
10. After 2-3 months of search and prodding, I finally figured out the cause of battery drain and fixed it - now I get 2 - 3 days of charge in my battery under normal usage!!
I'm happy now!!

Hi,
If you're using Froyo and can access file in your phone,
In task manager , on the tab "Summary", click on the "start monitoring" button. Let it monitor the phone over the night. The next morning, there should be 2 files created in your sdcard, one is CPUxxxxx and the other one is battxxxxxx.
The Batxxx tells you when the percentage of the battery at certain time of time. the CPUxxxx will tell you wht applications are running during that period.
When i used it first time, i notice that facebook and lattitude always running - when I stop these 2 tasks; i get a normal drain again.

while you guys are at it.
here's my "problem".
when I surf for an hour over 2g I losing about 10% batterylife and android reports that my display uses around 90% to 95% of the battery.
display is set to lowest brightness + screen filter.
is that normal? (im guessing it is not).
used dozens of different roms (stock, darky, jims, etc...), same behaviour everywhere.
i already did all the battery stat wiping and whatnot.
is it a faulty battery or display or something?

for the OP, maybe a combination of the above with this could help :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10092321&postcount=11053
helped me .
edit : to pfannenwender, maybe your unit is faulty?

poundesville said:
Hi,
If you're using Froyo and can access file in your phone,
In task manager , on the tab "Summary", click on the "start monitoring" button. Let it monitor the phone over the night. The next morning, there should be 2 files created in your sdcard, one is CPUxxxxx and the other one is battxxxxxx.
The Batxxx tells you when the percentage of the battery at certain time of time. the CPUxxxx will tell you wht applications are running during that period.
When i used it first time, i notice that facebook and lattitude always running - when I stop these 2 tasks; i get a normal drain again.
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I have froyo but i dont have any start monitoring button

I also have froyo 2.2.1 and don't have start monitoring function

pfannenwender said:
while you guys are at it.
here's my "problem".
when I surf for an hour over 2g I losing about 10% batterylife and android reports that my display uses around 90% to 95% of the battery.
display is set to lowest brightness + screen filter.
is that normal? (im guessing it is not).
used dozens of different roms (stock, darky, jims, etc...), same behaviour everywhere.
i already did all the battery stat wiping and whatnot.
is it a faulty battery or display or something?
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Sounds normal to me. 10% loss while surfing and 95% display is nothing extraordinary.
Sent from my GT-I9000

i have the same problem too after upgrading to Froyo 2.2.....what i do was turning the data connection off yand you will get 2 days with moderate usage....but oneday i had overcharged my phone (about 8 hours i think) and after that my phone can stay about a day and half with moderate use......btw i already did the 8 hours charge during my first charge long time ago.!...hope this helping

Do these programs drain my battery

Though I know gb roms don't have such a great battery life it seems as if my battery is draining faster than it should despite changing to different roms, calibration, changing batterries and deleting apps or widgets . (Currently gamrez rom which has been said to have quite a good battery ) .my battery drain is about 10 percent an hour with a mild to idle use. it's been like that for my old battery and even for a new 1800mah. I suspect there might be a program respobsible for this.
Since these programs dont appear under battery usage, yet are considered services I think the culprit is one of them.it might be that one of them is preventing the phone from going to deep sleep so the battery drains when idle.
My running programs are:
Go launcher
Go keyboard
RocketDial pro
3G watchdog (sync every 15 minutes)
Call meter 3g
Adaway
Auto rotate
Sanity (only for auto handsfree)
Bussiness calander free
(before anyone blames it on these three, it happenend even when they've been removed )
Viber
Whatsapp
skype (service autorun disabled and usually not logged in)
No stock email
Also as far as widgets are concerned I have a widget for callmeter usage. 3g watchdog and bussiness calendar agenda. and sync for google stuff , whatsapo and viber.
I know it's a lot of stuff, but I've been tweaking and picking these programs since I really need their functionality.
Under battery usage most of it goes to display (about 50%)
People report better battery under heavier usage so something most be wrong.
Didn't have time or nerve to switch to ics but I'm affraid it a program so it won't make a difference
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA

There are many system monitor apps available on market.. install one of them and try to find out what is draining your battery.. sometimes it turns out to be the least expected app/ service..

Hi,
install "Quick system info pro". In the info tab, tap "battery", then "battery history" and you'll have all the info you need.
Pierre.

Thnx, I've install badass battery monitor in hope to put an end to this mystery. Still, I was hopnig someone could rake a look at the list i published and maybe shed some light if anything pops out.
I'll keep waiting for more replies.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA

Go keyboard
I've just installed go keyboard and typed 'top -m 5' to see top cpu users. go keyboard was in first place. After one hour phone idle, battery has been drained by 5% Maybe it's just my cfg problem. But.. that's just an observation.

This is just an idea and I might be totally wrong.
But doesn't it take like 10min for a phone to go to deep sleep?
So if you got am app syncing every 15min you get out of every 15 min 5 min of deep sleep.
It's to say you would normally have 50 min of deep sleep in an hour whereas you would have like 15 min.
And you could check the percentage of how much battery an app uses through the battery info in the settings and to check if your phone goes into deep sleep you can instal the app CPU spy.
Sent from my GT-I9001

Battery drain due to RILJ. (Solved!)

Hi everybody,
I have seen quite a number of users get troubled and complain about high battery drain in JB roms. Most of them have used BetterBattery or other applications and found that RILJ seems to be the culprit. But I haven't seen anyone suggest a solution until now.
So I spent sometime tinkering with the settings and found that on CM10 roms (and may be others as well) turning off the Background Location Reporting removes the RILJ wakelock and stops the battery drain. The reason I guess is that since RILJ might be responsible for providing approximate location (using cell tower identification) it maintains a wakelock to do so.
I am using PA 2.10 so the following instructions are based on that. Other roms should have similar steps.
Here's how you turn Background Location Reporting off.
1. Go to System Settings
2. Under accounts, select Google/Maps and Latitude
3. Maps will fire up and it should show the Location Settings screen.
4. On the top tap Location Reporting and select Do not update your location.
That's it.
Now observe BetterBattery for a few hours and you should see a significant change in the listings and also battery drain. For me battery consumption went from ~1% per 3-5 mins on idle to ~1% per hour on idle.
One side effect of this change (I am guessing) could be that Google Now might not be able to show the location triggered cards. So take your pick on what is more important for you, battery life or value added services.
Cheers
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda app-developers app

Just come across this via CM forums - I'm on I9100, but I guess it's the same thing. Trying this for a few hours to see what happens. I've seen a dramatic increase in battery usage over the past few days, strangely just after the most recent Maps update...
Quick update - turning that off doesn't change anything for me. Looks like Google Now still knows where I am and therefore there's another setting checking my location. I'm going to try turning Google Now off for a bit too.
Update again: it's not Google Now for me either. Need to do some further looking to try and track down what the exact request is!

good job

Thanks to the RILJ, my battery drain is 10% per hour right now and I'm going to try this solution immediately. Thanks a lot!

Ahalford has already done an indepth research on this subject and summarized all the wakelocks with possible solutions for each, RIL is one of them...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31352333
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will try it, ill report it tomorrow.
thank you for your solution.

nice job. just change the setting and wait for result.

Thanks! This has saved me from pulling out what little hair I have haha.

I really am close to killing myself due to sadness and disappointment because of my phone's battery life. lol. I have a Galaxy Note 2(4.1.1 ver) and my battery lasts for 12-16 hours. I use it mostly for Facebook, Google, Viber and YouTube. I have other typical social networking/comm apps (YM,Skype, Instagram,Twitter) but I dont use them often. I have less than 10 games (Temple Run2, Angry Birds, Diamond Dash) but I dont play for more than 15 mins. I have observed that when my phone is NOT in use, it decreases by 7-10% per hour during the day. At night, before I go to sleep, it is a fully charged phone and when I wake up, 25% of the battery's life is gone within 8hrs of not touching it even to check the time. I dont know if its the normal draining rate of the battery, if its a factory defect on the battery or the phone itself, or if it is the app or android system. My phone is just 4 days old, or maybe 5. Im hoping when the phone turns a week old, things will be better. Or should I try to kill myself now?
PS. I really want to try the solution given above coz upon reading it I realized that viber/fb etc is now showing my location. but i cant seem to find this on my phone. Can someone help me pleaseeeeee.

Alternative way to pick "Do not update your location"
Elai012488 said:
I really am close to killing myself due to sadness and disappointment because of my phone's battery life. lol. I have a Galaxy Note 2(4.1.1 ver) and my battery lasts for 12-16 hours. I use it mostly for Facebook, Google, Viber and YouTube. I have other typical social networking/comm apps (YM,Skype, Instagram,Twitter) but I dont use them often. I have less than 10 games (Temple Run2, Angry Birds, Diamond Dash) but I dont play for more than 15 mins. I have observed that when my phone is NOT in use, it decreases by 7-10% per hour during the day. At night, before I go to sleep, it is a fully charged phone and when I wake up, 25% of the battery's life is gone within 8hrs of not touching it even to check the time. I dont know if its the normal draining rate of the battery, if its a factory defect on the battery or the phone itself, or if it is the app or android system. My phone is just 4 days old, or maybe 5. Im hoping when the phone turns a week old, things will be better. Or should I try to kill myself now?
PS. I really want to try the solution given above coz upon reading it I realized that viber/fb etc is now showing my location. but i cant seem to find this on my phone. Can someone help me pleaseeeeee.
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Alternative method for turning on the setting "Your location is not updated":
1) Open the google maps app.
2) Press the physical "menu" button on your phone to get into settings for maps.
3) Click on settings in the menu that pops up.
4) Click on "Location Settings" in the menu that comes up.
5) Wait a second for "Location reporting" to update.
6) Click on "Location reporting".
7) Choose the "Do not update your location" option.
8) You're done.
This is how I did this on my Galaxy S3 and it seems to have fixed the RILJ wakelock issue I've been getting. It was waking up the cpu almost 300 times an hour. Hope it works for you.

samsung galaxy note gt n7000
hypocorism said:
Alternative method for turning on the setting "Your location is not updated":
1) Open the google maps app.
2) Press the physical "menu" button on your phone to get into settings for maps.
3) Click on settings in the menu that pops up.
4) Click on "Location Settings" in the menu that comes up.
5) Wait a second for "Location reporting" to update.
6) Click on "Location reporting".
7) Choose the "Do not update your location" option.
8) You're done.
This is how I did this on my Galaxy S3 and it seems to have fixed the RILJ wakelock issue I've been getting. It was waking up the cpu almost 300 times an hour. Hope it works for you.
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Also Add an apk.... Geenify....puts your applications on hibernate unlike killing....you can use them as you want still wont drain your battery...give a shot it will help you a lot.
Check this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39163079#post39163079

satven21 said:
Also Add an apk.... Geenify....puts your applications on hibernate unlike killing....you can use them as you want still wont drain your battery...give a shot it will help you a lot.
Check this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39163079#post39163079
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I had the same rilj battery drain on S2. Disactivating the google app NEWS AND WEATHER battery drain due rilj is gone.

in case i deleted google maps what i can do bro?
hypocorism said:
Alternative method for turning on the setting "Your location is not updated":
1) Open the google maps app.
2) Press the physical "menu" button on your phone to get into settings for maps.
3) Click on settings in the menu that pops up.
4) Click on "Location Settings" in the menu that comes up.
5) Wait a second for "Location reporting" to update.
6) Click on "Location reporting".
7) Choose the "Do not update your location" option.
8) You're done.
This is how I did this on my Galaxy S3 and it seems to have fixed the RILJ wakelock issue I've been getting. It was waking up the cpu almost 300 times an hour. Hope it works for you.
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any suggestion for a solution?

[Q] Battery drain / rogue app?

Hi Everybody,
I was given a Z3C from a friend and I am experiencing ridiculous battery drain when idle. The phone discharge at a rate of 6-7% per hour, meaning that at best I have to recharge it at the end of the day.
I had a look on the forum and so far I performed the following:
- factory reset (twice)
- reinstall Lollipop via PC Companion
- restart the phone with the yellow button next to sim card (several times)
- untick "send usage statistics" under file commander
- put on stamina mode (no difference)
I use Nova Launcher.
Last night I left the phone on at 57% and airplane mode at 11pm and went to bed, this morning I woke up at 6.30 and it was off (hence it can't be connectivity).
Better Battery Stats says that the phone is awake 100% of the time when screen is off. Under Power Management the bigger drainer is Play services with 25% now.
On a typical day I only use Gmail and Whatsapp, listen to some music, but no FB, Twitter and so on. I have a pretty lean configuration. Clearly the problem is when Idle.
I don't think this is a matter of Lollipop messing around with my phone but rather something hidden running for no reason.
I used to have a Galaxy S4 and never had a problem with Lollipop, so I am surprised.
How do you think I can find the culprit?

Little update for who is happy to lend a hand on this.
I ran GSam and found out that Android System has a 15% battery consumption. Inside of it, there are multiple packages and most likely the drainer is among them.
Can anyone suggest which packages are safe/possible to disable?
ponch10 said:
Hi Everybody,
I was given a Z3C from a friend and I am experiencing ridiculous battery drain when idle. The phone discharge at a rate of 6-7% per hour, meaning that at best I have to recharge it at the end of the day.
I had a look on the forum and so far I performed the following:
- factory reset (twice)
- reinstall Lollipop via PC Companion
- restart the phone with the yellow button next to sim card (several times)
- untick "send usage statistics" under file commander
- put on stamina mode (no difference)
I use Nova Launcher.
Last night I left the phone on at 57% and airplane mode at 11pm and went to bed, this morning I woke up at 6.30 and it was off (hence it can't be connectivity).
Better Battery Stats says that the phone is awake 100% of the time when screen is off. Under Power Management the bigger drainer is Play services with 25% now.
On a typical day I only use Gmail and Whatsapp, listen to some music, but no FB, Twitter and so on. I have a pretty lean configuration. Clearly the problem is when Idle.
I don't think this is a matter of Lollipop messing around with my phone but rather something hidden running for no reason.
I used to have a Galaxy S4 and never had a problem with Lollipop, so I am surprised.
How do you think I can find the culprit?
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Can't point you exactly to what you're looking for, but here are a couple of points:
1. There's a small problem with Lollipop - it requires updated Google Services, but sometimes the update doesn't go through properly, you can't even initiate it - Play says everything's good. It might be a cause for battery drain. Easiest to check - revert to KitKat, install it, if no drain - then it's Lollipop-specific, if drain - then look further.
2. First installation of the OS after factory reset, with nothing loaded, if there's drain - it comes from HW that's not behaving as expected and SW being somewhere in eternal loop / reading something unexpected. Not much to do here except identify the failing HW (probably not easy) and disable the driver for it.

Thanks.
That sounds complicated. Do you see something clearly wrong in the info I provided above? (i.e. % of battery use, packages that shouldn't be there?)