I have a samsung captivate running P5. I noticed though that the phone loves to consume the energy quickly. Are there ways we can do so that battery stays longer? I noticed that even if I didn't use it for an hour, there is a drop of 3%.
I've already brought down the brightness to 0. I am not using live wallpaper.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You need to reset your battery stats. There should be a bunch of posts on this topic outlining the steps required if you do a search.
Goodluck.
norcal einstein said:
You need to reset your battery stats. There should be a bunch of posts on this topic outlining the steps required if you do a search.
Goodluck.
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Yup, I did that after I installed P5. Then I charged it to 100% while it was ON. When it was FULL, I turned it OFF and charged it again to 100%. It didn't help.
Should I consume the battery first and retry it?
Yup try to do the calibration by draining then re-charging to 100%.
BUT... you might want to do a few other things to improve on Batt life.
Turn off Wireless/GPS when not in use.
If you have a ton of widgets running.. try and trim them down. Make sure your updates on your widgets isn't "real time" and try and set them for an 1hr or more for pulling updates.
Also goes if you have a ton of applications installed - odds are one or more is attempting to always run in the background and pulling/pushing information and that would cause battery drain.
should I delete battery stats again?
Update:
I made sure it was 10% battery remaining before I deleted the battery stats in recovery mode. I rebooted it and booted it to normal and charged it. I wait until it notified me of 100% full. When it did, I removed the charger and turned it off. I charged it again. The battery icon was full green. I think after 5 mins, it sounded again saying it was completely charged. The battery icon was also gone so it was just black screen.
Today, I removed all the widgets. I turned off GPS and Wireless. I'm using a plain wallpaper. I don't have any scheduled backup. I monitored it for 6 hours and the drop in percentage is 2.75% every hour. That's without my usage. So looks like after 36 hours(1.5 days) without usage, the phone will be dead.
So what process is eating up the battery so fast? Is there an app that can create a report which will show battery consumption?
How long does Captivate last? Is it the same?
v1rtu0s1ty said:
So what process is eating up the battery so fast? Is there an app that can create a report which will show battery consumption?
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I was playing around with creating shortcuts on my home screen and found there is an activity under Settings that shows battery history.
Long press home screen>Shortcuts>Activities>Settings>Scroll down a way to find Battery History (com.android.settings.battery_history.BatteryHistory)
See if that helps you find a drain.
That is so cool!!!
so I noticed wifi was the top 1 consumer. So does wifi sucks up battery power really big?
I suggest that you change the gallery app to the one from the market called gallery 3d. Then find on the forum the samsung galaxy tab email apk. Just delete the old ones and install these. The old ones got bugs that suck the juice of the phone wayy to much. Aftee that if you're still experiencing high drain then try to turn of wifi
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I was downloading it and it was at 27%. I cancelled it because I was on AT&T network. I wanted to use my wifi. I redownloaded it again but it's failing to install now. Is there a cache that I need to clean?
v1rtu0s1ty said:
I was downloading it and it was at 27%. I cancelled it because I was on AT&T network. I wanted to use my wifi. I redownloaded it again but it's failing to install now. Is there a cache that I need to clean?
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Same here. Gallery 3D says "installation unsuccessful" even on repeated tries! Anyone help please. I am installing directly from Market App.
I am using "[ROM][Spaceman] aospMOD v 1.1" ROM.
diablo009 said:
Same here. Gallery 3D says "installation unsuccessful" even on repeated tries! Anyone help please. I am installing directly from Market App.
I am using "[ROM][Spaceman] aospMOD v 1.1" ROM.
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What I noticed is that it only downloaded 490k and the information about this app says it's 0.96mb in size. We're missing half the size.
v1rtu0s1ty said:
What I noticed is that it only downloaded 490k and the information about this app says it's 0.96mb in size. We're missing half the size.
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Here's the gallery3d.apk http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=591710
rdunseith said:
Here's the gallery3d.apk http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=591710
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Ok. I finally managed to install it. But how do I stop if from asking permissions to access my picasa. I do not need it sync my picasa albums.
rdunseith said:
Here's the gallery3d.apk http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=591710
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Thanks. However, what should I do with this apk file? I'm sorry, I'm new it.
I figured out what I need to install apk files. I installed AppInstaller. I executed AppInstaller and chose the Gallery3D.apk that I put on the root of the sdcard. I clicked Install button and it's giving me an error.
"Application not installed"
What should I do?
can you please post the MD5 checksum of this file so I can compare it to mine?
That will help a lot in troubleshooting.
Thanks.
I am so pleased with my new settings and results. In an hour, the usage in percentage was only 1% compared to my previous 3%.
The only thing I changed is "Disable all animations". The WiFi is still on.
Update:
After 6 hours: 10% was consumed compared to previous 16%. It's better but hopefully we can still make it better.
Mine is also using 4-5%/hour when idle. I'll go to sleep..7 hours later its about 35% down. I look in battery usage and it seems odd that the display is still the "top user" even though the phone has been off all night. I uninstalled a couple of recent apps: Pageonce Travel and Lookout, but that hasn't seemed to make a difference. Haven't changed any settings in the last couple weeks..pretty frustrating
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Immediately after installing 2.2 Froyo on my Captivate, I noticed that my battery life decreased tremendously...
Fully charged overnight. 4 hours of very light use, and the battery is completely drained. I noticed something very odd. When the battery was at about 50% and I plugged it in to charge it, I checked back in 15 minutes, and it had DECREASED to about 45% charged.
WiFi is off. GPS is off. Bluetooth is off. Mobile AP is off.
I also noticed that the 3G Up/Down arrows were constantly blinking, meaning there was lots of data usage while the phone is idle....so I turned off Wireless data. Voila! Battery usage back to normal. Now...what could be causing so much data usage and draining my battery so quickly? I'm using the same apps that I was using prior to flashing 2.2 onto my device.
Any clues? Or should I start removing apps and go the trial & error route?
Instead of creating a new thread about this, you should post in the original ROM thread (whichever ROM you downloaded). Before you do that, however, you need to read the entire ROM thread and see if there are any other posts about battery drain (my money is on yes).
In the future make sure to post what ROM you are using and how you flashed it. Most of the time that will reveal exactly what you did wrong and make troubleshooting very easy.
kegobeer said:
Instead of creating a new thread about this, you should post in the original ROM thread (whichever ROM you downloaded).
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No need. It was only a temporary problem. Probably caused by an app that didn't work correctly on this ROM. I started removing random apps, and the problem cleared itself up. Battery life is now MUCH, MUCH better now than it ever was on this phone.
ChrisM2097 said:
No need. It was only a temporary problem. Probably caused by an app that didn't work correctly on this ROM. I started removing random apps, and the problem cleared itself up. Battery life is now MUCH, MUCH better now than it ever was on this phone.
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beat me to the punch - glad you were able to get it fixed!
Hi folks.
Sorry if this is a redundant question or thread, I have used the search feature and am not getting the results I want. Furthermore I have a 2 year old and 9 month old hanging on my legs here and just need an answer so again apologies if this is redundant.
I have had my Captivate for about 5 days now. I rooted it and installed Serendipity 5.3 ROM. Today I noticed my battery went from 100% to 5% in 4 hours. Is this normal?
I got home and updated Serendipity to 5.4 and then 5.5 but not sure if that will fix the battery issue. The day before I ran the battery all day 10 hours and I was at 35% which to me was normal as my iPhone 4 had the same performance. But 100-5% in 4 hours seems a bit strange.
Any help would be appreciated sorry for the long post I need to get back to my kids.
Thanks!
4 hours for almost 100% battery usage is not normal.
check your wifi setting, gps setting first.
Sounds to me like your battery needs a calibration. It's generally a good idea to re-calibrate your battery after flashing. I generally get 20hrs on my Captivate with Serendipity 5.2 with average usage.
Check out this thread.
integrasaurus said:
Sounds to me like your battery needs a calibration. It's generally a good idea to re-calibrate your battery after flashing. I generally get 20hrs on my Captivate with Serendipity 5.2 with average usage.
Check out this thread.
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Thanks to both replies
Now that one kid is asleep and the other on her way....what is the optimal wi-fi setting for best battery life and the same for gps?
Also, I looked at that thread and I am in process of trying it out integrasaurus.
This is my first time with an Android phone, I came from an iPhone 4 jailbroken so I am an Android virgin and 5 days old.
I also want to say I am sorry about starting a thread if this topic was hit on already. I have been around forums a long time and I know how frustrating it is when noobs do these things so I thought I'd offer my sincerest apologies for doing what I would get mad at too.
usually after you flash a new rom, the gps is set to on. turn it off if you are not using it;
go to settings->wireless and network->wi-fi settings, then click menu to bring up the advanced->in the wi-fi sleep policy->make sure select "when screen turns off";
go to settings->applications->samsung apps->make sure it is "off"
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usually after you flash a new rom, the gps is set to on. turn it off if you are not using it;
go to settings->wireless and network->wi-fi settings, then click menu to bring up the advanced->in the wi-fi sleep policy->make sure select "when screen turns off";
go to settings->applications->samsung apps->make sure it is "off"
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Hmmm
I dont see this?
go to settings->applications->samsung apps->make sure it is "off"
I got the wi-fi taken care of though thanks for that.
It was strange today though, I plugged the phone in to wall ac and it took forever (5hours) to charge from 5% to 40% and then drained in less than an hour back to 5%.
Its charging now and has been on my usb port for 2 hours and its up to 72% from 4%.
That was also a confusing mystery.
Hey guys, just want to say thanks again. I'm still working on calibrating batt but I after reading some more in the forums (kids finally both in bed and OUT) I discovered that I had 2 task killers installed and that these apps are battery killers (at least in some opinions).
I uninstalled them and charging seems to be moving faster than before. I will let you know how things go.
Thanks again!
I am running Serendipity 5.5 and my battery typically lasts between 26-30 hours with normal use. I don't use any task killers, but if you have your task killers set to be too aggressive I'm sure that would drain the battery pretty fast. I'd suggest just ditching them completely though, as I get over a day's battery without trying to manage all of that.
Also, check if ur gallery has the sensor bug. U can find this out under battery usage using the SPARE PARTS app.
diablo009 said:
Also, check if ur gallery has the sensor bug. U can find this out under battery usage using the SPARE PARTS app.
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It says Gallery 2 177872ms...what am I looking for to see if there is a bug?
wibs said:
I am running Serendipity 5.5 and my battery typically lasts between 26-30 hours with normal use. I don't use any task killers, but if you have your task killers set to be too aggressive I'm sure that would drain the battery pretty fast. I'd suggest just ditching them completely though, as I get over a day's battery without trying to manage all of that.
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yup, I deleted them already. I believe that was the cause of the sudden change in life, as I didnt have many problems before them.
After my battery cal I have been running the phone on and off normal use for over an hour. Battery is now at 95%, started at 100%.
I see improvements already, but will hold off saying its fixed completely until I can give it a day or two of testing.
iDroidd said:
It says Gallery 2 177872ms...what am I looking for to see if there is a bug?
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sometimes the thumnails get corrupt which eats battery while trying to load and need to be "refreshed" a simple way to do this is in the app SGS TOOLS run the script "clean_thumb_db.txt" this should fix gallery issues.
Thanks for this info. This will be something I will keep an eye on for sure. Phone is still above 90% after over 2 hours. Hoping the calibration and deletion of task killers did the trick.
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Charge battery 100% then some... Power off phone and let charge longer... Boot into Clockwork and reset battery stats.... Run the phone a few charges and you should be gold.... Under normal/light use I can get 1.5 days out of my battery...
Also check your wireless settings. Try setting them to turn off wireless when the screen is off. That was a huge battery drain for me.
Thanks to all here for the help and thoughts.
So last night I
1. Got rid of task killers
2. Updated Serendipity from 5.3 to 5.5
3. Adjusted wireless settings
4. Calibrated battery
I finished all this at 8:15pm CST and the phone has been unplugged since then, with moderate use between 8:15 and 10:15pm. It is now 7am CST and the phone is at 63% power which is a huge improvement from yesterday.
I am convinced it was the task killers that had the most drain on the battery.
I will give it one or two more days and see how performance is then and let you know.
You guys rock!
Back on Serendipity 4.3, while OC/UVing I could get about 25-28 hours with normal use, texting throughout the day, occasional calls.
Now that I'm on 5.5, I am getting about 28-32 hours, still OC/UVing.
Also, I use advanced task manager, and it doesn't kill my battery at all. Any more than other apps at least.
Glad everything is working out for you iDroidd!
..Now back to flashing lol.
integrasaurus said:
Glad everything is working out for you iDroidd!
..Now back to flashing lol.
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LOL
so I went 22 hours on one charge, now that's the initial charge of calibration. It's plugged in now we will see how it fares going forward.
Hello community
I know there are hunderets of threads about the acore proces out there. but none of them seems to be related with my problem.
My acore proces uses a lot of my cpu and therefore my battery drains very fast.
(you can see what happens in the screenshot attached. every time the graph begins from zero i rebooted my phone)
My config:
I9070 - Stock 2.3.6, rooted, supercharged
Go Launcher & Go Locker
so what I hve done until now:
- cleared all my contacts (someone stated that contact sync could cause this)
- unsupercharged
- used another launcher & locker
- even reflashed stock rom
the acore proces is used from different apps like digi clock, go locker and go launcher.
maybe someone has another idea how I could get the cause of my problem...
until now I used battery mix and ASI to get the info.
Thank you in advance!
This is android main proces from framework. It doesnt make difference to battery and working in background. You can see it as android os in battery info.
Sent from my GT-I9070 using xda app-developers app
but its behaviour is not normal, is it?
you can see the android os proces as well in battery mix. and when I open ASI I can see which proces is "hiding" in the acore one. the battery consumption was not that high as I bought the phone. at first my battery lasted for at least two days, now its not even 10 hours. also the battery consumption in sleep mode is beyond normal - if I unplug my phone in the morning and dont wake it up the battery is drained by 25% after 3 hours...
i am searching a way how I can get more info about that drainage...
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but its behaviour is not normal, is it?
you can see the android os proces as well in battery mix. and when I open ASI I can see which proces is "hiding" in the acore one. the battery consumption was not that high as I bought the phone. at first my battery lasted for at least two days, now its not even 10 hours. also the battery consumption in sleep mode is beyond normal - if I unplug my phone in the morning and dont wake it up the battery is drained by 25% after 3 hours...
i am searching a way how I can get more info about that drainage...
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I just installed Battery mix app, and I will let you know of cpu usage on my phone for that.
P.S. For now I do not even have acore there...
shut_down said:
I just installed Battery mix app, and I will let you know of cpu usage on my phone for that.
P.S. For now I do not even have acore there...
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Thank you for your support! Make sure you have "Hide system processes" unticked in Battery Mix.
I found something else that may could help me: "adb logcat"
There are strange things going on when my phone is in "sleep" mode...
This is what happens while my battery drains 1%: Pastebin
Somehow my softkeys are turned on and off the whole time the phone is in my pocket. I have a slight clue that NoLED is causing the drainage.
I now disabled the background light of my softkeys and uninstalled NoLED. (although I already had NoLED Disabled for a whole day and the problem persisted)
Will post results!
büscher said:
Thank you for your support! Make sure you have "Hide system processes" unticked in Battery Mix.
I found something else that may could help me: "adb logcat"
There are strange things going on when my phone is in "sleep" mode...
This is what happens while my battery drains 1%: Pastebin
Somehow my softkeys are turned on and off the whole time the phone is in my pocket. I have a slight clue that NoLED is causing the drainage.
I now disabled the background light of my softkeys and uninstalled NoLED. (although I already had NoLED Disabled for a whole day and the problem persisted)
Will post results!
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I have acore, when i uncheck hide system... And it is on 2.7%.
shut_down said:
I have acore, when i uncheck hide system... And it is on 2.7%.
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Lucky you. I tried JetMod, but had the same problem.
Until now it does not seem to solve the problem when i uninstall NoLED and deactivate Softkey-light. Just the Log entries disappear...
büscher said:
Lucky you. I tried JetMod, but had the same problem.
Until now it does not seem to solve the problem when i uninstall NoLED and deactivate Softkey-light. Just the Log entries disappear...
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Some strange things happen... I used to have some 2-4 MB download on every reboot. Untill I change gmail account on phone. Now this...
I was successful.
Uninstalled Go Launcher, Go Locker and all themes that are related with them.
Installed SmartLauncher (Free without Widgets) and MagicLocker.
The acore proces is gone i just dont know exactly what the cause was.
Now I'm just waiting for JB...
Hello guys I'm a newbie here so please do explain to me some of the stuff if you need to
so recently (about 2 weeks ago) I used this guide to root my Incredible S and did everything except the Blackrose part
and since then
I've noticed that my phone has drained its battery a lot quicker than usual
I lost 11% of battery when I woke up, fully charging it the night before
I usually do not use it much, only a call every 2 days or so, and I do not have internet connection
so I cannot understand how I have to charge it every day now, when it used to last 4 days (on Sense)
here's a pic from betterybatterystats
thanks everyone
------- 4/10 edit
ok
back to stock rom
it has the SAME problem
"No data connection" and "No or Unknown Signal" on Betterbatterystats
with steep drops in battery whenever there is "Mobile network signal"
and next to no drop whatsoever when there isn't
PLEASE HELP ><
new attachments down there with stock rom
tell me if you need a translation
THANKS
davidchuyaya said:
Hello guys I'm a newbie here so please do explain to me some of the stuff if you need to
so recently (about 2 weeks ago) I used this guide to root my Incredible S and did everything except the Blackrose part
and since then
I've noticed that my phone has drained its battery a lot quicker than usual
I lost 11% of battery when I woke up, fully charging it the night before
I usually do not use it much, only a call every 2 days or so, and I do not have internet connection
so I cannot understand how I have to charge it every day now, when it used to last 4 days (on Sense)
here's a pic from betterybatterystats
thanks everyone
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Battery drain has already been discussed much in the CM10.1 thread. Its been discussed in practically every AOSP thread really.
072665995 said:
Battery drain has already been discussed much in the CM10.1 thread. Its been discussed in practically every AOSP thread really.
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I know and I've tried to look around for answers for quite a few days
but for most people
it's either the same as Sense or something else (too many apps, not charging fully...)
and for those with similar conditions
I can't find solutions for
and the problem got worse today
in the 7 hours I slept yesterday
the battery drained from more than 50% to nothing
so the alarm didn't ring because it shut itself off
davidchuyaya said:
I know and I've tried to look around for answers for quite a few days
but for most people
it's either the same as Sense or something else (too many apps, not charging fully...)
and for those with similar conditions
I can't find solutions for
and the problem got worse today
in the 7 hours I slept yesterday
the battery drained from more than 50% to nothing
so the alarm didn't ring because it shut itself off
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The standard charging time isnt what it says on the box or anything. It should be roughly 6 hours from 0% to 100% and thats providing you plug it into an AC outlet. I would suggest trying an app called Greenify. It hibernates certain apps/ services that may not be in use thus saving battery. I would also regularly check the Running Apps in settings and clear out anything unecessary.
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The standard charging time isnt what it says on the box or anything. It should be roughly 6 hours from 0% to 100% and thats providing you plug it into an AC outlet. I would suggest trying an app called Greenify. It hibernates certain apps/ services that may not be in use thus saving battery. I would also regularly check the Running Apps in settings and clear out anything unecessary.
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nonono
I don't have a charging problem
it's a drainage problem
and about Greenify
I already installed that when I looked over the battery saving guide (which didn't help)
I literally have 5 apps in the Running Apps section
the part I don't get is
why does Cyanogenmod 10.1 use battery so much quicker than Sense
when I have 1/4 the apps I originally did?
it's the "No Data Connection" and "No or Unknown Signal" part really bothers me.
oh and thanks for the time btw
davidchuyaya said:
nonono
I don't have a charging problem
it's a drainage problem
and about Greenify
I already installed that when I looked over the battery saving guide (which didn't help)
I literally have 5 apps in the Running Apps section
the part I don't get is
why does Cyanogenmod 10.1 use battery so much quicker than Sense
when I have 1/4 the apps I originally did?
it's the "No Data Connection" and "No or Unknown Signal" part really bothers me.
oh and thanks for the time btw
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Hmm then this battery drainage is strange. Try making a full backup in recovery. Then clean flash the ROM again. If the problem still persists, then I have absolutely no idea whats wrong lol
072665995 said:
Hmm then this battery drainage is strange. Try making a full backup in recovery. Then clean flash the ROM again. If the problem still persists, then I have absolutely no idea whats wrong lol
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Actually
I tried that...
on Sunday afternoon I reflashed it
my exact steps:
1. ClockworkMod backup
2. Install from zip
3. Advanced restore - data (I restored the whole thing too once before that, but thought that just restoring the data might actually change something)
and that's when it went from 50% to 0 overnight
not looking too good -.-
davidchuyaya said:
Actually
I tried that...
on Sunday afternoon I reflashed it
my exact steps:
1. ClockworkMod backup
2. Install from zip
3. Advanced restore - data (I restored the whole thing too once before that, but thought that just restoring the data might actually change something)
and that's when it went from 50% to 0 overnight
not looking too good -.-
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Well then sit tight. Szezso is gonna release a CM10.1 for us as soon as he gets his new USB port.
oh well then
thanks for the help anyways
I'll just keep waiting
might want to go back to Sense though...
and more pics from BetterBatteryStats
just in case anyone knows what they mean
Drained 56% of my battery while I was asleep yesterday (for about 7 hours)
only 6% in the time I was at school, because of Airplane mode (I even listened to music and played a little Doodle Jump)
but I obviously want a phone to CALL PEOPLE
so I'm reverting to stock Rom
OK
so that didn't work out
I edited the main article
hope someone can help!!
meanwhile I'll look for more articles online since I know it's not (really) CM's problem anymore
thanks
Ensure to charge your mobile fully and after a NORMAL usage (calls, WiFi, Mobile Data on).
Just share the dump file from betterbatterystats. It would help to analyse better.
Edit:
Could notice you are using some widgets in the home screen. Usually widgets with high refresh rate drains your battery.
2. Facebook app is causing the partial wakelock. Even when the screen is off, the app is using your CPU. Try to disable autosync if it's enabled
3. Audio_out3 wakelock is due to phone vibrator is enabled. May be during call or keyboard haptic feature.
Power manager service wakelock is common and its in good level.
Try to check your CPU freq n governor.
And adjust accordingly. One more, Li-on battery should not be charged fully. Just charge till 85-90%. The battery will drain little lower compared to fully charged device. And you need to charge your device only when battery is low. Frequent charging n discharging will affect the battery life. Consistent Charge and discharge cycle is encouraged.
Try to share your fresh dump here or in batter battery status thread. There are many folks to help you with.
sent from CyberMachine
Cyb0rgz said:
Ensure to charge your mobile fully and after a NORMAL usage (calls, WiFi, Mobile Data on).
Just share the dump file from betterbatterystats. It would help to analyse better.
Edit:
Could notice you are using some widgets in the home screen. Usually widgets with high refresh rate drains your battery.
2. Facebook app is causing the partial wakelock. Even when the screen is off, the app is using your CPU. Try to disable autosync if it's enabled
3. Audio_out3 wakelock is due to phone vibrator is enabled. May be during call or keyboard haptic feature.
Power manager service wakelock is common and its in good level.
Try to check your CPU freq n governor.
And adjust accordingly. One more, Li-on battery should not be charged fully. Just charge till 85-90%. The battery will drain little lower compared to fully charged device. And you need to charge your device only when battery is low. Frequent charging n discharging will affect the battery life. Consistent Charge and discharge cycle is encouraged.
Try to share your fresh dump here or in batter battery status thread. There are many folks to help you with.
sent from CyberMachine
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Thanks for the detailed reply sir
My widgets (aka weather & tasks) only refresh manually, and nothing is on Autosync (in the auto sync menu, anyways)
originally had only vibration for calls, turned that off too now
and what is "CPU freq n governor"?
didn't know that about the batteries
I'll do that next time
and I just reinstalled betterbatterystats, so I'll post the Dump File after a few hours
Thanks again!!
davidchuyaya said:
Thanks for the detailed reply sir.
and what is "CPU freq n governor"?
didn't know that about the batteries
I'll do that next time
and I just reinstalled betterbatterystats, so I'll post the Dump File
Thanks again!!
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I mean CPU frequency steps and CPU governor. It's a kernel thing. Just search xda, you will lot of info regarding that.
Sure, post your dump with normal usage.
It's easy to click thanks rather than expressing in words
sent from CyberMachine
Cyb0rgz said:
I mean CPU frequency steps and CPU governor. It's a kernel thing. Just search xda, you will lot of info regarding that.
Sure, post your dump with normal usage.
It's easy to click thanks rather than expressing in words
sent from CyberMachine
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got it then
I'm going to install SetCPU
but because the RUU unrooted my phone, I'm going to have to root it again
meanwhile
the Dump File
***4/12 8:20PM edit
finished rooting, reinstalled stuff
I installed No-frills CPU Control instead
since it's free
but I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with it
am I suppose to just record the data and post it here?
Um...
guys?
So, over the last week, I have noticed such poor battery life. My battery is not performing as it once did.
I recently downloaded Power Shade, so I decided to disable it (not uninstall it). It's not listed in the Play Store at this time.
I have noticed that Android System uses a lot of my battery, while my battery life drops like a rock while I have my screen on. I never have my screen brightness passed 25% (and it is usually less).
Please take a look at these screenshots. What is going wrong?
Dankees said:
So, over the last week, I have noticed such poor battery life. My battery is not performing as it once did.
I recently downloaded Power Shade, so I decided to disable it (not uninstall it). It's not listed in the Play Store at this time.
I have noticed that Android System uses a lot of my battery, while my battery life drops like a rock while I have my screen on. I never have my screen brightness passed 25% (and it is usually less).
Please take a look at these screenshots. What is going wrong?
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It says your phone has been on the battery for over 15 hours.. I don't see how that's considered bad? That's pretty much what I get.
Install BBS, grant permissions and check what is messing your battery. That is awful SOT
vojopd said:
Install BBS, grant permissions and check what is messing your battery. That is awful SOT
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Would AccuBattery tell me?
Dankees said:
Would AccuBattery tell me?
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Run it and find out
sefrcoko said:
Run it and find out
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How are the two apps different?
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Run it and find out
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Well, I turned on Power Shade and left my phone untouched for one hour. My battery dropped 5%.
Then, I turned it off and left my phone alone for another hour and it went down only 2%.
So, that's the culprit?
I'm not sure if your battery drain is regarding normal usage or standby time.
If it's a standby drain, I would suggest installing Naptime app from the playstore. Grant the permissions via ADB, your standby battery life would be great.
I've experienced a really good battery mileage after installing the app.
Make sure you enable to aggressive doze option and keep the app out of power save or the sleeping apps option.
Also, try turning off Location and see if Android System percentage goes down.
Unix_Dominator said:
I'm not sure if your battery drain is regarding normal usage or standby time.
If it's a standby drain, I would suggest installing Naptime app from the playstore. Grant the permissions via ADB, your standby battery life would be great.
I've experienced a really good battery mileage after installing the app.
Make sure you enable to aggressive doze option and keep the app out of power save or the sleeping apps option.
Also, try turning off Location and see if Android System percentage goes down.
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Is this tough to do?
I had Location set to "High Accuracy" - I have now changed that to "Battery Saving."
Better?
Dankees said:
Is this tough to do?
I had Location set to "High Accuracy" - I have now changed that to "Battery Saving."
Better?
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The naptime app is a piece of cake if you have root access, if your phone is not rooted, the app will suggest some steps you can follow to allow it function properly. For the non-root method, you will require a computer and ADB (Android Debug Bridge) to be installed in the computer.
If you kept location service to battery saving then maybe it might help save battery juice.
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The naptime app is a piece of cake if you have root access, if your phone is not rooted, the app will suggest some steps you can follow to allow it function properly. For the non-root method, you will require a computer and ADB (Android Debug Bridge) to be installed in the computer.
If you kept location service to battery saving then maybe it might help save battery juice.
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I think I will stick with the Location setting change.
I'm also finding TuneUp Master Pro to be helping.
What do you think of BetterBatteryStats?
Later today, I can post screenshots.
Right now, I am at 63% battery left with 2 hours of screen time. (Note, much of this has been with super low battery brightness.)
Unix_Dominator said:
The naptime app is a piece of cake if you have root access, if your phone is not rooted, the app will suggest some steps you can follow to allow it function properly. For the non-root method, you will require a computer and ADB (Android Debug Bridge) to be installed in the computer.
If you kept location service to battery saving then maybe it might help save battery juice.
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Do you have certain settings that you think I should really have (without any repercussions) that you could screenshot me?
What do you think of these settings?
About 7 hours were not on Wi-Fi...
Dankees said:
I think I will stick with the Location setting change.
I'm also finding TuneUp Master Pro to be helping.
What do you think of BetterBatteryStats?
Later today, I can post screenshots.
Right now, I am at 63% battery left with 2 hours of screen time. (Note, much of this has been with super low battery brightness.)
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Hey,
I think TuneUp Master Pro might help you, I haven't actually used BetterBatteryStats.
But I saw your screenshot, one thing I noticed is that you keep bluetooth switched on (Android Wear)?, If so then I think maybe that is your issue (I'm saying this cause I have a Gear 2 connected to my Note8, when the device is connected it takes some amount of battery). Try to use your device without bluetooth for maybe 1 day and see if there is any improvement in Battery Life and Screen On Time.
I would suggest other basic options like:
1. Turning off Location when you don't need it
2. Turning off Bluetooth
3. Turning off Mobile Data (or keeping the network mode to 3G/2G)
4. Delete useless apps, if you have apps like BetterBatterStats, I think they can monitor app data and battery usage.
5. Goto Settings>Device Maintenance>Battery, scroll down till the end and select "always sleeping apps", select apps that you want only to wake up when you open the apps. Go back and remove useless or unwanted apps under the unmonitored apps section (This option is right before the always sleeping apps one).
Also try doing a cache clear from Android Recovery (Be Careful when selecting the options):
1. Turn off your phone
2. Hold the Volume Up, Bixby and Power Button simultaneously until you see the boot screen, as soon as you see that screen release your fingers from the buttons
3. Once the recovery options come, use your volume buttons to move up and down, and the power button to select an option.
4. press volume down and select the clear cache option, press the power button, use the volume down button again to select "Yes" and press the power button.
5. It will clear Cache
6. Restart your, its the first option in the menu.
This might helps the phone clear cache files and maybe fix your battery issue.
It would also be good if you install this app, after installing goto the "Personal" tab and check if your battery health is good, mine is 91%. You should also be in that range or maybe 80%. If the percentage is bad then maybe I think you would require a battery replacement. Correct me if I am wrong guys, but just a suggestion.
One more thing, is your phone rooted or having a custom rom?, if yes I suggest to try Naptime and other rooted battery saving apps like Greenify.
If not then I think you and me will have to hope that Android 9.0 Pie would have some improvement, sadly I have been a Samsung user for 4 to 5 years, this isn't usually the case with Samsung OS updates .
Based on this, I don't think I have anything rogue going on, do you?
(Notice that I didn't use my phone at all during this time, nor did I leave home.)
OK, I have attached stats for my phone from today.
Please take a look.
When not using my phone, my battery only dropped about 2% per hour, which is great. But when my screen was on, I seemed to have lost a lot of power. I can't even get 4 hours of screen on time.
What would cause tis to happen? I barely have my screen brightness at 20%.
Does this tell you more? It shows battery usage with cell phone signal.
(I was off Wi-Fi for about the last 6 hours of the day.)
Does this show a slower battery drop with a better signal?
Dankees said:
OK, I have attached stats for my phone from today.
Please take a look.
When not using my phone, my battery only dropped about 2% per hour, which is great. But when my screen was on, I seemed to have lost a lot of power. I can't even get 4 hours of screen on time.
What would cause tis to happen? I barely have my screen brightness at 20%.
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Chrome and facebook drain lot compared to others. Are you putting them (and others) to sleep using device management? Also, 2.7% drain per hour isn't fantastic. You can drop that to approx 1% if you tame enough things on your phone.
Dankees said:
OK, I have attached stats for my phone from today.
Please take a look.
When not using my phone, my battery only dropped about 2% per hour, which is great. But when my screen was on, I seemed to have lost a lot of power. I can't even get 4 hours of screen on time.
What would cause tis to happen? I barely have my screen brightness at 20%.
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2% per hour for rooted phone is very bad. In 10 hours you loose 20% battery, looks very bad too. If you open the 4g you loose 40%. I loose 2% every 10 hours and i have 95% kernel deep sleep. Your System have big drain in first picture. Debloat your rom and fix your bad wakelocks with amplify and with appops. Possible change your rom and your kernel if you are not rooted. If you are not rooted god bless you, or read the xda threads to learnd about the phones. All your apps have very bad wakeup issues. This apps run all the time and dont leave the phone to sleep. You use malware bytes into android.... the linux is not windows 10. You dont need this crap apps.
sefrcoko said:
Chrome and facebook drain lot compared to others. Are you putting them (and others) to sleep using device management? Also, 2.7% drain per hour isn't fantastic. You can drop that to approx 1% if you take enough things on your phone.
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Should they always be sleeping?