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[Q] Fast battery drain after gingerbread, anybody else experiencing it?

Well after many many tries with topogigi's rom i had a lot of battery drain, after a while i thought its probably ok cause its a gb leak, probably its not that bad.
well after few days using it i decided to change back to froyo so i changed to FR19 from modaco but i have the same drainage really really big and really fast, i use the wifi for like 2 or 3 minutes and it goes down like 5 %.
My question is this normal? is my battery broken?
i did the calibration couple of times, i checked the usage of battery, just the "0" and "1023" proccesses using a lot of battery, i also checked if it was some app runing in the background but nothing seem wrong.
can you guys help me with these issues do you think i should change the battery or just keep calibrating it.
BTW i also read about how the battery Mv should be at 4200Mv when its at 100% but mine is just at 4170Mv and suddenly goes down to 4112 or less.
I hope you can help cause this is really annoying me a lot.
Greetings

Did you do a factory reset after updating to gingerbread, you need to do a factory reset, after your battery should be fine, make sure to take your SD card out.
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by that you mean a complete wipe if it like i did it like many times but nothing today im gonna try charging my phone off and deleting the batterystats.bin by myself
btw i have froyo now its faster than gingerbread but anyways have a lot of battery drain

Gaku86 said:
by that you mean a complete wipe if it like i did it like many times but nothing today im gonna try charging my phone off and deleting the batterystats.bin by myself
btw i have froyo now its faster than gingerbread but anyways have a lot of battery drain
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Gingerbread is not battery friendly. With tweaked ROMs and tweaked kernels you can have correct results (see my config below), but Froyo 10d is stilll a reference hard to reach...

Gaku86 said:
Well after many many tries with topogigi's rom i had a lot of battery drain, after a while i thought its probably ok cause its a gb leak, probably its not that bad.
well after few days using it i decided to change back to froyo so i changed to FR19 from modaco but i have the same drainage really really big and really fast, i use the wifi for like 2 or 3 minutes and it goes down like 5 %.
My question is this normal? is my battery broken?
i did the calibration couple of times, i checked the usage of battery, just the "0" and "1023" proccesses using a lot of battery, i also checked if it was some app runing in the background but nothing seem wrong.
can you guys help me with these issues do you think i should change the battery or just keep calibrating it.
BTW i also read about how the battery Mv should be at 4200Mv when its at 100% but mine is just at 4170Mv and suddenly goes down to 4112 or less.
I hope you can help cause this is really annoying me a lot.
Greetings
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yes i did, check out my thread. hope it is helpful ^_^
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18601120#post18601120

Thank you both, what i did: factory reset. i didnt know that wiping and doing a factory reset was not the same thing, so now i fixed my issue i was using 150 mh per hour now after the factory reset is just 2mh sooo goood
i really appreciate your help guys was really really helpful.

Gaku86 said:
Thank you both, what i did: factory reset. i didnt know that wiping and doing a factory reset was not the same thing, so now i fixed my issue i was using 150 mh per hour now after the factory reset is just 2mh sooo goood
i really appreciate your help guys was really really helpful.
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Glad to help ^_^

thanks a lot green arrow, well anyways after the factory reset it went up to 128mh got really freak out now went down to 59 mh.
my question is this normal or should be always at 2mh, btw im on 1% should i charge it or leave it die and charge it while it's off?

i had to hard reset it again the same problem again im getting really frustrating with this problem
sorry to bother you again guys, but i noticed something i dont know if this is right or not, but after i factory reset my phone it keep doing the same, i charge until 100% phone on, didnt charge until 100% just until 99% once i turn it off complete the charge, once i turn it back on showed me a 100% but i turn off again cause i change the RIL and now i notice sth strange right after i turn off it charge for like 3 more minutes wile was off even though it told me it was 100% can you guys help, should buy another battery did i screw my battery or is just bad calibrated
i seriously need help

Gaku86 said:
i had to hard reset it again the same problem again im getting really frustrating with this problem
sorry to bother you again guys, but i noticed something i dont know if this is right or not, but after i factory reset my phone it keep doing the same, i charge until 100% phone on, didnt charge until 100% just until 99% once i turn it off complete the charge, once i turn it back on showed me a 100% but i turn off again cause i change the RIL and now i notice sth strange right after i turn off it charge for like 3 more minutes wile was off even though it told me it was 100% can you guys help, should buy another battery did i screw my battery or is just bad calibrated
i seriously need help
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this could be many diff things, what i would do is 1 of 3 things:
1- try to calibrate it again
2- try a new kernel (maybe an sbc kernel, it might work better for you)
3- maybe try to flash a new rom for a bit and see if the rom you are running at the moment just doesn't like your phone.
at the moment i am running the decks rom for gingerbread and svz 2.2.1 kernel, however i just like to test new things but what has worked the best for me is the godmode (V9) kernel. i stopped using it because he is no longer updating his kernels but with godmode kernel and cm7 my phone lasted me a total of 1 day and 6 hours on 1 charge.

well thanks a lot for the help green arrow, what i did know was i charge full on and off after that delete battery stats manually calibrate it with battery monitor widget then turn off charge a little bit again turn on delete battery stats again and reboot this worked for me from 9:30 pm to 8 am just wasted 8% sleeping but anyways i thought it was too much so i checked better battery stats so there is a process called nvrm daemon the weird thing is that i dont have an overclocked kernel and im not using daemon so i wonder what it is.
if you want i can attach a screencap so you can help a little bit with this oddly changes with my battery.
Another thing is during night there was some changes it went from 2mh to 60mh then it start going down until 10mh at 7:30 am, if you want i can add the history report from battery monitor widget.
And finally im using gr4 Modaco's with stock kernel. Btw i changed my RIL to the v20j version the one that came with the rom and it seem pretty good after 10 minutes it sticked to 2mh.
well im gonna take some screens and upload them for you.

Some screens so i can get some more help
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right after a call went down from 89% to 87%
This one is right after activating wifi
Processes from better battery stats
Partial wakelocks

Gaku86 said:
well thanks a lot for the help green arrow, what i did know was i charge full on and off after that delete battery stats manually calibrate it with battery monitor widget then turn off charge a little bit again turn on delete battery stats again and reboot this worked for me from 9:30 pm to 8 am just wasted 8% sleeping but anyways i thought it was too much so i checked better battery stats so there is a process called nvrm daemon the weird thing is that i dont have an overclocked kernel and im not using daemon so i wonder what it is.
if you want i can attach a screencap so you can help a little bit with this oddly changes with my battery.
Another thing is during night there was some changes it went from 2mh to 60mh then it start going down until 10mh at 7:30 am, if you want i can add the history report from battery monitor widget.
And finally im using gr4 Modaco's with stock kernel. Btw i changed my RIL to the v20j version the one that came with the rom and it seem pretty good after 10 minutes it sticked to 2mh.
well im gonna take some screens and upload them for you.
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this may not be much help but, turn off your internet (3g/2g) and your wifi, and your 4g if you put it on, and your sync. let me know if you see some change. if you do then just turn on your internet when you need it but leave it off on a normal bases.

[Q] Weird "battery drain" when lightly using the phone

Hello !
I just bought my P880 two days ago and everything is great except one thing: battery drain. It is not occouring in background when phone is in Deep sleep, it doesn't lose charge while it's sleeping, but when I just unlock it/start using it, it just starts draining.
I have rooted it, and unrooted using SuperSU. The thing is I haven't experienced that kind of drain yesterday, it was working fine except drain caused by bad signal (badly inserted SIM).
Usage by Android System is at 50% over 5 hours, Screen is at 9%. Awake graphs are the same as Screen on graphs- no wakelocks.
I have these apps installed:
Prey Anti Theft
Skype (not running)
Adobe Reader
SoundHound
Disco Light
QR Droid
Sygic (not running)
X-plore
SwiftKey 3 keyboard
WiFi, GPS, Data, everything turned off except mobile signal
Running Internation version with Android 4.0.3, Kernel 2.6.39.4-00001-g0f9182c
Mobile network type is EDGE:2 with mobile signal -70dBm
I'm first time android user and this is my first problem so I tried to include as much info as possible.
Thanks in advance

I see 2 mayor issues, first is the android deft app, it may be running and trying to sync but bcz the data is off it will try to connect foreva.
Also, edge is (in other words) ROAMING and this forces the antenna to use more power to get signal from another provider, it get worst if you have a phone with sim card.
Sent from my LG-P880 using Tapatalk 2

Gildegan said:
I see 2 mayor issues, first is the android deft app, it may be running and trying to sync but bcz the data is off it will try to connect foreva.
Also, edge is (in other words) ROAMING and this forces the antenna to use more power to get signal from another provider, it get worst if you have a phone with sim card.
Sent from my LG-P880 using Tapatalk 2
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Thanks for pointing that out, but I have disabled every sync and I have set phone to 2G mode only, the reason is that UMTS signal was low and was draining battery even more.
I am only losing sharge when just doing random things on phone, even if that means only adding/removing widgets/apps on main screen with WiFi off.

Then you must try the Deodexed version of v10f, removing the bloatware with the script in the same thread.
The issue may be some lg apps that are running in the background so doing this will have 6 hours in standby time with 100% still, like me (if I turn all radios off ).

I have just woken up, while sleeping (9h) phone was awake for about 50%, no wakelocks but there were 30 alarms from Android/Google maps ans 29 alarms from com.google.android.gsf
Hope this helps.
I may try custom ROMs if nothing else works.
While typing this message I have lost 7%.

Similar state here as the OP. Got the phone two days ago.
All is good, it rooted OK, Directory Bind works fine, phone runs like hell (about 10 times faster than my old Galaxy S) BUT it drains battery like a genuine power guzzler.
Ok I get that according to the performance you get, it comes with an accordingly high power draw, so I don't ***** about it, I just want to know if this is normal. I mean I played 2 hours and 15 minutes of Sprinkle and the battery died, starting from a full charge. Screen was set at 50%.
GPS is off, Bluetooth is off, no 3G mobile network and screen is at 50% brightness as I said. There's an NFC icon on the notification bar next to the battery icon, which I am not sure if it should be there.
Here are a couple of shots from the battery section of the phone and from Battery monitor widget if these help.
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Please note that as the OP said, the phone consumes nearly nothing when idling. Firmware is 10f.
PS I am not trying to hijack the OP's thread. I just noticed the same behavior and I'd like some help on the same matter, as well as to contribute in whatever way I can. If the OP is offended somehow, I will gladly start a new thread.

@psolord No, not offended at all. I'm glad you posted actually.
My phone has encountered 20 more Alarms, wake ups since I left it standing:
com.google.android.apps.maps Wakeups: 50
com.google.android.gsf Wakeups: 45
You can see pictures below, the drop on the second picture happened when I was writing me previous post from P880.
- I am also rooted again (after factory restore)
- I have reenabled 3G networks but the signal is only at about 50%.
Any additional info please ?

Ok buddy, so we can keep discussing it here together.
For the matter at hand, I see the same behavior, when I unlock the screen, it's like I have opened a whole in the battery.
It dropped from 85% to 65% just from downloading a new map (500MB, 20min download on a slow wifi) from Sygic downloader. I mean this can't be right, right?
I also checked cpu spy and it reports the system 75% at deep idle, 15% at 51Mhz and the rest are 0% to 1% up to 1500Mhz. So if the cpu has so little operation, what on earth is draining the battery?
I wonder if we could be looking at a bad battery batch.
Is there an app that reports exactly what activity consumes power and how much?

Indeed, the hole in the battery.
I even restored to factory from recovery mode since I screwed up the root, so it was just stock, but guess what, nothing has changed :crying:
I really hope this can get fixed, else I'll get a replacement.
I hope someone from this forum with more experience can help :/

I think I am onto something.
Can you please check how is the phone doing if you disable everything under location and services?

psolord said:
I think I am onto something.
Can you please check how is the phone doing if you disable everything under location and services?
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I am going to try this, I am also talking to LG Support right now. WIll let you know when I get more information.

I disabled everything, and I didn't see pretty much any improvement. LG Support suggested me to return the phone.
Pretty much draining the battery atm so I can charge it back to 100% and use something like Battery Calibration. Maybe it can change something.

Yeah indeed I was onto nothing. Nothing changed for me either.
Playing 30mins of a 720P resulted my battery dropping from 62% to 50%. I also used the gps for the first time with Sygic (Jesus even the GPS is lightning fast) and the battery went from 50% to 30% for a 20 minute ride. It seems that my phone cannot give me more than 2 hours of use. That's just silly.
BTW do you or anybody, know of an app that can show battery usage per app?

psolord said:
Yeah indeed I was onto nothing. Nothing changed for me either.
Playing 30mins of a 720P resulted my battery dropping from 62% to 50%. I also used the gps for the first time with Sygic (Jesus even the GPS is lightning fast) and the battery went from 50% to 30% for a 20 minute ride. It seems that my phone cannot give me more than 2 hours of use. That's just silly.
BTW do you or anybody, know of an app that can show battery usage per app?
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Stock application ?
Also you can use Better Battery Stats to see if there are any wakelocks or anything is waking up the phone etc.

What is happening right now is rather strange, I disabled screen turning off (trying to drain battery to 1%/2%) looking at stock battery app, it seems to be stuck at 21% and it's not changing.

The stock application does not do so much analysis, but the batterystats you used above seems more like it.
I am getting panicked and I miss some stuff haha. Ok lets cool.
It makes me sad that we don't get any input from the community. Something like "yeah this is normal, live with it" or "your phone is faulty, take it back to the shop for a replacement" or something.

Agreed, ANY, ANY kind of input would be appreciated, but I guess we are getting none.
I am going to fully charge it today, do some stuff and report back tommorow. Also anyone, please do post any suggestion you may have.

shiinkotheone said:
What is happening right now is rather strange, I disabled screen turning off (trying to drain battery to 1%/2%) looking at stock battery app, it seems to be stuck at 21% and it's not changing.
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Maybe this has to do something with the built in power saver. Maybe it kicks in when the battery drops to the 20s and stops whatever is draining it.
I am thinking trying some battery saver to see if it does the same thing but from the beginning of the full charge.

psolord said:
Maybe this has to do something with the built in power saver. Maybe it kicks in when the battery drops to the 20s and stops whatever is draining it.
I am thinking trying some battery saver to see if it does the same thing but from the beginning of the full charge.
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Actually I have disabled it when it asked me if it should turn on. So I guess nothing to do with that.

I am going to backup now, fully unroot and somehow get it to pure stock. Than I'm probably going to exchange the phone in case battery life doesn't change.

[Q] Is it normal for my battery to be so bad?

Hey all!
I've bought my Optimus 4X HD recently. I'm loving everything! Except the battery...
Today, I've tested it again and here's what the battery is able to do!
- 6 hours of standby, 3G and Sync enabled
- 4 times checked mail for like 4 minutes total
6 Hours later: 30% remaining.
Is it normal for this battery to be so weak? I've "calibrated" (drained to 0% and charged to 100% - left it for a long charge the first time too)
If it's abnormal I'll contact the helpdesk and see if they can replace my battery, just want to be sure if it's normal or not.
Software is latest available, non-root, very few apps -- verified with taskkiller of AVG: nothing is running in background or anything.
Thanks!

I think there are some wake locks denying the system to go into deep sleep.
Search the forum for solutions, it's a well discussed topic on here
Sent from my LG-P880

I usually get at least fourteen / sixteen hours on a single charge when I unplug it in the morning before work, varies with how long the Wi-Fi turned on, and I get at least three hours of screen time, one or two of voice calls. I also have mobile 3g data always on with alerts for email, Facebook and Google+. Usually I listen to music for about an hour and half too. I'm running the 20a euro rom official, rooted. Try factory resetting and rooting to remove bloatware and LG logging software.
Hope this helps!
Sent from my LG-P880 using Tapatalk 2

hi
no,its not to bad,we all have a problem with battery on eur 20xxx after update,you must follow procedure on forum to resolve that problem,search a litlle and you find the solution.
shadowser said:
Hey all!
I've bought my Optimus 4X HD recently. I'm loving everything! Except the battery...
Today, I've tested it again and here's what the battery is able to do!
- 6 hours of standby, 3G and Sync enabled
- 4 times checked mail for like 4 minutes total
6 Hours later: 30% remaining.
Is it normal for this battery to be so weak? I've "calibrated" (drained to 0% and charged to 100% - left it for a long charge the first time too)
If it's abnormal I'll contact the helpdesk and see if they can replace my battery, just want to be sure if it's normal or not.
Software is latest available, non-root, very few apps -- verified with taskkiller of AVG: nothing is running in background or anything.
Thanks!
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shadowser said:
Hey all!
I've bought my Optimus 4X HD recently. I'm loving everything! Except the battery...
Today, I've tested it again and here's what the battery is able to do!
- 6 hours of standby, 3G and Sync enabled
- 4 times checked mail for like 4 minutes total
6 Hours later: 30% remaining.
Is it normal for this battery to be so weak? I've "calibrated" (drained to 0% and charged to 100% - left it for a long charge the first time too)
If it's abnormal I'll contact the helpdesk and see if they can replace my battery, just want to be sure if it's normal or not.
Software is latest available, non-root, very few apps -- verified with taskkiller of AVG: nothing is running in background or anything.
Thanks!
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Very few apps installed by you... there is a lot of stuff running in background that you don't even imagine.
Search for the threads about "battery drain" and you'll get some more info.

Do you run the new 4.1 Jelly Bean? There is some huge debate going on, how the update affects battery life. Personally, I ran into huge battery problems after updating to 4.1. The drain was especially heavy during the night, when I usually active airplane mode. With ICS I lost about 1% during an 8 hour night, under JB it was 20-30%. I read up on the threads in this forum and followed many suggestions. I started to monitor battery drain with different apps running/frozen, wifi, 3G, airplane mode enabled/disabled and so on. To analyse the battery I found the apps "CPU Spy", "Wakelock Detector", "GSam Battery Monitor", and "Battery Log" helpful.
But to be honest, I am no "android pro". I monitored my battery drain for over a week and did not find a satisfying solution for the problem. Thanks to this forum and many excellent posts I managed to roll back my phone to 4.0.3 ICS. Now my battery drain is the way I remember it and I am happy again
For me, this solved the problem. Although I do not run JB, and some of the enjoyable improvements it had, anymore. I know that for some people rolling back is no option. If you cannot locate the battery killer easily and you are willing to play around with your device (rooting, freezing apps...), you might as well roll back and give that a try.

You should explore your device and your stock apps...
My battery last in JB for so long as in ICS.
If there are differences they're small.
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Yes!
Thanks all, very useful replies!
I've tried simply factory resetting it and, for about 3 hours it stayed on 100%, 2 hours on 99% and etc, very awesome!
I then set up my mail and other things and it went bad again. I had this sync symbol in my notification bar -- no clue why it was there all the time.
I googled why it was there and it's because the sync fails so it keeps trying. I removed the picasa for the email account (because uni mail doesn't support picasa and other google services) and my battery is top notch again! For now at least .

RuedasLocas said:
You should explore your device and your stock apps...
My battery last in JB for so long as in ICS.
If there are differences they're small.
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Looks like you're on WiFi which has good standby time. 3G standby is not good at all. That's when baseband_xmm_power starts acting up for me.

Following is my Battery usage still left some 17% with normal usage.
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I've had terrible battery life... But when I went to cyanogen mod... It's been great for me ever since... Well two days actually. Lol
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For me the same result with HSDPA. From 8:00 to about 15:00 oclock 15-20% of battery Just IM+ on, sync, some web browse + maybe one hour some games like beach buggy blitz or subway runner.

i am on cm 10.1 now and my battery is bad for now.For my case beleive or not my best battery life with some modifications is on stock ics v10h 19 hours on stand by and i still got 0% drain
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igorstoja83 said:
i am on cm 10.1 now and my battery is bad for now.For my case beleive or not my best battery life with some modifications is on stock ics v10h 19 hours on stand by and i still got 0% drain
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mine is bad because of the baseband_xmm_power wakelock, had this on stock 20A but didn´t had on 10h... as far as i can search, there is no solution other than revert to old 10h....
I bought a spare battery so i never run out of juice! Reverting firmware is not an option for me.

xtribas said:
mine is bad because of the baseband_xmm_power wakelock, had this on stock 20A but didn´t had on 10h... as far as i can search, there is no solution other than revert to old 10h....
I bought a spare battery so i never run out of juice! Reverting firmware is not an option for me.
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how we can solve this problem?Reverting firmware is not an option for me too.just whant to know is there any solution if i whant to back on v20a stock or v10h?

igorstoja83 said:
how we can solve this problem?Reverting firmware is not an option for me too.just whant to know is there any solution if i whant to back on v20a stock or v10h?
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on 10h this wakelock doesn´t exist... the only solution is to flash the 10h kdz

xtribas said:
on 10h this wakelock doesn´t exist... the only solution is to flash the 10h kdz
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you think we can flash v10h or v20a over cm10 with lg flash tool without problem?for what is this wakelock can we do something about this i hate when my phone drain fast?

igorstoja83 said:
you think we can flash v10h or v20a over cm10 with lg flash tool without problem?for what is this wakelock can we do something about this i hate when my phone drain fast?
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yes, i believe u can, just us flash tool and the kdz file...

xtribas said:
mine is bad because of the baseband_xmm_power wakelock, had this on stock 20A but didn´t had on 10h... as far as i can search, there is no solution other than revert to old 10h....
I bought a spare battery so i never run out of juice! Reverting firmware is not an option for me.
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baseband_xmm_power wakelock, same problem here, battery drain cause this at v20A Jelly bean.

i believe this wakelock is affecting every phone since 20A, just install betterbatterystats and see it plague and suck our battery juice

[Q] Battery Drain

Yeah i know, the same old problem but bear with me guys.
So i use Carbon..latest version (11/19) and i've recently decided to try these 2 kernels: CroPol kernel and PA kernel by tenshi and so far i've noticed no change in battery drain...it drains VERY fast!
So my questions to you guys and i'm gonna number them so they are easier to follow:
1- Is there something wrong with Carbon these last several updates?
I've bought a new battery and nothing changed. Should i migrate to a different rom?
2- Which kernel is best suited for Carbon or for S3 mini in general? and can i undervolt it?
3- I'm a super heavy mobile data/ Wifi user so what's the best governor/schedule combo to use to save battery...i dont mind it being slow as long as it saves battery. I use Powersave/noop all the time but still no use.
Please help!! :crying:
Thank you very much.

same Problem :/
I got the same problem since using the new Carbon version in KK 4.4.4.
nothing helps until now.
what i tried so far:
- formattig everything in EXT4 instead of f2fs
- factory reset
- flashing Stock rom
- flashing cyanogenMod 11 from novafusion.
- using battery calibration
what i noticed in Carbon:
-taking pictures with flashlight were killing my phone, restart with 30% less battery power. this bug appeared when using f2fs formatting but not ext4.
what i noticed in cm11:
- after normal restart also 20% less battery power.
what i noticed in all roms i tried after the bug appeared:
- when battery has around 20% battery phone will just shutdown and restart with 1% battery :/
can anybody help ?

Same here with but with random boots! (see the thread)

H3llsing87 said:
I got the same problem since using the new Carbon version in KK 4.4.4.
nothing helps until now.
what i tried so far:
- formattig everything in EXT4 instead of f2fs
- factory reset
- flashing Stock rom
- flashing cyanogenMod 11 from novafusion.
- using battery calibration
what i noticed in Carbon:
-taking pictures with flashlight were killing my phone, restart with 30% less battery power. this bug appeared when using f2fs formatting but not ext4.
what i noticed in cm11:
- after normal restart also 20% less battery power.
what i noticed in all roms i tried after the bug appeared:
- when battery has around 20% battery phone will just shutdown and restart with 1% battery :/
can anybody help ?
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Same here after using f2fs on AOSPA and CM11. Now I'm on EXT4 + Stock Rom and I've got 10-20-30% battery loss after reboot.
However, battery indicator is wrong, but battery will last as if the percentage were still as before the reboot.
Also getting huge "Android OS" battery drain with no explanation from BBS
There's really no way to revert battery fuel gauge accuracy to stock behaviour?

Today i noticed also the random reboots.
When the phone was charging over the day and i tried to open SMS or any application, it suddenly reboots with 20% less battery power.
i think this bug is caused of the f2fs patition. i will try to flash a pitfile and stock again. the last time i didnt use a pit file.
i will let you know what happend

H3llsing87 said:
Today i noticed also the random reboots.
When the phone was charging over the day and i tried to open SMS or any application, it suddenly reboots with 20% less battery power.
i think this bug is caused of the f2fs patition. i will try to flash a pitfile and stock again. the last time i didnt use a pit file.
i will let you know what happend
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I was going to try that too, let's hope that it works :fingers-crossed:

H3llsing87 said:
Today i noticed also the random reboots.
When the phone was charging over the day and i tried to open SMS or any application, it suddenly reboots with 20% less battery power.
i think this bug is caused of the f2fs patition. i will try to flash a pitfile and stock again. the last time i didnt use a pit file.
i will let you know what happend
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this has most probably nothing to do with F2FS or any file system. i am using ext4 and i have the same issue.

Flashed stock rom with .pit file and nothing changed
Also I'm sure this has nothing to do with battery health, since battery lasts the same as before
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h4wkst3p said:
Flashed stock rom with .pit file and nothing changed
Also I'm sure this has nothing to do with battery health, since battery lasts the same as before
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hopefully tomorrow i am getting my new battery and i'll see if it is a physical battery problem (mine is a year old). because on slimkat, carbon and cyanogenmod there is this problem (and stock rom as you have shown here). if this ain't a physical battery problem, may god help us (i'll be forced to buy a new device)

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hopefully tomorrow i am getting my new battery and i'll see if it is a physical battery problem (mine is a year old). because on slimkat, carbon and cyanogenmod there is this problem (and stock rom as you have shown here). if this ain't a physical battery problem, may god help us (i'll be forced to buy a new device)
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Mine is one year old too, as well as the ones from other s3 mini users here on xda that have had this problem... let me know if it's worth it! I'm really getting crazy on this one...

nothing changed with pit file flash
i noticed:
no installing of new apps (SD-Card interactions) except of wakelock detector
just using WIFI, G3 SMS and Phone
was the behaviour normal! around 10% battery loss in ~5 hours
But when i pressed restart to reboot the phone!
it Crashes continuesly and battery jumped to 20%.
so the phone is doing something in the bootup process, which has a huge battery drain!
ill try today evening to flash previous CM with f2fs. I don't think that the battery is damaged. otherwise the batteryloss would be consistent.

Ok guys I'm not taking credits of this method to see if something's wrong with your battery but this is it
Take out your battery and place it ona flat surface, then spin it horizontally on both sides, if on one of the two sides it spins and doesn't get stopped by friction then the problem is that the battery is going to inflate and this means the battery is going to die
This is my case, so I'm gonna buy another original battery and let you know
If it isn't the problem for you, then it's a software problem with partitions

h4wkst3p said:
Ok guys I'm not taking credits of this method to see if something's wrong with your battery but this is it
Take out your battery and place it ona flat surface, then spin it horizontally on both sides, if on one of the two sides it spins and doesn't get stopped by friction then the problem is that the battery is going to inflate and this means the battery is going to die
This is my case, so I'm gonna buy another original battery and let you know
If it isn't the problem for you, then it's a software problem with partitions
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oh yeah. my old battery was definitely swollen. not much swelling can be seen without taking the battery out but one can see it clearly on a flat surface. it spins right round

with the new battery
it's still early to tell whether it was definitely a battery problem or not for me, but it surely looks that way. here are my stats after somewhat heavy* first usage:
so, do the "battery spin test" on a table like @h4wkst3p suggested. if it spins, no good i am afraid
*: by heavy i mean setting up the system after a clean flash. y'know installing all the apps etc.
i offline charged the new battery to 95% and the images show the remaining amount.

wtx1033 said:
it's still early to tell whether it was definitely a battery problem or not for me, but it surely looks that way. here are my stats after somewhat heavy* first usage:
so, do the "battery spin test" on a table like @h4wkst3p suggested. if it spins, no good i am afraid
*: by heavy i mean setting up the system after a clean flash. y'know installing all the apps etc.
i offline charged the new battery to 95% and the images show the remaining amount.
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this looks like it's totally fixed omg
The reboot with drop should be because of reboot after installing apps (generating dalvik etc), right?

h4wkst3p said:
this looks like it's totally fixed omg
The reboot with drop should be because of reboot after installing apps (generating dalvik etc), right?
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actually, no it was after i installed all the apps i then installed adaway & xprivacy— and both need a reboot.
as i said, i first topped the battery till ~95% by offline charging. plugged out the USB cable. booted into recovery, wiped and flashed. then booted into clean slimkat and start using it. all on battery power! :laugh:

wtx1033 said:
actually, no it was after i installed all the apps i then installed adaway and xprivacy and both need a reboot.
as i said, i first topped the batery ~95%. wen to recovery, wiped and flashed. booted into clean slimkat and star using it. all on battery power! :laugh:
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This is actually awesome! , when I'll get my new original battery I'll let you know if this fixed my device too :fingers-crossed:
I totally forgot how much amazing this device's battery was before this problem

alright you got me!
I've tried everything! flashing stock,pit,cm10.2, cm11 newer revision, deleting batterystats.bin and dockbatterystats.bin. reloading several times, but only got depressions.
Maybe there was a strange bug during the first flash progress, which destroyed the battery ?
Because we flashed all the same CM11 based version, and it killed the batteries, which was running excellent before :/
i'll order a new one now =) did you buy the original one? or another with more mA ?

H3llsing87 said:
alright you got me!
I've tried everything! flashing stock,pit,cm10.2, cm11 newer revision, deleting batterystats.bin and dockbatterystats.bin. reloading several times, but only got depressions.
Maybe there was a strange bug during the first flash progress, which destroyed the battery ?
Because we flashed all the same CM11 based version, and it killed the batteries, which was running excellent before :/
i'll order a new one now =) did you buy the original one? or another with more mA ?
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original one...and after the second charge it holds on standby quite nicely

I finally made it to get the original Samsung battery for Christmas from Amazon
This is my partial usage with a reboot at 65%
After the reboot it got to 66%
This is great, so it definitely was the old bad battery

Am I the only one with poor battery life?

So seeing that development is dead on this phone, I'm stuck with the latest stock ROM as the other custom ROMs cameras won't work or have issues.
Are others having bad battery life on v7.4.2 or is it just me? I've tried location service disable apps/scripts and battery saving apps but it doesn't seem to help.
I would like to roll back to the older versions of the stock ROM but then it has security issues (thanks BLU /s). Is sitting on the latest stock ROM the only option out there that functions well (apart from battery life)?

Mae7 said:
So seeing that development is dead on this phone, I'm stuck with the latest stock ROM as the other custom ROMs cameras won't work or have issues.
Are others having bad battery life on v7.4.2 or is it just me? I've tried location service disable apps/scripts and battery saving apps but it doesn't seem to help.
I would like to roll back to the older versions of the stock ROM but then it has security issues (thanks BLU /s). Is sitting on the latest stock ROM the only option out there that functions well (apart from battery life)?
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well you dont have to stay on 7.4.2, you can go to v17 and compare battery levels.

Is your phone rooted and running Xposed Framework? I've tried both 7.4.2 and v17. In both cases, battery life was fine, until I installed Xposed. After that, I also started seeing close to 50% battery drops overnight.

wunderdrug said:
Is your phone rooted and running Xposed Framework? I've tried both 7.4.2 and v17. In both cases, battery life was fine, until I installed Xposed. After that, I also started seeing close to 50% battery drops overnight.
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I just installed v17, its a little better than before. Yeah I've tried 7.4.2 with and without xposed and I still had the same amount of drain.

I have the same issue
I'm having the same issue with my R1 HD, I think the battery usage is normal during the day but the problem is it drains overnight, I disable the wifi and data and turn off sound notifications when I go to bed. When I wake up I find the battery drained 15 - 20% over those hours.
I had the blu life pure mini before this phone and barely drained 1% overnight with those same settings, I also have the smart energy saving on but I don't think is doing anything.
I just got this phone 3 days ago and I really like it (it's much better than the life pure mini) except for the battery life issue. The phone came with v7.4.2 out of the box and yesterday I just got an official update to v8.4 but I haven't installed it yet 'cause I read somewhere that some people started having issues with this phone after receiving an update, although I don't think is this one because this is from may 5th 2017 and I think that thread was from last year.
Have you found a way to solve this and have you tried this update already? Is it safe? I don't know what to do because the phone is under warranty for 10 days (I bought it from a reseller) so if I can't find a way to fix this I could maybe consider return it and get my money back, although I prefer not to because where I live its pretty hard to get your hands on a phone like this at a decent price.
I wanted to upload an image of the battery stats but I just recharged it so maybe later, here is one of the update available.
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dagger23 said:
I'm having the same issue with my R1 HD, I think the battery usage is normal during the day but the problem is it drains overnight, I disable the wifi and data and turn off sound notifications when I go to bed. When I wake up I find the battery drained 15 - 20% over those hours.
I had the blu life pure mini before this phone and barely drained 1% overnight with those same settings, I also have the smart energy saving on but I don't think is doing anything.
I just got this phone 3 days ago and I really like it (it's much better than the life pure mini) except for the battery life issue. The phone came with v7.4.2 out of the box and yesterday I just got an official update to v8.4 but I haven't installed it yet 'cause I read somewhere that some people started having issues with this phone after receiving an update, although I don't think is this one because this is from may 5th 2017 and I think that thread was from last year.
Have you found a way to solve this and have you tried this update already? Is it safe? I don't know what to do because the phone is under warranty for 10 days (I bought it from a reseller) so if I can't find a way to fix this I could maybe consider return it and get my money back, although I prefer not to because where I live its pretty hard to get your hands on a phone like this at a decent price.
I wanted to upload an image of the battery stats but I just recharged it so maybe later, here is one of the update available.
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If you want to be able to root phone do not take that official update.
Battery life , for me has been good

mrmazak said:
If you want to be able to root phone do not take that official update.
Battery life , for me has been good
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Thanks for replying
I'm not an advanced user so I'm not looking to root my phone unless it fixes the battery issue. Unless this behavior is normal with this phone, draining battery while idle, because even with this the battery still last through the day. Its just that it didn't happen with my previous phone so I think there is a problem.
I wanted to know if there is a chance installing the official update will fix this and if anybody has had issues with the v8.4 because otherwise my phone is working fine.
I'm very new to this so any help I can get will be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I think I'm onto something with the issue, last night I tried again before I went to bed, turned of wifi, data, silenced notifications and turned on battery saver. Woke up 8 hours later to see the battery had drained 16%.
So I went over every detail of the battery stats and found that my phone is always awake, day and night. Something is preventing the phone from going into sleep mode and I don't know what it is. Only apps I've installed are twitter, instagram, whatsapp, UC browser, TY kids, duolingo, panda mobile security and an online shopping app. All the amazon apps are disabled and I turned off the automatic updates from the playstore.
Googling about this I found some people who had the same issue had fixed it by cleaning the cache an rebooting, I did this (with all apps cache) but it didn't work.
I'm going to install a battery monitor app to see if I can find something else, this thing is driving me crazy. Here are some screen captures of this morning.