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Battery drain

Hi guys,
Sorry to bother you but I need help.
Last night I went to bed and my note had a full charged battery. This morning I fpund it drained. I put my note in charge and tried a soft reset but when I switched it on it said: remove some app in the task manager because the continuous running apps while charging battery may drain it (or something like that, it's the first time I see it). Of course, tbe task manager is empty and there isn't any app running. What can I do?
I have stock rom, all updated and no root.
Thanks
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Any chance you installed anything recently?
You can check out this thread to find out what is draining your battery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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[Q] Battery life - my sisters I9000

Guys, my sister has had her I9000 for a good few months now and everything was fine until recently.
She phoned me (knowing I like my phones) saying her battery life had become really poor over a couple days.
So I took the phone off her and updated it with Kies, so now it's running the latest Kies Gingerbread for that phone. I should point out it is not rooted, completely stock.
I noticed some crummy looking app's like Android Anti-Virus and Task Killer so removed them hoping one of them was acting the goat.......everything seemed to be going good until yesterday and she charged the phone all night until 8am and when it came to around 2pm the phone was flashing up with low battery alert. She said she had used twitter a little and browsed on the internet a while.
I have told her to get CPU Spy and look if the phone is going into deep sleep, yesterday it had 0% deep sleep and today it is saying 70% deep sleep even though the battery only lasted 6 hours before low battery warning...
Any ideas what I can do to track down where the problem is? Would she see better battery with ICS or a custom GB ROM?

Mine did this on stock ROM luckily mine lagged when I went into battery use it was Samsung app push update service or something like that but thanks to the lag it showed sleep lock before it shower that service I uninstalled then it could go back into deep sleep
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Can I uninstall the Samsung app without root?
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Yes if its the one I think it is, could you post a screen shot of the battery usage up? Just to be sure?
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Try to flash speed mod kernel on your sister device using Odin
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Try to flash speed mod kernel on your sister device using Odin
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Thanks for this. Could you explain how I do this as I have never used ODIN before.
Thanks.

chrisgtl said:
Thanks for this. Could you explain how I do this as I have never used ODIN before.
Thanks.
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it will root your device and install clockwork mod, should fix the battery issues though. Try flashing the CF root kernel via odin. Theres a tutorial in the thread.

After the odin flash, you can use titanium app for remove apps or system apps unnecessary

Battery drain with the screen off

I've noticed that my phone spends much battery with the screen off, i think its te Modem what do you think?
Im on cm9 nightlies with semaphore kernel.
this was with almost all the time screen off and 2G, if its fault of the modem recommend me a battery saver modem.
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You can instal the Devil kernel and activate "Deep idle"

Also try JuiceDefender

Sorry Bit i use both deep idle and also juice defender, i really dont know what to do!
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I'm going to say it's the kernel as I'm running the standard one that comes with Cyanogenmod 9 and I don't have this issue. Actually, my battery is above average.

There's a big issue with i9000's running hot and having high drain at the moment. I'm not sure what has caused it on mine. It seemed to happen after I upgraded to CM9 but I have flashed back to 3 different varieties of stock ROM/kernel and same story. Gets really really warm when under load and battery drains at the rate of around 20% an hour when the screen is off, phone is in airplane mode and NOTHING is running (i.e. in deep sleep).
At a real loss as to what to do about it, I've seen a thread about 500 posts long on the official Android forums with i9000 and i9100 users all expressing their frustration over this.

In your battery stats what is showing high drain? Also instal better battery stats and run it for a while to drill down what is causing problem
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In your battery stats what is showing high drain? Also instal better battery stats and run it for a while to drill down what is causing problem
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Hey, appreciate you are well intentioned but have been through all possible diagnostic steps and all documentation/suggestions I can find online. I am an experienced IT pro and have tried EVERYTHING that has been suggested ANYWHERE by ANYONE and there is no fix.
Screen is showing the most, followed by MediaServer then Apollo player. Problem is the battery drains when all those things are killed (i.e nothing is running phone is in deep sleep). This happens overnight when nothing is runnning at all. The battery stats do not change. The processor does not show anything as being used.
Many people have already been through the diagnostic steps and there is simply no answer.
Refer this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1635614
There is a reported bug on the official android site as well but I'm on my work PC and don't have my history from home to drag it up again.
Basically symptoms are
- Battery drains exceedingly quickly ~15% when idling and 25% per hour when in use.
- All diagnostic tools show nothing running or using your battery or CPU
- Phone is warmer than usual in any state (i.e. idling/charging/under load)
- Most folk I've seen with the issue have flashed to CM9 at some point but that is not a consistent truth.

Another screenshot that shows that the mobile standby consumes almost the same of screen
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ZosoCharlie
In your first post, i saw your "señal de red móvil", is very poor. Have one or two little line green ( best signal ).
As is the signal coverage where you are? The signal is good or poor?
and when you get with wi-fi on, the battery drains very fast.
Sorry for my poor english.

its poor man, thats why i want a battery saver modem, and the wifi battery drain its horrible, please help me!

ZosoCharlie said:
its poor man, thats why i want a battery saver modem, and the wifi battery drain its horrible, please help me!
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Experiment with different modems
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ZosoCharlie
I use CM9 nigthly with you, but no have this issues. Experiment another modem ex. JVU.
Sorry for my poor english.
JCBG

But JVU its a GB modem, my CWM doesnt let me install other modems that are not rom ICS.
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Go to Dev, to siky_dudes Cm7/9 modem thread. A modem is a modem, they just need repackaging as zips which he kindly did for people like you!
One big fail!
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Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158783
[CM7/MIUI/ICS/CM9][06.01.12] Modems + Bootloaders(MD5)
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And yes...I will remind you of this!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27545460
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Another hint, when you get there use search for your country!
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Did you have this problem from the beggining? I am using Dark Knight 3 ics, and for many months everything was okay. One day, i had battery drain. Even after a reboot, the drain was there. I reinstalled and it works fine again

guys, now i have a almost one full day with normal use, i dont know if i can get better results or whatever, but im happy with this result, i've done it downgrading to GB and i'm happy with it, but i would prefer to stay in ICS, but well im not bad with GB.

Is samsung gonna fix the bug on 4.0.4 or what?

Hi fellas,
Im just wondering is there any fix on 4.0.4?
I mean the battery issues and overheated device? Cuz im thinking of rooting my device in the end to just giving it a try. But it will void the warrany for sure. So, just wanna know if any of ya all just happen to know if thers any fix coming out real soon. So that i can wait.
It seems that my device is now consider as useless piece of s...t just wondering why would i want to use this so called smartphone if i cant use live wallpaper, push email, screen brightness for my luvly super amoled screen and so on if it drains the battery like thirsty camel. It just a thought tho.... U guy might be thinking the same. So, i did all the the things like calibrating the batt, installed cpuspy, take out the batt on plane mode trick and so on.. , yes it did help the device to sleep. But it drains when im using it for 3 hrs with a lil bit of surfing, emails and sketching .it just doesnt make any sense at all.
Dont you guy think that samsung is trying to lure us to change to s3? Or note 2? Well it did cross my mind. Lol. i might not consider samsung in the near future. I guess,htc x one is my choice cuz it offers 6hrs batt. Hehehe
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dude battery life with screen on in clean condition, without fancy stuff is only 3.5 hours. Some with other kernels/roms have reported 4 or even 5 hours, but that's really max
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It is a power hungry phone,
Large screen - If you've got your brightness all the way up will use more power
Live Wallpaper - Pretty - Battery drainer
Games - Power hungry
etc
As mentioned - you cannot expect to use a phone like this for 8/9/10 hours with constant use, At 3 hours constant use, screen on, probs wi-fi / data, Gaming, listening to music.. you will see the battery drain quicker..
Could alsways pick up a one of those larger Mugen Power Batteries / second stock battery if your usage demands it... I've got two stock batteries but the actual amount of times I've need to call on the backup one is rare, I keep it handy as both me and my girlfriend have GNote's.

baz77 said:
dude battery life with screen on in clean condition, without fancy stuff is only 3.5 hours. Some with other kernels/roms have reported 4 or even 5 hours, but that's really max
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Thx for replying guys,
Maybe i left something earlier on. 3 hrs of moderate usage..as in moderate guys. Ddnt hppn to me on gb. I had at least 5 hrs max on gb without turning off thos fancy stuffs.Thats the main issue. So ics is the culprit.
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safuan7822 said:
Thx for replying guys,
Maybe i left something earlier on. 3 hrs of moderate usage..as in moderate guys. Ddnt hppn to me on gb. I had at least 5 hrs max on gb without turning off thos fancy stuffs.Thats the main issue. So ics is the culprit.
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Have you used BetterBatteryStats to see what's happening in the background? Maybe you've a rogue app installed....

safuan7822 said:
Thx for replying guys,
Maybe i left something earlier on. 3 hrs of moderate usage..as in moderate guys. Ddnt hppn to me on gb. I had at least 5 hrs max on gb without turning off thos fancy stuffs.Thats the main issue. So ics is the culprit.
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Well then there are ways to analyse, as posted above for abnomal battery drain in deepsleep, when not using phone. That is one option.
Best guess is to do a full clean install of 404 by going to gb through pc odin, root it, get on cwm recovery, wipe cache, dalvik cache, backup efs, save pictures on computer, backup messages with app from play, sync contacts to gmail and then backbin recovery format everything in mounts, except efs,ofcourse.
Then phone wont boot, but is truly squicky clean. Then go into download mode and flash throught oc odin a stock 404 rom.
Do not recover apps/data, just manually redownload them.
Dont ever on unsafe kernel from stock ics do these steps. EVER!
Then download cwm. zip which is temp and flash speedmod k3-11 from recovery. I bet your battery life will improve and you will get 4 hours screen on time. Not as good as on gb,but still better then now
there are threads for every single step here, start in dr ketans thread in sticky section of development. Then tool thread of dr ketan in general section.
disclaimer: you can and will lose data and possibly warrantee
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Thanks bazz,
Haha its me again complaining bout the batt in
Here. Well i did all the tricks from the past thread. Well it worked as in the device went to sleep like a baby. But when i wakes up, only god knows. But yeah, thnx for the info again, but thats the problem bazz, i just need to know bout the fix. Tried to call samsung support but they are not too sure bout it. Cuz im willing to wait for the fix but not too long. Currently i hv dis dilemma of maybe selling the phone with stock rom, and buy another phone
or rooting this phone which im not too sure how to go about.
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Use the BetterBatteryStats to see what`s going on behind and CPU spy to see what is the Mhz you Note is at.
On 4.0.3 ICS I find my battery lasts longer than on GB.. Strange!

i dont have problems on 4.0.4 with draining or heating...
maybe there is some app .... e-mail push 5 min......

Same here. GNote with ICS 4.0.3 has a worse battery life compared to GB, not to mentioned occasional freeze and unresponsive screen, also broken wifi-direct. Pretty disappointed with Samsung in the software department. Jelly Bean was already out and OTA for ICS 4.0.4 for both my GNote and GTab 7.7 not yet available in my country. Come on Samsung, these products is a premium products, pls provide a premium software update. Pfffttt...
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newb4ev3r said:
Same here. GNote with ICS 4.0.3 has a worse battery life compared to GB, not to mentioned occasional freeze and unresponsive screen, also broken wifi-direct. Pretty disappointed with Samsung in the software department. Jelly Bean was already out and OTA for ICS 4.0.4 for both my GNote and GTab 7.7 not yet available in my country. Come on Samsung, these products is a premium products, pls provide a premium software update. Pfffttt...
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Got that right newb. Feel the same way here.
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I thinks yeah.. Its been pushing all the time.. And i wonder what is 'alarm_rtc' its been processing all the time in background..
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Turn it off and try again
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If you think your battery life used to be so much better with gb why don't you go back to gb? No obligation to use ics. I use 4.0.4 with goku kernel and battery life is at least as good as it was under gb. 4 - 5 hours of usage, lasts a full working day.
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just try clean install already and be amazed
at own risk
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Okay, so ive done quite lots of tricky stuff before, and guess what.. I hv found the solution for now.I hope...
1.Charge battery with phone turned on until galaxy is fully charged
2.UnplugTurn off phone and charge for one hour
3.UnplugTurn galaxy on, wait 3 minutesTurn off phone and charge for one hour
4.Reboot
And now my batt is coming back to its normal performance... I get around 11hrs 45 min on standby and at least 6hrs of moderate usage.... Thank god. Hopefully it will last..
( on stock rom )
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i dont have problems on 4.0.4 with draining or heating...
maybe there is some app .... e-mail push 5 min......
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I feel like having the same autonomy like GB since I went on 404.

lol email push 5 min, dont think you know push technology...
Anyways, those six hours is not with screen on all the time.
Doing the steps I mentioned however will force a full clean install. Then test without restoring apps battery, you will be amazed. Then install in batches or one by bone to eliminate possible culprit that impacts battery life.
Perhaps even better to go to samsung/shop where you bought and ask them to fix it If it is battery they will catch it and replace Less risk for you
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safuan7822 said:
I thinks yeah.. Its been pushing all the time.. And i wonder what is 'alarm_rtc' its been processing all the time in background..
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Obtained this info from another thread:
about the alarm_rtc wakelock;
install terminal emulator from market and type these commands:
- su ( followed by ENTER )
- dumpsys alarm ( followed by ENTER )
it will dump some info on your screen
scroll upwards a bit and search for 'Alarm Stats'
here you can find the processes that keep your phone from deep sleep
Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558292

[Help] Battery is abnormal

Anyone can help me about this problem? I"m using CM10.1.2 stable and my problem is all about the life of the battery. I full charge my droid in 100% and use it normally then from 80%, it falls to 45% without using any superb app, just common like facebook, etc...then from 30% to 15% . If anyone there can help me, please guide me to solve this problem.
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skyss07 said:
Anyone can help me about this problem? I"m using CM10.1.2 stable and my problem is all about the life of the battery. I full charge my droid in 100% and use it normally then from 80%, it falls to 45% without using any superb app, just common like facebook, etc...then from 30% to 15% . If anyone there can help me, please guide me to solve this problem.
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Did it just start doing this? I actually noticed this happen from time to time on about every ROM I have tried, including CM10.2 which I am running now. But it's not all the time. Just a once or twice a month it seems. And it's usually happens when it hits about 40% or so, then drops like a rock to 15%. If it's happening a lot I would try booting back to stock or running a different ROM and see if it does it there as well. If so it could be an issue with the battery. You could also try installing BetterBatteryStats (it is free here on XDA) and see if that tells you anything.

thanks for the reply sir
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My fiancees phone is doing the same thing. Did you get a replacement? Did that fix your issues?

Not yet, I'm here in the philippines and can' t change the battery.
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Not yet, I'm here in the philippines and can' t change the battery.
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Thanks for the reply.
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Hi, I also get bad battery life when I'm on Cyanogenmod 10.1.3, but I got better battery life when I installed 10.2 although I also installed less apps. Have you checked BetterBatteryStats XDA edition yet? It tells you information about kernel wakelocks that could be draining your battery life and you may be able to use this info to fix problems in your phone to improve battery life. And of course when the battery meter reports 20-30% percent it will drop like a rock by 10% (I also experienced this in the Stock ROM from 4.0.4 and 4.1.2)