Hello,
i have a bad problem with my LG starting from day one when i bought it. I tried many things now, to no avail.
The problem is that sometimes my battery falls from high percent value to 0 just in one second. then the mobile goes out and i have to charge it, even it was nearly full some minutes ago.
Another problem is a warm mobile in standby mode when i have mobile inet active, and battery wont last longer than 4 hours. With WIFI it doesnt get warm but starts to decerase RAM until the mobile is unusable (timeouts, freezes, ect)
So there are 3 problems, i think related together somehow:
1. sudden Akku drainage, falling from high percent value to zero
2. fast akku drainage with mobile inet on, doesnt fall from #to zero, but get used up very fast
3. Unusable mobile due to RAM issues when WIFI activated.
Here are following some pics and a Log attached from Android Stats. Here you can see starting at 9.34 the bettery recalculations, in very short timeframes.
Can someone see any issues from the log what could be the problem?
The situation was like this: I recharged yesterday evening, and turned mobile inet on. Then i went to sleep. In the morning i saw that i had no connection to google servers (icons white instead on green) but i saw the battery was only drained 2% over night so i thought not bad.
I reactivated internet (mobile) in hope to get conn to google servers. Well, i got it but in same time the battery got drained from 98% to just 40% in one second. Since then the mobile stays warm. I have auto sync deactivated.
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I forgot:
Android 2.3.4 original, rooted but nothing changed on firmware/rom/baseband/anything
So i inserted screens now.
you have some kind of background application that doesnt let your phone enter deep sleep mode to lower cpu frequency and conserve battery (phone is awake when screen is not on, you can see the activity in the pictures). you should check what app is using most of the CPU time, it might not be code optimized and might be sucking too much of the battery.
also, it might help resetting the battery stats, search a bit and find some info on that (short version, charge it to 100%, let it for another hour plugged in, go in CM, delete battery stats, restart).
worst case scenario, your battery is busted and a replacement might be needed. hope that helps.
andrei.je said:
just a hint : most battery consumption can be checked in the battery stats, on the activity graph : awake vs screen on - if awake and screen on are not synced in the activity graph (should have same lines) then you have a problem. meaning when your phone has its screen off it should go into deep sleep mode (lower cpu frequency) but if you the phone is awake while screen is off, you have an application installed that won't let your phone sleep and just keeps using the cpu and sucking the battery.
this is mostly applied to standby battery life, if you are playing a game/watching a movie, doesn't really matter screen is on, cpu/gpu is sucking the battery.
my worst battery life while i had the O2X was about 16h, but that's with normal phone use (no games - you can have a psp for that, no music - you can have an ipod for that), mostly emails, browsing, IMs, calls/texts all day long also best battery life was 2d 10h (mostly on standby)
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Thanks for also answering my post on the other topic.
It may be that theres an app that keep our phone from sleep, but even with this app, when i dont turn on wifi or mobile internet, the mobile runs 6 days straight. This is no joke, offline it could hold 6 days, i have a screen of where it looses 8% in 28 hours. And as you can see on my screen, it happens from one second to the other.
I already changed the phone the third time now, even with very few installed apps, this remains. I had it first time on day one when bought th mobile. Since then in all 3 mobiles maybe 15 times.
Anyway, it bothered me, but not as much as that the phone went nearly unusable with internet active. Always at 50 mb ram. So it was basically an offline only phone. In my 2 tests, both 5 days without internet, the mobile neither went slow, nor went off, nor lost battry, nor anything. Very fast LG OS. Until internet...
Anyway, now i installed Chuck Norris CM /MIUI ROM, lets see what happens. Until now its so smooth and soft, it feels like a complete other mobile. Also with wifi active... but i cannot say anything until tomorrow.
I tested already a lot of System Analyzer apps but theres really not much to see. Nothing seem to use much battery in whole. At least nothing that explains a loss of 70% in 5 seconds.
I posted a log here, thats the best thing to see i guess, but i cannot really read it well :-(
Anyway, your help is appreciated
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Saenchai said:
Thanks for also answering my post on the other topic.
It may be that theres an app that keep our phone from sleep, but even with this app, when i dont turn on wifi or mobile internet, the mobile runs 6 days straight. This is no joke, offline it could hold 6 days, i have a screen of where it looses 8% in 28 hours. And as you can see on my screen, it happens from one second to the other.
I already changed the phone the third time now, even with very few installed apps, this remains. I had it first time on day one when bought th mobile. Since then in all 3 mobiles maybe 15 times.
Anyway, it bothered me, but not as much as that the phone went nearly unusable with internet active. Always at 50 mb ram. So it was basically an offline only phone. In my 2 tests, both 5 days without internet, the mobile neither went slow, nor went off, nor lost battry, nor anything. Very fast LG OS. Until internet...
Anyway, now i installed Chuck Norris CM /MIUI ROM, lets see what happens. Until now its so smooth and soft, it feels like a complete other mobile. Also with wifi active... but i cannot say anything until tomorrow.
I tested already a lot of System Analyzer apps but theres really not much to see. Nothing seem to use much battery in whole. At least nothing that explains a loss of 70% in 5 seconds.
I posted a log here, thats the best thing to see i guess, but i cannot really read it well :-(
Anyway, your help is appreciated
I think the problem is caused by the battery stat file. Avoiding the techinical causes you should only charge the phone untill 100% and using battery calibration (you can donwload it for free from market) calibrate the battery! Hope to be helpful ^_*
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My friend is having problems with her galaxy s battery going flat even when not in use in about 20h (without using it.)
Any ideas
I checked for running aps
What might i try
Or is the battery faulty?
Can you help
it is normal if you enable data
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yup it's normal
cheers for the replies.... but i don't understand them
what does she have to do?
I have the same phone, and make phone calls and surf the web and still have more battery in the evening.
her phone is just in her bag all day?
galaxy44 said:
I have the same phone, and make phone calls and surf the web and still have more battery in the evening.
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What apps does she have installed which you don't?
For example, if she uses the Facebook/Twitter apps and they're updating themselves every 10 mins as opposed to every hour (or even manually) then her battery will get eaten alive!
PrinterElf said:
What apps does she have installed which you don't?
For example, if she uses the Facebook/Twitter apps and they're updating themselves every 10 mins as opposed to every hour (or even manually) then her battery will get eaten alive!
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i think she has a facebook app i'll check whats different to my phone.
Also I installed a few battery type app to see if things are different on her phone.
Any other ideas suggestions welcome
Do check the running services!
Check what services are running!
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Check what services are running!
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how do i do that? in the task manager?
I also turned the sync to her facebook app to 'never' .
Turn GPS off when not needed and WiFi when not needed that usually helps. Also when wifi is on turn off notify me about new networks. Make sure screen brightness is set to automatic also.
if she has live wallpapers thats a bad ideea for a lasting battery, live wallpapers use cpu.. cpu user electricity, and the battery gets empty really fast. i`m runing ~ 40hours with nonstop wifi or data mode activated, depends on my locations, 1 push email runing 24/7 skype 24/7 and i talk for about 10-30 min per day... so... install cpu temp v2 and uncheck the screen timeout (set it to 10 minutes) and let the phone on the table and look at the cpu tempv2 if the cpu drops to 1-5 % @100mhz , if it doesn`t drop below 10 percent @100mhz then you have some nasty apps that are not idle.
if im in an area where i get 5 bars i can get more battery life while using my phone for a while, than I would if I am in an area where i get no connection or an area where my connection is constantly dropping. This is because the phone constantly tries to connect to the service provider and uses up tons of battery doing it.
galaxy44 said:
I also turned the sync to her facebook app to 'never' .
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Perhaps a bit early to tell, but has it made any difference?
galaxy44 said:
how do i do that? in the task manager?
I also turned the sync to her facebook app to 'never' .
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Go to Settings -> Applications -> Running Services and check what is shown.
(Switched my phone to English language to ensure the names above are correct). Do the same if your language is not English and you are still worried.
Cheers
Alex
galaxy44 said:
My friend is having problems with her galaxy s battery going flat even when not in use in about 20h (without using it.)
Any ideas
I checked for running aps
What might i try
Or is the battery faulty?
Can you help
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I have 2 days battery life with medium usage, download a stripped rom and keep it basic on the widget/wallpaper/amount of apps.
Download damiangto 1.2 gold underclock to 800 mhz (or keep it at 1000 mhz, but it doesnt change so much in speed for me)
undervolt by steps. as long as your phone doesnt die in sleepmode you can go lower. Im undervolting at -100 without any problems.
Download superpower or juicedefender. I have good experiences with both, using superpower at the moment and its free and good.
black backgrounds and themes are better for battery life because of the Super AMOLED screen.
You dont have to totally discharge your phone before charging it, charging whenever possible is actually better for long term battery life.
Hope this helps
Thanks for the replies everyone
I'l check all of the information out
I installed
Battery mix (has discharge graph)
Smart battery
Battery eta (has Discharge rate)
I swapped batteries with mine (hers still discharged too fast)
annoyingly it mucked up the battery discharge statistics because my battery was full when i put it in her phone.
She doesn't really muck about with her phone, very few apps or wallpaper etc.
I just go crazy with mine.
my battery discharge (with loads of use see CPU graph)
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her battery use (phone was in her bag not used all day at work)
she was in a different location to me. see no CPU activity either
I looked in running services
mapslocationfriendservice (latitude) was 26% mine was about 9
and android system was higher on her phone
I mucked about unnistalled and installing maps using market and titanium backup
also I installed OCLF on her phone (one click lag fix) because it is on my phone. also the battery apps were slowing it down.
In short
her battery is plummeting about 3 hour if its in use and 11 in standby
its not the battery
i think is something to do with the android system.
probably latitude
but i could be wrong
I'll have another crack at it later.
Worst case i could master reset and restore titanium backups of her texts and contacts and stuff. but I like to sort it out
Cheers for the advice, I'll check it all out.
I'll post back if there any change in the situation
quick update
Her phone appears to be running better
I think it was google maps latitude update.
I cant 100% be sure.
but the result of the stuff i tried on the above post seemed to have changed her phone from the poor performance it suddenly started getting.
I am thinking of trying out 'superpower' and or 'juicedefender' on mine and her phones in the future.
Thanks for the tips everyone
I'm seeing a lot of posts about poor battery life but am i the only one who's getting pretty damn good results?
I'm currently on 2days, 18hours, 31minutes and 41seconds on battery* and it's still on 31%. I reckon i can still probably get another 24 hours out of it.
Is anyone else getting similar results?
* Roughly: 5 phone calls, 20+ texts, 40+ minutes of youtube via HDMI out, 5 photo's (some with flash) and internet/market browsing here and there.
I'm running CM7 with vorkKernel (standard clock speed) with GPS turned off and WiFi on (when at home),
that kernal you are using. does it show accurate battery stats? I noticed cm7's battery is pretty erratic.
btw this is xthedarknight99 on twitter!
My battery life is great when I use JuiceDefender and when I don't use apps that use the mobile data connection the entire time.
My battery gets raped to hell and back when I have apps running that use mobile data, like MSN or IRC. I work 4-hour shifts and during a shift I usually leave MSN running using 2G data. In those 4 hours I lose around 40-50% of my battery, it's wicked.
One thing I've noticed is, when I enable Wi-fi and leave it enabled, battery drain overnight is around 8%. When I disable Wi-fi AND Mobile data and let JuiceDefender enable mobile data for a short time every 15 mins, my battery drain overnight is around 10%. If I leave mobile data enabled the entire time my battery loses 30% overnight.
Something is seriously wrong with the mobile data chip/driver.
hazard99 said:
that kernal you are using. does it show accurate battery stats? I noticed cm7's battery is pretty erratic.
btw this is xthedarknight99 on twitter!
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Not sure. The battery stats may be off slightly but it's been well over 2 days since i last charged my phone
here's the screenshot i took a few hours ago.
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Tr0gledyte said:
My battery life is great when I use JuiceDefender and when I don't use apps that use the mobile data connection the entire time.
My battery gets raped to hell and back when I have apps running that use mobile data, like MSN or IRC. I work 4-hour shifts and during a shift I usually leave MSN running using 2G data. In those 4 hours I lose around 40-50% of my battery, it's wicked.
One thing I've noticed is, when I enable Wi-fi and leave it enabled, battery drain overnight is around 8%. When I disable Wi-fi AND Mobile data and let JuiceDefender enable mobile data for a short time every 15 mins, my battery drain overnight is around 10%. If I leave mobile data enabled the entire time my battery loses 30% overnight.
Something is seriously wrong with the mobile data chip.
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Yeah, Wifi uses a lot less power than 3G when it's connected but uses a hell of a lot of power if it's constantly scanning and can't connect. I always turn mine on when i get home and turn it off when i leave the house
Noticed the same thing too. But less acutely, as I don't use any apps that use data constantly, except for an hourly email check.
Similarly, wifi at home seems to have slower drain than 3G mode when I am outdoors (wifi switched off when outdoors). I don't use 2G mode.
Generally, I stay above 50% battery level after a whole day's use - so I can't complain too much.
Finally plugged my phone in lol
Not got a screenshot of it but the stats are: 3days, 6hours, 17minutes and 49seconds on battery. Not bad!
Mine did something "bad" like this too. 3d 5h... never imagined, after the problems it makes day to day...
You lucky bugger! Ive actually had time to test it in the wild(slightly) today and well its not good at all!
5hours 20minutes or something around that, phone actually drained 99% lol! In that time i did:
almost 2 hours of browsing web, forums like hexus/xda so nothing to heavy... no constant loads/refreshes
Played 10-15minutes of xconstructor (im so easily pleased!)
Had 2 gmail accounts of auto sync, push basically
made around 27minutes worth of phone calls
5 texts
Not much really to drain 100% battery . Any ideas on how to improve battery life?
edit: this is on modaco fr18b2
@meltus.... do you mind me asking whether you're on stock rom or what apps etc you have changed to get that. I'm getting a healthy 24 hours for the battery normally but wouldnt mind extending that!!
Did you try to recalibrate the bettery with batterycalibration app? For me it basically doubled the battery life!
i recalibrated the battery before installing a new rom (it was 100% battery) however ill try again .
Meltus do you have sync on?
Also do you use whatsapp?
Those are the #1 battery killers on my phone.
Specially whatsapp.
I can't understand how your battery can last so long, while mine last less than a day ...!!!
Meltus said:
I'm seeing a lot of posts about poor battery life but am i the only one who's getting pretty damn good results?
I'm currently on 2days, 18hours, 31minutes and 41seconds on battery* and it's still on 31%. I reckon i can still probably get another 24 hours out of it.
Is anyone else getting similar results?
* Roughly: 5 phone calls, 20+ texts, 40+ minutes of youtube via HDMI out, 5 photo's (some with flash) and internet/market browsing here and there.
I'm running CM7 with vorkKernel (standard clock speed) with GPS turned off and WiFi on (when at home),
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That is impressive
May I know which nightly build are you on?
I've always been tempted to install them but i was too afraid of stability issues
that is indeed impressive. my battery gets merked by approximately 33% after 40 minutes of youtube lol
I have almost the same battery life on the latest CM kang, but with 2G only... With 3G I get little more than one day...
I think he's pulling our leg with that screenshot
No details of rom, baseband or ril combo etc.
-smc
hicks12 said:
You lucky bugger! Ive actually had time to test it in the wild(slightly) today and well its not good at all!
5hours 20minutes or something around that, phone actually drained 99% lol! In that time i did:
almost 2 hours of browsing web, forums like hexus/xda so nothing to heavy... no constant loads/refreshes
Played 10-15minutes of xconstructor (im so easily pleased!)
Had 2 gmail accounts of auto sync, push basically
made around 27minutes worth of phone calls
5 texts
Not much really to drain 100% battery . Any ideas on how to improve battery life?
edit: this is on modaco fr18b2
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I lost 3 or 4% in one hour on standby with Modaco fr18b2. Now on CM7 kang I have still 100% after 8 hours on standby. Data-2G and Wi-Fi are turned on all the time.
Well settings are the same as with Modaco ROM.
I want to flash CM so bad but am waiting to see what the official gingerbread does.. I know that once I go to CM I won't go back lol my battery is horrible right now
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My fascinate lasted longer. This has been on standby more than used. Im even running autokiller and advanced taskiller
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Hmm
Bionic has
bigger screen, thus need more power
dual core process, thus need more power
LTE 4G, thus need more power
Hard to compare it against fascinate. Why my Lexus GS drain more gas than my Camry XLE V6. they are both V6..heheeh
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Im even running autokiller and advanced taskiller
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Try not doing that.
Looks like you have no 4G where you are... make sure you are set to CDMA only in the network settings.
My battery seems to suck a little bit, too. On the drive in to work this morning, a 1 hour commute, my bionic sat on the seat next to me without being used. It still managed to chomp through 20% of the battery. So, basically at that rate, I'll get 5 hours of standby. Wonder if something is wrong?
Bluetooth (which seems to be a battery hog) was off, wifi was off... not sure what to do other than swap the battery with a replacement.
install system panel, turn on monitoring for everything, use that to determine how much cpu useage apps are using.
if you have an app(s) that are using near 100% cpu useage 24x7 that would happen
I have had the phone since 9am yesterday and have not been impressed with the battery so far. Today was the first full charge and I am at 60% after 2.5hrs. Most of my power consumption has been "Cell Standby" and not the screen which I would normally see.
Pitnefor said:
install system panel, turn on monitoring for everything, use that to determine how much cpu useage apps are using.
if you have an app(s) that are using near 100% cpu useage 24x7 that would happen
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Thanks! Will give it a try and report back. I hope I can get this resolved.
UPDATE: Installed System Panel and ran it for a couple days. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. I let the phone discharge completely and then charged it completely before turning it back on. I got about 26 hours of moderate use before it needed to be charged again. Slightly heavier use got me to about 15 hours. There doesn't appear to be anything wrong, and the battery is light-years better than that of my old Eris. So I'm happy!
I'm actually getting pretty good battery life.. I use wifi when im home and at the office. With moderate to heavy use I didn't need to charge my phone until at least 18 hours. I know most say its not necessary, but I have a habit of fully charging my phone prior to first use and allowing it to drain completely before recharging.. perhaps that helped..
My battery has been doing great so far. Been using it a lot today and I'm at 45 percent after 8 hours of use. In me experience, it takes a few full charges before a battery gets fully calibrated. I've read that elsewhere as well. I've been very satisfied so far with battery life. I keep it on wifi at home and work so that probably helps alot.
I would say do a few discharge/full charge cycles on the phone first. Give it a few days to calibrate properly.
Also custom ROM's should help to remove undoubtable bloat that this phone comes with.
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Looks like you have no 4G where you are... make sure you are set to CDMA only in the network settings.
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No 4G here either, didn't think to change that. Thanks! One additional question about the battery. I have a battery widget that displays the % remaining. I noticed that it drops in 10% increments instead of 1% like it used to on my Eris. I also checked About Phone > Status > Battery level and it seemed to decrease in 10% increments there as well. Is this normal with the Bionic? Or is something wrong with mine?
Has anyone else noticed this?
mine seems to be dropping by 10% as well, but my usage has been fairly good. Much better yesterday than today. Should know better if a day or two.
Task killers are bad since Froyo (2.2). Android actively manages applications and shuts them down when space is needed. Your task killed just winds up arm-wrestling with the OS, making both work overtime and not accomplishing a thing. Let the OS do what it's designed to do.
For those of you just starting with 4G, if you live in a non-4G area or are on the border where 4G and 3G constantly swap out, this will play hell on your battery, so turn 4G off unless you're in a place to take advantage of it.
Pentile screens are power sippers, so don't be surprised if your screen % is lower than normal.
I may be wrong, but I don't believe dual-core processors consume too much more power than single cores under normal circumstances.
Turn off bluetooth, satellite and wifi when not in use, and especially when unavailable. Leaving wifi up when you're away from home can chew up a lot of power as the phone is constantly seeking a signal.
Putting the screen on auto brightness may save some power. Also setting the screen time-out to a reasonable time will help.
Make sure you don't have a dozen accounts like Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo and Twitter checking for updates constantly.
You don't have to train lithium ion batteries like we used to with nickle-cadium back in the day, but your battery has some simple logic in it that takes care of housekeeping. When you first get it, and about once a month after, you should drain your phone's battery completely and then charge it back up. This helps the battery, and therefore the phone, understand how much power is left with greater accuracy. If you'd like to research this subject, I suggest Battery University and Apple.
I am having horrible battery issues now, my battery is not lasting 6 hours with very light usage.
right now my usages shows
Battery 15%
4h 56m 21s on battery
media 46%
cell standby 24%
phone idle 21%
voice calls 5%
display 4%
social location2%
this is the first time i have seen media at the top of the list, usually it is cell standby that has been using the most
this has been going on since saturday, i have two batteries and it does this on both, i figure it must be an app i loaded. i dont think i have loaded anything that i didnt use on my OGDroid but one of them must be disagreeing with the Bionic. i am planning and doing a factory reset tonight (as much as i hate doing it)
any other ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
effinay said:
My battery seems to suck a little bit, too. On the drive in to work this morning, a 1 hour commute, my bionic sat on the seat next to me without being used. It still managed to chomp through 20% of the battery. So, basically at that rate, I'll get 5 hours of standby. Wonder if something is wrong?
Bluetooth (which seems to be a battery hog) was off, wifi was off... not sure what to do other than swap the battery with a replacement.
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This is a 4G pitfall. You're probably going in and out of 4G/3G coverage... it may seem like a lot, but when your phone is constantly looking for 4G the battery goes QUICK. Your best bet? Turn on 3G only (cdma only) when you drive. There are widgets in the market that will take you directly to the setting.
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Right now im at 1 day 3 hours 46 minutes with 30% left. That's with an extended battery and mild use. Just testing, browsing xda app, and reading news in pulse. Few emails and some web browsing.
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Not sure what my battery life was before i rooted and debloated since i ran stock for about 15 mins, but with very heavy use i get about 7 hrs, with normal use i get about 16 hrs
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Battery life is incredible on this phone.
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so I did a hard reset and sent my phone back to factory default :-( and let it sit for a few hours with nothing on it except for juice plotter so i could monitor it and it was still pretty crappy I then removed everything i had copied from both SD cards (ie. photos, music and movies from my OGDroid) and let it sit for a few more hours and the batterylife improved dramatically, I am guessing there is an indexing service or a DRM service of some sort that is part of MOTOBLUR and it must have been continually hitting my cards.
today the battery life is back to normal. i have installed just a few things like friendcaster adwlauncher and a few others that i normally have and have used the phone moderately for the last 3 hours and it appears i might get another 10 - 12 hours outta of it..
does anyone know why i had issues when i put the media from my old phone onto my new one, do photos and videos have to be in a specific directory or on one of the two cards specifically??
any help would be appreciated.
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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Sorry if this is a stupid question. But i read somewhere that forgetting (deleting) wifi networks would help battery. For me, this actually worked. Im not a power user so my phone will be idle for hours at a time. Coming from an iphone (i know its not a fair comparison cuz iphone is more lightweight), i would lose ~5% during 9.5 hours of work if i never took it out of my pocket. On the gnote3, i sometimes get 15%-20% drain even with a screen time of ~30min. But after forgetting the wifi networks, drain is reduced to 5%-10% within that 10 hours im working. So can anyone explain why after a few weeks, my battery will start to drain quicker again until i forget my 2 wifi networks (work and home)? As a disclaimer, that 5% on the iphone is when i literally didn't take the phone out of my pocket at all. I am playing with my gnote3 more than the iphone (the newness still hasn't worn off for me yet), but i wanted to throw the iphone stats in as a reference.
JTY87 said:
Sorry if this is a stupid question. But i read somewhere that forgetting (deleting) wifi networks would help battery. For me, this actually worked. Im not a power user so my phone will be idle for hours at a time. Coming from an iphone (i know its not a fair comparison cuz iphone is more lightweight), i would lose ~5% during 9.5 hours of work if i never took it out of my pocket. On the gnote3, i sometimes get 15%-20% drain even with a screen time of ~30min. But after forgetting the wifi networks, drain is reduced to 5%-10% within that 10 hours im working. So can anyone explain why after a few weeks, my battery will start to drain quicker again until i forget my 2 wifi networks (work and home)? As a disclaimer, that 5% on the iphone is when i literally didn't take the phone out of my pocket at all. I am playing with my gnote3 more than the iphone (the newness still hasn't worn off for me yet), but i wanted to throw the iphone stats in as a reference.
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Well I'm not certain if it actually works this way or not. But here's a theory..... If you have a bunch of stored wifi access points and aren't connected to any, the phone might be looking for those connections? But isn't it looking for wifi anyway? Maybe if you don't have stored access points it doesn't look so often? That's my theory on this situation that I've never heard before but anything is possible because it's the internet!!! The easier fix to this without deleting your wifi access points is to disable wifi all together. You can even add a shortcut to your homescreen!
If you really want to get to the bottom of this and find out what was happening I would install Wakelock Detector. Even when you're not using your phone because it's locked in your pocket, rogue apps or processes can wake your cpu. This app will tell you what's waking your device and draining the battery. If your device is rooted I HIGHly recommend getting Greenify. You can choose to hibernate apps directly from the wakelock detector app. Now how cool is that!!
I like what ^he said. Only if your WiFi is constantly on but not connected it will constantly be scanning which will impact battery. If its connected but a weak signal this will also impact battery life poorly, same as constantly connecting and disconnecting. I leave all my WiFi on all the time at home and over 10 hours of non use only drop 2% or less. However in your WiFi setting there is a setting that has an option to disable WiFi when asleep. If your always pulling your phone out to play with it and have this option enabled then every time you turn your phone on it will scan for a network. And turn back off when you turn the screen off. I am not a fan of this option and for better battery life leave your WiFi on all the time UNLESS you don't have a network to connect to. If you're connected leave it on, if not turn it off. I recommend to set it up like this.
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RErick said:
I like what ^he said. Only if your WiFi is constantly on but not connected it will constantly be scanning which will impact battery. If its connected but a weak signal this will also impact battery life poorly, same as constantly connecting and disconnecting. I leave all my WiFi on all the time at home and over 10 hours of non use only drop 2% or less. However in your WiFi setting there is a setting that has an option to disable WiFi when asleep. If your always pulling your phone out to play with it and have this option enabled then every time you turn your phone on it will scan for a network. And turn back off when you turn the screen off. I am not a fan of this option and for better battery life leave your WiFi on all the time UNLESS you don't have a network to connect to. If you're connected leave it on, if not turn it off. I recommend to set it up like this.
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I've got the same setup as you! It seems to work for me as you can tell by my battery stats.
What I usually do is I just take a few seconds to disable everything other than mobile data when I'm out and about. If I need to check emails I do so with a manual sync, unless it's during work or on-call hours (Gotta keep them servers running 24/7!) in which case I leave on autosync.
I try to never leave location on unless I need to use Maps, and because of that I keep all the stuff that's supposed to use WiFi even when WiFi is off disabled as well. I'm sure there's fifty ways I could automate all of this into profiles but I like the manual control over my battery consumption.
I haven't run numbers but I've kept the phone uncharged for almost two days with no problems. I was even able to make it back to home on the last 5% with three or four subway stops and plug her in before she died. And that's with the default battery.
I think it's more about overall mindfulness of what processes are running versus an insane level of finetuning for the process. If you make sure A) that WiFi is disabled, and that B) WiFi is *REALLY* disabled, meaning no scanning for networks or being used for location services, then even if you have fifty networks saved it won't scan for any of them.