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Battery Drain

My battery time has gone down 50% ever since a few days ago. I did not flash a new ROM, kernel, or modem, or anything via CWM. So I'm guessing its an new or updated application that is causing it.
Anyway to know how much each application is using the battery? Partial wakeup from Spare Parts shows Android system as the most.

AmandeepG said:
My battery time has gone down 50% ever since a few days ago. I did not flash a new ROM, kernel, or modem, or anything via CWM. So I'm guessing its an new or updated application that is causing it.
Anyway to know how much each application is using the battery? Partial wakeup from Spare Parts shows Android system as the most.
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try os monitor to see if u have any rogue app
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try os monitor to see if u have any rogue app
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Tried that, nothing goes above 5% consistently. Android system is almost always the highest at around 5% though.

AmandeepG said:
Tried that, nothing goes above 5% consistently. Android system is almost always the highest at around 5% though.
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Ok well my suggestion would be to reset your battery stats and do a few full cycles (100% to 0, charge to 100%.. rince and repeat) - It took me 3-4 full cycles before getting great battery life, some people took up to 7-8 full cycles so I guess patience and time will tell

[Q] Batterylife issue, can't find any threads that help

There's not a single thread out there that has helped me with my damn battery life that I've been able to find. I'm sick of hearing, "did you search first?" Yes, I searched first. I didn't find anything that helped, that's why I made a new thread.
Anyways, I've tried apps, widgets, calibrating, deleting batterystats.bin, flashing different roms, kernels, modems, and even a new battery. Not a single thing has made my phone last through the day, and it's getting to the point where I'm about to flash back to stock, and forget about it. I need to be able to use it when I need it, not put it back in my pocket because I'm afraid of draining the battery. Honestly I'm not sure if the battery issue is rom related, so If that doesn't work, I may just get a different phone. I need to not have to charge my phone every 6 hours. Does anyone have any idea how to improve battery life on this freakin' thing? 6-7 hours on light usage is not enough. To put it in to perspective, I get 10-15% battery drain in STANDBY per hour. Serendipity 6.4 was a little better than 7, but not much. still within that 6-7 hour range. Is there anything else I can try? Anything at all? I went from 7 back to 6.4 because I thought Android System was draining my battery, but it didn't really do anything. I'm open to everything at this point. Voodoo, cult magic, anything.
Edit: reading through my message, I wanted to clarify that I am very grateful for your help, I hope I didn't imply otherwise.
Serendipity 6.4
Baseband version I9000UGJK4
Kernel Version 2.6.32.9
[email protected]#32 Tue Apr 12 11:43:22 SGT 2011
Need more info? I'd be happy to oblige. Thank you for your help. I know it gets annoying reading posts about this stuff but I really couldn't find anything helpful.

are you using exchange push?

Pirateghost said:
are you using exchange push?
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Disclaimer: I'm a noob.
I don't know what that is heh

Have you tried Juicedefender? It's helped me immensely. Other than that, I could suggest getting an extended battery, if you're willing to cope with a lumpy cappy. I'm too noob to know how to fix this problem other than by using the brute force route, but it's worth a shot.

iamtheculprit2 said:
Disclaimer: I'm a noob.
I don't know what that is heh
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sounds like you have an app that is chewing through your battery.

Pirateghost said:
sounds like you have an app that is chewing through your battery.
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Yeah, with gingerbread roms I've heard it's fairly common for you to have high usage from android system. Check that?

Pirateghost said:
sounds like you have an app that is chewing through your battery.
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Well, battery usage shows just about nothing... I was using 6.4 but after it did nothing for my battery life, I went back to 7. Now the android system thing is back but I'm getting the same battery life.
Here's what it shows under battery usage for today:
Display 29%
Android System 25%
Android OS 10%
Google Services 7%
Cell Standby 6%
Fancy Widget 4%
Handcent SMS 3%
Battery Graph 2%
Phone Idle 2%
JuiceDefender 2%
Dialer 1%
and that's it.

if you start seeing android system and android os that high, shut down, yank battery and let it sit for a few minutes. then replace and start up. should help with that and improve battery life.

studacris said:
if you start seeing android system and android os that high, shut down, yank battery and let it sit for a few minutes. then replace and start up. should help with that and improve battery life.
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The problem is, I'd be doing that every 15 minutes. It boots up already taking up more than 10%. I just did exactly what you said, and it booted at 23% for system and 3% for os.

Get,cpuspy and check if it is going into deep sleep
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keitaroguy said:
Get,cpuspy and check if it is going into deep sleep
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wilco, will post results soon

keitaroguy said:
Get,cpuspy and check if it is going into deep sleep
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It's reporting roughly 38% deep sleep. 21% in 1000mhz, 3% for 800, 2% for 400, 2% for 200, and 32% for 100.

those seem pretty normal. let me try to pick my brain some more and see what i can think up ill get back to you

keitaroguy said:
those seem pretty normal. let me try to pick my brain some more and see what i can think up ill get back to you
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flashed cyanogenmod 7, and turned off mobile data and wifi and just left it on idle for like 2 hours after resetting the batterystats.bin and rebooting... i uninstalled juicedefender because it was actually USING batter... *shrug* and left it that way... well, I opened battery left and looked at it and saw that it would die at like 5am... well, i was disappointed... until I noticed it was 5am, 26 hours from now. That's notibly longer than any battery left stat I've seen since I started noting battery issues... So... Yeah. I think I'll stick with CM7 for a while hehe. After I get an idle benchmark, I'll start using it more. Thank you for your help.

do you live in a poor 3g area?
the problem could be that the phone is constantly looking for a good connection and cant find one, causing massive battery drain

Pirateghost said:
do you live in a poor 3g area?
the problem could be that the phone is constantly looking for a good connection and cant find one, causing massive battery drain
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I was just going to say the same thing. If your phone is constantly trying to establish a connection, is alway searching, it's using up lots of juice. Same if you've got gps enable or wifi on. If it's looking, it's active and battery's being used.

Another thing you can try which helped me is to call art and get another free battery if your phone is still under warranty. The new battery I have seems to last almost twice as long as my old one. Of course make sure that the android os isn't eating the battery and mine last a while. Just a suggestion.
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Safestrap issue: Weird battery charge level

So my phone died earlier and I charged it up to 100%. Note that I was also running ICS4Bionic (latest build). So I switched back to stock by toggling Safe Mode and it tells me that my battery charge is at 40%.. (???)
I rebooted just to make sure and the battery level IS ACTUALLY AT 40%. Weirdest thing I've ever seen. Do I need to do something with battery stats or what? It doesn't even make sense.

Wipe battery stats
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I get excessive battery drain when I go back to nonsafe mode. Any suggestions?
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Thanks, it worked.
Would an app like Battery Calibration work as well? Just wanted to know for future reference.

smokedkill said:
I get excessive battery drain when I go back to nonsafe mode. Any suggestions?
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I essentially had the same problem. 100% to 40% when switching back to nonsafe.
It's probably not actually draining. Maybe you just need to reset the battery stats like it was suggested. It did work for me.

Yup same thing as fare as I know
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Already did the first time.
Thanks a bunch.

Adizero1 said:
I essentially had the same problem. 100% to 40% when switching back to nonsafe.
It's probably not actually draining. Maybe you just need to reset the battery stats like it was suggested. It did work for me.
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Mine is a different problem. I know what your talking about because that happened to me also. I'm talking about my battery level draining really fast while in using it. I've reset the battery stats already and recollaberated it. My cell standby is really draining the battery very fast.
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Get a free battery calibrate app from market. Wiping battery stats do no really do anything reported by Google.

Galaxy S i9000 some unique battery problems

Hi guys i have a galaxy s phone and it's working really great, but now a days it shows me some weird battery problems...
ProblemNo:1.Some times my battery shows like 45% or like that and it goes up to 46 or 47% after a few minutes during discharge
2.Some times when i have about 55% then if i remove my battery and put it back and when i reboot it shows only 5%, this problem is very rare but it's occurred more than 2 times
3. when i am charging my phone it's reach up to 99% then it drop down to 98% then 99,100
These are my problems,i am using MIUI 2.4.20 ROM
what causing these problems is it my battery faulty or do i have a hardware problem
or is it the ROM
please any one help me.....

Have you tried wiping the battery stats in cwm?
Or, trying a battery calibration app from the play store? For example, Battery Calibration.

Problem number 1 occurred to me a few times it isn't a serious issue.
Problem 3 you need to wipe battery stats and calibrate your battery (play store has apps for that)
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My guess is that using multiple batteries is playing havoc with your battery stats, but what the solution is I have no idea to be honest

nyloncrack said:
Have you tried wiping the battery stats in cwm?
Or, trying a battery calibration app from the play store? For example, Battery Calibration.
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Yes i use battery calibration and every known app to wipe my battery stats file also i even wipe it from cwm but no luck
the problem still exist

slaphead20 said:
My guess is that using multiple batteries is playing havoc with your battery stats, but what the solution is I have no idea to be honest
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i am using only one battery not multiple batteries

i don't think that battery stats file has anything to do with this problem, it's something else...
my worst fear is that is it my phone's any hardware part is faulty.....!!
Or guys is this problem occur if my battery is faulty....?
help me to sort out the problem............

I have this issue also.. I checked and my battery is on good health, really annoying but nothing I can't live with
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I fond that if its at say 50% and I reboot and it drops to say 5% it takes ages to discharge that 5% so I guess it has the same charge just reading it wrong, if I leave it for a while without using it it will go back up
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I was thinking of a back up phone. I guess this is off the list.

i have 5 batteries haha i dont need to worry about my battery i dont care

Battery life

Hi
I've been lurking these forums looking for this but haven't found anything quite like this. The P880 prides itself on great standby battery life but mine is draining more than my previous Motorola RAZR (not the maxx). It never lasts more than about 14-15 hours and that is when i do almost nothing. One, two calls a few messages with no wifi and data off. I have factory reset the phone a few times and whiped the cache. I've tried not installing any software when done and fully charging but still it drains. I'm on v10f but this was a problem before I updated as well.
My only thought is that the battery is flawed, but I don't want to wait 2 weeks for it in repairs if it isn't (the service here is slow and customer support is weak when it comes to this, here in Iceland)
I took screenshots of the drainage. 90% of that is me not using the phone at all. Is this normal? Should I ask for a new battery? The phone is about 3 weeks old btw.
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Bux87 said:
Hi
I've benn lurking these forums looking for this but haven't found anything quite like this. The P880 prides itself on great standby battery life but mine is draining more than my previous Motorola RAZR (not the maxx). It never lasts more than about 14-15 hours and that is when i do almost nothing. One, two calls a few messages with no wifi and data off. I have factory reset the phone a few times and whiped the cache. I've tried not installinh any software when done and fully charging but still it drains. I'm on v10f but this was a problem before I updated as well.
My only thought is that the battery is flawed, but I don't want to wait 2 weeks for it in repairs if it isn't (the service here is slow and customer support is weak when it comes to this, here in Iceland)
I screenshots of the drainage. 90% of that is me not using the phone at all. Is this normal? Should I ask for a new battery? The phone is about 3 weeks old btw.
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What version are you on? 10f has seen lot of improvement in battery life. I dont have to use SetCPU anymore to get better battery and let it run on max 1.5ghz and still seeing very good battery life, despite heavy use.

Yeah I'm on 10f as well. I was wondering if maybe flashing the phone and try to reset it totally would help but I don't know if that'd be any different than just factory resetting?
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What's your screen on time?
Made possible by my sexy LG Optimus 4X HD (P880)

Look at background tasks like photo album sync.
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This was taken at the same time as in the orriginal post. I only talked for a few minutes though. I have sync disabled all the time as well.
I have seen other imgs of the battery graph and when it's on standby the line hardly tilts downwards. This can't be normal right?
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Here it is, image didn't upload for some reason.
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Try freezing cell broadcast, and disabling gallery update over 3g. Hope that helps.
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ksekhar said:
Try freezing cell broadcast, and disabling gallery update over 3g. Hope that helps.
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I'm going to charge him to 100% and leave him with nothing on all night and see how he handles it. What would normally happen? How much percent-drop would the battery have on an 7-8hour timespan?

Went to sleep with the phone at 94% and woke up with 69%. Everything was off. Sync, mobile data, wifi, backround data, location, gps, nfc, I even set it to 2g networks only. Now it says that the "phone" took 69% of that? I'm flabbergasted.
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Bux87 said:
Went to sleep with the phone at 94% and woke up with 69%. Everything was off. Sync, mobile data, wifi, backround data, location, gps, nfc, I even set it to 2g networks only. Now it says that the "phone" took 69% of that? I'm flabbergasted.
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Same here man but didn't diseabled auto sync and broadcoast cell yet so I'm curious if I go sleep and wake up how much juice it took from my 4xHD. Something is sucking out the juice out of our phones.
The only thing that update did change with me is the heath it didn't get as hot as before but my battery is still eating a lot even when is standby.

Hey, I don't no if your phone is rooted or not?
Try deleting superuser, it helped my battery life. And also you should charge your phone more than 100% , that helped too for me.

Beready said:
Same here man but didn't diseabled auto sync and broadcoast cell yet so I'm curious if I go sleep and wake up how much juice it took from my 4xHD. Something is sucking out the juice out of our phones.
The only thing that update did change with me is the heath it didn't get as hot as before but my battery is still eating a lot even when is standby.
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Try to do a factory reset, the update didn't help me until I did a factory reset. Now my 4X HD only looses about 1-2% over night vid auto sync, before factory reset I lost about 30-40%.
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I use GO Power Master to auto switch to Alarm mode (only alarm, brightness 30%), and the phone eat less than 1% of battery for 6 hours. (firmware V10f)
I cannot see the attached images (don't know why) but I think you should check how long your phone is Awake, Screen On, Wifi and GPS On... then see which apps are cause the drainage.

Also, give the battery more recharge cycles. The battery life on first 2 cycles was catastrophic - for example it lost 4% just by rebooting, but after few days it stabilized to my ordinary each 2nd day charging cycle when turned off in the night. The biggest battery eater seems to be for me display brightness.

Batterylife with 10F is pretty good. Over night I dont lose any battery (data off) and during the day with autosync on only ~2 percent per hour. This is even better than the Samsung Galaxy S2 which I previously used. I did set CPU max speed to 1,1GHz with SetCPU.

muzamal said:
Hey, I don't no if your phone is rooted or not?
Try deleting superuser, it helped my battery life. And also you should charge your phone more than 100% , that helped too for me.
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Oh my! I think that worked! So the root was causing the drainage? I'd really like to have him rooted though. Is there any other way to avoid this?
I'm testing this out right now though. I will know if this was the problem in a few hours!

Bux87 said:
Oh my! I think that worked! So the root was causing the drainage? I'd really like to have him rooted though. Is there any other way to avoid this?
I'm testing this out right now though. I will know if this was the problem in a few hours!
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You make full unroot or only disabled superuser?

Hey,
I just traded an Optimus 4X HD. I should get it within the next few days.
I'm wondering how battery life is now that LG has released a few update?
Thanks
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Bux87 said:
Oh my! I think that worked! So the root was causing the drainage? I'd really like to have him rooted though. Is there any other way to avoid this?
I'm testing this out right now though. I will know if this was the problem in a few hours!
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Try installing SuperSU rather than superuser from the market.
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