I know that this is a common issue with all ICS ROMs, but I still think it is not getting the attention it deserves....
One of the main reasons I'm still using my Captivate is the fantastic sound provided by the onboard Wolfson DAC, and I listen to music a lot (all from my own library, no Pandora or Spotify). On all of my Froyo and GB ROMs, the battery logs attributed some drain to the 'Mediaserver' service, but it never got over 10%. Since I moved to ICS, and now JB, Mediaserver has been my largest battery consumer, by far. It nearly always exceeds Screen. I have often seen it in excess of 50%, and it will drain my battery in less than 6 hours if used constantly.
Does anyone know of a developer effort to fix this issue? If not, how do we go about bringing some attention to this problem?
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I have been trying to fix my friends captivate for a while with no success. I am quite familiar with the phone as I have been installing roms for quite a while.
Cell standby seems to be a major battery drainer, and even with the sim removed, it still drains about 30 percent in 4 hours after a fresh rom install with no new apps.
I have tried: Illuminance, Miui, CM7, Apex and all saw cell standby draining. It did not act like this in the past.
I have tried multiple kernels (TalonDEV, Corn, glitch, platypus, etc.) and multiple modems (KG3, KI4, and more I dont remember and even one from the Nexus S). I have also installed multiple Gingerbread bootloaders to see if that worked but nope.
All resulting with a drain from Cell Standby.
To note, the battery is probably wearing down after such a long use but cell standby shouldnt be draining on it that much should it?
I have also tested that cell standby does indeed drain after inserting someone elses battery into it.
From doing absolutely nothing on the phone, battery life drains completely in around 13-16 hours.
another note: I have the Rogers Captivate.
so... help?!?!
no one have any ideas?
Hello,
I have an Ativ S and about a week ago the battery started to drain very quickly - about 15 to 20 per cent an hour.
I do not have wifi, bluetooth or gps on and usually the battery lasted 2 -3 days but now I need to recharge twice a day.
I thought that this was maybe caused by a program so I reset my phone and reinstalled only a few programs, but that did not work.
1) Is there any way that I can see if an app is draining my battery quickly?
2) Could this be a hardware problem? If so, how can i tell if it is the battery or the phone? I think that my warranty has expired, so returning it is not an option.
PS It is on GDR2, no interop unlock or any other tweak whatsoever.
Thanks
I'm not going to say it's flat-out impossible for an app to drain your battery that fast in the background, but it's not far off. If you want to be really sure, though, enable Battery Saver mode immediately after unplugging the phone (at full charge) and don't use it. Battery Saver prevents all background app activity, so there won't be any apps running and therefore they *cannot* be affecting the battery.
I'm pretty sure that, given the rate of drain and the fact that it persisted through a hard reset, you have a hardware problem. The good news is that it might just be a bad battery - that is a thing which happens, and it's even fairly common on batteries a couple years old - in which case it's a good thing you have a phone with a user-replaceable battery! The way I'd test that is to swap your battery into somebody else's ATIV S and see if the problem persists. If so, it's the battery; if not, it's your phone. Alternatively, you could just buy a second battery and see if that helps.
One other thing to check: if the battery really is still working and the phone is draining it that fast, it'll be dissipating a lot of energy as heat. Does the phone stay abnormally warm while the battery drains like that? That would be a sign of a problem with the phone or the OS, as opposed to the battery itself.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure there are some battery diagnostics and charging statistics located in the Diagnosis app (##634# in the dialer). I forget the code for them but I have all of the codes written somewhere; alternatively, you could do some searching. You could compare the reported battery capacity there with the expected (design) capacity.
I reset my phone again, installed only Viber and till so far, the battery drain seems to have disappeared (or at least improved).
Some users on wpcentral reported that they had major issues with battery drain caused by Whatsapp.
I used Whatsapp for quite some time but never had any problems( till now).
Maybe the last update caused this, i dunno...
Anyway, thanks for your answer.
I will see how it goes and I will let you know.
Just curious on people's battery life experiences so far. This seems to be the main negative I hear about this device from reviews. I am most likely going to get the device nonetheless.
I don't feel like the battery life is that bad on this device.
I can get through a hole day very easily. I play some games (but not that much), I listen to a lot of music and I use Chrome very often.
Still I have about 40% at the end of the day.
For a device with a 1440*2560 5.7 inch screen and a Snapdragon 810 I reckon that it is pretty good.
I can only tell you to get this device it is awesome
Battery life for me is pretty terrible. The battery drain is significant even when the phone is in idle. I usually have access to a charger throughout the course of a day and I feel the need to keep it connected as often as possible. I still love the phone, but the battery life is the worst I have experienced with any phone I have had in the last couple of years, and I have used many. I leave it on balanced mode for the majority of the day and only switch to performance mode when I am going to play a graphic intensive game.
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Battery life for me is pretty terrible. The battery drain is significant even when the phone is in idle. I usually have access to a charger throughout the course of a day and I feel the need to keep it connected as often as possible. I still love the phone, but the battery life is the worst I have experienced with any phone I have had in the last couple of years, and I have used many. I leave it on balanced mode for the majority of the day and only switch to performance mode when I am going to play a graphic intensive game.
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Yikes. Have you tried any software like Greenify to help alleviate the problem or it still persists ?
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Yikes. Have you tried any software like Greenify to help alleviate the problem or it still persists ?
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No, I haven't tried any apps or other battery profiles. Like I said, I keep it plugged in a lot during the day, so I have never felt the need to see how far I could stretch a single charge. This is also the way I have kept all of my previous phones and the Xiaomi drains the battery the fastest in comparison.
Mine lasts me about 12hours. I listen to music most of the day and I'm a heavy user.
Got the phone 2 days ago. got around 4 hours 15 minutes SOT from 7am till 9pm on the international rom. Better than i was expecting. Hopefully I can improve it further.
I have to admit that over time the battery got worse. That would be because I have more apps etc..
What is your SOT time usually?
I noticed today my battery SOT and idle drain has been really bad. The only thing I think I did diffrently was that I logged onto my miui account last night so i could download themes. I have no use for the miui account other htan the themes so I will try logging out and seeing how things are after it....
2-9% per hour is not bad i guess...
If i use it a lot, then only it will go as far as 11% per hour and mostly because the big QHD screen,
When it sleep, it almost didnt drain...
Of course you have to kill/disable all those stupid google play services... Named it Event Log and Checkin handoff etc etc
otonieru said:
2-9% per hour is not bad i guess...
If i use it a lot, then only it will go as far as 11% per hour and mostly because the big QHD screen,
When it sleep, it almost didnt drain...
Of course you have to kill/disable all those stupid google play services... Named it Event Log and Checkin handoff etc etc
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Are you still using the Mi note pro?
Hi. I just got my P9 Plus last week. Seems to me people are having insane experiences with their batteries like almost 2 days of usage with quite a fair amount of SOT. However, I'm unable to even get past 1 day without charging my phone in the middle of the day some times. Even if i just use instagram, whatsapp and facebook or surf the net, it drops 10% in less than 45 minutes not sure if that's normal? I checked the consumption levels and something called Android system was the highest for some reason. I read online some reviews they tested the battery life by runnning a video for 90 minutes and they only dropped 13%. I lose 5% in less than 20 minutes. Again, Android system was the highest. I then tested it myself, I just played Summoner's war, watched youtube and dramas, then when my batter dropped from 100% to 40% I checked the consumption, though I expected the Screen and the Game to take up bulk of the usage, Android system claims top spot again for some reason. Is this normal or do I have a faulty phone/battery?
I feel sorry for what you are experiencing because such a battery loss is definitely not normal. I have P9Plus(dual SIM version L29) and I put it on charger every 2 days with SOT 7 to 8hours(over 8 hours is not uncommon). It's definitely the best mobile I've ever had - batterywise and otherwise too.
First thing I would do would be updating the firmware and clearing the cache and even reset to factory mode. Install just few basic apps u feel you can't live without and observe how is battery doing. In this way you can eliminate the fact that your batt drain is caused by some app conflict etc. You should disable wi-fi/bt scanning(it is useless anyway) and location services too. If you can, disable the autosync too. Later on you can enable it again and see if it changes anything.
If no improvement you can post the print-screen of your battery data here so we can take a look and maybe we can figure out something.
Last idea that comes to mind is that you were unlucky and have faulty battery - just look at Samsung's Note7 and what kind of headaches their own battery gave to them. Sometimes it just happens that battery may come faulty from manufacturing.
So did anyone else get terrible batterylife with andeoid 10?
I went from 8h SOT to about 5h.
Am thinking of downgrading cause before it was the best phone ive ever had
There isn't 10 for my csc yet
Anybody else confirming bad battery life on 10?
how where you getting 8hours sot... i was getting 6 and now 5 but i do have a lot more idle cause of the quarantine
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how where you getting 8hours sot... i was getting 6 and now 5 but i do have a lot more idle cause of the quarantine
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Wish I could tell you. All I know is it was the best battery I've seen. Was using it 'normally' and throughout 24 hours I got 7-8 hours battery life always, every single day for half a year. With music streaming for 1-2h, some browsing, location on, bluetooth on, and all apps like facebook, instagram etc. disabled.
Now I get 2 hours 20 mins and its already on 48%. Android 10 was a garbage and I wish I could downgrade without much hassle. I cannot find out what is draining the battery, there is no app. If I account for the apps it has used around 1000mah or less, which is 1/3rd, wihc would put me at around 70% - that would be my old battery life. But there is something else draining 20-30% battery and it is not shown in the battery reports, I am using accubatterry.
I really hate it, now I hate this phone
Battery draining mainly depends on how device is used, means how much CPU/GPU are stressed. Has NOTHING to do with Android OS itself: an OS is a piece of software, nothing else, an OS doesn't consume electric power. It are all the running apps/services - either running in foreground or in background, for example Location Providers & Google Play Services - that drain the battery, as also the activated hardware components like the screen, WiFi, GPS, SIM-cards, BlueTooth, etc.pp. even if device is in standby mode. It are the device's power management settings what control the behavior of Android phones that could affect the system's power consumption, such as adjusting lighting, handling the phone's sleep, and the wake-up, idle, turn-off timing, back lighting or display brightness of the device. It are the device implementers who define the related constants suitable to their devces, it's NOT Google , the developers of Android. With regards to Samsung S10 devices it's worldwide known that it has a very poor power management compared to others.
BTW: Since Android 9, the platform can monitor apps for behavior that negatively affects the battery life of devices.
No matter what you do to your device, it will never stop draining the battery.
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You have no idea what you are talking about and should stop wasting everyones time talking about that
So I simply reset my phone and I am back to 8h SOT and happy again.
3h42mins with 62% of the battery at like 8h usage
And after about 15h usage at 51% with 4h10mins SOT ?
I also got terrible battery life after the 10 upgrade.
What do you mean by reset? How?
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I also got terrible battery life after the 10 upgrade.
What do you mean by reset? How?
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A simple factory reset, type reset in your settings in the search bar and do a factory reset.
It will delete everything, so make a backup before