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I recharged my phone in an hour when it had just powered off by itself for being too low... I used it for like 5 minutes and it was already down to 80%... Bad battery?
fldash said:
I recharged my phone in an hour when it had just powered off by itself for being too low... I used it for like 5 minutes and it was already down to 80%... Bad battery?
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Sure sounds like a bad battery.
Just to make sure...
1) make sure you don't have some app that is running GPS
2) If not needed, try turning off BlueTooth
Those two items will drain battery faster than usual.
I sometimes find the battery is really inaccurate, depends on if the phone's running hot or whatnot...
Also you might want to get a task manager and periodically close all the apps (some apps have a one-click kill all widget), and turn off syncing, gps, and bluetooth
Battery indicator hasn't always been accurate or me - even with a brand new battery
There are several apps/widgets that are poorly coded which cause high battery drain as well.
Try only using stock widgets as well, I find that helps alot.
mssmison said:
There are several apps/widgets that are poorly coded which cause high battery drain as well.
Try only using stock widgets as well, I find that helps alot.
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Yea, the only Widget I run thats not stock is Beautiful Widgets Home Small, set to update every 2 hours.
I have bluetooth and GPS off always unless I'm actively using them. I just seemed strange it was so fast to recharge mainly.
I've noticed the battery capacity jumps up and down depending on what you are doing. For example if I disable 3G, it jumps up, if I enable it, it might jump down 10% briefly then go back to where it was...
Very strange.
Also, I find the app Juice Defender (free version) is a life saver. My battery life has gone from around 12 hours to > 2 days since using it.
What it does is disable your 3G AP and only enables it every X minutes for Y minutes.. I think the default is 15/2. The result is you still get your notifications (a few mins behind), but your battery lasts WAAAYYYY longer.
brunes said:
Also, I find the app Juice Defender (free version) is a life saver. My battery life has gone from around 12 hours to > 2 days since using it.
What it does is disable your 3G AP and only enables it every X minutes for Y minutes.. I think the default is 15/2. The result is you still get your notifications (a few mins behind), but your battery lasts WAAAYYYY longer.
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Thanks for the tip!
Now going hunting for "Juice Defender".
yeah, juice defender is great. The free version has limited options but the default options really save battery life on my vogue.
I read a while ago that there was a problem with the stock text messaging app. Is that resolved? I use Handcent SMS, but i don't know if it is good or bad for battery life comparatively.
JuiceDefender is fantastic, it works. Except you can't be listening to anything and have it running (music, podcasts, etc...) because when it kills the 3G connection the audio stops. I've talked with dzo and looked at the code myself and I don't see a way to keep it from happening unless there's a way to kill the 3G connection without issuing an 'ATH' to the modem or somehow ignoring the 'No Carrier' message that follows it...
this happens no matter what music player you are using? I was hoping it was just Cube, but had not gotten a chance to try with other media players. Is there a way to create an ap that autodiables jucedefender when you play music?
Gersonian said:
this happens no matter what music player you are using? I was hoping it was just Cube, but had not gotten a chance to try with other media players. Is there a way to create an ap that autodiables jucedefender when you play music?
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Not that I'm away of... I just manually disable juicedefender before I start playing my music... and HOPE that I remember to turn it back on...
I am not endorsing this battery/seller/etc or that this is the battery to buy in any way. Just came across this opportunity and wanted to put it out there for anyone that wanted to check it out:
http://www.amazon.com/UTStarcom-Ext..._28?ie=UTF8&s=wireless&qid=1274569716&sr=8-28
Personally I just don't want the extended battery cover sticking out of my phone...
Mediaserver is draining a lot of my battery as in 54% im on Galaxy Droid 3.3 JVA and ive search other related threads but they dont seem to have a fix anyone have answers?
I noticed that to, Media Server was taking 35% of my battery so I searched and found this post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980575 .
According to that post a corrupt file (like a picture or mp3) can cause the battery drain. So I went through my files and found that I had 3 corrupt pictures. I deleted them and boom, battery usage from Media Server went down to 7%.
Three days later the battery usage was back up to 30%. This time I haven't found a solution .
Btw I'm using a Nexus S.
My phone's Cell Standby is eating like 80% of my battery even in flight mode. even if I don't use the phone at all after full charging, the battery goes from 90% to 20% in just about 10-12 hours. I don't know what's causing the problem.
In the cell standby battery status it shows Time without network: 100%
Is there any solution to this? This problem started after I flashed to Gingerbread 2.3.4 XXJVP (GT-I9000)
same problem here on ICS 4.2. Media server is keeping my phone awake and so unable to get into deep idle. Really draining the batter hanging the CPU around 400mhz. So far after resetting my galaxy, it's been able to delve into deep idle. But still not sure what caused the media server problem in the first place, and i doubt it's the last time ill see it. In which case i may have to try going through my sd files as in the post above.
i have that problem too..
but only when i listen music with poweramp.
i have even deleted my photos and stuff
is it possible somehow that songs id3 tags causes these problems?
Hmm yeh not sure. I also had a problem with my stock music player not being able to play any songs at all. So I wonder if that did it for me.
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Well idont know.maybe there is corrupted file in my music files.but this is first time i have these problems. Been using many roms before and never had problems with mediaserver..
Installed Skype and called once. Battery drainage after installation, turned out the Skype contact sync was causing the issue. Unticked the sync box and battery life back to normal.
How to fix it
The mediaserver thing runs when you open media(photos, music videos) in any program. If you inactivate it you will not be able to access your media. So when your finished with viewing photos or music just go to
apps-->all-->mediastorage-->force stop
DONT CLEAR DATA, I DID IT ONCE AND I COULDN'T ACCESS MY MUSIC FOR A DAY!!!
I'm running pure stock rom, no rooting, no updating, V10E just bought it less than a week ago.
This is the apps I have installed:
2G-3G toggle widget
Android live wallpapers
Aptoide
Bs Player
CamScanner
Dropbox
Chrome UPdates
Epic Citadel
Flashlight
Go Launcher EX
Go SMS pro
GPS fix deluxe
Moon+ Reader
Onavo Count
Onavo Extend
Opera MIni
QuickPic
Screen Filter
Shush! Ringer Restorer
Simple Mp3 Downloader
Thumb Keyboard
Viber
Whatsapp
Now I tried the following two things with my phone:
For the first night, I left it at 2G only, with autosync disabled, and wifi,bluetooth,gps etc. off. All above apps were running, viber and whatsapp included, and obviously with no autosync, Gmail was not, so only the Email app that comes with android was running and checking email. In one night, it drained no more than 6%, over 8 hours.
The second night; again 2G only, and everything off, except for autosync, which I set to sync gmail only, and disabled the native Email app. In 6 hours overnight, battery drained 10%. This does not make sense for me, why would gmail drain so much battery?
Next, while I can live with those stand-by times, what is wierd is that while using the phone, the battery drains at unbelievable rates. I leave it mostly on 2G, barely using 3G every now and again. This morning, I left the house with 90% battery. charged it on my way to uni with the car, then when I got there played some games and a few songs for maybe 15 mins, then my friend came and we goofed around taking a video with the effects for a few minutes not more than 5. THen I went on for my lesson, took about 15 photos with no flash, with CamScanner and organized them into documents, then used regularly my phone to send texts, whatsapp and viber, then browsed the web for maybe 10 mins on 3G. By 12 o' clock, my phone was nearly dead (10%)! This does not seem normal to me, even though the standby times range from excellent, to acceptable it seems like the phone uses an enormous amount of battery when in use generally.The brightness varied from about 10% indoors, to 80% when outdoors. (most use was indoors). To make the time clear, I got to uni at 6.30 am, and while using the phone and games the phone was still connected to the car charger.
I have not done any modification to the phone. NO updates, no root (which I heard causes battery drain) no nothing.
HELP ?
Chrsp said:
I'm running pure stock rom, no rooting, no updating, V10E just bought it less than a week ago.
This is the apps I have installed:
2G-3G toggle widget
Android live wallpapers
Aptoide
Bs Player
CamScanner
Dropbox
Chrome UPdates
Epic Citadel
Flashlight
Go Launcher EX
Go SMS pro
GPS fix deluxe
Moon+ Reader
Onavo Count
Onavo Extend
Opera MIni
QuickPic
Screen Filter
Shush! Ringer Restorer
Simple Mp3 Downloader
Thumb Keyboard
Viber
Whatsapp
Now I tried the following two things with my phone:
For the first night, I left it at 2G only, with autosync disabled, and wifi,bluetooth,gps etc. off. All above apps were running, viber and whatsapp included, and obviously with no autosync, Gmail was not, so only the Email app that comes with android was running and checking email. In one night, it drained no more than 6%, over 8 hours.
The second night; again 2G only, and everything off, except for autosync, which I set to sync gmail only, and disabled the native Email app. In 6 hours overnight, battery drained 10%. This does not make sense for me, why would gmail drain so much battery?
Next, while I can live with those stand-by times, what is wierd is that while using the phone, the battery drains at unbelievable rates. I leave it mostly on 2G, barely using 3G every now and again. This morning, I left the house with 90% battery. charged it on my way to uni with the car, then when I got there played some games and a few songs for maybe 15 mins, then my friend came and we goofed around taking a video with the effects for a few minutes not more than 5. THen I went on for my lesson, took about 15 photos with no flash, with CamScanner and organized them into documents, then used regularly my phone to send texts, whatsapp and viber, then browsed the web for maybe 10 mins on 3G. By 12 o' clock, my phone was nearly dead (10%)! This does not seem normal to me, even though the standby times range from excellent, to acceptable it seems like the phone uses an enormous amount of battery when in use generally.The brightness varied from about 10% indoors, to 80% when outdoors. (most use was indoors). To make the time clear, I got to uni at 6.30 am, and while using the phone and games the phone was still connected to the car charger.
I have not done any modification to the phone. NO updates, no root (which I heard causes battery drain) no nothing.
HELP ?
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hey, some tips if you want to extend your battery life, that worked for me, set display bright 50% and check auto bright mark, use some app like antutu cpu master (root required) to down your cpu clock to 1200 Mhz or 1000 (i used 1000Mhz), and also you should consider upgrade your firmware to v10h, you can notice the change in the battery duration, for me with all this tips, my battery drains about 30% from 5am to 3pm with a normal usage (gmail sync, whatsapp, email sync, facebook, twitter, some calls, sms), if you play casual games, battery duration goes down, but with cpu speed set to 1000mhz you can obtain a little more while gaming and avoid overheating
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hey, some tips if you want to extend your battery life, that worked for me, set display bright 50% and check auto bright mark, use some app like antutu cpu master (root required) to down your cpu clock to 1200 Mhz or 1000 (i used 1000Mhz), and also you should consider upgrade your firmware to v10h, you can notice the change in the battery duration, for me with all this tips, my battery drains about 30% from 5am to 3pm with a normal usage (gmail sync, whatsapp, email sync, facebook, twitter, some calls, sms), if you play casual games, battery duration goes down, but with cpu speed set to 1000mhz you can obtain a little more while gaming and avoid overheating
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Thank you Ok, so is it safe to change to v10H? Will I need to factory reset everything? Because I would really like to avoid that? Plus to downclock would I need root? THen I'm going to definitely need to factory reset right?
Also which rom should I go for? I keep seeing the "Stock" roms and the deodexed zipaligned roms, which are better? If possible can you include for me a link to the actual rom you are using? thanks
BTW:: I don't have auto brightness setting!!
And is it wierd that gmail seems to be using way too much battery on standby?
This is actually quite 'normal' as most O4X users experience this notorious battery drain.
To extend your battery, you might want to do these:
1. Root your phone and uninstall any unnecessary bloatwares
2. Install battery saving app. A word of precaution though, for some it works wonder, and some experience disaster. I personally use Juice Defender and have seen some battery improvement.
3. Root your device and edit your com.telephone database. I've seen major battery improvement by doing this.
4. Get yourself some power banks. This thing comes handy when you're running out of juice.
You can browse this forum to do all the above.
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hernestwisnu said:
This is actually quite 'normal' as most O4X users experience this notorious battery drain.
To extend your battery, you might want to do these:
1. Root your phone and uninstall any unnecessary bloatwares
2. Install battery saving app. A word of precaution though, for some it works wonder, and some experience disaster. I personally use Juice Defender and have seen some battery improvement.
3. Root your device and edit your com.telephone database. I've seen major battery improvement by doing this.
4. Get yourself some power banks. This thing comes handy when you're running out of juice.
You can browse this forum to do all the above.
Sent from my LG-P880 using Tapatalk 2
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Explain the com.telephone procedure? I'm seeing some improvement by using apex and freezing bloat, lower brightness etc but could do with a little more juice
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Try this post, it might help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2057093
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Hi everyone,
i wanted to ask if there's an app or a way to make my S3 Mini enter deep sleep mode even when I'm listening to music in the background (music app not open), 'cause now it stays 50% awake and 50% sleeping and drains my battery extremelly fast - about 30 mins of music listening drained about 15% of my battery without me doing anything else and having the screen off all the time through that period.I read a similar thread on some forum, but there wasn't a way to do this described there {don't remember which forum that was on}.
I'll even settle for another music app (not the default one, if it can't be done with it) which has playlist widget support and decent controls [and of course one which makes the phone go to deep sleep mode while it's on in the background]
I'm running on a pre-rooted android 4.1.1
THANKS IN ADVANCE TO ANYONE WHO HELPS ME OUT AS THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW
Mind if I ask why you use 4.1.1 and not 4.1.2 or CM10/11? I've never had this issue on any stock rom with the default player so a firmware upgrade should take care of it.
koragg97 said:
Hi everyone,
i wanted to ask if there's an app or a way to make my S3 Mini enter deep sleep mode even when I'm listening to music in the background (music app not open), 'cause now it stays 50% awake and 50% sleeping and drains my battery extremelly fast - about 30 mins of music listening drained about 15% of my battery without me doing anything else and having the screen off all the time through that period.I read a similar thread on some forum, but there wasn't a way to do this described there {don't remember which forum that was on}.
I'll even settle for another music app (not the default one, if it can't be done with it) which has playlist widget support and decent controls [and of course one which makes the phone go to deep sleep mode while it's on in the background]
I'm running on a pre-rooted android 4.1.1
THANKS IN ADVANCE TO ANYONE WHO HELPS ME OUT AS THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW
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if CPU enters deep sleep, how would the phone be able to play music?
4everAnoob said:
Mind if I ask why you use 4.1.1 and not 4.1.2 or CM10/11? I've never had this issue on any stock rom with the default player so a firmware upgrade should take care of it.
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I was on 4.1.2 for more than half a year, but 2 days ago switched back to 4.1.1 'cause the ripple effect on the lock screen is gone in android 4.1.2 and later And I kinda have some apps installed so I dont really wanna flash a new rom
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if CPU enters deep sleep, how would the phone be able to play music?
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Well yeah, but then again why does the FM Radio app drain battery extremely slow when using it almost the same amount of time as the music player (perhaps even longer) ? I don't know maybe I haven't adapted to android as this is my first android phone ever and i have had it for almost a year now (never had battery problems with my other phones - all were Nokia )
koragg97 said:
I was on 4.1.2 for more than half a year, but 2 days ago switched back to 4.1.1 'cause the ripple effect on the lock screen is gone in android 4.1.2 and later And I kinda have some apps installed so I dont really wanna flash a new rom
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try dmod v6 its awesome
battery break
I think the problem isn't with your music player, the problem it's wth your battery, because i use stock music player and 3g for 1 hour, and my battery only drain 10%
Well, just to say that I use playerpro with maclaw's cm 10.2, for a long time & never had battery draining
equilibriojh said:
I think the problem isn't with your music player, the problem it's wth your battery, because i use stock music player and 3g for 1 hour, and my battery only drain 10%
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Maybe. Because when i listen to music my screen is off all the time and i have 3g manager installed, which means that my 3g is also disabled when screen is locked. Let's hope it's the battery - seems like the easiest way to fix the problem
Hi,
I'm currently running into a battery issue with my S21 Ultra. It seems like the Samsung Music APP is completely draining my phone battery and I'm wondering if there is a way to resolve this because I do use it for local files and if I do add it to a sleeping app it ends up not playing Music when I'm using another app. I've provided some screenshots of the battery drain if anyone got any suggestions on how to solve the issue whether is a fix for Samsung music app or an alternative app, please let me know.
Thank you.
Try an alternative music app if the samsung music app is bad
its not completely draining your battery. you use it quite a bit, and it uses an appropriate amount of battery from what I can see.
an app running for 16 hours is going to use quite a bit of battery, in your case 23%, doesnt seem excessive to me at all.
uicnren said:
its not completely draining your battery. you use it quite a bit, and it uses an appropriate amount of battery from what I can see.
an app running for 16 hours is going to use quite a bit of battery, in your case 23%, doesnt seem excessive to me at all.
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Yeah the thing is I'm not listening to music out of those 16 hours. I expected it to automatically close background when music is not playing but it doesn't and it still runs in the background. Is there a way to have it automatically stop the app from running in the background because even if I go to recent apps and close the app it is still running in the background and for me to actually stop background usage is by going to apps and force stopping the app everytime it's not in usage.
uicnren said:
its not completely draining your battery. you use it quite a bit, and it uses an appropriate amount of battery from what I can see.
an app running for 16 hours is going to use quite a bit of battery, in your case 23%, doesnt seem excessive to me at all.
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any app suggestions?
I've recently started using muzio and seems ok
denmastergaming said:
Yeah the thing is I'm not listening to music out of those 16 hours. I expected it to automatically close background when music is not playing but it doesn't and it still runs in the background. Is there a way to have it automatically stop the app from running in the background because even if I go to recent apps and close the app it is still running in the background and for me to actually stop background usage is by going to apps and force stopping the app everytime it's not in usage.
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you can try going to settings > apps > samsung music > battery and turn off background usage
the downside to that is, if the app is not in the foreground, it wont play music.
you can try youtube music, or the many many others on the play store.