In the last week or so I have picked up my phone three times and it has been dead.
The power button doesn't turn it on again.
I have to take the battery out and then restart it.
I'm running a rooted 2.35 JVT.
I have nothing untoward running ...
Settings
Sense analogue clock
DRM content
Software update
SnsService
Google Play Store
Samsung keypad
Apart from Angry Birds, there's almost nothing else, and nothing new for months except Bad Piggies.
deanbilly said:
In the last week or so I have picked up my phone three times and it has been dead.
The power button doesn't turn it on again.
I have to take the battery out and then restart it.
I'm running a rooted 2.35 JVT.
I have nothing untoward running ...
Settings
Sense analogue clock
DRM content
Software update
SnsService
Google Play Store
Samsung keypad
Apart from Angry Birds, there's almost nothing else, and nothing new for months except Bad Piggies.
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Could it be a dead battery?
otherwise, tried to wipe and (re)flash a rom?
The battery is fine, and the ROM has been there for well over a year with no problems.
Finding the root cause of battery drain...
deanbilly said:
In the last week or so I have picked up my phone three times and it has been dead.
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There are a number of standard steps to run through to find the root cause of battery problems, assuming the drain is caused by the OS or apps and not actually due to a physically failing battery.
I have been tracking a few battery issues myself recently and this is what I have learned from doing some reading on XDA:
There are two free apps on the app market that are typically used to diagnose battery problems:
Better Battery Stats
CPU Spy
I would recommend installing both apps. The third place to look is in the battery details in the system settings...sorry I can't remember what they look like on Gingerbread because upgraded to Jelly Bean a couple months ago, though I do remember there was less information in the stock battery info on Gingerbread.
IF you are not, indeed dealing with a physically dead battery, then the root of your battery drain is most likely caused by a background process or app that is keeping the processor in a partially active state even though the screen is turned off and one would assume the phone should not be using any power.
Android OS will automatically change the running speed of the processor in the phone based on the demand of the system. If only a few background tasks are running and updating information the speed might be 200 or 400 Mhz. If the system is running full out servicing a graphic intensive game the processor will likely be running at the full 1000 MHz speed. The speed of the processor will directly effect the battery drain.
The expectation is that when we turn the display off (not power down, just put the phone to sleep) the processor should need fewer resources and slow down, tending towards a state known as "Deep Sleep". At this point the processor us using very minimal amounts of power. Any app or process that is active in the background will prevent the processor from getting to Deep Sleep. The CPU spy app will allow you to check how much time the phone runs at various speeds. Once you install it and run it, then reset the timers in the menu and turn your screen off for about 10 or 15 minutes. Then 'refresh' the timers. Normally, you should see most of the time accumulated in Deep Sleep. There are standard background tasks such as syncing with the cell tower, updating time, mail, checking alarms etc. That will engage the processor momentarily but they should be relatively short compared to the deep sleep time. In my case, an errand process was keeping my phone at 100Mhz constantly preventing deep sleep.
Once you know that something is keeping the phone awake in the background, you can use Better Battery Stats to narrow down which process or app it is the cause. This app allows you to track the individual processes that are consuming the most time and preventing 'wakelocks'. Wakelocks are essentially an app preventing the sleep state and are very well explained in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827676
The battery info in the system settings can also be used to give clues though again, I can't remember how much detail was included in Gingerbread..
If your problem only started happening recently, then it could be a new app that you installed recently, a feature or setting you changed recently or possibly a recent update to an app that was already installed. Try to think back at any recent events that could have triggered a change in the system.
Common problem apps I have read about are:
- Facebook - seems to be bad at using lots of background processor time. (Don't run this app but reading several posts shows its a processor hog)
- Google Apps that sync - Gmail, Chrome (syncs browser history, tabs etc.), Google location stats.
The wakelocks link goes into a great deal of detail and is hugely valuable in nailing your issue down.
Good Luck, let use know via a post if you find the root cause...
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear about it being 'dead'.
The battery is 100% or thereabouts, no problems ever with the battery.
The phone looked as though it was turned off, but wouldn't turn on again with the power button.
I have to take the battery out and put it back again, then it starts on the button.
I've cleaned the contacts, and it still happened.
User error.
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To me, it sounds more like a rogue process messing up power managing or response, but it's hard to tell what it could actually be.
For instance, you might come a cross a game that leaves your phone locked in max cpu frequency, draining the battery without explanation.
If it was me, I'd re-flash the rom from Odin, perhaps with an sd card wipe too.
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I have been seeing odd periods of heavy cpu use and I am unable to pinpoint the reasons. systempanel is not showing any out of control apps, but sometimes shows prolonged heavy use of the cpu; often at 100% use. (also everytime I charge the device history shows 100% use the whole time, I do have dock mode active though) Often times when I see 100% load, the history shows it starting when I open systempanel, but systempanel is not showing heavy use according to its personal history chart. I contacted the dev and he is looking into it, but does not believe it is the app. The system my lag at these times, but does not become unresponsive. After a fresh reboot, systempanel seems to show normal cpu loads even when active and in the foreground, but after a time it shows 100% every time I open it. (and history shows the high use starts when I open the app, but sometimes the chart does show moderate heavy use around 50% before systempanel is even started, so I can not be sure if systempanel is the cause)
I have also been having odd slow downs and lag that a kill all command from a task manager will not fix, but a reboot does. (I am thinking this lag corresponds to random high cpu use, but because of the above unreliability of systempanel I can not know.
It seems to happen over time, like a memory leak but with cpu and system load.
Anyone else having this problem in FroYo?
Systempanel is the only app that I know of that has that level of detail about what is going on in the phone, so I can not check it against another app.
OK i was just curious and downloaded systempanel and looked at the cpu usage. First i have a uptime of 88 hours exactly. the cpu usage is between 277Mhz and 450Mhz. I'm also using Froyo and everythinds is stock (kernel, Rom).
SO maybe there is a app that isn't showing his cpu usage? i don't use any taskiller so i don't kill anything.
I have a task killer to kill any apps that go haywire. I found another app to check against systempanell it does not have logging but I can check current stats.
Guess I'm the only one?
Ok since installing a second active monitoring app, the weird cpu loads are gone; things seem normal. Both apps seem to show the same results. Though I still feel that the cpu load being at 100% the entire time the phone sits on the charger is unnecessary.
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I've had unusual cpu pegging (started a thread about it too). Four forced reboots so far.
britoso said:
I've had unusual cpu pegging (started a thread about it too). Four forced reboots so far.
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You still got it? i think there has to be a faulty app not that people got this problem, you are the only 2 i heard from though.
commodoor said:
You still got it? i think there has to be a faulty app not that people got this problem, you are the only 2 i heard from though.
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Yes, just today my gtalk froze with 100% cpu when switching to it. Had to force power off after waiting about 3 mins (power+vol down+trackball)
I am having the EXACT same problem, I was actually browsing through here to see if anyone else was getting it as well before i started my own thread...
it started yesterday actually and I am wondering if it is the new .0.4.2 launcher pro beta because i just put that on yesterday and i had no problems with .4.1
that is my speculation, can anyone confirm?
its probably not your launcher, I'm on ADW. Will try Launcher2 and see if it is better...
Hello,
Below is the message i wrote on the google support forum, but i havnt gotten a single reply yet, so i turn to you guys, in hope that you're able to help me
I have been experiencing this issue on and off for the past month or two. The issue being, that something called "Android OS", in the battery usage list, is eating up all my battery.
An example is, currently my phone has been unplugged for 1h30m(im down to 69% battery life remaining after i unplugged it at fully charged 100%) where the battery usage is ranked as follows:
Android OS: 72%
Display:18%
Wi-Fi: 2%
Cell standby 2%
Android System 2%
and so on and so forth.
The reason why i wrote (kernel) in the title of this question, is, that with the app "Powertutor" i have been shown that the main "app" or proccess eating up my battery, when this "Android OS" is eating up my battery as shown in the Battery Usage list, is the Kernel. Right now is shows the kernel is using 84,3% of the energy usage, Handscent has been using 3.1% and so on.
Often a reboot will bring the phone back to normal and the Android OS issue goes away for a while. A friend of mine, however, who has the exact same phone as I, has this issue, almost all the time, and a mere reboot doesnt seem to do the trick for him. His phone only lasts 6-7 hours tops, where it most of the time is just idle, and he isnt using the phone at all. While mine, when the Android OS issue isnt present, last up to 20 hours on a single charge, when i dont use it much.
When the Android OS process is eating up all the power, the phone grows really hot as well, and the difference is easilly felt. So when i feel that my phone is hot like that, i automaticly think "oh, time for a reboot".
I've been unable to find any info regarding this issue on the internet, and therefore I'm unsure what to do to fix it for real. Tried several factory setting resets on my friends phone, tried not installing many new apps, formatting the SD card, formatting the phone from bootloader (still testing his phone to see if this worked properly)things like that, but always, the issue returned, as on my phone where it only pops up once every other day.
Hopefully, someone will be able to help, or shred some light on the case.
Thank you,
Chris
Device: Nexus One
Carrier: AT&T Phone Version, Danish Carrier Bibob
Country / Language: Denmark / English
OS / Browser / build number (if applicable): Android 2.2 Froyo / Native / FRF91
Having Exchange sync on, by any chance? Try turning it off for a day, see if it helps.
Jack_R1 said:
Having Exchange sync on, by any chance? Try turning it off for a day, see if it helps.
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"Exchange sync" being exactly what? The basic sync function on the phone that can be enables and disabled? The basic sync with your google account?
If thats the case, then yea im having that on all the time, so that it may sync whenever it wants to. The sync icon doesnt appear that often though, so cant see how this could be the reason why. But if you come back to me and tell me that this is what you meant, i will definetly give it a try
Thx for responding
No, Exchange sync means - MS Exchange account (in addition to your default Google account) that syncs calendar/email/both with Exchange server.
I'm guessing again that that is something extra you must install / set up, which i have not done. The only two accounts i have that can sync are my facebook and my default google account. I never sync the facebook one though.
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Update:
Reinstalled Watchdog Lite today, since my phone has been exceptionally sluggish, and SeePU graph keeps showing a full graph on cpu usage. I've had to reboot it twice today, in hopes of it returning to normal state. It does for a while, but then returns to a slow state where Android OS uses like 80% of the battery.
I made Watchdog Lite monitor the base android processes as well, and right now it keeps warning me that the "Base System", "Linux Process" uses up 89,6% of the CPU and 10,3MB of RAM, while nr 2 on the list is Android System, Foreground, with 3,8% and 27 MB.
I feel like the state of my phone is worsening, and I'll prolly do a full factory reset(again)/format of everything within a few days if i cant find the root of the issue this time around.
Please help I love my phone and i want it to be healthy again.
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Hello,
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"OS" is an abbreviation for "Operating System". That means ALL of the background stuff that eats battery and CPU time that isn't attributable to a process or function easily understood by the typical user. This includes, yes, the Linux kernel, but also all the other background things that your phone does in order to continue functioning in a normal synchronized state...
Your phone has a CPU. The kernel has a process scheduler, which swaps different programs in and out of the CPU in order to make it look like it is running more than one thing at a time. Each clock cycle consumes some amount of the power from the battery, so if it assigns 10 cycles to process A, 10 cycles to process B, and then waits for 20 cycles for I/O synchronization, then HALF of the power consumed in those last 40 cycles (attributable to CPU) will be "Android OS". Clear?
lbcoder said:
"OS" is an abbreviation for "Operating System". That means ALL of the background stuff that eats battery and CPU time that isn't attributable to a process or function easily understood by the typical user. This includes, yes, the Linux kernel, but also all the other background things that your phone does in order to continue functioning in a normal synchronized state...
Your phone has a CPU. The kernel has a process scheduler, which swaps different programs in and out of the CPU in order to make it look like it is running more than one thing at a time. Each clock cycle consumes some amount of the power from the battery, so if it assigns 10 cycles to process A, 10 cycles to process B, and then waits for 20 cycles for I/O synchronization, then HALF of the power consumed in those last 40 cycles (attributable to CPU) will be "Android OS". Clear?
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Alright, I was wondering exactly what it meant when it just said Android OS, just that seemed like quite a broad description.
But what your saying is that it may be other applications that is actually eating up the power, just the kernel assigning the power to the program, and therefore the Battery Usage shows the kernel/Android OS as the culprit?
If its the case that its an app then, that through the kernel is triggering the usage that drains my phone, then how come my friend had this issues with an almost "naked" phone? He had installed just a few apps and still ran into this issue.
Am i understanding what you're telling me correctly?
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Alright, I was wondering exactly what it meant when it just said Android OS, just that seemed like quite a broad description.
But what your saying is that it may be other applications that is actually eating up the power, just the kernel assigning the power to the program, and therefore the Battery Usage shows the kernel/Android OS as the culprit?
If its the case that its an app then, that through the kernel is triggering the usage that drains my phone, then how come my friend had this issues with an almost "naked" phone? He had installed just a few apps and still ran into this issue.
Am i understanding what you're telling me correctly?
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It's not normal, something is causing it. Most likely some poorly written app or some other weird thing is causing the "Android OS" (which I assume is likely the virtual machine itself) to do bad things.
khaytsus said:
It's not normal, something is causing it. Most likely some poorly written app or some other weird thing is causing the "Android OS" (which I assume is likely the virtual machine itself) to do bad things.
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Today the linux process "init" has been hogging up all my phones resources, as in 77%+ of all the CPU usage :/
Was wondering if rooting my phone and installing/ flashing some custom rom would solve the issue for sure? Or should I send the phone back to the states for at checkup or repair? (dont think this is needed but now I ask anyway)
Is there an app that could track down exactly what is sucking my phone dry? Cus all that I've found are those broad references or processes :/
Thx for all your responses
Same problem here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=826507
http://www.google.mw/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=7da0c666e8ffbc36&hl=en
Seems like there is no solution available yet...
chris6647 said:
Today the linux process "init" has been hogging up all my phones resources, as in 77%+ of all the CPU usage :/
Was wondering if rooting my phone and installing/ flashing some custom rom would solve the issue for sure? Or should I send the phone back to the states for at checkup or repair? (dont think this is needed but now I ask anyway)
Is there an app that could track down exactly what is sucking my phone dry? Cus all that I've found are those broad references or processes :/
Thx for all your responses
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There is no solution, because you can't track the app that is causing the system to hang.
You can uninstall all the latest installed/updated apps and install them one by one, using Titanium - and that'll pinpoint the offender.
Please bare with me, I am a fairly novice xda user.
I purchased my Bionic at launch, and it has been working perfectly until about a week ago. I always run the phone on stock OS not rooted, automatic brightness, 4g turned off, no wifi/sync/bluetooth. I would generally get down to 20% of my battery from 7 am to midnight on these settings, which was fantastic.
Suddenly, I now lose 10% every 20 minutes. This is not an exaggeration, I have been testing it with Battery Spy. CPU Spy reports that my phone never goes into deep sleep and is always running at the lowest mhz setting when idle.
Under battery usage, Cell Standby is reporting 45%, then Phone Idle at 35%, then Screen at 15%. The remainder its split between K9 Mail and Handcent SMS.
I have uninstalled everything that I thought could be causing this... Facebook, Google+, etc. Apart from the stock bloatware and k9/Handcent, my phone is like new. The best I could do is a factory reset at this point...
I don't think it is a bad battery because the stock battery goes from 100% to 0 in less than an hour when it would last half a day beforehand. I am really at a loss.
One thing I do know is that the 3g and bars are almost always blue, which I think it means is transmitting data. Maybe this is the culprit?
Please pardon my ignorance with the whole issue. Any help would be very, very appreciated. The Bionic was the best phone I have ever owned up until this battery fiasco, and I would like to find out why this is happening.
Thank you.
EDIT: would just like to update, Battery Spy reads that my phone is running at 104° Fahrenheit. I do not know if this is normal, but this was after an hour since a cold boot. Sounds high to me but I'm not sure.
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Sounds like you have some thing that is really using up some cpu cycles. One way to see what's going on is to install the app Android System Info from the market. It has a section called Tasks and it will let you look and see what part of the system is using how much cpu. I do not think you have to be rooted to use this, but I could be wrong. I did go to the market and look and saw no mention of needing to be rooted.
I know this will sound extreme, but I would definitely do it if this was happening to my phone: Factory Reset and start fresh.
Good luck.
Thank you for the advice. I installed it, and appear from the Android System Info app taking up 50% of my cpu, and Android System using 4%, everything else was listed at 0.
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Feoen said:
Thank you for the advice. I installed it, and appear from the Android System Info app taking up 50% of my cpu, and Android System using 4%, everything else was listed at 0.
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Well, that didn't help much. Oh well, I would definitely do the Factory Reset then. Again that's just the way I would handle it as something is going on with your phone that wasn't happening earlier. Just go to the Privacy settings and make sure you have Backup and Automatic Restore checked. If your launcher has a backup feature, go to preferences and do a backup of the launcher settings. Then do the Factory Reset. It's a pain to have to setup everything again, but a reset really does cure a lot of ills that pop up.
Good luck.
Oh BTW, here's some general Battery saving suggestions:
Battery Life – BY: NoBloatware on DF
consider doing a factory reset. Do not sync apps, wifi connections, etc. with Google services as that may cause a problem. Install all apps and wifi connections from scratch. A bit of a pain, but not too bad.- install a home/launcher replacement. I use Go Launcher EX, which is free, and I love it. No reason not to try out an alternative launcher as you can always go back to how you had it.
- don't use an automatic task killer--not even the one that comes with the phone. Reboot your phone and look at what's running. If anything that you've installed is running and there's no reason for it, then uninstall it and find an alternative that behaves. Ignore any stock apps that run on boot as I've found them to be more or less benign.
- weather widgets, live wallpapers, news/social feeds, any app or service that you use that runs--do without it if you can.
- don't use antivirus
- the DLNA app pops up a dialog box that will set your WIFI sleep policy to never. The default is "turn off when screen turns off" and I personally think that this setting is the best thing for battery life. Under wifi settings view your connections then hit menu to see "Advanced options" where you can set the sleep policy
- if you have access to wifi, leave it toggled on as it is more efficient than 3G. This is different from the sleep policy.
- I leave GPS toggled on too by the way. Apps use it as needed. When I'm done with Maps or an app that uses it, I'm sure to return to the home screen so GPS can stop. Under wireless settings turn on "Google location services" so that an app is able to use network resources to get your location instead of GPS. I have "VZW location services" turned off--don't know why that option is even there. By the way, I increase the speed of voice output > text to speech > speech rate because I like the directions to get spit out faster. That saves a bit of battery. Turning off the display and just listening for directions help. Also, often I just get the directions and then exit back to the home screen: GPS uses so much battery I try to get it over with ASAP.
- when you get a new battery, do a factory reset, or an OS upgrade run your battery all the way down until the phone shuts off and then charge the battery all the way up. This will callibrate the phone's understanding of the battery's capacity. Do this once every month or two also, but don't do it too often if you can help it.
- I have my battery set to "Performance Mode" and data is on all the time because I am on call 24x7. If you don't mind, try out a more conservative battery profile to save more gobs of energy.
- set screen brightness to "Automatic"
- under Accounts, click on any account listed and turn off sync for any items that you're not interested in syncing. For example, Google Books if you don't use it. Don't use Backup Assistant--I prefer syncing my contacts with Google. You don't need both. Also go into your contacts > menu > display options > backup assistant > UNCHECK. Also do contacts > menu > more > settings > contact storage > and select your Google account and "remember this choice"
- if you never use bluetooth then toggle it off. If you do use it sometimes, it's fine to leave it toggled on all the time.
- consider turning off voice privacy. This may not be a big deal but it will save some processing (and therefore battery). It may also improve call quality.
- turn off haptic feedback, animations, and any un-needed sounds in Android settings and in your apps
- set your screen timeout to as low a time as you can stand (I use 1 minute) and manually turn the screen off when you're done using the phone. I use an app to lock the screen so I don't wear out my power button...as happened on my original droid.
- turn off in-pocket detection
- keyboard: turn off vibrate on keypress and sounds for any keyboards you use
- use a red screen background. On the original Droid screen--not sure about this Droid 3 screen--red was the most efficient color that could be displayed. Anyone know if this still holds true?
- camera app: i like keeping location on and flash on auto. Consider turning location off or at least returning to the home screen ASAP when using camera if location for camera is on.
- in stock browser the default home page is Google and it uses your location. This is a bad idea as it can waste your battery for no reason. Make something else your home page and make sure to close any web page that uses your location when you're done viewing it.
- charge your phone via the wall charger instead of computer USB as it is faster. Also, don't use long USB cords--use regular power extension cords instead. I stick with the charger that came with the phone.
Feoen said:
Please bare with me, I am a fairly novice xda user.
I purchased my Bionic at launch, and it has been working perfectly until about a week ago. I always run the phone on stock OS not rooted, automatic brightness, 4g turned off, no wifi/sync/bluetooth. I would generally get down to 20% of my battery from 7 am to midnight on these settings, which was fantastic.
Suddenly, I now lose 10% every 20 minutes. This is not an exaggeration, I have been testing it with Battery Spy. CPU Spy reports that my phone never goes into deep sleep and is always running at the lowest mhz setting when idle.
Under battery usage, Cell Standby is reporting 45%, then Phone Idle at 35%, then Screen at 15%. The remainder its split between K9 Mail and Handcent SMS.
I have uninstalled everything that I thought could be causing this... Facebook, Google+, etc. Apart from the stock bloatware and k9/Handcent, my phone is like new. The best I could do is a factory reset at this point...
I don't think it is a bad battery because the stock battery goes from 100% to 0 in less than an hour when it would last half a day beforehand. I am really at a loss.
One thing I do know is that the 3g and bars are almost always blue, which I think it means is transmitting data. Maybe this is the culprit?
Please pardon my ignorance with the whole issue. Any help would be very, very appreciated. The Bionic was the best phone I have ever owned up until this battery fiasco, and I would like to find out why this is happening.
Thank you.
EDIT: would just like to update, Battery Spy reads that my phone is running at 104° Fahrenheit. I do not know if this is normal, but this was after an hour since a cold boot. Sounds high to me but I'm not sure.
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i have the same problem man! i have the extended battery and it lasts maybe 9 hours and i have tried several batteries from verizon store i keep swapping them lol and im on 4G all day and performance battery and data on all 24/7 too and i could get 20 hours ++ out of thunderbolt extended and cant get half that with bionic. there is something going on and nobody at verizon can figure my problem out!
Format the sd card in ur pc. Then put sd card back in bionic and transfer ur stuff back on it. Ur bionic is scanning sd card non stop for errors drainin battery. I had this problem for weeks beofre i figured this out. Was gettin 7-8 hrs on ext battery. Now ibget 30 hrs
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I had a similar issue and the problem was my sim card needing to be reinstalled. It was not seaded correctly and caused my radio to act up. I truned off the phone and removed the sim card and then reinserted it and rebooted and I was back to normal.
I am not sure if this is your problem but it is easy enough to try.
Would this apply if I am not using 4g? I have 4g disabled and it was my impression that the sim card was only used for 4g.
I uninstalled k9 which for some reason began using 7% of my battery though I had never opened it since reboot and now I am getting a loss of 10% per hour of normal use.
I went to bed with the battery at 70 and woke up with it at the same so I at least solved the sleeping problem. Not sure why k9 was responsible though.
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My Moto X randomly started lagging heavily. It's unbearable.
It's not just a little bit here and there, the entire system is EXTREMELY LAGGY. It takes 30 seconds for the device to register a touch or perform an action.
I have root + stock ROM + gravitybox + very minimal third-party apps.
What the hell is going on?
Download an app that keeps track of CPU and RAM usage for each app. One of your apps may be keeping one or both of those at close to 100% usage and slowing it way down.
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DonDizzurp said:
My Moto X randomly started lagging heavily. It's unbearable.
It's not just a little bit here and there, the entire system is EXTREMELY LAGGY. It takes 30 seconds for the device to register a touch or perform an action.
I have root + stock ROM + gravitybox + very minimal third-party apps.
What the hell is going on?
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Many things could cause it. Backgrounded app crashing over and over (loop), malware (very unlikely), weird software conflicts, perhaps you froze an app that the system is trying to wake non stop, etc. Might be faster just to backup, RSDlite and restore. Titanium Backup and Ultimate Backup make it very easy with batch backups/restore. 2 key inputs backs up all your apps and 2 restores them lol. It's ridiculously easy
Also make sure you're not running battery saving mode, I imagine that caps your max clock speed to a lower value although it shouldn't cause THAT big of a performance hit.
Apps like BetterBattery stats or GSAM can also show you what's hammering your battery in the background and occupying your CPU cycles. I would take a quick peak at those tools first before I decide how to approach the situation.
What's happening is some app or software conflict is polling (sending commands to) your CPU non stop so when you interact with your phone each key press/swipe/action is put into what is now a long queue for the CPU to process it. Kind of like a lineup at a coffee shop in the morning, you wanna get in and out fast but they gotta serve the people in front of you first.
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Many things could cause it. Backgrounded app crashing over and over (loop), malware (very unlikely), weird software conflicts, perhaps you froze an app that the system is trying to wake non stop, etc. Might be faster just to backup, RSDlite and restore. Titanium Backup and Ultimate Backup make it very easy with batch backups/restore. 2 key inputs backs up all your apps and 2 restores them lol. It's ridiculously easy
Also make sure you're not running battery saving mode, I imagine that caps your max clock speed to a lower value although it shouldn't cause THAT big of a performance hit.
Apps like BetterBattery stats or GSAM can also show you what's hammering your battery in the background and occupying your CPU cycles. I would take a quick peak at those tools first before I decide how to approach the situation.
What's happening is some app or software conflict is polling (sending commands to) your CPU non stop so when you interact with your phone each key press/swipe/action is put into what is now a long queue for the CPU to process it. Kind of like a lineup at a coffee shop in the morning, you wanna get in and out fast but they gotta serve the people in front of you first.
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I've frozen a bunch of apps and it's been fine for months.
I also turned on CPU updates from developer options to see if anything is bogging it down. I don't see anything in battery stats either.
I wiped cache and dalvik cache and now it's fine. I've never had something like cache build-up cause this much of a problem before. Weird.
I'm having serious battery issues that just started out of nowhere. I'm currently only getting about 4 hours of light use before having to recharge.
I'd like to look at what apps are using the battery but there are only 5 apps listed and they add up to only 27% (the highest is screen at 12%).
Phone is not rooted and I haven't loaded any new apps recently.
I noticed this as well. I used to use Better Battery Stats when I was rooted, so I didn't know if it was normal to act this way or not. Sounds like it isn't.
Currently having the same issue. Seems like my battery started tanking right around Christmas. I got a Huawei watch and originally suspected that but turning it off and leaving it home for a day didn't seem to help. The battery stats on the S6 are garbage and I can't track down what is going on.
Been noticing the same issue on my G920A. I tried doing a cache clear, but that doesn't seem to have helped. I went through all the running apps and services to try and find anything that could be eating the battery, but nothing seems to be reported that adds up to the amount that's getting eaten.
I use greenify for handling the hibernation of apps when they don't seem to act right by themselves, but since the phone isn't rooted, I have to manually run this operation - and that really doesn't help much anyway. Figured I'd add my experience to this thread just as a means of documenting the situation.