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Anyone else have battery issues?

My fascinate lasted longer. This has been on standby more than used. Im even running autokiller and advanced taskiller
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Hmm
Bionic has
bigger screen, thus need more power
dual core process, thus need more power
LTE 4G, thus need more power
Hard to compare it against fascinate. Why my Lexus GS drain more gas than my Camry XLE V6. they are both V6..heheeh

yutzyscott said:
Im even running autokiller and advanced taskiller
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Try not doing that.

Looks like you have no 4G where you are... make sure you are set to CDMA only in the network settings.

My battery seems to suck a little bit, too. On the drive in to work this morning, a 1 hour commute, my bionic sat on the seat next to me without being used. It still managed to chomp through 20% of the battery. So, basically at that rate, I'll get 5 hours of standby. Wonder if something is wrong?
Bluetooth (which seems to be a battery hog) was off, wifi was off... not sure what to do other than swap the battery with a replacement.

install system panel, turn on monitoring for everything, use that to determine how much cpu useage apps are using.
if you have an app(s) that are using near 100% cpu useage 24x7 that would happen

I have had the phone since 9am yesterday and have not been impressed with the battery so far. Today was the first full charge and I am at 60% after 2.5hrs. Most of my power consumption has been "Cell Standby" and not the screen which I would normally see.

Pitnefor said:
install system panel, turn on monitoring for everything, use that to determine how much cpu useage apps are using.
if you have an app(s) that are using near 100% cpu useage 24x7 that would happen
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Thanks! Will give it a try and report back. I hope I can get this resolved.
UPDATE: Installed System Panel and ran it for a couple days. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. I let the phone discharge completely and then charged it completely before turning it back on. I got about 26 hours of moderate use before it needed to be charged again. Slightly heavier use got me to about 15 hours. There doesn't appear to be anything wrong, and the battery is light-years better than that of my old Eris. So I'm happy!

I'm actually getting pretty good battery life.. I use wifi when im home and at the office. With moderate to heavy use I didn't need to charge my phone until at least 18 hours. I know most say its not necessary, but I have a habit of fully charging my phone prior to first use and allowing it to drain completely before recharging.. perhaps that helped..

My battery has been doing great so far. Been using it a lot today and I'm at 45 percent after 8 hours of use. In me experience, it takes a few full charges before a battery gets fully calibrated. I've read that elsewhere as well. I've been very satisfied so far with battery life. I keep it on wifi at home and work so that probably helps alot.

I would say do a few discharge/full charge cycles on the phone first. Give it a few days to calibrate properly.
Also custom ROM's should help to remove undoubtable bloat that this phone comes with.

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Looks like you have no 4G where you are... make sure you are set to CDMA only in the network settings.
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No 4G here either, didn't think to change that. Thanks! One additional question about the battery. I have a battery widget that displays the % remaining. I noticed that it drops in 10% increments instead of 1% like it used to on my Eris. I also checked About Phone > Status > Battery level and it seemed to decrease in 10% increments there as well. Is this normal with the Bionic? Or is something wrong with mine?
Has anyone else noticed this?

mine seems to be dropping by 10% as well, but my usage has been fairly good. Much better yesterday than today. Should know better if a day or two.

Task killers are bad since Froyo (2.2). Android actively manages applications and shuts them down when space is needed. Your task killed just winds up arm-wrestling with the OS, making both work overtime and not accomplishing a thing. Let the OS do what it's designed to do.
For those of you just starting with 4G, if you live in a non-4G area or are on the border where 4G and 3G constantly swap out, this will play hell on your battery, so turn 4G off unless you're in a place to take advantage of it.
Pentile screens are power sippers, so don't be surprised if your screen % is lower than normal.
I may be wrong, but I don't believe dual-core processors consume too much more power than single cores under normal circumstances.
Turn off bluetooth, satellite and wifi when not in use, and especially when unavailable. Leaving wifi up when you're away from home can chew up a lot of power as the phone is constantly seeking a signal.
Putting the screen on auto brightness may save some power. Also setting the screen time-out to a reasonable time will help.
Make sure you don't have a dozen accounts like Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo and Twitter checking for updates constantly.
You don't have to train lithium ion batteries like we used to with nickle-cadium back in the day, but your battery has some simple logic in it that takes care of housekeeping. When you first get it, and about once a month after, you should drain your phone's battery completely and then charge it back up. This helps the battery, and therefore the phone, understand how much power is left with greater accuracy. If you'd like to research this subject, I suggest Battery University and Apple.

I am having horrible battery issues now, my battery is not lasting 6 hours with very light usage.
right now my usages shows
Battery 15%
4h 56m 21s on battery
media 46%
cell standby 24%
phone idle 21%
voice calls 5%
display 4%
social location2%
this is the first time i have seen media at the top of the list, usually it is cell standby that has been using the most
this has been going on since saturday, i have two batteries and it does this on both, i figure it must be an app i loaded. i dont think i have loaded anything that i didnt use on my OGDroid but one of them must be disagreeing with the Bionic. i am planning and doing a factory reset tonight (as much as i hate doing it)
any other ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

effinay said:
My battery seems to suck a little bit, too. On the drive in to work this morning, a 1 hour commute, my bionic sat on the seat next to me without being used. It still managed to chomp through 20% of the battery. So, basically at that rate, I'll get 5 hours of standby. Wonder if something is wrong?
Bluetooth (which seems to be a battery hog) was off, wifi was off... not sure what to do other than swap the battery with a replacement.
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This is a 4G pitfall. You're probably going in and out of 4G/3G coverage... it may seem like a lot, but when your phone is constantly looking for 4G the battery goes QUICK. Your best bet? Turn on 3G only (cdma only) when you drive. There are widgets in the market that will take you directly to the setting.
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Right now im at 1 day 3 hours 46 minutes with 30% left. That's with an extended battery and mild use. Just testing, browsing xda app, and reading news in pulse. Few emails and some web browsing.
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Not sure what my battery life was before i rooted and debloated since i ran stock for about 15 mins, but with very heavy use i get about 7 hrs, with normal use i get about 16 hrs
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Battery life is incredible on this phone.
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so I did a hard reset and sent my phone back to factory default :-( and let it sit for a few hours with nothing on it except for juice plotter so i could monitor it and it was still pretty crappy I then removed everything i had copied from both SD cards (ie. photos, music and movies from my OGDroid) and let it sit for a few more hours and the batterylife improved dramatically, I am guessing there is an indexing service or a DRM service of some sort that is part of MOTOBLUR and it must have been continually hitting my cards.
today the battery life is back to normal. i have installed just a few things like friendcaster adwlauncher and a few others that i normally have and have used the phone moderately for the last 3 hours and it appears i might get another 10 - 12 hours outta of it..
does anyone know why i had issues when i put the media from my old phone onto my new one, do photos and videos have to be in a specific directory or on one of the two cards specifically??
any help would be appreciated.

[Q] Note Battery drain? Rate Your battery Life!O_o?

Hello,
im thinking on buying the Note =]
i wanted to ask "heavy","excessive" users how is the phone battery drain ?>
*how long your phone lasts without charge (excessive,heavy use)?
*how long your phone lasts without charge (normal use)?

Im only use any of my smartphones with excessive,heavy use.
I have only 2 full battery circles and im using stock root rom/kernel.
All my phones was with very good custom kernels and lower voltages cause i wanted to stay alive during the day (8-23:00).
Now,my battery keep up the day but more easy than my previous phones (you can see which in my sign).
So, even my battery is new with few full circles, even im not using custom kernel for uc or uv, its better than my previous smartphones.

For a 5.3" display the battery life is exceeding expectations.. Based on my usage it has more battery life than the Galaxy S2 altho movie time is still the same at 8:30hrs to 9:00

I think it's very hard to define excessive vs normal use. Also the usage patterns of different people varies greatly. mostly because some use wifi on 100% of the time, others just turn it on here and there to check emails. Same for background sync and autosync which are battery drainers . So it's really hard to compare...
I keep my Wifi constantly on, background sync on, autosync is off but I have a task in Tasker to autosync every three hours manually. I have some push emails in K9 and twitter, gtalk and tapatalk syncing.
So on a day of super heavy usage the phone will last about 16-17 hours (ofcourse that includes about 7 hours of sleep time). With normal to moderate use I can make about 24-27 hours.

Hi people! I'm noob here! (wanted to write new but couldn't resist!)
I recently bought the Note and been having a few hard times with a couple of things.
One of the specifics concern battery life. Having been showered in the awesomeness of a 2,5 ma battery i thought the battery would be invulnerable but i was wrong.
The first 4 days the battery lasted me quite fine having to charge the phone once every two days. Heavy consumption was done for brief periods of 1-1:30 hours where i would try to shape my phone in the image that i wanted.
By the end of the fourth day i had a respectable amount of apps inside but not too many to explain the fact that my battery life now has decreased to 1 day.
I kinda panicked when i noticed the difference and went ahead to install Juice defender and advanced task cleaner apps. What's weird is the fact that before i did i would charge the phone before going to bed at night and then pull the plug when it would be full. By the morning the phone had lost about 25% while inert!
Noticing that i would go to the battery use feature in settings and see that the radio(!) which i hadn't been using was eating away my battery's life along with the screen which was inactive as a consequence of the phone in locked mode and a few other apps which filled the rest of the loss.
I tried to kill apps and i use Juice defender pro in custom advanced mode effectively rendering the phone dead after locking. It still consumes the same percentage of battery although now it blames the radio less and the live wallpaper more.
Am i to assume that my battery has reached it's "puberty" and that's "normal" from now on or is there a problem i just can't diagnose due to lack of experience?
This phone is my first android device. I do not know my way around it although i am learning more and more in a rapid learning curve.
Please note anything you might think has escaped my attention.
Thank you.

Android 4.9 Marshmallow said:
Hi people! I'm noob here! (wanted to write new but couldn't resist!)
I recently bought the Note and been having a few hard times with a couple of things.
One of the specifics concern battery life. Having been showered in the awesomeness of a 2,5 ma battery i thought the battery would be invulnerable but i was wrong.
The first 4 days the battery lasted me quite fine having to charge the phone once every two days. Heavy consumption was done for brief periods of 1-1:30 hours where i would try to shape my phone in the image that i wanted.
By the end of the fourth day i had a respectable amount of apps inside but not too many to explain the fact that my battery life now has decreased to 1 day.
I kinda panicked when i noticed the difference and went ahead to install Juice defender and advanced task cleaner apps. What's weird is the fact that before i did i would charge the phone before going to bed at night and then pull the plug when it would be full. By the morning the phone had lost about 25% while inert!
Noticing that i would go to the battery use feature in settings and see that the radio(!) which i hadn't been using was eating away my battery's life along with the screen which was inactive as a consequence of the phone in locked mode and a few other apps which filled the rest of the loss.
I tried to kill apps and i use Juice defender pro in custom advanced mode effectively rendering the phone dead after locking. It still consumes the same percentage of battery although now it blames the radio less and the live wallpaper more.
Am i to assume that my battery has reached it's "puberty" and that's "normal" from now on or is there a problem i just can't diagnose due to lack of experience?
This phone is my first android device. I do not know my way around it although i am learning more and more in a rapid learning curve.
Please note anything you might think has escaped my attention.
Thank you.
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Your question is a little OT but i'll try to answer real quick.
25% loss of battery sounds about right if you have your Auto Sync ON.
Disable it and you'll go down to about 10% a night. Am i right or am i totally off here ?

mfractal said:
Your question is a little OT but i'll try to answer real quick.
25% loss of battery sounds about right if you have your Auto Sync ON.
Disable it and you'll go down to about 10% a night. Am i right or am i totally off here ?
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I'll try it and see tonight. Thanks mfractal. Having been an IPhone 3G owner i gotta say, it's still kinda disheartening to see that 10% battery loss overnight is considered "normal". Will work my way around purchasing a second backup battery for emergencies.
Thanks again.

Android 4.9 Marshmallow said:
I'll try it and see tonight. Thanks mfractal. Having been an IPhone 3G owner i gotta say, it's still kinda disheartening to see that 10% battery loss overnight is considered "normal". Will work my way around purchasing a second backup battery for emergencies.
Thanks again.
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i also come from an iphone, and yeah, you have to make some adjustments.
you can take that drain to 1-2% if you disable Background Sync.

this was my batteries first full cycle. but you should get a general idea of how it performed.
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running AntoniomistrettA ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1372619 )
this was what i would consider 'heavy' use, atleast by my standards. Edge only, Auto sync on, brightness at 75%, fairly frequent use.

Draining twice as fast after an update on apps this morning!
Hmmm, I have been using the Note for about 2 weeks now. With Juice Defender installed (with aggressive settings), I get by OK with the battery for a full day.
Well, that was until this morning when I ran an update of a few apps, and now I barely got to noon when the battery went completely drained. Same settings on Juice Defender.
Any clues on how to deal with this? I am thinking of reverting all the updates to double check.

guys, the steps to analyze battery drain are quite standard.
Download BetterBatteryStats (there's full version for free for XDA users, search the forum)
Download CPU Spy
Charge to 100%, reset statistics in CPU Spy and let the battery drain to 10-20%.
Then Analyze wakelocks in BetterBatteryStats and you will see which programs keep your phone awake.
If you want to make sure the phone is entering sleep mode and staying there, reset cpu spy stats before going to sleep and check in the morning. more than 90% of the time the phone should be in deep sleep. If not - again, betterbatterystats's wakelocks will show you what's keeping the phone awake.

mfractal said:
i also come from an iphone, and yeah, you have to make some adjustments.
you can take that drain to 1-2% if you disable Background Sync.
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That's EXACTLY what happened! I am stunned! I left the phone last night at 97% and found it this morning at 95%!!! When i saw it i was dumbfounded!
Thank you very much mfractal!

Android 4.9 Marshmallow said:
That's EXACTLY what happened! I am stunned! I left the phone last night at 97% and found it this morning at 95%!!! When i saw it i was dumbfounded!
Thank you very much mfractal!
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sure NP.
problem is that background sync is required by quite a lot of programs to function correctly. Hell, market won't even open with it disabled.

My battery life is pretty good atm considering its still a new toy and gets a heavy workout.
The battery life will improve over time as my usage will drop but with the screen it pretty much can replace my pc for any basic web stuff outside off the heavy duty work only a high spec PC is good for.

Disabling background sync defeats the purpose of having a smart phone, no?
mfractal said:
sure NP.
problem is that background sync is required by quite a lot of programs to function correctly. Hell, market won't even open with it disabled.
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I do like my phone and the screen real estate, and understand that, it can be major battery hog. But I would really like it to be super efficient when the screen is off.
I was looking at my battery drain graphs, (Settings>About Phone>battery usage) and noticed that my phone is active almost all through the night, (even when the screen is off).
So i loose 25-30 overnight, on IDLE.
Is this normal?
I'm using Exchange instead of the Gmail app for my mail. Does that use more battery?
Regards

gaddy888 said:
I do like my phone and the screen real estate, and understand that, it can be major battery hog. But I would really like it to be super efficient when the screen is off.
I was looking at my battery drain graphs, (Settings>About Phone>battery usage) and noticed that my phone is active almost all through the night, (even when the screen is off).
So i loose 25-30 overnight, on IDLE.
Is this normal?
I'm using Exchange instead of the Gmail app for my mail. Does that use more battery?
Regards
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Of course gmail use more battery like every app running in background and syncing.
But your battery drain overnight is really so much.
The normal is 1% per hour without any app syncing in background and about 2% or 3% with background syncing apps.So you must check your apps.Something draining your battery.
Overall,i don't believe that note battery isn't good.i think Samsung haven't done so good work in filmwares and apps.
I have removed the most of Samsung apps and my battery is great.
Maybe a update from Samsung solved battery issue.In nexus previous days released a filmware update which change amazing the battery life.users mention that they loose 2% overnight.And before this update nexus battery sucks!
So, we must pray for something similar in our note from Samsung...
Sent from the best smartphone, Galaxy Note...

Do you have auto sync on? If so please turn it off and watch the drain overnight drop to about 10%
If not then we got a problem

I got my Note two weeks ago and am since struggling with my battery usage as well.
It's hard to reproduce, but Android OS is the reason for excessive battery usage when the phone is idle.
Today I found this quite interesting. Please have a look at this screenshot:
Since a few days ago I'm using Llama to control some settings on my phone, but the drainage was present before I installed Llama.
When you look at the first gap in WiFi usage you can see the phone disconnecting from my WiFi router at home (TP-Link TL-WR1043ND) when Llama disabled my WiFi.
About 20 minutes later, when I arrived at the office, Llama reactivates WiFi and my phone connects to our WiFi access point at the office (TP-Link TL-WA801ND).
At this point Android OS usage goes up considerably and it won't stop, even if I disable the phone's WiFi.
Actually at the second, larger gap in WiFi usage I disabled the WiFi connection manually which caused my phone to stay awake until I activate WiFi again.
Edit: Using Titanium Backup I have frozen Wifi-Sharing and the Wifi Manager.
Apart from that, Wifi usage was never an issue on my old Milestone, where I had Wifi enabled permanently and the battery lasted for 4-5 days.
I'd be glad to provide more information if that could help figure out the cause of AOS's battery usage.
My phone is currently running:
PDA: N7000XXKK9
PHONE: N7000XXKK5
CSC: N7000OXAKK9
I installed FM-Kernel 1.4, hoping it would fix this issue. It did for a day or so...
Apart from the kernel it's the newest 2.3.6 stock ROM I received via FOTA though.

I easily get a good day out of mine with quite a bit of use. If use mine lightly I can get 2 days out of mine. If you are in need of urgent 3G switch 3G off to GSM to conserve battery life.

desiregeek said:
I easily get a good day out of mine with quite a bit of use. If use mine lightly I can get 2 days out of mine. If you are in need of urgent 3G switch 3G off to GSM to conserve battery life.
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Sorry, I forgot to include it in my post.
Since I got the phone I have it set to 2G only, because I used up my monthly quota and am getting throttled to GPRS speeds anyway. So the 3G connection isn't the issue either.
Apart from that this happens in flight mode as well.

[Q] Battery Problems - falling from 70 to 0 %

Hello,
i have a bad problem with my LG starting from day one when i bought it. I tried many things now, to no avail.
The problem is that sometimes my battery falls from high percent value to 0 just in one second. then the mobile goes out and i have to charge it, even it was nearly full some minutes ago.
Another problem is a warm mobile in standby mode when i have mobile inet active, and battery wont last longer than 4 hours. With WIFI it doesnt get warm but starts to decerase RAM until the mobile is unusable (timeouts, freezes, ect)
So there are 3 problems, i think related together somehow:
1. sudden Akku drainage, falling from high percent value to zero
2. fast akku drainage with mobile inet on, doesnt fall from #to zero, but get used up very fast
3. Unusable mobile due to RAM issues when WIFI activated.
Here are following some pics and a Log attached from Android Stats. Here you can see starting at 9.34 the bettery recalculations, in very short timeframes.
Can someone see any issues from the log what could be the problem?
The situation was like this: I recharged yesterday evening, and turned mobile inet on. Then i went to sleep. In the morning i saw that i had no connection to google servers (icons white instead on green) but i saw the battery was only drained 2% over night so i thought not bad.
I reactivated internet (mobile) in hope to get conn to google servers. Well, i got it but in same time the battery got drained from 98% to just 40% in one second. Since then the mobile stays warm. I have auto sync deactivated.
LOG
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I forgot:
Android 2.3.4 original, rooted but nothing changed on firmware/rom/baseband/anything

So i inserted screens now.

you have some kind of background application that doesnt let your phone enter deep sleep mode to lower cpu frequency and conserve battery (phone is awake when screen is not on, you can see the activity in the pictures). you should check what app is using most of the CPU time, it might not be code optimized and might be sucking too much of the battery.
also, it might help resetting the battery stats, search a bit and find some info on that (short version, charge it to 100%, let it for another hour plugged in, go in CM, delete battery stats, restart).
worst case scenario, your battery is busted and a replacement might be needed. hope that helps.

andrei.je said:
just a hint : most battery consumption can be checked in the battery stats, on the activity graph : awake vs screen on - if awake and screen on are not synced in the activity graph (should have same lines) then you have a problem. meaning when your phone has its screen off it should go into deep sleep mode (lower cpu frequency) but if you the phone is awake while screen is off, you have an application installed that won't let your phone sleep and just keeps using the cpu and sucking the battery.
this is mostly applied to standby battery life, if you are playing a game/watching a movie, doesn't really matter screen is on, cpu/gpu is sucking the battery.
my worst battery life while i had the O2X was about 16h, but that's with normal phone use (no games - you can have a psp for that, no music - you can have an ipod for that), mostly emails, browsing, IMs, calls/texts all day long also best battery life was 2d 10h (mostly on standby)
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Thanks for also answering my post on the other topic.
It may be that theres an app that keep our phone from sleep, but even with this app, when i dont turn on wifi or mobile internet, the mobile runs 6 days straight. This is no joke, offline it could hold 6 days, i have a screen of where it looses 8% in 28 hours. And as you can see on my screen, it happens from one second to the other.
I already changed the phone the third time now, even with very few installed apps, this remains. I had it first time on day one when bought th mobile. Since then in all 3 mobiles maybe 15 times.
Anyway, it bothered me, but not as much as that the phone went nearly unusable with internet active. Always at 50 mb ram. So it was basically an offline only phone. In my 2 tests, both 5 days without internet, the mobile neither went slow, nor went off, nor lost battry, nor anything. Very fast LG OS. Until internet...
Anyway, now i installed Chuck Norris CM /MIUI ROM, lets see what happens. Until now its so smooth and soft, it feels like a complete other mobile. Also with wifi active... but i cannot say anything until tomorrow.
I tested already a lot of System Analyzer apps but theres really not much to see. Nothing seem to use much battery in whole. At least nothing that explains a loss of 70% in 5 seconds.
I posted a log here, thats the best thing to see i guess, but i cannot really read it well :-(
Anyway, your help is appreciated
Click here to see log

Saenchai said:
Thanks for also answering my post on the other topic.
It may be that theres an app that keep our phone from sleep, but even with this app, when i dont turn on wifi or mobile internet, the mobile runs 6 days straight. This is no joke, offline it could hold 6 days, i have a screen of where it looses 8% in 28 hours. And as you can see on my screen, it happens from one second to the other.
I already changed the phone the third time now, even with very few installed apps, this remains. I had it first time on day one when bought th mobile. Since then in all 3 mobiles maybe 15 times.
Anyway, it bothered me, but not as much as that the phone went nearly unusable with internet active. Always at 50 mb ram. So it was basically an offline only phone. In my 2 tests, both 5 days without internet, the mobile neither went slow, nor went off, nor lost battry, nor anything. Very fast LG OS. Until internet...
Anyway, now i installed Chuck Norris CM /MIUI ROM, lets see what happens. Until now its so smooth and soft, it feels like a complete other mobile. Also with wifi active... but i cannot say anything until tomorrow.
I tested already a lot of System Analyzer apps but theres really not much to see. Nothing seem to use much battery in whole. At least nothing that explains a loss of 70% in 5 seconds.
I posted a log here, thats the best thing to see i guess, but i cannot really read it well :-(
Anyway, your help is appreciated
I think the problem is caused by the battery stat file. Avoiding the techinical causes you should only charge the phone untill 100% and using battery calibration (you can donwload it for free from market) calibrate the battery! Hope to be helpful ^_*
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[Q] Odd battery usage on lg optimus 4x hd

Hello xda-developers,
I'm having some trouble with my lg optimus 4x hd, the battery is mostly drained by the android system, which doesn't normally use a lot of battery.
I would show a screenshot of the battery usage but I can't upload any links yet.
I hope someone else has had this problem and knows how to fix it.
Thanks in advance,
Cas

Cas van Boekholdt said:
Hello xda-developers,
I'm having some trouble with my lg optimus 4x hd, the battery is mostly drained by the android system, which doesn't normally use a lot of battery.
I would show a screenshot of the battery usage but I can't upload any links yet.
I hope someone else has had this problem and knows how to fix it.
Thanks in advance,
Cas
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this subject has been discussed in many topics, search for baseband wakelock, there is no "cure"

xtribas said:
this subject has been discussed in many topics, search for baseband wakelock, there is no "cure"
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Thank you for the reply,
I searched for baseband wakelock but i can't seem to find anything that solves my problem. If you have found any kind of solution can you give me a link please?

Cas van Boekholdt said:
Thank you for the reply,
I searched for baseband wakelock but i can't seem to find anything that solves my problem. If you have found any kind of solution can you give me a link please?
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like i said before, there is no cure. I bought a second battery so i have juice the whole day

xtribas said:
like i said before, there is no cure. I bought a second battery so i have juice the whole day
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Thank you very much for your replies. At least now i know there's nothing I can do to solve it so I can stop searching.

Cas van Boekholdt said:
Thank you very much for your replies. At least now i know there's nothing I can do to solve it so I can stop searching.
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I'm not sure. This is more like an o4x issue. I had the same: battery usage is 60% Android system, followed by mobile stand by 18% and some more minor percentages.
My Samsung uses most power by use of the display.
So 60% is far too much.
I am trying to find out what I can achieve by rooting and freezing some apps and/or using Greenify. What I hear is that upgrading to Jelly bean causes more trouble.

Airplane mode - causes lots of baseband_xmm_power wakeups
WiFi on when not connected to router - same
Use e.g Tasker to turn on wi-fi when screen is on, and turn off when screen is off. Right now, I have baseband_xmm_power usage at 0.8%, after 16 hours of on time and about 1h 10min screen on. Try experimenting a little more! Using the WiFi>advanced>Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep is not recommended, as it causes a lot of wake locks... :laugh:

I experimented a lot and since yesterday I managed to use less than 10% while asleep. Before that it used 30% or more during the night (about 8 hours).
After disabling a number of processes I can see now that the Android system uses only 12% in stead of 60. The Android Operatingsystem even 2% only. On top is now Mobile Stand-by (42%) en Inactive phone (39%).
This is very satisfying. I did not really documented what I disabled, but now I can root my phone in order to disable things one by one permanently. Because I guess that most of the processes that I disabled will probably be active after rebooting the o4x.
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check the first 8 hours of 'doing nothing' cause 30% loss of power
And after:
not complete, but after 8 hours of sleep less than 10% loss of power and the next 90 minutes intensive use - phone calls, twitter, mail....

@xtribas if he's still on 4.0.3 stock, this might be a different issue -- same as mine: 80% of the time a full wakelock held by "com.android.providers.settings" -- nothing seen of baseband_xmm here (though I used a different tool than BBS to check -- will switch-over to BBS next for verification).
@Mauvan mind to tell us what you changed, and how your progress / long-time effects are? As we two seem to share a similar problem, I would be very much interested in your details!

Izzysoft said:
@xtribas if he's still on 4.0.3 stock, this might be a different issue -- same as mine: 80% of the time a full wakelock held by "com.android.providers.settings" -- nothing seen of baseband_xmm here (though I used a different tool than BBS to check -- will switch-over to BBS next for verification).
@Mauvan mind to tell us what you changed, and how your progress / long-time effects are? As we two seem to share a similar problem, I would be very much interested in your details!
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on ICS the baseband wakelock is not present... even so... revert to ICS is not an option for me...

As I did not update yet (stock JB is no option for me, as some of my apps wouldn't work well anymore -- e.g. LBE, and no, the localized Chinese "Master" is no option for me either), there's nothing to revert. But as I wrote: I clearly can see the same issue Mauvan has reported, and am just trying to figure out what that should be. No idea why some "provider settings" should need a "full wakelock" for 12+ hours between ~8am and ~21pm. Funny thing, though: deep sleep is more than the 1h difference to-be-expected, but something > 6h.

@Izzysoft: I upgraded a few days ago to JB and disabled a dozen of programs like Application Manager, Cell Broadcast, some widgets (contacts, memo etc.), Picasa uploader and stuff like that, which I don'use or force Stopping some apps (no permanent solution though).
All these tricks help a little. Yesterday the battery was almost empty after a little more than 15 hours. Not much, because it was not a day of extensive use of my phone.
At this moment I see that my battery load is 72% after 5 hours en 24 minutes.
I'll continue reading forums like this and decide this weekend if it would help to root my phone and look for more permanent solutions. I am not considering Cyanogenmod's rom because there's still no stable version. I've seen great performance improvement of this rom on galaxy s plus, so there is hope.

@Mauvan so you don't remember what you did back on 4.0.3 -- or did you start this thread when already being on JB?
Seeing your numbers, I cannot complain: ~70% is what my 4X goes back on the dock at night, after ~15..16h. Estimated battery time altogether is around 2 days for me (and yes, my device is rooted and I disabled/froze a lot of that stock crap, bloatware and mafia-ware -- e.g. the RemoteCall stuff which does not accept a "No" as answer). Still room for improvement: If I can get hold of that stupid "com.android.providers.settings" WakeLock, I should end up with 80%+ and an overall estimated battery time of 3d+, nice for a weekend in the hills

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so you don't remember what you did back on 4.0.3 -- or did you start this thread when already being on JB?
Seeing your numbers, I cannot complain: ~70% is what my 4X goes back on the dock at night, after ~15..16h. Estimated battery time altogether is around 2 days for me (and yes, my device is rooted and I disabled/froze a lot of that stock crap, bloatware and mafia-ware -- e.g. the RemoteCall stuff which does not accept a "No" as answer). Still room for improvement: If I can get hold of that stupid "com.android.providers.settings" WakeLock, I should end up with 80%+ and an overall estimated battery time of 3d+, nice for a weekend in the hills
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No, when I started this thread I still had ICS. However, those statistics where too optimistic. After a few hours it went down & down & down. That's why I tried JB. Seems smoother, but drains the same.
Now it's my turn to ask what crap you disabled/froze etc. and what additional apps do you use to achieve that. I would be Very Very happy if my battery time should be, let's say, 24 hours at least.

As not everything is freeze-able from Settings->Apps, I used the friendly Titanium Backup (one of the first paid Android apps I aquired, and never regret) for the remains:
Chrome
E-Mail (believe it or not: even unconfigured it consumed battery by permanently trying to do some Exchange-Stuff!)
Email-Widget
Stock News
Google Play Books
Google Play Movies
Google+
Google Bookmarks Sync (just now, as they ran their sync though I unchecked it in Account & Sync)
LG On-Screen Phone
LGSetupWizard
Live Wallpaper Picker
Maps (using Titaniums freeze/unfreeze widget on my homescreen: unfreeze+start on demand with a single tap, then freeze again with another tap. Must not run in background 24/7/365 when only needed 2-3 times a year
PC Suite Service
PC Suite UI
Remote support service
RemoteCall Service (Mafia! That's the one which did not accept a "No")
Social Networks
Android Live Wallpaper
Today Widget
SmartWorld
World Time
After that, installed Apex Launcher -- and like my phone. Except for that minor juice-sucker

thumbs up! (except I need exchange for workthings)
And did you do anything with the LG-loggings and MLT stuff (hidden menu + apk)?

HiddenMenu I just used to peak into what's available, but did not actually change anything. What I'd like to know is about the LocMgr* stuff: Name suggests a "location service". I couldn't find any information on what it really does (as LocationService usually is included with the Google Apps, this looks like a dupe to me), so I didn't dare to freeze the two. Any idea what it could be about? Or even a reference on what it really is about?

No I'm not sure what it all means and I do not like to experiment in those settings. I've read some threads about the MLT like this one and that one.
In the mean time I just rooted my JB and freezed a bunch of apps. I'll let you know the improvements (I hope!!).

I hope for both (improvements and report)
EDIT: Wow, thanks for the Linx! Read that about MLT:
I just disabled it.. lost the weird battery drain from "Android System" that I've been having lately..
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Looks like there is my culprit, huh? I just disabled MLT -- let's see how it goes. So now, we both wait for the report of each other LOL

so far so bad
disappointing, because the first night it should be in deep sleep. But instead it consumed 35% in 9 hours. Annoying issue seems to be Cell Standby, responsible for 44% of this drain. Famous wakelock baseband_xmm_power (says BetterBatteryStats).
What I figured out is that there was still one process looking for my location. Wifi disabled in sleepmode, it tried to find access to 3g, but in my house on that place there's not enough coverage (no signal during 56% of total uptime). Might be the age of my sim card? Dunno.
This afternoon I freezed almost all apps like in this link.
Tomorrow I hope to know more.
Edit (17th May):
I rooted my O4X, I installed a root browser, Titanium Backup, SuperSU, BetterBatteryStats.
I watched and monitored. Even tested Tasker (to reduce Cell Standby wake locks). I got a new sim card to replace my (very) old one.
Yes, it improved, but too little. Last night, after so many freezes in Titanium, O4X lost 10% in 8 hours.... doing nothing.
I'm beginning to regret buying this P880. It could be a bad battery, but I doubt it. Too many issues here and elsewhere on the internet about the battery drain.
Also looked at CyanogenMod experiences. This rom gives some people issues like these.
Trade it for an S II plus?

Poor battery performance, what to do?

Hey guys, I'm wondering what can I do to improve my Note 8 battery life. Seems to me that is draining and I do not get the chance to use it too much. Maybe you have an idea how to optimize and track the apps are overusing the battery, so far I was not able to detect which app/component drains my battery. Even Samsung seems that doesn't know since there is no message regarding background processes with heavy usage.
Basically I finished fully charging at 9:15 AM and now 16:15PM time I started to write the post and make the screenshots, it has 16%. What I did all this time with the phone, was:
- a bit of browsing,
- make one NFC payment,
- have the S3 gear connected on bluetooth.
- few twitter messages and viber really small usage. (less than 40 messages overall)
So here are my settings
- WIFI is off and I'm using 3G connection (I stopped LTE thinking that requires more battery.. , correct me if I'm wrong please),
- screen not even on 50% and auto brightness off (using HD+ and a dark theme, everything is so dark!)
- AOD
- no led, no gestures (most of them I turn off for testing purpose)
- Medium battery saver on.
- No phone calls
- few notifications (not more than 20, also the notification is optimized to apps I'm concerned)
Any suggestion how to make it to end of working day .. at least?
I was waiting so long for a new note and now I'm a bit disappointed and I hope that is something I do wrong..
Funny is I just realized that by mistake I put the phone on airplane mode while making the screenshots, still percentage was flying away even like this. I lost 2% making screenshots in a matter of couple of minutes.
Please find the screenshots attached in the link down bellow, were to big to add them to the post.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7hYWRFdyQqPOFp3alVYNUxJUW8?usp=sharing
Thanks!

you might have some apps draining battery. I'm used to a rooted phone, so I'd always check with wakelock detector, but I'm not sure what you can do without installing an app as a system app.
Try factory resetting your phone and using it without installing anything for a day and see what the battery life is like. If it's significantly better, install your apps 1 by 1 until you find out which one is causing unnecessary cpu cycles or wakelocks.

Quiksmage said:
you might have some apps draining battery. I'm used to a rooted phone, so I'd always check with wakelock detector, but I'm not sure what you can do without installing an app as a system app.
Try factory resetting your phone and using it without installing anything for a day and see what the battery life is like. If it's significantly better, install your apps 1 by 1 until you find out which one is causing unnecessary cpu cycles or wakelocks.
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But I wonder, I shouldn't see the heavy usage on the battery info page? Like which app does most of the usage and time spend in the background or CPU?

I had excessive battery drain, about 10-11% an hour with every off . A full factory reset cured the problem.

What's your screen on time usage? 5-6 is probably the normal amount you would get with most phones (This is the most important thing if nothings draining the battery). And yes, it seems you might need a factory reset.

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But I wonder, I shouldn't see the heavy usage on the battery info page? Like which app does most of the usage and time spend in the background or CPU?
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You won't always see this as it could be a byproduct causing a kernel wakelock.
Either way, something is acting incorrectly. The only way to really figure it out is to start over and try things slowly till you find out what it is.
For instance, on my nvidia shield tablet k-1, I was getting horrendous battery life on every single rom, stock or AOSP/Lineage. I found that I was getting 30% wakelock killing ~20% battery life per day when it should be sub 5%. I found that wifi was causing these kernel wakelocks and setting wifi to be disabled with the screen off unless charging fixed the issue entirely.
Now, that anecdote likely has nothing to do with what you're experiencing, but note that you can usually find out what's wrong from trial and error.

I've had my note 8 for 6 days now, and battery life is excellent, i mean i have wi-fi and 4g lte on all the time, bluetooth on all the time, sync with 3 emails, Facebook, weather widget, weather screen refresh every 30mins, location high accuracy, edge lighting, aod schedule 7pm-7am, was 100% at 6am, played games on it lots, used the phone 2x, 1 hour call and a 30 mins call, text messages, it's 130pm and I'm at 55%, try a factory reset then log in to your gmail then just try to update the phone if there is any. Then reboot then start installing your apps. If it doesn't work call carrier customer service and complain about the battery not holding up like some people you know who has note 8. They might replace it with a new one.
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What's your screen on time usage? 5-6 is probably the normal amount you would get with most phones (This is the most important thing if nothings draining the battery). And yes, it seems you might need a factory reset.
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Phone died 15-20 minutes after I did the screenshots, so a bit more than 2 hours...
So.. yeah.. I will try a factory reset and start install all the apps bit by bit and see which one causes the troubles.. hopefully is nothing more than that.

Did you restore a backup or did you load your apps fresh from the play store?
I've had horrible luck with issues like battery life restoring from backups. I always install apps fresh.

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Did you restore a backup or did you load your apps fresh from the play store?
I've had horrible luck with issues like battery life restoring from backups. I always install apps fresh.
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I did a google restore from backup! Damn! And I was thinking that I should maybe to a clean, one by one app install.

My battery life is also not great but im using full resolution and when i remember time when i got S6 edge on launch....the battery was horrible but after few updates it was perfect so stay strong and wait a bit

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My battery life is also not great but im using full resolution and when i remember time when i got S6 edge on launch....the battery was horrible but after few updates it was perfect so stay strong and wait a bit
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can you translate "not great" in hours? :laugh: Because I will say that mine is second after horrible.. with update done.
I will start the reset in a short while and I will test it tomorrow with minimum apps installed.. those which I really must have in a working day..

Maximum 5 hrs on wifi normally about 3-4 battery is not great on note yet....some optimalization would be nice

I use Ampere to monitor the instan drain of current. In a quiet situation (screen on, internet or tapatalk browsing, gear connected, wifi and data turned on) you should have something 200 mA drain.
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Maybe some of the settings changes you're making are somehow rendering your phone less efficient.
I have the USA unlocked version and use it as it came without changing to a dark theme or turning anything off and the battery life is much better than yours.

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Did you restore a backup or did you load your apps fresh from the play store?
I've had horrible luck with issues like battery life restoring from backups. I always install apps fresh.
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I restored from a helium backup. My battery life wasn't good for about a week but it did last all day down to 20-30% at the end of the day. After a week it has improved maybe due to apps updating. Now I'm at 70-80% at the end of the day with moderate use. I have disabled several apps I didn't need as well.

Seems like it's hit or miss with the battery life. I see a lot of people happy and some are having problems. Hopefully Samsung might push a update to help.

Get cpu spy and verify that your devoce is going into deep sleep when off(mine wasnt at first until i froze/removed some rouge apps). Install accubattery and do a benchmark and see how your battery does. At least do 6 discharge cycles first to see an average. Also, in device maintenance, you can make all apps doze when not being used now.. this is a new feature. Add all of your apps and they get put to sleep immediately. I get 8 hours SOT this way
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Raklik said:
Hey guys, I'm wondering what can I do to improve my Note 8 battery life. Seems to me that is draining and I do not get the chance to use it too much. Maybe you have an idea how to optimize and track the apps are overusing the battery, so far I was not able to detect which app/component drains my battery. Even Samsung seems that doesn't know since there is no message regarding background processes with heavy usage.
Basically I finished fully charging at 9:15 AM and now 16:15PM time I started to write the post and make the screenshots, it has 16%. What I did all this time with the phone, was:
- a bit of browsing,
- make one NFC payment,
- have the S3 gear connected on bluetooth.
- few twitter messages and viber really small usage. (less than 40 messages overall)
So here are my settings
- WIFI is off and I'm using 3G connection (I stopped LTE thinking that requires more battery.. , correct me if I'm wrong please),
- screen not even on 50% and auto brightness off (using HD+ and a dark theme, everything is so dark!)
- AOD
- no led, no gestures (most of them I turn off for testing purpose)
- Medium battery saver on.
- No phone calls
- few notifications (not more than 20, also the notification is optimized to apps I'm concerned)
Any suggestion how to make it to end of working day .. at least?
I was waiting so long for a new note and now I'm a bit disappointed and I hope that is something I do wrong..
Funny is I just realized that by mistake I put the phone on airplane mode while making the screenshots, still percentage was flying away even like this. I lost 2% making screenshots in a matter of couple of minutes.
Please find the screenshots attached in the link down bellow, were to big to add them to the post.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7hYWRFdyQqPOFp3alVYNUxJUW8?usp=sharing
Thanks!
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You dont have to use med battery saver either, just read my reply on this thread and you will be good. You may have to experiment a little to get your device to go into deep sleep when screen off. Mine didnt at first. Its on my other comment
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I got back from work and my phone was at 75% that's between 9:30am and 6:30 pm. So my battery life is pretty good. I lose about 5% overnight.

I average 7hrs screen time Got 8hrs yesterday
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