[Q] Poor battery on JB - RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi. I recently flashed JB 91.2.26001.Retail.en.EU to my Razr i XT890. Ever since I've noticed a weaker radio and significantly poorer battery performance to my stock ICS ROM. Am based in UK so should I have flashed Orange.GB version or does it not really matter? To try to get to the bottom of batter problem I installed BetterBatteryStats. However I'm not really able to decipher the log file. Main culprit seems to be FDCompleteTime and AudioOut_2.
Can anyone help on this? Have attached the logfile and a screenshot which seems to show my phone is awake quite a lot of the time. Furthermore, it seems like its constantly overheating even when idle.
Thanks

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It seems, that your phone can't hold the deep sleep mode for a long time ( only 1h is written in your log) and it remains 2h on 2Ghz which also may cause the high battery consumption.
Some days ago, I had very high battery consumption, too. A reboot fixed it for me.
I'm not a pro, so i can't say anything else.
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cupioscire said:
It seems, that your phone can't hold the deep sleep mode for a long time ( only 1h is written in your log) and it remains 2h on 2Ghz which also may cause the high battery consumption.
Some days ago, I had very high battery consumption, too. A reboot fixed it for me.
I'm not a pro, so i can't say anything else.
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Thanks for taking an interest. Suffice to say I've rebooted many times..

Have you got Viber installed?
I had the same problem and I discovered that the latest version of viber (which does not work with razr i JB) was eating my battery.
I uninstalled it and installed a previous version (using Aptoide) and everything is fine since...

BigCon said:
Have you got Viber installed?
I had the same problem and I discovered that the latest version of viber (which does not work with razr i JB) was eating my battery.
I uninstalled it and installed a previous version (using Aptoide) and everything is fine since...
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Giving that a shot... just uninstalled Viber!

Derodraaa said:
Giving that a shot... just uninstalled Viber!
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Get rid of Viber and clear data/cache then factory reset and you'll get decent consumption.

piskr said:
Get rid of Viber and clear data/cache then factory reset and you'll get decent consumption.
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I'm rooted using a homemade fastboot with this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1936512 . Am not sure I can do a factory reset.

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Derodraaa said:
I'm rooted using a homemade fastboot with this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1936512 . Am not sure I can do a factory reset.
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Yes you can do a factory reset. Just boot into stock or, if you have, custom recovery and choose wipe data/factory reset.
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Thanks to all who helped point me in right direction. I've deleted Viber and did a factory reset through recovery and phone seems to be operating normally now. I was also suffering from AudioOut_2 causing too many partial wakelocks but think they arose from a game leaving audio handles open or a buggy music player that kept crashing. Dropping volume to zero on game and removing the music player seems to have reduced that. Phone is no longer overheating and battery lasts well over a day under normal use.

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Galaxy note over heating (System UI hogging CPU)

Hi,
I've a G-Note running ICS-4.0.3 , i recently noticed my phone is getting really hot and resetting automatically at times, on closer investigation i see 'CPU spy' data showing my phone running constantly at 1400Mhz mode!!! wanting to find which process is doing this, i downloaded watchdog lite and noticed that 'System UI' process is running at 49% approx CONSTANTLY, killing it re-spwans the process!! any idea whats causing this?? Please Help!!
Not rooted, never flashed, on original upgrade, have nova launcher, use it rarely. no other launchers installed.
Restart fixes this sometimes, sometimes not.
Thanks in advance,
Ramgo.
ramgo89 said:
Hi,
I've a G-Note running ICS-4.0.3 , i recently noticed my phone is getting really hot and resetting automatically at times, on closer investigation i see 'CPU spy' data showing my phone running constantly at 1400Mhz mode!!! wanting to find which process is doing this, i downloaded watchdog lite and noticed that 'System UI' process is running at 49% approx CONSTANTLY, killing it re-spwans the process!! any idea whats causing this?? Please Help!!
Thanks in advance,
Ramgo.
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Have you installed anything lately?
galaxynotes said:
Have you installed anything lately?
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Not that i can think of as a problem, been happening for a while now, could be any of the app! i have like 200 installed!!
Now its not system UI, its android syste, badass battery monitor shows kenel to have taken most of the battery (which seems mostly loop task, is this bad) and then android core process.
ramgo89 said:
Not that i can think of as a problem, been happening for a while now, could be any of the app! i have like 200 installed!!
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well try to remember from which app on this issue showed up.I had battery drain problem turned out it was because of an app that I had installed.So I unistalled it and my problem went away.Yours should be easy to spot try unistalling the recent apps or the ones you're suspicious of and see when you get deepsleep.
Check your battery status and see for the battery eater apps
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danteoo7 said:
Check your battery status and see for the battery eater apps
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its android system process now, badass battery monitor shows kenel to have taken most of the battery (which seems mostly loop task, is this bad) and then android core process. Not something i can uninstall, i have done a lot of analysis before reaching out for help!
galaxynotes said:
well try to remember from which app on this issue showed up.I had battery drain problem turned out it was because of an app that I had installed.So I unistalled it and my problem went away.Yours should be easy to spot try unistalling the recent apps or the ones you're suspicious of and see when you get deepsleep.
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I infact got deep sleep the whole day, 15 hrs just 10 percent drained! this problem has been occuring intermittently, deep sleep is still happenning, but when the phone is screen ON, its in the highest mode.
Hmm things got complicated.Like I said if everything used to be normal then all of a sudden this problem began then it should be an app I suppose?!Just like my case.
Install OS Monitor and see what's hogging your cpu maybe you can pinpoint the application if that's the case.
did anybody have a problem with Gsam battery monitor after it was upgraded from Badass battery monitor??? i was looking at it and was showing 100% battery drain due to application ( 0% for screen and phone radio)!! i have uninstalled it and seems fine i guess! atleast for now! charging now and its in the expected 200Mhz state.
galaxynotes said:
Hmm things got complicated.Like I said if everything used to be normal then all of a sudden this problem began then it should be an app I suppose?!Just like my case.
Install OS Monitor and see what's hogging your cpu maybe you can pinpoint the application if that's the case.
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Yes will do that!! Thanks! read my comment below, i think GSam Battery monitor submits some task or makes some query to the kernel which makes it to go in a loop, hence the android system seems to be using more CPU and not battery monitor itself
The problem is back!! HELP!!
I checked OS monitor, nothing seem to be hogging, occasionally android system, overhearting near the camera and resetting automatically, please HELP!!!
ramgo89 said:
I checked OS monitor, nothing seem to be hogging, occasionally android system, overhearting near the camera and resetting automatically, please HELP!!!
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same here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1770414
Hello,
I'm having a similar problem. When my Note is in standby sometimes it overheats without any apparent reason and battery drains very fast.
I haven't been able to trace the origin of this problem. I'm running on ICS 4.0.3 stock and no ROOT.
marcofs said:
Hello,
I'm having a similar problem. When my Note is in standby sometimes it overheats without any apparent reason and battery drains very fast.
I haven't been able to trace the origin of this problem. I'm running on ICS 4.0.3 stock and no ROOT.
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Have you installed any kind of launcher on your phone? If you have, do try to uninstall it for now. Install BetterBatteryStats, turn off any data connection.. 3G, Wifi, Bluetooth.. Remove any Live wallpapers(just use a static one), Uninstall any apps that connect or syncs online.
The last thing I could advice you is turn off Airplane Mode (at night), charge up your phone to 100% and just leave it for a day. Check back on BetterBatteryStats after on what apps/wakelocks is triggering the overheating.
letters_to_cleo said:
Have you installed any kind of launcher on your phone? If you have, do try to uninstall it for now. Install BetterBatteryStats, turn off any data connection.. 3G, Wifi, Bluetooth.. Remove any Live wallpapers(just use a static one), Uninstall any apps that connect or syncs online.
The last thing I could advice you is turn off Airplane Mode (at night), charge up your phone to 100% and just leave it for a day. Check back on BetterBatteryStats after on what apps/wakelocks is triggering the overheating.
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Lot's of work... I'll have to find some time to try all of that.
Thanks.
Early last week my Note started to reboot whitout any apparent reason. It happened 2 to 3 times a day. Specially in the morning when battery was still above 60%.
The overheating also happened from time to time but not everyday.
Saturday I figured I had to do something extreme to end this.
First I downgraded to a pre-rooted GB rom. Afterwards wiped the GB rom. Then upgraded to stock ICS. Everything worked out fine and was very easy to perform, thanks to all the guides available on XDA.
Last of all I rooted the ICS.
Until now the Note hasn't overheated or rebooted again.
I really thought it would be harder to do all this. But now I think it would take me about 20 min to do all these procedures.
Thanks to all the people that posted the guides on XDA.
Keep it in the deep freeze for 10 minutes it shall solve your problem
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Whiskeyjack4855 said:
Keep it in the deep freeze for 10 minutes it shall solve your problem
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I'll take that as a joke.
Three days in and still no unwanted reboots or overheating.
Gents if you have nothing constructive to provide in assisting the users with real help, please refrain from off topic mindless humor. Thank you.
A week after I've re-flashed ICS on my Note, the unwanted reboots have come back.
It must be some app I've installed again or maybe something much worse. I've read lots of threads and was wondering if a custom kernel and a different ROM might solve this problem.
One thing I've noted, the reboots never happen at night only during the day (mid-morning and mid-afternoon).
Any new ideas to help me find the source of this problem?
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I'm running on LPY Kernel, so wipe is not an option...

Baseband_xmm_power wakelock

Hey I have a problem with battery drain..AGAIN! My battery drained over night abnormally, over 20%. In BBS paerial wakelock was audioout_2. I resolved that with installing an old version of viber. After that,the phone was working almost 2 days without problem. Then anothe problem occurred.. Yesterday,I charged my phone to max, killed wifi,cleared RAm,did the fast reboot.. Over the night it used 34% of battery!!! In BBS, partial wakelock it said baseband_xmm power! How can I fix that?
I have to say, this JB sucks! This never happened on ICS...
It seems to be tegra3 issue that randomly pops up. I've found no solution yet
i got this wakelock too, factory reset did not solve it
When I woke up and so the wakelock, I just rebooted the phone and the wakelock was gone,and so far it is not a problem anymore... But I still dont know what caused that...
I keep having this problem as well. Rebooting temporarily fixes it but it comes back after a while. A solution would be much appreciated.
umut.t said:
I keep having this problem as well. Rebooting temporarily fixes it but it comes back after a while. A solution would be much appreciated.
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Same for me guys, I would like to add that I'm using the Zaiben ROM; are you using that too?
The reboot didn't fix the problem on my phone
im using portuguese 20A, and i can´t get rid of this damn wakelock, sometimes it goes away with a reboot, but eventually comes back...
I'm on Asia 20A with the same problem. 26% lost overnight. Not good at all. In ICS it was like 6% overnight, lol.
Dunno but in official bootloader unlock thread it needs you to be connected to real network for some time then I would say there's a way to monitor that time and maybe this is it - maybe it disappears after bootloader unlock
my bootloader is unlocked
My baseband_xmm_power wakelock is showed in kernel wakelocks but in partial wakelocks there isnt any wakelock worth mentioning.. But over the day,when i turn wifi on and do a reboot it doesnt show at all..
Thats my biggest problem,it shows up randomly...
I have the same issue, 6.6%/h battery drain last night. And the big problem is baseband_xmm_power. I check my wife phone (not tegra device) and "baseband.." not even in the kernel wakelock. I read somewhere (forgot the site) it's tegra kernel problem, and after they install custom kernel the problem with baseband is gone.
I'm not developer but I wish lg will release kernel source now, so somebody can optimize the kernel asap
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future81 said:
Dunno but in official bootloader unlock thread it needs you to be connected to real network for some time then I would say there's a way to monitor that time and maybe this is it - maybe it disappears after bootloader unlock
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Mine's unlocked too.
me too, battery drain 20% more overnight, cause by baseband_xmm_power kernal wakelock, 6h 20m.
is that JellyBean 4.1.2 got bug?
ming0000 said:
me too, battery drain 20% more overnight, cause by baseband_xmm_power kernal wakelock, 6h 20m.
is that JellyBean 4.1.2 got bug?
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It seems to affect a lot of the Tegra 3 devices, however, I owned two Optimus G's (they're not Tegra 3) and they both had issues with battery drain too and it also had to do with the baseband. I surely hope my next LG, which may be the Optimus G Pro, doesn't have these issues.
archie87 said:
It seems to affect a lot of the Tegra 3 devices, however, I owned two Optimus G's (they're not Tegra 3) and they both had issues with battery drain too and it also had to do with the baseband. I surely hope my next LG, which may be the Optimus G Pro, doesn't have these issues.
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erm, really problem for this issue, hope that can settle.
seen i looking forword bout G2, 5" inch.

[Q] [CM10.1.3] rapid battery draining with various kernels - help needed!

Hello everyone,
I switched my 16 months old 4x to CyanogenMod 10.1 about 2 months ago, and updated to 10.1.3 about a week after the release. About a week later, I had my first problems with rapid battery draining. I have switched kernels thrice, now running the most recent optimus prime for CM, and have tried fiddling with the values TricksterMOD provides, but I haven't found a way to get any decent battery life out of the device ever since. Last night, the battery drained 50% in about 12 hours of non-use (phone was left with display off in my jacket pocket, and that's not even the worst drain I witnessed in the last two weeks.
I'm running BetterBatteryStats to get a clue about the origin of this drainage, and can see that my device seems to me awake far too long when I'm not using it. At the moment, I'm looking at 44.6% awake, 55.4% Deep Sleep after 2.5 hours of not using the phone once (I was driving home from work half of the time). In "Kernel Wakelocks", I see "wlan_rx_wake" with 21:03 minutes on top, in "Partial wakelocks", the highest value is 20 seconds for "AlarmManager".
I have the usual suspects of communication/networking apps - Facebook (set to 2hr update), Google+, K-9 Mail, WhatsApp, plus AndroidWeather (set to 30min update) - and news apps which are allowed to send push messages. I use wifi, but no bluetooth. I never watch movies, play games or listen to music with my phone.
I have attached a BetterBatteryStats log from the 50% drain in 12 idle hours I mentioned. View attachment BetterBatteryStats-2013-10-17_092335401.txt
Can anybody give me any pointers as to what I going wrong here? I really would like to use my phone without having to plug in the power supply every few hours. If you need any additional information, I'll gladly try to provide it.
Anyway, thanks in advance for any help.
Cheers, Pit.
only 3 letters. O M G ! this battery report just made me like this face here
u cant flash kernels one after another. there are bugs this way. dont all kernels use the same names for files. leftover files will cause problems. do the whole procedure. go to recovery , format data, reboot to recovery and install new rom
kessaras said:
only 3 letters. O M G ! this battery report just made me like this face here
u cant flash kernels one after another. there are bugs this way. dont all kernels use the same names for files. leftover files will cause problems. do the whole procedure. go to recovery , format data, reboot to recovery and install new rom
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You mean you cant flash Android roms one after another. You can freely flash kernels one after another without wiping anything, Its completely modular.
JoinTheRealms said:
You mean you cant flash Android roms one after another. You can freely flash kernels one after another without wiping anything, Its completely modular.
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then explain his situation... he said he flashed kernels not roms. why does he have such a bad battery drain during night sleep ? in his report i didnt see he has any so "bad" app.... (just asking out of curiosity, its good to have knowledge generally)
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then explain his situation... he said he flashed kernels not roms. why does he have such a bad battery drain during night sleep ? in his report i didnt see he has any so "bad" app.... (just asking out of curiosity, its good to have knowledge generally)
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Not sure about the battery drain, it could be caused by a kernel, but its not because hes flashed multiple kernels.
some background:
Android kernels are packaged into boot.img's (these .imgs can be placed in .zips with instructions on how the custom recovery should handle flashing it) Inside a boot.img you will find a zImage (kernel) and a initrd.img (This stands for initial ram disk, its simply a basic file system that the kernel mounts, containing mainly scripts that handle mounting all the necessary partitions etc, then handing control over to Android. )
The boot.img is stored in a emmc partition (/dev/block/mmcblk0p*). When you press the power button, the bootloader is initialized , it then powers on necessary hardware devices, the bootloader than pulls the boot.img from its partition, extracts it and boots the zImage(kernel), which will start initializing less necessary hardware, but mainly mounts the initrd.img and runs the containing instructions.
Bootloader -> Kernel --------------------->
.........................Initrd.img-> ........Android
To move back on track, the zImage and initrd.img only operate within RAM, they only lie in emmc when they are achieved as a boot.img. When you shut your device down, nothing from the kernel persists in the next boot (maybe /proc/last_kmsg ), this is why you dont need to wipe anything on your device between kernel flashes.
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Not sure about the battery drain, it could be caused by a kernel, but it's not because he's flashed multiple kernels.
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Thanks for clarifying that; it saves me some trouble.
Does the BatteryStats log give any indication as to why the phone is awake half of the time?
Cheers, Pit.
Dont know, but maybe O Prime is one of these kernel which hides the xmm baseband wakelock.... that would be the missing awake time in your log
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Dont know, but maybe O Prime is one of these kernel which hides the xmm baseband wakelock.... that would be the missing awake time in your log
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Yep optimus prime hides the baseband wakelock
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OnAir783 said:
Dont know, but maybe O Prime is one of these kernel which hides the xmm baseband wakelock.... that would be the missing awake time in your log
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Is there a different kernel you would recommend I should try out? I selected the OPrime because it claims to be focussing on stability and battery life instead of raw power.
Furthermore, what would the baseband wakelock tell us in terms of how the fast drain happens?
Cheers, Pit.
Hello all,
just to try it one more time: is there any way I can get decent battery life out of CM10.1.3 on my 4x? This is my profile from today, where I unplugged my phone from the charger around 7:30 a.m. and didn't use my phone thereafter until 5:30 p.m. where the phone was down to 38% already (stats taken around 8:30 p.m.) . The governor is set to conservative and the max frequency to 1.1 GHz, which already makes the UI a bit sluggish. The other settings are unchanged from above.
Secondly, if there really is no chance of improvement under CM10.1.3, which ROM (and kernel) would you suggest for my phone, so that I can at least get a full 24 hours of battery life when I'm not using my phone most of the time?
Thanks in advance, Pit.
Format SD card and wipe everything before flashing new ROM. When I say everything I mean : catche - dalvik - format system - format sd card (sd card is 11gb internal memory of device and external sd card is your inserted sd card). Try latest liquid rom i have good battery life with its stock kernel.
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The baseband wakelock is hidden at his kernel
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Try rebooting again after first reboot installing kernel
I'm not sure why but when wiping dalvik and cache the phone has trouble going into sleep
Flash -> wipe cache/dalvik -> Reboot -> Reboot again
Hi everyone,
well, that was a bust. After spending the better part of a day formatting and installing over and over again, I'm now running CarbonRom [20131023] - and having the same battery problems as before.
I tried LiquidSmooth (2.23), but I never got it to work properly; after installing I always got "application someName was teriminated" every few seconds (while the Play Store app was redownloading and reinstalling my apps, but also when I tried to activate SwiftKey, which calls the settings app at one point, which abruptly quits before I can type in anything. I then tried
ParanoidAndroid (3.99, which I didn't like UI-wise)
and SlimBeam (1.9, where the Google apps I downloaded as stated would install fine, but then not appear for some reason - at that point I didn't spend much time trying to fix it, because I was already fed up with it all)
before finally installing CarbomRom, which worked fine. Thus, after downloading my apps, I tried out my battery again. I unplugged the phone, turned the display off, and went shopping for about two hours, touching the phone just once for a few seconds.
The result is again about 30% awake time during these two hours, losing 10% battery in the process (BetterBatteryStat included). That is pretty much unchanged from my experiences with CM10.1.
What am I repeatedly doing wrong that I don't get halfway decent battery runtime out of my 4x (which used to run fine battery-wise for a year when I used the original LG firmware (which had other issues, but could last 36 to 48 hours, depending on usage? As I don't see hordes of 4x owners throwing the device against the wall in frustration, I must do something other don't. But I haven't got the slightest clue what that might be.
I will try PACman (nightly 20131021) next, but if anyone has any pointers, please please help! I'm running out of ideas.
This was my procedure, by the way:
Reboot into CWM
Format system, cache, data, sd card
flashing ROM
Rebooting
after bootup reboot again into CWM
add the Google apps
reboot again
After bootup, reboot again into CWM
just to be sure, reset to factory defaults
reboot, connect with Wifi and Google and start redownloading the other apps
Frustrated greetings, Pit.
Hi again,
PACman is even worse. First off all, the UI is laggy as h*ll; sometimes, it takes more than two seconds for a button touch to be recognized.
That would be somewhat tolerable if the battery life was better. But in 2.5 hours of leaving the device lying idly on my table (display turned off), more than 50% of the time, the phone was active. BetterBatteryStats are again included as an attachment; perhaps someone can find out what the problem is with them. At least, this kernel doesn't hide the xmm_baseband wakelock, though I have no idea what that means whatsoever.
This is getting ridiculous - is there really no way to get the phone to last more than ten hours (doing nothing with it - when I use it even for occasional browsing/e-mail checks, it's way less than that) anymore? Why is no one else having problems on that scale?
Typing this post cost 3% of my battery. And I'm typing it on my computer, not on my phone.
Depressed greetings, Pit.
When i watch your battery stats its your wifi did your try to install then wifi update of demetris? Try then samething with your wifi off i think it would increase slot of your battery
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moneyvirus said:
When i watch your battery stats its your wifi did your try to install then wifi update of demetris? Try then samething with your wifi off i think it would increase slot of your battery.
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Thanks, for the info, I will investigate that, though I haven't found this "wifi update of demetris" on first Google try yet, just recommendations what to do with your WLAN router and PC settings.
But I my second-to-last try - where I was out shopping - the wlan_rx wakelock wasn't the problem, rather the xmm_baseband wakelock, where I still am clueless as to what that means at all. I fear that getting rid of the wlan wakelocks wouldn't help my general problems, just the problems I had at home last night in my last try.
Furthermore, if I can use the phone only by carefully switching off and on wlan manually whenever I leave the house, the phone will become pretty much useless to me. Yesterday alone, I forgot switching wifi back on twice. That way, either notifications would go through mobile data connection or not happen at all.
I will reflash my device again this morning - as the PACman UI lags are unbearable for me - and see what I can do about the wlan drain. I cannot reconfigure all the wifi networks I connect to, as some of them aren't mine to configure.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2425455
Look in the seccond post your will zee a long story but at then and of that story you see 3 zip files flash then then nvida 4.3+ broadcom driver update by cwm dunno if it solves your probleme for me its great
Goodluck
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I don have any problems with liquid rom. Also I flash gaps imidiatly after flashing rom without reboot. Try flashing 4.2.2 android it is better for our prone then 4.3 builds.
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dimi89 said:
I don have any problems with liquid rom. Also I flash gaps imidiatly after flashing rom without reboot. Try flashing 4.2.2 android it is better for our prone then 4.3 builds.
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I tried that earlier today, and the LiquidSmooth 2.9 (Android 4.2.2) installed fine by your instructions. But it didn't help at all with the battery usage. Phone is running on conservative governor limite to 1 GHz, and I even tried the Broadcom Wifi Update mentioned here earlier (otherwise, I'm on the LS standard kernel).
It all doesn't help, the BetterBatteryStats are still full of wlan wakelocks (even though I switched to static IP as someone mentioned that might help). Result: 10,8% battery drop per hour of leaving the phone with display off on the table.
Before I flash another ROM for the 14th time this weekend, I will collect some results with wifi turned off. Not that that would be a feasible option for me, but I want to get to the bottom of this.
Cheers, Pit.

[Q] Stock ROM battery drain after playing with Maclaw ROMS

After playing around with some Maclaw ROMS (cm10.2 and cm11) I went back to stock ROM. However I had big battery drains after that.
I did a complete wipe of user and cache and dalvik. I installed stock firmware with Odin. Did it over again with KIES. But still a big battery drain. Like 15% an hour. No apps installed other than the bloatware the in the firmware.
I've read somewhere about someone else who had the same issue, but I cannot find it anymore.
Anyone an idea?
Maybe you should try to format all partitions in recovery (except your internal and external SD card of course) and reflash the stock firmware.
By the way, 15% an hour is quite normaal for me.
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hermanj said:
After playing around with some Maclaw ROMS (cm10.2 and cm11) I went back to stock ROM. However I had big battery drains after that.
I did a complete wipe of user and cache and dalvik. I installed stock firmware with Odin. Did it over again with KIES. But still a big battery drain. Like 15% an hour. No apps installed other than the bloatware the in the firmware.
I've read somewhere about someone else who had the same issue, but I cannot find it anymore.
Anyone an idea?
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Custom Roms battery drain, can be the 1ghz bug .
when you did alot off playing ( such as flashing from rom to rom an formatting again in a few hours. it cost you battery .
And now back on stock rom. Try to load your battery again to 100 % and see what will happen after it .
Stock rom = 100 % - 0% battery --> +- 20 hours
Custom roms= can do it longer.
but if you are a heavy caller, gamer. the battery will be down faster .
Greetz :fingers-crossed:
hermanj said:
After playing around with some Maclaw ROMS (cm10.2 and cm11) I went back to stock ROM. However I had big battery drains after that.
I did a complete wipe of user and cache and dalvik. I installed stock firmware with Odin. Did it over again with KIES. But still a big battery drain. Like 15% an hour. No apps installed other than the bloatware the in the firmware.
I've read somewhere about someone else who had the same issue, but I cannot find it anymore.
Anyone an idea?
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I've had the same problem. I updated the working 10.1 october version to the december version. After switching back to october version the failure was still there. Only way to solve it was a new battery - but it costs only about 10 € ...
i think that it is true that rom by itself is still buggy with cpu governer bug that causes to be stuck on 1ghz without dropping to 200mhz on the other side...when i try another version i shall make my jugdement more clearly
i got this problem on 02.13 release when i update to 02.16 problem was solved. didnt update 02.18 yet
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rupert-d said:
I've had the same problem. I updated the working 10.1 october version to the december version. After switching back to october version the failure was still there. Only way to solve it was a new battery - but it costs only about 10 € ...
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Perhaps you should also consider the lifetime and usage of your battery. After months of charging and discharging once or twice a day, it´s not so unnormal that a battery goes weak...which has imho directly nothing to do with the used software...
DjWacko said:
Custom Roms battery drain, can be the 1ghz bug .
when you did alot off playing ( such as flashing from rom to rom an formatting again in a few hours. it cost you battery .
And now back on stock rom. Try to load your battery again to 100 % and see what will happen after it .
Stock rom = 100 % - 0% battery --> +- 20 hours
Custom roms= can do it longer.
but if you are a heavy caller, gamer. the battery will be down faster .
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Thanks for the reply.
I charged again to 100 % en let it go to 0%. It took about 9 hours, AIRPLANE MODE!!!
Checked CPU with CPU spy: it goes to deep sleep.
No apps installed except the bloatware the Samsung firmware comes with (and CPU spy).
Maybe it's just my battery gone bad/dead at the same time I tested the Maclaw roms. I already ordered a new one (2450 mAh!), but it takes about a month to get here (if it arrives all together; I live on a tiny little island).
However... I also noticed I do not have network coverage some times. Just no network. Could it be that if you flash it with Odin/Kies not everything is wiped and reinstalled? Like modem drivers (although it's strange the drain also occurs in airplane mode). To make it more complicated: I just moved to another place, so maybe the coverage is worse around here.
I just hate it if I can't pinpoint the problem
hermanj said:
Thanks for the reply.
I charged again to 100 % en let it go to 0%. It took about 9 hours, AIRPLANE MODE!!!
Checked CPU with CPU spy: it goes to deep sleep.
No apps installed except the bloatware the Samsung firmware comes with (and CPU spy).
Maybe it's just my battery gone bad/dead at the same time I tested the Maclaw roms. I already ordered a new one (2450 mAh!), but it takes about a month to get here (if it arrives all together; I live on a tiny little island).
However... I also noticed I do not have network coverage some times. Just no network. Could it be that if you flash it with Odin/Kies not everything is wiped and reinstalled? Like modem drivers (although it's strange the drain also occurs in airplane mode). To make it more complicated: I just moved to another place, so maybe the coverage is worse around here.
I just hate it if I can't pinpoint the problem
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Hi,
I think you are on 1ghz bug if you have custom rom.
When you are on stock. This is not normale, your battery is going bad
Where did you bought a new one, im looking for a new one also.
Greetz
factorexh said:
i got this problem on 02.13 release when i update to 02.16 problem was solved. didnt update 02.18 yet
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Tried the 02.16 cm11 release => no change. Think my battery is just gone. I'll wait for the new one to arrive and will see then.
shagadelic said:
Perhaps you should also consider the lifetime and usage of your battery. After months of charging and discharging once or twice a day, it´s not so unnormal that a battery goes weak...which has imho directly nothing to do with the used software...
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Think you're right. Bah, so it ain't something that can be fixed by/in a flash.
DjWacko said:
Hi,
I think you are on 1ghz bug if you have custom rom.
When you are on stock. This is not normale, your battery is going bad
Where did you bought a new one, im looking for a new one also.
Greetz
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I bought a 2450 mAh battery here (only $5, but have to see if it really arrives first):
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2450mAh-Li-.../360830840241?ssPageName=ADME:L:eek:C:NL:3160
Hi!, I'm having the same issue here:
-Super-battery drain, specially when restarting the phone, huge 20% drops.
-Phone looses signal inexplicably,5 bars and suddenly dead, restarting solves the problem, but when signal drops, the battery starts getting HOT, even on IDLE.
-Im using Carbon 4.4.2 KitKat ROM on S3Mini I8190L.
Battery was working quite well with Cyano 11 about 3 months ago, switched to MIUI ROM because a friend recommended it, ROM started to be unstable, laggy and battery life wasn't great, had the same "signal lost" issues. Then downloaded the Carbon ROM and everything went worse.
-I always do full wipe, (davlik, data, interal storage, everything).
Any ideas?

Poor battery life on a new phone

Ok, so I had a problem with my old Moto G 2014 and bought a new one. I've been using it for two days and I'm yet to get the battery life I used to have on my old one. With Kit Kat I used to get 4,5 hours of screentime. When updated to Lollipop I went to 5,5-6 hours of screentime. With the new one I'm getting 4,2 hours of screentime tops. The phone came with Lollipop already so I was hoping to get my old battery life (or better, as it is a new phone).
"Android Services" is having an abnormal use of battery (as seen on screenshots) and it is actually eating more battery than screen on some point which was NEVER the case before.
As for screentime, right now I'm with 75% battery and 1,1 hour of screentime. Usually on the old phone I'd get 1,1 hour of screentime with something like 87%.
The battery consumption overnight is also abnormal. I went to sleep with 85% and the phone in airplane mode and woke up to 80% - 7 hours without use nor signal searching (I know the phone uses battery overnight but 5% in airplane mode is too much for my experience). The charts didn't show any sign the phone was awoke on this time.
I've already frozen Motorola apps, did all the recommended settings - that I had on my old phone - (location with low battery use, turned off printing services (and frozen them too), wi-fi automatic searching off, etc), I am yet to use 3G/mobile network (so far I have only used wi-fi), the screen brightness is close to the minimal (automatic brightness is off), etc, so I don't know what the problem is (and I don't want to factory reset my phone now and lose all the app settings I just redid).
I want to know if you guys have any idea of something I can do or understand the "Included Packages" used by Android System (which obviously is eating the battery, I just want to find out why and fix it).
Thank you!
Fixed it. The solution was clearing the cache of the apps listed on the Android System battery stats + doing a cache wipe on Recovery Mode.
Talked too soon, here I am with only 16% left and only 4h10m of screentime. Can anyone help?
blackliquidedit said:
Talked too soon, here I am with only 16% left and only 4h10m of screentime. Can anyone help?
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Can you post your latest screenshots please? Also, go to Settings -> Battery and tap the battery graph and post a screenshot of that as well...
So I did a factory reset, reinstalled the apps, redid all the settings and did a battery calibration. Yet, I'm with 17% and only 4 hours of screentime. It's very frustrating. It's two hours less than what I used to get. And the worst is that I can't just turn the phone back and say that the battery isn't as good as my old phone one. It is either a Motorola/Android setting or I was just given a bad battery. Again, very frustrating.
I haven't been using FM Radio, DropBox (wth this NativeDropbox agent), so I don't understand these on Android System, and I'm only using wi-fi.
Any help?
I don't know what's causing it.. I had 30% left with 5h+ of screen on time yesterday, the battery life's fantastic. Without using battery saver mode aswell, I only have the brightness set to min most of the time (bright enough inside) & location off.
In my old one I'd get to 6 hours with similar settings (location was turned on though, with low battery use, and it didn't bother). I don't want to have to turn my phone into a stick to get reasonable battery life.
I'm thinking about reflashing the original rom (since it doesn't void the warranty). It will be the second reset I'll give my phone in less than a week. Do you guys think it can do something useful or will I just waste my time?
blackliquidedit said:
I'm thinking about reflashing the original rom (since it doesn't void the warranty). It will be the second reset I'll give my phone in less than a week. Do you guys think it can do something useful or will I just waste my time?
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I prefer KitKat too. If you like Lollipop as a whole and the only thing bothering you is that battery drain, I suggest you get a Custom ROM which is based on Lollipop (I'm using this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g-2014/development/pf-cm-t3127531) and it's working quite fine.
If you want a Custom ROM based on KitKat, go for MicroKat ROM.
Btw, turn off auto brightness for your phone and drag the brightness slider to the minimum (or wherever you're comfortable keeping it) because detecting the surrounding light and adjusting the brightness consumes more battery. Let us know what decision you make and how the results turn out to be for you...
I've been doing some stressing tests. With location services turned off I've been able to get 5.5 hours of screentime (this was the only thing left to do on the battery saving checklist). 5.5 hours with 1% left of battery. This is still less than I used to get on my old Moto G 2014, on which I once got 6.15 hours with 3 or 4%. However, this must be some firmware bug or setting, IDK (and no one here seems to know nor care), so I guess I will only wait on a update maybe. I've tried everything but flashing a different rom. Flash a stock rom is still an option but IDK if I want to reset and do all again with the risk of it doesn't work.
Right now I just put my phone to charge with 13% and less than 4.4 hours of screentime. I might have to settle for this, but comparing to what I had it is very frustrating.
I'll update if I "fix" it or if I decide to flash the stock rom (I'm not up for flashing a modified rom because I don't want to unlock the bootloader and lose the warranty).
Actually the stock rom I mean is the firmware. Sorry about this mess up. And I'm about to do this as my last attempt of having my 6-hour-screentime-batery-life.
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Actually the stock rom I mean is the firmware. Sorry about this mess up. And I'm about to do this as my last attempt of having my 6-hour-screentime-batery-life.
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Flash stock firmware? Aren't you already on stock?
I understand not wanting to install a custom ROM but you can try performing a factory reset on your phone. In order to back up your apps to SD Card, root the phone (It can be rooted without unlocking the bootloader or losing your warranty) and back up your apps using Titanium Backup.
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Ok, I think I got it.
My Moto G XT1069 came from factory with Lollipop, so I didn't have to update OTA or anything. What I did was: I flashed via fastboot the Lollipop stock rom/firmware (one I easily got on Google, that I came to know is the OTA update from 4.4.4 > 5.0.2, as the "System version" is different of the one I used to have). This solved my battery problem. No bootload unlock needed, so no warranty void.
I guess some bug with Moto G's factory Lollipop is causing poor battery life, so for anyone's experiencing similar problems, this is what got mine fixed.
dakshay95 said:
Flash stock firmware? Aren't you already on stock?
I understand not wanting to install a custom ROM but you can try performing a factory reset on your phone. In order to back up your apps to SD Card, root the phone (It can be rooted without unlocking the bootloader or losing your warranty) and back up your apps using Titanium Backup.
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I know it is a different matter but how do I root my phone without unlocking the bootloader?
blackliquidedit said:
I know it is a different matter but how do I root my phone without unlocking the bootloader?
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Try the Kingroot application. I think it's possible. Lots of videos and tutorials out there as well
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Just wanted to know, which firmware did you flash? Can you put the link on here? Glad that your issue is resolved !
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I flashed this one: https://mega.co.nz/#!MMpCGYSJ!yMa0_a1dwPgxy7aTGN78uEjgedx3Sd-eo_D2kopf5Yo

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