Fast battery consumption - Nook Color General

Hello people.. I am having problems with my nook color again ... I have paranoid android 2.99 (using android 4.1.2) and in the first time after I have installed the rom, my battery was draining an acceptable percent of 3-4% per day (24 hours-idle mode). After I have played with it a bit and install some applications and games, the battery loses 12% per day I would like to know what background application drains the most of the battery, though I have uninstalled most of the applications.. Is there a way to check how much of the battery each application consumes? I want to uninstall it immediately. I have tried Cpu Spy as I read on other discussions, but it is irrelevant to my needs.
Thank you

mlegs said:
Hello people.. I am having problems with my nook color again ... I have paranoid android 2.99 (using android 4.1.2) and in the first time after I have installed the rom, my battery was draining an acceptable percent of 3-4% per day (24 hours-idle mode). After I have played with it a bit and install some applications and games, the battery loses 12% per day I would like to know what background application drains the most of the battery, though I have uninstalled most of the applications.. Is there a way to check how much of the battery each application consumes? I want to uninstall it immediately. I have tried Cpu Spy as I read on other discussions, but it is irrelevant to my needs.
Thank you
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That's pretty normal for the first few recharges after flashing. Let your Nook completely discharge and charge it all the way back up. By the third time it should be back to normal. You can find out what applications are using the battery under Settings, Applications, Battery Use.

Hi, thank you for the reply. There have been more than 3 recharges since installing this ROM. The battery life was longer right after installing the ROM but I don't know what have I done wrong that the battery life is shorter now(with the same ROM). I tried going to settings but there I have an option apps that lists all my applications and I cant see the battery consumption of the applications...thank you

Another thing that might work is toning down your prossecor. I have my max at 800mhz, and I get a few more hours of life, and you don't notice it to much.
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Try using BetterBatteryStats and see what is keeping your device from going into deep sleep.
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Thank you for the answers .. I wiped out the cache and the Dalvik cache and everything seems back to normal now
frostysnowman3567, Thank you .. I will try and use Setcpu to get a proper use of the processor... even set it at the minimum of 300 mhz when deep sleep is active.
Fire Ball, I will install that application, sounds useful thanks

was runnig it with cm7 with excellent battery live several days, now trying cm10, battery drains way faster, it feels like you can watch it drain. anyone else experiencing the same and having a solution?

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[Q] How to calibrate battery

How to calibrate battery..?
I found application "Battery calibration" and it says:
Calibration needs to be done after flashing a new ROM, but you can calibrate any time you think your battery is miscalibrated. This program does it by removing the batterystats.bin system file. The OS generates a new clean batterystats file soon, thus any fake information from the previous ROM is removed.
It's suggested, but not necessary, to let the phone fully discharge after calibration, then charged to 100% without break.
market: http://goo.gl/XTJxa
But I didn't see any changes.. My battery stays around 13 hours...
After using "Battery calibration"and 2 times full battery charge, 72% yet (stock 2.3.3 KPE)
what was your usage?? i mean how much gaming, wifi, internet etc
gigi_77 said:
After using "Battery calibration"and 2 times full battery charge, 72% yet (stock 2.3.3 KPE)
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Your display only eats 4% of your usage, i can say that your phone was mostly on standby when you posted this.
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Your display only eats 4% of your usage, i can say that your phone was mostly on standby when you posted this.
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Yes only a few calls, and sms, but synchronization is on (2G only). Average battery life ~ 16h( 2.3.3 KPE), but better than villainrom 1.0 (max 7-8 h)
how is possible that after 19 hours you have still 75% of battery. you dont use the phone, is only in standby? the fully charges were with how many hours?
I have installed Battery Calibration as said, but its asking to root the device. What is root? Sorry for being noob. I am new Android phones.
Ace's battery won't stand for a day with moderate use. It's battery drains faster than any of my previous android phone. Before ace I've used Sony Ericsson x8 and Galaxy mini, both's battery can stand for 1,5-2 days. I usually put my phone to airplane mode during my sleep time from 11 PM to 6 AM and on galaxy mini's battery drains only 0-1% in the morning, but on ace the battery drains 7-12 %, it's horrible.
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Ace's battery won't stand for a day with moderate use. It's battery drains faster than any of my previous android phone. Before ace I've used Sony Ericsson x8 and Galaxy mini, both's battery can stand for 1,5-2 days. I usually put my phone to airplane mode during my sleep time from 11 PM to 6 AM and on galaxy mini's battery drains only 0-1% in the morning, but on ace the battery drains 7-12 %, it's horrible.
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Sounds like you havent mastered the way of saving battery on a SGA yet. With some thrid party apps you'll be able to make it through the day without any problem.
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Sounds like you havent mastered the way of saving battery on a SGA yet. With some thrid party apps you'll be able to make it through the day without any problem.
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Do you have any suggestions of apps?
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Do you have any suggestions of apps?
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Juice Defender, Set CPU, Auto Memory man., Autostarts and Tweaks for instance.
Use quick setting to access and switch/change the brightness, mobile data, wifi.
Check the apps that uses unnecessary CPU with watchdog, you can uninstall watchdog when ure done your evaluation.
Don't use apps such as Advance task killer(if you dont know what ure doing), it might give you even worse battery time. Many background apps doesnt use any CPU at all, they only take up RAM.
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Sounds like you havent mastered the way of saving battery on a SGA yet. With some thrid party apps you'll be able to make it through the day without any problem.
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I've installed Juice defender, Android booster, Go green power, and still the same battery problem, it won't stand for a day without re-charging
mewtwo68d said:
I've installed Juice defender, Android booster, Go green power, and still the same battery problem, it won't stand for a day without re-charging
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The only one I recommended from the installed apps was juice defender, and you didnt even combine my recommended apps. Try that before posting this issue.
mine stands for 2 or 2,5 days with Glsmt 1.3 rom, and wifi is always on. tried juice defender must say is the best friend of any android phone.
Hi to everyone on this thread. How long have you had your Ace & have you given it a chance to "settle in"?? I easily get 2 days+ with average use ie/ wifi/games/calls/surfing. The battery needs time to calibrate itself, no apps necessary. Takes a few weeks. At this moment I'm on 2d 15h 17m 45s with 27% left! Phone is left on all day/night & I disable wifi/3G/syncing when not required. My % stays the same overnight, no drop. Hope this helps. GrahamF. London
Hmm, cant see any changes after calibrating...
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grahamflowers said:
Hi to everyone on this thread. How long have you had your Ace & have you given it a chance to "settle in"?? I easily get 2 days+ with average use ie/ wifi/games/calls/surfing. The battery needs time to calibrate itself, no apps necessary. Takes a few weeks. At this moment I'm on 2d 15h 17m 45s with 27% left! Phone is left on all day/night & I disable wifi/3G/syncing when not required. My % stays the same overnight, no drop. Hope this helps. GrahamF. London
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That sounds quiet unbelieveable. What Firmware are you using?
Though: Turning 3G off all the time means that you also dont have background synchronisation, right?! That would surely save some juice, I guess.
You can still sync with 2G, it'll just be slower than with 3G and saves battery, but since he mentioned turning off 3G and Sync in one go, I guess he disabled both.
During holidays I switched off 3g and sync off due to avoiding data roaming abroad and had still 20% left after 2 days with one charge.
Used it during that time for occasional SMS, gaming and taking pictures, and scanning for free Wifi hotspots.
Tap-a-talked from my Galaxy Ace
Hi Deathmetal X, I'm using the stock out of the box Froyo 2.2.1 on 02-UK. No mods, just use the inbuilt task manager to close what I'm not using & turn 3G/wifi on & off as I need it. I don't need background syncing & I just collect my e-mails (3 accounts) & Facebook, Twitter etc...on a regular basis. I don't have loads of widgets wasting battery either, just F1 & weather. I use it a lot on wifi + games & calls/texts. Today I'm on 3 days with about 17% left. Biggest drain on battery is the 3G, trying to connect & re-connect all the time! None of this restricts my use/enjoyment of this great phone & well worth having it in my hand & not plugged into the wall! Graham. London.
Nice app_ I use CM7 before the battery is drain_ after I calibrate the battery I think my battery life increased. good_

Battery not so good

I didn't use the note much, but it needs to charge each day. This is bad than tablet. Any software to save battery? I tried 'air plane mode' sofeware, but it also turns off phone after sleep.
truelies1 said:
I didn't use the note much, but it needs to charge each day. This is bad than tablet. Any software to save battery? I tried 'air plane mode' sofeware, but it also turns off phone after sleep.
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What apps and widgets are you running? Have you gone through 2 or 3 full discharge/recharge cycles? There are apps out there that can detect if any app is consuming your battery but you will have to search the forums as I don't know of any first hand.
Also, which ROM are you using? When I was using Rocket Rom v22 with AbyssKernel 4.1, my Note would last more than a day on the same charge even with moderate use. Give that a try as it also really boosts performance.
I'm currently on Team Rocket Rom (ICS based) v5 but have not used it extensively to comment on battery yet. So far with 3 activesync email accounts (all push), some widgets running (weather, clock, etc.) and the Note sitting idle consume about 2-3% battery per hour. Will monitor this.
most smartphones ned to be charged every day, what battery life are you expecting to get ?
battery depends on the usage and applications you installed on the phone.
have you tried rooting already? usually custom roms have the best alternatives of extending your phone's battery and giving it an optimal performance.
Try to stop some bloatwares that your phone's loading up everytime it starts up(from rebooting)
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What apps and widgets are you running? Have you gone through 2 or 3 full discharge/recharge cycles? There are apps out there that can detect if any app is consuming your battery but you will have to search the forums as I don't know of any first hand.
Also, which ROM are you using? When I was using Rocket Rom v22 with AbyssKernel 4.1, my Note would last more than a day on the same charge even with moderate use. Give that a try as it also really boosts performance.
I'm currently on Team Rocket Rom (ICS based) v5 but have not used it extensively to comment on battery yet. So far with 3 activesync email accounts (all push), some widgets running (weather, clock, etc.) and the Note sitting idle consume about 2-3% battery per hour. Will monitor this.
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I am using la2 rom. Here i attached an picture.
Geez... i personally feel that one day charge is reasonable especially with the juice required to drive the big display.
Anyway, Juice Defender premium is one app that has helped me, and may help you too.
Since you got Activesync, with the premium version of JD, you can customize app to be excluded from 'power saving', so that the inbox is up to date.
+1 for juicedefender.
Other tips that may not be obvious to first-time smartphone owners are:
1. Set your screen brightness to auto. You don't need the brightness cranked right up all the time.
2. Disable bluetooth and GPS if you're not using them. Juicedefender will do a pretty good job of managing your other radios.
3. If you've got email syncing set up on your phone, set it to check as rarely as you can put up with. Push email uses a LOT of battery life, and even a scheduled check can blaze through your battery if it's happening often enough.
4. If you've put on a custom ROM your phone may be reporting inaccurate battery stats. Give it a full charge, boot into clockwork recovery and wipe your battery stats. You'll find a few days after that your phone will start reporting more accurately.
Good luck, and if any of this was unclear feel free to ask further questions.
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Geez... i personally feel that one day charge is reasonable especially with the juice required to drive the big display.
Anyway, Juice Defender premium is one app that has helped me, and may help you too.
Since you got Activesync, with the premium version of JD, you can customize app to be excluded from 'power saving', so that the inbox is up to date.
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I only got one phone call for one min., so i think 1 day is too short.
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I am using la2 rom. Here i attached an picture.
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Try a later ROM to see if the same issue exists. I think you should instal rocket rom v22 - you'll be happy with performance and battery life based on your usage.
try to calibrate your battery as well... there are many apps out there that offers better battery calibration or you can do a manual calibration as well.
Give it some time and upgrade your ROM
I am getting great battery life. It runs for full day (24 hrs) with 30% of battery usage. though in a day i dont use it much, just 5 to 10 calls of around half an hour to 40 minutes.. data and gps always on.. screen brightness on auto...
My note running the OEM battery last me about 6 hrs.
Averages about 45mins talk time/day
About 50 SMS/day
Screen brightness set to 100
Checks email every 5 mins
Using a live wallpaper
Refreshes the daily weather using Accuweather every hr
Bluetooth always turned on
Battery Widget
Fancy Widget
ESPN scoreboard ticker widget refreshes
Twitter running all day
Facebook Widget syncing all day
and more...
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+1 for juicedefender.
Other tips that may not be obvious to first-time smartphone owners are:
1. Set your screen brightness to auto. You don't need the brightness cranked right up all the time.
2. Disable bluetooth and GPS if you're not using them. Juicedefender will do a pretty good job of managing your other radios.
3. If you've got email syncing set up on your phone, set it to check as rarely as you can put up with. Push email uses a LOT of battery life, and even a scheduled check can blaze through your battery if it's happening often enough.
4. If you've put on a custom ROM your phone may be reporting inaccurate battery stats. Give it a full charge, boot into clockwork recovery and wipe your battery stats. You'll find a few days after that your phone will start reporting more accurately.
Good luck, and if any of this was unclear feel free to ask further questions.
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^ This. Or better yet, just always set your brightness to the lowest brightness setting, 50% afaik. And use black/dark wallpapers and always turn on night mode (if applicable, especially when using your browser)
If in case you need to adjust the brightness, you don't have to go through the jungle of settings, just click notification bar and slide horizontally to change to your preferred brightness.
Jd is hit n miss will actually helping out. If your phone sleeps a lot jd is nice at keeping cell or wifi off if your like me and on it every 10 minutes then toggling data and other things can consume more juice. .... I have tried with and without on my tablets and phones and see no big difference depending on use.
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I was pretty happy with my battery until two days ago. I use my note very little, for e-mail checking (which I pull manually) a few times a day, and to make two or three phone calls per day. I also text my kids occasionally. GPS and Bluetooth are off most of the time. Battery used to last me about two and a half days under these conditions, which seemed reasonable to me. All of a sudden, two days ago, I charged my battery, and after a full charge it drained 60% overnight. Thought that it was a fluke, so rebooted my phone, fully charged again, and the same thing (over half of the juice gone overnight) happened again. Battery stats tell me that Android OS were 100% responsible for overnight drainage. Any clues? I am on stock ROM, by the way.
Thank you.
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I was pretty happy with my battery until two days ago. I use my note very little, for e-mail checking (which I pull manually) a few times a day, and to make two or three phone calls per day. I also text my kids occasionally. GPS and Bluetooth are off most of the time. Battery used to last me about two and a half days under these conditions, which seemed reasonable to me. All of a sudden, two days ago, I charged my battery, and after a full charge it drained 60% overnight. Thought that it was a fluke, so rebooted my phone, fully charged again, and the same thing (over half of the juice gone overnight) happened again. Battery stats tell me that Android OS were 100% responsible for overnight drainage. Any clues? I am on stock ROM, by the way.
Thank you.
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Get a good app to check what is using the battery or keeping the phone awake. This last is the most likely.
Baddass Battery Monitor is my recommendation.
Not a single phone call, only used about 10 mins. after 21 hours only 11% left. Install Jd with 'balanced' option.
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Get a good app to check what is using the battery or keeping the phone awake. This last is the most likely.
Baddass Battery Monitor is my recommendation.
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Thank you. I will give that a try.
Badass, got to love that name....
Ok, I used the Badass monitor to see what's going on. Once again, no phone usage, quick overnight battery drainage. Android OS 100% responsible, and the main power sucker is the Kernel (96%). Why is this happening? And, is there a remedy? I have changed nothing that would trigger this! My Note is still within the return window, so if there is anything wrong with it, I will return it.
Thanks again.
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Ok, I used the Badass monitor to see what's going on. Once again, no phone usage, quick overnight battery drainage. Android OS 100% responsible, and the main power sucker is the Kernel (96%). Why is this happening? And, is there a remedy? I have changed nothing that would trigger this! My Note is still within the return window, so if there is anything wrong with it, I will return it.
Thanks again.
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Badass Monitor is very useful, my note was drained by Dolphin Browser, it used 38% of battery. Seems like for this browser, if I only press home key to exit, It will keep running?
I think the reason the battery drain fast is we press 'home' key to return to main menu, that will keep a lot of apps run in the background.

[Solved] Battery drain even when idle

I charged my phone to 100 percent and left it untouched for 6 hours. Then a shock. It was down to 81 percent with absolutely no usage. Please help. I was not connected to either wifi or data.
Edit 1 : it drained from 81 to 73 for a 5 minutes use.
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Akilesh - you need to see if any app was running. Over the weekend mine went from 60% down to 12% because Titanium Backup got stuck trying to delete an app and kept my phone running at 200mhz which will drain your battery. Go into settings/Battery and see if any app is at the top of the list. Your phone should not lose 19% if you dont have anything running/syncing etc. A simple reboot took care of the stuck Titanium Backup issue with me.
I am on full stock gingerbread with no root. Cell standby has consumed about 45 percent of drain. I'm now worried. Is there a way to calibrate the battery or reset battery stats?
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I am on full stock gingerbread with no root. Cell standby has consumed about 45 percent of drain. I'm now worried. Is there a way to calibrate the battery or reset battery stats?
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Use better batters stats from playstore
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Akilesh said:
I am on full stock gingerbread with no root. Cell standby has consumed about 45 percent of drain. I'm now worried. Is there a way to calibrate the battery or reset battery stats?
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Hello Akilesh, you could use an app called BetterBatteryStats to monitor your battery usage statistics.
You could root your device and then install Titanium Backup Pro which will allow you to freeze or uninstall unnecessary pre-installed applications by Samsung, which are aptly termed bloatwares.
If you do choose to root your device, kindly follow this guide by dr.ketan, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1424997
I hope this helps a bit.
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I charged my phone to 100 percent and left it untouched for 6 hours. Then a shock. It was down to 81 percent with absolutely no usage. Please help. I was not connected to either wifi or data.
Edit 1 : it drained from 81 to 73 for a 5 minutes use.
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screen brightness is one of the prevalent causes of your phone's battery, lower it down to a minimum level. Check if you have syncing apps in the background too, Uncheck background sync datas or account in settings if you have then check.
Now, install cpu spy from google play https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5idmFsb3Nlay5jcHVzcHkiXQ.. and check if your phone is in deep sleep or not at all.
Also, quit using live wallpapers (if your using one), though as you said your not using your phone for 6 hours.. the fact that if you do have a live wallpaper running, that will still eat up your phone's battery juice.
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screen brightness is one of the prevalent causes of your phone's battery, lower it down to a minimum level. Check if you have syncing apps in the background too, Uncheck background sync datas or account in settings if you have then check.
Now, install cpu spy from google play https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5idmFsb3Nlay5jcHVzcHkiXQ.. and check if your phone is in deep sleep or not at all.
Also, quit using live wallpapers (if your using one), though as you said your not using your phone for 6 hours.. the fact that if you do have a live wallpaper running, that will still eat up your phone's battery juice.
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I'm running zero brightness, no data connection and cpu spy showed 98% deep sleep. No live wallpapers. No widgets.
I now did a full factory reset which has solved the problem to some extent but still experiencing some weird drain.
Akilesh said:
I'm running zero brightness, no data connection and cpu spy showed 98% deep sleep. No live wallpapers. No widgets.
I now did a full factory reset which has solved the problem to some extent but still experiencing some weird drain.
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maybe it's about high time you consider rooting your phone.. so that you can install titanium backup and shoot those power hungry apps that are hidden somewhere in the framework of your system.
Yeah I'll root in a short while cleo. And is titanium back up useful is reducing battery drain?
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titanium backup is a tool to uninstall and freeze unnecessary apps and samsung bloatwares on your phone. When your going to remove those apps, you are not just reducing power consumption that those apps uses daily on your phone... you are also freeing some ram spaces on your phone's storage.
BTW: My name's John and 'Letters to cleo' is a name of a band that I like most.
Cheers!
Hit me a "Thanks" button, if somehow my post have help you one way or the other.
Okay John. Thanks for the reply; just in case you don't find it in the thanks meter.
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In case you opt for a free alternative to titanium backup, there is this app called "AntTek App Manager". I found it by chance and it works exactly likeTB pro (in terms of uninstall and freeze). You have to be careful while using either of these programs
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Akilesh said:
I charged my phone to 100 percent and left it untouched for 6 hours. Then a shock. It was down to 81 percent with absolutely no usage. Please help. I was not connected to either wifi or data.
Edit 1 : it drained from 81 to 73 for a 5 minutes use.
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i think you install an app that its drain your battery . if you dont find that you may reset factory your phone
Just got rooted again. Now freezed all bloat-ware. Will check out how it works and post back again.
Edit : Feel the phone running a bit faster after freezing some 15-20 applications.
dont forget to try recalibrating your battery as well.
Mind you, rooting has far more greater advantages than disadvantages.
Check later on if your getting that perennial issue or not anymore...lf by chance it had made some considerable differences, then your a happy camper..
Cheers bud!
If your phone is getting into deep sleep, it can't be any application! It has to be something to do with wifi/Network! If you run 3G, try disabling fast dormancy. That did me wonders!
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If your phone is getting into deep sleep, it can't be any application! It has to be something to do with wifi/Network! If you run 3G, try disabling fast dormancy. That did me wonders!
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I'm living by a country side so i don have 3g at all. I don't connect to wifi often. What is fast dormancy ? what does it do ? I have it enabled though.
Problem now solved. Simlply got rooted and flashed SpeedMod kernel K2-12, Entered recovery and wiped battery stats, now a solid 12 hours sleep compromising for a drop of 14%.
Battery Drain
Hi Guys,
I have similar problem. My battery started playing up and keep draining suuuper fast even at full charge. My phone and bat are already 11 months old but I don't thin the battery should die with this short time. I have data always on and screen brightness set to minimum and it has been like that since I have it with no problem. Now, after charging to 100% and removed from the outlet, then start opening an application, it will freeze and won't turn off. I need to remove the bat out to have it rebooted and it's still the when I try again. Other behavior is that the screen will flicker, will turn to airplane mode, and it will turn off even when fully charged when I launched an app. Note that (power saving is OFF and just the same when it's enabled) I can now only use my phone well when connected to charger. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
there are a lot of people facing similar issues with more than 9 months old battery... mainly indicates a battery problem.. but first you should install betterbatterystats and check for wake locks and other apps using the phone when idle and eating up the battery..
My biggest drain according to bbs is Google maps, it's eating my juice when in idle, although I can get into deep sleep bbs says maps is causing wake locks.
Should I just freeze it with titanium? I don't really understand bbs much lol
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Android system hammering the battery

My missus' 4xhd is on 70% after 3.5 hours unplugged, she's looked at Facebook and on the wrb a little but nothing major. In the battery use menu it says android system 66%
Is this normal? Because my Xperia has been off charge longer and shows android system 6% massive difference there!!
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Ben36 said:
My missus' 4xhd is on 70% after 3.5 hours unplugged, she's looked at Facebook and on the wrb a little but nothing major. In the battery use menu it says android system 66%
Is this normal? Because my Xperia has been off charge longer and shows android system 6% massive difference there!!
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same problem for me and i dont know how to fix it il try many things exept root and didnt work
Any idea what process(es) are to blame? Hers is stock phone on latest firmware, she won't let me **** with it like i do my own. Lol. But I could probably convince her if it sorted the battery out
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I uninstalled all the games I had on my phone and battery afterwards was amazing. Not sure what games u had on ur phone but dead Trigger mass effect seemed like they used battery even if not played. Now star wars angry birds and contract Killer zombies 2 doesn't to use that much battery when not used. I think dead Trigger must be constantly be doing a task in the background. I got from 6 7 hours to 15 hours with 12% battery left. Not sure why some games in idle still or when not being played still eat the battery like crazy. So my tip is uninstall all games and see how it battery life is afterwards.
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Any idea what process(es) are to blame?
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Facebook app is a battery eater, even when not in use. It's trying to sync contacts or others notifications constantly. Even when you disable those options.
Uninstall that app and use Facebook through a browser like Dolphin or so? That's what i do.
Also read the tips in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2013469
I'll post my final configuration in that thread soon. I have my phone at stand-by now for 6 hours and it's still at 100%.
I found the best way to save battery is to not use 'active/changing/moving" widgets, remove or freeze battery eating apps and underclock.
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Facebook app is a battery eater, even when not in use. It's trying to sync contacts or others notifications constantly. Even when you disable those options.
Uninstall that app and use Facebook through a browser like Dolphin or so? That's what i do.
Also read the tips in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2013469
I'll post my final configuration in that thread soon. I have my phone at stand-by now for 6 hours and it's still at 100%.
I found the best way to save battery is to not use 'active/changing/moving" widgets, remove or freeze battery eating apps and underclock.
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Before I didn't had any problems with Facebook (al sinc was OFF, notifications OFF, refreshing "1 hour", and no battery drain) but now,after todays update, everytime i turn it ON, the GPS starts to run. I disabled the "share location" option, everything but it still happening. The only way is to turn OFF the GPS...
Any ideas??? Cause I tried everything...
Ben36 said:
My missus' 4xhd is on 70% after 3.5 hours unplugged, she's looked at Facebook and on the wrb a little but nothing major. In the battery use menu it says android system 66%
Is this normal? Because my Xperia has been off charge longer and shows android system 6% massive difference there!!
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Wrong post.
Stock trega core concept is awesome but it depends on usage. As said in power Management demo, if screen is "on" and some background program is running all cores will be on, which consumed a lot of battery. And try charging your mobile only when charging falls to less than 5%
And remove it when it's fully charged. and I suggest you calibrating your battery really calibrating my battery worked a lot.
I have been vulgarly using my mobile a lot. i never faced any over consumption. Overall I am really happy with the results. of course I'm never disappointed by my battery till today. I love my 4X.
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amuu407 said:
Stock trega core concept is awesome but it depends on usage. As said in power Management demo, if screen is "on" and some background program is running all cores will be on, which consumed a lot of battery. And try charging your mobile only when charging falls to less than 5%
And remove it when it's fully charged. and I suggest you calibrating your battery really calibrating my battery worked a lot.
I have been vulgarly using my mobile a lot. i never faced any over consumption. Overall I am really happy with the results. of course I'm never disappointed by my battery till today. I love my 4X.
Sent from my LG-P880 using xda app-developers app
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Good to note that you are happy with your battery. With 3G on, my battery does drain faster. Even overnight it goes down 7-8%. Could you explain how you calibrated your battery. I dont plan to root my phone.
Thx.
kelly66 said:
Good to note that you are happy with your battery. With 3G on, my battery does drain faster. Even overnight it goes down 7-8%. Could you explain how you calibrated your battery. I dont plan to root my phone.
Thx.
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Without root you will not get good results.. Even if you calibrate your battery. In my opinion, the first step to get a better battery life is rooting your phone.
She doesn't have any games on her phone and yea Facebook runs but it does on mine and i don't have any issue with it. It never used to be that bad too. Just like this last week really
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God i have this same problem
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Is horrible battery life normal?

Hello I recently picked up a s5 that is on the latest update ANG3 and the battery life is far from anything to brag about. I mean like maybe 7hours with an hour of screen on time before the phone is at 20%. I have done some searching and all I see are wake locks and not going to deep sleep cause problems but I'm not seeing either of those in my battery stats. I disable many apps that aren't needed such as lookout and many of the bloat apps hoping one of those was the cause but still to no avail
I'm at a loss as to what to check now any help would be appreciated
I can usually go 2 days without charging and have 4 hours of screen on time. Maybe you have a defective unit with a bad chip?
At work my phone lasts all day, recharge at night. On weekends I don't even charge it, it will hold a decent charge over a 3-day weekend. Running DK 3.0, nothing special beyond that.
hey guys, battery drains depends upon each and every single option you tap on ! even the signal clash may cause battery to drain faster and enabling mobile data wil drain much...
if you want your battery usage to be controlled, jus root your s5, and clock it using, no frills
you can flash a custom kernel to make it much better !
hit like if ths helped
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tech virus said:
hey guys, battery drains depends upon each and every single option you tap on ! even the signal clash may cause battery to drain faster and enabling mobile data wil drain much...
if you want your battery usage to be controlled, jus root your s5, and clock it using, no frills
you can flash a custom kernel to make it much better !
hit like if ths helped
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Yes, because our LOCKED bootloader enables us to run a CUSTOM kernel.
Kenichi
I am now rooted what are some ways i can improve my battery life, i installed gsam battery monitor and the biggest waste it looks like is facebook.
Gsam shows that "time remaining" only being 6 hours....the only way im giong to get that is to not use the phone
aford89 said:
I am now rooted what are some ways i can improve my battery life, i installed gsam battery monitor and the biggest waste it looks like is facebook.
Gsam shows that "time remaining" only being 6 hours....the only way im giong to get that is to not use the phone
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jus uninstall the **** you've installed !
install no frills cpu or set cpu from playstore. it wil claim for root permission. grant it....
then keep set the maximum clock frequency values to the max and minimum clock frequency values to the min. and select governor as power saver....
learn much abt it in google
that's it...your're done.
hit thanks if ths helped
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That is unusually bad. Even out of the box (with all the crap enabled) I could go almost all day.
gsam battery monitor, better battery stats, and wakelock detector should all help you find offenders. I also found the 'top' utility in elixir to be useful to me because I would see Security Storage peg the cpu frequently (phone would even get warm), but the other utilities tend to lump that in with Android System. (In my case that was mostly caused by the newest Amazon appstore app).
If you can't find a specific app that is a problem that you can just remove, the really useful tuning needs root, to freeze bloat, unbounce wakelocks (the Unbounce xposed module is the greatest thing since sliced bread), fully utilize greenify, and so on.
It's possible, if you got a used device, that you have a crappy battery (maybe someone bought a cheap knockoff battery and put it in there).
I'm not a battery saving expert by any stretch of the imagination...but I've been playing with my biggest battery consumer...
Google play services....
I shut it down for 12 hours today...and improved my battery life by 27% over yesterday..
Just my observation on one of the many services that force our batteries into extinction...g

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