[Q] Unrooted GSM SIM-unlocked Moto X battery life - Moto X Q&A

Just got my wife a new GSM SIM-unlocked Moto X. It's not a developer edition, so unlocking the bootloader is out of the question. I also have not rooted it yet, and would prefer not to. After fully setting it up and downloading all her apps from the Play Store (no TiBu or Helium restores), I saw that the battery almost drained overnight (fully charged to ~30% in under 8 hours). Looking at the battery stats, I see that "Android System" took over 80% of usage, and its "Keep awake" is almost the same amount as "on battery" time. Basically the phone is not sleeping. I imagine with even light usage it would drain even faster.
Are there any non-root tools out there to let me see what's keeping the phone awake?

Gsam gives you an idea but it's not as helpful without root. 4.4 does have a bug with the is using a lot of resources. I found a reboot usually fixes the problem
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After having my Moto X for about 3 Weeks, my battery was almost dead after about 10 hours off charger, and it had been held awake the entire time. I was unable to identify the culprit before the battery died. Afterwards, I installed Gsam, and the problem had not happened since (about 7 weeks without issue).
Based on my own experience, I think your problem was an isolated incident.
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[Q] pm8921_eoc is keeping my phone awake! Help!

Hi guys, I am using stock Rogers Moto X and just upgraded to Kitkat. While enjoying the improved response time on Kitkat, I noticed that the standby time(everything off except radio signal) on this phone consumed more juice than on Jellybean. When running on JB, it used to consume about 5% every 10 hours with wakeup time less than 3% showing on Wakeuplock. However, it now consumes about 5% for every 6-7 hours!!
Therefore, I downloaded Wakeuplock, GSam battery monitor, and Betterbattery stats to collect some info. Although their functionality are very much limited under Kitkat, they still can collect kernel wakelocks info except Wakeuplock. The results were collected after I charged my phone to 86% and turning off everything except radio. Time period was 7 hours and 15 mins. See my results on attachments.
You can see that on Betterbattery stats it shows everything was alright. Deep sleep time was 99.3% and awake time was 0.7%. Deep sleep time was very satisfactory. While on the Wakeuplock, it showed awake time was 26%! Although I think it did not reset the time to 0 after I unplug my charger so it probably not that accurate but should be at least 15% of awake time. It also cannot display anymore details under Kitkat. Last but not least, on GSam battery monitor, the result shows pm8921_eoc was keeping the phone awake for 1 hour and 4 min for the duration of 7 hours and 31 min which makes 14% of awake time alone. I have never seen pm8921_eoc this high on my kernel wakelocks. I did not download any new apps(except these wakelock apps) or change any setting to my apps after the Kitkat update so it shouldn't be my apps that causing it.
So what is pm8921_eoc exactly? And how should I reduce its waking up times?
SimplyDF said:
Hi guys, I am using stock Rogers Moto X and just upgraded to Kitkat. While enjoying the improved response time on Kitkat, I noticed that the standby time(everything off except radio signal) on this phone consumed more juice than on Jellybean. When running on JB, it used to consume about 5% every 10 hours with wakeup time less than 3% showing on Wakeuplock. However, it now consumes about 5% for every 6-7 hours!!
Therefore, I downloaded Wakeuplock, GSam battery monitor, and Betterbattery stats to collect some info. Although their functionality are very much limited under Kitkat, they still can collect kernel wakelocks info except Wakeuplock. The results were collected after I charged my phone to 86% and turning off everything except radio. Time period was 7 hours and 15 mins. See my results on attachments.
You can see that on Betterbattery stats it shows everything was alright. Deep sleep time was 99.3% and awake time was 0.7%. Deep sleep time was very satisfactory. While on the Wakeuplock, it showed awake time was 26%! Although I think it did not reset the time to 0 after I unplug my charger so it probably not that accurate but should be at least 15% of awake time. It also cannot display anymore details under Kitkat. Last but not least, on GSam battery monitor, the result shows pm8921_eoc was keeping the phone awake for 1 hour and 4 min for the duration of 7 hours and 31 min which makes 14% of awake time alone. I have never seen pm8921_eoc this high on my kernel wakelocks. I did not download any new apps(except these wakelock apps) or change any setting to my apps after the Kitkat update so it shouldn't be my apps that causing it.
So what is pm8921_eoc exactly? And how should I reduce its waking up times?
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Read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36736462&postcount=7049
And don't try to downgrade as it not possible, its a one upgrade
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flashallthetime said:
Read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36736462&postcount=7049
And don't try to downgrade as it is possible, its a one upgrade
Sent on my Gummy running Lenoto X
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Thank you so much! Guess it's just Kitkat draining more battery.
flashallthetime said:
Read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36736462&postcount=7049
And don't try to downgrade as it not possible, its a one upgrade
Sent on my Gummy running Lenoto X
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Its not that bad compared to 4.4 Anne it always takes a few cycles to see how your battery actual is
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You're getting less than 1 percent per hour drain....that's better than most. There's no issue. Be thankful.
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Battery drain going downhill

I've had my moto x about a month.. and recently noticed the battery drain going downhill.. while using it I've noticed losing a percent about every 2.3 minutes verse 3+ minutes... works out to a loss of an hour or so from full charge. GPS off and brightness set to lowest setting, haven't changed anything that would cause the drain to increase, but I leave it on a charger when using it as a hotspot.. and the charger is my nexus 7 charger not the moto charger.. but this never caused battery problems with my razr m.
More things installed and running I bet is all. You're talking a small difference really.
But without screen shots from gsam or something useful (so not stock battery screen ).... You'll get only wild guesses from people.

[Q] Unusually High Battery Drain While Idle?

Hey guys,
I just got my Moto X 2014 last Monday and have noticed the battery life kinda sucks, so I've been monitoring it and my cellular radio and WiFi are using quite a bit of battery and I'm also getting some wakelocks that i cant find the source of (as being on lollipop and not being rooted).
I am almost always around WiFi and have excellent signal (3+bars) all the time and have all the same apps I've had installed on my galaxy nexus (witch the battery graph would actually flat line and have no wake locks) so I cant see any one of my apps being a problem for the battery drain of 10-15% over night with Moto Display turned off (as not to wakelock me haha).
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this phone but i expected a bit better idle time than this.
Anyone out there have any idea what could be causing this?
Thanks,
McDuff
McDuffSmith said:
Hey guys,
I just got my Moto X 2014 last Monday and have noticed the battery life kinda sucks, so I've been monitoring it and my cellular radio and WiFi are using quite a bit of battery and I'm also getting some wakelocks that i cant find the source of (as being on lollipop and not being rooted).
I am almost always around WiFi and have excellent signal (3+bars) all the time and have all the same apps I've had installed on my galaxy nexus (witch the battery graph would actually flat line and have no wake locks) so I cant see any one of my apps being a problem for the battery drain of 10-15% over night with Moto Display turned off (as not to wakelock me haha).
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this phone but i expected a bit better idle time than this.
Anyone out there have any idea what could be causing this?
Thanks,
McDuff
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I've been on lollipop on my PE for a while now and had horrible standby time. Google play services was always shown as the highest consumer of battery. I finally decided to clear cache from recovery and now my standby times have improved dramatically, about 1% drop per hour or so. Not sure what the problem was as I did factory reset after updating to lollipop via ota.
Considering the phone is always listening, 1% per hour is ok. I get around this with a good signal. I just think that battery drain while the phone is being used is very high. It drains 1% each 3,6 minutes while playing a video from the internal memory with sound on 50% and brightness on 25%.
McDuffSmith said:
Hey guys,
I just got my Moto X 2014 last Monday and have noticed the battery life kinda sucks, so I've been monitoring it and my cellular radio and WiFi are using quite a bit of battery and I'm also getting some wakelocks that i cant find the source of (as being on lollipop and not being rooted).
I am almost always around WiFi and have excellent signal (3+bars) all the time and have all the same apps I've had installed on my galaxy nexus (witch the battery graph would actually flat line and have no wake locks) so I cant see any one of my apps being a problem for the battery drain of 10-15% over night with Moto Display turned off (as not to wakelock me haha).
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this phone but i expected a bit better idle time than this.
Anyone out there have any idea what could be causing this?
Thanks,
McDuff
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Welcome to lollipop. Enough said. Lollipop has severe battery issues and at the moment there is no fix as far as i can see or have tried.
I found that disabling moto voice reduced my overnight drain from 1% to 0.5% per hour which is very reasonable considering I have moto display enabled and it gets activated a lot during the night (I have a springy bed lol). Since moto voice on lollipop is not that good anyway I don't miss it too much. This also proves that moto display has negligible impact on battery life.
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arpitnathany said:
I found that disabling moto voice reduced my overnight drain from 1% to 0.5% per hour which is very reasonable considering I have moto display enabled and it gets activated a lot during the night (I have a springy bed lol). Since moto voice on lollipop is not that good anyway I don't miss it too much. This also proves that moto display has negligible impact on battery life.
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You can also make it so your moto display won't come online during sleep time, just saying.

Problem with Battery

Hi!
I just recently bought a Moto X 2014 (Second gen) and for some reason, it turns off when it reaches 10% battery left. I got scared and I thought it was a problem with the battery itself. The issue is that when I charge the phone, it starts from 0% battery, and then increasing to 1%, 2%, etc. At 90% usage, it then goes off and ignores the remaining 10%. That’s why I can’t determine if it’s a battery calibration issue or a hardware Issue.
Thanks beforehand
My girlfriend and I have the exact same issue. We have the Moto X pure editions, mine is rooted with TWRP, and hers is totally stock. I haven't had much luck resolving this issue either.
Same problem here. My wife has a 2nd gen Moto X as well (mine is pure, hers is AT&T). This started about 2-3 week s ago I think and they both started doing it at the same time. I'm hoping its software, but who knows.
I don't know if my issue is exactly the same, but in the same vein. My phone was on the charger and was at 96% at 10pm. Woke up at 2am to feed the baby and unplugged it from charger. By the time I got done taking care of the baby, I picked up the phone and the battery was at 60% and was very hot to the touch. The usage monitor said that the display was the big user but how can that be when it was off!
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Maybe you had left some apps running
They keep running in background untill you properly shut them down.
Running apps will always wakeup your cpu, screen even if youre not using them.
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Saiko_Orochi said:
Hi!
I just recently bought a Moto X 2014 (Second gen) and for some reason, it turns off when it reaches 10% battery left. I got scared and I thought it was a problem with the battery itself. The issue is that when I charge the phone, it starts from 0% battery, and then increasing to 1%, 2%, etc. At 90% usage, it then goes off and ignores the remaining 10%. That’s why I can’t determine if it’s a battery calibration issue or a hardware Issue.
Thanks beforehand
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I had this problem previously, but now my phone will shutdown if below 1%. I dont know what I've done, maybe the battery calibrating it self.
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Moto X 2014 Battery Issues (6.0)

Hi all,
I would like to talk about my battery. I have never gotten above 2 and a half hours of screen on time, not even on lollipop and I'm on marshmallow now. I feel like doze does not really work because the battery drains at night by over 20 percent just idling. Also, my battery chart shows 3 hours left at 85%. I noticed that Android System was usually at the top of the list of things using the battery the most. Does anyone have a fix for this situation? I only got the phone last summer and believe that battery life should be way better than this.

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