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I have experienced it a couple of times in the 8 months or so I have had my Captivate (Galaxy S). One time it was due to a rogue application that was using heaps of CPU. Using OS monitor I discovered that an app/process had a load running consistently up at 50% or more.
Uninstalled the app, problem solved. For months I was getting 48-60 hours out of a single charge, which was absolutely brilliant.
Now I have a new battery drain, and it's proving very difficult to find. Checking OS monitor didn't help. No app sticking out like dogs balls hogging CPU this time.
I tried the advice in this thread;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937080(preview)
Gone through it from end to end, and the battery drain is still there. The thread tells me I should be using roughly 1% per hour while on standby. Current widget tells me I am using 1% about every 5-8 minutes, which gives me 8-12 hours of battery life.
I have gone back and uninstalled a heaps of apps I no longer use, as well as uninstalling apps that I installed around the start of the time I noticed battery drain began. No good.
Checked all my settings, even experimented with turning off background sync (which I dont think is the problem, as I had it on when I was getting 2+ days of battery life), no good.
Using Titanium Backup, I went through and began "freezing" a couple of apps at a time, thinking I could find the application causing it that way. I sorted my apps by install date and started going back in time 2 or 3 apps at a time. No good.
However, I think I may have found a clue...
The other day, I turned my phone onto Flight mode, I can't remember why now. Anyway, I realised a few hours later that I forgot to turn Flight mode off. Looked at my battery and noticed, it had hardly dropped at all! Weird. As far as I can tell, I have the phone set up the way I did when I had great battery life. In some cases, I have even tried doing things I did not do when battery life was good (turning off background data, wifi etc). I still can't pinpoint the problem.
Who else has experienced battery drain on Android? What did you do to combat it? It's just frustrating knowing what my phone and battery are capable of and not being able to achieve it!
I have has that a couple of times too. The only way I have found to make it stop when it starts is to do a reboot. Like you it doesn't appear to be any specific app, the os is just eating battery. Once I reboot its great again. Hope this helps
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Well from a lot of different articles I have read, having a weak signal around you can cause a drain on the battery. The fact that the phone has to try to grab the signal harder than it should on top of getting then losing and having to re acquire the signal drains the battery.
I haven't done any tests myself but I find that I get great battery life when using the phone heavily while at home on the wifi network.
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I have has that a couple of times too. The only way I have found to make it stop when it starts is to do a reboot. Like you it doesn't appear to be any specific app, the os is just eating battery. Once I reboot its great again. Hope this helps
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Nah it's not that easy unfortunately. It's a problem I have had for a couple of months now. There has been many reboots in that time, none have solved the drain.
The only thing that did was putting the phone into airplane mode, which then make it a nice-looking paperweight.
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Well from a lot of different articles I have read, having a weak signal around you can cause a drain on the battery. The fact that the phone has to try to grab the signal harder than it should on top of getting then losing and having to re acquire the signal drains the battery.
I haven't done any tests myself but I find that I get great battery life when using the phone heavily while at home on the wifi network.
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It may be that, but I don't think so. As I said, I had great battery life using this ROM, and in the same locations as I do now with terrible battery life. I haven't moved, I still use the phone where I did before.
Cheers for the responses anyway guys. I appreciate it.
Google maps is a known battery drain even if not using it thanks to latitude trying to determine where you are. I would try freezing or uninstalling Google maps.
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Google maps is a known battery drain even if not using it thanks to latitude trying to determine where you are. I would try freezing or uninstalling Google maps.
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Thank you so much! It appears you are right. I "froze" Maps using Titanium Backup, and for 40 minutes my battery has been steady at 24% while on standby. Brilliant! Usually in that time I would drop 3-5%.
Now, the next question. How do I stop it? Does this mean I can no longer use Maps? I don't even use Latitude, but I see no option to uninstall it anywhere. Everything in it is turned off.
Not sure how to proceed from here. I do use Maps from time to time and would like to keep them if I can.
Just un-freeze it when you need it.
One thing that I did was start resetting my phone right before bed to terminate all the programs that I used through out the day.
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I have just upgraded to Serendipity 7, we'll see if that fixes the problem. If not, I may have to freeze Maps while not in use.
Well, after a battery calibration I am now getting 24-30 hours with moderate use. A long way from the 48-60 hours I used to get, but a lot better than the 10-12 hours of recent times. So I am half as well off as I was 3 months ago, but twice better off than I was a week ago.
Happy enough for now. Just wish I could pinpoint how I was getting that great battery life before!
I've been looking everywhere and tried multiple methods to try and fix the following problem but without any success... please help!
I have a stock captivate which came with 2.1, upgraded to stock 2.2 last year, and just last week upgraded to stock 2.3.5. Never rooted or anything like that.
Up until last week, while I was still on 2.2, I had fantastic battery life, draining maybe 1% per hour when idle. After the update to 2.3.5 I'm now draining 10% per hour when idle. I've tried different watching apps to try and catch a culprit but I'm at a loss to point to anything. All the apps I'm using are unchanged from when I was on 2.2. My best guess is that it has something to do with wifi.
When I left the phone untouched on idle last night it showed 30% wifi and 25% cell standby for battery usage. My wifi sleep policy is set to never which is what I had on 2.2. I leave wifi on all the time, but I left it on all the time with 2.2 without any of these issues. I have 5 bars and am located near a cell tower so that isn't any different either.
I've tried factory reset as well as a couple cycles of draining the battery all the way down and filling it all the way up without any change. From a UI standpoint, I like the new Gingerbread update but 10% drain/hour when idle compared to a couple days when idle with Froyo makes the phone much less usable... Help!!
You could have an app that is running in the background taking up alot of ram and or CPU peformance. This can cause your battery to drain faster. Having a live wallpaper as well as apps that update in the background will also shorten your battery life.
however, there are many apps out there that monitor what the other apps on your phone are doing and will let you know if there is a rogue app taking up battery. Also, if you have the stock battery look into a new one. Its probably old by now and somewhat tired out.
I had the same battery drain issue upgrading to froyo. I ended up finding a custom GB rom and the battt drain slowed but is still faster than the stock rom. All apps have stayed the same since day 1. At this point I'm afraid to touch it again since it the wifes, and was a bit upset about the last time.
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This was happening to me when I updated to GB but found it was one of the apps(No LED and Vlingo). I uninstalled and then reinstallled them and it stpped draining as fast in idle. I would also suggest getting the 1800mAh OEM battery for the Epic 4g Touch. It works great in our phones with 15 to 20% more life.
email app draining battery
I also updated few days ago to gingerbread official UCKK4 and after that my battery drains at around 5pm, whereas before it was around 11pm with froyo.
the battery log says email app is sucking it up. the email accounts are exatly the same 2 I had before: hotmail and company both configured as exchange.
Solutions?
thanks!
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I also updated few days ago to gingerbread official UCKK4 and after that my battery drains at around 5pm, whereas before it was around 11pm with froyo.
the battery log says email app is sucking it up. the email accounts are exatly the same 2 I had before: hotmail and company both configured as exchange.
Solutions?
thanks!
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It seems like a lot of people are complaining of issues after the update. The most reliable solution would be backing everything up and performing a factory reset. Just be aware that when you do it, you will lose EVERYTHING on your phone that isn't already backed up somewhere else so make sure you grab your pictures, music, contacts that aren't already backed up in an email address, etc.
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It seems like a lot of people are complaining of issues after the update. The most reliable solution would be backing everything up and performing a factory reset. Just be aware that when you do it, you will lose EVERYTHING on your phone that isn't already backed up somewhere else so make sure you grab your pictures, music, contacts that aren't already backed up in an email address, etc.
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I did perform a factory reset after the update!
I have nothing on the phone, except few apps, which I quickly reinstalled.
The emails and contacts are on hotmail so, it wasn't a concern they get reloaded from the exchange contacts sync. music was on my external sd card.
the problem is that if I disable email, battery is fine...but, c'mon...then what's the point of a smartphone! and if I disable background check, it's also fine, but again, what's the point of a smartphone!
I am really concerned now... with this battery life is unusable.
We have two captivates in our house, mine and my wife's. For mine, I did a complete one-click flash back to 2.2 froyo and then immediately upgraded to KK4 through Kies. Overall, my battery got much better and gave me a good 4-8 hours more battery life than what I was getting. When I go to bed I'll still have 30% remaining.
Now the bad news: My wife's went the opposite. On Froyo she had better battery life than I did and she updated without flashing her phone. On GB her battery was dying in almost 4 hours, 6 hours at best. It was crazy. On Friday I took the phone, backed it up and performed a Factory Reset. For two days this gave her better battery life than 4 hours but still horrible. Maybe 8 hours total.
What I noticed:
Over the weekend I paid close attention to her phone. I noticed the 3G symbol would be displayed on the screen while she was also connected to wifi here at home. Then I noticed that her email app (not the gmail app) was the #1 use of battery, even over the display. Clearly something was wrong. Then I noticed if I opened the email app, it would result in a connection error. However, if I opened a browser or the marketplace everything worked normal.
My thought process is: the Email app is constantly trying to connect to its server and since it's unsuccessful it continues to retry non-stop draining the battery.
How I might have Fixed it:
I took her phone and put it into Airplane Mode.
Waited a couple minutes and turned on WiFi only. (Phone was still in airplane mode)
Waited a minute and then turned WiFi off.
Took phone off Airplane mode. When everything came on, the WiFi was still off since I manually turned it off while in Airplane mode.
Rebooted the phone, WiFi is still off.
Turned on WiFi after everything finished running from boot up.
Noticed that now the 3G symbol was gone when WiFi connected.
Today she unplugged her phone at 5am this morning. As of 4pm her battery has only dropped 25% (showing 75% remaining). I checked the battery usage and the Email app is back down around number 6 or 7 on the list. Not sure if that's what fixed it but the battery is a HECK of a lot better than it was before. If someone else sees these similar symptoms give it a shot and hopefully it will help.
I was having the same issue on my phone after upgrading to GB. The 3g would stay on (displayed) while I was connected to Wi-Fi. It seemed to be draining my battery. It is better after doing a cache wipe. Next, I'll be swapping modems and kernels until I find a better combo. Currently, KK4 with corn 7.06 (sio & conservative)
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sola fide said:
We have two captivates in our house, mine and my wife's. For mine, I did a complete one-click flash back to 2.2 froyo and then immediately upgraded to KK4 through Kies. Overall, my battery got much better and gave me a good 4-8 hours more battery life than what I was getting. When I go to bed I'll still have 30% remaining.
Now the bad news: My wife's went the opposite. On Froyo she had better battery life than I did and she updated without flashing her phone. On GB her battery was dying in almost 4 hours, 6 hours at best. It was crazy. On Friday I took the phone, backed it up and performed a Factory Reset. For two days this gave her better battery life than 4 hours but still horrible. Maybe 8 hours total.
What I noticed:
Over the weekend I paid close attention to her phone. I noticed the 3G symbol would be displayed on the screen while she was also connected to wifi here at home. Then I noticed that her email app (not the gmail app) was the #1 use of battery, even over the display. Clearly something was wrong. Then I noticed if I opened the email app, it would result in a connection error. However, if I opened a browser or the marketplace everything worked normal.
My thought process is: the Email app is constantly trying to connect to its server and since it's unsuccessful it continues to retry non-stop draining the battery.
How I might have Fixed it:
I took her phone and put it into Airplane Mode.
Waited a couple minutes and turned on WiFi only. (Phone was still in airplane mode)
Waited a minute and then turned WiFi off.
Took phone off Airplane mode. When everything came on, the WiFi was still off since I manually turned it off while in Airplane mode.
Rebooted the phone, WiFi is still off.
Turned on WiFi after everything finished running from boot up.
Noticed that now the 3G symbol was gone when WiFi connected.
Today she unplugged her phone at 5am this morning. As of 4pm her battery has only dropped 25% (showing 75% remaining). I checked the battery usage and the Email app is back down around number 6 or 7 on the list. Not sure if that's what fixed it but the battery is a HECK of a lot better than it was before. If someone else sees these similar symptoms give it a shot and hopefully it will help.
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Interesting, I don't have wifi at home, but I also noticed at work (where I have wifi) that 3G and wifi icons were both on.
I am not sure I can reflash the phone, and I could try to reset the phone again.
I will try your "procedure" and see what happens.
1 more thing: as I said in my prev post, I use hotmail with both SSL checks, as exchange server.
additionally the other account, which now is disable (my work account), is a zimbra 7 server with again both ssl checks, and configured as exchange.
the same configuration was working on froyo.
my system is not rooted and nor modified. out of the box install.
Problem identified
I identified that the problem is the hotmail account.
I factory reset the phone again and cache wipe, then I did not install any app, apart from those which auto-update themselves.
I configured my zimbra 7 work email account (exchange activesync): waited few hours. Normal battery consumption.
Reset the phone again, then this time I setup only hotmail: battery drain.
solution:
now I am using stock email app for work account and downloaded hotmail app (seven+microsoft) which still allows me to sync contacts and calendar. It's suboptimal (i'd like to have all in 1 place), but battery consumption seems back to normal.
problem present again
Sorry, but after few days I realized the problem is still there...also using only zimbra (activesync exchange).
no solution yet. hotmail using its app seems fine, but no way to use stock email. after a while it starts again consuming > 25%
Correct me if I'm wrong...
So yeah correct me if I'm wrong, but I read somewhere that your Data connection and WIFI drain the battery quite a bit. I think I remember using something with a 2.2 ROM once, where if my screen was off, it basically shut off everything except the ability to receive calls and texts. I'm not really sure because that was months ago, but if this rings a bell to anyone, I wouldn't mind knowing too!!1!
Original poster here... After doing another factory reset, I only installed a few apps a day over the course of a week, waiting for the battery issue to reappear. Through this long process, I identified the Kayak and Facebook apps as the battery hogs. When I had everything else reinstalled except for these, I had the same or better battery power compared to Froyo. I contacted Kayak who said they were aware of the issue and just put out a fix. I think the problem was, an update for Kayak came out around the same time that I performed my upgrade (or the battery issue for Kayak was specific to Gingerbread) so it only appeared after my upgrade. Anyway, to be working better now.
Overall, I like the stock Gingerbread upgrade, especially the fact that Swype works a lot better after the upgrade.
Email battery drain
Hi all - I am beginning a search for some solutions. I just upgraded Cappy to stock GB yesterday. Did Factory Reset before and after which eliminated the Tethering Manager issue.
Battery life at home yesterday was AWESOME. I believe this is in part because the new GB defaults to a "never sleep" policy on Wifi. It literally went from 100% to 92% in 3/4 of a day, with Wifi on all the time.
Now its Monday and I'm in the office (NO WIFI HERE) and now all of a sudden "EMAIL" is the biggest user of battery. It's been draining almost 10% per HOUR this morning. I use Hotmail as my primary email and I have it set up through the ActiveSync server on the stock GB email app (not Hotmail-specific app).
What is going on? I have the Sync set to "Push" everything, which is the way it was on Froyo and it never ate battery like that. Is it something different in GB or do you think it is something to do with this "Wifi always on" policy that somehow the stock email app is always trying to connect to the MS Exchange Server through wifi but can't? (I'd think that when wifi is out of range that it would just default to 3G "pushing" which is what it did before, and again no bad battery drain before under Froyo).
Thoughts?
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Email battery drain
Hi all - I am beginning a search for some solutions. I just upgraded Cappy to stock GB yesterday. Did Factory Reset before and after which eliminated the Tethering Manager issue.
Battery life at home yesterday was AWESOME. I believe this is in part because the new GB defaults to a "never sleep" policy on Wifi. It literally went from 100% to 92% in 3/4 of a day, with Wifi on all the time.
Now its Monday and I'm in the office (NO WIFI HERE) and now all of a sudden "EMAIL" is the biggest user of battery. It's been draining almost 10% per HOUR this morning. I use Hotmail as my primary email and I have it set up through the ActiveSync server on the stock GB email app (not Hotmail-specific app).
What is going on? I have the Sync set to "Push" everything, which is the way it was on Froyo and it never ate battery like that. Is it something different in GB or do you think it is something to do with this "Wifi always on" policy that somehow the stock email app is always trying to connect to the MS Exchange Server through wifi but can't? (I'd think that when wifi is out of range that it would just default to 3G "pushing" which is what it did before, and again no bad battery drain before under Froyo).
Thoughts?
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Cross fingers I might have solved this. Appears that having one's Hotmail and/or GMail CALENDARS synced up may cause the problem. It appeared that both of those Calendars were basically constantly re-syncing rather than waiting for a push like the email does.
I unchecked those sync boxes for both calendars and it now seems that battery drain is slower. I'll keep watching this afternoon.
Hopefully this post is helpful if others might be experiencing the same thing. I'm hoping that it is NOT the "never sleep" Wifi because from what I've read, that is actually a battery-saver when at home in constant range of Wifi. Perhaps that is why I didn't notice this Calendar-induced drain overnight because the juice was sipping at a much slower rate even if it was constantly syncing. Once I got out onto the 3G network this morning then the juice started getting gulped......
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AlbConst said:
I've been looking everywhere and tried multiple methods to try and fix the following problem but without any success... please help!
I have a stock captivate which came with 2.1, upgraded to stock 2.2 last year, and just last week upgraded to stock 2.3.5. Never rooted or anything like that.
Up until last week, while I was still on 2.2, I had fantastic battery life, draining maybe 1% per hour when idle. After the update to 2.3.5 I'm now draining 10% per hour when idle. I've tried different watching apps to try and catch a culprit but I'm at a loss to point to anything. All the apps I'm using are unchanged from when I was on 2.2. My best guess is that it has something to do with wifi.
When I left the phone untouched on idle last night it showed 30% wifi and 25% cell standby for battery usage. My wifi sleep policy is set to never which is what I had on 2.2. I leave wifi on all the time, but I left it on all the time with 2.2 without any of these issues. I have 5 bars and am located near a cell tower so that isn't any different either.
I've tried factory reset as well as a couple cycles of draining the battery all the way down and filling it all the way up without any change. From a UI standpoint, I like the new Gingerbread update but 10% drain/hour when idle compared to a couple days when idle with Froyo makes the phone much less usable... Help!!
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I had the same problem after the GB upgrade for my AT&T Samsung Galaxy Captivate phone. After I read this forum, I figure the Outlook email setup would be the problem. I did the following changes and corrected the problem completely:
1. go to "settings"
2. go to "account and sync"
3. click on the Outlook email account under the "manage accounts" section
4. click on "Account settings" under "General settings" section
5. click "sync schedule"
6. change "peak schedule" to "15 minutes"
7. change "off-peak schedule" to "15 minutes"
8. click "save"
9. Done.
"Push" setting in "sync schedule" selection is the culprit causes the battery drain problem.
Good luck
Why is the battery drain on this phone soo bad?! I bought a 3900mah extended battery and i still cannot go a whole day without killing my battery! WTF, and i dont even use it that much. Im on stock Gingerbread v20p update.
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look at your battery stats
i have noticed that in my battery states that my phone stays "AWAKE" even when the screen is turned off for an extended period of time. I noticed that YAHOO! Mail app has a tendency of running constantly in the background keeping it awake. I noticed better life after uninstalling it.
SETTINGS / APPLICATIONS/ BATTERY USE then click on the small graph and tilt your phone to see it in landscape. Notice the change in the graph when your phone is awake vs. asleep.
I wish there was an app that told me when certain programs keep your phone "AWAKE" when the screen is off. That IMO, is the the real culprit!
Had a similar issue. Found google maps feasting on my battery when I wasn't looking. Kept turning it off but it would just turn back on till I noticed again. I figured out it was other apps with location services kicking it on. So I found a handy permissions editor from the play store and blocked the permissions to any app that wanted a location service. I also uninstalled any redundant apps that where stock but never used. Just went all day today on the stock battery with no need to charge.
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Had a similar issue. Found google maps feasting on my battery when I wasn't looking. Kept turning it off but it would just turn back on till I noticed again. I figured out it was other apps with location services kicking it on. So I found a handy permissions editor from the play store and blocked the permissions to any app that wanted a location service. I also uninstalled any redundant apps that where stock but never used. Just went all day today on the stock battery with no need to charge.
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do you remember the name of the app you used?
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i saw on other forums that an XDA developer wrote a great app called BETTERBATTERYSTATS. search XDA for it. it is free, but if you get it off of Google play it will cost a few dollars.
Using it I noticed that my Wifi was trying to turn itself on, but for some reason, at times, my wifi will not connect. if you force it, it just blinks at you 5 times and never turns on. Well, I think that some apps that use your wifi will turn it on, then if it wont connect, it continues to try until your battery dies.
I've had this issue with Bluetooth at times too. So since i rooted my phone, i have installed QUICKBOOT for those times to do a fast reboot which fixes wifi and bluetooth.
I have also purchased TASKER and told my phone to reboot at 3am every night. I still watch the betterbatterystats app to keep an eye on it and it seems to be fine.
i am also running the optimus 3D Gingerbread rom v21E on my Thrill and not the v20P AT&T stock rom. I had ghost call issues with AT&T's rom. (calls that people would make to me and the phone would never ring or show that they called). Hope this helps. With this rom i get 4g speeds (up to 10Mb) but not LTE speeds which is just a hair faster.
Think about adding Juice defender too to your catalog. recently i got my battery to last almost 24 hours!
Hi guys,
I've had the Xperia Z, and i'm not even remotely close to getting the battery life some people on here are getting.
I'm unrooted and followed the advice on here for better battery life, but still cannot get 4 hours of on screen time.
Anyways, over the weekend, i've noticed Google Maps suddenly taking up huge amounts of battery.
I've barely been using Maps or indeed barely using any app that uses location based services.
Even over night, my battery would drain 15% and Google Maps was clearly the culprit when looking at apps using the battery.
It was even stopping stamina mode from kicking in.
I disabled GPS.
that didn't fix my problem.
I tried to Force Stop Google Maps.
that didn't fix my problem.
For example, i could charge my battery to 100% to reset my battery stats, then do nothing else but immediately watch half an hour of a film, and incredibly Google Maps would magically be the app thats drained the battery the most, like double that of the screen or triple that of media server!
So last night, i reset my phone back to factory settings, reinstalled all my apps, but i haven't applied the Google Maps update.
so far so good. so far, it is behaving itself.
has anyone else had this problem?
I don't know whether i should update Maps or not.
its weird, for the first couple of weeks, it wasn't an issue, so i don't know why it suddenly became a problem, but it was massively draining my battery, even when i had done everything to disable it!
under the reviews in google play, if i filter reviews for just reviews by users with XZ, i can only see one other person complaining of the same problem.
i couldn't find anyone else posting about this issue when i googled it.
So anyone else have this problem, or know why it is/was happening?
thanks,
It isn't the version of maps you are using that causes the issue. It is 'location settings'.
If you go into location settings in Maps, you will see that you can turn on and off things such as Location reporting, Report from this device, Enable location history etc.
Some of these are required to run Google Now to its full potential, however they cause quite a high level of partial wakelocks.
It is up to you whether you have them switched on (with some battery drain), or switched off (with no/little battery drain).
I also noticed a larger than normal battery drain since a couple of days. I can't remember if there was a gmaps update right before the drainage increase.
Just for the sake of repetition silly. This has nothing to do with the Maps version.
FYI - The last Maps update was on 12th March. Point proven therefore.
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It isn't the version of maps you are using that causes the issue. It is 'location settings'.
If you go into location settings in Maps, you will see that you can turn on and off things such as Location reporting, Report from this device, Enable location history etc.
Some of these are required to run Google Now to its full potential, however they cause quite a high level of partial wakelocks.
It is up to you whether you have them switched on (with some battery drain), or switched off (with no/little battery drain).
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BUT like i said, i had turned all of these off, and MAPS was STILL draining my battery, despite location based services turned off, Maps forced stopped and not even using any location based app.
That is what i am querying. Why was this happening?
random quirk, or a more serious problem?
In that case I have no idea. It doesn't happen for me.
What I have noticed before once or twice however is that my location settings have changed without me doing it manually. This has happened to me twice when I have (un)installed Now.
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In that case I have no idea. It doesn't happen for me.
What I have noticed before once or twice however is that my location settings have changed without me doing it manually. This has happened to me twice when I have (un)installed Now.
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i'm hoping its just a random quirk.
On friday, i noticed maps was using quite a bit of battery.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday however, it just went crazy.
I could lose 15% battery when my phone was asleep all due to Maps.
well, I reset my phone to factory settings 12 hours ago, and so far the problem has not repeated itself.
i've got GPS on, location based services on, and so far Maps isn't doing anything it shouldn't be doing.
I will definitely keep an eye on it and update this thread as and when.
I've had this phone 3 weeks, so i don't know why it suddenly became a problem on friday. The only thing i changed on friday was i installed new app Google Keep which almost certainly cannot be the culprit that i can see
Just started getting this a day ago. All syncs turned off, most Samsung apps frozen, literally nothing extra running in the background and can't get rid of this wake lock. No search results on it either, any idea guys?? Phone went from 100% to 64% overnight from 2am to 8am because of this. Won't stay in deep sleep.
Wakelock ipc00000024_er.serverthread
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Same here. Just noticed this yesterday. Been searching and have found nothing. BTW, I'm 100% stock (not rooted).
Update 1:
Been playing around with basic settings.
Turned Wifi off : No change (IPC still running)
Turned GPS off : IPC stopped running!!! Still too early to tell, but is your GPS on?
Update 2:
Turned GPS back on : IPC did not restart (phone is now deep sleeping)
Going to turn Wifi back on ......
Update 3:
Wifi back on and IPC did not return. Hmmm, gone for now, but for how long. Still try turning off GPS as that is when it stopped for me (and has not returned even though I have turned GPS back on.) BTW, GPS was not showing as a battery drain while IPC was, it could have been coincidence, just documenting what I've tried.
Problem happened again this morning.
I turned GPS off, problem stopped.
I turned GPS back on and the problem did not return.
Still no root cause, but when it happens, cycling GPS seems to stop it (at least temporarily.)
Glad you found the solution. I finally gave up and just wiped my device because it was draining too fast. Will definitely use your solution in the future if it reappears
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My battery life was running perfect, I even bragged about it to friends then all of a sudden a few of days ago, I face the same exact issue. Until now, I can't figure it out. I already did 1 clean wipe (factory reset) and everything seem to be ok for 22 hrs. Then out of nowhere, Wakelock ipc00000024_er.serverthread starts sucking my battery dry all over again. I tried toggling GPS and Wifi but no luck as it's still running in the background. I'm not sure if it's an app causing this or if it could possibly be from turning off a lot of bloatware?
I bet the option circled in my pic was on when you had the problems, right?
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
I bet the option circled in my pic was on when you had the problems, right?
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Definitely not on or checked and I rarely enable GPS.
I haven't installed any new apps to my phone recently. Only 2 things i've done right before this started happening was 1. unlock my phone 2. turned off and force stopped dozens of ATT bloatware.
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Definitely not on or checked and I rarely enable GPS.
I haven't installed any new apps to my phone recently. Only 2 things i've done right before this started happening was 1. unlock my phone 2. turned off and force stopped dozens of ATT bloatware.
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Hmm bizarre man. I am not rooted but I have been getting excellent battery life with that box unchecked but with GPS actually on.
Sorry I was of no help.
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I am getting this wakelock as well. Happened after I froze some stuff, so I'm going to experiment.
l was getting this wake lock as well and noticed that in battery stats, the GPS was showing as always on despite every location option being turned off.
After reading up a bit, I uninstalled the task killer I was using. I think some program put in for a location hold without specifying a timeout for releasing it. The task killer then abruptly killed it, and the lock was never released.
Everything seems back to normal now after the uninstall and a reboot.
Hope this helps somebody.
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After factory resetting my device it went away. Now after two days of not changing any settings it is back
I too continue to randomly suffer from this problem. I'm finding that cycling GPS does not always work (neither does rebooting).
These "Android OS" wakelocks drive me crazy, its not "Android OS." can be uninstalled.
I'm still fairly convinced that it has something to do with Location (GPS). Could be weather, Google Maps, Google Now, ...
And this is back again. Does anyone have this?
Seriously I am not even installing apps from the playstore. After around 3 days it randomly comes back and doesn't stop. it consumes about one percent of battery every 3 minutes according to BBS. Thinking about selling the phone because of this.
TheMostToys said:
I too continue to randomly suffer from this problem. I'm finding that cycling GPS does not always work (neither does rebooting).
These "Android OS" wakelocks drive me crazy, its not "Android OS." can be uninstalled.
I'm still fairly convinced that it has something to do with Location (GPS). Could be weather, Google Maps, Google Now, ...
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Have you had any luck with this?
I just got back from a 1 month trip to Thailand. I took out ATT sim card and popped in a local SIM card by True Mobile with only 3G support. I had zero battery issues and no Wakelock ipc00000024_er.serverthread for 1 whole month. Now that I am back from vacation, popped in ATT sim card, Wakelock ipc00000024_er.serverthread is back in action draining my battery at a rate of almost 10% per hour. (Running stock with most recent ATT OTA update)
I wonder if this issue is directly tied with 3G/4G or SIM card use?
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I just got back from a 1 month trip to Thailand. I took out ATT sim card and popped in a local SIM card by True Mobile with only 3G support. I had zero battery issues and no Wakelock ipc00000024_er.serverthread for 1 whole month. Now that I am back from vacation, popped in ATT sim card, Wakelock ipc00000024_er.serverthread is back in action draining my battery at a rate of almost 10% per hour. (Running stock with most recent ATT OTA update)
I wonder if this issue is directly tied with 3G/4G or SIM card use?
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Resurrecting an old thread. I've been getting this ipc wakelock for the past week. Is there anything that helps this? This is really frustrating.
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Resurrecting an old thread. I've been getting this ipc wakelock for the past week. Is there anything that helps this? This is really frustrating.
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The issue was never resolved. I ended up rooting and installing x-note rom which is currently running flawless. Smooth as silk, no ipc issues and battery life is insanely awesome. With stock battery i'm running 24-29 hrs moderate to heavy use. With my hyperion extended battery i'm running 48+ hours with atleast 10 hrs screen time. No battery drainage or non sense wake locks on X-note rom.
If I were you, i'd ditch the ATT stock rom, it's night and day.
I just started having the exact same ipc00000024_er.serverthread wake lock and I can't find a solution. Newly rooted, so I don't know if that has something to do with it.
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I just started having the exact same ipc00000024_er.serverthread wake lock and I can't find a solution. Newly rooted, so I don't know if that has something to do with it.
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There's nothing you can do if you're still running stock. I've tried to solve the problem for months.
Go install a custom rom, X-note 7 is badass. Kiss ipc000024 goodbye!
I was having issues with this wakelock as well. Toggling GPS on/off fixed it for me. Perhaps Ingress was locking the gps position... dunno.
---nevermind, it returns after a while just like the guys above mentioned---