high battery drain from different apps - X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So for the last few days it seems a random app will be the highest drain on the battery. Yesterday it was chrome. Today it was the email app. It seems the last app i open stays awake.
And i notice when clicking details the "mobile radio active" time is on for hpurs (ex 2hr 30min).
Anyone else experiencing this?

qwerty12601 said:
So for the last few days it seems a random app will be the highest drain on the battery. Yesterday it was chrome. Today it was the email app. It seems the last app i open stays awake.
And i notice when clicking details the "mobile radio active" time is on for hpurs (ex 2hr 30min).
Anyone else experiencing this?
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I am having the same issue, suddenly whatsapp is the No.1 draining app with 3 hours of radio service and no.2 OST with 2.5 hours. I think is a Lollipop bug because the issue is random with some other apps, like chrome or facebook

Had the same issue. Posted something here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2975311
The only solution I could find to this is use Wi-Fi but then it's not really a great solution. Would appreciate if someone could really solve this!?
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Exactly! My battery died in just 3 hours this morning. I checked the battery report but cannot find the app that drained the battery.
PS: I wish the engineer from moto can fix the problems as soon as possible.

alan547 said:
Exactly! My battery died in just 3 hours this morning. I checked the battery report but cannot find the app that drained the battery.
PS: I wish the engineer from moto can fix the problems as soon as possible.
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Yeah this happens only when I'm on mobile data. Never on Wi-Fi. This is very strange
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[Q] battery drain - can't identifiy despite bbs

hey guys,
i have a problem with my i8190 since i've bought it... the os is draining battery and i'm loosing about 20% battery over night...
i've tried several things:
installed newer official versions from samsung
deactivated nearly every app
calibrated battery
tried benzrom
tried juicedefender
but still no success.
can you identify something in my bbs??
thx in advance
I have the same problem, i had a full charge at night, then i woke up and the phone had 50 % battery, GPS, Bluetooth, Wifi were off and it drained half my battery, also installed CPU spy, and i notice that my phone is not going into deepsleep, i only have 5 hours of deepsleep and dont know when that was, i have the latest firmware, anyone else having this issue?
It's normal for this phone. Put the phone in airplane mode at night helps me with battery drain, just 2% juice gone.
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install adaway
should decrease the battery drain and free up some memory in the process
Well for mine it was an app called Jango, for some reason this app after quitting it wouldn't let the phone go to deep sleep, removed the app and now its going to deep sleep.
Use JuiceDefender or or try to change your brightness level.
Please reply to my better-battery-stats...
I has nothing todo with screen brightness
thanks for the tip with adaway... i'm already using it... but no success
@kicker63: this can't be, when i see people having the s3 mini with up to 4 days usage
BlackBull88 said:
Please reply to my better-battery-stats...
I has nothing todo with screen brightness
thanks for the tip with adaway... i'm already using it... but no success
@kicker63: this can't be, when i see people having the s3 mini with up to 4 days usage
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Your battery might be defective i guess, if deep sleep is that long and you're losing battery, i guess u have to blame the battery
I don't believe people get upto 4 days usage, if they do they hardly use the phone. Most people on here say about 1 days usage is common. Screen brightness on full will drain your battery more quickly.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272872
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samersh72 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272872
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thanks, i'll give it a try
BlackBull88 said:
hey guys,
i have a problem with my i8190 since i've bought it... the os is draining battery and i'm loosing about 20% battery over night...
i've tried several things:
installed newer official versions from samsung
deactivated nearly every app
calibrated battery
tried benzrom
tried juicedefender
but still no success.
can you identify something in my bbs??
thx in advance
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i had the same problem after installing Dropbox app...after i installed that application the Android OS was keeping my phone "Awake" all the time,no deepsleep at all and overnight i was losing 30% battery...i uninstalled the app and phone went back to normal...and yes,when i dont use 3g,just wifi for few minutes a day to check mail,45% brightness and use the phone only for calls and some sms messaging i get 4 days of usage with no problem
samersh72 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272872
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didn't solve my problem...
i'm going to replace the battery...
since it's nearly all the time in deep sleep it really looks like the battery is defective
i think this thread can be closed
It's a long shot, but I also experienced a lot of problems using Viber.. JuiceDefender etc wouldn't solve it, betterbatterystats wouldn't detect it, ...
Just noticed after a while that my sudden battery drains were triggered as soon as I received a message on Viber.
I also heard about facebook apps draining the battery.
Maybe you should first try to reset it to factory settings before asking a new battery?
Good luck with your phone, I know it can be frustrating..
Sven_Vl said:
It's a long shot, but I also experienced a lot of problems using Viber.. JuiceDefender etc wouldn't solve it, betterbatterystats wouldn't detect it, ...
Just noticed after a while that my sudden battery drains were triggered as soon as I received a message on Viber.
I also heard about facebook apps draining the battery.
Maybe you should first try to reset it to factory settings before asking a new battery?
Good luck with your phone, I know it can be frustrating..
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If you're rooted, use greenify to stop facebook from running in the background during sleep
resetting the phone wouldnt help since he is getting almost 99% deep sleep reported in BBS
Sven_Vl said:
It's a long shot, but I also experienced a lot of problems using Viber.. JuiceDefender etc wouldn't solve it, betterbatterystats wouldn't detect it, ...
Just noticed after a while that my sudden battery drains were triggered as soon as I received a message on Viber.
I also heard about facebook apps draining the battery.
Maybe you should first try to reset it to factory settings before asking a new battery?
Good luck with your phone, I know it can be frustrating..
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Viber was the culprit in my case. Eating battery like a hungry monster :silly:

Battery Drain?

When I got the phone my battery was pretty phenomenal (comparatively speaking). But it seems since I took the update that Sprint pushed out a few weeks ago, the battery can't make it more than a few hours with light/moderate use. Its really horrid to be honest. Hoping the eventual 4.2.2 OTA will fix this. But in the meantime I wanted to know if anyone else was having this issue and possibly help identify the source of the problem. (By the way I am not rooted)
daltonroland said:
When I got the phone my battery was pretty phenomenal (comparatively speaking). But it seems since I took the update that Sprint pushed out a few weeks ago, the battery can't make it more than a few hours with light/moderate use. Its really horrid to be honest. Hoping the eventual 4.2.2 OTA will fix this. But in the meantime I wanted to know if anyone else was having this issue and possibly help identify the source of the problem. (By the way I am not rooted)
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Have you checked the version of your Google Play Services APK? It can cause a particularly nasty bug on HTC devices.
Rirere said:
Have you checked the version of your Google Play Services APK? It can cause a particularly nasty bug on HTC devices.
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Play Services is v 3.1.36 but the actual Play Store is v 4.1.10 which is said to "fix battery drain issue." Still seems to be draining pretty rapidly. Any fix you know of?
Can we see your usage stats?
daltonroland said:
Play Services is v 3.1.36 but the actual Play Store is v 4.1.10 which is said to "fix battery drain issue." Still seems to be draining pretty rapidly. Any fix you know of?
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The Play Store update should have also pushed Play Services, so yeah. Could we see your usage and also your app list/sync settings?
I'm in the same boat, even after the Google Play Store fix.
Seriously, we need usage stats.
Sorry, been working in home WiFi.
Hardly been using the phone since I still have my old Evo LTE and the battery is better on that.
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Wifi used up 43% of 60% of your battery? That's like a quarter of your battery gone! Am I the only one who thinks that's weird? Can we see the graph and awake time etc? (Sorry for the trouble, but it's the only way we can tell)
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daltonroland said:
Sorry, been working in home WiFi.
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Just wanted to ask, what does that mean? (Not trying to be negative in any way)
sauprankul said:
Wifi used up 43% of 60% of your battery? That's like a quarter of your battery gone! Am I the only one who thinks that's weird? Can we see the graph and awake time etc? (Sorry for the trouble, but it's the only way we can tell)
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Just wanted to ask, what does that mean? (Not trying to be negative in any way)
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Well, in fairness for the last week or so I've been charging the phone and leaving it in my room. The screenshot was after like a day and a half in which a hardly used it and had WiFi on.
By working on home WiFi I meant talking to ISP and bumping up speeds, for the second time in a week.
I'll post the graph when I get home from work or early tomorrow as the phone has been unplugged for about 20 minutes.
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It won't hurt if you actually use it. Watching vids/playing games prevents blown up stats like that.
EDIT: Please, also include stats like screen time, awake time, cell reception, Wifi etc.
This was at work. I hardly use my phone at work fyi.
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Dropped 25 ish percent in 6 hours? What seems to be the problem?
With your usage, that would give you a day. I'm happy with 11 hours.
But with no internet connection and hardly any use. It concerns me because usually it would drop 5 maybe 10%. It was great on sleep.
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OK, now that I think about it, you're right. I remember getting more than 2 days on standby with absolutely no use (on wifi).
A day with that kind of usage is really not that good. It's weird because your stats don't show anything odd. I'd like to see some moderate to heavy usage stats though. The kind you say gives you 5 hours. That would help more.
Here you go. About 50% gone in about an hour of use (on WiFi) mostly on YouTube/Twitter or music with regular use of ATK.
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I'm having a serious battery drain issue with my Sprint One also, though I don't remember exactly when it started - it might very well have been that OTA update.
My battery drains when the phone is asleep. The phone will be dead in just over 24 hours from 100%, with less than one hour of screen usage. The integrated "usage" monitor shows that WiFi consumes this power , whether or not WiFi is in use. I have a paid task manager app that can track stats over time, and according to it, the processor appears to be running at ~15% constantly when the screen is off. I've tried disabling WiFi and having the phone sleep on just the cell network, to no avail. I first thought that perhaps the poor service at my house was causing it. However, I watched the battery drain at exactly the same rate when in an area with perfect coverage.
Here's the weird part - I tried airplane mode'ing my phone. Airplane mode doesn't seem to stop it. In fact, airplane mode seemed to accelerate the drain! I find it simply unacceptable that my phone will die like this with almost no usage.
I feel that the problem is not a rogue third-party app I have installed. I've used the "disable" option on Facebook, Twitter, and I've removed several other suspected apps. It makes no difference. I even suspected my task manager app; I tried removing it and looking at the integrated one, and there was no difference.
flyboy21141 said:
I'm having a serious battery drain issue with my Sprint One also, though I don't remember exactly when it started - it might very well have been that OTA update.
My battery drains when the phone is asleep. The phone will be dead in just over 24 hours from 100%, with less than one hour of screen usage. The integrated "usage" monitor shows that WiFi consumes this power , whether or not WiFi is in use. I have a paid task manager app that can track stats over time, and according to it, the processor appears to be running at ~15% constantly when the screen is off. I've tried disabling WiFi and having the phone sleep on just the cell network, to no avail. I first thought that perhaps the poor service at my house was causing it. However, I watched the battery drain at exactly the same rate when in an area with perfect coverage.
Here's the weird part - I tried airplane mode'ing my phone. Airplane mode doesn't seem to stop it. In fact, airplane mode seemed to accelerate the drain! I find it simply unacceptable that my phone will die like this with almost no usage.
I feel that the problem is not a rogue third-party app I have installed. I've used the "disable" option on Facebook, Twitter, and I've removed several other suspected apps. It makes no difference. I even suspected my task manager app; I tried removing it and looking at the integrated one, and there was no difference.
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Check to make sure never auto turn on Wi-Fi is checked in Wi-Fi advanced settings. I was going to suggest poor reception since that kills my battery, but you mentioned trying airplane mode.
With screen off and nothing running, it's not surprising that Wi-Fi is the main battery drain. But it is too fast in my opinion too.
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Is high performance Wi-Fi disabled?
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[Q] Severe battery drain / gpsd running wild?

On some occasions (about twice a week) I have a dramatic battery drain on my Note. It discharges faster than USB/pluged charger provides power, even in airplane-mode. After rebooting everything is fine again... for a few days. Manually killing the process "gpsd" cures this behaviour as well.
As reported by BetterBatteryStats I could not detect any unusual wakelocks... or am I reading it wrong?
This did not oocure before I switched from Paranoid Android 2.57 (JB 4.1.2) to StuNNeR 2 (JB 4.2.2).
However, I'm not allowed to post in the dev-thread for the rom.
According to quite a few reports I read about anything similar (esp. for S3), this issue should be fixed since JB 4.2.0... so either I didn't understand the circumstances (quite probably) or this is something completely different.
What can I do about this? Constantly checking battery charge and/or CPU usage is hardly an option :/
Interesting! Does your phone lag when battery drains, do you have wifi connection issues?
I'm suffering from battery drains and wifi issue. I will check what "top" would show and update you. I'm on sweet rom v10 by the way.
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juliobahar said:
Interesting! Does your phone lag when battery drains, do you have wifi connection issues?
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Wifi is usually fine.
Lags sometimes occur, but I'm not sure if they are connectet to the battery drain. I had the impression they happen mostly when the phone switches from wifi to 3G or vice versa.
Any wild location services running on the background?
I think CIA might be tracking you
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projeto56 said:
Any wild location services running on the background?
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None that I'm aware of
The only ones that come to mind are Maps/Navigation, Ingress and Facebook. Neither should have been active during these hours.
Is there a way to monitor which app could cause gpsd to use 50% CPU for hours?
For now I'll try swiching off "Wi-Fi & mobile network location" in Location Settings and wait if it happens again...
Mercurye said:
None that I'm aware of
The only ones that come to mind are Maps/Navigation, Ingress and Facebook. Neither should have been active during these hours.
Is there a way to monitor which app could cause gpsd to use 50% CPU for hours?
For now I'll try swiching off "Wi-Fi & mobile network location" in Location Settings and wait if it happens again...
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Could be location history and location reporting that run automaticaly on the background. It happened a few times with me. Mainly when i force closed my camera app when it was trying to geo tag mt photos. Then the GPS would keep trying to get my location even tough i wasn't using the app anymore.
Some people say that GPSD has nothing to do with gps positioning, but i don't know.
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Anyone fixed the issue?

Insane battery drain. Cannot figure out what's keeping the phone up! (Screenshots)

I have no idea why my device will not go to sleep!
I mean it does, but something keeps waking it.
Wakelock Detector says the process that keeps the phone up the most is diagnostics.client.Wakelock
BetterBatteryStats says the same thing. It has a wake time of 9 hours and 20 minutes, out of 11 hours and 42 minutes since the phone was last disconnected from power.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Try rebooting. I had the same problem, ,and that fixed it.
Just a quick guess that it's Google now or Facebook. check your alarms in bbs dropdown That gives a better breakdown of client.wakelocks and what causes them.
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wudien said:
Just a quick guess that it's Google now or Facebook. check your alarms in bbs dropdown That gives a better breakdown of client.wakelocks and what causes them.
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I had that issue... it was facebook... I deleted it and then reinstalled it... fixed the prob.
SladeZero said:
I had that issue... it was facebook... I deleted it and then reinstalled it... fixed the prob.
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oh i keep it uninstalled. that thing is uncontrollable. even with greenify. which i have also forgone since kitkat came out.
tutusinghsohi said:
I have no idea why my device will not go to sleep!
I mean it does, but something keeps waking it.
Wakelock Detector says the process that keeps the phone up the most is diagnostics.client.Wakelock
BetterBatteryStats says the same thing. It has a wake time of 9 hours and 20 minutes, out of 11 hours and 42 minutes since the phone was last disconnected from power.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Apparently, some APPs cause this with the most recent versions of the stock AT&T ROM. I battled this issue since an early 2014 OTA. I had great battery life until that OTA.
Long story short, I rooted(Kingo), Safestrapped, and used X-NOTE version 7. The diagnostics.client.wakelock went away. I get 0.3 percent drain overnight and usually only use ten percent per day during normal usage.
I have tried other ROMs but they were AT&T based and gave me the same wakelocks.
I hope this is of some help.
From 4th screenshot, it kinda looks like it is CarrierIQ.

New HTC One battery problem

The phone was bought 2 weeks ago and I have battery problems after 2-3 days. So the battery drain is huge, i got 10% (100%-90&) after 6 hours with the phone idle no use at all. What can I do?
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Mine (bought on March 2014) with power saver on goes from 100% to 96% in one night (data, Wi-Fi are off). I think that is normal. Battery lasts 2 days normal use (not much screen on).
You can do a Factory reset. Don't install apps and watch if the drain is still there.
1. If the drain disappear install your apps one by one to see witch cause the drain.
2. If the drain is still there send it to service you have a battery problem.
ccatalin said:
The phone was bought 2 weeks ago and I have battery problems after 2-3 days. So the battery drain is huge, i got 10% (100%-90&) after 6 hours with the phone idle no use at all. What can I do?
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Did you installed some apps that may cause?
Is this brand new or used phone you bought?
need a bit more info.
go to settings - power - usage, and look at the app usage. You should see the typical apps you use a lot, but also look for apps that look out of place. like an app you don't use much, but uses a lot of battery use.
also look at settings - more - data usage, and scroll down. That will show which apps are using the most data, and also if it's foreground or background data. Don't worry too much about foreground data, that is data use happening while you are using the app. Instead, look for apps that are using a lot of background data. if you click on the app, you have an option to disable background data for those apps.
Note some apps don't function properly without background data enabled, like some google services/play store. also make sure the play store options are set to never auto update.
fwiw, I usually get 2.5-3 days between charges with light use.
Sounds like a major issue
ccatalin said:
The phone was bought 2 weeks ago and I have battery problems after 2-3 days. So the battery drain is huge, i got 10% (100%-90&) after 6 hours with the phone idle no use at all. What can I do?
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If the phone is that brand new, it could be a malfunctioning phone that eats through battery life. I would try taking it back to where ever you bought it from and try getting a new phone. See if that helps. Otherwise you may need to purchase a different battery from a reputable seller in order to get a good amount of battery life.
Cheers!
ccatalin said:
The phone was bought 2 weeks ago and I have battery problems after 2-3 days. So the battery drain is huge, i got 10% (100%-90&) after 6 hours with the phone idle no use at all. What can I do?
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You could try GSam Battery Monitor (dowload it form Play Store). It gives you a report on which apps drain your battery.
DwightKSchrute said:
You could try GSam Battery Monitor (dowload it form Play Store). It gives you a report on which apps drain your battery.
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im having similar problem as mentioned..
my GSam Battery Monitor reports Android System consumes 25.8% and Kernel (Android OS) consumes 13.2%
any idea how to reduce these usages?
iamchard said:
im having similar problem as mentioned..
my GSam Battery Monitor reports Android System consumes 25.8% and Kernel (Android OS) consumes 13.2%
any idea how to reduce these usages?
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Those should be on the top of your list. You might have a faulty battery then. Have you tried a factory reset?
So, I tried a factory reset but still battery drain. I have another HTC One, with heavier usage and still goes all the day with 30-40% left at night. I will talk to Vodafone to sent the phone to warranty but I think they will say It's because you unlocked the bootloader, put a custom rom, and there is a chance to lose my warranty. Probably I'll buy a battery case
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DwightKSchrute said:
Those should be on the top of your list. You might have a faulty battery then. Have you tried a factory reset?
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nope..not yet..but im pretty sure it wouldnt help..
those apps running on background have been forced to stop manually..
iamchard said:
nope..not yet..but im pretty sure it wouldnt help..
those apps running on background have been forced to stop manually..
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You could Greenify the apps running on the background. That way, they will only be running when you open them and not after you close them. This could help too.
DwightKSchrute said:
You could Greenify the apps running on the background. That way, they will only be running when you open them and not after you close them. This could help too.
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thanks for the suggestion. will try it out now!

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