I have had my note for a week now. It's stock T-Mobile rooted.
My battery lasts pretty long but seems Android system uses more battery than screen.
Trying to remove bloat and garbage apps waking my phone but there's no real list out for safe to remove bloat.
Anyone have suggestions to fix the huge system consumption?
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I recently put S7 on my phone. The battery life is now less than 6 hours with low usage. I checked the "SystemPanel" app and do not see anything that is taking up the power. The settings menu for battery usage show 33% currently on the display, 16% on voice calls. Maps at 12% and so on.
I used to be able to go all day without an problem. I have ordered an extended battery but would be nice to know what is causing this.
Does anyone have any tools or ideas on what I can check?
Is the Android OS battery usage high on the list ?? If so, this is a known issue within the 2.3.3 Gingerbread. A simple reboot will fix the problem. And after u reboot if u look at the battery usage the Android OS will still be high on the list because the usage list doesn't reset with a quick reboot. But just give it an hour or so and u will see the Android OS usage going down.
Also the Google Maps has a known issue of running in the background even after u close it. U can freeze it in Titanium Backup. Or some have reported that the latest update for Maps has not continued to run in the background and drain the battery.
Hi,
I have had the captivate for a while and it has been a trusty little phone. For past few months , the phone is not able to hold the charge. I have tried multiple roms, stock roms, and tried to do as much as I can. But still not able to keep the phone on for more than 6 hours from 100%. I bought a new battery and no difference has been noticed. I was just wondering what else could I look into. I have a Note 2, but I really love this phone and want it as a good reliable spare.
Thanks
Install the Better Battery Stats app and let it run for a day and then see what the apps says is eatin up ur battery.
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I would highly recommend the "SLIM" Rom. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060386)
I've found that it's been extremely kind to my battery with its suite of inverted apps and generally inverted interface.
My battery running stock rom was dying in ~6 hours idling, very much like your situation. Running SLIM, I've seen battery life for ~1.5 days with light usage. Not a drastic improvement but it definitely helps.
I would also recommend grabbing "Gemini App Manager" and killing off some pesky background services that may be eating up at your resources/battery life. Be careful what you mess with, but you can change the startup for your services as well as fully disabling services. (Requires root)
ArchTyriel said:
I would highly recommend the "SLIM" Rom. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060386)
I've found that it's been extremely kind to my battery with its suite of inverted apps and generally inverted interface.
My battery running stock rom was dying in ~6 hours idling, very much like your situation. Running SLIM, I've seen battery life for ~1.5 days with light usage. Not a drastic improvement but it definitely helps.
I would also recommend grabbing "Gemini App Manager" and killing off some pesky background services that may be eating up at your resources/battery life. Be careful what you mess with, but you can change the startup for your services as well as fully disabling services. (Requires root)
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His issue isn't coming from the ROM he's using. It's mostly a app draining his battery.
On a side note, app manager/killer don't actually give you more battery as the process simply restarts after being killed. Android itself kills w/e needs to be killed (without restarting them). Stop using it and you might actually see a improvement in battery life.
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His issue isn't coming from the ROM he's using. It's mostly a app draining his battery.
On a side note, app manager/killer don't actually give you more battery as the process simply restarts after being killed. Android itself kills w/e needs to be killed (without restarting them). Stop using it and you might actually see a improvement in battery life.
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All ROMs are certainly not created equally so I was making a suggestion based on personal experience.
No I agree, with your original post that he needs to track down the app that is killing the battery but the manager I suggested configures the startup parameters of the app (should this app start on boot/can it restart itself/etc). I found when using it that my dropbox was constantly hanging around in the background and started on boot. It allows for some select tweaking of what exactly you want to be running and when it is allowed to start.
thanks guys, I have been trying to figure out myself whats keeping the phone on but no luck yet. its just saying brightness consuming more than 50% battery and the other 25% is os ans system.
I installed slim rom last night, so will try it out today and see how this fares.
I thought I might begin a thread for those who have general battery tips, experience with addons, and any other key info that can help some others with battery woes.
I've not had any real problems with battery life from the start-- mine seems to be getting better and better. But some of the reports out there have people with substantial battery problems. Here's what I've done to this point in regards to the battery, and I hope others can chime in with other useful stuff:
1. updated to latest firmware from STOCK via OTA. This OTA marked a clear improvement.
2. rooted
3. xposed installed, with these modules: App Settings, BootManager, Greenify, Unbounce (i think this one's key), Wanam (make sure you disable secure storage or you'll have freezing issues)
4. Titanium Backup to remove some bloat, mostly T-Mobile apps.
5. Look through greenify, unbounce, and bootmanager and filter out stuff that seems unnecessary or hogging resources
6. ALWAYS Let the phone drain to ~20%, and then fully charge to 100% using the adaptive rapid charge (this takes about 1 hour for me). It's important especially when breaking in a new battery, to cycle it properly.
I've seen pretty tremendous battery life since doing these steps, and allowing the system to settle in for a couple days. I suspect it's going to keep improving as the battery ramps up from usage. I have plenty of stuff still running in the background (Facebook, Viber, location, bluetooth for my Gear 2, Sync, NFC) Pretty happy with the last 24 hours especially. My phone is sim-unlocked and running on AT&T- this may play a part in reception and better battery life, but it may be irrelevant.
What are others experiences/steps/frozen/greenified/unbounced/BootManager(ed) etc... let us know!
edit: the attached thumbnail showing screen life, is with the battery at 52% as well
Wow those are some good stats brother
I just drained the first charge to 0 and charged it back up. I'm more than satisfied with the battery on this device!
I spent hours messing with the phone as evident by my screen on time and it just keeps going.
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I just drained the first charge to 0 and charged it back up. I'm more than satisfied with the battery on this device!
I spent hours messing with the phone as evident by my screen on time and it just keeps going.
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Any tweaks to accomplish that?
The only thing I did was disable all T-Mobile branded apps with the exception of the Mobile Hotspot app. All other bloatware is untouched and still on the phone.
I haven't rooted yet and most of the time on that charge cycle was spent on WiFi. I was trying to learn the phone again, so I was absolutely using it a lot.
The screen on time blew my mind and is the best of any phone I've had to date. Especially when you consider that it was on the first full charge.
I'm having serious battery issues that just started out of nowhere. I'm currently only getting about 4 hours of light use before having to recharge.
I'd like to look at what apps are using the battery but there are only 5 apps listed and they add up to only 27% (the highest is screen at 12%).
Phone is not rooted and I haven't loaded any new apps recently.
I noticed this as well. I used to use Better Battery Stats when I was rooted, so I didn't know if it was normal to act this way or not. Sounds like it isn't.
Currently having the same issue. Seems like my battery started tanking right around Christmas. I got a Huawei watch and originally suspected that but turning it off and leaving it home for a day didn't seem to help. The battery stats on the S6 are garbage and I can't track down what is going on.
Been noticing the same issue on my G920A. I tried doing a cache clear, but that doesn't seem to have helped. I went through all the running apps and services to try and find anything that could be eating the battery, but nothing seems to be reported that adds up to the amount that's getting eaten.
I use greenify for handling the hibernation of apps when they don't seem to act right by themselves, but since the phone isn't rooted, I have to manually run this operation - and that really doesn't help much anyway. Figured I'd add my experience to this thread just as a means of documenting the situation.
Hello guys,
i recently upgraded note 8 battery and the battery life hasnt changed at all. I think i need to reset cycle counter as it says its 1436 and the battery doesnt charge to full voltage (max is 4.15). Im trying to delete/edit the texts in sys/class/power_supply/battery but i cant do anything. Ive tried with adb shell ( i am rooted on stock rom but i get operation not permited) and via in built terminal (same story) and lastly with a root browser/text editor and same story. The battery is new tested capacity is 3281 mah but on this phone is registered 2200. I totally need help
I've had the same experience, my battery life is the same after replacing the battery. My thoughts are that it's just the outdated OS not performing correctly with apps intended for newer OS.
The reported capacity doesn't effect the power consumption of the device.
Make sure the device has been compromised by a rootkit. Reflash if needed.
Turn off all power management if any.
Find the the battery hogs and deal with them on a case by case basis.
Karma Firewall's logging feature can be helpful in spotting some. Galaxy Battery Tracker is useful.
Cloud apps are prime suspects. If FB, WhatsApp etc are on the phone... time to take out the trash.