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Battery drains quickly

Not sure if this is a problem with the captivate (Rogers I897) or if it's just a select few, but I noticed last night despite the usb charger being plugged in overnight, once the battery reported full, it stopped charging.
So basically, I got home from work, plugged in my captivate because the battery was rather low (only takes 24 hours of maybe 30 mins to 1h of actual usage before I get below 40%), and it took 4-5 hours to charge completely. When I unplugged it in the morning though, it was already down to 64% with just being idle all night.
So is this normal or should I ask for a replacement battery or something?

There are a lot of posts around here about batterirs dying quickly, and "charge death", but I'm not really sure whats going on with your phone. All I can suggest is that you make sure that you close all apps and stuff before letting it idle, and just see how that goes. I suppose you could just have a bad battery. Are you on a custom ROM or stock? I had problems with battery life when I first flashed to a custom rom, but since then I've switched to serendipity 4.3, I have it undervolted, I keep an eye out with a task manager, and my phone has no problems lasting all day, even while texting a good amount/using it for searches and stuff.

What ROM are you running?
Did you have GPS/Bluetooth/Wireless left on?
There are known issues with certain builds of ROM's causing this issue. If your on a stock ROM and still having this issue? I would take it in to possibly have it warrantied out or at least have the battery replaced.
I haven't ever had an issue with my phone losing a charge while plugged in.

Yeah, stock ROM. I haven't installed any additional task managers, but I usually open it up and kill all tasks when I'm finished with them.
I do keep bluetooth and GPS off at all times, but I leave wifi on overnight because I didn't think the battery would stop charging entirely once it was full. I've only had the phone a week so I could get it replaced, I just wanted to investigate it a bit to see if it's a common issue or not before I did that.

RandomZero said:
Yeah, stock ROM. I haven't installed any additional task managers, but I usually open it up and kill all tasks when I'm finished with them.
I do keep bluetooth and GPS off at all times, but I leave wifi on overnight because I didn't think the battery would stop charging entirely once it was full. I've only had the phone a week so I could get it replaced, I just wanted to investigate it a bit to see if it's a common issue or not before I did that.
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Settings --> Mobile and Network --> Wifi Settings --> Advanced (soft key) --> When screen turns off
This would turn off wifi after 15 mins of inactivity. This would help save ur battery.
And yes, charge does get cut off when left for extended times, but not right after it says charge full.

Recalibrate your battery/battery stats. This is my method, there are many others though:
1. Charge the phone with the phone ON, until the phone indicates full battery
2. Unplug the charger, replug, continue charging until full battery again (I repeat this 2-3 times)
3. Turn off phone, charge until full battery
4. Unplug the charger, replug, continue charing until full battery again (Again, I repeat 2-3 times)
5. Turn on the phone, let the phone charge yet again.
6. Boot into Android Recovery, delete battery stats (Advance -> Wipe Battery Stats)

flash to firefly. over 24 hours of battery
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

More like 36 for me! No lie either.
spaz2k7 said:
flash to firefly. over 24 hours of battery
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA App

norcal einstein said:
Recalibrate your battery/battery stats. This is my method, there are many others though:
1. Charge the phone with the phone ON, until the phone indicates full battery
2. Unplug the charger, replug, continue charging until full battery again (I repeat this 2-3 times)
3. Turn off phone, charge until full battery
4. Unplug the charger, replug, continue charing until full battery again (Again, I repeat 2-3 times)
5. Turn on the phone, let the phone charge yet again.
6. Boot into Android Recovery, delete battery stats (Advance -> Wipe Battery Stats)
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Cool, I'll try this, thanks!
By default, wifi does get turned off when the screen goes dark and I haven't changed it.
I've also been tring to flash to a new ROM (been trying Android 2.2), but Kies won't load my phone). I think I'll research other methods when I have time.

RandomZero said:
Cool, I'll try this, thanks!
By default, wifi does get turned off when the screen goes dark and I haven't changed it.
I've also been tring to flash to a new ROM (been trying Android 2.2), but Kies won't load my phone). I think I'll research other methods when I have time.
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In most custom 9000 based ROMs, wifi is set to "never off" by default.

diablo009 said:
In most custom 9000 based ROMs, wifi is set to "never off" by default.
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Ah! Didn't know that. I'm extremely new to this whole smartphone thing (just got mine a week ago) and haven't actually done any hardcore (stuff that requires flashing and whatnot) customizing yet.

RandomZero said:
Ah! Didn't know that. I'm extremely new to this whole smartphone thing (just got mine a week ago) and haven't actually done any hardcore (stuff that requires flashing and whatnot) customizing yet.
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If u r not heavy on data and use it for things like mails and chats, and esp when in an area with no proper 3G coverage, u can switch to EDGE and get out of 3G. 3G sucks more battery compared to EDGE.

So I wasn't able to complete all the steps to kind of fix the battery problem, but I plugged it in to almost 100% (I think it was like 98% or something, I had to go out so I had to unplug it), but when I got back I plugged it in again and let it charge overnight. This morning however, it was still at 100%, and now, about 8.5 hours later, it's only at 73% so I think maybe it just had to normalize it.

RandomZero said:
So I wasn't able to complete all the steps to kind of fix the battery problem, but I plugged it in to almost 100% (I think it was like 98% or something, I had to go out so I had to unplug it), but when I got back I plugged it in again and let it charge overnight. This morning however, it was still at 100%, and now, about 8.5 hours later, it's only at 73% so I think maybe it just had to normalize it.
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Give it some time to normalize. And charge showing 98% when unplugged at 100% is normal.
And yes, seeing 60% battery left after an hour of calls and tasks involving an hour plus of display on after a day's work, apart from push emails, etc (~14 hours standby) isn't so new anymore to me.
Stop watching the battery so closely for about a week and u'll be all set

I was on darkys 8.1 rom with jk4 modem, calibrated the battery one time and I went 18 hours. Starting from 98%
6 hours were phone calls, 1.5 hours of text messaging. 2 hours of power amp . The rest was pretty much just standby/idle time.
Though, I don't get that anymore though.. Jk4 has gone to **** for me. I used to get full signal majority of the time, and for places where other people go no bars, I got one or two. Now its pretty horrible it makes me sad ;(
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[Q] Battery drop after unplug the charger

My battery status drop significant after unplug from charger. When charge it show 100% full, the moment unplug drop become 81% How to fix this?

i also have the same problem and im getting pretty pissed off, phones plugged in all night, unplug from 100% and it drops to 88%.
meanwhile my battery widget still says discharging from 100% and the time i unplugged the phone at n

It happens to my handset also. This started after upgrading it to 2.3.3 and this behavior i am observing from Day-1 of the update.
The battery drain has increased alot after the update and i am forced to charge the mobile twice atleast in a day.
It is really surprising the big names "SAMSUNG" & "GOOGLE", what they are doing?
Whether the time has come for the GOOGLE to introspect their raise?
--imax98

Take a look at this:
Battery Drain after full charge with charger connected on a GB OS image

I also happened to me, after a few reserch i found that when you install a custom rom, you have to calibrate battery, so it shows and charges acurrately, you can find lots of info in this forum, or you can try with an app called Battery calibration ROOT RIGHTS NEEDED.
the battery drain issue i found an article saying that it happens when uprgading to 2.3.3, it happened to me, it drained 10% an hour in sleep mode, after the fix it drains 0-5% in a 10h sleep mode.
Android OS bug on Gingerbread ROMs
This is the most annoying Samsung/Android bug.
A good few people have been seeing battery drain on Gingerbread. It comes randomly and apparently once it starts the only way to stop it is to reboot... But it comes back after a while
You can identify this drain by checking the Battery Use in Settings : if Android OS is above 20%, often between 40 and 60% of the battery consumption while your phone has been idle most of the time, then that's it.
The good news is that there is a semi-fix found in XDA: 2 system apps are responsible for this leak, here's what to do using Titanium Backup :
Find Software Update & Samsung Account, select them one by one and "Clear Data". Now you need to freeze Software Update (if you have the Pro version of Titanium Backup) or to backup the app and delete it. Since you don't delete the backup, it's like a freeze. (But keep the backup in case you want it back for some obscure reason)
Or simply use the default app manager to clear the data and Root Explorer to backup/delete Software Update.
If the Android OS battery drain comes back after freezing/deleting the 2 apps above then I suggest you read about the app below. You can back it up and delete it as well and see if it improves:
wssyncmlnps.apk (info) - make a backup in case.
But the AOS BUG will probably keep coming because there is no proper fix to it (Google bug fixed on 2.3.4).
Please share your findings posting in this thread so everybody can know.
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if you want the full guide search in darky's rom forum battery life, and its a guide. I cant post links outside the forum bc im new.
Of course you need root access. IT WORKED GREAT FOR ME. I have darkyrom 10.1 w/2.3.3 android. I do recommend to backup Software Update, Samsung account and wssyncmlnps.apk And then delete them. Reboot, and let everything loads correctly. Charge your Phone to 100%, and after a few minutes after, check the battery usage and it should be not draining battery as it was.

It's a gb problem for some of us. In short, when charging hits 100% while the display still shows 100%, the charging actually turns off, but the phone still thinks it's on charge and cpu usage etc can be very very high. The worst I've had is unplugging it in the morning to have it drop to 30%, although around the 80 to 90% is the norm. It should only drop to between 97 to 99% on unplug. That's normal.
Until sammy fixes it it will be a flaw with 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 for some of us.
I'll add, I have a galaxy tab (got it a week ago) and it does not have this problem.

[Q] problem of 4.0.3 ROM German version, unrooted

I have encountered a problem and need some help pls...
I recently flashed to 4.0.3 official rom German version (not leaked version), unrooted. I downloaded the firmware from samsung-updates.com, upgraded the phone, everything worked fine.
However, i found out recently that sometime if i left phone idle, the battery drains really quickly. say if i charged it up to 100% and left it over night, next morning, it will only have 60% left.
firstly, i went to Settings, then Battery, i found out even when the screen is OFF, the is still keep on "awake" -ing, i then downloaded CPU spy, i can see that when the battery drains quickly, CPU was constantly operating in 200MHz, something must be running in the background all the time.
I also downloaded betterbatterystatus, i have checked the wakelocks, everything worked fine.
I wonder if any of you guys have the same problem.
This does not happen often, and i believe restart the phone can "cure" it temporarily, but it will come back you dont know when...
btw, i have turned off google+ services.
please help and excuse my English.
Thanks

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You have Wifi on? Or added a new app recently? I usually reboot my phone when I install a new app since last time I installed a new app there was battery drain issue.

This helped making my phone deep sleep and decreasing battery drain
0.go to settings > sound and turn off touch sounds and screen lock sounds
These steps stop the kernel wakelock 100% problem:
1.turn on aeroplane mode
2.turn off device
3.take out battery for 10 seconds
4.turn on device
5.wait for everything to load
6.turn off aeroplane mode

Take a look at this blog article
http://www.folblog.it/migliorare-la-durata-della-batteria-dei-samsung-galaxy/
Inviato dal mio GT-N7000 usando Tapatalk

I had the same issue and solved it by doing the following steps:
1. Allow a charge to 100% to occur
2. Before you unplug the charger, unlock your phone to the homescreen
3. Restart your phone
After doing this, I noticed my phone goes into deep sleep and my battery lasts longer throughout a day.
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Mine did that, but I did the charge up, airplane mode, shutdown trick and it
fixed it.
Got a friend on an older galaxy captive, he finally got around to upgrading to GB,
and his was rooted before the update and he forgot to unroot before the update.
After the update, part of the old root program was running all the time sucking his battery down. After he figured out a way to get rid of it, the problem with battery drain stopped.
If the charge, airplane, shutdown trick doesn't work, download something like CPU Spy and see what's taking up the battery. Could be something left over from GB still running.

drilym said:
This helped making my phone deep sleep and decreasing battery drain
0.go to settings > sound and turn off touch sounds and screen lock sounds
These steps stop the kernel wakelock 100% problem:
1.turn on aeroplane mode
2.turn off device
3.take out battery for 10 seconds
4.turn on device
5.wait for everything to load
6.turn off aeroplane mode
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I was having a heating problem when charging the device (Battery temperature above 46C) and huge battery drain.
This was fixed after following the above steps.

excessive battery drain by "android os". dead in 12 hours of idle

When I first got the phone, the first few hours of use seems great.
Then, in the past few days, "android os"is showing up as the main drain, over 50% of battery usage AND my phone is dying in about 12 of just standby. Thanks to android 4.4 and lack of safe root method, I cannot determine what is causing the problem.
Anyone got an idea? Location set to battery saving, location reporting and history off, Wi-Fi scanning off, auto sync on with only contacts calendar and Gmail syncing. Removed most apps. Only known good apps are left

atb1183 said:
When I first got the phone, the first few hours of use seems great.
Then, in the past few days, "android os"is showing up as the main drain, over 50% of battery usage AND my phone is dying in about 12 of just standby. Thanks to android 4.4 and lack of safe root method, I cannot determine what is causing the problem.
Anyone got an idea? Location set to battery saving, location reporting and history off, Wi-Fi scanning off, auto sync on with only contacts calendar and Gmail syncing. Removed most apps. Only known good apps are left
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What brand and type of phone do you have?
Did you try duapps battery saver?
Greetz Peter

Did you try an factory reset ?
Greetz
Peter

atb1183 said:
When I first got the phone, the first few hours of use seems great.
Then, in the past few days, "android os"is showing up as the main drain, over 50% of battery usage AND my phone is dying in about 12 of just standby. Thanks to android 4.4 and lack of safe root method, I cannot determine what is causing the problem.
Anyone got an idea? Location set to battery saving, location reporting and history off, Wi-Fi scanning off, auto sync on with only contacts calendar and Gmail syncing. Removed most apps. Only known good apps are left
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Towelroot worked on my D415 to root.
Sounds like the device isn't going in to deep sleep when inactive. I usually charge my D415 over night. The past few days my device has been attached to my PC for long periods of time, thus keeping the battery charged. I went to bed the other night with the battery at 100% and woke to the battery still at 100%. In fact, two nights in a row.
I'd try a factory reset. Re-root if necessary. Then carefully uninstall whatever bloatware you don't want. If in doubt, don't uninstall something, ask first. :silly:

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atb1183 said:
When I first got the phone, the first few hours of use seems great.
Then, in the past few days, "android os"is showing up as the main drain, over 50% of battery usage AND my phone is dying in about 12 of just standby. Thanks to android 4.4 and lack of safe root method, I cannot determine what is causing the problem.
Anyone got an idea? Location set to battery saving, location reporting and history off, Wi-Fi scanning off, auto sync on with only contacts calendar and Gmail syncing. Removed most apps. Only known good apps are left
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I had the exact same problem, did a factory reset and everything went to normal again.
I can go up to 2 full days of battery even with auto-sync and a huge amount of e-mails e calls ( max time in battery was 72h )
If I leave it on standby it basically drains nothing at all (~1% for each 4-5 hours.

I got 2 D415 (tmo US LG L90).
one have this problem, the other doesnt.
One lasts 72 hrs with 1-2 hrs screen on time. The other is having issue. Factory reset didn't help. Factory reset and no account syncing didn't help. It was fine before. Swapped battery between the two to check. didn't help. Everything seems to work fine for both phones it's just that one is having deep sleep issue. Going to try swap it out with TMO.
is towelroot safe? i dont want to jeopardize warranty. (this is my only use of root at the moment. thanks a lot google.)

atb1183 said:
I got 2 D415 (tmo US LG L90).
one have this problem, the other doesnt.
One lasts 72 hrs with 1-2 hrs screen on time. The other is having issue. Factory reset didn't help. Factory reset and no account syncing didn't help. It was fine before. Swapped battery between the two to check. didn't help. Everything seems to work fine for both phones it's just that one is having deep sleep issue. Going to try swap it out with TMO.
is towelroot safe? i dont want to jeopardize warranty. (this is my only use of root at the moment. thanks a lot google.)
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Towelroot is safe to use for rooting, but rooting voids your warranty.

does the KDZ flashing (in the LG L90 General forum) remove all traces of root so I can effectively bring it back to stock? Tempted to root to fix this problem (thanks google) but afraid of losing warranty.

atb1183 said:
does the KDZ flashing (in the LG L90 General forum) remove all traces of root so I can effectively bring it back to stock? Tempted to root to fix this problem (thanks google) but afraid of losing warranty.
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Yes.

Note 5 Battery Drain/wakelock and DCMProvider

Hi, i have been facing battery drain from past two weeks in my note 5.at night if battery is 90% than at morning it use 10% and moved to 80% without any use. And second the DCMProvider continously draining battery. And clear data, force stop doesn't work. I have set everything accurate no data sync on auto. Wifi scan is off, wifi on during sleep is also set to never. Two days back i reinstall firmware through smart switch buy DCMPROVIDER Comes back. Don't why it use to drain battery. Before two weeks every thing was okay. At that time i check through safe mode, system app cause wake lock during night at sleep. And than dcmprovider comes and reinstall didn't work.

Freeze it

I have tried to stop it, and set it to off on auto start after boot. But it comes back. My phone is in warranty and i don't want to root it to look into depth and stop this.

cute_kayani said:
I have tried to stop it, and set it to off on auto start after boot. But it comes back. My phone is in warranty and i don't want to root it to look into depth and stop this.
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Try factory reset

Reinstall through kies did factory reset.

Dcmprovider comes again and drain battery.

cute_kayani said:
Dcmprovider comes again and drain battery.
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Man...goto samsung service and see if they can help.... otherwise you can root

I had the same problem with my N920C, did a full factory reset and it still went from 100% to 30% overnight without any usage. Then I found this app: Gservicefix
I followed the instructions to run it and even with WiFi and Location left on it now drains less than 10% overnight. It also fixed the wireless charging problem so I no longer need to use DayDream mode to keep it from stopping the wireless charge.
I have no idea what this app does but I have a stock, non-rooted Note 5 running Android 5.1.1 and it has worked wonders for my battery life without having to mess about with settings of disable/stop other apps or services
I should add I have no connection with the software or its developer.

Thanks, i try this app and let you know.

For DCMProvider i don't know, but for night high drain. Now phone going back to normal.
Follow these steps to stop idle high drain.
On your GPS and select only wifi and Mobile network and off GPS.
Than go into lock and security and other security and than device administration and off all. It might save high idling drain. And syc should be off so that it can't auto syc. Android beam, nfc all other are also at off.

wilkhaven said:
I had the same problem with my N920C, did a full factory reset and it still went from 100% to 30% overnight without any usage. Then I found this app: Gservicefix
I followed the instructions to run it and even with WiFi and Location left on it now drains less than 10% overnight. It also fixed the wireless charging problem so I no longer need to use DayDream mode to keep it from stopping the wireless charge.
I have no idea what this app does but I have a stock, non-rooted Note 5 running Android 5.1.1 and it has worked wonders for my battery life without having to mess about with settings of disable/stop other apps or services
I should add I have no connection with the software or its developer.
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DCMProvider still draining battery. The app doesn't worked for me. But the night high drain in idle comes down due to change of some settings which i mentioned in my one post.