The best device on the planet i.e Note 4, was experiencing some battery drain since last two days. I wasn't sure what is happening given the solid battery performance I used to get. After checking around, I noticed that exchange services was taking maximum battery over 38%.
I then basically deleted my exchange active sync push account, and added it back again.
Things are back to normal, with no sync errors and no battery drain. Just posting the results out here in case anybody having same issue or any other suggestions out there for this.
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I've been having some hardcore battery drain on my Hero the past week or so. I can't make it through the day. (I'm running Damage Control 2.090.01) I noticed that at least the past few days the circular symbol of 2 arrows for Data Sync - Connected to HTC Sync is always on.
I went to About Phone>Battery Use to see what was on. It showed 100% Google Maps. I uninstalled it and rebooted. At first the icon was gone but then it was right back. It had checked mail right before it came back but it's staying on even after it's done checking mail. I checked again and it was about 58% display, 25% cell standby and 17% Android System. I don't know what is draining the battery but it's probably whatever is making the Data Sync icon stay on.
My wife is having battery drain problems with her Hero too. Her phone is still 100% stock. I haven't been able to check to see if the data sync icon is showing on her phone. We were going to take them in to Sprint for new batteries, but now I'm wondering if something else is wrong besides bad batteries. We got the phones at the same time and started having battery issues at the same time.
I figured out the sync thing. For some reason it kept syncing Facebook for Sense. I shut that off and it stopped. I'll see if that fixes my battery issue. It still doesn't explain my wife's phone.
Could it just be bad batteries?
Hi all,
Hope someone can help or this can be of help to someone.
I have a UK Galaxy S 16GB on Vodafone. Came with Eclair XXJF3. I have flashed it several time to various versions of Froyo including XXJPK, XXJPO and most recently BUJP7 (as it is the official Vodafone ROM). All using Odin.
Like most I seem to have had battery drain issues, very rarely getting over 12 hours of non use.
I decided to flash one last time to a clean build of BUJP7. I first reverted back to Eclair with repartition and then to BUJP7 without repartition. OK so far. I installed OCLF and set Minifree to Strict and Scheduler to Deadline with tweaks. I also installed Battery Graph and set up my Google account.
I left it like this and noticed I was getting excellent battery life. Infact over night I was getting anything form 9 hours with NO (0%-1%) battery drain and about 7% battery drain. Which is excellent.
I then decided to setup my work Exchange email account. And BAM, thats the day the laughter died. Battery drain was back to the level other have been reporting, about 10% per hour. I have messed about with the email collection frequencysettings, using Push, Pull every hour and even set it to None, and still getting battery drain. If I remove the account completely, the battery drain poroblem vanishes.
I have also tried this with a regular POP and IMap account and it seems to have the same effect as having Exchange setup.
I apologize if this has been answered else where but there is a sea of threads about battery drain and none seem to focus on the fact that it could be email accounts that are causing it. I know that my battery stats are shot due to RFS (repeated flashing syndrome, is that illegal?) and so maybe I need to do a complete factory reset, wipe my internal SD card and see how that goes, but it just seems to coincidental that the email accounts setup and battery drain occur at the same time.
Thanks in advance to anyone who supports this thread and hope I have provided some insight into (another) cause of battery drain or at least given some food for thought.
Andrew
Someone made a thread saying that if you set it to push the battery drain isnt as bad as when its set to poll every time frame.
I think that may have been my issue (the first thing i setup was email and the battery was dead after a few a hours). Also flashed back to JM1 as i couldnt work it out.
Might try it again, bit annoyed with all of this massive drain...
BTW, the thread title should be Froyo EMAIL battery drain issues. DOH! Me and my sausage fingers.
Thanks for the reply. I have tried Push and Pull email settings. And had it set to never pick up email. Seems like just having the email account set up is enough to drain the battery.
Thats bloody annoying, im not really sure what else to suggest? You could try an alternative client like K-9 Mail, I had to use that on Eclair as the Samsung client wouldnt work with my hotmail account.
I was thinking of trying another Froyo ROM tonight, but not sure if i should now
Rightyho, so I had a O2U SGS with its original firmware, had a bit of an issue with the leaked Froyo that changed the product code but managed to get it back and used JM1.
So JPO came out, thought id try it out. Result: Awful battery life.
JP5 came out (the O2 UK version). Result: still awful battery life.
Thought id try JPA. Result: still awful battery life.
Done all the battery optimisations, deleted the battery stats etc.
Back on JM1 today, battery is at 89% after a 100% 4 hours ago, witch emails, gmail, facebook, and a few other syncing at 30 to 1hour intervals. This is what battery life should be.
The question is, do i give Froyo another go, or wait till another version of Froyo is released? I do like a lot of the new stuff Froyo has, but i also would like my phone to last more than 12 hours!
Suggestions?
Did you try finding out what was causing the battery drain in those froyo roms? 2-3% drain per hour is very achievable, if I just let my phone idle it would only take maybe 1% an hour. I think something else is causing the problem.
I agree with nwsk ive tried numerous froyos and they have all been good for batery life. Theres a few threads about the gallery app and battery usage.
Im pretty sure its both email and gallery, but dont understand why i am getting the issue when others arent?
Had no issues with batt life on froyo either, If it was me I'd wipe it clean and perform a fresh install, see how the battery is then, assuming you haven't already tried that. If you did then something is sucking the battery, doubt it's email or gallery as mine is syncing constantly and I get about 3% drain per hour, in the evening when I turn syncing off I'm getting about a 1-2% drain per hour. My data network is disabled though, but I have wifi on constantly
Ive done several hard resets again, even done a clean install of JM1 then upgraded straight to JPO and after everything is setup, battery just drains rapidly.
Just because you dont have the issue, doesnt mean it doesnt exist, there are several threads with others reporting the issue;
Battery drains after Froyo update
Battery drain problem/sensor usage
Do you suffer from Gallery Sensor battery drainage?
Froyo emial battery drain issues
Just trying to be helpful, nobody said the issue doesn't exist. Have you tried a custom rom?
Doc custom rom is a good try,
but before hands,
mind share the following info?
1. which email client you use? (Samsung email client? SEA? etc?)
2. which email you try to retrieve (yahoo? msn? outlook exchange? etc?)
3. Do you sync other things like contact, calendar together with the setup?
1. Using default Samsung client for email.
2. Exchange and hotmail account being synced every 30mins.
3. SNS? syncs my facebook once a day, also have a few widgets like facebook and engadget doing a 1 hour sync
These are the settings i have on JM1 then choose in Froyo when i upgrade.
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1. Using default Samsung client for email.
2. Exchange and hotmail account being synced every 30mins.
3. SNS? syncs my facebook once a day, also have a few widgets like facebook and engadget doing a 1 hour sync
These are the settings i have on JM1 then choose in Froyo when i upgrade.
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I suspect your Exchange give you the problem.
Froyo Samsung default mail client is a bit picky and it drain the battery at certain condition.
This is the strange issue I encounter when I'm on Froyo Samsung email client, read my update, you may suffer for the same issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=817842
My advise is
1. Sync only hotmail (btw Samsung Premium Social Hub offer a better integration with Hotmail, do give it a try) , do not setup exchange, let it run for a day, if there is no battery drain issue, it confirms that hotmail doesn't give u that issue
2. after No.1 setup exchange, but sync only contact and email, do not sync calendar, set it as "Push" (unless you have data plan constrain), few forummer posted that Push save better battery.
PS: There are other application like FB client for Android, Twitter, FourSquare for Android has the auto update and sync setup by default, go to respective application setting page and disable it, it helps for battery life.
Oh yes ive come across your thread and tried those options too (was using K-9 mails instead) still had pretty bad battery drain though.
I only use SNS for the pictures on my contacts, otherwise i do use the facebook app.
Thanks for your suggestions though.
_dsk_ said:
Oh yes ive come across your thread and tried those options too (was using K-9 mails instead) still had pretty bad battery drain though.
I only use SNS for the pictures on my contacts, otherwise i do use the facebook app.
Thanks for your suggestions though.
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Are you using any live wallpapers? I had a galaxy thing on and battery drain was terrible.
Nope, never used lived wallpapers, also have the brightness set to manual and down quite low (which im sure most of you will admit is actually still pretty bright).
I'm having some problems with battery drain and also with high CPU warnings because of google play services. Everything is up to date. The warnings seem pretty random, and the battery drain some days in none existant, but the following day it will lose 20% in a couple of hours on standby and otherwise unused. I have cleared the cache, I have cleared the cache and data for all the google services I could find. I have deleted my 3 google accounts and re-added them.
Deleting the data and cache from the apps does seem to help, temporarily, but in a few days the problem is back.
My Note 8 is the Exynos UK version.
Does anyone else have these issues and is there a fix? My Mrs has the same thing happening on her S8.
Thanks.
Same Issue on my Note 8
This issue started 2 days ago, it's completely drained my battery and when i usually have 40% left at the end of the day, my battery was dead by 3 PM which is ridiculous. Checked the battery usage and Google Services is taking a massive amount of battery. Any idea of the cause? The drain slows when i put it on power saving mode i need this fixed!
Following :|
People in household with note 8 and s7 both having issue. Worse, device maintenance allows you to close Google play services via a notification which disables many functions for the non technical user.
Hopefully a fix is coming.
BJBBJB
I have the same problem on my Galaxy S7.
Hello,
Since the purchase of my phone XZ1 Compact (G8441), I've been experiencing barely acceptable battery life. This is especially frustrating since I bought this phone having heard that it can last easily 2-3 days, but this is not the case for me (discharging about 4%h on average or 2.5%h with screen off on either wifi or mobile data, with various configurations outside/home/office, i.e. in practice never usable more than a day).
According to *#*#SERVICE#*#*, the battery life is still good (2704 mAh). The issue I am experiencing is most likely due to an unknown software and/or hardware failure leading to lots of wakelocks that prevent the phone from "sleeping"/"dozing" correctly.
I know that MANY users worldwide are experiencing this and Sony never gave an answer to this, according to e.g. the following threads:
https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xper...-drain-after-update-47-1-A-12-235/m-p/1337029
https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xper...-drain-after-47-1-A-12-205-update/m-p/1328053
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-xz1-compact/help/battery-life-bit-odd-t3688342/page8
https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-XZ1-Compact/High-battery-drain/m-p/1326474 https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xper...-drain-after-update-47-1-A-12-270/m-p/1340671 https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xper...pie-battery-drain-CPU-idling-high/m-p/1354891
and many others
In my case the items "NlpWakeLock" and "RILJ_ACK_WL" activate both up to thousands of times every hour. No relevant information could be found about this in the web lookups I've done, and I am not sure this is related to the issue I'm facing. I joined a log of today's better battery stats with a pathetic 1h20 of SOT and 65% discharge, a huge count of wakelocks except when I was listening to music, and an apparent faster discharge with the idle phone than when actually used.
The phone is running the latest downloadable Sony firmware 47.2.A.10.107.
Of course, factory reset was tried with no amelioration and I tried to contact directly Sony which have basically no willingness to help or investigate.
Anyone would have a clue about this?
Thanks,
Alexandre
Do you use Google Now (google assistant) - NlpWakeLock
If not, disable it and see what happens.
This little phone I have for battery life and for banking/authenticator/etc. Not for work. So I have disabled most things I do not need (adb uninstall) - so the battery is quite good on standby.
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, as I don't use GoogleNow, the whole Google App is already disabled...
I'll try and do some adb uninstall and will keep you posted
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Anyone would have a clue about this?
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Looking at the bbs stats. The first thing I noticed is that your wifi is on all the time. Try turning it to only when awake and disable the wifi scanning in locatin settings.
RIL wakelocks are on because you have poor signal, it's the number of handhakes your phone does with the local cell tower and if you have bad signal, it gets higher.
Some providers offer home 4g boosters for your home or 'calls over wifi', either of these would reduce your battery usage.
My phone has been flawless (2-3 days on battery when I don't play games) but suddenly it started behaving like described in the original post.
It has 1 day life now and I haven't found the reason for this change. I have removed all recently installed apps, removed all unnecessary apps (including Facebook app), disabled running in background for some (like Messenger), there was no firmware update at that time. Still something is eating up the battery. SmartPanel tool shows that 58% of battery is Unaccounted (next is display and Google Services). I have not done the factory reset yet because I need fully configured phone right now.