Hi,
I have had my mi3 for over a year now and i am quite happy with it except for the fact that if I turn my GPS on and turn it off, it still seems to run in the background sucking away on the battery unless i restart the phone. It's just this problem that pushed me towards custom roms, where this problem was solved but I love mi3 stock sound and camera quality. So i did a clean install of miui v6 6.6.4.0 KXDMICF and behold, the bug is still there.
Can anyone confirm if this is a standard bug. Just turn on and off your GPS, and after 2 hours or so check, settings ->additional settings ->battery -> battery use -> press the tiny clock icon on the top right and see if "GPS on" below the graph was blue for last 2 hours.
If this is a standard issue, it might mean a lot of people can get even better battery life from their devices and appreciate their device more .
Thanks
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Uh guys,
my phone was working fine (except for gps, which never locked) but suddenly the camera stopped working (first FC and then "cannot connect to camera". and huge battery drains. the graph in the battery usage sections shows continuous battery drainage even when my phone was 95% screen offed.
This is maybe because I had accidentally left the CPU settings 1.4 ghz (smartassv2). But I have seen many guys who keep it at that frequency and it is stable. This 1.4 settings was on for maybe 2 days.
I have flashed many roms stock and custom and the result is always the same
So is the phone bricked or can something be done.
Thank you guys
yourpappa said:
Uh guys,
my phone was working fine (except for gps, which never locked) but suddenly the camera stopped working (first FC and then "cannot connect to camera". and huge battery drains. the graph in the battery usage sections shows continuous battery drainage even when my phone was 95% screen offed.
This is maybe because I had accidentally left the CPU settings 1.4 ghz (smartassv2). But I have seen many guys who keep it at that frequency and it is stable. This 1.4 settings was on for maybe 2 days.
I have flashed many roms stock and custom and the result is always the same
So is the phone bricked or can something be done.
Thank you guys
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So does the phone still boot? I didn't quiet understand.
The camera not working is a returnable issue. I have had 2 phones that I have returned because the camera quit working. (they have lost money on my phone insurance) However I did flash back to stock before I sent them back.
Yeah phone boots and all. the only issues are battery drain and camera (along with gps which never worked)
Hi there,
I use the DjangoManouche X 1.0 Rom, its very very nice, but I have big and one small problem with it.
First problem: the very high battery drain. If I use my phone in the train, to check my mails and chat (whatsapp) the battery is empty in 2-3 hours. (sync on, gps/wlan etc. off) Same or even worse if I use it with wlan (with sync). If I use it for navigation the car charger is to weak to fight aginst the battery drain :silly:.
So what can I do?
BTW: the battery is slow charging, battery stats wiped and flashing the rom again doesn't helped.
Second Problem: Sometimes, my wlan isn't proper working. The Symbol shows, that it works but I'm off-line. Switching it off and on again helps immediately.
BTW: If I switch wlan off, I must log in me again to my provider. I have this bug since CM9, little strange to have the same bug in a Stock Rom/ stock rom based rom ( I had the bug also in Stock V30A)
I hope your can help my guyz!
though the ICS ROMs are more battery consuming, I dont have the same issue as yours....you seem to have very high battery drain.
I have seen in the thread that disabling the google location services there is a battery saving....personally, I did not see a big difference. try it...nothing wrong if it helps.
I have no issue with wifi or WLAN, so I cant help you in this regard.
Maybe you can try to install the GetRIL app from the playstore which helps you to have a mathcing RIL....it might help.
Maybe this: allow a few recycles to see the battery juice or check any other apps using consumption continuously (BetterBatteryStat)
Hope it helps
Hi,
I will try it with switching off the google location service.
I wont change ril or bb, because the quality is now very good.
so long
Hello, I bought my Oneplus 3T recently and I'm using stick ROMwith ElementalX. The main problem I found is that everytime I look at what consumed the highest percentage of my battery are things like WA, Google Play Services, etc. If I click on the to see what is happening, I always get the Mobile Radio Active working like pretty much all the time.
For example, in a normal use for me which is between 26-30 hours until I decide to charge my phone(between 10-20%), I get a SoT of 4 hours and a half more or less. The problem is that from the total percentage of battery used, these applications which have the Mobile Radio Active problem drain between 10-15% of the total amount of battery, while my screen is like 7% of that total value.
Researching on XDA, I couldn't get any solution to this problem. I call this a problem because, every day I see new photos from people with between 7-9 h of SoT in maybe 20 hours of use. Of course, you can't really call this a bad performance of my phone but I think that this difference of hours with screen on is greater than the amount of time my phone stays with my screen off.
As a consequence, I wanted to know if there is a solution or some tips to reduce that Mobile Radio Active bug in order to extend the time between charges.
Thnk you very much.
Additional information: I cleaned flash stock today + ElementalX kernel + SuperSu to see if this kind of bug dissappears.
To "solve" the Mobile Radio Active bug you must take some extreme steps:
First, Root your device. This MUST be SuperSu unfortunately, as the app I'm going to suggest doesn't allow you to toggle the required settings with Magisk or Phh.
Install LeanDroid.
In settings, allow disabling of Wifi, Cellular Data, Bluetooth, Network Location and GPS Location.
Set to "0 min" after screen off. Click "Except".
Configure this screen to your taste, but I have "Except if tethering", "Except if charging (AC). Under Wifi I have "Except if connected to <my home WIFI>" and I have "Except if active: Limit" set to 100KB/s.
Bluetooth "Except if connected"
Location "Except if GPS in use"
and "Network Mode except if original strength OK."
Go back to the main panel.
Restore "After Screen Unlocked"
"Every 60 MIN after screen off" (Configure this to your liking)
With SuperSU and the above, turning the phone screen off disables the data modem when the transfer rate is low, this effectively shuts down the radio and prevents the Mobile Radio Active bug.
Run this with tools like Greenify and ForceDoze to really pump your battery life.
It's not unusual for me to see 8 hour screen on time with these apps and the above configuration.
and without root?
Just curious, how is the status of this bug ? I followed that Bug for like 1.5Years...since Lollipop i think. I myself tryed several things in Sultans ROMs in a OnePlusOne, but no Solution so far ;-(
Bug is still active. As far as I can tell, it remains active in Oero too.
The only option if you are not rooted is to close all apps and toggle airplane mode before you switch the screen off. This only solves the issue until the next time data is accessed by any app, though
THX for reply. Jepp on Wifi i get 4-5days @3-4h SOT. On Mobile only 2 days
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THX for reply. Jepp on Wifi i get 4-5days @3-4h SOT. On Mobile only 2 days
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Obviously, it takes more power to send/receive signals to a cell tower 10 miles away, versus a WiFi router that is 20 feet away.
Also using WiFi doesn't ensure the modem is Switched off. Modem power doesn't mean data.
damiensturdy said:
Bug is still active. As far as I can tell, it remains active in Oero too.
The only option if you are not rooted is to close all apps and toggle airplane mode before you switch the screen off. This only solves the issue until the next time data is accessed by any app, though
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This this bugs even remain active in Oreo i will never use android again.
It's existed since Lollipop and I doubt Google will fix it any time soon.
To get 7 hours of on screen time, you will of course have to sacrifice something, the laws of physics are always with us, reminding us from day to day things that can and can't be done. But hey, if you live in a cardboard box next to a cell tower should give you much better battery time without sacrificing the phone-part of your smart device. ? ?
i got my device updated to B133 it said it increases battery performance but it seems my battery is draining fast...anyone having the same problem??... can anybody give a better solution
I have a "similiar" problem - my devices starts rebooting or bootlooping (not sure whats exactly is happening) when reaching 100% Battery (I'm currently trying to finger out).
In my Screenshoot you can see, that the phone is totally offline about 1-2hours at night while charing.
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I have a "similiar" problem - my devices starts rebooting or bootlooping (not sure whats exactly is happening) when reaching 100% Battery (I'm currently trying to finger out).
In my Screenshoot you can see, that the phone is totally offline about 1-2hours at night while charing.
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i didnt observed something like that cz i never charge overnight... but the phone heats quicker in the day light and the battery drains faster than before
This is just my personal experience.
I own Huawei P10 UK variant with carrier bloat (Three) firmware version: VTR-L09GBRC555B150.
Since I got update I had really terrible battery life.
The phone didn't last me a day with on average 2.5-3h screen on time. To improve my battery I dived deeper in settings and here is what I find.
Turn off auto brightness in notification menu.
Go to settings>battery and click on" lock screen clean up" close apps that you want to stop using WiFi /data when device is locked - is amazing to see how many apps actually use data when screen is off.
In same section turn off "Remaining battery percentage"
Also go to settings>more>mobile network and turn off "mobile data always on"
In settings>wifi unmarked wifi+ option.
After these adjustments your phone should really improve in battery department.
Also if you receive any update from Huawei it's a good thing to do factory reset to stop apps from using extra resources from before update.
Here are some screen shots
For sometimes MI 5 battery was acting a bit weird time to time.
Clean flashing to LOS seemed to solve the battery issue, but I discovered another issue while checking up with ampere.
When wifi is on, battery drain is abnormally high. (-870 ma on average in ampere). Even in idle time, there can be 20-30% drain when the phone is virtually nothing. And in addition to that, the heating was a bit high too, with wifi on.
I tried everything I could to solve these. Tested different roms (Xiaomi.eu, LOS, RR, Paranoid), firmwares, tried wavelock blocking and all that.
Of course, I tested the battery drain on a fresh rom - and the issue persisted. So it's not some rouge 3rd party app, unless one of the Gapps is the culprit. But, of course, I even tried disabling some of the gapps like gp service and play store, just to be sure. Yes, the problem exists even with synch and location off, and those wifi scanning and other settings doesn't do anything either.
However, with wifi off, battery was quite good (-100 ma drain on average in ampere)
Recently the issue started escalating. Not only was there the abnormal high drain with wifi on, but toggling wifi crashed the device and started a reboot, after which the device connected.
The only major thing I had remaining to be done - is fastboot. I did even that. Fastbooted into official roms, older 6.0 Xiaomi.eu roms which worked fine in the past ....but the issue persisted. In fact it started to escalate further. More reboots when I try to switch on wifi. Sometimes got stuck in a reboot loop ...and so on.
Right now, wifi is not even connecting. It just stays at 'saved'. Oddly enough, enabling bluetooth and trying to reconnect seems to allow the connection to take place. The drain is still here. (The solutions in this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-5/help/wifi-connectivity-problem-t3517777 isn't helping me either)
I don't think this is a router issue either. I did tweak router settings, channels, and all that. I rebooted it and all. No help. And, other devices are working fine with the same router. But, the most definitive evidence that it's not a router problem is that I faced the same issues when trying to connect (with wifi) to a hotspot created from a mobile network from another device.
Do you think it's the worst case scenario: a hardware malfunction?
JRC1995 said:
For sometimes MI 5 battery was acting a bit weird time to time.
Clean flashing to LOS seemed to solve the battery issue, but I discovered another issue while checking up with ampere.
When wifi is on, battery drain is abnormally high. (-870 ma on average in ampere). Even in idle time, there can be 20-30% drain when the phone is virtually nothing. And in addition to that, the heating was a bit high too, with wifi on.
I tried everything I could to solve these. Tested different roms (Xiaomi.eu, LOS, RR, Paranoid), firmwares, tried wavelock blocking and all that.
Of course, I tested the battery drain on a fresh rom - and the issue persisted. So it's not some rouge 3rd party app, unless one of the Gapps is the culprit. But, of course, I even tried disabling some of the gapps like gp service and play store, just to be sure. Yes, the problem exists even with synch and location off, and those wifi scanning and other settings doesn't do anything either.
However, with wifi off, battery was quite good (-100 ma drain on average in ampere)
Recently the issue started escalating. Not only was there the abnormal high drain with wifi on, but toggling wifi crashed the device and started a reboot, after which the device connected.
The only major thing I had remaining to be done - is fastboot. I did even that. Fastbooted into official roms, older 6.0 Xiaomi.eu roms which worked fine in the past ....but the issue persisted. In fact it started to escalate further. More reboots when I try to switch on wifi. Sometimes got stuck in a reboot loop ...and so on.
Right now, wifi is not even connecting. It just stays at 'saved'. Oddly enough, enabling bluetooth and trying to reconnect seems to allow the connection to take place. The drain is still here. (The solutions in this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-5/help/wifi-connectivity-problem-t3517777 isn't helping me either)
I don't think this is a router issue either. I did tweak router settings, channels, and all that. I rebooted it and all. No help. And, other devices are working fine with the same router. But, the most definitive evidence that it's not a router problem is that I faced the same issues when trying to connect (with wifi) to a hotspot created from a mobile network from another device.
Do you think it's the worst case scenario: a hardware malfunction?
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Could you provide battery apps and hardware usage stats and graph?
My prediction it caused by Google location service that try to lock location but was unable to get GPS lock, so it tried to used WIFI scanning to get location lock.
Try to disable WiFi and Bluetooth scanning option on Location - Tri dot menu on top right - scanning
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masruri03 said:
Could you provide battery apps and hardware usage stats and graph?
My prediction it caused by Google location service that try to lock location but was unable to get GPS lock, so it tried to used WIFI scanning to get location lock.
Try to disable WiFi and Bluetooth scanning option on Location - Tri dot menu on top right - scanning
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I can provide the stats later. My device has been offline (normal condition) for quite a while...so there's not much stat to share as of now. I will collect and share them later.
However, I have checked them before. There wasn't anything too interesting. The graph very vividly showed how it fell only when wifi is on...but other than that, most battery was taken by device, idle state or something like that. I didn't find anything interesting in betterbatterystats either. Other than that I did checked the frequencies with kernel auditor too. It seemed normal overall. Though once, I did notice high spike in CPU usage. IIRC, the phone was in deep sleep for most of the time too. Not sure, what the current state is, because new issues are coming up now. So I have to recheck the condition.
I always keep wifi scanning, bluetooth scanning off anyway. So that's not the issue. 'I will again check in the china rom (no gapps), this time more rigorously,....that should clear gapps out of suspicion, if they are innocent.
masruri03 said:
Could you provide battery apps and hardware usage stats and graph?
My prediction it caused by Google location service that try to lock location but was unable to get GPS lock, so it tried to used WIFI scanning to get location lock.
Try to disable WiFi and Bluetooth scanning option on Location - Tri dot menu on top right - scanning
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Check the screenshot
In a freshly fastbooted MIUI global stable rom (with wifi scanning off, and wifi always on off), I got 1% battery drain (100% -> 99%) overnight (6 hours approx)
But, only in a few minutes battery went down to 91% when wifi was on.
The device was idle in both cases.
In past I have assured that it was in deep sleep. Similar rate drain in chinese rom (so no rouge Gapps), and same drain in custom roms.
The hardware usage was taken after I used the device for a while, which is why drain due to screen on is high. Anyway, even before using the device, the maximum drainage was attributed to 'idle phone' so there isn't really any interesting info. One thing to note, that the hardware battery drain states doesn't consider wifi to be the cause of high drain, however the drain is still clearly correlated with active wifi.