I bought my galaxy S two months ago. Its a great phone but the biggest problem for me is battery. When i go to sleep (7-8 hours) and my phone is idle, my battery drains like 10-20 % every night, even when i switched off fb updates, no wifi, no gps, dont have a live wallpaper, and my brightness level is the lowest. I dont knwo what rooting is or rom is. i m a fresh noob, and i need some advice to get increase my battery life. Please help me!!! what should i do?
please help anyone?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884816
Put it on charge when you go to sleep like the rest of us
got-petrol said:
Put it on charge when you go to sleep like the rest of us
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but doesnt overcharging the battery damage the battery even more?
How I solved my battery drain problem!
Have you tried turning off 3G?
I also had this issue battery drain was huge. It started appearing suddenly one day. Its a very slow process to figure out the culprit. I did a step by step analysis.
1. Found out that battery drain was happening only when 3G was on. Verified this by switching off data network (long press power button to deactivate).
2. Also verified abnormal data usage in my carrier page when I was not using my phone [like - 3G was on and I was watching a movie at a theater].
3. I also saw abnormal battery drain soon after I started Google Maps after a fresh reboot.
4. So I identified the culprit - Google Maps - but was not sure how to solve battery drain [Google Maps restarts, if you kill it].
5. I installed a variety of apps to identify the battery hog. Finally I went for Task Identifier.
6. Task Identifier finally showed me what programs started while my screen was off, etc. And I started noting them. Finally I figured out that Google Maps::BackgroundFriendService was running frequently.
7. A quick search on Google helped me understand that this is about Google Latitude. It searches for your friend's location every now and then - leading to battery drain!!!
8. I opened up Latitude and signed out from it [I guess the sign out option is in Menu -> Privacy].
9. Do not re-open Google Latitude after this - you will get signed in again leading to battery drain.
10. After 2-3 months of search and prodding, I finally figured out the cause of battery drain and fixed it - now I get 2 - 3 days of charge in my battery under normal usage!!
I'm happy now!!
Hi,
If you're using Froyo and can access file in your phone,
In task manager , on the tab "Summary", click on the "start monitoring" button. Let it monitor the phone over the night. The next morning, there should be 2 files created in your sdcard, one is CPUxxxxx and the other one is battxxxxxx.
The Batxxx tells you when the percentage of the battery at certain time of time. the CPUxxxx will tell you wht applications are running during that period.
When i used it first time, i notice that facebook and lattitude always running - when I stop these 2 tasks; i get a normal drain again.
while you guys are at it.
here's my "problem".
when I surf for an hour over 2g I losing about 10% batterylife and android reports that my display uses around 90% to 95% of the battery.
display is set to lowest brightness + screen filter.
is that normal? (im guessing it is not).
used dozens of different roms (stock, darky, jims, etc...), same behaviour everywhere.
i already did all the battery stat wiping and whatnot.
is it a faulty battery or display or something?
for the OP, maybe a combination of the above with this could help :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10092321&postcount=11053
helped me .
edit : to pfannenwender, maybe your unit is faulty?
poundesville said:
Hi,
If you're using Froyo and can access file in your phone,
In task manager , on the tab "Summary", click on the "start monitoring" button. Let it monitor the phone over the night. The next morning, there should be 2 files created in your sdcard, one is CPUxxxxx and the other one is battxxxxxx.
The Batxxx tells you when the percentage of the battery at certain time of time. the CPUxxxx will tell you wht applications are running during that period.
When i used it first time, i notice that facebook and lattitude always running - when I stop these 2 tasks; i get a normal drain again.
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I have froyo but i dont have any start monitoring button
I also have froyo 2.2.1 and don't have start monitoring function
pfannenwender said:
while you guys are at it.
here's my "problem".
when I surf for an hour over 2g I losing about 10% batterylife and android reports that my display uses around 90% to 95% of the battery.
display is set to lowest brightness + screen filter.
is that normal? (im guessing it is not).
used dozens of different roms (stock, darky, jims, etc...), same behaviour everywhere.
i already did all the battery stat wiping and whatnot.
is it a faulty battery or display or something?
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Sounds normal to me. 10% loss while surfing and 95% display is nothing extraordinary.
Sent from my GT-I9000
i have the same problem too after upgrading to Froyo 2.2.....what i do was turning the data connection off yand you will get 2 days with moderate usage....but oneday i had overcharged my phone (about 8 hours i think) and after that my phone can stay about a day and half with moderate use......btw i already did the 8 hours charge during my first charge long time ago.!...hope this helping
Hi, looked for similar in threads but found no resolution.
After charging and booting I noticed the battery draining especially quickly recently. When looking at Spare Parts/battery history it shows running at 100%.I drop down Partial wake usage and usually two highest programs are Android system and UID 10015(?). When these are then pressed it shows the up time but not amounting to the total since boot.
When opening both CPU Spy and CPUStats they confirm NO deep sleep time.
To remedy this I have tried various from simple reboot, to kill all, changing various settings, opening apps and most recent flashing new rom CM 6.1.2 from previous CM 6.1.0.
Now here's the weird part - no one remedy works all the time, it's a question of hit and miss, such as this morning it took 3 reboots to work, yesterday a mess around with some apps cleared it.
Oh, and I did a full wipe/factory reset when flashing.
One last thing the problem only manifests itself from a reboot, so once cleared it runs sweet until I switch off at end of day and charge it.
Hope you can help cos although the problems not life threatening it sure is bugging the hell outa me.
Thanking in anticipation
Hello All,
My Problem is a high battery drain, not caused by baseband_xmm_power wakelock, but by the processes "Phone", "Messaging Storage" and "SIM Toolkit". My device gets very hot although I do not even use it and the CPU runs constantly at 475 MHz. I got this issues on every custom ROM / Kernel combination. This Problem appears at random time intervals. Sometimes after 2 days, sometimes 5 times a day and sometimes it disappears after rebooting.
I also have tried to freeze that 3 processes with greenify, but no success
Right now I am running SlimBeam 7.8 with iodak Kernel (because with this combination I dont get these baseband wakelocks)
Is there anybody with the same issue or with some tips for me?
I have found the solution, switch off your phone for maybe 10 minutes. The RILD problem will persist across phone reboots (hard reboot and even xposed soft reboot).
I had the same problem on S3 and just couldn't figure out why and how to fix until I got the clue from the forum link below
https://forums.motorola.com/posts/c56958d919?commentId=660328#660328
My phone is only about 3 weeks old now, but after a day or 2 of normal, heavy usage it starts to lag. A reboot always seems to clear up the problem and it runs super fast for the day and then all of a sudden it starts lagging again. It's most notable when I lock the phone and then try to unlock it again within a minute. It just hangs there and won't respond for up to 30 secs or so. It's really frustrating if I get a phone call and try to answer it.
It seems to me that there is something that's running in the background that is eating up resources, but I can't seem to tell what it is. I'm currently running Google Now Launcher, but I've seen the problem with stock TouchWiz as well. Is this a common problem and anyone have a solution for it. I love the phone with this one exception.
Thanks
I'd also like to add that when I go into battery usage, "Android System" seems to be very high. Any ideas what is causing Android System to be my highest battery drain?
just started having an issue with the system process mdnSD draining my battery, is the top usage item. when looking at the usage stats for the app the total connection time is constantly going up.. physically removing the SD fixes the problem, as well as i have tried using a different card and it still runs. i cannot do anything to freeze this process (am rooted), as well as looking at wakelock and nothing shows up. putting the phone in safe mode seemed to fix it as well. i froze google services to make sure it wasnt a gps thing like some people have thought, as well as freezing fb messenger and tinder. tried wiping cache partition and nothing.
last time i had a problem with usage manager i just reflashed with the 5.0 fw and it fixed it and i didnt lose any of my stuff..
seems all those numbers continue to go out. samsung guy at best buy thought it might be backup related
edit2: it was determined to be caused by firefox being left open in the background on a certain websites that had streaming media i think. although overall FF battery usage was low and nothing suspicious on wakelock. admins do whatever you want with this thread