Mystical battery drain on Sony Xperia Z3C - Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hi all , before I continue I would like to let you know that I have read a lot about the issue I'm expiriencing. I'm also not the complete noob in the area and know some stuff about Android.
Here is the story :
I have a Sony Z3C which I used almost 2+ years without any issues . I like the phone a lot , especially I liked the battery strenght , which was able to last at least 2 days. ( i'm not using battery consuming apps a lot - games, facebook , etc. ).
Suddently the battery started to drain fast, even if the phone was idle. I didnt change the way I used the phone . I realized that if I leave the phone at 100% before I go to bed , at the morning it is at around 50-60% .
Then I thought , the battery is probably dead , I used the phone 2+ years already. I thought that I can do a factory reset before I replace it . So I did it , the situation was the same . I thought that some app upgrade is bad and is probably consumin, so after the reset I didnt install anything and tested without any additional apps or GApps upgrades . The behaviour was the same. Then I repalced the battery with a new , original one...
The new one behaved exactly the same way like the old one . Then I did a complete wipe using TWRP and installed a newly downloaded image of MM . Behaviour was the same . The I rooted my phone and installed a Mobile radio active fix from Gplay , which I thought might be the cause - didnt go better ... Then I have reset my battery stats by following the battery cache wipe instructions . I charget my phone at 100% i deleted the batterystats.bin file waited until phone turned off , then chaged the phone whithout starting it , once it reached 100% powered it on . Unfortunately the situation remained the same .
Here are some tests I did :
1. I charged my phone full and here is the showing 2 hours idle ( battery saver turned off) .
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Please notice the showing of the apps consumption .
2. I turned plane mode and battery saver on and took another screenshot after 2 hours
As you can see there is no difference in the battery drain .
3. I turned plane mode off and took another screenshot after 2 hours
4. Here is what Google services showing :
5. And after another 2 hours :
6. Until I almost reached the end at 17 o'clock .
I only have 2 guesses here the first one is related to a HW issue with the phone and the second one includes spies , corrupted govorment and aliens ....
Any ideas guys what could be causing this ?
Many thanks in advance
P.S. I forgot to mention I have tried different chargers - the current one I'm using is the original one Output 1500 mA

Most likely Play Services is causing the issue. Go to battery and turn on Stamina mode, that should prevent Play Services from issuing so many wakelocks.

pedrodh said:
Most likely Play Services is causing the issue. Go to battery and turn on Stamina mode, that should prevent Play Services from issuing so many wakelocks.
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Even if stamina mode is turned on the same behaviour is observed . As you see on the screenshots even with airplane mode turned on , the battery drains almost so fast like when off .

zlobjul said:
Even if stamina mode is turned on the same behaviour is observed . As you see on the screenshots even with airplane mode turned on , the battery drains almost so fast like when off .
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Did the GPlay services update itself? Check if you are running latest version. You can install Better battery stats from XDA, and Wakelock detector from Play Store, than observe what's running in background causing that much drain. It certainly is weird seeing that behavior even after factory reset.
HEBF optimizer from Play Store might help minimizing Play services drain, and ultimately if you are not GApps dependent you can replace them with MicroG.

Cirra92 said:
Did the GPlay services update itself? Check if you are running latest version. You can install Better battery stats from XDA, and Wakelock detector from Play Store, than observe what's running in background causing that much drain. It certainly is weird seeing that behavior even after factory reset.
HEBF optimizer from Play Store might help minimizing Play services drain, and ultimately if you are not GApps dependent you can replace them with MicroG.
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yes , Gapps are all up to date . WOW I was not aware of HEBF optimizer , offeres great stuff. I was not aware of MicroG either , but will definetevely try it ! Thanks

zlobjul said:
yes , Gapps are all up to date . WOW I was not aware of HEBF optimizer , offeres great stuff. I was not aware of MicroG either , but will definetevely try it ! Thanks
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Even with almost all features of HEBF optimizer turned on , there is no change in the behaviour ...

zlobjul said:
Even with almost all features of HEBF optimizer turned on , there is no change in the behaviour ...
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Well the GPlay services are complete crap, as terrible as FB app is for example. It's just unpredictable with that mysterious drain out of nowhere, you never know when will that happen, and worst of all you can't find out why, but it surely will happen. That's why I remove it completely and use MicroG instead since I don't need any of the Google Apps except the Play Store for the convenience in auto updating the apps (could do it manually with apkmirror.com though).
Have you checked with Better battery stats?

You should download and install Wakellock detector & amplify & greenify....these apps are magical

Are you on lollipop? Do you have xposed installed? If so, this module might be worth a shot:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/xposed-mobileradioactivefix-t3189393
Might even help if you're on MM, might not help at all... Just trying to help.

Hi! I experienced exactly the same behaviour with Z3C.
Battery time was great for 1,5 years, and since last week it magically lasts only for few hours and charging is slower. I didn't root the phone but reinstalled software using Sony Companion (didn't help) and did factory reset (didn't help also). Nothing was changed during this time. The only suspicion - i started to charge phone using cheap power bank. Maybe that's the problem and the power circuit is damaged (eg. short circuit) ?
Does anybody with properly working Z3C can check the CPU load average? You must enable 'developer options' clicking few times at Build number in Options/Phone Info, then in Developer Options click Show CPU usage. In top right corner you will get an overlay with output of Unix uptime command with 1/5/15 minutes average load. On my Z3C i have high CPU usage (i think) - about 13/12/13. At Samsung S6 i have about 3/4/4. I don't know if that high numbers are normal for Z3C or it's only on my device.

I have got the same issue on SLiMM 6.0.1 ROM and on my dad's non-rooted phone Xperia M5 running MM 6.0.1, too. I have Xposed. I had followed battery life tweaks guide and i have disabled keep awake but it still draining battery. 6 hours later, Google Services started to use 90% of CPU usage for no reason. I rebooted my phone and it happened again. I updated Google Services to 2.0.99 and it solved the high CPU usage issue. I'll report back about battery usage
Link to Google Services: https://apkpure.com/google-play-services/com.google.android.gms

kacperekk said:
Hi! I experienced exactly the same behaviour with Z3C.
Battery time was great for 1,5 years, and since last week it magically lasts only for few hours and charging is slower. I didn't root the phone but reinstalled software using Sony Companion (didn't help) and did factory reset (didn't help also). Nothing was changed during this time. The only suspicion - i started to charge phone using cheap power bank. Maybe that's the problem and the power circuit is damaged (eg. short circuit) ?
Does anybody with properly working Z3C can check the CPU load average? You must enable 'developer options' clicking few times at Build number in Options/Phone Info, then in Developer Options click Show CPU usage. In top right corner you will get an overlay with output of Unix uptime command with 1/5/15 minutes average load. On my Z3C i have high CPU usage (i think) - about 13/12/13. At Samsung S6 i have about 3/4/4. I don't know if that high numbers are normal for Z3C or it's only on my device.
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Hi ! When you say this , I remember that I used a cheap powerbank to charge my phone a month or more ago . However I have replaced the battery , so I think that even if I damaged the old battery , the new one should be ok . I have noticed that when I fully charge the battery , the first few % are draining as expected , after that it starts to drain drastically .
Here is the information colelcted with BetterBatteryStats ( this statistics were taken during the night , when phone was not in use ! ) :
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General Information
===================
BetterBatteryStats version: 2.2.2.0
Creation Date: 2017-03-19 06:55:43
Statistic Type: Unplugged to Current
Since 16 h 6 m 24 s
Note:
VERSION.RELEASE: 6.0.1
BRAND: Sony
DEVICE: D5803
MANUFACTURER: Sony
MODEL: D5803
OS.VERSION: 3.4.0-perf-gc14c2d5
BOOTLOADER: s1
HARDWARE: qcom
FINGERPRINT: Sony/D5803/D5803:6.0.1/23.5.A.1.291/2769308465:user/release-keys
ID: 23.5.A.1.291
TAGS: release-keys
USER: BuildUser
PRODUCT: D5803
RADIO: 8974-AAAAANAZQ-00112-61
Root perms: true
SELinux Policy: Permissive
BATTERY_STATS permission granted: true
XPosed BATTERY_STATS module enabled: false
============
Battery Info
============
Level lost [%]: Bat.: -98%(100% to 2%) [6.1%/h]
Voltage lost [mV]: (4142-3564) [35.9%/h]
===========
===========
Other Usage
===========
Deep Sleep (): 14 h 29 m 23 s 90.0%
Awake (Screen Off) (): 24 m 56 s 2.6%
Screen On (): 1 h 12 m 4 s 7.5%
Phone On (): 11 m 49 s 1.2%
Wifi On (): 16 h 6 m 24 s 100.0%
Wifi Running (): 16 h 6 m 24 s 100.0%
Doze Interactive Time (): 1 h 22 m 32 s 8.5%
Doze Idle Mode Time (): 7 h 41 m 15 s 47.7%
Doze Idling Time (): 8 h 8 m 43 s 50.6%
Sync (): 13 s 0.0%
No Data Connection (): 14 h 40 m 48 s 91.1%
No or Unknown Signal (): 14 h 40 m 48 s 91.1%
Screen dark (): 2 m 50 s 0.3%
Screen medium (): 1 h 9 m 13 s 7.2%
I have also attached the logs generated with BetterBatteryStats , but I start to think that this is a HW issue ...
P.S The CPU load avarage is showing 11.06/11.3/11.38 on my phone ... My wife's phone Samsung A5 is showing 6.1/6.5/7

fab_ben said:
Are you on lollipop? Do you have xposed installed? If so, this module might be worth a shot:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/xposed-mobileradioactivefix-t3189393
Might even help if you're on MM, might not help at all... Just trying to help.
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Thanks fab_ben , I have installed the Mobile Radio Active fix , but this didn't help .

zlobjul said:
Thanks fab_ben , I have installed the Mobile Radio Active fix , but this didn't help .
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Yeah, I didn't think so either :/. I mean, if you want to investigate if the problem is hardware or software related, you could try to deinstall google play services and related packages via titanium or sd maid or similar and see how that turns out.
And regarding the CPU usage data, I don't think that that's worrisome, considering the snapdragon 801 is at least one year older than any galaxy s6 or galaxy A CPU and less optimised.

zlobjul said:
Hi ! When you say this , I remember that I used a cheap powerbank to charge my phone a month or more ago . However I have replaced the battery , so I think that even if I damaged the old battery , the new one should be ok . I have noticed that when I fully charge the battery , the first few % are draining as expected , after that it starts to drain drastically .
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P.S The CPU load avarage is showing 11.06/11.3/11.38 on my phone ... My wife's phone Samsung A5 is showing 6.1/6.5/7
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The same in my Xperia. After fully charged battery lasts 100% after 20 minutes (when i don't use it). But from about 75% discharging to 10% is fast, even when i don't touch the device.
So about physical damage - i thought about damge of phone circuit not battery itself. My friend told me that he had similar quick discharging problem with one chinese phone (don't remember model - but will ask). He had 3 different batteries and this problem was independent of installed battery.
I don't know how to interpretate load average. In Z3C is quite high (like yours 11.06/11.3/11.38 or my 12/13/12 - even just after factory reset). I don't have comparsion to properly working Z3C, but i checked it for Z3 (not Compact) and load average is also high (about 11).
I installed terminal app, run 'top' command, but didn't observe any abnormal application. It looks normal, but maybe the cpu usage has a burst character... don't know.

My battery status

I have the same problem
My battery is discharging by itself even when my phone is turned off: 90% to 4% during the night. It started happening when I started using a powerbank delivering an output of 2.5 amps. The stock charger is at 1 amp.
I downgraded to lollipop 5.1.1 but nothing changed so I think this problem is hardware related...

An update :
I brought the phone to a service and they tested it for almost 2 weeks . At the end they said that they can not determine what the cause is and that they find it strange as well and can not repair it .
So I will search for a priest .... or a new phone....

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Noob here. Galaxy S major battery problem. Help please???

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.
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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

[Q] Weird "battery drain" when lightly using the phone

Hello !
I just bought my P880 two days ago and everything is great except one thing: battery drain. It is not occouring in background when phone is in Deep sleep, it doesn't lose charge while it's sleeping, but when I just unlock it/start using it, it just starts draining.
I have rooted it, and unrooted using SuperSU. The thing is I haven't experienced that kind of drain yesterday, it was working fine except drain caused by bad signal (badly inserted SIM).
Usage by Android System is at 50% over 5 hours, Screen is at 9%. Awake graphs are the same as Screen on graphs- no wakelocks.
I have these apps installed:
Prey Anti Theft
Skype (not running)
Adobe Reader
SoundHound
Disco Light
QR Droid
Sygic (not running)
X-plore
SwiftKey 3 keyboard
WiFi, GPS, Data, everything turned off except mobile signal
Running Internation version with Android 4.0.3, Kernel 2.6.39.4-00001-g0f9182c
Mobile network type is EDGE:2 with mobile signal -70dBm
I'm first time android user and this is my first problem so I tried to include as much info as possible.
Thanks in advance
I see 2 mayor issues, first is the android deft app, it may be running and trying to sync but bcz the data is off it will try to connect foreva.
Also, edge is (in other words) ROAMING and this forces the antenna to use more power to get signal from another provider, it get worst if you have a phone with sim card.
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Gildegan said:
I see 2 mayor issues, first is the android deft app, it may be running and trying to sync but bcz the data is off it will try to connect foreva.
Also, edge is (in other words) ROAMING and this forces the antenna to use more power to get signal from another provider, it get worst if you have a phone with sim card.
Sent from my LG-P880 using Tapatalk 2
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Thanks for pointing that out, but I have disabled every sync and I have set phone to 2G mode only, the reason is that UMTS signal was low and was draining battery even more.
I am only losing sharge when just doing random things on phone, even if that means only adding/removing widgets/apps on main screen with WiFi off.
Then you must try the Deodexed version of v10f, removing the bloatware with the script in the same thread.
The issue may be some lg apps that are running in the background so doing this will have 6 hours in standby time with 100% still, like me (if I turn all radios off ).
I have just woken up, while sleeping (9h) phone was awake for about 50%, no wakelocks but there were 30 alarms from Android/Google maps ans 29 alarms from com.google.android.gsf
Hope this helps.
I may try custom ROMs if nothing else works.
While typing this message I have lost 7%.
Similar state here as the OP. Got the phone two days ago.
All is good, it rooted OK, Directory Bind works fine, phone runs like hell (about 10 times faster than my old Galaxy S) BUT it drains battery like a genuine power guzzler.
Ok I get that according to the performance you get, it comes with an accordingly high power draw, so I don't ***** about it, I just want to know if this is normal. I mean I played 2 hours and 15 minutes of Sprinkle and the battery died, starting from a full charge. Screen was set at 50%.
GPS is off, Bluetooth is off, no 3G mobile network and screen is at 50% brightness as I said. There's an NFC icon on the notification bar next to the battery icon, which I am not sure if it should be there.
Here are a couple of shots from the battery section of the phone and from Battery monitor widget if these help.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Please note that as the OP said, the phone consumes nearly nothing when idling. Firmware is 10f.
PS I am not trying to hijack the OP's thread. I just noticed the same behavior and I'd like some help on the same matter, as well as to contribute in whatever way I can. If the OP is offended somehow, I will gladly start a new thread.
@psolord No, not offended at all. I'm glad you posted actually.
My phone has encountered 20 more Alarms, wake ups since I left it standing:
com.google.android.apps.maps Wakeups: 50
com.google.android.gsf Wakeups: 45
You can see pictures below, the drop on the second picture happened when I was writing me previous post from P880.
- I am also rooted again (after factory restore)
- I have reenabled 3G networks but the signal is only at about 50%.
Any additional info please ?
Ok buddy, so we can keep discussing it here together.
For the matter at hand, I see the same behavior, when I unlock the screen, it's like I have opened a whole in the battery.
It dropped from 85% to 65% just from downloading a new map (500MB, 20min download on a slow wifi) from Sygic downloader. I mean this can't be right, right?
I also checked cpu spy and it reports the system 75% at deep idle, 15% at 51Mhz and the rest are 0% to 1% up to 1500Mhz. So if the cpu has so little operation, what on earth is draining the battery?
I wonder if we could be looking at a bad battery batch.
Is there an app that reports exactly what activity consumes power and how much?
Indeed, the hole in the battery.
I even restored to factory from recovery mode since I screwed up the root, so it was just stock, but guess what, nothing has changed :crying:
I really hope this can get fixed, else I'll get a replacement.
I hope someone from this forum with more experience can help :/
I think I am onto something.
Can you please check how is the phone doing if you disable everything under location and services?
psolord said:
I think I am onto something.
Can you please check how is the phone doing if you disable everything under location and services?
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I am going to try this, I am also talking to LG Support right now. WIll let you know when I get more information.
I disabled everything, and I didn't see pretty much any improvement. LG Support suggested me to return the phone.
Pretty much draining the battery atm so I can charge it back to 100% and use something like Battery Calibration. Maybe it can change something.
Yeah indeed I was onto nothing. Nothing changed for me either.
Playing 30mins of a 720P resulted my battery dropping from 62% to 50%. I also used the gps for the first time with Sygic (Jesus even the GPS is lightning fast) and the battery went from 50% to 30% for a 20 minute ride. It seems that my phone cannot give me more than 2 hours of use. That's just silly.
BTW do you or anybody, know of an app that can show battery usage per app?
psolord said:
Yeah indeed I was onto nothing. Nothing changed for me either.
Playing 30mins of a 720P resulted my battery dropping from 62% to 50%. I also used the gps for the first time with Sygic (Jesus even the GPS is lightning fast) and the battery went from 50% to 30% for a 20 minute ride. It seems that my phone cannot give me more than 2 hours of use. That's just silly.
BTW do you or anybody, know of an app that can show battery usage per app?
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Stock application ?
Also you can use Better Battery Stats to see if there are any wakelocks or anything is waking up the phone etc.
What is happening right now is rather strange, I disabled screen turning off (trying to drain battery to 1%/2%) looking at stock battery app, it seems to be stuck at 21% and it's not changing.
The stock application does not do so much analysis, but the batterystats you used above seems more like it.
I am getting panicked and I miss some stuff haha. Ok lets cool.
It makes me sad that we don't get any input from the community. Something like "yeah this is normal, live with it" or "your phone is faulty, take it back to the shop for a replacement" or something.
Agreed, ANY, ANY kind of input would be appreciated, but I guess we are getting none.
I am going to fully charge it today, do some stuff and report back tommorow. Also anyone, please do post any suggestion you may have.
shiinkotheone said:
What is happening right now is rather strange, I disabled screen turning off (trying to drain battery to 1%/2%) looking at stock battery app, it seems to be stuck at 21% and it's not changing.
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Maybe this has to do something with the built in power saver. Maybe it kicks in when the battery drops to the 20s and stops whatever is draining it.
I am thinking trying some battery saver to see if it does the same thing but from the beginning of the full charge.
psolord said:
Maybe this has to do something with the built in power saver. Maybe it kicks in when the battery drops to the 20s and stops whatever is draining it.
I am thinking trying some battery saver to see if it does the same thing but from the beginning of the full charge.
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Actually I have disabled it when it asked me if it should turn on. So I guess nothing to do with that.
I am going to backup now, fully unroot and somehow get it to pure stock. Than I'm probably going to exchange the phone in case battery life doesn't change.

Xperia t JB Battery Life

Hi. I've updated my xperia t to Sony's official JB 4.1.2 9.1.A.0.489 firm.
I'm noticing that the battery life is no as good as expected. If I charge it up to 100%, and leave it locked all night, in the morning it has 80% , sometimes 75%. Some days, i can let it locked for 6 hours, and it's still in 100% ( strange at all). Of you look at the screenshots, it looks like it's always awake!
I've also tried with Battery Guru app, but I feel like it wastes more than it saves.
A friend has a Samsung galaxy ace ( i know, i cannot compare) and the battery literally doesn't go down if he doesn't use it.
Thank's guys.
P.S: Any idea about 9.1.A.1.138 firm? Changelog? availability?
Odp: Xperia t JB Battery Life
Battery problem is already known for this .489 FW. It's just a very first public release of JB, don't expect it will be completely bug-free. We just have to wait for the next releases with fixed this and that so the battery life would be correct again.
I have the same problems like you but I got used to them. For the first few days I was really pissed off and thought about flashing back ICS .195 (which had incredible battery life) but number of the advantages of having JB on my phone was the main factor of not going back to ICS.
That happened to me also lost more than 15% during sleep.
I disabled google search, facebook, android wakeup, etc and turned off auto sync and i lost 1.3% per hour.
In ics, i'm losing less than 1% per hour. So this is pretty decent to me. I'm still getting 3 hours of screen time.
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I have everything possible running on my phone but don't know why the battery isn't lasting.
How?
wednesday13 said:
That happened to me also lost more than 15% during sleep.
I disabled google search, facebook, android wakeup, etc and turned off auto sync and i lost 1.3% per hour.
In ics, i'm losing less than 1% per hour. So this is pretty decent to me. I'm still getting 3 hours of screen time.
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You say that yoy've disabled android wakeup.. how do i do it??? , also in better battery stats, I see Alarm Manager and another alarmManager ( this second apparently from Sony) , with 811 and 2686 YES, 2686 wakeups each. Any idea? what are they about?
fedemyth said:
You say that yoy've disabled android wakeup.. how do i do it??? , also in better battery stats, I see Alarm Manager and another alarmManager ( this second apparently from Sony) , with 811 and 2686 YES, 2686 wakeups each. Any idea? what are they about?
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The Sony Alarm is Fast Dormancy
The other one is most likely the combined total of a number of apps - to see them you need to be rooted, then you can access "Alarms" from the dropdown menu.
How do I use:
adb shell dumpsys alarm > AlarmDump.txt
What app..cant find anywhere how to do this?
I have a V but generally same things apply.
I think there are simply too many items switched on that would not allow the phone to fall into deep sleep.
Also, a battery usage of 1.3 % / h when idle would hint to that.
I have around 3000 wakelocks, too, but under normal day usage and not during sleep. During sleep there a few only, wakelock time over night is 0 %, and the phone uses close to no battery. Straight segment is the night time usage.
Compare with the pic from above, that phone was used lesser than mine.

The Sony Xperia SP, A heartbreaker Smartphone

Hi, I bought this phone a month ago, I bought that actually looked like a very good phone, analyze their characteristics, not only its design, and discard the possibility of buying the Samsung S3 Mini, I think it was a mistake :crying:
This Xperia SP is really a headache, the first thing I knew I was bad at was his poor WiFi, later learned of the problem of the screen, which to place the phone on a flat surface the touch becomes useless (I is how to fix it), and now the battery, then I have seen pictures that the battery will last up to 2 days, I was never happened in 14 hours, or when you use it the first time, now active or inactive so I Sstamina gives up to 7 hours, which sucks .
Originally came with compiling 12.0.A.1.257 and decided to upgrade to the 12.0.A.2.245 to see if suddenly improved, big mistake, the 2245 presents many problems in the stability of the OS, the screen flashes when using certain applications , Stamina mode is "Arrangement" a bit, as the cell I last up to 12 hours, but it's all over.
In conclusion I am determined to get rid of this phone, and all who ask for me, I gonna Scream, NEVER BUY THAT MTF CELL, which by the way is a bit expensive for the problems to come.
Sorry, my english is not very good :silly:
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how many apps are you running?
That standby time seems ridiculous...
Heres mine and I have 41% battery.
I've heard about problems with wifi and touch but never had either of them, try and exchange your phone if its getting that bad.
esloded said:
Hi, I bought this phone a month ago, I bought that actually looked like a very good phone, analyze their characteristics, not only its design, and discard the possibility of buying the Samsung S3 Mini, I think it was a mistake :crying:
This Xperia SP is really a headache, the first thing I knew I was bad at was his poor WiFi, later learned of the problem of the screen, which to place the phone on a flat surface the touch becomes useless (I is how to fix it), and now the battery, then I have seen pictures that the battery will last up to 2 days, I was never happened in 14 hours, or when you use it the first time, now active or inactive so I Sstamina gives up to 7 hours, which sucks .
Originally came with compiling 12.0.A.1.257 and decided to upgrade to the 12.0.A.2.245 to see if suddenly improved, big mistake, the 2245 presents many problems in the stability of the OS, the screen flashes when using certain applications , Stamina mode is "Arrangement" a bit, as the cell I last up to 12 hours, but it's all over.
In conclusion I am determined to get rid of this phone, and all who ask for me, I gonna Scream, NEVER BUY THAT MTF CELL, which by the way is a bit expensive for the problems to come.
Sorry, my english is not very good :silly:
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To be honest with you- the WiFi does suck on the sp, even though there are many fixes none of which will work 100% . Ive come across alot of problems with my sp also, keyboard wont pop up, walkman crashes when using certain apps. But on the plus note there is deffo an upside to the sp compared to most other mid range smart phones out there.
I have smashed my screen on my sp and have no warrenty- so im switching over to a s3 mini, simply because a new white digitiser for my phone would cost me £135.
Play around with your phone first see if you can make any good of it before you sell up
Xperia SP Trinityy V
Desire HD -LorD ClockaN ICe CreamSandwhicH
iPhone 4S But thats irrelivent Here
Americans ("People who live in the USA") use the term "Lemon". A lemon is a car, often new, that is found to be defective only after it has been bought. Maybe you bought a Lemon. My SP gets good battery life, about 7 hours of heavy use. Join us at a Spanish forum at http://www.htcmania.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1082
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yo-meister said:
how many apps are you running?
That standby time seems ridiculous...
Heres mine and I have 41% battery.
I've heard about problems with wifi and touch but never had either of them, try and exchange your phone if its getting that bad.
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My battery has never lasted so long, here I leave the applications that I'm running and my phone settings only asset I have WiFi, my cell phone battery only lasts if I have off jj :crying:
If I can help greatly appreciate it, because the phone I like, but do not want to have to charge it every 7 hours.
Question: If i reset my phone, can it fix?
i think may be uninstall antivirus app.
if it is not work
please backup your file and factory reset
esloded said:
My battery has never lasted so long, here I leave the applications that I'm running and my phone settings only asset I have WiFi, my cell phone battery only lasts if I have off jj :crying:
If I can help greatly appreciate it, because the phone I like, but do not want to have to charge it every 7 hours.
Question: If i reset my phone, can it fix?
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Whats your screen on time? Also ho do you use your phone? Heavy gaming or light texting only?
Things will always matter when you want to compare battery life. So give us more details. Install Wakelock detector or BetterBatteryStats to know what is eating up the battery on your phone and then work on eliminating the factor. Cheers man!
sarkar1990 said:
Whats your screen on time? Also ho do you use your phone? Heavy gaming or light texting only?
Things will always matter when you want to compare battery life. So give us more details. Install Wakelock detector or BetterBatteryStats to know what is eating up the battery on your phone and then work on eliminating the factor. Cheers man!
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I do not play much, texting, only play when I'm charging the phone, cut the rope and Diamon Dash.
In the images shows that the battery is low 2% in 29 minutes
Ok, i do it, the result from battery stats plus.
After it, I think do a factory reset, to see how it behaves.
esloded said:
I do not play much, texting, only play when I'm charging the phone, cut the rope and Diamon Dash.
In the images shows that the battery is low 2% in 29 minutes
Ok, i do it, the result from battery stats plus.
After it, I think do a factory reset, to see how it behaves.
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I think you should. Your Android OS is using too much battery. Hit on it and check which process is using the maximum battery.
Once you've charged your battery to 100%, go to Apps, All, and look for eco mode controller. Click on force stop and after 5 seconds or so, clear data. Then reboot your phone and use it normally. Check out my best battery life so far (attached images)
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Battery life not quite as good as I hoped
The battery life on my xperia SP is not bad but it is no better than my previous xperia neo which had only a 1500mah battery versus 2370mah.
Many reviewers have commented that they can get through 2 days.
I can only make 1 and a bit. The key problem appears to be the screen. I can use the screen for about 4 hours/day before I'm out of juice, some reviewers claim 7 hours. Thats a big difference. Using it outside of the time is always going to be worse but screen on time is a bit disappointing for me. Stamina with screen off seems reasonable but again not outstanding. I lost 13% between the morning and lunchtime without doing anything but 15 minute syncing, I use a battery saver, not stamina mode as I don't want to shut down all my apps and have no data at all when screen is off.
Phone is only 2 weeks old, can I recalibrate the battery? Seems to stay on 1% for a while too. On the contrary, my wifi reception is really good. Better than any other phone I've had.
paulmt123 said:
The battery life on my xperia SP is not bad but it is no better than my previous xperia neo
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I had a Pro, the QWERTY variant of the Neo. The SP has the same battery life for me, which is about 7 to 10 hours
paulmt123 said:
I use a battery saver, not stamina mode as I don't want to shut down all my apps and have no data at all when screen is off.
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Go to Settings>Power management>STAMINA mode and add apps you want to stay connected, like Facebook, Google accounts, MyXperia...whatever app you want to keep connected to the internet
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Phone is only 2 weeks old, can I recalibrate the battery? Seems to stay on 1% for a while too.
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Yes you can, but you need to root your phone. Some people say its useless to do It, but you can try.
Got a bug less device
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Battery life on standby is perfectly good for me – a few people have said that the estimate Stamina mode gives is based on recent usage. So if you haven’t had the device very long of have just had a big session on your phone the estimate might not be very accurate.
Most mornings the battery is 0, 1 or 2% down on the reading before I went to sleep…deep sleep is being enforced.
However, I don’t think the battery consumption with screen on is anything special – not bad, not exceptional.
It’s a really good phone IMO. I admit WiFi seems badly implemented and you shouldn’t need the tweak which seems to fix it for most rooted users (all manufacturers seem to still release phones with Wifi problems). But with this tweak in place I get better wifi than my old xperia (it had a custom kernel that gave it awesome range) and better than my wife’s Samsung S2. There’s a part of my house where we couldn’t get any signal for my old phone or laptops – amazingly the SP can connect!
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Battery life on standby is perfectly good for me – a few people have said that the estimate Stamina mode gives is based on recent usage. So if you haven’t had the device very long of have just had a big session on your phone the estimate might not be very accurate.
Most mornings the battery is 0, 1 or 2% down on the reading before I went to sleep…deep sleep is being enforced.
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My C5303 drained battery like hell, with less than 5 minutes on screen time, it drained 2% per hour.
bluetooth, nfc, wifi, data disabled( sim card does not have data), mobile network wcdma or gsm only
stock .245 generic RU rom rooted with bbs installed,
top of the list wakelock : superstamina xssm (nobody in this forum can fix it)
battery drains : cell standby and phone idle
already factory reset over 5 times, nothing works
is it a rom problem? app problem? simcard problem or battery calibrating problem?
really need some advice here, had been stuck with this ****ty battery life for 2 motnhs
Jambu95 said:
My C5303 drained battery like hell, with less than 5 minutes on screen time, it drained 2% per hour.
bluetooth, nfc, wifi, data disabled( sim card does not have data), mobile network wcdma or gsm only
stock .245 generic RU rom rooted with bbs installed,
top of the list wakelock : superstamina xssm (nobody in this forum can fix it)
battery drains : cell standby and phone idle
already factory reset over 5 times, nothing works
is it a rom problem? app problem? simcard problem or battery calibrating problem?
really need some advice here, had been stuck with this ****ty battery life for 2 motnhs
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I think that is a problem in the OS of the SP, as put or dimly lit screen this will still consume battery as much lighting.
In my case the problem was corrected a bit, I deleted widgets, some app that did not use, the antivirus was always eating, I set to use 3G only when I need it, otherwise I'm on 2g most of the time, not game unless it is connected to the charger, WiFi and GPS only when I need them, listen to music and write a little and this we see is the result, compared to what it was prior is something a little encouragement ...(Attached)
But, why have a midrange phone if you will not be able to use to stop because two hours is dead? the Sony need to fix that big waste of battery.
I will continue to see what happens, disconcerted me the Android OS consumes much battery 45% to 52% long
Please, helpme whit this, why there are applications that I am using, or have not opened, but are consuming battery?, How do I prevent them from running without my wants? any program to control the apps that connect to the internet?
esloded said:
I think that is a problem in the OS of the SP, as put or dimly lit screen this will still consume battery as much lighting.
In my case the problem was corrected a bit, I deleted widgets, some app that did not use, the antivirus was always eating, I set to use 3G only when I need it, otherwise I'm on 2g most of the time, not game unless it is connected to the charger, WiFi and GPS only when I need them, listen to music and write a little and this we see is the result, compared to what it was prior is something a little encouragement ...(Attached)
But, why have a midrange phone if you will not be able to use to stop because two hours is dead? the Sony need to fix that big waste of battery.
I will continue to see what happens, disconcerted me the Android OS consumes much battery 45% to 52% long
Please, helpme whit this, why there are applications that I am using, or have not opened, but are consuming battery?, How do I prevent them from running without my wants? any program to control the apps that connect to the internet?
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Check which processes in Android OS is running the most. Install Wakelock Detector and that should help you get there
Also, hibernate apps that are running in background. Use Greenify for the same.
sarkar1990 said:
Check which processes in Android OS is running the most. Install Wakelock Detector and that should help you get there
Also, hibernate apps that are running in background. Use Greenify for the same.
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i have everything turned off, zero app installed ( except bbs), the lighting effects are off, totally everything off, screen at the dimmest, battery still drain, is that a battery problem or a sim card problem, there are many wakelocks too
esloded said:
I do not play much, texting, only play when I'm charging the phone, cut the rope and Diamon Dash.
In the images shows that the battery is low 2% in 29 minutes
Ok, i do it, the result from battery stats plus.
After it, I think do a factory reset, to see how it behaves.
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In the images posted I can see Mcafee and Lookout. I would suggest removing Mcafee as I have found it to be a resource hog, my opinion though. Either way u need to get rid of one of them.
In another image I noticed wifi is always on. Go to Settings -> Wifi -> menu, advanced -> Keep wifi on only when connected to charger one. That will reduce wifi wake usage.
get Juicedefenderfrom HERE OR
Snapdragon BatteryGuru from Here
If using Juice defender, set to balanced/aggressive.
If using Viber, go into viber -> more options -> settings -> wifi sleep policy -> change to use device settings not always on.
Zero the battery and do a full charge. Post updated screens when battery is under 30% ( Please include the MISC Usage screen from BBS). I expect it will be 2 days before we see those screens.
If you can even post a screen of the Misc usage from BBS just now and we`ll compare it with the next one soon.
I use JD (gives me a 1.5x boost to battery) with Stamina Mode on (no low battery or wifi). I charge my phone on an average once in 2 days, medium.
I don't have any of those problems, the battery lasts very long, don't have any flat-surface problems, wifi catches at full signal on both my houses, never had "screen flashes", only some crashes in the youtube app.
Must be a PEBCAK error

[Q] Galaxy S3 LTE i9305 Battery drain (Even in Airplane mode)

Hello,
I've searched the forums about battery drain problems regarding android phones in airplane mode but each subjects seemed different to mine.
I own a Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE i9305 under Android 4.3.
The phone is rooted, Greenify installed, hoping saving battery life but...
I've tried to do a full data reset + reinstallation of Android 4.3 official, with no success.
I've done the folowing experience 3 times with the following similar behaviour as last time :
- Phone fully charged before to go to bed, Airplane mode activated.
7 hours later :
- Battery is at 80%
- 0 minute in deep sleep, all the time in awake state.
Several behaviours noted by Wakelock detector and Gsam Battery Monitor :
- Device Idle and androidOS consumed 80% of the 20% used
- Misc processes seem to have used a lot of battery among them :
- AlarmManager
- PowerManagerService.WakeLocks
- KeyEvents
I'm including screenshots to illustrate all this.
If anyone has been thru this problem I'd be glad to know how to solve it.
Thank you !
Emmanuel
Lilmanio said:
Hello,
I've searched the forums about battery drain problems regarding android phones in airplane mode but each subjects seemed different to mine.
I own a Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE i9305 under Android 4.3.
The phone is rooted, Greenify installed, hoping saving battery life but...
I've tried to do a full data reset + reinstallation of Android 4.3 official, with no success.
I've done the folowing experience 3 times with the following similar behaviour as last time :
- Phone fully charged before to go to bed, Airplane mode activated.
7 hours later :
- Battery is at 80%
- 0 minute in deep sleep, all the time in awake state.
Several behaviours noted by Wakelock detector and Gsam Battery Monitor :
- Device Idle and androidOS consumed 80% of the 20% used
- Misc processes seem to have used a lot of battery among them :
- AlarmManager
- PowerManagerService.WakeLocks
- KeyEvents
I'm including screenshots to illustrate all this.
If anyone has been thru this problem I'd be glad to know how to solve it.
Thank you !
Emmanuel
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Hi,
I do not have the exact same problem, but my phone drains battery more than often. With wifi, mobile data etc turned off, i have ~10% of drain overnight (7~8 hours). But my phone does enter in deep sleep and battery stats shows me nothing weird (most of battery is being taken from phone iddle /standby cell), it is driving me nuts! My wife have the same phone as mine, same firmware, same system apps, the only diference is mine have the new bootloader, but her phone drains almost half than mine. I'm now reinstalling the firmware with the exact same steps i did in her phone and if someone want i post some screenshots later.
Did you tried installing some custom roms out here who have not all the system apps the original package have?
Lilmanio said:
Hello,
I've searched the forums about battery drain problems regarding android phones in airplane mode but each subjects seemed different to mine.
I own a Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE i9305 under Android 4.3.
The phone is rooted, Greenify installed, hoping saving battery life but...
I've tried to do a full data reset + reinstallation of Android 4.3 official, with no success.
I've done the folowing experience 3 times with the following similar behaviour as last time :
- Phone fully charged before to go to bed, Airplane mode activated.
7 hours later :
- Battery is at 80%
- 0 minute in deep sleep, all the time in awake state.
Several behaviours noted by Wakelock detector and Gsam Battery Monitor :
- Device Idle and androidOS consumed 80% of the 20% used
- Misc processes seem to have used a lot of battery among them :
- AlarmManager
- PowerManagerService.WakeLocks
- KeyEvents
I'm including screenshots to illustrate all this.
If anyone has been thru this problem I'd be glad to know how to solve it.
Thank you !
Emmanuel
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I am using 4.3 Alliance Rom with boeffla kernel. I had the same problem with battery drain during airplane mode. While I was at work with airplane mode on, I lost nearly 20% in one hour. Because of it I switched to 4.4.2 aosp rom "aosb 1.3.0. Probam" (meanwhile there is 1.3.2 published) but there I had music stuttering and camera issues, but perfect battery life. Because of the problems I decided to go back to 4.3 and gave Alliance Rom another chance. And now the battery life is wonderful like on 4.4.2.
Maybe try the same way, first to update on an aosp rom with excellent battery life and then go back to android 4.3. Maybe this will solve your problem, too.
Lilmanio said:
Hello,
I've searched the forums about battery drain problems regarding android phones in airplane mode but each subjects seemed different to mine.
I own a Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE i9305 under Android 4.3.
The phone is rooted, Greenify installed, hoping saving battery life but...
I've tried to do a full data reset + reinstallation of Android 4.3 official, with no success.
I've done the folowing experience 3 times with the following similar behaviour as last time :
- Phone fully charged before to go to bed, Airplane mode activated.
7 hours later :
- Battery is at 80%
- 0 minute in deep sleep, all the time in awake state.
Several behaviours noted by Wakelock detector and Gsam Battery Monitor :
- Device Idle and androidOS consumed 80% of the 20% used
- Misc processes seem to have used a lot of battery among them :
- AlarmManager
- PowerManagerService.WakeLocks
- KeyEvents
I'm including screenshots to illustrate all this.
If anyone has been thru this problem I'd be glad to know how to solve it.
Thank you !
Emmanuel
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Hi,
By any chance, do you have XPOSED framework enabled and do you use for example Wanam Xposed module ? If an option like "Turn on screen when unplugged" is unchecked (ie if you don't want your phone to wake up after you unplug it from USB), you may encounter battery drain. It seems that sometimes the phone doesn't enter in deep sleep if the USB cable is unplugged from a PC in this case. I have this kind of battery drain and since I've checked "Turn on screen when unplugged" option, no more battery drain after a reboot.
I'm not sure but you must give it a try as it worked for me. No problem so far.... I hope it will help.
Hi and thank you all,
I'm taking good note of your advices.
I did install Xposed and Wanam. I didn't pay attention to this option and since then completly reinstalled 4.3 official ROM. Battery drain vanished.
I now have the phone going to deep sleep normaly.
I've been reinstalling all my apps slowly one after the other, and didn't try yet to reinstall Wanam Xposed, as I know it modifies the system relatively deeply.
But the envy is here and I think I'll install it again. Ok, let's go, I'll do it tonight. I'll pay attention to "Turn on screen when unplugged" option and will ensure it is checked !
It's worth trying, though all these battery draining problems seem mysterious...
I'll post a reply in a few days with the results...
By the way, I installed Agni kernel wich uses Boeffla engine too. After activating "Extreme battery save" mode, the battery life has doubled or so. I'm happy about this.
Thank you again, and let's see how xposed wanam behaves...
GREAT.
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