For the past 3 days my battery is dropping at an incredibly fast rate. Even if its idle it will drop about 20 % every half hour with little to no use. I rooted my phone and am now running fresh with kings kernel but no change. I an even dropping in airplane mode. What can it be? I left it at 90% connected to wifi with the sync off and when I woke up 6 hours later it was at 20%. Any solutions?
Sounds like mine, just turning on the screen drops the batter 1-2%.
Hit menu and click on settings. From there, go to About Phone and then to Battery. Note the awake time and turn the screen off for thirty seconds or so. Turn the screen back on and check the awake time again. If it's not within five to ten seconds of the time you noted before you turned the screen off, something is keeping your phone awake, which does a number on the battery.
square parts or system panel might give a better idea of what specifically is draining your battery, or preventing it from sleeping correctly.
It seems fine, about 15 seconds difference. The weird thing is this only started happening about 3 days ago, I rooted yesterday, and its still doing it.
Go for what Fachadick said. Download and install Spare Parts from the Android Market. Go to Battery History and click on the dropdown box where it says "other usage" and click on "partial wake usage". If anything is taking up one of those bars, that's your problem.
If there's nothing notable there, it could be damn near any of your applications. When you root, you lose settings for you apps (depending on how you rooted), so your autosyncs could be going crazy. Might wanna check those.
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Go for what Fachadick said. Download and install Spare Parts from the Android Market. Go to Battery History and click on the dropdown box where it says "other usage" and click on "partial wake usage". If anything is taking up one of those bars, that's your problem.
If there's nothing notable there, it could be damn near any of your applications. When you root, you lose settings for you apps (depending on how you rooted), so your autosyncs could be going crazy. Might wanna check those.
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What he said Rooting won't fix battery issues. Rooting and installing a new ROM is just like reinstalling your OS. It can fix things or not depending on how it is configured. Likewise it won't fix your phone if hardware is bad.
does it drop steadily or just the first 5-10% or so? There is a well documented issue where the trickle charge stops at 100% and then shuts off so the phone actually drains a bit before it kicks in again. When you first unplug it, the reading may drop quickly until it reaches the real level.
Likewise depending on what you have installed and how it is set up, there may be something keeping your phone from sleeping. Check for partial wake use like the previous poster said and that will tell you what process/application is keeping your phone awake and draining battery.
i had this same problem about the battery before i rooted my phone. after i rooted it i got overclock widget and i get through the day with so much more battery left. i make sure my battery is full right before i go to bed, i put it on airplane mode and go to bed wake up around 7 a.m.(my battery is always at 98 when i get up in the morning so 2% in about 8 hrs) and i get home around 8:30 and my battery is at 48%. and no i dont leave it lying around with the screen off. i constantly go on, text, internet etc.
hope it works for you too!
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I am having this same problem and it started about 2 days ago. I downloaded Spare parts and looked up the partial usage (screenshots attached). I'm not sure what I'm suppose to determine from this. Mail is showing with more fill-in than any other program, when I click on it, I get the details. Can someone help?
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I am having this same problem and it started about 2 days ago. I downloaded Spare parts and looked up the partial usage (screenshots attached). I'm not sure what I'm suppose to determine from this. Mail is showing with more fill-in than any other program, when I click on it, I get the details. Can someone help?
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It doesn't appear (to me anyway) that you're having any issues with partial wake time. You may have a runaway app draining your battery and cpu - system panel is invaluable for hunting those down. It will show you each running process with exacly how much cpu it's used. It gets even better and gives evenmore detail if you let it monitor your system over time.
turn off latitude
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turn off latitude
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How did you get that from his screens? Not doubting you, but where do you see that?
Sent from my blah blah blah blah
Thanks for the help fachadick, where would I get "System Panel" from? Couldn't find in the market.
P.S. - I'm a lady LOL
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Thanks for the help fachadick, where would I get "System Panel" from? Couldn't find in the market.
P.S. - I'm a lady LOL
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There I go, letting my prejudices get ahead of me again, sorry about that. I think in the market it’s called systempanel – one word.
So will the free version pinpoint the problem, or would I need to do the paid version?
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So will the free version pinpoint the problem, or would I need to do the paid version?
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to be honest, I'm not sure - I don't remember what kind of detail it gives you in the free version, but the app is so useful to monitor cpu and battery, as well as for hunting down rougue apps, I would recommend the paid version as a "required" app for all rooters.
when you load it up, the default screen is essentially a taskkiller - but more importantly, you can go into settings and have it show ALL processes, and if you select one of the apps or processes from that main screen, it tells you when it was started, how much cpu it used, how much memory its used, and at least in the paid version, a historical graph of cpu usage - so you can see exactly when it used the cpu over the past 2 hours, 8 hours, 1 day, 3 days, or over the past week.
Me Too - "Android System" extremely high - Stock 2.2
This is also happening to me from 4 days ago. I haven't installed any new apps in the last 15 days or so, and for good measure, i uninstalled the last 10 apps i installed before that. When i check battery usage, the "Android System" takes up between 60 and 70 percent. When i open it, it lists like this:
HTC Checkin Service
Settings
Upgrade Setup
Rosie Utility
Android System
Setup
Accounts & Sync
HTC Widget Download Manager
VPN Services
Network Location
com.android.qxdmlog
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Bluetooth is off, 4g is off (when's cincinnati going live already!??! Just the heart of downtown and the mall)
Wifi is off, and I've been turning off gps now, but i always used to leave it on and made it through the day.
"Cell Standby" is next with 8%, everything else below that.
I kill everything with task manager now and it doesn't seem to help at all.
It is not possible to exaggerate how fast the battery is being drained. It drops by 1-2% each 45 seconds or so. I've done the Charge-for-8-hours-turn-off-charge-trickle-charge-unplug-trickle-charge-unplug-etc thing last night and no help. This is with no widgets installed, no live wallpaper, no music, when for months i can make it through the day with a little pandora, bluetooth while driving, a game or two, internet, maps, and several other apps throughout the day. I've stopped everything but messaging and phone calls and it still drains just as fast.
PLEASE HELP!
I don't know if this applies to anyone in this thread, but after installing a new rom sometimes I forget that the Gtalk/Gchat app resets itself to automatically sign in, and drains the battery while running in the background.
Changing it to not run automatically helps out for me, although I feel that I may have gotten slightly better battery life out of the rooted stock rom than running the King kernel I'm using right now. At least in terms of percentage drop. I never really reset my battery stats or recalibrate after installing a new rom, don't know how much that has an effect on the readings.
This is turning into a deal breaker
Its not latitude, off. Not ANYTHING as it still happens with everything off and all apps killed in task manager.
No background, no live wallpaper (even though i used to have one all day). No music (even though i used to have pandora on a couple hours a day). screen brightness is always low (even though i used to leave it above medium, and would turn it up to high to watch video or a game, and still made it most of the day before).
The phone's battery use thing swears its "Android System" thats taking by far the most, not even cell standby got larger when i unplugged it in the basement where there's no service.
i've turned off everything i could think of, no apps 'auto update' and i've put all syncing and updating and stuff to manual or off that i could find.
I don't think its a faulty battery because it is ridiculously noticeable that something has changed in that ANDROID SYSTEM is now a power hog. Why and what do to?????
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Its not latitude, off. Not ANYTHING as it still happens with everything off and all apps killed in task manager.
No background, no live wallpaper (even though i used to have one all day). No music (even though i used to have pandora on a couple hours a day). screen brightness is always low (even though i used to leave it above medium, and would turn it up to high to watch video or a game, and still made it most of the day before).
The phone's battery use thing swears its "Android System" thats taking by far the most, not even cell standby got larger when i unplugged it in the basement where there's no service.
i've turned off everything i could think of, no apps 'auto update' and i've put all syncing and updating and stuff to manual or off that i could find.
I don't think its a faulty battery because it is ridiculously noticeable that something has changed in that ANDROID SYSTEM is now a power hog. Why and what do to?????
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Have you pulled the battery lately? Give that a shot.
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I was able to solve my battery issue by formatting my SD card. Something on there was causing the battery to drain 2-3 times more quickly than normal. After formatting, I went from 6-8 hour battery life to around 20 hours with significant usage (Google, Exchange, IMAP, Facebook all on push, 3G+Bluetooth+GPS on, 4G and wifi as needed for extra speed).
Important to note, I am not entirely convinced that the Android OS and battery drain are related since I still have Android OS near if not at the top of my battery consumption screen, but the improved actual longevity is very significant. I recommend anyone having their battery run out format their SD card (and possibly USB storage) and see if that helps (obviously back up any important data first!). Good luck!
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I'm getting pretty bad battery life, and it looks like "Android OS" is consuming most of it. I've rebooted (as suggested in other threads), checked OS Monitor for high-CPU usage processes, but nothing stands out. This is un-rooted, stock OS with no third party launchers installed.
I have a feeling if this issue was fixed, I'd be getting great battery life. This happening to anyone else?
Screenshots show the device at 38% after 6.5 hours off the charger.
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if u using a 2.3.3 based rom is normal, that bug is fixed at 2.3.4 and 2.3.5
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if u using a 2.3.3 based rom is normal, that bug is fixed at 2.3.4 and 2.3.5
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This is un-rooted, stock OS with no third party launchers installed.
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My device is running 2.3.4.
That's an awful lot of awake time with no screen on time. Do you have things updating in the background frequently? I.e. social hub, Facebook, news widgets?
And not to be too obvious, but is your 4g antenna turned on?
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That's an awful lot of awake time with no screen on time. Do you have things updating in the background frequently? I.e. social hub, Facebook, news widgets?
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No, I don't. I have fewer widgets and fewer accounts (haven't set up my work Exchange yet) than I previously had on my EVO, which got great battery life.
I've been on Android over a year and am quite familiar with how it works... I'm just unfamiliar with Samsung specifically and unrooted devices and was hoping someone might have a similar experience.
I have the same thing. Significantly more awake time then screen on time, and Android OS eating the battery. Also stock.
Same here too
I had this exact issue and no longer do. Here is what I did and posted in another thread:
OK I hope someone finds this useful and/or can verify. I was one of those people getting awful battery life, meaning lucky to last 8 hours from 100% to 0%. The "Android OS" process would take hours of CPU time. Now it will take up maybe 30 min over the course of the day. Here is the only thing I did between the time it went from bad to good. I changed the wifi sleep policy. It is by default (for me at least) set to never. I changed it to "when the screen turns off" and left it there for about an hour. Then went in and changed it back to never. From the point of doing this my battery life has been great.
I know it sounds strange but it seems to have worked for me so I thought I would share.
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I had this exact issue and no longer do. Here is what I did and posted in another thread:
OK I hope someone finds this useful and/or can verify. I was one of those people getting awful battery life, meaning lucky to last 8 hours from 100% to 0%. The "Android OS" process would take hours of CPU time. Now it will take up maybe 30 min over the course of the day. Here is the only thing I did between the time it went from bad to good. I changed the wifi sleep policy. It is by default (for me at least) set to never. I changed it to "when the screen turns off" and left it there for about an hour. Then went in and changed it back to never. From the point of doing this my battery life has been great.
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Thanks for the suggestion!
I made the change, hopefully it will help, although I'm reluctant since I haven't had wifi on all day and my battery has been dropping like a rock. Here's hoping... will report back if it helps.
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Thanks for the suggestion!
I made the change, hopefully it will help, although I'm reluctant since I haven't had wifi on all day and my battery has been dropping like a rock. Here's hoping... will report back if it helps.
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I rarely use wifi as well but this setting seemed to affect the phone in general, if your using wifi or not. I might just be crazy though. Either way I no longer have the issue so
does the google voice widget pull data in the background or is it a push thing?
I'm seeing high usage (60+%) by AndroidOS also (stock, unrooted, not using WiFi, not using 4G), although battery life has not been bad that I have noticed.
Watchdog Lite indicates that this is primarily due to two processes:
events/0
suspend
mjdoran said:
I had this exact issue and no longer do. Here is what I did and posted in another thread:
OK I hope someone finds this useful and/or can verify. I was one of those people getting awful battery life, meaning lucky to last 8 hours from 100% to 0%. The "Android OS" process would take hours of CPU time. Now it will take up maybe 30 min over the course of the day. Here is the only thing I did between the time it went from bad to good. I changed the wifi sleep policy. It is by default (for me at least) set to never. I changed it to "when the screen turns off" and left it there for about an hour. Then went in and changed it back to never. From the point of doing this my battery life has been great.
I know it sounds strange but it seems to have worked for me so I thought I would share.
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I'm having the exact same issue. Stupid question here (I've already tried to find it and googled it too, but no success.
Where do you change the wifi policy? I don't see it under wifi settings
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Where do you change the wifi policy? I don't see it under wifi settings
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Wifi Settings > Menu > Advanced
limeaid said:
I'm having the exact same issue. Stupid question here (I've already tried to find it and googled it too, but no success.
Where do you change the wifi policy? I don't see it under wifi settings
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Settings >> Wireless and Networks >> Wi-Fi settings
Then press the menu button and then advanced.
Should then be the first option "Wi-Fi sleep policy".
Thanks. Like everyone else, I'm going to try this out and report back after a day or so
I'm trying to get into the 'INFO' section to view wake locks for battery usage clues. I've tried *#INFO*1111# (as mentioned here) and the old *#*#INFO*#*# to no avail. Anyone been able to get to the diagnostic screen from the dialer?
Are people with battery problems using widgetlocker?
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Are people with battery problems using widgetlocker?
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Interesting. I installed it yesterday. Will try removing it if the wifi setting doesn't work...
Is anyone with the "Android OS" battery drain not using widgetlocker?
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Interesting. I installed it yesterday. Will try removing it if the wifi setting doesn't work...
Is anyone with the "Android OS" battery drain not using widgetlocker?
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I am not and was not using it.
Yesterday as I started my day, i pulled my GN from its charger (99%) and made my journey to uni. The trip takes about 50 mins. For the past month now Ive been using poweramp and have had no problems. But when i got to class i realised i had like 25% power during my trip and the back of the GN was a bit warm. I closed all programs and the power drain stopped. I was a bit concerned so a few hours later when i tried playing music again on poweramp but nothing drained the power. So maybe it was a freak occurrence?
So I went to bed last night and the phone was fine. something around 80% power. I woke up 5 hours into my sleep to check on my phone (its a bad habit) and went back to sleep for another 2-3 hours. When i woke up i found my phone had discharged a whole lot of power again randomly in that space of a few hours.
So what the hell happened in that time?! All I did was turn the screen on and turned it off. My usage patterns have not changed.
here is an screen shot of my power usage. You can see the first drop of power, thats nothing of concern as i was playing angry birds space before bed. Then you see the straight line as the phone was idle while i was sleeping. The next drop is when I woke up to check my phone and that's when the discharging happens again. Then you see it recovering when i woke up and closed all the background apps in hope that it would stop the power drain..which it did.
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Anyone have some ideas as to what is causing this?
Also keep in mind that before the first instance of power drain my phone configuration had not changed a single bit besides a light flow lite update the night before.
edit: oh FYI, running stock 4.0.2 on yakju
Any apps that you updated or installed yesterday? New rom? Did you make any changes to your phone at all since yesterday?
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Any apps that you updated or installed yesterday? New rom? Did you make any changes to your phone at all since yesterday?
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No new apps, but some app updates. I know at least light flow was updated.
this random power discharge is really getting annoying. It happened again today.
A new symptom seems that the video doesnt load on the phone. for example, trying to load youtube or recorded videos saved on my phone.
Originally i thought my 3g was playing up but when it wouldnt load a video i recorded that was a bit unusual. in fact the gallery app froze and crashed.
Did you search the forum and install CPU Spy and Better Battery stats?
Get some data and find out what is causing wakelocks. Your phone has a lot of "wake" time.
See with CPU spy how much it is spending in Deep sleep and with Better Battery stats look what is preventing it from going into that state. If it's an app: simply remove it.
How's your signal service been lately? I get pretty stank reception at work so my gnex gets pretty warm at the top and battery life suffers. I just put it on airplane mode and reset the radio to force it to chill out for awhile
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Did you search the forum and install CPU Spy and Better Battery stats?
Get some data and find out what is causing wakelocks. Your phone has a lot of "wake" time.
See with CPU spy how much it is spending in Deep sleep and with Better Battery stats look what is preventing it from going into that state. If it's an app: simply remove it.
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Thanks ill try that. Just installed CPU spy. Is there an alternative to better battery stats? Don't really want to fork out something to debug this.
I originally used OS monitor, and i checked what was running while the abnormal discharge was happening but nothing showed up.
You make a good point about the amount of wake time though. That long stretch where i was sleeping, my phone shouldnt be waking up that much should it? It didnt seem to affect battery life that much.
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How's your signal service been lately? I get pretty stank reception at work so my gnex gets pretty warm at the top and battery life suffers. I just put it on airplane mode and reset the radio to force it to chill out for awhile
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Reception has been normal (since I'm around the CBD a lot)
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Thanks ill try that. Just installed CPU spy. Is there an alternative to better battery stats? Don't really want to fork out something to debug this.
I originally used OS monitor, and i checked what was running while the abnormal discharge was happening but nothing showed up.
You make a good point about the amount of wake time though. That long stretch where i was sleeping, my phone shouldnt be waking up that much should it? It didnt seem to affect battery life that much.
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Better Battery Stats is the one I use and is recommended here a lot. It gives you insight in the wakelocks from the kernel, as well as from apps. Don't know about the alternatives. It's definately about the wakelocks. Your phone should be in Deep Sleep for 90% or so when you don't touch it (depending on your sync frequency off course).
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Better Battery Stats is the one I use and is recommended here a lot. It gives you insight in the wakelocks from the kernel, as well as from apps. Don't know about the alternatives. It's definately about the wakelocks. Your phone should be in Deep Sleep for 90% or so when you don't touch it (depending on your sync frequency off course).
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The only account that is sync'ed is my gmail. The other two listed (twitter and dropbox) is turned off. Are there other options to turn the freq of when the phone syncs?
It's so strange because before these problems came about I had good battery life. ie: 3+hours of screen time.
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The only account that is sync'ed is my gmail. The other two listed (twitter and dropbox) is turned off. Are there other options to turn the freq of when the phone syncs?
It's so strange because before these problems came about I had good battery life. ie: 3+hours of screen time.
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You usually set it at System Settings, accounts & Synchronisation but some apps allow you to set it within the app... There are apps that allow you to make profiles so that, for instance at night, your device turns off all data. I used to use Juicedefender but that was IMHO more a placebo effect then a real improvement.
I definately think you should install the mentioned apps and after such drain re-appeared analyse what happened.
So after a little bit of troubleshooting I narrowed the problem down to Light Flow Lite.
Last night I went to bed with 100% charge. It discharged normally throughout the night until 4 hours in when I received an email. I woke up about an hour later and saw this so i suspected it was light flow. I cleared the notification and went back to sleep. I woke up about 30 mins later and was sad to see that my fears were confirmed. Battery discharge had settled down and was acting as normal. Just to be 100% sure though, i sent an email to myself to set off a notification and left it for another 30 mins, and as you can guess, the battery started draining excessively again.
Here is the screenshot. First part obviously is when im sleeping. then that dip is the email coming in. That TINY TINY dip upwards is another email coming in a min after I cleared the original email. So the battery drain continues until i wake up and clear it again. This time no more notifications came through and the battery drain settles down.
Again keep in mind that I have used Light Flow Light for 2 months now without problems.
Anyone else experience problems with Light flow or Light Flow light since it was updated on the 20th March?
I have been great with my light flow lite..I had a problem with my own battery when I updated Google chrome.. uninstalling that fixed my problem..
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I waited a LONG time for the stock ICS to be released. Three days ago, I finally had enough, updated to AOKP - so of course the very next day saw an Engadget article saying the ICS OTA update would be over the next few days. Since I was disappointed the AOKP doesn't offer the same Exchange account sync schedule options as stock (important to me due to my work), I flashed back to stock, rooted, no CWM, just stock recovery, and planned to wait out the stock ICS update.
Last night, I flashed the stock ICS update via QBKING77's link in the video:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/12/..._campaign=Feed:+weblogsinc/engadget+(Engadget)
I went to bed without playing with it much, it was late.
I woke up this morning, sent a few text messages and played with trying to get swype to work - in 20 minutes, used up 6% of my battery! 20 minutes later, not using my phone (I was on my computer searching here) another 5% of my battery used. In less than an hour, I was at 85%.
Looking at the Battery chart, I see my "mobile network signal" is staccato, interrupted black and green, green only 50-60% of the time. Not sure if this is contributing.
I have BetterBatteryStats installed. I work with little kids Saturday morning, then have a date, so I'll have quite a bit of time with my phone where it should be sleeping, so I should be able to build some stats - but any help is appreciated, I'm going to have to carry an extra battery with me at this rate.
I also can't get Swype working. I've seen comments like this:
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Clear the data for swype, you lose the dictionary but it will work after that.
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How is this supposed to be done?
I recalled the dictionary comment when reading last night, so cleared the dictionary from the Settings --> Language and Input --> Swype settings. That didn't resolve it. I'm noticing that many of the settings in this category are entirely unresponsive as well.
If I go into Swype from Settings--> Applications, the Clear Data button is greyed out.
Force Stop doesn't enable the button, Disable doesn't enable the button.
It also just continuously shows "computing" for the space stats.
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And I've lost 4% more as I've been typing this on my PC - phone not even on.
Another odd effect - I was rooted before updating (but again, no CWM, just stock recovery, rooted kernel), but of course am not rooted now. However, when I move around the phone, accessing certain things, I'm noticing the permissions popup box appears "[application] has been granted superuser access". Is this contributing? Should I uninstall superuser app? I just figured I would wait a day or two until a rooted FF18 kernel was available and then I'd be back as I was, rooted.
Any thoughts on these? I can't believe Samsung or Sprint would have released it this way... maybe others aren't experiencing these? I'm not seeing many threads with people complaining about them, and most people seem to be able to fix Swype like it's a simple fix - clear data, no prob.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
I know I've seen it, but can't find it at the moment, but did you pull your sd card out when trying to clear data to avoid the computing issue?
And I know I saw a thread with a fix for it but is driving me crazy that I can't find it. :banghead:
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After flashing anything. new, allow the battery to cycle a few times before expecting a clear reading.
Other than that, I'm unsure.
Mine works fine! settings all set to battery friendly. Auto brightness off set to low, no haptic or vibrating ever, no touchkey lights, etc.
FF18 SFHub Rooted
On the "computing" issue. Others have talked about it here.
Knew I saw it..
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On the "computing" issue. Others have talked about it here.
Knew I saw it..
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Awesome, that actually worked, for the Swype issue - it stopped "computing", and when it did the "clear data" button appeared.
I'll leave my SD card out for now (about 45 gig of music on it is all that's on there), we'll see if anything else changes or smooths out.
Sounds like it shouldn't be a problem when I put the SD card back in, either (fingers crossed)
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After flashing anything. new, allow the battery to cycle a few times before expecting a clear reading.
Other than that, I'm unsure.
Mine works fine! settings all set to battery friendly. Auto brightness off set to low, no haptic or vibrating ever, no touchkey lights, etc.
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This seems more extreme than that.
I'll bring an extra battery with the car, if I run completely out we'll see what happens - but I'm wondering now if I swap the fully charged battery in, if that'll throw off the battery stats too. I never understood those battery stats.
I just tried to do a Better Battery Stats dump to file, but the file it produced is empty.
I thought it was going to be too big if anything, I checked all the boxes in "dumpfile settings".
I also had swype problems. It said failed to load english or something similar.
Clearing it help. thanks!
Well - it's about 7:30, I've had somewhat average use of my phone today, but I hit power saving mode (30% battery remaining) at 7pm, which is about 3-4 hours sooner than I usually do - and it's actually worse than that because I didn't unplug my phone from the charger this morning until about 11am - so that's about 2-3 hours later than I usually do.
Means I'm getting something like 6-7 less hours of battery life on this ROM.
I tried to generate a Better Battery Stats dumpfile but it looks like the text file was blank - anyone know how to do this?
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Well - it's about 7:30, I've had somewhat average use of my phone today, but I hit power saving mode (30% battery remaining) at 7pm, which is about 3-4 hours sooner than I usually do - and it's actually worse than that because I didn't unplug my phone from the charger this morning until about 11am - so that's about 2-3 hours later than I usually do.
Means I'm getting something like 6-7 less hours of battery life on this ROM.
I tried to generate a Better Battery Stats dumpfile but it looks like the text file was blank - anyone know how to do this?
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I kinda expected this outta the 1st OTA to ICS... the few ICS ROMs I've used before this never gave me as good of battery life as stock GB did... I'm still on GB and I can get a full 18-20 hours out of it with what I consider to be pretty mod-heavy usage... Even though I expected it, it's till a let down .. unfortunately it prolly won't get much better until the Devs get a hold of it and tweak it out.. This whole crappy update situation is really turning me off android in general..
One thing I'm suspicious of is the new Sprint ID switcher thing. ..
The good: Open it. Switch from "Samsung" ID pack to "My ID" pack. Bam. Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwich launcher, no TouchWiz.
The bad: Download "Home Manager" app from Play market. Switch your ID's, and back. Observe both "Launcher" and "TWLauncher" are running. ...and if you had a third party launcher like I do (Go Launcher EX), you probably ALSO see that one "running", if you were using it.
You can use this app to kill the others, but it seems temporary. Having 2-3 launchers simultaneously seems like that could use a little more battery to me - and this is a built-in Samsung feature now.
Ics update battery fix
I found a way to greatly improve battery life after the update. Hold in the home button and a recent apps menu will pop up. Swipe apps to clear and android os battery consumption will drop to less that 35% mine was running at like 75% before i figured this out.
Correction its at 13% now. Much better than 75. Hope this helps
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I'm having a slight problem.. How long can your G3 stay away from the charger? And with which kind of usage?
Mine is dead after 8~10 hours with absolutely light usage (1:30 sot, checking whatsapp, but not even responding the groups, no facebook usage). Every time I turn the phone on, BBS complains about 30~50% awake time, but when I open it up, I can't for the love of God find what the heck is causing it.
Example, it says phone was with the screen off for 30 minutes, with 50% awake. And every single option (but kernel wakelocks) shows apps with about 2, 3 minutes total wakelock time.
When I first bought it, I rooted it right away and restored my TitaniumBackup, and the phone was getting hot on my pocket. I mean, HOT. Battery couldn't get past 6 hours with the usage I had on my G2, and phone was unconfortable to handle and make a call.
And about that, it seems that the battery drains slower during calls, rather than the phone idling.
I started using Greenify and added every possible app to it, but it didn't help anything.
What may be my problem? How can I find what is causing such wakelocks?
Those pictures have been taken few hours ago, when I posted it on G+, and the screen on time represents 1:05hrs.
It hit 15% with 11:53hr total with 1:50h screen on time. Estimated recharge time is around 6 hours. It sucks
http://imgur.com/a/H0aLm
Flash a new Rom...like cloudy or something that works for your phone, but don't restore apps and data with titanium bu.
Don't restore android home or anything like that either....just restore apps....then you should be ok.
You battery useage is not normal, but this should fix it.
Cheers!
I'm using CloudyG3. I feel like it was good at the beginning, but gotten worse with time.
I'm seriously thinking about flashing it fresh and not restoring anything, letting Google do its stuff.
That should work....you probably restored an appnsetting that doesn't like the Rom....that's hard to troubleshoot and easier to re flash and start from scratch
Did it. Yet no solution.
I always get 45% phone awake, on BBS. The culprit seems to be Google Play Services. I've tried greenifiying a thousand of apps, but it doesn't seem to help.
http://imgur.com/a/8QCdG
It seems to be related to location services, but I've never had such problem in my life, and G3 GPS is pretty quick to get a lock on. Phone is also getting lukewarm on my pocket for no apparent reason (warm enough to notice it in pocket, at random moments)
That's still not normal.....not sure what to say. Maybe there is hardware failure. Sorry I can't be of more assistance....that should have solved it, but if it's Google play services, you can't even attribute it to a rogue 3rd party app.
Greenified Google Play Services..
http://imgur.com/ildhKIG
So, it IS a Google Play Services problem, but what is causing it? Also, how bad is to have GPlay Services greenified?
I get a 0.4% or less drop each hour that I have no screen time and I'm in wifi (with 2 gmail and 1 exchange accounts syncing/push notifications). I can easily go over two days on a single battery charge with perhaps 30 min of screen time. That is pretty typical from what I've read. Something is wrong with your phone/apps if you are getting well less than that.
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I get a 0.4% or less drop each hour that I have no screen time and I'm in wifi (with 2 gmail and 1 exchange accounts syncing/push notifications). I can easily go over two days on a single battery charge with perhaps 30 min of screen time. That is pretty typical from what I've read. Something is wrong with your phone/apps if you are getting well less than that.
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Still working on that. A full day without a charge is more than enough for me.
Google Play Services finally got out from the top 3 battery sippers, but I don't know at what cost. It's greenified.
The top 5 currently is:
Screen (29% - 1:14 sot)
Android Operating System (14% - 16m 48s Total CPU, execution time 2h 2m)
Android System (12% - 29m 15s Total CPU, 11m 43s execution time)
Google Play Services (7% - 3m 8s Total CPU, 23m 11s execution time, 1m 59s GPS)
Inactive Phone (4% - Time in use 5h 48m 29s)
Phone was supposed to be dead by now. It still has 66% left, with 19hrs remaining. That is a -HUGE- improvement.
Usage is nowhere near I had with the G2 (1:14hr sot), but it now gives margin to use it more intensively. Hope it stays cool and economic like that tomorrow, when I'll start using it as a normal smartphone to me.
This is caused by Google tracking you. You should disable location reporting and if possible network location service (GPS only). I have a Tasker profile that enables and disables network location with screen. I get about 3%/hr with pretty moderate/heavy usage.
lexman098 said:
This is caused by Google tracking you. You should disable location reporting and if possible network location service (GPS only). I have a Tasker profile that enables and disables network location with screen. I get about 3%/hr with pretty moderate/heavy usage.
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That isn't a option for me. I've successfuly recovered my last G2 4 times from robbers using tracking tools. I can't disable GPS.
I hear GPS only gets activated when necessary, so that doesn't seem to be a big deal. There are some useless trackings, sure, such as to show where I parked my car and stuff.
I'll try disabling Location Reporting and see if I can track it back.
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Looks like I can! But Google Play Services consumption is already low. The "problem" now is on the screen (unsolveable, I think. And I ain't downsampling it to 1080p) and Android System/Android OS.
Waiting for the Lollipop miracle, I guess.
Heck, I have yet to go below 5 hours of screen on time with CloudyG3 1.0.. Its been 5 days, and on the first two days i got 6 hours sot.
And thats not 6 sot/6 uptime, it went 20+ hours of uptime(off charger), with that amount of screen on.
I greenified a bit, am on art, and i'm not gonna lir to you, i tend to decrease my brightness lately, why?
Because i don't want a flashlight to my face in a dimmed room, and I can still perfectly percieve everything thats on my screen even with it not being 100% at all times..
Here are my most recent screenshots.
Can't say I'm happy with deep sleep "drain", but oh well, its not that bad...
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Did it. Yet no solution.
I always get 45% phone awake, on BBS. The culprit seems to be Google Play Services. I've tried greenifiying a thousand of apps, but it doesn't seem to help.
http://imgur.com/a/8QCdG
It seems to be related to location services, but I've never had such problem in my life, and G3 GPS is pretty quick to get a lock on. Phone is also getting lukewarm on my pocket for no apparent reason (warm enough to notice it in pocket, at random moments)
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download wakelock detector and see what cpu wakelocks you have and on which version are you ?
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download wakelock detector and see what cpu wakelocks you have and on which version are you ?
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It seemingly was Google Play Services that were draining the battery like mad. I'm using CloudyG3 1.1.
I had WLD already, and CPU wakelocks were little, if I remember well. Problem was on "Wakeup Triggers".
Sunday's a slow day, and the phone was pretty much the whole time on the wireless craddle, thus keeping charge at 100%. But the moments I took it off the charger and used it for a while on the living room, it seemed OK.
I've let it off the charger during the night to see how it would fare, and it dropped 10% in 9 hours, with virtually no screen on time (I checked the clock sometimes. Bet it doesn't even sums 20 second screen on time). It's nowhere near the 0,6%/h people claim, but I think I'm a pretty heavy user (4G, wifi, bluetooth all the time, no notifications disabled etc).
Funny that the G3 seems to take a while to drop from 100%, though.
Tomorrow's a full day, I leave in the morning and only get back home at 22hrs, with heavy usage. Phone was previously dying on me @ 14hrs.
If it works, it'll be nice. Weird that I've never had a issue with Google Play Services, and it seems that greenifying it did the trick.
GTMoraes said:
It seemingly was Google Play Services that were draining the battery like mad. I'm using CloudyG3 1.1.
I had WLD already, and CPU wakelocks were little, if I remember well. Problem was on "Wakeup Triggers".
Sunday's a slow day, and the phone was pretty much the whole time on the wireless craddle, thus keeping charge at 100%. But the moments I took it off the charger and used it for a while on the living room, it seemed OK.
I've let it off the charger during the night to see how it would fare, and it dropped 10% in 9 hours, with virtually no screen on time (I checked the clock sometimes. Bet it doesn't even sums 20 second screen on time). It's nowhere near the 0,6%/h people claim, but I think I'm a pretty heavy user (4G, wifi, bluetooth all the time, no notifications disabled etc).
Funny that the G3 seems to take a while to drop from 100%, though.
Tomorrow's a full day, I leave in the morning and only get back home at 22hrs, with heavy usage. Phone was previously dying on me @ 14hrs.
If it works, it'll be nice. Weird that I've never had a issue with Google Play Services, and it seems that greenifying it did the trick.
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disable location because play services checks it as mad or download xposed module lion tamer(donation) and set when it can check (in seconds) I am guessing that the nlp.... wakelock is the biggest in google play services:laugh:
lg are optimizing this in the new versions,
I think a lot of screen
I made a day through! Yeaaaahhhh
Not with some issues, though. This phone seems to be a bit wakelock happy.
First, it was Pushbullet that seemed to be stuck doing something. Greenified it and it's OK now.
But now it seems to be some issue with "com.android.internal.telephony.ACTION_CHECK_NETSTAT".
http://imgur.com/YAu4iNt
Is it the fast dormancy thing people talk about? The signal wasn't very strong today, but is it supposed to do a wakelock?
battery issue with lg g3
hi just got my Lg G3 the battery lasted me approx 12 hours with moderate usage and full screen display.
i installed juice defender and kept the screen display on auto.
i believe by doing that the battery drain will not be much.
my phone battery drain is only 4% in the past 3 hours.
try this solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-x-att/general/guide-google-play-services-battery-t2822726
This is what I did along with using greenify to stop the wakelocks. Haven't had any issue at all with battery or deep sleep after this.
My Zenwatch usually consumes <50% of its battery during a typical day. Today however it was completely dead by 7pm, even though there was nothing unusual about the day - it was worn at the same location all day, and was in close proximity to my phone all day.
Is there any way of tracing what causes this sort of sudden battery drain?
Hello,
same Problem here.
You can use the "Android Wear" app, connect to your watch and press the gear wheel on the upper right, then press on the first entry " Asus Zenwatch 2" and then you see the option "Battery of the watch" in the middled of the screen. It looks the same as you can see it on the telephone but for you watch battery.
I made a few screenshots today:
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looks ok for me...
still ok...
now there has something started sucking the battery empty....
now it has stopped... but only for a moment - later it came back and at 15:30 I had only 13% left. I noticed that the temperature display still was showing 7°C but my car display shows 16".
I restarted the watch now and voilá the temp changed to 16°... very stange
And this is the second watch - the first one I send back to Amazon because of the same "bug" ....
For some reason I can't see any of your screenshots. Any chance or re-uploading them?
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For some reason I can't see any of your screenshots. Any chance or re-uploading them?
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better now?
Still nothing
???
I think he was trying to upload a screenshot like the one I attached to this post, it's basically a similar battery usage indicator like the one for the Android phone itself. I don't have anything on here really, yet, because it hasn't been too long since I took it off the charger.
Asus Zentalk forum has walkthroughs
The Asus ZenTalk forum has a walk-through with pictures on how to get to the battery use screen. (I'd post the link for you, but I don't have enough posts yet to post links).
I just had the same problem happen this evening. Everything was fine until about 8pm, with 70% remaining, then two hours later it had plummeted to 15%. I checked the battery stats in the Android Wear app, as suggested, but they didn't help: there were only 2 lines:
- Watch Idle: 5%
- Screen: 2%
Screenshot is here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jd8x74gbhs78uih/Screenshot_2015-10-29-21-47-19.png?dl=0
???
itm said:
I just had the same problem happen this evening. Everything was fine until about 8pm, with 70% remaining, then two hours later it had plummeted to 15%. I checked the battery stats in the Android Wear app, as suggested, but they didn't help: there were only 2 lines:
- Watch Idle: 5%
- Screen: 2%
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That is a pretty drastic and sudden drop. What watch face were you using? Did the watch do (vibrate?) or alert you to anything (view messages, receive a call, etc) during that time?
What are each of your settings in the settings area (what features do you have turned on or off)? If you have wifi turned on where you in an area where it may have been attempting to connect to nearby wifi networks and repeatedly failing (like trying to connect to networks where there are sign-on pages where you have to agree to a user agreement before connecting to a free wifi network)?
If you look at your phone battery usage during that same time (if you still can) does it show anything highly active on your phone during that time? (For example could the phone have been trying to update any of the files or apps on your watch during that time?).
To answer your questions:
- What watch face were you using? Perfection (although the last time I had this problem I was using the Explorer watchface)
- Did the watch do (vibrate?) or alert you to anything (view messages, receive a call, etc) during that time? No - I just got a few notifications when emails came in
- What are each of your settings in the settings area?
- Brightness: 3
- Font size: Normal
- Always on screen: Off
- Wrist gestures: On
- Screen lock: Off
- If you have wifi turned on where you in an area where it may have been attempting to connect to nearby wifi networks and repeatedly failing - No, I was at
home in my study and lounge (within 15 feet of my wifi router at all times)
- If you look at your phone battery usage during that same time (if you still can) does it show anything highly active on your phone during that time? I don't have the ability to look at yesterday's phone battery stats, but I know that there were no app updates or unusual notifications on the phone during that period yesterday
???
itm said:
To answer your questions:
- What watch face were you using? Perfection (although the last time I had this problem I was using the Explorer watchface)
- Did the watch do (vibrate?) or alert you to anything (view messages, receive a call, etc) during that time? No - I just got a few notifications when emails came in
- What are each of your settings in the settings area?
- Brightness: 3
- Font size: Normal
- Always on screen: Off
- Wrist gestures: On
- Screen lock: Off
- If you have wifi turned on where you in an area where it may have been attempting to connect to nearby wifi networks and repeatedly failing - No, I was at
home in my study and lounge (within 15 feet of my wifi router at all times)
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In the days that have followed did the problem of sudden drain continue to occur, or does it appear to have been an isolated incident?
In that time period it experienced the drastic drop were you doing anything repeatedly? (ex: eating food, exercising, reading a book?) Repetitive tasks where you wrist was moving a lot may have been turning on your watch using the wrist gestures, and it seems that wrist gestures (where the brightness level 3, color, etc are activated) may use more battery than always on in its timed-out dim mode does. If you're continuing to experience the problem try going a day with always on screen turned on, wrist gestures turned off, and see if there is a difference in your battery use at the end of the day.
Your watch may also be preforming syncing with your phone at a particular time, and transfer of data across wifi between the two may be draining the battery. You could try turning off the sync setting on your phone for a day, and see if that makes a difference.
Finally you can try turning off wifi, and see how much longer your battery lasts with wifi switched off on the watch.
In the period when it dropped drastically I was sitting on the sofa watching TV. There were no repetitive tasks. In fact I could probably not have been less mobile!
I now have "always on" mode enabled, and have disabled tilt-to-wake. So far it has maintained the usual (low) battery usage, so I'll wait and see if I get a recurrence of the problem.
The problem with turning off sync for a day is that it's unlikely to prove anything. This problem only happens every few weeks, so if it doesn't happen on the day that I have sync turned off then I'll be no wiser.
I'm not sure what you mean by turning off wifi on the watch - do you mean putting it into airplane mode? If I do I would fully expect my battery life to improve, but how would that prove whether it was the potential cause of the rapid 2-hour drain?
I'm watching my watch battery levels very closely at the moment, but if I do notice a sudden drain again what can I do to establish exactly what is happening on the watch at the time? If the watchface is displayed as usual, and there's no evidence of any specific app running on the watch, what other options do I have for finding the cause of the excess battery drain?
After 4 weeks I've just had the same problem on 2 consecutive days. At the end of the first day I notiiced that the "tilt-to-wake" option had become re-enabled (I'm not sure how, as I don't remember enabling it). I disabled it again last night, but today my battery was pretty much dead by 9pm. I tried a reboot earlier in the day, but it didn't seem to help.
The latest version of the Android Wear app seems to have removed all info on battery usage, so this is impossible to diagnose. As things stand, the watch has gone from being an all-day device to a device that won't last a whole day in the last days (
Rather than trouble shooting you should just go for a completely new set up of the watch. Uninstall the wear and ZenWatch manager apps, factory reset the watch and reinstall everything.
I've gone from just under a day to an insane 3-4 days battery life. (I don't use any fitness trackers or ambient mode btw)
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So today the problem seems to have gone away. For the first time since the weekend I got through the whole day with only 40% battery usage. This battery drain issue seems completely random, and it's annoying that there's no way of diagnosing it.
Surprised that more people aren't seeing this.
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The latest version of the Android Wear app seems to have removed all info on battery usage
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The new version of Wear from yesterday has the battery usage option again.
CSX321 said:
The new version of Wear from yesterday has the battery usage option again.
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Hmmm....I'm not seeing an update with that option in it yet.....maybe tomorrow...
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Hmmm....I'm not seeing an update with that option in it yet.....maybe tomorrow...
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For reference, the version I got yesterday (as shown on the phone) is 1.4.0.2470307.gms
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The new version of Wear from yesterday has the battery usage option again.
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For reference, the version I got yesterday (as shown on the phone) is 1.4.0.2470307.gms
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Ah OK I'm still on 1.4.0.2462440.gms and the Play Store isn't showing an update available yet. Fingers crossed I'll get it soon, and that the battery info actually gives me some useful information when I see it draining fast next time.