UNFORTUNATELY I confirm Arc has one fckn bug, I don't know what causes that.
It RESETS it's date (always to 26th June) and time. Randomly, every week or so. What a cr..p. And even STRANGER is the fact it displays different time on top right corner and different on some time widgets. Crazy.
Any info on this?!
hell
i've faced this fckn ridiculous mistake
and i am really mad about this bug!
there are many bugs with this phone! sometimes all of a sudden i see the battery draining very fast! last time it showed 17% battery use on asphalt6 game where i had exited the games 30 minutes earlier!!!!
once i had the same problem with angry birds (battery got from 64% to 15% in 6 hours after i had got out of angry birds and went to sleep and battery use showed angry birds as the second battery usage cause!)
i'm really frustrated!
lol
these two problems are soooooooooo fcking annoying
you both said what i have repeated in this forum lots of times and still no answer to any one of them
it's really frustrating to have such major bugs!!!
and no answer from the monsters in xda-forum
thanks to both of u for mentioning these problems so that i don't feel damn alone
hope there is any fix to such crappy problems :|
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[edit] This is not about Tristan's DigiClock [/edit]
Like most of us, I've been very unsatisfied with the battery usage in my Desire since buying it when it was first released. Most of the tips to sort this out are obvious, with a few things that aren't so obvious but make little difference.
I was having to charge my phone twice a day, then also through the night. It used to bug me that people would complain just at having to plug the charger in at night. Why is that such a problem? When it goes flat twice during the day though, even with little usage and the obvious features turned off, that's a real problem.
Yesterday morning, I saw that my DigiClock app had been updated. One of the differences was that it uses a lot less battery. Well I never imagined it would use any more battery than the normal clock. It did seem to help with the first few hours not showing much battery drain, so I uninstalled it completely, as I'm happy enough with the default clock now. Well I couldn't believe the difference in how long the battery lasted! I even watched about 2 hours of video, and the level barely changed at all. I even used GPS and Bluetooth for a while yesterday without the battery losing much charge.
So now I know that the problem hasn't been anything else, but that blasted clock!!! I used to think it was wifi causing it, because if I kept that off (I need it for push email and have terrible 3G coverage here) the battery would last a lot longer. So my conclusion is that DigiClock was (still is maybe?) constantly connecting to the Internet for something.
I'm pretty angry that I'd never read this as being a problem in all my "why does my battery go flat" research. Has nobody else picked up on this? So that's why I'm posting about it here, for others to read in case it helps them. If you use DigiClock, get rid of it or at least update it. I wonder if other third party clock apps have the same problem?
By the way, I think the clock seems to show up on the battery usage info as part of the Android OS, as that now shows a lot lower percentage than it used to.
hi all
once i charged my battery after its 15% low battery alarm (it took about 2.5 hours) i started to play angry birds seasons! paired with my mw600 for the sound
after 75 minutes i checked my battery and it said 62%!!!!
damn! one hour gaming and 40% battery loss? was it due too Bluetooth?
next morning. after i got up (9 hours later), i saw the low battery alert!!!!
i saw "battery use" and it said that there was an angry bird consuming 22% !!!
but neither my advanced task killer nor "running services" showed any angry birds program running!
today after recharging my phone, i played the same angry bird seasons with the speakers of the phone (middle sound volume) and after 30 minutes, i lost 15% loss of the battery and again after closing the game, in battery use section, i say angry birds consuming 16% of battery when again it wasn't listed in "running services" section!
i even restarted my phone and to my utter surprise, i saw this program running in battery use section again!
I'm really disappointed about this issue
all this time my wifi has been switched off!
i have 2 questions!
1. from where does this running service come? why isn't it listed under runing services?
2. is this rate of battery use normal?
devil28 said:
hi all
once i charged my battery after its 15% low battery alarm (it took about 2.5 hours) i started to play angry birds seasons! paired with my mw600 for the sound
after 75 minutes i checked my battery and it said 62%!!!!
damn! one hour gaming and 40% battery loss? was it due too Bluetooth?
next morning. after i got up (9 hours later), i saw the low battery alert!!!!
i saw "battery use" and it said that there was an angry bird consuming 22% !!!
but neither my advanced task killer nor "running services" showed any angry birds program running!
today after recharging my phone, i played the same angry bird seasons with the speakers of the phone (middle sound volume) and after 30 minutes, i lost 15% loss of the battery and again after closing the game, in battery use section, i say angry birds consuming 16% of battery when again it wasn't listed in "running services" section!
i even restarted my phone and to my utter surprise, i saw this program running in battery use section again!
I'm really disappointed about this issue
all this time my wifi has been switched off!
i have 2 questions!
1. from where does this running service come? why isn't it listed under runing services?
2. is this rate of battery use normal?
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Ok. Let me explain.
First of all, Games take up lot of battery power. They use display, CPU, RAM, GPU and whatever you call them else. So it's quite normal to see that kind of battery usage when you play the quality graphical games.
Second to your battery utilization issue. Again, this is not an issue, but Android lists the utilization based on the top to bottom. So your Angry birds game was the topper of them all. Hence it's displayed there. It doesn't mean that it is running.
Hope you get it clear now.
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Ok. Let me explain.
First of all, Games take up lot of battery power. They use display, CPU, RAM, GPU and whatever you call them else. So it's quite normal to see that kind of battery usage when you play the quality graphical games.
Second to your battery utilization issue. Again, this is not an issue, but Android lists the utilization based on the top to bottom. So your Angry birds game was the topper of them all. Hence it's displayed there. It doesn't mean that it is running.
Hope you get it clear now.
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thanks mate
but what caused my battery to drain like hell?
2-3% in every 10 minutes!!!!
the only way i could make sure if it had anything to do with angry birds was uninstalling it...and everything went OK again!
i have no experience with angry birds,could it be a bug?
i saw the same problem in other forums...without any specific answer!
do u know what caused my battery to drain from 60% to 15% in 9 hours? with Bluetooth off, wifi off,system complete standby! isn't it just too weird?
devil28 said:
thanks mate
but what caused my battery to drain like hell?
2-3% in every 10 minutes!!!!
the only way i could make sure if it had anything to do with angry birds was uninstalling it...and everything went OK again!
i have no experience with angry birds,could it be a bug?
i saw the same problem in other forums...without any specific answer!
do u know what caused my battery to drain from 60% to 15% in 9 hours? with Bluetooth off, wifi off,system complete standby! isn't it just too weird?
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I'm not sure of your issue, but what I'm sure of is that games drains battery pretty fast.
For my case, my Arc sometimes holds the battery pretty well, but sometimes it looses like hell. In any case, I never had more than 14 hours of my normal usage.
I did noticed some " zombie" games/apps will keep re-start even after you had exited and/or killed them, I had to kill them a number of times before they stop re-starting. This is where apps like task killer becomes usefull. I use advance task killer to automatically kill unwanted apps, just make sure you config it to ignore all the "system" and any apps you want to run in the the background. FYI My battery usually lasts more than 24 hr, but I charge it just before going to bed every night.
A few pointers.
1. Using anything which keeps the massive 4.2" display on will use a lot of battery. You could reduce the screen brightness as far as you can stand for gaming. That will help
2. Gaming uses the processor and the GPU and 3D processing a lot.. which also drains the battery fast.
3. The Battery stats show what has USED the battery so far.. it bares no relation to currently running processes.
4. Something else is causing your battery to drain whilst in standby mode - if you're not seeing it in battery stats then it's probably the 2G/3G data connection.. There's 2 things you could do about this.. A) Switch mobile data off when you go to bed B) Download something like Green Power Free or Juice Defender to manage your data connection more efficiently.
Hope this helps.
So Does anyone get good standby battery? Lately, not using it, it only lasts about 2-3 days. My wife's iPad at the same point in time has about 80% charge left if it isn't used.
Thinking about switching back to Apple on the tablets for just this reason.
DId you see what causes such huge draining
Hi, did you check what is causing this huge draining? My tablet is fine, taking just 2-3% overnight.
My P600 drops 5-10% over a 24 hour period, but only drops 2-3% if airplane mode is on.
Probably you installed an app that causing wake lock. There are a lot of theads about wake lock, but for you to know is some background process that don't allow your device to enter in deep sleep. Unfortunaly, android is like that, if you install a bad app you going to have issues.
Yeah maybe, but with KitKat and no root, ferreting out problems is much harder. Seemed to be mostly fine before the last two updates I got.
Thats crazy ... Android OS should not be anywhere near that high a percentage. Have you tried reatrting your tablet a few times if not I'd say factory reset and see what happens. I must say this Tablet has had A LOT of people complaining about battery issues - seems like a product fault somewhere. Fortunatly mine is still gojng strong hopefully that doesnt change.
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Yeah, it restarts itself when I pick it up and the battery was completely drained. Yesterday I had 6minutes screen on time, and was dead within 2 days of unplugging it. Bought an iPad for Christmas. Can't decide what to do here. Android seems to always have battery issues with the solution being "Factory Reset it". Annoys the heck out of me.
So, after a data wipe. Minimally installed and syncing apps, the 2 day drain is gone, replaced by losing about 3-4% at night. Now decisions. The deal was I was suppose to sell my Android tab here, and buy an iPad due to battery frustration woes. Well, it was the deal with my wife. Now I am thinking of just keeping both of them. Wonder how long I can hide it. iPad still destroys the Note 10.1 2014 on battery life....but there are a few Android things I want, e.g. Stylus, Share menu, that I believe Apple or app developers on iPad will fix soon.
Oj oj people
I've got a bit of a problem with my G4, which is with me around a month and it is fun to use it.
The model is H815, I'm from Cro, Europe.
However..... I do have Greenify, LeanDroid, very little aps installed, only one game, screen brightness is at around 45% and when not in use Data and Wifi are turned off.....
So first week it was so so with battery life, after around week and a half it all went to be quite good, BUT, it the last 3-4 days the G4 has been acting... strange to say.
Usually even if I had Wifi turned on and even if I was connected to any of my nets, over night, let's say 8-9 hours, it went from 100% to 100% maybe 99 in few days but nothing serious, so it was pretty great stuff, also respond was great, in less than a second to say.
Now.... even with turned off Wifi over night, 8h, I lose like 4% of battery, which is kinda 4 times as much as before and I have no idea what's going on. I do have google play games, cuz of PVZ2, and I had to update both the game and that app to play it, but when I'm not using it, they are turned off, force close if I have to, as well as other few google thingys.
Next is, when I opened sms tab it took him like 3 sec to figure out what is happening, the screen was black with only bottom 4 buttons, (back, notification, main screen and multitasking). Happened 2 or so times
So as you can see, I didn't start to use any other new app or something heavy drain and I don't know what it is that's draining the battery faster. I don't use it heavily but it's rather weird as to what is going on.
Also before I forget, in the last few days, the G4 would heat up rather nice, and I don't mean when I'm playing the game with wifi on or shooting 1080p videos, it could be just few mins web browsing and it became rather hot. Didn't scrape of my fingers but it also wasn't "normally" warm so yea.
I don't let my battery to go below 35-30% and charge it to full plus leave it for around 30 mins longer as I've red somewhere that it helps prolongs the battery life in general.
So if any of you would know what is going on or would help me with it all (even reading my "essay") I would be most grateful
Cheers
Ok so you wrote such a log post to describe a "problems" that you have. And your first problem is you lost 4% overnight?
Second problem is your phone hiccuped for a moment when you open the SMS app? No way the G4 sputtered a bit
I don't really see what problem you're having
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Yeah, I stopped reading after I realized the issue was that the phone used 4% overnight..
I would try rebooting the phone to fix the battery issue.
The stock LG sms app is pretty bad imo. After I imported all my messages (few thousands), it felt like I had the phone for 2 years already as it hiccuped. You can try an alternative like Textra which hasn't hiccuped on me yet.
Asides from that, not much you can do without root if you dont want to do a factory reset. I say live with it. 4% isn't bad at all
Do remember that the phone displays 100% for longer than it should.
With the same drain on the battery, you might drop from 100% to 99%. But if you started at 95%, maybe you would see it drop to 91%, under the same conditions.
So if you did not start at 100% one night, that could contribute.
shook187 said:
Ok so you wrote such a log post to describe a "problems" that you have. And your first problem is you lost 4% overnight?
Second problem is your phone hiccuped for a moment when you open the SMS app? No way the G4 sputtered a bit
I don't really see what problem you're having
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Sfkn2 said:
Yeah, I stopped reading after I realized the issue was that the phone used 4% overnight..
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The problem is not that phone used 4% overnight, the problem IS that for no good reason phone started spending more battery life compared to before while I haven't done any major change....
SO
call me crazy
but that is considered normal?
amnu said:
The problem is not that phone used 4% overnight, the problem IS that for no good reason phone started spending more battery life compared to before while I haven't done any major change....
SO
call me crazy
but that is considered normal?
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Phone's do that.
Eagle1337 said:
Phone's do that.
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Then I'm curazy
thx men
Hi,
woke up today to no alarm and a dead OP3, after going to sleep with roughly half the battery. Try to turn it on, battery at 0. Have never had any issues like this before, and the CPU wake time seems highly suspect (played poke go for maybe 90 mins, fiddled with the phone for 30 mins after that, I can't account for the test).
The only thing I did different than most days is leaving it face down (not sure if I've ever left it face down since they added the pocket mode - maybe that kept waking the CPU for whatever reason?) and leaving Bluetooth on (my headphones were turned off, so no idea why that would drain it).
Have had the phone for around a month now and so far it's been a wonderful experience, and luckily I didn't need an alarm today... but still it's pretty worrying. Anyone had any similar experiences?
Screenshots of battery usage are attached, thanks.
Edit: just thought of another thing I did yesterday that I don't do on most days - SwiftKey was giving me weird typing lag so I force-closed all the apps and cleaned the app cache, which solved the problem. Never had that eat battery before though.
Service info: I'm on 3.2.2 OTA, was on wifi the whole night (wifi has not caused a drain problem on any of my phones ever before so I'm ruling that one out I guess).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884/page1
Enjoy
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