Firstly let me say I'm a long time lurker of XDA, I don't often post but rather keep quiet in the shadows. I've owned many handsets (Including the Inc. and TB, meaning I know bad battery life) and this has always been the site I go to for hacking and general information.
I don't expect definite, for-sure answers. I'm just seeking some advice on this, I absolutely love this phone and a Nexus on Verizon has always been my dream.
Secondly, I'm not posting here asking why my screen uses over 50% of the depletion on my charges, it is supposed to, I know that. I see many threads asking about that, which is why I waited to post not wanting to ask what has been already. But I am asking about my case specifically, and want input.
The main thing here is the amount of screen on time I am able to get.
I have had my GNex since Saturday afternoon, when I bought it the battery was dead and I fully charged it, the first day I used it mostly while plugged into AC, using 4G to install my apps. Since then (the last two days) I have tried depleting the charge almost entirely before charging, shying away from charging mid-depletion. I have tried using CDMA mostly (my area has just marginally good 4G), hoping I could stop some of the bleeding, but to no avail. I should also say I yesterday for the first time threw a custom ROM/Kernel on and that seemed to help marginally, though in truth I don't see that really changing the screen power consumption.
Please take a good look at both screenshots, as said I care nothing about the %.
(I am aware there is still 13% remaining on my charge, but even so this seems just crazy)
In the first screenshot at the bottom it's apparent this isn't a huge amount of screen on time.
I would kill to get 4 hours of screen on time with this thing, heck even in the area of 3, but it doesn't seem to be in the foreseeable future as it looks now. I can get out 2 at most to this point, and that is on almost entirely 3G/WiFi with light/moderate data usage.
I really need to ask. Do I just need patience to let this battery break in? I hear some say this can be a week-long thing, but shouldn't I see some increase by now?
If not, do I seek out a replacement battery or could this be an actual defect of the AMOLED drawing more than it should?
Thanks for your help!
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There were quite a lot of awake time during screen off if I look your stat.
Thats your problem.
Too much sync?
Mine can get up to 3 hours and 45 minutes screen on time, span into 2 days stand by, gsm version.
Good point, looking into playing with sync in settings and JD.
But while that accounts for the drop during the 10hr overnight period (20% of battery/83% of time), I still feel the draw during screen on (80% of battery/17% of time) is just insane, even given the AMOLED.
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Maybe its a rogue app running in the background making the battery drain real fast. Try wiping and running the phone normally without restoring your apps and see if that will improve. I'm having the same problem as you but with the GSM version. I'm looking through my apps though.
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Here's my result
xl DIGITAL lx said:
Maybe its a rogue app running in the background making the battery drain real fast. Try wiping and running the phone normally without restoring your apps and see if that will improve. I'm having the same problem as you but with the GSM version. I'm looking through my apps though.
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Here are some of the usual suspects:
- Facebook for Android app (uninstall it and replace it with Friendcaster and change the frequency of update t less often will do the trick)
- Accuweather widget or any other weather widgets
- Whatsapp
- Viber
- Latitude (google maps) - Login to Latitude and then ensure you select the option where it does not report your location and then sign out of Latitude.
Honestly, I have the GSM version and I've rarely gotten over 3 hours screen time. It's the screen. The battery life sucks, so you'll have to just ABC (always be charging), at the desk/sofa/car.
What I really want to ask is how you got the battery percentage inside the battery icon?!
This is also my exact problem. I can get great life if I don't touch the phone. Every time I use it for a few seconds, that's 2-3% gone. Browse the internet for 15 mins? Forget it, that's 10% gone at least.
I guess it's just the price to pay for such a gorgeous screen.
Black Mirror said:
Honestly, I have the GSM version and I've rarely gotten over 3 hours screen time. It's the screen. The battery life sucks, so you'll have to just ABC (always be charging), at the desk/sofa/car.
What I really want to ask is how you got the battery percentage inside the battery icon?!
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The custom ROM I'm running had it as the default icon: AXI0M 2.3.
9kracing said:
This is also my exact problem. I can get great life if I don't touch the phone. Every time I use it for a few seconds, that's 2-3% gone. Browse the internet for 15 mins? Forget it, that's 10% gone at least.
I guess it's just the price to pay for such a gorgeous screen.
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pcphobic said:
Here's my result
Here are some of the usual suspects:
- Facebook for Android app (uninstall it and replace it with Friendcaster and change the frequency of update t less often will do the trick)
- Accuweather widget or any other weather widgets
- Whatsapp
- Viber
- Latitude (google maps) - Login to Latitude and then ensure you select the option where it does not report your location and then sign out of Latitude.
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What is your total screen on time during those charges?
The only app in that list I really have to check is latitude. Doing so now.
I think op should stop playing wind up knight in his sleep. Case closed. Just kidding. But seriously, probably got something using up cpu cycles when using phone and not using it. If i dont play any games, i easily get 4 hours screen time, and got 5.25 over the weekend.
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I think op should stop playing wind up knight in his sleep. Case closed. Just kidding. But seriously, probably got something using up cpu cycles when using phone and not using it. If i dont play any games, i easily get 4 hours screen time, and got 5.25 over the weekend.
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When I flashed this ROM I purposely left games out when setting it back up, the only one is Drop7 which I purposely make sure gets killed when I'm done. All apps which sync I have either at minimal amounts or off entirely.
Are you in north america? Try ugkk7 radio maybe? I am in the usa and xxkk6 was ok, but since i flashed ugkk7 reception is excellent. Oh wait. Youre cdma version. I dont know if the same applies. I do know radios designated UGxx# are north american.
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you could install CPU SPY to see if your device is going in deepsleep, I had a problem that one app was using most of the time 350mhz and was using my battery very fast.
after that i found the app with battery monitor and disabled the app to see if the problem was solved, and that was the case, and i have now a battery life from more then a day instead of 5 hours.
I can get 3.5 hours of screen on time spread over ~36 hours or so on the GSM version.. if LTE is on I would assume around two hours of screen on time was normal for a Verizon version just because of how LTE is but it did look like your CPU was awake a lot as well so also it could be a rogue app, not necessarily a game.
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check here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1387243
joshnichols189 said:
I can get 3.5 hours of screen on time spread over ~36 hours or so on the GSM version.. if LTE is on I would assume around two hours of screen on time was normal for a Verizon version just because of how LTE is but it did look like your CPU was awake a lot as well so also it could be a rogue app, not necessarily a game.
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Will give that a try. Like mentioned though almost none of that time was 4G enabled. (Maybe 10mins of that first green section.) The slope is just as steep.
In truth this was a fairly data-light charge.
Could it be the rogue app would actually sap battery only when the screen is on? Even though there is wake time where there shouldn't, that isn't the main area of drain.
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So every time I read a battery thread and someone mentions how well a ROM is on battery the pictures posted always show that the user is barely using his phone. They show a picture of their phone that shows it being unplugged for over a day and everyone gets excited and thinks their phone will last over 24 hours on a particular ROM or setup. Then when they do not see the same results they can't figure out why.
The answer is, as long as your device has no apps or bugs keeping it wake, if you don't use it, it will last. My EVO 4G could last 24 hours if I didn't touch it. The thing is once you started to use it it wasn't long before it was over!
So I would like to see pictures of battery life from people that actually use their phone so we can see what Roms truly are the best and what battery tweaks really do work. I am not interested on what Rom sleeps the best. I use my phone and don't need it to sleep for 2 days. If you cannot get to a charger within a 24 hour period, you have something else going on that you might need to address, lol.
Please post what Rom you are running and anything that might be installed that would effect battery life for good or bad.
I am running my phone stock. It has never been rooted. Below you will see after 12h/44m unplugged my battery is down to 26% with 4.5 hours on screen time. I was on wi-fi the entire time and also have an Airave in my house so signal did not play an issue with this stat.
I keep my phone on auto brightness, GPS is always on (doesn't effect battery like people think, only uses it when it needs to) and have my weather, news, and Twitter apps syncing every 3 hours. I have no battery hacks or software running. I also use ADW Launcher EX as my launcher. I know some launchers are better then others with battery and it doesn't seem like ADW drains much at all.
I look forward to screenshots and setups from other people so we can truly see what setup, Roms, and tweaks work best for battery from people who truly use their phone.....
On a typical day I get about 12-14 hours from 100 to 0 battery charge.
I kinda agree with op. I ran stock for 2weeks and i got the same performance as him. It was superb
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my battery is garbage compared to you guys. i get about 8hrs on average with very light use. i still can't figure out why my awake time is through the roof. i have 2 gmail accounts set to push and 2 other email accounts set to pull once a day and fb & twitter set to sync every 4hrs. battery life is similar whether i'm at work with horrible in building reception or at home connected to wifi & an airave. i've learned to deal with plugging for a lil bit every so often throughout the day, but was expecting to get over 12hrs considering the way i use my phone. at first i thought i maybe received a bad phone, but it was the same after replacing the phone.
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stevedeezy said:
my battery is garbage compared to you guys. i get about 8hrs on average with very light use. i still can't figure out why my awake time is through the roof. i have 2 gmail accounts set to push and 2 other email accounts set to pull once a day and fb & twitter set to sync every 4hrs. battery life is similar whether i'm at work with horrible in building reception or at home connected to wifi & an airave. i've learned to deal with plugging for a lil bit every so often throughout the day, but was expecting to get over 12hrs considering the way i use my phone. at first i thought i maybe received a bad phone, but it was the same after replacing the phone.
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It looks like your phone barely sleeps. It's awake most if the time. Seems like you need a replacement phone or try a different kernel.
cdszoke said:
It looks like your phone barely sleeps. It's awake most if the time. Seems like you need a replacement phone or try a different kernel.
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Agreed, your awake time should match your on screen time or at last be close to it. Something is killing your battery. Check out better battery stats which you can download from xda to find your wakelock.
stevedeezy said:
my battery is garbage compared to you guys. i get about 8hrs on average with very light use. i still can't figure out why my awake time is through the roof. i have 2 gmail accounts set to push and 2 other email accounts set to pull once a day and fb & twitter set to sync every 4hrs. battery life is similar whether i'm at work with horrible in building reception or at home connected to wifi & an airave. i've learned to deal with plugging for a lil bit every so often throughout the day, but was expecting to get over 12hrs considering the way i use my phone. at first i thought i maybe received a bad phone, but it was the same after replacing the phone.
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Great app to figure out whats going on & fix it,
Free lite version,
https://market.android.com/details?...1bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwibmV4dGFwcC5zeXN0ZW1wYW5lbCJd
I recommend going with pay version though
https://market.android.com/details?...sMSwxLDUwMCwibmV4dGFwcC5zeXN0ZW1wYW5lbC5yMSJd
sling said:
Great app to figure out whats going on & fix it,
Free lite version,
https://market.android.com/details?...1bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwibmV4dGFwcC5zeXN0ZW1wYW5lbCJd
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i just installed the lite version but have no idea how to read the stats yet. hopefully i can figure it out and find whats draining my battery.
stevedeezy said:
i just installed the lite version but have no idea how to read the stats yet. hopefully i can figure it out and find whats draining my battery.
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The paid version has a monitoring feature you would need which is not included in the free version. I do not believe you can find the problem with the free version. Check out the app I recommended above, betterbatterystats.
stevedeezy said:
my battery is garbage compared to you guys. i get about 8hrs on average with very light use. i still can't figure out why my awake time is through the roof. i have 2 gmail accounts set to push and 2 other email accounts set to pull once a day and fb & twitter set to sync every 4hrs. battery life is similar whether i'm at work with horrible in building reception or at home connected to wifi & an airave. i've learned to deal with plugging for a lil bit every so often throughout the day, but was expecting to get over 12hrs considering the way i use my phone. at first i thought i maybe received a bad phone, but it was the same after replacing the phone.
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So you are not constantly checking your phone?
leyvatron said:
So you are not constantly checking your phone?
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no, not at all. i guess i really need to figure out what is causing my awake time & wifi statistic to not be on par with my screen on statistic. i've had my phone for just over 3 weeks now and learned to sort of deal with it, but after reading a few more threads about it, i'm concerned again.
This is what i currently have syncing:
2 gmail accounts - set to push
2 pop3 accounts - set to pull once a day
1 google calendar account - auto sync unchecked
facebook - 4hr refresh interval w/ notifications active
twitter - 4hr sync interval
and all native google apps that may sync in the background
This is what I got:
Here's mine. I didn't use my phone as much today as I usually do. But screen was at max brightness when I was using it and WiFi was only connected while I was at home. It was on but off except when searching for open signal otherwise. I'm using calkulins new Rom and haven't changed anything except that I'm running a live wallpaper and have all the sns crap and drm crap frozen
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to the OP, the 12hrs with 4.5 hours of display on time is great
i can get 12hrs, but probably with 2-3 hours max of screen time
got 9 hours today with calcukin
Running stock. I have a heavy use screenshot with 4g on and everything syncing along with loads of calls,texts, and games. Also a screenshot of light use for comparison.
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Running stock. I have a heavy use screenshot with 4g on and everything syncing along with loads of calls,texts, and games. Also a screenshot of light use for comparison.
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looks like your wifi was on instead of 4G?
4g radio is biggest hog, cant believe you have 4g on all the time and got 12 hours out of it
and it shows 3% accounts for calls,unless for "load of" you mean texts and games
You guys are also forgetting about screen brightness and also signal. If you are in a low signal area you will get less life.
I just had to plug mine in at 3%. I lasted about 14hrs on what I consider moderate use.
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at 13.5 hours and 3.5 hours of screen on time still at 25% batt on 3g the whole time.
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Was at school using 3g with heavy Web surfing for two hours.phone went to 50 percent with low brightness lol. My phone can last from 6 hours to 24 hours depending on usage.
If I don't touch my phone often with everything of and 3g on once abbrev a while it can last around a day
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Running stock. I have a heavy use screenshot with 4g on and everything syncing along with loads of calls,texts, and games. Also a screenshot of light use for comparison.
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I call bull****!
One has 20hrs with around 50% bat left and the other has 11hrs with around 90% bat left.
Evo 4G bad.
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I haven't ever had FANTASTIC battery life like I'm seeing from some folks around here... when I first started on Starburst (I didn't keep stock for more than about four hours), I was at around 70% at the same time. I'm currently on Calkulin's 2.0.0; about to revert to Starburst and see if it's ROM-related, now that I've given Calkulin's about a week with a calibration to no effect.
I'm currently undervolted by -75 on all steps, and this seems to have made it WORSE if anything, which I didn't think was possible for undervolting to do. I've been monitoring things fairly closely with Watchdog, and nothing jumps out at me. The phone signal in the pic doesn't look good, but I've been in all the same places as I was when I was getting much better life.
What interests me is that I'm seeing absolutely no usage-based change in battery life. Until that sudden dip you see up there, it was going down at the exact same rate whether I was using it or it was sitting on my desk doing absolutely nothing.
That dip started after I played Fieldrunners HD for about ten minutes during a break at work. After I stopped playing, battery life went into a continuous plummet.
I use Tasker (extensively) to keep things in check; generally speaking, nothing is active unless it needs to be, except for Wi-Fi which is always active as it's my primary method of detecting my locations.
Am I missing something simple-stupid here? If not, anyone got any ideas, assuming going back to Starburst doesn't magically fix it?
Not sure if this will help, but improved my battery.
(1) go to your email setting for each account and change sync update, I believe by default it's set up to check every 15 minutes. With 10 email accounts, it took a toll on my my battery. I changed all my accounts to 4 hours.
(2) best way to kill a task is by holding down home button, going to task manager and kill from there. Market task killers were making things worse for me.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the thoughts! Sadly, neither of those really apply in my case. I stick with with the default Gmail app, which is all push, and I don't use task killers at all.
I'm running the stock rom with a custom kernel. I did notice that as soon as I went from stock to a different kernel I started to lose battery life. Maybe its something Samsung did? I am still a novice with Roms and what not, but nothing like this happened on my original Epic or my Hero. Maybe the yellow triangle isn't the only thing Samsung put in there.
Maybe the aggressive undervolt is causing your phone to ramp up to a higher state to perform the tasks? That drop is steep with how little screen on time you have
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Maybe the aggressive undervolt is causing your phone to ramp up to a higher state to perform the tasks? That drop is steep with how little screen on time you have
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For as little as I know, that certainly sounds logical. I still wasn't getting as good as I would've expected even the UV, though.
I just flashed the EK02 modem with today's wonderful developments; I'm going to wait and see if that gets me better reception and thus better life. If not... now I'm not sure whether to try the new ROM first, or scale back the UVs. I want to try one thing at a time, since it's not urgent that I have good battery life ASAP. This gets me through my day, currently, more or less; I'd like to try and find my root cause so that I'm not just trying things wildly in the future.
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For as little as I know, that certainly sounds logical. I still wasn't getting as good as I would've expected even the UV, though.
I just flashed the EK02 modem with today's wonderful developments; I'm going to wait and see if that gets me better reception and thus better life. If not... now I'm not sure whether to try the new ROM first, or scale back the UVs. I want to try one thing at a time, since it's not urgent that I have good battery life ASAP. This gets me through my day, currently, more or less; I'd like to try and find my root cause so that I'm not just trying things wildly in the future.
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Well, the good thing is that as of today, its possible to return back to bone stock and start again so you can mess with a few setups and see what works best for you. I have found that this is the first phone that uses the frequencies well. I haven't undervolted at all yet and I have had great battery life. I did the standard delete Sprint bloat, Social Hub and associated apps, Maps, etc. Also, get BetterBatteryStats. It may give you some insight into what's happening.
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How you return to bone stock? By applying the update?
Odin this
Przekret posted what appears to be a full EG30 RAR archive
Przekret - EG30 full - [post] [direct dl]
- RAR Pass: sampro.pl
- extract HOME.tar from rar file and flash in ODIN using PDA button
- does NOT include data.img so your userdata is preserved
- qbking77 installation video
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1381494
Then update to EK02
Got very slightly better today after flashing the EK02 kernel. 23% at the same time instead of 18%... anything could account for that 5%, though, so I don't really think EK02 had any effect on this. Zedomax kernel with stock voltages is next.
CPU boots pro
(From the market & assuming your rooted)
Settings
~Screen off profile max800 min200
~GPU to Conservative max1000 min800
~Nitrous Widget GPU to on demand max1400 min1000
What this should do is downclock your device when on standby by alot. Second for phone calls and daily stuff a clock of 1k will be silky smooth and be a small downclock. Third when you set up the nitrous widget and activate it you will overclock to 1.4k which is stoopid fast my quad score is at 1.4k I get 4500 scores at 1.6k oc but forget batt when I'm using the nitrous. I like too personally keep my phone at a clock of 800 for daily phone calls and web surfing... if I play a graphic intense game ill oc it with nitrous and not worry about burning up my phone because if I set the phone down it downclocks as soon as it stands by and will pick right back up when I'm ready.
Hope it helps here's pics.
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Batt life on my day off doing nothing but trolling forums at 800 clock.... I was on my phone like six hours straight while waiting for jury duty selection to be done.
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Wolf we need to see your app and process details page. I bet your Android OS and cell standby are much higher than they should be.
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Wolf we need to see your app and process details page. I bet your Android OS and cell standby are much higher than they should be.
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If you're talking about the page I think you are, it'll have to wait until at least morning. I just did a full charge.
To wit... I spent 43 minutes on a phone call, and lost almost the same as what I normally lose in that same time period. 6% for a 43 minute call; I'm averaging 5%/hr loss doing NOTHING.
@Dchibro, assuming that's true, what would it mean for me? Does it give me a solution?
So, doing a bit of my own detective work... I've had Watchdog installed for about three days, with aggressive monitoring. I was almost immediately getting a bunch of alerts for two processes:
I initially whitelisted them through Watchdog, dismissing them as system processes that unavoidably needed to run. However, the comment from Dchibro got me thinking and sent me back to those, and I started Googling around. Here's what I've turned up so far:
http://goo.gl/Hsvej (HUGE thread on the issue in SGS2 forums. Haven't had a chance to go through all this yet.)
http://goo.gl/kUcqx (SGS2 forums.)
http://goo.gl/mlWW4 (Nook Color forums.)
http://goo.gl/mNiId (My Google search results.)
Gonna try some of the suggestions on here and see what I turn up. For now, I'm returning to stock voltages, implementing a bunch of those changes and keeping everything else as it is now to see where I end up. Phone will be charged to 100% before bed tonight, and I'll post sometime tomorrow with my findings.
Wish me luck!
So, in stead of waking up to 50% this morning, I woke up to 86%! Which is the same I went to bed at. Six hours of sleep, not a single percent lost. If nothing else, I learned from all this that I can reboot the phone when this bug hits me and and get away from it.
As I suspected. Your Watchdog shot clearly shows that you are/were (sounds like a reboot solved your issue at least temporarily) suffering from the Android OS bug. This bug presents itself most prominently in the suspend and events/0 processes. Unfortunately, a conclusive solution has not been found, but there are some things you can do to hunt the problem down.
This is the best post/thread I've found regarding the AOS bug on Galaxy SII phones ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290020
Im one week into my new sgs2 running full stock. What should normal battery use be? I feel my battery drains too fast. Here is my usage summary since full charge couple hours ago.
I charged too 100%, shutdown, then charged to 100%, powered up and used the phone very sparingly since. Battery is at 91%
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Dchibro said:
As I suspected. Your Watchdog shot clearly shows that you are/were (sounds like a reboot solved your issue at least temporarily) suffering from the Android OS bug. This bug presents itself most prominently in the suspend and events/0 processes. Unfortunately, a conclusive solution has not been found, but there are some things you can do to hunt the problem down.
This is the best post/thread I've found regarding the AOS bug on Galaxy SII phones ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290020
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That bug gave me nightmares on my OG Epic.
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Definitely seeing a bit of an improvement, here.
Watchdog alerted me to the suspend and event/0 stuff again about an hour ago, but I quickly rebooted and nothing seems to have come of it. I'm going to try to make a Tasker profile to do this automatically, kinda like Viper's LoS script.
All in all, I'm considering this a mostly satisfactory alternative to draining 80% of my battery with almost no use in eight hours.
Hi,
I just got my Galaxy Nexus, flashed with AOKP build 18 and i gotta say that the battery life is unacceptable. It drops 10% in less then 1h while the phone is sitting there doing nothing. Wifi, bluetooth, location services, GPS are off. All background apps closed.
It lasts about half the time my iPhone 4 does and it is a year and half old.
I see some people showing examples of how their battery last for more then 20h but all these are BS tests as they leave the phone on standby all day or have some very light usage.
Is there a real fix for this? Am i forced to drop another 50$ and buy Samsung's 2100mh extended battery?
btw i tried setCPU also to lower CPU to minimum when in standby but doesnt do much. I want a solution that will enable me to use my phone, not something that makes it last 40h in standby and then kills it in 2h when i use it.
please help!
So everyone that posts four hours of screen on time is bullshitting? Did you know the first 10% isn't even that accurate? If you're on Verizon turn off LTE. If you're on GSM and you don't get three hours of screen on time you have an app that is killing your battery. It is as simple as that.
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Try toggling Bluetooth on and then off, then grab CpuSpy from the market and check out if the CPU is pegged at a certain speed.
Some builds of ALL the custom ROMs have had issues where the phone wont sleep correctly, high %-age of Android System process, etc.
I disagree that its silly to talk about idle time on battery, because idle time is the closest we can all get to apples to apples comparison. We all USE our phones differently, the closest we come to using them the same is when they are just sitting there idle (not quite exact because some people sync data, some people only have 3G, etc, but a lot closer than person A playing games for 3 hours at a clip vs person B browsing for 3 hours)
I *still* havent seen anyone come up with a template like setup to report battery life. Like you said it does me no good to know someone dropped 3% "overnight" without knowing how long "overnight" is, if they had 3g/4g/Wifi enabled or even disabled completely, sync on/off, etc.
Personally, Ive seen 1.5%/hr drop with my phone idle. Running AOKP b19, LeanKernel, interactivex governor, undervolted (-75 mA at each level from 180 mhz to 1200 mhz), 4G on, BT on, GPS on, sync on (1 gmail account).
I imagine with all that stuff running 1.5%/hr isnt half bad. Screen on time isnt incredible but its not bad, but again my screen on activities can (and probably will) be different than your screen on activities so take that with several grains of salt.
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So everyone that posts four hours of screen on time is bullshitting? Did you know the first 10% isn't even that accurate? If you're on Verizon turn off LTE. If you're on GSM and you don't get three hours of screen on time you have an app that is killing your battery. It is as simple as that.
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It's not the first 10%, it's all the time.. it drops for about 10% or more every hour. Less then 3h of screen time.
I'll give cpuspy a try and see if some app is killing my battery.
I used AOKP rom because most of the people in the thread were saying that rom fixed their battery issue but for me it made no difference.
angeluszero said:
It's not the first 10%, it's all the time.. it drops for about 10% or more every hour. Less then 3h of screen time.
I'll give cpuspy a try and see if some app is killing my battery.
I used AOKP rom because most of the people in the thread were saying that rom fixed their battery issue but for me it made no difference.
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Yea somethings not right. Off charge at 8am and its 4:30pm now. Got 61% left at time of this writing and been using it quite alot. Typically have about 75% left about this time.
I just use an AOKP like yourself and a custom kernel. I'm on the phone like every 15min reading emails, SMS, word feud, twitter news, Facebook, Gmail.
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It's actually 2000 mAh not 2100 mAh.
You can use a custom kernel such as Franco Kernel. New version came out today and includes more battery improvements (according to changelog!)
My phone essentially sits idle unless my screen is on...
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My phone essentially sits idle unless my screen is on...
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Just a word of advice. Whites consume more power on AMOLED screens. You'd probably maximize your battery a lot more if you went back to a "Ice Cream Sandwich" feel or at least apply a black themed MIUI.
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It's not the first 10%, it's all the time.. it drops for about 10% or more every hour. Less then 3h of screen time.
I'll give cpuspy a try and see if some app is killing my battery.
I used AOKP rom because most of the people in the thread were saying that rom fixed their battery issue but for me it made no difference.
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I had something similar and it was recommended to me on these forums that I log out of Gtalk.
Before people come out and say it makes no sense - it doesn't really matter if it does or not - it worked for me. I get a full day out of a charge now, which doesn't really matter because as someone said above it's all relative. What DOES matter is that my phone is now sleeping properly, so the battery doesn't drain when the phone is idle. That's the part that wasn't working on my phone.
If you feel so inclined, give this a try and see if it works for you. Just log out of all Google talk accounts and see how your battery life is - you'll know within a day if it's helping.
Have you flashed the new radios yet?
You can also try different kernels and see which one works best for you.
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Just a word of advice. Whites consume more power on AMOLED screens. You'd probably maximize your battery a lot more if you went back to a "Ice Cream Sandwich" feel or at least apply a black themed MIUI.
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Yeah I just installed this today, giving it a trial run. It's OK so far.. I think just growing pains so far. Also, I don't think themes work just yet.. At least last I saw.
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Yeah I just installed this today, giving it a trial run. It's OK so far.. I think just growing pains so far. Also, I don't think themes work just yet.. At least last I saw.
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Ah okay.
I think MIUI is pretty much at the same state as CM9. Just lots of work needing to be done since ICS revamped Android in so many ways.
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It's actually 2000 mAh not 2100 mAh.
You can use a custom kernel such as Franco Kernel. New version came out today and includes more battery improvements (according to changelog!)
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not quite.
can i preface by saying that there are two types of Gnexus's out there? the SCH-i515 (CDMA/LTE Verizon) and the GT-i9250 (HSPA+, AT&T).
The 2000mAh is for the HSPA+ version
The 2100mAh is for the LTE version.
i see a LOT of bad advice on these forums here.
my best advice to you (from one Verizon Nexus owner to another), is to keep at stock 4.0.2. Root it, and apply a custom kernel. Only apply custom kernel if you feel that you're still not getting decent battery life for a whole day on 4G stock ROM/kernel.
As far as I know, Verizon Nexus owners' max on-screen time with 4G enabled all day is about 3 hours MAX, and thats if you disable everything else but LTE, with very low brightness settings, and on extended battery.
imo, the next 4.0.3 or 4.0.4 update hopefully will mitigate some battery consumption issues.
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As far as I know, Verizon Nexus owners' max on-screen time with 4G enabled all day is about 3 hours MAX, and thats if you disable everything else but LTE, with very low brightness settings, and on extended battery.
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Are you talking about 3 hours MAX browsing or just being POWERED ON?
If you are talking about just being on for 3 hours, you are GROSSLY incorrect.
angeluszero said:
Hi,
I just got my Galaxy Nexus, flashed with AOKP build 18 and i gotta say that the battery life is unacceptable. It drops 10% in less then 1h while the phone is sitting there doing nothing. Wifi, bluetooth, location services, GPS are off. All background apps closed.
It lasts about half the time my iPhone 4 does and it is a year and half old.
I see some people showing examples of how their battery last for more then 20h but all these are BS tests as they leave the phone on standby all day or have some very light usage.
Is there a real fix for this? Am i forced to drop another 50$ and buy Samsung's 2100mh extended battery?
btw i tried setCPU also to lower CPU to minimum when in standby but doesnt do much. I want a solution that will enable me to use my phone, not something that makes it last 40h in standby and then kills it in 2h when i use it.
please help!
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See my screen on time?
4 hours screen on time including 21 minutes using gps for Sygic Navigation is not bull****. Stand by for up to 61 hours, easy.
And I was using the phone extensively for web browsing, facebook, gplus, xda, games, etc.
All with stock rom and stock kernel, extended battery 2000mAh, gsm.
No BS
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gogol said:
See my screen on time?
4 hours screen on time including 21 minutes using gps for Sygic Navigation is not bull****. Stand by for up to 61 hours, easy.
And I was using the phone extensively for web browsing, facebook, gplus, xda, games, etc.
All with stock rom and stock kernel, extended battery 2000mAh, gsm.
No BS
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You were on wifi the entire day.
You are using the HSPA+ version of the Nexus. HSPA+ version gets better battery life.
Try being on HSPA+ the entire day with wifi disabled. you will not be getting 4 hours of battery life on-screen time.
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Are you talking about 3 hours MAX browsing or just being POWERED ON?
If you are talking about just being on for 3 hours, you are GROSSLY incorrect.
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Please reread what i wrote. MAX ON-SCREEN TIME.
it is not possible to go 4 hours of on-screen time with LTE enabled all day.
aohus said:
You were on wifi the entire day.
You are using the HSPA+ version of the Nexus. HSPA+ version gets better battery life.
Try being on HSPA+ the entire day with wifi disabled. you will not be getting 4 hours of battery life on-screen time.
Please reread what i wrote. MAX ON-SCREEN TIME.
it is not possible to go 4 hours of on-screen time with LTE enabled all day.
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Most of the time I was on wifi, but not all.
But fair enough, I will test on 100% without WiFi. However, we don't have HSDPA+ unfortunately. Only HSDPA or 3G.
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You were on wifi the entire day.
You are using the HSPA+ version of the Nexus. HSPA+ version gets better battery life.
Try being on HSPA+ the entire day with wifi disabled. you will not be getting 4 hours of battery life on-screen time.
Please reread what i wrote. MAX ON-SCREEN TIME.
it is not possible to go 4 hours of on-screen time with LTE enabled all day.
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I went 13 hours yesterday with LTE on all day and had almost 4 hours of screen on time. I'm running stock ICS unrooted and all of my sync stuff is enabled. I'm also using the extended battery.
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johnbibbs said:
I went 13 hours yesterday with LTE on all day and had almost 4 hours of screen on time. I'm running stock ICS unrooted and all of my sync stuff is enabled. I'm also using the extended battery.
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would like proof. afaik, its impossible to get 4 hours of battery life with LTE enabled all day.
sounds dumb, but are you sure you have Verizon's GNexus? Your profile shows an AT&T carrier... otherwise you should probably update it.
player911 said:
Yea somethings not right. Off charge at 8am and its 4:30pm now. Got 61% left at time of this writing and been using it quite alot. Typically have about 75% left about this time.
I just use an AOKP like yourself and a custom kernel. I'm on the phone like every 15min reading emails, SMS, word feud, twitter news, Facebook, Gmail.
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I think the Kernel is what makes the difference. It seems to be the only difference i see between myself and the people like you have a reasonable battery life.
which one do you recommend? And i'm a noob at this so could you point me to a thread the explains how to flash it? If u cant its ok im sure i can figure it out.
After long being one of those people who would never post a thread with bias questions or answers.
It's come to this.
I long for the battery I had from ICS, I never got less than 4 hours screen on and 16 hours standby together.
The best I got was right at 5 hours screen on with 18 hours standby.
All with wifi/3G only, very little to none 4G, it's fine with me.
AOKP M6.
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Every single ROM/Kernel combination since I've moved to JB has provided me with just......crap......
AOKP, AOKP kangs, CM, Liquid, CNA, and Eclipse along in different combinations with
Faux, Lean, stock, 007, TinyKernel, and Trinity kernels.
It does not matter what combination I use.
I can barely get over 3 hours-ish screen on time with about 12-18 hours standby.
Now if I use the screen less than 2 hours, I can get up to two days standby, which is nice but not the overall complete usefulness I had.
I know battery has long been an issue for many of us, but I see people in threads talking about their 2 hours of screen on time like it's amazing when it's awful, especially when some of us, could, and used to get close to 5 with stock batteries or 2100 extended (mine)
If you're using LTE all the time, only 2 hours screen on is justified because it should be common knowledge what happens.
Point of the thread is this, I want to know, those on JB with stock or 2100mAh battery and can manage 4+ hours screen on and still close to a day of screen on, what's your secret? Every detail, spill them.
Is it our fault or are we just in a down time of battery efficiency in the ROMs and kernels?
There is no secret, jb is crap when compared to battery usage on ics
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I believe project butter is to blame. But that's just me
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Why not just post here, then we can all possibly benefit
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Couldn't figure out why my battery life was so poor the for the last month or so. Good to see I'm not the only one with the problem.
AOKP ICS with Franco kernel gave me amazing battery life. Jelly Bean not so much.
I personally believe that anyone getting more screen time than you (this goes for anyone) is:
a) Using their phone in an environment that is less bright than you (indoors, on the bus, in the subway)
b) and / or not syncing as many things as you / not as often as you.
Reverse the above for people getting less screen time than you.
This is the truth of the matter.
Personally, I get 2 to 3 hours to 3.5 hours of screen time on JB, depending on usage.
4 hours if I read in bed at night.
Edit: Kernel / ROM be damned, maybe it'll make 10 to 15 minutes worth of difference. NOBODY has presented scientific proof of any ROM/kernel being different from any other. It's always "oh yaa best battery life ever with this rom". It's just noise and cherry-picked screenshots.
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Why not just post here, then we can all possibly benefit
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I will then. I may not get to it for a day or two though as I'm busy and will need time to write up as detailed as I can my usage, settings, etc.
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I usually get at least 1 day worth of charge. My set up is pretty easy tho. Since I am in front of a computer 75% of the time , gmail sync is turned off, twitter is @ 4 hours, Facebook set to never with location turned off. Phone gps and location are also turned off unless I M walking towards the bus stop. I don't need to be checking my phone every 5 minutes so my useage is pretty stable and predictable. I wonder what you guys are doing to make the battery die so quick? If your usage patterns are pretty high with checking email 100s of texts and lots of twitter and Facebook well yeah I'll die quick.
Also I seem to get the same results with custom kernels and stock. I have little experience with CPU controls and and such so maybe setting a lower frequency will help?
My .2 ponies.
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Battery can be related to many causes leading to user error. I never used ICS on this phone so I honestly have no idea how great the battery was.
Google now, project butter and many other optimizations are to blame yes.
Depends how much you use it and what is going and the vary of networks going on and off and switching. I can normally pull off 3-4 hours of near heavy use. My droid incredible could only get at least 1 hour max. So maybe it is me but the nexus is a godsend for me.
Leaving the governor at interactive with low max and undervolting will help battery and a specific kernel. I can normally roll with 0-10% brightness and have all networks running and syncing.
I'm tired and ready to cook my tacos I'll be back later with more input.
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STOP overclocking your phone (even to 1350), under clocking exists you know.
STOP using interactive governors.
STOP using your phone so much.
STOP complaining about it.
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Try this...
I have an old Android phone that my boy plays with...so I turn the cell radio off & have it on the wifi signal only. Even with him having the screen on for hours & hours (usually playing games), the phone will stay on battery for almost 4 days!
Turn your cell radio to airplane mode & then turn on wifi only...mess around with it, play games & see what the difference is. When I have a Sprint signal (usually junk 2g one) at home I get poor battery life...when I hack the PRL to choose a 3g (better) signal I get twice the battery life...
I've seen other battery life threads where the signal is a MAJOR factor & even with a strong 2g signal the 3g is probably better at not wasting battery. (4g is a whole other story)
I've found 4 things that almost double my battery life
1) Google Maps: huge battery drainer. freezing it doesn't help either, it has to be uninstalled. Mapquest from the play store is a decent battery friendly alternative. or if you really need gmaps, copy the .apk file and install it when needed, then uninstall afterward.
2) Push Email apps: i.e. Yahoo mail app, Gmail app... use the built-in email app and set the refresh limit to every hour.
3) 3G/2G: when your not using data, put it to 2g networks only. huge battery savings especially if you're somewhere with a weak 3/4g signal.
4) NFC/WIFI/GPS : turn them off if your not using them (obviously)
your results may vary, but doing these things did wonders for my battery. I average 23-26 hours with 2.5-3.5 hrs screen on time. before that I was getting 14-16 hrs with about 1.5-2 hrs screen on
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lowrider262 said:
3) 3G/2G: when your not using data, put it to 2g networks only. huge battery savings especially if you're somewhere with a weak 3/4g signal.
4) NFC/WIFI/GPS : turn them off if your not using them (obviously)
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Well, Switching 2g/3g is pretty battery draining, too. So better be sure you don't use 3g networks for a while. constantly switching just to be a minute or two at 2g just drains more
Turning of WiFi is pretty obvious but NFC and GPS shouldn't take any battery juice if they arn't in use... Someone tested it and could proove, that gps only uses battery power if it's searching for a connection.
As you can see, you basically need t neuter your device and constantly worry in order to get 'great' battery life, lol.
skadebo said:
As you can see, you basically need t neuter your device and constantly worry in order to get 'great' battery life, lol.
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yeah that's the downside to the smartphones.
skadebo said:
As you can see, you basically need t neuter your device and constantly worry in order to get 'great' battery life, lol.
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Yup. Use it, roll with a charger and forget about it
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Its a small battery, they should up the battery sizes. They can fit the samsung galaxy note 2's battery in the samsung galaxy nexus if they wanted too.. /the end.
mike.b93 said:
Well, Switching 2g/3g is pretty battery draining, too. So better be sure you don't use 3g networks for a while. constantly switching just to be a minute or two at 2g just drains more
Turning of WiFi is pretty obvious but NFC and GPS shouldn't take any battery juice if they arn't in use... Someone tested it and could proove, that gps only uses battery power if it's searching for a connection.
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yea I only switch to 2g when I know its just gonna be sitting in my pocket for a while, like when I'm at work. in that situation it definaetly helps. but your right switching constantly is bad too. :thumbup: as for NFC and GPS, it just seems to help for me, maybe its just placebo. like I said results may vary
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I thought leave it on interactive since jb was tweaked around that
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I've had the Galaxy Nexus LTE for nearly 11 months on Verizon. I've done what I can to stem battery drain. At some point, I just gave up diagnosing the problem and started carrying 5-6 spare batteries with me. Some people claim one day's use; others report the same problems. I think it all depends on how we use our phones--eg do you take a lot of pictures--and what apps we have installed. I use the phone hard but not that hard. Sometimes the phone will burn the battery just being in the pocket.
I don't want this to be another Galaxy Nexus battery life sucks thread. What I want to know is whether the battery drain problem will be solved before we consider moving onto phones running 4.2.
Some of the drain is due to the terrible LTE radio. Phones with integrated chips have much less hardware drain.
But about the software drain? When I run GSam Battery Monitor, the number culprits seem to be Media Scanner (Server?), acore processes--contacts, user dictionary.
I've dialed down or turned off syncs as far as I reasonably can; are rogue apps causing problems or is the OS too easy to trip up?
If you search http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list for "media battery," you see a lot of bug reports about the problem.
The Google Android team doesn't seem to care about these problems.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11731#c5
"I'm only posting this here for my own amusement. My track record with Android bug reports is that Google ignores them for 2 years and then closes them without taking any corrective action. Good luck everyone."
Here's a typical bug report from mid-2011, that is still labeled new and unassigned:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18115
4.1.2 has the os drain:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38720
Going into 4.2, how do we track these issues and see if they are getting fixed? I'm not a dev... The only way we can see the 4.2 source and commits is to clone the repo using git? Is there a friendly web interact through which we can see the changes?
Do we wait until 4.2 is released and see what defects are reported on the issue tracker?
Please don't let this be a typical battery life sucks thread, where people will
1) complain that they also have bad battery life
2) complaint that they have great battery life and don't see these problems
3) suggest debugging these problems with CPU SPY, BetterBatteryStats, etc
4) suggest fixing these problems with .nomedia
I want to know how we as users can track what Google is doing or has done to fix these problems in 4.2, so we, as Android devotees, can have faith in migrating to those devices.
dynamicpda said:
I've had the Galaxy Nexus LTE for nearly 11 months on Verizon. I've done what I can to stem battery drain. At some point, I just gave up diagnosing the problem and started carrying 5-6 spare batteries with me. Some people claim one day's use; others report the same problems. I think it all depends on how we use our phones--eg do you take a lot of pictures--and what apps we have installed. I use the phone hard but not that hard. Sometimes the phone will burn the battery just being in the pocket.
I don't want this to be another Galaxy Nexus battery life sucks thread. What I want to know is whether the battery drain problem will be solved before we consider moving onto phones running 4.2.
Some of the drain is due to the terrible LTE radio. Phones with integrated chips have much less hardware drain.
But about the software drain? When I run GSam Battery Monitor, the number culprits seem to be Media Scanner (Server?), acore processes--contacts, user dictionary.
I've dialed down or turned off syncs as far as I reasonably can; are rogue apps causing problems or is the OS too easy to trip up?
If you search http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list for "media battery," you see a lot of bug reports about the problem.
The Google Android team doesn't seem to care about these problems.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11731#c5
"I'm only posting this here for my own amusement. My track record with Android bug reports is that Google ignores them for 2 years and then closes them without taking any corrective action. Good luck everyone."
Here's a typical bug report from mid-2011, that is still labeled new and unassigned:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18115
4.1.2 has the os drain:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38720
Going into 4.2, how do we track these issues and see if they are getting fixed? I'm not a dev... The only way we can see the 4.2 source and commits is to clone the repo using git? Is there a friendly web interact through which we can see the changes?
Do we wait until 4.2 is released and see what defects are reported on the issue tracker?
Please don't let this be a typical battery life sucks thread, where people will
1) complain that they also have bad battery life
2) complaint that they have great battery life and don't see these problems
3) suggest debugging these problems with CPU SPY, BetterBatteryStats, etc
4) suggest fixing these problems with .nomedia
I want to know how we as users can track what Google is doing or has done to fix these problems in 4.2, so we, as Android devotees, can have faith in migrating to those devices.
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Any Tom, ****, or Harry can post issues. Most of the time they don't have the technical knowledge to even know what a bug is. Don't confuse Google not caring vs. Google not willing to accept a ticket caused by something out of their control.
As for your case, you have a Verizon Nexus. They ALL suck on battery compared to other devices.
You say you don't want this to devolve into a typical battery thread but it will.
dynamicpda said:
***blah blah battery vampires***
I've had the Galaxy Nexus LTE for nearly 11 months on Verizon.
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no lte in the nexus 4, sounds like they chased off the battery sucker to me.
I'd you're using your phone as a laptop, it's time to buy a laptop. Otherwise, the turn if syncing for things you use once a day. Actively using data (especially over LTE) with a large screen burns battery on any device. If you are burning battery in your pocket, you either need to sync less or identify the rogue app that is doing the work. And Google does use the bug reports to make improvements. A recent bug in Chrome removed names from the shortcuts in the bookmarks bar and it was fixed within a week. Android rakes longer due to the wide spectrum of devices and overall update process. Bugs in an OS are a different beast than bugs in a browser.
From the sounds of things, you will have battery issues on any device.
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cry bro :crying:
simms22 said:
no lte in the nexus 4, sounds like they chased off the battery sucker to me.
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Qft
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adrynalyne said:
Any Tom, ****, or Harry can post issues. Most of the time they don't have the technical knowledge to even know what a bug is. Don't confuse Google not caring vs. Google not willing to accept a ticket caused by something out of their control.
As for your case, you have a Verizon Nexus. They ALL suck on battery compared to other devices.
You say you don't want this to devolve into a typical battery thread but it will.
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Go by the evidence. The Media Server / Scanner drain problem still exists in 4.1.2
Complaining about battery life on an LTE device is like dropping a 600HP engine in your car and complaining about your gas mileage going down.
So lets say an LTE phone has an enormous battery in it, this might give you "respectable" battery life... but take that same huge battery and put it in a GSM phone and watch the battery life go from "respectable" to "incredible".
If battery life is what you need... you might consider going GSM. With heavy use I usually end up at about 30-40% at the end of the day...
Of course, as stated above, the media scanner bug is still there... but from my experience, LTE is the biggest "battery vampire" by a landslide.
I can't wait to see how many "battery life sucks on N4" threads are created.
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Soldier 2.0 said:
I can't wait to see how many "battery life sucks on N4" threads are created.
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Oh it's coming... It's coming... Best believe it! Lol.
Honestly, it's just the way it is so ppl need to get over it. If they buy the Nexus and complain about the non-removable battery, then they should have gotten a different phone instead. Like an S3.
mackster248 said:
Oh it's coming... It's coming... Best believe it! Lol.
Honestly, it's just the way it is so ppl need to get over it. If they buy the Nexus and complain about the non-removable battery, then they should have gotten a different phone instead. Like an S3.
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i thought that i would be complaining about the non removable battery in my nexus 7, but it doesnt bother me anymore
There's no lte buddy ur mistaken
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modgadgets said:
There's no lte buddy ur mistaken
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Read harder...
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"5 or 6 spare batteries" ROFL.
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That's 4 days of actual on time (I turn it off at night, ~15 hours a day). That's closing in on what my old Nokia and Sony feature phones clocked in at.
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That's 4 days of actual on time (I turn it off at night, ~15 hours a day). That's closing in on what my old Nokia and Sony feature phones clocked in at.
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First, turning it off at night, makes your "4 days" statement entirely false, automatically. Second, 1 hour 20 minutes screen on time is terrible, even for a known battery sucker like the gnex. Third, the only thing might slightly warrant a pardon for that screen on time, would be the fact that you did get over 2 days on it, if not for Fourth (and finally) the fact that your phone clearly shows that your didn't use it at all.
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First, turning it off at night, makes your "4 days" statement entirely false, automatically. Second, 1 hour 20 minutes screen on time is terrible, even for a known battery sucker like the gnex. Third, the only thing might slightly warrant a pardon for that screen on time, would be the fact that you did get over 2 days on it, if not for Fourth (and finally) the fact that your phone clearly shows that your didn't use it at all.
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4 days of my use, where is there false information? Still on the same charge, 1 hour 41 mins now. 61 hours with real world use is not bad, especially since despite you seemingly knowing how I use my phone, I was using it for texting, a few calls, I used google maps, updated some stuff and other random crap. A lot can be done in an hour and a half.
And finally, the entire point of this thread is the android process sucking up battery, which is why I posted a picture showing the contrary. How about you find something credible to ***** about.
Maybe if you stop using that ugly, bloated, stupid ROM your Android process usage will be reduced.
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Soldier 2.0 said:
Maybe if you stop using that ugly, bloated, stupid ROM your Android process usage will be reduced.
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Hahaa yessss!!!
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