So I've had my glide for a good couple weeks, finally got AT&T to un-fsck my account and re-enable the grandfathered unlimited data. Turned the 4G connection back on full-time and it just seems to eat battery like no other! I used to leave Wifi on and connected pretty much everywhere I went and could go a full day without charging. This morning, my phone was at 19% charge, I turned off wifi and 4G while I showered and etc getting ready for work, 45 minutes later it was 82% charge. Turned 4G back on, left for work - I get to work a half hour later and I'm already down to 71%. I leave it on a charger at my desk and it's barely charging- from 71-77% in about an hour.
Stats: ardatdat kernel, OsiMood ROM, on AT&T, running services include GoLauncher EX, GoLocker, Lookout, and Titanium Backup
Also, in Battery Use (settings --> about phone --> battery use)
Android OS: 60%
Display: 16%
Game1: 11%
Cell Standby: 3%
Phone Idle: 2%
etc...
My Android OS usage is less than half of that so that might be related.
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When I woke up this morning, I turned off my phone and after it booted up I unplugged it, because I wanted to get a realistic idea of it's battery life (it's been fluctuation on me). It was at 100% I'm reading at 19% now, I have an Up time of 3:12:00 and an Awake time of 2:44:16 (I have been using it pretty constantly, so the awake time doesn't worry me too much). This is obviously ridiculous, this could possibly die in less than 3 & 1/2 to 4 hours. Battery use is: Android System: 58%, Display: 17%, Cell standby: 14%, Everlands Lite: 6%, Phone idle: 3%, android.process.acore: 2%. I just downloaded Everlands today and played it a lot, but with that low of a percent it can't possibly be an issue. I'm running Damage Control v3.2, and I'll post the DConfig in the next post.
DConfig
Basic Tweaks:
ZipAlign On Boot
swppart
Swappyness: 30
Dalvik heap: 32mb
LowMemKiller: Evo 150mb
Advanced Tweaks:
Up threshold: 95
sampling_rate: 200000
Dirty_Background_Ratio: 5
Dirty_Ratio:15
Dirty_Writeback: 1500
Dirty_Expire: 600
JIT is NOT enabled
Advanced Tweaks2:
vfs_cache_pressure: 100
Banned Apps:
Launcher
Sense
I had Sprint apps banned but then unbanned them. I only got Sprint Nascar back.
Debug Profile:
Page-Cluster: 3
laptop_mode: 0
Dirty_Expire: 600
Dirty_Writeback: 1500
Dirty_Background: 5
Dirty_Ratio: 15
Up_Threshold:95
Sampling_Rate: 200000
lowmem: 3584,4096,6144,38400,38912,4860
Please, any explanation for why my battery drain has suddenly jumped up so much would be greatly appreciated!
did your battery suddenly start dying quick? mine will last all day ONLY if i leave it alone all day, no calls or anything. If I use it minimally i get about half a day and if I have heavy usage on it then I get about 4 hours or so.
Prior Battery Life
I was able to go about 17 hours off the charger once without holding back on my usage at all, and that wasn't a huge outlier. Seriously, I know I've been able to get at LEAST 12 hours out of it streaming Pandora for an hour plus lots of texting, twitter, facebook, web browsing, and even moderate GPS usage.
I think other battery threads would be more useful if they included Awake time more often, because obviously I am not having a problem with it not going to sleep (since I was actually using the thing almost the entire time I had it off the charger).
You may actually have a bad battery. Mine gets unplugged at 6am, has a 30 min charge at 8pm on my way home in the car, then plugged in at 11:30 or 12 with 40% left.
The only thing I have done is kill most of the widgets, use a static background and that is about it.
you might have a bad battery, or maybe it was just something for that time. if it keeps happening, go back to sprint and they'll probably give you another battery or even phone (assuming they have them in stock)
Battery Defect?
I tried the method that one user supposedly learned from HTC ( I can't post a link but it's titled "Official response from HTC RE: How to double battery Life (WORKS!) + 2nd Reply" ), and I'm not sure I've gotten the same battery life out of it since that happened. I just got it charged back up to 100% now, I'm going to try upgrading to Damage Control v3.2.2.1 and I'll throw it into the Power Save mode in the DConfig, then see how long it lasts.
Hi... I have an Xplay rooted on 2.3.4 and removed light bloatware, but still my battery drains fast...
I must charge phone every day and I dont use a lot of heavy gamming... I only play in bed at night and normaly to drain the rest of the battery before charging.
I almost never use 3G, but have always wifi turned on...
So, resuming, my battery only lasts about 12h-14h per day...
As you can see, in the attachemt I have 2 times the same thing (portuguese language, but will translate):
- Inactividade do telefone 28% (Inactivity off phone)*
- Wi-Fi 21%
- Telefone inactivo 15% (Phone inactivity)*
* This 2 things arent the same?
I have a few questions:
1º - I have read about people who can have phone about 2 or 3 days, others with 20h or more. What is the most accurate and normal on this phone?
2º - If wi-fi always turned on, will drain battery?
3º - Why most off % is used when phone is inactivity?
Sometimes the phone dont loose battery when "sleeping" (it take 2h to loose 1%), but other times, when sleeping, battery drains 10% or more in one hour. I have read about a bug in Android OS that drains battery when phone sleeping. Does this bug applys in ALL ANDROID phones, or only Samsung? Read it on here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290020
If I charge phone every day will get battery "addicted"?
One thing im shure: the 3 first itens on the screenshots are draining my battery whitout a reason (i can understand wi-fi, but can't understand why 2 things saying phone inactivity, uses 43% of battery)
In that screenshot, battery is on 60%, so I losted 40% in 6hours with 20 minutes of gaming... and on those 6 hours, almost half, phone was "sleeping", again, it shouldnt drain battery when sleeping.
Thanks in advance for your help
What's shown as draining your battery the most is your phone's cell standby (your 3G & 2G network, or 4G if you have it). The third on the list describes your phone when it's not in use (screen off). Don't worry about that one, a higher % only means your phone is often in standby.
Having Wi-Fi on will often use more battery than using your phone's own network. To save even more battery, turn off 3G connectivity when you're not using it (you will still receive calls, just no internet, but you use Wi-Fi anyway).
Charging your phone every day is perfectly fine, just make sure you unplug it once it hits 100%. If you leave it plugged in while it's fully charged, it gets bad for the battery after a while.
That article about the battery drain in standby is likely just for Samsung devices. What is likely draining your battery are apps and services that run in the background and use the internet while in standby.
jacklebott said:
What's shown as draining your battery the most is your phone's cell standby (your 3G & 2G network, or 4G if you have it). The third on the list describes your phone when it's not in use (screen off). Don't worry about that one, a higher % only means your phone is often in standby.
Having Wi-Fi on will often use more battery than using your phone's own network. To save even more battery, turn off 3G connectivity when you're not using it (you will still receive calls, just no internet, but you use Wi-Fi anyway).
Charging your phone every day is perfectly fine, just make sure you unplug it once it hits 100%. If you leave it plugged in while it's fully charged, it gets bad for the battery after a while.
That article about the battery drain in standby is likely just for Samsung devices. What is likely draining your battery are apps and services that run in the background and use the internet while in standby.
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95% of the time, 3G connection is OFF. I use Wi-fi connections, because I have many hotspots for it...
I don't have many APPs and the ones that I have installed (non-stock apps), dont run in background.
Today, I turned off wi-fi, and only turned on when need, and for more than 2 hours, only losted 1% of battery (have takken photos, and made phone calls only).
After this I used wi-fi for 20 minutes, and losted 8% off battery. So I think, Wi-fi is the problem. Please correct me if im wrong:
- If I have wi-fi always on, phone is always searching for wi-fi connections, even when sleeping, so battery drains much faster.
As you can see on the screenshot, with no wi-fi, for a little bit more than 2hours, only 1% of battery losted
Well you answered your question. Wifi is the problem. If it searches for wifi networks all of the time the battery will surely drain.
Definitely Wifi. It absolutely murders my battery when I forget to turn it off when I'm not using it.
Yes... for shure... its crazy like hell... lol... half an hour playing... half an hour surfing (youtube for my son... i put videos for him, once in a while)... and wi-fi drained more battery than gamming (FIFA 2010, Angry Birds, Spider-Man... also my son played)... funny thing, he has 20 months old, and love Xplay, more than me...
So... the hole day, I kept wi-fi turned off, and only turn it on, when needed... more than 12h latter, still have 62% off battery... and for the first time, will not charge this night...
Was so simple, as turning wi-fi off... check the screens...
Thanks all that helped
My battery usage for WIFI has never gone above 3% and has only hit that once, normally it is 2% no matter how little or much I use it. What percentage of your battery life is used by your WIFI?
I'm just trying to figure out if the number is accurate and using wifi really does save my battery as much as it appears to do so.
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I've never really bought in to the whole Wifi saves battery power....I've had the Captivate and now the GN and anytime I leave Wifi on at home, my battery just drains faster. Here is an example, if I leave Wifi off, I've reached about 40 - 48 hours on one charge. If I take my phone off the charger at 6:00am....go to work with Wifi off, come home at 4:00pm and turn Wifi on, by the time I go to bed at 11:00pm my battery is at about 40-50%. In the first scenario with Wifi off, my battery is usually around 70% when I go to bed the first night.
In both of those scenarios, the phone is only being used lightly, but I do see a huge difference if I use Wifi in my overall battery drain. So pretty much these days I just turn on Wifi when I actually need it....but having a 6GB data plan helps in not caring when I use Wifi (for the day to day stuff).
I only use WIFI at home but otherwise have it off. I use Y5 to automatically turn in on when I'm home and off when I leave. It seems to really help me save my battery when at home though since my coverage is spotty since for some reason I cannot stay connected to 4G even though I'm surrounded by the coverage.
That's why I'm asking here if the meter is actually correct because even on the weekend if I'm home all day the meter never shows anything other than 2% after a full days use of downloading apps, surfing the web, messing around on Facebook, and reading things on forums. About 43MB worth of usage and 14 hours and 40 minutes of connectivity to WIFI.
Hey all,
I must have something going badly wrong..... I fully charged the phone over night, When I left my house this morning I unplugged the charger, booted the phone in recovery and wiped the battery stats, and the booted it as normal.
I have hardly used the phone all day. Wifi has been off almost the whole time. I have made a couple calls, total no more than a couple minutes. Sent and received 3 texts each way. Spent about 5-6 minutes browsing the internet using mobile network. Had it connected to Bluetooth on the car for about 90minutes. 12 hours later and I have this since it was last charged:
I tried to post screenshot but my post count is too low :-(
Anyways, this is what it said:
15 percent battery left
11 hrs 39min 43 seconds on battery
Screen 57%
Android OS 22%
Phone idle 6%
Voice calls 4%
Cell standby 4%
Browser 3%
Android system 3%
Media server 2%
I was expecting better, but maybe I am expecting too much... I am running Liquid Rom 1.2 along with the latest Popcorn Kernel. The kernel is set at max-1420 min 350 using the aggressive governor. I have tried to set the ROM so it will Fastcharge, but it won't work. It says it is OFF: USB is in normal MTS mode..... how do I fix that?
I like to be able to use my phone a lot. Today I used my phone a lot less than I do usually. Normally I do a lot of browsing. I almost always have a power source close by, but I had to wait a couple hours at the doctors the other day and I ended up almost running the phone flat just from browsing the net! So after that I decided I needed to really do some looking into what setup will work the best for battery life, but also run nice and fast and smooth when I don't have to worry about battery life.
Any thoughts on what I should do would be appreciated. If I need to supply more info for you to help me, please let me know.
Thanks
dean
meminiau said:
Hey all,
I must have something going badly wrong..... I fully charged the phone over night, When I left my house this morning I unplugged the charger, booted the phone in recovery and wiped the battery stats, and the booted it as normal.
I have hardly used the phone all day. Wifi has been off almost the whole time. I have made a couple calls, total no more than a couple minutes. Sent and received 3 texts each way. Spent about 5-6 minutes browsing the internet using mobile network. Had it connected to Bluetooth on the car for about 90minutes. 12 hours later and I have this since it was last charged:
I tried to post screenshot but my post count is too low :-(
Anyways, this is what it said:
15 percent battery left
11 hrs 39min 43 seconds on battery
Screen 57%
Android OS 22%
Phone idle 6%
Voice calls 4%
Cell standby 4%
Browser 3%
Android system 3%
Media server 2%
I was expecting better, but maybe I am expecting too much... I am running Liquid Rom 1.2 along with the latest Popcorn Kernel. The kernel is set at max-1420 min 350 using the aggressive governor. I have tried to set the ROM so it will Fastcharge, but it won't work. It says it is OFF: USB is in normal MTS mode..... how do I fix that?
I like to be able to use my phone a lot. Today I used my phone a lot less than I do usually. Normally I do a lot of browsing. I almost always have a power source close by, but I had to wait a couple hours at the doctors the other day and I ended up almost running the phone flat just from browsing the net! So after that I decided I needed to really do some looking into what setup will work the best for battery life, but also run nice and fast and smooth when I don't have to worry about battery life.
Any thoughts on what I should do would be appreciated. If I need to supply more info for you to help me, please let me know.
Thanks
dean
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Install CPU spy and Better Battery Stats. With CPU Spy you can see in what state your CPU is and if your phone goes to Deep Sleep.
With Better Battery Stats you can see what is keeping your phone awake.
That is the best suggestion. Als: Your screen is taking up 57 % (now that on it's own isn't that strange) but if you click that: How much time was it actualy on? And what brightness do you use?
Hello,
I purchased a Samsung Galaxy S20 5G (SM-G981B) 10 days ago as a replacement of my 3 years old S8. I actually chose the S20 because of the WQHD. FHD+ is a no for me. Before using it I did a factory reset as the phone is updated to the latest SW upong switching it on. I didn't transfer my data from the old phone, I just installed everything from scratch, and only some of the apps I use, no games. I don't have a microSD in my phone.
The phone is really good in all aspects, except 1: battery life. I have a massive 1.8 to 2% per hour idle battery drain during the night (with everything off apart from Radio network: Wifi, bluetooth, location, data all off), this leads to ridiculous SOT time: between 2 to 3 hours.
I have all battery optimizations settings activated: all smart movement off, adaptive battery on, AOD off, Location is off (or set to when app in use) for all apps. I have put most of the apps in deep sleep when not in use, google location history and location sharing disabled, vibration disabled for everything apart from phone calls, etc...
I have installed GSAM and adjusted permissions through ADB. I attached 2 screenshots of a normal day usage (battery from 100% to 21% before going to charge, SOT below 2 hours). I charged my phone then to 100% and went to sleep without using it. 8 hours afterwards (with everything disabled) phone is at 85% battery. I took screenshots of the app sucker and details of the 10 most consuming apps.
I need a support to translate these into actions. I don't understand meaning of the wakelocks and I would appreciate if someone can pinpoint the issue with my idle battery life. If the normal behaviour is this then I would have to return the phone, because my 3 years old S8 performs exactly the same in terms of battery.
Thank you in advance for your support.
Hello,
I could find what's causing my battery drain: LTE network.
Actually, even if mobile data is disabled, camping on LTE network would consume about 2% per hour. I tried changing this to GSM and my phone now would consume 2 to 3% for the whole night, which is around 0.3 or 0.4% per hour.
Using heavily the mobile on GSM and WIFI would give me more than 7 hours SOT.
Being a remote worker now, it's ok for me to keep the phone on GSM as I am on Wifi all the time, now I use LTE only when going out.
Hope this helps the community.