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Crazy battery drain after upgrading to 3.9, program to test?

I think my thread got deleted due to the crash, just reposting
I'm having crazy battery drain after upgrading to 3.9, about a percent a minute. Is there a program I can use to see what program is using all that juice?

The monitor function of SystemPanel is great for tracking down problems like this.
Also, if you're phone isn't sleeping, checking partial wake usage in Spare Parts will tell you what is keeping it awake.

Thanks for the quick response, I'll monitor usage for a day and see what comes up.

Have you checked your awake time vs. uptime in battery stats?

I think I found the problem, it was a corrupt copy of wireless tether that I had installed, the battery life seems okay now, still lower then what I was getting before hand. I'll post some screens here later. As for the uptime vs. awake time, I'm at 23:30:51 uptime vs 3:46:46 awake time, battery is currently at 43%

Death-M0nk said:
I think I found the problem, it was a corrupt copy of wireless tether that I had installed, the battery life seems okay now, still lower then what I was getting before hand. I'll post some screens here later. As for the uptime vs. awake time, I'm at 23:30:51 uptime vs 3:46:46 awake time, battery is currently at 43%
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wow thats good, how do u get such good battery, i would normally only get 1:30:00 or something around there for awake time before mine would die, are u using set cpu?

I got...
32:48 up / 4:57 awake. At 37% battery.
I'm using the new OTA deodexed by Myn along with the new radio package (radio,wimax, pri, nv) by caulk. Nothing else! Set CPU is uninstalled. WiFi is on 100% along with background apps/auto sync. Mobile Networks only on when I am out of the house and without WiFi or 4G. I actually get good battery life on 4g if I keep the mobile networks off.

Here are some screens from my phone. This is after a normal days usage for me, do these seem normal for my kernal/ROM?
(This is without any type of OC/UC utility, I don't ever use those anyway)
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masbirdies said:
32:48 up / 4:57 awake. At 37% battery.
I'm using the new OTA deodexed by Myn along with the new radio package (radio,wimax, pri, nv) by caulk. Nothing else! Set CPU is uninstalled. WiFi is on 100% along with background apps/auto sync. Mobile Networks only on when I am out of the house and without WiFi or 4G. I actually get good battery life on 4g if I keep the mobile networks off.
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How do u get better battery?
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[Q] My Battery kills me

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I'M using Oxygen 0.2.2 Beta Rom. Yesterday I recalibrate my battery, closed unnecessary programs, turn off wifi, 3g, gps and bluetooth. Morning I checked battery level and shocked battery leves was about %75. I checked if there any memory leaked program but I couldn't find something like that.
Display used battery percantage dramatically high?
What is the problem? Screen was turned off naturally.

'My Battery Kills Me' - sounds like the title of a cheap horror film - LOL
How long is 'overnight'? 8, 10 hours?
25% in that time sounds quite reasonable to me.

@cr1960 25% over 8 hr with wifi and 3g off is not normal and if you experience this i would check what is causing your drain.
@yapay Install current widget, place it on one of the home screens and set it up to wright to the log every 5 min. Then turn your phone in to flight mode overnight and the next day check the log, if you have more than 1 mA usage regularly during the night there is something using to much power. Install a monitoring app from the market and let it run during the night to find out what.
If it's mostly around 1 mA than your problem probably is gone after another charge.

Screen is very high for only 1.5h ish. Looks looks like you have high brightness settings and a lot of white/blue images being displayed.
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cr1960 said:
'My Battery Kills Me' - sounds like the title of a cheap horror film - LOL
How long is 'overnight'? 8, 10 hours?
25% in that time sounds quite reasonable to me.
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overnight is about 7hr13m
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@cr1960 25% over 8 hr with wifi and 3g off is not normal and if you experience this i would check what is causing your drain.
@yapay Install current widget, place it on one of the home screens and set it up to wright to the log every 5 min. Then turn your phone in to flight mode overnight and the next day check the log, if you have more than 1 mA usage regularly during the night there is something using to much power. Install a monitoring app from the market and let it run during the night to find out what.
If it's mostly around 1 mA than your problem probably is gone after another charge.
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I installed current widget. I will try this this night. Thank you very much for your suggestions.
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Screen is very high for only 1.5h ish. Looks looks like you have high brightness settings and a lot of white/blue images being displayed.
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There is a misunderstood. I checked battery status after woke up and that was 60% display usage. After that I used phone during breakfast and later my battery was 18%.
Something is wrong...

[Q] Sharp and consistently high battery drainage

Hi, a few days after flashing ICS OrDroidX ROM from Android Revolution HD, I noticed that my phone battery starting to have sharp battery drop, for example after 30 minutes of off screen, it will drop from 97% to 92% based on the log from CurrentWidget. The current drain also extremely high, often stay between 300mA to 600 mA, rarely back to normal with 8mA draining in off screen.
I have done the wiping battery stats from the tutorial, and reflash CM10, however it get back to same battery drain though less severe than before, about 200mA drain on average, the sharp battery percentage drop still there.
Please let me know if there's anything else I can do, my phone is rooted, hence I would try to do anything I can before returning to HTC which I almost certain that they will charge me a lot for replacing a battery. Will battery overheating cause the issue as well? Thanks in advance!

I would say download betterbatterystats from the play store. It can give you information on what is active.
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meleelord said:
I would say download betterbatterystats from the play store. It can give you information on what is active.
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Thanks a lot for your advise. I have tried betterbatterystats as suggested, here's the result
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Does it ring any bell that something is wrong? I notice that the awake is somewhat a lot, is that due to kernel issue?
Thanks!

hellcommando said:
Thanks a lot for your advise. I have tried betterbatterystats as suggested, here's the result
Does it ring any bell that something is wrong? I notice that the awake is somewhat a lot, is that due to kernel issue?
Thanks!
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According to that graph, your phone hasn't been in deep sleep, ideally you would want to get a similar graph for Screen On and Awake. Go to -> partial wakelocks and give us a screenshot. Also, your signal doesn't seem very good. Do you usually get 1 bar?

tomascus said:
According to that graph, your phone hasn't been in deep sleep, ideally you would want to get a similar graph for Screen On and Awake. Go to -> partial wakelocks and give us a screenshot. Also, your signal doesn't seem very good. Do you usually get 1 bar?
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Thanks a lot for the analysis! Yesterday I decided to reflash CM10 and remove all files from SD, and put them back after flashing. I get a similar graph as the previous graph that I posted.
After reflash
Partial wakelocks (because I did a reboot in between, so it shows only a short period of time, however during the screen on period of time, my battery have a awful sharp drop from 39 % to 29 %, a 10% drop in just a second...)
Shortly after I reflash the ROM and put my SD contents back into the phone, media scanner was a horrible process which hog on my CPU, after clearing the data from 'media storage', did several reboot then the phone only return to normal.
For the signal issue, my room never get full bar, normally would be stay around 2-3 out of 4 bar. Will this affect the battery life?
Now the problem seems like got two parts,
1. Screen off battery still drain quite a lot, though not as much as screen on
2. Screen on battery drain is awful, sometimes 5-10% in a just a second

Android system % is really high.

I saw a post about this, but I can not find it now.
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The android system % is really high. For reference the screen time is at 2h 58min in that shot.
The post I saw about it mentioned a patch that fixed that in some phones? Just curious if there is something I can do to fix it and improve the battery life further.
This is on jedi xp9 with saber kernel.

What were you doing with the phone in that one hour? If nothing serious you have a battery leak problem. 31% for one hour is just not right. I used to install a calendar widget that causes leak like crazy, even after I un installed it. Had to do a hard reset to fix it.

1hr? The battery was at 1d 11h and some change, but yeah I am prolly going to do a clean install. I'm thinking maybe my titanium backup is goofed up.
Just wasn't sure if there was a system patch that was for that, I thought I had read that somewhere.

Its just the only thing using battery. That's good. Youre getting phenomenal battery life. Trust me. When I posted my last message I didn't see a pic of your time stamp. Do math on total CPU usage of the android system. Also Google backup transport uses a good chunk. Disable that if you don't want it. (When flashing a new rom Google transports your old backup onto your device)
Anyhow here you go. Do the math and see how much battery life to CPU usage I would get verse what you got. If you are never using your phone the is and or system will eventually kill it. Using a larger percentage. It looks like you aren't even using your phone. 36 hours of battery is insane. Also note my screen was on just a little over 3 hours. (At minimal brightness always)
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Spoontain said:
1hr? The battery was at 1d 11h and some change, but yeah I am prolly going to do a clean install. I'm thinking maybe my titanium backup is goofed up.
Just wasn't sure if there was a system patch that was for that, I thought I had read that somewhere.
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Sorry my bad. But it still doesn't look right to me that your system is burning more battery than the screen.

It seems like your phone was idle for the most part of that battery time. If so, then it's normal to show more android system usage percentage than other things, since there are background processes running. If that's the case, your battery drain is good, especially if you're 4g was on the entire time.
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It seems like your phone was idle for the most part of that battery time. If so, then it's normal to show more android system usage percentage than other things, since there are background processes running. If that's the case, your battery drain is good, especially if you're 4g was on the entire time.
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Yeah I never turn the 4g off. Guess I was just miss understanding the post.
Yes the phone was idle a lot, normally is on my days off. During my work week im looking at 18-20 hours getting me to 60-40% and me charging it it before bed. Being in reinforced concrete buildings 2 stories underground causing me to the have a poor signal I figured that was pretty decent.
Anyway thank you guys for the information.

Battery is ****ed up.

I was always unsatisfied with my battery life, but now it's gone too far!
1. No matter how long I charge it, at the very second I unplug it it goes down to 99%.
2. It doesn't even go down correctly, one moment it's 65% and the other it's 58%. Always.
3. It drains soooooo fast even though I do nothing with it!!!!
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1. This is 17 minutes after unplugging it, all I did was to put music on [earphones] and check if my girlfriend was online on Whatsapp.
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2. That's after a minute and a half, 2% less, doing nothing but listening to music with my screen off!
3. One minute later..
4. Sixteen minutes later, phone is idle and untouched [not even music, I started my shift]
5. Again, idle.
It lasts 3 hours tops!!!! What the hell do I do.

MaorSwan said:
I was always unsatisfied with my battery life, but now it's gone too far!
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This app already told you the culprit! Your getting wakelocks so an app you installed is keeping the device awake all the time. The rest is for you to figure out partner . Use the search function on XDA and you will find all the info you need.

Tw1tchy said:
This app already told you the culprit! Your getting wakelocks so an app you installed is keeping the device awake all the time. The rest is for you to figure out partner . Use the search function on XDA and you will find all the info you need.
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Ok might be but to the level where the phone doesn't last 3 hours? That's not cool. It should be lasting more even with heavy using.

MaorSwan said:
Ok might be but to the level where the phone doesn't last 3 hours? That's not cool. It should be lasting more even with heavy using.
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yeah you're right, it should last more anyway! maybe it's the rom.. what rom are you using? or maybe the battery failed. it happened to me with another phone, basically i was in the seaside with about 38°C the phone was boiling hot, the battery was fully charged but in about 20 mins it was at 5% without even using it then it died. since then that battery never worked again and i had to buy a new one. do you remember if you had a similar situation or if your phone overheated for any other reason (maybe while charging or near a heat source)?

fireblade said:
yeah you're right, it should last more anyway! maybe it's the rom.. what rom are you using? or maybe the battery failed. it happened to me with another phone, basically i was in the seaside with about 38°C the phone was boiling hot, the battery was fully charged but in about 20 mins it was at 5% without even using it then it died. since then that battery never worked again and i had to buy a new one. do you remember if you had a similar situation or if your phone overheated for any other reason (maybe while charging or near a heat source)?
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I use Android Revolution HD.
It got heated a few times but not too hot, and besides, I read that it happens to everyone..