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ever since I updated to 2.2, no matter what rom I'm using..performance has been so poor compared to 2.1. I wish I never updated. My battery runs out quick, temperature goes up to 100F even when idle and my phone hangs every time I turn on wifi. Hopefully I find out a solution soon, i've been flashing and uninstalling roms all day these past two days. I love the phone though don't get me wrong =\
That sounds quite odd.
Are you using an unmodified SBF, or are you using a release where the author/publisher has made a lot of changes? When having problems, it may be best to stick to one release and try to narrow down your problems, instead of trying many different releases and introducing new variables into the mix.
Are you overclocking your phone - perhaps it's causing the rise in temperature? Or are you running a lot of widgets? There may be some widgets that use the system too aggressively, causing too much strain/heat.
Hi! Did you do "wipe" before and after flashing?
That is very odd. I am on Froyo and performance has been phenomenal ever since the flash.
I agree with naenee, check the ROM you're flashing...
i flashed the UK 3.4.2-117 and right now using Pay's 2.1 rom. I remember that I did wipe data/cache before flashing and after flashing. IDK, im just not having problem's with this particular rom..it seems like it happens on all the other ones im trying. I get random freezes and especially when I toggle on wifi. I recently installed setVEL and will see if battery improves, this means i don't need milestone right? I'm also using setCPU.
I might try to flash 3.4.2_131-003 PL version. Will it cause any trouble and can I go back down to UK 3.4.2-117?
Seeing as it uses the same kernel, you should be able to do so...
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I might try to flash 3.4.2_131-003 PL version. Will it cause any trouble and can I go back down to UK 3.4.2-117?
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I have been using the orange 2.2 for several days and no specific problem is noted.
well I reinstalled pays rom first and everything is working good. No more hang ups or freezes but I still can't get the battery to last as long.My phone is mostly idled, running on 2G, just one widget, and everything in settings turned down to the least minimal settings..im talking about battery saver, screen brightness all the way down..everything off! 6 hours in and im already on 70%. I can live with that but I'm using setVsel and I know it could do better. Anyone know another way I can make my battery last longer?
I'm running Pays latest rom based on the UK 3.4.2 and it runs great. I'm also using setvsel (as every defy user should) and optimized all my vsels ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected]) using stability test. I haven't had a 'normal' day of use yet, but with heavy use (installing apps, web browsing, flashing rom) I've gotten at least a full day (~15 hrs) out of a charge.
I recommend minimizing your vsels using setvsel, then judging your battery life. Check out the setvsel thread for more help.
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And remember this is a smart phone, some people report getting 2 to 3 days of use out of it. That's basically idle time tho. These new smart phones are just that, and use much more battery than the Dumbphone.
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And remember this is a smart phone, some people report getting 2 to 3 days of use out of it. That's basically idle time tho. These new smart phones are just that, and use much more battery than the Dumbphone.
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Even if that's the case (and I dispute it, I use my phone a fair amount in the ~3 days the battery averages), it still doesn't explain why the OP's phone is dropping 30% in 6 hours while idling.
When I updated to froyo, my battery life went from about 15 hours of use to 21 hours between charges. So I'm thinking the op has an app doing the draining.
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Unfortunately, this is a characteristic of Android.... Ridiculously inconsistent in the battery department.
Wife's phone is on official froyo, has been amazing since updated (a few weeks ago) but since yesterday some weird reason it's been super glitchy and freezing up. Not sure why...haven't changed anything to it and she's only downloaded an app or two (such as pandora) in the last couple days...I was playing around with it trying to figure out what was up...can't figure it out. I went into titanium backup to freeze some apps thinking maybe some blur crap was freezing it up but TB froze up so I can't even get in there. Also, same as OP, the battery has been heating up really quick lately, especially when on wifi.
Not sure what's up here...but I'm hoping nothing serious! Will keep you all updated on this...we'll see if there is a trend going on here.
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ever since I updated to 2.2, no matter what rom I'm using..performance has been so poor compared to 2.1. I wish I never updated. My battery runs out quick, temperature goes up to 100F even when idle and my phone hangs every time I turn on wifi. Hopefully I find out a solution soon, i've been flashing and uninstalling roms all day these past two days. I love the phone though don't get me wrong =\
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check your cpu usage... if it's constantly arround 99%, you may experience the "usb-plug/unplug"-bug.
try enabling usb debug and restart your phone.
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Unfortunately, this is a characteristic of Android.... Ridiculously inconsistent in the battery department.
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I would rather say it is a characteristic of people using android, to have widely different usage patterns, causing differences in how long a charge lasts for each.
Hi there. Have you tried to recalibrate the battery? There is an app on the marke called Battery Calibrator. From what I understand if you play with roms the battery can give you problems so it need to be calibrated again. I hope this can help.
For those interested... I'm having a problem, I don't know yet if it's a bug or a hardware defect.
My phones wastes A LOT of battery while it should be suspended.
I've tracked the problem to, apparently, Motorola's SIM driver. From what I've discovered so far, the SIM isn't accepting the suspend state and therefore the "suspend" process uses too much CPU time... all of this when the phone is, supposedly, saving battery.
As I can't get a motorola engineer involved, I can't say for sure if this is the true cause... but it's the closer I've got to a diagnostic, so far.
Your problem might or not be related to this, but if you're interested about what I've found or what my kernel log looks like so you can compare with your own problem... this is the thread at motorola's owner forum:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/47721
I am one of the unfortunate souls who is experiencing terrible battery life due to the AndroidOS bug. I feel like I spend half my waking hours trying to figure out what is causing it and doing different things to my phone improve my battery life.
I'm definitely getting sick of it and while I realize that Samsung/Sprint may eventually come out with a software update that fixes the problem, I'm not sure I'm willing to wait since it could take months (and the issue was supposedly fixed for GS2 phones in 2.3.4).
At this point, I'm considering going back to the Moto Photon--it's battery life is simply amazing. My only issue with the Moto is its unusable camera.
Anyone else getting as frustrated as I am and considering jumping ship to another phone?
What have you done to fix it?
Are you saying that you still have the bug even aftera factory reset ?
Why not just take it back and have them give you a new one since you obviously have a defective phone?
Also how many hours are you actually getting out of the battery?
I don't see any other phone worth switching to and I have had them all. Each with their own specific problem. But this one here is as good as it gets
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What have you done to fix it?
Are you saying that you still have the bug even aftera factory reset ?
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I've tried just about everything that has been mentioned in the AndroidOS/battery life thread (reset, wifi, autosync) but I'm still getting only 12 hours of battery life on a good day, 8 hours on a bad day
I might try exchanging the phone, but I'm hesitant to do so due to the LOS bug (I have not experienced this with my phone as of yet).
Honestly, while I love the phone in many other ways, I'm about to throw the thing out the window since 8 hours of battery life is simply not acceptable to me
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but I'm still getting only 12 hours of battery life on a good day, 8 hours on a bad day
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That doesn't mean anything to me. What's the display on time? How good/bad is the cellular signal?
Exchange it bro. Ive had two of these phones so far and none had this problem. I'm getting like 24-30 hours battery with like 4-5 hours screen on time. This phone had awesome battery. Download an apps called better battery stats. This will show wakelocks and processes that are draining the battery. Good luck man.
The Evo3D Killer!!!
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That doesn't mean anything to me. What's the display on time? How good/bad is the cellular signal?
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On a good day, the display is on for less than 30-45 min. On a bad day, the phone display time is somewhere between 90-120 minutes.
I pulled 16 hours ojt of my battery yesterday with over 12 on wifi and i was at 40 percent. I have to use wifi at work as i have no signal and when i do get signal its roaming. I would say that my conditions at work are far from ideal but this phone is great. My old phone would die before 1130(evo shift).
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On a good day, the display is on for less than 30-45 min. On a bad day, the phone display time is somewhere between 90-120 minutes.
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Yeah bro that's awful. I would take that back immediately. There is no sense in that. U definitely have a bug in that phone. Good luck.
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return it.
mine doesn't seem to get the android os bug unless i'm on a custom kernel. 1 week stock, no problems, 3 days on custom problems each day, back to stock + root and no problems for 48 hrs.
i still have to be 100% sure that my phone didn't like the kernel though so another test will be coming up after a few more days of observation.
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return it.
mine doesn't seem to get the android os bug unless i'm on a custom kernel. 1 week stock, no problems, 3 days on custom problems each day, back to stock + root and no problems for 48 hrs.
i still have to be 100% sure that my phone didn't like the kernel though so another test will be coming up after a few more days of observation.
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I had the issue with the stock kernel and custom kernels. I'm just going to hold out until we can get a AOSP build and hope that using as little of Samsung's code fixes it.
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return it.
mine doesn't seem to get the android os bug unless i'm on a custom kernel. 1 week stock, no problems, 3 days on custom problems each day, back to stock + root and no problems for 48 hrs.
i still have to be 100% sure that my phone didn't like the kernel though so another test will be coming up after a few more days of observation.
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I'm on stock and have nothing out of the ordinary installed. Out of curiosity, do you have a google account with full sync turned on?
Lol 8 12 hours isn't bad with a stock battery and 4.5 inch screen. If you are in a poor reception area it could be that. Otherwise you have alot of Apps running in the background.
My advice : root it and extended battery.
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I'm on stock and have nothing out of the ordinary installed. Out of curiosity, do you have a google account with full sync turned on?
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I average 15-20 hours easily on a charge, with a full sync google account
Everything Sync'd Listed below:
- Google+ Notifications
- Music
- Books
- Contacts
- Gmail
- Picasa Web Albums
- Calendar
If anything else can be Sync'd I have not run across it. I also have my Tapatalk set to notify me of PM's, and updates to Subscribed topics, I removed the accuweather widget because it only updates every 3 hours and installed Weatherbug Elite and set it to update every 30 minutes. On top of all that I browse the web regularly to visit sites that are websense'd at work, and I play dungeon hunter 2, and asphalt 6 on my lunch break. At home the phone sits on my desk until its time to pass out, only used for my Rift Mobile authenticator.
This is a real bug, with android
the system/0 process goes crazy and chews up the battery.
I get about 12 hours with everything disabled (other than gmail sync) and suspend/0 chews up battery
well documented here
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16721
it's a gingerbread issue, if you haven't experienced on the galaxy, you will soon
I'm also considering returning this great phone with crappy software until google releases a version of android that works.
by that time there may be a new "best android phone"
Why does the bug seem to affect the gs2 more than other phones? For example, I've never seen it mentioned on the photon forums
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This is a real bug, with android
the system/0 process goes crazy and chews up the battery.
I get about 12 hours with everything disabled (other than gmail sync) and suspend/0 chews up battery
well documented here
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16721
it's a gingerbread issue, if you haven't experienced on the galaxy, you will soon
I'm also considering returning this great phone with crappy software until google releases a version of android that works.
by that time there may be a new "best android phone"
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ajamer said:
This is a real bug, with android
the system/0 process goes crazy and chews up the battery.
I get about 12 hours with everything disabled (other than gmail sync) and suspend/0 chews up battery
well documented here
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16721
it's a gingerbread issue, if you haven't experienced on the galaxy, you will soon
I'm also considering returning this great phone with crappy software until google releases a version of android that works.
by that time there may be a new "best android phone"
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I didn't have this problem on my evo and I don't have it on my gs2.
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i use my phone a lot while im at school throughout the day , i last using wifi and 3g, and if needed i can do a quick charge while i study in the car but i lasted to 60% using 3g for a few hours
I've been running the 9/15 nightly, and while I haven't had excellent battery life, it has typically lasted around 8 hours or more. Today was a little different; with only an hour of screen time, my battery was down to 30%. On top of that, it usually takes 3 or 4 presses of the home button to wake my phone up.
EDIT: I forgot to add that my screen usage usually accounts for 60%, or more, of my battery usage--and that's with minimal usage. It always seemed like my screen was draining the battery even when it was off. It is much less now.
I read on the forums that a simple increase of the minimum frequency can resolve the waking issue. However, it didn't; instead, my battery life improved dramatically. I'm used to a pretty jagged and sharp battery graph, but now it's as smooth and linear as I have ever seen it.
Can anyone explain why raising the min freq improved my battery life?
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Why don't you update? Its Oct 5th. Maybe give that a try? Old build man.
Well, I've considered it, but I always check the main thread first. It always seems like people are having LTE or GPS issues with the new build. Everything, aside from the battery life and screen waking, has been working exceptionally well. Not to mention, school and work hasn't given me enough free time to experiment with the new builds. I might try this tonight though.
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Well, I've considered it, but I always check the main thread first. It always seems like people are having LTE or GPS issues with the new build. Everything, aside from the battery life and screen waking, has been working exceptionally well. Not to mention, school and work hasn't given me enough free time to experiment with the new builds. I might try this tonight though.
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The rom actually updates EVERY DAY you have missed many many updates here is a changelog http://changelog.bbqdroid.org/#d2att/cm10/1349329973
well all devices are not created equal. i suppose its possible that the ideal minimum frequency for your device is a above stock (or whatever you had it at before). raising the minimum frequency can improve cell connection, screen flickering issues, ect (things that cause battery drain).
also i advise you to update your cm build. either that or switch to cm monthly or another rom that doesn't push out critical updates every night. Try a rom that is considered stable like liquidsmooth, slimbean..
On the Oct 3 build and it's very fast. Batter life has been quite bad, have to charge it twice a day. Had a lot of crashing yesterday, phone decided to reboot continuously. Apollo has stopped error persisted until I cleared cache, and keep getting email/exchange devices have stopped errors until I disabled email.
Battery is the only thing that really bugs me though
Not sent from my toilet with a soap bar.
@nccu_eagles & @jefferson9: To be honest, I never realized the minimum frequency affected so many different elements outside of power saving. I admit I haven't kept it up-to-date; I'm always afraid to update after seeing some of the bugs people post. Perhaps I would be better off with a more stable release--at least until the semester is over, which will leave me with much more time to dabble. If I finish my homework in time, I might try a few different roms tonight.
@adammur: Those are the type of bugs that keep me from updating.
On another note, today's battery life has been great. My battery would normally drain between 12-20% an hour. Today, I'm averaging 5% an hour with similar usage. :good: Anyways, thank you guys for the replies. I'll see if I can't find something to better suit me.... for now :fingers-crossed:.
Before playing with the TouchWiz Jellybean Milestone 5 (Firefly) ROM by Drew Garen, I was running the JellyBro's euroskank October 3rd nightly along with LeanKernel as well as JuiceDefender Ultimate...
My Galaxy S3 could literally last 2 days with that setup. It was UNREAL.
The problem is, I really actually do like the TouchWiz interface (I know I know, I'm one of the few).
But if ultimate battery life is your goal with the Samsung Galaxy S3... Do a factory reset / cache wipe and install the Oct 3rd version of JellyBro's euroskank for the d2att... Then go ahead and install yourself the tmobile / AT&T version of leankernel...
You WILL NOT be sorry!
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I've been running the 9/15 nightly, and while I haven't had excellent battery life, it has typically lasted around 8 hours or more. Today was a little different; with only an hour of screen time, my battery was down to 30%. On top of that, it usually takes 3 or 4 presses of the home button to wake my phone up.
EDIT: I forgot to add that my screen usage usually accounts for 60%, or more, of my battery usage--and that's with minimal usage. It always seemed like my screen was draining the battery even when it was off. It is much less now.
I read on the forums that a simple increase of the minimum frequency can resolve the waking issue. However, it didn't; instead, my battery life improved dramatically. I'm used to a pretty jagged and sharp battery graph, but now it's as smooth and linear as I have ever seen it.
Can anyone explain why raising the min freq improved my battery life?
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What did you increase it to, if you don't mind me asking?
I normally use up-to-the-moment builds (downloading 10/07 ad I write) and my battery life has been reasonable - up to two days total with light use. Seems to me to be a matter of making sure you're not running too many (any?) battery-hogging apps (BetterBatteryStats has been enormously helpful in this respect).
Unfortunately, I was unable to play with anything last night due to homework. I did, however, purchase and install BBS and JD. I'm actually at work right now, so I can't really post much other than a few screenshots.
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What did you increase it to, if you don't mind me asking?
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I increased it from 384 to 486. So far it seems to have helped a lot. I'm actually about to try a couple different ROMs and see how they go. Wish me luck :cyclops:
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The problem is, I really actually do like the TouchWiz interface (I know I know, I'm one of the few).
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You are not alone, I enjoy the functions/features of the OTA ROMs.
Notification accessible when in full screen apps, the multi-window screen lets you "clear all" and access task manager&Google Now, the stock dialer has more efficient functions(Displays all calls from a contact if selected, slide right/left to call/send sms)
But going back on topic, I set my cpu to be conservative but I'm not sure if that'll save battery.
I want to be able to game when at work but not have the power-saving setting limit it yet still be able to last me a day. The OTA ROMs' power-saving feature was able to do that.
So I flashed the latest and "greatest" Android 4.3 on my Galaxy Nexus. After all, this is why we get our nexus devices for, right -- getting the latest updates without begging cell phone vendors or carriers. But Android 4.3 on Galaxy Nexus is driving me nuts -- A full charge won't last me for half a day without much usage at all. The phone intermittently wakes up and won't go back to sleep again, and after I press the power button to put it to stand by, it wakes up a few seconds later. Granted, it's not like that all the time, but it's often enough to be annoying and it's eating the battery alive. Before you ask, yes, I did do a clean install with root.
Very frustrated with this update, and come to think of it, the Android updates of late have not been stellar -- I experienced system random restart when 4.2 hits, and now this...
Sorry for the ranting but I'd like to know if anyone else has experienced similar problems. I googled around and there's an reported issue of Galaxy Nexus battery drain but given the discussion on there I don't think Google is going to dedicate any resource to fixing that.
Which JB point release do you guys think is the best for Galaxy Nexus?
Maybe battery life is not the best one, but you should let the phone settle some days.
The wakening problem is not 4.3 related. Indeed maybe its a usb port/pin problem.
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4.3
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Same here. Been downgrade to 4.2.2 after frustrate with 4.3 battery. Full charge at morning and low battery arround 5pm. 4.2.2 with 4.3 features also drain battery alot. Now I'm running on TeamEOS 4.2.2
Turn of mobile and network location in location settings and try it for a day
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Have you narrowed out that it's none of the apps causing issues?
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So I flashed the latest and "greatest" Android 4.3 on my Galaxy Nexus. After all, this is why we get our nexus devices for, right -- getting the latest updates without begging cell phone vendors or carriers. But Android 4.3 on Galaxy Nexus is driving me nuts -- A full charge won't last me for half a day without much usage at all. The phone intermittently wakes up and won't go back to sleep again, and after I press the power button to put it to stand by, it wakes up a few seconds later. Granted, it's not like that all the time, but it's often enough to be annoying and it's eating the battery alive. Before you ask, yes, I did do a clean install with root.
Very frustrated with this update, and come to think of it, the Android updates of late have not been stellar -- I experienced system random restart when 4.2 hits, and now this...
Sorry for the ranting but I'd like to know if anyone else has experienced similar problems. I googled around and there's an reported issue of Galaxy Nexus battery drain but given the discussion on there I don't think Google is going to dedicate any resource to fixing that.
Which JB point release do you guys think is the best for Galaxy Nexus?
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As personal experience, much of what you describe did happened to me some time ago and it was cause for some apps that were not optimized for the newer Android API version.
That said, you could try boot into Safe Mode (keep pressed the "Turn Off" at the shutdown screen) and see if keep happening the issues you describe
Use Wakelock Detector app to identify what's draining your battery unusually..
Way ahead of you, I need my tethering.
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The waking of the phone is most likely caused by a USB malfunction. 4.3 isn't great because Verizon hasn't updated the Nexus radios so the signal is very bad. It goes from LTE to 3g to no signal and back. It does this so ,much that the battery takes a big hit. Find a ROM where you can turn on and off LTE, that should improve your battery.
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The battery drain is because of "always searching for nearby wifi" option
Just disable it ...
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ive been happy with 4.3 on my VZW Gnex except for constantly having data issues. i downloaded a couple 4.2 roms again to see if they help any. I'm guessing it's because VZW doesn't officially have 4.3 on the Gnex which is why we are seeing data problems. I don't know specifics, maybe binary problems, i dunno. All i do know is it's annoying. I can't even stream iheartradio or pandora at work without it constantly cutting out. then i'll lose data all together and have to reboot the phone to get it back.
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So I flashed the latest and "greatest" Android 4.3 on my Galaxy Nexus. After all, this is why we get our nexus devices for, right -- getting the latest updates without begging cell phone vendors or carriers. But Android 4.3 on Galaxy Nexus is driving me nuts -- A full charge won't last me for half a day without much usage at all. The phone intermittently wakes up and won't go back to sleep again, and after I press the power button to put it to stand by, it wakes up a few seconds later. Granted, it's not like that all the time, but it's often enough to be annoying and it's eating the battery alive. Before you ask, yes, I did do a clean install with root.
Very frustrated with this update, and come to think of it, the Android updates of late have not been stellar -- I experienced system random restart when 4.2 hits, and now this...
Sorry for the ranting but I'd like to know if anyone else has experienced similar problems. I googled around and there's an reported issue of Galaxy Nexus battery drain but given the discussion on there I don't think Google is going to dedicate any resource to fixing that.
Which JB point release do you guys think is the best for Galaxy Nexus?
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I just had this exact problem and spent a day working on it. It actually has nothing to do with android 4.3; its actually the usb port on the phone, as stated a bit earlier in this thread. More specifically, the pin inside the port is likely shorting with the outer surface of the port, due to it bending slightly. This causes the phone to have funky voltages being detected at the port, and results in the phone behaving as you described (the waking up when the screen is off is actually it thinking its going into charging mode). There are two things to do to fix it. Firstly, take some compressed air and thoroughly clean the port out. Dust that accumulates in the port can cause problems like this, and blowing it out is a relatively simple task. If that doesn't work, the next thing to do is to bend the pin up a bit. Note that this requires you to be a bit gentle, but is not overly difficult. Turn the phone off and remove the battery first, then wedge a very small flat head screwdriver between the pin and the bottom of the port. Very gently apply a bit of pressure, just to bend it up a bit. This doesn't need to be by a lot, in fact when i did it, i could only barely even see a physical difference. Put the battery back in and power the phone back up, and see if it was enough. It fixed all my problems when I did it a week ago.
Don't know what seems to be the problem here
Lasts me 1.5 days with 4hrs On Screen Time Every Time
Don't blame 4.3 if it's an app messing with your battery life
Thanks everyone for chiming in. Here's an update. I uninstalled Go battery widget and now the battery lasts longer. Not as long as I had hoped but better. I installed wakelock detector (thanks for suggesting it) after I uninstalled Go battery widget so I don't have the evidence to prove that Go battery widget is the culprit but the phone seems to be running better now. I also haven't experienced any random wake ups.
Would the data issues more likely be a factor of radio, rather than ROM?
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Why do that when you can complain on a new thread on xda?! 4.3 sucks because crappy Go apps create wakelocks!
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I had the same issues with battery life when I upgraded to 4.3. However, I largely attribute that to T-Mobile's horrible reception in College Station, TX. I used PA, CM10, Purity, Avatar, and a few others but the battery life and performance was not respectable even though they claimed the contrary. This phone is reaching its the end of its product life and no matter how many "optimizations" go under the hood, the hardware is just not apt for ROMs designed for higher end phones.
In the end, I flashed a stock rooted ROM, no more "optimizations", "tweaks", or "improvements"...just a clean ROM. Granted, I in no way mean to offend any developer and their hard work but my experiences with their ROMs left a bitter feeling towards them.
Battery life improved significantly. What used to be 100% to 30% in 8-9 hours turned into 100%-50% in 14 hours. Do keep in mind I'm not a power user. My phone serves as a music player for my ~1 hr commute from and to school, occasional text messages, random redditing, and the random news article before class. In all, I average a little under 2 hours screen time before I deplete the battery to 5-10%.
It's also important to use the appropriate radio for your market.
TL;DR - Try stock and a different radio.
Kernel
I have always seen major differences between Kernels and attributed the majority of battery life to that. Some kernels just work better than others. For example, I know that TONS of people love Franco's kernel, but on my phone battery life is terrible on it. Personally, I like Golden and it seems to really improve battery life.
Same here. I've been having constant data issues with 4.3. So much so that I've just lock myself to 3G and so far, that's been good. 3G->4G or back doesn't work half the time and requires either toggling airplane mode on and off, or rebooting the phone outright.
Going to have to agree. I have VZW and all the 4.3 ROM's I've tried have been less than impressive. I obviously appreciate the dev's work but nothing i've tried is ready to be my DD
I know it's been some time since the 5X came out and I'm thinking of ordering one. Has Google addressed the lag issues that plagued the phone when it first came out? How would you rate smoothness and performance?
I bought one a few days ago , it doesn't lag at all and in term of performance it's really good! It's fluid.
got mine in early december. stock, rooted, adaway, deactivated transition animations (literally all the changes i made). no lag issues so far, app switching is smooth and launching an app is subjectivly as quick as to be expected. from my experience and what i've read it can easily keep up with the SGS6.
If you're stock, then yes.
If you're modding and have custom kernel, then potentially no.
Lag on 5x? Can't say I experienced that.
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Experience the lag quite often now. Especially if I don't reboot it for an extended period of time. Most aggravated by camera use. If I never use the camera, it takes a significantly longer period of time before it starts to lag. If I'm traveling and using the camera constantly, I need to reboot by end of day to get the phone functional again.
Honestly any bit of "lag" issues you may have heard about is nitpicking...the overall experience is very fluid and fast.
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I've had my device for a couple days and haven't had any lag issues what so ever on completely stock unrooted and have used the device a good bit. It makes me think that whatever was an issue when the phone was first released was a hardware issue that has since been resolved behind closed doors.
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I have two, one is mine and one is my wife's. I bought them both on release and hers has been quite the headache. It's already been replaced once for issues with unreasonable amounts of lag compared to mine. Mine has been mostly fine, with the same pain points like Camera/Chrome as her but not as bad. I'm not quite as demanding of the phone as she is. I recently wiped mine and went to an AOSP rom with the ElementalX kernel and haven't experienced any of the same lag doing the same exact same tasks. I may wipe hers first and try the same set up before exchanging it again. I'm leaning heavily towards Google just did not optimize the stock kernel for the 808 chip at all. I really feel like they booted up the first build and went "OK it works, let's ship it" without doing any real testing and optimizing like other manufacturers seem to have done (LG G4, Moto X Pure, basically any other 808 phone).
My phone has never had lag. Smooth as butter.
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I know it's been some time since the 5X came out and I'm thinking of ordering one. Has Google addressed the lag issues that plagued the phone when it first came out? How would you rate smoothness and performance?
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It's there for some and that's probably not going to change. Here's one popular android blog (Android Central) that recently wrote a "3 months w/ the 5X" article. Multiple editors provided their thoughts.
It is hit or miss for me. This is my first Nexus so I don't notice lag often but it is there even though I am decrypted and running a custom rom/kernel. My experience has been mostly positive, I love using the 5X. If I were coming from a previous Nexus, I probably would notice the difference in performance right away however my last device was a dual core S3.
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If you're stock, then yes.
If you're modding and have custom kernel, then potentially no.
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Nope, stock device here (no root) with zero lag. Snappy performance and the camera is always quick. I only reboot about once per month for the monthly security OTA.
Besides, most CPU governors are tweaked to increase battery life by decreasing clock speeds. Not to increase performance.
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I've had my device for a couple days and haven't had any lag issues what so ever on completely stock unrooted and have used the device a good bit. It makes me think that whatever was an issue when the phone was first released was a hardware issue that has since been resolved behind closed doors.
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I got mine on release day and my device does not lag. The majority of devices do not we're just 10x more likely to hear from those with issues then those without. There has been no hardware revision or change in the 5x, just software updates.
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It's there for some and that's probably not going to change. Here's one popular android blog (Android Central) that recently wrote a "3 months w/ the 5X" article. Multiple editors provided their thoughts.
It is hit or miss for me. This is my first Nexus so I don't notice lag often but it is there even though I am decrypted and running a custom rom/kernel. My experience has been mostly positive, I love using the 5X. If I were coming from a previous Nexus, I probably would notice the difference in performance right away however my last device was a dual core S3.
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My last device was the Nexus 5. The 5x is just as snappy and the graphics performance is far ahead. My device is stock and not rooted BTW. Based on user experiences I've been reading, those with issues are in the minority and experiencing 3rd party software issues. Many have reported success by doing a factory reset without restoring data from another device.
BTW that article is a joke IMO. The only person who mentions how often their performance issues occur mentioned "about once per week" and the rest don't even say.
Obviously some people are having problems with device performance, but I don't believe it's inherent to the device as most are not experiencing such issues and problems only seem to arise once certain types or amounts of background services are running.
My theory: 2GB of RAM on 64 bit OS fills up quicker than 2gb running 32bit. Users are overloading their RAM with background services (possibly aided by a memory leak ala Android 5). It's no secret that many 3rd party background services have really bad memory management.
Yes lag is there. Fresh reset camera everything runs great. Give it a few days (3-4 for me) and you can stop using your camera. Pictures will take 5 seconds to process. I'm not exaggerating. No software fix in sight, and not a peep from Google about this being an issue or a fix in the works. Feel pretty jipped being a pre-order customer.
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Yes lag is there. Fresh reset camera everything runs great. Give it a few days (3-4 for me) and you can stop using your camera. Pictures will take 5 seconds to process. I'm not exaggerating. No software fix in sight, and not a peep from Google about this being an issue or a fix in the works. Feel pretty jipped being a pre-order customer.
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I can second this totally. Pre-ordered the device and seeing lag especially when using the camera...
not really
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I know it's been some time since the 5X came out and I'm thinking of ordering one. Has Google addressed the lag issues that plagued the phone when it first came out? How would you rate smoothness and performance?
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It totally depends on how you use it. Overall it's a nice phone
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Nope, stock device here (no root) with zero lag. Snappy performance and the camera is always quick. I only reboot about once per month for the monthly security OTA.
Besides, most CPU governors are tweaked to increase battery life by decreasing clock speeds. Not to increase performance.
I got mine on release day and my device does not lag. The majority of devices do not we're just 10x more likely to hear from those with issues then those without. There has been no hardware revision or change in the 5x, just software updates.
My last device was the Nexus 5. The 5x is just as snappy and the graphics performance is far ahead. My device is stock and not rooted BTW. Based on user experiences I've been reading, those with issues are in the minority and experiencing 3rd party software issues. Many have reported success by doing a factory reset without restoring data from another device.
BTW that article is a joke IMO. The only person who mentions how often their performance issues occur mentioned "about once per week" and the rest don't even say.
Obviously some people are having problems with device performance, but I don't believe it's inherent to the device as most are not experiencing such issues and problems only seem to arise once certain types or amounts of background services are running.
My theory: 2GB of RAM on 64 bit OS fills up quicker than 2gb running 32bit. Users are overloading their RAM with background services (possibly aided by a memory leak ala Android 5). It's no secret that many 3rd party background services have really bad memory management.
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I run custom everything and I prefer it. OOTB, left some things to be desired even though my overall Nexus experience has been great. I agree, we'll always here complaints over positive experiences.
Your theory on ram makes sense from a general level of understanding. For me, ram management on here is awful. A few apps, Maps for instance, reload all too quickly.
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I can second this totally. Pre-ordered the device and seeing lag especially when using the camera...
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I can also second this, I'm looking for custom ROM that will make phone usable again. At this point, I resent returning the N6.
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Short answer, yes it lags and pretty bad. I have to power cycle daily to make it usable. I also thought most reviewers were making unrealistic expectations and we're nitpicking but apparently they weren't
Yes, especially with thermal throttling such as when using navigation, taking videos, or multiple photos in succession.
Mine is horrible. Lag when opening the camera, lag when browsing chrome. My phone is encrypted and I have android wear. Honestly the only thing good about this phone versues my nexus 5 is the fingerprint scanner and the front facing speaker and way better battery life. Other than that I am not liking this phone at all.
I've not been on XDA for quite some time but came on today looming for answers to lag on my 5x.
Totally stock, gets above average use I'd guess, and it starts to lag several times a week.
I I stalled an app called Fast Reboot which seems to help without having to go through the pain of a full power off - but after a couple of weeks that makes little difference now.
Full reboot restores speed, but using the camera a coue of times instantly returns the lag - can take 30 sec+ for camera app to take a photo or close. However the lag starts after a day or two even if I don't use camera at all.
Maybe try a replacement from Google seeing as it seems hit and miss rather than a clear manufacturing/ ROM issue across them all.