Hello!
I experience problems with my Samsung Galaxy Nexus battery life. I'm not really sure, if it was began already on 4.0.4. or started only after my 4.1 (Jelly Bean) update, as I upgraded it just after the purchase.
As for now, I have to charge my phone 2 times a day, although my usage of it is very moderate (no games, 3G, etc.). And the battery statistics shows that "Browser" and "Google Services" consume more than 50% of a battery, though I'm not using the stock browser at all. It seems that this services are just keeping the phone awake:
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I saw other posts dedicated to this problem (for example, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416994), but most of them say about "Android OS" problem. I disabled Google+ and location services (as it is sometimes advised), but it didn't help. As you can imagine, this bug is very frustrating and annoying.
Any ideas, who can be the culprit?
Thank you in advance.
Did u try clearing cache and data on Google services framework in apps> settings> all?
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Scallywag1 said:
Did u try clearing cache and data on Google services framework in apps> settings> all?
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Scallywag1, thank you for the tip! No, I didn't... but now I've cleared it. The problem goes away after every restart and then appears suddenly, so I'll have to wait for another day or two before reporting success.
Could be an app trying to open the browser everytime it launches and just leaving it there trying to connect
I also thought about some app, but I couldn't find it, and don't know how to do it now. Can you advise some utility?
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You can use watchdog task manager or view whats running and kill it also you can download alogcat and see whats running etc.
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You can use watchdog task manager or view whats running and kill it also you can download alogcat and see whats running etc.
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I understand that I also can use
Code:
adb logcat > log.txt
or
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ddms.bat
but it seems rather difficult to analyse that log with all the output from various applications. I also tried different "battery draining problem diagnosing" apps but none of them helped
And thank you for the "Watchdog Task Manager" - never heard of that app, will definitely try it!
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Scallywag1, thank you very much again!
It seems that your solution worked: no more "Browser" or "Google Services" in battery stats for three days. And now I have to recharge once a day: cannot say that it's really great, but it is much better and totally bearable for me.
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While I own an international unlocked version of the S2, i assume the Sprint version must be very similar. After countless hours of trying to figure it out, this is what i discovered and solved my battery draining issue (it's been two months with no problems at all) i get 4 to 5 hrs display time and it lasts me all day. I was on stock 2.3.3 and recently upgraded to 2.3.4. with same results. The following tips are things i did prior to rooting, and they solved my battery drain issue.
1. Anything that tracks location is a battery drainer and i discovered that i was using wireless networks for location (it's also not that accurate) and it was the biggest culprit, so i disabled it and now i use gps (more accurate) as needed and turn it off when done. If you use Google maps with google latitude enabled, sign out of latitude when done using it.
2. App killers use more battery than saving it by closing apps and processes that run in backgroung that will automatically open right back again. Stay away from them.
3. Some apps if left in memory will constantly cause cpu spikes (suspend and events/0), in my case it was Facebook and Xfinity apps. So i close all active apps in task manager. Don't really clear ram, just close active apps.
4. Use Watchdog from Market to track any apps that might be using a lot of cpu.
5.Enabling Back up my data also drained my battery, so i disable it.
Hopes this helps...
AqueousBor said:
1. Anything that tracks location is a battery drainer and i discovered that i was using wireless networks for location (it's also not that accurate) and it was the biggest culprit, so i disabled it and now i use gps (more accurate) as needed and turn it off when done.
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While I can't state for certain that it's causing any extra battery drain, Carrier IQ is hooking into the location service, and every time your location changes, grokking your latitude, longitude, accuracy, and a timestamp. This is new to the Epic Touch.
I constantly have alerts for suspend and event/0 in watchdog. In the stock task manager there really isnt much running to kill. It's driving me nuts. haha My battery life isnt horrible but I think it could be better..
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Wondering if i am suffering from the volume bug See...
Charging overnight: http://i44.tinypic.com/9930j7.jpg - Yet my phone has been "awake"?!
After 2 hours: http://i41.tinypic.com/2dim6me.jpg - Discharge almost 20% already and you see the awake time?
After 4 hours: http://i43.tinypic.com/302tok0.jpg - Faint! 50% was drained in 4 hours!
My homescreen: http://i44.tinypic.com/260e6tx.jpg - You will say is my Beautiful Widget, but I removed it and still phone awake!
How can I troubleshoot?
Exchange Services is really high. You probably have a corporate account that is having sync issues, and keeps waking the device.
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Exchange Services is really high. You probably have a corporate account that is having sync issues, and keeps waking the device.
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Yeah I do have a corporate email account. But it's set to push notifications should I receive any e-mail.
Run BetterBatteryStats to see what keeps it awake. There's no reason why Exchange services should be that much of your battery.
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Run BetterBatteryStats to see what keeps it awake. There's no reason why Exchange services should be that much of your battery.
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Thanks.
Any settings I should take note of or set? What does blue/red bar means per app?
Process:
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Partial Wakelocks:
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Partial Wakelocks:
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I think it is pretty obvious just by looking at your 2nd screenshot.
If u don't use Bluetooth (if ur rooted) , go to /system/bin and delete the file "bluetoothd" to fix wakelock
Edit: be sure to backup the file first
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Yeah pretty sure it was the Corporate Email. I have since then remove the account and this is my result overnight from 100% downwards after 6 hours. VEry good results.
Thanks for your help.
My Exchange went nuts just like that, clearing the app cache didn't help but reflashing my rom over top again did, just cleared cache and flashed rom again and its back to normal, using 4% of battery or so on push...
Congrats on resolving your issue. Just to help others, is there any chance you know and could mention what o/s or version of exchange your work server is running? Exchange and/or the stock email app seems to be a problem for some but not for others. More info might just help someone isolate the root cause someday.
I did not flash. I just delete my account and readd it and it was fine after that.
Since about a week the battery life of my one X has become terrible. According to the battery usage screen, google maps seems to be draining all the juice. Im not actually using gm though, so something must be going on in the background.
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Does this sound familiar to anyone and is there a solution to the problem?
Thanks in advance!
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Since about a week the battery life of my one X has become terrible. According to the battery usage screen, google maps seems to be draining all the juice. Im not actually using gm though, so something must be going on in the background.
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Does this sound familiar to anyone and is there a solution to the problem?
Thanks in advance!
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Just disable it
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And how do I do that? I can close the process, but it will automatically go back on. Disabling the app itself is not something I know how to do and not really something I would like to do either.
Perhaps one other thing of importance: when I open maps (or now) it says location services are turned off, while they are not.
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And how do I do that? I can close the process, but it will automatically go back on. Disabling the app itself is not something I know how to do and not really something I would like to do either.
Perhaps one other thing of importance: when I open maps (or now) it says location services are turned off, while they are not.
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disable from settings app manager OR
get greenify from playstore and just greenify it
problem solved :good:
Also, where do you live at? Might be your not connected to the right sattelites for your region. You could go to play store and download faster fix and make sure your phone is reading off the right satellites.
Any suggestions on how to fix this? Suddenly Play Services is the number one user of battery on my phone, and I cant go more than 7 or 8 hours instead of all day like before.
Stock rooted MK3, play services version 4.2.43
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poit said:
Any suggestions on how to fix this? Suddenly Play Services is the number one user of battery on my phone, and I cant go more than 7 or 8 hours instead of all day like before.
Stock rooted MK3, play services version 4.2.43
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I use ROM Toolbox to take away some of it's startup privileges, the easiest way though is to turn off location services, but some people aren't willing to do that. And that battery life pictured isn't that bad, you can see that the line is slowly sloping down with no spikes... especially with Bluetooth on. If you don't have it connected to something I suggest turning it off.
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I use ROM Toolbox to take away some of it's startup privileges, the easiest way though is to turn off location services, but some people aren't willing to do that. And that battery life pictured isn't that bad, you can see that the line is slowly sloping down with no spikes... especially with Bluetooth on. If you don't have it connected to something I suggest turning it off.
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Thanks for the suggestion.
This is something that just started, and it appears that it wakelocks about 30% of the total run time of the phone. (20 Minutes out of 60). Definitely not right.
More searching has found a suggestion that this bug has something to do with google hangouts constantly forcing play services to wakelock. Since I don't use hangouts I have frozen it, and I'll see if anything changes.
Update:
After a full charge and 2 hours of runtime with Hangouts frozen I no longer see any hint of the Play services in the battery stats, and I'm down to 96% instead of 92 percent. I know it's not solid proof but it looks promising. compare the screenshots:
With Hangouts unfrozen^
With Hangouts frozen^
Hey. Not exactly the best place to do this but I've just noticed my battery is spiking down rapidly. I'm not sure what going on. Every ten seconds or so I drop 1% This issue has just started occurring. Any help?
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poit said:
Any suggestions on how to fix this? Suddenly Play Services is the number one user of battery on my phone, and I cant go more than 7 or 8 hours instead of all day like before.
Stock rooted MK3, play services version 4.2.43
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You may want to check out THIS THREAD.
Hello, i have a Samsung Galaxy S9 and from 2 weeks i have a problem with Google Play Services app which is listed first in battery usage viewer:
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I have only default applications + Waze + WhatsApp and Steam. I tried to wipe cache on Google Play Services, i tried to remove my Google Account and add it again, and also i tried factory reset. However, Google Play Services is still the first battery drain.
Is this normal? Can i do something to fix this?
Thank you!
gaby_nuta said:
Hello, i have a Samsung Galaxy S9 and from 2 weeks i have a problem with Google Play Services app which is listed first in battery usage viewer:
I have only default applications + Waze + WhatsApp and Steam. I tried to wipe cache on Google Play Services, i tried to remove my Google Account and add it again, and also i tried factory reset. However, Google Play Services is still the first battery drain.
Is this normal? Can i do something to fix this?
Thank you!
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Try becoming a Beta tester for Google Play Services, it will download the latest beta for you, I've been running the beta since the S7 and had no battery drain from it
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.gms
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Try becoming a Beta tester for Google Play Services, it will download the latest beta for you, I've been running the beta since the S7 and had no battery drain from it
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.gms
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Me neither.
Thank you for replies!
If i become a beta tester for Google Play Services, can i turn back to normal version if the app is unstable?
Is this problem (G Play Services drain battery) a common one on S9 at least? Is it only software related or can be "the whole phone" (hardware)?
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Thank you for replies!
If i become a beta tester for Google Play Services, can i turn back to normal version if the app is unstable?
Is this problem (G Play Services drain battery) a common one on S9 at least? Is it only software related or can be "the whole phone" (hardware)?
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Yes you can, and I haven't heard of this problem before
I joined Google Play Services Beta program but i don't see improvements... It still using a lot of resources/battery...
I uninstalled Waze too (thought it wants access to location in the background) but still no improvements...
Is there something else i can do? I hope it's not a hardware/device problem...
gaby_nuta said:
I joined Google Play Services Beta program but i don't see improvements... It still using a lot of resources/battery...
I uninstalled Waze too (thought it wants access to location in the background) but still no improvements...
Is there something else i can do? I hope it's not a hardware/device problem...
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Try uninstalling the apps you've installed and see if it helps. If it does, then try adding them back one at a time. You could try something like Gsam Battery Monitor and see what's draining the battery.