How to check: Install BetterBatteryStats and then check Kernel Wakelocks.
It seems bam_dmux_wakelock has something to do with mobile data. It's sort of the equivalent of the wlan_rx wakelock which is for keeping the WiFi signal active when the screen is off. I've tested and verified that if you turn on wi-fi and use that, bam_dmux_wakelock stops happening (since now wlan_rx wakelock is there) but the moment you turn off wi-fi the bam_dmux_wakelock starts going.
What's odd is I've had my phone off the charger for 6 hours but yet the bam_dmux_wakelock has only been running for about an hour...the only thing that seems to coincide with this is using Bluetooth to stream audio (although I did that earlier without issue too!).
I'll post a screenshot below as an example but I'm hoping by finding others with this problem we can find root cause and fix it!
Thanks.
What is known:
- It is related to 3G/LTE radio and not wifi
- Turning the phone's airplane mode on stops bam_dmux_wakelock from occurring. Turning Airplane mode off and when data connects, bam_dmux_wakelock starts again.
- Turning Wifi on stops bam_dmux_wakelock from occurring
- Rebooting the phone DOES NOT STOP bam_dmux_wakelock from occurring without uninstalling any apps or changing anything. So this is present at boot-up.
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I have noticed this also. It have tied it to Bluetooth in my car. When I paired my S3 with my car it asked me if I wanted to let the car download my address book. I said yes but did not check the "Remember this choice". So the next time I got in and it asked I told it no and then checked the remember box. From what I can tell this was causing my car to keep asking my phone for the address book over and over. I have since redid the paring and allow the address book to sync each time I get in the car and this as stopped this wake lock for me so far. It has helped my batt also. When I was in the car the battery was dropping fast. Now it does not. Next time it happens try tuning off BT and see if it stops.
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I have noticed this also. It have tied it to Bluetooth in my car. When I paired my S3 with my car it asked me if I wanted to let the car download my address book. I said yes but did not check the "Remember this choice". So the next time I got in and it asked I told it no and then checked the remember box. From what I can tell this was causing my car to keep asking my phone for the address book over and over. I have since redid the paring and allow the address book to sync each time I get in the car and this as stopped this wake lock for me so far. It has helped my batt also. When I was in the car the battery was dropping fast. Now it does not. Next time it happens try tuning off BT and see if it stops.
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Thought it was Bluetooth too but turning it off has no impact on this.
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I think BAM is Bluetooth something. So I think it is tied to BT. But as I think about it that does follow mine also. Once it started which was each time I got in my car it would not stop the battery drain unless I rebooted. Even if I did not use the car. So the way I see it once you trip it there is no stopping it unless you reboot. But that be different than what you are seeing.
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I think BAM is Bluetooth something. So I think it is tied to BT. But as I think about it that does follow mine also. Once it started which was each time I got in my car it would not stop the battery drain unless I rebooted. Even if I did not use the car. So the way I see it once you trip it there is no stopping it unless you reboot. But that be different than what you are seeing.
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See the problem with that is even after a reboot it starts and runs a little although not constantly without even connecting BT. If we at least knew what it stood for it would make it easier to troubleshoot. Also if it's Bluetooth it doesn't make sense for it to stop when you switch to wifi. It has to do with the mobile radio and mobile data for sure
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Ok so doing some more playing and my latest guess is the firmware update. So I went in and tried to check for an update date just for the heck of it. Right after that I started to notice the phone being just a bit warm. Then an hour or so later I could see the battery was dropping. Bam waitlock was there also. I did 2 things and one of them stopped it. I flipped air plane mode on and off and the turned mobile data off and on. The mobile data one I read in another thread that stopped it. Once I did that phone cooled and battery decline stopped. Now when I do a check for an update I get an error that it can not reach the server and it will try again in 48 hours. That seems strange to me. Every other android phone I have owned will say something along the lines like " your software is up to date" or something like that. So I am wondering if this starts when the phone tries to check for an update and can not reach the server and keeps trying or something that keeps the radio alive. See if you can recreate it. I will be watching mine.
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Ok so doing some more playing and my latest guess is the firmware update. So I went in and tried to check for an update date just for the heck of it. Right after that I started to notice the phone being just a bit warm. Then an hour or so later I could see the battery was dropping. Bam waitlock was there also. I did 2 things and one of them stopped it. I flipped air plane mode on and off and the turned mobile data off and on. The mobile data one I read in another thread that stopped it. Once I did that phone cooled and battery decline stopped. Now when I do a check for an update I get an error that it can not reach the server and it will try again in 48 hours. That seems strange to me. Every other android phone I have owned will say something along the lines like " your software is up to date" or something like that. So I am wondering if this starts when the phone tries to check for an update and can not reach the server and keeps trying or something that keeps the radio alive. See if you can recreate it. I will be watching mine.
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Yeah definitely not Bluetooth - haven't used Bluetooth (has been off) and I've been getting bam_dmux wakelock. I think it has to do with keeping the mobile radio active so the phone can send/receive data. Have you tried turning off autosync and seeing if that makes it stop? I have a feeling similar to keeping Wifi awake, this wakelock keeps the radio awake so the phone can receive data. I bet the less stuff you have running that's waiting for updates the better!
My guess is we will need a firmware update to fix this. It is either something deep in the radio or internal processes since we can not really see it in any tool.
I know it's a bit of an old thread, but has there been any progress made discovering what this is? I've been trying to tackle my battery usage issues and this is one of my big sleep wake offenders.
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I know it's a bit of an old thread, but has there been any progress made discovering what this is? I've been trying to tackle my battery usage issues and this is one of my big sleep wake offenders.
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I'd also like to know this...
Add me to the list of people who cant figure out what is causing this wakelock. There is very little info about it on the internet.
I just made a discovery - I had recently installed Google Tracks and played with it a bit. Shortly after that is when I started noticing the bam_dmux_wakelock. It finally clicked today that Tracks could be the culprit. So I saved the tracks I had created, uninstalled, and no more bam_dmux_wakelock! Well, that's not entirely true - it's still there, but instead of being *hours* of usage it's down to seconds.
Does anyone else who has noticed this have Tracks installed? If so, will you try uninstalling it to see if you have the same results I did?
I think you are on to something. I noticed my Google maps had its location settings turned on for Latitude. So my phone was tracking me and uploading my location. I turned this off and of course battery was much better but all most no bam_wakelock. Check and see if this is turned on by going to maps then Location Settings. Turn them all off. Unless you want your friends to be able to track you.
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I think you are on to something. I noticed my Google maps had its location settings turned on for Latitude. So my phone was tracking me and uploading my location. I turned this off and of course battery was much better but all most no bam_wakelock. Check and see if this is turned on by going to maps then Location Settings. Turn them all off. Unless you want your friends to be able to track you.
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BAM dmux is for mobile data so anything that keeps mobile data connection open it will show up. Stands for broadband access multiplier demultiplier. It's normal.
Just means something is keeping data connection alive. I did more research.
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BAM dmux is for mobile data so anything that keeps mobile data connection open it will show up. Stands for broadband access multiplier demultiplier. It's normal.
Just means something is keeping data connection alive. I did more research.
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Thanx for the explanation. I'm gonna try to find the culprit then.
A combination of uninstalling Tracks and disabling the Google auto-backup solved my battery drain problem. Took a reboot after turning off backup before I really saw a difference, though.
My bam_dmux_wakelock is still there, but nowhere near the level it was before. And after reading the above explanation that makes sense.
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For me disabling the auto starts from Google Maps and using tasker to schedule Google sync instead of using auto sync has made a world of difference.
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For me disabling the auto starts from Google Maps and using tasker to schedule Google sync instead of using auto sync has made a world of difference.
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What did you use to disable the auto starts for maps? I've heard of people doing that but haven't researched it myself.
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What did you use to disable the auto starts for maps? I've heard of people doing that but haven't researched it myself.
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I use an app called Autostarts ... :thumbup:
You can find a tutorial in the thread from betterbatterystats.
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For the past 3 days my battery is dropping at an incredibly fast rate. Even if its idle it will drop about 20 % every half hour with little to no use. I rooted my phone and am now running fresh with kings kernel but no change. I an even dropping in airplane mode. What can it be? I left it at 90% connected to wifi with the sync off and when I woke up 6 hours later it was at 20%. Any solutions?
Sounds like mine, just turning on the screen drops the batter 1-2%.
Hit menu and click on settings. From there, go to About Phone and then to Battery. Note the awake time and turn the screen off for thirty seconds or so. Turn the screen back on and check the awake time again. If it's not within five to ten seconds of the time you noted before you turned the screen off, something is keeping your phone awake, which does a number on the battery.
square parts or system panel might give a better idea of what specifically is draining your battery, or preventing it from sleeping correctly.
It seems fine, about 15 seconds difference. The weird thing is this only started happening about 3 days ago, I rooted yesterday, and its still doing it.
Go for what Fachadick said. Download and install Spare Parts from the Android Market. Go to Battery History and click on the dropdown box where it says "other usage" and click on "partial wake usage". If anything is taking up one of those bars, that's your problem.
If there's nothing notable there, it could be damn near any of your applications. When you root, you lose settings for you apps (depending on how you rooted), so your autosyncs could be going crazy. Might wanna check those.
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Go for what Fachadick said. Download and install Spare Parts from the Android Market. Go to Battery History and click on the dropdown box where it says "other usage" and click on "partial wake usage". If anything is taking up one of those bars, that's your problem.
If there's nothing notable there, it could be damn near any of your applications. When you root, you lose settings for you apps (depending on how you rooted), so your autosyncs could be going crazy. Might wanna check those.
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What he said Rooting won't fix battery issues. Rooting and installing a new ROM is just like reinstalling your OS. It can fix things or not depending on how it is configured. Likewise it won't fix your phone if hardware is bad.
does it drop steadily or just the first 5-10% or so? There is a well documented issue where the trickle charge stops at 100% and then shuts off so the phone actually drains a bit before it kicks in again. When you first unplug it, the reading may drop quickly until it reaches the real level.
Likewise depending on what you have installed and how it is set up, there may be something keeping your phone from sleeping. Check for partial wake use like the previous poster said and that will tell you what process/application is keeping your phone awake and draining battery.
i had this same problem about the battery before i rooted my phone. after i rooted it i got overclock widget and i get through the day with so much more battery left. i make sure my battery is full right before i go to bed, i put it on airplane mode and go to bed wake up around 7 a.m.(my battery is always at 98 when i get up in the morning so 2% in about 8 hrs) and i get home around 8:30 and my battery is at 48%. and no i dont leave it lying around with the screen off. i constantly go on, text, internet etc.
hope it works for you too!
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I am having this same problem and it started about 2 days ago. I downloaded Spare parts and looked up the partial usage (screenshots attached). I'm not sure what I'm suppose to determine from this. Mail is showing with more fill-in than any other program, when I click on it, I get the details. Can someone help?
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I am having this same problem and it started about 2 days ago. I downloaded Spare parts and looked up the partial usage (screenshots attached). I'm not sure what I'm suppose to determine from this. Mail is showing with more fill-in than any other program, when I click on it, I get the details. Can someone help?
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It doesn't appear (to me anyway) that you're having any issues with partial wake time. You may have a runaway app draining your battery and cpu - system panel is invaluable for hunting those down. It will show you each running process with exacly how much cpu it's used. It gets even better and gives evenmore detail if you let it monitor your system over time.
turn off latitude
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turn off latitude
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How did you get that from his screens? Not doubting you, but where do you see that?
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Thanks for the help fachadick, where would I get "System Panel" from? Couldn't find in the market.
P.S. - I'm a lady LOL
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Thanks for the help fachadick, where would I get "System Panel" from? Couldn't find in the market.
P.S. - I'm a lady LOL
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There I go, letting my prejudices get ahead of me again, sorry about that. I think in the market it’s called systempanel – one word.
So will the free version pinpoint the problem, or would I need to do the paid version?
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So will the free version pinpoint the problem, or would I need to do the paid version?
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to be honest, I'm not sure - I don't remember what kind of detail it gives you in the free version, but the app is so useful to monitor cpu and battery, as well as for hunting down rougue apps, I would recommend the paid version as a "required" app for all rooters.
when you load it up, the default screen is essentially a taskkiller - but more importantly, you can go into settings and have it show ALL processes, and if you select one of the apps or processes from that main screen, it tells you when it was started, how much cpu it used, how much memory its used, and at least in the paid version, a historical graph of cpu usage - so you can see exactly when it used the cpu over the past 2 hours, 8 hours, 1 day, 3 days, or over the past week.
Me Too - "Android System" extremely high - Stock 2.2
This is also happening to me from 4 days ago. I haven't installed any new apps in the last 15 days or so, and for good measure, i uninstalled the last 10 apps i installed before that. When i check battery usage, the "Android System" takes up between 60 and 70 percent. When i open it, it lists like this:
HTC Checkin Service
Settings
Upgrade Setup
Rosie Utility
Android System
Setup
Accounts & Sync
HTC Widget Download Manager
VPN Services
Network Location
com.android.qxdmlog
BrcmBluetoothServices
Settings Storage
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Bluetooth is off, 4g is off (when's cincinnati going live already!??! Just the heart of downtown and the mall)
Wifi is off, and I've been turning off gps now, but i always used to leave it on and made it through the day.
"Cell Standby" is next with 8%, everything else below that.
I kill everything with task manager now and it doesn't seem to help at all.
It is not possible to exaggerate how fast the battery is being drained. It drops by 1-2% each 45 seconds or so. I've done the Charge-for-8-hours-turn-off-charge-trickle-charge-unplug-trickle-charge-unplug-etc thing last night and no help. This is with no widgets installed, no live wallpaper, no music, when for months i can make it through the day with a little pandora, bluetooth while driving, a game or two, internet, maps, and several other apps throughout the day. I've stopped everything but messaging and phone calls and it still drains just as fast.
PLEASE HELP!
I don't know if this applies to anyone in this thread, but after installing a new rom sometimes I forget that the Gtalk/Gchat app resets itself to automatically sign in, and drains the battery while running in the background.
Changing it to not run automatically helps out for me, although I feel that I may have gotten slightly better battery life out of the rooted stock rom than running the King kernel I'm using right now. At least in terms of percentage drop. I never really reset my battery stats or recalibrate after installing a new rom, don't know how much that has an effect on the readings.
This is turning into a deal breaker
Its not latitude, off. Not ANYTHING as it still happens with everything off and all apps killed in task manager.
No background, no live wallpaper (even though i used to have one all day). No music (even though i used to have pandora on a couple hours a day). screen brightness is always low (even though i used to leave it above medium, and would turn it up to high to watch video or a game, and still made it most of the day before).
The phone's battery use thing swears its "Android System" thats taking by far the most, not even cell standby got larger when i unplugged it in the basement where there's no service.
i've turned off everything i could think of, no apps 'auto update' and i've put all syncing and updating and stuff to manual or off that i could find.
I don't think its a faulty battery because it is ridiculously noticeable that something has changed in that ANDROID SYSTEM is now a power hog. Why and what do to?????
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Its not latitude, off. Not ANYTHING as it still happens with everything off and all apps killed in task manager.
No background, no live wallpaper (even though i used to have one all day). No music (even though i used to have pandora on a couple hours a day). screen brightness is always low (even though i used to leave it above medium, and would turn it up to high to watch video or a game, and still made it most of the day before).
The phone's battery use thing swears its "Android System" thats taking by far the most, not even cell standby got larger when i unplugged it in the basement where there's no service.
i've turned off everything i could think of, no apps 'auto update' and i've put all syncing and updating and stuff to manual or off that i could find.
I don't think its a faulty battery because it is ridiculously noticeable that something has changed in that ANDROID SYSTEM is now a power hog. Why and what do to?????
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Have you pulled the battery lately? Give that a shot.
EDIT
I was able to solve my battery issue by formatting my SD card. Something on there was causing the battery to drain 2-3 times more quickly than normal. After formatting, I went from 6-8 hour battery life to around 20 hours with significant usage (Google, Exchange, IMAP, Facebook all on push, 3G+Bluetooth+GPS on, 4G and wifi as needed for extra speed).
Important to note, I am not entirely convinced that the Android OS and battery drain are related since I still have Android OS near if not at the top of my battery consumption screen, but the improved actual longevity is very significant. I recommend anyone having their battery run out format their SD card (and possibly USB storage) and see if that helps (obviously back up any important data first!). Good luck!
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I'm getting pretty bad battery life, and it looks like "Android OS" is consuming most of it. I've rebooted (as suggested in other threads), checked OS Monitor for high-CPU usage processes, but nothing stands out. This is un-rooted, stock OS with no third party launchers installed.
I have a feeling if this issue was fixed, I'd be getting great battery life. This happening to anyone else?
Screenshots show the device at 38% after 6.5 hours off the charger.
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if u using a 2.3.3 based rom is normal, that bug is fixed at 2.3.4 and 2.3.5
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if u using a 2.3.3 based rom is normal, that bug is fixed at 2.3.4 and 2.3.5
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This is un-rooted, stock OS with no third party launchers installed.
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My device is running 2.3.4.
That's an awful lot of awake time with no screen on time. Do you have things updating in the background frequently? I.e. social hub, Facebook, news widgets?
And not to be too obvious, but is your 4g antenna turned on?
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That's an awful lot of awake time with no screen on time. Do you have things updating in the background frequently? I.e. social hub, Facebook, news widgets?
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No, I don't. I have fewer widgets and fewer accounts (haven't set up my work Exchange yet) than I previously had on my EVO, which got great battery life.
I've been on Android over a year and am quite familiar with how it works... I'm just unfamiliar with Samsung specifically and unrooted devices and was hoping someone might have a similar experience.
I have the same thing. Significantly more awake time then screen on time, and Android OS eating the battery. Also stock.
Same here too
I had this exact issue and no longer do. Here is what I did and posted in another thread:
OK I hope someone finds this useful and/or can verify. I was one of those people getting awful battery life, meaning lucky to last 8 hours from 100% to 0%. The "Android OS" process would take hours of CPU time. Now it will take up maybe 30 min over the course of the day. Here is the only thing I did between the time it went from bad to good. I changed the wifi sleep policy. It is by default (for me at least) set to never. I changed it to "when the screen turns off" and left it there for about an hour. Then went in and changed it back to never. From the point of doing this my battery life has been great.
I know it sounds strange but it seems to have worked for me so I thought I would share.
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I had this exact issue and no longer do. Here is what I did and posted in another thread:
OK I hope someone finds this useful and/or can verify. I was one of those people getting awful battery life, meaning lucky to last 8 hours from 100% to 0%. The "Android OS" process would take hours of CPU time. Now it will take up maybe 30 min over the course of the day. Here is the only thing I did between the time it went from bad to good. I changed the wifi sleep policy. It is by default (for me at least) set to never. I changed it to "when the screen turns off" and left it there for about an hour. Then went in and changed it back to never. From the point of doing this my battery life has been great.
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Thanks for the suggestion!
I made the change, hopefully it will help, although I'm reluctant since I haven't had wifi on all day and my battery has been dropping like a rock. Here's hoping... will report back if it helps.
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Thanks for the suggestion!
I made the change, hopefully it will help, although I'm reluctant since I haven't had wifi on all day and my battery has been dropping like a rock. Here's hoping... will report back if it helps.
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I rarely use wifi as well but this setting seemed to affect the phone in general, if your using wifi or not. I might just be crazy though. Either way I no longer have the issue so
does the google voice widget pull data in the background or is it a push thing?
I'm seeing high usage (60+%) by AndroidOS also (stock, unrooted, not using WiFi, not using 4G), although battery life has not been bad that I have noticed.
Watchdog Lite indicates that this is primarily due to two processes:
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mjdoran said:
I had this exact issue and no longer do. Here is what I did and posted in another thread:
OK I hope someone finds this useful and/or can verify. I was one of those people getting awful battery life, meaning lucky to last 8 hours from 100% to 0%. The "Android OS" process would take hours of CPU time. Now it will take up maybe 30 min over the course of the day. Here is the only thing I did between the time it went from bad to good. I changed the wifi sleep policy. It is by default (for me at least) set to never. I changed it to "when the screen turns off" and left it there for about an hour. Then went in and changed it back to never. From the point of doing this my battery life has been great.
I know it sounds strange but it seems to have worked for me so I thought I would share.
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I'm having the exact same issue. Stupid question here (I've already tried to find it and googled it too, but no success.
Where do you change the wifi policy? I don't see it under wifi settings
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Where do you change the wifi policy? I don't see it under wifi settings
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limeaid said:
I'm having the exact same issue. Stupid question here (I've already tried to find it and googled it too, but no success.
Where do you change the wifi policy? I don't see it under wifi settings
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Settings >> Wireless and Networks >> Wi-Fi settings
Then press the menu button and then advanced.
Should then be the first option "Wi-Fi sleep policy".
Thanks. Like everyone else, I'm going to try this out and report back after a day or so
I'm trying to get into the 'INFO' section to view wake locks for battery usage clues. I've tried *#INFO*1111# (as mentioned here) and the old *#*#INFO*#*# to no avail. Anyone been able to get to the diagnostic screen from the dialer?
Are people with battery problems using widgetlocker?
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Are people with battery problems using widgetlocker?
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Interesting. I installed it yesterday. Will try removing it if the wifi setting doesn't work...
Is anyone with the "Android OS" battery drain not using widgetlocker?
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Interesting. I installed it yesterday. Will try removing it if the wifi setting doesn't work...
Is anyone with the "Android OS" battery drain not using widgetlocker?
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I am not and was not using it.
Okay so I know people have been having the Cell Standby battery drain issue which I am affected by as well however turning off WiFi fixes that problem temporarily, My main issue is with Android OS and Google Play Services. Turning off location access seems to help with the Google Play Services but Android OS loves to eat the rest of my battery and honestly i'm lucky to get an hour of screen on time.
Anyone know of any solutions to this? I'm running stock everything, baseband version G925TUVU2COF6.
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Exact same issue here, wish I had something for you
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Exact same issue here, wish I had something for you
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So I don't know how or why but I just restored my phone twice in a row and it's fine now. Why did I do it twice? Because the first restore caused the phone to lag and the fingerprint sensor stopped working. Anyways, I've been using it for like 3 hours and my screen is actually the most battery consuming thing like it should be so if it changes back to its old ways I'll report back.
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Ivrim said:
So I don't know how or why but I just restored my phone twice in a row and it's fine now. Why did I do it twice? Because the first restore caused the phone to lag and the fingerprint sensor stopped working. Anyways, I've been using it for like 3 hours and my screen is actually the most battery consuming thing like it should be so if it changes back to its old ways I'll report back.
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Greatly appreciated. How is it today? I guess restoring is an option I can try but such a pain
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So it's back to its old ways and I'm guessing it's because I updated Google Play Services and after that the issue started happening again. However I should have noted in my last post that while doing the initial setup of the phone I did not allow tmobile diagnostics like I normally do so that may play a role in this, but I'm pretty sure it's just google.
The restore though did appear to fix the cell standby issue that I previously had because I'm leaving wifi on 24/7 even with wifi power saving mode off in the service menu (dial *#0011#) and it's not causing excess drain anymore.
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Ivrim said:
So it's back to its old ways and I'm guessing it's because I updated Google Play Services and after that the issue started happening again. However I should have noted in my last post that while doing the initial setup of the phone I did not allow tmobile diagnostics like I normally do so that may play a role in this, but I'm pretty sure it's just google.
The restore though did appear to fix the cell standby issue that I previously had because I'm leaving wifi on 24/7 even with wifi power saving mode off in the service menu (dial *#0011#) and it's not causing excess drain anymore.
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What's WiFi power save mode?
Edit: nvm. Just Googled it. Lol. Does it stay off or do I have to keep turning it off manually? Seems like the S3 guys back in the day said they had to keep turning it off manually. My WiFi connections are actually a lot better right now. Usually get bad connection in my room.
Mine stays off I don't have to keep switching it. I keep mine off because apparently samsungs are finicky with ASUS routers. :/
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It will start acting up again soon. You can boot into recovery and just clear cache and get the same result for a day or two.
UPDATE -- I have fixed my drain issue on WiFi
So I just recently received my S6 Edge on Monday. Rooted it immediately using the AOU kernel method to not trip KNOX. After that, of course turned on Wifi to get all my apps back and downloaded. Later on Monday, I was at work and phone was perfect without any drain. Got home and it connected to my Wifi and it just smoked through my battery sitting doing nothing.
Started research and seen it was dealing with WiFi. Well I am here to tell you it is not. It is SPECIFICALLY due to the com.tmobile.pr.adapt. I had this keep popping up after rooting and it wanted access...so given it was tmobile I granted it. This morning, I woke up, turned off VoLTE and left WiFi on and it did nothing but draining my battery 4% in 20 minutes sitting dark on a table. Turned off wifi and it worked great(basically stopped it in its tracks) so I went to the market, downloaded Package Disabler and disabled that com.tmobile.pr.adapt. My phone has now been sitting at 95% for 25 minutes. Welp...just dropped to 94% but I would say my battery drain issue is solved.
I will most likely be using Titanium and deleting it but wanted to just turn it off for now to see if it was the issue.
After 1hr30 minutes, I have dropped 3% and this is while using the phone and letting it sit idle.
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bds120 said:
UPDATE -- I have fixed my drain issue on WiFi
So I just recently received my S6 Edge on Monday. Rooted it immediately using the AOU kernel method to not trip KNOX. After that, of course turned on Wifi to get all my apps back and downloaded. Later on Monday, I was at work and phone was perfect without any drain. Got home and it connected to my Wifi and it just smoked through my battery sitting doing nothing.
Started research and seen it was dealing with WiFi. Well I am here to tell you it is not. It is SPECIFICALLY due to the com.tmobile.pr.adapt. I had this keep popping up after rooting and it wanted access...so given it was tmobile I granted it. This morning, I woke up, turned off VoLTE and left WiFi on and it did nothing but draining my battery 4% in 20 minutes sitting dark on a table. Turned off wifi and it worked great(basically stopped it in its tracks) so I went to the market, downloaded Package Disabler and disabled that com.tmobile.pr.adapt. My phone has now been sitting at 95% for 25 minutes. Welp...just dropped to 94% but I would say my battery drain issue is solved.
I will most likely be using Titanium and deleting it but wanted to just turn it off for now to see if it was the issue.
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Big mistake.
Com.tmobile.pr.adapt is what tmobile installs on these phones to check for root.
Once enabled it reports to tmobile that your device is rooted, and if any issues come up warranty wise they will reject your warranty.
Aou warns in his thread not to grant su permission to this app after rooting.
Pp.
PanchoPlanet said:
Big mistake.
Com.tmobile.pr.adapt is what tmobile installs on these phones to check for root.
Once enabled it reports to tmobile that your device is rooted, and if any issues come up warranty wise they will reject your warranty.
Aou warns in his thread not to grant su permission to this app after rooting.
Pp.
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Thanks for that info. Not a big deal to me since I never take my phones in. As well, I got this one from someone else. But definitely good information for anyone who is planning on rooting.
PanchoPlanet said:
Big mistake.
Com.tmobile.pr.adapt is what tmobile installs on these phones to check for root.
Once enabled it reports to tmobile that your device is rooted, and if any issues come up warranty wise they will reject your warranty.
Aou warns in his thread not to grant su permission to this app after rooting.
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I just noticed that disabling the service requires root, so my journey to success was rather short-lived.
I don't care about my warranty, but why on earth would this app be responsible for the battery drain issue if all it does is check for root? Argh.
Still happily draining 25% per hour while phone is sitting idle...
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When you go to "battery" and click on detail, then click on the app you can see how much info this app sends in your data usage back to tmobile.
This how most of these apps suck up your battery.
Pp.
I switched from a 5ghz network to 2.4ghz network and can leave wifi on without severe battery drain. Stock, not rooted. Cell standby is still #1, but there is a noticeable improvement in battery life and you get to keep wifi turned on.
So I was able to root my phone without tripping knox and I installed Wakelock detector, here's some screen shots if this helps someone out trying to figure out exactly what is causing the issue, because even with root battery drain is still there.
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After 1hr30 minutes, I have dropped 3% and this is while using the phone and letting it sit idle.
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I disabled the same package a week ago not rooted and I still have bad battery drain.
My Zenwatch usually consumes <50% of its battery during a typical day. Today however it was completely dead by 7pm, even though there was nothing unusual about the day - it was worn at the same location all day, and was in close proximity to my phone all day.
Is there any way of tracing what causes this sort of sudden battery drain?
Hello,
same Problem here.
You can use the "Android Wear" app, connect to your watch and press the gear wheel on the upper right, then press on the first entry " Asus Zenwatch 2" and then you see the option "Battery of the watch" in the middled of the screen. It looks the same as you can see it on the telephone but for you watch battery.
I made a few screenshots today:
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looks ok for me...
still ok...
now there has something started sucking the battery empty....
now it has stopped... but only for a moment - later it came back and at 15:30 I had only 13% left. I noticed that the temperature display still was showing 7°C but my car display shows 16".
I restarted the watch now and voilá the temp changed to 16°... very stange
And this is the second watch - the first one I send back to Amazon because of the same "bug" ....
For some reason I can't see any of your screenshots. Any chance or re-uploading them?
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For some reason I can't see any of your screenshots. Any chance or re-uploading them?
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better now?
Still nothing
???
I think he was trying to upload a screenshot like the one I attached to this post, it's basically a similar battery usage indicator like the one for the Android phone itself. I don't have anything on here really, yet, because it hasn't been too long since I took it off the charger.
Asus Zentalk forum has walkthroughs
The Asus ZenTalk forum has a walk-through with pictures on how to get to the battery use screen. (I'd post the link for you, but I don't have enough posts yet to post links).
I just had the same problem happen this evening. Everything was fine until about 8pm, with 70% remaining, then two hours later it had plummeted to 15%. I checked the battery stats in the Android Wear app, as suggested, but they didn't help: there were only 2 lines:
- Watch Idle: 5%
- Screen: 2%
Screenshot is here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jd8x74gbhs78uih/Screenshot_2015-10-29-21-47-19.png?dl=0
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itm said:
I just had the same problem happen this evening. Everything was fine until about 8pm, with 70% remaining, then two hours later it had plummeted to 15%. I checked the battery stats in the Android Wear app, as suggested, but they didn't help: there were only 2 lines:
- Watch Idle: 5%
- Screen: 2%
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That is a pretty drastic and sudden drop. What watch face were you using? Did the watch do (vibrate?) or alert you to anything (view messages, receive a call, etc) during that time?
What are each of your settings in the settings area (what features do you have turned on or off)? If you have wifi turned on where you in an area where it may have been attempting to connect to nearby wifi networks and repeatedly failing (like trying to connect to networks where there are sign-on pages where you have to agree to a user agreement before connecting to a free wifi network)?
If you look at your phone battery usage during that same time (if you still can) does it show anything highly active on your phone during that time? (For example could the phone have been trying to update any of the files or apps on your watch during that time?).
To answer your questions:
- What watch face were you using? Perfection (although the last time I had this problem I was using the Explorer watchface)
- Did the watch do (vibrate?) or alert you to anything (view messages, receive a call, etc) during that time? No - I just got a few notifications when emails came in
- What are each of your settings in the settings area?
- Brightness: 3
- Font size: Normal
- Always on screen: Off
- Wrist gestures: On
- Screen lock: Off
- If you have wifi turned on where you in an area where it may have been attempting to connect to nearby wifi networks and repeatedly failing - No, I was at
home in my study and lounge (within 15 feet of my wifi router at all times)
- If you look at your phone battery usage during that same time (if you still can) does it show anything highly active on your phone during that time? I don't have the ability to look at yesterday's phone battery stats, but I know that there were no app updates or unusual notifications on the phone during that period yesterday
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itm said:
To answer your questions:
- What watch face were you using? Perfection (although the last time I had this problem I was using the Explorer watchface)
- Did the watch do (vibrate?) or alert you to anything (view messages, receive a call, etc) during that time? No - I just got a few notifications when emails came in
- What are each of your settings in the settings area?
- Brightness: 3
- Font size: Normal
- Always on screen: Off
- Wrist gestures: On
- Screen lock: Off
- If you have wifi turned on where you in an area where it may have been attempting to connect to nearby wifi networks and repeatedly failing - No, I was at
home in my study and lounge (within 15 feet of my wifi router at all times)
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In the days that have followed did the problem of sudden drain continue to occur, or does it appear to have been an isolated incident?
In that time period it experienced the drastic drop were you doing anything repeatedly? (ex: eating food, exercising, reading a book?) Repetitive tasks where you wrist was moving a lot may have been turning on your watch using the wrist gestures, and it seems that wrist gestures (where the brightness level 3, color, etc are activated) may use more battery than always on in its timed-out dim mode does. If you're continuing to experience the problem try going a day with always on screen turned on, wrist gestures turned off, and see if there is a difference in your battery use at the end of the day.
Your watch may also be preforming syncing with your phone at a particular time, and transfer of data across wifi between the two may be draining the battery. You could try turning off the sync setting on your phone for a day, and see if that makes a difference.
Finally you can try turning off wifi, and see how much longer your battery lasts with wifi switched off on the watch.
In the period when it dropped drastically I was sitting on the sofa watching TV. There were no repetitive tasks. In fact I could probably not have been less mobile!
I now have "always on" mode enabled, and have disabled tilt-to-wake. So far it has maintained the usual (low) battery usage, so I'll wait and see if I get a recurrence of the problem.
The problem with turning off sync for a day is that it's unlikely to prove anything. This problem only happens every few weeks, so if it doesn't happen on the day that I have sync turned off then I'll be no wiser.
I'm not sure what you mean by turning off wifi on the watch - do you mean putting it into airplane mode? If I do I would fully expect my battery life to improve, but how would that prove whether it was the potential cause of the rapid 2-hour drain?
I'm watching my watch battery levels very closely at the moment, but if I do notice a sudden drain again what can I do to establish exactly what is happening on the watch at the time? If the watchface is displayed as usual, and there's no evidence of any specific app running on the watch, what other options do I have for finding the cause of the excess battery drain?
After 4 weeks I've just had the same problem on 2 consecutive days. At the end of the first day I notiiced that the "tilt-to-wake" option had become re-enabled (I'm not sure how, as I don't remember enabling it). I disabled it again last night, but today my battery was pretty much dead by 9pm. I tried a reboot earlier in the day, but it didn't seem to help.
The latest version of the Android Wear app seems to have removed all info on battery usage, so this is impossible to diagnose. As things stand, the watch has gone from being an all-day device to a device that won't last a whole day in the last days (
Rather than trouble shooting you should just go for a completely new set up of the watch. Uninstall the wear and ZenWatch manager apps, factory reset the watch and reinstall everything.
I've gone from just under a day to an insane 3-4 days battery life. (I don't use any fitness trackers or ambient mode btw)
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So today the problem seems to have gone away. For the first time since the weekend I got through the whole day with only 40% battery usage. This battery drain issue seems completely random, and it's annoying that there's no way of diagnosing it.
Surprised that more people aren't seeing this.
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The latest version of the Android Wear app seems to have removed all info on battery usage
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The new version of Wear from yesterday has the battery usage option again.
CSX321 said:
The new version of Wear from yesterday has the battery usage option again.
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Hmmm....I'm not seeing an update with that option in it yet.....maybe tomorrow...
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Hmmm....I'm not seeing an update with that option in it yet.....maybe tomorrow...
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For reference, the version I got yesterday (as shown on the phone) is 1.4.0.2470307.gms
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The new version of Wear from yesterday has the battery usage option again.
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For reference, the version I got yesterday (as shown on the phone) is 1.4.0.2470307.gms
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Ah OK I'm still on 1.4.0.2462440.gms and the Play Store isn't showing an update available yet. Fingers crossed I'll get it soon, and that the battery info actually gives me some useful information when I see it draining fast next time.
Background:
So last night I went to bed and left my phone on my dresser with 30% battery. The phone normally drains a few % overnight. WiFi on, Location on (high accuracy), Mobile Data On, etc. I wake up this morning to find that my phone is completely dead. I thought it was pretty strange so I connected the phone to the charger for an hour or so and charged to about 96%. I disconnected my N5X from the charger and put it on my computer desk and sat down to play The Division for a little while. After about an hour, I noticed that my phone was still very warm and that my battery had sank down to 88%... I've never had this problem before, even on my current ROM and kernel setup, which I've been running for about a week now.
Problem: Insane battery drain. CPU is Awake 100% of the time, even when the screen is off. No Deep Sleep and No Doze.
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I did notice, however, that the phone reported WiFi being on for a large portion of the day where I actually had turned the WiFi off. The gym I go to every day has horrible WiFi and I prefer to use LTE. I usually forget to turn WiFi back on after leaving to go back home and shower. So there's at least a 2-3 hour segment there where WiFi was absolutely not enabled, and yet the battery graph shows that it was....
Culprit:
This mother****er right here. com.google.android.gms. Specifically two alarms: ALARM_WAKEUP_LOCATOR and ALARM_WAKEUP_ACTIVITY_DETECTION. I'm not so sure about the latter, but the Alarm_wakeup_locator is actually waking the phone up at least twice a minute, which is insane. It's massacring my battery life as well.
Solution?
I've never had a battery drain problem like this before. In fact, I haven't had a drain problem like this in at least a year or two. I have no idea what to do to fix this. I've Googled this issue and there doesn't really seem to be a straight answer.
I think it has something to do with Google Now or Google Play Services, perhaps a location setting, but I've tried disabling Location for 2 hours now and it has not fixed this issue. I have considered perhaps disabling a service but I can't identify which service exactly is causing the issue.
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Update! - March 22nd, 2016
After a second clean wipe and a switch to Pico Gapps, the problem was resolved. This gave me a barebones operating system in which the CPU was sleeping just fine when the screen was off. No wild wakelocks or alarms to report. One by one I reinstalled my favorite apps, avoiding almost anything by Google -- No drain / keep awake issue reoccurred. My phone is now back to normal with only one thing missing. Google Now. The Google app and Google Now Launcher are both NOT on my device and my phone is achieving some seriously sick battery life and SOT. I am confident that if anyone else is facing these issues that the culprit is Google Now and the Google Search app. Those experiencing this issue should try removing these apps if possible or clean wipe and install with a very minimal Gapps package, just as I did.
I get similar Google alarms too, but it shouldn't cause any drastic drain.
I recently had a massive battery drain but couldn't work out the cause. Was going down 30%+ overnight and nothing had really changed on the system (few new apps which I removed).
The only thing showing any high battery drain was Google play services but even that was only at 4-5% (104 ish mah in the battery stats from memory) which didn't tally with the massive drain I was showing.
Ended up having to do a full reset to sort it out and all fine now.
This was pre the March update and fixes, I did flash the fixes while I had the issue and nothing improved.
roofrider said:
I get similar Google alarms too, but it shouldn't cause any drastic drain.
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Yes but does your phone enter deep sleep? The only reason why I'm even looking at the alarms is because something is keeping this phone awake constantly.
Alcolawl said:
Yes but does your phone enter deep sleep? The only reason why I'm even looking at the alarms is because something is keeping this phone awake constantly.
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Yes mine does go to sleep. Attaching some of my battery (mediocre) screenshots.
I would suggest turning off wifi and bluetooth scanning in location settings. I found it kept my wifi always active (even if wifi was turned off) when GPS was set to high accuracy. Sometime even if you change from high accuracy to battery saving, the wifi continued running til the phone is rebooted (at least in my case). Bad network will also cause drain, but none of these should keep the CPU firing always. Have you checked the CPU states? Is Google Service keeping you mobile radio active? How about Android OS?
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Yes mine does go to sleep. Attaching some of my battery (mediocre) screenshots.
I would suggest turning off wifi and bluetooth scanning in location settings. I found it kept my wifi always active (even if wifi was turned off) when GPS was set to high accuracy. Sometime even if you change from high accuracy to battery saving, the wifi continued running til the phone is rebooted (at least in my case). Bad network will also cause drain, but none of these should keep the CPU firing always. Have you checked the CPU states? Is Google Service keeping you mobile radio active? How about Android OS?
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Mobile signal is excellent. Full bars of LTE at work (which is where I am now). The top battery users (besides the screen) are Android System and Google Play Services. Attached are some screenshots of the keep awake times.. Something very strange is happening here. Bluetooth and WiFi scanning are both off I. Location settings.
Just factory wipes for the second time but went with a Pico Gapps package and the drain is gone. The cpu sleeps now whwn the screen is off. I haven't logged into Google yet, so I'm not sure of the cause yet.
Alcolawl said:
Just factory wipes for the second time but went with a Pico Gapps package and the drain is gone. The cpu sleeps now whwn the screen is off. I haven't logged into Google yet, so I'm not sure of the cause yet.
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i got the exact same problem with you.
Phone was idle overnight, WiFi on, Location set on High.
Forgot to install BBS so i cannot see what's causing it but i think it is the same thing that causes your battery to die.
mflow said:
i got the exact same problem with you.
Phone was idle overnight, WiFi on, Location set on High.
Forgot to install BBS so i cannot see what's causing it but i think it is the same thing that causes your battery to die.
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Factory resetting and reinstalling my ROM with the smallest gapps package possible (Pico Gapps) fixed the issue for me. I'm starting to think it was Google Now. Shame, I really liked Google Now too, but I've signed in and installed some of my favorite apps already and there's no drain and the CPU is sleeping like a baby with the screen off.
Alcolawl said:
Factory resetting and reinstalling my ROM with the smallest gapps package possible (Pico Gapps) fixed the issue for me. I'm starting to think it was Google Now. Shame, I really liked Google Now too, but I've signed in and installed some of my favorite apps already and there's no drain and the CPU is sleeping like a baby with the screen off.
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is Pico Gapps refers to Open Gapps Pico Package? or something else?
ps. i don't use Google Now..
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update :
clean flashed Latest pure nexus, using latest Open Gapps Pico Package.
*fingers crossed* hope that the problem is gone..
mflow said:
is Pico Gapps refers to Open Gapps Pico Package? or something else?
ps. i don't use Google Now..
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clean flashed Latest pure nexus, using latest Open Gapps Pico Package.
*fingers crossed* hope that the problem is gone..
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Yep. That's exactly what I did. Just keep an eye on the battery graph and reset the stats. I put the phone down, walked away and then came back 5 minutes later. I checked the graph and the phone went to sleep after a minute or two so I knew it was fixed. Just remember to let the ROM settle for a little while before doing this. After flashing a ROM lots of stuff needs to settle in the background.
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Yep. That's exactly what I did. Just keep an eye on the battery graph and reset the stats. I put the phone down, walked away and then came back 5 minutes later. I checked the graph and the phone went to sleep after a minute or two so I knew it was fixed. Just remember to let the ROM settle for a little while before doing this. After flashing a ROM lots of stuff needs to settle in the background.
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Okay, done the exact same steps *fingers crossed*
By any chance, do you use any battery saving apps such as Amplify or Greenify?
mflow said:
Okay, done the exact same steps *fingers crossed*
By any chance, do you use any battery saving apps such as Amplify or Greenify?
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Nice, the screenshots look promising.
Also, no, I prefer not to use apps like that and let the Operating System do its thing. I did almost consider using one of those if I couldn't figure out how to fix this problem but you can get into trouble pretty fast with those apps if you disable/slowdown/restrict/greenify the wrong thing.
Alcolawl said:
Nice, the screenshots look promising.
Also, no, I prefer not to use apps like that and let the Operating System do its thing. I did almost consider using one of those if I couldn't figure out how to fix this problem but you can get into trouble pretty fast with those apps if you disable/slowdown/restrict/greenify the wrong thing.
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yeah Right, almost installed Xposed only to use Amplify to reduce the Play Service wakelock.
will fully charge this device tonight, and leave it on idle till morning.
I do have Amplify installed to tame play services, but now I'm being tempted to do a clean flash (maybe this is all that is required? Not everyone using the same GApps package seems to be reporting such issues) and try a different GApps packages. Currently on PN GApps. Lets see how long the thought of wiping the data and reinstalling all the apps continue to put me off.
Made the mistake of firing up Google Opinion Rewards today and it asked me if I wanted to use my Location History. I declined and it somehow started destroying my battery life anyways. CPU is being held awake again. Can Google design a single ****ing app correctly?
Alcolawl said:
Made the mistake of firing up Google Opinion Rewards today and it asked me if I wanted to use my Location History. I declined and it somehow started destroying my battery life anyways. CPU is being held awake again. Can Google design a single ****ing app correctly?
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Are you sure it doesn't have anything to do with any custom software you're using? I'm on a stock device (no root) and have no such issues, I've got just about every Google app installed and use Google now regularly.
bblzd said:
Are you sure it doesn't have anything to do with any custom software you're using? I'm on a stock device (no root) and have no such issues, I've got just about every Google app installed and use Google now regularly.
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I actually wiped the phone and reinstalled apps one by one until the issue came back and it stemmed from ElementalX's Kernel Management app somehow. I haven't contacted Flar2 about it yet because I'm not sure if it's from a setting that I touched or just the app itself.
Alcolawl said:
I actually wiped the phone and reinstalled apps one by one until the issue came back and it stemmed from ElementalX's Kernel Management app somehow. I haven't contacted Flar2 about it yet because I'm not sure if it's from a setting that I touched or just the app itself.
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What is EXKM causing? I thought previously Google Services was the problem.
How did you narrow it down to that app? I have it too, maybe i can test.
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What is EXKM causing? I thought previously Google Services was the problem.
How did you narrow it down to that app? I have it too, maybe i can test.
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I installed the apps I like one by one and recorded them on a list on my computer. After each app install I wiped the battery graph and let it sit with the screen off for a minute or two and checked to see if the CPU was being held awake. I installed like 15 apps before I got to Google Keyboard and EXKM. I installed both at the same time and repeated the procedure. When I looked at my phone, it was being held awake so I knew the culprit was either Google Keyboard or EXKM. I uninstalled Google Keyboard and did a reboot. Phone was still being held awake. I uninstalled EXKM and did a reboot, phone went into deep sleep. I reinstalled Google Keyboard, CPU still wasn't being held awake. I installed EXKM again after a few minutes and the awake issue came back. I uninstalled EXKM and proceeded to install more apps and the phone functions completely normally. I have no idea how EXKM can hold the phone awake like that but I'm guessing its a setting in there that is broken? I installed Kernel Adiutor and applied the same settings and tweaks that I normally would with EXKM and there was still no CPU awake issue so it's gotta be that app.