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Upon loading up BBS, I come across these rather annoying wakelocks:
"wlax_rx_wake" (37m)
"battery-monitor" (27m)
"wlan_wake" (13m)
"mdm_hsic_pm0" (12m)
Partial Wakelocks:
"NetworkLocationLocator" (2m)
Basically, these are repete foes. Their times vary, but they're always there. Sometimes, they go up to hours.
Also, I'm noticing that Maps always has a top 3 spot in my battery usage (using the stock battery info). I'm not using maps, I have location services turned off, but it's always there. I tried clearing the data, didn't do a thing.
Last, I've noticed that many apps "wake up" my GN2 (found it in BBS). Ebay Mobile woke it up over 700 times, so I uninstalled that. Maps wakes it up over 300 times, not even sure why.
Android OS also has a "stay awake" time of 3h, 49m, 45s.
What's going on? How can I solve these issues?
I'm on Jedi 3.3.
Android os is, well, android os, some usage will always be there to run your phone.
That said, if 37 min wakelocks in the span of a full day, is not much. Wakelocks are necessary for some services to run. If you have maps wakelock for several hours with location services off, my guess is an app that is badly coded is checking for location even though it's off.
It would be helpful with a screenshot of kernel and partial wakelocks.
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Here are some screens, keep in mind that they have been much, much worse on my past charging cycles.
Oh and the maps data in these is after I killed maps, dug deeper to disable location services, and wiped maps' data.
37 minutes is the span of after a reboot, I'd say about 6 hours. They've increased (in the screens) over the past few hours. Pre-reboot, the wakelocks were up in the 1.5-2hr mark.
Please post with "since charged" or unplugged, since battery stats shows thirteen hours uptime.
The maps lock is only 3 mins and negligible, despite the intimidating red line You might rather have an app using wifi constantly unless you've actively been using wifi for a long time, or you have bad signal or a poorly configured wifi.
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for the first time ever my phone drained 10% or more over night, its never done that before even though i had every off.. and i did the same as i normally do, but for some reason it seemed to have drained a lot more last night
Ah, I'll have to post those tomorrow. I don't have a reference point saved it says.
That 3 minutes used to be close to 30 before I wiped the data and rebooted, I'm only concerned because maps is showing up as one of my battery killers in the stock battery info dialog, even though I haven't used it all day.
I did see through Watchdog that "friendservice" and its related processes have been running up pretty high, but I have latitude and everything else disabled?
Hey guys ive done a similar thread on this a while back but this is a bit different now the issue here is when my phone from 100% all the way to 90 % battery is awesome like so damn good. but when it hits 89% it starts draining quite quick the main drainage is when i put the phone in sleep mode it drains. like i had my phone at 85 % left it for exactly 5 minutes and it dropped to 84%. Ive tried every rom/ kernel out there..nothing has helped or changed. I took it to the warranty they said its a software problem and that didnt fix anything. i have BBS and Kernel wakelock since boot is "wlan_rx_wake" maxing out at 2.6 % the others are just power manager service , etc. Partial wakelock since boot is AudioOut_2 stricking at a 17.8% max. And all the others are NetworkLocationLocator. Currently on Pheonix Rom (Debloated ALOT!!,awesome rom) and Note2core since Pearseus gave me lag issues.
Most battery issues are caused by:
1. antenna transmitting
2. screen time
3. processor load
Troubleshooting should start from the simplest things (Before you replace a motherboard/power-supply, make sure the computer is plugged into the socket, etc). Look at apps that use the network (Google Now, Google Local, Google Maps, Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Google Photos, Picasa, Instant Upload, Exchange ActiveSync, Samsung Backup, Weather Widget, Weather & News and whatever app you decide to install, ie: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Viber, Skype, WhatsApp, etc) and make sure you disable or at least change the app's setting to update less frequently.
Make sure you use automatic brightness and feel free to lower the bar around 50% when full screen brightness is not really required.
Make sure you don't have some app constantly running in the background (You can see this from the Battery menu, the phone shouldn't be 'Awake' most of the time when the screen is off).
I manage to get ~15-20 hours out of one charge, with 4-6 screen hours and all of the apps I mentioned above (with proper sync settings, of course).
Thats cool but i really wanna know why from 100 to 90 battery is awesome but then it start sucking up
Do I have wake locks problems? =(
no those look fine.
a wake lock issue will show around 90% of uptime as awake.
your looking around 11%.
The reason its ace from 100 to 90 percent is that to hit 100% you have to over volt a lithium based battery. this is why most chargers switch to trickle around 90%.
so it confuses the battery monitor as its in a way (as the battery level indicator uses voltage to indicate charge) more than 100%
the battery is a 3.8v battery, but between 90 and 100 percent it is at around 4.6v and dropping so until it hits below 3.8v (100%) it drops very slowly.
Now that i turned off Google Now and ticked off all 3 settings under GPS, I rarely lose a percentage when the screen is off. [I lose 1% overnight] With that said, I feel the total opposite. I feel like phone gets stronger as the percentage goes down. Try doing what I did and let us know what happens.
But why does mine drain so quick..people get like 20 minutes of on screen time per 1 % i get like 3 minutes if im lucky..
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Now that i turned off Google Now and ticked off all 3 settings under GPS, I rarely lose a percentage when the screen is off. [I lose 1% overnight] With that said, I feel the total opposite. I feel like phone gets stronger as the percentage goes down. Try doing what I did and let us know what happens.
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Lost 10% overnight..,i keep most of my stuff really off but it still drains..
bluetooth off
nfc off
GPS off
My google now is on however i dont use it that much..does that really effect your battery ?
Yeah Aus, try turning Google Now off. I personally think it's extremely overated. It keeps track of your location so it will "try" to use gps even if it's turned off. I think just by the program waking the device"trying" to use the gps is wasting precious battery. Let me know how that goes.
ps - obviously I dont have bt and nfc on at all times because I have no use for them myself. but my wifi and 3 emails are constantly on and syncing 24/7
ps 2- I used to lose 10% overnight just like you but I had Google Now and all 3 GPS settings ticked on.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet:
It's a battery gauge. It doesn't actually show 100% of the time the correct %. It could be not calibrated correctly (shouldn't need to, either). I actually spend a lot of time from 100-80%. Then it drops rather quickly! I hardly ever spend any time below 60%, so I'm sure it's just my battery reporting what it THINKS is the correct battery life %.
Hey XDA friends. I got the Verizon HTC One a few weeks ago and battery life started out fantastic. When I put away to go to sleep it only lost 7% all night with GPS on and wifi on and all that and I was astonished. However as time went on I found those results kept getting worse and worse until I was draining 30% in a night. I went and uninstalled battery guru and now I only drain 12% a night. Some nights however I still lose 20% in a night with sleep mode on. How do I check what keeps waking my phone up and draining my battery. I'm afraid this will affect my phone's battery in the long run. I will start disabling GPS at night but I wish I still had that 7% in a night. How do I check what is messing with my phone???
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Hey XDA friends. I got the Verizon HTC One a few weeks ago and battery life started out fantastic. When I put away to go to sleep it only lost 7% all night with GPS on and wifi on and all that and I was astonished. However as time went on I found those results kept getting worse and worse until I was draining 30% in a night. I went and uninstalled battery guru and now I only drain 12% a night. Some nights however I still lose 20% in a night with sleep mode on. How do I check what keeps waking my phone up and draining my battery. I'm afraid this will affect my phone's battery in the long run. I will start disabling GPS at night but I wish I still had that 7% in a night. How do I check what is messing with my phone???
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go to settings/power/usage. this will tell you which app is using the most of you battery. also you should never have gps on while youre sleeping. you might also want to turn off auto-sync and then re-enable it after you wake up. you can create a widget to do just that. if you need help with that, just let me know.
Turn data Wi-Fi and gps off lol.... You are asleep
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Hey XDA friends. I got the Verizon HTC One a few weeks ago and battery life started out fantastic. When I put away to go to sleep it only lost 7% all night with GPS on and wifi on and all that and I was astonished. However as time went on I found those results kept getting worse and worse until I was draining 30% in a night. I went and uninstalled battery guru and now I only drain 12% a night. Some nights however I still lose 20% in a night with sleep mode on. How do I check what keeps waking my phone up and draining my battery. I'm afraid this will affect my phone's battery in the long run. I will start disabling GPS at night but I wish I still had that 7% in a night. How do I check what is messing with my phone???
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Do you use blinkfeed, that will kill your battery pretty fast. Even if you don't think you are using it, go check and see if it's syncing anything in the settings. I thought mine was turned off, but then I logged into facebook (turned sync off in facebook), later I found that blinkfeed was syncing it anyway w/out my knowledge.
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Do you use blinkfeed, that will kill your battery pretty fast. Even if you don't think you are using it, go check and see if it's syncing anything in the settings. I thought mine was turned off, but then I logged into facebook (turned sync off in facebook), later I found that blinkfeed was syncing it anyway w/out my knowledge.
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you cant turn blinkfeed off...
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you cant turn blinkfeed off...
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You can go into settings and make sure everything is unchecked. Mine had several checked by default and it was draining battery.
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Update: Battery only drained 10% last night with GPS off, Blinkfeed never updates on its own and all social networks are checked off (I don't like my social networks on Blinkfeed) other than that though everything seems to be in check. If anyone else has anyway to improve that 10% let me know (by the way the 10% was drained during 9 hours of constant sleep I went from 77 to 67)
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Update: Battery only drained 10% last night with GPS off, Blinkfeed never updates on its own and all social networks are checked off (I don't like my social networks on Blinkfeed) other than that though everything seems to be in check. If anyone else has anyway to improve that 10% let me know (by the way the 10% was drained during 9 hours of constant sleep I went from 77 to 67)
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airplane mode...
Really, 1% per hour on standby with cellular radios on is pretty acceptable. Depending on signal strength, the radio could be pulling that just to maintain a connection to the tower.
Thanks everyone!
With GPS off, Sleep mode on, and NO BATTERY HELPER APPS (Battery guru was diminishing my battery life) I got a record breaking (for me) 4% loss in battery life during my 8 hour night's sleep, not bad if I do say so myself, after that my battery has been a lot better. I wish Verizon would give us HTC's battery saving software back but let's not ask too much of Verizon or they might give us timely updates.
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With GPS off, Sleep mode on, and NO BATTERY HELPER APPS (Battery guru was diminishing my battery life) I got a record breaking (for me) 4% loss in battery life during my 8 hour night's sleep, not bad if I do say so myself, after that my battery has been a lot better. I wish Verizon would give us HTC's battery saving software back but let's not ask too much of Verizon or they might give us timely updates.
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Glad to hear this!!
those battery saving apps are so pointless IMHO, it's just another app and if coded incorrectly will do exactly what it did to you, destroy your battery that is working fine. very happy you can now enjoy your phone the way was designed to be!
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Glad to hear this!!
those battery saving apps are so pointless IMHO, it's just another app and if coded incorrectly will do exactly what it did to you, destroy your battery that is working fine. very happy you can now enjoy your phone the way was designed to be!
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Thanks! unfortunately I don't root my phones but for now the One does what I need it to perfectly and seamlessly
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Update: Battery only drained 10% last night with GPS off, Blinkfeed never updates on its own and all social networks are checked off (I don't like my social networks on Blinkfeed) other than that though everything seems to be in check. If anyone else has anyway to improve that 10% let me know (by the way the 10% was drained during 9 hours of constant sleep I went from 77 to 67)
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Hey..I had the same problem so...first download wakelock detector from play store..after installing jus use your phone like as usual..after 4 to 5 hrs or right before you charge your phone, open the wakelock app and check what's waking up your phone during sleep..for everyone it seems the battery is drained by Google services ..the main culprit being the location services.. so switch off the location services in settings..and also in Google maps, go into setting and then into Google location settings and make sure location reporting and location history are disabled, make sure they are unchecked.. that's it..restart the phone..fully charge it and test it out ..and DON'T use any battery saving apps ..and also uninstall wakelocker app after your battery life is back to normal..I'm an average user and I unplug around 9 in da morning and when I come home around 6, I still have 65% left..I don use facebook .. heard even facebook app is major battery drainer....you jus have to tweak and play with settings till you find your desired battery life expectancy cos everyone uses their phone differently..and we all have different apps so the main thing is to find out what's eating the phone battery most...I'm just pleased with my decision in picking HTC ONE over galaxy S4
similar problem here....google services is killing my battery (relatively). location is part of it, but google hangouts is also going crazy (watchdog alerts me to excessive usage....over 50%, but hangouts was at 100%)
i was spoiled on my g-nex, where i left wifi, bluetooth, and GPS on 24/7 and could easily go 24 hours. now i'm lucky to get 12 (with about 1 hour of screen on time).
I'm hoping things will sort out, device is only about a week old, but google optimized location usage (iirc) such that it isn't supposed to constantly ping and kill battery. we shall see, i guess.
I'm not sure what the problem could be but I'm just gonna say that yesterday I got around 18 hours of battery life with over 5 hours screen on time which I consider awesome battery life.
I'm stock, so it's definitely possible to get good battery life.
10 percent overnight? Thats not that great but not horrible. My dna is running carbon (android 4.3) I use tasker to turn off autosync and data/wifi and put it on silent at whatever set time I make it. My phone drains about 5 percent max overnight, usually a lot less.
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Hey..I had the same problem so...first download wakelock detector from play store..after installing jus use your phone like as usual..after 4 to 5 hrs or right before you charge your phone, open the wakelock app and check what's waking up your phone during sleep..for everyone it seems the battery is drained by Google services ..the main culprit being the location services.. so switch off the location services in settings..and also in Google maps, go into setting and then into Google location settings and make sure location reporting and location history are disabled, make sure they are unchecked.. that's it..restart the phone..fully charge it and test it out ..and DON'T use any battery saving apps ..and also uninstall wakelocker app after your battery life is back to normal..I'm an average user and I unplug around 9 in da morning and when I come home around 6, I still have 65% left..I don use facebook .. heard even facebook app is major battery drainer....you jus have to tweak and play with settings till you find your desired battery life expectancy cos everyone uses their phone differently..and we all have different apps so the main thing is to find out what's eating the phone battery most...I'm just pleased with my decision in picking HTC ONE over galaxy S4
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you can turn off updates in facebook and its not bad, but yeah if you have autoupdate on, it can kill the battery.
as far as the OP, I don't get why you don't charge you phone while you are sleeping. Seems like the perfect time.
Turning GPS off shouldn't affect your battery life. If you're not using your phone, the phone isn't going to use the GPS for anything. So it shouldn't be using your battery. The culprit is usually an app that is wakelocking your phone. So you need to find which app it is that constantly wakes your phone from deep sleep. Turning off autosync would help a bit if you are really paranoid. The big thing that hurts our battery when the screen is off, is the LTE radio, but most people are connected to WiFi when they sleep so it's not a big deal.
Just an FYI, turning off GPS has been ineffective since 2.2 Froyo. When Gingerbread 2.3 was released like 2+ years ago, it allowed for the GPS to only be used when an app called for it to be used. Otherwise GPS will not do anything unless you pull up an app that calls it to do something.
Since the last two days my battery on GT-N7100 has been troubling a lot, for instance I usually take a nap for 8-10 hrs during that time I keep my network connections off however when I get up I am surprised to see that there is a horrendous drainage of power like yesterday before I slept the power was 83% when I woke up it was 45% now this is certainly something very unusual. After studying my stats on WLD and GSAM app I found that suspend_backoff inside kernel(Android OS) seems to be the culprit apart from that facebook messenger my god...!! what an app is that in a span of 9.5 hrs it generated 127 wakelocks !! another prominent application in that list is google services it also generates a lot of wake locks. Now I have removed facebook messenger with the hope improving this scenario, don't know whether it will pay off or not.
Looking forward to some expert suggestions
Cheers!!:good:
Hello! I've been lurking around trying to solve my battery drain issue for two days without success. I have a d2att with severe battery drain, where battery would last for around 2 hrs MAX before shutting down at 40%. This was apparently an issue before (my brother was using it) when it was on stock unrooted 4.3. I installed Carbon 4.4.4 to look for improvements.
Symptoms:
Rapid battery decrease during use
Shutoff at 40% (when rebooting it would show 0%, when charging it will start at 40%)
Constant wake (I believe from the systemupdate wakelock that is unstoppable)
Feels warm during short times of use, cool when standby
Attempts to fix:
Using GSAM to monitor battery drain (just installed Betterbatterystats, will update with that info later)
Installed MyAndroid Tools and Disable service to stop systemupdate and checkin services
Autoruns to stop all systemupdateservice receivers
Dalvik cache wipe to try to fix the 40% shutoff
Privacy guard to turn off keep awake for Google play services and Android system
Privacy guard to turn off location for GNow
Have not done:
Replace battery (just ordered one that's coming in two days)
Clearing batt stats, as apparently that doesn't help
Factory reset, as it's a pain to setup again (Should this be next?)
Greenify
Xposed
I am just generally confused at this point at whether systemupdate service is turned on or off, or how to solve that, or if that is even the main problem, and what my next steps should be. I'm not an expert and can only understand half of what's going on, so any advice is greatly appreciated!
*Update: It seems that the phone is able to go to deep sleep (~50% of the time). When I use it just 5 minutes for texting, the battery can drop 5%. After reading from another thread, I re-enabled systemupdate services from Disable Services/My Android tools to see if that would solve the problem, and it looks like it is not hogging wakelock anymore; however it does revert on boot, similar to this: forum.cyanogenmod(.)org/topic/96459-systemupdateservice-wakelock-on-cm11-m7-massive-battery-drain/
Update 2: I flashed Liquidsmooth 3.1 stable instead. This time I used autoruns manager and wakelock blocker (included in liquidsmooth settings) to disable the services, but systemupdate service still manages to run, so I have to disable the block to somehow make it stop with every boot. Once that is fixed, deep sleep functions normally, but now the new problem is that Chrome browser app seems to be stuck in an AudioMix wakelock. I uninstalled Chrome updates and this seems to have fixed that issue, however battery drain is still severe (5%/2min) during active phone use. No application stands out in constant wakelock anymore, so I'm suspecting it may be the battery itself? I will switch to a new battery tomorrow to verify.
Update 3: Well since no one bothered to help, I will just post this for future reference as a log, since I solved the last part by the battery switch to an Anker battery. The phone still gets hot, and I still have to manually deactivate systemupdate service on every reboot, but now it runs for "normal" times 5-6hrs (heavy use).
To be honest, it sounds like you had a failing battery. It happens.
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Hello! I've been lurking around trying to solve my battery drain issue for two days without success. I have a d2att with severe battery drain, where battery would last for around 2 hrs MAX before shutting down at 40%. This was apparently an issue before (my brother was using it) when it was on stock unrooted 4.3. I installed Carbon 4.4.4 to look for improvements.
Symptoms:
Rapid battery decrease during use
Shutoff at 40% (when rebooting it would show 0%, when charging it will start at 40%)
Constant wake (I believe from the systemupdate wakelock that is unstoppable)
Feels warm during short times of use, cool when standby
Attempts to fix:
Using GSAM to monitor battery drain (just installed Betterbatterystats, will update with that info later)
Installed MyAndroid Tools and Disable service to stop systemupdate and checkin services
Autoruns to stop all systemupdateservice receivers
Dalvik cache wipe to try to fix the 40% shutoff
Privacy guard to turn off keep awake for Google play services and Android system
Privacy guard to turn off location for GNow
Have not done:
Replace battery (just ordered one that's coming in two days)
Clearing batt stats, as apparently that doesn't help
Factory reset, as it's a pain to setup again (Should this be next?)
Greenify
Xposed
I am just generally confused at this point at whether systemupdate service is turned on or off, or how to solve that, or if that is even the main problem, and what my next steps should be. I'm not an expert and can only understand half of what's going on, so any advice is greatly appreciated!
*Update: It seems that the phone is able to go to deep sleep (~50% of the time). When I use it just 5 minutes for texting, the battery can drop 5%. After reading from another thread, I re-enabled systemupdate services from Disable Services/My Android tools to see if that would solve the problem, and it looks like it is not hogging wakelock anymore; however it does revert on boot, similar to this: forum.cyanogenmod(.)org/topic/96459-systemupdateservice-wakelock-on-cm11-m7-massive-battery-drain/
Update 2: I flashed Liquidsmooth 3.1 stable instead. This time I used autoruns manager and wakelock blocker (included in liquidsmooth settings) to disable the services, but systemupdate service still manages to run, so I have to disable the block to somehow make it stop with every boot. Once that is fixed, deep sleep functions normally, but now the new problem is that Chrome browser app seems to be stuck in an AudioMix wakelock. I uninstalled Chrome updates and this seems to have fixed that issue, however battery drain is still severe (5%/2min) during active phone use. No application stands out in constant wakelock anymore, so I'm suspecting it may be the battery itself? I will switch to a new battery tomorrow to verify.
Update 3: Well since no one bothered to help, I will just post this for future reference as a log, since I solved the last part by the battery switch to an Anker battery. The phone still gets hot, and I still have to manually deactivate systemupdate service on every reboot, but now it runs for "normal" times 5-6hrs (heavy use).
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theres an xposed app called amplify that helps to block some wakelocks , startups and alarms. it might help.
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