Weird drain overnight - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys, I got this weird drain of about 1%/ hr over a period of 6 hours overnight with 2g data and auto sync on, the previous night with 3g data on I drained only 2% in 9 hours.
Apparently my phone has one hours of being kept awake by a wake lock named
mdm_hsic_pm0
And another hour by
Battery_monitor
Does this happen to anyone else?
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Frostyeo said:
Hey guys, I got this weird drain of about 1%/ hr over a period of 6 hours overnight with 2g data and auto sync on, the previous night with 3g data on I drained only 2% in 9 hours.
Apparently my phone has one hours of being kept awake by a wake lock named
mdm_hsic_pm0
And another hour by
Battery_monitor
Does this happen to anyone else?
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I have the same at the top but not as long as yours. Dont know what it is from?

Frostyeo said:
Hey guys, I got this weird drain of about 1%/ hr over a period of 6 hours overnight with 2g data and auto sync on, the previous night with 3g data on I drained only 2% in 9 hours.
Apparently my phone has one hours of being kept awake by a wake lock named
mdm_hsic_pm0
And another hour by
Battery_monitor
Does this happen to anyone else?
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Same here on the note 2 with Sprint but I loose about 2-3% per hour. Go to sleep with 100% wake up in the morning with 80-85% left....

This is the only thing i found in bbs thread
mdm_hsic_pm0 is afaik the same as l2 Hasic, just a new name under Jellybean, so its traffic related, i would keen an eye on my background activity..
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battery monitor wakelock is almost related to the BBS

ssame thing happening to me..should i change kernel ?

i have same battery monitor drain and wlan_wake

I use to have battery drain on my GT-N7100 (and overheating problem). What turned out was that the Gmail sync on one of my accounts was going in a loop and never ending. When I fixed it, all went back to normal.

What rom / Kernels you peeps running? I had this once, flashed a different rom and no problem. Currently running Omega 7.1 with excellent battery life over night.

Mdm hsic is related to mobile data and this includes both 3g and wifi. Turn off 3g when not in use and you will see this wakelock going down. THe other one is nothing to worry
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Reuven007 said:
I use to have battery drain on my GT-N7100 (and overheating problem). What turned out was that the Gmail sync on one of my accounts was going in a loop and never ending. When I fixed it, all went back to normal.
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What exactly did you do to fix the gmail sync issue? PLEASE, do explain. This battery drain is absolutely horrible.

tonyf7 said:
What exactly did you do to fix the gmail sync issue? PLEASE, do explain. This battery drain is absolutely horrible.
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First, when you set the phone for the first time it does a lot of initial activity that may cause drainage.
In my case, I have 3 gmail.com accounts on my phone. I only need one of them to sync email, Picasa, contacts and calendars. On the other 2 I need only email. The phone was syncing everything on all accounts: in addition to the above also Google Photos, Play Magazines,Play Music, Internet, Keep and People Details.
As soon as I disabled all the unwanted syncing, things improved.

Related

Juice Defender

I'm installing this as a last resort before sending my phone back. After hard reset and everything, battery is still a major drain.
For those that are using it, how well does it work? Which settings are you using?
I've only the free version for now but would consider upgrading if it does help?
Also, how do you prevent meebo from disconnecting when the screen turns off? Is that an option on the free version?
rwc3b said:
I'm installing this as a last resort before sending my phone back. After hard reset and everything, battery is still a major drain.
For those that are using it, how well does it work? Which settings are you using?
I've only the free version for now but would consider upgrading if it does help?
Also, how do you prevent meebo from disconnecting when the screen turns off? Is that an option on the free version?
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About Juice Defender, for me it worked with ~1.6x batterylife.
About Meebo: get Trillian, they made it for free this week. You stay connected even if your phone is off(for max of 1 day, changeable in settings) and you'll receive al the messages which came while your online the enxt time you login again. You can manage all your accounts on the PC with the regular Trillian program and then login on your phone with your Trillian account and all the accounts will be there. It is a real nice app with very low battery consumption.
The free version is very limited. I use the ultimate version and I'm rather happy with it. I don't want to schedule traffic when my phone is idle, but that would be a massive battery saver.
Yes, you can set different settings for each app in the paid versions. You can set a trigger that makes sure your internet is always on when meego is running, even when your screen is off.
But overall, I have no problem to use my phone for more than 12 hours on battery with moderate usage. Maybe you should send your device back anyway.
I had terrible battery drain as well but ive managed to resolve this. have you tried:
1. Deleting all social hub accounts?
2. Deleting your mail account if you use the stock mail app?
3. Updated to latest official firmware?
I was experiencing 10% idle drain per hour. Now i'm at 1-2%. Battery life is a huge improvement compared to my old desire. Dont guve up on this phone.
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In my experience standard battery drain per hour should be
1~2% screen off / data off
3~5% screen off / data on
12~15% screen on / data off
18~20% screen on / data on
WiFi uses less battery than 3g but as you can see display is main problem...
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TriNeo said:
I had terrible battery drain as well but ive managed to resolve this. have you tried:
1. Deleting all social hub accounts?
2. Deleting your mail account if you use the stock mail app?
3. Updated to latest official firmware?
I was experiencing 10% idle drain per hour. Now i'm at 1-2%. Battery life is a huge improvement compared to my old desire. Dont guve up on this phone.
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1. I froze all Samsung-related apps and accounts with Titanium Pro
2. I'm using the Gmail stock app. Is that bad?
3. I updated to KE2 and hard reset twice
4. I also froze the wifi apps
when my phone is idle overnight - screen off and not in 'awake', it dropped from 100%-56% in 7.5 hours. i posted a screenshot in another thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13875879&postcount=684
rwc3b said:
when my phone is idle overnight - screen off and not in 'awake', it dropped from 100%-56% in 7.5 hours. i posted a screenshot in another thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13875879&postcount=684
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Sounds like you need to clear your battery history, leave it over night, then check what's been using it overnight to me.
I have 5-10% drop at most overnight (7 hours or so).
Uvaavu said:
Sounds like you need to clear your battery history, leave it over night, then check what's been using it overnight to me.
I have 5-10% drop at most overnight (7 hours or so).
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thanks. how would i clear battery history? is that under setting -> applications -> running ?
Also try clearing data on the software update app. That appeared to work for some people. U definitely have a rogue app eating your battery... Can you give us a list of your running processes immediately after you restart?
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So after using Juice defender ultimate for a couple weeks now, with the customizable apps configuration, I see no improvement in battery life.
I lost 50% charge overnight with just push email on (stock gmail app), only synching email and contacts.
For those with this app, what configurations are you using to improve the battery?
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I have it setup to turn the data, and wifi off while the screen is off.
Night mode is enabled, from 11:30, to 7:00am
I also have it only allow wifi via location, work or home.
It eats 1-2% while in standby per hour.
and about 3-4% overnight.
i tried juice defender ultimate and it made no difference. I deleted it just because its another app working in the background...
I found it to be very effective when set up correctly. Lose less than 1% an hour at idle.
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mark2222 said:
I found it to be very effective when set up correctly. Lose less than 1% an hour at idle.
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how did you set it up?
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mark2222 said:
I found it to be very effective when set up correctly. Lose less than 1% an hour at idle.
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Mine does that (1-2% per hour at idle) without Juicedefender and push email/facebook active. The problem with JD is also that when set to switch off Wifi and data in the background when the phone is idle, it doesn't always switch them back on after the phone awakens, resulting in many pain in the ass moments.
I bought it 6 months ago and never use it any more.
Richdog said:
The problem with JD is also that when set to switch off Wifi and data in the background when the phone is idle, it doesn't always switch them back on after the phone awakens, resulting in many pain in the ass moments.
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I use Green Power for that... simply awesome... light and stable.
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Vairn said:
I have it setup to turn the data, and wifi off while the screen is off.
Night mode is enabled, from 11:30, to 7:00am
I also have it only allow wifi via location, work or home.
It eats 1-2% while in standby per hour.
and about 3-4% overnight.
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hmm some people talks good, some bad about JD.
I paid for Ultimate version, and must say its brilliant!!
Over night 1-2% /6H
Standby 1-3% /Hour
with screenfilter i get 6 1/2 Hours with display on and UMTS today
from 78% drop to 10% and from 10% to 5% in 5Hours again.
Iam suprised with JD, very well
rwc3b said:
how did you set it up?
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Pretty standard really wifi and mobile data enabled (ultimate version), autosync on ping, 15 minute scheduled check for 30s. I don't have it turn off data at night because the phone is usually plugged in and have data enabled when the screen is on. It also manages the wifi locations so usually it only connects to wifi.
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I use Green Power for that... simply awesome... light and stable.
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Hmm I'd never heard of that app, but did a bit of research and it looks like it really does wake the connections well with the latest release... will give it a try!
I lost 4%/idle for 12 hours.

Is this battery drain normal/reasonable?

I unplugged my phone before I went to bed to see how much it would drain overnight. I only slept for 5.5 hours. My phone had lost 16%. Is this normal?
I was connected to wifi, only thing I had syncing was Facebook for every 4 hours.
I forgot to screenshot the cpu times, but it spent a majority of the time in deep sleep and 384.
Also, what do the red bars mean in BBS?
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rha_december said:
I unplugged my phone before I went to bed to see how much it would drain overnight. I only slept for 5.5 hours. My phone had lost 16%. Is this normal?
I was connected to wifi, only thing I had syncing was Facebook for every 4 hours.
I forgot to screenshot the cpu times, but it spent a majority of the time in deep sleep and 384.
Also, what do the red bars mean in BBS?
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Try disabling WiFi as well? Im guessing you dont need Facebook to sync while you sleep, just refresh it when you wake up. Noticed you clock down to 384mhz while screen off. odd how still took away a lot for only 5 hours.
DarthDerron said:
Try disabling WiFi as well? Im guessing you dont need Facebook to sync while you sleep, just refresh it when you wake up. Noticed you clock down to 384mhz while screen off. odd how still took away a lot for only 5 hours.
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I dont think clocking down helps that much. it doesnt stop the same processes from running, and it takes longer to run them with the lower processing power, especially when the phone has all night to do it /
According to your screenshots you have posted, that kakao talk app is in wakelock, keeping the phone from actually sleeping. Although the other stats seem to contradict this i would be willing to bet this is your problem. I would either disable it from syncing in the app, freezing the process, or somehow prevent it from running. I would put money on it improving battery life drastically. I cant be sure of this as i dont use betterbatterystats but i would suspect the red bar is the time spent in wakelock, while the cpu is supposedly in deep sleep.
That doesn't look normal. I get less than 1%/hour overnight. Though I don't use Facebook or Facebook app. I do have 2 Gmail accounts on auto sync. Weather widget sync/hour. Field trip and Google+ sync enabled and wifi is always on when I'm at home.
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Definitely not normal... I get about the same 1% an hour overnight.
I'll give it a shot tonight. Thanks.
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I had battery drain issues, download juice defender, it basically turns off 4g when the screen is off and allows email retrievable based on a set schedule...my phone lasts twice as long now
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Device Sleep Battery life

First night device sleep not so good on AT&T version .
7 Hour of sleep lost 1% an hour , with Sprint version 2%-3% is used in that time frame.
I'm going install app to monitor tonight sleep session see whats eating energy.
sling said:
First night device sleep not so good on AT&T version .
7 Hour of sleep lost 1% an hour , with Sprint version 2%-3% is used in that time frame.
I'm going install app to monitor tonight sleep session see whats eating energy.
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Exactly the case with mine. However I have every sensor and sync option checked (if that matters). But it did drop 6% in 6 hours.
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Same here...but yesterdays battery life was remarkable...over 7 hours on with over 4 hours of screen on time at full brightness.
I'm thinking Quick Glace setting enabled is the drainer.
Feature is much more sensitive on ATTs.
hmm maybe higher sleep CPU level on ATTs
Sprint GN2 has whats called wakeup lag. When you wake device display has good 2-3 sec delay before turning on.
sling said:
I'm thinking Quick Glace setting enabled is the drainer.
Feature is much more sensitive on ATTs.
hmm maybe higher sleep CPU level on ATTs
Sprint GN2 has whats called wakeup lag. When you wake device display has good 2-3 sec delay before turning on.
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That happens to be one option that was off last night... so that cant be it
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During 7 hours of sleep I got 7 emails
The one gps hit is no big deal but 3 of 7 marked in shot are much to active.
Same thing for me. Went to bed at midnight with 92%. woke up at 8am with 84%. 1% per hour. Hopefully someone can figure out how to slow this down. Otherwise, battery life seems fantastic
Wifi remains strong no cut outs during gmail sync so we can rule 0ut connection issue.
It appears Google sync is to busy on 3 marks shown in shot so I'm going to disable everything except Gmail & contacts in sync setting.
Hopefully that will be fix
Drained 2% in 9 hours last night with 2 push email accounts (on exchange and one gmail) and gtalk connected. LTE signal at about -90 and WiFi connected.
Seems reasonable to me.
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garyd9 said:
Drained 2% in 9 hours last night with 2 push email accounts (on exchange and one gmail) and gtalk connected. LTE signal at about -90 and WiFi connected.
Seems reasonable to me.
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yeah that's how it should be.
As my screen shot shows there is 7 deep sleep wakeup points.
7 emails received , 7 wakeups shown with 3 of them being way to active.
Now the question is why.
Maybe a 3rd party app kicks in gear when email received.
Only thing I have on board is Fancy Widget with auto update disabled during that time frame
garyd9 said:
Drained 2% in 9 hours last night with 2 push email accounts (on exchange and one gmail) and gtalk connected. LTE signal at about -90 and WiFi connected.
Seems reasonable to me.
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I'm getting similiar to this. Tested 2 nights now and in 10 hours I'm dropping 2%. Multiple emails syncing, weather, Google Talk connected. Great usage battery life too.
In the "screen on" screenshot, live wallpaper active, 4 hours of Bluetooth music, brightness 80%, Web browsing and gaming heavy with 40ish minutes of phone calls and 30 minutes of GPS navigation. I hit 6h screen on time and 24h 32min unplugged when the battery finally died. That is stellar.
Also I'm in a LTE area, usually 4 bars signal strength but throughout my day I do leave LTE coverage multiple times. (I travel a lot)
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Not sure if this applies to anyone else but last night I removed several Bloat apps before going to bed. I did NOT restart the phone. From doing this caused my phone to not sleep the whole night. Woke up this morning and restarted the phone. Phone went right to sleep after doing this.
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I'm getting 1% drain a hour which is better then my note 1s 3%. Anyone using juice defender? Seems like battery life will be so much better then my note 1, I haven't both red to install it yet
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Ok second day of sleep testing.
This time my toy is running Modded N7105ZHALJ4 MultiWindow rom with no 3rd party app installed.
Google sync active with 1 email received during sleep period.
Accuweather widget at 3 hour update interval .
Wifi enabled.
I'm still getting the 1% drain but this time only 1 email was received during 7hr sleep period so I can rule that out as being cause.
What the heck is waking up device lol
The AWAKE activity shown in screen shot should not be happening.
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That small period showing Screen On I checked email device was awake maybe 90 seconds.
But from that point as you can see lots of activity happening that shouldnt
Maybe the small awake times are to check email, check weather, update Google now, Facebook, basically anything that is a widget or has check intervals for updates.
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Scythe024 said:
Maybe the small awake times are to check email, check weather, update Google now, Facebook, basically anything that is a widget or has check intervals for updates.
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nah only thing running in background is Gmail & accuweather.
Gmail remains silent lights up sleep on push , seeing only one email was received that can be ruled out as problem.
Accuweather at 3 hour update interval so we can rule that out as well.
On Sprint version I had all kinds of background apps running during sleep , 15 emails receved and would lose 3-4% in 9 hour sleep session so somethings not playing well on ATT version.
I stopped by ATT store today ran across GN2 owner thats having same sleep issue like many in this thread
Turn on airplane mode and test it. 3g/H+ will cause it.
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BoOsT said:
Turn on airplane mode and test it. 3g/H+ will cause it.
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Its been sleeping wifi enabled during testing.
Tonight I'm going to test with network.
What's keeping my device awake? What wakes it up to begin with?
BetterBatteryStats.
Search for it on XDA and you'll find that XDA members get a free version. While it won't give you better battery usage, it will tell you WHY your battery is being used by something else.
garyd9 said:
What's keeping my device awake? What wakes it up to begin with?
BetterBatteryStats.
Search for it on XDA and you'll find that XDA members get a free version. While it won't give you better battery usage, it will tell you WHY your battery is being used by something else.
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Better battery stats is a great program, highly recommended from me too.
Not sure what the sleep problem is. I've maintained the 2ish% drop in 10ish hours of sleep. Great battery life still. Do you have NFC or Sbeam turned on? They have been known to sometimes cause battery drain and not show up as "awake" when looking at battery stats. Try toggling them in settings even if they are off and see if that makes any impact.
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[Q] Battery Drain Issue

I am trying to troubleshoot my battery drain issue so I have been inserting a fully charged battery into my Note 2 just before bed.
Stock 4.1.2 ROM
Rooted
Night 1
Before bed: 100% battery, airplane mode
Wake up 7.5 hours later: 100% battery life
Night 2
Before bed: 100% battery, WiFi connected, background sync enabled
Wake up 7.6 hours later: 54% battery life
I have Greenify and BetterBatteryStats and still can't figure out what is sucking down the power.
Sync Interval:
Twitter: 4 hour
Facebook: 30 min
Touchdown HD: Push (exchange)
Reddit News: 12 hours
Any help would be appreciated!
I think you really have nearly answered your own question - it's the syncing that's killing your battery. FB is notoriously bad at draining a battery all on its own and the others may be bad too. The dead giveaway is the phone isn't deep sleeping anymore with sync on. Keep up your experiments but freeze each app/process in turn to see how bad each one is and you'll find out. No need to leave it over night - an hour or two should be plenty to find out. In fact, if you have your phone set for max battery life, it should go into deep sleep within minutes of locking it. Personally I only sync manually and that's including email - but I'm not too plugged in so I don't mind checking a couple times a day manually. It does mean killer battery life though! Really any process that is constantly waking up your phone will do the same thing as fb - Google Now with location history on is another bad one.
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This ^^^^^^here is pretty much correct!!
Hate to say but you should just get rid of facecrook. Lol:what:
If you have to use it on the web...
I don't use it..
Me 2¢®
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I use fb and I get no battery drain from it
Still unsure about which app is the main culprit. Facebook seems like it could be the biggest problem. Attached is my dump from BBS (BetterBatteryStats) I tried the same thing as the night before except I did the following
Facebook Sync: Never
Twitter Sync: Never
Touchdown HD: Push (exchange)
Reddit News: 12 hours
Night 3:
100% battery before bed, background sync enabled.
52% Battery by wake up.
NOTE: 10076 (Wifi) (com.android.vending.Google Play Store): 86.0 MBytes 95.3% was my apps updating just after boot.After all apps were done updating, I put the phone to sleep until morning.
Things I am going trying.
Freeze Samsung Push
Freeze ChatOn
Greenify Facebook
You need to understand that virtually any app that has the ability to poll your phone and push updates to it automatically without you visibly seeing it is going to drain your battery. This includes:
1. GPS
2. Having your data on in general (networks push packets to each other to stay within protocols regardless)
3. Google Accounts (syncs your calender, contacts, people, etc.)
4. Google Now
5. Mail
etc, etc.
I know this is a little off subject but will face book still drain Battery even if you have location off and sync off?
Facebook Messenger was an issue. It kept waking up my device. I have been doing some testing though and have had almost no luck until tonight.
I disabled WiFi before bed with 100% battery. 7 hours later, 91% battery.
I need to find which apps are using WiFi so heavily.
Go grab greenify from play store
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Go grab greenify from play store
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I have been using Greenify the whole time. Currently, it looks like when on WiFi apps are going crazy with connecting and waking up the phone. On Mobile, I got much better battery life.
Try backing up all ur data on internal and SD card.. Then do a complete fresh install.
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I have been using Greenify the whole time. Currently, it looks like when on WiFi apps are going crazy with connecting and waking up the phone. On Mobile, I got much better battery life.
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Yes. I have the same experience. When WiFi is on, the battery life is much worse.
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fookxixi said:
Yes. I have the same experience. When WiFi is on, the battery life is much worse.
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Ok Wi-Fi being on won't kill your battery. Maybe you need to set your to, keep Wi-Fi on during sleep= NEVER. That'll help your battey life some what..
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[Q] Rapid Battery Life depletion during sleep

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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nscian12 said:
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)
nscian12 said:
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.
nscian12 said:
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
nscian12 said:
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.

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