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hi guys
do you have some thing for this
I had the same problem, in phone service they changed battery and flashed STOCK ROM again..
Is your Nexus GSM phone?
Have you flashed other ROM to your Nexus, If you flashed ten tell what is the ROM that you are using currently and what ROM you used...
I have Galaxy Nexus GSM with YAKJUXW ROM ICL53F.I9250XWKL2 4.0.2 <---- WITH THAT MY BATTERY HAVE PRETTY GOOD BATTERY LIFE BUT WHEN I FLASHED "IMM761 YAKJU" ROM then I had bad battery draining, battery drains too fast.. So then I flashed my Nexus's original ROM back (restore)!
And now battery works fine!
And What is the baseband and bootloader that is in your Nexus?
My Nexus have I9250XXKK6 basebad radio and PRIMEKK15 bootloader, there is no ICL53F.I9250XWKL2 ROM that can be downloaded from internet if I remember fine, there is ICL53F that is for YAKJU and with that I have bad battery life too!
So only good ROM for my Nexus is: ICL53F.I9250XWKL2 YAKJUXW 4.0.2, try this ROM if you are not using it, it might work better!
I hope this helps even little bit!
on IMM76I my battery goes to 53% in 5 hours, in ICL53F.I9250XWKL2 my battery goes to 20% in 1 day 8 hours (I listened music only 30 minutes..)
You need to provide more information. We cannot possibly know why your Nexus is draining fast. There are hundreds of possibilities and you provided no information about what is running, how fast power is draining, if the phone is entering deep sleep, signal strength, rom/kernel, or any other information. Unless someone here is a psychic, you're SOL on finding out why your battery life sucks until you provide more information.
thank you
my phone is "stock 4.0.3"
the phone is owed to my friend, and i guess
-after 4 to 6 hours "not heavy use"
samhawk said:
thank you
my phone is "stock 4.0.3"
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YAKJUXW Does not have 4.0.3 or 4.0.4 so if you don't know what is your phone version "yakju/yakjux/other" then you can check it from build.prop via File manager (ES File manager), Baseband changing might help too, or maybe your Galaxy Nexus battery is bad..
Are you using 3G?
I'm using WiFi all the time and still I have good battery life..
manumanfred said:
I had the same problem, in phone service they changed battery and flashed STOCK ROM again..
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I have Galaxy Nexus GSM with YAKJUXW ROM ICL53F.I9250XWKL2 4.0.2 <---- WITH THAT MY BATTERY HAVE PRETTY GOOD BATTERY LIFE BUT WHEN I FLASHED "IMM761 YAKJU" ROM then I had bad battery draining, battery drains too fast.. So then I flashed my Nexus's original ROM back (restore)!
And now battery works fine!
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Can you share the original YAKJUXW ROM somewhere? My Gnex was YAKJUXW when I bought it but I did not take a backup when switching to YAKJU. Battery life on my device went bad after the lates IMM76I OTA update. I've done a factory reset but it did not help.
And I am 99% sure that it's wifi that's draining my battery a lot. Prior to IMM76I I used to keep my WiFi always on and it never affected my battery much. Now I have to remember to switch WiFi off when I leave home or otherwise my battery dies in 5-8 hrs of standby.
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Can you share the original YAKJUXW ROM somewhere? My Gnex was YAKJUXW when I bought it but I did not take a backup when switching to YAKJU. Battery life on my device went bad after the lates IMM76I OTA update. I've done a factory reset but it did not help.
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I can upload My YAKJUXW ROM PULL but it needs the fews files to make it flashabe and I can't make it flashable, also I have made restore but that might not work on your galaxy Nexus or I don't know.. :/
Do you know any app that can make it flashable via Windows?
Can't I just use fastboot to flash it?
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Can't I just use fastboot to flash it?
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I'm not sure, the system is in .ext4 format, that can be opened via WinRAR but I don't know is it flashable via fastboot!
I also have dumped XXKK6 radio baseband 12Mb + boot.img + recovery.img + primeKK15 bootloader..
I try to make them flashable but I'm sure that I will fail..
you can try to use restore to flash the system.ext4 but other IMG files have to be flashed via Fastboot!
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READ whole: READ ME FILE in the zip file!
http://code.google.com/p/android-for-jet/downloads/detail?name=ICL53F.I9250XWKL2.zip&can=2&q=
ROM Build: ICL53F.I9250XWKL2 YAKJUXW 4.0.2 STOCK
Baseband: I9250XXKK6
Bootloader: PRIMEKK15
This is not same as YAKJU ICL53F 4.0.2 ROM!
If you have battery draining problem then try this!
I'm not sure is there posted This ROM as flashable...
Flash this at your own risk I'm not sure will this work or not!
Maybe there is somewhere posted it or then it was older version but with that I had bad battery life too..
With this I have good battery life!
baseband is dumped and it is XXKK6 (12Mb)
EDIT;
This is 4.0.1 YAKJUXW version: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1625700 It was not good on my Nexus but maybe now it is because my Battery is changed...
I will try that 4.0.1 build. I guess it should update to 4.0.2 almost immediately. Let's see
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I will try that 4.0.1 build. I guess it should update to 4.0.2 almost immediately. Let's see
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OK! Yes it will update it to 4.0.2...
And then just have to wait 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 for that and then 4.0.5 if it is coming...
Thanks for help. I am back on yakjuxw and maybe it's kinda autosuggestion effect but my reception bars look much better now (I mean more of them ). Let's see how is battery life.
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Thanks for help. I am back on yakjuxw and maybe it's kinda autosuggestion effect but my reception bars look much better now (I mean more of them ). Let's see how is battery life.
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OK, Np!
If you have time then can you tell me how good is your battery?
My battery is not so good anymore, I don't know why, all files is same but battery drains faster or i don't know..
My battery 8 Hours 22 minutes:
30% left!
Screen 61%, screen used 2 hours 11 min
Music 10%, used 29 minutes
Android System 9%, used 2 hours
I feel like my Galaxy Nexus have little bit bad battery life!
It's a little better but not by much. After 11 hrs of standby with about 1hr of screen-on usage it's at 60%. I can see that Wifi-on does not hurt battery so severly and reception is better. But on the other hand overall system UI performance was much better on 4.0.4. Now app drawer stutters a little especially when scrolling through widgets tab. I will still try a factory reset with no restore from Google backup.
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It's a little better but not by much. After 11 hrs of standby with about 1hr of screen-on usage it's at 60%. I can see that Wifi-on does not hurt battery so severly and reception is better. But on the other hand overall system UI performance was much better on 4.0.4. Now app drawer stutters a little especially when scrolling through widgets tab. I will still try a factory reset with no restore from Google backup.
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I flashed IMM76D which I updated to IMM76I...
again using IMM76I only with other bootloader + baseband version..
I let my Nexus to be in idle 6 hours and if battery drains to 70/60% then again back to ICL53F......
try XXKL1 baseband on ICL53F ROM (if you want), maybe it's better or then XXLA02 baseband.. XXKL1 might give better battery life..
After a bit of research I would say my battery issues were related to apps and not ROM. I decided to start fresh and I flashed IMM76I again but this time I opted not to restore my phone from my Google account. That've made a huge difference. I started to install apps one by one and observed how they impact battery life. So far I noticed a problem with Facebook that directly after installation kept the phone in "active" state for several hours. I do not what was that but it went back to normal after a reboot. Now my phone eats about 5% per 4hrs of stanby.
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After a bit of research I would say my battery issues were related to apps and not ROM. I decided to start fresh and I flashed IMM76I again but this time I opted not to restore my phone from my Google account. That've made a huge difference. I started to install apps one by one and observed how they impact battery life. So far I noticed a problem with Facebook that directly after installation kept the phone in "active" state for several hours. I do not what was that but it went back to normal after a reboot. Now my phone eats about 5% per 4hrs of stanby.
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and if you force close Facebook when you don't use it the it might help to save battery life, on my GN screen and phone in idle uses too much battery but Faecbook does not use really much, I also force close it when I don't use it and also I like more the browser facebook so I don't use really much Faecbook app.
I haven't installed many other apps that I had installed before.
Those include:
Adobe Flash
Adobe Reader
Facebook Messenger
Instagram
LinkedIn
Pulse
Skype
Kindle
Maybe one of them was a battery drainer.
Now I even use a live wallpaper and my battery seems pretty ok. Yesterday I ended up with 52% after 15hrs with about 1.5hr screen usage. Of course WiFi, 3G and Sync always on. Screen on auto-brightness.
Facebook app I keep installed and it does not seem to hurt battery that much after initial "something" that kept my phone awake for several hrs. I do not know, I might have been an initial sync of contacts but anyway it should be pretty quick on a 20 MBps network.
Apart from Facebook I have now installed the following apps:
Tapatalk
Pocket
Evernote
Dropbox
Fancy widgets
Google currents
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I haven't installed many other apps that I had installed before.
Those include:
Adobe Flash
Adobe Reader
Facebook Messenger
Instagram
LinkedIn
Pulse
Skype
Kindle
Maybe one of them was a battery drainer.
Now I even use a live wallpaper and my battery seems pretty ok. Yesterday I ended up with 52% after 15hrs with about 1.5hr screen usage. Of course WiFi, 3G and Sync always on. Screen on auto-brightness.
Facebook app I keep installed and it does not seem to hurt battery that much after initial "something" that kept my phone awake for several hrs. I do not know, I might have been an initial sync of contacts but anyway it should be pretty quick on a 20 MBps network.
Apart from Facebook I have now installed the following apps:
Tapatalk
Pocket
Evernote
Dropbox
Fancy widgets
Google currents
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For me Flash player uses much battery wit Dolphin browser HD when I watched videos from internet.. (videos for PCs/laptops with newest flash player)
I watched videos on my Gnex 20 minutes to get battery fully empty to try fix battery draining problem (no luck..)
Facebook: if it is open all the time then it's using battery little bit..
about the other apps I don't know does them use much battery or not... maybe fancy widgets uses battery too but not so much as facebook..
On my GN I always disable Bluetooth, (2G/3G,etc.), WiFi, GPS is on..
Google maps uses battery little bit too much when I don't use it.
So I searched all day for an answer similar to mine and I did not see what I could do.
I was on rooted on ICS until this weekend when I updated to Jelly Bean and rooted again.
My Battery usage was working fine in ICS, what I would call normal battery drain.
After the update I am getting terrible battery use!!!!
I have tried closing, diabling all apps, radios, I have diabled bloatware.
But my battery keeps draining at a rate of 10% and hour!
All this with minor use.
I have opened a few apps and the Play Store but nothing else.
The S3 has just be inJust in standby.
In the settings, under battery it show my main power consumption is the SCREEN at 60%
I dont know how!
When the screen is off, I dont have a video wallaper and when I do power up the screen its so DIM I can hardley see anything.
All this happened after the Jelly Bean update!
Any idea on what I can do?
Do you think a factor restore would help?
Yes, back your dat up first though (contacts, calender, ect.) because you will have to redownload your apps. I did a reset and was on stock after updating but still had terrible battery life. The fix? Take the battery out 40 minutes, put it back in and run it COMPLETELY dead, and recharge it while it's turned off. Make sure you have time to do this without needing the phone because it takes a while. Like 7-8 hours. I've went a day now without much usage at all (still at 90% charge) and have a day left on standby. The battery reset helped more than anything I believe.
Yep same as mine jb update has a heavy battery drain..and my skyvalex callrecorder stopped working..i just flash back to ICS.
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My opinion, factory wipe and Re-root it.
Install SetCPU and the Ktoonsez kernal to manage the power settings. Also Go Power Master is a good app to tweak power settings.
In SetCPU you can have it clocked down when the screen it off.
Had the same problem. Called att went through the ranks until I was told by att warranty supervisor that they had no work around and I should root my phone. Shocking they told me that. But I found the problem. I uninstalled the update to Google now and then shut it down. Battery seams to be doing good now.
Got a free battery from att though. I guess cause there higher ups have no idea how to fix drain.
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Luckily your type of phone has a removable battery....unlike me...cannot replace to a higher battery capacity
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Semi-solved
I somewhat have solved my problem.
What I did was Factory Reset from the Setting menu. I thought I would have lost Root doing this.
It was already set in my mind to just wipe the S3 clean and start over but the root did not get washed out.
So, I used Kies to only restore my contacts.
Instead of having any old apps restored I downloaded them all over again from the Play Store.
So far so good!!
I have better battery life than prior to the reset.
I had been losing 8% and hour in Standby and 10%+ when in use.
So far today I have used the phone with my screen brightness high, made about 10 calls, surfed youtube and I only down 6% in the last 2 hours.
I consider that better.
If there are some things I can add to my diable list that you all know of to give me an EVEN BETTER result please let me know!
Poor battery life here too. Battery settings says screen is eating 78% and Maps eating 10%. I'm a heavy user but its mostly surfing this site and Facebook. I don't play games or watch YouTube much
Does this solve the battery drain issue?
Hiya all.
I haven't got a S3 so I can't confirm this works.....
A friend was having the same battery drain issue and I was going through his settings and noticed that "Sync All" was on.
Turned it off and the battery drain stopped. We think.
It seems to easy to be true. So I'd like more S3 owners to try.
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Yes, back your dat up first though (contacts, calender, ect.) because you will have to redownload your apps. I did a reset and was on stock after updating but still had terrible battery life. The fix? Take the battery out 40 minutes, put it back in and run it COMPLETELY dead, and recharge it while it's turned off. Make sure you have time to do this without needing the phone because it takes a while. Like 7-8 hours. I've went a day now without much usage at all (still at 90% charge) and have a day left on standby. The battery reset helped more than anything I believe.
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Hi have the lte version that i got couple of days back and i have the same problem. I have not rooted and it came stock with jb. So you have to do a factory reset and remove the battery and try or just the battery?
Also how to remove some stock apps, I don't use any.
My battery life stinks. I had to get the Mophie case with extra battery built in. works great
Hello, new to the forums here. I recently updated to 4.4.2 on my LG Optimus G Pro and I went from having a battery that lasted all day, sometimes two days to my phone being dead by the time I get home from work for the day ever since the update.
Two days ago I had 1hr18min of screen time within a 6 hours off the charger and the phone was at 15% battery life left. Today, I had 13 minutes of on screen time and at the end of my 6 hour shift my phone was at 40% and dead a few hours after I got home. I have GPS, bluetooth, NFS all disabled and my brightness set to 30%.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm thinking of doing a factory reset and just not updating to the new version of android when it prompts.
Thanks
silentvelcr0 said:
Hello, new to the forums here. I recently updated to 4.4.2 on my LG Optimus G Pro and I went from having a battery that lasted all day, sometimes two days to my phone being dead by the time I get home from work for the day ever since the update.
Two days ago I had 1hr18min of screen time within a 6 hours off the charger and the phone was at 15% battery life left. Today, I had 13 minutes of on screen time and at the end of my 6 hour shift my phone was at 40% and dead a few hours after I got home. I have GPS, bluetooth, NFS all disabled and my brightness set to 30%.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm thinking of doing a factory reset and just not updating to the new version of android when it prompts.
Thanks
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Get betterbatterystats and see if you phone deep sleeps. If not then check what the wakelocks are in partial wakelocks. If it's a kernel problem maybe you need to flash a different kernel.
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Get betterbatterystats and see if you phone deep sleeps. If not then check what the wakelocks are in partial wakelocks. If it's a kernel problem maybe you need to flash a different kernel.
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i am running stock phone. it is not rooted or anything
Same exact battery drain problem. Im on stock e980 rom (rooted) with no custom kernel.
Gsam battery monitor app is showing the kernel as keeping my phone wake for the entire time my phone has been unplugged.
The problem seems to come and go though. One day itll be fine, but another day the battery will be sucked dry fast.
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I'm running stock rooted for e980 and have pretty good battery life .... Try clearing Google play services data and rebooting ... Check and see what's draining your battery mol its pretty easy
2SHAYNEZ
I'm also running stock kernel, and have great battery life on kitkat. Just reset your phone to factory defaults
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ccelis said:
I'm also running stock kernel, and have great battery life on kitkat. Just reset your phone to factory defaults
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I've done this twice in the past 3 days....
I'm sick of having to set up my phone over and over again. And this is a new phone too. I just got it Monday under warranty because my old phone broke.
It's getting annoying. I used to get 14-17hrs+ of battery life (casual use, usually ending the day at 30-50% too, so I never even reached 0%) with my old phone on Jelly Bean. Now with Kitkat, I get around 6 hours if I'm lucky! According to Wakelock detector, my phone is awake 85%+ of the day! All it points to is Kernel (Android OS). I see lots of Wlan_wake triggers too, so I suspect wifi, but even with wifi off, the drainage still occurs. And I only have a 2GB data plan shared between 3 people, so it's not like I can just use data all the time either. I actually NEED wifi.
spexwood said:
I've done this twice in the past 3 days....
I'm sick of having to set up my phone over and over again. And this is a new phone too. I just got it Monday under warranty because my old phone broke.
It's getting annoying. I used to get 14-17hrs+ of battery life (casual use, usually ending the day at 30-50% too, so I never even reached 0%) with my old phone on Jelly Bean. Now with Kitkat, I get around 6 hours if I'm lucky! According to Wakelock detector, my phone is awake 85%+ of the day! All it points to is Kernel (Android OS). I see lots of Wlan_wake triggers too, so I suspect wifi, but even with wifi off, the drainage still occurs. And I only have a 2GB data plan shared between 3 people, so it's not like I can just use data all the time either. I actually NEED wifi.
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do you have an SD card installed? Maybe you can try to remove that and get rid of all other media from your phone storage. Might be a media scanner problem? Or maybe you can try to disable auto sync, and check if Google play services is the culprit.
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ccelis said:
do you have an SD card installed? Maybe you can try to remove that and get rid of all other media from your phone storage. Might be a media scanner problem? Or maybe you can try to disable auto sync, and check if Google play services is the culprit.
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The media scanner usually shows up in the battery stats window though, and it isn't. I've had a corrupted SD card on my tablet once before and it caused media scanner to go berserk, but the Mediascanner entry appeared under Settings>Battery as the highest battery consumer.
In this case of my phone right now, it is Android OS in Settings>Battery. According to Wakelock detector, GSam, and BetterBatteryStats, it's more specifically Kernel.
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The media scanner usually shows up in the battery stats window though, and it isn't. I've had a corrupted SD card on my tablet once before and it caused media scanner to go berserk, but the Mediascanner entry appeared under Settings>Battery as the highest battery consumer.
In this case of my phone right now, it is Android OS in Settings>Battery. According to Wakelock detector, GSam, and BetterBatteryStats, it's more specifically Kernel.
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Have you tried reflashing your firmware, instead of just doing a factory reset?
I assume you are rooted since you are using BBS and wake lock detector on KK. Why not flash a custom rom?
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silentvelcr0 said:
Hello, new to the forums here. I recently updated to 4.4.2 on my LG Optimus G Pro and I went from having a battery that lasted all day, sometimes two days to my phone being dead by the time I get home from work for the day ever since the update.
Two days ago I had 1hr18min of screen time within a 6 hours off the charger and the phone was at 15% battery life left. Today, I had 13 minutes of on screen time and at the end of my 6 hour shift my phone was at 40% and dead a few hours after I got home. I have GPS, bluetooth, NFS all disabled and my brightness set to 30%.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm thinking of doing a factory reset and just not updating to the new version of android when it prompts.
Thanks
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Hi i had the same problem as you but i started digging inside the system of the phone i found the problem but you will require root access. If you have root you have to delet a lib file tand it carrier iq wich run in background and drains your battery the file to delete is libiq_client.so do that and you will see an increase in battery life
Hav
ccelis said:
Have you tried reflashing your firmware, instead of just doing a factory reset?
I assume you are rooted since you are using BBS and wake lock detector on KK. Why not flash a custom rom?
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I did this on Tuesday or Wednesday.
... I messed something up on my phone while trying to install a custom recovery, so I was basically forced to reinstall everything. I'm on stock ATT e980 ROM (on an E980) + root. I reflashed the Jelly Bean tot file and then did the OTA update with no apps installed.
On the phone that got warrantied, I had flashed the E980 kitkat backup (now has a flashable version too), and the battery life seemed to be much better on it for about a week, and then the issues started there too.
I just rebooted the phone into recovery and wiped cache and Dalvik cache. Many people on Kitkat are reporting that this helps, but only for about 2 days then the issue returns. Obviously, I want a permanent solution.
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xoLEOox said:
Hi i had the same problem as you but i started digging inside the system of the phone i found the problem but you will require root access. If you have root you have to delet a lib file tand it carrier iq wich run in background and drains your battery the file to delete is libiq_client.so do that and you will see an increase in battery life
Hav
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I just tried this right now. Will see what happens.
Will report back if I see anything noticeable.
How would this this battery though? Like, what does it do? Are there any adverse effects to removing it?
EDIT: BTW, I know you weren't addressing this at me, but I'm still trying it LOL
spexwood said:
I did this on Tuesday or Wednesday.
... I messed something up on my phone while trying to install a custom recovery, so I was basically forced to reinstall everything. I'm on stock ATT e980 ROM (on an E980) + root. I reflashed the Jelly Bean tot file and then did the OTA update with no apps installed.
On the phone that got warrantied, I had flashed the E980 kitkat backup (now has a flashable version too), and the battery life seemed to be much better on it for about a week, and then the issues started there too.
I just rebooted the phone into recovery and wiped cache and Dalvik cache. Many people on Kitkat are reporting that this helps, but only for about 2 days then the issue returns. Obviously, I want a permanent solution.
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I just tried this right now. Will see what happens.
Will report back if I see anything noticeable.
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Ok restart when you delete the file this is a permanent solution for me i hope this helps you as it did me
ccelis said:
I assume you are rooted since you are using BBS and wake lock detector on KK. Why not flash a custom rom?
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I didn't see this part of your message, but I just had to respond lol
Yes, I'm rooted and I absolutely hate custom roms. They take out all the features of the phone that I originally bought the phone for, like Smart Screen, the IR remote (yes, I know it can be ported), and the quick memo button. Plus I used custom ROMs on my old SGS2 and they always caused me tons of problems. Crashes, overheating, random reboots, random SODs, etc etc etc. Plus I hate the AOSP feel. I know it's true Android, but I just don;t like it.
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xoLEOox said:
Ok restart when you delete the file this is a permanent solution for me i hope this helps you as it did me
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I'm still getting more than usual battery drain, but it is better now.
I just got a replacement OEM LG battery, so I will try that to see if maybe the battery is defective. When I got my phone replaced under warranty, they didn't have batteries in stock, so they just gave me back my old one and ordered me a knew one. The old phone was overheating a lot too, so maybe the battery is bad.
UPDATE: OK, MUUUUUUUUUCH better battery now!
I put in that new battery and "recalibrated" it by draining it to 0% and charging with the power off. Once it reached 100%, I let it charge an extra hour, unplugged, and started up the phone.
I also installed Qualcomm Snapdragon's Battery Guru. I set it up so that it's mostly managing app syncing, but I also set it up so that it will not rely on location services to turn on/off my wifi. I don't want to leave my location services on all the time. I don't know how it is on Kitkat, but on older Android versions (ICS and GB), leaving GPS on was a huge battery drainer! I still treat location like it was back then.
Anyways, it will take a few days for the app to learn my usage patterns, but it's already helping by making certain apps only sync when I open them, etc. I suspect that all the wlan_wake wakelocks are being caused by auto-sync but I'm reluctant to turn it completely off since i rely on it to sync my work schedule, calendar, etc between my phone and tablet. I just wish there was a system setting to allow auto-sync to run every X hours or something. I really only need the sync to run every 6 hours or so.
It's been about 35mins now with 6mins of screen time and the phone is still at 100%. A few text messages and the installation of Battery Guru too. This is normal and how things used to be. After a while, the phone will most likely go to 99% and then have faster drain, but it shouldn't be so rapid like before. Earlier today, after 30mins, the battery would be at at least 95% or lower by now! After a full day, the battery usage graph would should a 45 degree angle too! It used to be an almost level, very gradual angle instead.
I should also mention that for a while, I was using a Zero Lemon slim battery (3150mAh). I bought it because of all the hype Zero Lemon was getting here on XDA, but I really regret it now. I used it for 2 weeks (1 week on my broken phone and 1 week on my replacement) and the drain wasn't consistent, even after several calibration attempts. It lasted me all day though, but I'd be stuck at maybe 3% for like an hour, then while in deep sleep, the battery would "magically charge" to 6%.
After I swapped back to the OEM battery, I don't think I recalibrated, so I wonder if my phone thought I was still using the Zero Lemon.
I'm planning to return the Zero Lemon.
UPDATE2: It's been a couple hours now and the Android OS is starting to retreat from the #1 slot in the battery consumption list!
Screen is #1 now and Android OS went from 65% usage to 14%! :good: :good:
UPDATE3: :crying: OK, it's broken again. I didn't do anything to the phone, but when the phone hit 50%, I left it alone for 2 hours and the battery drained 30% while it was supposed to be sleeping. Android OS is back up to 80% usage!
Wifi on, Location off, Bluetooth off, auto-sync on. I'm trying auto-sync off today to see if there's any dramatic improvement.
UPDATE4: I might be on to something now. I noticed 2 things: 1st, when the screen is off and the phone is SUPPOSED to be in deep sleep, the back of the phone stays warm to the touch. It wasn't hot, but it was warm enough to be noticeable. 2nd, I had System Tuner installed yesterday but uninstalled it this morning. Despite uninstalling and rebooting, the phone was still draining battery fast (I still lost 25% in 2 hours today!). I noticed that System Tuner had added a script to System/etc/init.d, so I deleted that and rebooted. Now the phone seems to be sleeping (says so in BetterBatteryStats and WakeLockDetector), and the back of the phone is COLD to the touch when doing so. I took a shower today (I take fairly long showers too LOL), and then checked my email, and the battery life didn't decrease at all during that time while it was asleep.
Obviously, I need to test this throughout the day now, but this is definite progress, if not the solution.
Also, on my warrantied phone, when I had the Zero Lemon battery inserted, battery drain was high (battery's fault), so I installed System Tuner then too, trying to tweak the phone. After switching back to the stock battery, the drain remained, but most likely due to System Tuner's script.
Then when I got my replacement phone, I ALSO installed System Tuner and of course, I got battery drain issues! I factory reset, but did not install System Tuner, but the problem still remained. However, it probably remained because the reset doesn't remove system files, so this script was still in the init.d folder.
FINAL: I ended up flashing the stock ROM again (I used Eazy Kat 1.0 this time). My phone began bugging out on me. Random crashes here and there, mobile data randomly disappearing (no LTE/4G/3G at all), and worst of all, people were having difficulty hearing me during calls. Reflashing seems to have worked perfectly this time. *knock on wood*
FYI: The last flashes I did, I used .tot files to flash back to stock Jelly Bean and then updated to Kitkat via OTA.
xoLEOox said:
Hi i had the same problem as you but i started digging inside the system of the phone i found the problem but you will require root access. If you have root you have to delet a lib file tand it carrier iq wich run in background and drains your battery the file to delete is libiq_client.so do that and you will see an increase in battery life
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I stumbled across this post and tried that fix. I'll check back in later to see what it does.
Hey guys
So i recently updated my S3 to 4.4.2 (about 2 weeks ago) and my battery life has become completely horrible afterwards. My phone is rooted and im using the stock Telus 4.4.2 update.
Some days the battery seems ok and other days its completely terrible. Yesterday and today for example i charged up my phone over night (like ive always done), and within an hour the battery dropped about 20% and i did nothing but check the weather for today.
Someone told me there was a camera issue and to just open and close the app and that would fix that issue...... made no difference. I dont have skype installed since i heard there was a battery drain issue with that app as well.
The only thing i have running in the background constantly is WeatherBug, WidgetLocker, NiLS, & GSAM Battery Monitor (both of which i used before the update to 4.4.2). I tried rebooting into recovery mode and clearing my cache and that made no difference either.
I even use an app called Greenify to put some apps in hibernate that i dont use often.
I have location turned off (like always) and i changed all my sync settings to sync only the stuff i need (work email and contacts basically). I dont have the cloud setup to backup anything, nor do i have anything setup under Backup and Reset either (again like always).
I have very limited data so ive gone though every single app under Data Usage and told them all to restrict background data. Im on wifi 99% of the time anyways (at work and home. the only time im not on wifi is when im driving). Ive turned off the stupid HP and Samsung print service plug-ins as well.
The only thing i really do on my phone is check my email when it comes through (which is set to sync every hour). Mayyyybe the odd quick facebook check, and text back and forth with my wife. And whenever im not using the phone i always lock it immediately after, otherwise the screen timeout is set to 30 seconds. Ive also got my brightness adjustment set to low.
Basically im at my wit's end on what to try next. Here are a couple screen shots ive just taken. Please help?
Edit: I should also mention that before i updated to 4.4.2 i was on 4.3 and my battery life was way better. At the end of the day i would be at roughly 30-50% battery life on average. It all depends on what i did with my phone during the day. I also notice that for some reason when the battery gets below 40-50% now it will drop off like crazy, especially when im at home for some reason.
JohnnyV84 said:
Hey guys
So i recently updated my S3 to 4.4.2 (about 2 weeks ago) and my battery life has become completely horrible afterwards. My phone is rooted and im using the stock Telus 4.4.2 update.
Some days the battery seems ok and other days its completely terrible. Yesterday and today for example i charged up my phone over night (like ive always done), and within an hour the battery dropped about 20% and i did nothing but check the weather for today.
Someone told me there was a camera issue and to just open and close the app and that would fix that issue...... made no difference. I dont have skype installed since i heard there was a battery drain issue with that app as well.
The only thing i have running in the background constantly is WeatherBug, WidgetLocker, NiLS, & GSAM Battery Monitor (both of which i used before the update to 4.4.2). I tried rebooting into recovery mode and clearing my cache and that made no difference either.
I even use an app called Greenify to put some apps in hibernate that i dont use often.
I have location turned off (like always) and i changed all my sync settings to sync only the stuff i need (work email and contacts basically). I dont have the cloud setup to backup anything, nor do i have anything setup under Backup and Reset either (again like always).
I have very limited data so ive gone though every single app under Data Usage and told them all to restrict background data. Im on wifi 99% of the time anyways (at work and home. the only time im not on wifi is when im driving). Ive turned off the stupid HP and Samsung print service plug-ins as well.
The only thing i really do on my phone is check my email when it comes through (which is set to sync every hour). Mayyyybe the odd quick facebook check, and text back and forth with my wife. And whenever im not using the phone i always lock it immediately after, otherwise the screen timeout is set to 30 seconds. Ive also got my brightness adjustment set to low.
Basically im at my wit's end on what to try next. Here are a couple screen shots ive just taken. Please help?
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Well the stats you posted don't look bad.
To really know what's draining your battery though, you should install BBS (BetterBatteryStats), which can be found on here, in the app section. Let it monitor a full charge and post the results.
Alright i'll install that and post the results when i get them.
Said to hell with it and installed CM 11 on my S3 and now the phone is a HELL of alot faster and the battery life is just insane!
Thanks anyways!
I noticed you said your data is limited. To save data and battery life, give my lightweight app a shot, LeanDroid. There's a thread here on XDA with thousands of happy users
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2743316
Sent from my Nexus 5
Same issue with 4.4.2 update
I took the OTA 4.4.2 update and my battery life took a big dump as well as the battery / phone started getting hot. At first I just thought my extended 4200 mah battery was on the way out ....so I bought a new one and still have the same problem. So upset that I took that update ....and surprised not to find more complaints here. I assume I can go back to 4.3 or whatever the previous version is ?? Anyone have any suggestions??
(Conspiracy theory) This is probably AT&T 's way of getting people to buy new phones.
The SG3 is stock / unrooted
Hi,
Need help here. I have a 4-5 month old nexus 7 2013 wifi only. It was all fine a few weeks ago, till i noticed a sharp decrease in battery life. I am running 5.0.2, stock unrooted. Around 3-4 hours of active use.
So I reset it from the settings menu. Agreed, there were not so many apps installed again, the battery life increased to 5 hours of active use. I noticed the sharp decrease because my skype time has decreased from 6 hours to 2-3 hours.
No major change after the reset. Except, my firefox addons for adblocking dont work. Also, just a very specific example, movshare . net also is blocked on my nexus, but works on my computer on the same network. This is annoying the living sh*t out of me, I just cannot stand all the pop ups and ads. I dont need fancy shmancy rooted adblockers, just need my nexus to work like before.
In general, I have 9GAG and skype crashes often, everything else works fine though.
Need to know hardware or software, whether to root or not to wipe battery stats and clear cache.
I owned a GSII a long time back. I modded it till it broke. Thats why im still running stock. If we can do everything vanilla, that'll be great.
GSAM shows 1d 2hr standby and 6h of active. Sometimes delta/h goes upto 21%.
HELP.
EDIT* Google now mic doesnt work all the time, only when I'm on the Now screen.
I'd wipe everything then flash the stock image in fastboot. Remove all variables and see what happens.
So lollipop or jb?
Castum rom + castum kernel + greenify + wakelock detector. and see that the battery sits down, the program may remain constantly running