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Deep sleep issue?

I've had this phone for 3 weeks now from a vibrant, and so far the battery hasn't balanced itself out. I get maybe a full days use out of it. From what I've read that's pretty good for this phone, but I'd like to be able to get consistent use.
I got a little more curious and decided to install cpu spy and discovered the phone isn't deep sleeping. So my question is, is there an app I should look out for that could possibly be running in the background? I've un installed all bloat that came with the phone, turned off sync, etc.
Any ideas? Or any roms that are touchwiz based that are battery friendly?
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What apps do you have installed?
You're still on stock, right?

Heck your running processes to see if anything is running that shouldn't be. Also, there is an app called Watchdog (not the data meter) that can be setup to alert you when an all is using more processes than it should be using.
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Yeah fully stock before the ota that was sent out.
I have the same apps I had on my vibrant with an extra game or two.
Mainly gapps, dead trigger, light flow, roku, Nike Running, etc.
I read somewhere that light flow was causing issues when the phone was first released, but so far I haven't seen major drain from that app alone. I turned off accessibility in the respect to light flow just to see if maybe that was the issue a d nothing.
Currently it sits right at 384mz. No idea why.
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joshnichols189 said:
Heck your running processes to see if anything is running that shouldn't be. Also, there is an app called Watchdog (not the data meter) that can be setup to alert you when an all is using more processes than it should be using.
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I forgot about that app. Just installed, I'll try this out and see what I can find.

This app should help you determine what exactly is keeping your device awake and preventing deep sleep.

Not sure what it is as this so the first day I have had this issue but it appears my phone has not gone into deep sleep at all today either. Weird.
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Hm, just checked my phone, was interested that maybe the app wasn't reading it correctly.
I remember in the Vibrant, some kernels didn't allow apps to read the correct Deep Sleep stats.
Mine is working fine, 84% on deep sleep.
What ROM are you guys running?

I'm on the latest CM10 nightly and lean kernel. Oh well, time to diagnose.
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joshnichols189 said:
I'm on the latest CM10 nightly and lean kernel. Oh well, time to diagnose.
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I've had a couple issues with deep sleep as well. However a reboot to recovery clearing cache and dalvik fixes it.
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elesbb said:
I've had a couple issues with deep sleep as well. However a reboot to recovery clearing cache and dalvik fixes it.
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I'll give that a shot, thanks!

So it seems like I'm not the only one having this issue, which is nice to know.
I ended up just switching to another rom and now it's going to sleep correctly which is nice because my battery is lasting.
Thanks for all the tips!
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SimeonAS89 said:
So it seems like I'm not the only one having this issue, which is nice to know.
I ended up just switching to another rom and now it's going to sleep correctly which is nice because my battery is lasting.
Thanks for all the tips!
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What ROM are you running now?

BetterBatteryStats has done a very good job of monitoring apps/processes that prevents deep sleep.

samson_420 said:
What ROM are you running now?
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Right now I'm running Stock sX v2.0. Its pretty good so far. I'm getting pretty similar battery life I had on my Vibrant.

anyone using juice defender ultimate here?

im getting error on the activity log when i start up this app, so im not sure if it works or not
ROM is not compatible with AOS(helper) band control is unvail. get cyanogenMod blah blah

Yeh it does that on AOKP, pa and cm10.1 so I have no answers lol
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Try green power or deep sleep battery saver.
They both work well

Do these apps really work?
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CptanPanic said:
Do these apps really work?
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Not really
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CptanPanic said:
Do these apps really work?
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all they really do is shut your data off when the screen is off, which will save you some battery. but then you wont get any notifications from apps that use data i.e. email, Facebook, etc. or at least that's how it was last time i tried those apps like a year ago, maybe they've changed it.
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lowrider262 said:
all they really do is shut your data off when the screen is off, which will save you some battery. but then you wont get any notifications from apps that use data i.e. email, Facebook, etc. or at least that's how it was last time i tried those apps like a year ago, maybe they've changed it.
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The apps will sync, or should sync, depending on the interval you set the phone to sync. I have mine set every 15 minutes, it saves me around 10-15% battery life a day.

Depend on your settings I think, mine worked exceeding my expectations. I had the dreaded hot phone and literally 5 hours battery life. My last hope is to install a custom ROM and kernel and hope for the best, but I'm trying to stay stock as possible if I can help it. I have my fair share tinkering with custom ROMs with GNex and needless to say I'm done customizing (it's endless once you start!).
So I installed JDU just for the heck of it, lo and behold it actually works. I now get 12hrs with 15% left after a day worth of usage, browsing, lots of yelp, maps and navigation (travelling at the moment), pandora, fb, whatsapp, gosms, GNow and camera. Please note that I'm using the N4 for less than a week and still conditioning the battery, I use JDU for a full day today for the first time.
I realized that using JDU is only a temporary 'fix' until Google patch the battery issue. I hope to get 14-16hrs battery life without JDU on stock and rooted ROM. One can only hope eh..

dwang said:
Try green power or deep sleep battery saver.
They both work well
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i will try that gree power premium app, see how that goes

I'm using juice defender ultimate on PA and it works fine
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Junk apps are junk.

Google Services is draining my battery. Please help.

Hi guys, sorry for another battery thread but I'm sure I am not alone with this.
I had disabled location services in config (totally disabled) and I was getting good battery life I think (always more than 3 h screen time ) but I noticed that some tasker profiles based on location weren't working (obvious). So today I enabled Location but only by WiFi and network (didn't check gps) and after a while I checked battery status and got this. If that is true that drain is really big ! More than battery? It doesn't make sense to me.
What do you think?
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It's a relative statistic. It didn't use 37% of battery it used 37% of the battery used.

Thanks. But don't you think its high anyway?
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peikojose said:
Thanks. But don't you think its high anyway?
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You used 50% of your battery in almost 8 hours and you think that's high? Check your screen on statistic. Most people only get 3-4 hours of screen on for the entire life of their battery.

Perhaps unchecked currents under your Google account, that was causing battery drain for a lot of. Nexus 7 peoples
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Thanks... But I checked and currents is not even associated to my Google account... But it's active... Good guess... Should I disable it?
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Regardless of whether your screen was on 4 minutes or 4 hours, it should not be that high.. I don't know how to fix it though, because this happens to me on multiple roms.. My only solution is turning Google now off, but it sucks cause I used to use it a lot

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You used 50% of your battery in almost 8 hours and you think that's high? Check your screen on statistic. Most people only get 3-4 hours of screen on for the entire life of their battery.
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That usage is good, but what would happened if I had disable "Location Services"? I would had 37% more battery! Much better!
Screen time when I took the screenshot was about 1:20h.

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joshuajones said:
Regardless of whether your screen was on 4 minutes or 4 hours, it should not be that high.. I don't know how to fix it though, because this happens to me on multiple roms.. My only solution is turning Google now off, but it sucks cause I used to use it a lot
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Yes, looks like the same happens here. And it's very strange that other people don't seem to have that problem, I really not understand.
Today I'm still testing and it's the same, Google Services uses more battery than screen, anyone who knows about electricity knows that if you are using the phone it's almost impossible.
And what is more crazy is that I'm not using GPS, it's always turned off. Locatization is only done by network and wifi.
It's obvious a bug and I hope that they fix it. I prefer not using Google Now than wasting almost 1 hour of screen time.

peikojose said:
Thanks... But I checked and currents is not even associated to my Google account... But it's active... Good guess... Should I disable it?
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Wouldn't hurt
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peikojose said:
That usage is good, but what would happened if I had disable "Location Services"? I would had 37% more battery! Much better!
Screen time when I took the screenshot was about 1:20h.
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No you wouldn't have. At most you could potentially have 18% more battery. And that's only if the battery usage statistic is 100% accurate which is never is.

I have an HTC EVO 4g LTE and I have the same problem. I can't find a solution for it and it does it even if I turn off all location, google now, google sync. I think it has something to do with google play, but I don't know for sure.
Any ideas on how to fix it? It's not very common and I don't think it is caused by any one thing. It only started after the JB update btw.
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I've discovered that Google services turns on even if you are in airplane mode and you have the wifi on but not connected to a network. I did a factory reset yesterday and nothing. I might have to unroot and take it in if I can't find an answer.
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I kept enabled Google Now and Location service and these were the results... My battery life is good even with this drain... Stock 4.2.1 and Franco Kernel...
If I had disabled Location and Google Now I would have had (what location services drained) 30% more! More than 3:30 h of screen time.
So sorry Google ... With this drain I won't keep them enabled...
Its a shame because I used network location to turn on and off WiFi automatically when I was entering and leaving home. Will have to do it manually..
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Today I disabled location services and Google now.. See the difference... This is what battery life is meant to be ... With stock 1750mah battery!!!
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peikojose said:
Today I disabled location services and Google now.. See the difference... This is what battery life is meant to be ... With stock 1750mah battery!!!
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Looks good. What's your rom and kernel profile?

namtombout said:
Looks good. What's your rom and kernel profile?
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Franco kernel 361 stock ROM 4.2.1
I want to move to cyaogen mod but I don't want to mess it hehe
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That makes sense but you can always go back. New ROMs are like
new phones. Sourcery with ak is stable and gets good batt life.

The day is about to finish and here are the final results... As predicted disabling Google now and location gave me 0:30 of screen time and more than 1 h idle.
Sad
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I solved it
I had this issue with my S4. I found it was the new update of Google play service that caused this issue. The battery usage of google services came back to normal after I delete the update. However, the new hangouts requires the latest google play service.
peikojose said:
Hi guys, sorry for another battery thread but I'm sure I am not alone with this.
I had disabled location services in config (totally disabled) and I was getting good battery life I think (always more than 3 h screen time ) but I noticed that some tasker profiles based on location weren't working (obvious). So today I enabled Location but only by WiFi and network (didn't check gps) and after a while I checked battery status and got this. If that is true that drain is really big ! More than battery? It doesn't make sense to me.
What do you think?
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Poor battery life since update to MA7

My battery life has been significantly less since I have updated to Ma7. Running it stock, deoxded, and rooted. I've included screens shots
Any ideas? I appreciate the help.
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Looks like you got a wakelock, use better battery stats to see what's causing it. That almost solid blue bar in your 2nd screen shot shows way more awake time than what your screen on time is, awake almost 80% or so of your total uptime
I like to break stuff!

I'll give it a try and post back.
Thanks!
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Could Google now location services, such as time to work cards, be causing pipe battery life?
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All that maps stuff will kill your battery, especially if you're inside where gps can't lock fast. I use autostarts to force maps to stay off unless I open them. And yes cards in google now do hit battery pretty hard as well.
I like to break stuff!

Everybody is over looking Mediaserver skyrocketing to the top of the list since this MA7 update. I'm also experiencing a drop in battery. Mediaserver is the cause and u can't seem to find a fix :banghead:
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Yes indeed.
The Google location services is a big user as well, but to turn it off or prevent it's autostart would hinder Google now, at least I would think so.
Good point on the media server. The battery life was better before this update, and I'm sure Google was still hogging battery life. So media server seems to be the problem... Possible.
Could one possible freeze certain apps to eliminate the drain from the media server?
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RayTrue04 said:
Everybody is over looking Mediaserver skyrocketing to the top of the list since this MA7 update. I'm also experiencing a drop in battery. Mediaserver is the cause and u can't seem to find a fix :banghead:
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Mediaserver drains battery fiercely due to a bad image file or video file......it keeps trying to read the file. The only fix that I found was to backup your sd card reformat it then add a folder at a time to make sure it doesnt get stuck scanning.
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
All that maps stuff will kill your battery, especially if you're inside where gps can't lock fast. I use autostarts to force maps to stay off unless I open them. And yes cards in google now do hit battery pretty hard as well.
I like to break stuff!
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I've found that it is only the network based locating that causes this particular wakelock madness. Turn off network based location and maps behaves fine... Shame really as Google Now is coded to be broken unless Google knows what network your connected to.
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neopolotin75 said:
Mediaserver drains battery fiercely due to a bad image file or video file......it keeps trying to read the file. The only fix that I found was to backup your sd card reformat it then add a folder at a time to make sure it doesnt get stuck scanning.
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I doubt it's any of my files. It never was a problem on LJC. And even now the problem is random. Comes and goes on different boots. I'm thinking maybe Samsung accounts might have to do something with it. A few days ago I noticed it updated a Samsung push service app on its own. In my head that sounds about the same time my problem started.
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Battery life is awsome here on MA7
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RayTrue04 said:
I doubt it's any of my files. It never was a problem on LJC. And even now the problem is random. Comes and goes on different boots. I'm thinking maybe Samsung accounts might have to do something with it. A few days ago I noticed it updated a Samsung push service app on its own. In my head that sounds about the same time my problem started.
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Ive had the same thing happen twice.....both times after I did that it solved the problem. ....I found the fix in either a gs3 forum here or another note forum where people were having the same issue......just saying wouldnt hurt to try that if its the mediaserver running.....but heres a good read
http://www.connect-utb.com/2012/07/buggy-android-mediaserver-draining-your-battery/
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Wish I was seeing that.
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poor battery
BlueGoldAce said:
My battery life has been significantly less since I have updated to Ma7. Running it stock, deoxded, and rooted. I've included screens shots
Any ideas? I appreciate the help.
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Brother...
I've been running Macs ROM Ma7 my battery life is incredible good...
Macksromm 2.5 galaxy note 2 sprint
Best rom ever
Give a try you will be amazed

eidercardoso said:
Brother...
I've been running Macs ROM Ma7 my battery life is incredible good...
Macksromm 2.5 galaxy note 2 sprint
Best rom ever
Give a try you will be amazed
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Do you have stock ma7 kernal or Perseus 33.4
JellyBombed Note 2 got me feeling like I'm outta this world..

Skripka said:
I've found that it is only the network based locating that causes this particular wakelock madness. Turn off network based location and maps behaves fine... Shame really as Google Now is coded to be broken unless Google knows what network your connected to.
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That's why I use autostarts to disable everything unless I open it manually. Then you don't need to turn off the location services they just don't activate til YOU tell them too. They fully function just like normal only they only function when the app is in the foreground
I like to break stuff!

Sorry of this question seems redundant.
So will doing this hinder Google now or any of its features?
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BlueGoldAce said:
Sorry of this question seems redundant.
So will doing this hinder Google now or any of its features?
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Doing what? Disabling network-based locating, or using autostarts?
Google Now to fully function requires knowledge of what wifi network or cellular network you're connected to to...Shame really, and downright creepy.

Skripka said:
Doing what? Disabling network-based locating, or using autostarts?
Google Now to fully function requires knowledge of what wifi network or cellular network you're connected to to...Shame really, and downright creepy.
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I was referring to autostarts but I guess both.
Thanks
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Phone get awake every 1 min this is killing my battery and me :(

Hi, I've CyanogenMod Nightly (latest) installed on my phone with this applications:
Drive
Dropbox
Falcon Pro
Friendcaster Pro
Google Apps (Gmail, Google+, Hangouts the rest of them are freeze usign TB)
File Manager (comes with CM)
Go Backup
GO SMS Pro
Greenify
Instagram
LInkedIn
Messenger (from Facebook)
Now Playing
Swiftkey
Whatsapp
some days ago my phone start to wake up every time even if I have in my pocket and I don't know the cause, many times I feel my pocket with some heat and surprise the phone is awake, if I leave in the table for example it takes off but in 2 o 3 minutes it goes awake once and once and this is the behavior until battery dies, can any tell me what's is happening? It's a CM bug?

Wake lock detector in the play store player
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Check if usb is damaged
Your phone may think to be under charging
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b1337 said:
Wake lock detector in the play store player
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What's that? I look trough Play Store and doens't find any program called "wake look detector"

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Check if usb is damaged
Your phone may think to be under charging
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How do I check that? If it was bad isn't suppose that phone not charge or won't be recognized at Windows Explorer?

Boot into safe mode and see if it still does it. If that's not the case, then it is a rogue app you installed.
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betterbatterystats, find the thread on xda here. its used to see what is going on on your phone. amazing app!
greenify, another thread on xda. this is used to hibernate apps when youre not using them and whenever you open them, they work fine! prevents wakelocks and such
wakelock detector is good but if you can read betterbattery stats there is no use for it in my opinion
let us know what you find!

May be power button problem also have chance. Did you flashed any other ROM for test.. Better flash stock rom and then you can find root cause
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Soldier 2.0 said:
Boot into safe mode and see if it still does it. If that's not the case, then it is a rogue app you installed.
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How do I boot into safe mode?

PatimusXPrime said:
betterbatterystats, find the thread on xda here. its used to see what is going on on your phone. amazing app!
greenify, another thread on xda. this is used to hibernate apps when youre not using them and whenever you open them, they work fine! prevents wakelocks and such
wakelock detector is good but if you can read betterbattery stats there is no use for it in my opinion
let us know what you find!
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I wish I could install Better Batery Stats but because I live on Vnz is a problem to buy the app so this is not a option for me, I've greenify installed and many apps are hibernated also have TB and some like Google+ are freeze

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May be power button problem also have chance. Did you flashed any other ROM for test.. Better flash stock rom and then you can find root cause
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Yes, I've flashed recently ParanoidAndroid from 25.05 (I think is the latest) and the problem remains

reynierpm said:
Yes, I've flashed recently ParanoidAndroid from 25.05 (I think is the latest) and the problem remains
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sounds like a problem with an app man, try out the betterbatterystats app! tellin ya

PatimusXPrime said:
sounds like a problem with an app man, try out the betterbatterystats app! tellin ya
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I wish I could install Better Batery Stats but because I live on Vnz is a problem to buy the app so this is not a option for me, I've greenify installed and many apps are hibernated also have TB and some like Google+ are freeze

I can report that this was happening to me too and it went away on it's own. I had a usb port problem and after my usb port was replaced by Samsung it was still doing the same thing.
So I never knew what was happening
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download cpu spy plus and then see if it's going into deep sleep.. if not then full wipe reinstall rom.. dont install anything other than gapps.. check for few hours.. then one by one install all your apps.. you will find the culprit
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I've installed BetterBateryStats XDA version, what now? What I should check? My phone goes sleep for 10 minutes and then started to get awake once and once see the image at this URL http://www.dropmocks.com/mBtZO-

reynierpm said:
How do I boot into safe mode?
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Hold power button, then tap and hold "Power off" selection and it will prompt you.
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It happened to me a few weeks ago and I fixed it!
The problem is with the usb connector and not related to the phone software.
You need to take a close look at the usb connector. Take a a small pin or needle and try to push or bend the usb to the orginal position.
TAKE GOOD CARE and do it on your own risk!!!
Yet, it did work for me

I had this problem and I was on stock 4.2.2. It ended up being either my stock calendar widget or pic speed wallpaper. It went away once I uninstalled both these applications.
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Well I don't know what was happening but my phone come back "aparently" to normally, I'll test all the day until my battery dies or almost it's at 10% of charge to see what happen. I didn't touch nothing just install Better Battery Stats, this is really, really rare. I'm using ParanoidAndroid 3+, anyway thanks to every who give me a hand here