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How can I check what ate my battery in the past 3 hours?

My battery life has been great with the current set-up, but in the past 3 hours something screwy happened. I basically went to a function and I turned off BT, Wi-Fi, Mobile Data and GPS. Only thing on was the cellular network and I swear I didn't use it for more than 5 minutes. The battery was at 98% before leaving, now in those 3 hours it came down to 50%. What the crap? The only thing I did was to play Super KO Boxing 2 before leaving for about 5 minutes(It still shows its battery usage as 20% but no option to force close, so I am presuming it isn't running). I did open Maps and HTC Locations(Sense 2.0) for 2 minutes but I closed it because I didn't need it anymore, I also disabled GPS right after that. Now after all of this(game and gps stuff) I had 98% battery. Yet 48% of my battery went into thin air just like that, my battery use is Display: ~40%, SKOB : ~20%, Voice calls: ~15%(About 3 minutes), Cell standby ~2%, Wi-Fi ~4-5% or something like that. These are from memory since I turned it off and kept it for charging.
Any ideas what screwed things up?

Edit: Just noticed you are already familiar with the battery %age lcations.

From what you describe, it sounds as though there were some apps running in the background, slowly om nom nom'ing your battery. I daresay there are a few apps on the Android Market and elsewhere that can tell you what services are running at any given time, so you could get one of those.
If you're after ensuring maximum battery life, however, your best bet is to shut down the Desire, then fire it up again. That way, you can be sure there are no background services to drain charge. Couple that with lowering the screen brightness and display idle timeout (not to mention upgrading to Android 2.2), you should be able to go at least a couple of days on standby.

Sounds like one of your apps is keeping your device awake. I'd suggest getting app monitor like SystemPanel and run the monitoring for a few hours to see which app is consuming the battery.
And get WatchDog. It will notify you if there's any app that use the CPU more than 20%. You can set the percentage yourself btw.

All right, I'll be formatting the phone and flashing the RCMixHD v8 ROM(Was using v7) and then see what happens. i can bet my life that it was either HTC Locations or Google Maps screwing things up.

[Q] Why won't my phone goto sleep?

I think my phone is suffering from the Android OS keep awake bug. I just charged my phone to 100%, rebooted, opened and closed the camera app and left it alone for about an hour and a half. I am down to 92% batter life remaining. This seems excessive. The Android OS app shows a keep awake time of exactly 93 minutes which is also exactly the same as the up time.
I don't quite understand BetterBatteryStats just yet, but BetterBatteryStats shows "gps-lock" as 1h27m4s under Kernel Wakelocks since charged. Nothing else comes close. The highest Partial Wakelock is ActivityManager-Launch with 12s. Under Other Awake is 93 minutes and Screen on is 2 minutes. BetterBatteryStats is the first item under Process the surfaceflinger and com.android.phone.
Before rebooting I had set my GPS settings to (and they remained this way after reboot)
-Google's Location Service : Unchecked
-GPS satellites : Checked
-Location & Google search : Unchecked
Other stats:
-Verizon LTE
-bigxie IML74K Build 2
-franco.Kernel #12 (hotplug enabled, 350k low, 120k high)
-No widgets
-No other apps were opened
-Gmail is set to sync. I haven't run or configured Google+ (don't use it). Gmail/Calendar/Contacts should be the only things syncing, no facebook sync.
I had similar issues before flashing the kernel and rom.
How can I get this thing to go to sleep? I don't think this should be consuming so much battery life while idle.

you have a "bad app" that is preventing the phone from deep sleeping.
get cpu spy from the market to verify how long your phone is staying in each state
do you have any notifications in the notification bar?

No notifications were received in the last 90 minutes (forever alone yes). I just installed CPUSpy. This says 00:01:25 was spent in 1200Mhz, 01:39:52 in 350mhz and 0:00:0 in Deep Sleep.
How can I find what app is preventing deep sleep? The only apps listed in the battery app are Android OS, Screen, Phone Idle, Cell standby and Android System.
Wouldn't this bad app show up in BetterBatteryStats under Process?

lethologica said:
No notifications were received in the last 90 minutes (forever alone yes). I just installed CPUSpy. This says 00:01:25 was spent in 1200Mhz, 01:39:52 in 350mhz and 0:00:0 in Deep Sleep.
How can I find what app is preventing deep sleep? The only apps listed in the battery app are Android OS, Screen, Phone Idle, Cell standby and Android System.
Wouldn't this bad app show up in BetterBatteryStats under Process?
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I don't use BetterBatteryStats so I wouldn't know.
I personally set my CPU speeds from 700-1200MHz (as indicated by Franco and others... setting it to ~300 is bad because it makes the phone use more power to catch up)
How many apps do you have? can you use AppBrain or something to provide me a list of what apps you use?
I just took a list at my CPU Spy...
0:09:51 1200Mhz
920 MHz... 0:01:35
700MHz: 0:09:49
Deep Sleep: 3:21:43
82%... 3h 50m 35s on battery
Android OS 28%
Screen 24%
Google Voice 14%
Phone idle 14%
Android system 7%
Cell standby 3%
Nova Launcher 3%
Wi-Fi 2%
Beautiful Widgets 2%
Market 2%
700-1200MHz. Conservative Governor. Hotplug off

I did try 700 with earlier versions (I think 8 & 9) and was also getting poor battery performance during idle. I wish there was an easier way to determine what app is preventing deep sleep, however it would almost certainly have to be a system app as I did not run any app when I started this test.

lethologica said:
I did try 700 with earlier versions (I think 8 & 9) and was also getting poor battery performance during idle. I wish there was an easier way to determine what app is preventing deep sleep, however it would almost certainly have to be a system app as I did not run any app when I started this test.
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It doesn't have to be a system app. A app can be started as the moment as Android OS is started.
Not all apps are listed in that battery monitor. I can tell you that for sure. Definitely something is wrong with your phone setup.
The best way to debug it (in my opinion) would be to backup all of your apps and reflash the ROM from scratch. Flash bigxie's ROM (or try another ROM if you choose to) and Franco's Kernel.... install CPU Spy and leave the phone off for like 5-10 minutes. See if it deep sleeps.
Edit: Try this https://market.android.com/details?...251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm5leHRhcHAuc3lzdGVtcGFuZWwiXQ this should help you figure out what app it is.

Thanks for the tip. I am going to recharge and test again with all GPS settings disabled to rule the GPS out. Seeing the gps-lock as the top process in Kernel Waitlocks makes me wonder. I will give SystemPanelLite a try after this test.

lethologica said:
Thanks for the tip. I am going to recharge and test again with all GPS settings disabled to rule the GPS out. Seeing the gps-lock as the top process in Kernel Waitlocks makes me wonder. I will give SystemPanelLite a try after this test.
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You did update to the latest Google Maps right? it contained fixes for the battery. Maps is a huge drain if it runs in the background. I always leave my GPS deactivated even though it's activated ondemand. I just don't trust it.

Ahh hah! It has only been 20 minutes, but the GPS is the culprit. I did the same charge, reboot, camera cycle. Then I walked away. Checked CPUSpy and sure enough there was 18 minutes of deep sleep time out of a 20 minutes up time. Google Maps is up to date by the way.
Now the funny thing is, the GPS isn't all that great even when it was keeping my phone awake. Last night I checked the GPS after I got out of the subway (public transit, not sandwiches), for a second it still thought I was in the location prior to taking the subway. It took close to ten seconds to get within 500 meters of my location, and after that it was unable to pinpoint my exact location. The phone has been able to pinpoint my exact location in the past though.
So now, how can I determine if this is a software bug or a hardware bug? If it is software then no big deal, I can hold out. If it is hardware then I need to revert to factory, unroot, etc.

lethologica said:
Ahh hah! It has only been 20 minutes, but the GPS is the culprit. I did the same charge, reboot, camera cycle. Then I walked away. Checked CPUSpy and sure enough there was 18 minutes of deep sleep time out of a 20 minutes up time. Google Maps is up to date by the way.
Now the funny thing is, the GPS isn't all that great even when it was keeping my phone awake. Last night I checked the GPS after I got out of the subway (public transit, not sandwiches), for a second it still thought I was in the location prior to taking the subway. It took close to ten seconds to get within 500 meters of my location, and after that it was unable to pinpoint my exact location. The phone has been able to pinpoint my exact location in the past though.
So now, how can I determine if this is a software bug or a hardware bug? If it is software then no big deal, I can hold out. If it is hardware then I need to revert to factory, unroot, etc.
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It's probably software. Something is keeping the GPS on. Either by a app or ROM. Most likely app.

If you're not using gps with google location services, it will take a while to lock.
Also, you have an app that is requesting GPS constantly while the phone is sleeping.. That is all.

joshnichols189 said:
Also, you have an app that is requesting GPS constantly while the phone is sleeping.. That is all.
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Any idea on how to figure out what that app is?

I'm not sure how to find an app that is constantly requesting GPS, but I know the app Watchdog will help find an app that is running in the background consuming processor cycles.. you might want to try that but I have no idea if it will work.

holy ****! thank you! I've been trying to figure out what was causing my phone to not deep sleep for a week! I uninstalled google maps and it worked! now I'd like to figure out how to have both deep sleep and google maps installed...

did you tuck your phone in?

I had that problem with a Rom and turning on and off the Bluetooth would fix the problem.
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imail724 said:
holy ****! thank you! I've been trying to figure out what was causing my phone to not deep sleep for a week! I uninstalled google maps and it worked! now I'd like to figure out how to have both deep sleep and google maps installed...
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Try disabling GPS when you're not using it. Worked for me.

i tried to freeze the google maps, but still getting the GPS wakelock.
from the other thread, some one mentioned about facebook.
i freeze facebook in titanium backup. looks like the GPS time is not increasing.
are you guys having this issue installed facebook app?
the other thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419087&page=3

[Q] 100% full charge to 0% in 6 hours??

I charged my Nexus LTE(unrooted,4 days old) till it was 100% before I went to bed. As soon as I set my alarm I unplugged it to test to idle. Well I just woke up 6 hours later and it was completly dead. I have it on the charger now, I hope i can see the spycpu cause that was main purpose for leaving it off. I do not sleep surf either.
Is this a defective phone?

Wow that's nuts. I definitely never get that sort of battery drain. Are you rooted? Using a custom rom or just stock?

jd1001 said:
Wow that's nuts. I definitely never get that sort of battery drain. Are you rooted? Using a custom rom or just stock?
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unrooted.
I have to leave for work now with out a phone, I will try to check up via computer (feeling like a dinosaur).

Ha ha I know I feel so bad when I don't have my phone. Maybe see if it happens again tonight. If it does I would get on to the carrier. Have a good day at work!

jd1001 said:
Ha ha I know I feel so bad when I don't have my phone. Maybe see if it happens again tonight. If it does I would get on to the carrier. Have a good day at work!
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Ill try both.

It has been documented the Verizon has battery issues but not sure if they were meant to be fixed in the 4.0.2 update

davewinkwink said:
I charged my Nexus LTE(unrooted,4 days old) till it was 100% before I went to bed. As soon as I set my alarm I unplugged it to test to idle. Well I just woke up 6 hours later and it was completly dead. I have it on the charger now, I hope i can see the spycpu cause that was main purpose for leaving it off. I do not sleep surf either.
Is this a defective phone?
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Are you sure it was dead or you just had a sleep of death? If it truly was dead you definitely have something draining your battery during idle. I highly recommend you turn off your LTE antenna if you haven't already unless your using data intensive apps and you need it, such as surfing or netflix or something. Also, change your sync times to less often, I do every 15min. Sign out of google talk, use wifi when you can, adjust screen brightness, disable bluetooth. White backgrounds will eat your battery faster as well. What else am i forgetting.... Root will help if you can manage to, its incredibly easy especially with the new rootkit out, because you can load francos newest build which has increased my battery 2x, with 25% drain in the last 8.5 hours even with a 1/2 hr of whale tail last night. Also make sure your not running something stupid in your background thats eating your battery like a task killer or battery spy or something, those just rape your battery

If you turn on Google+ instant upload and it has thousands of pictures to upload that will kill your battery in a few hours. If your phone is staying awake because of Android OS then try turning off your GPS.
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As noted in a lot threads on a lot of forums, there are some phones that have a problem with the Android OS and the "Keep Awake" time. There seems to be an issue with some phones not truly going to sleep when the power button is used to turn off the screen as opposed to letting the screen turn off automatically when the screen times out. This results in a very high time in the Settings/Battery/Android OS/Keep Awake menu.
In stock form and with every rom that I have installed, my "Keep Awake" time was always about 50-60% of my total battery time. If the phone had been off charger for 8 hours, I'd have 4-6 hours of Andorid OS "Keep Awake" time. This was true even if the phone had been in my pocket unused and seems to be exacerbated by my habit of turning the screen off manually with the power button every single time. I used to never let the screen timeout.
There seems to be two "fixes" according to Franco (of kernel fame). One concerns the camera. Seems the camera is started and then turned off during startup. But in so doing, it leaves a sensor active and this prevents the phone from actually going to sleep. So he recommends starting and using the back button to go back to the home screen. The other is DRM Protected Content. He recommends this be disabled or frozen. A third, that I don't believe I recall seeing him recommend but that I have seen on his thread at XDA (down for blackout right now) is to disable Maps.
I have done all three of those and my Keep Awake time has gone from 40-50% of my total battery time down to a few percentage points. I mean if I don't use my phone it will now show less than a minute of Keep Awake time per hour.
Good luck 

My VZW nexus can idle with moderate use on constant LTE and get 15 hours with out issue. Hell I have even gotten more so check google+ as suggested. If it went dead on idle with nothing running constantly to cause it than I would say your phone and/or battery is defective

Geezer Squid said:
As noted in a lot threads on a lot of forums, there are some phones that have a problem with the Android OS and the "Keep Awake" time. There seems to be an issue with some phones not truly going to sleep when the power button is used to turn off the screen as opposed to letting the screen turn off automatically when the screen times out. This results in a very high time in the Settings/Battery/Android OS/Keep Awake menu.
In stock form and with every rom that I have installed, my "Keep Awake" time was always about 50-60% of my total battery time. If the phone had been off charger for 8 hours, I'd have 4-6 hours of Andorid OS "Keep Awake" time. This was true even if the phone had been in my pocket unused and seems to be exacerbated by my habit of turning the screen off manually with the power button every single time. I used to never let the screen timeout.
There seems to be two "fixes" according to Franco (of kernel fame). One concerns the camera. Seems the camera is started and then turned off during startup. But in so doing, it leaves a sensor active and this prevents the phone from actually going to sleep. So he recommends starting and using the back button to go back to the home screen. The other is DRM Protected Content. He recommends this be disabled or frozen. A third, that I don't believe I recall seeing him recommend but that I have seen on his thread at XDA (down for blackout right now) is to disable Maps.
I have done all three of those and my Keep Awake time has gone from 40-50% of my total battery time down to a few percentage points. I mean if I don't use my phone it will now show less than a minute of Keep Awake time per hour.
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Ive been getting good battery life, despite my awake time being around 6-8 hours at the end of a charge. I tried the camera close but that never helped, I've just disabled DRM though. Also, GPS locator has been associated with this, which is probably what you meant by "maps". I just turn off my location unless i need it for navigation in location settings

how do you disable drm? and what exactly is it?

Peesashiz said:
how do you disable drm? and what exactly is it?
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It has to do with digitally protected files, music, etc. One time I went home screen/menu/settings/apps/all/drm/disable. The last time I did it from Titanium and pressed the freeze button for that app.
Good luck.
BTW, both actions can be reversed.

[Q] High "Awake" vs "Screen On" time

Let me preface this by saying I'm not complaning about battery life as 36h is very good. That said, I feel like my phone is awake much longer that it should be. Anyone have any ideas why my Awake time is so much higher than my Screen-on time?
Once again, I'm not complaining but considering my phone was awake almost 5x longer than the screen was on, I feel like I could squeeze some more life out of the phone. I had 1 exchange account @ 15min, 1 gmail on push, no talk/g+, ~2-3 hours off wifi (4g), gps on, bluetooth off, 4.0.4, leanKernel.
When analyzing the wakelocks, I don't see anything that would explain almost 6 hours of extra awake time:
Considering most of this charge I was on wifi, I think I should have been able to achieve more than 1.5h screen-on time. Especially when I see people getting 4-5+ hours on theirs. What could be causing this seemingly excess awake time?

Since those screen shots, I've done another full cycle and here are my results. Same settings as before. It looks as if I did a bit better with the ratio of awake vs screen on, but I still only got ~20 hours. I'll admit, this had much more 4g time and heavier usage.
As you can see it's better, as it was only awake about 3x as much as the screen. You can see where I was at home in the second screenshot (The long bar of wi-fi) and that included me sleeping yet it shows that the phone was consistantly waking up overnight without any usage. Short of "email", I'm not sure what could be causing it. I got MAYBE 3 e-mails overnight.
Signed out of talk/g+/latitude
Location services was NOT disabled in either set of screenshots. Disabled it and charging now. Maybe that will help?

Have you checked out your wakelocks using BetterBatteryStats (found here on XDA)? Also, download CPU Spy from the market and check how long your phone is in what state. If it isn't in deep sleep too often, you might have an app or service keeping your phone awake. Background Data of any kind usually does that. Also, the first culprit I would investigate is Google Maps. Uninstall that bad boy and test your phone out. I am betting you that 60% of the time, the problem with your phone being awake too often is with Maps running unnecessarily in the background. And to be clear, Maps self-restarts itself even after logging out of Latitude and closing the app completely

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Have you checked out your wakelocks using BetterBatteryStats (found here on XDA)? Also, download CPU Spy from the market and check how long your phone is in what state. If it isn't in deep sleep too often, you might have an app or service keeping your phone awake. Background Data of any kind usually does that. Also, the first culprit I would investigate is Google Maps. Uninstall that bad boy and test your phone out. I am betting you that 60% of the time, the problem with your phone being awake too often is with Maps running unnecessarily in the background. And to be clear, Maps self-restarts itself even after logging out of Latitude and closing the app completely
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I have attached all the wakelocks to the previous two posts. I didn't attach CPU spy but I did check it every time. Usually it's between 60-80% but most often it's >70% in deep sleep.
Just did a fresh wipe with a app restore using the market. Location services have been disabled. I have uninstalled all gMaps updates and disabled the app. Is this good enough? Should I convert to user and uninstall using TB?

Just wanted to chime in and say I'm seeing a very similar profile to what you posted. And I'm not entirely sure, but I think this started when I flashed this ROM. What I feel like I'm seeing is that active use of the phone seems to be more of a drain than it used to, but I'm not sure how much of that would be placebo (i.e. remembering when I first got the phone around the holidays and there were a lot of relaxed days at home with constant wifi).
But right now I'm seeing 5.5 hours of awake time and 1 hour of screen on time, with 27% remaining. Total time is 42 hours, which seems to round everything out to a decent battery life, but again, 1 hour of use for 70% of the battery seems lower than what I remember. Not sure if a vote for seeing the same behavior is one for this being normal or us both having the problem, but I can try to post screenshots/more detailed info later if it would help.
This is on the above linked rom with stock kernel, 4.0.4 radios.

That's the same ROM I'm using and I agree, 70% usage for 1h screen time seems too much. I've seen people get over 2.5h screen on time on pure 3/4g
I'm going to see if disabling maps and location services help. Will report back.
I would be interested to see any SS you have, might help.
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This is after a fresh wipe, fresh kernel install, no maps, no g+, no gTalk, no GPS, no location services, just gmail and 1 exchange @ 15 minutes
Any advice as to what's going on would be very helpful. Thanks in advance.

I also have a problem with wake-locks.
Since phone is relatively new ~2weeks its still stock 4.0.2 GSM. After some time my battery life fell and thanks to XDA i think i found the problem Google backup.
I disabled Google backup to see if i get the same awake time tomorrow.
If the problem doesn't go away, is it possible to resolve this problem without factory reset of the phone?

Here are some screenshots I made the other day, taken a bit into a charge but immediately prior the phone was down to <6%. Didn't get a capture of the kernel wakelocks but as you reported, the screen on time falls far below the wake time, and the wakelocks don't seem to come anywhere near to explaining the difference.
I just installed the 6.3.0 google maps, which claims to increase battery performance for location and latitude services. I'll try to make a comparison next time my battery is drained.
I've signed out of latitude before but generally don't redo this upon rebooting the phone. Does it sign in by default on every reboot?

Well after disabling backup thing im still getting 90% wake time from backup service so i will try to do a factory reset over weekend and hope it goes away... Will post resoults in case some 1 else gets this problem.

JoeSyr said:
Here are some screenshots I made the other day, taken a bit into a charge but immediately prior the phone was down to <6%. Didn't get a capture of the kernel wakelocks but as you reported, the screen on time falls far below the wake time, and the wakelocks don't seem to come anywhere near to explaining the difference.
I just installed the 6.3.0 google maps, which claims to increase battery performance for location and latitude services. I'll try to make a comparison next time my battery is drained.
I've signed out of latitude before but generally don't redo this upon rebooting the phone. Does it sign in by default on every reboot?
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This looks to me like some sort of Maps issue. Try to uninstall/disable maps and see if it goes away. Looks like it's stuck trying to locate you with maps somehow based on those wakelock names.

Catoss said:
Well after disabling backup thing im still getting 90% wake time from backup service so i will try to do a factory reset over weekend and hope it goes away... Will post resoults in case some 1 else gets this problem.
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Hopefully the factory reset will fix it, that is an odd problem.

It seems to me like my problem was the version of leankernel I was using. I went from 10.0exp2 to 2.01exp2 and it's much much better

Actually, the kernel upgrade did not fix my problem. I did seem to figure out what was happening though.
This entire time I've noticed that my phone would standby and sleep very well on Wi-Fi but when I switched to data it seemed as if I would bleed juice. I discovered that my "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" was set to "always" and I believe that was causing my excess wakes.
I've changed it to "Never" and I'm doing some tests. I'll be sure to report back if anyone is watching this thread.

Timdor said:
Actually, the kernel upgrade did not fix my problem. I did seem to figure out what was happening though.
This entire time I've noticed that my phone would standby and sleep very well on Wi-Fi but when I switched to data it seemed as if I would bleed juice. I discovered that my "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" was set to "always" and I believe that was causing my excess wakes.
I've changed it to "Never" and I'm doing some tests. I'll be sure to report back if anyone is watching this thread.
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mine is opposite of that, i standby fine on data but terribly on wifi. im guessing that is background syncing. i just have to figure out what is doing it

i have my wifi set to never too for better battery life. It seems counter intuitive, but wifi is better on power than 3g/4g. So preventing the phone from leaving wifi back to cellular is better for battery. All my phones have been like this.

yeah thats what i thought it does but mine drains faster on wifi...i leave it on cause i barely get signal in my room an if i sit on 3g it just takes a long time to do anything

What type of drain do you get over 3g vs wifi?
Yesterday I was playing around on 3g all day and I was seeing an average of 6%/hr. My phone is consistantly awake 20-25% of the time according to betterbatterstats. Screen on will always be far less than half of my awake time. Wifi drains around 1%/hr
I did a wipe of my 4.0.4 install and flashed a fresh kernel download. I'm not logging into exchange because, for some reason, I think that's my problem.

Also, changing to Never didn't really fix my issue.

[Q] Htc desire 601 battery drain

I need help!!!
I am running on android kit kat 4.4.2 (not rooted) Since last update Google play services keeps my phone awake even when phone is in sleep AND in safe mode. Like I said, I was using my phone in safe mode for twelve hours just to be sure that none of installed applications is not draining my battery. When I went to sleep last night battery was at 76% and after 6 hours battery was at 11%, when I checked battery history, wi-fi was off while phone is at sleep, "network signal" line was solid (as it suppose to be) and "keep awake" was solid blue also and it was running for 7 hours 16 minutes, straight (which is NOT suppose to be). And imagine my surprise when I saw GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES among running apps exact period of time!
It is obvious that Google play services drains battery. What can I do to prevent mentioned app to suck out life out of my battery and still to be able to use application that needs Google play services.
Thank you in advance.
I forgot to mention that I am dealing with this problem 15-20 days already and that I tried almost everything. Location is on gps only, wipe cash in recovery, remove battery, battery calibration, right now running in safe mode.........etc, etc, etc

mrzodrax said:
I need help!!!
I am running on android kit kat 4.4.2 (not rooted) Since last update Google play services keeps my phone awake even when phone is in sleep AND in safe mode. Like I said, I was using my phone in safe mode for twelve hours just to be sure that none of installed applications is not draining my battery. When I went to sleep last night battery was at 76% and after 6 hours battery was at 11%, when I checked battery history, wi-fi was off while phone is at sleep, "network signal" line was solid (as it suppose to be) and "keep awake" was solid blue also and it was running for 7 hours 16 minutes, straight (which is NOT suppose to be). And imagine my surprise when I saw GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES among running apps exact period of time!
It is obvious that Google play services drains battery. What can I do to prevent mentioned app to suck out life out of my battery and still to be able to use application that needs Google play services.
Thank you in advance.
I forgot to mention that I am dealing with this problem 15-20 days already and that I tried almost everything. Location is on gps only, wipe cash in recovery, remove battery, battery calibration, right now running in safe mode.........etc, etc, etc
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Hi
have you disabled google play services ?
or you can try the following Google settings >location >location mode >choose battery saving mode or device only
battery saving and device only should reduce battery drain if you have to have gps on, otherwise shut gps ,Google play services can still function without gps .i think high accuracy while more accurate it is not yet optimized for day to day use yet
The Google play services affects most devices which have kitakt

Several of my coworkers have this phone on Rogers. They have had this problem for years. The phone stays "Awake" all the time, even when the screen is off.
I have the same one but on Bell. It worked fine for about 2 years. All of a sudden this week I have the same problem as them. Phone stays awake all the time and battery now goes dead in ~4-6 hours instead of 2-3 days when not used.
Very frustrating. Any known fix is appreciated.