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Help, Unknown Battery Drain

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I don't know if anyone has seen this or possibly knows what it may be, it shows up in spare parts, network usage. I cannot click on it to see what it could be, get the force stop msg. Any help would be greatly appreciated, my battery life is absolutely horrible. Running fresh rom, slayers cyan dragon theme, tried several different kernels and nothing seems to help, also tried downgrading pri.
Thank You
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I recently saw a post asking about the "0" and the horrific battery life. While no one ever figured out what it was, the op solved the issue by backing up his apps & data with titanium, flashing Calkulin's format all zip, then reflashing his rom & kernel. I think he slowly restored apps so he could watch for the issue coming back.
Try a search & you might come up with the thread. I would definitely try the format all zip, though.
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Thank you, i've used it but instead of restoring my apps one by one and cking for battery drain, i've just been restoring them all. I'm definitely going to give that a shot, again, thank you.
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Try reading the logcat file. Get alogcat from market. You'll see either a block or multiple calls to some apk.
You call also get autostarts from market and disallow activation of intentions / events which cause "hangs" (spinning waiting) from the apk you found in logcat.

Thank you, I'll try that also.
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Widgets, Live wallpaper Messaging clients Or any other client that receive notifications from the internet Will have your battery murdered like a runaway slave.
Typically a battery is only good for 200 to 250 charges. If it was charge properly every time. Let's face it nobody even knows how to charge the battery properly.
*edit please add around 900 more to the above figures for li-ion batts. Figures I quoted were for standard rechargeables.
Also check that you're not constantly running wifi and bluetooth. 4 g and 3g modes eat more battery than 2 g mode. Do what I do disable all wireless connections not in use.
If you ever noticed the display eats most of your battery power. turn down the brightness whenever you can see the screen clearly.
Applications that stream data over the internet will eat your battery quickly.
That's about all I can think of. Well 1 more thing. Buy a new battery and see if that doesn't help. (try èbáÿ)
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Definitely thinking about buying a new battery, mine completely died about 3 weeks ago and I had a hell of a time to get it to pick up a charge again. That's probably my main problem I'm guessing. I just can't figure out the 0 in spare parts, network usage. I tried flashing a fresh version of fresh rom and individually reinstalling every app I had before, seemed to work for awhile, it didn't show back up. Waited awhile and reflashed Slayer's cyan theme and now it's back. Battery life was still **** before it showed up again though. Good advice and thank you, I believe I'll try a new battery.
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jbroyles_23 said:
I don't know if anyone has seen this or possibly knows what it
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You'll have to forgive me (i feel like an ass) I was in a hurry the other day. A UID under linux is a user I d. For general phone usage you should have 0 of these! Are you
using google admin?
If you have root try this in your terminal:
su
cat /etc/passwd
This file should not exist!
Learn more here: http://m.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/14446-uid-and-gid-the-basics-of-linux-user-admin
Please dowload aLogcat from market and either post result from app here or mailto me (topic originator only please. anyone else may request an analysis here. please wait for reply.) This can be a very large file and may contain sensitive information!!
TAG: ANDROID; UID; NETWORK; BATTERY; UNKNOWN; APP;
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I will post logcat, I'll have to nand back, i've been trying a different rom(Destroyer rom) out since last night to see if it still appeared. I'm at a loss as to what it may be, the 0 hasn't appeared yet on this rom, it's an asop rom, not sure if it has anything to do with sense or not. I'll nand back to my original setup and post logcat or pm it to you would probably be better. Thank you
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app that turns off data on screen lock?

Hey all,
I tried searching but came up empty, is there an app that specifically turns off data when you turn your screen off or lock the phone? I read that juicedefender does this but was wondering if there was a app that is designed to turn off certain things when locking phone.
thanks!

Well you basically said it...you can use juice defender, or look into the tasker app.

teh roxxorz said:
Well you basically said it...you can use juice defender, or look into the tasker app.
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Juice Defender ftw

I've been looking into this same issue. After looking around and getting some advice from another xda member, I went with juice defender which has been outstanding so far.
If you heavy, heavy usage, you won't really notice a difference. However, if you use your phone, set it down for a while, use it again, let it sleep... all throughout the day, you will notice a significant increase in battery life. The first day I installed it, I sent a text while I was at work and then set my phone down. I grabbed it almost 3 hours later for something and it had gone down 1%.

raul602 said:
Hey all,
I tried searching but came up empty, is there an app that specifically turns off data when you turn your screen off or lock the phone? I read that juicedefender does this but was wondering if there was a app that is designed to turn off certain things when locking phone.
thanks!
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While JuiceDefender IS designed to save battery life and such, it is designed to do just that. Meaning in order to save battery life, it disables and enables certain connections when the screen is off/locked etc.

VegasEvo4G said:
I've been looking into this same issue. After looking around and getting some advice from another xda member, I went with juice defender which has been outstanding so far.
If you heavy, heavy usage, you won't really notice a difference. However, if you use your phone, set it down for a while, use it again, let it sleep... all throughout the day, you will notice a significant increase in battery life. The first day I installed it, I sent a text while I was at work and then set my phone down. I grabbed it almost 3 hours later for something and it had gone down 1%.
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I totally agree with you on the type of usage. If your screen is constantly on you probably won't notice a difference. Juice Defender saves battery when your phone is inactive.

doesnt the evo already have a disable always on mobile data option?

If you're on Sense, there's a widget for it. On MIUI, it's in the pull down bar toggles

HipKat said:
If you're on Sense, there's a widget for it. On MIUI, it's in the pull down bar toggles
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good to know!!!!!

Does anybody know why my JuiceDefender is doing this...
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The screenshots i've posted shows that data is disabled, but the JuiceDefender icon in the notification area is saying that all connections are enabled.

munkiii said:
Sorry to be a very late reply, but...
Does JuiceDefender turn off Mobile Data while wifi is connected?
I only ask because i have installed it, and it doesn't seem to be doing this for me.
Seems odd, because i don't need Mobile Data on while wifi is on.
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Well if it doesn't do it jus go into connection settings and turn it off or if the ROM your running has quick settings in the pull down see if mobile network is there if it is just uninstall juice defender and make it a routine to click that before you put your phone down or in your pocket

anyone frozen com.sonyericsson.android.wakeup?

I noticed that my AT&T ion with the international (LT28i) firmware stays awake about as much as with the LT28at AT&T firmware which is waaaaay too much. battery life sucks, of course, but it got me thinking. if there is a bug in this service, perhaps disabling it would have a positive impact? And (and this is a big one) if this service is not used by any other services I care about (to manage wakeups), maybe only servicing sony stuff I don't use, for eg, disabling this might not affect anything that I actually use.
anyone tried it?

razholio said:
I noticed that my AT&T ion with the international (LT28i) firmware stays awake about as much as with the LT28at AT&T firmware which is waaaaay too much. battery life sucks, of course, but it got me thinking. if there is a bug in this service, perhaps disabling it would have a positive impact? And (and this is a big one) if this service is not used by any other services I care about (to manage wakeups), maybe only servicing sony stuff I don't use, for eg, disabling this might not affect anything that I actually use.
anyone tried it?
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That comes from fast dormancy app. Touchy subject if I remember reading correctly. I would research this subject fully before freezing. Especially if you aren't using CWM Recovery and have a good backup.

Hmmm, havent found it on my Ion, but on my Arc i allways deleted fast dormancy.

KEB64 said:
That comes from fast dormancy app. Touchy subject if I remember reading correctly. I would research this subject fully before freezing. Especially if you aren't using CWM Recovery and have a good backup.
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I can recover easily enough as I have a firmware to flash, a path to root, and a good ti-backup of my system. However, I do not have anything with the name 'fastdormancy' in it anywhere. I did freeze com.sonyericsson.android.wakeup, though but it still appears as a running process even after a reboot.
I've done alot of searching and have not found where anyone has talked about discovering the source of all the wakeups that prevent the ION from sleeping much.

Haven't had a chance to view this yet. Might be helpful?
http://www.xda-developers.com/xda-tv-2/fast-dormancy-the-whole-story-xda-developer-tv/
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To get into our network service menu its *#*#4636#*#* on the keypad.
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Well, I just froze the service and then removed the .apk - will test the rest of the day to see how it impacts sleep and wake locks.
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If I'm not mistaken isn't that fast dormancy just related to network? Get juice defender pro and set it to only use your data on specific apps when you open them or at intervals to check for emails and so on else data is off. It helps a lot when data isn't on all the time or going from 4g to 3g and none and so on, xda has a video talking about the good and bad of stopping fast dormancy and what its for to fully understand what you're doing
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Yes. It is completely related to network. It affects battery because it it constantly checking signal even while data is off. The only way to stop it from waking and checking signal is to put the phone in airplane mode or delete the apk. AFAIK anyhow. I'm testing it now. So far so good. Real world testing is always a good thing.
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Ur network provider has to support fast dormancy. Otherwise, it will cause high battery drain.

I've removed it on my s and can't really tell any difference.
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[Q] Help please MEDIA draining battery

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http://i48.tinypic.com/2il22qp.png
This is a screenshot of what is draining my battery. When I click on it I can't tell what the hell it does. It contains zero bits of data as an app. It does show this file com.sec.android.providers.downloads when I click on the media arrow.
From my research I have found that this is bloatware and that it is not bloatware. I have read to remove and not to remove it.
Can somebody please tell me what this is or does?
Any information would be appreciated.
I am not sure if I posted my screen shot correctly

Download Better Battery Stats. Find out what is going on.
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Go to applications - running applications. Post screen shot.
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Just a thought. It looks like you rebooted the device three times. Once looks like it was into recovery.
And removed the SD card before taking the screenshot?
When the phone reboots it scans all media on the device.
If you didn't have the reboot periods, I would think it was a wake-clock.
If I reboot my device, I Always have it plugged in for at least 15 min. to make up for the extra drain caused by scanning files (Media)
Also IMO Juice Defender is a waste of time.
And this thread should be in Q&A
Edit2: I reported the thread so It can be moved.
Remember, if your gonna be asking a question - Go to Q&A :wink:

Rob_Wing said:
Download Better Battery Stats. Find out what is going on.
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Ok, I bought better battery stats but I have to go to bed so I will have to post a screen shot of my running apps tomorrow and what this new app tells me.
Thanks for the replies so far.

I've read a couple other posts like yours and the problem was some corrupted media files. If Better Battery Stats shows you that the media scanner service is running all the time then that's your problem. You find and delete the bad files or disable the service so it's not scanning constantly and you should be good. (Obviously better is the former).
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I am the original poster and I do tend to believe that the corrupted media files may have been the issue. For the past few days I have been getting the old "media card removed unexpectedly" message at random times. Yesterday I copied everything to my computer and reformatted the 32 gb sd sandisk ultra card. I then copied some files back on to the card and kept getting messages like blank sd card. Eventually neither the phone nor my Macbook recognized the card. I thought it might just be the phone or card so I tried my 16gb Sandisk card I had and it was recognized right away on both devices.
I finally just put in my 16gb card in the phone and transferred my pictures to it. I am initiating a warranty claim with Sandisk. I bought the card on October 22. I am not happy about this, especially since reading how many problems others have had with the same card.
Since using the old 16gb ultra card and deleteting the android drm process using Titanium Backup, This MEDIA thing is essentially gone. I now have 68 percent left on my batter with 9 hours and 58 since it was unplugged. I did use my phone today at work.
Thanks for all the advice. I would post some battery stat items and screen shots of what I have running but I have a baby screaming with pink eye and a two year old that needs attention as well.

Yikes... you passed your bad mojo to me
wow... had just read this thread and bam.... now I have a runaway "Android media process" running (45% of CPU...).. tried to kill service, but it just restarts! I'm getting all sorts of CPU/Memory threshold warnings, so not sure why it continues to run... and why it can't be shutdown (it's possessed). It ran for 2 hrs and still won't shut down. Any ideas/ investigative steps I need to take to figure out why it's running and how to stop it... Thx.

DoctorQMM said:
wow... had just read this thread and bam.... now I have a runaway "Android media process" running (45% of CPU...).. tried to kill service, but it just restarts! I'm getting all sorts of CPU/Memory threshold warnings, so not sure why it continues to run... and why it can't be shutdown (it's possessed). It ran for 2 hrs and still won't shut down. Any ideas/ investigative steps I need to take to figure out why it's running and how to stop it... Thx.
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Did you try what op did and pull your sd card, reboot and see what happens?
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Verizon's Backup Assistant plus was the cause of my media runaway battery use. I turned it off and the problem went away.

When I had s3 I used an app called media scan root it stopped the media scanning on boot. I think scanning all those little files in the cwm or twrp backup folders was what was causing it. Not sure but the app did help me and it is worth a try
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Battery discussion

On 4.4.4 I used to be able to get 5-5:30 ost but since updating it to lollipop and beyond I nearly get 4-4:30 I want to know if anybody els has been getting this issue or how to fix it and yes all the bells and whistles are turned off

Are you using freeza Beastmode kernel? Are you on the OG5 modem? These have been my most recent bumps in battery capacity; the biggest since KitKat actually.
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Heavy usage today but ready to plugin and charge for tomorrow. The usage for apps shown is a bit higher than usual but the overall stats and SOT are darn good. Running OB7/OB7 bootloader/ customized with Xposed/OG5 modem and Beastmode kernel. Maybe the improved battery comes from the OG5 stuff.
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How do you do this??? I disabled basic everything and have my screen at half and on WiFi most of the time and nearly get 4 hours

thebrohluis said:
How do you do this??? I disabled basic everything and have my screen at half and on WiFi most of the time and nearly get 4 hours
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Debloated ROM, freeze or delete apps that waste away at the battery, use auto brightness. Look for apps that wake excessively. Have you tried L Speed Mod? It will make Google Services behave. I use that with default settings, dump third party apps' cache and browser cache (including Google Play and Google Play Services) every 12 hours on a schedule and use an app by chain fire called recently to keep apps from running so much unneeded. Watch for rogue or faulty apps in the Xposed error log. Source close browser and other apps that like to keep running with back to kill app and use an ad blocker.
But really I think it has more to do with being indoors mostly on Wi-Fi and using Wi-Fi calling that gets those results. I have to credit the 5.1.1 kernel and modem too. OB7 wasn't always this good.
Half screen brightness would most likely to bright for me. What's wrong with auto brightness? It may save you some battery.
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I used to do a lot of that disable things I didn't need like s voice and bloat but for some reaons I didn't reason calls or text and I credit that to all the mods I did with the phone so I haven't really moded in a while but since then I get bad battery life, and no I used to use auto brightness but then afew days ago I realized whats the point of not enjoying your phone how you want to. But dam you sure do a lot, none of that has any negative impacts>?

Not really. I go with what works. Some users just aren't happy with some things and change this and that until more content with it.
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i did everything you said , got recently and also l speed rom, put the freza kernel. but my question is how do you put a scheduler? and how do you find out which apps run in the back round? if you uninstall google apps and apps that are form Samsung would that effect in anyway the phone?

I use an older application I purchased a while on an older phone that needed more memory expansion for app data. Link2SD pro did that plus had the scheduler so I still use it for that rather than buying another task manager. Couldn't tell which to use or if there are better or free ones.
The L Speed Mod can be found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software-hacking/tweak-l-speed-v1-0-02-02-2015-t3020138
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and what specific things did you freeze or uninstalled ? cause I did everything you said and I still got 4 hours ost

Frozen
Uninstalled
Accuweather
FlipboardBriefing FlipboardFBAppManager
FBMessenger_stub
FBPagesManager_stub
BInstagram_stub
Facebook
PlusOne
Books
Hangouts
PlayGames
talkback
WhatsApp
ItsOn
YahooLiveWeather
SmartRemote
WeatherDaemon
SprintVoicemail
KnoxAttestationAgent
KnoxSetupWizardClient
Gmail2
Bridge
Blurb
AutomationTest_FB
ID
KLMSAgent
LocationWidget
Lookout
Zone
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