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[Q] Battery drain while playing mp3s (music 3.0?)

Folks,
My phone seems to be guzzling battery when playing mp3s using the new music 3.0. I think I can get about 6-8 hours of music playing which seems pretty low with nothing else happening, screen mostly off unless I have to pause it, and set cpu running at 245mhz when the screen is off.
Looking at the battery use stats in Gingerbread (I'm currently using oxygen 2.3.3 ROM) it seems that the phone is pretty much constantly awake which I'm guessing isn't a good thing. If I stop playing music then the phone seems to sleep OK.
So is it normal for the phone to remain awake when playing mp3s? If no, is there something that could be causing this or a way to try and stop it. If yes, is there something I could try to get some battery life back?

Try another music player. If it's still happening then I would say that's normal. I get about that time on my phone.

i don,t think Desire can be used both as a phone and Music player , itd bound to die out in 6-8 hours

Guys.
Thanks for the replies.
I was able to use my touchHD as a phone and music player, with about 2x the battery life I get on the desire.
I must admit that I wasn't expecting such a big difference between these two devices.
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I tend to chew through about 10% battery in a regular 90 minute train journey playing music and sending the odd SMS or making a 1-2 minute call. I use poweramp player.
I think that's not bad!

Stringer
That's more like what I'd expect. I was watching things closely yesterday and I got less than 4 hours of mp3 playback with no calls, texts or web (except weather updates every 4 hours and Gmail background checking).
I think I may have found the culprit though. I was running widget locker with the phantom media controls widget. It appears that this may have resulted in 2 copies of the music 3 app running and draining the battery. Have removed both apps and I'll see how things go.
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Yes 4 hours to a dead battery just through music seems excessive.
Hope the above works for you. What is your standby battery drain like? I found android status app useful for keeping an eye on running processes

To find out the battery drain in standby, you can use battery monitor widget:
https://market.android.com/details?id=ccc71.bmw
In standby drain should be about 4-8 mA, not higher.

Things looked a little better yesterday.... fingers crossed.
I checked the current and it's 3 on standby. And at the moment this jumps to 60 when I have music 3.0 playing and the screen off.
Does that sound about right?
Thanks again.
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nitens said:
Things looked a little better yesterday.... fingers crossed.
I checked the current and it's 3 on standby. And at the moment this jumps to 60 when I have music 3.0 playing and the screen off.
Does that sound about right?
Thanks again.
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Like meaple just said, seems to be normal.

ytup desire drains battery very quick

Q: Mediaserver - consuming battery?

When I look at the battery usage, I can see Mediaserver is below screen in terms of battery usage.
Any idea what it is?
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Same here man
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I recall it has something to do with corrupted media file (picture, music file etc) or failing to play streamed video. Reboot your phone and DO NOT start gallery, camera or anything that reads media files from phone. Use the phone and report back.
EDIT: I also recall this is an android issue, not spesifically HOX issue..

I did not have that on Galaxy Nexus, now it's there on One X, despite using it in the same manner, same apps. Hopefully it's simply some software bug.
I'll try restarting later today...

It seems to start on my HOX when I plug it into my monitor through the HDMI.
Unfortunately, even with the power adapter plugged into the HDMI adapter, it still uses more power than it can get through charging, which is really rather annoying and makes it pretty pointless in having HDMI out. How can they have designed it this way?

mediaserver system wakelock
Hi, i am having a nightmare with the system (*wakelock*) mediaserver process. Everytime i start listening to music either through stock music player, poweramp, winamp or realplayer, I can see it burning my battery.
I am using Badass battery monitor app. I tried soft resets multiple times but the problem appears again everytime i play music. It is using far more battery % than the music app itself.
I have deleted all music and pictures on my phone, leaving only the ones that came with phone, but the problem still crops up when i play the music.
On my first day of use I managed to get good battery hours.
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then went downhill with mediaserver...
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any ideas?

bump. anyone?
today i got
18.4% system (*wakelock*) -- it had CPU usage 1h 23m, keep awake 1h 35m, number of wakelocks 31
6.2% Music.
40% screen.

I've been having the same problem on my Galaxy Nexus. It has been very frustrating because my battery will last only about 4/5 hours with light - moderate usage. For the life of me I cannot figure out what is causing this wakelock all of a sudden. My phone was completely fine on 4.03

Hello,
I have the same problem. I have just charged my phone. And one hour later the Mediaserver has used 3% of the battery.
I have make one "normal" phone calls, sent 3 text messages and send 2 messages with Viber.
I haven't actively used "anything" (as far as I know) that uses a mediaserver?!

[Q] Google play store draining battery?

I have been using the GNEX for about 6 months and I never had any problems.
Since I updated to JB, the battery drain has been quite big. There is also some big lag sometimes, but I suspect that the lag can be tied to the market too.
I see that the market accounts for the battery drain now.
It should be noted that the market was not opened, no apps were updated and there were no notifications. So it must be running in the background.
I did not use the phone much today, read the news in the morning and made 1 phone call. So the drain is quite big for this using.
Has anybody had this problem and knows the solution?
P.S.
I haven't open the maps either.

You can force stop maps, maps can be started by any application that i has location services, Google search, twitter etc. Open play store under settings, uncheck all options.

I just had the same issue with Google Play Store. Plugged the N7 in to charge to get it to power up and the battery usage is showing the Play Store as "Keep awake" for 6h 46m, which essentially drained my battery overnight. I can't see any obvious reason it did this

thankyousam said:
I just had the same issue with Google Play Store. Plugged the N7 in to charge to get it to power up and the battery usage is showing the Play Store as "Keep awake" for 6h 46m, which essentially drained my battery overnight. I can't see any obvious reason it did this
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I have exactly the same issue with my new LG Nexus 4 running JB 4.2 !!!
I removed it from charge this morning and after 5 hours in standby mode the battery was on 20%

ur best bet is to "don't keep activities" in the developer options
re: the maps draining, u'd have to turn off location services but it's needed for google now

^That kinda defeats the whole purpose of owning an Android device. I would at least start by uninstalling updates and opening the Play Store back up. Maybe it got stuck doing something it shouldn't have been. The Maps issue. Mine is always running. Never shows up in my battery stats. There are so many triggers that can cause it to run, so I've given up(There's always AutoStarts, though you need root for it) even trying since it isn't affecting my overall battery life. I leave GPS on, but turn off Google Location Services unless I need it.

Play Store and Play Music are really draining the battery in my Nexus 4...

johnyu142 said:
Play Store and Play Music are really draining the battery in my Nexus 4...
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I found out that it happens only after it automatically updates my apps.
I disabled the auto update apps from play store and seems to be fine now....
[UPDATE - 16-12-2012]
Today I checked manually for updates, Installed 26 of them and the battery drained again after couple of hours.
For some reason, it does not stop the application and it is constantly using the CPU thus draining the battery. My phone is very hot (temperature) at the moment and I have not used it for almost 2 hours and it was not on charge !!!
This is ridiculous.....

[Q] Extremely high "held awake" time in GSAM... is this right?

I've noticed in GSAM battery monitor that my "held awake" time seems abnormally high. I've attached three screen shots. After being unplugged for about 3 hours, I lost about 10% battery from being on wifi the whole time, and about 20 min screen on time (mainly google voice text and play market browsing). It was idling pretty much the rest of the time. No music, pandora, video, etc.
The "held awake" time is 2:37 out of 3 hours! And according to GSAM, it's Android system that's keeping it awake. Is this normal...?

Not at all
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Joanni said:
Not at all
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Yes at all. 3 hours of wakelock for 9 hours of uptime? That is aweful.

One hour of screen time and been driving around streaming music etc for close to two, totaling 3 hrs. Sounds reasonable to me since I was indeed using the phone which prevented it from sleeping. Don't see how I would be streaming anything if the phone sleeps
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Joanni said:
One hour of screen time and been driving around streaming music etc for close to two, totaling 3 hrs. Sounds reasonable to me since I was indeed using the phone which prevented it from sleeping. Don't see how I would be streaming anything if the phone sleeps
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well in your case it's fine, but I'd think that the OP asking this question in such a way that shows he wasnt doing something like streaming means that this IS extremely high.
Also, your 3hrs of wakelocks in 9 hours are NOWHERE NEAR the OP's wakelocks of 2.5hrs out of 3...

crazyg0od33 said:
well in your case it's fine, but I'd think that the OP asking this question in such a way that shows he wasnt doing something like streaming means that this IS extremely high.
Also, your 3hrs of wakelocks in 9 hours are NOWHERE NEAR the OP's wakelocks of 2.5hrs out of 3...
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And that's exactly what I mean. I would download an app called wakelock detector from the app store to see what's causing it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector
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Joanni said:
One hour of screen time and been driving around streaming music etc for close to two, totaling 3 hrs. Sounds reasonable to me since I was indeed using the phone which prevented it from sleeping. Don't see how I would be streaming anything if the phone sleeps
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Thats not a real wakelock and you should have said that...

dashbored said:
I've noticed in GSAM battery monitor that my "held awake" time seems abnormally high. I've attached three screen shots. After being unplugged for about 3 hours, I lost about 10% battery from being on wifi the whole time, and about 20 min screen on time (mainly google voice text and play market browsing). It was idling pretty much the rest of the time. No music, pandora, video, etc.
The "held awake" time is 2:37 out of 3 hours! And according to GSAM, it's Android system that's keeping it awake. Is this normal...?
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Had that same wakelock, its Google Backup. I turned it off. Settings>Backup&Reset.

Thanks for all the inputs guys. So yeah, it does appear to be Google backup, as you can see in my third screen shot. I just wanted to check my sanity that this is NOT typical behavior. Does anyone know what exactly Google Backup, well backs up?
I did a hard reset (hold down power button for 10s) and so far that seems to have fixed the problem. I am going to keep an eye on it for now, and keep Google Backup turned on. I'll report back if it starts again.

Any idea what this could be? (Battery life)

I'm already at 37% battery and I've had my phone off charger for only a little over 4 hrs. I'm running GOLDENEYE ROM with KTOONZ KERNEL (using ktoonz settings). I woke up a little after 6, went to gym and had music playing through my beats Bluetooth headphones for about an hour. Had data on for about 10 minutes for a YouTube video while on stair-master. Came home, streamed a YouTube video over chromecast for about 20 minutes. Other than that, its been idling.
I always have data OFF unless needed, but typically on WI-FI.
I have disabled GOOGLE NOW and other services by freezing them using a Method posted in the GENERAL titled something like "amazing battery life when idled" or something like that lol.
But it seems Google services is still killing my battery. Any ideas?

The guide I followed was SKIPJACKS,"INSANELY GREAT BATTERY LIFE WHEN IDLING".
I have all syncing off and Google play auto update off.

mikaeldalc said:
I'm already at 37% battery and I've had my phone off charger for only a little over 4 hrs. I'm running GOLDENEYE ROM with KTOONZ KERNEL (using ktoonz settings). I woke up a little after 6, went to gym and had music playing through my beats Bluetooth headphones for about an hour. Had data on for about 10 minutes for a YouTube video while on stair-master. Came home, streamed a YouTube video over chromecast for about 20 minutes. Other than that, its been idling.
I always have data OFF unless needed, but typically on WI-FI.
I have disabled GOOGLE NOW and other services by freezing them using a Method posted in the GENERAL titled something like "amazing battery life when idled" or something like that lol.
But it seems Google services is still killing my battery. Any ideas?
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Go into Location and uncheck "Wifi-Mobile Network" or something like that. That seems to be the biggest culprit for Google Service.

Just Went ahead and turned it off. Forgot to mention, I have auto brightness on.

mikaeldalc said:
The guide I followed was SKIPJACKS,"INSANELY GREAT BATTERY LIFE WHEN IDLING".
I have all syncing off and Google play auto update off.
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Not sure if it will help you at *all*, but if you are in the mood for trying things, going to "App Info", "All", then select "Google Play Services", clearing data and clearing cache and rebooting looked like it might have helped my battery life when Google Services had been eating up mine. Could have just been a coincidence though.

Mralexander006 said:
Not sure if it will help you at *all*, but if you are in the mood for trying things, going to "App Info", "All", then select "Google Play Services", clearing data and clearing cache and rebooting looked like it might have helped my battery life when Google Services had been eating up mine. Could have just been a coincidence though.
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Actually, you might be right. I've heard of this before. I totally forgot to try this Lol.
To be honest I loved my Xperia Z but turned it in for the S4 only because of the battery life but, so far the battery life lately hadn't been that much better. Keep in mind I did have to have stamina mode ON with the XZ...

mikaeldalc said:
The guide I followed was SKIPJACKS,"INSANELY GREAT BATTERY LIFE WHEN IDLING".
I have all syncing off and Google play auto update off.
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If you followed that thread advice fully you should not be seeing google framework services causing any more problems. I keep framework services frozen except when I need play store and I only lose 0.7% battery per hour when idle and on a weak carrier signal.
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