[Q] Nearby Devices battery drain - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Nearby Devices caused a huge battery drains for me...
Before heading to work today, I disabled All Share Cast because it drained 10% of the battery over night. But "Nearby Devices" managed to drain 15% of the battery during my 30 minutes trip to work. That is a freaking lot. The battery graph went vertical.
If I go into Settings -> More Settings -> Nearby Devices, File Sharing is not checked. Wi-Fi was on though.
This is the first time it has happened to me.
I am on ARHD 8 with stock kernel.
Any ideas?
(I have tried searching the forums and Google. Nothing useful came up)

Try disabling nfc in more settings.
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Thanks m8, but NFC, S-Beam and Bluetooth was off. The only active com methods were WiFi and mobile data.
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Tap on nearby devices.
There should be a list of included packages. I think
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Abnormal battery drain ?

This is using the extended battery I got today.... seems steep, no?
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From my experience the phone lasts about 3-4 hours screen on time
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Wow..u must have been using it non-stop. Yes, from my experience, the total screen up-time is around 3.5 hours.
Here is my overnight battery drain test. My phone was idle the whole time. Only on 2G mode and no wifi, no gps and no bluetooth.
Try uninstalling Facebook for Android app and also Sign into Latitude, select Do Not Report My Location, and then sign out of Latitude.

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.
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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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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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Some guidance please?

My note was draining battery like crazy even on power saver mode, it would drain like 10% during night on power saver.
I did a factory reset it seemed to fix it for a day and then now it is draining again fast, I have all power consuming things shut off I don't know what else to do.
If there is one more tip for this would be really useful.
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Some application is messing. Depends how many you have installed, try disabling them and then run each one by one...
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Get betterbatterystats and see whats eating your battery.
McLaren__F1 said:
Get betterbatterystats and see whats eating your battery.
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That's a good start, 10% on power saver could be a lot on a phone with no apps, but if you have lots of apps its not that much, even on power saver some aps may be accesing the network, if you are connected to a wifi that would eat some battery as well.
If you added no apps and this happens then it could be a bad battery, unlikely but stuff like that happens.
0bscuridad said:
That's a good start, 10% on power saver could be a lot on a phone with no apps, but if you have lots of apps its not that much, even on power saver some aps may be accesing the network, if you are connected to a wifi that would eat some battery as well.
If you added no apps and this happens then it could be a bad battery, unlikely but stuff like that happens.
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Remember to sign out of apps like Google+, YouTube and Facebook, if you are signed in. If I notice quick battery drain, I'm often still signed in.
I dont know if the battery is bad or im missing something that is draining it
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Is there a way to know if I have a bad battery please? I'm really concerned.
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Unfortunately, I believe the only way you'd be able to really measure the mAh of your battery would be to compare with another of the same.
Can you post a screenshot of your battery usage?
Might help us narrow it down a little. Sounds like a wake lock but could also be due to terrible cell reception
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Do you know your device and android fairly well? I am guessing its a combination of the above stated bad reception and your os & apps update schedule. There is alot of way to save power by going through and changing your notifications and app updates, as well as various settings on the os (ex. Switching to airplane mode @ night or at least turning off your data) so that your facebook isnt uselessly refreshing at 2:18am to see what club steve is at while your sawing logs.
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I don't why the music player is using battery although I didn't open it once since I took it off the battery and the previous charge had the same thing too the music player was second on the list
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Huge Battery Drain Issues

I've had battery issues ever since I bought my Note 2. I tried buying a new battery, custom ROM (ARHD 13.0), custom kernel (RedPill). I get a drain of 2% per hour in standby, and 17.2 percent (!) per hour in normal usage, not even heavy gaming. The screenshots are for continuous usage. I got rid of wakelocks, the AudioOut2 one by Viber, the NetworkStatusMonitor through maps. (these were 80% of all partial wakelocks)
I usually have sync enabled, 4 email accounts for once in four hours, and Facebook, and Samsung backup. That's it. I'm on an EDGE network, with network set to GSM only, WiFi only on when required.
I have ~83% Deep Sleep when I don't touch the phone overnight.
All motions/smart *s are disabled.
I don't know what else to do. My wakelocks show completely normal values. (I'll upload some when I get to unused time)
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Oops. Attached the same pic twice.
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Almost 90% sleep. But still draining 10% in 10 hours of no use.
Could someone help me debug this drain?
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If you are complaining about 10% drain over 10 hours (1% drain an hour) then you are very mistaken about how a mobile phone works.
There's nothing wrong here I can see.
I've seen people report less than 3% drain overnight. And 2-3% per hour of use. 17% an hour? Too much.
Edit: I know cell phones consume battery because they're wirelessly connected to and monitoring networks and that they need battery to receive and process packets of data and other stuff while not being used, if that's what you mean.
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0 over 6 hours so he is correct
this is XXXDDDAAA
Is your wifi power save mode on or off?
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I have the same excact problem. Just bought it and the battery drains so faaaaaaaaast !!!...
The screenshots in my first and second posts are with WiFi on, connected but never searching. In the third post, WiFi was off the whole time.
Edit: Power saving was off both times. There's a noticeable FPS drop with power saving that I hate.
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refik.adjini` said:
I have the same excact problem. Just bought it and the battery drains so faaaaaaaaast !!!...
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Please get Better Battery Stats, and post your screenshots over at least an hour of no use, and 30 minutes of use. I might be able to help. (I'll try, anyway).
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UtkarshGupta said:
0 over 6 hours so he is correct
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Are you on an AOSP/AOKP/CM based ROM? I understand that battery will be significantly better on those than a Sammy based ROM because of Sammy bloatware, but I'm unwilling to lose all the perks. Although the figures I said people have are all for people on either stock with custom kernel, ARHD, or ARHD with a custom kernel.
Edit: I also took care to take these figures from this forum from people who had a few syncs/online services enabled.
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No Wanam.
this is XXXDDDAAA
Install perseis kernel...dont try to install cheap apps or games from playstore...beacause they run even after closing it in the background...try to deactivate your 3g network and wlan ...btw.. try tge app 3g manager...it deactivates your 3g mobile network when you lock the phone.. and reactivate it when you unlock the phone..it might help you.
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I think 1% per hour is normal because the use to monitor the network
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mijohnsmith said:
I think 1% per hour is normal because the use to monitor the network
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Not anymore. Perseus kernel with Greenifier = 0.3% drain an hour, and 5% per hour of use.
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Battery Drain

Hey everyone, I'm experiencing some pretty bad battery drain. I've had my phone off the charger for an hour and its already down to 75% and I've barely used it. I checked my battery usage and Google Services are taking up 75% of my usage. Is this normal and if not is there a fix that anyone knows of?
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I would start with going over to android central and the HTC one forums, they have a sticky post about battery life here http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/269518-htc-one-battery-life-stats-discussion.html
Looks like you should turn off your GPS and location, and turn off your sync. Download the gsam battery monitor. It will help you out too.
Thank youuuu
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Not sure if you're rooted or not. But try installing this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45923464#post45923464

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