A little background:
I tried playing with some ICS releases last summer, and got to the point where I just could not get everything to work reliably on the phone. I had problems with the phone thinking it was roaming all the time, no camera, or very flaky camera, no gps, screen brightness switching to maximum at random. I eventually went back to the factory rom, unlocked & rooted the phone, got everything working and left it there. I went back to my trusty blackberry bold, and forgot about this whole gio experience.
Recently I decided to try it again with olddroid's cm-10.1-RC1-gio.zip. The experience is great; everything works, camera & GPS too. It seems speedy & smooth. I even put the A2SD app on so I could move apps to the SD card, and roped off half of a 16G SD for an ext4 filesystem to go along with it. I'm not sure I've done that part right, but I'll get back to it later.
In the mean time, the one absolutely show-stopping issue is the battery life. I can take the battery from fully charged to 1% in under two hours! This was never the case with the ICS releases I played with, and certainly not with gingerbread. Yesterday I charged the phone three times over the course of the day, and left it on the charger overnight. This morning, I unplugged the phone, checked e-mail, and in about five minutes, was down to 90% on the battery. Screen brightness is set to the lowest, GPS is off, Bluetooth is on, wifi is on (I don't have a data plan, so this is my only way of getting email & browsing). I have samba installed, but disabled, since I don't need to transfer files that often. I tried putting a battery calibrator on it and following the directions, but that did not change a thing. If I look at the battery stats, the screen is showing as using 99% of the power.
I put the phone away and went back to the blackberry (it goes typically four days (!) between charges).
So, now that I've whined about it, I still like the gio, I really like android as an alternative to a closed architecture (apple/blackberry), and would like to be able to use it. My questions are:
1. Am I doing something wrong with the battery?
2. Is there a better choice for battery life? ICS? A different release of Jelly Bean?
Thanks in advance for any ideas/help.
Hmm, guessing nobody knows? I tried a battery calibrator, but it doesn't seem any better. The instructions were to run the app, and it would delete batterystats.bin. The phone would regenerate this on reboot, so power the phone off, fully charge it, then power it up. I ran the battery down to 4%, ran the app, powered off, waited until the phone indicated 100% charge, unplugged it from the charger and fired it up. It used 4% of the battery just starting. I then set the phone down for four hours, after which the phone was down only about another 15%. A couple of hours later, I picked it up, and it said 62%; used it for 10 minutes checking emails...54%. I'm now looking at a phone that has been unplugged from the charger for 7 hours & 21 minutes, and has 46% left. Is this just normal for a gio running jelly bean? I feel like I need an extra battery, or a bigger one. This one says 1350mAH.
Tried installing no-frills cpu, read up on how it works, set min. freq to 122MHz, max 800, smartassV2 control scheme, sio for i/o control. Still, just over 13 hours, of which I estimate I've used the phone for e-mail & browsing for maybe 45 minutes, down to 19%. When I check the battery stats, it's always the screen & wifi that are listed as villains. The screen usually gets over 95% of the power, even though it's on the dimmest possible setting. Is there something I'm doing wrong with the screen?
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Lastly, the really big drop in the right image corresponded with opening the calendar application. I added one appointment, and nearly lost 10% of the battery. Is there a lot of traffic on wifi during this or something?
Uncle. Is there a good version of cm9 that has camera, gps, bluetooth keyboard support, and won't eat the battery so quickly?
CM10 is nice, but the phone is unusable. I can't have it on the charger 2 to 3 times a day. Yesterday I was treated to a drop from 43% to 18% in 25 minutes of use, & when I check the stats, is always the screen, even when the phone is in standby. The battery is basically new. I even had the cpu speed set to 245MHz, and put the screen on the minimum brightness. I was just reading e-mails, no video, no games, no audio.
Install CPU spy plus and see if deepsleep works.
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Tried that, and deep sleep mode is not present on any of the graphs. Do I need to enable it somewhere, like through cwm?
use setcpu and force enable profiles
screen off
min 224
max 320
powersave
100 priority.
some app you use keeps your phone awake and thus it wont go in deep sleep.
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setting a min freq. lower than 244 will cause problems. in my case audio lags
I went back to ics, cm9. The camera does not work, and ... and ... and... it's killing me to say it ... but I really like jb. It just has a more polished professional feel about it. Not to dis ics, it's great, but jb is just ... nice. Most importantly, the battery performance I'm getting out of ics is about the same, though the chief consumer of power under ics shows up as "android os." So, I went back to the most recent build of cm10, the nightly from 20130205, as of this writing.
I have tried setcpu, cpu spy plus, and deep sleep battery saver. In ICS at least, I could see that the wifi was shutting down, but the overall battery consumption did not improve. It also killed bluetooth and I had to uninstall the app to get it back.
I do have the no-frills cpu control app installed, and the cpu set to min. 245MHz, max. 800MHz, SmartassV2, sio. Checking the stats, it indicates it's working, but the battery is still coming down fast, and it's always the screen that drinks almost all of the juice.
Is there a way of just editing a config file somewhere to force deep sleep mode to be enabled?
I also think it's not deep sleep that's the problem. If the screen is off 98% of the time, how can it consume 99% of the energy? Is something else happening with the screen? Is the backlight not being properly disabled, or something else left in a state where it drinks up current? This phone does not drain batteries like this when using stock gb rom, so I don't think it's a hardware or battery issue. Could it be the battery that just isn't charging properly and is being misreported?
When I installed the latest nightly build of cm10, the steps I took were:
1. Boot into cwm (5.0.2.6).
2. Wipe data/factory reset.
3. Wipe cache partition.
4. Clear dalvik cache.
5. Clear battery stats.
6. Install zip file from sdcard cm10.1-20130205-UNOFFICIAL-gio.zip
7. Wipe data/factory reset.
8. Wipe cache partition.
9. Clear dalvik cache.
10. Clear battery stats.
11. Power phone off.
12. Pull battery for one minute.
13. Install battery.
14. boot.
Did I miss anything?
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I went back to ics, cm9. The camera does not work, and ... and ... and... it's killing me to say it ... but I really like jb. It just has a more polished professional feel about it. Not to dis ics, it's great, but jb is just ... nice. Most importantly, the battery performance I'm getting out of ics is about the same, though the chief consumer of power under ics shows up as "android os." So, I went back to the most recent build of cm10, the nightly from 20130205, as of this writing.
I have tried setcpu, cpu spy plus, and deep sleep battery saver. In ICS at least, I could see that the wifi was shutting down, but the overall battery consumption did not improve. It also killed bluetooth and I had to uninstall the app to get it back.
I do have the no-frills cpu control app installed, and the cpu set to min. 245MHz, max. 800MHz, SmartassV2, sio. Checking the stats, it indicates it's working, but the battery is still coming down fast, and it's always the screen that drinks almost all of the juice.
Is there a way of just editing a config file somewhere to force deep sleep mode to be enabled?
I also think it's not deep that's the problem. If the screen is off 98% of the time, how can it consume 99% of the energy? Is something else happening with the screen? Is the backlight not being properly disabled, or something else left in a state where it drinks up current? This phone does not drain batteries like this when using stock gb rom, so I don't think it's a hardware or battery issue. Could it be the battery that just isn't charging properly and is being misreported?
When I installed the latest nightly build of cm10, the steps I took were:
1. Boot into cwm (5.0.2.6).
2. Wipe data/factory reset.
3. Wipe cache partition.
4. Clear dalvik cache.
5. Clear battery stats.
6. Install zip file from sdcard cm10.1-20130205-UNOFFICIAL-gio.zip
7. Wipe data/factory reset.
8. Wipe cache partition.
9. Clear dalvik cache.
10. Clear battery stats.
11. Power phone off.
12. Pull battery for one minute.
13. Install battery.
14. boot.
Did I miss anything?
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U did not miss any step but sorry to say this every jb rom has this kind of battery consumption. The jb roms eat battery more then gb roms or stock gb
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That's a disappointing thing to hear
The thing is though, this sounds a little more extreme. Here's a screenshot from this morning after less than 2 minutes off the charger (showed 100% when it came off):
I'm now sitting at 87%, and it's only been a few minutes. This just can't be normal!
most of the JB rom was draining your batter too fast
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For the past 3 days my battery is dropping at an incredibly fast rate. Even if its idle it will drop about 20 % every half hour with little to no use. I rooted my phone and am now running fresh with kings kernel but no change. I an even dropping in airplane mode. What can it be? I left it at 90% connected to wifi with the sync off and when I woke up 6 hours later it was at 20%. Any solutions?
Sounds like mine, just turning on the screen drops the batter 1-2%.
Hit menu and click on settings. From there, go to About Phone and then to Battery. Note the awake time and turn the screen off for thirty seconds or so. Turn the screen back on and check the awake time again. If it's not within five to ten seconds of the time you noted before you turned the screen off, something is keeping your phone awake, which does a number on the battery.
square parts or system panel might give a better idea of what specifically is draining your battery, or preventing it from sleeping correctly.
It seems fine, about 15 seconds difference. The weird thing is this only started happening about 3 days ago, I rooted yesterday, and its still doing it.
Go for what Fachadick said. Download and install Spare Parts from the Android Market. Go to Battery History and click on the dropdown box where it says "other usage" and click on "partial wake usage". If anything is taking up one of those bars, that's your problem.
If there's nothing notable there, it could be damn near any of your applications. When you root, you lose settings for you apps (depending on how you rooted), so your autosyncs could be going crazy. Might wanna check those.
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Go for what Fachadick said. Download and install Spare Parts from the Android Market. Go to Battery History and click on the dropdown box where it says "other usage" and click on "partial wake usage". If anything is taking up one of those bars, that's your problem.
If there's nothing notable there, it could be damn near any of your applications. When you root, you lose settings for you apps (depending on how you rooted), so your autosyncs could be going crazy. Might wanna check those.
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What he said Rooting won't fix battery issues. Rooting and installing a new ROM is just like reinstalling your OS. It can fix things or not depending on how it is configured. Likewise it won't fix your phone if hardware is bad.
does it drop steadily or just the first 5-10% or so? There is a well documented issue where the trickle charge stops at 100% and then shuts off so the phone actually drains a bit before it kicks in again. When you first unplug it, the reading may drop quickly until it reaches the real level.
Likewise depending on what you have installed and how it is set up, there may be something keeping your phone from sleeping. Check for partial wake use like the previous poster said and that will tell you what process/application is keeping your phone awake and draining battery.
i had this same problem about the battery before i rooted my phone. after i rooted it i got overclock widget and i get through the day with so much more battery left. i make sure my battery is full right before i go to bed, i put it on airplane mode and go to bed wake up around 7 a.m.(my battery is always at 98 when i get up in the morning so 2% in about 8 hrs) and i get home around 8:30 and my battery is at 48%. and no i dont leave it lying around with the screen off. i constantly go on, text, internet etc.
hope it works for you too!
your friend.
Ninja25
I am having this same problem and it started about 2 days ago. I downloaded Spare parts and looked up the partial usage (screenshots attached). I'm not sure what I'm suppose to determine from this. Mail is showing with more fill-in than any other program, when I click on it, I get the details. Can someone help?
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I am having this same problem and it started about 2 days ago. I downloaded Spare parts and looked up the partial usage (screenshots attached). I'm not sure what I'm suppose to determine from this. Mail is showing with more fill-in than any other program, when I click on it, I get the details. Can someone help?
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It doesn't appear (to me anyway) that you're having any issues with partial wake time. You may have a runaway app draining your battery and cpu - system panel is invaluable for hunting those down. It will show you each running process with exacly how much cpu it's used. It gets even better and gives evenmore detail if you let it monitor your system over time.
turn off latitude
kthejoker20 said:
turn off latitude
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How did you get that from his screens? Not doubting you, but where do you see that?
Sent from my blah blah blah blah
Thanks for the help fachadick, where would I get "System Panel" from? Couldn't find in the market.
P.S. - I'm a lady LOL
trhonda2000 said:
Thanks for the help fachadick, where would I get "System Panel" from? Couldn't find in the market.
P.S. - I'm a lady LOL
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There I go, letting my prejudices get ahead of me again, sorry about that. I think in the market it’s called systempanel – one word.
So will the free version pinpoint the problem, or would I need to do the paid version?
trhonda2000 said:
So will the free version pinpoint the problem, or would I need to do the paid version?
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to be honest, I'm not sure - I don't remember what kind of detail it gives you in the free version, but the app is so useful to monitor cpu and battery, as well as for hunting down rougue apps, I would recommend the paid version as a "required" app for all rooters.
when you load it up, the default screen is essentially a taskkiller - but more importantly, you can go into settings and have it show ALL processes, and if you select one of the apps or processes from that main screen, it tells you when it was started, how much cpu it used, how much memory its used, and at least in the paid version, a historical graph of cpu usage - so you can see exactly when it used the cpu over the past 2 hours, 8 hours, 1 day, 3 days, or over the past week.
Me Too - "Android System" extremely high - Stock 2.2
This is also happening to me from 4 days ago. I haven't installed any new apps in the last 15 days or so, and for good measure, i uninstalled the last 10 apps i installed before that. When i check battery usage, the "Android System" takes up between 60 and 70 percent. When i open it, it lists like this:
HTC Checkin Service
Settings
Upgrade Setup
Rosie Utility
Android System
Setup
Accounts & Sync
HTC Widget Download Manager
VPN Services
Network Location
com.android.qxdmlog
BrcmBluetoothServices
Settings Storage
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Bluetooth is off, 4g is off (when's cincinnati going live already!??! Just the heart of downtown and the mall)
Wifi is off, and I've been turning off gps now, but i always used to leave it on and made it through the day.
"Cell Standby" is next with 8%, everything else below that.
I kill everything with task manager now and it doesn't seem to help at all.
It is not possible to exaggerate how fast the battery is being drained. It drops by 1-2% each 45 seconds or so. I've done the Charge-for-8-hours-turn-off-charge-trickle-charge-unplug-trickle-charge-unplug-etc thing last night and no help. This is with no widgets installed, no live wallpaper, no music, when for months i can make it through the day with a little pandora, bluetooth while driving, a game or two, internet, maps, and several other apps throughout the day. I've stopped everything but messaging and phone calls and it still drains just as fast.
PLEASE HELP!
I don't know if this applies to anyone in this thread, but after installing a new rom sometimes I forget that the Gtalk/Gchat app resets itself to automatically sign in, and drains the battery while running in the background.
Changing it to not run automatically helps out for me, although I feel that I may have gotten slightly better battery life out of the rooted stock rom than running the King kernel I'm using right now. At least in terms of percentage drop. I never really reset my battery stats or recalibrate after installing a new rom, don't know how much that has an effect on the readings.
This is turning into a deal breaker
Its not latitude, off. Not ANYTHING as it still happens with everything off and all apps killed in task manager.
No background, no live wallpaper (even though i used to have one all day). No music (even though i used to have pandora on a couple hours a day). screen brightness is always low (even though i used to leave it above medium, and would turn it up to high to watch video or a game, and still made it most of the day before).
The phone's battery use thing swears its "Android System" thats taking by far the most, not even cell standby got larger when i unplugged it in the basement where there's no service.
i've turned off everything i could think of, no apps 'auto update' and i've put all syncing and updating and stuff to manual or off that i could find.
I don't think its a faulty battery because it is ridiculously noticeable that something has changed in that ANDROID SYSTEM is now a power hog. Why and what do to?????
wlpywd said:
Its not latitude, off. Not ANYTHING as it still happens with everything off and all apps killed in task manager.
No background, no live wallpaper (even though i used to have one all day). No music (even though i used to have pandora on a couple hours a day). screen brightness is always low (even though i used to leave it above medium, and would turn it up to high to watch video or a game, and still made it most of the day before).
The phone's battery use thing swears its "Android System" thats taking by far the most, not even cell standby got larger when i unplugged it in the basement where there's no service.
i've turned off everything i could think of, no apps 'auto update' and i've put all syncing and updating and stuff to manual or off that i could find.
I don't think its a faulty battery because it is ridiculously noticeable that something has changed in that ANDROID SYSTEM is now a power hog. Why and what do to?????
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Have you pulled the battery lately? Give that a shot.
Hi there,
So I'd my Defy for a little over 2 months now and I have used the mentioned ROMs with it for at least a week each. It first had Eclair, I promptly changed that to a Pays version of Froyo and now i'm using Quarx CM7.
A lot of my friends have this phone and report battery life of over 24h. They do work in places where they can connect their phones to their laptops and car charger, and they are lighter users than me.
But I'm a med student so I get out in the morning around 6 am, unplug my phone and go to the hospital returning home around 8pm. 14h later my phone is already at 33% charge. I keep wifi turned off, 3G off and use my phone to check MedScape(a medical info repository) and e-mail/facebook 6 times a day and listen to music for 4h.
Is that a good battery life? i mean, for a new phone. I imagine that if I let my 3G i won't get to the middle of my afternoon without needing to recharge.
Around the forum I read about people with OVER 48h of battery life, HOW?
thanks in advance.
Also, as I know it will be asked. My signal reception is flawless all through my working environment.
The .sbf you flashed (for the kernel) is apparently a big factor in batterylife, which did you use under cm7 ?
Which version of cm7 are you running?
Also are you using setvsel?
My settings are 300/23, 600/33, 800/43, and i have gotten almost 5 days battery use on a single charge, with
-texting for atleast 48hr time, intervals of short(10min) periods as you would expect
-maybe 20 mins phoning
-wifi on for half the time when i forget it overnight etc(my profile disables wifi on screen off however-good for light, but battery drain if you lock phone a lot)
-Get the following: OSmonitor, Battery monitor widget.
These help to track what apps eat battery, and kill processes with minimal(1%) drain, that if you arent using then you may aswell take all the battery back that you can
What are your display settings? eg auto brightness, renderfx etc
Thanks
software
I'm using the latest CM7 by quarx 5.1 and for base i'm currently using 3.4.2-177 nordic Blurless.
I wasn't currently using any undervolting settings to make a baseline screening of the phone with CM7 but i'll try yours and install the apps you've mentioned.
i'm using auto-brightness because of the bugs involved in disabling them in CM7 5.1. And haven't messed with renderfx so far.
Ok firstly i have only tested on 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 so these suggestions are very likely to work but if certain settings are different in 5.1 then they may negatively affect you- just a thought
Undervolting is actually incredible on cm7 and works a charm, its still super responsive and load times are still less than that of any 2.2 i have tested WITH overclock
Start on about 300/600/800, 30/45/50 and go down marginally-different phones may have different yields to this due to apps running, previous cpu stress etc
(Remember to untick 'start on boot')
Also, the medical database you mentioned- does it contain any 3d renders etc?
This may require you to raise the voltage a little to keep it stable for anything you may to run aswell-- all the apps i have tested such as angry birds, 3d racer games work perfectly btw
Ok, there are extra options that allow you to further change the auto brightness inside the CMsettings under >Display>Automatic backlight
You might wish to experiment if you have time (decrease sensor check-times, lower overall brightness etc), however it likely isnt worth pursuing as the new Quarx beta shows brightness fixes in the changelog already, so just wait is my advice if you are short of time
Ooh and renderfx seemed to drain my battery more on any of the n1 settings, however it may be mix/match to get it right
Hum, I've had bad experiences with undervolting in 2.2 but I'll be sure to try it.
As far as medscape goes, it's just text, no image whatsoever it's just a big list with descriptions "acetaminophen - what does it do, how, dosages and stuff" really useful though
will post back when I have more info from the apps you've mentioned. So far I had used watchdog and it hasn't barked at any of my apps
As long as you take it slowly, undervolting is no problem- also try and minimize the amount of useless apps you have, since many of them run in the background by default without a way to exit them, meaning you constantly waste resources on them and thereby limit the amount of UC/V'ing you could acheive.
Ok thats cool, i was just curious as you clearly need/use that app often
Alrighty then, hopefully you can get some better battery life out of it -good luck
i don't actually have that many apps installed
3g watchdog, only on when 3g is.
angry birds
battery monitor widget
chrome to phone
documents to go
dropbox
evernote
facebook
epicurious
foursquare
gmail
goggles
mnote
msn mercury
music junk
music
pulse
sms backup
soundhound
talk
wifi manager
youtube
well, not that I've written it out, they are quite a few.
He probably means you should use something to kill useless apps running in the background. Look for Advanced Task Killer at the market and install it so you can kill apps that are running in the background but that you're not using.
@Behemia 5 days is awesome in my experience, and you are using your device the same way I am
could you please tell us which kernel are you using (savaged Zen maybe?) and which baseband (if you changed it)?
thanks!
im using cm7 with 3.4.3-11 kernel, undervolted to 300/18-600/30-800/45, kill apps with es task manager quite a lot, 3g or wifi is constantly on, and brightness is set to medium (for some reason auto brightness doesnt relly work for me), and i still cant get one day out of it. battery calibration helped a bit though (i recommend that app to everybody having battery life issues!). is that normal?
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So, I've done some of the changes proposed. Undervolted to 300/28 600/41 800/47. Installed Battery monitor Widget, OSmonitor left the phone with 3g off and wifi off when not in use(most of the time) and right now I've got 1% of battery left. That's 1d09h30min after unplug.
Below are the times in ms from the applications that I've used according to battery monitor widgets.
sms 814409
facebook 518805
contacts 355178
dialer 212996
gmail 195103
winamp 67868
medscape 2728
And here battery use report according to system
display 21%
phone idle 18%
stanby 17%
voice calls 15%
OS 7%
media 4%
winamp 4%
gmail 3%
facebook 2%
I'm not saying that 33h isn't good. But my use in this time has been way below my average for myself and the way below most of what I see described here. Plus I don't see any bloatware running nor I do see my apps hogging my battery. Facebook and Gmail push notifications are set to occurs over 2h apart.
Any ideas?
Also, as I finish this thread the phone finally vibrates and dies. Let's put it back to charge and look for more ideas.
thanks in advance everyone.
@lionheartpl
which kind of sim card do you own? i mean an old 64k or a brand new 128k? i upgraded mine from 64 to 128 due to a mobile operator change and my battery usage (same mod, same apps, same usage, same baseband) dropped from 2-3% hour usage to 1% in more than 1 hour. So battery usage has dropped a lot...
Running stock UK 2.1 i could get 4 days standby if i was just texting and a few calls. with the stock UK 2.2 undervolted to 300/22 600/32 1000/52 i can get 5 days easily but i cant see the point in it cos you dare not really use it, i would rather drop down to 1 or 2 days and give it some usage.
Hello everyone,
I'm getting a very good perfomance with the barebones froyo 1.5.6, check this behavior at night:
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That's like 2% loss in almost 8 hours!!!
Right now I am using the version 1.5.1 because I was told it has a better perfomance than the 1.5.6. I'll post my results in a few days.
Also, I use my Defy to be connected to windows messenger network all the time. I'm trying a strategy in order to not drain battery so much:
http://loqueselocomparto.blogspot.com/2011/08/messenger-en-android.html
Check it out
Even i m not getting a good battery life on CM7 RC1 V1, latest Nightly(9th Aug)
using base band switcher as i m from India
i lost around 18 to 20% every night between 12 to 8am.
over with minimum usage i can get 24 hrs thats witout any music and games, call for 30 mins
not sure what to do
some one please help
I can get about 2 days out of a charge. I am using 300/35 700/42 1000/50 and have had no problems. I recommend using battery calibration! A trick that I have learned is to let it charge to 100% do a battery calibration and then leave it plugged in for a while (30 mins). I have my wifi on all the time and run the smartass profile in settings.
good luck!
Chem57guru
Ok, here is what I've done...
Had ms2ginger2.1, wiped data/cache/dalvik...
Flashed FroyoCEE with RSD
Rooted, installed 2ndInit 2.0
Reboot in CWM
Clear cache/dalvik
Installed 4.5.3-109fixed.sbf via install zip from sdcard in CWM-recovery
Advanced restore in CWM-recovery
Restore system only of 2.3.6_4.5.2-109 DHT25_themed MultiLanguage
Rebooted...
Charge battery to 100% and one hour after that (Battery monitor widget is showing 0mA)...Calibrated it with Nemo's Battery Calibration from Market
Discharge till phone went off...
Charged whole night, turned on, unplugged...
And now battery is lastin for 1.5 days only. In deepsleep I have about -40mA...During night times I have -50 or smth when Data/Wifi/Sync is off...
What shall I do to make battery drain normal (-5mA).
Oh yea...I had -2mA when battery was 99% and I was like woohooo...But then starting from 98% I have -40 or so...
I also have battery gaps from 54%--->49% and from 27%--->20% (u can read about that here).
I tried different calibration method too and even crazy one ---> this one. Nothing seems to work.
I don't know what is happening, I used to have 3 days of battery life with MS2Ginger 2.0 and after trying MIUIs and CM7 and then applying ms2ginger2.1 update with "new" method of installation (with new CWM and 2ndInit 2.0) everything went down the drain...
If someone could help me to recalibrate my battery again I would appreciate that.
Tnx
After some tests...
Hi again,
After 2 charge cycles I think I can post my results of battery life here.
During these tests display was kept off as mush as possible, DATA/WiFi/Sync was OFF (except when mentioned), sent around 20 sms, and had 3-4 calls, checked SocialApp, mail.
New apps I installed on 2.3.6_4.5.2-109 DHT25 were CPU spy, Battery Calibrator, BatteryMonitorWidget.
As I mention in previous post, I did this hard calibration method option 8b and I thought it didn't work, but then I saw no gaps between 55% and 49% as well as between 27% and 20% (you can see that bellow and in FirstBatteryCycle.txt):
Code:
2012/01/26|03:21:53|-61mA|57%|3818mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|03:26:52|-61mA|57%|3818mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|03:31:52|-51mA|56%|3825mV|29.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|03:36:53|-51mA|56%|3825mV|29.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|03:41:52|-51mA|56%|3825mV|29.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|03:46:52|-58mA|55%|3814mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|03:51:52|-58mA|55%|3814mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|03:56:52|-58mA|55%|3814mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|04:01:52|-58mA|55%|3814mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|04:06:53|-44mA|54%|3814mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|04:11:53|-44mA|54%|3814mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|04:16:52|-44mA|54%|3814mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|04:21:52|-60mA|53%|3798mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|04:26:52|-60mA|53%|3798mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|04:31:52|-60mA|53%|3798mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|04:36:52|-73mA|52%|3782mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|04:41:53|-73mA|52%|3782mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|04:46:52|-70mA|51%|3789mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|04:51:52|-70mA|51%|3789mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|04:56:52|-70mA|51%|3789mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|05:01:52|-59mA|51%|3789mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|05:06:52|-44mA|50%|3787mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|05:11:52|-44mA|50%|3787mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|05:16:53|-44mA|50%|3787mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|05:21:52|-44mA|50%|3787mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|05:26:52|-45mA|49%|3787mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|05:31:52|-45mA|49%|3787mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|05:36:52|-45mA|49%|3787mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|05:41:52|-45mA|49%|3787mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|05:46:52|-44mA|48%|3787mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|05:51:52|-44mA|48%|3787mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|05:56:52|-44mA|48%|3787mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|06:01:52|-44mA|48%|3787mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|06:06:52|-52mA|47%|3782mV|31.0ºC|0|0
and:
Code:
2012/01/26|10:41:52|-59mA|28%|3715mV|31.0ºC|2|0
2012/01/26|10:46:52|-45mA|27%|3670mV|31.0ºC|2|0
2012/01/26|10:51:52|-240mA|26%|3701mV|32.0ºC|2|0
2012/01/26|10:56:52|-174mA|25%|3713mV|33.0ºC|2|0
2012/01/26|11:01:52|-175mA|24%|3665mV|35.0ºC|2|0
2012/01/26|11:06:52|-144mA|24%|3665mV|35.0ºC|2|0
2012/01/26|11:11:52|-129mA|23%|3659mV|33.0ºC|2|0
2012/01/26|11:16:52|-185mA|22%|3683mV|33.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|11:21:52|-109mA|21%|3670mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|11:26:52|-181mA|20%|3683mV|32.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|11:31:52|-181mA|19%|3692mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|11:36:52|-143mA|19%|3692mV|31.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|11:41:52|-150mA|18%|3661mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|11:46:52|-112mA|17%|3683mV|30.0ºC|0|0
As you can see, current consumption is really high even I didn't touch my phone at all at that time.
After that I left my phone to completely discharge (which took a while because from 100% to 2% is only 1 day, but from 2% to 0% is like 6 hours) and charge it over the night.
Code:
2012/01/26|17:03:49|-50mA|2%|3602mV|29.0ºC|2|0
2012/01/26|17:08:49|-50mA|2%|3602mV|29.0ºC|0|0
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2012/01/26|17:43:49|-20mA|2%|3602mV|29.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|17:48:49|-20mA|1%|3632mV|22.0ºC|2|0
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2012/01/26|21:18:49|-4mA|1%|3184mV|25.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|21:23:49|-4mA|1%|3130mV|26.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/26|21:27:19|-4mA|0%|3047mV|26.0ºC|0|0
Next day battery cycle can be seen in SecondBatteryCycle.txt.
As you can see in that .txt until 87% current consumption was really high even if I only used wifi and checked SocialApp for 15min and sent only 2 sms (display was off almost all the time except above mentioned)
After that current consumption is lovering and went down to -5mA...I did one call and sent one sms and it jumped to -10mA and kept rising, but was pretty much stable around -14mA.
But the weirdest thing begun after 23.00h. As my battery mode is Nighttime saver mode, it should be logical that in those hours current consumption is the lowest, but my phone is starting to live its own life after I went to bed.
Code:
2012/01/27|23:08:20|-32mA|76%|3922mV|30.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/27|23:13:19|-32mA|76%|3922mV|30.0ºC|0|0
...
2012/01/28|01:43:19|-55mA|72%|3897mV|26.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|01:48:19|-55mA|72%|3897mV|26.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|01:53:19|-48mA|71%|3890mV|27.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|01:58:19|-48mA|71%|3890mV|27.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|02:03:19|-48mA|71%|3890mV|27.0ºC|2|0
2012/01/28|02:08:20|-63mA|70%|3883mV|28.0ºC|0|0
...
2012/01/28|05:58:19|-55mA|58%|3784mV|33.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|06:03:19|-55mA|58%|3784mV|33.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|06:08:19|-70mA|57%|3782mV|34.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|06:13:19|-70mA|57%|3782mV|34.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|06:18:19|-70mA|57%|3782mV|34.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|06:23:20|-52mA|56%|3775mV|35.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|06:28:19|-52mA|56%|3775mV|35.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|06:33:20|-52mA|56%|3775mV|35.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|06:38:19|-72mA|55%|3773mV|33.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|06:43:19|-72mA|55%|3773mV|33.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|06:48:20|-69mA|55%|3773mV|33.0ºC|0|0
[COLOR="Red"]2012/01/28|06:53:19|-60mA|54%|3771mV|32.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|06:58:19|-60mA|54%|3771mV|32.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|07:03:19|-60mA|54%|3771mV|32.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|07:08:19|-58mA|53%|3762mV|32.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|07:13:20|-464mA|49%|3762mV|32.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|07:18:19|-180mA|49%|3762mV|32.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|07:23:19|-90mA|49%|3762mV|32.0ºC|0|0
2012/01/28|07:28:19|-65mA|48%|3757mV|32.0ºC|0|0 [/COLOR]
...
2012/01/28|10:23:19|-33mA|41%|3744mV|29.0ºC|2|0
2012/01/28|10:28:19|-33mA|41%|3744mV|29.0ºC|2|0
2012/01/28|10:33:19|-55mA|40%|3717mV|31.0ºC|2|0
Current consumption jumps on -55mA and stay between 35 and 70
What the hell is that???
Do I have some ghosts in my machine?
Of course there is again battery gap but this time a bit smaller (from 53% to 49% and from 26% to 19% wow 1% better ) so the hard calibration wasn't successful imho.
After that, from 40% to 20% current use is around -50mA ffs!!! Why??? Im not even using my phone, Im writing my project report on my computer with DATA/WIFI/SYNC OFF on my phone.
I let my phone completely discharge again and it took again more than 6 hours to die with 1% of battery
When my phone is on 1% that is the only time I manage to have -2mA in deepsleep as Walter said he gets.
So things that bugs my mind are:
High current consumption during night time and when in deepsleep/standby. Why is this happening?
Why do I have -2mA in deepsleep only with 1% of battery left?
How is it possible that 1% is lasting for 6 hours and 98% for only 1 day?
How to seal the gaps?
Those things happened with MS2Ginger2.1 too. But I had 50 new apps installed so I wasn't sure is this because of the ROM or because of the apps. Now with clean installed ROM I can say something fishy is goin on.
One more thing. When WiFi is ON, I have around -70mA
--->So can anyone help me to restore my phone to previous 3 days battery use?
Any ideas?
Walter says he's got -2mA in DeepSleep with this ROM...How ffs? Tips?
Is there any way to perform the cleanest installation possible of this ROM so I can restore my battery life?
BTW...My history of installed ROMs (1st is the latest one):
2.3.6_4.5.2-109 DHT25_Themed_Multilanguage
MS2Ginger2.1
CM7.1 for 15min
CMIUI
MS2Ginger2.0
CMIUI, WIUI...MS2Ginger
Stock 2.3.4
Pays ROM
In my opinion things gone wild since either:
Flashing 2.1 after CM7, even if I did clean install every time.( starting from stock Froyo CEE)
When I was on MS2Ginger2.0 (was before CM7) and when I installed AndroSensor from the Market. That was the 1st time I had really huge battery consumption ( battery died in one day, previously lasted for 3). I don't have that app installed but maybe something left that is draining battery. I did clean installs every time, but who knows. Maybe there is something hidden on SD card or in phone storage
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Logcat
Me again...
Some of you guys suggested me to try installing Bootmenu 1.0.4 and CWM-recovery 5.0.3.1.
Currently I have:
bootmenu: 1.1.0-jordan
CWM: 5.0.3.2-jordan
Or clean install like this: LINK
I will try clean install from that link, and then Bootmenu and CWM like suggested.
But till then,
I ran one more battery cycle but this time with Catlog Recording. I posted whole Logcat here. And battey history of that day.
Using battery monitor widget and logcat I can see that when battery consumption jumps up, or when I have battery gaps this usually happens:
01-31 02:42:49.514 E/NetlinkEvent( 3581): NetlinkEvent::FindParam(): Parameter 'UDEV_LOG' not found
What is that? And this is one thing that is all over the logcat when battery is draining fast.
Battery lasted for 55 hours now, but I DIDN't use my phone at all.
Data/Wifi/Sync was OFF, I sent few SMS and received few calls and that is it.
Just asking, are you using the same simcard as when you have -2mA? Some time ago I used to have -20mA+ when I'm using old simcard. Changed new simcard, never had that problem again.
I'm using msginger2.1 now. Normal 2-3days usage with minimal online use. About 1% every 2hour when idle.
Have -2mA, got battery drop from 29%-19% but I guess that is normal.
I also notice when sometime unplug defy from power, the screen stays black, but the backlight is actually on. You should make sure the backlight is really off by turn display on and off again after unplug by pressing power button.
You can try this app forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15869886
Check the Partial Wakelock to see which app keeps the phone awake.
I use this app try to troubleshoot wakelock. Atrix got this wakelock problem by AlarmManager, but not on defy.
Well I have only ONE simcard, so everything you see here is with that particular simcard.
And that makes it so strange.
No bugs after unplug, tested it.
I will try this app, thank you.
Will report results here also.
Ok, so I wiped everything (SD card, data/cache/dalvik in CMW, data/cache in Stock recovery)...
Installed Froyo CEE with RSD
SuperOneClick rooted
2ndInit 2.0 installed
Installed CM7.2 Ep3 31.jan build with Al patch.
Battery was kinda OK at first, around 2% per hour with DATA/WiFi/Sync OFF, but then I had drop 54%--->49% and then during my sleep, battery drain was quite big again (~30mA or more)...I really do have ghosts in my phone. Ghosts of my previous ROMs angry that I switched to some other ROM
And again today I had drop 26%--->19%.
So nothing is changed.
Damn...Im gonna sell my Defy and buy new Defy+ and just root it and that's all
I'm running Quarx cm7-02032012 nightly and I have the same issues on my Defy.
Here's a screenshot:
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Before I was running Barebones 1.57 (Froyo) and never had problems with that.
I did not do any kind of calibration so far, I just started running CM yesterday. Any suggestions on how to proceed?
I would like to help you mate, but so far none would work
U can try that hard method of calibration I tried: LINK
Or just use your phone for few charge cycles and battery should recalibrate itself I hope
Did u installed CM7.2 or 7.1?
I think I will try with different CPU speeds, as someone suggested me to do. (return to max 800, not 1000).
I hope something will work eventually or Im back to Pay's Froyo! (3-4 days of battery).
I installed 7.1.0-11 and then Quarx nightly cm7-02032012-NIGHTLY-Defy
But I din't flash any 2.3.6 SBF, i kept the full 2.2.2 SBF (3.4.3-36-1.7_Stock.SEA_DEBLUR.sbf) I had before.
With Barebones i had usually 2 days with normal usage, but it was somewhat buggy and that's why i changed to CM.
Yesterday as I started my day, i pulled my GN from its charger (99%) and made my journey to uni. The trip takes about 50 mins. For the past month now Ive been using poweramp and have had no problems. But when i got to class i realised i had like 25% power during my trip and the back of the GN was a bit warm. I closed all programs and the power drain stopped. I was a bit concerned so a few hours later when i tried playing music again on poweramp but nothing drained the power. So maybe it was a freak occurrence?
So I went to bed last night and the phone was fine. something around 80% power. I woke up 5 hours into my sleep to check on my phone (its a bad habit) and went back to sleep for another 2-3 hours. When i woke up i found my phone had discharged a whole lot of power again randomly in that space of a few hours.
So what the hell happened in that time?! All I did was turn the screen on and turned it off. My usage patterns have not changed.
here is an screen shot of my power usage. You can see the first drop of power, thats nothing of concern as i was playing angry birds space before bed. Then you see the straight line as the phone was idle while i was sleeping. The next drop is when I woke up to check my phone and that's when the discharging happens again. Then you see it recovering when i woke up and closed all the background apps in hope that it would stop the power drain..which it did.
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Anyone have some ideas as to what is causing this?
Also keep in mind that before the first instance of power drain my phone configuration had not changed a single bit besides a light flow lite update the night before.
edit: oh FYI, running stock 4.0.2 on yakju
Any apps that you updated or installed yesterday? New rom? Did you make any changes to your phone at all since yesterday?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
Mitchmoney said:
Any apps that you updated or installed yesterday? New rom? Did you make any changes to your phone at all since yesterday?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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No new apps, but some app updates. I know at least light flow was updated.
this random power discharge is really getting annoying. It happened again today.
A new symptom seems that the video doesnt load on the phone. for example, trying to load youtube or recorded videos saved on my phone.
Originally i thought my 3g was playing up but when it wouldnt load a video i recorded that was a bit unusual. in fact the gallery app froze and crashed.
Did you search the forum and install CPU Spy and Better Battery stats?
Get some data and find out what is causing wakelocks. Your phone has a lot of "wake" time.
See with CPU spy how much it is spending in Deep sleep and with Better Battery stats look what is preventing it from going into that state. If it's an app: simply remove it.
How's your signal service been lately? I get pretty stank reception at work so my gnex gets pretty warm at the top and battery life suffers. I just put it on airplane mode and reset the radio to force it to chill out for awhile
Diger36 said:
Did you search the forum and install CPU Spy and Better Battery stats?
Get some data and find out what is causing wakelocks. Your phone has a lot of "wake" time.
See with CPU spy how much it is spending in Deep sleep and with Better Battery stats look what is preventing it from going into that state. If it's an app: simply remove it.
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Thanks ill try that. Just installed CPU spy. Is there an alternative to better battery stats? Don't really want to fork out something to debug this.
I originally used OS monitor, and i checked what was running while the abnormal discharge was happening but nothing showed up.
You make a good point about the amount of wake time though. That long stretch where i was sleeping, my phone shouldnt be waking up that much should it? It didnt seem to affect battery life that much.
pdiggitydogg said:
How's your signal service been lately? I get pretty stank reception at work so my gnex gets pretty warm at the top and battery life suffers. I just put it on airplane mode and reset the radio to force it to chill out for awhile
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Reception has been normal (since I'm around the CBD a lot)
csirac said:
Thanks ill try that. Just installed CPU spy. Is there an alternative to better battery stats? Don't really want to fork out something to debug this.
I originally used OS monitor, and i checked what was running while the abnormal discharge was happening but nothing showed up.
You make a good point about the amount of wake time though. That long stretch where i was sleeping, my phone shouldnt be waking up that much should it? It didnt seem to affect battery life that much.
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Better Battery Stats is the one I use and is recommended here a lot. It gives you insight in the wakelocks from the kernel, as well as from apps. Don't know about the alternatives. It's definately about the wakelocks. Your phone should be in Deep Sleep for 90% or so when you don't touch it (depending on your sync frequency off course).
Diger36 said:
Better Battery Stats is the one I use and is recommended here a lot. It gives you insight in the wakelocks from the kernel, as well as from apps. Don't know about the alternatives. It's definately about the wakelocks. Your phone should be in Deep Sleep for 90% or so when you don't touch it (depending on your sync frequency off course).
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The only account that is sync'ed is my gmail. The other two listed (twitter and dropbox) is turned off. Are there other options to turn the freq of when the phone syncs?
It's so strange because before these problems came about I had good battery life. ie: 3+hours of screen time.
csirac said:
The only account that is sync'ed is my gmail. The other two listed (twitter and dropbox) is turned off. Are there other options to turn the freq of when the phone syncs?
It's so strange because before these problems came about I had good battery life. ie: 3+hours of screen time.
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You usually set it at System Settings, accounts & Synchronisation but some apps allow you to set it within the app... There are apps that allow you to make profiles so that, for instance at night, your device turns off all data. I used to use Juicedefender but that was IMHO more a placebo effect then a real improvement.
I definately think you should install the mentioned apps and after such drain re-appeared analyse what happened.
So after a little bit of troubleshooting I narrowed the problem down to Light Flow Lite.
Last night I went to bed with 100% charge. It discharged normally throughout the night until 4 hours in when I received an email. I woke up about an hour later and saw this so i suspected it was light flow. I cleared the notification and went back to sleep. I woke up about 30 mins later and was sad to see that my fears were confirmed. Battery discharge had settled down and was acting as normal. Just to be 100% sure though, i sent an email to myself to set off a notification and left it for another 30 mins, and as you can guess, the battery started draining excessively again.
Here is the screenshot. First part obviously is when im sleeping. then that dip is the email coming in. That TINY TINY dip upwards is another email coming in a min after I cleared the original email. So the battery drain continues until i wake up and clear it again. This time no more notifications came through and the battery drain settles down.
Again keep in mind that I have used Light Flow Light for 2 months now without problems.
Anyone else experience problems with Light flow or Light Flow light since it was updated on the 20th March?
I have been great with my light flow lite..I had a problem with my own battery when I updated Google chrome.. uninstalling that fixed my problem..
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
In the last few days, I have noticed that the process "Android OS" has been using maximum battery life (about 16-35%) and has also been consuming large amounts of data.
The only thing I have done recently is allow the facebook app to upload all pics from my mobile.
Any connection? FYI, I have not added a Samsung account.
Apologies if this has been answered earlier by I did search for it.
what version of android are you running?
what ROM? what kernel?
how long ago did you start to notice this?
is it a constant issue, or does it fix itself after a reboot or something, or with data connection turned off?
do you use google now?
if you are on the jelly bean 4.1.1 version, did you update OTA or odin? just curious, probably not related anyways...
what recovery are you using?
just trying to get some info before i help. many things in the android OS can be directly or indirectly related to each other but still have a side effect on battery life.
16-30% in general has been relatively normal on JB. (Usually between 14-18% is where it settles to)
Keep in mind that unless you are at least halfway through your batt cycle its going to be higher. If you're at 90-95% batt it can be much higher, just due to percentages and battstats being reset.
Not sure why you didn't find anything though, this has been covered a great many times in the past 6 weeks! Did you look at what the top processes are under Android System?
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium
cobraboy85 said:
what version of android are you running?
what ROM? what kernel?
how long ago did you start to notice this?
is it a constant issue, or does it fix itself after a reboot or something, or with data connection turned off?
do you use google now?
if you are on the jelly bean 4.1.1 version, did you update OTA or odin? just curious, probably not related anyways...
what recovery are you using?
just trying to get some info before i help. many things in the android OS can be directly or indirectly related to each other but still have a side effect on battery life.
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I had installed root66 prerooted JB rom. When I noticed the problem, I installed stock ICS through odin, updated to stock JB then rooted again but the problem continues.
I have been noticing this for about a couple of weeks. Restarting doesnt help but I havent yet tried turning off data. Will try that and let you know.
Yes I use google now.
DocHoliday77 said:
16-30% in general has been relatively normal on JB. (Usually between 14-18% is where it settles to)
Keep in mind that unless you are at least halfway through your batt cycle its going to be higher. If you're at 90-95% batt it can be much higher, just due to percentages and battstats being reset.
Not sure why you didn't find anything though, this has been covered a great many times in the past 6 weeks! Did you look at what the top processes are under Android System?
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Is this something peculiar to JB? I didnt see this in ICS. The top processes currently showing in the battery stats are Android OS: 28%, Voice calls: 17%, Screen: 11%, android system: 8%...
Is there anyway to check exactly which app is using the battery and data which is showing as Android OS?
pappuhathi said:
Is this something peculiar to JB? I didnt see this in ICS. The top processes currently showing in the battery stats are Android OS: 28%, Voice calls: 17%, Screen: 11%, android system: 8%...
Is there anyway to check exactly which app is using the battery and data which is showing as Android OS?
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Yup, became much more of an issue in jb.
Press on Android System.
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Odd... mine is usually only around 10%
Mine generally sits between 11-14% depending on use. But it can show 30+ if you check it at certain times.
For example, if you've fully charged the battstats will have reset. If you reboot the phone it will kick off the media scanner which can run for a while (this can also be the cause of it heating up for a short time). So once its complete it will have used a rather sizable chunk of the overall battery use. Since it usually doesn't run again, the percentage will steadily drop as other processes use the battery.
I know we aren't really discussing the media scanner, but I use it as an example that is pretty easy to see if you watch it.
Android system has a lot of processes which are listed under its category so depending on how each person uses their device it can vary a bit. Most screenshots of 'normal' reports that I've seen usually are around 14-18%. For me its lower, but I'm pretty sure I don't use mine the same way others do. There are times though where it can go higher for me, depending on what kinds of stuff I'm messing with or testing out.
I believe transferring large amounts of data over mtp is one thing that can cause it to go up...
Hope that makes sense.
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my phone just started this last night. i took it off the charger around 11 last night (100% charged) and it woke me up at 3:30 with a low battery indicator, i checked task manager and nothing was open battery stats showed that android os was at i think 38%. i put it on the charger this morning at around 9 am because it had died fully. it's now 1 pm and it's at 95% charged, typically it takes only a couple hours to charge. my phone is fully stock running jb.
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What kernel/ROM and version of recovery are you using?
You can track data consumption of Android system apps via Droidstats
You'll be able to know wether it's Google Maps or any other service that uses data
I am fairly confident I've tracked it down to the touch sounds. Sounds dumb I know, but I believe they are wake locking excessively. I have much better results with ANDROID OS drain with them turned off. Interested to see if others do too.
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Hey there,
im having a similar issue with my Google Nexus 10 running stock Android 4.2.2 (fresh install of factory image and then manual update with ota update.zip).
Here are two screenshots (didnt want to include here because they are HUGE and I dont know how to resize them in forum "code"):
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I havent been using it much the last days and im a little spoiled by an iPad 2 standby time so this is not very acceptable
I'll try Droidstats and see what I can make out of it.
markus4000 said:
Hey there,
im having a similar issue with my Google Nexus 10 running stock Android 4.2.2 (fresh install of factory image and then manual update with ota update.zip).
Here are two screenshots (didnt want to include here because they are HUGE and I dont know how to resize them in forum "code"):
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I havent been using it much the last days and im a little spoiled by an iPad 2 standby time so this is not very acceptable
I'll try Droidstats and see what I can make out of it.
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Looks like you haven't used the tab (screen time) that much over the two days, making Android OS seem overtly guilty.
Try disabling touch sounds -- settings-sounds- touch sounds
Then let us know. I am convinced that is the culprit of the wake locks, keeping the Android OS (kernel & drivers) high and eating battery.
Lttlwing16 said:
Looks like you haven't used the tab (screen time) that much over the two days, making Android OS seem overtly guilty.
Try disabling touch sounds -- settings-sounds- touch sounds
Then let us know. I am convinced that is the culprit of the wake locks, keeping the Android OS (kernel & drivers) high and eating battery.
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Sorry, forgot to mention it. I have them disabled since i own this tablet (and I checked it again).
I wanted to try DroidStats, but it seems to be an app for calls, sms and data
Can you post a link to this app (if its allowed )
EDIT:
Yesterday a friend of mine showed me the battery stats on his Galaxy S2 and had almost 40% "Android OS".... but he has never had better battery life. I start to think that (because of the percentage system) the built in battery tools are almost useless
Is 4 days a normal standby time for the Nexus 10? That would be very bad in my opinion.
I've just started seeing the same thing with my Galaxy S3 (Samsung issued ICS, rooted). Normally the battery will last around 24 hours with light use, but currently it's draining from full to warning level in about 4 hours with the screen mostly off (wi-fi, bluetooth and GPS are off at the moment). Touch sounds have been set to off from day one.
Yesterday, the culprit looked to be Beautiful Widgets (around 38%) so I turned some of that off (weather update animations, etc) but I'm still getting the same drain speed - now showing Android OS 26%, Cell standby 22%, Android System 15%, Screen 11%. Not sure if I trust the results though, the BW issue from yesterday could have been a red-herring.
Andre
[SOLVED!!]
i have this problem with my galaxy grand phone ,the battery discharges in 20hr , default OS was 4.1.2 official samsung , i changed my rom into a slim custom rom based 4.2.2 , but the battery has same problem again , Android OS battery Usage Was 80% !!!! and screen usage just was 9% !
my installed software :
Viber
WeChat
MyKet {Like Android Market}
Weather Widget
i used wifi 1-2 hour in a day ,
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[SOLVE]
first go to Settings -> Developer Options -> Apps Tab -> checked Don't keep activities
set brightness to auto
then go to location services -> off access my location
then go to wifi -> advanced Wi-Fi -> keep wi-fi on during sleep -> change to Never
now go to application manager -> Running Tab -> Force stop some apps with extra ram usage like settings
my phone just uses 5% battery in 13hr sleep mode ; ENJOY!