My phone has lately been randomly shutting off at night when I am sleeping, I set it down, no matter what battery percentage it's at, it will randomly shut off at night on some days, and it's not due to a low battery or anything
FreakyFreakGA said:
My phone has lately been randomly shutting off at night when I am sleeping, I set it down, no matter what battery percentage it's at, it will randomly shut off at night on some days, and it's not due to a low battery or anything
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Well, I think you have to give some more info first:
- Primou or CDMA
- rooted or not
- recovery
- rom
- kernel
Then, I hope that we'll be able to help... :fingers-crossed:
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When I run the latest android build on my Tilt 2, it flies through battery like no other.
Are there any settings I can tweak to get at least a full day's worth of use out of it (mostly in standby anyways)?
Thanks
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Smith
I'd love to hear anyone's tips as well. As mentioned here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7959929&postcount=7622
Setting the sleep mode = 1 doesn't seem to work for me. The processor seemingly goes to sleep and enters a coma (yes, I set the clock speed back to stock in the startup.txt).
One quick tip to the OP is set the clock speed to stock.
Edit: sleep mode = 0 seems to work (GSM phone here). However, deleting the "acpuclock.oc_freq_khz=XXX" line from the startup.txt and setting sleep=1 just might work as well.
Edit2: sleep mode = 0 seems to result in the phone functionality breaking. It stopped waking up to phone calls after a while, and calling out wouldn't work either. Damn.. Just a heads up.
1. Close every program that you don't use on startup of android. You can do this with advanced task killer.
2. Run stock speeds.
3. Turn down the screen brightness.
4. Make sure your phone goes to sleep when you are not using it (green led = sleep)
Is advanced task killer installed by default?
Also, how can I clock it to stock? I wasn't aware that it was overclocked past stock.
Screen brightness makes sense, I'll definitely do that.
So, if green is sleep, what is the orange?
Thanks
Smith
I reckon hepatic feedback would drain a little battery on its own probably best to turn that off
This is all true. I'll have to do that.
Still figuring it all out. Once I can get a solid 18-24 hour charge cycle out of it, Android will become my primary OS, easily. Simply works better, IMO
For me sometimes it's green, sometimes it's Orange - not sure how to change it back green -
I use Advance Task Killer, but then i also read that Froyo 2.2 doesn't need a task killer?
The two things that have helped battery life the most were:
-Switching to stock clock speed (the reference over the overclocked BLZN which i loved but killed the battery life)
-turning off background processes... i only turn it on when i have to (using the market, etc)
I would love to hear more tips
The colours are not that hard.
Red/orange = awake
Green = sleeping
If the LED stays red, then your device is doing something, you can either wait or try closing the programs with the task killer. That will help sometimes.
For returning to stock speeds read the faq And advanced task killer can be downloaded in the market.
Thank you guys all so much, big, big help to me!
Android is definitely going to be my full time OS shortly
Smith
Its kind of tough trying to go anywhere without a charger nearby. The battery drains quickly and on top of that the actual battery meter is off.
So sometimes that is a main issue
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throwback1718 said:
Its kind of tough trying to go anywhere without a charger nearby. The battery drains quickly and on top of that the actual battery meter is off.
So sometimes that is a main issue
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Indeed but that is something that they are working on it as we speak. Give them time
I ran a test last night before going to sleep to see how long the phone lasts.
Charged my phone fully. Ran advanced task killer and killed all the programs. Put the phone in deep sleep ( green light).
Woke up 7 hours later and phone was completely dead. I do have auto sync turned on, but only over wifi, so it should not have used any data as i have the data turned off and no widgets on my home screens that auto-update.
I'll try again tonight for a shorter time (5 hours).
Running the blazn aug 30th build.
karan1203 said:
I ran a test last night before going to sleep to see how long the phone lasts.
Charged my phone fully. Ran advanced task killer and killed all the programs. Put the phone in deep sleep ( green light).
Woke up 7 hours later and phone was completely dead. I do have auto sync turned on, but only over wifi, so it should not have used any data as i have the data turned off and no widgets on my home screens that auto-update.
I'll try again tonight for a shorter time (5 hours).
Running the blazn aug 30th build.
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How did you 'put the phone in a deep sleep'
I turned off all auto updates.
The next day i did the test again, charged the phone to 100% and used the phone moderately for 8 hours before the battery died.
Without overclocking i can safely say i can get the phone to last 8 hours with moderate to heavy usage, which is excellent.
My main problem with the new updates are that it constantly restarts or crashes after using it for less than 30 minutes while before I could use it for several hours. Not sure whether it's to do with battery life or not as when it boots back in WM the battery is near full.
The biggest things that have helped conserve battery life for me are disabling GPS and background syncing but some apps require this to be enabled. :S
Phone seems to recover from "sleep"
FWIW, I set sleep mode = 1 and removed the overclock line from the startup.txt and the phone SEEMS to sleep and "wake up" just fine. Previously, I had problems with the phone going to sleep and when waking up, everything seemed fine, but the phone didn't work. With the overclock line removed, it seems to "wake up" with the phone working now.
Just a heads up to anyone who wants to save battery life.. might want to remove the overclocking line in the startup.txt..
Tried CM9 RC2 and Full Throttle 7.1, the same thing happened:
I unplug my phone in the morning after browsing for a few things, then left the phone basically idle for a few hours. Then use it for a few minutes of different activities. For the first few hours the phone goes into deep sleep, after I use it for a few minutes the phone will refuse to go into sleep again, awake until I restart it.
I have been using CPU Sleeper to force the phone into sleep, doesn't really help at all.
Any clue?
Install Better Battery Stats to help determine if an application is keeping your phone in wakelock.
drumist said:
Install Better Battery Stats to help determine if an application is keeping your phone in wakelock.
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Thanks! it's a great app! trying it now!
any luck?
not yet, seems behaving as expected after installing the app. Still deciding between CM9 RC2 and Full Throttle 7.1, so may need a couple more trials to point things out.
Hey guys, I guess I have my first serious problem with that phone now...
Last night I was just writing in WhatsApp and suddenly the screen flickered like hell and the phone shut down. Couldn't boot up since.
Sometimes I manage it to boot into recovery but I can't really do much because the screen starts flickering again and it shuts itself off. Also I managed to boot the device twice but it started flickering instantly and shut off...
Also I noticed that it just turns on when I connect my charger - even though the battery should be full as I charged it over night and it wasn't even empty back then.
Is it just my battery or is my GN dying? Or is it just some software thing? Pls help me...
GN GSM
Carbon Rom (KitKat)
DirtyV Kernel (23.4.)
TWRP (newest)
Hi, I have doubts about the battery or need advices.
When I go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning (6 - 7 hours), the phone drains about 15 - 20%, is it normal?
When I go to sleep I put it in mid power saving, 80% brightness, wi fi and AoD activated, blue filter activated, auto brightness checkbox deactivated and in settings -> maintenance I erase RAM.
Even though, the battery lasts 36 hours or more.
Thanks in advance.
That's normal standby for most devices, though I don't really lose as much percentage overnight by just closing all apps before I go to bed and keeping the brightness low while leaving WiFi and Location Services on. I go to bed with 60% and wake up 7 hours later with around 50%, so maybe you're doing something wrong. But 15-20% overnight isn't really a big deal at all considering how fast this phone charges.; you get 20% back by charging for just 15 minutes. You'd really over ever notice a difference in standby time if you're coming from an iPhone which has the best standby time in the business, but this phone makes up for it just fine.
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That's normal standby for most devices, though I don't really lose as much percentage overnight by just closing all apps before I go to bed and keeping the brightness low while leaving WiFi and Location Services on. I go to bed with 60% and wake up 7 hours later with around 50%, so maybe you're doing something wrong. But 15-20% overnight isn't really a big deal at all considering how fast this phone charges.; you get 20% back by charging for just 15 minutes. You'd really over ever notice a difference in standby time if you're coming from an iPhone which has the best standby time in the business, but this phone makes up for it just fine.
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I see. In fact, last night it went from 60 to 51, so it depends on a lot of things.
Do you say I must change/add some other settings to improve the battery life?
Thanks a lot for your answer!
brutzza said:
I see. In fact, last night it went from 60 to 51, so it depends on a lot of things.
Do you say I must change/add some other settings to improve the battery life?
Thanks a lot for your answer!
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I knew for sure that my battery life increased exponentially when the phone started dozing apps I didn't frequently use. The phone hibernates apps after 3-7 days of not being used, but you can put them to sleep yourself in Device Maintenance.
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I lost just 1-5 at the night I stop AoD,and wifi if you use Facebook app or social media apps will drain battery faster than when using browser it's better.:good:
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I knew for sure that my battery life increased exponentially when the phone started dozing apps I didn't frequently use. The phone hibernates apps after 3-7 days of not being used, but you can put them to sleep yourself in Device Maintenance.
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Where exactly do I put apps to sleep? Or may I force them to stop? (don't know if it is said like that, I have it in Spanish).
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I lost just 1-5 at the night I stop AoD,and wifi if you use Facebook app or social media apps will drain battery faster than when using browser it's better.:good:
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Only 1-5% ? Amazing. Yeah, but if you deactivate wifi, you won't get any notifications of anything during the night (if you think about it, you won't answer any because you are sleeping). Maybe I'll try that.
I don't use Facebook too much, but the browser version is a bit slower and not comfortable IMO.
The principal app that drains my battery is the PvZ2, though.
It will disconects wifi even when you turn it on... I lose abou 2 to 3 % night, but I dont see point of having device on during night so now I power it ofd
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Where exactly do I put apps to sleep? Or may I force them to stop? (don't know if it is said like that, I have it in Spanish).
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Settings > Device Maintenance > Battery > Check the apps you don't frequently use and tap Save Power. If you choose to sleep Instagram, for example, you can still open it anytime later by just tapping the app, it'll just take an extra second to start which you won't even notice.
Pandotaz said:
It will disconects wifi even when you turn it on... I lose abou 2 to 3 % night, but I dont see point of having device on during night so now I power it ofd
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Instead of turning it off completely, you can also use the maximum power saving mode. Using that, I went to sleep with 97% and once I checked after waking up it was 96%.
I didn't measure the boot time of the device (not that I even care about it) but disabling the power saving mode might be a bit faster than turning the phone on.
Thanks all of you!
It is NOT normal for battery to drain 15-20% overnight.
Normal drain in that period would be 1-2% without AOD and 4-5% with AOD.
Battery wise A5 '17 have good one. I usually get about 7 hrs on SOT with medium ussage or 1.5 days ussage.
Battery drain like that happens rarely, but they're annoying. It happens on clean stock (only factory apps) as well as on custom. Something keep CPU awake and phone won't go into deep sleep for some reason. For first time I thought that battery is simply dying, but since CPU is always awake I suspect device itself.
This is from last night.
Banan PL said:
Battery drain like that happens rarely, but they're annoying. It happens on clean stock (only factory apps) as well as on custom. Something keep CPU awake and phone won't go into deep sleep for some reason. For first time I thought that battery is simply dying, but since CPU is always awake I suspect device itself.
This is from last night.
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If it happens after clean flash stock ROM it's an hardware problem so send it to a repair center.