Hello Guys :cyclops:,
I just wanted to share you my experience with the mediaserver and what I noticed about it.
two days ago, I noticed a sudden drain in my battery and reviewing the battery logs it turned out to be the media server since it was draining around 70% of the battery and I didn't know why.
I reviewed what I have done or installed lately, and I found that I installed "greenify" the app killer.
it's a great app and it really helps killing and hibernating idle apps. but after uninstalling it again the battery came back to normal and I didn't even see the mediaserver in the battery log.
so, I guess it was something related to greenify with the media apps on my ARC. If you're having an issue with the mediaserver, try excluding your media apps from the memory cleaner you're using (which I don't recommend using since android can handle memory better than you ) and it would help.
Thanks for your time.
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So i rooted my evo and installed a custom rom pretty much as soon as I had it out of the box. And then started installing apps. And i've pretty much NEVER had a fully charged battery last for a whole day even with very little to no usage of the phone.
A few days ago my friend also got an evo but hasn't rooted it or installed any apps yet. And he is easily getting TWO days or more out of a charge.
so i decided to do a full wipe of my phone, and what do you know, I'm suddenly getting 2 days out of the battery, maybe even a little more then 2 days.
Previously, i had setcpu installed as well as system panel. And i was never able to figure out what was draining the battery. When i looked in system panel the only thing that was using the cpu a little bit was system. Pretty much every other app listed was showing 0.1% of cpu usage.
So i'd like to know if there's a better method to figure out what's draining the battery. Do I have to install apps one at a time and wait a few hours/a day to see if the battery starts going down? or is there a better method?
thanks
I always check the awake time versus the time on. If the wake time is very high that means there is an app acting up.
What I'll do to investigate which app is I'll just go to the little stock battery report thing and look at what is using my battery.
Also, it should be noted that be wary of the facebook app. That thing is a complete and total battery hog. It was draining my battery from 20% over the course of an hour.
I was checking the stock battery report - it wasn't showing me anything useful when the battery was going dead.
right now i'm getting amazing battery life compared to before.
90 minutes since the phone was unplugged and it's only down to 96% and that's with me using it a bit. Previously, it would have been down to 85-80% by now.
I just have no clue at all what was causing the drain. I was hoping there was a better method other then installing apps one at a time until the battery starts draining to figure out the culprit.
There's an app called Watchdog and it monitors the background activity happening on your phone. If some seems to be getting out of hand it will notify you.
I had the same problem I installed Smobile security and it was KILLING my battery. Watchdog was able to tell what it was.
Hope this helps.
It looks like watchdog does basically the same thing that system panel does. and system panel wasn't showing me anything unusual. System panel shows the cpu usage of apps - and none of my apps were showing high cpu usage.
I guess there's really no app that can actually show you the battery usage per app - it can only show you the cpu usage.
You can try SpareParts from the Market,it may help you see if you have a wakelock issue of some kind and its free so no harm if it doesn't help.
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You can try SpareParts from the Market,it may help you see if you have a wakelock issue of some kind and its free so no harm if it doesn't help.
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actually, the rom i am using already has spareparts in it. I'm not sure what you mean by wakelock though. How do i determine that? What is it?
I've had this battery for several months now and I'm just now starting to wonder why my battery life is so abysmal as compared to others with it. It'll probably last around 18-20 hours a day with about a half hour of music playing through Winamp, JuiceDefender, Lookout, and Tasker running constantly, an 100-800 core clock, and low brightness.
Somehow, I think I should be getting better battery life. It has been similar to this regardless of what ROM I use.
Do you all think it's the battery or just the phone?
Obviously, I'm unable to return it. I would just like to know what others think.
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I've had this battery for several months now and I'm just now starting to wonder why my battery life is so abysmal as compared to others with it. It'll probably last around 18-20 hours a day with about a half hour of music playing through Winamp, JuiceDefender, Lookout, and Tasker running constantly, an 100-800 core clock, and low brightness.
Somehow, I think I should be getting better battery life. It has been similar to this regardless of what ROM I use.
Do you all think it's the battery or just the phone?
Obviously, I'm unable to return it. I would just like to know what others think.
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POSSIBLE ISSUES:
(Answering these yourself should help pin point the problem just by re-reading your own answers)
- How "old" is the battery?
- What are your min/max CPU frequencies?
- What services are running in the background?
- Did you have this problem on the stock battery?
- What app do you mainly use?
- Does that app drain battery?
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It'll probably last around 18-20 hours a day with about a half hour of music playing through Winamp, JuiceDefender, Lookout, and Tasker running constantly, an 100-800 core clock, and low brightness.
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With optimal settings and unnecessary ram hogging apps removed, you should be able to get more hours than that on the original battery half the size.
JuiceDefender should be unnecessary and I found it to inhibit me more than it proved useful.
Lookout is neat, and I do like it, but as I don't see a huge need for it I don't have it installed.
My personal favorite task killer is Advanced Task Killer which I use to cleanup my phone before locking it, you know, close the various apps I just opened . However, I have disallowed it from auto-killing, as this has proved detrimental and in vain when services killed generally immediately restart themselves and consume less battery than the auto killing program attempting to kill them.
A good check on certain apps is to go to Manage Applications under Settings and check your running apps. About 1-2 minutes after a good task kill, check to see which apps have restarted. If any you recognize are running that you didn't start, you may consider removing them. Especially anything that tries to access location services.
Edit: Almost forgot, I don't use any widgets except for Task Killer and Power Control. All others drained more battery than I cared for, and this I tested extensively.
Today i have charged my phone to 100% and left it idle for 4 hrs.I opened gsam battery monitor and saw that apps consume 60% of the battery life!! of which dead trigger consumes 50%. how is that even possible? i have not even opened that app and it has been consuming 50% of my battery!!??i have other apps too but those didn't even appear in the list. then why only this app?? That is why i have been getting poor idle battery life. Why does it happen?? Is there any way to stop this without deleting the app??
I'd inform the dev since it's probably the apps fault. If you don't want to uninstall the misbehaving app, you could use Titanium Backup to freeze it when you're not playing. Quite a hassle though.
if you go to the phones main settings, apps, dead trigger.. you can force stop it here.
Hi,
During the past week I have a very strange problem in my Galaxy Nexus.
Battery suddenly started to drain very very quickly.
After 8 hours while I am sleeping in which 3G \ Wireless \ location services\ sync etc. are closed I lose 25-30% battery. (Before this happened I would have lost only 10% in this situation).
Of course while using the device the battery drains even faster.
Luckily I have 2 batteries and use both actively, second battery started act like the first, so the battery is not the problem.
In the battery usage screen there is nothing suspicious.
I installed Wakelock Detector and Better Battery Stats, everything is fine there too.
I have Greenify and I hibernate all the unnecessary applications.
I had a PA rom when it happened, then I switched to SlimKat, same problem. Then again I returned to the PA and the problem isn't vanished.
Between changing ROMs I've erased the phone.
I've also tried to put custom kernels but nothing helped me!
I have no more ideas, can someone please help?
Thank you very much!
I noticed this too, under battery info in settings I found the only culprit to be the latest/updated Google Play Services that kept preventing my GN to enter into deep sleep mode and the only way to fix it was to force close this service.
But then every once in a while it would start running again, so now I've just put a shortcut icon on the home screen to help quickly force close it from app info.
I'm having a xperia z1 compact and been using it since last 9 months with very minor bugs which most of you'll agree like the camera bug.
But since last 2 weeks my phone is overheating even for moderate usage and slight battery drain. Even while playing small games like subway surf or even browsing through imdb makes the phone real hot like I can make an omelette on its back.
Does anyone else have this problem? Or is it specific to my phone only?
Is it a good option to give it to the service centre as it's still in warranty nor should I not bother since it's not a qualitative problem.I don't use it for hardcore gaming (I don't have any). I use our only for browsing, music and social networking. But this recent overheating problem is bothering
Also is there a chance that battery might be dying since my battery backup has also decreased by around 30 %
Go to the battery settings and check if there is an app that causes the drain.
Sometimes nova launcher starts behaving this way for me but it can be fixed by clearing the app data and reimporting the settings.
Facebook is using around 30% of the battery
Doesn't rebooting clear data, because I usually reboot one once in 2days
My battery usage also shows WiFi- on the whole time which wasn't true. This happened today only though
i had to uninstall facebook it was destroying my battery for some reason. It's not doing this on my nexus 7 though
Facebook consumes a lot battery and memory. I noticed when i using fb my getting hotter