Bluetooth taking up lots of battery usage!! It's not even on!! - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Bluetooth is taking up 86% of my battery usage, it's not even turned on. I rarely even use Bluetooth and it is draining my battery really fast. I had just recently has this problem with media taking up lots of battery usage, and wiped cache and dalvik, dirty flashed ROM, wiped cache and dalvik again, and fixed permissions. It seemed to work, but now I have this Bluetooth problem.
-Thanks for any help
-By the way I am running JELLYBAM ROM v7.7.0 (This is also the ROM I dirty flashed.)

This has been happening to me to a lesser extent. For me it's usually when I'm done using bluetooth I'll turn it off, but I noticed it hangs turning off and then begins to use a ton of battery. What I started doing is force stopping bluetooth every time I'm done using it. It's not ideal but solves the problem and it's quick
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You mentioned dirty flash...
You might as well do a full wipe and see if things improve.
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chilln09 said:
You mentioned dirty flash...
You might as well do a full wipe and see if things improve.
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This.
Your bluetooth has gone all Skynet and became self aware. A full wipe will definitely resolve it. Either that or you can try freezing it and it's services with Titanium if you don't use it.
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[Q]Every ROM I flash FC's launchers and slows to a crawl for no reason.

So every time I flash I wipe data/cache/Dalvik/Battstats. I was using CWM2 for a while and when every ROM continued to slow down and lock up I tried upgrading to CWM3, narrowing my ROM choices but not solving the problem. Whenever I flash, my phone will return to it's snappy self for a varying amount of time before crapping out again. I've tried Sense, AOSP, Evo, and Z ROMs and all behave the same for no apparent reason. What am I doing wrong? My phone used to be lightning quick, I sampled many ROMs and kernels without incident, only experimented with OC briefly, and all of a sudden it's gotten painfully slow no matter what i do. Please help me make my Incredible, "incredible" again
Is it still slow on the Stock ROM? If you haven't tried that already, I would try that. It's possible something else may be wrong with the phone if you've tried many different ROMS and all do the same thing. Do you have all the same apps installed as well, or are they different for the most part?
try fixing permissions
Try wiping your SD card and when you sign in your gmail account don't let it restore all of your apps. Setcpu is also a good investment if you have not already purchased it
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TheBr0ken said:
try fixing permissions
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How do I do this?
In the advanced menu in recovery.
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k_nivesout said:
In the advanced menu in recovery.
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will i need to re-flash my ROM after doing this?
Nope, doesn't delete anything.
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This seems to have fixed the problem, thank you so much.
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Actually, on closer inspection, the permission fix only temporarily stopped the issue. I even switched to the nearly stock Nothing Special Peanut ROM and I still got a FC from Sense. Is my phone a dud?
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How are you restoring apps? I would wipe everything and flash a fresh ROM. does it freeze up now? If not, my $$ is on a rogue app that doesn't like playing with your phone.
patsfan1130 said:
How are you restoring apps? I would wipe everything and flash a fresh ROM. does it freeze up now? If not, my $$ is on a rogue app that doesn't like playing with your phone.
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Hmm I just flashed OMFGB w/o restoring my apps. The only things I've installed are the Google Apps, Google Voice (which is my primary method of communication), XDA, and SetCPU. The fcs seem random, not tied to any particular action. They even happen when I'm not doing anything on the phone. Any ideas?
Thanks for the help everyone.
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update: I think the problem stemmed from using the SetCPU widget with the refresh rate set to 5 seconds. Not sure if changing the setting makes a difference, but removing the widget from my home screen has solved all the issues insofar. We'll see if it takes this time.
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setcpu is always a "use with caution" kind of app. you can get great results, but it's mostly educated trial and error with your rom/kernel combination.

ICS Problems

This has been pretty much been the most frustrating update process of my 4 Android devices that I have owned.
Hoping some of the sharp people here can help me out.
Buttons Not Working - About every third or fourth time I wake my phone my physical buttons do not work. I have to put the phone to sleep and re-wake (sometimes multiple times) to get my phone's buttons to work.
Excessive Battery Drain - Yikes!!! I have uninstalled all my apps, and it is still occurring. Any other ideas to figure out what might be causing this?
Constant 3G data movement - When wi-fi is off, my phone is constantly pushing 3g data up and down....non-stop!
Excessive Phone Heat - My phone is running like a furnace.
Now, I think the last three are probably connected in some way.
adbrown83 said:
This has been pretty much been the most frustrating update process of my 4 Android devices that I have owned.
Hoping some of the sharp people here can help me out.
Buttons Not Working - About every third or fourth time I wake my phone my physical buttons do not work. I have to put the phone to sleep and re-wake (sometimes multiple times) to get my phone's buttons to work.
Excessive Battery Drain - Yikes!!! I have uninstalled all my apps, and it is still occurring. Any other ideas to figure out what might be causing this?
Constant 3G data movement - When wi-fi is off, my phone is constantly pushing 3g data up and down....non-stop!
Excessive Phone Heat - My phone is running like a furnace.
Now, I think the last three are probably connected in some way.
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That is not ICS you have something running in the background. That would cause all of that. Get a battery monitor app and see what is running
I'm having the same problems and even turning everything off still having the issues
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battery life fix works on ics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axmj2EAZMvE
do it a couple of times if you need to.
It's not just them, I have the same problem and I've done a factory reset and hadn't loaded any apps. It's the update.
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I am glad I am not the only ones with these problems.
It has to be a ICS function that is causing the excessive battery drain.
I currently have no non stock apps installed.
I have noticed that the battery ran from 100% to 25% but battery drain had no slowed considerably....maybe faulty logic in how they are calculating percentages?
The one I would really like to solve is the buttons not working, as there will be lots of battery related threads as more and more people upgrade.
adbrown83 said:
I am glad I am not the only ones with these problems.
It has to be a ICS function that is causing the excessive battery drain.
I currently have no non stock apps installed.
I have noticed that the battery ran from 100% to 25% but battery drain had no slowed considerably....maybe faulty logic in how they are calculating percentages?
The one I would really like to solve is the buttons not working, as there will be lots of battery related threads as more and more people upgrade.
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The malfunctioning buttons have been happening to some of us on every ROM, whether it's Gingerbread or ICS. It happens to mine on stock GB or stock I'VE.
Just so you know, you can tap the volume Roche to wake up the buttons. You don't have to cycle the screen. Tap the volume button, wait second or so and you will see the capacitive buttons blink once... That means they've reset. Sometimes you have to do it twice.
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I went back to the tried and true Blazer 4.1 Nothing comes close....
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cpcormier3 said:
It's not just them, I have the same problem and I've done a factory reset and hadn't loaded any apps. It's the update.
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Do you have wifi turned on? Others have reported Wifi is constantly scanning.
never had those issues.. but i never updated with ota.. i used sfhub ff18 one click my physical buttons always worked from gb all the way from first ics leaks to now
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Same issue here with the retarded battery life, stock rooted FF18. It's pathetic. Constant battery drain while "sleeping", with wifi on or off. Guess i'll have to try a different ROM.
rujelus22 said:
That is not ICS you have something running in the background. That would cause all of that. Get a battery monitor app and see what is running
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Actually rule a ton of people are reporting these exact same issues in the sprint community running factory ics update. So these issues are pretty common. I am also experiencing quite a few myself.
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ebuc said:
battery life fix works on ics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axmj2EAZMvE
do it a couple of times if you need to.
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This is the first time I have ever seen this mentioned for ics. Do you by chance have any other links confirming that this works? I am very skeptical about this and sounds more of a voodoo type of fix..
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cas8180 said:
This is the first time I have ever seen this mentioned for ics. Do you by chance have any other links confirming that this works? I am very skeptical about this and sounds more of a voodoo type of fix..
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28832191&postcount=375
it works. ;P
also i only meant do it a couple of times if you messed it up lol.
seriously, guys on ics, try the fix!
works for me on gingerbread. and also on ics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axmj2EAZMvE
"#1 TURN OFF YOUR PHONE and charge your phone until u see and blue light & 100% sign on your screen(while the phone is still off) #2 remove battery & then unplug charger. LEAVE BATTERY OUT FOR 5 FULL MINUTES. #3 put battery back in . Let me know if that works(it should)"
- duglessm
I tried this yesterday when I was getting terrible battery life. I went from fully charged to dead in 3 hours flat.
I ended up doing a factory reset with sfhub's one-click and am slowly testing and restoring apps to see what's acting as a vampire.
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DirkBelig said:
I tried this yesterday when I was getting terrible battery life. I went from fully charged to dead in 3 hours flat.
I ended up doing a factory reset with sfhub's one-click and am slowly testing and restoring apps to see what's acting as a vampire.
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You should try it again if it didn't work!
Not everyone's issue is going to be caused by the same thing. What may work for you may not always work for everyone else. It may be an app or ICS in general causing the issue.
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Everyone needs to pile up in the sprint stores in front of potential new customers and demand a fix.
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wcr84 said:
Everyone needs to pile up in the sprint stores in front of potential new customers and demand a fix.
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Or demand a SGS3
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There ya go
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[Q] JB Media Server Drain

Hi everyone,
I just updated to JB and noticed that Media server (66% usage) has been keeping my phone awake for the entire time (4 hours). Is there any fix to this? It's running hot and draining 10% per hour (and it's been idle).
Disable it? uninstall [root]?
Fidyyuan said:
Hi everyone,
I just updated to JB and noticed that Media server (66% usage) has been keeping my phone awake for the entire time (4 hours). Is there any fix to this? It's running hot and draining 10% per hour (and it's been idle).
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It's always recommended you so a factory reset after any update. That should fix it.
The thing is though, I wiped everything, installed the update using ODIN, wiped that and then flashed the Black Jellybean rom. :/
Look at whsts under media server in batt stats.
Go in app manager and clear data for each one. Reboot and give it at least 5 min to rebuild library.
Prob need to clear data for these
com.sec.android.providers.downloads
Download (both)
Media Storage
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strangely enough there isn't anything under media server.it's been keeping my phone on now for 7 hours. I'll give your suggestion a try.
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try flashing a different rom , paranoid android doesn't have that issue
Fidyyuan said:
strangely enough there isn't anything under media server.it's been keeping my phone on now for 7 hours. I'll give your suggestion a try.
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What version of what kernel does this issue occur on? In October, the CM10 builds had issues with media server drain that coincided with kernel commits. 3.0.46 or 47 i think had those issues.
I assume its the official JB update, not a custom rom.
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DocHoliday77 said:
I assume its the official JB update, not a custom rom.
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this issue is a JB issue. it does the same thing on my xoom. unfortunately, i have no idea how to fix it
mrmako777 said:
this issue is a JB issue. it does the same thing on my xoom. unfortunately, i have no idea how to fix it
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Just clear data on Media Storage app
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digidep said:
Just clear data on Media Storage app
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Requires more than that. Media Storage usually isnt the primary culprit. See my post towards top.
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I've been having this issue for a while now on Frosty. I tried what Doc mentioned earlier, but it doesn't seem to work after restarting my phone. The only way I can stop it from draining is to go into battery and stopping the process.
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If that didnt help, the next step is to factory reset and reflash.
If that doesn't work then itll be something on your sdcard causing it to hang/wig out.
It may be a corrupt media file, or just something on there it thinks is media and when it attempts to load its info into library it screws up. Im just guessing at this part, but if you do a complete clean install, all thats left is your sd data.
Youd need to backup, and reformat the sdcard most likely.
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DocHoliday77 said:
If that didnt help, the next step is to factory reset and reflash.
If that doesn't work then itll be something on your sdcard causing it to hang/wig out.
It may be a corrupt media file, or just something on there it thinks is media and when it attempts to load its info into library it screws up. Im just guessing at this part, but if you do a complete clean install, all thats left is your sd data.
Youd need to backup, and reformat the sdcard most likely.
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This wont help in my experience. I intentionally reflashed everything last night and left my sd card out, and it still does it
I've done tons and tons of experimenting with this issue over the past 24-48 hours and I was able to come up with a solution that worked for me. I examined the external.db file which is located in /data/data/com.android.providers.media/ and noticed that it scans all files on internal SD and Micro SD right after each reboot. I had a 1.6gb titanium backup folder on the Micro SD which was taking the scanner a lot of time to get through so I copied that to the PC and deleted it from my phone.
I also got rid of a whole bunch of other unneeded files like roms that were just sitting around taking up space. So now instead of my phone running max CPU utilization for 10-15 minutes after reboot, it only does it for about 1-2 minutes and settles down.
Thats normal behavior for it. Naturally the more data you have the longer it takes to scan. 10-25mins is longer tgsn I believe it hss to be, but the issue a lot if people are having is this process will continuously run forever! Causing 10-15% power drops in less than an hour!
All I know for certain is the couple of suggestions I posted in here have worked for others ive helped in the past, the first one I mentioned seems to work most often and has worked a few times for me. Obviously they dont always work for everyone. I just wish we could figure out the exact cause!
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This is a problem that ruined my experience with the JB leaks since I've never had this problem on CM10. I hope it's as easy as releasing a patch.
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Jigga0o7 said:
This is a problem that ruined my experience with the JB leaks since I've never had this problem on CM10. I hope it's as easy as releasing a patch.
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I FOUND A FIX! Apparently, I had 300 mp3s that needed fixing so I ran a program "Mp3 Scan + Repair", fixed all my mp3s and put it back on my sd card. Also, I removed all m4as and converted them into mp3s. This was a suggestion for how to handle mediaserver issues from ICS so I was surprised it worked for JB
Fidyyuan said:
I FOUND A FIX! Apparently, I had 300 mp3s that needed fixing so I ran a program "Mp3 Scan + Repair", fixed all my mp3s and put it back on my sd card. Also, I removed all m4as and converted them into mp3s. This was a suggestion for how to handle mediaserver issues from ICS so I was surprised it worked for JB
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Awesome dude. I also read somewhere that the CFQ I/O scheduler has more of an issue w/ media scanner than others. I'm not sure how true that is, but lately I've been running 2ghz as max speed w/ SIO for I/O Scheduler & interactive governor along w/ the other things I've done and I get less than 1 minute of CPU trashing after each reboot. I will have to try that program though to see if it can get me down to zero.

Random Reboots

So I have been having some random reboots and my phone has been freezing and wont turn off unless I pull the battery. I am completely stock only rooted I have never flashed a rom on this device either. I dont know what could be causing these problems the only root apps I have is super user and wifi there. Anyone have any thoughts please chim in. Thank you.
P.S. I have done 2 factory resets as well
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Define "factory reset". If you have truly reset all the software, then it must be hardware, in which case, time to visit a Sprint store.
Reset through recovery wiped everything 3 times
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budde2 said:
So I have been having some random reboots and my phone has been freezing and wont turn off unless I pull the battery. I am completely stock only rooted I have never flashed a rom on this device either. I dont know what could be causing these problems the only root apps I have is super user and wifi there. Anyone have any thoughts please chim in. Thank you.
P.S. I have done 2 factory resets as well
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I was using Juice Defender and this was causing my reboot and unstalled it and reflash the MA7 return to stock Rom and my problems have been solved. In my case it was software or some tweak that I did that caused my problem. My phone has not restarted ever since this has been 5 hours.

Phone has been real slow lately. Don't know whether to start from scratch again or no

Been using the AOKP JB 4.1 ROM for several months now. Loved it at first, despite a few graphics glitches and the camera messing up some time, it was great.
Now I'm noticing my phone is as slow as a turtle most of the time now, even locking up often and thy camera rarely works. On top of things like names not appearing when I receive phone calls, it's very inconveniencing.
What I'm getting at is, I know I'll miss the functionality of JB (actionable notifications, quick reply/settings, etc.) but am deciding whether or not to reflash the stock ROM package...
Sway me one way or the other maybe?
Have you tired clearing your cache and dalvik cache from recovery?
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sellersj27 said:
Have you tired clearing your cache and dalvik cache from recovery?
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I'll try that now.
I usually clear both every few days.
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