Has anyone experienced excessive time held awake and wake-lock due to Android systems, more specifically msm_hsic_host/PowerManagerService/main, on the stock HTC One? I've attached several screen captures showing the seemingly high % of wake-lock and time held awake according to Wake-lock detector and GSam battery.
I found a couple other threads on msm_hsic_host for other phones like the Nexus 4. Apparently it's related to a bug with the 3G modem not going back to sleep properly after periodic check-ins with the tower.
I am getting decent battery life overall - yeah I barely used my phone over the past few days - but I still would like to learn more about this.
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Hey everyone, first post.
I did a search for similar issues and maybe I didn't look deep enough (if so could someone redirect me and mods please delete this post), but I think I'm experiencing some unique issues with my Galaxy S3.
The phone itself is less than 45 days old. It is also my first Android device (switched from iPhone 4) and I am loving everything about it except for this intermittent issue I seem to be having.
My battery life on my S3 has been very intermittent to say the least. Some days I can get into bed at the end of the day and charge it with 20-30% remaining, others I have to charge it mid-late day on my drive home. I have never let the battery completely die on me as I've read lithium ion batteries are best kept moderately charged.
I figured the above is normal, and mostly depends on my usage, however, today I received a notification for low battery (15%) less than half way through my day, and some odd SIX hours after unplugging it.
I've attached some screenshots - let me know if I am missing some and I will try my best to upload them (phone is currently charging off my laptop).
I have no idea what is going on, and as you can see, there's hardly any usage!! I disable WIFI because my LTE is faster and I hate when it searches for my network when I'm on the can (sorry, TMI). BTW my connection is usually full signal with LTE here in the office.
Am I missing something here? Are there some hidden applications running which can be sucking my battery?
Any insight would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Perhaps there is a hidden culprit draining your battery that does not show up in the stats screenshots you provided. Usually it's called a wakelock or partial wakelock, or sometimes it's a Rogue drain. There are KNOWN culprits. Best if you get the Better Battery Stats and post some screen shots. It has more detailed information.
Also, if nothing is in fact OVER taxing the battery, then it might possibly be a bad battery that does not hold a full charge or even possibly the calibration is somehow messed up. That would be easy for me to compare because I have a spare stock battery.
Apart from the wakelock suggestion, LTE tends to eat battery life - just not to the extent that seems to be going on here.
There was another thread I remember seeing recently about charge occasionally starting to plummet while LTE is active, and I'm seeing similar behaviour in that first screenshot. Let me see if I can find the relevant thread again...
EDIT: This thread is the one I was thinking of.
Hi,
I have noticed that my battery is getting eaten very fast recently. I used to have the energy consumption around 3%/h now I am having it closer to 7%-9%. According to the battery usage overview my watch will last for 12 hours - that's definitely too little. I guess a part of this added consumption could be attributed to AutoWear but I doubt it is so much. What is puzzling me is that the energy consumption attributed to particular apps does not even add to half of the consumed energy as on the attached screenshot.
The total consumption of apps listed there is 10% whereas my battery is at 61% - where did the other 29% go? Any ideas would be welcome
Huckey
huckey said:
Hi,
I have noticed that my battery is getting eaten very fast recently. I used to have the energy consumption around 3%/h now I am having it closer to 7%-9%. According to the battery usage overview my watch will last for 12 hours - that's definitely too little. I guess a part of this added consumption could be attributed to AutoWear but I doubt it is so much. What is puzzling me is that the energy consumption attributed to particular apps does not even add to half of the consumed energy as on the attached screenshot.
The total consumption of apps listed there is 10% whereas my battery is at 61% - where did the other 29% go? Any ideas would be welcome
Huckey
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I noticed similar battery drain on my SW3 under certain circumstances. I did some experimentation to figure out what was causing it, and my biggest culprit turned out to be the watch face! I designed several custom watch faces in Facer and Watchmaker, and both were consuming 6-9% per hour. I even cut back on details, got rid of things like weather and temperature updates, etc, and still the battery wouldn't last a full day. I didn't like any of the stock watch faces, and was overwhelmed with the selection of 3rd-party ones, so I kept at it. Eventually I settled on Intellicom Watch Face. It doesn't give you anywhere near the customizability of the other apps out there, but boy did it do wonders for my battery! I have a simple watch face now that gives me time, date, and battery percentage (only date and time in ambient mode). I get several alerts an hour, all day long. They vibrate and light up the screen. I have motion detection turned off (where the backlight turns on when I twist my wrist). I also use Google Now 5-10 times a day for reminders or replying to text. Now I get two full days of battery life if I turn it off while I'm sleeping. Also, try turning off auto brightness and set to the lowest level. With the transflective sceen, that's all you ever need really. Not sure how much a difference that makes, but it can't hurt, right?
Autowear
This is because of autowear. A screenshot from google play. Seems the developer does not have a current plan to fix the problem...
huckey said:
Hi,
I have noticed that my battery is getting eaten very fast recently. I used to have the energy consumption around 3%/h now I am having it closer to 7%-9%. According to the battery usage overview my watch will last for 12 hours - that's definitely too little. I guess a part of this added consumption could be attributed to AutoWear but I doubt it is so much. What is puzzling me is that the energy consumption attributed to particular apps does not even add to half of the consumed energy as on the attached screenshot.
The total consumption of apps listed there is 10% whereas my battery is at 61% - where did the other 29% go? Any ideas would be welcome
Huckey
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Some apps eat the battery I had this problem uninstalled the rogue app and my battery life recovered.
I do not know what AutoWear does to battery life but if it was the last thing you installed, I recommend getting rid of it and seeing if it helps.
Greetings
Battery life on this phone is actually quite good, especially compared to the nexus 5. I'm not sure it's having a massive negative effect but the wakelock WifiOffDelayIfNotUsed seems to be running for an unnecessary amount of time, and all gains to battery life are not unwanted. Searching both this site and Google seems to indicate this wakelock exists to sleep the WiFi connection after a certain time period. The fix was suggested to switch off this sleeper but I cannot find any such option in the menus for this phone. Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks.
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Bringing this up again. This wakelock is getting out of hand on my G4. It's been draining my battery like crazy.
Any fix?
Hey guys,
after dropping my beloved Nexus 4 to the concrete floor in May, I bought a new S4 mini in the electronic market because of it's decent size and all the fuzz about having a very good price-performance-ratio.
After a few weeks I already was fairly disappointed.
On an average work day (without WiFi) and little use (~30min OSD) the battery wouldn't last a full day. I tried the usual things like turning off GPS, bluetooth and using Wifi whenever possible (turning it off, when not in range), etc. I also used the App greenify which boosted my deepsleep in Wakelock Detector to stable 85+%.
When using GMaps/navigation my phone is getting hot (~50°C) and battery is drained within minutes. When trying to navigate out of the city (<15min navigation) one day my phone was discharged within 3 hours after a full charge. I got Wakelock Detector, Better Battery Stats and Battery Monitor Widget installed.
The only thing I found out, that when I am connected to Wifi the drain is a lot lower 1-2%/hour compared to when I am using 3G/H+ which results in 7-15%/hour (both when not using the phone), although there is no problem with signal quality. Recently my phone started to bottoming out rly hard when hitting the 20% mark. From there I can watch the battery dropping to 0% within a few minutes.
Things I tried so far:
- turning off features that are not in use (GPS, bluetooth, Wifi when not in range)
- make sure phone gets into deep sleep/greenify apps
- recalibrate akku
- reduce brightness & disable auto-brightness
Setup:
GT-I9195 bought in May 2015 from electronic market chain
CM 12.1 (Android 5.1.1, serranoltexx)
Standard CM Kernel
Baseband I9195XXUBML4
I can provide Screenshots from BMW, WD and BBS. Any ideas how to solve this or what else I could do?
Probably you should use something like better battery stats, to check
- if a service is going mad, then turn it off with disable service to test (most times happens with unclean flash)
- if you have an app with wakelocks
If you can't find anything that way, might be a hardware fault.
Personally if I came across this problem I would return the phone to stock Android and do some tests, see if the same happens again. CM12.1 can have issues across different same model phones. Try the Samsung Phone Info app to see how old your phone is. I'm guessing it was second hand? Some older revisions of the Mini had battery problems. Maybe a new battery is needed? Maybe.. As for the battery draining 20%-0% in minutes I have also suffered this on a brand new March 2015 device. Not all the time though it only happens with randomly once a week. But I put that down to the battery not been fully calibrated and then drained and recharged over the next 3 4 days, as I use a spare battery and swap out the batteries regularly which means my battery is very rarely calibrated.
All that said though I can easily get through an entire day if not 2. And using stock I'm able to get 4 and a half hours on average every time, maybe 4 hours of screen on time when using 3G a lot and GPS etc.
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Hey guys,
When using GMaps/navigation my phone is getting hot (~50°C) and battery is drained within minutes. When trying to navigate out of the city (<15min navigation) one day my phone was discharged within 3 hours after a full charge. I got Wakelock Detector, Better Battery Stats and Battery Monitor Widget installed.
The only thing I found out, that when I am connected to Wifi the drain is a lot lower 1-2%/hour compared to when I am using 3G/H+ which results in 7-15%/hour (both when not using the phone), although there is no problem with signal quality. Recently my phone started to bottoming out rly hard when hitting the 20% mark. From there I can watch the battery dropping to 0% within a few minutes.
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I have had the same problem as you.
I return twice my phone to vendor. But they could do anything.
I solved it with undervolting and underclocking my phone (only the low frequency).
I read from someone, you can undervolting 150 millivolt.
My experience, is undervolting 125 milivolt. and underclocking the low frequency at the minimum.
You didn't feel any difference, behalves that the phone is cooler and battery live is better.
My WiFi and Bluetooth are always on. I don't have to recharge my phone during the day.
It is so effective en transparent that I don't understand why Samsung didn't do it natively.
Hey,
I tried to apply some of your advice and flashed the newest stock rom for S4 Mini (Kitkat ...COE4).
In that process I recognized that the Baseband is not updated by CM and that the one that was installed when I bought it was fairly old (from 2013). Do you think that this might be part of the problem? (I sort of hate the Samsung Rom)
This week when working and not having Wifi all day, I managed to get 2h of SOT and still had around 25% left which I couldnt have gotten before imo. I only lose 1-4% per hour when the phone is not used. But still thats not pretty good, when ur saying you can get 4h with GPS and everything. I also didnt use GPS. And today when I restarted my phone it just went from 40-ish % to 15% without any reason. Any more ideas?
I installed BetterBatteryStats today and will try to give some more insight the next days. Wakelock detector said that I had 85% deep sleep (timeframe 1 day 2 hours).
Try the Samsung Phone Info app to see how old your phone is. I'm guessing it was second hand? Some older revisions of the Mini had battery problems. Maybe a new battery is needed?
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No I bought it new from a electronic store (Media Markt). The app says that is was made on Oct 19th 2014 in Vietnam and that it is original/not refurbished.
How much do you gain by undervolting (SOT or % per hour when idle)?
How do you do it?
maybe the best way is to downgrade by flashing CM11 for example ...
(another way with stock + Alexax kernel + own debloat&freeze ... )
I have the same consumption problem with Resurection Remix LP too ..... very strange !
Lollipop is supposed to be less angry than Android 4.X.X ... but it seem have problem somewhere for our S4-mini sources maybe ,i don't know ...
This night I did some BBS tests:
Setup:
Stock Rom I previously installed (see posts above)
charged phone during evening
set up custom timepoint before I went to sleep
WLAN disabled
all apps greenyfied except those I deemed significant that they keep running (Whatsapp, calendar, Swiftkey, BBS, BMW, etc). Forgot newly installed app hoomn.
I had to upload the logfile to pastebin because it was too long for the xda forum: pastebin.ca/3256568 (I am not allowed to post URLs, sorry)
I lost 14% of battery during 9hrs (-1,6%/h). That's probably not too bad?
93% deep sleep, 33min awake time
Weird things I discovered/things I did not understand:
- negative Voltage loss?
- Wifi runtime 100% although I disabled it
- dominant wakelocks (count > 100, all of them < 30s): Alarm Manager, RILJ1, *net_scheduler*, GCM_CONN, ContextManagerWakeLock, Event Log Service, AlarmManager (com.sec.spp.push.Samsung Push Service), SyncLoopWakeLock, GCM_HB_ALARM
- dominant KWLs (count > 100): ril-fd (25min), bam_dmux_wakelock (13min), radio-interface (7min), PowerManagerService.WakeLocks (3min), mmc1_detect (1min), alarm_rtc, alarm, sec-charger-monitor, smdcntl0, pm8921_soc_lock, power-supply, KeyEvents, smsm_snapshot, qmuxd_port_wl_0, qmuxd_port_wl_1, smdcntl1, mmc0_detect
- Alarms (>20): ccc71.bmw (Battery Monitor Widget), android, com.google.android.gms, com.sec.spp.push
any ideas/assessments?
I've had an S7 active for about a year...though I've had 2 replacements. The first S7A that I received in July/August last year would not update from AT&T. I tried factory resetting umpteen times, but every time it would attempt to download the next most recent update, it would fail. AT&T gave me a warranty replacement that started seeing terrible battery life within 2 months of use. The Second replacement I still have today and have been using for 10ish months.*
Currently I've got the following issues with it-
1-Battery life. Even with pure black overlays, running in battery saver with data saver, samsung sleep on all apps, background processes disabled for all but Android system and Hangouts, no FB or FB messenger, no Always on Display, Aggressive Doze enabled, always in FHD or less, the battery life is awful *IF* I use the phone. With the screen on at any usable brightness, the battery use after a few minutes jumps to ~10-20%/hr. Additionally, streaming videos or even using Google News can cause the phone to heat up to a quite hot temperature right around the power button. I've tried clearing cache after every OTA update, and I've just tried a full discharge and recharge(typically I recharge at 20-30% and stop charging around 80-90%), but it's still a hog.*
What's odd is that idle battery life isn't too unreasonable on Wifi/4G, it sits around 2-4%/hr(measured with GSAM Pro) typically. Even at home though, where I'm in airplane mode with WiFi on, the phone exhibits the same dismal use if I have the screen on.*
2-Heat. This is related to*#1*. If I use the phone for anything intensive, games, lots of web browsing, News feed with lots of screen scrolling, the phone gets HOT on the right side near the power button.*
3- Recent apps button and back button are getting mushy. I'm not rough on this device. It's still in great cosmetic condition for the number of outdoor activities I've taken it on. I've never experienced a rough drop onto any outdoor surface. It's fallen on our soft faux wood floor, but only onto the rounded, rubberized corners of the phone. Still, the buttons are caving in toward the fingerprint reader. The phone is out of warranty now, so I can't do anything about it. I would love to know if it's a setup issue. So can anyone still following this and that still has the phone and is still happy with it's performance share their setup?
In addition to the things i mentioned, I'm also using Evie launcher, and all-in-one gestures. I'm not sure that these are causing high use, as they never show up in GSAM or in the Default Battery Stats.*
Here's a for instance- I was at 79% battery, and let the phone update 15 apps. I am in a full signal wifi and 4g LTE service area. The phone lost 11% battery updating the apps in less than 5 minutes and it also became very hot.