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Hello people, after having used my Touch pro 2's GPS function extensively one day on battery, I have realized that the battery's life has shortened by huge amounts of time. It lasts for less than 24 hours now, so I was wondering if I needed a new battery or is there something I can do to restore it back to the previous state. Thanks!
I don't think using the GPS should ruin your battery, just doesn't make sense! Are you sure you shut off the GPS after using it? Are you running any other programmes in the background? Did you flash a new ROM?
My battery started going down twice as fast after swapping to the new "official" Sense 2.5 ROM.
you can try a couple of things that may extend your battery life. try first turning off the auto speakerphone when the phone is face down. i just did this and i can tell a marked difference in just a couple of days. also search battery life reg edits. theres a ton out there here and on ppcgeeks that will definetly help. in general i noticed that when I use GPS the battery drain is pretty high. hope that helps
Dimitri Stephan said:
Hello people, after having used my Touch pro 2's GPS function extensively one day on battery, I have realized that the battery's life has shortened by huge amounts of time. It lasts for less than 24 hours now, so I was wondering if I needed a new battery or is there something I can do to restore it back to the previous state. Thanks!
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Using the GPS all day will def drain your battery much faster, especially if you're using aGPS and/or an app that also downloads data to compliment the location info (like google maps). The GPS radio isn't 2-way like the phone or 3G or wifi, but it's still a radio and will give a noticible hit on your batt life when used even moderately, let alone all day.
If you're going to be using GPS a lot, you might want to try different radio roms to see if any of them make a difference in the batt life for you, but I don't know that will make as much of a difference as it does for the phone reception, etc. I would also suggest evaluating various GPS apps, with an eye on relative battery drain
Well guys, thanks for the answers, but that still doesn't solve my problem because I don't use the GPS function often at all, but the battery still drains quickly. Also, there are no programs running in the background. There is however a data connection that is always on and the mail checks for mail every hour. But the thing is I don't want to change any settings to enhance battery life, If it worked fine with the same settings before, why wont it do the same now? Do I need a new battery? Thanks!
Dimitri Stephan said:
Well guys, thanks for the answers, but that still doesn't solve my problem because I don't use the GPS function often at all, but the battery still drains quickly. Also, there are no programs running in the background. There is however a data connection that is always on and the mail checks for mail every hour. But the thing is I don't want to change any settings to enhance battery life, If it worked fine with the same settings before, why wont it do the same now? Do I need a new battery? Thanks!
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Ahhh sorry, I misunderstood, I thought you were just saying it drains faster while you use the GPS like that, not since you used it...I get it now.
That one day of heavy use shouldn't have killed your battery, take a look at THIS thread, others with the same issue/question have posted different things that have worked for them...you might want to give the steps in post #31 a try before thinking about buying a new batt.
Dimitri Stephan said:
Well guys, thanks for the answers, but that still doesn't solve my problem because I don't use the GPS function often at all, but the battery still drains quickly. Also, there are no programs running in the background. There is however a data connection that is always on and the mail checks for mail every hour. But the thing is I don't want to change any settings to enhance battery life, If it worked fine with the same settings before, why wont it do the same now? Do I need a new battery? Thanks!
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You can install " battclock " and you can continuously see what the battery drain actually is during different functions.
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You can install " battclock " and you can continuously see what the battery drain actually is during different functions.
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Yes, great recommendation! (why didn't I think of that? lol)
And with battclock you can now see your CPU usage in real-time, which is probably one of the best coincidental indicators of battery drain (much more so than memory load, in my opinion)
Hi Dimitri,
I experienced the same problem where my battery life suddenly "shifted" from 48 hours to 12 hours on regular use..
I thought the problem was the battery and I replaced it, this did not help at all..
The only cause of this problem that I can think was loading the official HTC UK 6.5 ROM (1.86.401.0)..
hilt49 said:
Hi Dimitri,
I experienced the same problem where my battery life suddenly "shifted" from 48 hours to 12 hours on regular use..
I thought the problem was the battery and I replaced it, this did not help at all..
The only cause of this problem that I can think was loading the official HTC UK 6.5 ROM (1.86.401.0)..
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This is exactly what I am experiencing. (This together with not being able to connect the device to PC)
Installed several 6.5 ROMs and suddenly the battery lasts only half a night.
My question is: When the battery is full, when you turn the device off (completely off, not in standby mode!) does the battery drain then?
As far as I see, the battery has only 50% left after a night rest while it is off. So, the only way to keep the battery full is to remove it from the device.
What are your experiences with this?
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This is exactly what I am experiencing. (This together with not being able to connect the device to PC)
Installed several 6.5 ROMs and suddenly the battery lasts only half a night.
My question is: When the battery is full, when you turn the device off (completely off, not in standby mode!) does the battery drain then?
As far as I see, the battery has only 50% left after a night rest while it is off. So, the only way to keep the battery full is to remove it from the device.
What are your experiences with this?
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If you are truely turning it completely off, the battery should NOT drain at all. Have you tried a new battery? I bought a pair of batteries and an external charger on flEabay for like $12. The batteries are good as originals as far as I can tell.
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If you are truely turning it completely off, the battery should NOT drain at all. Have you tried a new battery? I bought a pair of batteries and an external charger on flEabay for like $12. The batteries are good as originals as far as I can tell.
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Yes, I have two batteries, even an external charger.
Even when a battery is charged with the external charger, then put in the phone it drains the battery
hey guys can anyone link any of the forum topics to tweak battery life? the only things I have done is the general setting on the phone and the power management options with advance config are there more options and tweaks available?
thanks for all help!
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If you are truely turning it completely off, the battery should NOT drain at all. Have you tried a new battery? I bought a pair of batteries and an external charger on flEabay for like $12. The batteries are good as originals as far as I can tell.
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I will test this (again) tomorrow night.
Bright.Light said:
This is exactly what I am experiencing. (This together with not being able to connect the device to PC)
Installed several 6.5 ROMs and suddenly the battery lasts only half a night.
My question is: When the battery is full, when you turn the device off (completely off, not in standby mode!) does the battery drain then?
As far as I see, the battery has only 50% left after a night rest while it is off. So, the only way to keep the battery full is to remove it from the device.
What are your experiences with this?
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Bright light...I'm also having BOTH of those problems...stock ATT rom. Within the past week my battery life has dropped exponentially, and when I went to sync last night, had not done so in a week or so, I get nothing...none of my PC's will recognize the phone as even being plugged in, let alone sync. I'm thinking maybe an ATT botched update?
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Bright light...I'm also having BOTH of those problems...stock ATT rom. Within the past week my battery life has dropped exponentially, and when I went to sync last night, had not done so in a week or so, I get nothing...none of my PC's will recognize the phone as even being plugged in, let alone sync. I'm thinking maybe an ATT botched update?
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So it seems I'm not alone.
Mine is a universal one, no brand whatsoever. I will try to reflash the original (6.1) stock ROM, including radio.
Have you flashed yours already?
@Bright.light @VirtualHomer:
I have the crap battery + no activesync issue.
I'm on the Josh's Black 1.7 ROM. I tried hard reseting, reflashing, going back to the stock ROM, but no improvement.
I have heard that removing the battery overnight is a possible fix for the USB issue (maybe for both?), but I haven't tried yet, will try tonight.
If anyone out there has any potential soultions here... would be great. Right now, I only get 1/2 a day (~6 hours) out of the battery & no hotsync at all (other than BT).
One thing I am pretty sure of: The bad battery life and the activesync issue came up around the same time. Wierd.
Cheers
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@Bright.light @VirtualHomer:
I have the crap battery + no activesync issue.
I'm on the Josh's Black 1.7 ROM. I tried hard reseting, reflashing, going back to the stock ROM, but no improvement.
I have heard that removing the battery overnight is a possible fix for the USB issue (maybe for both?), but I haven't tried yet, will try tonight.
If anyone out there has any potential soultions here... would be great. Right now, I only get 1/2 a day (~6 hours) out of the battery & no hotsync at all (other than BT).
One thing I am pretty sure of: The bad battery life and the activesync issue came up around the same time. Wierd.
Cheers
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You are right in assuming that battery life and connectivity issues came at the same time.
I was assuming this was because of a (bad?) flash, or maybe a bad ROM which changed something in a position that should not be changed and which is not restored by flashing another ROM.
A night without battery won't help, I think, because my device has been numerous times without any power and without any battery. However, I will try it again.
Could this be a faulty device? Or a design error?
@Bright.Light
I confirm that a night without the battery solved nothing. I have had my phone on for 5 hours now, taken 5 calls, none of them too long, checked email every 10 minutes (automagically) and I am down to 27% battery.
Also, I confirm that a replacement battery solves nothing, as I have also tried this.
I am planning on returning my device to an ATT store next week for a replacement... We'll see how it goes.
Cheers,
Matt
I'm in the same boat with mine. About two weeks ago the battery just started draining fast. Fast enough that it wouldn't make it to 4-5 hours without being charged. You could watch the battery meter drain. And what was weird was that there was no ROM change or anything that started this. Came out of the blue. Calling Spring tomorrow and getting a replacement is the best solution I can think of.
I'm on an older HTC Evo running EnergyROM with stock kernal and my battery varies wildly. As referenced my phone did go for at least 2 days with very minimal using. Like the second day I just got stoned and watched movies all day, but still. The other day though it was half gone, half an hour after unplugging it and I had done almost nothing to it. Is there a reason or a way to pinpoint this?
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I'm on an older HTC Evo running EnergyROM with stock kernal and my battery varies wildly. As referenced my phone did go for at least 2 days with very minimal using. Like the second day I just got stoned and watched movies all day, but still. The other day though it was half gone, half an hour after unplugging it and I had done almost nothing to it. Is there a reason or a way to pinpoint this?
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It looks like a lot has to do with your signal strength. When the signal is weak (yellow or gray bar) the phone is constantly searching for signal which can drain battery very quickly.
The other major culprit is your "Awake" time - this means there's likely an app creating a "wakelock" or "partial wakelock" which is keeping your phone from sleeping. There's a number of threads dedicated to resolving wakelock issues, so perhaps the best solution there would be to visit the original ROM thread and search for people also having wakelock issues.
To get a better feel for battery life, there's an app a number of people use called "Battery Monitor Widget" (available from market, commonly abbreviated as BMW). I'd also consider what apps were running (if you left navigation on in the background, for example).
Let me know if any of that was helpful/useful.
Hey,
I would suggest trying a different rom and when you do wipe your battery stats when you get to a full charge and follow the instructions within the battery wipe app * you can get it from the market*
and get battery monitoring apps from the market as well, it could be certain apps you use as well.
and just a tip of life you might want to stop getting high...
Battery Calibration
I'm been using Battery Calibration from the market I do it one a week and it help a lot and you need to do this after flashing a new rom....
Hello Everyone,
I know this has been talked about before, but none of the so far solutions have worked.
So as the title says, my SGS3 battery barely lasts 6-8 hours.
The main causes of this I have seen is either due to the high battery consumption of the Andriod OS or Andriod System. Usually however, the Andriod OS takes up to 30-50% battery consumption.
And I know how everyone is saying pretty much turn everything off your phone besides the cell reception and you'll get your desired battery life.
This is not the case, I tried taking off wifi, 4G, all syncs, google now, and after already performing a factory reset once and a hard reset once, I pretty much only have whatsapp on my phone..
So my andriod version is 4.1.1. ANd after the first firmware reset, I am unable to even switch off google now and it gives me an error that there is an error with my network connection. Even if I switch on/off in any sequence or series all my communication methods.
Anyways, the main issue I have been seeing after looking at the battery consumption, the Andriod OS takes up all my battery consumption and when looking at the graph, I see that my phone is almost never going to sleep. I have seen other people's galaxy S3 and I've seen their away status and its pretty much more black than blue (black indicating that its been asleep).
So its clear that the case of my battery drain is due to my phone almost never going to sleep. And the result of that is due to the high levels of Andriod OS usage.
And I have see a bunch of other galaxy s3 battery consumptions, and both the Andriod OS and Andriod system are always well below 10%, with the highest consumption being the Screen of 23% usually.
And I know for a fact, its none of my downloaded apps as the phone is pretty much stock. And its not wifi or screen brightness or any of that, because when I had my iPhone 4, I pretty much had everything open, with my phone doing all kinds of stuff and it lasts all day.
As for my current phone, I barely sent one or two whatsapp messages a day before the phone dies out..
And to illustrate the even greater extent of the battery drain. During my break today, I walked to the telus store (about 10 minutes to get there), I have 15% charge. By the time I got to the store, I had 7%.
Anyways, after taking the phone to the telus store, they told me to do a firmware reset, which i Already did with no avail. Then they suggested to get a new battery, which I ordered from them. However, it is clearly not the issue.
They won't let me even send the phone for repairs until I actually try replacing the battery, which I will only get 2 weeks from now.
Any ideas on what to do?
I've pretty much tried everything posted on most websites on how to resolve this issue and its not something to do with my settings or any of that. Its the phone software (rather than hardware) that is giving me high battery usage.
On top of that, the lower part of my backside of my phone is warming up when I just use my phone for a few minutes to message. To be clear, the battery is on the middle half of the phone. So its probably my CPU warming up to the texting that I am doing that is already adding to the Andriod OS high usage for some reason.
The phone is only 4 months old. And resetting the firmware puts it back to version 4.1.1
Also, Just connecting the phone to wifi over night with 100% charge before I went to bed, I woke up 8 hours later with 70% charge.
Nothing open, caches cleared. Almost every useless app off.
Sorry, I would post photos of it, however, my phone is currently dead and I am fully charging it before performing a full firmware reset (hard reset)
Please advise..
Thank you,
Hi! I'm using a gt-I9195 with stock 4.2.2 and arco's kernel. I've got this problem: after I get the battery popup warning, this wakelock pops up and keeps clock frequency at 810 mhz the whole time while idle. The battery drops so fast that after a few minutes the phone already shuts down itself. Sometimes I get the first popup warning (at 15%) and no wakelock, but usually after the second popup (5%) the wakelock appears.
I'd like to use even the last 5-15% of charge. This way, I absolutely have to charge the phone before 15% to be sure that battery won't start to drop like crazy.
I found nothing about this wakelock. What the hell is that??
After some days, I can say that it doesn't pop up always at the same time. Sometimes at 15%, sometimes at 7%, sometimes at 3% etc. And sometimes not at all.
However, EVERY TIME it appears, battery starts to drain like CRAZY. It is not a "regular" wakelock. In 2-5 minutes, battery is died. I keep reaching this low battery levels just for testing purposes... I really don't understand this wakelock.
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After some days, I can say that it doesn't pop up always at the same time. Sometimes at 15%, sometimes at 7%, sometimes at 3% etc. And sometimes not at all.
However, EVERY TIME it appears, battery starts to drain like CRAZY. It is not a "regular" wakelock. In 2-5 minutes, battery is died. I keep reaching this low battery levels just for testing purposes... I really don't understand this wakelock.
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Not that this will help you any, but seeing as no-one else has responded, just thought I'd let you know you're not alone, and also it's not a problem specific to Arco's kernel - I seem to get the same thing on a completely unmodified S4 Mini.
It suffers from the 'battery drain while idle' bug anyway, for which I'm planning to install Arco's kernel soon, but somewhere between 15% and 5% remaining each time the drain really goes nuts. I can't see the CPU speed, but I've an app installed to monitor and log battery drain in % per hour, and it's usually around 3-4%. After the low battery warning, it jumps to 70-80% an hour, and like yours my phone can go from low battery warning to dead within a few minutes, just sitting idle.
Victoria75001 said:
Not that this will help you any, but seeing as no-one else has responded, just thought I'd let you know you're not alone, and also it's not a problem specific to Arco's kernel - I seem to get the same thing on a completely unmodified S4 Mini.
It suffers from the 'battery drain while idle' bug anyway, for which I'm planning to install Arco's kernel soon, but somewhere between 15% and 5% remaining each time the drain really goes nuts. I can't see the CPU speed, but I've an app installed to monitor and log battery drain in % per hour, and it's usually around 3-4%. After the low battery warning, it jumps to 70-80% an hour, and like yours my phone can go from low battery warning to dead within a few minutes, just sitting idle.
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Glad I'm not alone. I assume you're on Jelly bean as well since you're talking about Arco's kernel whch is for JB firmwares as far as I know.
Maybe on KK this weird drain has been patched, some reports from KK stock firmware users would be interesting.
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Glad I'm not alone. I assume you're on Jelly bean as well since you're talking about Arco's kernel whch is for JB firmwares as far as I know.
Maybe on KK this weird drain has been patched, some reports from KK stock firmware users would be interesting.
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Yes, on JB - I thought it might be a battery calibration issue until I saw your post about the CPU (and until trying to calibrate the battery didn't do any good).
Would be nice if KK fixed it, although it'd probably be by chance - since I can't find any mention of the bug online except in your original post, it doesn't look like it's affecting many people, so doubt if Samsung are even aware of it. Still, fingers crossed!
Yeah, searching pm8921_bms_low gives very little results. For what I understand, usually this is a wakelock of 1 second or less that pops up when there's the battery low warning.
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Yeah, searching pm8921_bms_low gives very little results. For what I understand, usually this is a wakelock of 1 second or less that pops up when there's the battery low warning.
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Hi again! Just wondering if you have any battery saving apps installed? I had one called Battery Doctor installed, and removed it after installing Arco's kernel as I no longer needed it - since then I've let the battery run down to 2-3% on several occasions without seeing any sudden drain. Previously it always seemed to happen me at 5%, and often before that. It might be worth removing any battery related apps just as a test.
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Hi again! Just wondering if you have any battery saving apps installed? I had one called Battery Doctor installed, and removed it after installing Arco's kernel as I no longer needed it - since then I've let the battery run down to 2-3% on several occasions without seeing any sudden drain. Previously it always seemed to happen me at 5%, and often before that. It might be worth removing any battery related apps just as a test.
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It might be just luck... otherwise I don't know what to think It happened to me as well to reach 2 or 3% with no battery drain at all, but never regularly.
I don't have battery saving apps (last one I've used was green power two years ago), only greenify but shouldn't make a difference. I read from another forum that plenty of people have this issue, a guy sent his phone to samsung for this specific problem and wrote that he will inform us if they'll solve the problem (honestly, I hope it can be solved by swapping the battery or updating the firmware ).
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It might be just luck... otherwise I don't know what to think It happened to me as well to reach 2 or 3% with no battery drain at all, but never regularly.
I don't have battery saving apps (last one I've used was green power two years ago), only greenify but shouldn't make a difference. I read from another forum that plenty of people have this issue, a guy sent his phone to samsung for this specific problem and wrote that he will inform us if they'll solve the problem (honestly, I hope it can be solved by swapping the battery or updating the firmware ).
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That is strange - I was getting it literally every time at 5% if not before, and I still haven't had the issue once since I last posted, I've kept letting the battery get down to 2-3% each time just to test. Oh well, I'll enjoy it while it lasts! Will let you know if the problem reappears, and will be interesting to hear if this other guy gets a solution from Samsung.
I tried to let discharge it again and the drain appeared somewhere between 7 and 6%. I definitely have the issue but I've learned simply to plug it at 20% or more, it is better for the battery too.
I have a 2 year old S4 Mini (GT19195), currently running latest stable CM 13.
The phone is working fine except for the occasional (once a week or 2) unexplained battery drain.
With my fairly light daily use, the battery is lasting over 2 days. <And can usually run 4 or more hours screen on.> However, in the last few months, at random times (even with phone asleep - screen off for > 10 min, so presumably in doze), the phone will heat up, and battery will drop 5-10% per minute. After the phone shuts off from dead battery, recharging and restarting the phone will return things to normal, until the next time.
During these episodes, the phone behaved normally, I did not notice any lag on waking up the phone, switching/opening apps, etc. The battery meter page showed no unusual process using the battery (none of the process actually showed any increase in % battery use); except for the battery life dropping off a cliff as I watch. <I noted that the battery usage stat never adds up to 100% even in normal use ... It might show 10% screen, 5% Android, etc, but all that only adds up to 50% or so from full charge to when the battery is near dead.>
Anyone seen this before? Is this a sign of an ailing battery, or something else? Can this be a software problem - like something running away in the background? <Of note is that this happened once when I had completely wiped the phone and had the fresh install of CM 13 + Gapps (micro) ... so if this is software, it would be something in stock Android, rather than a 3rd party app.>
Thanks for reading & responding.
@JohnSoong
This sounds like the processor is stuck on max frequency. Either it is an app(s) playing up or some other process that is keeping the CPU working when it should sleep.
The first thing I would do is install BetterBatteryStats app or something similar to see what is keeping the device awake. You could also try to grab a logcat, but you would need to catch the incident and either plug into a pc with adb or run an app like catlog
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I have a 2 year old S4 Mini (GT19195), currently running latest stable CM 13.
The phone is working fine except for the occasional (once a week or 2) unexplained battery drain.
With my fairly light daily use, the battery is lasting over 2 days. <And can usually run 4 or more hours screen on.> However, in the last few months, at random times (even with phone asleep - screen off for > 10 min, so presumably in doze), the phone will heat up, and battery will drop 5-10% per minute. After the phone shuts off from dead battery, recharging and restarting the phone will return things to normal, until the next time.
During these episodes, the phone behaved normally, I did not notice any lag on waking up the phone, switching/opening apps, etc. The battery meter page showed no unusual process using the battery (none of the process actually showed any increase in % battery use); except for the battery life dropping off a cliff as I watch. <I noted that the battery usage stat never adds up to 100% even in normal use ... It might show 10% screen, 5% Android, etc, but all that only adds up to 50% or so from full charge to when the battery is near dead.>
Anyone seen this before? Is this a sign of an ailing battery, or something else? Can this be a software problem - like something running away in the background? <Of note is that this happened once when I had completely wiped the phone and had the fresh install of CM 13 + Gapps (micro) ... so if this is software, it would be something in stock Android, rather than a 3rd party app.>
Thanks for reading & responding.
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That sounds like an issue I've had for several months, also running CM13 (Official) nightlies & Open GApps micro, unfortunately I've never had the time investigate (well I did once but it worked fine, I couldn't recreate the problem). It is currently happening less than once a week so not a major issue for me.
I've noticed several times that the phone felt hot, I've then used the Trepn profiler app, it would show the web browser running at 30-50% cpu constantly, so stuck as per @noppy22, though not at 100%. I have tried all the major browsers and they have all done it at some point, also most have crashed at some point, which I suspect may be related. Normally just the browser app crashed but yesterday using Chrome the phone FC and rebooted itself. Crashes seem to happen when I touch screen or scroll (though one may not have been when touching). Also XDA app crashed (1st time) when scrolling a couple of weeks ago, so probably not just browser issue on some sites as I thought previously, but might be unrelated. The stock battery meter did not show particularly high battery usage by browsers, though were a little elevated in % terms but hard to tell due to different usage patterns and not checking when things are good! I have noticed a bit of lag, which now makes we run trepn, if it shows high than expected usage by an app I close the app, which fixes it even if I go back to the same web page. This morning I woke up and my phone was off, I put it in my night-time profile (wifi & data off) that normally only uses a few % overnight but last night it must have used more than 30% of battery that was left, first time this has happened.
The other thing to consider is how good is your battery? At 2yrs old it could be tired if it's had a hard life (though yours maybe not) or you have allowed it to get very hot eg I did one trip using gps nav with phone mounted in windscreen cradle driving direct into the Aussie sun when my battery was about 2.5yrs old, thinking back I now think this was when I first noticed my battery was really dropping of quickly when around ~40% charge (though it was faster with more charge remaining also than my new battery, I would say), so think I the high temp the phone got to that day affected the battery. I think 4hrs of screen on time may be marginal, I was only getting about 3 to 3.5 when my battery dropped off fast, my new battery is giving me 6hrs SOT (mostly using browser app), so possibly you just need a new battery as only one other user has reported high cpu usage like I have.
Battery stats not adding up to 100% is normal.
I've just installed BetterBatteryStats, so I'll give it a week of so and see if it catches anything. So far nothing unusual in the stats.
I am leaning towards this being a hardware issue, likely the battery. Since the phone responded fairly normally during the overheat & battery drain episodes, this does not seem to me an app taking over the CPU. If the CPU was occupied by an app, shouldn't everything else be slowed down?
I have so far noticed no particular pattern to these episodes, and I cannot reproduce it at will. It is infrequent enough for now that I can live with it (although an unexpected dead battery is annoying.) I will see if the monitoring app pick up anything.
Hey guys,
Maybe you have to try to flash your stock or custom kernel again.
Thats probably the problem.
Xheers
When I got mine a few years ago the media process kept getting stuck and overheating/draining my phone and even a reboot wouldnt fix it. I found out because I was using the system panel app and monitoring cpu of system processes. I ditched and deleted the gallery app (it was trying to create thumbnails for 100+gb of photos and videos) for quick pic v.4.5.2 on every phone I've used ever since and haven't look back.