I got my S4 Mini for about a month and a half now, but since a few weeks my battery has been draining rather quick..
When going to school i listen to music, Whatsapp a bit and browse 9Gag (via the app) a bit also while i'm in the train and bus (about 1 hour and 15 minutes in total to get to college) and my battery is drained about 25% in 45 minutes
I found out that Updates security.policy is draining my battery quite a lot, and it's also using some data
Anyone knows what this service is, and if i could disable it?
I've added some screenshots from Better Battery Stats
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When I woke up this morning, I turned off my phone and after it booted up I unplugged it, because I wanted to get a realistic idea of it's battery life (it's been fluctuation on me). It was at 100% I'm reading at 19% now, I have an Up time of 3:12:00 and an Awake time of 2:44:16 (I have been using it pretty constantly, so the awake time doesn't worry me too much). This is obviously ridiculous, this could possibly die in less than 3 & 1/2 to 4 hours. Battery use is: Android System: 58%, Display: 17%, Cell standby: 14%, Everlands Lite: 6%, Phone idle: 3%, android.process.acore: 2%. I just downloaded Everlands today and played it a lot, but with that low of a percent it can't possibly be an issue. I'm running Damage Control v3.2, and I'll post the DConfig in the next post.
DConfig
Basic Tweaks:
ZipAlign On Boot
swppart
Swappyness: 30
Dalvik heap: 32mb
LowMemKiller: Evo 150mb
Advanced Tweaks:
Up threshold: 95
sampling_rate: 200000
Dirty_Background_Ratio: 5
Dirty_Ratio:15
Dirty_Writeback: 1500
Dirty_Expire: 600
JIT is NOT enabled
Advanced Tweaks2:
vfs_cache_pressure: 100
Banned Apps:
Launcher
Sense
I had Sprint apps banned but then unbanned them. I only got Sprint Nascar back.
Debug Profile:
Page-Cluster: 3
laptop_mode: 0
Dirty_Expire: 600
Dirty_Writeback: 1500
Dirty_Background: 5
Dirty_Ratio: 15
Up_Threshold:95
Sampling_Rate: 200000
lowmem: 3584,4096,6144,38400,38912,4860
Please, any explanation for why my battery drain has suddenly jumped up so much would be greatly appreciated!
did your battery suddenly start dying quick? mine will last all day ONLY if i leave it alone all day, no calls or anything. If I use it minimally i get about half a day and if I have heavy usage on it then I get about 4 hours or so.
Prior Battery Life
I was able to go about 17 hours off the charger once without holding back on my usage at all, and that wasn't a huge outlier. Seriously, I know I've been able to get at LEAST 12 hours out of it streaming Pandora for an hour plus lots of texting, twitter, facebook, web browsing, and even moderate GPS usage.
I think other battery threads would be more useful if they included Awake time more often, because obviously I am not having a problem with it not going to sleep (since I was actually using the thing almost the entire time I had it off the charger).
You may actually have a bad battery. Mine gets unplugged at 6am, has a 30 min charge at 8pm on my way home in the car, then plugged in at 11:30 or 12 with 40% left.
The only thing I have done is kill most of the widgets, use a static background and that is about it.
you might have a bad battery, or maybe it was just something for that time. if it keeps happening, go back to sprint and they'll probably give you another battery or even phone (assuming they have them in stock)
Battery Defect?
I tried the method that one user supposedly learned from HTC ( I can't post a link but it's titled "Official response from HTC RE: How to double battery Life (WORKS!) + 2nd Reply" ), and I'm not sure I've gotten the same battery life out of it since that happened. I just got it charged back up to 100% now, I'm going to try upgrading to Damage Control v3.2.2.1 and I'll throw it into the Power Save mode in the DConfig, then see how long it lasts.
I've had the phone since Sept 6th and this is 4th day I have my phone.
My battery life has been draining like crazy. I don't have a data plan, but I do go on wifi sometimes (not very often, and I don't keep it on for long). Maybe in total an hour to two a day.
I wouldn't say I am a heavy user, I don't play any games or watch any videos nor listen to music at all. I only sms and download apps.
It's been 5h 42m 35s since unplugged and my battery life is down to 57. I hardly use it, my settings are pretty much the lowest.
It says
Android System 40%
Cell standby 21%
Phone idle 13%
Display 12% (weird, since I have animations are turned off and I used lowest brightness)
Camera 6% (I took 3 photos)
Wifi 4%
Maps 2%
Dialer 2%
about 2 hours ago, I rooted my desire since I've read reviews that it makes it faster, prolongs battery life and what not. (plus I could do so much more with it later on). But my battery was still draining at like 1% every minute and half that I touch it. (I also have task killer, but I don't kill task very often)
Then my friend suggested I get SetCPU (which I did) around 2 hours ago after I rooted my phone. Then I went out and hardly touched the phone unless I received sms, or to check the time. And it went from like 69 to 56 (within that 2 hours of doing nothing)
I've searched the forum for extending battery life (and googled as well) and read other users who have the same problem, and I pretty much did what was recommended but it's still draining.
I can hardly make it through the day!!
Is there any other way that I can charge it (when to charge it) or.. do you think it might be my battery's problem? Should I buy a new one?
Thanks for all the help again (I know this kind of thread has already been done, but that was in like April)
Your battery takes time to settle if it's a brand new device. It takes a few charge/discharge cycles for that.
If after say 14 days you are still getting poor life I'd try calibrating it. Instructions are HERE.
thanks! i will try that if my battery life still drains this crazily in a week.
Hi,
I have had this tablet (N5100) for a couple of weeks now and am wondering what the average battery drain for others/you is like?
Mine is draining around 1%/H when idle / sleep (screen off, wifi-on scheduled with juice defender, Mobile Data off, Cell Radio on) with little to no activity.
so after my 4-5 hour sleep it's down by 5-6 %. is it normal, too high/ too low?
my other device samsung galaxy player YP-G70 has much better results, but then that is a totally different hardware altogether!.
Thanks.
1%/h would translate into avg current of 46mA, which is not bad, any higher value would be a reason to investigate. On my device, after some tweaking the standby current as estimated by the Battery Monitor Widget is between 10-40 mA.
Anyway, if you want to find the apps eating your battery during standby, check the better battery stats thread.
Sent from my GT-N5100 using xda premium
Hi,
I have done a few tests of my own.
Overnight my battery drain is 1%(about 9/11 hrs )
I further ran a test in standby for over 24 hrs and
battery drain was only 6%.(from 100% down to 94% )
Good luck
Just want to add ,i get like 2mA in standby,
Also the 6 % drain (in 25 hrs plus some min.)
Include my twitter updates ,weather,market apps update, etc once or so .data off there after.
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willcor said:
Hi,
I have done a few tests of my own.
Overnight my battery drain is 1%(about 9/11 hrs )
I further ran a test in standby for over 24 hrs and
battery drain was only 6%.(from 100% down to 94% )
Good luck
Just want to add ,i get like 2mA in standby,
Also the 6 % drain (in 25 hrs plus some min.)
Include my twitter updates ,weather,market apps update, etc once or so .data off there after.
From .....gt- n51oo
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wow, that's a little depressing! haha
I guess i'll have to go on some app shooting spree and see what i end up with.
As of now i have put google currents to sync only while charging and disabled google now and some location stuff in google maps and that seems to have improved things some bit already.
bad or good battery
I play samsung note 8 without screen off , and screen on just 4 hour
i think note 8 only survive 1%/5 minute
If play 1% just only 2 minute
Hello everyone.
I currently own a Tab s 8.4 LTE version for exactly 40 days only. I began noticing battery being so weird last week so I will be direct and to the point as much as I can.
A week ago, I noticed that my battery isn't doing so well, I am just a med (sometimes heavy) tablet user ( I mainly chat, browse facebook, read articles, play some youtube videos and I play music as well) I had my battery charged to 100% before a car trip that lasted for around 4 hours, by the time I arrived to the destination, the battery was on 10% only.
Here is what I did on that trip:
1- Had Mobile network connected all the way (used it for chatting on whatsapp, facebook and reading some emails)
2- Listened to music for 45 mins.
3- Played 30 minutes of clash of clans.
When I arrived to my destination, I waited the tablet till it completely drain then I put it in charger ( I was astonished by the fact that when I instantly put the charger in, it read like 30% instead of 0 or 1%)
Anyway I charged it to 100% and went to test it by watching continuous non-stop 204 minutes of movie (Thats 3 hours 20 minutes) and I was happy that it only dropped from 100% to 67% with 50 percent brightness and (Wifi/Sync connected) then I played clash of clans, 15 mins of clash of clans dropped the battery from 67 to 53 so I was pretty much shocked (like 1 percent for every in-game minute!)
The third day I left it in standby mode to test if it drains unsually when it is idle, I left it for continuous 12 hours on 100% (Airplane mode on, no wifi, no sync) and it only dropped 3% in those 12 hours. I managed to acheive a 4h on screen and 1d 4h battery on time (Which made me pretty sure that the battery is not defective, may be just the reading is faulty)
I tested it today. Charged from ground zero up to 100% then I used it. My activity mainly was:
1- a lot of chatting (like 2 hours but not continuous) on whatsapp.
2- 45 mins of music and 15 mins on soundcloud.
3- 40 mins of Clash of Clans (drained my battery in a significant way)
4- Checking facebook notifications, gmail and browsing some websites on hourly timed intervals.
I managed only to get 5h screen on time and a total of 7h of battery on time. Screenshots in attachments.
More importantly, I used it from 100% till it drained to zero then I put it on charger, it automatically read 15%! (Happened to me before that it read 30% instead of zero or 1% then I drained it from 15% to zero again, put the charger and it read from zero%)
Please help me get answers for these 2 questions:
1- Do you think this battery is defective? I own this LTE tablet for only 1 month. Or do you think it only performs poor?
2- Does a game like Clash of Clans really drain it that fast? Like 1 percent charge for every minute or minute and half?
3- How long should it normally take to charge from zero up to 100%? Mine takes exactly 3 hours or 3 hours and less than 10 minutes. Is that okay? Or should it be longer?
Thank you
Can you go back this this thread and try what I said. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2809818. I dont want to copy and paste it again lol.
I just got my MOTO 360 and the main problem I faced after the slow Update is Battery life.
Its very worst and goes with apps usage it drops 20% battery if used for 5 to 10 min. I was waiting for charge cycles so that the battery life gets stable but today it worked only for 6 Hrs max and the remaining time displayed is absurd like 100% charge 1 hr remaining.
I did reset for like 3 time didn't work.
I have noticed some apps with no name eating battery.
Please let me know if its normal or I need to get is replaced as I have just got it 2 days ago.
Thanks
This is somewhat normal. You have to remember every time you resent your watch everything from your phone will have to sync to your watch again. I find that after a reset battery life is not good for the first day. Also if you have Google Music and are syncing any music to the watch that KILLS the battery down to 50% until all the music is synced. Also if you have Google Fit make sure on your phone you don't have High Accuracy Mode enabled as I have found that will run the GPS more often on the watch and kill the battery much faster.