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Random power drain

Yesterday as I started my day, i pulled my GN from its charger (99%) and made my journey to uni. The trip takes about 50 mins. For the past month now Ive been using poweramp and have had no problems. But when i got to class i realised i had like 25% power during my trip and the back of the GN was a bit warm. I closed all programs and the power drain stopped. I was a bit concerned so a few hours later when i tried playing music again on poweramp but nothing drained the power. So maybe it was a freak occurrence?
So I went to bed last night and the phone was fine. something around 80% power. I woke up 5 hours into my sleep to check on my phone (its a bad habit) and went back to sleep for another 2-3 hours. When i woke up i found my phone had discharged a whole lot of power again randomly in that space of a few hours.
So what the hell happened in that time?! All I did was turn the screen on and turned it off. My usage patterns have not changed.
here is an screen shot of my power usage. You can see the first drop of power, thats nothing of concern as i was playing angry birds space before bed. Then you see the straight line as the phone was idle while i was sleeping. The next drop is when I woke up to check my phone and that's when the discharging happens again. Then you see it recovering when i woke up and closed all the background apps in hope that it would stop the power drain..which it did.
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Anyone have some ideas as to what is causing this?
Also keep in mind that before the first instance of power drain my phone configuration had not changed a single bit besides a light flow lite update the night before.
edit: oh FYI, running stock 4.0.2 on yakju

Any apps that you updated or installed yesterday? New rom? Did you make any changes to your phone at all since yesterday?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

Mitchmoney said:
Any apps that you updated or installed yesterday? New rom? Did you make any changes to your phone at all since yesterday?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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No new apps, but some app updates. I know at least light flow was updated.
this random power discharge is really getting annoying. It happened again today.
A new symptom seems that the video doesnt load on the phone. for example, trying to load youtube or recorded videos saved on my phone.
Originally i thought my 3g was playing up but when it wouldnt load a video i recorded that was a bit unusual. in fact the gallery app froze and crashed.

Did you search the forum and install CPU Spy and Better Battery stats?
Get some data and find out what is causing wakelocks. Your phone has a lot of "wake" time.
See with CPU spy how much it is spending in Deep sleep and with Better Battery stats look what is preventing it from going into that state. If it's an app: simply remove it.

How's your signal service been lately? I get pretty stank reception at work so my gnex gets pretty warm at the top and battery life suffers. I just put it on airplane mode and reset the radio to force it to chill out for awhile

Diger36 said:
Did you search the forum and install CPU Spy and Better Battery stats?
Get some data and find out what is causing wakelocks. Your phone has a lot of "wake" time.
See with CPU spy how much it is spending in Deep sleep and with Better Battery stats look what is preventing it from going into that state. If it's an app: simply remove it.
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Thanks ill try that. Just installed CPU spy. Is there an alternative to better battery stats? Don't really want to fork out something to debug this.
I originally used OS monitor, and i checked what was running while the abnormal discharge was happening but nothing showed up.
You make a good point about the amount of wake time though. That long stretch where i was sleeping, my phone shouldnt be waking up that much should it? It didnt seem to affect battery life that much.

pdiggitydogg said:
How's your signal service been lately? I get pretty stank reception at work so my gnex gets pretty warm at the top and battery life suffers. I just put it on airplane mode and reset the radio to force it to chill out for awhile
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Reception has been normal (since I'm around the CBD a lot)

csirac said:
Thanks ill try that. Just installed CPU spy. Is there an alternative to better battery stats? Don't really want to fork out something to debug this.
I originally used OS monitor, and i checked what was running while the abnormal discharge was happening but nothing showed up.
You make a good point about the amount of wake time though. That long stretch where i was sleeping, my phone shouldnt be waking up that much should it? It didnt seem to affect battery life that much.
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Better Battery Stats is the one I use and is recommended here a lot. It gives you insight in the wakelocks from the kernel, as well as from apps. Don't know about the alternatives. It's definately about the wakelocks. Your phone should be in Deep Sleep for 90% or so when you don't touch it (depending on your sync frequency off course).

Diger36 said:
Better Battery Stats is the one I use and is recommended here a lot. It gives you insight in the wakelocks from the kernel, as well as from apps. Don't know about the alternatives. It's definately about the wakelocks. Your phone should be in Deep Sleep for 90% or so when you don't touch it (depending on your sync frequency off course).
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The only account that is sync'ed is my gmail. The other two listed (twitter and dropbox) is turned off. Are there other options to turn the freq of when the phone syncs?
It's so strange because before these problems came about I had good battery life. ie: 3+hours of screen time.

csirac said:
The only account that is sync'ed is my gmail. The other two listed (twitter and dropbox) is turned off. Are there other options to turn the freq of when the phone syncs?
It's so strange because before these problems came about I had good battery life. ie: 3+hours of screen time.
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You usually set it at System Settings, accounts & Synchronisation but some apps allow you to set it within the app... There are apps that allow you to make profiles so that, for instance at night, your device turns off all data. I used to use Juicedefender but that was IMHO more a placebo effect then a real improvement.
I definately think you should install the mentioned apps and after such drain re-appeared analyse what happened.

So after a little bit of troubleshooting I narrowed the problem down to Light Flow Lite.
Last night I went to bed with 100% charge. It discharged normally throughout the night until 4 hours in when I received an email. I woke up about an hour later and saw this so i suspected it was light flow. I cleared the notification and went back to sleep. I woke up about 30 mins later and was sad to see that my fears were confirmed. Battery discharge had settled down and was acting as normal. Just to be 100% sure though, i sent an email to myself to set off a notification and left it for another 30 mins, and as you can guess, the battery started draining excessively again.
Here is the screenshot. First part obviously is when im sleeping. then that dip is the email coming in. That TINY TINY dip upwards is another email coming in a min after I cleared the original email. So the battery drain continues until i wake up and clear it again. This time no more notifications came through and the battery drain settles down.
Again keep in mind that I have used Light Flow Light for 2 months now without problems.
Anyone else experience problems with Light flow or Light Flow light since it was updated on the 20th March?

I have been great with my light flow lite..I had a problem with my own battery when I updated Google chrome.. uninstalling that fixed my problem..
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GSII T989 battery drains to 7% then slows significantly?

I have 3 new GSII T989 phones on our plan. They work very well, but battery life can be inconsistent.
I have managed to get as much as 5 days out of them, that is with nearly 0 usage and stock apps disabled and all accounts and sync removed.
But I noticed, that regardless of usage, once the battery reaches 7% it starts draining much much slower. Maybe as little as 1% every 5 hours.
It seems clear, that some system processes run draining the battery, but stop at 7%.
With the works drain, the phone could drain to 7% in one day and still stop. I did also notice that the worst drain happens shortly before a OTA update on each phone. The Device Management process is one I cannot disable or even stop does the updating. It does no show up in battery stats.
Can anybody confirm drains from Device Management or other completely locked system apps that might drain until 7%.
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Notice sharp dips in battery life, some better curves, even in airplane mode, it still drained, but at the end starting at 7% the phone hardly drains.
I do see the phone wake a lot, but betterbattery stats does not show signification wakelockes.
GSam Battery monitor is the only program to successfully tell me what is causing a drain.
Here, at the initial drain I looked in Gsam and it showed twlauncher eating 70% of the battery. I cleared the data and force-stopped it it and was happily surprised to find that I now only drained 1% every 3 hours. I notice something that surprised me. When the launcher re-started it fist showed me messages, then contacts than the system manager application with the option do disable diagnostics which I did, but that alone was not the issue since I have not been able to reach such low battery drain even with diagnostics disabled.
I don't know why it awoke so much and drained later as better battery stats did not show any wakelocks over 1 minute (forgot to take a screenshot)
Later on GSam told me that the phone app itself was draining battery, after 1 call and text message, and once I killed it I once again had great battery life at 3 hours per 1% until it started draining again.
Has anybody here noticed or figured out the 7% issue. Is there something in the stock rom that stops at 7%, and is there a way to stop it without a new rom.
I have searched and did not find any references regarding the 7% issue I have with every phone.
Thank you.

elkinm said:
I have 3 new GSII T989 phones on our plan. They work very well, but battery life can be inconsistent.
I have managed to get as much as 5 days out of them, that is with nearly 0 usage and stock apps disabled and all accounts and sync removed.
But I noticed, that regardless of usage, once the battery reaches 7% it starts draining much much slower. Maybe as little as 1% every 5 hours.
It seems clear, that some system processes run draining the battery, but stop at 7%.
With the works drain, the phone could drain to 7% in one day and still stop. I did also notice that the worst drain happens shortly before a OTA update on each phone. The Device Management process is one I cannot disable or even stop does the updating. It does no show up in battery stats.
Can anybody confirm drains from Device Management or other completely locked system apps that might drain until 7%.
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Notice sharp dips in battery life, some better curves, even in airplane mode, it still drained, but at the end starting at 7% the phone hardly drains.
I do see the phone wake a lot, but betterbattery stats does not show signification wakelockes.
GSam Battery monitor is the only program to successfully tell me what is causing a drain.
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Here, at the initial drain I looked in Gsam and it showed twlauncher eating 70% of the battery. I cleared the data and force-stopped it it and was happily surprised to find that I now only drained 1% every 3 hours. I notice something that surprised me. When the launcher re-started it fist showed me messages, then contacts than the system manager application with the option do disable diagnostics which I did, but that alone was not the issue since I have not been able to reach such low battery drain even with diagnostics disabled.
I don't know why it awoke so much and drained later as better battery stats did not show any wakelocks over 1 minute (forgot to take a screenshot)
Later on GSam told me that the phone app itself was draining battery, after 1 call and text message, and once I killed it I once again had great battery life at 3 hours per 1% until it started draining again.
Has anybody here noticed or figured out the 7% issue. Is there something in the stock rom that stops at 7%, and is there a way to stop it without a new rom.
I have searched and did not find any references regarding the 7% issue I have with every phone.
Thank you.
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Is this the stock battery or the extended battery?

jrosetto said:
Is this the stock battery or the extended battery?
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This is with the stock battery. The same behavior is seen or all 3 phones so I don't think the battery itself is at fault.
I would like to root 1, stop the stock apps like Device Manager and see if it helps, but I would prefer not to have to root all the phones.
Thanks again.

elkinm said:
This is with the stock battery. The same behavior is seen or all 3 phones so I don't think the battery itself is at fault.
I would like to root 1 stop the stock apps like Device Manager and see if it helps, but I would prefer not to have to root all the phones.
Thanks again.
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I am lucky to get a day out of my phone with the stock battery so I would be grateful of anything more. As far as hitting 7% my guess is it sustains that voltage the longest since that is it's end of battery.

I went ahead and rooted the phone.
The first thing I did was use App Quarantine to disable Device Management and many apps that I could not disable before.
Unfortunately, nothing changed and the phone still drains as before until if gets to 7%.
I am still trying, and I think I will need to try a different launcher soon.
I am very open to any suggestion you guys may have.
Thanks.

elkinm said:
I went ahead and rooted the phone.
The first thing I did was use App Quarantine to disable Device Management and many apps that I could not disable before.
Unfortunately, nothing changed and the phone still drains as before until if gets to 7%.
I am still trying, and I think I will need to try a different launcher soon.
I am very open to any suggestion you guys may have.
Thanks.
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What about installing the Rogers Jellybean update?

[Q] Unusual battery drain on note II

Hi everyone! My note 2 battery is driving me insane. I have been using my note 2 for like 2 months. And I had been following the recharging cycle where you only charge the battery when it reaches 5% or less and remove from socket when it reaches 100%. This method has been working real well for me. I used to get really good battery life. I would recharge it to 100 and remove from socket and keep it there. I might only start working with it after 2 hrs of idle time a nd the battery percentage would be like 98 which is pretty normal. But two days back when I had to go out I found my battery level at 24 % and since I had no other choice I had to recharge it for 10 mins. That's when the problem started. After coming back home the battery had pretty decent juice left in it and I left it idle. After an hour or two when I checked the phone it had already switched off. I was in shock and tried to switch it on but it didn't work. So I thought of charging it to 100. After almost 3 hrs it was fully charged but since I don't work on my phone so late in the night, I removed it from socket, switched it on and left it there idle. And when I woke up after 5 hrs it had only 69% juice left in my battery. I checked my running apps and there were none. I had my data connection stopped. And still only 69? Thats kinda weird right? Is it because I recharged it before getting to 5 %. Is there a way I can remove the battery cycle cache or something. Please help.

Take a screen shot of the battery usage and screen time.

That's horrible and nowhere near acceptable. Use GSam/Better battery status to see what's draining your battery. It's highly likely that it's some rogue app doing it for ya. Or else it might be faulty battery too, if that's not the case.

jephindavis said:
Hi everyone! My note 2 battery is driving me insane. I have been using my note 2 for like 2 months. And I had been following the recharging cycle where you only charge the battery when it reaches 5% or less and remove from socket when it reaches 100%. This method has been working real well for me. I used to get really good battery life. I would recharge it to 100 and remove from socket and keep it there. I might only start working with it after 2 hrs of idle time a nd the battery percentage would be like 98 which is pretty normal. But two days back when I had to go out I found my battery level at 24 % and since I had no other choice I had to recharge it for 10 mins. That's when the problem started. After coming back home the battery had pretty decent juice left in it and I left it idle. After an hour or two when I checked the phone it had already switched off. I was in shock and tried to switch it on but it didn't work. So I thought of charging it to 100. After almost 3 hrs it was fully charged but since I don't work on my phone so late in the night, I removed it from socket, switched it on and left it there idle. And when I woke up after 5 hrs it had only 69% juice left in my battery. I checked my running apps and there were none. I had my data connection stopped. And still only 69? Thats kinda weird right? Is it because I recharged it before getting to 5 %. Is there a way I can remove the battery cycle cache or something. Please help.
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To find out,it is better to root ur phone. Then install better battery stats,and see whats draining your battery. You cant install bbs on unrooted phone.

tuxonhtc said:
That's horrible and nowhere near acceptable. Use GSam/Better battery status to see what's draining your battery. It's highly likely that it's some rogue app doing it for ya. Or else it might be faulty battery too, if that's not the case.
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Do I have to root my note 2 to install those apps?

xartic12 said:
Take a screen shot of the battery usage and screen time.
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This is not the exact one I was talking about..but still shows my problem
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jephindavis said:
Do I have to root my note 2 to install those apps?
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I won't recommend GSam at all, just found that it drains my battery itself.
No, BBS doesn't require root for many functions, but still rooting would be even better though.

T.G.A said:
To find out,it is better to root ur phone. Then install better battery stats,and see whats draining your battery. You cant install bbs on unrooted phone.
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I was planning to root my device but couldn't find a good tutorial site that would help me do it. Can you suggest me one?

jephindavis said:
I was planning to root my device but couldn't find a good tutorial site that would help me do it. Can you suggest me one?
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Chainfire said:
- Follow these instructions to the letter. Do not touch any buttons or checkboxes that are not listed below to touch!
- Unzip the attached Odin3-vX.X.zip file
- Download and unzip the CF-Auto-Root-....zip file (see posts below this one)
- If you end up with a recovery.img and cache.img file, you've extracted twice. You need to end up with a .tar.md5 file - don't extract that one
- (USB) Disconnect your phone from your computer
- Start Odin3-vX.X.exe
- Click the PDA button, and select CF-Auto-Root-....tar.md5
- Put your phone in download mode (turn off phone, then hold VolDown+Home+Power to boot - if it asks you to press a button to continue, press the listed button, or run adb reboot download command)
- (USB) Connect the phone to your computer
- Make sure Repartition is NOT checked
- Click the Start button
- Wait for Android to boot
- Done (if it took you more than 30 seconds, you need practise!)
- NOTE: Sometimes the device does *not* boot into recovery mode and root your device. Just do the entire procedure again if this happens. If it still will not install root and such, make sure that in Odin "Auto Reboot" is not checked. Then after flashing, pull the battery, and boot with VolUp+Home+Power button to boot into recovery manually. This will start the install process.
New to Samsung? Unfamiliar with Odin? Think all the above is a hassle? Get used to it. It's very simple, and us Samsung folk use Odin (or Mobile ODIN ) for everything! It's so very very convenient once you get used to it. Notice the 30 second comment above? For experienced users, the entire process indeed takes only 30 seconds!
You may now optionally want to install and run Triangle Away to reset the flash counter.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32708472&postcount=2
Here you go. Yours is N7100 right?

jephindavis said:
I was planning to root my device but couldn't find a good tutorial site that would help me do it. Can you suggest me one?
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I did the above said tutorial too. I dint do anything else like triangle away as it is needed if i am claiming warranty from samsung. After rooting,check if you are rooted or not by installed root only applications like titanium backup.

battery drain
Hi guys I have a very unusual problem. My note 2 is already rooted within a week after I brought it. I have tried different roms n never changed my modem. It’s DLK7 from the beginning. And also I have tired different kernels but still I have the same problem.
Sorry let me come to the issue.
That’s my battery drains very quick if I am not connected to internet. Wearied isn’t it. I know. If I am connected to internet by data or wifi from night to till morning I have only 3% to 5% drain (screen is off coz me n my note 2 is sleeping). If I am not connected to internet the drain is about 40% to 50, 60% some times more.
When I checked I noticed that play store or some times facebook massager is using the battery this much. Once when I was in a very busy situation my note 2 is getting hot near the rear camera and my battery is draining very fast.
I googled it but I didn’t get a proper answer.
I think when I am not connected to internet facebook massager or play store is trying to sync with the internet with out realizing that there is no internet. It is causing the cpu over use and not letting the phone to go to sleep.
Can any one help in this matter?
The only way I have found is to set a task killer kills this apps repeatedly or stop them from syncing. Both will reduce the battery drain but it will make this apps useless.
Please help…………………….

There's really no need to let it drain down to < 20% before charging. If anything, that would be causing more harm than doing shallow charge/discharge cycles.
Source:
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries

Use the app greenify, and apply it to Facebook. Play store shouldn't be causing this, but clear its data to be sure.
If this doesn't help, you should install better battery stats, to further diagnose any wakelocks that might be causing this.
Sent from my GT-N7100 using Tapatalk 2

As for me, that's that sh%$§y new version of google Maps that drains my battery, up to 25% in a complete cycle are now drained by GMaps when I absolutly don't use it...

i900frenchaddict said:
As for me, that's that sh%$§y new version of google Maps that drains my battery, up to 25% in a complete cycle are now drained by GMaps when I absolutly don't use it...
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If you don't use an app, disable it from settings---->applications. Apps like Google music tend to autostart and slow the device and reduce the juice

Hi guys
Now I am using moon rom v10 n same time I updated my modem to latest DMG1 which comes with the rom and it seems that my problem is solved. Still under testing but yesterday I switch of all my internet and I have only 3-4% drain I don’t see any problem as I said still under testing. I will come back with more results.
As i900frenchaddict said I have noticed the new map is showed in the battery usage screen and it show 21% of usage but it didn’t drain from my battery but it’s there and I checked to force close it but it’s already stopped, but again it’s there showing its using 20-35% usage from yesterday.
Don’t know what’s going on. I hope its jest showing their n not draining my battery.
I hope this will help others.
Press thank if this helped anyone.

Unusual battery drain solved
Hi guys thank you for your support. Yesterday also I have tested n only 2% drain after 9.30 hours. For checking I disconnected all the internet and switched one play store and facebook massager. And checked.
Only 2% drain so my battery draining problem is solved.
My devise details if it will help someone.
Device: N7100
Rom: Moon rom V10
Baseband: DMG1
Kernel: Adam – 2.7
Android version: 4.1.2
Please press thanks if this helped.

54NJ41 said:
As i900frenchaddict said I have noticed the new map is showed in the battery usage screen and it show 21% of usage but it didn’t drain from my battery but it’s there and I checked to force close it but it’s already stopped, but again it’s there showing its using 20-35% usage from yesterday.
Don’t know what’s going on. I hope its jest showing their n not draining my battery.
I hope this will help others.
Press thank if this helped anyone.
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To remove this unusual Google Map usage since last update, I realized that freezing it using Titanium Backup (and reboot) was not enough, the app kept on being displayed at a good place in my battery usage. But freezing it + non allowing Google's localization services stopped the problem.
Just I regularly use Maps, so now each time I have to re-eanble localization service, then use Titanium to unfreeze it.....

jephindavis said:
Hi everyone! My note 2 battery is driving me insane. I have been using my note 2 for like 2 months. And I had been following the recharging cycle where you only charge the battery when it reaches 5% or less and remove from socket when it reaches 100%. This method has been working real well for me. I used to get really good battery life. I would recharge it to 100 and remove from socket and keep it there. I might only start working with it after 2 hrs of idle time a nd the battery percentage would be like 98 which is pretty normal. But two days back when I had to go out I found my battery level at 24 % and since I had no other choice I had to recharge it for 10 mins. That's when the problem started. After coming back home the battery had pretty decent juice left in it and I left it idle. After an hour or two when I checked the phone it had already switched off. I was in shock and tried to switch it on but it didn't work. So I thought of charging it to 100. After almost 3 hrs it was fully charged but since I don't work on my phone so late in the night, I removed it from socket, switched it on and left it there idle. And when I woke up after 5 hrs it had only 69% juice left in my battery. I checked my running apps and there were none. I had my data connection stopped. And still only 69? Thats kinda weird right? Is it because I recharged it before getting to 5 %. Is there a way I can remove the battery cycle cache or something. Please help.
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Hey Bro, I used to have that problem. but NOW my phone usually lasts from 5 to 7 days. i use Deep Sleep Battery Saver get it from the play store.
download it, install it, open it, and you'll find options like ''Slumberer or custom whatever i forgot" So what u have to do is check Slumberer.
Click Thanks if i helped
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jacob_stallone1 said:
Hey Bro, I used to have that problem. but NOW my phone usually lasts from 5 to 7 days. i use Deep Sleep Battery Saver get it from the play store.
download it, install it, open it, and you'll find options like ''Slumberer or custom whatever i forgot" So what u have to do is check Slumberer.
Click Thanks if i helped
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And yeah almost forgot, Also Disable Unused Apps That come with the phone, like dropbox, g+,samsung apps, samsung backup...etc

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Yet another LG G3 awful battery duration thread

I'm having a slight problem.. How long can your G3 stay away from the charger? And with which kind of usage?
Mine is dead after 8~10 hours with absolutely light usage (1:30 sot, checking whatsapp, but not even responding the groups, no facebook usage). Every time I turn the phone on, BBS complains about 30~50% awake time, but when I open it up, I can't for the love of God find what the heck is causing it.
Example, it says phone was with the screen off for 30 minutes, with 50% awake. And every single option (but kernel wakelocks) shows apps with about 2, 3 minutes total wakelock time.
When I first bought it, I rooted it right away and restored my TitaniumBackup, and the phone was getting hot on my pocket. I mean, HOT. Battery couldn't get past 6 hours with the usage I had on my G2, and phone was unconfortable to handle and make a call.
And about that, it seems that the battery drains slower during calls, rather than the phone idling.
I started using Greenify and added every possible app to it, but it didn't help anything.
What may be my problem? How can I find what is causing such wakelocks?
Those pictures have been taken few hours ago, when I posted it on G+, and the screen on time represents 1:05hrs.
It hit 15% with 11:53hr total with 1:50h screen on time. Estimated recharge time is around 6 hours. It sucks
http://imgur.com/a/H0aLm

Flash a new Rom...like cloudy or something that works for your phone, but don't restore apps and data with titanium bu.
Don't restore android home or anything like that either....just restore apps....then you should be ok.
You battery useage is not normal, but this should fix it.
Cheers!

I'm using CloudyG3. I feel like it was good at the beginning, but gotten worse with time.
I'm seriously thinking about flashing it fresh and not restoring anything, letting Google do its stuff.

That should work....you probably restored an appnsetting that doesn't like the Rom....that's hard to troubleshoot and easier to re flash and start from scratch

Did it. Yet no solution.
I always get 45% phone awake, on BBS. The culprit seems to be Google Play Services. I've tried greenifiying a thousand of apps, but it doesn't seem to help.
http://imgur.com/a/8QCdG
It seems to be related to location services, but I've never had such problem in my life, and G3 GPS is pretty quick to get a lock on. Phone is also getting lukewarm on my pocket for no apparent reason (warm enough to notice it in pocket, at random moments)

That's still not normal.....not sure what to say. Maybe there is hardware failure. Sorry I can't be of more assistance....that should have solved it, but if it's Google play services, you can't even attribute it to a rogue 3rd party app.

Greenified Google Play Services..
http://imgur.com/ildhKIG
So, it IS a Google Play Services problem, but what is causing it? Also, how bad is to have GPlay Services greenified?

I get a 0.4% or less drop each hour that I have no screen time and I'm in wifi (with 2 gmail and 1 exchange accounts syncing/push notifications). I can easily go over two days on a single battery charge with perhaps 30 min of screen time. That is pretty typical from what I've read. Something is wrong with your phone/apps if you are getting well less than that.

sic0048 said:
I get a 0.4% or less drop each hour that I have no screen time and I'm in wifi (with 2 gmail and 1 exchange accounts syncing/push notifications). I can easily go over two days on a single battery charge with perhaps 30 min of screen time. That is pretty typical from what I've read. Something is wrong with your phone/apps if you are getting well less than that.
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Still working on that. A full day without a charge is more than enough for me.
Google Play Services finally got out from the top 3 battery sippers, but I don't know at what cost. It's greenified.
The top 5 currently is:
Screen (29% - 1:14 sot)
Android Operating System (14% - 16m 48s Total CPU, execution time 2h 2m)
Android System (12% - 29m 15s Total CPU, 11m 43s execution time)
Google Play Services (7% - 3m 8s Total CPU, 23m 11s execution time, 1m 59s GPS)
Inactive Phone (4% - Time in use 5h 48m 29s)
Phone was supposed to be dead by now. It still has 66% left, with 19hrs remaining. That is a -HUGE- improvement.
Usage is nowhere near I had with the G2 (1:14hr sot), but it now gives margin to use it more intensively. Hope it stays cool and economic like that tomorrow, when I'll start using it as a normal smartphone to me.

This is caused by Google tracking you. You should disable location reporting and if possible network location service (GPS only). I have a Tasker profile that enables and disables network location with screen. I get about 3%/hr with pretty moderate/heavy usage.

lexman098 said:
This is caused by Google tracking you. You should disable location reporting and if possible network location service (GPS only). I have a Tasker profile that enables and disables network location with screen. I get about 3%/hr with pretty moderate/heavy usage.
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That isn't a option for me. I've successfuly recovered my last G2 4 times from robbers using tracking tools. I can't disable GPS.
I hear GPS only gets activated when necessary, so that doesn't seem to be a big deal. There are some useless trackings, sure, such as to show where I parked my car and stuff.
I'll try disabling Location Reporting and see if I can track it back.
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Looks like I can! But Google Play Services consumption is already low. The "problem" now is on the screen (unsolveable, I think. And I ain't downsampling it to 1080p) and Android System/Android OS.
Waiting for the Lollipop miracle, I guess.

Heck, I have yet to go below 5 hours of screen on time with CloudyG3 1.0.. Its been 5 days, and on the first two days i got 6 hours sot.
And thats not 6 sot/6 uptime, it went 20+ hours of uptime(off charger), with that amount of screen on.
I greenified a bit, am on art, and i'm not gonna lir to you, i tend to decrease my brightness lately, why?
Because i don't want a flashlight to my face in a dimmed room, and I can still perfectly percieve everything thats on my screen even with it not being 100% at all times..

Here are my most recent screenshots.
Can't say I'm happy with deep sleep "drain", but oh well, its not that bad...
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Did it. Yet no solution.
I always get 45% phone awake, on BBS. The culprit seems to be Google Play Services. I've tried greenifiying a thousand of apps, but it doesn't seem to help.
http://imgur.com/a/8QCdG
It seems to be related to location services, but I've never had such problem in my life, and G3 GPS is pretty quick to get a lock on. Phone is also getting lukewarm on my pocket for no apparent reason (warm enough to notice it in pocket, at random moments)
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download wakelock detector and see what cpu wakelocks you have and on which version are you ?

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download wakelock detector and see what cpu wakelocks you have and on which version are you ?
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It seemingly was Google Play Services that were draining the battery like mad. I'm using CloudyG3 1.1.
I had WLD already, and CPU wakelocks were little, if I remember well. Problem was on "Wakeup Triggers".
Sunday's a slow day, and the phone was pretty much the whole time on the wireless craddle, thus keeping charge at 100%. But the moments I took it off the charger and used it for a while on the living room, it seemed OK.
I've let it off the charger during the night to see how it would fare, and it dropped 10% in 9 hours, with virtually no screen on time (I checked the clock sometimes. Bet it doesn't even sums 20 second screen on time). It's nowhere near the 0,6%/h people claim, but I think I'm a pretty heavy user (4G, wifi, bluetooth all the time, no notifications disabled etc).
Funny that the G3 seems to take a while to drop from 100%, though.
Tomorrow's a full day, I leave in the morning and only get back home at 22hrs, with heavy usage. Phone was previously dying on me @ 14hrs.
If it works, it'll be nice. Weird that I've never had a issue with Google Play Services, and it seems that greenifying it did the trick.

GTMoraes said:
It seemingly was Google Play Services that were draining the battery like mad. I'm using CloudyG3 1.1.
I had WLD already, and CPU wakelocks were little, if I remember well. Problem was on "Wakeup Triggers".
Sunday's a slow day, and the phone was pretty much the whole time on the wireless craddle, thus keeping charge at 100%. But the moments I took it off the charger and used it for a while on the living room, it seemed OK.
I've let it off the charger during the night to see how it would fare, and it dropped 10% in 9 hours, with virtually no screen on time (I checked the clock sometimes. Bet it doesn't even sums 20 second screen on time). It's nowhere near the 0,6%/h people claim, but I think I'm a pretty heavy user (4G, wifi, bluetooth all the time, no notifications disabled etc).
Funny that the G3 seems to take a while to drop from 100%, though.
Tomorrow's a full day, I leave in the morning and only get back home at 22hrs, with heavy usage. Phone was previously dying on me @ 14hrs.
If it works, it'll be nice. Weird that I've never had a issue with Google Play Services, and it seems that greenifying it did the trick.
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disable location because play services checks it as mad or download xposed module lion tamer(donation) and set when it can check (in seconds) I am guessing that the nlp.... wakelock is the biggest in google play services:laugh:

lg are optimizing this in the new versions,
I think a lot of screen

I made a day through! Yeaaaahhhh
Not with some issues, though. This phone seems to be a bit wakelock happy.
First, it was Pushbullet that seemed to be stuck doing something. Greenified it and it's OK now.
But now it seems to be some issue with "com.android.internal.telephony.ACTION_CHECK_NETSTAT".
http://imgur.com/YAu4iNt
Is it the fast dormancy thing people talk about? The signal wasn't very strong today, but is it supposed to do a wakelock?

battery issue with lg g3
hi just got my Lg G3 the battery lasted me approx 12 hours with moderate usage and full screen display.
i installed juice defender and kept the screen display on auto.
i believe by doing that the battery drain will not be much.
my phone battery drain is only 4% in the past 3 hours.
try this solution

http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-x-att/general/guide-google-play-services-battery-t2822726
This is what I did along with using greenify to stop the wakelocks. Haven't had any issue at all with battery or deep sleep after this.

[Q] Battery Life: Reviews vs Real-life experience

Hello everyone!
I have a quick question: why do all the reviews talk about 6+ hours of screen on time in "real-life usage conditions" while my M8 only seems to get around half of that? I'm usually down to 10% when my screen on time is 3,5h or somewhere around that depending on what I was using it for. Do these reviewers turn all the connectivity off? Or are they in airplane mode or something? Brightness all the way down? Mine is on wifi almost 100% of the time, google now and location reporting and such enabled. I know I can turn these off to get better battery life, but can you still call it a "smart" phone, if it doesn't even know where you are? It takes away all context awareness applications.
This isn't limited to my M8, I saw this trend on all the phones I've owned, so here's the main question: do I have bad luck and are the batteries in my phones always bad ones? Or am I using them different than those reviewers? (I mostly text, use facebook messenger and browse the web)
Looking forward to hear about your answers!
Note: I know there are a lot of battery life threads, but I thought this would make more sense in it's own thread.
I'm running the latest HTC Stock firmware (5.0.2).

LanderN said:
Hello everyone!
Mine is on wifi almost 100% of the time, google now and location reporting and such enabled. I know I can turn these off to get better battery life, but can you still call it a "smart" phone, if it doesn't even know where you are? It takes away all context awareness applications.
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Google Now eats battery for breakfast. Even with syncing all my possible accounts (eMail, Google, WhatsApp, Threema, etc.) and having WiFi or 3G usage lots of times, Google Now (and especially in High accuracy-mode) is still #1 battery consumer. Did you have a look inside your battery usage using some tool like GSAM Battery Monitor?

Yes, i am regularly checking gsam, but the kernel and system apps seem to be eating the battery the most. Screenshot attached.
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Yes, i am regularly checking gsam, but the kernel and system apps seem to be eating the battery the most. Screenshot attached.
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yes, huge parts of the location service go into the "Android System"-group. Just try setting the location accuracy a bit lower (or disable location services completely), just for one day, and compare the results.

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yes, huge parts of the location service go into the "Android System"-group. Just try setting the location accuracy a bit lower (or disable location services completely), just for one day, and compare the results.
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It is in battery saving mode constantly except when i'm actively using google maps to navigate or something (which happens rarely)

LanderN said:
It is in battery saving mode constantly except when i'm actively using google maps to navigate or something (which happens rarely)
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I had good battery life on TMO Stock 4.4.4, but as soon as i went to 5, yeah not good. My battery life seems to be about 40% worse.

So much for Project Volta
Do the custom roms improve battery life?

My batt results are pretty much the same as yours. I have GPS to high accuracy and am usually on LTE (however I did turn off location services as the wakelocks were killing me).

i m getting 4.3 hours screen on time with 1% battery drain per hour on standby... stock lollipop... google services eating battery

n70shan said:
i m getting 4.3 hours screen on time with 1% battery drain per hour on standby... stock lollipop... google services eating battery
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Here is the bomb, brace yourselves:
My current setup:
Latest S.ROM (Stock Android 5.02 + Stock Kernel)
No facebook (disabled)
Wi-Fi Scanning Always On: OFF
Location mode: battery saving
No google account
Mobile Data: Always On
Brightness: Auto
Everything else: Default
I get:
7+ hours screen-on time
18 hours of usage, AND
By the end of the day, I still have 10-20% battery leftover.
It turns out Facebook is a battery parasite (, but having a google account is the true mother of all battery hogs. From my own experience, Google Services uses about 35% of my juice. After removing the google account entirely, Google Services use only 5%
Opinion:
Google services are cool, but NOT cool enough to sacrifice both my privacy and a high-quality phone experience to. I now enjoy my phone as much as I please for as long as I'm awake.

shirreer said:
Here is the bomb, brace yourselves:
My current setup:
Latest S.ROM (Stock Android 5.02 + Stock Kernel)
No facebook (disabled)
Wi-Fi Scanning Always On: OFF
Location mode: battery saving
No google account
Mobile Data: Always On
Brightness: Auto
Everything else: Default
I get:
7+ hours screen-on time
18 hours of usage, AND
By the end of the day, I still have 10-20% battery leftover.
It turns out Facebook is a battery parasite (, but having a google account is the true mother of all battery hogs. From my own experience, Google Services uses about 35% of my juice. After removing the google account entirely, Google Services use only 5%
Opinion:
Google services are cool, but NOT cool enough to sacrifice both my privacy and a high-quality phone experience to. I now enjoy my phone as much as I please for as long as I'm awake.
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nice to know that... by the how much time your charger takes to full charge your phone?? my is taking 2.5 hours from 0 to 100... is that normal? i m using stock 1.5 A charger.. wht about u?

I honestly have no idea, but, "Overnight" should accurately account for that. It's terrible, I know.
Cheers

@shirreer how did you remove google account. Is it by disabling google services?

To remove a Google Account:
Settings -> Accounts and Sync -> Google
Tap the 3-dots menu next to your name, select remove.
You might also want to clear the data for Google+, Google Now, and Google Play Services (must deactivate ADM first).
Good luck.

everyday i got 18 hours 5 hours sot. if i use more lte during the day the sot go down to 4 hours, but i always use high brightness with auto enabled, sync activated and location on battery saver.

My phone usually charges in around 1hr30min from 5 to 100 (although Im using a 2amp charger). So seems about right. I am running stock Lollipop from the GPE (5.1). Usually I am getting around 4hrs sot. I do have Google services enabled as I do use them often and screen brightness at around 45%. The only app i have greenified is FB.
Overnight Im draining due to Nlp wakelock. Anybody experience this?