Every day, I charge my Galaxy Nexus to 100% and in about two hours it's down to 15% regardless of whether I use it or not.
Every time I check on the battery, it says "Mediaserver 61%". Sometimes it's lower, sometimes it's higher. I barely have any media on the phone.
What do I do?
Come on, guys. My battery is dying!
Are you rooted? Which rom are you running if so. Have you been listening to music all day?
Track607 said:
Come on, guys. My battery is dying!
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Are you rooted? Which rom are you running if so. Have you been listening to music all day?
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No, I'm not currently rooted, but I should.
No, I don't listen to anything. The phone is barely used.
I know I can get it from watching porn through my browser.
sent from a stock AT&T Galaxy S III LTE
Track607 said:
No, I'm not currently rooted, but I should.
No, I don't listen to anything. The phone is barely used.
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Then theres not really much i can tell you if your not rooted. Sorry. But a factory reset is what I'm thinking of. Could work. Make sure to backup first. (Take files and put them on your computer) rooting will defiantly fix your problem
Track607 said:
No, I'm not currently rooted, but I should.
No, I don't listen to anything. The phone is barely used.
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So you have tried restarting the phone and still ended up having Mediaserver draining your battery?
I have same problem to using media server.. I do not want to use it
Frezi Evan said:
I have same problem to using media server.. I do not want to use it
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Did you try restarting your phone? It could also be from an app you have installed on your phone.
jkleo said:
Did you try restarting your phone? It could also be from an app you have installed on your phone.
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I am tired to restart my phone. But not response..
Frezi Evan said:
I am tired to restart my phone. But not response..
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You're tired to restart your phone? So you haven't read started it? Because usually a reboot would fix the random Mediaserver battery drain.
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You're tired to restart your phone? So you haven't read started it? Because usually a reboot would fix the random Mediaserver battery drain.
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Yes, I've tried that but it doesn't work.
As an example, I rebooted it before going to sleep. It had a 75% charge. When I wake up - 30% and mediaserver took up 65% of it.
Track607 said:
Yes, I've tried that but it doesn't work.
As an example, I rebooted it before going to sleep. It had a 75% charge. When I wake up - 30% and mediaserver took up 65% of it.
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Then it's either one of your apps is misbehaving and you'll have to find it and remove it, or you'll have to factory reset the phone. You can try installing BetterBatteryStats first and check under partial wakelocks to see what apps are always running that could trigger the mediaserver. It's at least something to try other than wiping the phone I suppose.
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Yes, I've tried that but it doesn't work.
As an example, I rebooted it before going to sleep. It had a 75% charge. When I wake up - 30% and mediaserver took up 65% of it.
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Yes. You are right.. That's is same i have faced..
Frezi Evan said:
Yes. You are right.. That's is same i have faced..
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I'm going to take some time this weekend and try to figure out which app is causing this.
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I'm going to take some time this weekend and try to figure out which app is causing this.
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I do not know. At the end of result i want to stop or finished my media server..
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It seems like my evo is full of problems.
1.(attachment 2) Is a 4 hour battery normal?
2.(attachment 1) Why would my evo always be at 100% CPU usage. I don't think I was even using the phone at the time.(If this has anything to do with it, when I installed widget locker I checked the box to bypass the 5 second android limitation, I forget What it was)
3.(attachment 4) Shouldn't the up time and awake time be diffident? Is this whats killing my battery?
did this start recently? if so have you just installed tango?
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did this start recently? if so have you just installed tango?
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Im not sure if it stated when I installed tango but yes I have tango installed
Tango does not allow your phone to sleep, uninstall it.
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bwcorvus said:
Tango does not allow your phone to sleep, uninstall it.
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wow that sucks, it would be such a good app besides that
I uninstalled it and rebooted and the wake time is about 30 sec ahead of the uptime but thats about it, isint there supposed to be a bigger difference?
skittlesV1 said:
I uninstalled it and rebooted and the wake time is about 30 sec ahead of the uptime but thats about it, isint there supposed to be a bigger difference?
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Let it sit idle with the screen off for a couple minutes and check it again. I also see you have skype running in the background. I hear that's a battery hog as well.
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Let it sit idle with the screen off for a couple minutes and check it again. I also see you have skype running in the background. I hear that's a battery hog as well.
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thanx guys for this wonderful post. i was pulling my hair off since last nite bc my wake n up was the same with 100% usage. i have made my own rom so i knew i had done stuff right. finally after readin this forum i found out it was damn Tango. uninstalled it and its back ot normal. its a shame its such a great app i hope they fix it.
I was also going nuts with the same issue... I hope they sort out the wakelock issue with Tango, because it would be great otherwise.
dustindw said:
I was also going nuts with the same issue... I hope they sort out the wakelock issue with Tango, because it would be great otherwise.
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in the next week or so yahoo will be releasing their video chat to iphone (if it gets approved) and android, so theyre going to be on top because you can use video chat to a computer
Since I installed the 4.2 OTA the phone wakes up regurarly every few minutes (maybe 15/20 minutes).
I left the phone in 2G mode only last night (no wifi, no data, no sync) and at 100% and woke up this morning at 85% and could not understand why, now I knwo...
Anyone else?
BetterBatteryStats
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BetterBatteryStats
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u suggesting me to install better battery stats to verify where the problem is?
you have a misbehaving app(s).
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you have a misbehaving app(s).
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but I have only updated to 4.2 and have not installed any app
ok I have installe better battery stats, now what? how can I check which is the app waking up my phone?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Galaxy S III with Tmobile, stock ROM, android 4.1.2.
With wifi off, GPS off, auto sync off and mobile data off (so basically I just keep the phone function on), the battery drop 7% over night without any usage. I think there is too much, right? attached are sceenshot of battery usage and also wakelock dection. Could anyone give me some advice on how to save more battery? wakelock shows wechat app had most of the wakelock but I am not sure if this contribute to the battery since it shows 5% in battery stats.
Thank you.
PS: don't know how to arrange screenshot, the first and third one is for battery stats, the second one is from wakelock dectection
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Galaxy S III with Tmobile, stock ROM, android 4.1.2.
With wifi off, GPS off, auto sync off and mobile data off (so basically I just keep the phone function on), the battery drop 7% over night without any usage. I think there is too much, right? attached are sceenshot of battery usage and also wakelock dection. Could anyone give me some advice on how to save more battery? wakelock shows wechat app had most of the wakelock but I am not sure if this contribute to the battery since it shows 5% in battery stats.
Thank you.
PS: don't know how to arrange screenshot, the first and third one is for battery stats, the second one is from wakelock dectection
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Your signal is crap. Turn WiFi back on and leave it connected to a network.
Delete carrier iq. Need to be rooted to do it. Are you?
WeChat is a problem that needs to be dealt with. I suspect WiFi will fix it.
All of what he said, plus, read woody's battery thread. It's linked in the sticky roll up.
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Your signal is crap. Turn WiFi back on and leave it connected to a network.
Delete carrier iq. Need to be rooted to do it. Are you?
WeChat is a problem that needs to be dealt with. I suspect WiFi will fix it.
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Yes, tmobile signal is pretty bad. How do you tell it? is the cell standby too high percentage? I will try keep wifi on and see any difference.
Not root yet, is there a list of carrier(tmobile) apps that can be safely deleted/disabled?
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All of what he said, plus, read woody's battery thread. It's linked in the sticky roll up.
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Yes, I have that on my bookmark and will follow it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1969741.
henry8668 said:
Not root yet, is there a list of carrier(tmobile) apps that can be safely deleted/disabled?
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Once you are rooted, assuming you want to do that, first make a nandroid. Then run my_debloater from my signature. Will remove all the T-Mobile/Samsung apps.
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Once you are rooted, assuming you want to do that, first make a nandroid. Then run my_debloater from my signature. Will remove all the T-Mobile/Samsung apps.
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My is SGH-T999L, so I probably will be following docHolidy77's post for rooting: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2370981
when you say "make a nandroid", is it same as "BACKUP YOUR NV-DATA" in second post of the docHoliday77's thread? or something else?
Thanks
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My is SGH-T999L, so I probably will be following docHolidy77's post for rooting: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2370981
when you say "make a nandroid", is it same as "BACKUP YOUR NV-DATA" in second post of the docHoliday77's thread? or something else?
Thanks
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Nandroid is the backup through recovery. These are not the same thing, but you absolutely need to do them both. Immediately. It's a 10 second operation that can save you hours of time later.
maybe it's just me, but 1% loss per hour doesn't seem too bad.
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maybe it's just me, but 1% loss per hour doesn't seem too bad.
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It's not good.
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It's not good.
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oh. good to know since i lose about 1% an hour overnight as well. I'm already running Dandroid rom, so will running your debloater in your sig help? And I just flash the zip file with TWRP right? Thanks
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oh. good to know since i lose about 1% an hour overnight as well. I'm already running Dandroid rom, so will running your debloater in your sig help? And I just flash the zip file with TWRP right? Thanks
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My guess is probably not as most custom roms have already been debloated.
Keep in mind too, as your battery ages, it's performance will decrease, so on a 1.5 year old battery, a 1% an hour drain really isn't too bad imo. you might be able to make it better, but it's up to you if you want to.put the time into trying.
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oh. good to know since i lose about 1% an hour overnight as well. I'm already running Dandroid rom, so will running your debloater in your sig help? And I just flash the zip file with TWRP right? Thanks
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It might, but I'd rather see an idle BBS log from you.
charged, reboot and turn on wifi before I went to bed last night. It did change some of metric, however it still dropped 8% from 98% to 90%...
My battery is about 3 months old, any suggestion what else to do to find out which app/process is consuming most of the battery?
henry8668 said:
charged, reboot and turn on wifi before I went to bed last night. It did change some of metric, however it still dropped 8% from 98% to 90%...
My battery is about 3 months old, any suggestion what else to do to find out which app/process is consuming most of the battery?
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Looking at your screenies, what I can tell right off is that many of your apps are polling constantly.
Android OS or System (I can't remember which atm) is probably your location settings broadcasting. Go into Settings>Location and also Google App Settings>Location and see what your location is set at.
HD Widgets is polling your location to do the weather, which is understandable, but see if you can change the refresh rate to further out (maybe every hour or so).
Carrier IQ and VisualVoicemail are only able to be disabled via Root. Once you get Root, then you can disable those (either freeze in Titanium Backup or pull the app out of /system/app or use Aerowinder's debloater).
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Looking at your screenies, what I can tell right off is that many of your apps are polling constantly.
Android OS or System (I can't remember which atm) is probably your location settings broadcasting. Go into Settings>Location and also Google App Settings>Location and see what your location is set at.
HD Widgets is polling your location to do the weather, which is understandable, but see if you can change the refresh rate to further out (maybe every hour or so).
Carrier IQ and VisualVoicemail are only able to be disabled via Root. Once you get Root, then you can disable those (either freeze in Titanium Backup or pull the app out of /system/app or use Aerowinder's debloater).
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polling apps: from wakelock, carrier IQ and visualvoicemail are the two that in the top, could be ones that using most of battery? wechat(x252) and weibo(x149) have high number but very short in time, do they have big impact on battery drop?
Location service is checked on all three items. I will turn it off to see the impact. I have to remember turn on before using gmap and turn it off after close gmap.
HD widges, already set the location to my home, not using 'detect current location'. fresh rate is 1 hour. I will turn on those battery saving features(don't update when screen off)
thanks.
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polling apps: from wakelock, carrier IQ and visualvoicemail are the two that in the top, could be ones that using most of battery? wechat(x252) and weibo(x149) have high number but very short in time, do they have big impact on battery drop?
Location service is checked on all three items. I will turn it off to see the impact. I have to remember turn on before using gmap and turn it off after close gmap.
HD widges, already set the location to my home, not using 'detect current location'. fresh rate is 1 hour. I will turn on those battery saving features(don't update when screen off)
thanks.
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I understand why people like WLD, but I really need to see a BetterBatteryStats log to fully understand what's happening. But you need root, carrier iq is pretty much spyware.
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I understand why people like WLD, but I really need to see a BetterBatteryStats log to fully understand what's happening. But you need root, carrier iq is pretty much spyware.
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I am getting BetterBatteryStats... that thread is scary to read, over 1950+ pages!
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I am getting BetterBatteryStats... that thread is scary to read, over 1950+ pages!
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Post your logs here and I'll have a look. 4+ hours idle time, little or no usage. During the night is best.
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... that thread is scary to read, over 1950+ pages!
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If you are going to try and read that, then see you next week, hahaha.
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Best thing to do is what Aerowinder said above and let it sit idle for 4+ hours or overnight with BBB running.
Then what we want to see are screen shots of:
Since Unplugged/Processes
Since Unplugged/ Wakelocks
Since Unplugged/Partial Wakelocks.
My superfecta is CarrierIQ ftw, Android OS (location) for Place, WeChat for Show and Sync services (calendar, g/email) for 4th.
One thing that I do like is that I do not see any FB, G+ or Twitter in your screenies. Those three suck (literally) on battery.
Ok so I bought this phone on Monday. The very first day it gave me a mammoth battery life. I mean a ridiculous OST of 5h 45m 9s and still 7% juice left (screenshots attached in 2nd post).
And then the very next day issues started. First the Android OS... I charged my phone 100% and slept. Woke up and saw it at around 61%.. Shocked and unhappy. Googled a bit and by Noon I stopped a lot of Samsung **** going on at the back. Android OS became normal but MEDIA started to show its baddd side..
And just try to see in the screenshots, it shows the WIFI was on all time/all the time. However I never turned it on. It was off all night.
Screenshots are attached below. Would love some help/guidance here.
And one more thing. All of a sudden the Lock Screen's funky wallpaper has changed into a blue screen wallpaper that has some weird shortcuts ! Why is it happening. Restating the device brings back the same funky paint color wallpaper but then within minutes its back to the same sh*t.
First day usage SCs
do you have any screenshot(s) of the blue screen wallpaper with the weird shortcuts? I'm not experiencing any issues like this.
Don't you think you've touched it unconsciously while you're asleep with parts of your body that toggled the wifi and other stuff?
Try a factory reset
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do you have any screenshot(s) of the blue screen wallpaper with the weird shortcuts? I'm not experiencing any issues like this.
Don't you think you've touched it unconsciously while you're asleep with parts of your body that toggled the wifi and other stuff?
Try a factory reset
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Oh factory reset sucks lol. By the way, I was reading from somewhere (android central forum i think) that to kill Android OS frome ating up all battery, install some CLEAR RAM app to clear your RAM.. which I did. And yesternight I figured out that this clear ram app changed my lockscreen itself..without asking me. So i deleted. Also, I deleted everything on SD Card and removed it. Now I dont know whats keeping the Android OS and MEDIA up all the time. The apps I have installed so far are:
skype, whatsapp, viber, sacebook and temple run. They were installed from day 1 so if they are creating problems, why didnt they create any impact on Day 1? And these are pretty normal apps which I dont think should create any problem.
Plus, wifi always on issue is resolved to by unchecking some option in wifi menu.
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Oh factory reset sucks lol. By the way, I was reading from somewhere (android central forum i think) that to kill Android OS frome ating up all battery, install some CLEAR RAM app to clear your RAM.. which I did. And yesternight I figured out that this clear ram app changed my lockscreen itself..without asking me. So i deleted. Also, I deleted everything on SD Card and removed it. Now I dont know whats keeping the Android OS and MEDIA up all the time. The apps I have installed so far are:
skype, whatsapp, viber, sacebook and temple run. They were installed from day 1 so if they are creating problems, why didnt they create any impact on Day 1? And these are pretty normal apps which I dont think should create any problem.
Plus, wifi always on issue is resolved to by unchecking some option in wifi menu.
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delete all the apps u download.then put them back one by one.then monitor each app u download before u download another one.or better root your phone and install greenify.and delete all the bloatware.
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first l sympatise with you. There is no problem on Unrooted phone that factory reset cannot Solve except it is factory fault issue, but this is not factory Cos it was ok on day 1.
Your instant messager like Skype and BBM are mainly the applications that hog battery.
Ensure you did not restrict background processes in Developers option.
Ensure your wifi 'and GPS are off when you don't need them.
Don't install any process killer.
Stop auto update
put your phone in battery saving mode.
check to see If there is downloading process going on at background
Also see if there is live streaming (MEDIA SERVER) going on sites you visited like Youtube.
check the running processes in application manager in setting and check if any is constantly RESTARTING. Look for a way to stop such .
Above all try to wait for the research l did on BATTERY POWER AND DATA MANAGEMENT which I will post soon.
Good Luck
Well, one thing that helps is retracing your steps back from the time the problem was first noticed.
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first l sympatise with you. There is no problem on Unrooted phone that factory reset cannot Solve except it is factory fault issue, but this is not factory Cos it was ok on day 1.
Your instant messager like Skype and BBM are mainly the applications that hog battery.
Ensure you did not restrict background processes in Developers option.
Ensure your wifi 'and GPS are off when you don't need them.
Don't install any process killer.
Stop auto update
put your phone in battery saving mode.
check to see If there is downloading process going on at background
Also see if there is live streaming (MEDIA SERVER) going on sites you visited like Youtube.
check the running processes in application manager in setting and check if any is constantly RESTARTING. Look for a way to stop such .
Above all try to wait for the research l did on BATTERY POWER AND DATA MANAGEMENT which I will post soon.
Good Luck
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Ensure you did not restrict background processes in Developers option.
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I haven't activated the Developers options as yet.
Ensure your wifi 'and GPS are off when you don't need them.
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Whenever I am not using Wifi and GPS, I "always" turn them off.
Don't install any process killer.
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Don't have any
Stop auto update
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Already stopped it. No auto-update activated since day 1
put your phone in battery saving mode.
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Just turned it on 2 days back.
Also see if there is live streaming (MEDIA SERVER) going on sites you visited like Youtube.
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How to stop it ...the Media Server? if i have played any youtube video etc.
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Well, one thing that helps is retracing your steps back from the time the problem was first noticed.
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Yeah, it's a pain though. But the wakelocks have reduced a bit. from 3...4 hours.. now it reaches 2 at max
filthykid said:
Yeah, it's a pain though. But the wakelocks have reduced a bit. from 3...4 hours.. now it reaches 2 at max
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Oh... Post your performance now then..
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Zubair1024 said:
Oh... Post your performance now then..
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Sure. But I wonder what caused it to go down. Whatever it is, I am happy haha
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Sure. But I wonder what caused it to go down. Whatever it is, I am happy haha
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Haha.. Alright that's great then
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Sure. But I wonder what caused it to go down. Whatever it is, I am happy haha
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Do you mean you phone battery performance is ok now?
Im happy for you.
But you did not PRESS the THANKS Button
omorofos said:
Do you mean you phone battery performance is ok now?
Im happy for you.
But you did not PRESS the THANKS Button
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Haha.. frankly speaking, all the options you told me, I had already applied them since the start. However mate, I just hit Thanks for the time and effort you took to reply. Appreciated bro
For some reason my M9 doesn't want to go into deep sleep much. Out of the 1 hour I have it off the charger, only 2 minutes were in deep sleep. I haven't used the phone at all in that 1 hour, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't be sleeping.
Does anyone have this problem or know how to fix it? Thanks
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.systempanel.r1
Buy, install, do proper settings, put it into monitoring mode.. then switch of screen and go sleep - in the morning see the activities what were happening during the night monitored..
jauhien said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.systempanel.r1
Buy, install, do proper settings, put it into monitoring mode.. then switch of screen and go sleep - in the morning see the activities what were happening during the night monitored..
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I've used a very similar app. There are no wake locks. All it says is "Android OS" is using 100% of the screen off battery. Even in the normal HTC battery settings, android OS is using 100%. Thanks for the help though.
System Panel is neither similar nor showing you those funny wakelocks..
It thoroughly informs you about CPU usage last night..
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System Panel is neither similar nor showing you those funny wakelocks..
It thoroughly informs you about CPU usage last night..
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Thanks, but all those apps are the same. They can only get a certain amount of info from the core system. There are apps that do the exact same thing for free, which is what I use.
As an update to my problem, rebooting the phone and clearing cache seemed to have solved the issue for now.
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Thanks, but all those apps are the same. They can only get a certain amount of info from the core system. There are apps that do the exact same thing for free, which is what I use.
As an update to my problem, rebooting the phone and clearing cache seemed to have solved the issue for now.
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If you run out of ideas on how to fix this, I'd say get root, get Xposed, and get Power Nap. Pretty much blocks all wakelocks at night and I see like 1% drain the next morning.
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If you run out of ideas on how to fix this, I'd say get root, get Xposed, and get Power Nap. Pretty much blocks all wakelocks at night and I see like 1% drain the next morning.
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Wait...xposed works on 64bit phones? Wow I've been missing out for nothing lol.
Yes, but make sure you use the xposed arm64 file.
This thread has the stuff
Here's the zip you want xposed-sdk21-arm64.zip
And you also need the alpha installer.