Weird battery drain issue? - One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So I flashed a new ROM this morning, (from 100% battery, Digitals GPE ROM to be exact) since then I am getting weird battery brain issues. Once I flashed it I immediately went to 65% percent. I thought ok, maybe it is because a new ROM, whatever.
But before I charged up to 100%, and my battery start losing 1% every minute. Now it's sitting at 62% and not moving (which is good I suppose.) Here is what I am talking about:
http://i.imgur.com/fNPBvEW.png
Any idea what might be causing this?

Recon0212 said:
So I flashed a new ROM this morning, (from 100% battery, Digitals GPE ROM to be exact) since then I am getting weird battery brain issues. Once I flashed it I immediately went to 65% percent. I thought ok, maybe it is because a new ROM, whatever.
But before I charged up to 100%, and my battery start losing 1% every minute. Now it's sitting at 62% and not moving (which is good I suppose.) Here is what I am talking about:
http://i.imgur.com/fNPBvEW.png
Any idea what might be causing this?
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Could you please install Wakelock Detector from the play store and leave it running for a few hours and then post some snapshots of the results?
You can find the official download link here.
Also some good advice would be to install Greenify and once we figure out what is causing this, simply 'Greenify' it. Well that is depending on whats causing it..

Yes, that screen shot says nothing useful.
Try as suggested above, or Gsam and Gsam root companion and check wake times.

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[Q] Instant battery drain

Hey all
Something strange happened with my HD this morning.
At 5:30 the battery level was 90 %.
I wanted to test the battery drain, by leaving Mobile Data on,
and have Current Widget make a log file.
When i woke up at 11:30 the phone was dead. The battery
was completely empty....
I looked at the log file of Current Widget, and everything
was normal. Battery use was 3-5 mA, with the occasional spike to 50 mA,
where it prob. updated something.
Then at 07:36 it used 54 mA, and was on 86 %, and then nothing.
It died. And the battery was empty......
From 86% to zero in under 1 minute ?!?
Has anyone ever heard of such a thing ?
I'm on Core Droid 6.3, with Kernel Leedroid 2.6.35.13
Baseband : 12.54.60.2SU_26.09.04.11_M2
Have never had any problems before, and didn't install anything new...
Thanx for any help.
Maybe a battery calibration is in place?
brundlefly01 said:
Hey all
Something strange happened with my HD this morning.
At 5:30 the battery level was 90 %.
I wanted to test the battery drain, by leaving Mobile Data on,
and have Current Widget make a log file.
When i woke up at 11:30 the phone was dead. The battery
was completely empty....
I looked at the log file of Current Widget, and everything
was normal. Battery use was 3-5 mA, with the occasional spike to 50 mA,
where it prob. updated something.
Then at 07:36 it used 54 mA, and was on 86 %, and then nothing.
It died. And the battery was empty......
Thanx for any help.
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3 things:
-you wake up at 11:30???? great hour!lol
-when you flashed your current rom you did wipe battery status?
-maybe there is some openned apk´s? take a look in settings-- process in progress
-if the problem persists and you can´t solve it i recommend to you do will wipe
reflash the rom, wipe batt. status & use batery calibrator tool
Hawks556 said:
Maybe a battery calibration is in place?
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SERGI.3210 said:
3 things:
-you wake up at 11:30???? great hour!lol
-when you flashed your current rom you did wipe battery status?
-maybe there is some openned apk´s? take a look in settings-- process in progress
-if the problem persists and you can´t solve it i recommend to you do will wipe
reflash the rom, wipe batt. status & use batery calibrator tool
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Thank You guys.
I did wipe Battery Status, and it has been running with no problem, and with
great battery life for about a week.
What freaked me was, that it happened so fast. According to Current Widget's
log file anyway.
From 86% to dead in under 1 minute.
Sounds imposibble. Just hope it never happens again
It has been running fine all day, with minimal battery use....
Thanx again, guys.

[Q] 4.4.2 Battery Life issues - less than 25% total life compared to previous version

Hello, new to the forums here. I recently updated to 4.4.2 on my LG Optimus G Pro and I went from having a battery that lasted all day, sometimes two days to my phone being dead by the time I get home from work for the day ever since the update.
Two days ago I had 1hr18min of screen time within a 6 hours off the charger and the phone was at 15% battery life left. Today, I had 13 minutes of on screen time and at the end of my 6 hour shift my phone was at 40% and dead a few hours after I got home. I have GPS, bluetooth, NFS all disabled and my brightness set to 30%.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm thinking of doing a factory reset and just not updating to the new version of android when it prompts.
Thanks
silentvelcr0 said:
Hello, new to the forums here. I recently updated to 4.4.2 on my LG Optimus G Pro and I went from having a battery that lasted all day, sometimes two days to my phone being dead by the time I get home from work for the day ever since the update.
Two days ago I had 1hr18min of screen time within a 6 hours off the charger and the phone was at 15% battery life left. Today, I had 13 minutes of on screen time and at the end of my 6 hour shift my phone was at 40% and dead a few hours after I got home. I have GPS, bluetooth, NFS all disabled and my brightness set to 30%.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm thinking of doing a factory reset and just not updating to the new version of android when it prompts.
Thanks
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Get betterbatterystats and see if you phone deep sleeps. If not then check what the wakelocks are in partial wakelocks. If it's a kernel problem maybe you need to flash a different kernel.
cxyjordan said:
Get betterbatterystats and see if you phone deep sleeps. If not then check what the wakelocks are in partial wakelocks. If it's a kernel problem maybe you need to flash a different kernel.
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i am running stock phone. it is not rooted or anything
Same exact battery drain problem. Im on stock e980 rom (rooted) with no custom kernel.
Gsam battery monitor app is showing the kernel as keeping my phone wake for the entire time my phone has been unplugged.
The problem seems to come and go though. One day itll be fine, but another day the battery will be sucked dry fast.
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I'm running stock rooted for e980 and have pretty good battery life .... Try clearing Google play services data and rebooting ... Check and see what's draining your battery mol its pretty easy
2SHAYNEZ
I'm also running stock kernel, and have great battery life on kitkat. Just reset your phone to factory defaults
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ccelis said:
I'm also running stock kernel, and have great battery life on kitkat. Just reset your phone to factory defaults
Sent from my LG-F240L
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I've done this twice in the past 3 days....
I'm sick of having to set up my phone over and over again. And this is a new phone too. I just got it Monday under warranty because my old phone broke.
It's getting annoying. I used to get 14-17hrs+ of battery life (casual use, usually ending the day at 30-50% too, so I never even reached 0%) with my old phone on Jelly Bean. Now with Kitkat, I get around 6 hours if I'm lucky! According to Wakelock detector, my phone is awake 85%+ of the day! All it points to is Kernel (Android OS). I see lots of Wlan_wake triggers too, so I suspect wifi, but even with wifi off, the drainage still occurs. And I only have a 2GB data plan shared between 3 people, so it's not like I can just use data all the time either. I actually NEED wifi.
spexwood said:
I've done this twice in the past 3 days....
I'm sick of having to set up my phone over and over again. And this is a new phone too. I just got it Monday under warranty because my old phone broke.
It's getting annoying. I used to get 14-17hrs+ of battery life (casual use, usually ending the day at 30-50% too, so I never even reached 0%) with my old phone on Jelly Bean. Now with Kitkat, I get around 6 hours if I'm lucky! According to Wakelock detector, my phone is awake 85%+ of the day! All it points to is Kernel (Android OS). I see lots of Wlan_wake triggers too, so I suspect wifi, but even with wifi off, the drainage still occurs. And I only have a 2GB data plan shared between 3 people, so it's not like I can just use data all the time either. I actually NEED wifi.
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do you have an SD card installed? Maybe you can try to remove that and get rid of all other media from your phone storage. Might be a media scanner problem? Or maybe you can try to disable auto sync, and check if Google play services is the culprit.
Sent from my LG-F240L
ccelis said:
do you have an SD card installed? Maybe you can try to remove that and get rid of all other media from your phone storage. Might be a media scanner problem? Or maybe you can try to disable auto sync, and check if Google play services is the culprit.
Sent from my LG-F240L
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The media scanner usually shows up in the battery stats window though, and it isn't. I've had a corrupted SD card on my tablet once before and it caused media scanner to go berserk, but the Mediascanner entry appeared under Settings>Battery as the highest battery consumer.
In this case of my phone right now, it is Android OS in Settings>Battery. According to Wakelock detector, GSam, and BetterBatteryStats, it's more specifically Kernel.
spexwood said:
The media scanner usually shows up in the battery stats window though, and it isn't. I've had a corrupted SD card on my tablet once before and it caused media scanner to go berserk, but the Mediascanner entry appeared under Settings>Battery as the highest battery consumer.
In this case of my phone right now, it is Android OS in Settings>Battery. According to Wakelock detector, GSam, and BetterBatteryStats, it's more specifically Kernel.
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Have you tried reflashing your firmware, instead of just doing a factory reset?
I assume you are rooted since you are using BBS and wake lock detector on KK. Why not flash a custom rom?
Sent from my LG-F240L
Battery
silentvelcr0 said:
Hello, new to the forums here. I recently updated to 4.4.2 on my LG Optimus G Pro and I went from having a battery that lasted all day, sometimes two days to my phone being dead by the time I get home from work for the day ever since the update.
Two days ago I had 1hr18min of screen time within a 6 hours off the charger and the phone was at 15% battery life left. Today, I had 13 minutes of on screen time and at the end of my 6 hour shift my phone was at 40% and dead a few hours after I got home. I have GPS, bluetooth, NFS all disabled and my brightness set to 30%.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm thinking of doing a factory reset and just not updating to the new version of android when it prompts.
Thanks
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Hi i had the same problem as you but i started digging inside the system of the phone i found the problem but you will require root access. If you have root you have to delet a lib file tand it carrier iq wich run in background and drains your battery the file to delete is libiq_client.so do that and you will see an increase in battery life
Hav
ccelis said:
Have you tried reflashing your firmware, instead of just doing a factory reset?
I assume you are rooted since you are using BBS and wake lock detector on KK. Why not flash a custom rom?
Sent from my LG-F240L
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I did this on Tuesday or Wednesday.
... I messed something up on my phone while trying to install a custom recovery, so I was basically forced to reinstall everything. I'm on stock ATT e980 ROM (on an E980) + root. I reflashed the Jelly Bean tot file and then did the OTA update with no apps installed.
On the phone that got warrantied, I had flashed the E980 kitkat backup (now has a flashable version too), and the battery life seemed to be much better on it for about a week, and then the issues started there too.
I just rebooted the phone into recovery and wiped cache and Dalvik cache. Many people on Kitkat are reporting that this helps, but only for about 2 days then the issue returns. Obviously, I want a permanent solution.
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xoLEOox said:
Hi i had the same problem as you but i started digging inside the system of the phone i found the problem but you will require root access. If you have root you have to delet a lib file tand it carrier iq wich run in background and drains your battery the file to delete is libiq_client.so do that and you will see an increase in battery life
Hav
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I just tried this right now. Will see what happens.
Will report back if I see anything noticeable.
How would this this battery though? Like, what does it do? Are there any adverse effects to removing it?
EDIT: BTW, I know you weren't addressing this at me, but I'm still trying it LOL
spexwood said:
I did this on Tuesday or Wednesday.
... I messed something up on my phone while trying to install a custom recovery, so I was basically forced to reinstall everything. I'm on stock ATT e980 ROM (on an E980) + root. I reflashed the Jelly Bean tot file and then did the OTA update with no apps installed.
On the phone that got warrantied, I had flashed the E980 kitkat backup (now has a flashable version too), and the battery life seemed to be much better on it for about a week, and then the issues started there too.
I just rebooted the phone into recovery and wiped cache and Dalvik cache. Many people on Kitkat are reporting that this helps, but only for about 2 days then the issue returns. Obviously, I want a permanent solution.
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I just tried this right now. Will see what happens.
Will report back if I see anything noticeable.
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Ok restart when you delete the file this is a permanent solution for me i hope this helps you as it did me
ccelis said:
I assume you are rooted since you are using BBS and wake lock detector on KK. Why not flash a custom rom?
Sent from my LG-F240L
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I didn't see this part of your message, but I just had to respond lol
Yes, I'm rooted and I absolutely hate custom roms. They take out all the features of the phone that I originally bought the phone for, like Smart Screen, the IR remote (yes, I know it can be ported), and the quick memo button. Plus I used custom ROMs on my old SGS2 and they always caused me tons of problems. Crashes, overheating, random reboots, random SODs, etc etc etc. Plus I hate the AOSP feel. I know it's true Android, but I just don;t like it.
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xoLEOox said:
Ok restart when you delete the file this is a permanent solution for me i hope this helps you as it did me
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I'm still getting more than usual battery drain, but it is better now.
I just got a replacement OEM LG battery, so I will try that to see if maybe the battery is defective. When I got my phone replaced under warranty, they didn't have batteries in stock, so they just gave me back my old one and ordered me a knew one. The old phone was overheating a lot too, so maybe the battery is bad.
UPDATE: OK, MUUUUUUUUUCH better battery now!
I put in that new battery and "recalibrated" it by draining it to 0% and charging with the power off. Once it reached 100%, I let it charge an extra hour, unplugged, and started up the phone.
I also installed Qualcomm Snapdragon's Battery Guru. I set it up so that it's mostly managing app syncing, but I also set it up so that it will not rely on location services to turn on/off my wifi. I don't want to leave my location services on all the time. I don't know how it is on Kitkat, but on older Android versions (ICS and GB), leaving GPS on was a huge battery drainer! I still treat location like it was back then.
Anyways, it will take a few days for the app to learn my usage patterns, but it's already helping by making certain apps only sync when I open them, etc. I suspect that all the wlan_wake wakelocks are being caused by auto-sync but I'm reluctant to turn it completely off since i rely on it to sync my work schedule, calendar, etc between my phone and tablet. I just wish there was a system setting to allow auto-sync to run every X hours or something. I really only need the sync to run every 6 hours or so.
It's been about 35mins now with 6mins of screen time and the phone is still at 100%. A few text messages and the installation of Battery Guru too. This is normal and how things used to be. After a while, the phone will most likely go to 99% and then have faster drain, but it shouldn't be so rapid like before. Earlier today, after 30mins, the battery would be at at least 95% or lower by now! After a full day, the battery usage graph would should a 45 degree angle too! It used to be an almost level, very gradual angle instead.
I should also mention that for a while, I was using a Zero Lemon slim battery (3150mAh). I bought it because of all the hype Zero Lemon was getting here on XDA, but I really regret it now. I used it for 2 weeks (1 week on my broken phone and 1 week on my replacement) and the drain wasn't consistent, even after several calibration attempts. It lasted me all day though, but I'd be stuck at maybe 3% for like an hour, then while in deep sleep, the battery would "magically charge" to 6%.
After I swapped back to the OEM battery, I don't think I recalibrated, so I wonder if my phone thought I was still using the Zero Lemon.
I'm planning to return the Zero Lemon.
UPDATE2: It's been a couple hours now and the Android OS is starting to retreat from the #1 slot in the battery consumption list!
Screen is #1 now and Android OS went from 65% usage to 14%! :good: :good:
UPDATE3: :crying: OK, it's broken again. I didn't do anything to the phone, but when the phone hit 50%, I left it alone for 2 hours and the battery drained 30% while it was supposed to be sleeping. Android OS is back up to 80% usage!
Wifi on, Location off, Bluetooth off, auto-sync on. I'm trying auto-sync off today to see if there's any dramatic improvement.
UPDATE4: I might be on to something now. I noticed 2 things: 1st, when the screen is off and the phone is SUPPOSED to be in deep sleep, the back of the phone stays warm to the touch. It wasn't hot, but it was warm enough to be noticeable. 2nd, I had System Tuner installed yesterday but uninstalled it this morning. Despite uninstalling and rebooting, the phone was still draining battery fast (I still lost 25% in 2 hours today!). I noticed that System Tuner had added a script to System/etc/init.d, so I deleted that and rebooted. Now the phone seems to be sleeping (says so in BetterBatteryStats and WakeLockDetector), and the back of the phone is COLD to the touch when doing so. I took a shower today (I take fairly long showers too LOL), and then checked my email, and the battery life didn't decrease at all during that time while it was asleep.
Obviously, I need to test this throughout the day now, but this is definite progress, if not the solution.
Also, on my warrantied phone, when I had the Zero Lemon battery inserted, battery drain was high (battery's fault), so I installed System Tuner then too, trying to tweak the phone. After switching back to the stock battery, the drain remained, but most likely due to System Tuner's script.
Then when I got my replacement phone, I ALSO installed System Tuner and of course, I got battery drain issues! I factory reset, but did not install System Tuner, but the problem still remained. However, it probably remained because the reset doesn't remove system files, so this script was still in the init.d folder.
FINAL: I ended up flashing the stock ROM again (I used Eazy Kat 1.0 this time). My phone began bugging out on me. Random crashes here and there, mobile data randomly disappearing (no LTE/4G/3G at all), and worst of all, people were having difficulty hearing me during calls. Reflashing seems to have worked perfectly this time. *knock on wood*
FYI: The last flashes I did, I used .tot files to flash back to stock Jelly Bean and then updated to Kitkat via OTA.
xoLEOox said:
Hi i had the same problem as you but i started digging inside the system of the phone i found the problem but you will require root access. If you have root you have to delet a lib file tand it carrier iq wich run in background and drains your battery the file to delete is libiq_client.so do that and you will see an increase in battery life
Hav
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I stumbled across this post and tried that fix. I'll check back in later to see what it does.

M8 with Android Revolution HD 10.2

I have some what of an odd problem with battery life and this rom. I've looked all over the net with just battery problems, and tried a few things. The most common problem I had when I was on 9.1 of this rom was my phone radio was always using around 40% of power even when wifi and data was off or just having one or the other on.
With 10.2 the battery life is much better, so was with 9.1 when I first installed it. I'm very new to this, this is my first rom, my first root.
First couple of days of installing the 9.1 AR HD my phone would be 100% through the whole night, and I'm talking 8+ hours of no use with 100%, not plugged in. Couple of weeks of use, and every night I would start losing 10%. I install the 10.2 AR HD update and again, phone lives through the night without even losing a single percent, then slowly starts losing more and more every new day when asleep.
A new install usually last me about a week and a half of battery life, then slowly starts draining faster where the battery is only good for a couple of days. What is causing such a major decrease in battery? Should I try clearing anything in the restore UI like catch and delvik, not sure what the second one was called?
I use the phone mostly for music, a phone call here and there, texting. And like I said, the very first install or update would get me about a week and a half, then starts degrading.
Thank you for your help.
Maybe a rogue app? Did you try not to install any apps after a factory reset to see if you have the same behaviour? You can also install an app like Gsam battery monitor or betterbatterystats which will tell you what is draining your battery
Yes, I have gsam, and that's where I knew the phone radio was being used at 40%, everything else looked normal. I also don't have many apps installed.
But like I said, the battery performance degrades after a week. I could start uninstalling things, don't think that would help me much as I only have less then 6-8 apps.
Try installing betterbatterystats. The partial wakelocks setting might give you more info
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By the way do you have some Gsam screenshots to share? Maybe your phone signal is low and that's what's eating the battery
much hshysfo
Ok, so I cannot post links yet or anything like that. So maybe this will work.
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SpaceGold said:
Ok, so I cannot post links yet or anything like that. So maybe this will work.
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Seriously I wish I had your stats. There is absolutely nothing wrong with your phone. 18 % in 19 hours is fantastic. What you see as radio 21h there is the same as phone active. Basically if your phone is not on airplane mode then radio is active. Nothing to worry about
I only did the update a day ago from 9.1 to 10.2. The problem I had with 9.1 was that after a few weeks of use, the battery life started to get bad. Which is why I'm trying to figure out if there is anything I could try when or if it starts happening again.
Or to be more precise, what would cause the phone to be so good for the first week of installing the rom then start degrading. Because that just makes no sense.

battery drainage

anyone else pixle 3 XL has a huge battery drainage? I go from 100 percent to 82 percent in one hour on standby time.. Does anyone has a fix or know what can be causing it to drain like that?
99% of the time it's an app causing it. Look in your battery stats and see what's draining it
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superchilpil said:
99% of the time it's an app causing it. Look in your battery stats and see what's draining it
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No, it's not a app, it started doing this after the June software update. I also has it in safe mode and left it on standby for two hours and it's still draining fast. I could probably left it there for a few hours and it would've been dead the way it's draining.
Cantholdthis17 said:
No, it's not a app, it started doing this after the June software update. I also has it in safe mode and left it on standby for two hours and it's still draining fast. I could probably left it there for a few hours and it would've been dead the way it's draining.
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Try resetting all apps in the reset menu within Settings. If that doesn't work find better battery stats (BBS) here on xda. Install and let it run overnight. In the morning retrieve the log and if it is as bad as you say, the culprit should be obvious. If not just update the phone flashing July (full image not OTA) and let it wipe your data (don't edit the flash-all script)
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Try resetting all apps in the reset menu within Settings. If that doesn't work find better battery stats (BBS) here on xda. Install and let it run overnight. In the morning retrieve the log and if it is as bad as you say, the culprit should be obvious. If not just update the phone flashing July (full image not OTA) and let it wipe your data (don't edit the flash-all script)
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To be fair the July update has been the worse for me.
I posted a battery stats reset tutorial in pixel 3 xl forum, i was having same issue of battery drain 2% every 3/5 mins, it worked for me, and im 90% sure its the device health services eating up the battery due to the app not sleeping and and getting stuck, resulting in a warm phone and battery drain. Im not saying it will fix you issue but it defo worked for me., Search possible fix for idle battery drain. If reset properly, battery app will say something like "last charge 55days ago " or when ever your phone was calibrated at factory.
Disable digital wellbeing. Mine went from off the charger at 6am, less than 15% by 9pm to 30-40% left at 9. Just find usage access (just search in settings), find it and click it off. Then go to the app and restrict battery and turn off background data. This worked for me, but I don't know if anyone else here tried it. I did read an article about it affecting performance though. Let me know if it helps!

new battery and having the same problems before the old one died.

Hi all,
I got a new battery a week ago, because my phone didn't turn on or charged anymore.
But my battery keeps draining. I lose around 25% in idle at night time. And around 3% every 5 minutes when I use it.
I used gsam for a few days now to see iff there are any applications that are causing the drain. So far I can't discover any.
Also when I'm using my phone the side of the power button gets hotter then the rest of my phone. While the battery and cpu both are under 40 C.
I do have android 10 and 2.1 ui from devbase rom with soldier 6.0 clean installed, tried other roms aswell, so maybe I should get back to android pie?
I also started using ex kernel with the standerd underclock option you can choose while flashing this helps a bit.
Hopefully somebody can help me out.
Some gsam data
I have the same. I used different roms and kernels, all the same. I turn on airplane mode for the night. it helps a bit.
bolek932 said:
I have the same. I used different roms and kernels, all the same. I turn on airplane mode for the night. it helps a bit.
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Thank you, this reassures me that It's just a coincidence that my battery died, and that the behavior of my phone at the moment doesn't mean it would happen again.
packman89 said:
Some gsam data
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I do notice, that gsam says that that I am using wifi all the time. And it shows that battery usage is high when this happens.
The only thing is that I never use wifi anywhere..
I don't know if this is something to go on or just normal behavior?

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