Using CoPilot GPS, Bluetooth with music playing, charging.
Phone randomly turned off. Possible heat?
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Hell yea. Charging any phone nowadays gets it hot. Then you use GPS and its software which are also great warmers to any phone. These + G3's conservative heat management = shutdown. Playing music over bluetooth is not a problem.
Check temp?
Well I tried just using Google Navigation on the way home from my 2 hour 30 minute drive, and that didn't cause any problems...
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What's the fastest way to drain a battery down ? I want to cycle through a few batteries and see if there's any improvement in battery life.
Play a game on it with Bluetooth and Wi-fi turned on, with the screen at maximum brightness ?
Do a massive amount of downloading from a 3H/HSPA service if your data plan allows you to do so ?
Depends if you want to leave the phone unattended or not while you do this.
Best way to do it unattended and without sound would be best. Right now I have Wireless Hotspot On, Bluetooth On, and I'm recording a video.
Make sure screen is on maximum brightness and set the screen timeouts as high as you can.
Use the video camera. Also try playing or streaming alot of videos.
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Install pocket legends, leave it there it drains battery real fast
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What I did:
Get the PhysX smart wallpaper and max out the settings (this will max out your cpu)
Screen brightness all the way up.
Turn on GPS.
Turn on BT.
Turn on Flash LED.
Download a huge file over wifi.
Disable locking/screen dimming.
the fastest way to drain IMO, FUll screen brightness, buletooth, Use Wireless Data (not-wifi) to stream Pandora, or Youtube or other videos continuosly
Record HD video with the flash constantly on, and just set the phone to the side. Or set up a trip in the google navigation app, but just let the phone sit. The GPS will eat up the battery pretty quickly.
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GPS seems to kill mine the best!
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GPS seems to kill mine the best!
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GPS eats battery like a fat kid eats cake!
Used navigation yesterday for about 15 minutes, drained nearly 10% of my battery!
cant believe this hasnt been said
play an albums worth of music at full volume.. dont get cute and use headphones now i want you to appreciate that single powerful G2 speaker for all its worth... !!!
Sorry if this has been answered, I searched and found nothing.
While going on a trip I attempted to use the GPS while my phone was plugged in.
Seems like a common enough thing to do.
Anyhow within an hour my phone got so hot that it shut itself down. Didn't realize it was getting that hot or I would have shut it off before then.
Also, I am having sound issues. The phone is a bit laggy and if I'm listening to music it will interfere with the sound when I flip screens, or when the phone goes to sleep or wakes up.
Is anyone else experiencing these types of issues?
I am using the kernel that it came with...
Also setCPU -> OnDemand
Min: 200
Max: 1000
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have my phone on the car charger with pandora and gps nav...
And the battery still dies
Guess using everything at once uses more power than the car charger provides lol
And I get the audio on turn on / off... haven't noticed on rotate though
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Use the kernel linked in the second post or VisionKernel.
Folks,
My phone seems to be guzzling battery when playing mp3s using the new music 3.0. I think I can get about 6-8 hours of music playing which seems pretty low with nothing else happening, screen mostly off unless I have to pause it, and set cpu running at 245mhz when the screen is off.
Looking at the battery use stats in Gingerbread (I'm currently using oxygen 2.3.3 ROM) it seems that the phone is pretty much constantly awake which I'm guessing isn't a good thing. If I stop playing music then the phone seems to sleep OK.
So is it normal for the phone to remain awake when playing mp3s? If no, is there something that could be causing this or a way to try and stop it. If yes, is there something I could try to get some battery life back?
Try another music player. If it's still happening then I would say that's normal. I get about that time on my phone.
i don,t think Desire can be used both as a phone and Music player , itd bound to die out in 6-8 hours
Guys.
Thanks for the replies.
I was able to use my touchHD as a phone and music player, with about 2x the battery life I get on the desire.
I must admit that I wasn't expecting such a big difference between these two devices.
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I tend to chew through about 10% battery in a regular 90 minute train journey playing music and sending the odd SMS or making a 1-2 minute call. I use poweramp player.
I think that's not bad!
Stringer
That's more like what I'd expect. I was watching things closely yesterday and I got less than 4 hours of mp3 playback with no calls, texts or web (except weather updates every 4 hours and Gmail background checking).
I think I may have found the culprit though. I was running widget locker with the phantom media controls widget. It appears that this may have resulted in 2 copies of the music 3 app running and draining the battery. Have removed both apps and I'll see how things go.
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Yes 4 hours to a dead battery just through music seems excessive.
Hope the above works for you. What is your standby battery drain like? I found android status app useful for keeping an eye on running processes
To find out the battery drain in standby, you can use battery monitor widget:
https://market.android.com/details?id=ccc71.bmw
In standby drain should be about 4-8 mA, not higher.
Things looked a little better yesterday.... fingers crossed.
I checked the current and it's 3 on standby. And at the moment this jumps to 60 when I have music 3.0 playing and the screen off.
Does that sound about right?
Thanks again.
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nitens said:
Things looked a little better yesterday.... fingers crossed.
I checked the current and it's 3 on standby. And at the moment this jumps to 60 when I have music 3.0 playing and the screen off.
Does that sound about right?
Thanks again.
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Like meaple just said, seems to be normal.
ytup desire drains battery very quick
The battery on my phone was somewhere above 80% when I turned on the GPS and used google maps to go somewhere. 10 minutes into the drive my phone shutdown instantly, no warning no notice of battery being low. After making it to my destination I came immediately home to for answers on this forum. I had thought that my phone crashed and wouldn't power back on. Well it didn't crash, it was out of power. Has anyone else seen this before 10minute battery drain with GPS turned on using maps. I am running jug5.0 with no other tweaking going on.
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The battery on my phone was somewhere above 80% when I turned on the GPS and used google maps to go somewhere. 10 minutes into the drive my phone shutdown instantly, no warning no notice of battery being low. After making it to my destination I came immediately home to for answers on this forum. I had thought that my phone crashed and wouldn't power back on. Well it didn't crash, it was out of power. Has anyone else seen this before 10minute battery drain with GPS turned on using maps. I am running jug5.0 with no other tweaking going on.
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GPS is a big battery drainer. My battery wouldn't drain that fast, but it is a power guzzler. It would be great if you invest in a car charger for your phone. I remember I was using my GPS on spring break to get here and there and when I had it charging in the car while using the GPS, the battery remained at that only percentage for that whole 2 hour ride.
When I look at the battery usage, I can see Mediaserver is below screen in terms of battery usage.
Any idea what it is?
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Same here man
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I recall it has something to do with corrupted media file (picture, music file etc) or failing to play streamed video. Reboot your phone and DO NOT start gallery, camera or anything that reads media files from phone. Use the phone and report back.
EDIT: I also recall this is an android issue, not spesifically HOX issue..
I did not have that on Galaxy Nexus, now it's there on One X, despite using it in the same manner, same apps. Hopefully it's simply some software bug.
I'll try restarting later today...
It seems to start on my HOX when I plug it into my monitor through the HDMI.
Unfortunately, even with the power adapter plugged into the HDMI adapter, it still uses more power than it can get through charging, which is really rather annoying and makes it pretty pointless in having HDMI out. How can they have designed it this way?
mediaserver system wakelock
Hi, i am having a nightmare with the system (*wakelock*) mediaserver process. Everytime i start listening to music either through stock music player, poweramp, winamp or realplayer, I can see it burning my battery.
I am using Badass battery monitor app. I tried soft resets multiple times but the problem appears again everytime i play music. It is using far more battery % than the music app itself.
I have deleted all music and pictures on my phone, leaving only the ones that came with phone, but the problem still crops up when i play the music.
On my first day of use I managed to get good battery hours.
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then went downhill with mediaserver...
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any ideas?
bump. anyone?
today i got
18.4% system (*wakelock*) -- it had CPU usage 1h 23m, keep awake 1h 35m, number of wakelocks 31
6.2% Music.
40% screen.
I've been having the same problem on my Galaxy Nexus. It has been very frustrating because my battery will last only about 4/5 hours with light - moderate usage. For the life of me I cannot figure out what is causing this wakelock all of a sudden. My phone was completely fine on 4.03
Hello,
I have the same problem. I have just charged my phone. And one hour later the Mediaserver has used 3% of the battery.
I have make one "normal" phone calls, sent 3 text messages and send 2 messages with Viber.
I haven't actively used "anything" (as far as I know) that uses a mediaserver?!