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Hey,
Wonder if you guys would mind doing me a favour...
When you next go to recharge your phone, go to Settings -> About Phone -> Battery -> Battery Use and note down the percentage beside Android.
Then try disabling Swype for a day and do the same process. Tell me if the results are any different.
I'm seeing a pretty big jump in the amount of battery Android uses when I have swype installed... in the area of 10-20%. And my battery lasts about five hours less.
I've just tested again over the last two days. Yesterday, with Swype installed, Android was using 43% battery. Today, without Swype, it's at 21%...
If you're seeing the same issue, vote for it and leave a post on the swype forum:
http://swype.uservoice.com/forums/17482-swype/suggestions/552945-battery-drain
bump.
still consistently below 40% without swype installed. anybody else try it?
if you text a lot i suppose it's because the word prediction that swype uses is different to that of the touch input
for example the touch input requires a lot of processing power to constantly make caulculations based on every letter you type.
perhaps swype does this less meaning that when you send a text or write an email less processing power is used resulting in more battery?
are you a heavy typer?
No, not at all. The day I noticed the unusual Android usage stats I had sent five short emails and three texts.
It seems like it's draining power even when I'm not using it.
Battery life seemed to drop sharply from the second I started using it. Seems like there's a bunch of other people out there who've noticed the same thing, but only anecdotal reports so far. Nothing concrete.
in that case dont use it then
it is after all a beta
perhaps the software is sending data over the internet which is using up battery?
Yes, but I want to use it, because it's great. Therefore I want people to vote for the issue so that they'll fix it
dial *#*#4636#*#* and you'll get a hidden menu.
select battery history, and in first dropping menu select partial wake usage, and you'll find out what is draining your battery.
I have the calendar issue, but with installing task manager the problem is partially solved.
when i turn phone on, i open calendar and then kill it, and there is no more battery draining by calendar.
but even with that done my battery lasts about 20-24 hrs, with wifi on all the way...
yeah, I'm aware of the calendar/flickr issue, this seems to be related solely to Android's power usage with swype installed.
Tested it today...without using wifi all the time, but just occasionally, 2 days without any problems
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I'm not asking for figures on overall battery life.
Swype's battery usage is grouped in with 'Android' under battery usage. So, what I'm looking for is for people to check if the percentage for Android usage is higher with swype installed than without it.
With swype installed, the Android figure on my battery usage page is consistently over 40%
Without it, it's usually under 30%
To be honest, I've not noticed any decline in battery usage whatsoever. I am totally loving swype though, its truly awesome
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tried swype... as I cant spell it's pointless!! I did not notice any battery improvement .. but then you have to look at the ROM , what you use in the background , widgets etc....
Tried Swype (buit-in the Samsung Teos i5800, along with the regular keyboard) and noticed 20% battery drain in 4 hours (device was fully charged yesterday evening, so I started the day with a 100% battery capacity).
Before using Swype, the battery reaches 80% generally at the end of the day, not a couple of hours after the device boot !
I'm switching back to regular azerty keyboard !
Hello.
Sometimes my phone works normally about 25hours, sometimes it works twice shorter ~10 hours. I've analyzed battery usage and found out that only difference in Android OS process.
25 hours battery usage
Display - 60%
...
Android OS - 4%
10 hours battery usage
Android OS - 60%
Display - 15%
This definitely looks like a bug. OS should not use more than a display.
Is there any way to found out what is Android OS in details?
Why it takes to many power?
P.S. I guess that bug is triggered by programs like Google maps,
but can't definitely confirm it.
Is there a way to shut off maps till needed?
Get spare parts and you can check what is using what. It could also be useful to get watchdog or similar app to check if you have any apps gone crazy. It isn't unusual though that the screen usage is lower if you just haven't actually used the phone that much as the percentage is always 100% and is divided among the things that used the battery, thus the usage percent doesn't imply mA usage.
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I have still pretty high "Android OS".
Display 31%
Android OS 21%
I've tryed Spare parts (Battery history), but it doesn't help.
It just doesn't display such name.
Is there any other way to find out whois is lurking
behind this mysterious title?
I'm betting you have a "suspend process" issue.
What does Battery history from spare parts say? Choose CPU usage, Since last unplugged. Is "suspend" close to the top? What CPU usage details does it have (if you select it)? Obviously look at this data at the end of your phone's battery life, before you plug in.
Also what rom are you using? With cm7 it seems that the battery stats are quite crazy and don't seem to add up to the actual usage, it's been discussed a bit in the nightly thread. The inaccurate stats don't explain the changes in actual battery drain though...
just to be sure, you have usb debugging enabled right?
I'm on official ROM (no root) with USB debugging enabled (I confirm init issue).
My last guess that "Android os" caused by "Location -> Wireless networks".
Now have ~2 days uptime without ever running "Google Maps" and with "Location -> Wireless networks" constantly unchecked.
P.S. Spare parts constantly eats about ~3% CPU at top. Too many for battery monitor. Removed it.
sergey1369 said:
P.S. Spare parts constantly eats about ~3% CPU at top. Too many for battery monitor. Removed it.
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Hey, since you're worried about slight additional CPU-usage and overall performance, you really should consider S-OFFing and getting a different Radio and a custom ROM like ARHD. Or at the very least flash a new kernel, Buzz' kernel did wonders for me.
I'm sure another battery life thread exist but the search function is not working for some odd reason.
Anyhow, I recently bought this device(32 GB) model on Ebay and it is a refurbished edition. I updated it to the latest 4.4.2 and the device is amazing. However, one issue that disappoints me is the battery life. It lasts around 5-6 hours if I'm constantly browsing the web and watching videos. To charge it, it takes a good 7 hours. I looked at the battery and noticed that Android OS was responsible for 56% of the battery drainage. I notice the back of tablet(near the camera) getting very hot when I was playing some games as well.
I'm really trying to push this things to the limits to check to see if it's faulty so I can return it before the 14 days is up. My questions are, what is the typical battery life you users experience and how long does it usually take you users to charge it? Also, my Android OS has never taken up that much battery---is this normal? If not, how can I fix it?
Thanks!
Streaming videos kills battery in general but that's still high battery usage for Android OS. I suggest you invest BetterBatteryStats from the play store and see if something else is causing your battery drain. Post some screen shots when you get the app. I
My Android OS battery utilization is sitting at 7% at the moment. I don't stream much data, and but I think high Android OS battery utilization has more to do with background data than video or music streaming anyway
Few things to improve battery life in general is to disable location reporting and location history in GPS menu. Better yet, but disable GPS in general. Turn off the setting in the advanced wifi menu that let's apps scan wifi even if it's off for location data. Google+ and hangouts are big drainers... Disable or unistall them is you can or at least don't let them sync data. Go to Google account setting and disable syncing of anything you don't needs.
Edit: I just stream 1.5hrs (1.3gb data) of Netflix and my Android OS battery usage didn't go up. It's gotta be a rogue process taking CPU cycles/checking location/sending lots of data. Install BBS and see what's causing it. More than 7hrs of screen time for me today and I still have 25% battery left.
@streetenigma23 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2742745
Usage = 10hrs
Charge Time = 4-5hrs.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I will go ahead and d/l that app and see how it goes. I'll put up some screenshots and try to see if we can get to the bottom of it.
Google is running in background and its Max battery drain app.. in the screenshot, i selected put app sleep when not in use, but still its active for 13+ hours in background.. how to fix it..
For me google play services keep running in the background.
Could you please share a pic of your entire battery drainage from the apps?
I disabled it (google app, not play services) since day one, along with other annoying pests via ccswe and package disabler pro, both complement each other perfectly, of course there is the ADB commands method, but I preffer the apps I mentioned, as they provide very useful widgets to enable/disable problematic apps as google, playstore, updates, chrome, etc, you can even disable services within the apps, to avoid background data access or runnig on boot
Subham jyoti said:
For me google play services keep running in the background.
Could you please share a pic of your entire battery drainage from the apps?
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This one?
winol said:
I disabled it (google app, not play services) since day one, along with other annoying pests via ccswe and package disabler pro, both complement each other perfectly, of course there is the ADB commands method, but I preffer the apps I mentioned, as they provide very useful widgets to enable/disable problematic apps as google, playstore, updates, chrome, etc, you can even disable services within the apps, to avoid background data access or runnig on boot
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Can you guide me what needs to be done with these apps? I never seen so much battery drain due to google app on my previous phones
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This one?
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Thnx. Yeah it's same like me. I don't know why it keeps running in the background
atrix4nag said:
Google is running in background and its Max battery drain app.. in the screenshot, i selected put app sleep when not in use, but still its active for 13+ hours in background.. how to fix it..
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Firstly,
Look at my Google usage, screenshot
9 hrs background and only 0.1 % usage..!
So even if your Google is enabled in background
it should only take a minimum % eg 1 % ..?
So i would say that some settings in your
Google..?
that is enabled, eg syncing..... etc
I don't know all the tasks connected to Google.
I would rather cross check with battery
apps eg Betterbatterystats, Gsam battery monitor,
Wakelock detector lite etc
to pinpoint reason, than try and restrict Google.
Bottom line,
If you don't know what to do and you are desperate,
i would then factory reset device.
Should solve the problem..... hopefully.!
Good luck.
willcor said:
Firstly,
Look at my Google usage, screenshot
9 hrs background and only 0.1 % usage..!
So even if your Google is enabled in background
it should only take a minimum % eg 1 % ..?
So i would say that some settings in your
Google..?
that is enabled, eg syncing..... etc
I don't know all the tasks connected to Google.
I would rather cross check with battery
apps eg Betterbatterystats, Gsam battery monitor,
Wakelock detector lite etc
to pinpoint reason, than try and restrict Google.
Bottom line,
If you don't know what to do and you are desperate,
i would then factory reset device.
Should solve the problem..... hopefully.!
Good luck.
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Thanks for your suggestions.
I don't want to do factory reset. I will try with other options first.
atrix4nag said:
Google is running in background and its Max battery drain app.. in the screenshot, i selected put app sleep when not in use, but still its active for 13+ hours in background.. how to fix it..
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Same happened to me. What I did was to delete Data from Play services app, then I deleted cache from phone an voila. I have all sync and functional.
Ps. I charge my phone to 90% and I can get 5-6 SOT at 30% left everyday.
The issue op mentioned is not about google play services, it is about the google app instead I think
The problem is I don't think any batter stat apps can get low enough level stats to indicate what is using the Google app in the background to determine what is causing the drain. Usually, the culprit is an app frequently using location service (your GPS) to check your location which I believe the Android location service coordinates for apps other than the native Android/Google apps are obtained through the Google app in the background. That latter point is purely a guess because as we all know the Google app is a "multipurpose" app and you can't see detailed enough battery usage to determine what function of the app is being used that causes battery drain.
On my S10 5G, for the first 2 weeks I've used it, Google never was in the top 5, taking like 1-2% over the course of a day. Then seemingly all the sudden, it was #1, consuming like close to 1% an hour in the background. So I think, what did I change recently? I enabled Google Discover, but set the option to mae it update less fequently (6 hours) to reduce battery (the option actually says this will reduce battery usage). It didn't make a difference. So I disabled Google Discover and installed Google News instead. My Google app battery usage is lower now. About 0.9% per hour (all background usage of course). I think for most people that's good, but not when you were used to it being more like 0.1-0.2% an hour before.
I think the bottom line is if you want to use more features on your phone you have to live with a bump in battery usage. The 4500 mAh battery on my S10 5G lasts me abotu 1.5 days. LOL. But I don't play games or check Facebook/Instragram all day. Just a few texts, weather alerts, maybe an hour or two of browsing. Mabe an hour total of talk time. So relative to other people I should be less concerned if my phone is lasting well over a day on a charge, actually close to 2 days many times. I know a lot of other more "frequent users" (probably a lot of people younger than myself) that are on social media a lot and or listening to music/watching videos would kill to have their phones last 20-48 hours without having to charge.
Still, I keep an eye on things and it bugs me Google has jumped up. A great app to use is Accubattery and monitor the "SCREEN OFF" discharge rate. You're not actively using apps when the sceen is off so this gives you a good idea of your total background battery usage. You can make changes to settings, charge your for for a while, and let several hours pass, then check the screen off discharge rate and compare it to other discharge periods before you made the settings to determine if the changes you made had much of an effect.
Of course background usage isn't going to be 100% consistent, so the longer you measure the better, as if you look at it over like a 1 hour period, it could be certain apps were just more or less active during that particular hour. But if you compare like half day or more (6+ hour) periods to previous periods, you can get a good gauge if apps setting changes or newly installed apps are eating more battery in the background.
I disable Google feedfack, all their data collecting junk and their data backup too. Google is a pig.
Some blocked Google apks like Playstore are enabled as needed.
Even when Framework and Google Transport are blocked it's sometimes periodically necessary to clear their data to get them from using excessive cpu cycles.
Battery Tracker reports Google Framework running when AOD is on but it's likely misreading as long as battery draw remains at around 1%@hour while phone is screen off.
I'm running on Pie... who knows what Q will do.
Most likely make a bigger mess.
Hello Forum,
I've been experiencing terrible battery life for these days. I have minimal apps installed on my phone and with background apps killed, I still loose approximately 10% per hour even while I am sleeping. One thing I observed though that WhatsApp for some reason runs in the background despite not being open in the background and restricted too. Could someone please review the attached screenshots and share your views? Thanks in advance!
Can you also take a screenshot of full device usage ?
You can get that by 3 dots in battery usage page, maybe google play services is responsible which means you need root or adb permisson'd battery programs.
Even if you restrict background usage, WhatsApp will mask itself as a foreground app and keep running to fetch it's messages. Honestly speaking, iPhone is way more optimised for these kinds of things.