When looking at Android System battery usage details there is a list of Included Packages
Are these packages in order of power usage or is this ordering arbitary?
For instance, Samsung text to speech is number one.
Then VolteConfigurationMenu
Doesn't seem likely they would be the most intensive, anyone know what sorting is used on this list?
i'm not sure. the number one battery use for me is just "Android System." using the Gsam Battery Monitor, i've discovered that really Google Plus was running in the background draining the battery, but i've gotten about 16 hours of use in a day with light texting and facebook/tweeting, etc.
Even though I have since moved back to KitKat I want to look into the battery life problem I was having. Google Play Services always took the highest amount of battery. Both screen on and screen off had Google Play Services at the top with screen off battery showing nothing but google play services and nothing else. I did not change my usage pattern from KitKat. So what about lollipop caused this? Its not GPS polling since I set my phone to battery saving and while I did see a difference it wasn't enough to put a dent in my battery usage.
I have a T999V (Wind Mobile) running TouchWiz 4.4 (with towel root) on the Wind Mobile network. This phone has a brand new Anker 2200mAh battery.
Unfortunately, my battery life is under 9hrs. I get about 2hrs of screen on time, which consumes about 20% of battery, and then the combination of Android System, Android OS, Google Services will consume a whopping 50% battery.
I have Wakelock Detector, BetterBatteryStats and GSam Battery Monitor installed.
How do we diagnose what's causing this problem?
I'm usually at home, using my home WIFI. Other issues I've noticed with my phone are that I notice slowdowns sometimes with Swiftkey, when a lot of app updates are going on, Google Maps, Google Chrome address bar. This phone did have water damage at some point and I had to have the power button replaced. Could this affect the battery drainage and or the slowdowns?
akaleshnikov said:
I have a T999V (Wind Mobile) running TouchWiz 4.4 (with towel root) on the Wind Mobile network. This phone has a brand new Anker 2200mAh battery.
Unfortunately, my battery life is under 9hrs. I get about 2hrs of screen on time, which consumes about 20% of battery, and then the combination of Android System, Android OS, Google Services will consume a whopping 50% battery.
I have Wakelock Detector, BetterBatteryStats and GSam Battery Monitor installed.
How do we diagnose what's causing this problem?
I'm usually at home, using my home WIFI. Other issues I've noticed with my phone are that I notice slowdowns sometimes with Swiftkey, when a lot of app updates are going on, Google Maps, Google Chrome address bar. This phone did have water damage at some point and I had to have the power button replaced. Could this affect the battery drainage and or the slowdowns?
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Thats about what I get with a new stock battery. If I leave it on and roaming all day while at work and I get no signal, I'm down to 40%, few hours of screen time. airplane mode all day at least gets me to 60-70% by the end of the day.
Is what it is. lol. Plague of all smartphones.
you can't expect a good battery life that you desire. because samsung s3 has a powerful CPU, and a good high resolution screen which will take power to run. You will be lucky to get about 5 hours on a stock battery. If you really want to do stuff.. try under clocking the CPU too 1GHZ or below. that would probably give you 1-2 hour extra battery but other than that..
Try the basics: - GPS off, location off, Data off. etc.
akaleshnikov said:
I have a T999V (Wind Mobile) running TouchWiz 4.4 (with towel root) on the Wind Mobile network. This phone has a brand new Anker 2200mAh battery.
Unfortunately, my battery life is under 9hrs. I get about 2hrs of screen on time, which consumes about 20% of battery, and then the combination of Android System, Android OS, Google Services will consume a whopping 50% battery.
I have Wakelock Detector, BetterBatteryStats and GSam Battery Monitor installed.
How do we diagnose what's causing this problem?
I'm usually at home, using my home WIFI. Other issues I've noticed with my phone are that I notice slowdowns sometimes with Swiftkey, when a lot of app updates are going on, Google Maps, Google Chrome address bar. This phone did have water damage at some point and I had to have the power button replaced. Could this affect the battery drainage and or the slowdowns?
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Dude, your battery is normal, we all have the same or similar battery time.
If your concerned with battery life, try an extended battery..
In 3hrs I've used 70% of the battery with 2.5hrs of screen on time. I find it hard to accept that this is normal for these phones.
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In 3hrs I've used 70% of the battery with 2.5hrs of screen on time. I find it hard to accept that this is normal for these phones.
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What were you doing during those 2.5hrs of screen time? With wifi or 4g on, I can kill mine in a few hours, with a new battery. Don't know what you expect.
Disable Google now from the app settings, in WiFi advanced settings make sure 'always scanning' is disabled, only sync what is necessary from the accounts section in stock settings app, only enable WiFi, Bluetooth, etc, when you use it.
First, bigger battery: http://www.amazon.com/dp/9838427837/
Second, Turn off background WiFi scanning (in CM11, Settings / WiFi / ::: menu (lower right) / Advanced / uncheck Network notification, uncheck Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep, uncheck Scanning always available)
Third, Deny wake rights for Google Play Services (in CM11, Settings / Privacy / Privacy Guard / ::: menu (top right) / check Show built-in apps / long-press Google play services / scroll down to Wake up and Deny , scroll down to Keep awake and Deny / BACK once / long-press Google Services Framework / deny Keep awake )
That'll get you 2 days in MY usage
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
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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.
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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.
I Googled but could not find anything regarding this app. The battery drains about 1% per hour. I remember it used to be 2% or 3% overnight. Look at the video on hours. I'm gonna disable all of the Bixby related apps using adb and see what happens.
Edit: I disabled it using adb but this thing just came back. If any of you knows, please let me know. TIA.
If you disable Bixby Vision and Bixby Vision Framework the cam will lose functionality. They only run when the came is being used.
Deep six the rest of Bixby though. Enabling stand by apps or other adaptive power saving features can cause excessive battery use.
In Developer options>standby apps all buckets should show as active otherwise some power saving feature is running.
Disable it. On Pie I know it causes conflicts; let Android manage the apps and avoid using all 3rd party power management apps.
Goggle Backup Transport and any cloud services are habitual offenders.
Playstore only needs to be enabled when you need to use it.
You'll need to play with it. Nominal idle current is roughly 140-350 ma average. If much above this something(s) are running in the background. Nominal battery consumption with a plain jane AOD on is about 1%@ hr.
I'm running a 10+ so your numbers will be slightly different.
If the phone is running warm at idle you definitely have some witch hunting to do...