It's killing my battery just as much as the screen is. Android os is always the 3rd culprit. I've tried uninstalling Google services erasing cache reinstalling then rebooting, that did nothing. I tried keeping GPS on in battery saver mode that helped but halfway thru the cycle it started back up again. I'm not gonna bother calling vzw because of course they'll act like they've never heard of the issue before and just tell me to do a factory reset which I've done. Oh yeah this phone is a replacement my old one died last week and also suffered from this issue also
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Do you have an SD card in it? Try backing up the data and formatting it with the phone. See if that resolves it. I had insane battery drain issues on my phone, ended up removing the sd card altogether and haven't had any battery drain issues since.
The only way to really see what is going on is to use an app like GSAM battery monitor to analyze what is draining your battery. You will get much better insight when you root. I was able to identify apps that drain my system, and then either uninstall them or greenify them. For instance, I noticed that the MyFIOS app drains battery like crazy, uninstalled it. I have a Polar watch, and the companion app drains battery, so I greenified it. Also, turn off all the background synching, scanning, location etc, that helps quite a bit.
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hi friends, my HOX acts funny sometimes. in idle mode the battery drops by 30-40% and when i check the power consumption, android os is the main culprit, consuming 30-40% and sometimes up to 70%. Also when this happens the phone gets warm...i haven't rooted the phone. however after reboot the issue seems to resolve. this happens once a week. other wise the battery is performing good... i have watchdog lite but there aren't any rogue apps as such that it can detect...
any inputs would be appreciated...
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hi friends, my HOX acts funny sometimes. in idle mode the battery drops by 30-40% and when i check the power consumption, android os is the main culprit, consuming 30-40% and sometimes up to 70%. Also when this happens the phone gets warm...i haven't rooted the phone. however after reboot the issue seems to resolve. this happens once a week. other wise the battery is performing good... i have watchdog lite but there aren't any rogue apps as such that it can detect...
any inputs would be appreciated...
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Its difficult to say what the exact problem is as 'Android OS' could be many things.
I don't know Watchdog Lite, but you might want to try Better battery Stats, it has many options and ways to find rogue and batteryg hungry apps. Perhaps this wil help you solve your problem.
It sure helped me solve some battery drain problems.
Otherwise, try disabling as many automatic syncs and try uninstalling/disabling apps one by one, you might find the culprit that way.
If nothing else helps a reset to factory defaults and restoring all apps and setting one by one after that migth help, but seeing your not rooted that might be a big pain in the ***.
Oh, and make sure all your apps and your phonesoftware are up to date
I have updated my rooted S3 using mobile Odin and now I am experiencing severe battery draining. I believe this is caused by the Media application. In the media app the packages included are com.sec.android.providers.downloads, DRM Protected Content Storage, Downloads and Media Storage. I can force stop it but when the phone is turned off it will start again and the battery will drain fast (10% an hour). Can someone help me figure out how to fix this issue? I have already cleared cache for each package and that didnt help.
Possible solution to the problem
I found a possible solution to my issue. Go to here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2012452.
I know search before asking right?
I'm having a similar issue, but after monitoring it over the last few days I haven't found anything that stood out as consuming more than average battery and nothing accounts for the amount I'm losing. It will hold steady and drain normally, then will drain about 10% an hour or more steadily. When it starts I run OS monitor, but as I said nothing stands out.
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I'm having a similar issue but it is Maps draining my battery and not Media. I am trying the suggestion I read elsewhere of clearing the cache on Maps and uninstalling all updates, then re-install updates. I guess this has worked for some people.
For the Media issue I have read that it is corrupt media files on your SD card that may cause the issue. Try removing your SD card from your phone for a day or so and see if the issue goes away. People have also said formatting your SD card after deleting all the files has resolved the issue as well.
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I'm having a similar issue but it is Maps draining my battery and not Media. I am trying the suggestion I read elsewhere of clearing the cache on Maps and uninstalling all updates, then re-install updates. I guess this has worked for some people.
For the Media issue I have read that it is corrupt media files on your SD card that may cause the issue. Try removing your SD card from your phone for a day or so and see if the issue goes away. People have also said formatting your SD card after deleting all the files has resolved the issue as well.
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I had/have a similar issue with maps taking up battery. I tried uninstalling updates and clearing cache, and it seemed to work. But then I saw people say this is only a temporary fix. Sure enough a day later maps popped up taking up 16%-20% of my battery.
You should star and comment/read through this thread and try to get others with the issue to as well, maybe Google will finally listen up. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=34458
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I had/have a similar issue with maps taking up battery. I tried uninstalling updates and clearing cache, and it seemed to work. But then I saw people say this is only a temporary fix. Sure enough a day later maps popped up taking up 16%-20% of my battery.
You should star and comment/read through this thread and try to get others with the issue to as well, maybe Google will finally listen up. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=34458
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Already had done that, thanks. The weird thing is, I didn't have this issue until I did the 4.1.1 update, on 4.0.4 it was fine.
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I have used my fix above and I am happy to report that my battery drain is now solved. I have been using the phone for several days and I have no abnormal battery drainage. Try it out and see if it helps the battery draining issue.
having the same issue, after I updated to jb.
not sure what is consuming the battery. thank you for posting the link! I will check it out!
I've been having some strange battery issues.
TLDR: Phone battery drains and warms up when in use, but not when in sleep. Resetting batterystats doesn't fix it. Closing all processes doesn't fix it. It does it on a bunch of ROMs, which were always clean installed. The usual battery saving tricks do nothing.
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Basically, whenever I use my S3, I get a considerable amount of battery drain. I used to have fantastic battery life when I was running LiquidSmooth RC5, where I was capable of 4-6 hours of screen time in a day. Now I can only get 2 or less hours of screen time in a single charge. This seemed to start after flashing LiquidSmooth RC8, but I also have the same issue in LiquidSmooth RC9, LiquidSmooth 4.2 beta, Task & Ktoonsez 4.1, Task & Ktoonsez 4.2, Slimbean, and Cynagenmod 10/10.1. So I don't think it is my ROM.
Anyways, so the battery drain only seems to happen when the phone is in use. During that time, the bottom of the phone around where the CPU is located gets considerably warm after just a few minutes of use. Otherwise, when the phone is locked, it deepsleeps fine with no drain. It still does it even when I go through my entire process list (and cached process list) and stop everything, it doesn't help. I've tried the whole batterystats reset where I charged to 100, drained, then charged to 100. That didn't help. I do make sure to clean install my ROMS, including clearing user data, cache, dalvik cache, and formatting my /system. When I look at my battery usage, it usually seems to be Android System using my battery the most. It can also be Android OS, Google Services, and Media sometimes. I've tried a ton of fixes, nothing helps. And of course it still does it with WiFi, data, GPS and all that off.
Help would be appreciated
battery life is an issue with many different factors.. there can be a bad app, bad battery, bad rom, anything really. if your phone is having issues then maybe 4.2 isn't the best for your phone there are many different roms to choose from and many are very stable.
Running 4.2 isn't the issue, though. It does it on 4.1 ROMs too. I'm not even on a 4.2 ROM right now.
Sounds like a rogue app or widget draining it. Get better battery stats. Type it in xda search. That will tell you for sure what exactly is draining the battery. Good luck.
Maybe your battery is just shot and its time for a new one
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No, all these guys are wrong. Your phone is shot. I did everything you did. Better Battery Stats, calibrated battery, changed battery, changed SIM card, all radios shut off like data, GPS, Bluetooth, et cetera, no rogue apps, deep sleep according to BBS. You name it, I done it. And no one knows why our phones are doing this.
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No, all these guys are wrong. Your phone is shot. I did everything you did. Better Battery Stats, calibrated battery, changed battery, changed SIM card, all radios shut off like data, GPS, Bluetooth, et cetera, no rogue apps, deep sleep according to BBS. You name it, I done it. And no one knows why our phones are doing this.
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Except two of my friends that have S3s have the same issue, as well as another friend with an S2. I don't think all of our phones are defective.
Hi,
During the past week I have a very strange problem in my Galaxy Nexus.
Battery suddenly started to drain very very quickly.
After 8 hours while I am sleeping in which 3G \ Wireless \ location services\ sync etc. are closed I lose 25-30% battery. (Before this happened I would have lost only 10% in this situation).
Of course while using the device the battery drains even faster.
Luckily I have 2 batteries and use both actively, second battery started act like the first, so the battery is not the problem.
In the battery usage screen there is nothing suspicious.
I installed Wakelock Detector and Better Battery Stats, everything is fine there too.
I have Greenify and I hibernate all the unnecessary applications.
I had a PA rom when it happened, then I switched to SlimKat, same problem. Then again I returned to the PA and the problem isn't vanished.
Between changing ROMs I've erased the phone.
I've also tried to put custom kernels but nothing helped me!
I have no more ideas, can someone please help?
Thank you very much!
I noticed this too, under battery info in settings I found the only culprit to be the latest/updated Google Play Services that kept preventing my GN to enter into deep sleep mode and the only way to fix it was to force close this service.
But then every once in a while it would start running again, so now I've just put a shortcut icon on the home screen to help quickly force close it from app info.
Ever since updating to new Android 5.1.1 I'm having sudden battery drains while on stand by it will often start to warm up and I'll would see a drop in 20% battery in like 5 - 10 mins. And reboot fixes this. But this has been happening for a few days. Its not the WiFi as I have toggled the WiFi off the watch and locations are also off. I have done am factory reset a few times but no use. Any ideas? Or is it possible to reflash the update similar how you can do on android devices via adb?
POSSIBLE FIXES/ SOLUTIONS
I have summarised possible fixes and solutions to the battery drain
1. Uninstall Battery stats app
2. Re install android wear using Sony PC Companion (this worked for me)
3. Disable Google fit (credit to @maniusng)
4. Install previous version of android wear companion app
5. Fix by @Bender_0
Bender_0 said:
My fix:
I think I stopped battery drains, but not discussed in the XDA option.
Settings> Wi-Fi Settings> Wi-Fi Disable
And then in Wi-Fi settings> Advanced> Energy Saving 15 minutes.
See if you solved this to you.
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after doing loads of testing i think i may have found the cause. its the WiFi and its drivers because i have noticed that when my phone gets disconnected and then reconnected later on, during the battery cycle i will have a drain. and if i dont allow my watch to loose connection with my phone and then i would not experience battery drain during that battery cycle.
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Try turn off Cloud sync on Android wear app on the phone if you didn't do that. Maybe this is the problem.
Mine has been draining too, cloud on or off
I had this too. The last 20% drained very quick during night in a way it never did before
Had similar issues this weekend. Even tried to use it during a half marathon run and the battery died on me during the race. Even the day before the watch just died on me after maybe 4-5 hours.
Haven't tried disabling cloud sync yet, but have turned off Location and Wifi for now. I also uninstalled a few apps I really wasn't using just in case in the background they were draining battery (even if the battery usage monitor wasn't listing specific apps.) The other thing I did was change back to a stock watch face in case the one I was using was draining battery (it was Minimal and Elegant.) Drain has slowed down, so I need to keep playing around with settings.
My guess is it's tied to apps that weren't ready for the 5.1.1 update, so we'll see if I can determine what I was using that started the drain.
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Mine has been draining too, cloud on or off
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yes checked its off in my phone as well
there is a similar thread of a user seeing what is causing the battery drain and he found out that it is "wear battery stats" as it kept waking the watch. i have unistalled this app and the watch battery seems to be ok. after another battery cycle ill let you know what happens
After receiving the update and it killing my battery from 100% to dead in 6 hrs I charged the battery over night took it off charge at 11 am yesterday and at 4 today I'm at 3 % which is 29 hrs with sync and wi-fi on and I'm using Wear battery stats.The funny thing is my battery before the update would not last even close to what I just got.
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After receiving the update and it killing my battery from 100% to dead in 6 hrs I charged the battery over night took it off charge at 11 am yesterday and at 4 today I'm at 3 % which is 29 hrs with sync and wi-fi on and I'm using Wear battery stats.The funny thing is my battery before the update would not last even close to what I just got.
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Are you using wake screen by wrist movement? It could be a bug in the accelerometer
Yes I do.My battery died around 6:30 I'm going to charge it and see what happens.
Same problem here...
Wake screen off.
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Same problem here...
Wake screen off.
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Have tried the below all while Never having the phone and watch apart more than 2-3 meters:
Wifi off , cloudsync on
Wifi off cloudsync off
wifi off, clousdync off, gestures off
wifi off, clousdync off, gestures off, GPS off
wifi off, clousdync off, gestures off, GPS off + Factory reset (twice)
wifi off, clousdync off, gestures off, GPS off + Factory reset (twice), Cinema Mode
The problem still keeps coming back.
As far as i can tell nothing i do is triggering it.
My next thing to try is to uninstall anything that i can that has a wear app in it, though that's going to be very annoying.
I think most off problems are related to Cloud sync and turning it off will be good for battery. But there is something alse that is draining battery. I had problem with some watchfaces and had to uninstall them day after updating Android wear to 5.1.1. They were killing my watch. Now I am still looking what is draining battery. I'll post my results when I am finished.
Has somebody Google Fit installed and no battery life problems?
I think it could be due to the fact that I have greenifyed the watch faces and watch apps on my phone. I de greenifyed them and I'm gonna check out the battery and keep it updated.
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Has somebody Google Fit installed and no battery life problems?
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Ok weird.
Uninstall Google fit, battery life is better but I'm still getting Google fit notifications.
It looks like there is a version that ships with the watch by default.... Maybe that's the issue..?
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I see no difference but use it like I always have no WiFi
Same here.. I have wear battery stats installed on my computer and I've seen sharp spikes with the battery, up to a 20% drain, that's from 2.33% to 3%. I've done the following with the same issue happening:
1. Went into recovery to clear cache
2. Factory Reset from Watch
3. Removed Wear Mini Launcher
4. Removed all additional watch faces
At first it seemed like it was back to normal.. but then I would get another sharp spike... and at times when powered back up from being dead it would act like the cache was cleared and would start the updating applications before the watch would fully start up. So I went ahead (out of anger) and did the following:
1. Removed all unnecessary applications (Stay Lit Wear was one of them.. possible suspect)
2. Reimaged with Sony PC Compainion 2 (Watch was initially upgraded through ADB)
3. Setup the Watch.
4. Uninstalled updates to Google Play Services on my Phone and reinstalled them back on the phone (thus disconnecting the watch... forcing me to.... )
5. Factory Reset the Watch again.
6. Now that I'm back up and running it seems that my battery is lasting a lot longer... at a drain rate of 1.88%.
Crossing my fingers something in there fixed my issue, and possibly helps someone else.
even after uninstalling wear battery stats, still getting sudden battery drains on idle ambient mode in 10 mins there was a drop of over 20% and it still warms up a lot. I am going to reflash using Sony pc companion.
I hope you guy with battery problem figure it out.Mine is the best It's ever been.