So, I've been having battery issues for awhile now, and they only got worse with the most recent Sprint update. I'm not a battery management rookie, and I've been consuming info on posts and threads for some time now trying to figure out the issue. Turning off options or syncs doesn't seem to do anything (and I've toggled almost everything off and on with no measurable effect to battery).
MediaServer was an issue for awhile, and I went through and located and pulled all 0kb media files and MediaServer has dropped back down to no longer being a major wakelock/battery issue.
I have no one app that seems to the issue when I check SETTINGS->Battery, or GSAM battery stats or WakeLock Detector. It's always just "Android System" and "Kernal". But I have noticed over the past several days that "VOICEMAIL" in consistently in the top THREE when it comes to WakeLock (see photo).
Problem is, I haven't received more than a handful of calls in the past several days (I mostly use texts to communicate. Just preference - don't judge), and none of them used voicemail. Why would voicemail be at the top of the wake list?
Any ideas on this one? I can't really uninstall voicemail (I tried to "disable" it in settings, but that's not really possible...understandably), plus I would like to keep it around. It's a bit of a necessity with phones.
I am running a Sprint GS3 on the newest update and unrooted (although I might root again if that would solve the problem). I am going to try and do a factory wipe today and start over again to see if that solves the issue (I've already wiped CACHE and that did very little). Maybe updating made something not work with each other.
I've been searching threads for a few days now, and I see nothing about voicemail and battery drain. Is it supposed to be that high on the list? Am I missing something else?
Thanks.
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EDIT - Oh, and the phone has been off the charger for only 2 hours and it has dropped 20% while NOT BEING USED at all...aside from sitting in my pocket. The apps that are opened are because for ten minutes I went through and wrote down what I needed to reinstall after the factory wipe. I had tapped some of the apps while moving screens around. It was at about 83% before I started that process. That can't be "normal" for battery.
First let me give you my phones state
Full stock
Was on Feb update, yesterday (after 2 days of the issue) manually flashed through android recovery to march update and bug fixes.
Not rooted.
The past 3 days my nexus 5x battery has been draining very rapidly (97% down to 32% last night), nothing has changed in the system that i've done and no apps updated aside from google docs and amazon I think. I had installed a few new apps (All4 and iPlayer)) but have since removed these to remove them from a list of culprits. Prior to this battery life was brilliant.
Currently in the process of resetting to factory to see if the issue is more deeprooted. If this fails however im not sure what else it could be besides my battery dying.
Oblox said:
First let me give you my phones state
Full stock
Was on Feb update, yesterday (after 2 days of the issue) manually flashed through android recovery to march update and bug fixes.
Not rooted.
The past 3 days my nexus 5x battery has been draining very rapidly (97% down to 32% last night), nothing has changed in the system that i've done and no apps updated aside from google docs and amazon I think. I had installed a few new apps (All4 and iPlayer)) but have since removed these to remove them from a list of culprits. Prior to this battery life was brilliant.
Currently in the process of resetting to factory to see if the issue is more deeprooted. If this fails however im not sure what else it could be besides my battery dying.
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Check what drains your battery. I had simillar problem.
When I opened the battery screen i saw quite large drain from some service 10112
I was able to open the service and notice it had something to do with GPS and it basically turned the GPS on without my permision (i had gps turned off)
Then i noticed it even set the GPS to high accuracy and that caused the drain. I switched the gps setting to battery saving and the problem was fixed.
However, I still havent fixed it fully because last night it turned itself on again, and my battery dropped from 79% to 65% within hour.
I did the same thing and it stopped the drain again.
Ok thanks will see if it happens tonight after full reset, I did check battery screen but the highest on there was Google play services and even that wasn't that high (4% and some small mah figure).
I permanently leave my location on battery save and previously have had no issues.
Did you restore from a previous backup? Do you have Snapchat?
No backup as not rooted etc. No snapchat.
Just reset device and reinstalled. All seems fine over the weekend no unusual battery drain.
Hi everyone, for the past couple of weeks I have had more idle drain than usual on my rooted Nexus 5x. The problem has persisted across multiple roms. I recently returned to stock, and waited a day to restore my user apps with Titanium Backup, and in that day, the stock rom did NOT have the problem. Then, when I restored user apps, the problem returned. So it appears that one of MY apps, not the OS, is causing the wakeups. However, in both BetterBatteryStats and Wakelock Detector I cannot find any particular wakelock(s) that seem to be causing this issue.
The only concrete evidence I have is the Android built in battery details screen. In the screenshot of the graph and the awake/screen on bars, you can see constant wakeups starting around 2pm (when I restored user apps). Before that, the phone mostly slept while the screen was off, but after 2pm, it has been waking up constantly. I have also attached Wakelock Detector screenshots (Have not used BBS yet on this ROM). They show awake time that is much higher than the sum of the listed wakelocks. (Note: the 52 minute "Photos" app wakelock was a one time thing today, the problem has persisted without that.) If anyone can figure out what might my issue is, I would hugely appreciate it! Thanks!
Best way might be to restore one app per day to figure out which app it is
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Best way might be to restore one app per day to figure out which app it is
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I was hoping to avoid that, in case anyone had any ideas. But I have a feeling I'll have to. Thanks!
brentoma589 said:
Hi everyone, for the past couple of weeks I have had more idle drain than usual on my rooted Nexus 5x. The problem has persisted across multiple roms. I recently returned to stock, and waited a day to restore my user apps with Titanium Backup, and in that day, the stock rom did NOT have the problem. Then, when I restored user apps, the problem returned. So it appears that one of MY apps, not the OS, is causing the wakeups. However, in both BetterBatteryStats and Wakelock Detector I cannot find any particular wakelock(s) that seem to be causing this issue.
The only concrete evidence I have is the Android built in battery details screen. In the screenshot of the graph and the awake/screen on bars, you can see constant wakeups starting around 2pm (when I restored user apps). Before that, the phone mostly slept while the screen was off, but after 2pm, it has been waking up constantly. I have also attached Wakelock Detector screenshots (Have not used BBS yet on this ROM). They show awake time that is much higher than the sum of the listed wakelocks. (Note: the 52 minute "Photos" app wakelock was a one time thing today, the problem has persisted without that.) If anyone can figure out what might my issue is, I would hugely appreciate it! Thanks!
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I believe I suffered the same issue, and I have a solution. Not a fix but solution...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/help/google-photos-device-awake-diff-roms-t3406571
Seeing the same issue ... have disabled the AutoSignInandSync service, waiting for the results and will update if that helped.
Hey Guys,
for about a week now I am experiencing a huge battery drain which seems to be caused by Bluetooth (bluedroid_timer).
I got my OP3 since release and never turned off Bluetooth, was activated all day long without any issue and no battery drain. Then suddenly last week I noticed that my battery life went down way faster than before (it was almost 2 days before, then suddenly only about 20hrs if at all).
I checked recently installed apps but none caused that drain. Checking gsam + wakelock detector both say bluedroid_timer keeps the phone awake and is draining battery. As soon as I turn off bluetooth the battery life returns to normal, so for now I just keep it off which is of course not a real solution as I need bluetooth while driving or at home for music...
Was reading through a lot of threads and it seems to be a well known issue, but couldnt find a solution yet.
What I tried so far:
- uninstall all recent apps
- delete system + dalvic cache in recovery
- delete bluetooth data / removed all existing bluetooth connections
- some other stuff that didnt work...
Anyone knows a fix for this? I would love to prevent doing a fresh flash (or factory reset) and starting from scratch...
Thanks a lot!!
Hi guys
Im having a huge battery drain since I'm on Nougat, and it's because of the android system itself. Not because of an app or whatever. Indeed, in like 3 hours I lost almost 40% only using Spotify.
Here is a screenshot -> http://imgur.com/a/24874
I know there is a ton of posts like that but I believe that battery drain-related problems are user specific, so..
And I'm on full stock. No rom, not rooted
Anyway thank you!
give us more information to help you. Rom? Kernel?
I'm on full stock ! No rom, not rooted, everything's stock
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I'm on full stock ! No rom, not rooted, everything's stock
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Try installing 7.0 factory images from Google. You will find the instructions easily on xda, as well as on the Google site.
Restart your phone... Did you install the october security update? I have also some battery drain since the latest update.
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Restart your phone... Did you install the october security update? I have also some battery drain since the latest update.
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Yep I'm on the october security udpate! So maybe this isn't only myself
Was your screen on or off the majority of the time?
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Here's what happened on my 5X, I got mine new about 2 months ago, had 6.0.1 and battery life was great with amazing stand-by time. Soon after, I got the final update of 7.0 Nougat, everything was fine and battery life was slightly better than before. About 2 weeks later, my phone started draining battery when idle with nothing turned on. I tried recalibrating the battery, doing a hard reset and nothing worked, it was still draining battery when idle (I lose about 25-40% over night every time) So I tried fixing this drain issue myself and here's what I did: I rooted the phone, flashed back to 6.0.1 only to find out that that idle drain is still there (I wiped cache and everything) When that didn't work I tried Cyanogenmod 13, the drain is still there. So I read about different kernels, and I flashed back to stock 6.0.1 with ElementalX Kernel and that didn't change a thing. I am currently on 7.0 rooted with ElementalX Kernel and my device is still draining battery when idle. I have done pretty much all that I could to try and fix this but no luck. I tried contacting people on the Nexus forums and the only thing they said is, it might be a software problem. But can't know for sure. If anyone can please help or knows what else to do it would be greatly appreciated. I should also mention that my fingerprint sensor died shortly after 7.0 update and I have no idea why. Btw every time I flashed a new rom, it was completely stock with no 3rd apps installed and still draining when idle. (Side note: I live in Slovenia, there are no google stores in my country)
Also there is no damage to my device, no drops, no water exposure. Should I take it to service to have the battery replaced? What if the problem is still the same? I need some help here..
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Here's what happened on my 5X, I got mine new about 2 months ago, had 6.0.1 and battery life was great with amazing stand-by time. Soon after, I got the final update of 7.0 Nougat, everything was fine and battery life was slightly better than before. About 2 weeks later, my phone started draining battery when idle with nothing turned on. I tried recalibrating the battery, doing a hard reset and nothing worked, it was still draining battery when idle (I lose about 25-40% over night every time) So I tried fixing this drain issue myself and here's what I did: I rooted the phone, flashed back to 6.0.1 only to find out that that idle drain is still there (I wiped cache and everything) When that didn't work I tried Cyanogenmod 13, the drain is still there. So I read about different kernels, and I flashed back to stock 6.0.1 with ElementalX Kernel and that didn't change a thing. I am currently on 7.0 rooted with ElementalX Kernel and my device is still draining battery when idle. I have done pretty much all that I could to try and fix this but no luck. I tried contacting people on the Nexus forums and the only thing they said is, it might be a software problem. But can't know for sure. If anyone can please help or knows what else to do it would be greatly appreciated. I should also mention that my fingerprint sensor died shortly after 7.0 update and I have no idea why. Btw every time I flashed a new rom, it was completely stock with no 3rd apps installed and still draining when idle. (Side note: I live in Slovenia, there are no google stores in my country)
Also there is no damage to my device, no drops, no water exposure. Should I take it to service to have the battery replaced? What if the problem is still the same? I need some help here..
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I'd bet you a large sum of money that it's one of the Google apps holding the phone awake. Get a wakelock detector and find the culprit. All of that Google Location **** that they build into their apps just seems to run away and start draining battery. That's why I've permanently ditched having the Google app or Google Now Launcher on my phone.
Alcolawl said:
I'd bet you a large sum of money that it's one of the Google apps holding the phone awake. Get a wakelock detector and find the culprit. All of that Google Location **** that they build into their apps just seems to run away and start draining battery. That's why I've permanently ditched having the Google app or Google Now Launcher on my phone.
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Maybe but I use the Google App and Google Now all fine without a crazy overnight drain like he was describing.
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EeZeEpEe said:
Maybe but I use the Google App and Google Now all fine without a crazy overnight drain like he was describing.
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I'll admit that I've used those apps before without a single issue. But every once in a while, usually after an app update, Play Services or Location Services would suddenly go rogue and it was infuriating to track down the issue. So I avoid those apps all together now as a precaution.
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Restart your phone... Did you install the october security update? I have also some battery drain since the latest update.
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Same here.
What version of Google Play Services are you running? I believe a recent version (in the range 9.6.xx if I recall) had a genuine bug causing wakelocks.
The latest version (9.8.77) seems OK for me and the phone sleeps as before.
Alcolawl said:
I'd bet you a large sum of money that it's one of the Google apps holding the phone awake. Get a wakelock detector and find the culprit. All of that Google Location **** that they build into their apps just seems to run away and start draining battery. That's why I've permanently ditched having the Google app or Google Now Launcher on my phone.
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How did you ditch the google app? I can't even disable it. As for the launcher, I use Nova prime.
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How did you ditch the google app? I can't even disable it. As for the launcher, I use Nova prime.
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When I clean flash a new ROM I use Pico GAPPS which doesn't come with the Google App or anything and I just never install it from the store.
I did a fresh install of latest release of CM13 with the pico Gapps package, the only things I installed my self are gmail, drive and chrome, I also disabled all background processes in the developer options, set the animation to 0 and turned off all types of syncing, even before I added those 3 apps I was still getting idle drain. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm thinking of selling my phone and getting something else, but I'd still like to have the battery replaced just to see if it'll fix the problem although I'm not really sure it's just the battery's fault since more people are having the same issue. One thing is for sure, I will never buy the cheapest google phone ever again, my friend's 6p is running better and has more battery life on 7.0 than on 6.0.1.
EDIT: On this latest release of cm13, I got an android system message saying: There's an internal problem with your device. Contact your manufacturer for details.
I deleted the cache in storage and no drain since this morning
kevin0304s said:
I deleted the cache in storage and no drain since this morning
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I'm glad it worked for you, I already tried that but it didn't help.
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What version of Google Play Services are you running? I believe a recent version (in the range 9.6.xx if I recall) had a genuine bug causing wakelocks.
The latest version (9.8.77) seems OK for me and the phone sleeps as before.
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Yeah I'm running the latest version (9.8.77) and today, out of no where, I started getting smacked with a ton of wakelocks from none other than Google Play Services.
EDIT: Found the culprit, it was the Project Fi app.. -______-
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kevin0304s said:
I deleted the cache in storage and no drain since this morning
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Which cache did you delete? Like you wiped cache in TWRP or did you clear the cache of an individual app?
What kind of drain we are talking about here? Few per cent per hour or more? I had an issue with my old Note 4 recently, somehow it got wet and it was never the same. Battery drains in 5-6 hours. Generally, after you restore the software, there shouldn't be any drain, if there is, very likely it is a hardware issue?