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Finding apps keeping GN awake?

With ICS what is everyone using to figure out what apps aren't letting the phone sleep properly?
Spare Parts isn't working.
I've tried uninstalling about everything and I can't get this phone to sleep.

This is exactly the post I wanted to make today, glad I searched this one out.
I have few apps installed, and battery is going well for me. I'm a moderate user. I get about 20hours out of a charge.
I notice that even in airplane mode, my phone wakes up 3 or 4 or 5 times during the night for 5 or 10 minutes at a time it seems. What could this be? It's not data as I'm off wifi and in airplane mode. Any ideas?
Thanks all.

I've also been experiencing fairly high CPU awake times and was curious as to how I could track it down. Haven't found anything much yet in the way of apps, but I've turned off a lot of unnecessary Google syncing and an hourly sync of my Exchange account and it seems things are better now. I'm still getting awake times 1h30 greater than screen on time though.

I am seeing high "Keep Awake" times on Android OS Spare Parts force closes when I try to check Partial Wake usage so not 100% sure what this could be.
Wondering if this is the cause of some lower-end battery life we're seeing. My only thought would be LightFlow that is causing this (maybe to wake up for notifications). I thought I read it somewhere, but not sure if it was debunk'd or not.
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[Q] My awake time seems awful high, where do I go from here?

I picked up betterbatterstats as my battery life has been crappy over the past few days, I have found the following to be true: I am barely using the phone as I'm at work all day and the battery is draining much faster than before. My screen time is 20 minutes total for the following stats.
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I'm not sure if I'm not using BetterBattery correctly but I can't find an option to tell me what offending processes are keeping the phone awake for so long. How do I figure out what is causing this?
Thanks for any help.

Check partial wakelocks in better battery stats.

Turn off your GPS. That is what worked for me. I have 9h 6m 20s on battery and Android OS only has 51m of awake time.

check your apps, if you're not using them, close them. ask yourself, what apps do i have installed that require wakelock permissions. those are the ones who will drive android os through the roof. latitude. maps. email. feeds. even games can trigger sensors and not let go of them properly, leaving your cpu always working. check cpuspy from market.
turn off autosync. you're working right? no point getting distracted over some lame ass post on fb or some worthless spam in your mailbox.

Ok, so now this is weird. I don't have any apps keeping the phone awake for very long, but the wake counts are retarded, take a look at the attachment. The time is very low, but the count is over 2k. The phone is at about a 75% wake time. This really doesn't make any sense.

Desire Standby Time Results

Hey all,
I just thought I would post this as I thought it was quite incredible.
I don't know what HTC's stats are on 'standby time' (which is usually how long a phone will last with no radio gear active) but look at how long my Desire lasted when I took the sim card out
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That's 302 hours
Just Sayin'...

Another thing that I noted was the vast amount of 'awake' time vs 'screen on' time, sometimes lasting hours.
What does android have to do so desperately whilst the screen, radio, wifi, in fact everything is turned off??

CheesySeb said:
What does android have to do so desperately whilst the screen, radio, wifi, in fact everything is turned off??
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Its not Andeoid really. My best bet would be that Go Weather app.
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I'm not entirely convinced that it is, I could uninstall GoWeather or do a /userdata wipe and retry to see if it'll last any longer?

Even if you put it on airplane mode, the apps you have would still try to wake up every now and then to try and refresh themselves. If you have a resource hungry app then it will wake your device to do the task it needs to perform. It may or may not be go weather app but there is something installed on ur phone that is keeping it awake even on standby. That's what I think anyway.
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Ha ha ha ha...looks about the same as my desire. I got one hour battery life on idle once with 3G off, wifi off and most of my user apps killed.
My phones been charging for the last four hours and it hasn't moved from 75%. It dies in ten minutes If I use the data connection when it's discharging.

[Q] Awake Time

Hi, my phone has been periodically waking up as seen in the screenshots below.
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I've gone through all of my installed apps and made sure that they arent refreshing, etc. at any frequent period (facebook and android weather were the biggest abusers, but I turned refresh off and to 6hrs respectively). I cant find any other apps that would be waking the device up, but its still being woken up about every 7 min. Any suggestions?
Thanks!

I seem to be having the same problem since the jelly bean update At first I though it was the steam app the one awaking the phone, but it doesn´t seem to be the case. Right now I´m blaming Google Now as I see no other suspects, but I´m not really convinced... It looks like it only happens when I have data connection or wifi on. If I disable all data, the problem seems to dissapear.

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I seem to be having the same problem since the jelly bean update At first I though it was the steam app the one awaking the phone, but it doesn´t seem to be the case. Right now I´m blaming Google Now as I see no other suspects, but I´m not really convinced... It looks like it only happens when I have data connection or wifi on. If I disable all data, the problem seems to dissapear.
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Ok so I just realized that Tapatalk was set to check for updates every 30 min. I changed that to 12 hrs, but that still doesnt explain the rate of awakes that I was seeing. Could it be google sync? I thought there used to be a place to set the sync interval, but I cant seem to find it in JB...

use better battery stats to look at what's keeping the phone awake

Another battery drain with screen shots

Ready to go back to @??/€..... hate that but im sick of this battery drain randomly
Ive found a few things to be consistent maybe others can chime in.
With google services. Its not always bad. Recently had everything on and no issues. Including gps, Google now, location services etc.
I have found out to last more than a work day. Come home with 45-50%
But today..... Phone just restarted randomly, not the first time either. Usually there is an update for something and the phone restarts to update an app or whatever.
Today, just restart. Then 40 min to 1 hour later. Phone is getting HOT, I look and I had gone from 70% batt to 56 in minutes. Then to 40 then 15 and all the way to 2%
I wanted it to shut down on its own and restart it with a charge but, I had to drive home and car isnt 100% reliable and I didnt have a car charger. So I plugged it into pc to get a few % up.
Google plus went rogue I guess. As you'll see below. But why? And why doesn't @??/€ have this problem?
I just want the phone to last a full day. I dont even use it at work hardly at all with the exception of a bit of tapatalk and facebook......
Screen shots below for help.
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Not to state the obvious, but have you considered freezing or uninstalling Google Plus?
Also, check out the link in my signature about keeping Google Services in check.

I forgot to mention that I'm on 4.2 .2 . In addition I didn't do anything to the song, I did not force stop loss, nothing. And everything is back to normal today
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