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[Q] Battery drain while playing mp3s (music 3.0?)

Folks,
My phone seems to be guzzling battery when playing mp3s using the new music 3.0. I think I can get about 6-8 hours of music playing which seems pretty low with nothing else happening, screen mostly off unless I have to pause it, and set cpu running at 245mhz when the screen is off.
Looking at the battery use stats in Gingerbread (I'm currently using oxygen 2.3.3 ROM) it seems that the phone is pretty much constantly awake which I'm guessing isn't a good thing. If I stop playing music then the phone seems to sleep OK.
So is it normal for the phone to remain awake when playing mp3s? If no, is there something that could be causing this or a way to try and stop it. If yes, is there something I could try to get some battery life back?

Try another music player. If it's still happening then I would say that's normal. I get about that time on my phone.

i don,t think Desire can be used both as a phone and Music player , itd bound to die out in 6-8 hours

Guys.
Thanks for the replies.
I was able to use my touchHD as a phone and music player, with about 2x the battery life I get on the desire.
I must admit that I wasn't expecting such a big difference between these two devices.
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I tend to chew through about 10% battery in a regular 90 minute train journey playing music and sending the odd SMS or making a 1-2 minute call. I use poweramp player.
I think that's not bad!

Stringer
That's more like what I'd expect. I was watching things closely yesterday and I got less than 4 hours of mp3 playback with no calls, texts or web (except weather updates every 4 hours and Gmail background checking).
I think I may have found the culprit though. I was running widget locker with the phantom media controls widget. It appears that this may have resulted in 2 copies of the music 3 app running and draining the battery. Have removed both apps and I'll see how things go.
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Yes 4 hours to a dead battery just through music seems excessive.
Hope the above works for you. What is your standby battery drain like? I found android status app useful for keeping an eye on running processes

To find out the battery drain in standby, you can use battery monitor widget:
https://market.android.com/details?id=ccc71.bmw
In standby drain should be about 4-8 mA, not higher.

Things looked a little better yesterday.... fingers crossed.
I checked the current and it's 3 on standby. And at the moment this jumps to 60 when I have music 3.0 playing and the screen off.
Does that sound about right?
Thanks again.
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nitens said:
Things looked a little better yesterday.... fingers crossed.
I checked the current and it's 3 on standby. And at the moment this jumps to 60 when I have music 3.0 playing and the screen off.
Does that sound about right?
Thanks again.
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Like meaple just said, seems to be normal.

ytup desire drains battery very quick

Google Music APP battery drain

Is anyone else experiencing heavy battery drain from the Google music app? I sometimes get 35% of battery usage by google music even if i don't listen to music.
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Just force close it from the application list.
Also I don't experience any battery drain from it..
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donbronco said:
Is anyone else experiencing heavy battery drain from the Google music app? I sometimes get 35% of battery usage by google music even if i don't listen to music.
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^^ This.
Even when I have my player set to ONLY play On-Device music, my 4 gets all hot and bothered, and at the end of it all, my battery can sometimes drop 15-25% over 45 minutes...

donbronco said:
Is anyone else experiencing heavy battery drain from the Google music app? I sometimes get 35% of battery usage by google music even if i don't listen to music.
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nope. If I don't touch the app, it doesn't use any battery (at least according to settings -> battery). when I use the app, it uses battery, but not really that much.
Google Maps is the one that kills me... and yes, I have all that location reporting and latitude stuff turned off. I just have to keep going into settings -> battery several times a day and force stop maps.

Try disabling mobile data, I've been able to listen to music for hours and only experience 5% battery drop
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I have the same problem on my Samsung Galaxy S3. I listened to music for an hour a few days ago and ever since Music Player has been draining about 20% of my battery even if I don't listen to music at all.
In other words I've charged my phone multiple times to 100% since I listened to music (100% charge resets the battery monitoring statistics, so previous listening to music should not show up anymore), I never ever opened Music Player in these last days, I've force stopped the Music Player days ago, but still, it's constantly chewing on my battery...
I'm on Android 4.1.2.

I had a similar problem, but found that if I disabled sync for music, but left evrything else synched it stopped it eating my battery

No problems for me. Streamed music on Google Play for more rhan 5 hours yesterday and I still got 24 hours on my phone!

wait, so if i have this right..... the app forces syncing of all your music by default and puts the settings for stopping this action somewhere else on the phone...... google clowns i salute you :good:

meangreenie said:
wait, so if i have this right..... the app forces syncing of all your music by default and puts the settings for stopping this action somewhere else on the phone...... google clowns i salute you :good:
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lol yeah sounds about right. In settings, under Accounts - Google - you can choose what to sync and what not to

co.ag.2005 said:
nope. If I don't touch the app, it doesn't use any battery (at least according to settings -> battery). when I use the app, it uses battery, but not really that much.
Google Maps is the one that kills me... and yes, I have all that location reporting and latitude stuff turned off. I just have to keep going into settings -> battery several times a day and force stop maps.
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Search in the apps section for the Better Battery Stats thread; somewhere in there is a nice tutorial on how to kill Maps wakelock battery drain.
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HTC One Google Play services drained 75% battery in 8 hours while i was sleeping

So i just got a HTC One 3 days ago. My battery life has been AMAZING. But yesterday my play store updated and my google now updated. Play store is running 4.4.21. I also put the google experience launcher on there from phandroids video. I unplugged my phone last night and when i went to bed i had 80% 8 hours later i woke up and had 9%. Gsam battery monitor said Google play services? I took off the launcher but now i am stuck with the google now up date and the play store update. i also started using google hangouts. I tried uninstalling the play store update but then google hangouts wont work. Any ideas on what could have caused this? The phone is plugged in charging now so i have been through a days use since this happened but i am just a little worried because that is one of the main things that i was worried about before i got the phone was battery life! All help is greatly appreciated!

dakotabaker98 said:
So i just got a HTC One 3 days ago. My battery life has been AMAZING. But yesterday my play store updated and my google now updated. Play store is running 4.4.21. I also put the google experience launcher on there from phandroids video. I unplugged my phone last night and when i went to bed i had 80% 8 hours later i woke up and had 9%. Gsam battery monitor said Google play services? I took off the launcher but now i am stuck with the google now up date and the play store update. i also started using google hangouts. I tried uninstalling the play store update but then google hangouts wont work. Any ideas on what could have caused this? The phone is plugged in charging now so i have been through a days use since this happened but i am just a little worried because that is one of the main things that i was worried about before i got the phone was battery life! All help is greatly appreciated!
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Same here, Google Play Services is killing my battery. Just started last night.
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try wiping google play data and google play services data and reboot.
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Install greenify and hibernate Google now,hangouts and your play store. If you get the donate version you'll be able to receive messages just fine. I had the same problem when I started using the updated apk's.
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It's happening to everybody.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...lay-services-seems-to-be-a-battery-hog-today/

So I wake up to a completely drained phone this morning. I had 50% battery when I went to sleep. Usually I would have like 45% battery when I wake up. But this morning, completely dead.
Very weird.
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mercer24 said:
It's happening to everybody.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...lay-services-seems-to-be-a-battery-hog-today/
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Issue seems to have gone away today. I no longer see Google Play Services draining the battery.

The odd thing is I noticed it saying Google play services is using a high percentage of the battery but I haven't noticed a decrease in battery life. I'm a heavy user and I'm at 64% with 8hrs and 34 mins since last charge
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APP for Battery drain fix

:good: My v10 had been suffering from batter drain ever since i got my phone last year. I kept looking up information about other peoples problems and how mine differed from theirs. Aside from doing the basic phone setting tweaks, rooting, and greenify my battery life still suffered. I came across an app called Gservicefix from the play store and it increased my battery life by alot. Normally i would get around 2 hours to 2 1/2 hours SOT with my normal use like listening to music, youtube, facebook, intagram, (would be snapchat but cant seem to get it to work) browsing the web. Now i get 2 hours SOT with 30% battery used. I will post a picture if permitted with my battery life and SOT after more use. For those who are looking for something else to try because it can not hurt I say download the app and do what it tells you to do which is simple.
the app is called Gservicefix
it will ask that you have a full charge 100% and cord plugged in just FYI then follow the instructions and see if it works for you.

batman562 said:
:good: My v10 had been suffering from batter drain ever since i got my phone last year. I kept looking up information about other peoples problems and how mine differed from theirs. Aside from doing the basic phone setting tweaks, rooting, and greenify my battery life still suffered. I came across an app called Gservicefix from the play store and it increased my battery life by alot. Normally i would get around 2 hours to 2 1/2 hours SOT with my normal use like listening to music, youtube, facebook, intagram, (would be snapchat but cant seem to get it to work) browsing the web. Now i get 2 hours SOT with 30% battery used. I will post a picture if permitted with my battery life and SOT after more use. For those who are looking for something else to try because it can not hurt I say download the app and do what it tells you to do which is simple.
the app is called Gservicefix
it will ask that you have a full charge 100% and cord plugged in just FYI then follow the instructions and see if it works for you.
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any idea what this app does exactly?

dimm0k said:
any idea what this app does exactly?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playfulgeeks.gservicefix&hl=en
As quoted from the Play Store: "After using app. turn off gps and sync to save battery according to usage."
It will take couple of times to work depending on os version. Its a workaround for the battery drain bug caused by Services / OS / System. *Tested on limited devices only . Services are the background tasks on devices that keeps all of the company's services in sync and updated. This covers basic environment, among other services which results in heavy battery drain of your device."

So if you have to turn off gps and sync and turn them on when needed, then why do I need to install the app? Just turn on and off gps and sync and get the same results, no?

it is a work around for the battery drain. after using it i found out that if you remove the battery you would have to do the process all over which can be a hassle if your in a rush. The app did work for me but i since found a better solution that i will post in a the general forum.

batman562 said:
it is a work around for the battery drain. after using it i found out that if you remove the battery you would have to do the process all over which can be a hassle if your in a rush. The app did work for me but i since found a better solution that i will post in a the general forum.
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What was your better solution?

Use Naptime, a greenify like app, but more suitable for V10.

I have an android phone and I don't know why my phone drains too much power and I have to charge twice a day So as I am a mobile app development dubai but did not solve the issue with my phone anyone who knows the problem pls help me.

Sippi4x4man said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playfulgeeks.gservicefix&hl=en
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The App is not found can you share a new Link? calvindudearabic

Google play music battery usage?

So apparently after an update to Google play music a couple weeks ago it started using more battery, I'm a delivery driver so I use it for music everyday and it never used a lot of battery but now it is using a lot of battery in my 8 hour shift. I have 8.1 and I used to get off work and my phone would still be at 85% (yes I had great battery life) and now when I have been getting off I have been at around 45% was just wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this.

Are you using an Adblocker? I had the same issue. After examining the logs, I saw that Play Music is constantly trying to reach googleadservices.com:
01-06 19:24:51.565 W/GoogleTagManager(6264): Failed to connect to www.googleadservices.com/0.0.0.0:443
After whitelisting googleadservices.com, the issue was resolved. Google needs to do something about that, cause that's just horrible coding.