I have had this issue basically since I got my Pixel XL. I rooted and put on EX kernel as soon as they were available, so I don't know if the issue existed prior to that.
Basically, whenever GPM is not even playing music, and the notification is dismissed, CPU 1 and sometimes 2 (both little cores), will remain at 1.6GHz, with CPU 1 staying near 100% usage. CPUs 3 and 4 will show relatively low usage, near 10%-20%, but will constantly hover near their maximum 2+GHz clock speeds.
For awhile I didn't know what was causing this. One day I started killing apps and checking System Monitor each time to see what affected it. Eventually I determined it was GPM. Without fail, every time this issue is present, if I just open up Recent Apps, or the application manager, and swipe away or force close GPM, my phone immediately goes back to normal operation.
This is an annoying way to have to fix this. I use GPM several times a day.
Having to kill the app, and remember to do it, is ridiculous. Has anyone else had this issue? I haven't seen it posted anywhere. I don't even have a clue of what could be going on or how to resolve it.
Hey buddy, I've been having the same issue for a couple months now as well. I'm using a Note 4, so it's not specific to your phone. I have not been able to find any fix though :/ Have you had any luck?
Unfortunately, it seems it's not a widespread issue, not too many people complaining on the interwebz.
Question to you guys. Does GPM show up in your battery stats? It does not show up in mine but I am not getting good battery life. I have the regular Pixel, am not a heavy user, and can't get through a full day without a charge mid day. Wondering if this issue is causing my bad battery life?
Thank you.
I use GPM on my way to and from work and don't have any issues with it.
I have the same problem on the oneplus 3T. Core 3 and 4 runs at maz 24/7 while playing google play music.
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I'd like to get some feedback from this community on what people feel works and doesn't work as far as Dev Opts and other settings they use to maximise battery life.
I don't want this to turn into a *****-fest - because I personally have been getting on average about 15h + a day as a moderate user and think this phone/OS combo is capable of more.
I'm relatively new to Android and while there are posts in other forums none of them relate to GN/ICS. There are so many settings to play with and many of them might otherwise go unexplored and unexplained to a lot of users.
A perfect example of this is something I read elsewhere earlier tonight in another rant-based thread. Someone suggested turning Developer Options> Background Process Limit to "At most, 3 processes". I gave that a try and in both instances I got a SOD (not immediately but I'm thinking it may not be sound advice after all).
Something else to consider might be stock apps which are safe to disable.
Things that are known to work or have a majority consensus will be compiled into a list in this thread.
To make things easier, try use a path to the setting you're talking about: Settings > Apps and suchlike.
Thats weird, i've been using that setting all day. I wonder if its an app you have installed thats having its process killed and not liking it. Do you get the same if you set it to 4?
I haven't found much except the obvious screen brightness and setting it to 2g instead of 3g - but that can actually be worse if you have a lot of things syncing often and a congested GPRS network.
Oh and I also have Force GPU rendering on, but i don't think that has much effect.
Good idea for a thread btw.
Thanks. I've heard so many people quote the pitfalls of early adoption (now I'm one of them) I think there may be something in the apps point you make. Narrowing it down is going to be tough I suspect.
I use the below setting on my Nexus S to get two days moderate use:
Brightness at 8% fixed
Black still image wallpaper
Bluetooth off
Gps off
Wifi at home
Always sync off
Others sync off, facebook, gplus
Yupe, that suits my usage pattern. I dont like to bebothered with emails and social network notifications. If I need them, open and update manually.
Really big boost on battery life. I expect this is the same or better with ICS.
Interesting. Good tips gogol.
Yesterday/today I managed to get 1d3h out of the phone.
Admittedly, I didn't put the phone through the punishment I usually subject it to.
I never enable BT, and also turn down the brightness on my screen to about 10%. I do leave sync on but try to limit it to necessary apps only and not app contacts.
Yesterday though, I didn't enable wifi at all (didn't need to really, was in the office all day). I made a few calls, sent a few texts and did my usual commute (about 3hours there and back) listening to music (PowerAmp) and messing around with EQ settings a fair bit.
Because I got 1d though, I got in an extra morning (1. 5hours) of music on the way to work.
So overall I'm pretty happy that I can get on average 15h as a moderate user and a ton more as a light-ish user
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I updated to the new K6 radio a few days ago and reset the process limit back to standard. I managed 1 day 3 hours with 28% left this morning. I used 2 hours 26 minutes of screen time.
For me the new radio seems to have made a massive difference. I think it has to do with it camping one band/tower for longer and not constantly switching between 3 and HSDPA when there's a data transfer.
I own the Sprint Samsung Epic 4G
Twice I have had a problem were after charging over night the phone is hot near the camera area and the phone is extremely laggy. I just power down the device and turn it back on and it works fine again. This has only happened in the span of 6 weeks. My sister has the same phone and she has not encountered this problem. Any suggestions?
Not sure if a reset will fix the problem and I wouldn't even know how to do it.
*Side not the volume will randomly drop down really low and I have to constantly raise the volume. Not a big issue but again after paying money in the amount they wanted I should have to deal with that.*
Somewhere around there is where the SOC resides I think. Would have to look at the pictures of it torn apart again to make sure. You might uninstall your apps one at a time or a few at a time - reboot and see what it does.
You might also go into settings>about phone>battery usage and see if something is using a lot of CPU cycles. Watchdog, OS Monitor, and a couple other programs will list specific apps and processes so you can tell exactly what's doing it. CPU Spy is a great tool to use too - it will show you what speeds your processor spends the most time at.
As far as the volume, you may inadvertently be turning it down. If not, you might root your phone (if you haven't done it yet) and slap on the stock EK02 rom, kernel, and modem. If that doesn't solve the issue then go back to stock EG30 - unrooted of course (sticky thread in the development section for this phone) and return it to the store. It might be a hardware issue.
I have a strange issue with my 32G WiFi FLO that I was hoping the knowledgeable members of XDA could help me diagnose.
Since I got it at launch, it's been sucking the battery dry. But not consistently. I have no idea what or why, but here's what I know so far:
All details are with auto sync OFF. WiFi OFF on sleep, location services ON (but cannot use WiFi)
Not unlocked or rooted (stock)
- From boot, and for the first 20-40 hours after that, battery usage on standby averages out to around 0.13% per hour.
- After that, and for no reason I can discern, battery usage jumps to an average of 0.84% per hour, and keeps draining like this usually until I reboot or need to charge
- Stock battery app shows no apps draining, BBS shows no apps draining stuff or excessive wakelocks and indicates the tablet is spending most of its time in deep sleep.
- Life with screen usage seems to be around 7+ hours either way, so this is as expected.
- Sent to ASUS to diagnose & repair, received with note that front camera unit replaced and OS reloaded.
- Issue is still occurring after "repair"
- apps running at the time are usually Android Keyboard, Android Services, Settings. Sometimes Play Store, Currents (even though I don't use it and have never launched it), Google Play Services as well. These are the only apps that run regardless of state of battery drain.
Can anyone think of any reason this is occurring, or where else I can go to check for more info? I'd prefer to stay stock/unrooted.
I'm looking to send it back for RMA *again*, but I'd rather tell them where to look than try and trust that they'll know where to look to fix it this time.
Guess no-one else has this issue or any ideas on where to look for this, since there are no replies
Hi All
Disclaimer: I'm new to the forum so apologies if this is in the wrong discussion area etc!
I got my Galaxy S9 on Friday 9th, prior to that I had an LG G5 which is now gone. In the last few months of using my LG G5 the battery life was questionable - the phone would get hot (sometimes without even using it a lot) and the battery would drain by 30% an hour. I noticed, but didn't test fully, that Google Play Music seemed to really cane the battery and phone - i.e. was getting hot and draining quickly. As an example, I'd leave home at 7am taking it off charge at the last minute (100%) and get to my office at 9am and it'll be at 50% and very warm. Prior to that (can't exactly pinpoint when the drain started to really kick in) it would only drop to 85% - much more acceptable.
The G5 has a replaceable battery - 2800 if I recall . So I threw down £50 on an official LG site for a new slab of Lithium - slight improvement, but still terrible and warm. 55% instead of 50%.
"Right - time for a new phone" as I assumed that 2 years of app updates meant the CPU was lagging. Bagged a Galaxy S9 - today was my first commute into the office. Started on 100%, arrived at 55% with a 3000 battery! And it got super warm like the G5.
Most of that time I used Google Play Music, which according to AccuBattery the discharge speed was "33% per hour". Second was Google Chrome at 30% per hour (though I didn't use it much at all on the journey).
My question is - what logs can I check, or apps I can use, or something to find out what's going on? I need to test a few things of course to pinpoint the issue. If it helps - I restored from my G5 when I setup my S9.
seems like you might have have some options enabled in Google Play Music / chrome - that is keeping the phone awake
generally when you switch phones they apps and their settings get transferred automatically now - worth maybe uninstalling them for a day and see if you're still experiencing this issue
other than that it could be that your commute involves travelling thru areas of no signal where the phone keeps trying to find a signal - that can drain battery a lot
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seems like you might have have some options enabled in Google Play Music / chrome - that is keeping the phone awake
generally when you switch phones they apps and their settings get transferred automatically now - worth maybe uninstalling them for a day and see if you're still experiencing this issue
other than that it could be that your commute involves travelling thru areas of no signal where the phone keeps trying to find a signal - that can drain battery a lot
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Thanks - I'll try that next time. Might also try a factory reset but not restore from the LG G5 backup to see what happens then.
how bright is your display? do you leave it on all your commute?
Got your wifi enabled which hunts for a signal even though you aren't using wifi? try turning it off. Same with location setting.
And how strong a signal do you have on your commute. Streaming lots of data on a really weak signal will kill battery, too.
Go into settings and see whats draining your battery.
Battery Drain Issue of S9 - Resolved
:laugh:Hi All,
I could resolve the Battery drain issue but not touching any other setting of the new phone by just disabling the backend data usage of all application expect few like Edge screen, Gmail, Flipboard etc... Now the android system power usage is back to 4-5%. Previously it was 21%-25%. So issue resolved. Need to find out the way to inform this to Samsung so they can identify which app is consuming full battery power.
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:laugh:Hi All,
I could resolve the Battery drain issue but not touching any other setting of the new phone by just disabling the backend data usage of all application expect few like Edge screen, Gmail, Flipboard etc... Now the android system power usage is back to 4-5%. Previously it was 21%-25%. So issue resolved. Need to find out the way to inform this to Samsung so they can identify which app is consuming full battery power.
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Hi, i'm facing ridiculous drains too and factory resetting hasn't seemed to help. I'm trying your resolution, but I don't entirely understand you. Could you kindly guide step by step? also, if you mean going to optimise battery usage, when i go there and select the 'apps not optimized' all the apps there are greyed out therefore not allowing me to select them.
OK everybody I have to go to the video to show you exactly the frame drops that I'm having and the crazy b******* that I keep on dealing with with this phone and it's driving me absolutely insane as you can tell from the title I can't I can't stop the phone from you're getting frame drops during the day when decides to do it it doesn't matter if the phone gets a bit hot with the CPU loading or have loaded in the background 1015 apps it just does not matter it when the phone is cold when I haven't touched it in an hour yes I do not Ever have this problem with the frame drops the 2nd I started picking it up and using it for 510 minutes maybe 15 minutes this is one I have the problems with the frame drops and it's driving me insane I've tried everything all the performance cpu settings are on their high Level the battery is not in any way shape form restricted restricted in the settings it's actually unrestricted to have the best performance out of the usage of the phone and still I have this b******* frame dropping g****** insane crazy issue that I cannot stand anymore and I'm coming to you guys the XDA because All reddit keeps on saying is to go ahead and either turn the phone in and get a new unit which is both stupid and and to do a hard reset which I'm not doing because it literally takes hours 6 hours to set up my phone and I'm not doing that that's just stupid heart reset isn't going to fix the problem that I even had on my phone too when android 12 came out and I just downloaded the latest version Which just came out 3 days ago and again here we go again which is another android update and again I still keep on getting this frame dropping please guys please I'm asking you I just want this fold 3 with a snapdrag 888 to work exactly how it's supposed to which a silky smooth all around all day without having any issues handling simple communications Apps simple emails phone calls and just scrolling through my Gallery going through normal social media pages is just insane I'm not even playing any games on this and it's just the back of the phone does get pretty hot very fast sometimes it takes 510 minutes and it just starts getting warm and I've measured the the temperatures usually gets up to a 101 04 with pretty heavy usage and then I'll go back down to 80 and this is the battery temperature not the CPU the CPU also I tested it and it stays between 70 to 85 ﾟﾟﾟﾟﾟﾟﾟﾟﾟﾟﾟﾟﾟﾟﾟF so please guys please I'm asking you I've been asking reddit for months and it's driving me insane I'm coming on here it's been a long time since my last post please let me know how to fix thisw to fix this
Thanks in advance
Ok checked the problem in safe mode it doesnt happen at all so the question how do I find the app reaponsible which really doesnt make any sense to me at all
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Ok checked the problem in safe mode it doesnt happen at all so the question how do I find the app reaponsible which really doesnt make any sense to me at all
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if it was a PC, would be just looking at the task manager to see what's taking up all the processing power... but idk if there is such a thing on the phone.
I would assume your best bet is to reproduce issue then report to Samsung Members app > Get Help > Error Report. Clearly note that you checked with SafeMode and it's not happening in SafeMode, and share your issue reproduced video.
Wakelock detector can show you which apps keep your cpu busy. You need to give permissions via adb so it can monitor all process.