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battery draining too fast new or old

im on a stock rom not rooted and new battery and old battery both discharge really fast. Totally dead in 5-6hrs light use. Im guessing there is a hardware issue with the phone as this isnt normal. Any ideas?
lets see I did a factory reset after Jellybean update
changed the battery for a new one
biggest power drain is showing up as screen 33-39%
I have the thing on power saving mode and mobile data I turn off when not in use.
only thing I can think of that I didnt try is flashing another radio. But I doubt thats it because ive put it in airplane mode and it still looses power fast.

craig198 said:
im on a stock rom not rooted and new battery and old battery both discharge really fast. Totally dead in 5-6hrs light use. Im guessing there is a hardware issue with the phone as this isnt normal. Any ideas?
lets see I did a factory reset after Jellybean update
changed the battery for a new one
biggest power drain is showing up as screen 33-39%
I have the thing on power saving mode and mobile data I turn off when not in use.
only thing I can think of that I didnt try is flashing another radio. But I doubt thats it because ive put it in airplane mode and it still looses power fast.
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Get Better Battery Stats and check your wake locks. A lot of information in that thread. Might have a rogue app draining you.
Edit: also screen on is always going to be your biggest drain. Keep brightness down as much as you can. App called screen filter is good for achieving lower brightness than system allows. You could try the ktoonsz kernel, undervolted as well. Turning off sounds in settings (key press, vibrate, etc as well). Toggle data and WiFi when not using. These are just some basic suggestions.
Sent from my cracked out SGS3

This is my second s3 and the first one never had a problem going 10-12 hrs normal use. Im thinking it is a hardware issue as I did a factory reset and it still persists on fast draining.
Edit.. I just disable google talk maybe that was causing it?

It's not Google Talk. Check your battery and it'll show you what's drainage ng it the most. Also check screen brightness
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Benconquerer said:
It's not Google Talk. Check your battery and it'll show you what's drainage ng it the most. Also check screen brightness
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well after the screen 40% we have android OS @ lower 30%

Do you have an SD-Card in?
I was getting the same battery life, took out my SD-Card, and I'm getting 7 hours on screen time with stock battery.

andybones said:
Do you have an SD-Card in?
I was getting the same battery life, took out my SD-Card, and I'm getting 7 hours on screen time with stock battery.
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lol sd card?? well I tried it anyway and no, it still drains like a pissing racehorse. Ive noticed this phone gets pretty warm sometimes even with light use. Im not sure what is causing this but must be a factor in why the battery life is so poor. When I talk on phone, not very often, the ear piece actually gets hot. Im gonna send this puppy to samsung and see what they can do.

GSam Battery Monitor can offer better details about your battery usage, including wakelocks, cpu usage, etc.. It's more detailed than what Android offers.
I'd also recommend using an AOSP based rom as they include out any carrier/Samsung services that may adversely affect your battery life, particularly in a fringe coverage area or with many sync and push items. I'd also stay away from powersave mode for the time being.
If you want to know for sure, I'd do something like this:
- update PRL on current rom
- wipe and format everything in CWM
- flash rom as per developer suggestions
- wipe battery stats
- boot and do not sign in with your Google account (very important!)
- do not install or restore any apps
- turn off auto-sync and leave data on
- enable auto brightness
- confirm that phone signal is somewhere between -50 and -90dbm
- turn off phone and charge overnight
- turn on in the morning and use normally for the day
- install GSAM if issues persist
Please post back with updates.

It could be a hardware problem also you know.... if something ground off in the phone then the battery will drain faster than anything....I had a n96 with a grounded problem and it use to dead in 4 hrs....

[Q] Does anyone know how to turn off the LED light?

I think the LED light drains my battery too much when the screen is off
any way to turn it off ?

Are you on ICS or JB? I thought on ICS there was a direct setting but can't remember what option under System Settings. Maybe "More Settings"?
If you're on JB, can you do it through Settings -> Blocking Mode?

I think "lightflow" from the playstore gives you the option to turn it off

Think it depends on what ROM. What do you have enabling the LED when screen is off? From what I have read around here it really doesnt drain battery.

jasvncnt1 said:
Think it depends on what ROM. What do you have enabling the LED when screen is off? From what I have read around here it really doesnt drain battery.
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having a light on for hours doesn't drain the battery ?
what the heck are you talking about lol

I am running CM10 (stable) on Jelly Bean
anyone know how ?

Funkadelick said:
having a light on for hours doesn't drain the battery ?
what the heck are you talking about lol
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Didn't realize people let the LED blink for hours. Relax dude
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MobileNick said:
If you're on JB, can you do it through Settings -> Blocking Mode?
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Should work. This way, you can disable all LED indicator all the time or for a selected period of time -- i.e. during the night.
More LED options are available in Settings -> Display -> LED Indicator, you can select which type(s) of LED indicator you want to activate or not (charging, low battery, notifications, and voice recording). It may then be interesting to configure these settings in conjuction with the blocking mode.
But that's on stock ROM. It might be different in CM10.

Funkadelick said:
having a light on for hours doesn't drain the battery ?
what the heck are you talking about lol
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The S3's flashing led has negligible battery drain. (my experience)
I am using Light Manager app on a Stock ICS rom in normal mode blinking rapidly and have done the A/B tests to confirm that it is the least of your worries. I am a battery saving nut and have lots of experience with this.
But I would say, that some LED control apps have been known to cause heavy battery drain both to wakelocks and/or just the way they handle the switching.

themadproducer said:
The S3's flashing led has negligible battery drain. (my experience)
I am using Light Manager app on a Stock ICS rom in normal mode blinking rapidly and have done the A/B tests to confirm that it is the least of your worries. I am a battery saving nut and have lots of experience with this.
But I would say, that some LED control apps have been known to cause heavy battery drain both to wakelocks and/or just the way they handle the switching.
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Hi, you may be able to help me.
BBS indicates 100% awake while screen off. 90% of the times is the Kernel locks "leds wakelock"
What is it and how can I fix it?
Many thanks
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[Q] LED Notifications dimming while charging

Hi guys, I don't know if this is supposed to be either a feature or a bug, but since I replaced the battery cover from the original Quick Cover folio case (CCF-210) to the non-folio one, everytime I charge the phone the Notifications LED becomes dim as if brightness setting was set to zero. I have the unlocked AT&T E980 model immediately flashed with Panama ROM (full stock, non rooted) since I bought it a month ago. I made a few tests to check if this is a hardware or software issue (if it's an issue at all) and so I did the following:
* Using the non-folio case, when phone is NOT charging, the LED brightness is NORMAL (i set it to 80% brightness)
* Using the non-folio case, when phone is charging, the LED brightness is DIM (as if 0% brightness). I check the settings it's still set at 80%
* Using the Quick Cover case (auto screen off is turned ON), when phone is either charging or not, the LED brightness is NORMAL
Is anybody else experiencing this? Is the phone supposed to do this or not? I'm thinking of hard resetting the phone, but I wanna make sure I'm the only one experiencing this before I do.

No response from anyone? I guess I'm alone on this one...

jrtancinco said:
Hi guys, I don't know if this is supposed to be either a feature or a bug, but since I replaced the battery cover from the original Quick Cover folio case (CCF-210) to the non-folio one, everytime I charge the phone the Notifications LED becomes dim as if brightness setting was set to zero. I have the unlocked AT&T E980 model immediately flashed with Panama ROM (full stock, non rooted) since I bought it a month ago. I made a few tests to check if this is a hardware or software issue (if it's an issue at all) and so I did the following:
* Using the non-folio case, when phone is NOT charging, the LED brightness is NORMAL (i set it to 80% brightness)
* Using the non-folio case, when phone is charging, the LED brightness is DIM (as if 0% brightness). I check the settings it's still set at 80%
* Using the Quick Cover case (auto screen off is turned ON), when phone is either charging or not, the LED brightness is NORMAL
Is anybody else experiencing this? Is the phone supposed to do this or not? I'm thinking of hard resetting the phone, but I wanna make sure I'm the only one experiencing this before I do.
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I do know that when charging your phone there is a setting for the LED to change the colors or disable it, on certain roms. that's the only thing I can say about it.. sorry I wasn't more help

deadenz said:
I do know that when charging your phone there is a setting for the LED to change the colors or disable it, on certain roms. that's the only thing I can say about it.. sorry I wasn't more help
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Thanks for the response. Yeah, I tried changing the settings and then testing it again, but the LED keeps on dimming out (dropping to 0% brightness) when I connect the charger. LED works fine & normal when the charger isn't connected. It's nothing that affects performance though, it's just a really weird and annoying behavior.
Since it looks like I'm the only one experiencing this, I'd probably try to hard rest one of these days (when I'm not lazy anymore hehe) and hope it fixes the weird behavior.

how to make it brighter in general
i was gonna ask a similar question, are you saying the notification LED in home button right? Mine is so dim when charging, i can hardly see it, I have seen it much brighter when powering off phone and turning on phone, how can I make it brighter at all?
I am on ROOT E988 version by the way, stock ROM

xdax1 said:
i was gonna ask a similar question, are you saying the notification LED in home button right? Mine is so dim when charging, i can hardly see it, I have seen it much brighter when powering off phone and turning on phone, how can I make it brighter at all?
I am on ROOT E988 version by the way, stock ROM
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Yes, that's exactly it. So it's not specific to just the E980 Panama ROM since your experiencing the same on your E988. Same here, I can hardly see the green notification or the red breathing light when the charger is plugged in, especially during daytime. So is this supposed to happen or is it a bug? Do anyone else notice this on your LG OGP?

jrtancinco said:
Yes, that's exactly it. So it's not specific to just the E980 Panama ROM since your experiencing the same on your E988. Same here, I can hardly see the green notification or the red breathing light when the charger is plugged in, especially during daytime. So is this supposed to happen or is it a bug? Do anyone else notice this on your LG OGP?
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Its completely normal guys.. I also have my LED notifications dimming while charging..

mandarjoshiin said:
Its completely normal guys.. I also have my LED notifications dimming while charging..
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Cool!!! Thanks. Saved me from the hassle of doing a factory reset. :good:

new user LG G4 help

Ive had a G4 for about 3 weeks now, and would greatly appreciate a little help as a few of the other forums seemed to not offer much advise.
1. When the phone is at rest and charging, the LED flashes/beeps on and off a red color. When it's fully charged the LED flashes Green. Aren;t these lights supposed to be solid? Could my unit be defective? Ive heard yes and no answers.
2. With auto dim set to off and screen brightness at 65%, almost everytime i unlock the phone it auto dims by itself. Ive never experienced this with any other phone except the G3 a year ago. it this normal?
3. On standby the battery does not deplete. Like ever. It was at 88%, and 3 hours later was at 88%. But 5 minutes of simply chrome browsing brought it down to 81%. 5 minutes.
im not rooted, and use only stock, AT&T software. I really like this phone, but want to make sure they aren't all like mine.
Thanks

I have 815 UK version (or international as some people say, or European... or Korean...lol) Anyway, when charging I am shown solid red, when fully charged, solid green. Not sure about the brightness thing, I have mine on auto all the time as I'm afraid of losing too much battery lol. Depletion of battery at rest sounds about right, if it's not doing anything why would the battery go down? However yes, chrome is very resource heavy and I suggest using the stock browser (if you have it, for example on the 815).
IMO.

yeah the charging flashing light was very disturbing, maybe it's defective? but other people say theirs also flash

TheNamelessMan said:
yeah the charging flashing light was very disturbing, maybe it's defective? but other people say theirs also flash
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There is a known issue with the LED light no clearing properly on the G4, here, try this.
Notification LED issues
The notification LED issues have been reported on some G4 handsets, wherein the phone's notification LED keeps flashing randomly even when no notification has been received. In some rare cases, it is ascertained that the LED continues to blink even after dismissing the notification.
Potential solutions
This is a relatively common issue found in Android 5.0 Lollipop, which can be fixed using the Clock application that can be downloaded here. Although this is not an issue with the Clock app itself, it is a means to fix the Notification LED issue.
The issue seems to occur on some devices after receiving notifications from third-party messaging apps like Whatsapp. Such faulty apps could be removed to check if the problem persists. If the issue is gone after the removal of the app, you may need to install the latest app update from the developer to resolve the issue permanently.
If everything else fails, just turn off the LED completely, by going to Settings > Sound & Notification > Notification LED.
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NocturnalDroid said:
There is a known issue with the LED light no clearing properly on the G4, here, try this.
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It doesn't apply to notifications. I use a LED color app and that works fine...it's when the phone is charging.

Which model have you got?

standard, USA AT&T Model...H810

TheNamelessMan said:
yeah the charging flashing light was very disturbing, maybe it's defective? but other people say theirs also flash
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Mine also very slow to full red light and slow to no light while charging.
Full green when is fully charged.
I was thinking it was a feature....
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Yes, the LED orange light will "breathe" like you see on Macbooks or other charging devices, it gets brighter/dimmer gradually/smoothly. So if your LED is "blinking" ON/OFF then that is not normal. It should gradually and smoothly pulse brighter and dimmer.

Mine blinks, on and off. Like a notification but with a 1 second interval. When charged does the same thing but is Green.
You say yours pulses. Others say it's a solid color.
Why is this device so buggy across the board? I feel it truly does everything, and is beautiful, yet I feel theres very little consistency in performance.
I'm going to write an email to LG, and try to find out exactly whats supposed to be happening when this phone is charging.

From my limited time with this puppy, I've noted that mine's blue (for notifications and full charge) and red (charging). And no, I'm not color-blind. Yet.

Question Charging sound!! >:(

how do i disable this annoying pointless feature? every percent my phone charges it makes a noise and the screen turns on. i cannot find it in any settings. I am rooted but still cannot find out how to stop the useless chirp....
Oneplus 9 Pro

OP9ProRoot said:
how do i disable this annoying pointless feature? every percent my phone charges it makes a noise and the screen turns on. i cannot find it in any settings. I am rooted but still cannot find out how to stop the useless chirp....
Oneplus 9 Pro
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I don't have this issue. Are you using a battery stats app like AccuBattery that's trying to warn you about over-charging? AccuBattery will chirp at me if I go over 80% (and I think every percent after) unless I turn that feature off.

terlynn4 said:
I don't have this issue. Are you using a battery stats app like AccuBattery that's trying to warn you about over-charging? AccuBattery will chirp at me if I go over 80% (and I think every percent after) unless I turn that feature off.
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nope, no external app. just when it rapid charges, every percent no matter what im at it will wake the screen and chirp. every... single ... percent.... i tried an app to disable charging noises, and the noise went away.....but the screen still woke every time it increased lol