Ive noticed that on battery history, its showing large blocks of the phone being completely awake. I've never seen this until this week. Phone is sitting right now and it shows a solid awake for maybe an hour or so.
GSAM shows 68%, 2hours SOT and 2 hours awake. I'm on Project FI if it matters. Signal is fine. History is also not really showing anything consuming large amounts of battery. Phone doesnt feel warm but the other day it definitely heated up and Play Services was towards the top (not the case currently).
I'm slightly confused.
Google phones use twice the battery in screen off state than other manufacturers' phones. That's because they have to update Google Now cards ALL OF THE TIME. You can disable it, but then you lose functionality. It's really quite annoying, because you have to use 3rd party apps to gain the same functionality.
Disclaimer: I don't have solid proof of this, I just compare battery usage between Samsung phones and Pixel XL. S6 Edge, Note 7 were using less than 1% for 2 hours of screen off time. The Pixel is eating up battery at a rate of about 1.75% for 2 hours of screen off time. Both phones have similar battery sizes.
It seems ok now. Sleeping quite well. Just confusing to see blocks of awake time when the phone is doing nothing.
My buddy and I both have this issue randomly. Phone is either waking up every couple minutes or just stays awake for the entire day. No apps say what exactly is causing the awake time but we r sure its a google app of some sort. Normally a reboot helps or fixes but we never had this issue up until last month or two now. Same apps as usual nothing really different. Its frustrating that the issue is untraceable
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So Does anyone get good standby battery? Lately, not using it, it only lasts about 2-3 days. My wife's iPad at the same point in time has about 80% charge left if it isn't used.
Thinking about switching back to Apple on the tablets for just this reason.
DId you see what causes such huge draining
Hi, did you check what is causing this huge draining? My tablet is fine, taking just 2-3% overnight.
My P600 drops 5-10% over a 24 hour period, but only drops 2-3% if airplane mode is on.
Probably you installed an app that causing wake lock. There are a lot of theads about wake lock, but for you to know is some background process that don't allow your device to enter in deep sleep. Unfortunaly, android is like that, if you install a bad app you going to have issues.
Yeah maybe, but with KitKat and no root, ferreting out problems is much harder. Seemed to be mostly fine before the last two updates I got.
Thats crazy ... Android OS should not be anywhere near that high a percentage. Have you tried reatrting your tablet a few times if not I'd say factory reset and see what happens. I must say this Tablet has had A LOT of people complaining about battery issues - seems like a product fault somewhere. Fortunatly mine is still gojng strong hopefully that doesnt change.
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Yeah, it restarts itself when I pick it up and the battery was completely drained. Yesterday I had 6minutes screen on time, and was dead within 2 days of unplugging it. Bought an iPad for Christmas. Can't decide what to do here. Android seems to always have battery issues with the solution being "Factory Reset it". Annoys the heck out of me.
So, after a data wipe. Minimally installed and syncing apps, the 2 day drain is gone, replaced by losing about 3-4% at night. Now decisions. The deal was I was suppose to sell my Android tab here, and buy an iPad due to battery frustration woes. Well, it was the deal with my wife. Now I am thinking of just keeping both of them. Wonder how long I can hide it. iPad still destroys the Note 10.1 2014 on battery life....but there are a few Android things I want, e.g. Stylus, Share menu, that I believe Apple or app developers on iPad will fix soon.
I need help... I just purchased a moto 360 yesterday and I have battery issues.. It came with 29% out of the box and it died by the time I could set it up.
Now I updated it to marshmallow and the problem is still there... Usage of just 2 or 3 min drops 3 or 4%
If it's kept idle, the battery doesn't drop at all... But when I actually use, like open a few apps and stuff, it drops like crazy... And everywhere online I see people saying 14 hours of battery life with screen always on!
I even tried using the watch with airplane mode.. I doubted that my phone was doing something. But even then it drops the same way, maybe a lil less..
Is it just me or does everyone have a problem or is there a fix for it or do I have to go for a replacement?
What settings have you selected?
I have mine with the following:
Ambient screen: Off
Tilt to wake screen: On
Wi-Fi: Off
I did notice for the first week of use the battery on my watch went through a sort of bedding in process, after that it lasted a lot longer. I think it might also be due to the fact that I was constantly installing new apps and watch faces and updating Android Wear, stuff that puts a real drain on the battery.
One thing worth making sure, don't have more than one step counter going. I'd initially installed Google Fit and also had Moto Body pre-installed on the watch and later found out that they were both setup as Step Counters, which was rinsing the battery if I did a lot of walking. After I blocked one (Google Fit) it improved the battery a lot.
I have a 2 year old S4 Mini (GT19195), currently running latest stable CM 13.
The phone is working fine except for the occasional (once a week or 2) unexplained battery drain.
With my fairly light daily use, the battery is lasting over 2 days. <And can usually run 4 or more hours screen on.> However, in the last few months, at random times (even with phone asleep - screen off for > 10 min, so presumably in doze), the phone will heat up, and battery will drop 5-10% per minute. After the phone shuts off from dead battery, recharging and restarting the phone will return things to normal, until the next time.
During these episodes, the phone behaved normally, I did not notice any lag on waking up the phone, switching/opening apps, etc. The battery meter page showed no unusual process using the battery (none of the process actually showed any increase in % battery use); except for the battery life dropping off a cliff as I watch. <I noted that the battery usage stat never adds up to 100% even in normal use ... It might show 10% screen, 5% Android, etc, but all that only adds up to 50% or so from full charge to when the battery is near dead.>
Anyone seen this before? Is this a sign of an ailing battery, or something else? Can this be a software problem - like something running away in the background? <Of note is that this happened once when I had completely wiped the phone and had the fresh install of CM 13 + Gapps (micro) ... so if this is software, it would be something in stock Android, rather than a 3rd party app.>
Thanks for reading & responding.
@JohnSoong
This sounds like the processor is stuck on max frequency. Either it is an app(s) playing up or some other process that is keeping the CPU working when it should sleep.
The first thing I would do is install BetterBatteryStats app or something similar to see what is keeping the device awake. You could also try to grab a logcat, but you would need to catch the incident and either plug into a pc with adb or run an app like catlog
JohnSoong said:
I have a 2 year old S4 Mini (GT19195), currently running latest stable CM 13.
The phone is working fine except for the occasional (once a week or 2) unexplained battery drain.
With my fairly light daily use, the battery is lasting over 2 days. <And can usually run 4 or more hours screen on.> However, in the last few months, at random times (even with phone asleep - screen off for > 10 min, so presumably in doze), the phone will heat up, and battery will drop 5-10% per minute. After the phone shuts off from dead battery, recharging and restarting the phone will return things to normal, until the next time.
During these episodes, the phone behaved normally, I did not notice any lag on waking up the phone, switching/opening apps, etc. The battery meter page showed no unusual process using the battery (none of the process actually showed any increase in % battery use); except for the battery life dropping off a cliff as I watch. <I noted that the battery usage stat never adds up to 100% even in normal use ... It might show 10% screen, 5% Android, etc, but all that only adds up to 50% or so from full charge to when the battery is near dead.>
Anyone seen this before? Is this a sign of an ailing battery, or something else? Can this be a software problem - like something running away in the background? <Of note is that this happened once when I had completely wiped the phone and had the fresh install of CM 13 + Gapps (micro) ... so if this is software, it would be something in stock Android, rather than a 3rd party app.>
Thanks for reading & responding.
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That sounds like an issue I've had for several months, also running CM13 (Official) nightlies & Open GApps micro, unfortunately I've never had the time investigate (well I did once but it worked fine, I couldn't recreate the problem). It is currently happening less than once a week so not a major issue for me.
I've noticed several times that the phone felt hot, I've then used the Trepn profiler app, it would show the web browser running at 30-50% cpu constantly, so stuck as per @noppy22, though not at 100%. I have tried all the major browsers and they have all done it at some point, also most have crashed at some point, which I suspect may be related. Normally just the browser app crashed but yesterday using Chrome the phone FC and rebooted itself. Crashes seem to happen when I touch screen or scroll (though one may not have been when touching). Also XDA app crashed (1st time) when scrolling a couple of weeks ago, so probably not just browser issue on some sites as I thought previously, but might be unrelated. The stock battery meter did not show particularly high battery usage by browsers, though were a little elevated in % terms but hard to tell due to different usage patterns and not checking when things are good! I have noticed a bit of lag, which now makes we run trepn, if it shows high than expected usage by an app I close the app, which fixes it even if I go back to the same web page. This morning I woke up and my phone was off, I put it in my night-time profile (wifi & data off) that normally only uses a few % overnight but last night it must have used more than 30% of battery that was left, first time this has happened.
The other thing to consider is how good is your battery? At 2yrs old it could be tired if it's had a hard life (though yours maybe not) or you have allowed it to get very hot eg I did one trip using gps nav with phone mounted in windscreen cradle driving direct into the Aussie sun when my battery was about 2.5yrs old, thinking back I now think this was when I first noticed my battery was really dropping of quickly when around ~40% charge (though it was faster with more charge remaining also than my new battery, I would say), so think I the high temp the phone got to that day affected the battery. I think 4hrs of screen on time may be marginal, I was only getting about 3 to 3.5 when my battery dropped off fast, my new battery is giving me 6hrs SOT (mostly using browser app), so possibly you just need a new battery as only one other user has reported high cpu usage like I have.
Battery stats not adding up to 100% is normal.
I've just installed BetterBatteryStats, so I'll give it a week of so and see if it catches anything. So far nothing unusual in the stats.
I am leaning towards this being a hardware issue, likely the battery. Since the phone responded fairly normally during the overheat & battery drain episodes, this does not seem to me an app taking over the CPU. If the CPU was occupied by an app, shouldn't everything else be slowed down?
I have so far noticed no particular pattern to these episodes, and I cannot reproduce it at will. It is infrequent enough for now that I can live with it (although an unexpected dead battery is annoying.) I will see if the monitoring app pick up anything.
Hey guys,
Maybe you have to try to flash your stock or custom kernel again.
Thats probably the problem.
Xheers
When I got mine a few years ago the media process kept getting stuck and overheating/draining my phone and even a reboot wouldnt fix it. I found out because I was using the system panel app and monitoring cpu of system processes. I ditched and deleted the gallery app (it was trying to create thumbnails for 100+gb of photos and videos) for quick pic v.4.5.2 on every phone I've used ever since and haven't look back.
I've had an S7 active for about a year...though I've had 2 replacements. The first S7A that I received in July/August last year would not update from AT&T. I tried factory resetting umpteen times, but every time it would attempt to download the next most recent update, it would fail. AT&T gave me a warranty replacement that started seeing terrible battery life within 2 months of use. The Second replacement I still have today and have been using for 10ish months.*
Currently I've got the following issues with it-
1-Battery life. Even with pure black overlays, running in battery saver with data saver, samsung sleep on all apps, background processes disabled for all but Android system and Hangouts, no FB or FB messenger, no Always on Display, Aggressive Doze enabled, always in FHD or less, the battery life is awful *IF* I use the phone. With the screen on at any usable brightness, the battery use after a few minutes jumps to ~10-20%/hr. Additionally, streaming videos or even using Google News can cause the phone to heat up to a quite hot temperature right around the power button. I've tried clearing cache after every OTA update, and I've just tried a full discharge and recharge(typically I recharge at 20-30% and stop charging around 80-90%), but it's still a hog.*
What's odd is that idle battery life isn't too unreasonable on Wifi/4G, it sits around 2-4%/hr(measured with GSAM Pro) typically. Even at home though, where I'm in airplane mode with WiFi on, the phone exhibits the same dismal use if I have the screen on.*
2-Heat. This is related to*#1*. If I use the phone for anything intensive, games, lots of web browsing, News feed with lots of screen scrolling, the phone gets HOT on the right side near the power button.*
3- Recent apps button and back button are getting mushy. I'm not rough on this device. It's still in great cosmetic condition for the number of outdoor activities I've taken it on. I've never experienced a rough drop onto any outdoor surface. It's fallen on our soft faux wood floor, but only onto the rounded, rubberized corners of the phone. Still, the buttons are caving in toward the fingerprint reader. The phone is out of warranty now, so I can't do anything about it. I would love to know if it's a setup issue. So can anyone still following this and that still has the phone and is still happy with it's performance share their setup?
In addition to the things i mentioned, I'm also using Evie launcher, and all-in-one gestures. I'm not sure that these are causing high use, as they never show up in GSAM or in the Default Battery Stats.*
Here's a for instance- I was at 79% battery, and let the phone update 15 apps. I am in a full signal wifi and 4g LTE service area. The phone lost 11% battery updating the apps in less than 5 minutes and it also became very hot.
Was the first time I noticed this since my battery is performing worst I have ever seen.
So I charged the phone to 100%, let it plugged in for some extra minutes then unplugged it. Next I watched a nearly 2 hours movie on Netflix using the inner screen, everything is off except Wi-Fi, battery is still 100% when I hit Play. While the Active time in Battery usage was somewhat correct (it said 1h44m instead of 1h55m, the exact duration of the movie), the usage was not. It said that Netflix only used ~8% of the battery, while battery life was already at ~70%, and I added everything else that used battery together like Google Play Services, One UI Home, Smart Suggestions etc... they could never meet the rest 22% of the actual battery used. VidMate Mobdro
It's a Z Fold 3 and I'm on latest patch. I do reset the phone everytime my storage is filled, last time was about 3 months ago. I don't have many apps or things that could run in the background, it just that I take photos and clips alot. Is this normal? Is there something I should do like a rollback or anything like that? I
I believe that the rest of the battery usage is probably screen
Those android app stats are for foreground tasks for the most part. There's lots more going on in the background that's not reported!