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half way through the day today, and a couple days ago, i noticed my phone slowing to VERY very much, huge lag and latency. i barley run any appas at work, ill check a couple of websites, facebook and txt messages. I checked spare parts > Battery History and Running is at 100%. when i check partial wake usage, no apps seem to be staying awake and draining my battery. any1 ever experience this? is there another way to see if there is an app/service bogging down my phone. sometimes i notice when im on 4G it also slows doen, but it has never drained my battery like this.
im considering wiping the cache and dalvik, would that help?
Yes wipe both and then go to "Other" and select 'Fix UID mismatch' while you're there.
Another app that can help narrow it down is "SystemPanel Lite", free on the market.
Or if you like, start using Juice Defender and maybe even buy the UltimateJuice for 3.99 if I remember correctly, It gives me a x1.87 boost, so It could work...GL
And I just found this useful bit of information on each method to save your battery or increase it in fact here it is the link http://home.comcast.net/~evobenchers/index.html viola enjoy
Thanks for the suggestions, ill see if it helps within the nest couple days
Good luck...nothing has worked for me. I have done all of the above and it still happens. 4g does seem to slow it up also. My phone runs around 100% but no apps are draining it. Very rarely will watchdog alert me on an app draining the usage. I do not want to do a hard reset but that is sprints only answwr.
Hey, are there any side effects to wiping the cache and dalvik without flashing a new rom? will i lose anything?
Edit1: also, i'm looking into WatchDog. which version are you using skillzo1?
SilverStone641 said:
Hey, are there any side effects to wiping the cache and dalvik without flashing a new rom? will i lose anything?
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None other than your first boot up will take a little longer as it rebuilds the Dalvik.
It probably could be considered a good maintenance step as is cleaning up "Other".
I'm getting quite annoyed with my S3 and its piss poor battery life - currently seeing as little as 5 hours. On average, 55% of my battery goes to "Android System". I've tried a variety of battery monitors, but none can dig deep enough to determine which of the processes under Android System are sucking up all my juice. I'm on stock (rooted) and have tried to uninstall as much as I can (including the notorious Google+). Any tips on an app that can determine exactly which process is draining? I've also disabled as many Samsung apps as I can. I *did* try CM10 for a bit, but too many small things were not working right, so I nandroid'ed back to stock again.
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I'm getting quite annoyed with my S3 and its piss poor battery life - currently seeing as little as 5 hours. On average, 55% of my battery goes to "Android System". I've tried a variety of battery monitors, but none can dig deep enough to determine which of the processes under Android System are sucking up all my juice. I'm on stock (rooted) and have tried to uninstall as much as I can (including the notorious Google+). Any tips on an app that can determine exactly which process is draining? I've also disabled as many Samsung apps as I can. I *did* try CM10 for a bit, but too many small things were not working right, so I nandroid'ed back to stock again.
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I had this problem numerous times before. If it is Android System that is taking up battery, then its most probably a bad kernel. Your nandroid backup probably was bad. (it sucks, i know). Redownload the stock rom, flash it in odin, before starting up reboot in recovery and factory reset, then start it up. Your problem should be resolved. dont restore any apps and start fresh. Like I said it sucks but what can you do?
Hey ScottC,
Definitely doesn't sound normal. At the end of the day, I'm sitting around 10% lost to android system, 15% tops (of course this can vary on what you use and how you use it, but if your battery dies in 5 hours, certainly something is wrong). It's possible that in the process of nandroiding back, something messed up. I'd recommend a complete wipe (factory reset, wipe dalvik, etc), then test it out for a day or two. If the issue persists, you will likely want to Odin back to stock. If it still persists (highly unlikely), I'd call in for an exchange. Best of luck to you, and please let us know the results!
Thanks for the tips - to clarify, it was doing this before I ever nandroided back - but I have a feeling wiping might be the best bet (or trying out a better JB leak).
I think you may be getting the gsiff_daemon bug. Next time you have the battery start draining like that, turn on show cpu usage under developer options in settings. If you see gsiff_daemon at the top, then that's what's causing the android system battery suck.
The fix is simple go to /system/bin with a root explorer, mount r/w and rename gsiff_daemon to .Bak or delete it. This won't hurt anything. Then reboot.
There is a thread about this in QA. If you check it out keep in mind it's full of wags and speculation.
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I have the same issue. My phone was 100 percent and I've been sitting here watching the Texans game and I'm getting the worst battery life today that I have in my week or so of owning this phone. My phone is bone stock.
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I have the same issue
ibous said:
I think you may be getting the gsiff_daemon bug. Next time you have the battery start draining like that, turn on show cpu usage under developer options in settings. If you see gsiff_daemon at the top, then that's what's causing the android system battery suck.
The fix is simple go to /system/bin with a root explorer, mount r/w and rename gsiff_daemon to .Bak or delete it. This won't hurt anything. Then reboot.
There is a thread about this in QA. If you check it out keep in mind it's full of wags and speculation.
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Add another one to the list for this problem. I've had my phone since Sept. 27th (so 3 weeks?) and up until about 4 days ago it was great. Great battery life, even with all the bells and whistles turned on, and several apps that update constantly. For some reason a few days ago it started to battery drain HARD, downing to 25% of the battery life in less than 6 hours. That's with the phone sitting idle, not touching it, on wi-fi (not 4G) with excellent signal. Last night I plugged the phone in at 10% battery, did some chores, and returned some 3 hours later to find the battery at 5%. It drained while it was plugged in!
The battery drain issue seemed to start after the phone decided to have a certain level of diffuculty finding a 4G signal. I had to reboot the phone to get it to connect to the network. After that, the Android System will take anywhere from 55% to 76% of the battery drain.
I have shut off numerous programs, disabled the Samsung apps that were said to possibly be a problem, and looked for the gsiff_daemon in the CPU list (my top process is "com.android.systemui"). I searched com.android.systemui to see if I could find a fix, and all I'm really seeing is "flash a new ROM" or "Your kernal is bad, reset or reflash it." I'm running a 100% stock phone, and actually had no intention of rooting or flashing this phone yet, and I didn't want to have to factory default it. It's starting to look like that's my only option. Someone said that this bug seems to crop up out of pure chance and I think they may be right. My husband has the identical phone, bought, charged and activated the same day, and he doesn't have this problem. He's still getting the incredible battery life that I used to get.
So what's the skinny? Is my only option on this a factory reset? I've seen threads referrring to a thread dedicated to this topic, yet no links. If there's more info to be found, I'd love to read it.
This thread might as well be titled "all noobs thread". It is known widely that android system in jb leaks is a problem but of course u cant know that cuz reading and searching are two words that sound like chinese to you.
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This thread might as well be titled "all noobs thread". It is known widely that android system in jb leaks is a problem but of course u cant know that cuz reading and searching are two words that sound like chinese to you.
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Actually I have "searched" and "read". I wouldn't have posted had I been able to find an answer. Everything I've found has been for ROOTED/FLASHED ROMs, and I'm on stock. I don't want to root/flash this phone, I'd like to fix it without having to return it or factory default it if possible. I also mentioned that I had gone through threads and tried as many of the tips there that applied to my situation.
While I'm not nearly the level of many here, I'm also not a n00b. I've flashed, rooted and hacked many devices, I'm just trying to avoid that here. I didn't run across anything called "jb leaks" in my search, so if you'd care to be helpful and elaborate on that term, it might prove useful.
I believe this is the thread you were told about.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1755180
When you checked cpu use, how did you check it? There's an option in Dev Options to Show CPU Usage and you can see real time what's running. Just fyi in case you did it differently.
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Thanks for the Link, Doc! It's much appreciated. As far as checking the CPU, I used the option under the Dev Options menu and watched it bounce about. Many different programs would take top spot, but when the phone was idling it was always com.android.systemui at the top. When it wasn't top, it was never far below.
Have you tried booting into recovery and wiping dalvik cache?
If it comes to it, before factory resetting since you want to avoid that, download the official stock FW and flash with Odin. I'm pretty sure it will keep your data and apps intact. Backup data first in case I'm remembering wrong. If that doesn't do it then factory reset may be your final option.
Check settings > Battery, and open Android System (I'm betting its at the top). This may give you a better idea of what the root cause could be, maybe...
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Actually I have "searched" and "read". I wouldn't have posted had I been able to find an answer. Everything I've found has been for ROOTED/FLASHED ROMs, and I'm on stock. I don't want to root/flash this phone, I'd like to fix it without having to return it or factory default it if possible. I also mentioned that I had gone through threads and tried as many of the tips there that applied to my situation.
While I'm not nearly the level of many here, I'm also not a n00b. I've flashed, rooted and hacked many devices, I'm just trying to avoid that here. I didn't run across anything called "jb leaks" in my search, so if you'd care to be helpful and elaborate on that term, it might prove useful.
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You are not the op of this thread so i cannot comment about your problems. The first posts regard rooted devices running jb leaked roms and in the jb leaked roms threads all people talk about is android system taking a high percentage of the battery usage. So one must be really blind not to notice what is the problem and fix if there is any. There is no fix and it is kernel issue. Thats the reason why it is called leak and not official release. U can post some screenshots of ur battery usage and firmware version you are running if u want people to help u since u claim u r all stock and still android system usage is high 76%.
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I tried booting into recovery, but since I'm not a rooted user I can't clear the delvick cache. Somehow in the process of attempting booting into recovery I managed to lose my set wallpaper and most of my homescreen widgets, though the rest of my data and programs seem perfectly intact (accidentally went into a safe mode option). I did clear the cache partition in recovery, and tried another trick someone listed of pulling the battery and holding down the power key (I'll try anything at this point) and oddly it seems to be behaving better so far. Sitting on my desk it didn't discharge at all, and having just put all my widgets back it's only drained a few points. The screen is now the big spender at 39% with Cell Standby next at 12% (previously is was Android System being the hog at 50-70%). I have no idea which of the things I did actually did anything, but I think this just saved my tail.
I'm going to charge the phone normally tonight and leave it loose all day tomorrow like I usually do, and see what happens. If it starts battery draining again, I'm going to try flashing with Odin. Here's hoping I'm one of the few lucky ones where the problem simply "goes away".
Thanks again for your help!
Well that's kinda weird...good, but weird!
I've heard of people going into safe mode but its never intentional and I've never found how to do so at will.
As long as it goes back to normal though! Hope it does! Good luck!
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I know that this sounds pretty simple and you may have already tried this, but it always works like a charm for me. Try draining the battery ALL the way down until it automatically shuts off. Then keep turning it on until it won't even turn on our vibrate anymore. Plug it in and turn it on. Leave it plugged in until it's at 100% again, I do this overnight so there's no usage other than standby. Hopefully this will get your battery back in shape. Good luck!
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Well that's kinda weird...good, but weird!
I've heard of people going into safe mode but its never intentional and I've never found how to do so at will.
As long as it goes back to normal though! Hope it does! Good luck!
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Sometimes I wonder how I got into Safe mode.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1821557
Well, It behaved for about an hour, then it started the massive drain again. Sadly I just backed a few things up and then factory defaulted it. We're leaving on a trip tomorrow, and I need it to not be a power-sucking brick. Oddly, everything that my CPU report was showing was identical to my husban'd phone, which has no issues with battery life. The Gsiff daemon never once showed up.
As far as safe mode, I held down the volume down button while I powered up the phone. It went into safe mode. Don't know if it'll work for y'all, or if it was just a fluke on my part. :>
Thank everyone for your help in trying to troubleshoot this. One of these days I'd love to have an electronic device that just worked without me having to poke around in it's guts. ;>
If its still acting up after the factory reset, your best bet is to flash the stock FW with Odin. If the factory reset didn't wipe your internal sdcard, you may need to to wipe it in recovery by using format data as well. (Factory reset should do this anyway as long as you're on stock recovery)
I've seen on some jb leaks where this would significantly help. I know your not using jb but its worth mentioning anyway.
Good luck!
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Hi folks,
I have an at&t galaxy s3 that I bought sometime in late January, immediately flashed with Task's AOKP rom, and enjoyed some great battery life with. I was going 15 hours of moderate use (occassional texting, IM, email, browsing, auto-sync on, no wifi, only LTE) with 38% of battery life still remaining. I only have a screenshot from that long ago because I used it to boast to my non-android friends (haha/boohoo).
After a few updates to the ROM, I started noticing my battery life getting significantly worse. It got to a point where within 7 or 8 hours it would run down to under 15% of battery life remaining, with very similar usage patterns and apps. I have very good reception where I work, good wifi (experimented with this as well). I tried doing a full wipe and reinstalling the rom, tried the liquid smooth rom as well (last few screens), but nothing seems to be fixing it.
I installed better battery stats as well and I'm not sure how to be reading the info from the tool. I'd appreciate it if anyone could look at the screens I already have, and recommend any additional info that could help me figure this one out. Thanks!
I know only wakelock detector. its easy to understand. but someone will chime in. but if your usage hasnt changed then something must be causing that drain.
when you did the wipe did you restore data? did you do clean flashes? my only suggestion is try wakelock detector. charge your phone. let it sit for a few hours or with light use.
your screen shot shows that your phone was awake a lot when screen wasnt on. what app causes this im not sure. but find it and get rid of it if you dont need it
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Hi folks,
I have an at&t galaxy s3 that I bought sometime in late January, immediately flashed with Task's AOKP rom, and enjoyed some great battery life with. I was going 15 hours of moderate use (occassional texting, IM, email, browsing, auto-sync on, no wifi, only LTE) with 38% of battery life still remaining. I only have a screenshot from that long ago because I used it to boast to my non-android friends (haha/boohoo).
After a few updates to the ROM, I started noticing my battery life getting significantly worse. It got to a point where within 7 or 8 hours it would run down to under 15% of battery life remaining, with very similar usage patterns and apps. I have very good reception where I work, good wifi (experimented with this as well). I tried doing a full wipe and reinstalling the rom, tried the liquid smooth rom as well (last few screens), but nothing seems to be fixing it.
I installed better battery stats as well and I'm not sure how to be reading the info from the tool. I'd appreciate it if anyone could look at the screens I already have, and recommend any additional info that could help me figure this one out. Thanks!
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Try and see if AT&T will give you another battery. They are usually good about doing this. Give 611 a call and see what you can achieve. If you go into a corporate store I would recommend going to stock first. Of course making a nandroid is optimal. If this does not correct your issue at least their records will so such so you can work on getting a warranty repair.
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when you did the wipe did you restore data? did you do clean flashes?
your screen shot shows that your phone was awake a lot when screen wasnt on.
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i'd like to add by asking when you say full wipe, what did that include for you?
You said after a few updates. Try reflashing a backup to when you had the best battery life. Most likely it's because of additional features. Your battery stats doesn't show any wakelock issue.
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I know only wakelock detector. its easy to understand. but someone will chime in. but if your usage hasnt changed then something must be causing that drain.
when you did the wipe did you restore data? did you do clean flashes? my only suggestion is try wakelock detector. charge your phone. let it sit for a few hours or with light use.
your screen shot shows that your phone was awake a lot when screen wasnt on. what app causes this im not sure. but find it and get rid of it if you dont need it
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I'll definitely install wakelock detector and give it a go - now that I think about it, I sometimes notice that my phone will be warm when I pull it out of my pocket.
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i'd like to add by asking when you say full wipe, what did that include for you?
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When I say full wipe, I wipe data/factory reset, wipe dalvik cache, format /system. I let google restore all my apps on startup though.
S384, does that constitute a clean flash for you?
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Try and see if AT&T will give you another battery. They are usually good about doing this. Give 611 a call and see what you can achieve. If you go into a corporate store I would recommend going to stock first. Of course making a nandroid is optimal. If this does not correct your issue at least their records will so such so you can work on getting a warranty repair.
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This was going to be my last alternative - flash back to stock, and if the problem persists, get a new battery. I've only had the phone for about 2 months, so it is indeed unlucky if my battery itself is defective.
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You said after a few updates. Try reflashing a backup to when you had the best battery life. Most likely it's because of additional features. Your battery stats doesn't show any wakelock issue.
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But surely Task isn't including features on his rom that drains battery faster .. ? This is worth a shot though, a better alternative than going to stock for sure.
Wakelock detector screenshot attached - not sure if this is enough of a span to make any inferences, but I'll keep monitoring it.
yes, a full wipe constitutes wiping data, cache, dalvik and formatting system.
i would wipe data and both caches and flash back to stock. then do a full wipe and flash your rom of choice and wipe data and cache again. i'd almost bet this clears your issue up. as someone already said, grab the release that was working well for you if you want to stick with tasks 4.2.2.
i'm on aokp's 4.1.2 release from october and i get about a day or 2 of use. depending on my usage
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this is a recovery-flashable stock firmware zip with root injected from upndwn4par: http://d-h.st/8OQ
in case you're interested in my suggestion
xBeerdroiDx said:
yes, a full wipe constitutes wiping data, cache, dalvik and formatting system.
i would wipe data and both caches and flash back to stock. then do a full wipe and flash your rom of choice and wipe data and cache again. i'd almost bet this clears your issue up. as someone already said, grab the release that was working well for you if you want to stick with tasks 4.2.2.
i'm on aokp's 4.1.2 release from october and i get about a day or 2 of use. depending on my usage
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[/COLOR]this is a recovery-flashable stock firmware zip with root injected from upndwn4par: http://d-h.st/8OQ
in case you're interested in my suggestion
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This may be a basic question, but are you recommending this because you think there is a rogue app somewhere that needs to get wiped, or because somewhere along the way something may have fundamentally gone wrong with ROM installations, switching around etc?
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This may be a basic question, but are you recommending this because you think there is a rogue app somewhere that needs to get wiped, or because somewhere along the way something may have fundamentally gone wrong with ROM installations, switching around etc?
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my suggestion is based on several things:
1. you used release updates. perhaps even OTA.
2. you flashed another aosp-based rom and werent coming from stock
these types of things will bog your system down. dont get me started on a custom roms updates. dirty flashing repeatedly will cause things that used to work to become buggy.
always try to flash an aosp-based rom over stock. just works best.
Yup, I've definitely had that bogginess before on my old SII when I didn't do clean wipes, but the problem always went away when I did a clean wipe and reinstall, even though it wasn't from stock to aokp.
I'll wait and see if we can catch something through the wakelock detector - if that comes up empty, seems like this is the way to go.
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Yup, I've definitely had that bogginess before on my old SII when I didn't do clean wipes, but the problem always went away when I did a clean wipe and reinstall, even though it wasn't from stock to aokp.
I'll wait and see if we can catch something through the wakelock detector - if that comes up empty, seems like this is the way to go.
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keep me posted. if you reset, do full wipes before and after flashing the stock firmware zip (its for at&t btw. i'm assuming you are too?)
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keep me posted. if you reset, do full wipes before and after flashing the stock firmware zip (its for at&t btw. i'm assuming you are too?)
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Yup, I'm on at&t.
Another Wakelock update from this morning, + BBS info - still on LiquidSmooth. Thoughts?
More stats ... looks like the battery did a little better than usual today, but still not even close to what it used to be.
Does anyone see anything out of the ordinary? I'm just trying to figure this out to make sure it's not user- or app-induced, so that I don't repeat the problem again.
does seem like a lot of wakelocks. I really dont know how to fix that but I have much less. like maybe max of a minute used by top app. and maybe 3 or 4 apps with wakelocks. but it might depend on your usage.
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does seem like a lot of wakelocks. I really dont know how to fix that but I have much less. like maybe max of a minute used by top app. and maybe 3 or 4 apps with wakelocks. but it might depend on your usage.
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Over a span of 7 - 8 hours? Hmm wow - yea, I wish I had these numbers from when my battery was running well because honestly these apps are the same ones that I used at that point. Google music for commute, email, kik/whatsapp for im'ing, (maps is a little odd, don't remember using that today) ...
Any inferences from the BetterBatteryStats?
just another suggestion. try clearing data from email services and anything else that you use often. I believe excess data in apps can cause the wakelocks. I know it might suck but every now and then I just go through my phone and delete stuff. or download something like clean master and it will delete temp files and what not from your storage.
in your situation I would probably do these things. try again. or else do a factory reset and system wipe and reinstall a rom and not restore data to your phone but rather redownload your apps. I used to do this all the time due to just not knowing otherwise and it worked.
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or sorry go into application manager works too. find apps you use a lot and clear the data and cache. some apps this is not recommended because you dont want to lose data but it does help. for example my maps currently has 13mb in cache. I clear that and it seems to make no difference in what the maps app will do for me. theres also lots of threads on xda about wakelocks.
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just another suggestion. try clearing data from email services and anything else that you use often. I believe excess data in apps can cause the wakelocks. I know it might suck but every now and then I just go through my phone and delete stuff. or download something like clean master and it will delete temp files and what not from your storage.
in your situation I would probably do these things. try again. or else do a factory reset and system wipe and reinstall a rom and not restore data to your phone but rather redownload your apps. I used to do this all the time due to just not knowing otherwise and it worked.
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or sorry go into application manager works too. find apps you use a lot and clear the data and cache. some apps this is not recommended because you dont want to lose data but it does help. for example my maps currently has 13mb in cache. I clear that and it seems to make no difference in what the maps app will do for me. theres also lots of threads on xda about wakelocks.
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I typically redownload my apps instead of restoring the data - but clearing the cache etc sounds like a good idea anyway. I did it for the email and music app, let's see if things change.
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More stats ... looks like the battery did a little better than usual today, but still not even close to what it used to be.
Does anyone see anything out of the ordinary? I'm just trying to figure this out to make sure it's not user- or app-induced, so that I don't repeat the problem again.
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Dude add up all the wake locks in that bottom picture and its like 30% of your battery. That's terrible. Thus is what it should look like. Add mine up and you are at only a couple %.
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Hi guys
Im having a huge battery drain since I'm on Nougat, and it's because of the android system itself. Not because of an app or whatever. Indeed, in like 3 hours I lost almost 40% only using Spotify.
Here is a screenshot -> http://imgur.com/a/24874
I know there is a ton of posts like that but I believe that battery drain-related problems are user specific, so..
And I'm on full stock. No rom, not rooted
Anyway thank you!
give us more information to help you. Rom? Kernel?
I'm on full stock ! No rom, not rooted, everything's stock
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I'm on full stock ! No rom, not rooted, everything's stock
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Try installing 7.0 factory images from Google. You will find the instructions easily on xda, as well as on the Google site.
Restart your phone... Did you install the october security update? I have also some battery drain since the latest update.
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Restart your phone... Did you install the october security update? I have also some battery drain since the latest update.
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Yep I'm on the october security udpate! So maybe this isn't only myself
Was your screen on or off the majority of the time?
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Here's what happened on my 5X, I got mine new about 2 months ago, had 6.0.1 and battery life was great with amazing stand-by time. Soon after, I got the final update of 7.0 Nougat, everything was fine and battery life was slightly better than before. About 2 weeks later, my phone started draining battery when idle with nothing turned on. I tried recalibrating the battery, doing a hard reset and nothing worked, it was still draining battery when idle (I lose about 25-40% over night every time) So I tried fixing this drain issue myself and here's what I did: I rooted the phone, flashed back to 6.0.1 only to find out that that idle drain is still there (I wiped cache and everything) When that didn't work I tried Cyanogenmod 13, the drain is still there. So I read about different kernels, and I flashed back to stock 6.0.1 with ElementalX Kernel and that didn't change a thing. I am currently on 7.0 rooted with ElementalX Kernel and my device is still draining battery when idle. I have done pretty much all that I could to try and fix this but no luck. I tried contacting people on the Nexus forums and the only thing they said is, it might be a software problem. But can't know for sure. If anyone can please help or knows what else to do it would be greatly appreciated. I should also mention that my fingerprint sensor died shortly after 7.0 update and I have no idea why. Btw every time I flashed a new rom, it was completely stock with no 3rd apps installed and still draining when idle. (Side note: I live in Slovenia, there are no google stores in my country)
Also there is no damage to my device, no drops, no water exposure. Should I take it to service to have the battery replaced? What if the problem is still the same? I need some help here..
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Here's what happened on my 5X, I got mine new about 2 months ago, had 6.0.1 and battery life was great with amazing stand-by time. Soon after, I got the final update of 7.0 Nougat, everything was fine and battery life was slightly better than before. About 2 weeks later, my phone started draining battery when idle with nothing turned on. I tried recalibrating the battery, doing a hard reset and nothing worked, it was still draining battery when idle (I lose about 25-40% over night every time) So I tried fixing this drain issue myself and here's what I did: I rooted the phone, flashed back to 6.0.1 only to find out that that idle drain is still there (I wiped cache and everything) When that didn't work I tried Cyanogenmod 13, the drain is still there. So I read about different kernels, and I flashed back to stock 6.0.1 with ElementalX Kernel and that didn't change a thing. I am currently on 7.0 rooted with ElementalX Kernel and my device is still draining battery when idle. I have done pretty much all that I could to try and fix this but no luck. I tried contacting people on the Nexus forums and the only thing they said is, it might be a software problem. But can't know for sure. If anyone can please help or knows what else to do it would be greatly appreciated. I should also mention that my fingerprint sensor died shortly after 7.0 update and I have no idea why. Btw every time I flashed a new rom, it was completely stock with no 3rd apps installed and still draining when idle. (Side note: I live in Slovenia, there are no google stores in my country)
Also there is no damage to my device, no drops, no water exposure. Should I take it to service to have the battery replaced? What if the problem is still the same? I need some help here..
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I'd bet you a large sum of money that it's one of the Google apps holding the phone awake. Get a wakelock detector and find the culprit. All of that Google Location **** that they build into their apps just seems to run away and start draining battery. That's why I've permanently ditched having the Google app or Google Now Launcher on my phone.
Alcolawl said:
I'd bet you a large sum of money that it's one of the Google apps holding the phone awake. Get a wakelock detector and find the culprit. All of that Google Location **** that they build into their apps just seems to run away and start draining battery. That's why I've permanently ditched having the Google app or Google Now Launcher on my phone.
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Maybe but I use the Google App and Google Now all fine without a crazy overnight drain like he was describing.
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EeZeEpEe said:
Maybe but I use the Google App and Google Now all fine without a crazy overnight drain like he was describing.
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I'll admit that I've used those apps before without a single issue. But every once in a while, usually after an app update, Play Services or Location Services would suddenly go rogue and it was infuriating to track down the issue. So I avoid those apps all together now as a precaution.
kevin0304s said:
Restart your phone... Did you install the october security update? I have also some battery drain since the latest update.
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Same here.
What version of Google Play Services are you running? I believe a recent version (in the range 9.6.xx if I recall) had a genuine bug causing wakelocks.
The latest version (9.8.77) seems OK for me and the phone sleeps as before.
Alcolawl said:
I'd bet you a large sum of money that it's one of the Google apps holding the phone awake. Get a wakelock detector and find the culprit. All of that Google Location **** that they build into their apps just seems to run away and start draining battery. That's why I've permanently ditched having the Google app or Google Now Launcher on my phone.
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How did you ditch the google app? I can't even disable it. As for the launcher, I use Nova prime.
Rage9one said:
How did you ditch the google app? I can't even disable it. As for the launcher, I use Nova prime.
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When I clean flash a new ROM I use Pico GAPPS which doesn't come with the Google App or anything and I just never install it from the store.
I did a fresh install of latest release of CM13 with the pico Gapps package, the only things I installed my self are gmail, drive and chrome, I also disabled all background processes in the developer options, set the animation to 0 and turned off all types of syncing, even before I added those 3 apps I was still getting idle drain. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm thinking of selling my phone and getting something else, but I'd still like to have the battery replaced just to see if it'll fix the problem although I'm not really sure it's just the battery's fault since more people are having the same issue. One thing is for sure, I will never buy the cheapest google phone ever again, my friend's 6p is running better and has more battery life on 7.0 than on 6.0.1.
EDIT: On this latest release of cm13, I got an android system message saying: There's an internal problem with your device. Contact your manufacturer for details.
I deleted the cache in storage and no drain since this morning
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I deleted the cache in storage and no drain since this morning
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I'm glad it worked for you, I already tried that but it didn't help.
surrealjam said:
What version of Google Play Services are you running? I believe a recent version (in the range 9.6.xx if I recall) had a genuine bug causing wakelocks.
The latest version (9.8.77) seems OK for me and the phone sleeps as before.
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Yeah I'm running the latest version (9.8.77) and today, out of no where, I started getting smacked with a ton of wakelocks from none other than Google Play Services.
EDIT: Found the culprit, it was the Project Fi app.. -______-
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I deleted the cache in storage and no drain since this morning
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Which cache did you delete? Like you wiped cache in TWRP or did you clear the cache of an individual app?
What kind of drain we are talking about here? Few per cent per hour or more? I had an issue with my old Note 4 recently, somehow it got wet and it was never the same. Battery drains in 5-6 hours. Generally, after you restore the software, there shouldn't be any drain, if there is, very likely it is a hardware issue?
so i'm trying to figure out why my battery is draining so rapidly. I'm charging once and rarely twice during the day at this point. I'm running the latest and greatest from leedroid if that matters. attached a screenshoot for reference.
Anything else you need to help me with this just ask and I will answer. Thanks!
There doesn't look anything too bad from that screenshot. Have you got gsam battery monitor ? Try that and see what ' app use ' shows. I had a problem for a day or two on the same rom ( nothing rom related ) and no amount of reboots solved it. For some reason the kernel was keeping the phone awake 100% . Sometimes it's an app or a download or some media on the device, if it's a recent problem check everything that's been down or uploaded and any new media or app on the device. A wipe would likely fix it but try and narrow it down first. I think my issue was a play music download but can't be sure as I cleared cache, dalvic cache and data for several apps.
It's now back to usual ( 5 hrs SOT )
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There doesn't look anything too bad from that screenshot. Have you got gsam battery monitor ? Try that and see what ' app use ' shows. I had a problem for a day or two on the same rom ( nothing rom related ) and no amount of reboots solved it. For some reason the kernel was keeping the phone awake 100% . Sometimes it's an app or a download or some media on the device, if it's a recent problem check everything that's been down or uploaded and any new media or app on the device. A wipe would likely fix it but try and narrow it down first. I think my issue was a play music download but can't be sure as I cleared cache, dalvic cache and data for several apps.
It's now back to usual ( 5 hrs SOT )
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android system and kernel combined have 40%, they are the top 2 consumers and have the most wake locks.
drago10029 said:
android system and kernel combined have 40%, they are the top 2 consumers and have the most wake locks.
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That's slightly high but not drastic. There's a ton of factors for battery drain, what's the 'held awake' time versus the sleep and how much SOT do you get ?.
Another way to narrow things down is to leave it with data off for several hours to see if the drain stops.
There's dozens of options on Leedroid which could change battery life , including the kernel options in aroma . Ambient display can drain battery as can some of the ways to turn on the device.
You could try to wipe all the caches, clear data for Google apps and maybe dirty flash the ROM and see if things improve.
Maybe also try the battery calibration as detailed in other threads. There's a possibility the battery may be degrading of course, check the thread for that and see what your capacity is now.
Do you have the Facebook app installed. For some reason, I seem to notice battery drain more with some Facebook updates. I don't know what it is but my phone will easily last a day, Facebook update arrives and phone needs charging twice a day. Another Facebook update arrives and its ok again.
I think something is really wrong with the 10 lately. My battery goes down like crazy as well, I first thought it was my device and performed a factory reset, but still the same issue. Now I see that there are a lot of people mentioning the same thing the last few days.. Can't be a coincidence that my battery went bad along with others' at the same time..
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That's slightly high but not drastic. There's a ton of factors for battery drain, what's the 'held awake' time versus the sleep and how much SOT do you get ?.
Another way to narrow things down is to leave it with data off for several hours to see if the drain stops.
There's dozens of options on Leedroid which could change battery life , including the kernel options in aroma . Ambient display can drain battery as can some of the ways to turn on the device.
You could try to wipe all the caches, clear data for Google apps and maybe dirty flash the ROM and see if things improve.
Maybe also try the battery calibration as detailed in other threads. There's a possibility the battery may be degrading of course, check the thread for that and see what your capacity is now.
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i have ambient display off, i also selected one of the battery saving kernels. i had about 10 thousand wakelocks coming from powermanangerservice.wakelock this morning. the sucky part is i got frustrated and just uninstalled better battery stats after seeing that. i know that wakelock means there are tons of partial wakelocks.... it's just becoming a pain. hate my phone right now.
()after i left work) i just installed better battery stats again and i'm gonna let it sit.
3484jacks said:
Do you have the Facebook app installed. For some reason, I seem to notice battery drain more with some Facebook updates. I don't know what it is but my phone will easily last a day, Facebook update arrives and phone needs charging twice a day. Another Facebook update arrives and its ok again.
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no facebook, just instagram but instagram displayed no high usage and had a small amount of wakelocks.
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i have ambient display off, i also selected one of the battery saving kernels. i had about 10 thousand wakelocks coming from powermanangerservice.wakelock this morning. the sucky part is i got frustrated and just uninstalled better battery stats after seeing that. i know that wakelock means there are tons of partial wakelocks.... it's just becoming a pain. hate my phone right now.
()after i left work) i just installed better battery stats again and i'm gonna let it sit.
no facebook, just instagram but instagram displayed no high usage and had a small amount of wakelocks.
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Mine was bad again yesterday but back to good today. Only change was a Google play update ( pushed by google, I assume play services as it updates itself not through the store ). Maybe see if there is a more recent play services that helps you.
I thought power management services was the turning on of the screen/device but may be wrong , do you have wake gestures enabled ?
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Mine was bad again yesterday but back to good today. Only change was a Google play update ( pushed by google, I assume play services as it updates itself not through the store ). Maybe see if there is a more recent play services that helps you.
I thought power management services was the turning on of the screen/device but may be wrong , do you have wake gestures enabled ?
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no wake gestures, honestly i disable all the bells and whistles b/c battery on most phones. and here's what i got after a days use, SOT 2:50. The important thing to note my phone rarely get's used. text throughtout the day and video on the train ride home. music. i think that's pretty basic. what're you guys thoughts?
below are screenshots from Better Battery Stats of kernel and partial wakelock.
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