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I'm down to 36% at the end of the day and all I do is listen to music with little gaming.
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psxpetey said:
Data Rapes your battery plus background data etc wifi
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Already off. Sometimes I use airplane mode.
I'm down to 0% after 4 hours with an extended battery... lucky.
GetPatriotized said:
I'm down to 36% at the end of the day and all I do is listen to music with little gaming.
Any ideas?
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What ROM/kernel are you using? Also, try out the app BetterBatteryStats to see what's draining all that power.
Streaming music, especially in an area with a low signal, will rape your battery life.
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I have the same battery issues. It drains a lot when playing games and using wifi.
I hope Sony releases a battery fix in Ice Cream Sandwich when it's released.
+1 for betterbatterystats
Helps identify any annoying apps keeping the phone awake. Had an old version of getjar which was a pain in the backside doing kernel wakes all the time!
I'm on stock and I get a bit obsessed about trying to get my phone to last 2 days, even though I work in an office so could charge whenever I want.
So I end up not using it to it's full potential tbh.
However for me I did the following:
Rooted
Added CWM
Flashed a zip for notification toggles.
Then turn data on only when I want it.
Also installed titanium backup.
Search on google 'safe remove apps xperia play xda'. Their is a thread which gives you loads of stuff you can delete (after backing up with titanium of course!. Not only did it make my phone feel so much more responsive (freeing up RAM obviously), not having those apps does make a difference to the battery life.
I can now go with 30mins gaming, some texting, a short call or two and checking twitter / fb, switching to wifi when home in the eve and have all connections turned off over night and manage 30-40 hours from the phone.
That I can cope with
Is anyone else experiencing heavy battery drain from the Google music app? I sometimes get 35% of battery usage by google music even if i don't listen to music.
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Just force close it from the application list.
Also I don't experience any battery drain from it..
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donbronco said:
Is anyone else experiencing heavy battery drain from the Google music app? I sometimes get 35% of battery usage by google music even if i don't listen to music.
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^^ This.
Even when I have my player set to ONLY play On-Device music, my 4 gets all hot and bothered, and at the end of it all, my battery can sometimes drop 15-25% over 45 minutes...
donbronco said:
Is anyone else experiencing heavy battery drain from the Google music app? I sometimes get 35% of battery usage by google music even if i don't listen to music.
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nope. If I don't touch the app, it doesn't use any battery (at least according to settings -> battery). when I use the app, it uses battery, but not really that much.
Google Maps is the one that kills me... and yes, I have all that location reporting and latitude stuff turned off. I just have to keep going into settings -> battery several times a day and force stop maps.
Try disabling mobile data, I've been able to listen to music for hours and only experience 5% battery drop
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I have the same problem on my Samsung Galaxy S3. I listened to music for an hour a few days ago and ever since Music Player has been draining about 20% of my battery even if I don't listen to music at all.
In other words I've charged my phone multiple times to 100% since I listened to music (100% charge resets the battery monitoring statistics, so previous listening to music should not show up anymore), I never ever opened Music Player in these last days, I've force stopped the Music Player days ago, but still, it's constantly chewing on my battery...
I'm on Android 4.1.2.
I had a similar problem, but found that if I disabled sync for music, but left evrything else synched it stopped it eating my battery
No problems for me. Streamed music on Google Play for more rhan 5 hours yesterday and I still got 24 hours on my phone!
wait, so if i have this right..... the app forces syncing of all your music by default and puts the settings for stopping this action somewhere else on the phone...... google clowns i salute you :good:
meangreenie said:
wait, so if i have this right..... the app forces syncing of all your music by default and puts the settings for stopping this action somewhere else on the phone...... google clowns i salute you :good:
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lol yeah sounds about right. In settings, under Accounts - Google - you can choose what to sync and what not to
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nope. If I don't touch the app, it doesn't use any battery (at least according to settings -> battery). when I use the app, it uses battery, but not really that much.
Google Maps is the one that kills me... and yes, I have all that location reporting and latitude stuff turned off. I just have to keep going into settings -> battery several times a day and force stop maps.
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Search in the apps section for the Better Battery Stats thread; somewhere in there is a nice tutorial on how to kill Maps wakelock battery drain.
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I've had my M8 for 6 months now and just did a factory reset to improve performance but the battery is still bad for me. I start at full at 8am and my phone is dead by 4pm with normal usage, about 7 hours total. No apps seem to be hogging battery. Android, the default processes, and the screen take up most of the power.
App usage
You do realize that your NFC and bluetooth is on right?
I'm also suspecting that a app could be the cause of it but I highly doubt so. There's a possibility that your device packs with a faulty battery to begin with
Mine was bad too, I uninstalled every unneeded app, screen brightness never goes more than 40, battery saving mode on all the time, wifi bluetooth GPS etc on only when I use them, greenify quite a few apps too and all ads are blocked. I also wiped battery status and let battery has a fresh start. I don't play games, only use it for music, web browsing, emails, social networking; I am a medium user.
My phone can go from morning to midnight with one charge and that's all I need.
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You do realize that your NFC and bluetooth is on right?
I'm also suspecting that a app could be the cause of it but I highly doubt so. There's a possibility that your device packs with a faulty battery to begin with
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WiFi, Bluetooth and the such use little battery, at least according to GSAM. GSAM also doesn't say any app is hogging battery.
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Mine was bad too, I uninstalled every unneeded app, screen brightness never goes more than 40, battery saving mode on all the time, wifi bluetooth GPS etc on only when I use them, greenify quite a few apps too and all ads are blocked. I also wiped battery status and let battery has a fresh start. I don't play games, only use it for music, web browsing, emails, social networking; I am a medium user.
My phone can go from morning to midnight with one charge and that's all I need.
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I'll try that. My brightness is already set low with Lux and I only use my phone for Web browsing/social media. Unfortunately I can't root on 4.4.4 right now so I'm limited in what I can do.
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My brightness is already set low with Lux
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With Lux, you are using auto brightness, which is always going to be an extra battery drain as the light sensor is being constantly polled. Ditch auto brightness, and just manually set it with auto "off" for best battery.
Hello Guys and Gals,
Its been awhile since i have been on here. But i have been very satisfied with my Note4. However. It had come to a point that carrying 4 batteries with me to make it through the day was too much.
Here i am . Finally upgraded to the 8+ and overall. I am very dissapointed.
So. i would like some input on what changes you have done, as well as apps running, how much you use the device, your daily connections. and so on.
i have:
Bluetooth always on, connected to my Gear S2
Location services always on
I am a big social media junky, on FB, and IG, not too much of Snapchat.
I use Line to talk to my group that i game with
I play Transformers Earth Wars, about 15 minutes at a time a few times a day.
Do not use bixby
Screen display is set at Amoled Cinema, HD resolution, auto brightness is turned off stays between 30-60%
Very Rarely use WiFi
Google apps do not auto Update
USB Debugging
3 gmail accounts linked, sync is off
Anything else just ask,
So after my 8hr shift of work, my phone is at about 40%, my Note4 on would almost make the whole day, i would get to about 20%, then i would switch batteries.
I am not happy with the battery. Just seems like for no reason it is draining.
Comment below, let me know your setting, impressions, and so on.......... Maybe im doing something wrong and dont realize it.
Well your first problem is all the social media apps, pretty much all of them just destroy battery life. When your not using those apps I would put them to sleep.
You need to monitor which apps are draining the battery. You can do this through the stock device mait. app. Once you find out which apps are causing the drain we can go from there.
I use standard mode, screen on WQHD, sync always on, all data no wifi, screen at 50 % or higher. No social media apps, I use the browser for those.
Here's some screen shots of battery life, this is and average battery cycle, I have reached over 9hrs of Screen on time (SOT) and 1.5 days in previous cycles.
Quickvic30 said:
Well your first problem is all the social media apps, pretty much all of them just destroy battery life. When your not using those apps I would put them to sleep.
You need to monitor which apps are draining the battery. You can do this through the stock device mait. app. Once you find out which apps are causing the drain we can go from there.
I use standard mode, screen on WQHD, sync always on, all data no wifi, screen at 50 % or higher. No social media apps, I use the browser for those.
Here's some screen shots of battery life, this is and average battery cycle, I have reached over 9hrs of Screen on time (SOT) and 1.5 days in previous cycles.
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ill try that. i close my apps out as soon as im done, but im guessing that isnt enough anymore. Thanks for the info. Just was hoping to get away from the charger, but it seems that will not happen.
primus123 said:
ill try that. i close my apps out as soon as im done, but im guessing that isnt enough anymore. Thanks for the info. Just was hoping to get away from the charger, but it seems that will not happen.
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Believe it or not sometimes that consumes more battery life having to open the app every time vs just letting it run in the background. Probably not true with social media apps but it's worth a try. You may also want to try a package disabler app from the play store to disable apps you don't use that run in the background. I use BK package disabler.
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Quickvic30 said:
Believe it or not sometimes that consumes more battery life having to open the app every time vs just letting it run in the background. Probably not true with social media apps but it's worth a try. You may also want to try a package disabler app from the play store to disable apps you don't use that run in the background. I use BK package disabler.
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Ok, i may give that a shot.
Thanks,
Google is running in background and its Max battery drain app.. in the screenshot, i selected put app sleep when not in use, but still its active for 13+ hours in background.. how to fix it..
For me google play services keep running in the background.
Could you please share a pic of your entire battery drainage from the apps?
I disabled it (google app, not play services) since day one, along with other annoying pests via ccswe and package disabler pro, both complement each other perfectly, of course there is the ADB commands method, but I preffer the apps I mentioned, as they provide very useful widgets to enable/disable problematic apps as google, playstore, updates, chrome, etc, you can even disable services within the apps, to avoid background data access or runnig on boot
Subham jyoti said:
For me google play services keep running in the background.
Could you please share a pic of your entire battery drainage from the apps?
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This one?
winol said:
I disabled it (google app, not play services) since day one, along with other annoying pests via ccswe and package disabler pro, both complement each other perfectly, of course there is the ADB commands method, but I preffer the apps I mentioned, as they provide very useful widgets to enable/disable problematic apps as google, playstore, updates, chrome, etc, you can even disable services within the apps, to avoid background data access or runnig on boot
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Can you guide me what needs to be done with these apps? I never seen so much battery drain due to google app on my previous phones
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This one?
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Thnx. Yeah it's same like me. I don't know why it keeps running in the background
atrix4nag said:
Google is running in background and its Max battery drain app.. in the screenshot, i selected put app sleep when not in use, but still its active for 13+ hours in background.. how to fix it..
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Firstly,
Look at my Google usage, screenshot
9 hrs background and only 0.1 % usage..!
So even if your Google is enabled in background
it should only take a minimum % eg 1 % ..?
So i would say that some settings in your
Google..?
that is enabled, eg syncing..... etc
I don't know all the tasks connected to Google.
I would rather cross check with battery
apps eg Betterbatterystats, Gsam battery monitor,
Wakelock detector lite etc
to pinpoint reason, than try and restrict Google.
Bottom line,
If you don't know what to do and you are desperate,
i would then factory reset device.
Should solve the problem..... hopefully.!
Good luck.
willcor said:
Firstly,
Look at my Google usage, screenshot
9 hrs background and only 0.1 % usage..!
So even if your Google is enabled in background
it should only take a minimum % eg 1 % ..?
So i would say that some settings in your
Google..?
that is enabled, eg syncing..... etc
I don't know all the tasks connected to Google.
I would rather cross check with battery
apps eg Betterbatterystats, Gsam battery monitor,
Wakelock detector lite etc
to pinpoint reason, than try and restrict Google.
Bottom line,
If you don't know what to do and you are desperate,
i would then factory reset device.
Should solve the problem..... hopefully.!
Good luck.
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Thanks for your suggestions.
I don't want to do factory reset. I will try with other options first.
atrix4nag said:
Google is running in background and its Max battery drain app.. in the screenshot, i selected put app sleep when not in use, but still its active for 13+ hours in background.. how to fix it..
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Same happened to me. What I did was to delete Data from Play services app, then I deleted cache from phone an voila. I have all sync and functional.
Ps. I charge my phone to 90% and I can get 5-6 SOT at 30% left everyday.
The issue op mentioned is not about google play services, it is about the google app instead I think
The problem is I don't think any batter stat apps can get low enough level stats to indicate what is using the Google app in the background to determine what is causing the drain. Usually, the culprit is an app frequently using location service (your GPS) to check your location which I believe the Android location service coordinates for apps other than the native Android/Google apps are obtained through the Google app in the background. That latter point is purely a guess because as we all know the Google app is a "multipurpose" app and you can't see detailed enough battery usage to determine what function of the app is being used that causes battery drain.
On my S10 5G, for the first 2 weeks I've used it, Google never was in the top 5, taking like 1-2% over the course of a day. Then seemingly all the sudden, it was #1, consuming like close to 1% an hour in the background. So I think, what did I change recently? I enabled Google Discover, but set the option to mae it update less fequently (6 hours) to reduce battery (the option actually says this will reduce battery usage). It didn't make a difference. So I disabled Google Discover and installed Google News instead. My Google app battery usage is lower now. About 0.9% per hour (all background usage of course). I think for most people that's good, but not when you were used to it being more like 0.1-0.2% an hour before.
I think the bottom line is if you want to use more features on your phone you have to live with a bump in battery usage. The 4500 mAh battery on my S10 5G lasts me abotu 1.5 days. LOL. But I don't play games or check Facebook/Instragram all day. Just a few texts, weather alerts, maybe an hour or two of browsing. Mabe an hour total of talk time. So relative to other people I should be less concerned if my phone is lasting well over a day on a charge, actually close to 2 days many times. I know a lot of other more "frequent users" (probably a lot of people younger than myself) that are on social media a lot and or listening to music/watching videos would kill to have their phones last 20-48 hours without having to charge.
Still, I keep an eye on things and it bugs me Google has jumped up. A great app to use is Accubattery and monitor the "SCREEN OFF" discharge rate. You're not actively using apps when the sceen is off so this gives you a good idea of your total background battery usage. You can make changes to settings, charge your for for a while, and let several hours pass, then check the screen off discharge rate and compare it to other discharge periods before you made the settings to determine if the changes you made had much of an effect.
Of course background usage isn't going to be 100% consistent, so the longer you measure the better, as if you look at it over like a 1 hour period, it could be certain apps were just more or less active during that particular hour. But if you compare like half day or more (6+ hour) periods to previous periods, you can get a good gauge if apps setting changes or newly installed apps are eating more battery in the background.
I disable Google feedfack, all their data collecting junk and their data backup too. Google is a pig.
Some blocked Google apks like Playstore are enabled as needed.
Even when Framework and Google Transport are blocked it's sometimes periodically necessary to clear their data to get them from using excessive cpu cycles.
Battery Tracker reports Google Framework running when AOD is on but it's likely misreading as long as battery draw remains at around 1%@hour while phone is screen off.
I'm running on Pie... who knows what Q will do.
Most likely make a bigger mess.