I have noticed exsessive battery drain recently (%50 overnight), I have installed Battery Info thats telling me the mjority of battery drain is from:
"Mobile tracker + Settings+ Factory Mode + TMserverApp + MTP application"
I cant seem to find out what "Mobile Tracker" "TMserverApp" are from google searches, I cant disable either of these from the application manager to even test if they are the main problem.
I understand MTP is used for file transfers, this I have only used very minimally so dont think this is the cause for battery drain.
Not sure what factory mode does or is?
My S3 is standard from Optus, Android version 4.0.4
Any ideas?
No one knows what any of these apps do/are? Woke up to a competely dead battery today from about 60% last night.
Just install a copy of Titanium Backup Free and Backup, then uninstall those apps if you are rooted.
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richo27 said:
I have noticed exsessive battery drain recently (%50 overnight), I have installed Battery Info thats telling me the mjority of battery drain is from:
"Mobile tracker + Settings+ Factory Mode + TMserverApp + MTP application"
I cant seem to find out what "Mobile Tracker" "TMserverApp" are from google searches, I cant disable either of these from the application manager to even test if they are the main problem.
I understand MTP is used for file transfers, this I have only used very minimally so dont think this is the cause for battery drain.
Not sure what factory mode does or is?
My S3 is standard from Optus, Android version 4.0.4
Any ideas?
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Mobile Tracker is Samsung's tracking service I believe (i.e. if your phone is lost or something).
As was mentioned, install Titanium Backup. Instead of uninstalling, freeze those apps instead - it's less intrusive and ICS compatible. also, if you ever find a need for these, all you have to do is un-freeze (or "defrost") them.
Search for better battery stats on xda this will give you more detailed information about what is causing your battery drain. Sounds like you have a wakelock, as previously mentioned identify the offending apply and freeze it with titanium backup.
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Not sure if this is a bug or something, but my Android OS usage is extremely high from 40-50%. Also the Android OS always is downloading something, my wifi icon is always downloading when on wifi, but it doesn't when I'm on a mobile network. Is anybody else having the same issues? Also my auto-sync is only for my Google account which includes Gmail, Calendar, Contacts and Google Music. See the attachments for usage statistics.
Install BetterBatteryStats (there's a free xda version available), do some reading on how to use it, and you'll find your issue easily.
Make sure all bloatware is removing from your phone, that did the trick for me.. I get 22-24 hours of usage.. on 4G of course.
I have the same problem here. Android OS uses most of the battery, whereas display only uses 20-30%, kind of weird
But the phone still gives me power for all day long
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All my bloatware is removed, I got factory unlocked so I don't have the usual carrier stuff. Think I'm going to root and flash the AOSP rom onto my phone.
Its an error in reporting with ICS, it is not actually draining.
I haven't used my S3 in a while since I got my Nexus 5 but never got around to selling it. I was thinking of giving it to my mom instead, who's never used a smartphone but expressed some interest in getting one.
I had unrooted and flashed a stock Rogers 4.3 in anticipation of selling it.
Last week my Nexus 5 died and while waiting for my replacement I was using the S3 again as a backup. Since I only needed it for a few days I didn't do any rooting or customization and lived with the stock experience.
However, I found there was serious battery drain. Much more than I recall when I was using it prior to 4.3 (which came out around the time I switched phones). Based on betterbatterystats it looked like this was being caused by a wakelock related to google network services. I see the same wakelock on my Nexus 5 but it doesn't seem to cause any drain while sleeping while on the S3 it's probably losing 20% per hour while sleeping which is a major issue. Is this a known issue with Samsung's 4.3?
So I want to give her the phone in a state that is as maintenance free as possible. I planned to just keep it stock but the battery drain is going to make this phone useless for her and any kind of apps/utilities to tweak battery usage is not going to be a tenable solution with the phone in her hands. She's going to have her hands full just learning the basics.
Is there any way to fix the stock ROM to fix this battery drain issue? If not, is there a custom ROM that does not exhibit this problem but is fully stable and usable by a non-technical user? My experience with custom ROMS has been they all seemed to have various bugs or issues, probably related to incomplete driver support. That's one of the reasons I wanted to get a Nexus. But I haven't followed S3 development since so any suggestions on stable ROMS that don't need any tweaking would be appreciated.
Thanks!
On the stock side, you could start with a non root debloating effort.
Two basic principles are:
Eliminating 2x & 3x built in apps & services like email client, music store, contacts sync, social networking updater, weather widget etc. That is to say pick from the Samsung, Google or AT&T (or no) version and "Turn Off" the others in Application Manager, as able. Obviously root & say, App Quarantine would give greater reach there.
Secondly, reducing unneeded background activities like synching in selected apps' (like Gmail or Skype) settings menu and, if sufficient wifi uptime is available, "Restricting background data" per app; below the pie chart (in Settings/Data usage, after scrolling downward from the bar chart to click on individual apps.) This will limit top background data hogs from overusing cellular data connection activity (with its battery impact) & restrict them to the wifi connection. This works (non destructively wherever real time data can wait for wifi).
My rooted, modded stock 4.3 may be a little less restrictive than yours, but these procedures can make a pure stock flash tamer while considering root options.
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OK, so by now a good deal of us will have 4.4.2 installed, either via PCCompanion, OTA, or more likely by flashing an ftf because Sony is terrible at rolling out updates. And if you do have it you'll have noticed that Sony have done a bang up job of making it one of the laggiest and shortest experiences you've ever seen on a flagship.
One of the biggest setbacks is the battery drain issue, originally we all thought that the perpetrator was Google Play Services, which kept waking our phone, so we tried to fix that with blocking its wakelocks. I did that too, and it did help, the battery didn't drain as much and would actually last till the evening.
However, I checked battery consumption again, and noticed that since I blocked Google Play Services, the Media Storage was draining more than 60% of my battery.
I've fixed it, here's how:
For this you'll need
Root
the latest GApps, or just the Services part
Xposed,
Wakelock Terminator (free to block one app, pro version blocks more)
If you're not rooted, root your phone, just follow the super easy instructions in the above link.
OK, you need to install the latest Services, for some reason it wouldn't automatically update for me on my XZL, this release fixes the issues, yes this was not a Sony mistake, it was just Google.
Once you did that install Wakelock Terminator, the free version only blocks one app, if you want to block more you'll have to pay. This is an Xposed module so you need Xposed, if you don't already have it, follow the above link and install it.
Now if you're rooted, have xposed, updated services, and have Wakelock Terminator installed, open Wakelock Terminator. Here search for "Media Storage", or just "media", then select it and block its wakelocks.
Then reboot and you're done. A lot of work, but that's our fault for buying Xperia.
My battery is currently at 59% after 9 hours 51 minutes, not fantastic, but much better than before.
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OK, so by now a good deal of us will have 4.4.2 installed, either via PCCompanion, OTA, or more likely by flashing an ftf because Sony is terrible at rolling out updates. And if you do have it you'll have noticed that Sony have done a bang up job of making it one of the laggiest and shortest experiences you've ever seen on a flagship.
One of the biggest setbacks is the battery drain issue, originally we all thought that the perpetrator was Google Play Services, which kept waking our phone, so we tried to fix that with blocking its wakelocks. I did that too, and it did help, the battery didn't drain as much and would actually last till the evening.
However, I checked battery consumption again, and noticed that since I blocked Google Play Services, the Media server was draining more than 60% of my battery.
I've fixed it, here's how:
For this you'll need
Root
the latest GApps, or just the Services part
Xposed,
Wakelock Terminator (free to block one app, pro version blocks more)
If you're not rooted, root your phone, just follow the super easy instructions in the above link.
OK, you need to install the latest Services, for some reason it wouldn't automatically update for me on my XZL, this release fixes the issues, yes this was not a Sony mistake, it was just Google.
Once you did that install Wakelock Terminator, the free version only blocks one app, if you want to block more you'll have to pay. This is an Xposed module so you need Xposed, if you don't already have it, follow the above link and install it.
Now if you're rooted, have xposed, updated services, and have Wakelock Terminator installed, open Wakelock Terminator. Here search for "Media Server", or just "media", then select it and block its wakelocks.
Then reboot and you're done. A lot of work, but that's our fault for buying Xperia.
My battery is currently at 59% after 9 hours 51 minutes, not fantastic, but much better than before.
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Testing now!
Dead Metal said:
OK, so by now a good deal of us will have 4.4.2 installed, either via PCCompanion, OTA, or more likely by flashing an ftf because Sony is terrible at rolling out updates. And if you do have it you'll have noticed that Sony have done a bang up job of making it one of the laggiest and shortest experiences you've ever seen on a flagship.
One of the biggest setbacks is the battery drain issue, originally we all thought that the perpetrator was Google Play Services, which kept waking our phone, so we tried to fix that with blocking its wakelocks. I did that too, and it did help, the battery didn't drain as much and would actually last till the evening.
However, I checked battery consumption again, and noticed that since I blocked Google Play Services, the Media server was draining more than 60% of my battery.
I've fixed it, here's how:
For this you'll need
Root
the latest GApps, or just the Services part
Xposed,
Wakelock Terminator (free to block one app, pro version blocks more)
If you're not rooted, root your phone, just follow the super easy instructions in the above link.
OK, you need to install the latest Services, for some reason it wouldn't automatically update for me on my XZL, this release fixes the issues, yes this was not a Sony mistake, it was just Google.
Once you did that install Wakelock Terminator, the free version only blocks one app, if you want to block more you'll have to pay. This is an Xposed module so you need Xposed, if you don't already have it, follow the above link and install it.
Now if you're rooted, have xposed, updated services, and have Wakelock Terminator installed, open Wakelock Terminator. Here search for "Media Server", or just "media", then select it and block its wakelocks.
Then reboot and you're done. A lot of work, but that's our fault for buying Xperia.
My battery is currently at 59% after 9 hours 51 minutes, not fantastic, but much better than before.
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No results found for media or media server.
supaflyx3 said:
No results found for media or media server.
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Lol, just switched my phone to English, and here it's called Media Storage.
Putting the location service to only GPS ("Device only") worked way better and fixed all the battery drain. With this method it was still a lot higher than it should be.
Using App Ops (xposed) and denying the keep awake seems to work better than Wakelock Terminator for me with no downsides.
NamenIos said:
Putting the location service to only GPS ("Device only") worked way better and fixed all the battery drain. With this method it was still a lot higher than it should be.
Using App Ops (xposed) and denying the keep awake seems to work better than Wakelock Terminator for me with no downsides.
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Well, with this method media only uses 7% of battery, and I have locations deactivated by default.
I'll try the App Ops version though, even if I can't see any downsides to my method, just to compare.
I have location services on by default, and this completely fixes the 95% Google Play Services battery drain issue.
Thanks!
NamenIos said:
Putting the location service to only GPS ("Device only") worked way better and fixed all the battery drain. With this method it was still a lot higher than it should be.
Using App Ops (xposed) and denying the keep awake seems to work better than Wakelock Terminator for me with no downsides.
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So I tried the App Ops tip, and it uses more battery, with it there are two media services running each at the same time, one 7% and the other 5%, with Wakelock Terminator there there is only the media server. But your tip did do something, before I used it media server used 7%, now that I switched from your method back to mine, it only uses 3%.
It didn't work here... still draining battery. I'll set location service to "device only" to see if it helps. Not sure if apps like waze and google maps will work fine after that, though.
Noticing your Galaxy S6 battery is draining too fast? This thread can help.
Part of the problem lies within a memory leak which is a known problem that Samsung is aware of and is reportedly patching in an upcoming update.
The other issue is Samsung attempts to load everything into memory and run several services in the background as well as hard loading the phone with bloatware.
Here is how I gained 30% better battery performance. Guaranteed
*Prerequisites
*Need to be rooted for every tip to work.
1. Disable anything you consider bloatware
2. Go to settings then application manager and disable both ANT radio service apps. You don't need this. Causes massive battery drain. Google it if you don't believe me.
3. Go to the app store and download "Servicely" from Franco. Paid app but worth the money...trust me. (Need root)
4. Once in servicely add running services and apps to your hit list, choose start at boot and run hit list while screen is off.
5. Reboot your phone. Give your phone a full charge and see the difference
Attached is a screenshot of realistic usage. I was on a poor lte signal for 9 hours and conducted several calls and used my phone moderately heavy. As you can see i got through my entire work day and still have 6 hours left at moderately heavy use.
Remember, this is realistic. I could have shown you a screenshot showing 18 hours left after only using it 1 hour. What I'm showing is a legit 9 hours of usage. Before I made these tweaks I would be at 10% battery or less after nine hours of the same usage.
Post your screenshots after 24-48 hours and let's see how much you are saving.
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I think disabling the ant radios will disable certain low-level bluetooth connections to hrm's and other fitness equipment (among other things). You may not want to disable these.
Your right!
i have havd the ant service disable for some time now and I use a fitbit one that is low bluetooth device and there are no issues.
ant service when i look it up says its for ant devices only not low bluetooth devices but i could be wrong
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I think disabling the ant radios will disable certain low-level bluetooth connections to hrm's and other fitness equipment (among other things). You may not want to disable these.
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Incorrect. Disabling ANT will not affect wearables or any peripheral. ANT is supposed to save battery while using Bluetooth but it has the opposite affect. Massive drain on battery and not needed.
cyberone3 said:
i have havd the ant service disable for some time now and I use a fitbit one that is low bluetooth device and there are no issues.
ant service when i look it up says its for ant devices only not low bluetooth devices but i could be wrong
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Correct. Very few devices sold in the US are even ANT compatible
bash_array said:
Incorrect. Disabling ANT will not affect wearables or any peripheral. ANT is supposed to save battery while using Bluetooth but it has the opposite affect. Massive drain on battery and not needed.
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bash_array said:
Correct. Very few devices sold in the US are even ANT compatible
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That's interesting - here's the information from the play store. I haven't noticed any ant services using any battery at all on my end, but I don't use s-health which ties into this - it says that ant services only gets used when a compatible service sees it. Here's the full list of devices/apps that make use of ant services.
This service is similar to the system components that enable other forms of wireless connectivity on your phone (ie. WiFi, NFC) and will not run or use system resources unless you start an app that requires ANT wireless communication. It is pre-installed by your device manufacturer to allow the built-in ANT wireless hardware already present in your mobile device to operate. If you do not intend to use this feature there will be no impact to your system and no further action is required.
If this service is not pre-installed on your phone you may still be able to enable ANT+ communication, see http://www.thisisant.com/developer/ant/ant-in-android/ for more info.
What is ANT?
ANT is an extremely power efficient wireless communication technology. ANT allows you to connect to, and make use of various other ANT or ANT+ devices. Today, this service allows you to connect to popular interoperable ANT+ sport/fitness/health devices such as heart rate sensors, fitness equipment, cycling products, weight scales and more. In the future it will be possible to use ANT to enable a myriad of new applications from your mobile device, such as home automation control of lighting, temperature and door lock functions. Visit www.thisisant.com for more info.
How to use:
This system service cannot be launched directly. It will run automatically in the background whenever any application that requires ANT wireless communication is used.
ANT+ enabled applications also typically require downloading the ANT+ Plugins http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsi.ant.plugins.antplus
Some popular apps enhanced with ANT+:
* Samsung S Health
* Garmin Fit™
* SportsTracker by STL
* Endomondo
* My Tracks
* Run.GPS Trainer UV
* IpBike, IpWatts, IpPeloton, IpSmartHr
* Selfloops
* SportyPal
* MapMyFITNESS/RIDE/RUN/WALK+/HIKE/DOGWALK
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i have found that google location is causing my battery drain i turned it off and charge my phone before it was sleeping less than 50% now at 70% at the moment and going up