Does anyone else have this problem? My cell standby says im 100% of time without signal. But im connected when i check it. Is this a known bug or is my device defective? Doesn't seem to effect battery life for me but it Is slightly concerning since i know the counter is ticking for a replacement hassle free from AT&T
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EDIT: cell standby says 6% after almost 19hrs and i'm rooted running cognition beta 4
It is a bug also seen in the international version GS2. I have the same issue. To make the percentage of time without signal go down you simply go into settings/about phone/status. After doing that you will notice the percentage slowly start creeping down from 100%.
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Hi guys,
When checking the battery usage stats for Cell Standby i noticed it's showing 'Time Without a Signal 100%'. I've had the phone 3 days now and i noticed it on the first day and it hasn't changed. It does have a signal, i can make and receive calls with no problems. I've tried it with both a Talk Mobile and Vodafone sim card and they both show the same. The phone is a UK model, unbranded & unlocked. I've attached a screenshot so you can see what i'm talking about.
Anyone else getting the same? Any idea if this will be affecting my battery life?
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Hi guys,
When checking the battery usage stats for Cell Standby i noticed it's showing 'Time Without a Signal 100%'. I've had the phone 3 days now and i noticed it on the first day and it hasn't changed. It does have a signal, i can make and receive calls with no problems. I've tried it with both a Talk Mobile and Vodafone sim card and they both show the same. The phone is a UK model, unbranded & unlocked. I've attached a screenshot so you can see what i'm talking about.
Anyone else getting the same? Any idea if this will be affecting my battery life?
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100% time not using 2g, hsdpa or 3g instead. Don't worry.
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I'v just noticed this on my new GSII, never had it happen before, what's bugging me is that I'm getting massive battery drain overnight and the phone is off (dead) b y morning and it seems to be because my phone is in a terrible signal area at home where it will keep tight hold of H or 3G but on the lowest signal level, upping the output power I presume and killing my battery.
I can't have my phone going from 60% to dead while I sleep for 7 hours.
It's an old gingerbread bug, nothing to worry about.
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Definitely a bug, mine also,
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It'll start displaying correctly from then on (I think until reboot) if you go into Settings -> About Phone -> Status.
Correct!!!
Thanks!
I have the same problem I had no idea untill i read your post lol. I didn't notice any strange behaviour because of it.
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So I just checked my phone here at work and it's been off charger for 2 hours and is already down to 80% battery. The biggest battery drainer is "Cell Standby" since the phone has mostly just been sitting there.
does anyone know why cell standby is draining the battery? I though cell standby would just be maintaining a connection, but is it anything more than that?
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If you select Cell standby it says its "Battery used by cell radio". I believe its the amount of time searching for a signal. Are you in a bad 4g area and your phone is constantly switching between 4g and 3g? It is odd for that to be the biggest battery drain but I guess if you have not had your screen on at all than its not too much of a surprise. Remember that under battery stats all of those percentages and information is based on how much battery you have used so far so it may say 30% of it has been used by the cell standby but that only means that 30% of the 20% battery life you have used.
If you click on cell standby you will see the answer to your battery drain. I bet the without a signal percentage will be up and the cause of the drain.
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Its most likely a radio signal issue, as said. What kernel are you on?
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Its most likely a radio signal issue, as said. What kernel are you on?
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Kernel has nothing to do with the radio so that doesnt really matter.
Busphan said:
If you click on cell standby you will see the answer to your battery drain. I bet the without a signal percentage will be up and the cause of the drain.
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Mine is always number 2, right behind display. However, my time without signal is always 0%. I live in a good 4G area, but do work in an area where I bounce around a lot. In it's infancy I expect LTE to give people fits with this. I don't think it's that out of the ordinary.
Curious what everyone else has listed as cell standby percentage listed in battery usage. I just happened to look and mine is listed as 100% without signal even though I have had signal all along. I wonder if this could be a bug like the 50% without signal I experienced with my cappy.
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My cell standby is 6% currently
Mine is 21%, Android OS at 59%. Signal is constant yellow, which is odd since it was in decent signal much of that time.
Well that is weird, mine is reading 100%. I wonder what is going on.
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OK me thinks maybe I wasn't clear in the OP. What I am talking about is when you bring up Battery Usage and then click on Cell Standby it then brings you to the break down of the Cell Standby. There you will see Time On as well as Time Without a Signal. In my case the Time Without a Signal is reading 100%. What is everyone elses reading?
Time without a signal: 31% - rather surprised it's that high
To the OP, I was just about to make a thread on this because I knew I couldn't be the only one with this problem. I've had this bug since day one, it always says 100% no cell service.
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I'm not sure if it's the same thing but in the international version it's a display bug and for some reason if you go into settings--about phone---status, the % starts to drop.
Oh wow. I haven't even looked at this until I saw this thread. My cell standby says 3% but it says I've gone without signal for 96%. And I've been in coverage for most of the day
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6% every time I've checked
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I'm not sure if it's the same thing but in the international version it's a display bug and for some reason if you go into settings--about phone---status, the % starts to drop.
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I think its the same thing with this phone. I did what you said with going into settings /status and now my percentage is dropping.
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First 4 days there was no sight of this on my device, this morning after installing google voice i've noticed mine now says 100%. Out of curiosity do the rest of you with this discrepancy have google voice installed?
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First 4 days there was no sight of this on my device, this morning after installing google voice i've noticed mine now says 100%. Out of curiosity do the rest of you with this discrepancy have google voice installed?
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Nope, no Google Voice and my Time Without Signal is 100%.
maybe they miss word it. maybe it should have read "Time with Signal"... cuz I am on a Microcell... and I have signal alllll the time
Just saw this thread and checked - I'm another user with 100% time without signal indicated. Been in decent coverage most of the day. I have google voice installed.
Mine is 13%. Still weird
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It seems to be a known bug with the GS2. There are threads discussing it in the I9100 forums. Ever since I went into About Phone/Status my time without signal percentage has stayed St 0%. I guess it's kind of like the 50% bug with the GalaxyS1.
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Mine is 2%.
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Checked my wife's SGSII tonight when she got home from work. Reported cell standby as 6% of battery use, and 0% time without signal. She has Google Voice installed as well.
A couple of maybe related items:
a) When we brought both devices home, hers connected to our MicroCell with no problems. Mine would not connect at all, until I did a sim swap with her device. After swapping back to our original sims, both connect to the MicroCell.
b) with very similar time off the charger today (me at 10 hours, her at almost 12) and similar screen on times (me: 1hr 27 min, her 1hr 11min) she had 60% battery remaining, I had 33%. I am running some additional apps, and used google nav for about 6 minutes. She was in wifi coverage all day (except while commuting) I had no wifi all day. Not sure if the battery burn difference is justified by those differences or not - or if they are possibly somewhat related to the 0 vs 100 time without signal indication (I was only showing 7% battery drain from the cell standby).
I too have the 100% "bug" I also read in the i900 threads that once we go to:
settings>about phone>status the "time without signal" percentage will begin to drop. I can confirm it. It's at 98% for me now. I seem to have pretty good battery life. About 16 hours on a single charge. I think its just a bug but makes me wonder if my battery life would last twice as long with "time without signal at 0%" I do not have google voice and all the apps and widgets I have that can be configured are set to sync manually (with the exception of the google apps) (auto sync is on).
I was checking my battery stats and the cell radio status was showing 35% without a signal, is this normal?
No. Time without signal is a huge drain on the battery. If you are in areas with poor signal its better for your battery if you turn on airplane mode.
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Then, is there a way I can test my antenna? I spend the entire day downtown where, presumably, should be the best signals in the city.
Are you sure this isn't related to the known gingerbread bug where time without signal is erroneously reported?
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I was checking my battery stats and the cell radio status was showing 35% without a signal, is this normal?
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No, it isn't. For most people this function is broken and always displays 100%
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Are you sure this isn't related to the known gingerbread bug where time without signal is erroneously reported?
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I wouldn't know how to tell. I don't use voice much. However, my data rates are awful, consistently below 1,000 kbs down.
Mine says 100%
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I've noticed when mine is showing time without signal, if I just go to Settings>About Phone>Status, then back out it will start reading that it does have a signal after that.
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I have had my One for about a month now, and I absolutely love it, but I have one major issue with it. Whenever the battery gets kind of low say around 15% it just drops instantly. The other night it went from 15% to 3% to off in around three seconds. Yes, I am rooted and unlocked and I am running ARHD22 if that would help diagnose my issue.
I also was having battery issues with that rom. My android system was using %99 of my battery
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I'm running stock 4.1.2 and I and I also see a rapid decreasein battery life once the 15% indicator is alerted,I have experiencedThat issue with other htc phones also?im starting to believe battery stat accuracy
Is not htc's forte? That's also probably
Why a percentage Indicator wasent included in some of there os until recently?
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I have not suffered any of these before, I have 100% stock my One, I don't pretend to root before getting official 4.3.
Try checking with GSAM ?