Phone gets hot with no use - Motorola Photon 4G

If I never use my phone, I get great battery life and phone stays cool.
However, It seems that whenever I actually need to use the phone to make a call, browse, tether or whatever, something gets triggered and drains the battery.
An hour later when I check my phone, it'll be pretty hot (40 deg celcius) and the battery will be draining fast.
Battery log just shows that Phone Idle is the #1 user.
Restarting the phone or putting it in airplane mode seems to make it go back to 'normal' battery usage.
Is there a better application out there to track what uses the CPU ?

System Lite is a pretty good program that keeps track of CPU and RAM and shows you what is using it and allows you to end task on them as well.

Here's how I would approach it if you brought the phone into my service center.
Verify/duplicate issue
Hard reset
Attempt to duplicate after reset (if this happens then replace phone, if not then next step)
Instruct customer to reinstall only one app a day to see which app is causing the issue.

Install the leaked 198_7 sbf from the Delvelopment subforum and this problem will go away.

tbhausen said:
Install the leaked 198_7 sbf from the Delvelopment subforum and this problem will go away.
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Hmm, sounds like some app was acting up then, constantly using CPU. An SBF would definitely reset things.

where are you putting it?
jnmacd said:
If I never use my phone, I get great battery life and phone stays cool.
However, It seems that whenever I actually need to use the phone to make a call, browse, tether or whatever, something gets triggered and drains the battery.
An hour later when I check my phone, it'll be pretty hot (40 deg celcius) and the battery will be draining fast.
Battery log just shows that Phone Idle is the #1 user.
Restarting the phone or putting it in airplane mode seems to make it go back to 'normal' battery usage.
Is there a better application out there to track what uses the CPU ?
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Ive read of similar things happening to people, in many instances it was because they placed their phone in a metal desk at work or in some shielded area where the phone would constantly search for service thereby draining the battery and getting hot. Or you have too many things pushing data constantly.

MultiDev said:
Hmm, sounds like some app was acting up then, constantly using CPU. An SBF would definitely reset things.
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The sbf doesn't wipe your phone... I think Motorola has a problem (intermittent) that's been addressed.

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[Q]Phone Idle 70%??? really? why?

2.3.4 eclipse 1.3 in my situation, so I don't understand what causes such ridiculous Phone Idle percentages, is it from ram being abused, an unreliable connection, android hating?
(everything else is commonly below 10%)
wifi is typically left disabled, and i keep it slightly underclocked
what else android, what else!
I swear...the phone never truly goes into sleep mode...it stays awake for large chunks of time doing god knows what...every other phones battery usage graph I have compared it to looks completely different and only has small tiny lines of awake time...mostly when screen on...my x2 shows huge chunks awake when the screen hasn't even been turned on and data disabled for over 4hrs...I don't understand it. Killing my battery
it's a kernel bug, reboot yer phone immediately after unplugging it, every time. or downgrade to froyo (i got my absolute best battery life from froyo
Cheapxj said:
it's a kernel bug, reboot yer phone immediately after unplugging it, every time. or downgrade to froyo (i got my absolute best battery life from froyo
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Me?
Yeah I have been doing that since that fix was posted...it helps with life and awake times but it is still horrific compared to other phones...whether I reboot from power menu..power of/on...or whatever....it needs to be fixed...I don't understand why it does this...im about to delete the things that allow it to communicate with moto databases lol...
compare the battery capacity of other phones, most other phones come with at LEAST an 1800mAH battery, this thing is 1500mAH if you're lucky, couple that with 2.3.4's reporting bug and you end up thinking you're going dead much faster than you actually are.
I spend over half my days hovering at 15% or lower according to the phone, but I've also realized that it lies, alot... like my ex.
what does that actually do? =o
like what if you reboot a couple hours after unplugging?
... Christ what was 2.3.4 for if they didn't even get some of this stuff cleaned up
it prevents the idle process from "running away" when you plug it in it essentially disables the idle process, when it goes to re-enable it, it never stops, it takes up CPU cycles and burns the battery down for no reason and it will do it from the moment you unplug your charger/USB cable until you restart the phone.
why? beats me.
I thought you no longer needed to reboot after unplugging on 2.3.4? I did it every morning on 2.3.3, but stopped after updating to .4
I'm confused with this. Wouldn't a phone idle of 70% mean you the phone has been sitting there not being used?
As far as sleep, i use a cpu monitoring app from time to time and it shows my phone in "deep sleep" for multiple hrs when I'm not using the phone; my phone idle will show an equal high %, too.
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that list indicates power consumption. if I reboot my phone in the morning, idle stays around 10-15%, if I don't, that number skyrockets 40-45% and by 5 or 6 pm, I'm hunting for a place to plug in.
my biggest boosts in battery life came from turning on "data saver" disabling "background data", anytime you can make the 3g radio shut off, you're saving TONS of power
I also just upgraded to a BH6X battery, it was the ONLY way I could make it through a full day when I was working in Cheyenne, Wyoming (cell service there, not so great) I also use wifi as much as possible 'cause it seems to draw less current.
battery life and signal strength definitely have a correlation. the less signal you have the quicker that battery dies.
also, "SuperDim" (available on the market) is a HUGE battery saver, not to mention the fact that the automatic light sensor just doesn't make the screen dim enough, ever. I kinda miss the semi transreflective screen in my G1, I never had to crank the brightness way up to see that one in broad daylight, made the colors funny but at least it was legible. but that's the price you pay for pixel density
I've never had bad enough battery life to try Juice Defender but my roommate uses it on his bionic and it does pretty well. His only complaint is having to load facebook or his browser twice to get data to come back on.
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I am getting amazing battery life! Coming from a myTouch4G which would last maybe half of the day, its amazing!
I was at 51% when I plugged in my phone today. I have been using it all day and pretty extensively.
No juice defender either...
This is a mysterious problem for me also. I could have phone booted
up full charge everything that load's up is started. I could turn on airplane mode not do anything else for the day. (So No data no phones) And every-time I bring up screen I will see the amount of apps running go's up (ghost apps)
battery down & less & less ram available.
Has anyone ever tried to go into Sleep Mode I click it just locks up.
What's This Phone Doing Behind My Back??
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ashclepdia said:
I swear...the phone never truly goes into sleep mode...it stays awake for large chunks of time doing god knows what...every other phones battery usage graph I have compared it to looks completely different and only has small tiny lines of awake time...mostly when screen on...my x2 shows huge chunks awake when the screen hasn't even been turned on and data disabled for over 4hrs...I don't understand it. Killing my battery
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it's a kernel bug, reboot yer phone immediately after unplugging it, every time. or downgrade to froyo (i got my absolute best battery life from froyo
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Yep, it's a kernel bug, from what I understand. Ugh.
ImgBurn said:
Has anyone ever tried to go into Sleep Mode I click it just locks up.
What's This Phone Doing Behind My Back??
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If you manually tell your phone to go to sleep, you have to long-press the power button for like 6 seconds to wake it back up.
This bug happens on multiple Motorola phones (bionic and d3). I know for a fact that this has been brought up multiple times to Motorola thru customer complaints, Motorola feedback program and carrier complaints. But for some reason they don't care or feel its a big issue. For issues like this, I wish they would unlock the bootloader.
I just installed this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1246822
Have just been running it for a little bit but what I can see is that it definitely has an impact on battery life (in the good way). My battery seems to be dropping slower.
Thanks to 0vermind two posts above me.
how is the BH6X battery for you?
how long does it kick for? =)
Watercycle said:
2.3.4 eclipse 1.3 in my situation, so I don't understand what causes such ridiculous Phone Idle percentages, is it from ram being abused, an unreliable connection, android hating?
(everything else is commonly below 10%)
wifi is typically left disabled, and i keep it slightly underclocked
what else android, what else!
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I cant for the life of me remember but I read somewhere that unchecking the "automatic" setting in "date & time settings" stopped that part from oversyncing and draining battery. I have had mine unchecked for a while and seems to help some. Might be worth a shot. oh I usually 19% +- 1-2% on my phone idle at pretty much all times
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I cant for the life of me remember but I read somewhere that unchecking the "automatic" setting in "date & time settings" stopped that part from oversyncing and draining battery. I have had mine unchecked for a while and seems to help some. Might be worth a shot. oh I usually 19% +- 1-2% on my phone idle at pretty much all times
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That was me in "phone awake" thread.
What it solved for me was the chunks of time phone is awake(when screen has been off) are extremely reduced compared to when the setting is checked.
Only thing is that once in a while(mainly after bootstrapper use or a battery pull) the date/time is messed up. Easily fixed by turning the setting on for 5-15 seconds til it fixes itself and I turn it back off
Ash,
Yea discovered that today when I put in new class 10 16gb sdcard. No worries easy fix like you said super find been using your discovery for a week know working great.

[Q] Horrible Battery Life

I've read and read, searched and searched this forum and have not come across my exact problem yet...
I know there have been overheating issues, and I know there have been boot looping problems... all causing terrible battery life, mine has neither. Let me rephrase, my overheating issue is not due to me actually using the phone... On idle (with the screen off), my Rezound only lasts about 2 hours on a full battery. Granted, I live in an area where there isn't full service, but there is some service. I can watch as data is being exchanged with no apps running. What the hell is using data? I have a feeling this is what is killing my battery, the phone is not at all sleeping. I have deselected "always on data" and I turned off fast boot and auto sync.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, my phone is a bone stock refurb.
Try a factory reset maybe?
I can do that, but it doesn't really solve the problem. It just started doing this yesterday. I've had it over 2 months and haven't downloaded anything different. I would really rather just figure out what is causing it, so I don't have to do a factory reset every time something like this happens. You know? Thanks for your suggestion, I'm afraid that is going to be my last resort right before exchanging it...
Try exchanging the battery first. Start small. Work your way up to the big stuff(exchanging the phone). Why give up the customizations you've done if you just have a bad battery?
I was thinking it may be a bad battery, but it concerns me that I can watch the data stay running even though I'm not using anything that requires it. My brother has a Rezound and I placed mine next to his and literally watched the battery life deplete 10% in 5 minutes while his lost no percentage at all, both were idle with the same screen settings. Is it common for a battery to fail that drastically out of nowhere?
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I was thinking it may be a bad battery, but it concerns me that I can watch the data stay running even though I'm not using anything that requires it. My brother has a Rezound and I placed mine next to his and literally watched the battery life deplete 10% in 5 minutes while his lost no percentage at all, both were idle with the same screen settings. Is it common for a battery to fail that drastically out of nowhere?
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Is it common....no, possible yes, plausible given the circumstances....absolutely.
sanders858 said:
I was thinking it may be a bad battery, but it concerns me that I can watch the data stay running even though I'm not using anything that requires it. My brother has a Rezound and I placed mine next to his and literally watched the battery life deplete 10% in 5 minutes while his lost no percentage at all, both were idle with the same screen settings. Is it common for a battery to fail that drastically out of nowhere?
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If data is constantly being used, something HAS to be using your data. I'd get an app like better battery stats and CPU spy. CPU will show you if your phone is going into sleep mode at all and better battery stats can show you which apps may be causing it.
Do you have the 4G antenna on?
I have betterbatterystats, it shows android system at the top of processes. That program is a little difficult to understand since everything is abbreviated.
I appreciate all of your responses. I just got off the phone with Verizon, they're sending me another phone AND battery for good measure. During lunch today I watched the percentage of my battery deplete while it was plugged into the wall and not being used, used a different charger, nothing. It wasn't even hot. I turned the phone off to try to get it to charge. when I turned it back on, it got to the lockscreen and then restarted itself. Boot looping now. I'm not going to fool with it anymore. Maybe the third Rezound will be better.
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Do you have the 4G antenna on?
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I haven't changed anything from out of the box other than visual properties. I'm assuming the network has a little to do with it, but it started failing way too fast to be a radio problem IMO.
I received my 2nd Rezound last week. First one had the hiss/feedback/interference issue through the headphone jack that escalated to a level of to not being able to use the headphones at all without being painful. Anyway, the new one is running very hot (battery) and is draining the battery almost as fast as you're describing yours to do. I've used both the standard battery and extended. This morning while using it at home on wifi with most of my syncs either disabled or set at a min of 2 hrs it drained my extended battery by 20% in 20 mins. I wasn't even using the internet or streaming any music or video. I was working on setting up calender and task list widgets. Phone is stock, not rooted. I will be calling Verizon tonight to see about getting a 3rd one. Sucks as I really like this phone when it's working properly. If the 3rd one has issues to and HTC isn't rolling out any fixes for them I might have to look at something else. But I don't want to!
I feel like if I can get the hardware to cooperate with me, I can get the software to. I was planning on rooting after the ICS push, but the phone obviously had different plans.
Set your phone to CDMA only, especially if you don't live in an area with LTE coverage. You will see significant battery advantages from that alone.
AtLemacks said:
Set your phone to CDMA only, especially if you don't live in an area with LTE coverage. You will see significant battery advantages from that alone.
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Thanks, I'll be sure to try that when I get my new phone tomorrow!
AtLemacks said:
Set your phone to CDMA only, especially if you don't live in an area with LTE coverage. You will see significant battery advantages from that alone.
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I should have mentioned that I'd already done that (only 3G here anyway). I've done all the battery management tricks I've read about but this phone has an issue. I'm not even getting half the battery life out of it that I was on the 1st one. And the battery gets significantly hotter then the other phone.
tried wiping battery stats after 100% and drained/recharged a few times?
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[Q] What's Causing My Battery Drain?

Razr MAXX running ICS leak
I decided to let my battery run down to zero last night and let it charge while I sleep. I got to work this morning and just notice my battery is at 50%! The only change I really made yesterday was re-enabling smart actions, and setting a wifi connected trigger to turn data off. I'm thinking this may be the cause of the drain. Here are some screens.
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I have no clue what "deleted_wake_locks" is. All my google results seem to point to wifi usage, and am thinking there is an issue with Smart Actions and Wifi might be the culprits.
uberbdon said:
Razr MAXX running ICS leak
I decided to let my battery run down to zero last night and let it charge while I sleep. I got to work this morning and just notice my battery is at 50%! The only change I really made yesterday was re-enabling smart actions, and setting a wifi connected trigger to turn data off. I'm thinking this may be the cause of the drain. Here are some screens.
I have no clue what "deleted_wake_locks" is. All my google results seem to point to wifi usage, and am thinking there is an issue with Smart Actions and Wifi might be the culprits.
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There is an app that is not letting your wifi sleep.
Something is keeping your wifi on all the time and eating up your battery. Check out this app in the market and report back with the results, it's called "My Data Manager" and it will tell you which app or process is eating up all your wifi. Let me know what it says.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobidia.android.mdm&hl=en
This might be helpful as well, this guy changed the DTIM interval on his router and it fixed his issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14510569&postcount=1564
I've found on the stock rom, the Verizon wifi control app works well for turning wifi on and off by cellular location, ive heard tasker does this well also. Ive had no luck with smart actions. You also might want to go to settings, wireless, wifi settings, hit menu, then advanced settings, then change the sleep policy, if you have root you could also change the scan interval by editing the build.prop or using rom tool box. But do kill the wake lock, it not only keeps the wifi from sleeping, it also keeps your phone from going into its low power state
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I am having a similar problem with my Razr (not MAXX). Just today i noticed the phone getting hot in my pocket. I then saw the battery was almost dead after only 4 hours unplugged and very little use. I recently rooted and flashed the clutch extreme version. I dont use wifi. I have autokilled everything useless, ive checked the running apps and nothing wierd seems to be running, in the battery usuage, after 4 hours unplugged "google services" and "android os" both had 33% of the battery use. But like i said i cant see what is draning it...any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Even im having some issue there's a process called Media which always is 92% and eats lot of battery.....so is there any way to kill this process?
If your phone is rooted my advice is to use ti backup and freeze the bloat ware the list of pre installed apps safe to freeze/uninstall can be found in the forum, when your phone reports "android os" "system" "media" its a general term that covers built in apps. The major culprit ive found is Verizon's back up apps, media is probably motocast, try mulling around in the settings and set the sync settings to as minimal as possible, also if you guys don't mind, I'm curious about this, when i first had batt life problems i ran voodoo ota and disabled root and forgot to re-enable root, with bloat and all i seemed to have better bat life, anyone want to test and see if its the same for them? Wondering if Verizon is being sneaky, and pulling carrier iq -esqe info from rooted stock
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Never let your battery go down to zero. That is very bad for lithium batteries.
ok guys i found solution to media process.....Android media was trying to update it's music player and galery and since there were some media files which were too big in size and seems other files were corrupt so Media was trying to read them and thus eating up lot of clock cycles and thus draining battery. So once you identify which media file is causing the problem then media process get's minimal. About android OS process there's nothing we can do except to freeze some bloat.
Another way to disable media, though you have to do it every time you reboot, is to kill the process in running process in settings then applications. Mine does the same thing.
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Never let your battery go down to zero. That is very bad for lithium batteries.
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I was under the impression that the android os has a safety built in that keeps you from actually reaching 0, and the process of draining your phone until it shuts off, wiping battery stats in recovery, and charging too full while shut down was more to retrain the os to see 100% at a closer point to full and 0% at a lower safe point of shutdown... i know flashing roms not at 100% battery can muck up the scale, a good indicator is that your phone shuts off from low battery, you reboot and it reports a something like 20-30% battery
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Never let your battery go down to zero. That is very bad for lithium batteries.
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I would assume this is true for all android devices but at least for Razr I can assure you that it will turn off the phone before the battery gets below the critical voltage. That said it is almost always better to recharge well before it gets that low and as much as it is possible charge to full. I almost always charge over night.

[Q] Stairstep battery drain

My wife and I both have the Galaxy S4, verizon flavor.
My phone's battery usage is very nice. Most of the time I go to bed with 30-70% left on the battery. Hers does the same. The only difference is I use my phone a lot and she barely uses it during the day. A couple of texts, maybe a phone call and on occasion an internet search. Before this happened, and I don't know what was the tipping point, she use to charge her phone every third day, now she charges it every night.
Her phone is also 6 months newer than mine. Both are running stock, both are Android 4.3. I have both phones setup as close as possible so I can make comparisons between the two. Obviously she has different needs and will have different apps running/installed.
I have taken all of her apps off the phone and it hasn't changed the battery problem. I have reset the phone and still the battery drain persists.
I have put Battery Monitor Widget and GSam on her phone and I really haven't been able to locate the offending app/program/function. The only possibility is the 1013 system and "AudioOut_2". But that seems unlikely as this drain is about every 20 minutes and goes on all day.
Usually she runs with her phone in minimal activity. Data off, Sync off, GPS off, Power Saving on.
Here is a chart from a while back, everyday looks similar with the drains. My phone has long periods of straight white lines when inactive, hers just keep going down.
can't post the image of the battery chart. Gonna make it more difficult to solve.
Just wondering where to look and if this is something that can be solved or is possibly a phone problem/defect. As I mentioned, mine works nice and I have it setup as close to my phone as possible to get results that can be compared.
first of all im no expert, but i think it could go either way. before assuming its hardware it wouldnt hurt to back everything up, try a factory reset and a wipe mk2 odin flash. then seeing if the issue persists. just throwing my thoughts out there. hope it gets resolved regardless. :good:
Leo G said:
My wife and I both have the Galaxy S4, verizon flavor.
My phone's battery usage is very nice. Most of the time I go to bed with 30-70% left on the battery. Hers does the same. The only difference is I use my phone a lot and she barely uses it during the day. A couple of texts, maybe a phone call and on occasion an internet search. Before this happened, and I don't know what was the tipping point, she use to charge her phone every third day, now she charges it every night.
Her phone is also 6 months newer than mine. Both are running stock, both are Android 4.3. I have both phones setup as close as possible so I can make comparisons between the two. Obviously she has different needs and will have different apps running/installed.
I have taken all of her apps off the phone and it hasn't changed the battery problem. I have reset the phone and still the battery drain persists.
I have put Battery Monitor Widget and GSam on her phone and I really haven't been able to locate the offending app/program/function. The only possibility is the 1013 system and "AudioOut_2". But that seems unlikely as this drain is about every 20 minutes and goes on all day.
Usually she runs with her phone in minimal activity. Data off, Sync off, GPS off, Power Saving on.
Here is a chart from a while back, everyday looks similar with the drains. My phone has long periods of straight white lines when inactive, hers just keep going down.
can't post the image of the battery chart. Gonna make it more difficult to solve.
Just wondering where to look and if this is something that can be solved or is possibly a phone problem/defect. As I mentioned, mine works nice and I have it setup as close to my phone as possible to get results that can be compared.
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Have you tried Better Battery Stats + a Wakelock Detector? Between those two it should be really easy to see if this is a software problem or perhaps a bad battery.
I'll link you to the wakelock detector I use. In my opinion it's the easiest to use.
Here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector
You can see wakelocks in BBS as well.... But I just like the options this one gives
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I haven't tried BBS+, but Wakelock Detector has been running since the problem was detected. That is how I found the 1013 and Audio2_Out running. At the beginning it seemed to correlate with the problem but as time moved on it seemed less and less the culprit.
I haven't really found anything using wakelock detector. I could give you some stats off of it tonight when I have access to my wife's phone again.
Any stats that you'd like me to post I can do that. Eventually I'll be able to post that Battery Monitor Widget graph so you can see what is happening.
Pretty sure we can rule out a bad battery. About 99.9% sure.
First things first I would swap batteries between the two phones. Lets rule out a faulty battery first, because trying to figure out battery drain with a faulty battery can be maddening!
Coycaine said:
First things first I would swap batteries between the two phones. Lets rule out a faulty battery first, because trying to figure out battery drain with a faulty battery can be maddening!
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OK, all day with swapped batteries. Same thing. My phone is fine, her's is still doing the same stair step battery drain.

[Q] Heavy battery drain on stock

Hey, I've been using stock 4.1.2+ExperiencedKernel for a long time, it always worked great, but a few days ago I installed an icon pack for KKLauncher, and since then my battery consumption got really bad, around 15-20% per hour when the display is off! I've tried deleting the icon pack, but it's the same, I'm even checking BetterBatteryStats for details, but it doesn't show anything suspicious, although I'm using the app for the first time, so maybe I overlooked something. I have also reflashed the rom+kernel with full wipe, but no luck. Can anyone tell me what can cause this mess, or what should I upload from BetterBatteryStats for someone to check the problem? Thanks in advance.
btw it goes to deep sleep well, so it's not an app that wakes it up constantly (I use greenify too). also the phone itself is very hot, don't know if it's just the battery or the whole thing... but the phone functions correctly.
LilProphet said:
Hey, I've been using stock 4.1.2+ExperiencedKernel for a long time, it always worked great, but a few days ago I installed an icon pack for KKLauncher, and since then my battery consumption got really bad, around 15-20% per hour when the display is off! I've tried deleting the icon pack, but it's the same, I'm even checking BetterBatteryStats for details, but it doesn't show anything suspicious, although I'm using the app for the first time, so maybe I overlooked something. I have also reflashed the rom+kernel with full wipe, but no luck. Can anyone tell me what can cause this mess, or what should I upload from BetterBatteryStats for someone to check the problem? Thanks in advance.
btw it goes to deep sleep well, so it's not an app that wakes it up constantly (I use greenify too). also the phone itself is very hot, don't know if it's just the battery or the whole thing... but the phone functions correctly.
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If you don't have any wakelocks keeping it awake and you've reflashed the ROM, kernel and did a full wipe and the battery drain still exists... Then I'd say your battery is failing, especially if it's getting hot. My L9 never gets hot, even under heavy use.
The only other thing you could really try is flashing back to stock and see if the problem is still there... Really though, I'm pretty sure it's your battery.
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If you don't have any wakelocks keeping it awake and you've reflashed the ROM, kernel and did a full wipe and the battery drain still exists... Then I'd say your battery is failing, especially if it's getting hot. My L9 never gets hot, even under heavy use.
The only other thing you could really try is flashing back to stock and see if the problem is still there... Really though, I'm pretty sure it's your battery.
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Hi, thanks for your answer. The problem is, the phone gets really hot on the upper side of it, near the camera. The battery never gets hot at all. Is it possible, if it's battery problem?
LilProphet said:
Hi, thanks for your answer. The problem is, the phone gets really hot on the upper side of it, near the camera. The battery never gets hot at all. Is it possible, if it's battery problem?
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I thought you meant that the battery was getting hot. The last time I had a battery go out, it was getting hot and it was draining fast. Shortly after that it wouldn't take a charge anymore.
It is possible that it's a hardware issue. WiFi, GPS or the camera could cause it to get hot also.
You can also try and boot the phone into "Safe Mode" and run it like that for a day or two and see if the problem still exists. If it problem disappears while in Safe Mode then you have a rogue app or something that's causing the issue.
Then to narrow it down you could try downloading Wakelock Detector and see if something is keeping it awake, making it hot and drain the battery.
Monitor it with Better Battery Stats and Wake lock Detector. Post some screen shots of BBS and Wakelock Detector here too. That way we can see if something is going on.
This is one of those issues that will take a process of elimination to figure out.
xdrc45 said:
I thought you meant that the battery was getting hot. The last time I had a battery go out, it was getting hot and it was draining fast. Shortly after that it wouldn't take a charge anymore.
It is possible that it's a hardware issue. WiFi, GPS or the camera could cause it to get hot also.
You can also try and boot the phone into "Safe Mode" and run it like that for a day or two and see if the problem still exists. If it problem disappears while in Safe Mode then you have a rogue app or something that's causing the issue.
Then to narrow it down you could try downloading Wakelock Detector and see if something is keeping it awake, making it hot and drain the battery.
Monitor it with Better Battery Stats and Wake lock Detector. Post some screen shots of BBS and Wakelock Detector here too. That way we can see if something is going on.
This is one of those issues that will take a process of elimination to figure out.
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I've been using BBS, it shows that the phone is in deep sleep in most of its off time, no app wakes it up. Also, wifi seems to lose its signal very often, even though it's strong (there wasn't any problem with that before).
I'm using the phone now without SD and SIM cards, it doesn't seem to be that hot than it used to, but charging and draining are still very weak. I'm gonna try safe mode as you suggested, and also using the phone without wifi turned on, if that is the issue. Thanks for your tips.
So, the phone cooled down after I turned off wifi, then I rebooted to safe mode, and it became hot once again, but after the media scanning, it cooled down once again. So I guess it may be the CPU? I've been trying to get a picture of the phone's circuit board with no luck, because the phone is only warm in the upper 1/3, the other parts seem to be cooled down all the time.
I'm gonna return it to T-Mobile on Monday, hopefully they won't notice the unlocked bootloader.
LilProphet said:
So, the phone cooled down after I turned off wifi, then I rebooted to safe mode, and it became hot once again, but after the media scanning, it cooled down once again. So I guess it may be the CPU? I've been trying to get a picture of the phone's circuit board with no luck, because the phone is only warm in the upper 1/3, the other parts seem to be cooled down all the time.
I'm gonna return it to T-Mobile on Monday, hopefully they won't notice the unlocked bootloader.
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Yeah it might be the CPU. Also if it's dropping and/or scanning a lot for WiFi, then it will definitely get hot and kill the battery quickly.
I don't think that T-Mobile will notice that it's unlocked. As long as you flash back to stock ROM before taking it in, then they probably won't notice. They would have to be purposely looking for it to be unlocked.
You might want to flash back to stock anyway and see if the problem is still there... It very well could be a ROM/kernel issue causing the problem.
xdrc45 said:
Yeah it might be the CPU. Also if it's dropping and/or scanning a lot for WiFi, then it will definitely get hot and kill the battery quickly.
I don't think that T-Mobile will notice that it's unlocked. As long as you flash back to stock ROM before taking it in, then they probably won't notice. They would have to be purposely looking for it to be unlocked.
You might want to flash back to stock anyway and see if the problem is still there... It very well could be a ROM/kernel issue causing the problem.
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I have flashed back stock one I've been using (cwm flashable), of course I will remove root and any suspicious apps. I appreciate your help.
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