I always thought that the battery life on my View was just OK. After installing android assistant I noticed that Twitter was eating almost 60% of my battery. After uninstalling I have doubled my battery life. Hope this helps.
Thanks,
I forgot about that app. I just installed it again.
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Yes, another battery life thread but this one is a recent development for me.
I bought the phone on release day so I have some track record with it. I have not had any trouble with my battery life and have always been able to make the day on a charge. However, recently the Cell Standby and Phone Idle has been sucking my battery dry MUCH faster than in the past.
I unplugged my phone this morning and headed out to work as I do every day. I grabbed my phone at around 10am and saw that the battery was down to 58%. I checked that stats and this is what I saw:
Battery Level 58%
3h 46m 59s since unplugged
Cell Standby - 27%
Phone Idle - 20%
Display - 20%
Bluetooth - 11%
Android System 9%
Other stuff that was nominal >5%
Is this normal? Why would Cell Standby and Phone Idle suddenly be draining the battery when it didn't do it before?
Pneumatic said:
Yes, another battery life thread but this one is a recent development for me.
I bought the phone on release day so I have some track record with it. I have not had any trouble with my battery life and have always been able to make the day on a charge. However, recently the Cell Standby and Phone Idle has been sucking my battery dry MUCH faster than in the past.
I unplugged my phone this morning and headed out to work as I do every day. I grabbed my phone at around 10am and saw that the battery was down to 58%. I checked that stats and this is what I saw:
Battery Level 58%
3h 46m 59s since unplugged
Cell Standby - 27%
Phone Idle - 20%
Display - 20%
Bluetooth - 11%
Android System 9%
Other stuff that was nominal >5%
Is this normal? Why would Cell Standby and Phone Idle suddenly be draining the battery when it didn't do it before?
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More info on your rom? do you have Wifi calling APP? If you have a custom rom, did you do the battery recycle?
Thanks for the reply...
I am on the stock ROM (rooted). I am not ooposed to flashing a new ROM but I definitely don't want to DECREASE my battery life which is what I have seen occurs with some. Are any of the custom ROM's proven to increase battery life?
I don't have Wifi calling and I haven't done the battery recycle. I fell out of 'tweaker' mode a while back and have just been using the phone. I don't think I have even installed any apps since (or before) my battery life seemed to change. About the only thing different is the Market but I don't think that's a problem.
I just looked and it's down to 38% in 6h 24m and I haven't even touched it. It's rediculous. Something is like a parasite in my phone and I don't know what it is. The only thing running in the "Active Applications" is Launcher Pro but that was one of the first things I installed when I got the phone.
chichu_9 said:
More info on your rom? do you have Wifi calling APP? If you have a custom rom, did you do the battery recycle?
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I heard recycle of battery is bad?
That's why I've never done
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Nero V3 is great for battery life. Also check if you added some apps in the past few weeks. Might be some background sync process taking too much of battery life while in standby.
i've had this issue before and i've found that it was always a rogue app. your best bet is to start uninstalling or freeze them in titanium to find the one that is screwing you up.
one app that was my latest standby hog was beautiful widgets.
Thanks for the tips! I will start removing some apps and see if that helps.
chichu_9 said:
Nero V3 is great for battery life. Also check if you added some apps in the past few weeks. Might be some background sync process taking too much of battery life while in standby.
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I am not up to speed on the various ROMs. I will go start reading up but is Nero V3 fully functional (camera, GPS, etc.)? I was keeping track of the progress on all of the ROMs but there are now so many and they are updated so frequently it's tough to keep up (at least for me).
Thanks again!
Oops. Double post.
i'm sure it's an app that's causing that. I think a stock rom won't drain that too much.
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It may not apply, but I've also noticed that beautiful widgets is a hog.
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Hi,
My battery drains out within 10 hours when I use my phone - battery usage says simply display and voice calls. But when I install clean system (I use latest cyanogenmod), battery usage is good (lost 6% for 12 hours last night).
What would be the best approach to hunt for the app/service that drains out my battery?
Thanks
call *#*#4636#*#* , select usage statistic. Every app usage is shown in detail there.
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It could have been a lot of things.
Did you reinstall all your apps after you reflashed? If you didn't then it may be one of those apps that was draining your battery. Did you calibrate your battery? Perhaps there was something wrong with your previous flash.
Alsi if your battery is draining quickly when the phone is off you could use BetterBatteryStats to try to identify what's preventing your phone from sleeping.
Thanks everyone.
I just deleted traffic counter and droidin, since those two services were the most suspicious to me.. let's see how it goes after this. I'll keep track of usage statistics and will use betterbatterystats if nothing helps, since it's commercial.
A bit on the history of the problem - it started happening about month or two ago on CM7.0.3, so I purchased a new battery (existing one was old), didn't help, so I upgraded to CM7.1.0, didn't help, then I used phone on a clean install, that was good, and now I uninstalled about 20 apps, including forementioned, let's see how it goes by the end of the day.
EDIT: Downloaded BetterBatteryStats, points finger on RemoteSMS, uninstalled so lets see what happens.
Hi,
It was definitely RemoteSMS - removed it and my battery usage normalized. What a pitty.
Hi,
I installed Gummy 1.2.0 on my vibrant. The first day or two I was getting amazing battery life. For instance with light-medium use, 30% of the battery was gone in 12+ hours, I was amazed. When I was getting this type of battery life Android system was using about 6-7%.
I noticed that as time passed, the battery life started getting worse and worse. I noticed that the Android System was eating up more and more battery even when it was supposed to be in deep sleep. Now Android System is using almost 40%
Has anyone else had the same experience? Great battery life changing to mediocre battery life in a couple of days.
Please advise.
Thanks!!!
I suggest you get Betterbatterystats and that way you can see exactly what is causing the problem. It is available in the market, but there is a free version here in post 2. IIRC the AOS taking so much of your battery life is bc of some errant process that is constantly drawing/polling on the system and causing the dismally high % of use. Find the app, fix it and your problem will be solved.
finally found a thread on this issue after posting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748301
sorry mods, pls delete
Me too ... it's driving me nuts.
I am experiencing this. My battery life is horrendous. Even when I barely touch the phone the battery drains extremely quickly. I have already rooted the phone with a few different roms with the battery setting "fix" to no avail. I'm on at&t. I have disabled wifi and gps. I have tried to use both the stock app killers and 3rd party ones recommended by these forums. My battery monitoring apps (both stock and 3rd party) consistently attribute the battery loss (always more than 90% of battery use) to an android system app. The android system app or file changes from day to day seemingly randomly. Files have included: UltaCfg, com.samsung.app.playreadyui and security storage.
Any help will be extremely* appreciated. I love the phone but it is nearly useless in this state.
zeesubalpha said:
I have been experiencing some serious battery drain issues. Looking at my battery stats, "Android System" is responsible for over half of the drainage. These are the only apps that run constantly besides those which the phone requires to operate:
- SetCPU
- HDWidges
- The Weather Channel
- LBE Privacy Guard
- avast! Mobile Security
other phone info is in sig. Any insight/advice??
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I am draining my battery as quickly as I can (streaming Netflix through 4G LTE with max screen brightness, max overlclock w/ performance gov) and then i'm going to power off and do a full recharge. this seemed to have fixed similar issues in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756776
let you know the results.
edit: suppose i should say that i was not experiencing this issue until i updated KT747 this morning.
this is what i did:
1) drain the battery completely. let the phone die.
2) charge to 100%. do not power the phone on until it is completely charged to 100%.
3) when i powered the phone on I was at 99%. i plugged it in and it went to 100% in about 2 minutes.
this seems to have completely solved my problem. the android system has gone from using 57% of the battery to 6%. it seems like the kernel i was using vastly overestimates the percentage of the battery to allocate to the android system until it "learns" the capacity of the battery
zeesubalpha said:
this is what i did:
1) drain the battery completely. let the phone die.
2) charge to 100%. do not power the phone on until it is completely charged to 100%.
3) when i powered the phone on I was at 99%. i plugged it in and it went to 100% in about 2 minutes.
this seems to have completely solved my problem. the android system has gone from using 57% of the battery to 6%. it seems like the kernel i was using vastly overestimates the percentage of the battery to allocate to the android system until it "learns" the capacity of the battery
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So this worked for you? I am having excessive battery drain with my Telus S3?
colemac said:
So this worked for you? I am having excessive battery drain with my Telus S3?
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I am also a Telus user. I had big time battery drain issues even with trying everything: enabling power savings mode, running Juice Defender, using wifi more, using darker wallpaper, keeping a closer eye on syncing operations, screen brightness and some other stuff.
After about 10 days I went back to the vendor (Futureshop) and convinced them to give me an exchange on the battery. They have a 14 day return/exchange policy for cell phones if you are not completely satisfied. I took some screenshots to argue my case. Thankfully the rep said ok and further explained how much power an AMOLED screen uses. I really didn't want to convince him that I am quite informed on battery drain issus and took the new battery and ran!
Conclusion is the new battery is so much better it's like night and day. I have the capacity now that others have been raving about.
If you can exchange the battery, do it. Then get the new battery and charge it up fully first thing.
Very Poor battery life.
I do amost nothing on the phone and the battery runs down fast.
Its a new battery maybe 3 days use.
I have the latest beanstalk rom on it.
Any ideas?
confrontation said:
Very Poor battery life.
I do amost nothing on the phone and the battery runs down fast.
Its a new battery maybe 3 days use.
I have the latest beanstalk rom on it.
Any ideas?
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Yes....KK sucks battery down. If you get a day your good.
How many processes are running in background?
Could make some difference
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confrontation said:
Very Poor battery life.
I do amost nothing on the phone and the battery runs down fast.
Its a new battery maybe 3 days use.
I have the latest beanstalk rom on it.
Any ideas?
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The note has terrible battery life in general. However Beanstalk has pretty decent battery life relative to other roms. Some things you can do to track your battery life is get BetterBatteryStats from the playstore and see if there is an app or service that is draining your battery.
You might want to try a battery saver app?
I can recommend you try turning off sync option as there maybe apps that push (or even worse pull) too often causing a huge battery drain as well. I recommend only trying that to see which apps cause a battery drain if that is the case.