How to use Watchdog + Betterbattery Stats to optimize battery life - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Kind of stupid question, but i don't know how to "read" those programs. What i mean is that i don't know how to read the results on those programs to use them on favor of getting battery life.
Can anyone "teach" me how to "read" those apps?
Here are some screenies
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Bump! Come on guys, it cant be too difficult.
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Google is your friend:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=betterbatterystats+howto
Because I'm not a total ass I'll post the direct links to the project site.
http://asksven.github.com/BetterBatteryStats-Knowledge-Base/help.html
http://asksven.github.com/BetterBatteryStats-Knowledge-Base/howto.html
You might have better luck posting this question in the app thread, too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

Thanks. I tried looking, but couldn't find anything. -.-
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stewartsoda said:
Google is your friend:
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indeed, it even found this page whilst i was looking for help on the watchdog.

thanks for this, I had a 7 hour period on my s3 where it stayed awake for the entire period screen was off, so configured the watchdog so I could get "since screen off", went to bed and when I woke up to check sods law the phone stayed asleep the entire period.

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I think those programs doesn't work.It's all ilusion.

Well I will go back to neat rom as AOKP still random periods of high battery drain, android battery app shows awake but better battery stats 99% deep sleep.

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Huge battery drain...

What on earth is draining my battery so bad? On 4 hour charge w/ screen on for a little over 1 hour and i got 47% battery left...display is 77% drain. Is there an app thats draining my batt like mad? I got 4g off, wifi off, gps off, and bluetooth off...and i've been in a strong Sprint area the whole time. What's the deal?
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evo3d comes with a task manager, check whats on and kill it. i do it often
Try watchdog.. it will notify you if an app is above threshold.
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i had a similar issue, nothing i did helped out... i ended up doing a factory reset and it seemed to resolve the issue. i have most of the same apps i had before and im getting great battery life now.
spunks3 said:
i had a similar issue, nothing i did helped out... i ended up doing a factory reset and it seemed to resolve the issue. i have most of the same apps i had before and im getting great battery life now.
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i'm just wondering, but... what's great battery life?
I get roughly 14 hrs max on my low - normal usage.
and a lot less when i actually use the phone
sailow said:
i'm just wondering, but... what's great battery life?
I get roughly 14 hrs max on my low - normal usage.
and a lot less when i actually use the phone
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About ~5 hours of screen on time is normal. I'm at 1 hour and 30 mins screen on and my battery is now at 20%. Horrid life...ill try a factory reset.
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Overstew said:
What on earth is draining my battery so bad? On 4 hour charge w/ screen on for a little over 1 hour and i got 47% battery left...display is 77% drain. Is there an app thats draining my batt like mad? I got 4g off, wifi off, gps off, and bluetooth off...and i've been in a strong Sprint area the whole time. What's the deal?
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Its the POS 3d effect you see. Garbagw huh? I returned mines. 3d is shat if even a old Galaxy S 1 device overperforms it.
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SINNN said:
Its the POS 3d effect you see. Garbagw huh? I returned mines. 3d is shat if even a old Galaxy S 1 device overperforms it.
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Lololol gtfo here then?
Overstew said:
What on earth is draining my battery so bad? On 4 hour charge w/ screen on for a little over 1 hour and i got 47% battery left...display is 77% drain. Is there an app thats draining my batt like mad? I got 4g off, wifi off, gps off, and bluetooth off...and i've been in a strong Sprint area the whole time. What's the deal?
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Try using OS monitor from the market. Go through the settings, change the sorting method to "load" and watch for BS running that shouldn't be.
Try and put.it.in ur car's battery to.see if.it last longer
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Try using CPU Spy to see if you're phone is going into deep sleep properly.
That sounds like you got a bad battery, even if the phone is not sleeping it should last longer than that. I would reset to see if maybe your batt stats got corrupted and if that doesn't do anything see if Sprint will give you another battery to try.
xHausx said:
That sounds like you got a bad battery, even if the phone is not sleeping it should last longer than that. I would reset to see if maybe your batt stats got corrupted and if that doesn't do anything see if Sprint will give you another battery to try.
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Agreed this was happening to me so i ent and had the phone replaced and am having no issues this time
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I'm having good life...its been on for around 13 hours and been used for about 5 hours. I have a little over half of battery left.
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Turn auto sync off, that seems to help a little. Set task manager on home screen and use it every time you exit an app. The battery life on this phone is disgusting.
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The only time I had really bad battery life was with the overclock kernal. I ghetto adb'd it to my phone around 12est and by 6pm est it was dead not low battery but completly dead. I poped the battery out reverted to stock temp rooted it without overclock now im back to the 12 hours heavy use 2 days with min usage.
anti-up said:
Turn auto sync off, that seems to help a little. Set task manager on home screen and use it every time you exit an app. The battery life on this phone is disgusting.
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Not bad at all for me. Of course it drops a hell of a lot quicker if you leave the screen on 24/7 but mine will still last 5-6 hours while listening to pandora over bluetooth and with the screen constantly on browsing the web. When not being used constantly it lasts a lot longer.
I have confirmed wakelock, started last night. I'm totally stock, no overclocking or anything.
How do I go about figuring out what's causing it?
Our you could just not use your phone. Then your battery will katy all day.
In all seriousness though, if you haven't already go to settings> wireless & networks> mobile networks & turn off always on data. You won't notice a difference in anything except your battery life will increase. Also, turn off automatic screen brightness & set it somewhere comfortable for you. All that brightness adjusting will drain on the battery. 3D movies, pictures & video will drain it as well. Also as someone else mentioned, check the built in real manager every once in a while. You would be surprised at some of the apps still running in the background even though you haven't used then in a while.
Just a few suggestions. If you have ashley tried all of this then wait until e can flash Roms & Kernels or buy the Seidio monster 4000mah battery.
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xHausx said:
That sounds like you got a bad battery, even if the phone is not sleeping it should last longer than that. I would reset to see if maybe your batt stats got corrupted and if that doesn't do anything see if Sprint will give you another battery to try.
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Weird. I did a factory reset and now my battery is great.
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No Sleep Mode

My GS2 will not sleep. It used to be just fine but two months ago I noticed after leaving my phone alone for two hours thar the batter went from full to 30. It constantly happens. I don't use the phone or even touch it and than when I check it and hour or two later its damn near dead. Is there a reason my phone isn't sleeping when its not I'm use?
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Read the known battery drainers thread in the general section.
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magicbumm328 said:
My GS2 will not sleep. It used to be just fine but two months ago I noticed after leaving my phone alone for two hours thar the batter went from full to 30. It constantly happens. I don't use the phone or even touch it and than when I check it and hour or two later its damn near dead. Is there a reason my phone isn't sleeping when its not I'm use?
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There's an app that's eating your battery. Download an app called better battery stats and leave your phone alone. Then start that app and see which things have the most usage
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I'm looking for battery stats in the apply market I'm not seeing anything. When I look at my battery useage it says the Android OS is using 66% of my battery!!!!!
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See that little box that says search at the top? Use that thing.
There's some program not allowing the phone to deep sleep. Look around on how to find what's causing that to happen. (Wakelock)
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[help] battery was good now bad

Hay guys,
So for the first couple of weeks my battery life was awesome on the s3 and was going an entire day easy with like 40% at night before bed...
However now it is seriously draining fast, I go to work at 8 get home at 5 and I have about 12 percent left with moderately light use...
First thing I thought was maybe an app but in the battery section didn't show anything odd, I got betterbatterystats to see more detailed but don't know what alot of the wake locks are... Here are the screen shots any input/advice is welcomed!!!
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neone have any ideas??
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dk125 said:
neone have any ideas??
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WAKELOCKS ask in the better battery stats thread .
jje
Have you changed the Rom? If so you need to download a battery calibrator from the store and reset the stats with it once fully charged.
You might have an app draining your battery, install free "Watchdog" app, and set it to monitor all processes, and it will sound an alarm if an app is misbehaving.
Also install cpuspy and reset the counter and then leave your phone for 30min or so, then check how much time your phone spends in deep sleep.
John.
LondonLion said:
Have you changed the Rom? If so you need to download a battery calibrator from the store and reset the stats with it once fully charged.
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NOT TRUE.
jje
Thanks got cpuspy and it spend most time in deep sleep... I'm Inking now it's because at work I have bad reception if that's the cause what can I do? If anything lol...
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If you dont use 3g or 4g for downloads, switch your phone to gsm, A stronger signal means the phone does not have to work as hard and uses less power.
Also disable account syncing, stops your phone from waking up.
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Thanks got cpuspy and it spend most time in deep sleep... I'm Inking now it's because at work I have bad reception if that's the cause what can I do? If anything lol...
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LondonLion said:
Have you changed the Rom? If so you need to download a battery calibrator from the store and reset the stats with it once fully charged.
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I thought this is a myth that a google engineer confirmed
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A lot of people swear by this one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1507905.html
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CRBoy47 said:
I thought this is a myth that a google engineer confirmed
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Battery Life

I don't understand why I'm getting such awful battery life; I've heard such good things about AOSP as far as battery life is concerned. I've got screen on auto, and I used incredicontrol to set my governor (I think that's what it is called) to conservative. Can anyone help me dissect the problem?
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Just be patient. The kinks silk aren't worked out and we don't have any real kernels out yet except for meadows kernel but it's still new. The kernel makes a huge difference on any Rom.
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Kelton Rivas said:
I don't understand why I'm getting such awful battery life; I've heard such good things about AOSP as far as battery life is concerned. I've got screen on auto, and I used incredicontrol to set my governor (I think that's what it is called) to conservative. Can anyone help me dissect the problem?
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How long was your screen on? If 1.5 hours or so, I would say your close to normal depending on what you were doing.
Get Better Battery Stats and see how long your phone is in Deep Sleep..and if not very long, you can see what is keeping it awake..
I didn't use it at all; I checked it after first block and it had lost about 10 percent. Then I checked it after second and that's what it was at
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Kelton Rivas said:
I didn't use it at all; I checked it after first block and it had lost about 10 percent. Then I checked it after second and that's what it was at
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Your pic says the screen took 44% of the power. Consider the signal strength in your school. If you have a weak signal the phone uses more power. Maybe try airplane mode for part of the day. Also, I have found I get better battery life on the network as opposed to my school's wireless. The school's wireless is always polling the phone resulting in greater drain.
Here's the link to Better Battery Stats on XDA... FREE XDA versions are found at the bottom of post #2. I/We don't have your phone so other than general statements we are of little help. Get BBS and see what is using the juice...that's how I found out the school's wireless was waking my phone all the time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
topgun1953 said:
Your pic says the screen took 44% of the power. Consider the signal strength in your school. If you have a weak signal the phone uses more power. Maybe try airplane mode for part of the day. Also, I have found I get better battery life on the network as opposed to my school's wireless. The school's wireless is always polling the phone resulting in greater drain.
Here's the link to Better Battery Stats on XDA... FREE XDA versions are found at the bottom of post #2. I/We don't have your phone so other than general statements we are of little help. Get BBS and see what is using the juice...that's how I found out the school's wireless was waking my phone all the time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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thanks, my phone is weird yesterday I got almost 3 hours of screen time today I only got 1 hour.
Kelton Rivas said:
I don't understand why I'm getting such awful battery life; I've heard such good things about AOSP as far as battery life is concerned. I've got screen on auto, and I used incredicontrol to set my governor (I think that's what it is called) to conservative. Can anyone help me dissect the problem?
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well from what i see you have google now or some transit app running. those tend to take up a ton of battery. use the bettery battery stats that someone posted and see whats running. once you find out you can use an app like autostarts to keep stuff like that not running when it doesnt need to.
Also another way to tell whats running is to go to settings > apps > running. if you see a process you dont like running just kill it and try to stop it with autostarts. I know from experience that facebook is one of these pain in the a$$ apps that always wants to be running for some god forsaken reason. Anyway just start with that. thats probably your main problem as i can also see you have juice defender, which is probably helping battery.
There wasn't a download for it; only someone's text information. Does anyone have an APK for it? I don't have the money for it Before school starts tomorrow I'll be sure to kill running apps. Also, I wasn't on the school's Wi-Fi at any point because we don't have Wi-Fi, my high school is poor. Lol
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I found his APK link, nevermind! Also, do I just leave it running over night and while I'm at school to discern the problem?
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Kelton Rivas said:
I found his APK link, nevermind! Also, do I just leave it running over night and while I'm at school to discern the problem?
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autostart app won't run in foreground so you don't have to kill it. it'll stop access as it needs to based on what you disabled from automatically starting. be careful what you prevent from starting up cause it can defect your setup requiring a fresh flash install
This is my battery life just a few minutes before I posted it yesterday; I took it off the charger at the same time. For some reason yesterday the android system ran much longer than today; the difference is obvious on my battery life.
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the 3 best things to do is keeping brightness down/off whenever possible, using better battery stats to monitor partial wakelocks and keeping apps from running too long in the foreground
Kelton Rivas said:
I found his APK link, nevermind! Also, do I just leave it running over night and while I'm at school to discern the problem?
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A good thing to do would be, charge it Friday night, take it off the charger Saturday morning and let it sit on the counter of 1 hour, preferably 2 hours, then check to see what has been waking it up. You can google what you find to determine what process they're related to if not obvious to you.

Battery problm in S2

Hi guyz, i recently bought a new samsung galaxy S2.....the problem is that it is giving very poor battery backup.....i switched off wifi, gps, auto-sync etc etc
But still i'm getting very poor backup e.g. I slept at night near 12 with 96% battery but wen i woke in morning at 8, battery remains to 32%....in battery usage it says 61& battery is used by Android OS
What shud i do?
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Install betterbatterystat(bbs) and check what is causing wakelock. And we need more info like is data on or wifi on the whole day?
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Your phone is not going to deep sleep.install cpu spy and watch the frequences because i think one app is not letting your device to go te deep sleep hope this helps
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LexterAce said:
Install betterbatterystat(bbs) and check what is causing wakelock. And we need more info like is data on or wifi on the whole day?
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Yeah wifi on almost whole night, but dats's not causing battery drain for sure as i knoe!!
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As it shows 60-70% used by 'Android OS' then it must be some app like thing!!
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ssbnasa said:
Yeah wifi on almost whole night, but dats's not causing battery drain for sure as i knoe!!
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Just so you know data used quite an amount of battery. Wifi is better than data on term of battery use.
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i had something similar not too long ago, and it was also happening first few days when i bought device the most:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1871454
after few days my ICS and my battery made some sweet love i quess cuz i now have decent battery time.
read trough the thread, some say it really could be OS "learns" after some time about your battery (calibrates it)
some say its not that, anyway, i dident do anything and its good now.
cheers
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As it shows 60-70% used by 'Android OS' then it must be some app like thing!!
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Did you follow the advice of LexterAce in post #2 and install BBS?
If so, why not let it collect information for 5 to 10 hours and then analyze the dump? Almost always the dump can help you to find out what keeps your phone awake.
If not you could also post the dump and maybe someone else can help analyzing it. In the BBS thread are many useful tips and links about how to read and interpret the dump.
Hi, did you resolve the battery problem?
I am in the same situation, can you give me advice guys?
Thank's
ssbnasa said:
Hi guyz, i recently bought a new samsung galaxy S2.....the problem is that it is giving very poor battery backup.....i switched off wifi, gps, auto-sync etc etc
But still i'm getting very poor backup e.g. I slept at night near 12 with 96% battery but wen i woke in morning at 8, battery remains to 32%....in battery usage it says 61& battery is used by Android OS
What shud i do?
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adyolcian said:
Hi, did you resolve the battery problem?
I am in the same situation, can you give me advice guys?
Thank's
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Yeah...battery problem resolved !!!!
I installed juice defender n BBS.....both helped a lot, now i get almost a whole day of backup with normal usage n 6-7 hrs on heavy usage!!!!
Thnks guyzzz
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