[Q] Please help with battery issue - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm running ICS Passion with Kiss kernel 2.2 right now. My battery has always been iffy however, so i don't think it's the ROM.
I'd appreciate any help though:
This was last night. battery was fully charged at around 3 am.
I killed all apps.
by 11 am with very little use, it was down to 10%
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When i look at the Top Apps, nothing looks like it's using too much CPU, so i'm not sure what's going on. Can anyone explain?
Why would i lose so much battery, when it looks like the phone was sleeping?
What am i missing here?
Thank you!

Have u tried a app call CPUSPY?
Its in the play store (android market)
That app let's u see if your phones really in deep sleep...

Hi krackerjac,
Thanks for the advice. I installed CPU Spy this morning....
1000 MHz 7% 0.35.45
200MHz 89% 6.51.47
no deep sleep, even though i didn't use the phone mch all day.
System Panel shows a 100% drop in 8 hours.
Any advice?
Thanks in advance!

It should be on deep sleep most of the time. What background apps are you running?
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That's what I can't figure out. I think google sync is always on, From the Top Apps screen of System Panel, it seems that system and system processes are the highest consumers, but I'm not sure how else to tell?

Download Watchdog and see what apps are using your CPU. Also, turn off auto sync, as they might be keeping the phone awake by constantly trying to fetch new emails, contacts, etc.
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I have Watchdog. it says Android System 5.4%, System UI 1.6%, Google Services Framework 1.0%. Everything else is below 1%
With auto-sync, is there a way to control this automatically. For example, i don't need autosync to operate between 1 and 7am, but want it to turn on again at 7am, and need it on the whole day so i can get my emails.

riskaa said:
I have Watchdog. it says Android System 5.4%, System UI 1.6%, Google Services Framework 1.0%. Everything else is below 1%
With auto-sync, is there a way to control this automatically. For example, i don't need autosync to operate between 1 and 7am, but want it to turn on again at 7am, and need it on the whole day so i can get my emails.
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I don't think so, you can change the frequency of the fetching(updating) however. Or put the power control widget on your home screen and turn it on when you need to, and off when you don't.
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theking_13 said:
I don't think so, you can change the frequency of the fetching(updating) however.
I've never been able to find that setting. How do you do that?
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Ugh, must've been a part of TouchWiz or LG's skin, because I cant find it off of the stock app.
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Try the Icy Glitch Kernel and see if that helps with battery life.
Also, try the AOKP rom, its more or less the same thing as Passion, but works a lot better than Passion did, at least for me.

Ended up downloading an app called Better Battery Stats. Found that my GPS location provider was running down the battery. This was because the Beautiful Widgets was set to geolocation, and so gps was pretty much running all the time.
Much better battery life now.
Thanks for all your help!

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Your Battery Life Tweaks

Sure would be nice to hear some of the tricks people use for saving battery life. I see plenty of screen shots showing off your battery life, not many tell how.
Please don't bash me for what I have frozen. Phone works fine for me. YMMV. You will notice that I have pretty much nothing ever syncing, that is fine with me. I am always looking for more to freeze...
I am currently using ROM: UnNamed | KERNEL: Siyah | KEY: ICS Keyboard
TITANIUM BACKUP FROZEN APPS​
AccuWeather
AllShare
Android Live Wallpapers
Ap Mobile
BLN control
Digital Clock
DRM*
Email - I just use Gmail
Google Backup Transport
Google Calendar Sync
Google Contacts Sync
Google Partner Setup
Kies air
Kies via WiFi
Live Wallpaper Picker
Media Hub
Microbes
Nfc Service
Ocean Weather
Program Monitor
Quickoffice
Samsung keypad
SNS*
Social Hub
Swype
Synchronize
Talk
Wifi*
Windy Weather​
GENERAL STUFF​
For internet, I always use WiFi unless it is not available
Only time I use Bluetooth is when I am in my car (Microsoft Sync)
I manually check my email (Gmail)
Turned off all Haptic feedback
Lowest Screen Brightness (Auto Off)
All Animations off (Display Settings)
Screen Timeout 30 seconds
Touchkey Timeout 1.5
AutoSync Off
Motion Activation Off
Market Notifications/Updates Off
I use black lock-screen/wallpaper + No widgets
SetCPU - lulzactive (Siyah) conservative (Entropy)
I use Task Manager to kill all, almost every time I relock device.​
UNDERVOLTING​
3 AnTuTu's run to check if that crashes it. AnTuTu is not a good way to check for stability though, I highly recommend using your Internet browser and loading websites with your agent set to Desktop. Try scrolling while the page is still loading, and try a cluttered website filled with posts like: http://gosugamers.net/general/. Also be sure to see if your phone can wake up out of sleep!
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On average I lose 1% battery a hour with screen off. In good wifi/cell reception that is.
What do you folks do?
advance task manager works great, set it up to kill all apps at screen lock
1% an hour sounds about right. I'm not sure you're going to get much better than that. You could check out the battery drainers thread for info on finding wakelocks.
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joshuadjohnson22 said:
advance task manager works great, set it up to kill all apps at screen lock
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Don't use task killers they hurt battery life
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Nick281051 said:
Don't use task killers they hurt battery life
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Want to explain why, or at least link to some credible data for that?
Nick281051 said:
Don't use task killers they hurt battery life
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seem to help mine....
Its been discussed a number of times in various battery related threads. The issue is that you end up killing a lot of tasks the phone needs, so it has to restart them all the time, which is less efficient than leaving them running. If you have a rogue app draining your battery becuase it isn't shutting down there are better ways to deal with it.
Is this 1% an hour drain with the radio on or off? Ill have to check what mine gets with it on, but when i turn my radio off i get 1% drain every 4 or 5 hours
DJSLINKARD said:
Is this 1% an hour drain with the radio on or off? Ill have to check what mine gets with it on, but when i turn my radio off i get 1% drain every 4 or 5 hours
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I totally agreed. Here is my battery status. Have radio off and wifi toggle widgets to turn them on when need it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19149590#post19149590
demon9206 said:
Want to explain why, or at least link to some credible data for that?
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http://www.androidcentral.com/ram-w...mpaign=Feed:+androidcentral+(Android+Central)

[Q] Deep Sleep vs 200mhz and the epic battle for battery life...

I just checked with CPU Spy and found that my phone is sitting at min processor speed 58% of the time. Deep sleep is under 18%. Could this be the reason my battery life is so terrible?
Little background, I ran stock for 15 minutes (literally, in the AT&T store and in the car on the way to office). I followed this tutorial to get stock + root and made a glorious nAndroid backup.
That worked, but of course now I have the Yellow triangle on boot. Should have followed creepyncrawly's Guide How to Flash Custom Binaries Without Ever Incrementing the Flash Counter (but of course hind sight is 20/20). JIG has been ordered, on its merry way.
Next step was to follow Atinm's instructions for installing CM7 nightly which includes instructions to flash a different version of CWM 5.0.2.3 found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18052303
Ok... still with me? Simple enough. Ran CM7.1 for a week (it's great btw). Then I flashed another CWM from ROM Manager so I could easily run with the nightlies. But kept reading about UnNamed ROM, so let's try that out. Now I'm on 1.2 with Entropy's Daily Driver 11/03. But my battery drains pretty quick and I noticed my system isn't really going into Deep Sleep as it should.
I take it after all that, it is because I have facebook set to sync every 30 seconds? j/k Seriously though, here is my decidedly long apps list of Market apps. Anything troublesome in there? I turn off all automatic sync / notification features of Twitter, FB, Words with Friends. But I do use push email for Exchange and Gmail.
Here is the troublesome screengrab from CPU Spy that started my downward spiral.
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So did I screw something up along the way? Should I just be happy I bought a second battery with charging dock?
same boat here....
This would drain your battery life when your screen is off, not on. I am still in the process of figuring out my wakelocks. Strangely it would appear my JuiceDefender is unlocking my phone. Maybe that's normal when it is turning my wifi/data off.
I check everything manually, so typically I just turn off wifi/data in the UnNamed notification bar. Same with bluetooth/gps.
Note that deep sleep percentages are invalid if any of that time was on-charger time.
It's gotta be an app using a wake lock that is screwin me over. Some light reading:
[REF] Known identified battery drainers
...and here I thought I had searched the forum!
To be fair, I thought maybe I screwed up the radio or kernel by following the ODIN instructions for gaining root and flashing CWM, but looks like that is just paranoia. More than likely one of the many MANY market apps.
GOing to use Titanium and freeze the apps in Entropy's thread, including Facebook. I like the desktop web view better anyway. And no, I don't need Notified every time someones cat is super cute. That is what MMS is for
Installing Better Battery Stats from XDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Will see what I can do
Deep sleep seems to sip about 1/5 to 1/8 as much power when idle, so it's very important. Some voltage control apps break deep sleep mode. And like they said, better battery stats is the way to find wakelocking apps. My phone is pretty always in deep sleep when I'm not using it.
Exchange email sync wake lock was the culprit. Specifically, for some reason it was hung synching my corporate calendar and draining about 15% per hour.
Going to remove sync account and wipe app cache, re setup and cross fingers.
::edit:: actually looks like Google Music was syncing constantly also...

[Q] Please help with my battery issue

I really need help understanding what is draining my battery, sometimes even while it is charging.
I'm rooted, and on Simply Honey 5.1
I've set up my Facebook to sync once a day, Titanium Backup to backup 2ce a week, and usually, while I am sleeping, all my wifi/bt/gps etc are off.
Recently, i've noticed that while my battery is charging at night, i wake up with a low charge (50 - 70% range), and that basically my battery has been draining at the same time.
I installed Watchdog lite, and have had System Panel monitoring my system.
Here are some screen shots.
System Panel - Plot - 8 hours - battery drain even while charging. CPU is being used a lot, even though the device has not been touched.
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System Panel - Top Apps - 8 hours. System, system process, calendar storage seem to be using a lot of CPU
Watchdog Lite - Android Process Home Screen - what is that? and Facebook doing it's daily sync, I assume.
Can anyone explain to me what System, and System processes do? Also, what is Android Core (Home Screen), and why would that run, if the device is asleep?
Any answers would be much appreciated!
Thank you!
I ran into the same problem, what I did I went ahead and got juice defender from market. It allowed me to turn off all radios at night. This allowed the phone to remain charged the whole night. Also while charging I activate the clock app and dimmed the screen at night while charging this also helped the phone to charge 100%.
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I have juice defender already, but i don't turn off all my radios at night, because i do want phone calls to come though if they have to. wifi/bluetooth and gps are all turned off though.
I'm really wondering what Android Core (Home Screen) and System/System Processes are, and why they are eating so much battery.
Thanks for your help, fear676
have you tried clearing your cache and fixing permissions? since juice defender doesnt work, you can try to uninstall facebook and see if that changes anything. i know that i had a problem with both facebooks on my vibrant and i set the integrated account to sync once a day and the app to never sync.
i also had a problem on my SGS4G where my android core killed my battery in 2 hours randomly. i ended up having to reformat everything on the phone and reflashing the rom.

[Q] Project Epsilon v3 ROM

I have a question about Project Epsilon v3 ROM.
I'm currently on 676.226.3.XT910.Retail.en.EU ICS leak.
I'm going to install this rom via Bootmenu.
And here is my question. Do I have to wipe data or only cache and dalvik? Or maybe I don't have to wipe data but it is better to do so?
Thanks in advance!
Better do it I personally always do that, or just follow the ROM guidelines, now is easier to get all the apps with titanium and other apps.
Also to update from v3 to v4 I recommend full wipes to because I had some problems with wallpapers and widgets.
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Thanks! I did the wipe, however I have few new question.
First. Is it really worth to upgrade to v4? I heard that there are some problem with it and some people said that it's better to stick to V3.
Second. I did battery calibration like in ROM guide once (Did it today that's why), however I'm still having terrible battery life with display taking 80% of power. Any solution for that?
I'd stay in V3. What do you call terrible battery life? There are some threads that approach battery "readings". The info portrayed by widgets and some apps could be misleading IMHO. That 80% is how much battery the screen has used but not out of the total battery. I have gotten almost two days on a single charge, and screen consumption is never less than 70%. That is regardless of the time i check the battery information. It seems battery will constantly be in that 70, 80% area.
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And it always takes 1-2 days or more for the battery to "settle" when you change ROM.
Try using CPU Sleeper in Play. It switches off 1 of the cores on a dual/quad core phone, everytime your screen is turned off. It works better than the Sleep option when you press the On/Off button on the phone, this Sleep option doesn't ring when someone tries calling you. With CPU Sleeper - on my tests it lost 5% battery life in 12 hours.
prabbie said:
Try using CPU Sleeper in Play. It switches off 1 of the cores on a dual/quad core phone, everytime your screen is turned off. It works better than the Sleep option when you press the On/Off button on the phone, this Sleep option doesn't ring when someone tries calling you. With CPU Sleeper - on my tests it lost 5% battery life in 12 hours.
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Wow if that is the case I'm going to give that a shot!!
I have one more question.
I use blur camera but i miss this cool sound when taking photo that was on GB and ICS Leak. But in project epsilon there is only some kind of beeb. Is it possible to bring back photo making sound? xP! That would be coool!

[Q] Please help me with my battery consumption diagnosis

Ever since I installed JB (4.1.1) I have noticed a decrease in life. You probably heard this story before.
The native Battery consumption app shows Android OS uses most energy, followed by Device Idle.
So I installed BetterBatteryStats to have a look.
These screenshot is from this morning. Left the phone overnight untouched (from 12 am on).
Note:
My settings are the same as they were before the JB upgrade. And I use the phone the same way.
No Data Connection?
Why does it seems to be looking for a signal? Is that cell signal? I am in full signal area.
I use T-Mo and my area gets HSPA+.
I have Settings > Wireless and networks> Mobile Networks > Network Mode set to GSM/WCDMA (Auto Mode). Leave is as is?
The second most energy consuming is WiFi. I always left is on before the upgrade. It probably always used this much but now it's worse?
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Your android OS is consuming waaaaaaay to much power it should be between 7-12%. I'd reflash stock ROM and go from their buddy. Also, wipe your battery stats.
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Thank you for responding.
What falls under Android OS?
I use a live wallpaper (Alive Wallpaper in the Play Store from http://alivewallpaper.co) and the screen is off when I am not using the phone.
Is the video wallpaper using power even when the phone is sleeping (or supposed to be)?
Edit: how do I reset my battery stats in the native app? There is no contextual menu.
Its just the processes that fall within android OS....stuff you have no control over
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Do you did a battery recalibration?After flash a new ROM is a must.
Battery calibration using this method right?
1. Use your phone till it shuts off
2. Before charging it turn it back on and do it again.
3. With the phone off plug it in and recharge it overnight or atleast 6-8 hours.
4. Turn it on and and use Battery Calibration - by NéMa.
5. Use the phone till it dies again and then recharge and use phone as you normally would.
Source: http://androidforums.com/transform-ultra-all-things-root/512164-how-battery-calibration.html
No, I have never done this.
Thank you for pointing it out.
i was about to start a new thread when i saw this so thought its best to post here. im having the same problem
here is the logcat from my phone. 8hours overnight and down to 41%!
merry christmas
You'd be better off writing in the BetterBatteryStats thread
Thanks. Yea I just have.
tapp'd on my S3
Disable Google now, will save loadsa battery
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Rather than disabling Google Now. Do this
Disable Maps, Whatsapp, Facebook. They all run in background. Use App Quarantine to quickly enable disable when issue required.
Enable mobile network location access.
Also restrict background data of apps that ate high in usage which could cause wake locks.
Google now knows where you are without Maps running, just NetworkLocationService under Google Services in running apps.
Use other battery conserving precautions in conjunction.
You could potentially go for days depending on your usage
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