[Q] weird battery drain - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have switched around with a few roms n kernels... and notice a few.weird.things...
IM currently using battery monitor.widget, and even after screen off for a few mins,I notice my battery.drain is -40 to -95... I came from HTC so I understand deep sleep being around -2 to -5...
so wondering if battery monitor widget is reporting my battery drain wrongly, or one of my app out service is preventing my device from deep sleeping... is there any apps to find out the rogue app? or is the battery drain is normal for an s2

The app the you probably need is Betterbattery stats , although i have never used it but it's what people use when they have issues like this.

searched in Google store but seems to only have the paid version

kedirakevo said:
searched in Google store but seems to only have the paid version
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There is a free version here in the forums, but you should consider buying the paid version. Devs put their time and effort into making these apps and tools. Least we could to is throw them a few bucks for their effort.

ctomgee said:
There is a free version here in the forums, but you should consider buying the paid version. Devs put their time and effort into making these apps and tools. Least we could to is throw them a few bucks for their effort.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't disagree with you, but I do have to try out the app before purchasing... lemme see what I can find, thanks everyone for the help...
but eh what are you guys deep sleep drain is like?

but eh what are you guys deep sleep drain is like?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
98% deepsleep in 6hours with 0% drain. device not running in airplanemode

all right, i downloaded the app....... and facebook app seem to be keeping my phone in partial wake lock..... removed that... still keeping things in view...
I also noticed RILJ and AudioOut_ 1.... what are those? my drain is still in the double digits... hmm.....

small double digits should be fine, 10-20 is my usual ... all depends on what u have switched on
RILJ is Random but i read somewhere that after 2-3 full batt recharge cycles if it shows up recharge to 100% then switch to flight mode follow that by a restart and once up n stable go flight mode off and no more RILJ. iv had it a few times on but nothing serious 10-20s in a total of 3-4 hours of on time.
AudioOut_1 is totally random but anything going in the headset out 3.5mm will start it randomly, wether talking on the phone with a headset or listening to music using the aux wire

Related

sudden battery drain issue

I'm having issue with my 4g lte. Happens randomly - my phone just discharges. Last night I had it on charger for up to 85% and I woke up this morning my phone was dead. No wifi or bluetooth on. No new apps installed. I cant find a pattern why and when is doing that. Any ideas ? is there some kind of app that can record what is happening to the sys and battery so I can review later on ?
Yes install BetterBatteryStats (available for free on the devs thread). It will show you what is keeping the phone awake since that is probably the cause of your battery being drained. Install it and let it standby for a while without touching. Update the thread with the statistics BBS gives you.
Also you should try posting questions in the Q&A forum next time
thanks and sorry
which on should I post ?
other, partial wakelocks, kernel wakelock, alarms or process ?
i have that app.. i just dont know like whats bad and whats not?? my battery seems ok but i just wish i knew how to use the app..
With no wifi on you are going to drain quick if you have spotty service. You can even go to settings, battery, and then see what is using your battery.
I also have this problem somedays I will have great battery life around 20 hours and other times I get around 12 hours, today for example my phone been of charger 2 hour about ten min of screen time and battery already at 80 percent, I do have better battery stats and have never seen a wakelock or anything like that.
so i should go under partial wakelocks and what do i look for>>??? i have mad stuff under it.. what do i look for >???
evo401 said:
so i should go under partial wakelocks and what do i look for>>??? i have mad stuff under it.. what do i look for >??? :confused
I am not an expert on the app it I believe you look for anything that says wakelock, well atleast that's what I do from my understanding a wakelock means the phone was woken up by a certain app someone please correct me if I am wrong here
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have had similar issues, even went to bed before at 50% to wake up turned off from dead battery and all my data syncing stops at night based on schedules I have set.
Few things I have noticed.
I have plugged my phone in a few times, battery light turn orange like it's charging but the battery icon not move (as if is not charging) and when I went at power it says (discharging) yet when not plugged in it just says (not plugged in) and when charging it says (charging). A simple unplug and plug fixes it but odd that it randomly happens. I hope is sw bug and not something hardware on my phone.
Also once got my phone in diag mode by mistake playing with the ## menus. When that is on the battery was about 50% of what it normally is and you never know it's on unless you see the screen on reboot. Turned it back off and all was better again.
Still have the random days it drains fast though and the random times it won't charge though light is orange.
On the right days though, it is great. I can get over a day on my normal use and that is with 5 email accounts (some push exchange and some imap) and some texting and web and light browsing.
I had the same issue for a while, I finally found out what is was. It was "Sync Internet". It was constantly running. Go to Settings >> Accounts & Sync >> Your Google Account(s) and see if "Sync Internet" has the sync icon next to the checkbox. It never stopped syncing and so it was draining my battery. I unchecked it and battery is working like a champ!
The *whole* internet??
vandon1 said:
The *whole* internet??
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Lol !
The only battery issues I've had with mine are when I disabled a ton of apps.
Sorry I posted that and then went to bed here's what you do:
Set it to detect 'since unplugged' and then let the phone idle for a nice amount of time to get good data. Then check under kernel wake locks and take a screen shot then just switch to partial ones and do the same. I'll look at them and try to help. I'm not an expert on it but it did help me back when I had a similar issue with my 3D.
Sent from my Evo 4G LTE

[Q] Question about S2 battery usage

Hi everyone
So I recently got a S2, upgraded it from stock Gingerbread to stock ICS via Kies, then flashed CM9. CM9 was great, but I quickly noticed worse battery drain than that of GB. I sorted out all wakelocks, now facebook is the top one in better battery stats list and it's only 10mins in a day so I don't think that's a problem. When charging, vbus_present shows up and keeps the phone from sleeping, but that's a normal thing when the phone is plugged, right? CPUspy shows the phone is in deep sleep the majority of time I don't use it, so I assume I have no wakelock problem.
But even then, the battery still seems a bit bad. When in deep sleep with wifi and mobile data off, it would lose around 1.5% per hour; and with moderate/high use (internet with wifi or gaming), I'd be lucky to have it last 3 hours. Charging to 100% from zero takes about 3 hours.
I also tried recalibrating the battery through BC, but haven't noticed too much of a difference.
Recently I found a guide on disabling fast dormancy via the build.prop file. Still waiting for results though.
So, my questions
1, My battery usage seems normal, doesn't it? 1.5% per deep sleep hour is acceptable I guess, but 3 hours of usage seems a bit short. Too short.
2, What effects does fast dormancy have?
1) Totally unacceptable. Mine lasts at least 7-8 hours with high use..
Does your phone heat up while the heavy use ???
What brightness level do you use for the display ???
How many apps do you have that can gain internet access ???
2) By default, the Samsung Galaxy S II has Fast Dormancy support enabled. One of the goals of Fast Dormancy is to increase the battery life of a device, by limiting the amount of signaling between the phone and the cell network. But, when Fast Dormancy it is not enabled in the network and is enabled on the phone it ironically works the other way around, and actually drains more battery than before.
Luckily, Fast Dormancy can be disabled on the phone. For the Galaxy S II, do the following:
Dial *#9900#
Press “Disable Fast Dormancy“
Press “Exit“.
Easy as that!
Thanks for the suggestion I have brightness manual and at around 20%. Wifi is disabled when not used, and mobile data is always turned off unless I need it, so basically apps only get internet access when I want them to. I have also disabled sync for both google and facebook, but fb still pushes notifications to me while it's connected. Is that a major battery drain, and if yes, how to disable it?
Anyways, facebook, instagram, youtube are the only apps than can access the internet. No messengers or anything that may keep a wakelock.
My phone doesn't heat up during normal use, maybe a bit when I do some gaming (Max Payne?)
Also, *#9900# doesn't do anything on my phone. It doesn't bring up a menu or anything like that.
Bump. Guys?
Delivered using Nyan Cat's rainbow powers.
Install BetterBatteryStats (search for it on here/Google Play), might help you nail what's causing the drain.
Yes I did, as said in my original post. After a night the highest wakelock are just around 10 minutes, and that one was facebook. Uninstalling it however had no effect.
Delivered using Nyan Cat's rainbow powers.
Thinking logically, there's got to be something else in those stats (partial wakelocks in particular) that's causing that drain. There's no way having fast dormancy enabled/disabled is either going to cause/fix the drain you've mentioned getting '3 hours of usage'; (I can get 5 & a bit hours screen on with CM9 & variable usage/mostly 'moderate' use) given everything else you say you've tried.
Post BBS logs here if you want someone to have a look.
Edit to add - Also post a screenshot of the 2nd screen in settings/battery, the one that has history 'details' at the top, with the 'mobile network signal' bar underneath the main battery graph.
Here you go: pastebin.com/1UwicChJ
I just registered half a day ago and don't have enough posts yet to paste links, so sorry the phone was only on battery for nearly 2 hours with some light browsing and facebook, but I hope it works.
Anyway, I looked through my running processes, and dsp manager is the only non-OS process running, besides facebook. I got CM9 so it came by default. Could dspmanager be the culprit?
Delivered using Nyan Cat's rainbow powers.
It's a new phone he's got there and I doubt it could be anything battery related itself.
I'm using CM9 nightlies and I get around 9 hours moderate use. It has been said though that a lot of these CM9 builds have battery drain and heat issues.
I use Juicedefender to help with the battery life which seems to work.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2
MistahBungle said:
Edit to add - Also post a screenshot of the 2nd screen in settings/battery, the one that has history 'details' at the top, with the 'mobile network signal' bar underneath the main battery graph.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
About 1/3 of this time was on wifi browsing. The drop is much more drastic if I play games.
Delivered using Nyan Cat's rainbow powers.
A couple of observations. There's nothing that stands right out in the BBS log. The other one is, looking at that graph you've lost ~15% over a bit under 2 hrs. The screen has been on most of the time the phone has been awake (confirmed by the BBS log) if you look at the respective bars. You've also been using WiFi for most of the time the screen has been on/phone has been awake.
Roughly speaking, going by the screenshot, you'd get ~5hrs+/- screen on time if you kept using the phone in the same way you had during that just under 2 hrs, and this is pretty much normal. I haven't had drain issues for ages, so I double checked my details on the 2nd screen of settings/battery to make sure CM9 is reporting these details accurately (screenshot attached). Certainly in my case, this screenshot reflects what my phone had been doing for the just under 5 hrs it had been off charge/since last reboot; that is, >90% of the time in idle/deep sleep. So it probably isn't CM9 reporting these details inaccurately in your case either.
The BBS log & screenshot don't illustrate the problem you talked about in your OP. Now, if I had to take a stab in the dark at what's causing problems when you do have them (and FWIW, I do believe you're having the problems you mentioned in your OP at times), in the absence of any other info, maybe your WiFi router is constantly sending the phone packets (what's been referred to as a 'dirty router' on here before) when you're connected to WiFi & not actually using it. This scenario has been known to cause relatively high levels of drain.
So to be honest with you, based on that screenshot & the BBS log, I'm not really seeing a problem.
Now, if you want to post the same again when you actually have a problem with drain similar to what you described in your OP, happy to have a look at them. But for that ~2hrs covered by the BBS log & screenshot you posted, that's pretty much normal.
MistahBungle said:
A couple of observations. There's nothing that stands right out in the BBS log. The other one is, looking at that graph you've lost ~15% over a bit under 2 hrs. The screen has been on most of the time the phone has been awake (confirmed by the BBS log) if you look at the respective bars. You've also been using WiFi for most of the time the screen has been on/phone has been awake.
Roughly speaking, going by the screenshot, you'd get ~5hrs+/- screen on time if you kept using the phone in the same way you had during that just under 2 hrs, and this is pretty much normal. I haven't had drain issues for ages, so I double checked my details on the 2nd screen of settings/battery to make sure CM9 is reporting these details accurately (screenshot attached). Certainly in my case, this screenshot reflects what my phone had been doing for the just under 5 hrs it had been off charge/since last reboot; that is, >90% of the time in idle/deep sleep. So it probably isn't CM9 reporting these details inaccurately in your case either.
The BBS log & screenshot don't illustrate the problem you talked about in your OP. Now, if I had to take a stab in the dark at what's causing problems when you do have them (and FWIW, I do believe you're having the problems you mentioned in your OP at times), in the absence of any other info, maybe your WiFi router is constantly sending the phone packets (what's been referred to as a 'dirty router' on here before) when you're connected to WiFi & not actually using it. This scenario has been known to cause relatively high levels of drain.
So to be honest with you, based on that screenshot & the BBS log, I'm not really seeing a problem.
Now, if you want to post the same again when you actually have a problem with drain similar to what you described in your OP, happy to have a look at them. But for that ~2hrs covered by the BBS log & screenshot you posted, that's pretty much normal.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Okay, much appreciated so I guess I'll take it from your reply that 5 hours with wifi browsing isn't too bad. Seems okay, but I still find it a bit strange that (in my case) wifi browsing uses just as much battery as games do. I always thought it was a light activity!
Or maybe it wasn't the battery that had a problem, but that I set my expectations a bit too high. I came to this S2 from a BlackBerry 9700, whose battery would last half a week with very frequent use. But anyway, I just got this phone for a week, so I consider myself a pretty heavy user. Probably when I get familiar with it, I won't feel the need to play with it every five minutes and battery will last a bit longer then! xD
Nah. Anything with screen on is far from 'light activity'. Screen consumes far & away the most juice. In saying that, I've seen some people on here say they can get 8-9 hrs screen on with 2000mAh battery. How they do it I have absolutely no idea.
But if yeah, 5 hrs with the screen on most of the time whether browsing or playing games (games in particular are very CPU/GPU intensive & thus use a lot of zzzzs; unless they're really basic games like chess or similar), or anything else isn't too bad. Can you do better ? Obviously, if people say they can get 8-9 hrs. But it's not a matter of doing A, B & C and you'll magically end up with massive screen on times. Every phone is setup & used differently, and getting the absolute max out of every charge takes a lot of trial & error and experimenting with settings/setup.
There are tons of threads about the subject on here if you feel like going down that path. For me, I'm happy with the battery life I get these days because you can really obsess over it & spend a lot of time stressing over it/trying to maximise it for often very little gain. I'd rather simply use my phone a lot during the day & charge it at night.
Yeah Crackberries are like Japanese cars, they can run on fumes pretty much ;-) Having a dual core processor, a decent GPU & a huge screen kinda changes things.
There is one thing you can do fairly easily tho. And that's to make sure the phone spends as much time as possible in deep sleep when you're not using it. That will ensure that you have enough juice to get you by when you do want to use it. Simple ways to help achieve that is to turn off data/WiFi completely when you're not using it (tho many people don't like to do this for different reasons; which is perfectly OK if you're happy to live with the resultant drain), and make sure you've got no apps that are doing things they shouldn't be doing (like syncing, for example) while the phone should be sleeping. Again, there are lots of threads about same if you ever feel like a bit of light reading ;-)
So yeah, if you do find you experience drain that's not normal/outside the usual pattern you have, definitely post details & people can have a look for you. And as you said, you'll get to know what really is normal with regard to drain & so on is as you use the phone more (I tended to use it constantly for that first couple of weeks as well).
nyancatland said:
Okay, much appreciated so I guess I'll take it from your reply that 5 hours with wifi browsing isn't too bad. Seems okay, but I still find it a bit strange that (in my case) wifi browsing uses just as much battery as games do. I always thought it was a light activity!
Or maybe it wasn't the battery that had a problem, but that I set my expectations a bit too high. I came to this S2 from a BlackBerry 9700, whose battery would last half a week with very frequent use. But anyway, I just got this phone for a week, so I consider myself a pretty heavy user. Probably when I get familiar with it, I won't feel the need to play with it every five minutes and battery will last a bit longer then! xD
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Already took such measures. Wakelocks killed my battery over my first night with the phone, and I woke up after 7 hours to find a ~50% battery completely empty. Now things are alright, I clear CPUSpy stats before I sleep and wake up to around 95% of deep sleep time. Overnight drain varies between 5 and 10%.
And yes, yes you are right. Maybe I should stop going nuts. I'm checking BBS and CPUSpy every hour, reading every XDA thread on battery, and calculating my battery drainage every morning I wake up :laugh::laugh::laugh:
Re: dirty/'noisy' WiFi networks, have a look at this post as an example of what I was talking about above.
MistahBungle said:
Re: dirty/'noisy' WiFi networks, have a look at this post as an example of what I was talking about above.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Umm...so I just woke up, and noticed a wakelock in the kernel category. It was PowerManagerService, and it occupied around half an hour. Overnight, aftet I've slept 10 hours (got a day off ), my battery came from 24% down to 13%. That's a rate of roughly 1% per hour. Is that normal? And also, what is that PowetManagerService wakelock?
Delivered using Nyan Cat's rainbow powers.
Fantastic. Looks like you got your 10 posts That tip is about as useful as "don't plant cauliflowers in concrete".
trojans63 said:
Turn off wifi and dont play games and your batter will last longer
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

[Q] Battery consumption

Hey,
I could not find a thread like this via the search bar, so I am opening one up. How much battery does your stock S3 consume by just lying there? I am losing about ten percent overnight, which seems a bit too much for me. Is that normal?
Thanks!
Wait till you get about 70 percent discharge overnight then you'll have something to worry about.
krico said:
Wait till you get about 70 percent discharge overnight then you'll have something to worry about.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thanks for the reply, but that's not really what i wanted to know...
If you searched or read the multiple battery threads then you would have found that yes it is normal .
All depends upon what running .
jje
At night I turn off wifi and data, my battery drops 3%, with data on and wifi off about 5% ( about 8 hours)
Based on reviews on the net it is possible to get it drop 6% in 16 hours with data and wifi on, not getting to this myself but happy enough.
roter$baron said:
Hey,
I could not find a thread like this via the search bar, so I am opening one up. How much battery does your stock S3 consume by just lying there? I am losing about ten percent overnight, which seems a bit too much for me. Is that normal?
Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It is very normal for Stock rom to consume that much battery.. However you can save more battery by going into Wifi > advanced > Keepy wifi on during sleep > Select Only when plugged in... Plus disabling wake up commands such as the ones for S Voice, or Google Now can increase battery life upto a great extent.
Also try turning off location services for apps that you don't use that often or the ones that don't really require location services that much.
I had 10 to 15% drop the night, after installing Chrome (because of google sync issue)
but after removed it.. im back to 6-7%
Anyway Dolphin is better
I can only say from memory ...
roter$baron said:
Hey,
I could not find a thread like this via the search bar, so I am opening one up. How much battery does your stock S3 consume by just lying there? I am losing about ten percent overnight, which seems a bit too much for me. Is that normal?
Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I can only say from memory - a very clean S3 should get at most 2-3% discharge overnight (even with WiFi, data, BT and GPS started). That might no longer be achievable once you have a number of programs that interact and keep the CPU from staying into deep sleep.
Currently I am seeing at most 1-2% with my configuration - but that involves closing the 4 above before going to bed.(and to get to that point I had to drop a number of programs that were bad in this regard).
Do your own tests with that - look around after BetterBatteryStats.apk or something like that!
xclub_101 said:
I can only say from memory - a very clean S3 should get at most 2-3% discharge overnight (even with WiFi, data, BT and GPS started). That might no longer be achievable once you have a number of programs that interact and keep the CPU from staying into deep sleep.
Currently I am seeing at most 1-2% with my configuration - but that involves closing the 4 above before going to bed.(and to get to that point I had to drop a number of programs that were bad in this regard).
Do your own tests with that - look around after BetterBatteryStats.apk or something like that!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can I ask what your current configuration is?
I am currently running Omega v32.1 with the stock kernel.
I hardly use my phone during the day as I am at work for 12 hours, maybe send a few texts. 3g and sync are always on
I take it off charge at 5.30AM and when I get home at like 8PM it is down to less than 10%... and thats not even heavy use.
I have calibrated the battery using that batterycalibrate app for root users..

Battery problems...

Hi All,
this night my Alpha was in offline mode and discharged from 100% -->0 within 8hours. even the alarm could not ring. (see attachments).
Then I charged in the morning to 50% and while I was riding the train battery percentage rose to 54% without charging (you can see it on the screenshots).
Any idea what happened?
I called customer care and they send me to the local service partner BUT they would not just change the battery...
They would First they do not have ANY spare part at their location, they do not have replacement phones and they would always flash a new firmware to the deveice and wait at least for 24h to check discharging behavior.
RIght now this is my first samsung phone (probably my last one). The battery has production cost for less than 4€ I would bet (probably even cheaper). You buy a phone for 600€ (about 750$) and I would NOT call this customer care.
Now I wait for my EB-KG850BWEGWW charge station and see if this problem is due to the battery on my own.
Anyone else same experiences or suggestions?
Best,
Blubberor
Blubberor said:
Hi All,
this night my Alpha was in offline mode and discharged from 100% -->0 within 8hours. even the alarm could not ring. (see attachments).
Then I charged in the morning to 50% and while I was riding the train battery percentage rose to 54% without charging (you can see it on the screenshots).
Any idea what happened?
I called customer care and they send me to the local service partner BUT they would not just change the battery...
They would First they do not have ANY spare part at their location, they do not have replacement phones and they would always flash a new firmware to the deveice and wait at least for 24h to check discharging behavior.
RIght now this is my first samsung phone (probably my last one). The battery has production cost for less than 4€ I would bet (probably even cheaper). You buy a phone for 600€ (about 750$) and I would NOT call this customer care.
Now I wait for my EB-KG850BWEGWW charge station and see if this problem is due to the battery on my own.
Anyone else same experiences or suggestions?
Best,
Blubberor
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Android System indicates you have a terrible wake lock. I can't help you diagnose, but I can tell you there's probably nothing physically wrong with your battery. It's your software setup that's causing terrible drain for some reason.
Sent from my D5803
Blubberor said:
Hi All,
this night my Alpha was in offline mode and discharged from 100% -->0 within 8hours. even the alarm could not ring. (see attachments).
Then I charged in the morning to 50% and while I was riding the train battery percentage rose to 54% without charging (you can see it on the screenshots).
Any idea what happened?
I called customer care and they send me to the local service partner BUT they would not just change the battery...
They would First they do not have ANY spare part at their location, they do not have replacement phones and they would always flash a new firmware to the deveice and wait at least for 24h to check discharging behavior.
RIght now this is my first samsung phone (probably my last one). The battery has production cost for less than 4€ I would bet (probably even cheaper). You buy a phone for 600€ (about 750$) and I would NOT call this customer care.
Now I wait for my EB-KG850BWEGWW charge station and see if this problem is due to the battery on my own.
Anyone else same experiences or suggestions?
Best,
Blubberor
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Define wakelocks. Some app was misbehaving badly.
Restart the phone. Remove apps which aren't important for you and check the status for few hrs. Install BBS to analyze wakelocks. search for BBS (BetterBatteryStats) in XDA/google and check what is sucking the battery.
Alright, just installed BBS.
Hope to find an app draining my battery but do not expect to find anything. Let's see.
Just deactivated juicedefender and now I use it without any power saving apps.
At the same time I will try asap to check with a new battery.
Anyway. Is there anyone having a clue why energy levels were raising without charging?
Thank you already and I keep you updated.
Blubberor
Sent from my SM-G850F using XDA Free mobile app
So...
This looks quite normal to me? What do you think?
Best,
Blubberor
Sent from my SM-G850F using XDA Free mobile app
Blubberor said:
So...
This looks quite normal to me? What do you think?
Best,
Blubberor
Sent from my SM-G850F using XDA Free mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No not really since you have a differential of 2hours and 36minutes between screen on time and awake. That's the drain/wakelock.
(it of course could be normal if you have used a music player a couple of hours with the screen off or some sports activity recording app in the background).
osvanberg said:
No not really since you have a differential of 2hours and 36minutes between screen on time and awake. That's the drain/wakelock.
(it of course could be normal if you have used a music player a couple of hours with the screen off or some sports activity recording app in the background).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I used it for more than an hour with reading news... and was phoning for 45min.
So any clue if this could be the reason or can I give you more details to analyze what's going on with the device.
Cheers!
Blubberor
Blubberor said:
I used it for more than an hour with reading news... and was phoning for 45min.
So any clue if this could be the reason or can I give you more details to analyze what's going on with the device.
Cheers!
Blubberor
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Reading news do not explain the drain. Then you would have equal amount of time for screen on and awake time.
Phone calls with the screen off however explain those minutes (45m of the differential 2h 36m ).
The rest needs to be found.
You need to share the detailed analysis from the BBS app regarding the wakelocks, screen on time etc. However this app can be abit hard for beginners to get a grip on. Hard to know where to look and how to interpret the info.
I therefore recommend the app GSam Battery Monitor instead. Just as good in presenting the data about battery statistics but in a much more easy and understandable way/UI.
Try it. Let it run for a full battery cycle, then take screen shots from the "main overview screen". Then go to the "app screen", take a new screenshot of this app overview screen. Then go to the view-settings in top right corner, choose to show "time awake" - take screenshot, then "times woken up" take a screenshot and last "kernel wakelock" and take a screenshot.
Upload pics here!
Blubberor said:
Alright, just installed BBS.
Hope to find an app draining my battery but do not expect to find anything. Let's see.
Just deactivated juicedefender and now I use it without any power saving apps.
At the same time I will try asap to check with a new battery.
Anyway. Is there anyone having a clue why energy levels were raising without charging?
Thank you already and I keep you updated.
Blubberor
Sent from my SM-G850F using XDA Free mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have the same problem, it began when I put my files on the phone , then the battery start to drain, I checked battery usage then I found , the builtin application, index service is what draining my battery , any solution
Thanks
No solution from my side. But hope there are is a solution. The 100 to 0% battery drain did at least not repeat. Same to charging w/o power connection...
This is from last night.. So not too bad.
Sent from my SM-G850F using XDA Free mobile app
Adding the screenshot
Was not possible in the post before..
Sent from my SM-G850F using XDA Free mobile app
Did you try a reboot?
I had the first day also big problems with the battery, it was very hot, and empty with in 4 hours.
The Android-systeem was on 60%.
After the reboot everything was normal.
koenketelaar said:
Did you try a reboot?
I had the first day also big problems with the battery, it was very hot, and empty with in 4 hours.
The Android-systeem was on 60%.
After the reboot everything was normal.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I did do reboots but bow battery lasts a day. This is fine for me.
Best,
blubberor
Sent from my SM-G850F using XDA Free mobile app
thanks this thread I delete all battery applications and the result..
Galaxy Alpha cihazımdan Tapatalk ile gönderildi.
screen on time
Was that over 5 hours screen on time with ,Alpha ?
A great result if it is !
Android is scaning/indexing files after first boot. After 2-3 days will get back to normal. You could try cpuspy to see if your alpha go in deep sleep mode. If not, try to reboot and check again after 10 minutes in cpuspy. A reboot always resolve the deep sleep problem ( a program is keepi ng your processor running in a loop). You should now about that even without cpuspy if your alpha is hot without any reason. In normal stand by mode your back should be cool, not warm. Just restart your phone, it takes 15 seconds
Hello everybdy,
I'm an Alpha user now for two weeks.
Let's begin with routine checks.
Typically ı'll suggest to full charge/diacharge your phone for the first 5-8 times. This will provide proper calibration and battety "training" for the phone. I do this with every phone I buy and was always able to see the difference.
Draining during night without any activity happened to me aswell. To times.
I checked immediately the active applications in the task bar. Not that one from the settings. You should see there e.g. internet browser or nothing. For my part which was unusual for me is the youtube. After I stopped it everything went to normal.
I'ts annoying as some web pages start youtube in the background without you realize and keeps there.
I can use the phone up to 1.5 days without prpblems
Hope this helps
GT-N8005 cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi

Standby drain

When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the LG G6's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
I have been on and off mine all day without heavy use due to being at work, and by the time night came without me charging I was around 79%. This is from 5AM to 11PM. But I must admit... I went into the sttings and set EVERYTHING as inactive that I was able to do so and recommend everyone do it. The apps will never turn on or activate unless you manually open one in which case it will then stay active. It's great for apps that do crap in the background which you never use anyway. Oh, and I use Greenify as well, and always keep my tasks clear. So yeah... I'm used to saving battery by habit so my experience is different from most.
My standby time has been brutal... Would not be using my phone for around 1 hr and then id see my battery drop from a 36 to 30.... I closed all apps and even used the smart cleaner to get rid of some.. I dont know whats the problem to be honest. If they can fix the standby drain i could honestly reach for 5 to even 6 hours of screen on time
My standby has been really good, I can leave it off charge overnight and can only go down 2% or so, but once I start using it the % drops heavily after 5 minutes or so. I've got to go through the settings to turn off notifications because I've noticed apps like candy crush giving me notifications
joyj112 said:
My standby time has been brutal... Would not be using my phone for around 1 hr and then id see my battery drop from a 36 to 30.... I closed all apps and even used the smart cleaner to get rid of some.. I dont know whats the problem to be honest. If they can fix the standby drain i could honestly reach for 5 to even 6 hours of screen on time
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I agree with jaeyo, my standby time is amazing. Off the charger overnight for 8 hours i only lose 2%. I do have AOD scheduled to turn off from 11p to 5a.
chinchillables said:
I have been on and off mine all day without heavy use due to being at work, and by the time night came without me charging I was around 79%. This is from 5AM to 11PM. But I must admit... I went into the sttings and set EVERYTHING as inactive that I was able to do so and recommend everyone do it. The apps will never turn on or activate unless you manually open one in which case it will then stay active. It's great for apps that do crap in the background which you never use anyway. Oh, and I use Greenify as well, and always keep my tasks clear. So yeah... I'm used to saving battery by habit so my experience is different from most.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you hook your phone up to a computer and use the ADB commands to enable Greenify's aggressive doze? That really helped me, Nougat's built-in doze is still crap compared to Greenify. Also, setting WiFi to inactive while display is off, as well as enabling data saver in data management to restrict mobile background data for all apps helps greatly with wakelocks. Also everyone should consider disabling certain notifications from apps like Maps and Assistant which can create a lot of wakelocks.
I wrote a few tips to help with battery life on Nougat in the G5 section, but it should apply here as well:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/att-lg-g5/how-to/nougat-wreaking-havoc-battery-solutions-t3570944
Standby time wears on you depending on what apps you got running
?????
I found the culprit. Apparently one of my skin apps was causing wakelocks keeping the phone awake the whole time. Deleted it and installed greenify, will see how things goes
PHYCLOPSH said:
Did you hook your phone up to a computer and use the ADB commands to enable Greenify's aggressive doze? That really helped me, Nougat's built-in doze is still crap compared to Greenify. Also, setting WiFi to inactive while display is off, as well as enabling data saver in data management to restrict mobile background data for all apps helps greatly with wakelocks. Also everyone should consider disabling certain notifications from apps like Maps and Assistant which can create a lot of wakelocks.
I wrote a few tips to help with battery life on Nougat in the G5 section, but it should apply here as well:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/att-lg-g5/how-to/nougat-wreaking-havoc-battery-solutions-t3570944
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No I did not. Heck, I didn't even know I COULD do that. That'll be my objective before tonight though, thanks!
I love Greenify's aggressive doze
Sent from my LG-H872 using Tapatalk
Does Greenify help? I get some seriously terrible standby drain going. Is it LG software that's so bad?
chinchillables said:
I have been on and off mine all day without heavy use due to being at work, and by the time night came without me charging I was around 79%. This is from 5AM to 11PM. But I must admit... I went into the sttings and set EVERYTHING as inactive that I was able to do so and recommend everyone do it. The apps will never turn on or activate unless you manually open one in which case it will then stay active. It's great for apps that do crap in the background which you never use anyway. Oh, and I use Greenify as well, and always keep my tasks clear. So yeah... I'm used to saving battery by habit so my experience is different from most.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What exactly did you set to inactive? Which apps?
---------- Post added at 10:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:49 AM ----------
vintagerock said:
I agree with jaeyo, my standby time is amazing. Off the charger overnight for 8 hours i only lose 2%. I do have AOD scheduled to turn off from 11p to 5a.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Me too
Honestly dont know how to fix this standby drain.. If ibhad root i would easily find the culprit through betterbatterystats but since i dont have that, cant seem to figure out why my standby drain is so high. I would leave my phone on the desk at 30% not using it all and come back 2 hrs later to 16%. Horrible standby time means losing precious screen on time sad sad
joyj112 said:
Honestly dont know how to fix this standby drain.. If ibhad root i would easily find the culprit through betterbatterystats but since i dont have that, cant seem to figure out why my standby drain is so high. I would leave my phone on the desk at 30% not using it all and come back 2 hrs later to 16%. Horrible standby time means losing precious screen on time sad sad
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Use Greenify to force Hibernate Quick Memo+. Seems to have solved my standby drain issues.
mr mystery said:
Use Greenify to force Hibernate Quick Memo+. Seems to have solved my standby drain issues.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The problem is Quick Memo+ isnt the problen because i dont even have that application. I did a factory reset and it got rid of the app so I dont know what to do
mr mystery said:
Use Greenify to force Hibernate Quick Memo+. Seems to have solved my standby drain issues.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do you need root for Greennify? I would like to start using it.
shaun0207 said:
Do you need root for Greennify? I would like to start using it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can use greenify by plugging your phone into your computer and use adb commands
joyj112 said:
You can use greenify by plugging your phone into your computer and use adb commands
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No root needed.
Sent from my LG-H872 using Tapatalk
joyj112 said:
The problem is Quick Memo+ isnt the problen because i dont even have that application. I did a factory reset and it got rid of the app so I dont know what to do
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You must have it. It's baked into the OS. Look in the essentials folder of the LG (iOS) Home it'll be there
joyj112 said:
You can use greenify by plugging your phone into your computer and use adb commands
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Don't really know how to use ADB commands. But I will try to figure it out

Categories

Resources