Partial wakelocks question - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My phone doesn't go into deep sleep very well and it gives me bad baterry performance.
I checked the partial wakelocks and I found a suspicious one " audio_1" that I believe its to blame.
How can I find out what app/process/app remains it belongs to?
Thanks in advance
Cosmin.
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Audio_1 tends to appear if you're listening to music, or it can also pop up on some roms if you have touch sounds/lock sounds on. If you're not listening to music, you have touch/lock sounds on & this wakelock is causing drain you're not happy with, I'd turn those sounds off. I'm running CM9 & this is what I do.

I see. I will dissable all sound feedback from the phone and see if that changes anything.
Thanks.
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Yep turn off touch/lock sounds for a day & then have a look at BBS stats again for that period & see if that eliminates the issue. If not, post your BBS stats at that stage & we can have another look.
No probs ;-) Hope that sorts the issue for you.
Cosmin123 said:
I see. I will dissable all sound feedback from the phone and see if that changes anything.
Thanks.
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After stopping all sound feedback from the phone the battery drain whent back to normal. Over the night it dropped about 2%. I'm happy with that
I will try to activate some sounds back to see if the wakelock problem was generated by a particular sound.
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Cosmin123 said:
After stopping all sound feedback from the phone the battery drain whent back to normal. Over the night it dropped about 2%. I'm happy with that
I will try to activate some sounds back to see if the wakelock problem was generated by a particular sound.
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I have off all my sound yet i still have the audio_out wakelock
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Cool. Yep good logic. Activate them one by one (and test each one that you activate on it's own for a day or so) & see if you can isolate exactly which one is causing the problem.
Let us know how you get on/if you can narrow it down to a particular setting, info will be useful for other people.
Cosmin123 said:
After stopping all sound feedback from the phone the battery drain whent back to normal. Over the night it dropped about 2%. I'm happy with that
I will try to activate some sounds back to see if the wakelock problem was generated by a particular sound.
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No alarm when its off!

Hey there,
As the topic says, is there a solution for the problem when the gs2 is off, it doesnt wake me up in the morning!
On my old n97 even if the phone gone of through the night in case of low battery, it goes on in the morning and wake me up.
Is there an app or maybe a setting i didnt made?
Greez and thx
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From what I know, Android phone don't support this feature.
It's not a bug, it's not a hardware issue - it's just how it is designed.
Yep, I loved this feature in Nokias, even on Samsung Wave, but to be honest it's not a problem. Just turn your phone into flight mode, and it will basically consume very little power in standby.
Someone correct me if I am wrong.
valdigre said:
From what I know, Android phone don't support this feature.
It's not a bug, it's not a hardware issue - it's just how it is designed.
Yep, I loved this feature in Nokias, even on Samsung Wave, but to be honest it's not a problem. Just turn your phone into flight mode, and it will basically consume very little power in standby.
Someone correct me if I am wrong.
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Ok thx 4 the quick answer, i also turn the flightmode on but i hoped there is a solution.
Could it be that this feater comes maybe with an fw update?
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Search button say answer is no .
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Ok thx.
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Phone freezes/lockups up, I restart and then battery drops 15+%

Title pretty much says it all. I have a stock, i777 running on 2.3.6 and yesterday out of the blue, the phone would lock up (not respond to any touches on the screen, the power button or the volume rocker) so I would pull the battery out and restart it. When I did, the battery would drop off like 15%.
I did a search but didn't find any relevant issues. Many people simply complained about battery drops after regular restarts, not after freezes.
Would greatly appreciate some help!
Same thing, it has to do with the fuel guage of the phone
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I hate when that happens. Is there anything to do? I'll go from like 85% to 10 after a crash. Does that fubar the battery? Cause it does charge all over again
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In my experience this evens out after another charge or two.
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Edgarhighman said:
I hate when that happens. Is there anything to do? I'll go from like 85% to 10 after a crash. Does that fubar the battery? Cause it does charge all over again
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Nope nothing you can do, it usually goes back up though
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Again guys, this only happens after the phone locks up/freezes which is multiple times per day. Otherwise, battery drain is norma
U didn't say whether u were rooted or not. So I'm assuming you aren't? Which means screen lock ups aren't from undervolting?
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Read this and see if it helps..Entropy explains why the battery gets crazy after a reboot. I would assume it would be the same if you had to pull the battery, the gauge i guess would still get reset.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22917725&postcount=3
delicacies boootli
Phalanx7621 said:
U didn't say whether u were rooted or not. So I'm assuming you aren't? Which means screen lock ups aren't from undervolting?
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I said I was stock in the first post. Is there something else you need to know? Just to clarify, I haven't modded/rooted/etc. Still on stock 2.3.6 w/ Touchwiz.
The battery issue isn't the major issue, it's the freezing of the phone multiple times a day. Is there a diagnostic tool I can use that will show a log of the processes that were running when the phone froze? That could help me narrow down the issue.
CLKeenan said:
I said I was stock in the first post. Is there something else you need to know? Just to clarify, I haven't modded/rooted/etc. Still on stock 2.3.6 w/ Touchwiz.
The battery issue isn't the major issue, it's the freezing of the phone multiple times a day. Is there a diagnostic tool I can use that will show a log of the processes that were running when the phone froze? That could help me narrow down the issue.
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I believe you will need root for that
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Nick281051 said:
I believe you will need root for that
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If I did root, what would I use? Not sure I want to root a phone that is already having problems though.
CLKeenan said:
If I did root, what would I use? Not sure I want to root a phone that is already having problems though.
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Not exactly sure for freezes as I've never needed to do it, I just know that root is required, sorry I couldn't be more help
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I think you can avoid the battery level glitch by plugging in a charger before you reboot.
Maybe the freezes are being caused by a rogue app. I can't remember what the app is called at the moment, but there is one app that monitors cpu usage and can warn you if an app is using too much cpu time.
Watchdog and betterbatterystats. Yes u can monitor apps. But I wouldn't think an app would just start doing that out of the blue. Hmm. Its really hard to tell ya what to do if you aren't even rooted,may wanna think about doing that. Opens up a lot more options for fixing / monitoring.
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Phalanx7621 said:
Watchdog and betterbatterystats. Yes u can monitor apps. But I wouldn't think an app would just start doing that out of the blue. Hmm. Its really hard to tell ya what to do if you aren't even rooted,may wanna think about doing that. Opens up a lot more options for fixing / monitoring.
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Restarts are a [email protected] on battery. Every system app hits at same time. The way charge stays in batt. Anything under about half on batt charge...it will seem to drain quicker. Its the chemical makeup of batt that does it. Think of bubbles in soda bottle... More full bottle more fizz more bang. Less soda... Less bang.... And flat. Keep off any widgets ....they tap batt constantly as well as data...which hits batt. Ahh Physics and Chemistry, love it.
We will sort you out!
Haha it'd not my problem I was just trying to help him out with apps that could monitor. I'm not the op of the thread bro .
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Haha it'd not my problem I was just trying to help him out with apps that could monitor. I'm not the op of the thread bro .
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Sorry guy. Just hit wrong quote.
We will sort you out!
Did you have any updates a day or do before the crash!?
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I don't think the sudden drop in battery is anything to worry about. My phone does that but the battery level slowly gets higher over time without charging. The actual charge level in the battery doesn't change.
Had the same exact thing happen sort of mine would heat up, freeze, then shut off, restart all by itself but it would hard reset. So my question is, Is it a brand new device or refeb? I got a referb and had the same thing at first it would freeze then after a while it would start heating up then resetting itself. So call warranty dept and ask for a replacement device and not a new battery.
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Bad battery overnight

Hello.
I'm loving absolutely everything about my s3 it's amazing.
But I have one issue, my battery life overnight.
Something is keeping phone awake!
How do I stop this?
Thank you.
Also is there going to be a fix for cell standby? Has any other phone had this cell standby issue and been fixed?
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Search for betterbatterystats on xda and use that to find whatever is keeping your phone from deep sleep.
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Check wifi sleep policy its by default always on turn it off it will make difference...
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But his WLAN is off as you can see. I have the same problem loosing 30% over night although being in Flightmode.
Usual suspects are latitude and the system backup. But as it has been said before get BetterBatteryStats and try to find the battery hog there.
Will do thank you.
Just charging now then will check batt stats tonight.
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Check your google talk. That is probably logged in.
psp888 said:
Check your google talk. That is probably logged in.
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You're right it is. How do I disable it?
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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.

[Q] Overnight battery drain

I am new to Android and very new to Samsung devices coming from iphone. Last night I was at 100% battery before bed and woke up at 71%. I didn't use the phone once. Is that normal? Should I be turning things off or something? 30% overnight drain seems wrong.
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dvinnola said:
I am new to Android and very new to Samsung devices coming from iphone. Last night I was at 100% battery before bed and woke up at 71%. I didn't use the phone once. Is that normal? Should I be turning things off or something? 30% overnight drain seems wrong.
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Seems like something is amiss. I left mine on all night lastnight at 33% I THINK and its at 18% right now. 1d 1h 55m 47s on battery with 3h 43m 23s of screen on time right now at 10:29AM
Hmm. I forgot to say I have power saving enabled and the usual battery saving tips too.
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That js a very big problem. as you can see i get alot of time on battery. The graph shows that it charged about 10% while I was sleeping (not true). Are you rooted?
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I am rooted. I checked battery usage and messaging was at the top? An exchange account is fully set to manual and nothing else.
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my device drains less than 2% over the course of 8hrs when sleeping...you have a app causing a wakelock.
dvinnola said:
I am rooted. I checked battery usage and messaging was at the top? An exchange account is fully set to manual and nothing else.
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R u using chomp sms or comparable?
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Stock sms. However I noticed one of my contacts is on Google Talk and I was logged in to that. Would that stay open all night?
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dvinnola said:
Stock sms. However I noticed one of my contacts is on Google Talk and I was logged in to that. Would that stay open all night?
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No. There's something wrong. Force Close the messaging app and restart it. Wait a few hours and see if its battery usage goes down.
Possible...
The most likely culprit is the "wakelock" issue mentioned above.
Basically it means something... most likely a poorly written app (also most likely a 3rd party non-google app) is preventing the phone from entering its idle/sleep mode, in which it scales back the CPU to minimum, and other bits enter low power states to conserve battery life.
An app that likes to live on the internet or update frequently, or constantly wakes the device to do things, can cause large amounts of drain as well.
It is also possible that signal strength is a cause. Poor/low signal can keep the radio working at higher power levels and that drains battery fast.
Is there any way to check for wakelock applications causing issues? I have removed a few possible applications and force stopped others. I seem to be losing 1-3% battery per hour on idle. Normal now based on everyone's experience?
If it is a signal strength issue I can live with that but the drain still seems steep.
Sorry for the questions. Too new to this to be able to determine if there are issues and everyone is having great battery life.
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Several battery apps that can show that type of info, I've used Gsam battery monitor before myself.
gsam battery moniter is what i use on a daily basis. it will let you know what is draining your battery. Link is for the free version. I have the paid.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...bs.bbm&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
Gsam battery monitor is pretty amazing. Thank you. I have an application called "Media" that seems to be running at idle. I can disable it but it looks like I would disable the Download application. It includes a process com.android.providers.media and android.process.media.
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Ah wait. SD card issue? I think I found a thead on it
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dvinnola said:
Is there any way to check for wakelock applications causing issues?
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Check out "Wakelock detector" , it shows clear list of applications which using wakelocks,
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