So I was using CM7 Stable and everything was running smooth until a couple of days ago, when I noticed the phone was getting hot, just sitting idle temps were about 100°F when usually it is about 15° cooler. I switched back to Nottachtrix and had the same issue. Through process of elimination, I realized that the only thing different in my apps and settings is that I had recently installed Fipboard.
I just uninstalled it and will monitor temps today to see if that was the cause, but I was wondering if anyone else has had the same experience.
Thanks.
Two hours later and temp is at 79°F. So for now I am staying with my flipboard theory.
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I use SystemPanel to monitor running processes on my phone. I recently installed SimplyHoney 3.9 with a Bullet JVP kernel. It was working great for a week or so, but now all of a sudden I am noticing that my battery is dying. Fast. Really fast. So I went to check SystemPanel to see what was hogging up my CPU time. That's when I saw that my CPU was pegged at 100%, and that the SYSTEM process was responsible for about 80% of my CPU time over the last 8 hours, and that it was often times running at 100%.
Rebooting doesn't help. I was thinking about reflashing, but I am pretty doubtful that will help. But you never know Anyway, is there a good way to see exactly what in the system process is misbehaving?
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I use SystemPanel to monitor running processes on my phone. I recently installed SimplyHoney 3.9 with a Bullet JVP kernel. It was working great for a week or so, but now all of a sudden I am noticing that my battery is dying. Fast. Really fast. So I went to check SystemPanel to see what was hogging up my CPU time. That's when I saw that my CPU was pegged at 100%, and that the SYSTEM process was responsible for about 80% of my CPU time over the last 8 hours, and that it was often times running at 100%.
Rebooting doesn't help. I was thinking about reflashing, but I am pretty doubtful that will help. But you never know Anyway, is there a good way to see exactly what in the system process is misbehaving?
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mine's been fine since i flashed like 2 week ago, low - moderate use i get like 30 hours sometimes
could try from scratch and go back to eclair ??
kyle51 said:
mine's been fine since i flashed like 2 week ago, low - moderate use i get like 30 hours sometimes
could try from scratch and go back to eclair ??
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I was getting around 30 hours too. But now I can't get much past 12. Something changed, that's for sure.
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I was getting around 30 hours too. But now I can't get much past 12. Something changed, that's for sure.
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change suddenly or do it a bit at a time ??
maybe something you downloaded ??
could do a virus check, doubt you'll have a virus but its worth a shot ??
Download Android Assistant from the Market (it's a free app), go under tools, and look at the Battery Use section. Should let you know what's causing the battery drain. However, if you tend to use light or white wallpaper, leave your phone screen on a lot, and at max brightness, your problem isn't software related
Hello, my wife and I both have Vibrants and she has been having battery draining issues for the past week or so. She obviously says she didn't do anything or put anything new on the device. I have installed the same ROM on both phones and other than apps/games, they are the same. We have Axura 2.3.1.2 and a battery meter mod installed.
I have tried swapping batteries between our phones, didn't fix the issue. Swapped back to original batteries.
Ran through the wipe battery stats, fully charge, wipe stats in recovery, fully drain till shuts down, charge completely without interruption. Still has the draining/shutting down issue
She mentioned having issue with updating her Facebook app, so I uninstalled that this morning and she continues to have her device drain very fast, shut down periodically, unable to restart without a battery pull.
Would reinstalling the rom help? what are some other options I can do before wiping clean and starting over in hopes that solves the problem?
If you need any other info, I will be glad to get it for you.
Thanks.
What kind of battery life are you getting? For instance, what's your idea of poor battery life? Also, what does your wife use the phone for?
You may want to simply try a different ROM. Axura hasn't been updated since March. The most recent Froyo ROMs are Toxic8 and Zendroid.
I am using Toxic8 with the Bali 1.2 kernel and Juice Defender Plus, ... and getting 30+hrs with music (mp3 and streaming) all day long, some surfing, a lot of XDA. Sleeps over night and JD+ kills radios from 12-6am so nothing is sending data btwn those times eating up battery.
I just rebooted today to make a back up JIC but my uptime was approaching 300hrs. Heard good things about Zendroid too but I'm on Toxic8 and like it quite a bit.
Is she watching vids (video player or Tubes) or listening to online music/shows all day? Is her Facebook/ G+/ Gmail set to auto-sync? She must be running something that you are not to get the off balanced battery power like you say.
had a similar problem on project v, turns out that sync was getting stuck on my picasa and wouldn't go any further, unchecked for it to sync and problem solved...
I have a stock SGS2 with a lot of widgets running. I use BetterBatteryStats and have removed the high power usage apps.
Past few days, the phone uses a lot of battery at night. Yesterday it had 32% battery and when i woke up it was dead.
Are the rest of you also seeing this much battery consumption every night ?
Funnily enough I've had exactly the same issue since about a week ago. Even when I take it off charge it's almost immediately down to around 80%. It's lasting around 4-5 hours, even when I'm not using the phone much, plus it gets really hot.
A couple of times Social Hub has appeared high up on the list of battery draining apps, although I don't use it. It doesn't always show up though. I switched to the CF-Root kernel and started using GO Launcher EX recently and wondered if that (or one of it's addon widgets) could be the cause.
It's really bugging me now!
I gave up with the stock S2. Rooted it and flashed MIUI to it along with the Siyah Kernel. Now it uses only 6% for the whole night. Battery usage is so much better now.
People having issues with battery should try the siyah kernel and change governors (unless some app was draining your battery)
yeah, actually some new users will experience battery problem. however, some says that when time goes by, the problem eventually sorted out itself.
i am guessing the phone need "warm up time"
I had the same problem with stock rom. you have to remove the preinstalled useless samsung apps. then battery consumption is better.
i am now on cm7. everything is working and around 8% per night with a lot of background processes (tasker, lbe, scheduled titanium backup).
Don't always turn on wifi or data unless necessary.Turn off background sync.This should help a lot even u r using stock rom.Kill tasks with built-in task manager.Make sure useless apps are not running in background.
With these tips,my s2 with rooted stock rom and stock kernel only consumed 3% of battery all night .
i keep wifi or gprs on for instant messaging needs. The Siyah kernel and the lulz governor give amazing battery life because process runs at lower clocks instead of jumping to 1200 unnecessarily.
The stock kernels aren't too bad in my experience.
I think you will find your battery drain will be caused by rogue apps before the kernel.
Edit: why have this phone if your going to turn off gsm and data etc. May aswel turn the phone right off and have zero drain overnight.
A drain of 1-3% per hour with everything turned on is normal for me.
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I'm using the Neutrino ROM right now. My phone will get very hot after a while, usually during browsing and the battery will drain extremely quick. It use to not do this. I thought it might be Dolphin HD browser I was using but it does the same with Opera mini.
Any ideas on what I can do to fix this? It never did this before and I'm only half way through my day and it's already at 40%. I use to be able to get through my entire work day and still be in the good 60-70%...
I had this same issue when I first got my Atrix and it started happening after I rooted it and customized it. Even after a factory reset, it still ran hot and the battery drained quickly.
I ended up performing a complete factory reset and took the phone back to get it replaced. The replacement worked just fine, even after rooting it and doing the same customizations I had done with the first one.
If you just got it, I would suggest taking it back and getting it replaced with another one. It could just be a bad battery.
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Here are a few things to help you diagnose your battery drain issue.
Download "CPU Spy" from the market. This program will show you how long your cpu has spent in each of it's various clock states. This program does not reset it's data until you reset it, and your phone's cpu will not sleep while charging. So charge the phone then open the program and reset timers. Now wait a while and check the stats. Your cpu should be going into "Deep sleep" mode most of the time you are not using it. If it is not 75% or more deep sleep after a couple hours, or if it shows deep sleep under unused clock states then you have some condition (probably an app) keeping it awake.
If you have an app keeping your phone awake you need to determine which one is doing it. This can be done by backing them all up with titanium and deleting a few then testing (takes forever,) or by way of another program. I use a program called "better battery stats" from the market, which is a paid app. This app gives you information on wakelocks, partial wakelocks, and processes that are running. It can be used to find the process responsible, which you then trace back to the app that is using it.
I found out about all this when K9 mail was running away with me. It wasn't too bad as long as I was connected to wifi, but while traveling it would constantly use a very small amount of data and refuse to let the cpu sleep. I deleted it and for about 2 months now I get home after 12 hours with 60-70% or more battery life and about an hour of screen time used. My deep sleep percentage is in the 80's every day. My phone is runnign Jokers's cm9 overclocked to 1.45.
Hope this helps.
Try badass battery off market, it will let you see where it drains
Just switched from Nutrino... What version are you using? EE/GT/GT+? I only used the EE because its stock clock speed. I noticed CPU gets extremely hot with slightest OC. Also, noticed quick battery drain while screen was on (quicker than other ROM's)...
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I'm using the Neutrino ROM right now. My phone will get very hot after a while, usually during browsing and the battery will drain extremely quick. It use to not do this. I thought it might be Dolphin HD browser I was using but it does the same with Opera mini.
Any ideas on what I can do to fix this? It never did this before and I'm only half way through my day and it's already at 40%. I use to be able to get through my entire work day and still be in the good 60-70%...
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syypher said:
I'm using the Neutrino ROM right now. My phone will get very hot after a while, usually during browsing and the battery will drain extremely quick. It use to not do this. I thought it might be Dolphin HD browser I was using but it does the same with Opera mini.
Any ideas on what I can do to fix this? It never did this before and I'm only half way through my day and it's already at 40%. I use to be able to get through my entire work day and still be in the good 60-70%...
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Also, if your using the gt+ version with the over clock kernel like I am using, do the phone a favor by keeping the phone underclocked at 1000 MHz instead of 1450 MHz. That will help the heating up too. That's what I do. Battery is great too.
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As Voelker does, I have the 1.3 version of Neutrino but keep it clocked at 1Ghz max with SetCPU profiles most since any overclock tends to get warmer than I want. I havent had a temp crash yet, it's just me being paranoid sometimes. I do set it to 1.3 when I am playing games for smoothness, but I havent noticed any unusual battery drain, just more heat than I want.
Is anyone else running into heat issues with ICS ROMs? I recently did the downgrade method and I am S-OFF 1.40. I flashed an ICS ROM and I've noticed poorer battery life, but also my phone gets extremely hot if used for extended periods of time (an hour plus). It seems to only be when I'm on a 3G connection and not when on WIFI or 4G. I've noticed the heat is coming from the top half of the phone and not the battery.
Interesting. I've noticed the opposite-my phone runs cooler and has longer battery. Since the phone is running warm, it sounds like a runaway process or app that is taxing the CPU and draining the battery. You could try Watchdog to monitor for runaway apps. Also, try BetterBatteryMonitor or some other app that tells you what is draining your battery.
Thanks. I'll give those a shot.
Apparently the culprit was Dolphin Browser. I guess the new update that I downloaded around the same time I rooted and flashed ICS is causing the battery drain. Time to look for a new browser.
Try Dolphin Mini and with a CPU frequency switcher, you can specifically choose how your processor will behave.