Hi, I downloaded and installed XWLPY NeatRom Lite v3.5 (18th October 2012)a couple of days ago and now my battery is draining extremely fast. I tried a couple of battery managers and nothing seems to work.
Anyone with any ideas on what I can do to remedy this? Plus I can't see the update section in my settings, is it removed with this software?
Kaz0721 said:
Hi, I downloaded and installed XWLPY NeatRom Lite v3.5 (18th October 2012)a couple of days ago and now my battery is draining extremely fast. I tried a couple of battery managers and nothing seems to work.
Anyone with any ideas on what I can do to remedy this? Plus I can't see the update section in my settings, is it removed with this software?
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The ROM doesnt have an update because the devs have removed it because you just flash an update. As for the battery drain give it a few more days if the problem persists try another ROM. If it still persists after that try recalibrating the battery or resetting the fuel gauge chip.
Hope this helps
NeatROM v3.5
Kaz0721 said:
Hi, I downloaded and installed XWLPY NeatRom Lite v3.5 (18th October 2012)a couple of days ago and now my battery is draining extremely fast. I tried a couple of battery managers and nothing seems to work.
Anyone with any ideas on what I can do to remedy this? Plus I can't see the update section in my settings, is it removed with this software?
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Hi,
NeatROM 3.5 is one of the best ROMs from battery backup perspective. And I can say that because I am using it since 3.5 came out and have never had any issues.
For a better battery life, follow the steps from the link,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33045733&postcount=8776
Please note that the instructions are prepared to get the most out of your battery. Even if you follow the few ones that you are comfortable with, you will surely see some improvement.
Please press Thanks if this has helped you.
NeatROM 3.5 is one of the best ROMs from battery backup perspective. And I can say that because I am using it since 3.5 came out and have never had any issues.
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I agree with you .I use NeatRom 3.5 with Dorimanx, the best combination for me.
Adarzannh said:
The ROM doesnt have an update because the devs have removed it because you just flash an update. As for the battery drain give it a few more days if the problem persists try another ROM. If it still persists after that try recalibrating the battery or resetting the fuel gauge chip.
Hope this helps
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Sound complicated, thanks though.
Kaz0721 said:
Sound complicated, thanks though.
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Its simple mate. Just download an app and hit a button.
Usually battery drain is due to one of two things.
-Phone not going into deep sleep
-Wakelocks.
Download an app like CPU spy. you can use it to see whether or not your phone is going into deep sleep like it should. Also, use better battery stats to look for wakelocks. Download the app from HERE , let it run for one battery cycle and then check for wakelocks. If you dont know what those are, spend some time reading that thread.
But if you want to hold off for a couple of days, you can do that. It does take some time for a phone battery to settle when a new rom/kernel has been installed, after which battery life tends to improve.
HAXTREME said:
Its simple mate. Just download an app and hit a button.
Usually battery drain is due to one of two things.
-Phone not going into deep sleep
-Wakelocks.
Download an app like CPU spy. you can use it to see whether or not your phone is going into deep sleep like it should. Also, use better battery stats to look for wakelocks. Download the app from HERE , let it run for one battery cycle and then check for wakelocks. If you dont know what those are, spend some time reading that thread.
But if you want to hold off for a couple of days, you can do that. It does take some time for a phone battery to settle when a new rom/kernel has been installed, after which battery life tends to improve.
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Thank you very much for your help mate. I've tried a couple of battery managers off play (juice defender and another one). Right now kind of regretting this download, everything seems to be going wrong;
1. battery is draining @ 15% in 20 mins ( I only bought the battery last week after having the phone unlocked).
2. there's a lot of lag
3. screens keep freezing and
4. keep losing reception and constantly having to restart phone.
I only downloaded this cause after unlocking my phone it failed to update. Is there any other that I can download that works well with SGS2?
There's no dearth of ROMs for the i9100 dude. Try a couple out and see if those help. If its stability you're after, maybe use an ICS Rom rather than JB.
15% in 20 mins isn't normal even for a first day..you sure it isn't a faulty battery right? Was it giving decent life before you switched to this ROM?
Try downloading a calibration app and see what the voltage is when it says its charged 100%. Should be around 4100-4200 mAh.
As for the lags and freezes, did you wipe data, cache etc before you installed this Rom?
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I had cleared the cache in settings before installing. Like I said, my first time doing this. Seemed straight forward at the time.
Since my phone is unlocked, will it return to ics4.0.3 which is what I had before?
Battery calibration app is showing 4161mv.
Will a factory reset help?
Thanks for all the help, site can be a bit confusing sometimes lol.
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Kaz0721 said:
I had cleared the cache in settings before installing. Like I said, my first time doing this. Seemed straight forward at the time.
Since my phone is unlocked, will it return to ics4.0.3 which is what I had before?
Battery calibration app is showing 4161mv.
Will a factory reset help?
Thanks for all the help, site can be a bit confusing sometimes lol.
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Cache from settings? No. I meant clearing cache from the CWM recovery menu. If you installed the ROM via CWM, that is.
If you did, I'd suggest reinstalling it again via cwm this time clearing data, cache and dalvik cache.
Ok..I just realised I totally assumed you'd installed it using CWM. Not sure if you did.
You can return to 4.0.3 if you want. Download stock firmware from sammobile.com and install it via Odin. I'm sure there's a guide on how to do that somewhere on this site.
Just noticed someone posted instructions on maximising battery. Did you use those? It could explain the freezes if they started after that. Some phones just can't handle undervolting etc.
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Morning, I downloaded some battery managers and seems to be working better and faster. Battery discharged 27% in 5 hours.
Will see how it goes over the next couple of days.
Teaches me a lesson to do my research first lol.
Below is a screen shot of the apps I installed.
Thanks and gave a great day!
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Haha that's a lotta apps just to save battery. As long as it helps eh? 27% in 5 hours is pretty acceptable for moderately heavy use. Depends on your signal strength and whether you're using data or on WiFi etc.
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Hi. There are a lot of battery threads - a lot!, but after using search I found nothing relating to this problem.
My phone was fine up until a week ago or so. I'm on stock 2.3.5 after upgrading from VillainRom (which was great, but I just wanted stock back).
I've been back on stock since 2.3.5 released and everything was great. I froze/stopped the bloatware ect..
But the last week or so my battery drains 45-50% a night. I have wifi off and also the data network is off. I don't know what could be doing this.
Could someone help trouble shoot this please? As I said, it was perfect before, I don't think I've changed anything, wifi and data are off overnight, all apps closed.
Thanks very much.
EDIT - So I bought two new batteries and I still have the same problem. I've even went back to VillainRom 3.0
Now here's the kicker, after putting my phone on charge in the morning, after two minutes it's up to 46%. So whatever is happening it's not the battery draining, it's a software bug or a hardware bug or something.
Has anyone heard of this? And what's the best way to go about this?
Also, why would this only happen overnight and not during the day?
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I have attached 3 screenshots of my battery stats.
irish-sid said:
Hi. There are a lot of battery threads - a lot!, but after using search I found nothing relating to this problem.
My phone was fine up until a week ago or so. I'm on stock 2.3.5 after upgrading from VillainRom (which was great, but I just wanted stock back).
I've been back on stock since 2.3.5 released and everything was great. I froze/stopped the bloatware ect..
But the last week or so my battery drains 45-50% a night. I have wifi off and also the data network is off. I don't know what could be doing this.
Could someone help trouble shoot this please? As I said, it was perfect before, I don't think I've changed anything, wifi and data are off overnight, all apps closed.
Thanks very much.
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Better Battery Stats should be of help.
You'll be interested in Partial Wakelocks, and possibly Kernel Wakelocks. If you're unsure of anything post in that thread and someone should be able to point you to a solution.
mudferret said:
Better Battery Stats should be of help.
You'll be interested in Partial Wakelocks, and possibly Kernel Wakelocks. If you're unsure of anything post in that thread and someone should be able to point you to a solution.
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Thanks. I've been trying that since you suggested it. It hasn't helped. I'm thinking it's a software problem, so I'm going to start fresh.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Maybe you can try to do a factory reset and start again from the beginning (gmail account, install apps, etc...)
mudferret said:
Better Battery Stats should be of help.
You'll be interested in Partial Wakelocks, and possibly Kernel Wakelocks. If you're unsure of anything post in that thread and someone should be able to point you to a solution.
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nfribeiro said:
Maybe you can try to do a factory reset and start again from the beginning (gmail account, install apps, etc...)
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Yeah, that's what I'm just about to do. I'm also reading about Villain 3.0, might give that a go while I'm at it.
So I bought two new batteries and I still have the same problem. I've even went back to VillainRom 3.0
Now here's the kicker, after putting my phone on charge in the morning, after two minutes it's up to 46%. So whatever is happening it's not the battery draining, it's a software bug or a hardware bug or something.
Has anyone heard of this? And what's the best way to go about this?
Also, why would this only happen overnight and not during the day?
Try recalibrating your battery. Drain it completely to 0 and charge fully. Then wipe the battery. Status.
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bala_gamer said:
Try recalibrating your battery. Drain it completely to 0 and charge fully. Then wipe the battery. Status.
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I did that with my last battery, which is what prompted me to buy new ones. I also wiped the battery stats again when I installed villainrom.
bala_gamer said:
Try recalibrating your battery. Drain it completely to 0 and charge fully. Then wipe the battery. Status.
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DON'T DO THIS.
There batteries are not meant to drain to 0%. It could damage your batterie.
If you already wiped your batterie stats with this batterie, just use your phone and charge it when it's almost empty. Repeat this a few times. It is possible that your batterie needs to settle in and that your problem is solved in a few days.
If not, try flashing an other rom. Make sure you wipe everything (except batterie stats, because you already had).
Yep do not drain it completely.
I would recommed to calbirate your battery. It seems that your battery stats are somehow off.
Use this guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312273
If it does not helpt do it againg and go through a few charge cycles.
If the problem still persits I would consider a factory reset.
download battery calibration from market and follow instruction.
Thanks for the replys, but none of this has helped. What else could it be?
Imho the Battery will never drains to zero, the phone will turn off before, so let your phone on until it turns off by low voltage, if you afraid ruin your battery, use the eldest, you already got 2 spare batts
I had a similare issue some weeks ago and my phone went dead 3 !! hours after the indicator reaches zero.
Maybe it helps.. (No guarentee)
Just to be sure, have you tried a different charger? perhaps yours is messed up?
BTW, i flashed 4 different ROMS in the last 2 month, and i never wiped my batterystatts .. no issue with that (for me)
Try a different kernel, based on my experience, the rom is almost nonrelevant to battery usage, the kernel makes the major difference, give Phenomenal Extreme a try, this kernel boosts your Battery for real! -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351191
Turn of location service and facebook
Good Luck! Feedback appreciated..
if you wipe to factory resets, add your google account, but don't add anything else, does the same thing occur?
If so, I would say it's a hardware issue, otherwise it's probably software.
I saw someone suggest using better battery stats, and you said that it didn't help, what do you mean it didn't help? It doesn't fix anything, it just lets you identify WHAT is using the battery.
My Galaxy S used to drain to 50% overnight, turns out it was the instant messaging (using MSN) that was doing it.
Like I said, try it after a clean factory reset with just our gmail account, no MSN, no Hotmail, no Yahoo, etc and no Additional Apps
or you can try speedmod's kernel ... test 13 i think is the latest ..
works a wonder to me in terms of battery performance
I can try another Kernal, but I have switched recently.
Because of this issue, the last time I switched roms and kernals I did a clean start, and I didn't restore anything, I literally started from fresh.
I'm using VillainRom 3.0
Kernal: Siyah 2.1.1
Modem: KI3
I will have another look at battery stats aswell.
I have added some screen caps of my batterys stats to The op, I'd appreciate it if you'd have a look.
Thanks again.
I won't bump this again if there are no replys, but just incase it was missed.
Sorry.
Guys! This is SERIOUS! EVEN AFTER UNINSTALLING the Samsung Push Service and the other Samsung Utility and also freezing the Samsung Apps using Titanium, the battery drain continues! Nothing has worked. Battery going from 100% to ZERO in less than 3 Hours! Does anyone know what is happening and how to stop this???
I think the only option left now is to reflash the ROM. I was on XWKK2 CF-Rooted which was working great till this damned Samsung Update! The battery is LOSING CHARGE even when plugged into my laptop! I don't know how I'll be able to get my battery back to 100% to reflash the Rom.
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Guys! This is SERIOUS! EVEN AFTER UNINSTALLING the Samsung Push Service and the other Samsung Utility and also freezing the Samsung Apps using Titanium, the battery drain continues! Nothing has worked. Battery going from 100% to ZERO in less than 3 Hours! Does anyone know what is happening and how to stop this???
I think the only option left now is to reflash the ROM. I was on XWKK2 CF-Rooted which was working great till this damned Samsung Update! The battery is LOSING CHARGE even when plugged into my laptop! I don't know how I'll be able to get my battery back to 100% to reflash the Rom.
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I wrongly pressed the thanks button..
Anyway, charge the phone while off for a couple of hours and try reflashing a fresh firmware.. Maybe that should do the trick..
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ephraim033 said:
charge the phone while off for a couple of hours and try reflashing a fresh firmware.. Maybe that should do the trick..
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That's exactly what I"m going to do. No other option left. Let's hope it works.
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That's exactly what I"m going to do. No other option left. Let's hope it works.
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Good luck with that. Report here after.
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Also... install BETTERBATTERYSTATS and see what is waking your phone up. Seems to me like it's never sleeping.
Riqz said:
Also... install BETTERBATTERYSTATS and see what is waking your phone up. Seems to me like it's never sleeping.
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Now all new apps can be installed only AFTER I flash the ROM again. Waiting for the battery charge to go over 50% level so that I can flash the ROM.
Have reflashed and re-rooted the ROM. Looks like it has solved the battery drain problem, will know for sure by later tonight. The overheating of the phone is gone and it's back to normal. Don't know what the problem was yet, but started after updating Samsung Apps. Have frozen both Samsung Apps and SamsungAppsUNA now.
some more users reported that they had battery drain after installing that, i hva no problems however
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Have reflashed and re-rooted the ROM. Looks like it has solved the battery drain problem, will know for sure by later tonight. The overheating of the phone is gone and it's back to normal. Don't know what the problem was yet, but started after updating Samsung Apps. Have frozen both Samsung Apps and SamsungAppsUNA now.
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I have followed your advice of freezing samsung apps and samsungappsUNA via autorun manager.
Prior to that been using Rarity rom for weeks, great battery life, well over 24hrs with heavy use and then all of a sudden after updating some apps (the 2 above mentioneded werent part of that), my phone has started to heat up and the battery drain is very fast (5% in 30mins), before it would go few hours without 1% loss.
Trieed looking at the updated apps but no luck so have tried your advice before i reflash wipe which i dont want to so praying this works.
Even tried flashing different kernels but no luck.
*cheers for the advice, battery life seems to have gone back to normal
Hello,
Upgraded from stock ICS to XXDLI5 - Battary seems not good..
Within 10 minutes after all night charge it went from 100% to 93% in power saving mode.
How can we fix this situation?
Tnx!
rommark said:
Hello,
Upgraded from stock ICS to XXDLI5 - Battary seems not good..
Within 10 minutes after all night charge it went from 100% to 93% in power saving mode.
How can we fix this situation?
Tnx!
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Did you perform a wipe?
Have you let the battery discharge fully a few times yet? My battery always improves after the first full discharge
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jonaz100 said:
Have you let the battery discharge fully a few times yet? My battery always improves after the first full discharge
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1) I did it on stock rom, should i do it again on JB ?
2) I didn't made full wipe, i upgraded my stock ICS via ODIN into JB DLI4 and then upgraded with odin into DLI5. All stable, super smoooth but life seems short on it.
rommark said:
Hello,
Upgraded from stock ICS to XXDLI5 - Battary seems not good..
Within 10 minutes after all night charge it went from 100% to 93% in power saving mode.
How can we fix this situation?
Tnx!
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Let your battery do 1 or 2 complete cycles and then judge it..when you do a fresh install a lot of syncing goes on in the background..
rommark said:
1) I did it on stock rom, should i do it again on JB ?
2) I didn't made full wipe, i upgraded my stock ICS via ODIN into JB DLI4 and then upgraded with odin into DLI5. All stable, super smoooth but life seems short on it.
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Then you should do a full wipe and report after at least 3 charge discharge cycles.
You could try wiping your battery stats in the advanced menu from recovery too before you start your discharges. Some people say this doesn't do anything but it only takes a second so can't hurt. I always do it after a full wipe. That way you're starting from a clean slate
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Battery life on LI5 is a bit worse than LH1 but not by much.
I think it's around 15-20% worse overall.
Use betterbatterystats to find out what exactly is really causing the problems if it prevails after a full wipe. It might be that a couple of google apps synchronize at first in the backgroudn and cause a lot of battery consumption.
I use DLI5 and it only uses up about 1% in standby without energy saving. But i did some tricks to get there. For example, i disabled photo sync and google plus sync while my display is turned off (settings->data usage->disable background data for the apps that use up too much). Other than that, i don't use any battery saving apps and always have wifi on (even though this probably uses more energy than having it turned off at standby).
With some undervolting and bloatware removal plus sync tweaking the best idle drain I have achieved is 0.7percent/hr with all the apps I need. Very happy with that. Not on jb though. Ain't gonna test jb until it's officially out. Hopefully when it matures it should be on par if not better than ics
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I also had this issue. In my case I realized that android.procesd.media went crazy eating up cpu and also bandwidth and it wouldn't stop.
I could not find a solution, I did a complete wipe (formatting system and even internal sdcard). In the i dropped DLI5 and went back to DLI3.
Cheers
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Betterbatterystats is suggested but i looked for this the other day coz i had some unusual battery drain going on - Full Wake lock bar!!
Seems that is a purchase app only so looked for a free alternative - came across GSam Battery Monitor - Free app - which is great and supplys alot of useful info. (used to be called badassbatterymonitor apparently)
Found that for some reason that the hotmail app was causing the wake lock so phone not going into deep sleep (not sure why, done it today too!!) so i just force stopped it.
Check that app out and look at hotmail app if installed. Can actually see the wake issue under normal battery status on phone to - like todays issue - shows hotmail as 6% battery use which is low compared to everything else but if i click on the hotmail line it then shows extra info including stay awake - mine is reading 2h 56m & 48s - well until i force stopped it.
Maybe this will be of some help:good:
No problems here, but then I removed all the bloatware inc kiesexe.
Use Better Battery Stats as someone mentioned. You could also try Watchdog task manager from the market. Set it up so it monitors the system level, that's off by default. Those two apps shall source the problem down to exactly what's up
Also don't compare battery use so quickly..... as has been said.
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ohyesman said:
Betterbatterystats is suggested but i looked for this the other day coz i had some unusual battery drain going on - Full Wake lock bar!!
Seems that is a purchase app only s
Dev had posted free version for XDA members on SGS2 forum last year.
jje
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Hi,
I have recently (half a week ago) updated my SII to Jelly Bean from ICS. It's fully stock without root. However, I noticed right away that the battery started draining very quickly and the phone sometimes gets hot. Did a factory reset. Factory reset the phone and format the internal SD and remove the external SD. Didn't help in the slightest. Phone starts draining after resetting. I have tried to flash another stock JB ROM (XEU) and afterwards factory reset the phone again. No dice. I installed CPU Spy to see CPU consumption and it says the phone didn't go into deep sleep at all and 95% of the time it was at 200 Mhz over an 8 hour period or so. So there's a wakelock that's keeping the phone continuously on.
At first, "Media" in battery settings in Settings was the culprit, it drained about 50% of the battery. I have searched the web and it's a pretty common battery drain on JB. I did try to disable the service and its battery consumption went down dramatically. But for some reason it turned on again. But right now Android OS and Android System are both draining most of the battery. I have also installed BetterBatteryStats and according to that app there is a partial wakelock called "NlpWakeLock" by Google Services that's draining most of the battery. Last night, around 60% of the battery got drained overnight (80% > 23% to be precise). Which, clearly, is unacceptable.
I'm at my wits end. I have no idea how to solve this and because I really like the new JB features I don't want to go back to ICS (I did a fresh ICS install and the battery drained 2% overnight which is how it's supposed to be).
If there's any information you need to know let me know. Any help is appreciated!
Go back to GB with speedmod kernel is an option.
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Kaigo said:
Hi,
I have recently (half a week ago) updated my SII to Jelly Bean from ICS. It's fully stock without root. However, I noticed right away that the battery started draining very quickly and the phone sometimes gets hot. Did a factory reset. Factory reset the phone and format the internal SD and remove the external SD. Didn't help in the slightest. Phone starts draining after resetting. I have tried to flash another stock JB ROM (XEU) and afterwards factory reset the phone again. No dice. I installed CPU Spy to see CPU consumption and it says the phone didn't go into deep sleep at all and 95% of the time it was at 200 Mhz over an 8 hour period or so. So there's a wakelock that's keeping the phone continuously on.
At first, "Media" in battery settings in Settings was the culprit, it drained about 50% of the battery. I have searched the web and it's a pretty common battery drain on JB. I did try to disable the service and its battery consumption went down dramatically. But for some reason it turned on again. But right now Android OS and Android System are both draining most of the battery. I have also installed BetterBatteryStats and according to that app there is a partial wakelock called "NlpWakeLock" by Google Services that's draining most of the battery. Last night, around 60% of the battery got drained overnight (80% > 23% to be precise). Which, clearly, is unacceptable.
I'm at my wits end. I have no idea how to solve this and because I really like the new JB features I don't want to go back to ICS (I did a fresh ICS install and the battery drained 2% overnight which is how it's supposed to be).
If there's any information you need to know let me know. Any help is appreciated!
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Is your device rooted?
If yes then switch your kernel to apolo it's gives you good battery life
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Do you bother reading the posts or just have a compulsion to post any old crap.
I see your advising people how to root,then you open up a new thread asking for help about rooting your phone.
And you are continuing to spam threads posting what other people have said already.
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theunderling said:
Go back to GB with speedmod kernel is an option.
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Do you mean going back to Gingerbread? I haven't figured out what the speedmod kernel is yet but if I were to switch back I would rather switch back to ICS. But preferably I'd stick to JB since I do love all the new features and options. I'm willing to flash another JB ROM without the battery drain issue. However, all stock ROMs that I have tried had the issue.
Do you know of any good JB ROM? I prefer to keep it as stock as possible. I did root when I had ICS installed though.
Battery Drainage is very common in JB Stock
Kaigo said:
Hi,
I have recently (half a week ago) updated my SII to Jelly Bean from ICS. It's fully stock without root. However, I noticed right away that the battery started draining very quickly and the phone sometimes gets hot. Did a factory reset. Factory reset the phone and format the internal SD and remove the external SD. Didn't help in the slightest. Phone starts draining after resetting. I have tried to flash another stock JB ROM (XEU) and afterwards factory reset the phone again. No dice. I installed CPU Spy to see CPU consumption and it says the phone didn't go into deep sleep at all and 95% of the time it was at 200 Mhz over an 8 hour period or so. So there's a wakelock that's keeping the phone continuously on.
At first, "Media" in battery settings in Settings was the culprit, it drained about 50% of the battery. I have searched the web and it's a pretty common battery drain on JB. I did try to disable the service and its battery consumption went down dramatically. But for some reason it turned on again. But right now Android OS and Android System are both draining most of the battery. I have also installed BetterBatteryStats and according to that app there is a partial wakelock called "NlpWakeLock" by Google Services that's draining most of the battery. Last night, around 60% of the battery got drained overnight (80% > 23% to be precise). Which, clearly, is unacceptable.
I'm at my wits end. I have no idea how to solve this and because I really like the new JB features I don't want to go back to ICS (I did a fresh ICS install and the battery drained 2% overnight which is how it's supposed to be).
If there's any information you need to know let me know. Any help is appreciated!
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Hey Kaigo ,
I have faced the same problem as you have faced ... Gone through a lot of problems to fix this Many of the Stock JB's for GS2 are having a lot of issues with the battery drainage
Well I had found a solution to this problem You can try installing the JB France update (XEF) & the UAE update (XSG)
It worked pretty well for me Try it and let me know if it worked for you
Regards
ksjd said:
Hey Kaigo ,
I have faced the same problem as you have faced ... Gone through a lot of problems to fix this Many of the Stock JB's for GS2 are having a lot of issues with the battery drainage
Well I had found a solution to this problem You can try installing the JB France update (XEF) & the UAE update (XSG)
It worked pretty well for me Try it and let me know if it worked for you
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Wow, nice. Exactly what I'm looking for! I'm downloading the XEF update as I'm typing this. I'm going to try that and I will let you know the result.
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Do you bother reading the posts or just have a compulsion to post any old crap.
I see your advising people how to root,then you open up a new thread asking for help about rooting your phone.
And you are continuing to spam threads posting what other people have said already.
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Bro don't take personally I just want to help people and for my thred I was asking how to root device without using pc and sdcard
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So how is you posting the exact information after someone else has posted it helping anyone.Ive seen another member tell you that before.
And whats the point in you contributing rubbish info into a thread
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Now I feel bad for the guy.
Edit: No I don't.
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gauravgymnast08 said:
Bro don't take personally I just want to help people and for my thred I was asking how to root device without using pc and sdcard
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Well repeating other peoples posts isnt helping anybody.
An update. I've installed the XEF update initially it had the same draining issue. However, I've also cleared cache and data in recovery mode and it seems to have solved most of the issue. I've got pretty good battery life now (about 1%/h idle).
But I did find another culprit draining the battery which is Dropbox. According to BBS the processes "wlan_rx_wake" and "h2_hsic" were draining the battery but I've uninstalled Dropbox now and it seems to have solved the issue. I really use Dropbox regularly though. Anyone got any idea what could be causing that?
Thanks for the help so far everyone! :laugh:
Yeah, don't let it upload your pics.
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gastonw said:
Yeah, don't let it upload your pics.
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I have always had that feature disabled since I don't want to use it anyway. I have no clue what could be causing it. I want to use a packet sniffer to see what is sending and receiving data but the phone isn't rooted so I can't really do that unfortunately.
Hold on, I'ma freeze it with TiBu.
Test time.
PS: You really need to root that phone.
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I just greenify Dropbox (actually, all apps which rely on an internet connection). Unfortunately for you, it requires root. IMHO, almost worth rooting for, although there's many better reasons than that.
Greenify is almost like a temporary freezing of the app, by stopping all background processes for the app. They automatically restart when you launch the app, and automatically turn off when the phone goes to deep sleep.
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Cheers!!
gauravgymnast08 said:
Bro don't take personally I just want to help people and for my thred I was asking how to root device without using pc and sdcard
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Here you go
http://bit.ly/12JEEcO
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Kaigo said:
An update. I've installed the XEF update initially it had the same draining issue. However, I've also cleared cache and data in recovery mode and it seems to have solved most of the issue. I've got pretty good battery life now (about 1%/h idle).
But I did find another culprit draining the battery which is Dropbox. According to BBS the processes "wlan_rx_wake" and "h2_hsic" were draining the battery but I've uninstalled Dropbox now and it seems to have solved the issue. I really use Dropbox regularly though. Anyone got any idea what could be causing that?
Thanks for the help so far everyone! :laugh:
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Wow
Im glad the XEF update helped
Well Dropbox always keeps on syncing stuff from the cloud and that might the real cause You should disable all the automatic syncing and keep it to manual sync as it syncs only on your commands and saves your battery!!
Cheers!!! :victory:
Check how much data is being downloaded. If a lot is being downloaded off WiFi, switch it off and see if that stops your drain. Then switch off Data on your cellular. Just to check which one's causing the drain. Believe it or not, I just rebooted my home wifi router and battery drain issue was over on my Galaxy S2.
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Hold on, I'ma freeze it with TiBu.
Test time.
PS: You really need to root that phone.
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I had previously rooted my phone when I was on ICS. I never used it too often though. I wanted to use Nandroid. I have no clue how to root JB though, without flashing a modded kernel (which I did with ICS).
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Check how much data is being downloaded. If a lot is being downloaded off WiFi, switch it off and see if that stops your drain. Then switch off Data on your cellular. Just to check which one's causing the drain. Believe it or not, I just rebooted my home wifi router and battery drain issue was over on my Galaxy S2.
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That's very interesting. This might just be a good reason to root the phone. So I can use network log or shark to see which apps are sending and/or receiving data. I have this feeling Dropbox is going to be one of them..
Hopper8 said:
I just greenify Dropbox (actually, all apps which rely on an internet connection). Unfortunately for you, it requires root. IMHO, almost worth rooting for, although there's many better reasons than that.
Greenify is almost like a temporary freezing of the app, by stopping all background processes for the app. They automatically restart when you launch the app, and automatically turn off when the phone goes to deep sleep.
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Hmm, but I guess that you can't really freeze apps like Whatsapp, since you wouldn't be able to receive any messages then until you turn on your phone. But I'm getting convinced to root the phone again so I'm definitely going to give it a try.
hello everyone,
my i9300 is spending the battery very fast. more or less one month, the yield fell from 30hs to 10hs. the principal according to the process system is Android OS. what is strange is also the graph of processing activity, as the phone is not going into deep sleep. anyone has any solution for this?
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igorgomez said:
hello everyone,
my i9300 is spending the battery very fast. more or less one month, the yield fell from 30hs to 10hs. the principal according to the process system is Android OS. what is strange is also the graph of processing activity, as the phone is not going into deep sleep. anyone has any solution for this?
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Your question has been posted multiple times . Forum rules require you to search before posting .
Google <<< I9300 your search terms > xda
UNDERSTAND FIRST
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2362743
Use Better Battery Stats
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Sorry and thanks!
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igorgomez said:
Sorry and thanks!
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Better Battery Stats
Battery Master .
As mentioned above BetterBatteryStats is really helpful to find the reason why your phone isn't going in deep sleep. Another app you can trie is Wakelock Detector (can't post the playstore link (not enough posts), sorry) :good:
Battery drain since last update in july
Hi there, so sorry to share your thread.
I have been experiencing a huge battery drain since the last small update on kies in July 2013. I am on I9300XXEMA5.
Before the update i used to be able to use around 4 to 5 hours of screen time and the battery will last around a day and a half or more. Now it won't even last a day and i get only a maximum of 3 hours of screen time. I have tried changing my battery but the problem still persists. The original battery that came with the phone is around 8 months old.
I also have a friend also using a SGS3 who is experiencing the same problem.
Is there anything that i can do to try to get at least a full days' worth of charge?
thanks.
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Hi there, so sorry to share your thread.
I have been experiencing a huge battery drain since the last small update on kies in July 2013. I am on I9300XXEMA5.
Before the update i used to be able to use around 4 to 5 hours of screen time and the battery will last around a day and a half or more. Now it won't even last a day and i get only a maximum of 3 hours of screen time. I have tried changing my battery but the problem still persists. The original battery that came with the phone is around 8 months old.
I also have a friend also using a SGS3 who is experiencing the same problem.
Is there anything that i can do to try to get at least a full days' worth of charge?
thanks.
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I had that same problem on my Galaxy S2 after upgrade from ICS to JB via Kies. Some files remained from the older Android ICS version and they caused the battery drain..
Only solution was "wipe cache partition" and "wipe data/factory reset" in recovery.
(Only "wipe cache partition" could've worked but i wanted to be sure) and that did the trick, battery drain disappeared..
I recommend you to first try "wipe cache partition", and if that doesn't help "wipe data/factory reset" BUT you should FIRST backup your files before that because they will be gone after factory reset.
That helped on my S2, but i think it will help in your case on your S3.
Sorry for my spelling and grammar mistakes, im from Croatia
Hi there,
This is exactly what i did and the battery life is back to how it used to be.
This is amazing!
thanks!
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joevik said:
Hi there,
This is exactly what i did and the battery life is back to how it used to be.
This is amazing!
thanks!
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Have you heard of zerolemon?
I also experience battery drain with my s3 however purchasing a batterycase has greatly improved batterylife
I have heard of zerolemon. but the extended batteries will make the phone fatter which is something i wouldnot want. But since i managed to get the maximum out of the stock battery now. i am quite happy.
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I have heard of zerolemon. but the extended batteries will make the phone fatter which is something i wouldnot want. But since i managed to get the maximum out of the stock battery now. i am quite happy.
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not really a 2400mah zerolemon battery fits the stock case
Right. i didnt know that. i;ll think of that when i need a spare or replacement battery.
Yes i understand many people donot like the bulk it adds to your cellphone however i am away from my desk for long periods a day and the 7000mAH battery really does the trick.