Wakelock trouble with the DNA - HTC Droid DNA

While trying to diagnose my marginal to moderate battery life on my DNA, I realized that the battery level was dropping significantly while idle; anywhere from 3-6% or more per hour. After installing Betterbatterystats and monitoring/testing for a couple of days, one of the main culprits appears to be a mysterious kernel wakelock identified as "msm_hsic_host". There have been postings in the Nexus 4 forums about the same thing, as well. It seems to be a mystery because no one seems to know what is causing it or what it is related to other than these two Qualcomm S4pro phones both seem affected by it.
The msm_hsic_host KWL seems to reduce deep sleep from anywhere between 10 to 30%. No solutions or information have turned up in the Nexus 4 forums yet, unfortunately. Anyone have any ideas or more information? Below is a screenshot from BBS demonstrating this problem. Even though the time period isn't terribly long, it is really compounded at night, keeping the phone awake anywhere from 1-4 hours over a 6-8 hour idle period.
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I doubt that is the real reason.
Mine was dropping 8% over 6 hours while idle. it is in Wifi environment, not bad 3G/4G of course.
8% over 6 hours is acceptable to me. And my kernel wakelock for that entry is even higher than yours. 18%.
I don't think it is the culprit.
Did you check the partial wakelock? What is the biggest entry there? Is it above 3%?

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I've been having problems as well and found that mediaserver and adaway for some reason were eating away at my battery at about the same rate as your phone. What I did to fix it was install rescan media and just uninstall adaway and use adblock plus instead. Msm_hsic_host is still the highest on my kernel wakelock, but only at 2.2% now.

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jiwengang said:
I doubt that is the real reason.
Mine was dropping 8% over 6 hours while idle. it is in Wifi environment, not bad 3G/4G of course.
8% over 6 hours is acceptable to me. And my kernel wakelock for that entry is even higher than yours. 18%.
I don't think it is the culprit.
Did you check the partial wakelock? What is the biggest entry there? Is it above 3%?
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After unlocking the boot-loader last night - which factory resets the phone - I am getting upwards of 63.4% of my wake time from msm_hsic_host, with total awake time at 99.1% over a 1.5 hour period. So I'm not sure what's happening. It's possible that the kernel is still settling down some as it is prone to do after a factory reset or new install. Will have to experiment more.
My partial wakelocks are slightly higher than I would like, but still reasonable, and nowhere near the number of the KWLs.

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I am having this same exact issue with my dna.

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Number 1 for me as well. All stock with nova launcher.

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Very good!

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That issue is fixed in Faux123's N4 kernel, and my DNA kernel.
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No way around it if you aren't rooted?

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Qualcomm strikes again. You are experiencing what us N4 users are getting too. This phone stays awake too much of the time. Qualcomm needs to update their drivers or something. Any other SoC sleeps much more than this one it seems. Maybe it's the early adopter curse. All other use of these S4 pro equipped phones seems to point to great battery life. It's a great gaming SoC but what I wouldn't give for the Exynos 5 dual to be put into a phone that doesn't have touchwiz. That baby sips battery and really has some power despite being "only" a dual core.

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This is my top or second most used process draining my battery as well. I use GSam battery app and under the "kernel wakelock" it shows up as 155 wake locks after being unplugged for 8 hours. Is this a lot? I have no idea what wakelock and kernels are, I just know this is in the top for battery usage.

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spinkick said:
No way around it if you aren't rooted?
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Not that has been reported. I turned off most of the Latitude stuff and that seemed to help a little. Also, in the N4 forum, we seem to have corroborated that noisy wifi environments with lots of clients on the AP seem to cause a lot of wlan_rx_wake wakelocks.

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Simple explanation
I am an N4 user, both devices use the APQ8064 qualcomm chip (note not an msm chip) APQ8064 DOESNT have a built in modem, the modem is connected via USBOTG and is read as a USB device (thats the wakelock there its OTG modem

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Cubed Kernel
If I'm not mistaken, I think the Cubed kernel addressed this issue.

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I'm stock and locked, had a misbehaving app (OpenSignalMaps) that would bring me down 40% overnight. Uninstalled that and now am 1% per hour.