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Hi guys,
When checking the battery usage stats for Cell Standby i noticed it's showing 'Time Without a Signal 100%'. I've had the phone 3 days now and i noticed it on the first day and it hasn't changed. It does have a signal, i can make and receive calls with no problems. I've tried it with both a Talk Mobile and Vodafone sim card and they both show the same. The phone is a UK model, unbranded & unlocked. I've attached a screenshot so you can see what i'm talking about.
Anyone else getting the same? Any idea if this will be affecting my battery life?
snap4130 said:
Hi guys,
When checking the battery usage stats for Cell Standby i noticed it's showing 'Time Without a Signal 100%'. I've had the phone 3 days now and i noticed it on the first day and it hasn't changed. It does have a signal, i can make and receive calls with no problems. I've tried it with both a Talk Mobile and Vodafone sim card and they both show the same. The phone is a UK model, unbranded & unlocked. I've attached a screenshot so you can see what i'm talking about.
Anyone else getting the same? Any idea if this will be affecting my battery life?
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100% time not using 2g, hsdpa or 3g instead. Don't worry.
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I'v just noticed this on my new GSII, never had it happen before, what's bugging me is that I'm getting massive battery drain overnight and the phone is off (dead) b y morning and it seems to be because my phone is in a terrible signal area at home where it will keep tight hold of H or 3G but on the lowest signal level, upping the output power I presume and killing my battery.
I can't have my phone going from 60% to dead while I sleep for 7 hours.
It's an old gingerbread bug, nothing to worry about.
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Definitely a bug, mine also,
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It'll start displaying correctly from then on (I think until reboot) if you go into Settings -> About Phone -> Status.
Correct!!!
Thanks!
I have the same problem I had no idea untill i read your post lol. I didn't notice any strange behaviour because of it.
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Curious what everyone else has listed as cell standby percentage listed in battery usage. I just happened to look and mine is listed as 100% without signal even though I have had signal all along. I wonder if this could be a bug like the 50% without signal I experienced with my cappy.
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My cell standby is 6% currently
Mine is 21%, Android OS at 59%. Signal is constant yellow, which is odd since it was in decent signal much of that time.
Well that is weird, mine is reading 100%. I wonder what is going on.
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OK me thinks maybe I wasn't clear in the OP. What I am talking about is when you bring up Battery Usage and then click on Cell Standby it then brings you to the break down of the Cell Standby. There you will see Time On as well as Time Without a Signal. In my case the Time Without a Signal is reading 100%. What is everyone elses reading?
Time without a signal: 31% - rather surprised it's that high
To the OP, I was just about to make a thread on this because I knew I couldn't be the only one with this problem. I've had this bug since day one, it always says 100% no cell service.
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I'm not sure if it's the same thing but in the international version it's a display bug and for some reason if you go into settings--about phone---status, the % starts to drop.
Oh wow. I haven't even looked at this until I saw this thread. My cell standby says 3% but it says I've gone without signal for 96%. And I've been in coverage for most of the day
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6% every time I've checked
KayvinM said:
I'm not sure if it's the same thing but in the international version it's a display bug and for some reason if you go into settings--about phone---status, the % starts to drop.
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I think its the same thing with this phone. I did what you said with going into settings /status and now my percentage is dropping.
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First 4 days there was no sight of this on my device, this morning after installing google voice i've noticed mine now says 100%. Out of curiosity do the rest of you with this discrepancy have google voice installed?
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First 4 days there was no sight of this on my device, this morning after installing google voice i've noticed mine now says 100%. Out of curiosity do the rest of you with this discrepancy have google voice installed?
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Nope, no Google Voice and my Time Without Signal is 100%.
maybe they miss word it. maybe it should have read "Time with Signal"... cuz I am on a Microcell... and I have signal alllll the time
Just saw this thread and checked - I'm another user with 100% time without signal indicated. Been in decent coverage most of the day. I have google voice installed.
Mine is 13%. Still weird
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It seems to be a known bug with the GS2. There are threads discussing it in the I9100 forums. Ever since I went into About Phone/Status my time without signal percentage has stayed St 0%. I guess it's kind of like the 50% bug with the GalaxyS1.
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Mine is 2%.
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Checked my wife's SGSII tonight when she got home from work. Reported cell standby as 6% of battery use, and 0% time without signal. She has Google Voice installed as well.
A couple of maybe related items:
a) When we brought both devices home, hers connected to our MicroCell with no problems. Mine would not connect at all, until I did a sim swap with her device. After swapping back to our original sims, both connect to the MicroCell.
b) with very similar time off the charger today (me at 10 hours, her at almost 12) and similar screen on times (me: 1hr 27 min, her 1hr 11min) she had 60% battery remaining, I had 33%. I am running some additional apps, and used google nav for about 6 minutes. She was in wifi coverage all day (except while commuting) I had no wifi all day. Not sure if the battery burn difference is justified by those differences or not - or if they are possibly somewhat related to the 0 vs 100 time without signal indication (I was only showing 7% battery drain from the cell standby).
I too have the 100% "bug" I also read in the i900 threads that once we go to:
settings>about phone>status the "time without signal" percentage will begin to drop. I can confirm it. It's at 98% for me now. I seem to have pretty good battery life. About 16 hours on a single charge. I think its just a bug but makes me wonder if my battery life would last twice as long with "time without signal at 0%" I do not have google voice and all the apps and widgets I have that can be configured are set to sync manually (with the exception of the google apps) (auto sync is on).
Does anyone else have this problem? My cell standby says im 100% of time without signal. But im connected when i check it. Is this a known bug or is my device defective? Doesn't seem to effect battery life for me but it Is slightly concerning since i know the counter is ticking for a replacement hassle free from AT&T
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EDIT: cell standby says 6% after almost 19hrs and i'm rooted running cognition beta 4
It is a bug also seen in the international version GS2. I have the same issue. To make the percentage of time without signal go down you simply go into settings/about phone/status. After doing that you will notice the percentage slowly start creeping down from 100%.
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Anyone else experiencing horrible battery life?
at 30% after 5.5.hours and no use. Sync off display at 20%. I understand I'm not in a gear signal area at work, but this is bad
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How strong is your signal at work? If you have a weak signal, the phone turns up the power to the radios and will drain your battery trying to keep that weak signal connected.
That's pretty atrocious.... Can you switch? What mods do you have?
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How strong is your signal at work? If you have a weak signal, the phone turns up the power to the radios and will drain your battery trying to keep that weak signal connected.
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It shows 2-3 bars, but notice on my ss the signal history.
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at 30% after 5.5.hours and no use. Sync off display at 20%.
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5 hrs 54 min -- 66% left. I had the display on auto brightness, just switched it to 20% not too long ago. I'd say moderate use today. Maybe 15 emails so far, 10-15 texts. Display on time is 1 hour 30 min for 52% of my battery usage.
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It shows 2-3 bars, but notice on my ss the signal history.
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Yeah, I saw that, but I'm not familiar with what the colors mean. I assume green is where it's using signal, and grey is where it's not? Or is grey low signal?
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Yeah, I saw that, but I'm not familiar with what the colors mean. I assume green is where it's using signal, and grey is where it's not? Or is grey low signal?
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The lighter the lower signal i think. I'm hardly ever without a signal...
I'm actually having great batter I just got my note yesterday and took it off charge this morning have like 6-7 hours on battery and 1.5 hours screen on and battery level is like 80%
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Something is odd on this one.
We have similar signals and usage it looks like. I work in a cinder block factory with terrible signal. I try to keep it on airplane mode if I know Im going into poor reception areas for awhile. But I usually dont remember. I have plenty of widgets and auto syncs on.
Ive had 1.5 hours of screen time. Battery is 52%
Did you charge it from a computer? Maybe the cpu isn't entering the deep sleep mode.
It's your cell signal. I had terrible reception with my Verizon Nexus and since switching I am shocked at how much better my battery life is. I don't use the device more or less, but this is amazing.
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dsmitty166 said:
Anyone else experiencing horrible battery life?
at 30% after 5.5.hours and no use. Sync off display at 20%. I understand I'm not in a gear signal area at work, but this is bad
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ranick01 said:
Something is odd on this one.
We have similar signals and usage it looks like. I work in a cinder block factory with terrible signal. I try to keep it on airplane mode if I know Im going into poor reception areas for awhile. But I usually dont remember. I have plenty of widgets and auto syncs on.
Ive had 1.5 hours of screen time. Battery is 52%
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What are you guys using to display battery percentage on the toolbar? I'd like an app that can do that, but the best I found was battery notifier. I'm not rooted, on stock ROM.
And, to the original poster, I normally get anywhere from 15-28 hours on battery, depending on how many emails, texts, games, photos, etc I do. I have managed to kill it in about 4 hours, but that was on a marathon plants vs zombies session.
over2land said:
What are you guys using to display battery percentage on the toolbar? I'd like an app that can do that, but the best I found was battery notifier. I'm not rooted, on stock ROM.
And, to the original poster, I normally get anywhere from 15-28 hours on battery, depending on how many emails, texts, games, photos, etc I do. I have managed to kill it in about 4 hours, but that was on a marathon plants vs zombies session.
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They're rooted with cwm and used UOT kitchen to cook up a custom battery indicator that shows percentage. You're gonna have to root and get cwm to do this
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They're rooted with cwm and used UOT kitchen to cook up a custom battery indicator that shows percentage. You're gonna have to root and get cwm to do this
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Bummer, but thanks for the response.
For maybe the first time ever, I have no desire to root the phone.
over2land said:
Bummer, but thanks for the response.
For maybe the first time ever, I have no desire to root the phone.
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I am right there with you. No root for now.
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I'm gonna try running only stock apps tomorrow, with a couple of exceptions...just to rule anything out. However I've had the same issue on 3 roms, so not sure that its anything besides a signal issue. I wish there was a 2g toggle on the note
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Try Battery Indicator. Puts a permanent notification in the status bar but that's the best you are going to get w/o rooting. That app is fairly small and the numbers are easy to read - others I've tried are much bigger and are hard to read.
Turn off your Wifi if you've been leaving it on. Also install CPU Spy and see if the phone is entering Deep Sleep - or not.
techntrek said:
Try Battery Indicator. Puts a permanent notification in the status bar but that's the best you are going to get w/o rooting. That app is fairly small and the numbers are easy to read - others I've tried are much bigger and are hard to read.
Turn off your Wifi if you've been leaving it on. Also install CPU Spy and see if the phone is entering Deep Sleep - or not.
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Here's CPU spy from this afternoon
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This is what I got first charge..still testing but looks promising
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Being there's so much difference in battery life, I was curious if there might be a bad batch of phones. My phone gets great life and my dad's gets significantly less. He works about 2 blocks away from me and actually has a stronger signal in his building than I do at mine and his battery drops like a rock with nothing running. I'm rooted and froze the AT&T bloat. He's stock.
My serial number contains a PTM and the end number is in the 40000's. His serial number contains PZK and ends in a number in the 30000's. If you have time post your serial # info and how your battery life is.
I returned my ladies OG and now her battery life is better. Even b4 I rooted it drain was better from prior phone. Could be a batch. That's my lead as well
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I'm contemplating returning my phone just in case of a 'bad batch,' but I'm afraid I'll get a phone that's even worse lol. I can't forever replace phones. I'm just trying to make it work.
Does this phone have the ability or need to reset battery stats? I know you couldn't do it, or it was unnecessary on the SGSII. Just curious if it's a calibration issue.
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You can threw clockwork easily. It doesnt matter though. Trust me.
Jank4AU said:
Does this phone have the ability or need to reset battery stats? I know you couldn't do it, or it was unnecessary on the SGSII. Just curious if it's a calibration issue.
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Resetting battery stats actually has no correlation with battery life whatsoever. It is not what controls the percentage that we see in screen. I believe it just tracks what apps or system files are or have been using up the battery. Battery stats gets an automatic reset whenever you reboot anyways.
For those with bad battery drain, just try and see what your serial numbers are n post it here to compare.
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aquariuz23 said:
Resetting battery stats actually has no correlation with battery life whatsoever. It is not what controls the percentage that we see in screen. I believe it just tracks what apps or system files are or have been using up the battery. Battery stats gets an automatic reset whenever you reboot anyways.
For those with bad battery drain, just try and see what your serial numbers are n post it here to compare.
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http://rootzwiki.com/news/_/articles/wiping-battery-stats-is-pointless-says-google-r316
First time I read it, it blew my mind. Talk about placebo effect.
Jesus...its a SOFTWARE bug...not hardware. We ALL have it. We just use our phones differently.
Dude, you're blowing smoke off an asbestos fire. You have no idea what exactly is causing it.
Where do you go to get the serial number of the phone?
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The battery life on my phone and seemingly most folks is great. Granted some folks probably live on the cusp of LTE coverage in their area and the radio is killing the battery while liking for signal (that happened to me with my EVO 4G).
If it were all devices, then only the battery life fanatics who shut down everything would be seeing 20hrs on a charge.
I think there's a bad batch of hardware or there.
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crap battery
my s/n: KPUU 40000's the high end. I dont think its a batch.
seems odd that those who are having the issue are not likely to make to 10hrs on a charge (often 1/2 that)...while others are bumping 20hrs (myself included).
i have 4 emails on constant sync, as well as, facebook, weather, xda and a chess. each day has a couple hours of screen time. 1hr each day of either Pandora or Audible. 20-50 text and @45min - 1hr of phone time. ... in case you think i put my phone in my pocket and forget about it.
granted, i do connect to wifi at home and work. and i live in an area where i have solid LTE coverage at all times.
audible and screen time are my worst battery drains.
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Where do you go to get the serial number of the phone?
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We got ours off the box. Not sure where you'd get it in the phone.
Did a little more research. Set them side by side for an hour with screens at same brightness, always on, with Nexus live wallpaper running. Both were hooked into wifi and the microcell. Battery usage over a 1 hour period was pretty much identical (within 1%). Then did some web browsing and hit all the same links and drain was the same. We thought it maybe was just battery conditioning. When I first got it I did 2 full drains and recharges with it off. He did that about a week in and thought it was fixed.
I left and a couple hours later his battery started to tank. Only thing we noticed was his accelerometer hung for some reason and had 5 hours on. He hadn't used anything that should have turned it on so no idea why it got stuck. Turned it off and the battery usage slowed to what one would expect. Then it had another couple minute burst of dropping. that was the last I heard.
cerps said:
We got ours off the box. Not sure where you'd get it in the phone.
Did a little more research. Set them side by side for an hour with screens at same brightness, always on, with Nexus live wallpaper running. Both were hooked into wifi and the microcell. Battery usage over a 1 hour period was pretty much identical (within 1%). Then did some web browsing and hit all the same links and drain was the same. We thought it maybe was just battery conditioning. When I first got it I did 2 full drains and recharges with it off. He did that about a week in and thought it was fixed.
I left and a couple hours later his battery started to tank. Only thing we noticed was his accelerometer hung for some reason and had 5 hours on. He hadn't used anything that should have turned it on so no idea why it got stuck. Turned it off and the battery usage slowed to what one would expect. Then it had another couple minute burst of dropping. that was the last I heard.
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Lol you ended it with such a dramatic air. "That was the last I heard". Dun dun dun! Lol. Sorry I just played some Alan Wake that's why
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The one thing I've notice about my phone is that when looking at my wireless icon in the notification bar, there is something transmitting 90% of the time (download it appears as it is just the bottom arrow blinking). It does this even when sync is turned off. I've gone through the phone and I can't see any app running. Has anyone else noticed this?
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I'm convinced there's a bad batch.
My replacement phone literally just ran all night. I had been awake backing up my system with Titanium, and it stalled before I went to bed. TB kept my phone running for 8 hours straight with the screen on and my phone is only at 18%.
If your battery life is ****, return it. Currently running Stock, rooted and unlocked with dormancy fix.
So this is what betterbatterystats is showing me. I'm using around 5.8% a hour that's not the best but that's not bad right?
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mws1986 said:
So this is what betterbatterystats is showing me. I'm using around 5.8% a hour that's not the best but that's not bad right?
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Take a shot of the alarms, kernal wakelock, and partial wakelock pages.
I had not enabled su privileges to it yet so I will have to wait on the alarms.
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