Last week, prior to the new OTA, my battery life took a noticeable and significant drop.
According to my Battery Widget my fully charged battery lasts on average 1 day 17 hours and 24 minutes. This is typically with between 2 and 3 hours of screen on time. But ever since late last week my battery has been dying in under 24 hours.
I have been using the built in power usage menu, Better Battery Stats, Battery Widget, and now even GSam Battery to try to identify the problem, but I have been unsuccessful. GSam Battery says that apps are using 83.9% of my battery, with the Kernel (Android OS) the largest offender by far (58.5%).
Has anybody else had a noticeable drop in battery life recently? I'm just wondering if it's an app update that has gone wrong somewhere, but I haven't been able to pinpoint anything yet.
which ota are you talking about 2.04 or 2.06?
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which ota are you talking about 2.04 or 2.06?
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I'm on 2.06 now, but these issues began last week, prior to the OTA, so it seems to be unrelated to that.
Are you sure it is just prior to the OTA and not the OTA itself?
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Are you sure it is just prior to the OTA and not the OTA itself?
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Yeah it started dying fast last Thursday, and I've ended up having to charge it roughly every 24 hours since then. Didn't get the OTA until yesterday afternoon.
Look at your wakelocks.
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Look at your wakelocks.
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For wakelocks I'm seeing:
CPU Usage: 11m 26s
CPU USage (Background Only): 11m 26s
Keep Awake: 2m 27s
Number of Wake Locks: 62
App UID: 1013
Included Processes:
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Nothing too suspicious there? It's only accounting for 6% of my app usage.
stock kernel? if so, the only think i can think of is to use an app to find out the wake lock. here is a article that might help. http://goo.gl/t4NDf
did you change any settings that caused the phone to go to sleep after a longer period of time?
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stock kernel? if so, the only think i can think of is to use an app to find out the wake lock. here is a article that might help. http://goo.gl/t4NDf
did you change any settings that caused the phone to go to sleep after a longer period of time?
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Yeah this thing is bone stock and I haven't changed any settings recently.
Thanks for that article, I'll take a look into that app and get it installed when I get out of work and get this thing charged back up.
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For wakelocks I'm seeing:
CPU Usage: 11m 26s
CPU USage (Background Only): 11m 26s
Keep Awake: 2m 27s
Number of Wake Locks: 62
App UID: 1013
Included Processes:
*wakelock*
mediaserver
Nothing too suspicious there? It's only accounting for 6% of my app usage.
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On gsam click on the 'view kernel wakelock' option.
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On gsam click on the 'view kernel wakelock' option.
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msm_hsic_host and suspend_bakoff are the two biggest offenders, at 22h and 6h respectively.
Not really sure what this means though, everything I've found via Googling these issues seem to be related to Nexus 4 kernels. I can't imagine I've got a kernel issue being bone stock.
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msm_hsic_host and suspend_bakoff are the two biggest offenders, at 22h and 6h respectively.
Not really sure what this means though, everything I've found via Googling these issues seem to be related to Nexus 4 kernels. I can't imagine I've got a kernel issue being bone stock.
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The stock kernel has a major hsic wakelock issue.
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Try cycling your battery. Let it die 100% then recharge it back to 100%.
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Try cycling your battery. Let it die 100% then recharge it back to 100%.
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I've given it three full cycles from 100% to 0% back to 100% now. I unplugged last night when I went to bed with a full charge, and this morning it was down to 74%. I've never lost that much battery over night.
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The stock kernel has a major hsic wakelock issue.
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I've got wake lock detector installed, going to try to see what app is to blame. I'm hoping to blame Facebook. It's given me problems in the past with my Rezound, and I know it got an update recently.
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I've given it three full cycles from 100% to 0% back to 100% now. I unplugged last night when I went to bed with a full charge, and this morning it was down to 74%. I've never lost that much battery over night.
I've got wake lock detector installed, going to try to see what app is to blame. I'm hoping to blame Facebook. It's given me problems in the past with my Rezound, and I know it got an update recently.
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It might not be an app causing it. You know how the DNA was said to have really bad battery life when it was launched? it was cause of this issue...i think...are you rooted? if so, install a custom kernel and it should have the hsic wakelock fixed. Its weird that the problem just started happening randomly but it seems to be that issue.
Try disabling fastboot and restarting if you haven't already?
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It might not be an app causing it. You know how the DNA was said to have really bad battery life when it was launched? it was cause of this issue...i think...are you rooted? if so, install a custom kernel and it should have the hsic wakelock fixed. Its weird that the problem just started happening randomly but it seems to be that issue.
Try disabling fastboot and restarting if you haven't already?
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I'm not rooted, running bone stock.
I've had the phone since November, I got it a few weeks before they were even launched (HTC sent it to me) and the battery has been an absolute champ the entire time I've owned it. If it's something kernel related I'd be really surprised, as this only just started happening last week.
I'll try disabling fastboot and restarting to see what that does for me, though honestly I've never changed those settings in the roughly 5 months of owning the phone, so I still feel like there has to be something I can uninstall to resolve.
According to both GSam and Better Battery Stats, something is keeping my phone awake nearly constantly. In the screenshot below, you can see that since the last boot, the phone has been on for 4h 27m, and it's been awake for 4h 22m. Only 18m of screen on time.
I installed Wakelock Detector this morning after my battery had dropped from 100% to 74% overnight. I rebooted and it's been running ever since, so I guess I'll keep an eye on it as the day progresses. Right now it's not showing anything unusual, at least so far as I can tell. Maybe I should just recharge back to 100% and let it start fresh.
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Well I finally did this yesterday and it seems to have done the trick. Not really sure why that would become a problem randomly after 5 months, but the battery is running seemingly even better than before now.
I couldn't charge it to a full 100% last night, but I got it to 99% and I had to head out, and it's been off the charger for 15 hours now and is still at 90%.
Kudos to you, thanks for the tip!
no problem! i'm glad i could help! the thing is..fastboot doesn't allow your device to fully shut down so disabling that and restarting closes everything and allows the phone to actually reboot.
I think its a dumb option since phones usually aren't restarted unless there is a need for it...i go weeks without having to restart so why do i need a option thats going to save me 10 seconds for problems. i always keep it disabled.
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Well I finally did this yesterday and it seems to have done the trick. Not really sure why that would become a problem randomly after 5 months, but the battery is running seemingly even better than before now.
I couldn't charge it to a full 100% last night, but I got it to 99% and I had to head out, and it's been off the charger for 15 hours now and is still at 90%.
Kudos to you, thanks for the tip!
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How do you have 90% after 15 hours? What did you shut off? Your on wifi i assume. That is amazing battery if so. Sorry for being skeptical but that seems impossible...
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How do you have 90% after 15 hours? What did you shut off? Your on wifi i assume. That is amazing battery if so. Sorry for being skeptical but that seems impossible...
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Well for the first three hours I was on 4G but I just wasn't using the phone much. Got home and had it set to WiFi for about two or three hours, then went to bed and shut off both WiFi and Mobile Networks (I always do that at night).
It did seem pretty ridiculous to me as well, but you can check out the screenshots below. The first one was earlier, the next two I just took.
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I have noticed my battery sucks lately. I know the battery isn't the greatest but I was able to get easily a day of use out if it. Now I can barely go a day. I purchased beautiful Widgets, battery indicator and xda app all last week And it seems after that is when my battery went to **** .I used launcher pro for a bit too but started having lag problems so I removed that. Today I uninstalled beautiful Widgets. I'm on wifi and in airplane mode. As I'm typing this I've lost %2 already. Wtf is going on? I have GPS Bluetooth and usually wifi off. I have use only 2G networks, sync only gmail and screen manually set and set to low 30sec TO.
Any suggestions?
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I have noticed my battery sucks lately. I know the battery isn't the greatest but I was able to get easily a day of use out if it. Now I can barely go a day. I purchased beautiful Widgets, battery indicator and xda app all last week And it seems after that is when my battery went to **** .I used launcher pro for a bit too but started having lag problems so I removed that. Today I uninstalled beautiful Widgets. I'm on wifi and in airplane mode. As I'm typing this I've lost %2 already. Wtf is going on? I have GPS Bluetooth and usually wifi off. I have use only 2G networks, sync only gmail and screen manually set and set to low 30sec TO.
Any suggestions?
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its the poor os. not the battery it self. why do you think everyone wants froyo so bad.
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its the poor os. not the battery it self. why do you think everyone wants froyo so bad.
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Sounds like way more than that. I can certainly type a couple paragraphs before my % drops at all. You sure haven't installed something else? If not you could have a defect.? Possibly return it and get a new one?
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Sounds like way more than that. I can certainly type a couple paragraphs before my % drops at all. You sure haven't installed something else? If not you could have a defect.? Possibly return it and get a new one?
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GPS test, beautiful Widgets, battery indicator, arc media(removed ),updates for some apps and that's it.
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Quick question, which ROM are you running? Ever since I switched over to leaked JI2, every couple days I notice that after running one of a few apps, the CPU just seems to go into overdrive. The phone gets really warm and the battery drains ridiculously fast. So fast that even plugging into my car charger won't charge the phone, even on idle. If I reboot, the phone cools down and the battery drain goes back to its normal, slow self.
I haven't narrowed it down to any specific app yet, but it seems to be either, Foursquare, Great Land Grab, or Bubble Blast.
Foursquare I have, I don't remember when I installed it. I am actually just running stock TW.
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I get 15hrs... I am not ROOTED! I did the drain battery life process twice. This is with moderate usage. I am planning to do the drain battery process once a month cuz I hear it helps with battery life. Possible that u install something that's killing your battery.
Solution do the master reset if that doesn't help then it can be the battery is no good. I know that this is with the stock rom. If u are using another rom that's maybe the problem. U can try switchig roms to see if this is the problem. I hope this information has been helpful.
Does the master reset remove everything ? I have all my pics/videos on my phone meM. I have music and avatar on SD.
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I have all of those apps except for battery indicator. I get about just over a full day. I would say turn off Wifi Sleep Policy and see if that helps.
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I have all of those apps except for battery indicator. I get about just over a full day. I would say turn off Wifi Sleep Policy and see if that helps.
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I did turn it off So wifi stays on even in sleep but I thought that was the problem do I Changed it back. I Just removed Touiteur and it seems to decrease slower, I updated it Saturday night. ?
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hey presence ive been having the same troubles lately...and i also jst recently got on foursquare...so maybe thats what it is...ive been looking at all my latest inslaeed apps and nothing else seems like it would have a battery drain effect...idk lol
I've had it installed for a while But started using it as of late. GPS fails all the time now though for some reason. Idk. But its kind of frustrating
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I have the same issue and i run system app n it doesn't show anything abnormal running. Its awfully frustrating i went from being good for 18hours to being in the red after 12 hours. I dropped 2% just writing this. I have only 84% left after 1.5hours this morning...and I have no service during my 1hour commute so I haven't used it. Standby is killing my battery.
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I have the same issue and i run system app n it doesn't show anything abnormal running. Its awfully frustrating i went from being good for 18hours to being in the red after 12 hours. I dropped 2% just writing this. I have only 84% left after 1.5hours this morning...and I have no service during my 1hour commute so I haven't used it. Standby is killing my battery.
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It seems as though it drains faster in standby with nothing running. I removed FourSquare last night and have nothing running as far as widgets. I'm going to reboot and see. I've had it unplugged since 7am this morning, after a little over an hour I lost 2%.. not that bad I guess..
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I removed FourSquare last night and have nothing running as far as widgets. I'm going to reboot and see. I've had it unplugged since 7am this morning, after a little over an hour I lost 2%.. not that bad I guess..
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I guess we can safely say it is foursquare widget draining the battery then
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I've had this happen a few times. For me, it's usually because my battery status gets thrown off somehow. The phone would read that I have 55% battery life left, but it really only is at 25 or 30% and it always feels like it's draining fast. I usually turn off the phone, pull the battery out for a few seconds and then put it back it. When I turn on the phone the battery percentage is corrected and the phones seems to be back to normal battery use. I don't know why this happens.
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This was suddenly happening to me today -- my battery started draining very quickly, mostly on standby (I usually have quite good battery life). No new or unusual apps installed in the past week (I don't use Foursquare).
I gave it a power-down/battery pull; no adjustment in the % as described in the post above, but it seems to be draining more normally now. Weird....
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This was suddenly happening to me today -- my battery started draining very quickly, mostly on standby (I usually have quite good battery life). No new or unusual apps installed in the past week (I don't use Foursquare).
I gave it a power-down/battery pull; no adjustment in the % as described in the post above, but it seems to be draining more normally now. Weird....
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Same thing happens to me every couple days. Rebooting the phone fixes it every single time though, so it's not a big deal if I catch it in time. If I didn't catch it, I'd estimate my phone would be drained (even in standby) within 4 hours or so.
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Same thing happens to me every couple days. Rebooting the phone fixes it every single time though, so it's not a big deal if I catch it in time. If I didn't catch it, I'd estimate my phone would be drained (even in standby) within 4 hours or so.
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Same here, I rebooted after removing FS and some other apps/touitur and got 1day 13hrs on the next charge with pretty moderate use. So whatever it was, it's gone now. If it was FS hopefully it's fixed soon.
Had a similar experience, with battery % entering freefall every time I turned the phone on. Two things helped:
1. I did the drain cycle. Drain the battery completely till it shuts off and charge it to full while off. This does not 'fromat/form' the battery in any way it just helps the phone to calibrate the meter.
2. I uninstalled few apps that I suspected were draining the battery.
I advise you install JuicePlotter and see the graph of battery drain. You'll be able to tell if the phone is entering standby or not. Thanks to some culprit apps (still figuring out what it was exactly) my phone was not entering standby at all hence the crap battery life.
I was wondering if anyone could give me some insight here.
I've noticed horrible battery life, and constant 200 - 600ma current draw. My awake time is absurdly high too. Then all of a sudden last night I noticed it was only pulling 50ma, and the awake time was staying low. Nothing had changed, no app updates, nothing at all. It just suddenly stopped having a wake-lock. Then this morning it went back to being wonky. So I finally gave in and did a hard reset, everything back to stock, installed just one app, battery monitor widget, turned on airplane mode (I thought maybe weak signal was a factor) and left the phone alone for a few hours. When I got back to it, the entire time it was pulling between 360 and 450ma, and the awake time matched the uptime (well, only off by a few minutes). To reiterate, this was with the radios off, and a fresh hard reset.
I really don't know what else to do.
I should mention this same behavior was exhibited on my first Evo3D that I swapped for a broken vibrator motor, so I don't think this is a hardware fault. Actually back then I thought it was normal, so I didn't think about it much, but then I got to thinking it's not normal for an idle phone to die in 8 hours with airplane mode on and no activity...
Thanks for any ideas!
Try downloading an app called CPU Spy and make sure you're phone is going into "deep sleep". If it isn't, I would start going through the apps through process of elimination by uninstalling each one and resetting the timer each time on CPU Spy.
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Try downloading an app called CPU Spy and make sure you're phone is going into "deep sleep". If it isn't, I would start going through the apps through process of elimination by uninstalling each one and resetting the timer each time on CPU Spy.
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Thank you, I'll mess around with that, but I think you have missed my point...this is happening with 100% freshly reset stock, so there is nothing to uninstall. The only thing is I haven't taken the .7 update, which might have a bearing on it.
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Thank you, I'll mess around with that, but I think you have missed my point...this is happening with 100% freshly reset stock, so there is nothing to uninstall. The only thing is I haven't taken the .7 update, which might have a bearing on it.
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Gotcha. Well, give CPU Spy a go. Also, I would download Juice Defender from the Market. I've noticed a significant increase in battery life since I started using it.
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Thank you, I'll mess around with that, but I think you have missed my point...this is happening with 100% freshly reset stock, so there is nothing to uninstall. The only thing is I haven't taken the .7 update, which might have a bearing on it.
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Try checking your wifi policy. Set it to always on while plugged in or something other than never.
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clankfu said:
Try downloading an app called CPU Spy and make sure you're phone is going into "deep sleep". If it isn't, I would start going through the apps through process of elimination by uninstalling each one and resetting the timer each time on CPU Spy.
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Nice app. I let it run for about an hour, it showed something like 7% sleep, 70% 384 MHz and the rest was 1188. I uninstalled the only thing, Battery Monitor Widget, then reset CPU Spy's stats and waited another hour...now it's 97% sleeping, 2% 384, 1% 1188. Looks like BMW was the problem. Thanks for the app suggestion.
Any kind of monitoring app will drain your battery more.
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Battery monitor widget doesn't show accurate readings yet. The guy that made it emailed me and said it should be fixed in one of the upcoming updates.
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ffolkes said:
I was wondering if anyone could give me some insight here.
I've noticed horrible battery life, and constant 200 - 600ma current draw. My awake time is absurdly high too. Then all of a sudden last night I noticed it was only pulling 50ma, and the awake time was staying low. Nothing had changed, no app updates, nothing at all. It just suddenly stopped having a wake-lock. Then this morning it went back to being wonky. So I finally gave in and did a hard reset, everything back to stock, installed just one app, battery monitor widget, turned on airplane mode (I thought maybe weak signal was a factor) and left the phone alone for a few hours. When I got back to it, the entire time it was pulling between 360 and 450ma, and the awake time matched the uptime (well, only off by a few minutes). To reiterate, this was with the radios off, and a fresh hard reset.
I really don't know what else to do.
I should mention this same behavior was exhibited on my first Evo3D that I swapped for a broken vibrator motor, so I don't think this is a hardware fault. Actually back then I thought it was normal, so I didn't think about it much, but then I got to thinking it's not normal for an idle phone to die in 8 hours with airplane mode on and no activity...
Thanks for any ideas!
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I'm with you on this, I think you're into something. I've seen the same behavior too a few times. Some days I'd be surprised on how good my battery life has been and some days I'd get pissed.
The other day mine was drawing like 400ma without doing anything (looking at the history of battery monitor widget). So, yes, I agree with you. Something funky is going on.
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Did you also apply the OTA? I was having wake lock issues before applying the OTA and now that I did, the phone hardly drains over night after being unplugged.
Turn off htc sync. Fixes it.
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Turn off htc sync. Fixes it.
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Are you referring to syncing HTC sense under accounts and sync?
Yes. At least that fixed it for me. Taking both updates should also fix it.
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Yes. At least that fixed it for me. Taking both updates should also fix it.
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Good to know. I have the two OTAs also. I uninstalled Battery Monitor Widget and I have noticed that it is draining a lot slower. so like the OP mentioned. I think that was the culprint. I will keep checking the next couple of days.
I noticed that too. Since the drainage ratings are incorrect... there is no reason to use it.
Had the same issue called htc and they told me it was a software issue and my phone needed replaced
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Turn off htc sync. Fixes it.
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I wonder if thats why my phone dies so damn fast..... Im going to try this
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Turn off htc sync. Fixes it.
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By HTC sync, do you mean "Auto Sync"?
Oooohhhh, OP's subject is about the phone...
Cuz I have the same problem, phone is fine though.
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No. I mean Htc Sense sync. Turned that off and it fixed it for me.
Today i noticed a crazy drain my my battery than previously recorded.
Here's a TL;DR except from a battery meter report.
2011 Dec 20 07:28:50 1324402130 72
2011 Dec 20 10:03:50 1324411430 61
2011 Dec 20 12:33:51 1324420431 30
Based on this, the 2.5 hours from 7.30 till 10.00 the batter lost 11% charge from 10.00 till 12.30 also about 2.5 hours, the battery lost 31% charge. Just wondering if anyone else experienced this today (or recently) and has any advice on what i can check for.
The only app i know of that updated today was Google+. Has anyone experienced today's update being more of a battery hog? If so, is there a way to downgrade?
Thanks
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Today i noticed a crazy drain my my battery than previously recorded.
Here's a TL;DR except from a battery meter report.
2011 Dec 20 07:28:50 1324402130 72
2011 Dec 20 10:03:50 1324411430 61
2011 Dec 20 12:33:51 1324420431 30
Based on this, the 2.5 hours from 7.30 till 10.00 the batter lost 11% charge from 10.00 till 12.30 also about 2.5 hours, the battery lost 31% charge. Just wondering if anyone else experienced this today (or recently) and has any advice on what i can check for.
The only app i know of that updated today was Google+. Has anyone experienced today's update being more of a battery hog? If so, is there a way to downgrade?
Thanks
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I'm seeing the same thing on mine, horrid battery life the last couple weeks (stock rooted). Not sure what app is doing it cause I don't use G+
bella92108 said:
I'm seeing the same thing on mine, horrid battery life the last couple weeks (stock rooted). Not sure what app is doing it cause I don't use G+
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Thanks for the reply. Darn. I was hoping on something easy to blame... especially since i knew i updated that app today. but yeah.. 30% in 2.5 hours is pretty unacceptable... especially when i've gone 24+ hours on a charge before.
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Thanks for the reply. Darn. I was hoping on something easy to blame... especially since i knew i updated that app today. but yeah.. 30% in 2.5 hours is pretty unacceptable... especially when i've gone 24+ hours on a charge before.
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Oh mine has always been piss poor, it's just seemingly worse lately (and I haven't run the new att update.)
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Oh mine has always been piss poor, it's just seemingly worse lately (and I haven't run the new att update.)
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Someone else suggested that the Facebook App might have activated the GPS and left it running. I'll have to play with that and see i guess. Make sure the GPS is off and test the battery.
I wish i could go 24 hours on a charge, current battery, 4h 49m - dislay 50% 1h 11m and phones been charged a few times probably 45 mins charge. Now at 16% that's usual too... idk if its a straight talk thing or what but its ridiculous, first android phone and i miss my iphone 4's battery life.
I have been running the latest Unnamed, and it was running perfectly until I actually installed and ran a BLN app (though I was also running Llama, a location-based profile modifier.) Started from scratch with a fresh Unnamed, and battery life is back to normal...10h batery, 58% remaining, display 41%, Android OS 30%. It was either BLN or Llama causing Android OS to take the majority of my battery...I assume a wakelock issue but I did not do any further investigation.
Check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308030 if ya haven't already, lots of good info
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I've also been experiencing horrible batter life lately (bought it 3 weeks ago). I'm at 18% after not even 10 hours. 20 minutes of calls, 15-20 texts or so, 3 email accounts. Bluetooth on for a couple hours during my commute.
I'm stock and unrooted (until I decide for sure I'm keeping the phone).
I uninstalled Facebook, NoLED, Skype, turned of Hotmail calendar sync and GPS as per the battery life post.
I have Google on autocync for gMail and Calendar
66% in Deep Sleep.
I do run Executive Assistant (<2%), but it's way too useful for me not to use it.
I was getting ~20 hours last week. If anything, I've ostensibly made changes for better battery life. I have no idea what's going on.
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Check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308030 if ya haven't already, lots of good info
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I read that thread or at least part of it when i first got my phone .)
Main reason i asked separately was because the battery drain just suddenly got x3 worse than what i'm more used to. I kind of panicked. Will try and do soem further testing as time allows.
Did everyone here w a battery drain do the recent att update?
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Did everyone here w a battery drain do the recent att update?
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I updated this past weekend. No issues till today.
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Did everyone here w a battery drain do the recent att update?
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This started happening a few days before the update.
If you haven't already, download better battery stats to see if there are any offending apps or wakelocks that are causing the excessive drain.
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If you haven't already, download better battery stats to see if there are any offending apps or wakelocks that are causing the excessive drain.
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Yep, did that (awesome app, BTW). The one that took up the most time was the bluetooth PBAP, but it was 2 hours which is my roundtrip commute to work. Nothing else seemed to take up a significant amount of time other than the sver stuff. Although I guess those small things add up. I think NoLED was a huge culprit. People seem to love it, but perhaps I set it up wrong. I'd like to re-install FB and see if it really wasn't that big of a battery hog.
Anyway, after uninstalling those apps I mentioned above, I'm at 90% after 5-1/2 hours. Yesterday around this time I was probably somewhere around 60%. I'm still using Executive Assistant for 3 email accounts with frequent autopulls, active sync for Gmail and Google Calendar, and a few phone calls. I didn't go to work today, so that's 1 less hour of BT for the morning, and I've cut down onmy screen time but it's still a huge improvement.
I just may keep this phone after all.
GOOD NEWS EDIT:
I'm at a little over 24hrs with 43% left! Granted, I curbed my use to try and get a hold of what was going on with my battery: 30 min of calls, only 45 min of screen time, and a boatload of texts.
I realize the screen time is minimal, but it's an amazing improvement on my idle drain, which was the biggest problem. My phone actually goes into deep sleep! I forgot to check the % before I went to bed, but in the past, if I didn't plug in my phone at night with at least 30% charge, it was usually dead in the morning, or with single digit %s.
As far as I can tell, the culprit seemed to be NoLED. (Not trying to slam it or anything, because it's a cool program, but I'm pretty certain that was the issue.)
So I left wifi on all night, no big deal, phone didn't drop that much. Then I turned it off around 7 or 8 am when I woke up. Didn't touch my phone at all. I came back to the phone and it didn't turn on. When I plugged it in, the orange light kept flashing. I got into recovery and I found out it's cause of my battery. When I was finally able to boot, I looked at the battery usage and thought that it was impossible. I had gone from 60% to 0% without using the phone over a period of maybe 2 hours.
Why?! That's impossible..
Should I be concerned? I bought this phone a couple days ago and I can take it back to sprint if necessary.
I'm trying out MeanBean v1.9 right now. Is this just a bug or do you think it's my actual battery?
maybe, does it say what drained the battery? maybe even try running a scan for malware.
Spyderekz said:
maybe, does it say what drained the battery? maybe even try running a scan for malware.
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Well no, it doesn't say. I just installed the rom last night. but I guess I can take a scan?
I lost 45% over night last night on meanbean with wifi on. I think its a bug in jellybean. I haven't had great battery since I've gone with JB....
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u prob have a wakelock.. use betterbatterystats app to see whats keeping your phone wake at nite
evo401 said:
u prob have a wakelock.. use betterbatterystats app to see whats keeping your phone wake at nite
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How do I disable wake lock?
I tried to do an experiment last night and it happened again, only this time with the Stock w Goodies rom. I left my phone on most of the night without problem and turned the data off. Then I checked my phone once at around 7 am. Then I noticed the battery dropped 20 percent within a short period of time. Once I restarted, the problem seemed to fix, but I can't rely on myself to watch my battery monitor and restart when the issue occurs. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Should I take this phone back?
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BetterBatteryStats screen shots:
Its not the rom, I get very little to no drain from Meanbean when my phone is in standby. I will take my phone off the charger at 7:00am and not put it back on till 11;30pm with moderate usage and 6 different email addresses syncing all day long and never go below 50% on my battery. There is definitely something going on with your phones setup that is sucking the battery. It looks like you are in a very low signal area which is the biggest user of battery. Your phone is constantly trying to find a better signal. Its looks like you were on a phone call for 8 hours with a wake lock searching for signal. Are you new to Sprint? You may have a real problem if your signal is this low in your house.
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Its not the rom, I get very little to no drain from Meanbean when my phone is in standby. I will take my phone off the charger at 7:00am and not put it back on till 11;30pm with moderate usage and 6 different email addresses syncing all day long and never go below 50% on my battery. There is definitely something going on with your phones setup that is sucking the battery. It looks like you are in a very low signal area which is the biggest user of battery. Your phone is constantly trying to find a better signal. Its looks like you were on a phone call for 8 hours with a wake lock searching for signal. Are you new to Sprint? You may have a real problem if your signal is this low in your house.
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No I've had sprint for years and my phone has 5/6 bars right now..
I have the same experience as cruise350. I have almost no battery drain with MeanBean when the screen is off. As I type this I've had my phone off the charger for 2 hours and I had some light use and I'm still at 100%.
Follow evo401's advice and get betterbatterystats to find which app is causing this problem for you.
This is what happened...
yesterday at 7:00 AM my phone was at 98% Battery
Only Flight mod and Power saver mod was enabled,
Every thing else was disabled
Then i left home without taking my phone ( It was on my bed i forgot to take)
Later i returned home at 2:00 PM
And found my phone very hot.
Now the battery is at 14%
It says 88% of Battery was used for Android OS
Then i turned off my phone
After some time heat went off...
Then i turned on and plugged in for Charging
It Took 4 hours to charge 24% :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
Can anyone please explain whats happening ???
It sounds like something is keeping the cpu running, which is why android is is so high and explain the battery loss and heat. You could go into your settings and look at the running apps in applications manager, and see if anything is out of the ordinary.
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Could be something like mediascanner scanning the sdcard if you hve one. GSAM and BBS are good apps to check wakelocks. The latter is better but it's a pay for app.
laura almeida said:
This is what happened...
yesterday at 7:00 AM my phone was at 98% Battery
Only Flight mod and Power saver mod was enabled,
Every thing else was disabled
Then i left home without taking my phone ( It was on my bed i forgot to take)
Later i returned home at 2:00 PM
And found my phone very hot.
Now the battery is at 14%
It says 88% of Battery was used for Android OS
Then i turned off my phone
After some time heat went off...
Then i turned on and plugged in for Charging
It Took 4 hours to charge 24% :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
Can anyone please explain whats happening ???
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1. what rom are you using? 2. slow charging may be due to cable. change the cable and check the result. :good:
Remove new installed apps, check cable, restart your phone...
Now its working fine
Is there any way to find out which app was using my Battery ?
I'm On I9300XXUFME7 – Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean leaked firmware
Now its working fine
Is there any way to find out which app was using my Battery ?
I'm On I9300XXUFME7 – Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean leaked firmware
Not after the fact, no
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I have the exact same problem but mine hasn't gone away. I can charge it all night and in the morning it will be at like 40%.
It only started after I flashed that leaked firmware. I have since rooted it and frozen out all the bloatware to no avail.
I'd love to hear any suggestions on how to solve this?
daniogroove said:
I have the exact same problem but mine hasn't gone away. I can charge it all night and in the morning it will be at like 40%.
It only started after I flashed that leaked firmware. I have since rooted it and frozen out all the bloatware to no avail.
I'd love to hear any suggestions on how to solve this?
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Well theres 2 things...
1) Like Laura, drain so excessive that when charging it is slow
2) No drain, just slow charging
Different answers for both situations. Are you 1 or 2?
rootSU said:
Well theres 2 things...
1) Like Laura, drain so excessive that when charging it is slow
2) No drain, just slow charging
Different answers for both situations. Are you 1 or 2?
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I think Drain so excessive that is why charging is slow..
And It happened again...
but this time phone was in my back pocket...
It was in my pocket for like 30 mints or 45 mints..
Later i found my Ass on fire..:crying:
When i checked, both my phone and my ass was red hot..
Then i pulled out my battery
After some time re inserted it...
Now its working fine...
I think its going to happen again
Is there any way to find out which app is Killing my Battery ?
Please help me...
I don't want to set my ass on fire again...
laura almeida said:
I think Drain so excessive that is why charging is slow..
And It happened again...
but this time phone was in my back pocket...
It was in my pocket for like 30 mints or 45 mints..
Later i found my Ass on fire..:crying:
When i checked, both my phone and my ass was red hot..
Then i pulled out my battery
After some time re inserted it...
Now its working fine...
I think its going to happen again
Is there any way to find out which app is Killing my Battery ?
Please help me...
I don't want to set my ass on fire again...
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The best app IMHO is BetterBattery Stats. It's not free though, but it's a great asset. I have the widget on my home screen at all times. If you're not in a position to pay for an app, try GSAM, but BBS IS better. This will only be good until you pull the battery though so you need to ensure you check before rebooting. It will show you which apps are keeping the phone awake etc.
daniogroove said:
I have the exact same problem but mine hasn't gone away. I can charge it all night and in the morning it will be at like 40%.
It only started after I flashed that leaked firmware. I have since rooted it and frozen out all the bloatware to no avail.
I'd love to hear any suggestions on how to solve this?
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Yeah Mine also stared after I flashed with XXUFME7 Leaked Firmware...
Does your phone gets over heated during the charging time ?
Have you tried another cable for charging ?
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The best app IMHO is BetterBattery Stats. It's not free though, but it's a great asset. I have the widget on my home screen at all times. If you're not in a position to pay for an app, try GSAM, but BBS IS better. This will only be good until you pull the battery though so you need to ensure you check before rebooting. It will show you which apps are keeping the phone awake etc.
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I'm ready to Pay for BetterBattery Stats..
I don't mind if its a paid app or not as long as it servers me good...
After installing that app do I have to remove my battery and re-insert it ?
What rootSU meant is the app will record data till the time you pull out your battery.
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What rootSU meant is the app will record data till the time you pull out your battery.
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Yep. Best way to get good stats is to charge the phone full, unplug it and go about your business. Try not to reboot. At the end of the day lets see those stats and what we can find out.
Here is the list of apps on my Phone...
I don't have many apps...:angel:
I have Flashed my phone just a week ago..
And I haven't got time to restore all my apps again..
So, this is all the apps that i pretty much use now...
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Yep. Best way to get good stats is to charge the phone full, unplug it and go about your business. Try not to reboot. At the end of the day lets see those stats and what we can find out.
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Kk...
Thank you very much for Helping me...
Sorry for my Bad English..
I'm From Spain...
English is my 2nd language..
de nada
rootSU said:
Well theres 2 things...
1) Like Laura, drain so excessive that when charging it is slow
2) No drain, just slow charging
Different answers for both situations. Are you 1 or 2?
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I am facing 1st issue as your post what can i do