Hey Guys I am troubleshooting a battery life issue for my boss' wife. Her brand new S4 is draining battery way too fast overnight if not plugged into the charger.
When I pull up her Battery Usage at the top every time is Android OS with a whopping 40-45% of usage.
I have disabled Caller ID, double checked she only have one account synced on her phone and its not happening every 15 minutes or anything. I set her screen brightness to auto (though I know this wouldn't show up as Android OS usage). She is using stock firmware from Verizon and has not really installed much short of a couple games.
What do you think could be causing Android OS to be sucking up so much juice? My Note 2 only shows Android OS as using 10% over 1 1/2 days of usage
Turn off all location reporting stuff under maps, and also download the play store v4.1.10 apk if you are still on 4.1.6. Play store v 4.1.6 has a known battery drain issue and that is why there is a newer one out.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/29/download-latest-google-play-store-4-1-10/
Also removing the ongoing wifi thing in teh notification pull down will help as well since it scans for wireless networks like every 4 or 5 seconds. I'm pretty sure she would have to be rooted to be able to flash the MOD.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297213
Eric214 said:
Turn off all location reporting stuff under maps, and also download the play store v4.1.10 apk if you are still on 4.1.6. Play store v 4.1.6 has a known battery drain issue and that is why there is a newer one out.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/29/download-latest-google-play-store-4-1-10/
Also removing the ongoing wifi thing in teh notification pull down will help as well since it scans for wireless networks like every 4 or 5 seconds. I'm pretty sure she would have to be rooted to be able to flash the MOD.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297213
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OK installed Play Store update and rebooting now. She is not rooted, unlocked, nor does she have a custom ROM installed so I'd have to root it if I wanted to add in that mod. This seems like something that should be fixable without a root tho, right?
Thank you for your help btw
Cyclin said:
OK installed Play Store update and rebooting now. She is not rooted, unlocked, nor does she have a custom ROM installed so I'd have to root it if I wanted to add in that mod. This seems like something that should be fixable without a root tho, right?
Thank you for your help btw
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Root is required to disable the notification.
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Root is required to disable the notification.
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Got it. Ok well I did the Play Store update and the location services. I also installed 2x Battery Saver to shut down her wifi when in sleep mode. I'll know if that took care of it tomorrow morning when she brings it in again.
Thanks again for the responses guys. I just know that out of the box this thing shouldn't be draining so fast when its idling!
Its a friggin' Verizon thing. Again they have to be a pain in the a$$ and feel they need to do something to feel like they are better then other carriers by adding and subtracting stuff. The ongoing wifi notification and the removing of the wifi and a couple other toggles in the notification toggles was asinine.
Plus, the battery drain issue with the play store has nothing to do with the phone but a bug from google that was fixed with an update.
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Turn off all location reporting stuff under maps, and also download the play store v4.1.10 apk if you are still on 4.1.6. Play store v 4.1.6 has a known battery drain issue and that is why there is a newer one out.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/29/download-latest-google-play-store-4-1-10/
Also removing the ongoing wifi thing in teh notification pull down will help as well since it scans for wireless networks like every 4 or 5 seconds. I'm pretty sure she would have to be rooted to be able to flash the MOD.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297213
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Oh. My. God. You are my savior!
Billions of threads were read by me, dozens of battery software were installed by me to analyze battery drain but there were no result unitl I found this thread and you message. A had 70-80% "Android OS" of battery usage and that was because of god damn Play Store 4.1.6 installed on my GT-i9500 and it didn't update for some reason (any suggestions why?). After I've downloaded new version from androidpolice, everything seems to become perfect.
Thank you very much for your message, dude. I owe you.
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Oh. My. God. You are my savior!
Billions of threads were read by me, dozens of battery software were installed by me to analyze battery drain but there were no result unitl I found this thread and you message. A had 70-80% "Android OS" of battery usage and that was because of god damn Play Store 4.1.6 installed on my GT-i9500 and it didn't update for some reason (any suggestions why?). After I've downloaded new version from androidpolice, everything seems to become perfect.
Thank you very much for your message, dude. I owe you.
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No problem... glad I could help. The reason it didn't update is because Google never pushed it out. They knew there was an issue and put a fix out pretty fast but you had to download it and install manually. I don't know why.
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Hi guys. I picked up a Sony Xperia SX (It comes with Android 4.0.4) a week ago and have been happy with it except for the battery life; it's not quite as good as my old Nexus One.
I've been looking at the battery usage stats and things seem ok except for "Android System." This collection of tasks takes up a LOT of battery and I have no idea why. Does anyone know?
I've turned off all my Google Account syncing and removed some of the pre-installed bloatware (for example, McAfee AntiVirus, but for some reason this still appears under Android System - does that mean it's not uninstalled? If so, is there some way to get into the system and actually remove this process?). The screenshots below are for a full days worth of very light usage: a few text messages, browsed one web page for a few minutes, and a very short phone call.
Are there any apps I can install that track battery/CPU/activity usage per process so I can zero in on what is keeping the device awake so much?
Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it!
Edit: The attachments don't seem to be showing up, so here are some direct links:
Friendly evening bump.
Android system
try changing your kernnel
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try changing your kernnel
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Unless someone's made a build for this device, I have no idea how to do that. :\
I have the same phone and same problem.
Have you rooted it?
If so you can use a root uninstaller to get rid of the bloatware
I installed juice defender yesterday and there seems to be a slight improvement.
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After I update my SGS3 to jelly bean the battery life time got worst.
When I had the prev version one percent laster 1 hour+ when I didn't do anything with my phone. Now it hardly reaches 1 hour.
I use original rom, no custom roms.
what could be the reason for that?
It's probably the mediascanner. It's broken on all the jelly bean firmwares and custom roms I've tried.
Go to settings, battery and look if you see Media as a big battery consumer. Select it and force close it. As a temporary fix instal the Media Scan app from Google Play. It let's you disable the media scanner process.
I just downloaded the app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEsImNvbS5hZGR6Lm1lZGlhc2Nhbm5lcnJvb3QiXQ..
If thats the wrong app, please advise which app to try
Thanks in advance
Here's the link, it's actually called Rescan Media. My Bad.
And for rooted users, Rescan Media root.
Thanks for the reply,
Ive set it to disable when I quit the rescan media root app.
Will the media scanner enable itself, or is it permanently disabled?
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It's probably the mediascanner. It's broken on all the jelly bean firmwares and custom roms I've tried.
Go to settings, battery and look if you see Media as a big battery consumer. Select it and force close it. As a temporary fix instal the Media Scan app from Google Play. It let's you disable the media scanner process.
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I don't see media at all...
Any other ideas?
11alex11 said:
After I update my SGS3 to jelly bean the battery life time got worst.
When I had the prev version one percent laster 1 hour+ when I didn't do anything with my phone. Now it hardly reaches 1 hour.
I use original rom, no custom roms.
what could be the reason for that?
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You're doing or have done something wrong.... you should easily get this...
Wiped? Checked for wakelocks?
LenAsh said:
You're doing or have done something wrong.... you should easily get this...
Wiped? Checked for wakelocks?
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I didn't do anything. wipe? no (needed root, not root)
wakelocks? what is it?
Battery problems after JB
11alex11 said:
After I update my SGS3 to jelly bean the battery life time got worst.
When I had the prev version one percent laster 1 hour+ when I didn't do anything with my phone. Now it hardly reaches 1 hour.
I use original rom, no custom roms.
what could be the reason for that?
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I have the same problem with my battery, the battery life time is so short, i was looking up for a solution, but I think I don't have the media problem that most people have, but I think Google Now could be using GPSd that in my case, is using 11% of battery life. I tried to disable, and see what happend.
anyone?
The things that takes most of battery precentage in the battery section in settings is Screen.
Is this suppose to be like this?
try disabling googe now.
log out of google talk
uninstall maps or, go to setting location setting disable everything, from latitude to auto checkins
Disable google now
Check with better battery stats
Disable 3g and gps when you don't need it.
Places where mobile signal is low are not good.
I get 1% drop idling.
Average use gives me 2 days.
Max use of wifi gives me 9h.
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Here's the link, it's actually called Rescan Media. My Bad.
And for rooted users, Rescan Media root.
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Would freezing media via tb have the same effect?
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Google Now wastes a lot of battery on JB. Try disabling location settings. As for wakelocks, download BetterBatteryStats, let in run after charging and check for "Partial Wakelocks". Shows what is keeping your device awake. As for wipe, he probably means factory reset. Shouldn't really need to do it if you're on stock with official ota.
Try the BBS to check what's wasting our battery
For me also Jelly bean is not good as ICS (battery wise am saying)..
In ICS i used to get 24-30 hours with average use............
But.. Recently Flashed JB XXDLJ4 version...........Nothing is doing with even Custom Kernals ...
Hardly getting 18 hours.... thats to vth Night. ...
Actually Jelly Bean is more sensitive and it uses GPU a lot... and it uses both CPU & GPU when u touch screen.... So that everting is like BUtter including Battery Life..:highfive:
i made my screen very dimm , its near dark really
but still said that screen drain 60 %
what should i do ??? GRRrRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
One of the biggest consumers of battery life on JB is Gallery! There is a bug that causes it to kill your battery if you leave it open. Make sure you manually close gallery if use it!
I found that the things that consumes the battery is wifi & 3G.
It didn't happen to me with v4.0.4, what could be the reason for that?
Anyone? Anything?
Since I changed to JB my battery is being drained by google services. I've tried turning off location services, all of google now, and everything that is using google to sync except for mail. I haven't found a solution anywhere online. I've also deleted my exchange and other mail accounts and I still have the problem.
I'm using MeanBean 2.3 and it also did the same thing on MB 1.4.
Any ideas?
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Since I changed to JB my battery is being drained by google services. I've tried turning off location services, all of google now, and everything that is using google to sync except for mail. I haven't found a solution anywhere online. I've also deleted my exchange and other mail accounts and I still have the problem.
I'm using MeanBean 2.3 and it also did the same thing on MB 1.4.
Any ideas?
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I am also seeing this and sometimes Maps or Poynt do the same thing as well. If I look in my power history it will show GPS ON as a full blue line. I also see a solid blue line in the wake portion sometimes when the phone has been sleeping. Both issues will cause the battery to drain very quickly. If I don't catch them in time, my battery won't make it all day. If I go a day without seeing these, the battery lasts all day with plenty to spare. A quick reboot fixes them but I never had these issues before Jelly Bean. My wife has an EVO LTE too and sees these issues as well. Anyone know what is causing these issues? Neither of us have turned on Google Now yet fearing that will make it worse.
Did you do a factory reset after the upgrade to jelly bean? Many reported that helping.
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Did you do a factory reset after the upgrade to jelly bean? Many reported that helping.
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No, but my wife just got hers and I updated to Jelly Bean before installing or setting up the phone. Guess I will try factory reset after installing Jelly Bean. Thanks for the help!
I did super wipe (factory reset) last night with clean install and today I'm not having issues yet
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It didn't work. Google services turned on again and keeps my phone awake and is draining the battery. Does anyone else have an exchange account? I just deleted mine to see if that might help.
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In case anyone ever comes upon this thread and wants an answer, I think the problem is with exchange. I made it manual DL and the Google services stayed on but didn't drain the battery. Reset, location, and other changes didn't seem to help.
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Maybe exchange cuz I don't have the issue...its not even on the history
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In case anyone ever comes upon this thread and wants an answer, I think the problem is with exchange. I made it manual DL and the Google services stayed on but didn't drain the battery. Reset, location, and other changes didn't seem to help.
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I am having the same problem, but I don't have exchange. Just got my phone a week ago, not rooted, completely stock. Today was the first day that the battery abnormally drained, with google services using 50%. Not sure what changed or what happened. Trying to do some research into this as there seems to be a lot of questions out there, but haven't found any answers yet.
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I am having the same problem, but I don't have exchange. Just got my phone a week ago, not rooted, completely stock. Today was the first day that the battery abnormally drained, with google services using 50%. Not sure what changed or what happened. Trying to do some research into this as there seems to be a lot of questions out there, but haven't found any answers yet.
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I am having this problem every so often also. The phone stays awake 100% of the time due to the google services. I kill it a couple times and usually it stops for awhile. Very annoying, still looking for a fix.
-Matt
The best way to figure out what is draining your battery is to install Better Battery Stats from the play store. Let it run in the background for a day or two and then check out partial wake locks and alarms. See if there is an app or process that is running out of control. Check all of your settings for syncing gmail, chrome, news and weather, etc. If you can't find some app that is keeping your device awake when it should be resting, then it could just be the phone.
Is there any REAL solution for this issue?
"Google Services" keeps my phone awake 100% of the time sometimes and I get maybe 4 hours of bat till completely dead. I've tried turning off sync, gps, mail, etx still does it. I think it really the Play Store but I cant be sure.
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Is there any REAL solution for this issue?
"Google Services" keeps my phone awake 100% of the time sometimes and I get maybe 4 hours of bat till completely dead. I've tried turning off sync, gps, mail, etx still does it. I think it really the Play Store but I cant be sure.
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Turn off Autosync then turn it on again and force a full sync, then reboot, I've read somewhere I think in the sense 5 port thread about something like this and I think scottspa or Finz posted this as a solution, try it and let us know...
I've been having hella issues with this recently. Some of the fixes out there work some of the time. Best one I've found is to sign out of Google EVERYTHING, wipe caches, reboot, then resign in. Even sometimes that won't release the wakelock. Yesterday for instance I had to do that, then take it a step further and delete my data from everything with the word Google on it and do 2 reboots before it would go the hell away.
disable
I disable mine.
Use titanium backup. Make the services and play store user apps. Then use greenify on them.
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jocarog said:
Turn off Autosync then turn it on again and force a full sync, then reboot, I've read somewhere I think in the sense 5 port thread about something like this and I think scottspa or Finz posted this as a solution, try it and let us know...
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I am running MeanBean with latest firmware. I had this issue yesterday and I tried your fix. So far today, google services has only used 2%. I am curious to see if it stays that way or if the issue will come back.
Thanks
clearing cache and delvik cache seems to work for a little while that it just starts again ok. I only staredt having this issue about 2 weeks ago. That's why I think its the Play Store cause that's when the Play Store updated. Also rebooting seems to relieve the situation temporarily. Its just a pain in you don't look at your phone for a few hours notice 75 percent of your battery is gone.
I had the Google services drain too. I was looking high and low for the cause. Finally solved mine by going to Quick Event app, clicked setting icon (top right), set both Default Reminder and Default Duration to none.. That solved my problem.
So I did a few things and have not had a problem in a week(ish) now. I cleared cache and dalvik cache. I also forced a sync then turned off sync tried to sync again then turned it back on.
I have not had a problem since. In fact I left this phone sitting all weekend from sat morning to this morning and it only used 22% battery. (there was NO use by me)
Just incase anybody is wondering I am on the latest Mean Bean with over clocking and over volt.
i am getting terrible battery life on my 5 day old Galaxy 4 for VZ. i have disabled every thing i can, i use twitter, FB, Instagram, syng google and contacts, google keep etc. i cannot get over 1.5 hours screen on time, and it drains when idle also. i get maybe 7 hours total..
i want to love and keep this but man, i am getting gnex battery life with it. i have read so many good reviews on the battery life but something is up.
any ideas??? would rooting and installing like clean rom help?
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Rooting and apps like Greenify.
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The phone probably never sleeps the way you have it set up. All that stuff syncs in the background and therefore never lets the phone sleep. Stuff you don't have to know about constantly you should either turn off sync and manually sync it or try making it sync like say every hours or 4 hours not every 15 min. Honestly there are maybe 30-50 things that can cause your battery drain from a stock device that is new. But that is where i would start.
Also, make sure your GPS is off and your not using location services from VZW but just the normal google.
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The phone probably never sleeps the way you have it set up. All that stuff syncs in the background and therefore never lets the phone sleep. Stuff you don't have to know about constantly you should either turn off sync and manually sync it or try making it sync like say every hours or 4 hours not every 15 min. Honestly there are maybe 30-50 things that can cause your battery drain from a stock device that is new. But that is where i would start.
Also, make sure your GPS is off and your not using location services from VZW but just the normal google.
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great info....so what about some of the apps that people have said to install? i dont really want to root..especially since there is NO recovery...
also..i checked and i did notice it was awake allot, and GOOGLE CONTACTS took ALLOT of kernal usage..
Honestly I dont like apps used to control other apps. That means they run in thr background causing cpu cycles... hence waking the phone.
if youre not going to root, then go into the app manager and disable what you dont use and what youre able to. Not all apps are disablable. I even disable maps untill I need it
I noticed a lot of battery drain with my rooted ME7 version. Greenify helped but what really worked for me is this: Go to System Settings>More>Location Services and disable Wi-Fi & mobile network location (Google Location Services). Use VZW and Standalone GPS only. It may take your apps a tad bit longer to display your GPS position but you'll gain a lot of battery life. My GPS is always on, sync everything including 2 different Google accounts (all at the shortest interval) and have the other usual things running, ie. Facebook, Google Voice, Weather Bug, Go SMS, etc.
You've got wake locks and need to determine what they are. Read this, it should help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31974989
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Rooting and apps like Greenify.
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Yes , I Agree ! :good:
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Yes , I Agree ! :good:
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I use greenify on all my phones!
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It's not as hard as you think...
dvigue said:
great info....so what about some of the apps that people have said to install? i dont really want to root..especially since there is NO recovery...
also..i checked and i did notice it was awake allot, and GOOGLE CONTACTS took ALLOT of kernal usage..
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If you don't want to root, there's not a lot you can do as far as wakelocks. However, I would download Macrodroid and set up some profiles that turn off everything (sync, data, wifi, bluetooth) when you turn your screen off, control your syncing to once an hour or hour and a half, and turn on your data/wifi when you turn your screen back on - or rather, when you unlock it. This simple task will take you less than 20 minutes and will save you hours of battery life. Like others said, disable GPS unless you absolutely need it. Also, I would turn off a lot of the gitchy features (air gesture, air view, multi windo, smart scroll, smart stay) all that crap that is cool to use once or twice but just eats your battery like crazy.
If you choose to get Macrodroid and want help setting up the profiles, let me know. Good luck. By the way, that doubled my battery life. Once I rooted, controlled the wakelocks and bought a zerolemon 7500 battery, I can actually get over 3 days of usage with something like 9 hours of screen time.
Edit: Found two pics to prove the above claim...
Hello Everyone....When 1st got my phone few days later i am facing huge battery drain issue 4-5% per but that was fix by doing firmware update by lgup.
But now i am facing per hour 1% battery drain issue. Hence i did some testing with my mother low end Huawei Honor 7c phone by installing same apps.
Here is the result-
Lg v60 wifi & data both off—-3hours 1% drain, wifi on——1% per hour.
Huawei wifi & data both off—6hours 1% drain, wifi on——3hours 1% drain
Please guys help me. I am really frustrated.
I just got mine with dual screen and noticed same problem. It's a T-mobile version and i forgot how bloated carrier's variant were.
This will help, no root needed. https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...mate-app-manager-debloat-tool-tweaks.4147837/
Not sure which model you got, but I deleted all T-mobile apps and most LG.
Noticed an improvement right away.
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I just got mine with dual screen and noticed same problem. It's a T-mobile version and i forgot how bloated carrier's variant were.
This will help, no root needed. https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...mate-app-manager-debloat-tool-tweaks.4147837/
Not sure which model you got, but I deleted all T-mobile apps and most LG.
Noticed an improvement right away.
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Mine is t-mobile also.
I kept 2 tmobile (t-mobile & t-mobile diagnostic) apps because i have huge battery drain 4-5% battery drain before. Then i have to reflash my firmware. I don't know whether those 2 are causes it or not. Though i also debloated some other apps also.
One weird thing yesterday i put many lg stock & system apps to battery restrict because those apps running in background & uses my 7% (all of them weird!) battery
& detach my dual screen.
Battery was superb as it suppose to be...then i attach my dual scree no drain was found.
But today i am facing same issue.
Can you please tell me which other apps you debloat (disable or uninstall?) & how many days you have been using since debloat?
I am happy (sad) to see some other person facing same issue, coz i posted it on reddit also & some of the imbecile told me it's normal.
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Mine is t-mobile also.
I kept 2 tmobile (t-mobile & t-mobile diagnostic) apps because i have huge battery drain 4-5% battery drain before. Then i have to reflash my firmware. I don't know whether those 2 are causes it or not. Though i also debloated some other apps also.
One weird thing yesterday i put many lg stock & system apps to battery restrict because those apps running in background & uses my 7% (all of them weird!) battery
& detach my dual screen.
Battery was superb as it suppose to be...then i attach my dual scree no drain was found.
But today i am facing same issue.
Can you please tell me which other apps you debloat (disable or uninstall?) & how many days you have been using since debloat?
I am happy (sad) to see some other person facing same issue, coz i posted it on reddit also & some of the imbecile told me it's normal.
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I don't remember exactly what I deleted but pretty much everything from T-mobile and LG. My theory is if it has an icon, it's safe to delete. The important stuff will have a gear icon.
That app allows for backup before deleting so not much worry.
If it's stock it's safe to delete any of them as a factory reset will restore them.
Best to try to know exactly what your deleting though... dependencies, dependencies, dependencies.
The carrier apps are probably safe to ditch unless you use them. Be careful with any having to do directly with the phone app or connectivity.
I prefer using a package disabler as it's easy to experiment without consequences.
Ditch FB, WhatsApp, etc... trashware.
Turn off wifi when not in use.
Any cloud apps suck battery including Google backup Transport. Disable Google Firebase and all Google, carrier, manufacturer and app feedback.
Temporarily disable Google play Services and see if this helps. Screen brightness and resolution settings matter, both can suck battery.
Adjust to what you need to use the device effectively.
Airtioteclint
Bummer.blackhawkI always disable google stock apps.
Are you using tmobile variant also?
Do you use ds case?
Please post the ss what are the apps you have put disable on package disabler.
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AirtioteclintBummer.blackhawkI always disable google stock apps.
Are you using tmobile variant also?
Do you use ds case?
Please post the ss what are the apps you have put disable on package disabler.
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I have a Samsung with AT&T. Some of the same issues may apply though as far as Google apps and such. Which is why I mentioned this.