Hey everyone, when i bought this phone, i loved the battery life, i got 6hrs 50mins of screen on time and sometimes, 7 hrs. But then i wanted to try battery guru. Now am only getting 4hrs of screen on time. So shld i delete this app ?
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Maybe... You've got to freeze alot of the bloatware.
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How ? Am stock FYI
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If u have auto sync turn that off.. Also go in to general and see whats wasting ur battery life and if its android system, turn off "Wifi mobil and network location" on network access....
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How ? Am stock FYI
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Uninstalled battery guru. Lets see wat happens
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did you get the 6 hours creen on time with battery saver enabled?
Battery Guru is the best app in terms of draining your battery
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did you get the 6 hours creen on time with battery saver enabled?
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No, 6 hrs screen on time, with no power saver. Not even the one with the phone
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And yes, i noticed that it uses battery more than it saves. LOL
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Restart your phone after full charge, check to make sure Google Services isn't taking up a lot of battery through the day.. maybe install Greenify if doesn't help
stock is best. I used to try battery guru too but I drain my battery faster.
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Yeah, I used battery guru too and had the feeling that battery was draining faster. I uninstalled it and now is better.
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If u have auto sync turn that off.. Also go in to general and see whats wasting ur battery life and if its android system, turn off "Wifi mobil and network location" on network access....
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Where I can turn off" WiFi mobile and network location"? I've searching for it in the "Networks" tab and I can't find it..
I have only 3 hours of screen, and I am with Mobile Data on always and Sync on always and WiFi off and 80% auto brightness..
Before 1 week, with hard using I got 5h screen on..
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I tried every battery saving app and at the end it came up that the radio consumes most of the juice. 2000+ wakelocks for couple hr standby. Something is clearly not right. We will see how would it go with Kit Kat. Right now it feels like you have Htc One with those 4hr screen time.
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Made some test.
Charged it to 100%. Then i browsed till it gone to 70%. And guess what, i have almost 3hr of screen time..... crazy....
What are you guys location settings?? Do you leave location and gps on??
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Where I can turn off" WiFi mobile and network location"? I've searching for it in the "Networks" tab and I can't find it..
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WiFi -> Advanced
This was the big drain for me when I was troubleshooting battery life issues. Keeps Wifi "on" only for location tracking.
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WiFi -> Advanced
This was the big drain for me when I was troubleshooting battery life issues. Keeps Wifi "on" only for location tracking.
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You mean go to WIFI Advenced, and change" Keep on during sleep" from always to keep off?
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You mean go to WIFI Advenced, and change" Keep on during sleep" from always to keep off?
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Apologies, there's a separate option there for 4.4 that I was thinking of. What you're looking for should be under location, in settings.
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And yes, i noticed that it uses battery more than it saves. LOL
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Actually it's the same with all these "battery saving" apps. They use significantly more juice with their background monitoring than they'll ever save, and most of what they do are either unecessary or common sense. They're like task killers.
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What on earth is draining my battery so bad? On 4 hour charge w/ screen on for a little over 1 hour and i got 47% battery left...display is 77% drain. Is there an app thats draining my batt like mad? I got 4g off, wifi off, gps off, and bluetooth off...and i've been in a strong Sprint area the whole time. What's the deal?
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evo3d comes with a task manager, check whats on and kill it. i do it often
Try watchdog.. it will notify you if an app is above threshold.
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i had a similar issue, nothing i did helped out... i ended up doing a factory reset and it seemed to resolve the issue. i have most of the same apps i had before and im getting great battery life now.
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i had a similar issue, nothing i did helped out... i ended up doing a factory reset and it seemed to resolve the issue. i have most of the same apps i had before and im getting great battery life now.
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i'm just wondering, but... what's great battery life?
I get roughly 14 hrs max on my low - normal usage.
and a lot less when i actually use the phone
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i'm just wondering, but... what's great battery life?
I get roughly 14 hrs max on my low - normal usage.
and a lot less when i actually use the phone
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About ~5 hours of screen on time is normal. I'm at 1 hour and 30 mins screen on and my battery is now at 20%. Horrid life...ill try a factory reset.
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What on earth is draining my battery so bad? On 4 hour charge w/ screen on for a little over 1 hour and i got 47% battery left...display is 77% drain. Is there an app thats draining my batt like mad? I got 4g off, wifi off, gps off, and bluetooth off...and i've been in a strong Sprint area the whole time. What's the deal?
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Its the POS 3d effect you see. Garbagw huh? I returned mines. 3d is shat if even a old Galaxy S 1 device overperforms it.
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Its the POS 3d effect you see. Garbagw huh? I returned mines. 3d is shat if even a old Galaxy S 1 device overperforms it.
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Lololol gtfo here then?
Overstew said:
What on earth is draining my battery so bad? On 4 hour charge w/ screen on for a little over 1 hour and i got 47% battery left...display is 77% drain. Is there an app thats draining my batt like mad? I got 4g off, wifi off, gps off, and bluetooth off...and i've been in a strong Sprint area the whole time. What's the deal?
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Try using OS monitor from the market. Go through the settings, change the sorting method to "load" and watch for BS running that shouldn't be.
Try and put.it.in ur car's battery to.see if.it last longer
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Try using CPU Spy to see if you're phone is going into deep sleep properly.
That sounds like you got a bad battery, even if the phone is not sleeping it should last longer than that. I would reset to see if maybe your batt stats got corrupted and if that doesn't do anything see if Sprint will give you another battery to try.
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That sounds like you got a bad battery, even if the phone is not sleeping it should last longer than that. I would reset to see if maybe your batt stats got corrupted and if that doesn't do anything see if Sprint will give you another battery to try.
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Agreed this was happening to me so i ent and had the phone replaced and am having no issues this time
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I'm having good life...its been on for around 13 hours and been used for about 5 hours. I have a little over half of battery left.
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Turn auto sync off, that seems to help a little. Set task manager on home screen and use it every time you exit an app. The battery life on this phone is disgusting.
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The only time I had really bad battery life was with the overclock kernal. I ghetto adb'd it to my phone around 12est and by 6pm est it was dead not low battery but completly dead. I poped the battery out reverted to stock temp rooted it without overclock now im back to the 12 hours heavy use 2 days with min usage.
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Turn auto sync off, that seems to help a little. Set task manager on home screen and use it every time you exit an app. The battery life on this phone is disgusting.
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Not bad at all for me. Of course it drops a hell of a lot quicker if you leave the screen on 24/7 but mine will still last 5-6 hours while listening to pandora over bluetooth and with the screen constantly on browsing the web. When not being used constantly it lasts a lot longer.
I have confirmed wakelock, started last night. I'm totally stock, no overclocking or anything.
How do I go about figuring out what's causing it?
Our you could just not use your phone. Then your battery will katy all day.
In all seriousness though, if you haven't already go to settings> wireless & networks> mobile networks & turn off always on data. You won't notice a difference in anything except your battery life will increase. Also, turn off automatic screen brightness & set it somewhere comfortable for you. All that brightness adjusting will drain on the battery. 3D movies, pictures & video will drain it as well. Also as someone else mentioned, check the built in real manager every once in a while. You would be surprised at some of the apps still running in the background even though you haven't used then in a while.
Just a few suggestions. If you have ashley tried all of this then wait until e can flash Roms & Kernels or buy the Seidio monster 4000mah battery.
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That sounds like you got a bad battery, even if the phone is not sleeping it should last longer than that. I would reset to see if maybe your batt stats got corrupted and if that doesn't do anything see if Sprint will give you another battery to try.
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Weird. I did a factory reset and now my battery is great.
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Hello my girl got the amaze and she doesnt want to root her phone. With that said is there anything i can do to her phone to improve the battery life? Also her phone is much different then mine so i am lost as to was this call..something. It seems to run the whole time the phone is on. Is that just a system app for getting the signal for the phone? Thanks for your time.
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Turn off sync in Settings > Accounts
Also it wouldn't hurt to put the screen on the dimmest setting when its asleep.
Also put it on Edge when its asleep.
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Turn off sync in Settings > Accounts
Also it wouldn't hurt to put the screen on the dimmest setting when its asleep.
Also put it on Edge when its asleep.
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Alright thank you but what is edge?
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Alright thank you but what is edge?
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Network setings 2G only
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get juice defender or green power. they turn off data when your screen is off. I use green power and it works wonders, just make sure you set it to only manage phone data and turn off the bluetooth and wifi management.
Yep Juice Defender has helped me a lot.
Like others mentioned, set to lowest dimming, sync only what you need.
Shut off wifi when out and about and not near wifi as it will search for it and essentially drains the battery faster.
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Today I got almost 2 hours of on screen time before I hit 3% after 9 hours. So I look in battery in settings and Android System is #1 at 57%! Then screen at 20%' followed by cell standby at 9%.
What is causing android system to take up 57% and cause barely 2 hour on screen time?
I had this issue too! after a reboot i havent had this issue agin
check what google services you have auto syncing. aka g+ calender and contacts those can make it really bad.
sounds like a rogue app of some sort.
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sounds like a rogue app of some sort.
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What's a rouge ap
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What's a rouge ap
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An app that misbehaves: Sync's data or runs in the background when you are not using it, wakes device during sleep (wakelock) and performs background operations. This could be any app or game you download, usually it is more common in free apps with unknown developers....make sure to check reviews before downloading.
It seems like the restart fixed it. After restart android system is 4th place at only 6%.
Its doing it again today. 67% of battery is android system.
Any help?
I have better battery stats but it's some what hard to understand.
I think it's bam_dmux_wakelock ...what is this?
vince24L said:
I think it's bam_dmux_wakelock ...what is this?
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I've got the same wakelock...no idea what it is. Not much information online.
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I think it's bam_dmux_wakelock ...what is this?
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Same here, killing battery. Haven't found much info for it
Zepp's V6 SuperCharger...I put that **** on everything
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Same here, killing battery. Haven't found much info for it
Zepp's V6 SuperCharger...I put that **** on everything
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Yeap...I get bam_dmux_wakelock & smdcntl0 wakelock alot...
We should post in the BBS thread to get other peoples inputs... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809&page=612
Havent touched my phone in 4 hours and it dropped 60% because of it..anybody have any idea?
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Havent touched my phone in 4 hours and it dropped 60% because of it..anybody have any idea?
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Try going into settings<applications<manage apps<running.....and see what app keeps running when ur not using it..OK on my phone dsp manager was always running even when I never even opened it
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Gsiff_daemon is raping my battery, anyone know what it is?
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Gsiff_daemon is raping my battery, anyone know what it is?
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Mobile data has been killing the battery on my AT&T Galaxy S3. I can always tell because it gets warm even with the screen off. The only way I can stop the drain is to turn off mobile data which is not a long-term fix. I can't understand why some days I get amazing battery life, and some days I get a few hours only.
Use juice defender, I've used it for years, it turns off mobile data when the screen is off and re enables it on a schedule you set. It's the only long term fix I have found. Since calls and texts come through 2g this should fix your problem.
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just out of curiosity, are any of you with battery problem using a live wallpaper, or most importantly a weather live wallpaper?
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Use juice defender, I've used it for years, it turns off mobile data when the screen is off and re enables it on a schedule you set. It's the only long term fix I have found. Since calls and texts come through 2g this should fix your problem.
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Can't you do that in tasker as well?
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just out of curiosity, are any of you with battery problem using a live wallpaper, or most importantly a weather live wallpaper?
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no.
I am new to Android and very new to Samsung devices coming from iphone. Last night I was at 100% battery before bed and woke up at 71%. I didn't use the phone once. Is that normal? Should I be turning things off or something? 30% overnight drain seems wrong.
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I am new to Android and very new to Samsung devices coming from iphone. Last night I was at 100% battery before bed and woke up at 71%. I didn't use the phone once. Is that normal? Should I be turning things off or something? 30% overnight drain seems wrong.
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Seems like something is amiss. I left mine on all night lastnight at 33% I THINK and its at 18% right now. 1d 1h 55m 47s on battery with 3h 43m 23s of screen on time right now at 10:29AM
Hmm. I forgot to say I have power saving enabled and the usual battery saving tips too.
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That js a very big problem. as you can see i get alot of time on battery. The graph shows that it charged about 10% while I was sleeping (not true). Are you rooted?
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I am rooted. I checked battery usage and messaging was at the top? An exchange account is fully set to manual and nothing else.
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my device drains less than 2% over the course of 8hrs when sleeping...you have a app causing a wakelock.
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I am rooted. I checked battery usage and messaging was at the top? An exchange account is fully set to manual and nothing else.
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R u using chomp sms or comparable?
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Stock sms. However I noticed one of my contacts is on Google Talk and I was logged in to that. Would that stay open all night?
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Stock sms. However I noticed one of my contacts is on Google Talk and I was logged in to that. Would that stay open all night?
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No. There's something wrong. Force Close the messaging app and restart it. Wait a few hours and see if its battery usage goes down.
Possible...
The most likely culprit is the "wakelock" issue mentioned above.
Basically it means something... most likely a poorly written app (also most likely a 3rd party non-google app) is preventing the phone from entering its idle/sleep mode, in which it scales back the CPU to minimum, and other bits enter low power states to conserve battery life.
An app that likes to live on the internet or update frequently, or constantly wakes the device to do things, can cause large amounts of drain as well.
It is also possible that signal strength is a cause. Poor/low signal can keep the radio working at higher power levels and that drains battery fast.
Is there any way to check for wakelock applications causing issues? I have removed a few possible applications and force stopped others. I seem to be losing 1-3% battery per hour on idle. Normal now based on everyone's experience?
If it is a signal strength issue I can live with that but the drain still seems steep.
Sorry for the questions. Too new to this to be able to determine if there are issues and everyone is having great battery life.
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Several battery apps that can show that type of info, I've used Gsam battery monitor before myself.
gsam battery moniter is what i use on a daily basis. it will let you know what is draining your battery. Link is for the free version. I have the paid.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...bs.bbm&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
Gsam battery monitor is pretty amazing. Thank you. I have an application called "Media" that seems to be running at idle. I can disable it but it looks like I would disable the Download application. It includes a process com.android.providers.media and android.process.media.
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Ah wait. SD card issue? I think I found a thead on it
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Is there any way to check for wakelock applications causing issues?
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Check out "Wakelock detector" , it shows clear list of applications which using wakelocks,
Wakelock detector
Hi.
I am used to get about 4h30min-5 hours max but after doing this little trick I am getting 3 hours 20 minutes with 55% battery left.
The trick is to go into settings- apps- all, find android system and force close it. Don't worry, it will start up again immediately but the battery draining process seem to be killed.
Android OS is no longer the one causing the most battery drain. Android system has settled down too. Check it out!
(It seems like I got another problem to solve - Facebook is draining a whole lot now cos it's using the GPS. Still getting amazing battery life though!)
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Edit: (can't edit on my phone) - another thing I did was to disable NFC. Try that as well!
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I left stock ROM mainly because of that. Thanks for the tip. Hope to hear what other people report soon
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***** pleaaaaaaase...
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And here is another one with the same percentage as you.....with no stoping the android system....maybe when i stop it i will get more...
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HOW
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HOW
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Coming from a Droid RAZR, you learn a lot of tricks to milk battery life. Trust me, the things I had to do to get those numbers aren't worth it. The drop off in the battery graph is when I got home and was able to turn everything back on and use it normally.
Right now, I average 18 hrs battery, and 5 hrs screen-on:
I am on stock ROM 11A.
Rooted and TWRP
Screen brightness set to auto/60% max
GPS and WiFi toggled on when I need it.
Everything on EXCEPT WiFi and Verizon location services
No disabled or frozen system apps or processes.
4 push emails.
I average 600 texts a month.
I average 6-8 GB on 4G a month.
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he put it on charger
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vPro97 said:
Hi.
I am used to get about 4h30min-5 hours max but after doing this little trick I am getting 3 hours 20 minutes with 55% battery left.
The trick is to go into settings- apps- all, find android system and force close it. Don't worry, it will start up again immediately but the battery draining process seem to be killed.
Android OS is no longer the one causing the most battery drain. Android system has settled down too. Check it out!
(It seems like I got another problem to solve - Facebook is draining a whole lot now cos it's using the GPS. Still getting amazing battery life though!)
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For your Facebook GPS wakelock, let it connect and lock onto your GPS and the wakelock should stop. If you're closing up Facebook before it has a chance to lock, it will create the wakelock. If you don't want FB to connect to your GPS, make sure GPS is off before you open FB. Also, turning off GPS while in FB before it can lock will create the wakelock as well.
I can't express my gratitude enough. I reinstalled it to make it work lol
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I can't express my gratitude enough. I reinstalled it to make it work lol
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Second day doing this "trick"
Currently at 78% with 1h 47 minutes... Too good to be true, lols!
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Second day doing this "trick"
Currently at 78% with 1h 47 minutes... Too good to be true, lols!
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You're talking about the facebook part or force stop android OS?
The android system force closure. I uninstalled Facebook and downloaded fast for Facebook since I'm tired of the gps issue.
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vPro97 said:
Hi.
I am used to get about 4h30min-5 hours max but after doing this little trick I am getting 3 hours 20 minutes with 55% battery left.
The trick is to go into settings- apps- all, find android system and force close it. Don't worry, it will start up again immediately but the battery draining process seem to be killed.
Android OS is no longer the one causing the most battery drain. Android system has settled down too. Check it out!
(It seems like I got another problem to solve - Facebook is draining a whole lot now cos it's using the GPS. Still getting amazing battery life though!)
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Nice to read this 3d.i will try it tomorrow,but I what to know when I need to force close of the android system??at the beginning or maybe after 10 minutes after have full battery??
Thx
You can try another Rom, it helped me a lot
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***** pleeeeeeease
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Actually, the numbers are legit. I will admit though, I've never been able to get close to that again. My average when I first got the phone was between 6-7 hours screen on time and about 12 hours battery life. Those 2 days, I just happened to be working massive overtime. Almost all of the screen on time was the second day. The dropoff on the graph was when I got home, turned everything on, and actually used it. It also helped that my work provides me a work phone which I was using during that time instead.
I have tried to hit those numbers again, but I can't, it was a one time deal which is why I took a screenshot. In my head, I'm telling my self that the battery is starting to get worn, but the truth is, I can't put it down long enough or put up with all of the disabled features.
The best I've been able to do since then is 18 hours battery life, about 3 hours screen on. And, 7 hours screen on, 10 hours battery. At this point, I no longer care. I'm happy with my 15 hours battery and 4-5 hours screen on.
It would be more if the battery wasn't starting to wear out....
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Nice to read this 3d.i will try it tomorrow,but I what to know when I need to force close of the android system??at the beginning or maybe after 10 minutes after have full battery??
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You have to do this whenever you reboot your phone. I usually turn my phone off, charge it and then turn it on. The first thing I do after putting my pin code in, is to force close andros system.
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Fully charge here. Ended android system will report in when time is due
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