If I go to Phone Manager > Power Savings > Energy Consumption I have a huge battery drain. I need help
I'd say pretty much everyone is experience a degraded battery after the update. It will probably have to be fixed though an update.
Oh. I see. I have heard that people are not happy with the battery in Lollipop. I haven't really experienced a change that I noticed.
GadgetStrutter said:
If I go to Phone Manager > Power Savings > Energy Consumption I have a huge battery drain. I need help
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When you say a huge battery drain, do you mean the battery is not lasting as long as it did or you observed a very precipitous drop in battery over a short period of time?
I have noticed a slight change in battery drain but its definitely not during cell standby.
lollipop needs an update real bad ...cell standby is huge in battery stats ...17% in 4 hours without WiFi and data ..this is just ridiculous ...
chrome is another big battery hog ,ever since it was released.
its a shame Google still couldn't fix its drain caused from chrome while running in background .
notoriouspk said:
lollipop needs an update real bad ...cell standby is huge in battery stats ...17% in 4 hours without WiFi and data ..this is just ridiculous ...
chrome is another big battery hog ,ever since it was released.
its a shame Google still couldn't fix its drain caused from chrome while running in background .
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Go into settings and unchecked it. Should no longer run in background. Google has several issues right now draining battery. There are some work around. But only on cm roms.
After i restarted my phone a couple times it seemed to have fixed the problem. I've also changed my microUSB cable and AC adaptor as well... since I noticed that they actually make a difference.
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Yes, another battery life thread but this one is a recent development for me.
I bought the phone on release day so I have some track record with it. I have not had any trouble with my battery life and have always been able to make the day on a charge. However, recently the Cell Standby and Phone Idle has been sucking my battery dry MUCH faster than in the past.
I unplugged my phone this morning and headed out to work as I do every day. I grabbed my phone at around 10am and saw that the battery was down to 58%. I checked that stats and this is what I saw:
Battery Level 58%
3h 46m 59s since unplugged
Cell Standby - 27%
Phone Idle - 20%
Display - 20%
Bluetooth - 11%
Android System 9%
Other stuff that was nominal >5%
Is this normal? Why would Cell Standby and Phone Idle suddenly be draining the battery when it didn't do it before?
Pneumatic said:
Yes, another battery life thread but this one is a recent development for me.
I bought the phone on release day so I have some track record with it. I have not had any trouble with my battery life and have always been able to make the day on a charge. However, recently the Cell Standby and Phone Idle has been sucking my battery dry MUCH faster than in the past.
I unplugged my phone this morning and headed out to work as I do every day. I grabbed my phone at around 10am and saw that the battery was down to 58%. I checked that stats and this is what I saw:
Battery Level 58%
3h 46m 59s since unplugged
Cell Standby - 27%
Phone Idle - 20%
Display - 20%
Bluetooth - 11%
Android System 9%
Other stuff that was nominal >5%
Is this normal? Why would Cell Standby and Phone Idle suddenly be draining the battery when it didn't do it before?
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More info on your rom? do you have Wifi calling APP? If you have a custom rom, did you do the battery recycle?
Thanks for the reply...
I am on the stock ROM (rooted). I am not ooposed to flashing a new ROM but I definitely don't want to DECREASE my battery life which is what I have seen occurs with some. Are any of the custom ROM's proven to increase battery life?
I don't have Wifi calling and I haven't done the battery recycle. I fell out of 'tweaker' mode a while back and have just been using the phone. I don't think I have even installed any apps since (or before) my battery life seemed to change. About the only thing different is the Market but I don't think that's a problem.
I just looked and it's down to 38% in 6h 24m and I haven't even touched it. It's rediculous. Something is like a parasite in my phone and I don't know what it is. The only thing running in the "Active Applications" is Launcher Pro but that was one of the first things I installed when I got the phone.
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More info on your rom? do you have Wifi calling APP? If you have a custom rom, did you do the battery recycle?
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I heard recycle of battery is bad?
That's why I've never done
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Nero V3 is great for battery life. Also check if you added some apps in the past few weeks. Might be some background sync process taking too much of battery life while in standby.
i've had this issue before and i've found that it was always a rogue app. your best bet is to start uninstalling or freeze them in titanium to find the one that is screwing you up.
one app that was my latest standby hog was beautiful widgets.
Thanks for the tips! I will start removing some apps and see if that helps.
chichu_9 said:
Nero V3 is great for battery life. Also check if you added some apps in the past few weeks. Might be some background sync process taking too much of battery life while in standby.
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I am not up to speed on the various ROMs. I will go start reading up but is Nero V3 fully functional (camera, GPS, etc.)? I was keeping track of the progress on all of the ROMs but there are now so many and they are updated so frequently it's tough to keep up (at least for me).
Thanks again!
Oops. Double post.
i'm sure it's an app that's causing that. I think a stock rom won't drain that too much.
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It may not apply, but I've also noticed that beautiful widgets is a hog.
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I just got the View for my wife to replace her Kindle Fire and it has terrible battery life running HC. I have it in airplane mode and I have tried a number of battery life tips that have worked on all my other Android devices and nothing is working. For instance its been on battery for just under 5 hours and just barely over 1 hour display on and its at 35% right now. I used to have the Flyer and it was pretty decent when it came to battery life but the View is terrible. Am I missing something?
The flyer was wifi only. The view is running a mobile data plan. If you want it to get battery life like the flyer then turn the mobile data off and only use the wifi.
This is what I do with my view and I am usually trying to kill it at the end of the day to charge it. I'm on it constantly throughout the day as well.
My battery life seems fine. I use it off and on throughout the day and I have the Cellular radios on most of the time.
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The flyer was wifi only. The view is running a mobile data plan. If you want it to get battery life like the flyer then turn the mobile data off and only use the wifi.
This is what I do with my view and I am usually trying to kill it at the end of the day to charge it. I'm on it constantly throughout the day as well.
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As I stated it is in Airplane Mode therefore mobile data is off.
butterflygirl said:
My battery life seems fine. I use it off an throughout the day and I have the Cellular radios on most of the time.
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I'm beginning to think I might've received a bad View.
Its not normal and hardware is unlikely so check the battery usage stats on the settings menu and see what is using the battery.
DigitalMD said:
Its not normal and hardware is unlikely so check the battery usage stats on the settings menu and see what is using the battery.
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I have been monitoring the battery stats very closely and it doesn't make sense what is causing so much drain. I even have Better Battery Stats installed to monitor partial wake usage and nothing is out of the ordinary. I've never received a device with a bad battery but I'm thinking this might be the first.
jhale83 said:
I have been monitoring the battery stats very closely and it doesn't make sense what is causing so much drain. I even have Better Battery Stats installed to monitor partial wake usage and nothing is out of the ordinary. I've never received a device with a bad battery but I'm thinking this might be the first.
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i think you did that does not sound normal mine last all day with heavy use i can say i have never had it go all the way down...you may have a bad battery it just doesn't sound like the two i play with in fact one on gb the other on hc and the hc is lasting more....
Aside from a possible bad battery, you might have a corrupted battery stats file. Try clearing the file by deleting it if you have root.
Wait a few days. I think the same thing happened to me. Maybe for the first few days the battery indicator is not very accurate.
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Wait a few days. I think the same thing happened to me. Maybe for the first few days the battery indicator is not very accurate.
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We've had it since 1/31 and it hasn't gotten any better. I've been doing some more testing and it seems as though wifi is the culprit. In airplane mode without wifi on it seems fine without use and doesn't drain. With wifi on the battery usage shows a constant drain without any use.
Try out my rom. All my testers and users report much better battery life than the stock rom, and I've got a couple extra things under the hood.
the links in my sig...
I just picked up a view off of CL. Same problem.. Horrible battery, didn't even last a full day.
People make fun of the ipad, but that 10 hour battery is no joke. This thing, with cell radio off and wifi on, lasts me MAYBE 5 hours, and thats with medium usage.
That's insane.
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I just picked up a view off of CL. Same problem.. Horrible battery, didn't even last a full day.
People make fun of the ipad, but that 10 hour battery is no joke. This thing, with cell radio off and wifi on, lasts me MAYBE 5 hours, and thats with medium usage.
That's insane.
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Now don't just assume all Android tablets are like your experience with the View. I'm confident there is something defective with the one I purchased. I had the Flyer and it would last me a good 7 hours and I currently have the Galaxy Tab which easily gets me over 9 hours of actual use (ie screen on).
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As I stated it is in Airplane Mode therefore mobile data is off.
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Missed that part. My bad.
spartan1987 said:
Try out my rom. All my testers and users report much better battery life than the stock rom, and I've got a couple extra things under the hood.
the links in my sig...
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I installed this rom and have to say battery life is improved. Although Ill honestly say that battery life on my view was never a problem. About a day on medium use. 7+ hrs
Just wondering how much is the battery life of tablet s on standby, just tried to use my tablet s after four days aftet holidays and found the battery was flat, any comments
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i think the battery performance has decreased after ICS update ...
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Just wondering how much is the battery life of tablet s on standby, just tried to use my tablet s after four days aftet holidays and found the battery was flat, any comments
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I'm still on HC 3.2.1r2 but my Tablet's battery life is quite good and excellent on standby, but I've never tried to go past about 4 days. Do you use any "battery-saving" apps or things like WiFi lock apps that might cause wakelocks?
i have a 3g version and the battery lasts longer if i switch the device to airplane-mode...every 3-4h 1% battery
greetz
emil
No bsttrry ssving apps do they sctually save battery, would anyone recommend some good battery saver apps .
Thanks
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i think the battery performance has decreased after ICS update ...
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Agree, Since my ICS upgrade the battery has flattened out after just a day or two. This never happened before the upgrade. I've had it since it was released..
Haven't had any time to investigate whats causing it yet, will try to find out on this cycle.
Even with ICS my tablet holds 4 days with moderate use. I mostly use it for the IR function, RDP to PC or just for browsing, so nothin that would really drain the battery.
I should mention that I removed all bloatware and I hit the "Kill All button" (widget from ZDBox) a few times a day.
This is just a personal choice, but I've never found battery saving apps very effective. Most will give you either equivalent or shorter battery life so they're rarely worth it.
Ironically, some of them will shorten the battery life since to do all their conserving activities, they have to get wakelocks and some of them don't release them or they get queued and it ruins your battery.
Yep, my battery life is also rubbish now I'm on ICS, it'll need charging after a day!
I have noticed that Android OS uses up about 20% of the battery, while on my One S it's only about 3%....
wow i am surprised by 4 days. even on honeycomb i didnt get more than 2 days. on ics it's even worse. i am not using any apps in the background besides google sync. i do have 3g version, without simcard. and my wifi discnnect policy is "use mobile data" (i thought since there is no sim, this will disconnect the wifi)
Hi,
I installed Gummy 1.2.0 on my vibrant. The first day or two I was getting amazing battery life. For instance with light-medium use, 30% of the battery was gone in 12+ hours, I was amazed. When I was getting this type of battery life Android system was using about 6-7%.
I noticed that as time passed, the battery life started getting worse and worse. I noticed that the Android System was eating up more and more battery even when it was supposed to be in deep sleep. Now Android System is using almost 40%
Has anyone else had the same experience? Great battery life changing to mediocre battery life in a couple of days.
Please advise.
Thanks!!!
I suggest you get Betterbatterystats and that way you can see exactly what is causing the problem. It is available in the market, but there is a free version here in post 2. IIRC the AOS taking so much of your battery life is bc of some errant process that is constantly drawing/polling on the system and causing the dismally high % of use. Find the app, fix it and your problem will be solved.
finally found a thread on this issue after posting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748301
sorry mods, pls delete
Me too ... it's driving me nuts.
I am experiencing this. My battery life is horrendous. Even when I barely touch the phone the battery drains extremely quickly. I have already rooted the phone with a few different roms with the battery setting "fix" to no avail. I'm on at&t. I have disabled wifi and gps. I have tried to use both the stock app killers and 3rd party ones recommended by these forums. My battery monitoring apps (both stock and 3rd party) consistently attribute the battery loss (always more than 90% of battery use) to an android system app. The android system app or file changes from day to day seemingly randomly. Files have included: UltaCfg, com.samsung.app.playreadyui and security storage.
Any help will be extremely* appreciated. I love the phone but it is nearly useless in this state.
zeesubalpha said:
I have been experiencing some serious battery drain issues. Looking at my battery stats, "Android System" is responsible for over half of the drainage. These are the only apps that run constantly besides those which the phone requires to operate:
- SetCPU
- HDWidges
- The Weather Channel
- LBE Privacy Guard
- avast! Mobile Security
other phone info is in sig. Any insight/advice??
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I am draining my battery as quickly as I can (streaming Netflix through 4G LTE with max screen brightness, max overlclock w/ performance gov) and then i'm going to power off and do a full recharge. this seemed to have fixed similar issues in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756776
let you know the results.
edit: suppose i should say that i was not experiencing this issue until i updated KT747 this morning.
this is what i did:
1) drain the battery completely. let the phone die.
2) charge to 100%. do not power the phone on until it is completely charged to 100%.
3) when i powered the phone on I was at 99%. i plugged it in and it went to 100% in about 2 minutes.
this seems to have completely solved my problem. the android system has gone from using 57% of the battery to 6%. it seems like the kernel i was using vastly overestimates the percentage of the battery to allocate to the android system until it "learns" the capacity of the battery
zeesubalpha said:
this is what i did:
1) drain the battery completely. let the phone die.
2) charge to 100%. do not power the phone on until it is completely charged to 100%.
3) when i powered the phone on I was at 99%. i plugged it in and it went to 100% in about 2 minutes.
this seems to have completely solved my problem. the android system has gone from using 57% of the battery to 6%. it seems like the kernel i was using vastly overestimates the percentage of the battery to allocate to the android system until it "learns" the capacity of the battery
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So this worked for you? I am having excessive battery drain with my Telus S3?
colemac said:
So this worked for you? I am having excessive battery drain with my Telus S3?
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I am also a Telus user. I had big time battery drain issues even with trying everything: enabling power savings mode, running Juice Defender, using wifi more, using darker wallpaper, keeping a closer eye on syncing operations, screen brightness and some other stuff.
After about 10 days I went back to the vendor (Futureshop) and convinced them to give me an exchange on the battery. They have a 14 day return/exchange policy for cell phones if you are not completely satisfied. I took some screenshots to argue my case. Thankfully the rep said ok and further explained how much power an AMOLED screen uses. I really didn't want to convince him that I am quite informed on battery drain issus and took the new battery and ran!
Conclusion is the new battery is so much better it's like night and day. I have the capacity now that others have been raving about.
If you can exchange the battery, do it. Then get the new battery and charge it up fully first thing.