Over the last couple of weeks, I've been having crazy battery drains on my Galaxy S6 (battery will last about and hour). After trying to figure out what is doing it, I narrowed it down to the new Gear Fit Manager. Anyone know WTF is going on and is there an .apk for either a downgrade or fixes this?
well, updated through Samsung Apps, and not letting itself update has seemed to do the trick. Boy that was a major PITA
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Hi everyone,
I am a proud and extremely satisfied owner of a GS3 for two months now. However, I have a very annoying and obtrusive problem I can't seem to be able to fix.
Every time after I charge the phone, I got the habit to always check in betterbatterystats for a partial wakelock, named *overflow* which gets stuck running each and every time after fully charging the phone. I tried stopping various apps with absolutely no success in cutting the *overflow* wakelock. The only way that I know of stopping overflow is by rebooting the phone and after that partial wakelock usage goes back to normal. In case I don't restart the phone and leave the *overflow* process as is the battery will drain in about 9 hours to about 20%
My FW version is XXLFB and this issue started occurring after I upgraded from XXLF2 to this version, before the upgrade I still had this problem, but only once in several charge cycles.
My phone is completely stock and unrooted.
Guys, I would really appreciate any assistance on this, so please help me to figure this out, I have a gut feeling that this is something easily fixable
Hello there, I recently installed CM11- 20141224-Nightly and now I have a serious battery drain issue on my phone. It barely stays 5 hours with minimum usage, like browsing the web reading stuff it stays for about less than 2 hours, and without using it(on sleep) drains from 90% to 75% in 2hours. Because of this I have to charge the phone like 2-3 times daily! Is this something to do with the nightly? I thought of updating it to the new nightly that appeared on the 30th of December.
Will updating my phone into the new Snapshot make things any better? Should I do it?
I tried all kinds of battery fix apps, nothing works. The battery is a bit old though, maybe like 1 and a half years and I dont know how it was like on stock because it was handed to me from someone else. I would appreciate any help please!
FYI my phone is i9100T, after upgrading to CM it became i9100. Heard somewhere its not an issue.
Hi,
I have posted a similar question on the T-Mobile Note 3 page, but since the Gear S has similar problems, I figured I post here as well.
Ever since getting the Lollipop update on my unrooted T-Mobile Note 3, both the Note 3 and the Gear S have had battery life issues. I never had a problem before, the Gear S would last at least until 10pm every day, now it usually dies around 3 or 4 pm., without any change in behavior on my part.
The Gear S update failed the first time, but now I have the latest version installed on the Gear without changes in battery life.
On the Note 3 I can check battery usage for the phone and it appears that most days, bluetooth appears to be a top battery drain. I don't recall seeing that on top before the lollipop update, but could be wrong.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance...
I also found same battery drain issue on my Galaxy Note3 and Gear 1 connection.
Since I had updated to Lollipop, both Gear and Note3 never go to deep sleep mode and keep awake status, and they consume their battery much than before. It is quite obvious that there are some defects on their BT connection. If I disconnect them, Note3 can goes to deep sleep mode and battery life of note3 becomes similar with Kitkat.
So what did you do? Is there a solution? I am eligible for an upgrade, but was hoping to wait until the note 5 comes out....
My Note 2 (unlocked international v) is still on Kitkat, but something (I suspect the last Gear Mgr update) is draining my Gear S battery like crazy as well, and the Gear S gets unbearably hot. Remotely connected is causing the same.
At the moment, I only connect the Gear S to synch S Health data every few days, but use the Gear s in stand-alone mode for the time being.
With BT off, and Data and Location Services on at all times, it now lasts much longer than it ever did when BT connected to my Note.
I am only writing this in case it's not Lollipop but your Gear Mgr version itself.
I use both with T-mo sim cards, but the Hear S is the (unlocked) ATT version.
About a week and a half ago, my battery went from draining ten percent in a typical day (hour to an hour and a balf of constant use, browsing Facebook, web, email - if I really went ham I might go down in the 80s) to easily closing in on the 50s if not more.
I've tried several factory resets, gotten the lollipop upgrade that just hit, removed apps, upgraded apps - nothing. I'm on stock and haven't had this phone more than a month. Android System is typically the worst offender for battery usage according to the settings monitor.
Please help. I was so impressed and now I'm at a loss.
If you've done factory resets, then I would say, factory reset again and stay on stock apps. Don't install anything else. Monitor what happens with your battery life. My guess is, if you have installed other apps since doing the factory reset, it's an app that is misbehaving, even though you see android system being the main culprit. More than likely, it could be an app that isn't releasing resources correctly or hasn't been updated to run correctly with LP. That usually points to a sign of improper programming, or they haven't update their app yet to perform correctly under LP.
If things are running fine on stock, start adding your apps back one by one. Install one app, leave it for a few days and see what happens. if battery life stays the same, then move onto the next app. Hopefully, you'll find the app that's giving you issues.
If even with just stock apps you are having the issue, then it might be a hardware issue, possibly even battery. But, if it's been working fine before the LP update, I highly doubt that. My best guess is it's a misbehaving app.
I'm still having problems with nothing else but stock apps, unfortunately. The problem started shortly before the update - does that support that it's more hardware or more software related? The phone is still fairly new and though I know that doesn't rule out a bad battery, still kinda hoping I don't have to deal with Verizon and getting a replacement.
Talked to Verizon, they said "we checked, battery's fine." So... guess its not the battery? They said it "could take a month to normalize after the update."
I would buy a replacement battery and install it, see if that helps. They are cheap and it's good to have one anyway. The Ankers come in a 2-pack with a nice universal wall charger.
Verizon is not even bothering to check really, are they ? Did they even loan you a replacement to prove to you it's not a bad battery ? Doubt it. Do it yourself.
It really sounds like you are having excessive battery drain due to a wakelock problem like with Google's update service. Check around here for threads about how to diagnose and mitigate that.
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I didn't expect Verizon to help, but they definitely impressed with just how little they offered. I'm spending today with Wi-Fi and 4G off, unless browsing, for which I turn the latter on. In my half hour lunch I've noticed much, much better battery usage. Thoughts?
Edit: change of location seems to drain it quicker (school vs McDonalds parking lot - former worse than the latter). Signal was three bars in each, though.
I've looked a bit ino wakelocks but will read up on it more tonight. Problem I've found is how many detectors require root access, and I'm not real interested in rooting.
I just got my G3 last night and rooted it and did a few things to minimize battery drain and today, after almost 12 hours of light to moderate use my battery is still sitting at 81%.
Pretty sure there's a memory leak on stock vs985 lollipop... Or at least from what I had read and experienced
So I noticed since like 2 weeks ago that I would wake up and my battery would "drain" till 80% on the morning within
minutes of waking up but then realized this past weekend that it's due to it not surpassing the 75%-80% charge even it it left all night.
I also noticed that this started happening upon updating around the same time. Also, the battery used to last a loooot on the last 15%
but now drains quicker, even the last 5% goes withing minutes
I have tried various things:
*Clearing the Cache via recovery
*Battery Calibration via the Samsung code (#*24 something like that)
*Charging it all night
I found out there was another update yesterday and upon updating I still have the same issue.
Anyone know what could be causing this? Is this phone close to death?
Thanks!
takotakumi said:
So I noticed since like 2 weeks ago that I would wake up and my battery would "drain" till 80% on the morning within
minutes of waking up but then realized this past weekend that it's due to it not surpassing the 75%-80% charge even it it left all night.
I also noticed that this started happening upon updating around the same time. Also, the battery used to last a loooot on the last 15%
but now drains quicker, even the last 5% goes withing minutes
I have tried various things:
*Clearing the Cache via recovery
*Battery Calibration via the Samsung code (#*24 something like that)
*Charging it all night
I found out there was another update yesterday and upon updating I still have the same issue.
Anyone know what could be causing this? Is this phone close to death?
Thanks!
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Root. Install custom recovery. Flash custom rom. Check to see if it persists, if it does then it's a hardware problem most likely. Or you can try flashing stock rom from sammobile using odin and then check to see the results.
To fix the problem , I suggest you to replace new battery.