I'm noticing that my V10 is draining faster than my G4.. Both charged and taken of the charger at the samtime this morning (730am). Haven't used my V10 this morning at all and the battery is at 81% . G4 is at 95% and I have made calls and facebook this morning.
I thought maybe it was the second screen causing it, its dimmed. The only thing I can see differently on the phone is that in sync options, Amazon Photos is listed. But it says its for video synce. I don't have prime video installed on the G4. I cleared the cache and forces stopped the amazon photos apps. But it still keeps coming back. Any ideas to improve battery life??
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while I can't say Amazon Photos is the culprit, I can say Amazon apps tend to drain unnecessarily. Grab BetterBatteryStats and see where the possible drain may be from.
dimm0k said:
while I can't say Amazon Photos is the culprit, I can say Amazon apps tend to drain unnecessarily. Grab BetterBatteryStats and see where the possible drain may be from.
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I have it. But I'm not rooted. So its not giving me much info. Where exactly should I look in BBS?
shaun0207 said:
I have it. But I'm not rooted. So its not giving me much info. Where exactly should I look in BBS?
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unfortunately without root there's not much info that can be gathered with BBS... pretty sure that's going to be the case with any other apps similar to BBS. usually after leaving the phone idle for a few hours BBS gives you a listing of things under partial wakelocks and alarms, but those are obtained via root access.
Do you use Facebook? If you do turn off all of the notifications cause Facebook drains the battery.
Disable the Facebook, Facebook messenger apps and you'll see your battery nearly double
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Hello,
Since a few days or propably even more, i have some problems with battery life. The reason is the facebook for android app. I uave already turned off the automatic sync, so the app shouldnt start itself but here is the partial wakeup spareparts shows me after a day of very light use (i have sometimes closed the facebook process when i saw that my battery made jumps of 10% without touching it for an hour, hoping this would help):
Can somebody confirm this drainage or help me how to get rid of it?
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Ive seen it befoe. Clear data, unistall, reboot, and reistall. That fixed it fo me
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Go to settings->application->manage application->all->facebook and tap "force stop".
I uninstalled Facebook for this exact reason.
Installed friendcaster and sync my pix and I get the exact same (if not better) user experience with far less battery wastage. Best thing I did for my handset (except root it ) the only downside is having two apps to replace one. But hell, it works!
I'll try friendcaster and syncmypix now. Hopefully these apps wont drain as much as facebook did
Thank you for your reply
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unistall facebook for this reason.You can use friendcast
I am going to try taking Facebook of off my wife's phone and putting Friendcaster on. We have identical phones, roms, and kernels, yet her phone eats up way more battery than mine on standby (10% an hour). I put Watchdog lite on both of our phones and it popped up with a notification on her phone that said Facebook was using quite a bit of CPU. I even force stopped Facebook and it seems her phone is still draining battery.
Thanks for the suggestions in this thread.
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I am going to try taking Facebook of off my wife's phone and putting Friendcaster on. We have identical phones, roms, and kernels, yet her phone eats up way more battery than mine on standby (10% an hour). I put Watchdog lite on both of our phones and it popped up with a notification on her phone that said Facebook was using quite a bit of CPU. I even force stopped Facebook and it seems her phone is still draining battery.
Thanks for the suggestions in this thread.
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What you did ? was less battery drain with friendcaster ?
facebook app on android is evil
old thread but I will contribute and confirm this was the case for me.
I didn't track the stats with any app, however recently the facebook app stopped syncing my contacts. After re-installing it one day, my battery life drained twice as fast even though it was idle for most of the day. I recently got rid of the facebook app completely and my battery life it miles better when idle, it is such a big difference and this facebook app is evil.
I have it periodically check for updates, however I have several other apps that check as well, but facebook itself seemed to be such a battery hog compared to other apps.
sorry to bump an old thread ...but i can confirm this too.
my galaxy S2 is on XWLP3 ..and it's rock solid.
except for the fact last weekend i was on holiday away from my office desk (and it's usb charger cord) and i noticed that my phone was rapidly draining, from 100% at 9am in the morn ..to completely dead by midday :/
thought my s2's battery had started to die ..but then come tuesday, my mate popped over and asked if i had noticed the FB app chewing up ton's of cpu time lately.
and sure enough ... that was it. he too was seeing his s2's drain aay to nothing ..and this is a guy who usually could make his stock s2 run two whole days on a single charge :/
so i think unless you back out of the app ... and stop it. it will kill yr battery in no time flat at all :/
Hi
I ave a S3 and recently the battery has been draining quite quickly.
I have a reserve battery so I keep swapping
Q: will 4.1 rectify or what do you suggest.
thanks people.
Run Better Battery Stats look for wakelocks . Its your apps draining.
jje
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JJEgan said:
Run Better Battery Sta
ts look for wakelocks . Its your apps draining.
jje
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"wakelocks" ?
what's that
cheers
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"wakelocks" ?
what's that
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No idea not got Google on my phone .
jje
rathomo said:
"wakelocks" ?
what's that
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A wakelock is something that keeps the phone from sleeping properly, thus draining your battery quicker. The most common wakelocks are audioout_1 (any sound played), or networklocation (something that keeps wanting your position)
Try disabling GPS, auto-sync and disable wifi when you're not connected.
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Hi
I ave a S3 and recently the battery has been draining quite quickly.
I have a reserve battery so I keep swapping
Q: will 4.1 rectify or what do you suggest.
thanks people.
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I upgraded to 4.1 a little while ago and I found that my battery life was pretty much the same.
To try and help rectify the situation I went through and disabled a bunch of apps that I just didn't use. I found that the Samsung apps (sync adapter etc.) were causing some heavy duty battery drain. I should say that my phone didn't have any issues with disabling Samsung software, but I can't be sure all of your apps will keep working.
I'd also suggest installing and running Carat for a week or two. It gives you some good insight into what's using your battery, lets you kill apps that are misbehaving and also lets you know which apps are potential battery hogs or have battery issues. You can then choose what you want to do with misbehaving apps. If it's an app that you just don't need then get rid of it, if it's something you use, perhaps look for an alternative or maybe use a task killer to just control the misbehaving apps, any not everything else. After running Carat for a while I really stripped back the apps that I had installed and only really have the apps that I need / use on my phone. Just be patient as results will take a few days to come through.
After all of that I get around 18 hours of "normal" type use: e.g. a phone calls, SMS, web browsing, corporate email sync (push), a polling email account and 2 Google accounts syncing. I have the Facebook app installed, but I have disabled auto-updates for that as well as Plume and Taptu.
Oh, I also set my phone to airplane mode between 11pm and 5am every day if I'm at home. I use PhoneWeaver to control my phone's profiles. And obviously GPS will drain the battery if it's on, and I also use Wi-Fi where I can, but turn it off if I’m not using it.
With 4.1 you'll find that Now *can* potentially cause some extra drain depending on what you do with it and what your location settings are. For the record, I'm using Now with the location settings on and I'm quite content with my battery drain. It can always be better, but I can live with charging once a day (I plug it in overnight and unplug when I go to work).
Also, give the phone a few days to let it settle in. I noticed quite a difference in battery drain over the first week of flashing, even with the same pattern of usage. One day I'd get 8-10 hours the next 12 or so. So give it a few days and see how you go.
Hope that helps and good luck!
Mike.
Hi everyone, this is my first time to post in this forum, please let me know if I do something wrong, thank you.
I bought the HTC One last week and so far I love it! It is a gorgeous phone! However, I think I might suffer from battery life problem. My phone lost 4-6% of battery overnight with Wifi off. Also, when I am web browsing/texting/watching Youtube etc, the battery discharged pretty fast, losing 1% on every 4-5 mins. Is that normal? I have attached some battery data of my phone. Also, what is RILJ means? It seems like using a few battery but a lot of wakelock counts. The phone is rooted and flashed with Android Revolution HD 11.0 ROM.
The data of the attachment: fully charged before sleep, Skype Video call and watching Youtube for a while after woke up.
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Hi everyone, this is my first time to post in this forum, please let me know if I do something wrong, thank you.
I bought the HTC One last week and so far I love it! It is a gorgeous phone! However, I think I might suffer from battery life problem. My phone lost 4-6% of battery overnight with Wifi off. Also, when I am web browsing/texting/watching Youtube etc, the battery discharged pretty fast, losing 1% on every 4-5 mins. Is that normal? I have attached some battery data of my phone. Also, what is RILJ means? It seems like using a few battery but a lot of wakelock counts. The phone is rooted and flashed with Android Revolution HD 11.0 ROM.
The data of the attachment: fully charged before sleep, Skype Video call and watching Youtube for a while after woke up.
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That seems pretty good, for the type of usage you are mentioned. Thats decent battery life. Let me ask you this. If you have whatsapp running, skype installed, maybe facebook installed? Plus use blinkfeed etc. Thats pretty decent battery life. According to your batterstats you device has wakelocks due to skype, whatsapp, etc.
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That seems pretty good, for the type of usage you are mentioned. Thats decent battery life. Let me ask you this. If you have whatsapp running, skype installed, maybe facebook installed? Plus use blinkfeed etc. Thats pretty decent battery life. According to your batterstats you device has wakelocks due to skype, whatsapp, etc.
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I have Facebook installed as well. I use Greenify to force Googel Search/Facebook/Maps and messenger into hibernate mode. I will upload the battery data when it is around 5% left. I still have two questions: Is it normal to loss 3-6% overnight (5-8hrs)? What is RILJ ? It seems like using a few battery but a lot of wakelock counts.
I have uploaded some update battery stats. I still don't understand what DILJ is. It only used 0.4% of the battery but it has 1556 counts. Also, is it normal to loss 3-6% overnight (5-8hrs)? Thx.
Anyone with some knowledge about the system and their workings (and what caused the battery drain), PLEASE HELP!
Attachment file is screenshots from GSAM, and the help I need is to understand what is causing it, or what would be just as nice is to learn how to stop it.
Basic info
Still .475 firmware
rooted with Vroot
Stamina off, but happens to an extent with but not as severly with Stamina on
I have Greenify installed, but doubt that this is the cause, since it happened before installation too
Only the chinese SU and Google+ disabled by going into system/apps
Here is the flow of what happened.
I Fully charged to 100%, disconnected and went to bed listening to podcasts (Beyond Pod)
I wake up 5 and 1/2 hrs later to find battery down to 15%
I open GSAM, take screenshots of what looks suspicious
I note that App usage is whopping 92%, where the screen is only accounting for 1.1% usage of screen.
Of the 90%+ of power used by apps, close look tells me is 44.7% is Android System, and 41% is Google services
Looking further into these 2 culprits, is where I get lost.
Is it something about wake lock? CPU usage (background)? WifiStateMachine is high up in the list of both Sysytem and Google services?
%numbers tells me that they are something to do with it, but I have no further understanding, thus powerless to prevent or cure.
As the first screenshot will tell u, when things were smooth, I get 15-16 hrs of Batt life
Any suggestions/actions???
If this is any hint, I have no idea, but once I remember seeing in notification bar a notice saying that some app was preventing Stamina mode from going into sleep mode...
It seems I faied to attach screenshots. Here are the missing ones in attachment
Interesting. I also use vroot and 475 kernel workaround to root my 510. Your phone clearly didn't enter deep sleep all that time.. Held awake for 5+ hours, and WiFi is on for almost 5 hours initiated by google service (strange, in my phone google service doesn't initiate WiFi on) but your first screenshot suggests that WiFi is active for only 33 minutes.. Looks like conflicting information.
My ZU also sucks a lot of power when held awake (not as fast as yours though - almost 100% in 5 hour is full screen-on for me; logging gps track with screen off is around 50% down in 4 hours) and the major power drain is the kernel, android service, and google service. Looks like a lot of background processing, but I can't figure out what's the specific cause(s) is..
For those with more proficiency in these things, is there any recommended place in the internet to start deciphering the power usage logs?
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For those with more proficiency in these things, is there any recommended place in the internet to start deciphering the power usage logs?
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Yes, please, anyone?
Just to give update on what has happened since....
Still on .475 HK Firmware.
I have traced back what apps I have installed (in order, un-installed them one by one)
I dont know if the conclusion I reach is correct or not, but results seem to have solved it.
The 2 apps I have rid since are GREENIFY and TITANIUM BACKUP.
My guess is that Greenify was maybe the culprit?
It worked well on my previous device. But Not Z Ultra. Is it because it is SD 800 and it takes different kind of working/updating to fully compliment this SoC, Z ultra being the first out with SD800?
Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
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Yes, please, anyone?
Just to give update on what has happened since....
Still on .475 HK Firmware.
I have traced back what apps I have installed (in order, un-installed them one by one)
I dont know if the conclusion I reach is correct or not, but results seem to have solved it.
The 2 apps I have rid since are GREENIFY and TITANIUM BACKUP.
My guess is that Greenify was maybe the culprit?
It worked well on my previous device. But Not Z Ultra. Is it because it is SD 800 and it takes different kind of working/updating to fully compliment this SoC, Z ultra being the first out with SD800?
Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
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I also use greenify. Entered deep sleep with no problem. Stamina mode turned on, too.
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I also use greenify. Entered deep sleep with no problem. Stamina mode turned on, too.
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Does Greenify feel like it is working for you? Can you feel battery life being longer? Depending on your opinion, I might give it a try again...
jewelkobayashi said:
Does Greenify feel like it is working for you? Can you feel battery life being longer? Depending on your opinion, I might give it a try again...
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Yes, the hibernated apps are not giving notification anymore and gsam battery didn't report any wakelocks in sleep from them. But I can't really say about battery life, though, since in my case, sony's stamina mode is the main factor for battery saving. I treat greenify as a tool to minimizing data footprint.
I just heard about this app elsewhere...and found the dev's thread on XDA:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-dns66-source-host-ad-blocker-root-t3487497
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.jak_linux.dns66
Running it now. Quite fast and elegant. Runs fine so far on v20. Adguard for example seems to interfere with LG's firmware updater, whereas this app does not.
I just uninstalled adguard to give this a try, my bigger concern is battery drain. I'll run it over the weekend and see how it does. Thanks for this
Used this all day today. Does a pretty good job at blocking most ads, I still see some here and there. Biggest disadvantage to this is the battery drain. It seems my phone is being prevented from going into deep sleep.
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Used this all day today. Does a pretty good job at blocking most ads, I still see some here and there. Biggest disadvantage to this is the battery drain. It seems my phone is being prevented from going into deep sleep.
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Hmm dozing here fine it looks like, I'll leave unplugged overnight. Doesn't even show up as a battery drained in GSAM monitor
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Used this all day today. Does a pretty good job at blocking most ads, I still see some here and there. Biggest disadvantage to this is the battery drain. It seems my phone is being prevented from going into deep sleep.
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A little over 1% battery drain over 7 hours unplugged overnight.
Tried to install in Leaproid to test it... there no install =( lol. My siii is rooted already so I dont need it on that... oh well I test it on a new android w/e I get one
For some reason I couldn't download apps from xda or apks while it's active.
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For some reason I couldn't download apps from xda or apks while it's active.
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Confirmed....bug reported.
Skripka said:
A little over 1% battery drain over 7 hours unplugged overnight.
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OT
What app are you using to detect the wake lock? Something is killing my battery.
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OT
What app are you using to detect the wake lock? Something is killing my battery.
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I just did basic homework with the built in battery stats monitor and GSAM. I haven't even looked at wake lock readouts.
I'm just chiming in to say that I used this adblocker for the past few days and my battery has been rather unimpressive. I'm going to try tomorrow without the ad block turned on to see if there's any noticeable difference compared to today at least.
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I'm just chiming in to say that I used this adblocker for the past few days and my battery has been rather unimpressive. I'm going to try tomorrow without the ad block turned on to see if there's any noticeable difference compared to today at least.
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Notice anything?
Thanks for the suggestion.
I'll use it and post if I have any particular issues (battery drain, etc.)
I used this on my G3 for like 2 weeks and it worked pretty great. Going to put on it my v20.
Thanks for posting this, going to try it out.
Just installed this. Works great on my Verizon v20. So far has blocked all the ads in apps that were driving me nuts!!
Those who try it, please update with any battery drain info! I would love to use it if it didn't decrease battery life and/or keep my phone awake. This also seems like a common concern among many.
I'm been running it for a day.. So testing the battery life but for people already using it.. Does it stop YouTube ads?
Doesn't work on ads with YouTube, battery seems good and normal from before installing DNS66.
Issues I'm running into is with ChompSMS, it has issues receiving MMS. I tired changing the settings from Legacy to System but still won't work.
I've been using it for one day now. I am running a completely stock unrooted V20. I'm not a power user, so I'm not running a lot of apps that have ads. I did test it on all of the apps I have that run ads and it seems to be about 95% effective. This is great for unrooted users!
As far as battery life goes, I let it sit for about 5 hours with all apps closed and greenified. It was still at 100% 5 hours later. The day went on and I mostly just took some pictures and did minor amount of web browsing. It's now been about 10 hours since charged and I'm at 93%. App info in settings says this app has 0% battery usage since last charge. It looks to me that if you aren't using any apps that have ads it won't drain the battery. That's good news if you are worried about battery drain in standby or while not using apps with ads battery life seems normal. If you are worried about battery drain while using apps that have ads, then you have a choice, see the ads and preserve battery, or don't see the ads and charge more often. I can't confirm at this point if drain is higher with it activated and actually blocking ads versus not blocking real time ads. I'll try using some apps that have ads with it activated and with it off and see if there is a difference and report back.
Thanks @Skripka Nice work!