Hi all,
My S3 is lately draining alot of power somehow and it comes from a system process as battery manager shows even tho a game is supposed to drain more.
the things that drains in that system process are Alarm Manager and AppManager-Launcher, had something to do with winlock. the strange thing is also when my battery is on 15% as the android OS says, then i plug in the recharge cable but it will hardly recharge or even lose power. when i did shut down the phone (when the OS said it was 15%), the battery that you will see when your phone is off said it was on 50% or more so i turned on my phone and now the OS says it was 58% instead of the 15% before the shutdown.
those things are truly weird so i dont know if its the battery or the OS.
the phone is rooted but had not that problem, but it started later on.
there is also an app called S Suggest and i disabled it but it is still running and whenever i stop it, it starts back up even tho i disabled it.
the battery drain starts when i play the game War and Order, but the battery statistics shows that that game is not consuming much battery but the android systemprocess is. that process is twice in the battery manager.
any idea's on how to fix this thing?
If you have any task managing/app managing, turn it/them off.
If you have disabled any apps, restore them.
If you have low internal storage space, make space (500mb minimum, preferably 1gb).
If you run a custom kernel, disable any swap files/partitions.
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i re calibrated the battery and now the android system proces is gone from 60% to 7% so that part is fixed but the battery drain problem is not.
now the game stands on 54% of the battery so that would be a normal thing i guess.
and somehow that program S Suggest isnt running also which is a good thing btw.
my free phone space is now 9,48 GB.
i assume when u rooted a device it is a custom rom? i know little about android so how do i check for those swap files/ partitions?
btw the weird thing with the battery % (how the OS shows it, and how the phone shows it after you turned it off) is still active.
i saw in another post that if you reflash the root file, it might fix the battery % problem. is it safe to overwrite the current root file with the same root file that i used to root my phone?
You have a rooted stock rom, so long as you dont have a custom kernel you wont have swap files or partitions. Imo the best setup.
Before you start flashing stuff you might want to try an ad blocker like adfree or adguard and turn off locations.
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i did root my phone via Odin, via download mode on my phone and it worked then. i did have a app called root booster and i used that app to boost the speed of my phone but since that went laggy i changed the settings back to custom. is that the original custom or a program made custom? when my phone was rooted i changed back to factory settings due to the lag, after that the battery % problem started but the lag was fixed, so i think it might have to do with the factory reset and that the reset overwrite some of the files that were patched by the rooting process and now is not communication very well. but i am almost 100% convinced that the factory reset had something to do with it because only after that the problem of the battery % started.
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Something strange happened to my phone. One night I installed an app that can turn the phone into sleep mode instead of pressing the button at the uppermost right of it. I still have around 70+% battery by that time. The next morning, I was surprised that my battery is already out. I charge it but was stuck at the cyanogen logo. I removed the battery and tried to open it, this time the animation boot happened twice before finishing. I removed the app but noticed that my battery begun draining much faster than before. Just letting it on idle state will reduce it to 40% in 9 hours. The bootup problem is also present every time I boot the phone - it will get stuck at first at the logo,remove the battery, turn it on again where the animation will happen twice before the phone become usable.
Checking the phone usage, mobile standby and phone idle have the largest usage. I read some threads mentioning something about wakelock or something that prevent the phone from going to sleep. Checking the Spare parts battery history, only two things are present - Running (100%) and Screeon on (5.1%).
Any help or tips to know the real problem? Thanks
sinscythex said:
Something strange happened to my phone. One night I installed an app that can turn the phone into sleep mode instead of pressing the button at the uppermost right of it. I still have around 70+% battery by that time. The next morning, I was surprised that my battery is already out. I charge it but was stuck at the cyanogen logo. I removed the battery and tried to open it, this time the animation boot happened twice before finishing. I removed the app but noticed that my battery begun draining much faster than before. Just letting it on idle state will reduce it to 40% in 9 hours. The bootup problem is also present every time I boot the phone - it will get stuck at first at the logo,remove the battery, turn it on again where the animation will happen twice before the phone become usable.
Checking the phone usage, mobile standby and phone idle have the largest usage. I read some threads mentioning something about wakelock or something that prevent the phone from going to sleep. Checking the Spare parts battery history, only two things are present - Running (100%) and Screeon on (5.1%).
Any help or tips to know the real problem? Thanks
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this will happen when install every crappy tweak **** - i'm not understand why users have to install extra apps for buttons
to help you something:
wipe your system, not the data - only if it doesnt work after wiping the caches.
than try to boot ... if its doesnt nrmal booting, reinstall the rom and do a full wipe. sometimes apps installing libraries in system.
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I was thinking of reducing the usage of the hard button so I used it. Will resintallation of the ROM afefct my partition? I have a nandbackup before this problem happened, but I still do not have the partition by that time.
And how do you do it by the way? Just flash again the ROM? Thanks
Edit: Wiping the cache seemed to help. It doesn't stuck at the logo, but the animation still happens twice instead of once. Gonna observe the battery usage. Thanks.
100% running, that means your phone is not in sleep, but only with LCD off. Grab betterbatterystats([email protected]) and check your wakelocks.
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Based on the betterbatterystats, the gpslocationprovider is the culprit. But my gps apps are off and are not running any services. Any idea how can I stop it?
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Based on the betterbatterystats, the gpslocationprovider is the culprit. But my gps apps are off and are not running any services. Any idea how can I stop it?
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Off GPS ,on only when needed
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I copid a gpa.conf somehere in this forum. I replaced it with the originial and I'm currently observing whether it will return to normal. My gps apps are off, and both wireless and gps sattelites are disabled on my location & security tabs.
I'm planning on doing a restore to at least remove the boot up problem. But my last nandbackup was still before I partitioned my sd card and flashed dark tremor, and configre a2sdgui. If I do the nandrestore, do I have to disable or remove dark tremor and a2sdgui, or remove the partition of my card? Thanks
sinscythex said:
I copid a gpa.conf somehere in this forum. I replaced it with the originial and I'm currently observing whether it will return to normal. My gps apps are off, and both wireless and gps sattelites are disabled on my location & security tabs.
I'm planning on doing a restore to at least remove the boot up problem. But my last nandbackup was still before I partitioned my sd card and flashed dark tremor, and configre a2sdgui. If I do the nandrestore, do I have to disable or remove dark tremor and a2sdgui, or remove the partition of my card? Thanks
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I has the same gps wakelock even disabling GPS- reboot and the thing is gone
I changed it, but my phone still doesn't sleep. Although this time, the gpslocationprovider is no longer shown with the betterbatterystats. It just states that my phone is awake for around 47 minutes but my screen is just on for around 4 minutes. I've already rebooted several times and wipe the cache but its still like this. Still trying to find other ways.
Everyday before sleep, I usually turn off wifi,bluetooth,all unwanted application. And I used task manager to kill unwanted program running and
go to Task managers and free up the RAM. Usually when I awake on the morning, I have similar battery power left before I goes to sleep. BUT
today morning, my device battery all drained up completely, and I charge up the battery and check what causing the excessive power usage. I go to
Setting>About device>battery usage. I notice Android system using 35% power over night. And I check which application running on the background
and I see all these things list running over night and it scares me to hell.
Included packages:
Perso
Security storage
DRM content
EncryptApp
PopupuiReceiver
Software update
VPN Services
Error
Status bar
Bluetooth Test
Settings
com.sec.android.app.Icdtest
Factory Test
Settings storage
com.samsung.InputEventapp
WlanTest
Account and sync settings
Setup Wizard
Task manger
MTP Application
Service mode
Android system
License settings
Google Backup Transport
wssyncmlnps
All these thing causing my android system used so much power over night today. And I was scary as hell what might cause these testing. Did I get
a virus/malware? I didnt install any weird app the previous day. Today I charged back 100% power started the device, half hour idle time, android system
goes down to normally 5% power usage. Seems normal for now, but I duno what causing all the testing running overnight? Help appreciated.
That's a LOT of apps running! I don't think I have that much going on when I am busy and connected! I do find that battery readings get "stuck" and I see a 30-40% drop all at once, but that's after a lot of use and the battery stuck for a few hours. Maybe you have something backing up to the cloud and the app isn't smart enough to know you don't have a connection. If this keeps happening, you might install an app like "Power Tutor" to see if you can pinpoint the app that's causing the most drain.
An important thing to remember is that the battery gauge on our devices is wildly inaccurate on it's best days.
I just want to know what causing these testing on android system overnight?
Last night I did deleted and add some files(not important system files, just other files like game apk,mp3,picture,etc). Then my media scanning says my storage full/lower memory when I still had 5 GB internal storage left. (probably referring to the RAM, not sd storage space) Then I search around and I found that my media storage has like high 95mb, so I clear data/cache. Then the media scanning icon can complete scanning and "full storage/low memory" message disappear. And I restart my device, then I went to sleep. Then today wake up with all those listed items running/testing on Android System drained up my battery.
Calm down
I say just calm down a bit. This is probably just a one-time thing. I doubt it will happen again. If it does, though, you should come back here and post immediately, and somebody will probably find out what's wrong.
P.S.
Do you have a custom ROM or Kernel? Sometimes these things can act strangely. I once had one that spent a bunch of battery trying to get a cell connection on my Galaxy Player!
I didnt have any custom rom, it is a stock rom
Did you install any new apps or anything different from what you'd been using normally?
I tried to install gameloft Fishing King, but fail, so I copied the data to that folder failed too. so i deleted those files and uninstall it.
I have a Galaxy S2 running 4.0.4 IMM76D.XWLPT, baseband I9100XXLQ6 with Siyah kernel [email protected] SMP PREEMPT.
This phone was originally running with stock kernel, but I was having a lot of Sleeps of Death (SOD) and the only way to avoid those was to let the S2 eat its battery at standard rate, which for me meant I would run out of battery in 10 hours standby or so (with auto-sync turned on). Clearly, that wasn't acceptable, but neither were all the SODs, so I installed Siyah to see if that would help.
I imagined at first SODs were fewer, but I'm not sure. I used it with the Siyah kernel (setup as above) for a couple of months and lately it started to misbehave. Any attempt to use Juice Defender or Green Power would generate SODs so I tried using Tasker instead. More and more applications would freeze -- Onavo Extend, Swype, even the launcher. I lived with it because I knew that putting a new ROM on would involve a bit of time spent on reinstalling everything and re-entering settings etc.
However, as of yesterday, suddenly the phone is unusable. It is OK at startup, but after about three minutes it locks up almost completely. All I can do then is turn it off. Looking at the task monitor, I noticed that the lock-up is because there is 0 RAM free. If I look at the RAM from boot, it starts off OK, then it gradually goes down from ~250MB free to zero. At that point the phone is pretty unresponsive.
I haven't installed any new apps lately. I did receive updates to some the day before yesterday (can't remember which ones).
I am now deciding what to do:
1. Try to identify the offending app and uninstall it (in the short window I have after boot).
2. Do a factory reset.
3. Install a new ROM.
Then, today, I took the SIM out of the S2 and put it in a mobile I had lying around because I needed a working phone. I booted the S2 to check the kernel number etc. and what do you know - the memory problem isn't there! With no SIM in the phone, it free RAM stays at ~250.
Questions:
a) What is the best way to diagnose which is the offending app? Is there a way of seeing used RAM and sort by it (on my "Running" tab, there is no sort option, and on the "All" tab, where you can sort by size, it doesn't seem to be used RAM that you see)?
b) What should I deduce from the fact that the problem only happens with the SIM installed?
c) [million $ question] has anyone found a SOD-proof ROM/kernel combination that gives decent battery life?
Much obliged.
LeifGR said:
I have a Galaxy S2 running 4.0.4 IMM76D.XWLPT, baseband I9100XXLQ6 with Siyah kernel [email protected] SMP PREEMPT.
This phone was originally running with stock kernel, but I was having a lot of Sleeps of Death (SOD) and the only way to avoid those was to let the S2 eat its battery at standard rate, which for me meant I would run out of battery in 10 hours standby or so (with auto-sync turned on). Clearly, that wasn't acceptable, but neither were all the SODs, so I installed Siyah to see if that would help.
I imagined at first SODs were fewer, but I'm not sure. I used it with the Siyah kernel (setup as above) for a couple of months and lately it started to misbehave. Any attempt to use Juice Defender or Green Power would generate SODs so I tried using Tasker instead. More and more applications would freeze -- Onavo Extend, Swype, even the launcher. I lived with it because I knew that putting a new ROM on would involve a bit of time spent on reinstalling everything and re-entering settings etc.
However, as of yesterday, suddenly the phone is unusable. It is OK at startup, but after about three minutes it locks up almost completely. All I can do then is turn it off. Looking at the task monitor, I noticed that the lock-up is because there is 0 RAM free. If I look at the RAM from boot, it starts off OK, then it gradually goes down from ~250MB free to zero. At that point the phone is pretty unresponsive.
I haven't installed any new apps lately. I did receive updates to some the day before yesterday (can't remember which ones).
I am now deciding what to do:
1. Try to identify the offending app and uninstall it (in the short window I have after boot).
2. Do a factory reset.
3. Install a new ROM.
Then, today, I took the SIM out of the S2 and put it in a mobile I had lying around because I needed a working phone. I booted the S2 to check the kernel number etc. and what do you know - the memory problem isn't there! With no SIM in the phone, it free RAM stays at ~250.
Questions:
a) What is the best way to diagnose which is the offending app? Is there a way of seeing used RAM and sort by it (on my "Running" tab, there is no sort option, and on the "All" tab, where you can sort by size, it doesn't seem to be used RAM that you see)?
b) What should I deduce from the fact that the problem only happens with the SIM installed?
c) [million $ question] has anyone found a SOD-proof ROM/kernel combination that gives decent battery life?
Much obliged.
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1) uninstall 'Juice defender' first.
2) dwnld and install 'GSAM Battery monitor' app from stores and see which app is causing the memory issue for u.
3) Remove that rogue app, put back ur Sim and then see
Thanks Sun90.
Sun90 said:
1) uninstall 'Juice defender' first.
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I should have been more clear: In my hunt for good battery life without SODs, I first tried JD, then Green Power, then Tasker. At the moment I have neither JD nor GP installed.
2) dwnld and install 'GSAM Battery monitor' app from stores and see which app is causing the memory issue for u.
3) Remove that rogue app, put back ur Sim and then see
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I'll try that tomorrow or Wednesday, thanks!
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2) dwnld and install 'GSAM Battery monitor' app from stores and see which app is causing the memory issue for u.
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OK, so I installed the free version of GSAM. I can't see an option for tracking RAM though. Am I missing something? I see options to review battery use, CPU minutes, network data, sensor time, awake time, # wakes and GPS time.
Do I need to purchase GSAM Pro to get the RAM monitor ability?
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
OK, I installed System Tuner and used it to look at processes sorted in order of most RAM used. Wouldn't you know it -- now I didn't get the problem with zero RAM, even with the SIM in...
I don't yet know whether this was a fluke, whether somehow I had a problem that went away after taking the SIM out and putting it back in a couple of times, or whether I am subject to Heisenberg's uncertainty prinicple -- I will only get the problem when I am not monitoring it...:laugh:
I'll post back here in a couple of days. I still want to get my battery life sorted so I may try first a reset, wiping cache and dalvik and then possibly a new ROM.
I just got this phone about a week ago and right away I noticed that battery life was very low. I tried doing some charge cycles and I even got a brand new Anker battery but nothing changed. I looked at the battery usage and the graph is just steadily dropping with very minimal screen usage. I have turned off background syncing on everything and I disabled notifications on most of my apps (all but Facebook and Instagram) and still the battery goes dead in under one day of standby. Looking at battery usage I noticed that Android OS,Android system, and Google play services are pretty high on the percentage (I do have auto updates disabled though). I know the battery shouldn't be dropping from one day of standby. I've also checked some other posts where people say to turn off auto brightness and notifications and I've tried all of that to no avail. Also on the battery graph the scene time is of most of the time, but the puzzling part is that the awake time is only dotted a few times, no large bars that might be huge background processes. And speaking of background processes, most of my running apps say they've been on since the time my phone had turned on (not sure why). Please help me out on how I can fix this, I can post screen shots if needed
Wipe it and flash latest firmware with Odin, disable all the bloat.
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Wipe it and flash latest firmware with Odin, disable all the bloat.
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Thanks! I'm trying that right now, I'll tell you if it worked
It did not work Could this be a faulty device? Here is a screenshot of one hour of usage after factory reseting. As you can see on the running apps (my phone was on for about 8 mins in the picture) there are a few processes that stay running from startup and never stop.
p.s. I also went disabled all running apps that were possible and that didn't look important (clock widgets, SNS, Stock Daemon, etc.)
Hello forum,
background info:
I have a rare Pansonic Android 5.0.2 phone (DMC-CM1) with an excellent camera, what is the reason why I want to keep this device.
There are NO custom roms available and no info about key combinations on how to get into stock recovery mode. I can go there with adb of course.
I found a key combination to get into fastboot, but Wiping cache/data to reset the device apparently did nothing, even if wating for hours. It seems as well as if Panasonic tampered with the stock bootloader :/ This is why I had to send it to service (adb was not enabled before).
They reflashed the device with 4.4.4 and I installed the updates to 5.0.2 OTA. Everything seemed fine until...
present problem:
...now I have a strange battery drain. Bevor I sent it it, I had about 2-3 days usage time with average usage, a little messageing, a few fotos. I do not use the phone much.
Now I get a maximum of around 16-20 hours out of it while it is just resting on the table. It also gets warm.
what have I done so far:
- I rooted the device and installed better battery stats from the forum here. It shows around 8-10% usage per hour. Before the problem showed, I had 1-2% usage.
- I uninstalled EVERY own installed app and even booted into safe mode -> same problem
- I disabled all google app packages -> same problem, but improved it a little
When I check the battery via android settings, it is telling me that "android-system" is using >20% of the battery. In active apps I can see this app is running the fast dormancy service. When I kill this service and force the complete app to stop, it gets _a little_ better, around 5-6% usage.
I recently killed forced stop on all services that where not qualcom or seemed essential to me and disables wifi and bluetooth and over night usage dropped to <1%/h, which seemed the problem could lie somewhere with services.
However using adb shell and pulling "top" info, I dont see a process using much CPU.
What else have I noticed, which might be unrelated:
-After charging I see a 100% wakelock from qpnp-charger, that disappears only after rebooting. Might indicate that something with qualcom is "wrong".
-I set wifi to be _never_ be running in sleep mode. Better battery stats is telling me, that wifi is 100% of the time running, even if I can see the symbol for wifi is not showing and comes up a few seconds after I wake the phone
You can see, I might need help on how to identify the problem here.
Any hints, tips, advice?
Please excuse my "messy" english, it is not my native language.
regards
Stefan