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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?
Regards.
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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.
skarookidoo said:
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 all,
I love the Sony Tablet except its battery life. for something that is so huge compared to the others similar products out there, I am sure that they could have squeezed a bigger battery into the unit.
The power capacity is pretty weak. Let's hope that Sony offers a higher capacity battery size. I would gladly pay to upgrade it.
That's weird, my battery life is fantastic. If I play games on it all day it'll last 8-12 hours, but if I just use it intermittently and moderately it'll easily last me a couple of days. On standby it only uses a couple percent a day if that!
I'm the same as unclespoon. Even during heavy use, I get about 9 hours, which is way better than my old Galaxy Tab could ever muster. Standby usage is crazy low, its fantastic!
Not sure what you mean either about being larger than most other devices. The Tablet's 9.4" screen is smaller than almost any other full-size Tab out there (including the iPad) and since the back curves, theres not actually a lot of usable rear space (look at how thin its getting at the thin end, now imagine trying to fit a battery in there!)
I'm not sure you'll find a Tab out there currently with a better combo of size/battery life. The chunkier Toshiba Thrive will last longer, the thinner Galaxy Tab's will last even less, and my Tablet S always outlasts my iPad, so it might just be your device. Try checking Settings -> About -> Battery Use
I'm of the same opinion as the op. My tablet s has dreadful battery life and especially when it isn't doing anything. (50% usage is system standby) my old galaxy 7 was far far better (charged about once a week)
I believe this may just be because it is new (only have 1 full charge) as my galaxy s2 was initially unimpressive and then lasted 3 days of moderate use without charge. Hoping the same will happen to my s1.
Time will tell
My only guess was that you did a shoddy job of conditioning the battery. My old Galaxy Tab (the first 7" one) was hopeless, but when I replaced it, I conditioned the battery better and it was a bit better.
My Tablet S lasts for days and days and the standby usage is tiny. Check whats using your battery in the Battery Use screen and get back to us, we might be able to help..
I noticed advanced wifi lock was causing massive amounts of wakelocks (8 hours out of 10 according to the stats in settings/about).
betterbatterystats is not available via market but I am trying out the XDA APK now
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I noticed advanced wifi lock was causing massive amounts of wakelocks (8 hours out of 10 according to the stats in settings/about).
betterbatterystats is not available via market but I am trying out the XDA APK now
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I noticed that as well. If you have Advanced WiFi lock activated the tablet won't go into deep sleep mode, there of massive battery usage. I still have Advanced WiFi lock on my tablet, but only activate it when I need to download/update something that takes time. Otherwise I turn it off. It's not worth the battry drain.
Wow. Your battery life are fantastic. 9 hours? That's huge. I have not used my Sony Tablet till flat but given the rate of battery loss think maybe the most is about 5 hours which is similar to what many reviewers are saying.
Just can't imagine that those reviewers are so far out of the ball park compared to you guys. I am using juice defender Beta. Not to sure if its helping or not. But at least if I not using WiFi it shuts it off automatically.
My battery used to drain badly during standby. I found that the Friend Stream service was preventing the tab from sleeping. Killed the service a while ago and battery has been fantastic since. Pushed it to 3 days with light use. About 3 hrs of browsing and facebook. My battery level is at 68%, been off power for 20h40 mins, and used for about 4hrs today - facebooking, Internet browsing. Note that no specific conditioning was performed.
What are the settings that you have on your Tablet? Auto brightness, background sync turned off ?
how did you stop friendstream, and what the heck is it, did you just kill the process and it stayed dead? (sometimes as u know u kill process but it will come back).
Good question. What is the Android software revision now. My is Android 3.2.1 (revision 2)
I acutally just uninstalled the crap-app. nothing I use anyway. It is an app for facebook, twitter and other social networks. So just get rid of it. Uninstall and be happy
my bad. I confused the HTC name and Sony name.
Social Feed Reader was misbehaving. Once started it kept running... rather than dropping off to sleep (and into Cached Apps).
Something wasn't right so I force stopped it and it stayed dead.
An additional note - the Setup, Applications, Running Applications feature isn't 100%. Some background apps aren't displaying as running or Cached. Go figure.
So any special method to stop the social feed reader?
I'm getting those kinds of numbers on mostly auto brightness (and sometimes lower, at night), with background sync turned on, WiFi sleep policy set to default, and no battery monitoring or saving apps running. The only thing I did was single initial conditioning cycle and since then its been great.
Also note that software-decoded video files will take a lot more of your battery than the equivalent properly encoded file. I havent had any trouble with Social Feed Reader, but I never even set it up and judging by the many stories around here, I would uninstall it if you're worried about battery..
asayanna said:
My battery used to drain badly during standby. I found that the Friend Stream service was preventing the tab from sleeping. Killed the service a while ago and battery has been fantastic since. Pushed it to 3 days with light use. About 3 hrs of browsing and facebook. My battery level is at 68%, been off power for 20h40 mins, and used for about 4hrs today - facebooking, Internet browsing. Note that no specific conditioning was performed.
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good to know, thanks for sharing.
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I'm getting those kinds of numbers on mostly auto brightness (and sometimes lower, at night), with background sync turned on, WiFi sleep policy set to default, and no battery monitoring or saving apps running. The only thing I did was single initial conditioning cycle and since then its been great.
Also note that software-decoded video files will take a lot more of your battery than the equivalent properly encoded file. I havent had any trouble with Social Feed Reader, but I never even set it up and judging by the many stories around here, I would uninstall it if you're worried about battery..
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Hi, that's good to know. Thanks for sharing. Unfortunately think I screwed up the initial conditioning. so I guess I will have to live with the 5 hour battery of my Tablet.
Btw how do you do battery conditioning?
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So any special method to stop the social feed reader?
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In Setup, Applications, Running Services have a look at the awake time (listed on the right side) of the running processes. You'll note that system processes (the ones with the Android icon) have been awake since last boot.... but you might finds others that are as well. I noted Social Feed Reader showing high awake time and decided to nuke it. Simply click the offending app. You'll be given the option to stop the app... which is what I did. It's an app so doesn't restart once killed. Hope that helps...
Final thought: at the top right of the screen there's a 'Show cached processes' option.
The could be an offending app in there. Kill any installed app you suspect might be a problem and see if that helps.
my battery life is excellent.
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I am currently using a Galaxy S3 SCH-I535, stock, unrooted, and have noticed decreased battery performance over-time. I have already viewed many similar threads to try and pinpoint particular issues (wakelocks, troublesome apps, etc.). I was hoping for some perspective whether my battery life is up to snuff.
I have seen many describe their phone life with ~3+ hours of screen time with moderate usage. I use my phone intermittently throughout the work day to chat (Text messages, Hangouts), check e-mail, and band rowse the internet. I do not use Wi-fi, aside from when I am home in the morning or at night, and make sure to turn it off if not connected to a network. I have sync turned on, but the only accounts I have syncing are Google Now and Gmail. I have location services/GPS/Bluetooth turned off, and run in Power Saving mode with brightness at ~50% and haptic feedback turned on. My reception is subpar, usually about 2 bars and spotty 4g connections at work. I do not stream music, play games, or watch videos during typical use. No facebook, weather apps, etc. that can be culprits some times. At best, with the usage habits described, it is typical that I get 2 hours screen time over a single day (~16 hrs) before I get in the single digit batter %.
I've attached some screen shots I took of battery stats at ~50% drained (I didn't get a screen grab for it but at that battery % I had probably 1:05 to 1:15 hours of screen time). I just started using Wakelock Detector to find any problem apps - after tweaking some apps last week this has been pretty typical behavior. I have even swapped batteries with my wife's S3 to see if it was a battery problem, but did not notice a difference.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Are my expectations for battery life too high? Is this typical, or am I running lower than I should be?
I just realized I selected the wrong forum and have opened the thread in the Verizon Galaxy S3 forum...can a mod please delete this thread? Sorry for the confusion.
Hi everyone, I bought the HTC One M9 from AT&T yesterday and it's great, however the battery seems to drain extremely fast. I am coming to this phone from an iPhone 5 which would typically last about 1.5 days of regular usage. The M9 lost exactly 30% of its battery in the 8 hours that I was asleep, with the battery usage in the settings indicating that it was due to "cell standby" and "phone idle," so 30% per 8 hours of standby leads to the conclusion that the phone will only last a little more than 1 day on standby with no usage whatsoever. Therefore I am assuming that with usage it will not last a full day, and I'm actually scared to even use it when I'm not at home next to a charging port because I don't want to run it down to 0 and then not have a phone for emergencies.
Is this about the standard battery life for these types of phones now?
Also, should I try using a task manager to close out all the apps I'm not using? The battery usage page doesn't show that any apps are using the battery when the phone is in standby so I'm not sure it's necessary to close them.
Any help would be appreciated.
rpimps said:
Hi everyone, I bought the HTC One M9 from AT&T yesterday and it's great, however the battery seems to drain extremely fast. I am coming to this phone from an iPhone 5 which would typically last about 1.5 days of regular usage. The M9 lost exactly 30% of its battery in the 8 hours that I was asleep, with the battery usage in the settings indicating that it was due to "cell standby" and "phone idle," so 30% per 8 hours of standby leads to the conclusion that the phone will only last a little more than 1 day on standby with no usage whatsoever. Therefore I am assuming that with usage it will not last a full day, and I'm actually scared to even use it when I'm not at home next to a charging port because I don't want to run it down to 0 and then not have a phone for emergencies.
Is this about the standard battery life for these types of phones now?
Also, should I try using a task manager to close out all the apps I'm not using? The battery usage page doesn't show that any apps are using the battery when the phone is in standby so I'm not sure it's necessary to close them.
Any help would be appreciated.
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settings/location/google location history - turn off - this is the tracking that learns your routes
settings/location/htc location services - turn off - this is a dumb feature
These do not affect gps with apps
Also first 48 hours of an android it is doing misc background stuff. Battery is pretty amazing on this thing
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settings/location/google location history - turn off - this is the tracking that learns your routes
settings/location/htc location services - turn off - this is a dumb feature
These do not affect gps with apps
Also first 48 hours of an android it is doing misc background stuff. Battery is pretty amazing on this thing
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Thanks. The google location history is off, but how do I turn off the htc location service? There's no toggle for it, it just says "home" and then it already has my home address filled in somehow, and if I click it it opens a map for me to see the location but I can't see any way to just delete it.
My battery is teh suck as well. Open to suggestions, I already cut off GPS tracking and turned location sources mode onto Device Only.
I get 5 to 6 hours sot which is good imo
My battery life is trash well right now. Not sure what to do to improve it
Turn off enhanced services in mobile network settings. Should help
I worked for at&t, and we found a common problem with the phone. During the initial setup of your device, the first time you open your stock messaging app, you will be asked if you would like to sync sms/mms messages. If you hit yes, it will register your phone with at&t messages.. I did this on mine by accident.
The phone constantly syncs, and there is no way to stop it. My phone would get hot throughout the day, and my battery would be dead after 8 hours. They didnt program a way to set WHEN to sync, and it cant be turned off from the phone.
FIX: log onto your AT&T online account or myat&t app, and remove the AT&T mesaages app from your line, or call into care/go to a store.
My phone now lasts a day and a half.
Hope this helps
Hey Guys,
since a longer while (1-2 months?) my S7 is incredible bad on battery.
In the past when it was new, I disconnected it at 7:30 and went to bed with 60% battery left.
So by today / the last time, sometimes it goes down 10% in an hour - without heavy usage!
I really tried whatever I found here at XDA / Google.
Finally I used wakelock detector - there is one version that still works (should be 2.0.1) - it only works with a little help after every reboot (ADB TCPIP 5555) but it does a nice job.
The result is, it has about 45% awake time - while yesterday after 6-8h it showed about 4500 times awake triggering by the google app. (Whatsapp made in the same time about 50)
I know - Google Now is a battery killer, but honestly I am using it since it came out and it newer performed as bad as now!
I already tried to delete all data from Google Now (cache and user data), which fixes it a little until I open it and configure it again to work.
So actually I disabled it, but this is not really what I want to do - I'd like to go back to where it was before. No idea how - in my opinion, I have not changed any setting significantly. I using location history since years now and never experienced such kind of problems.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Maeffjus
Do you have always on Display? Check through samsung's own Smart Manger to see power hunger app.
Also location always drain battery, you might want to consider Google's accurate location or completely turn off Gps