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Hello there!
I'm experiencing heavy battery useage by Android OS, atleast thats what the battery use tells me. It uses over 40%!!
Anyone expierincing this aswell? Or anyone has an idea how to fix this?
Thanks in advance!
nerotix said:
Hello there!
I'm experiencing heavy battery useage by Android OS, atleast thats what the battery use tells me. It uses over 40%!!
Anyone expierincing this aswell? Or anyone has an idea how to fix this?
Thanks in advance!
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Please use Search before creating another thread on battery issues ...
fishton said:
Please use Search before creating another thread on battery issues ...
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Like I haven't searched? This is a SGSII question, cuz it could be just me, I'm asking if people have experienced this awell.. and all the 'solution' I found here either do not work or apply for me.
And you sir, stop replying and saying useless things.
Yes you HAVEN T searched !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070324
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1080700
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1106399
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1105598
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081233
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069295
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086599
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1079136
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1105778
You're totally right, there is no topic at all regarding battery issue on SGS2 ...
Who is useless ?
Battery drain its a question of reading the varying fixes and or reasons why and trying them out .
The post regarding Android OS battery drain may help or not .
jje
Yes, this phone has horrific battery drain. I recommend you take it out to the nearest field, strap it to a rocket, and shoot it into the stars as soon as possible.
Or, you can consider using the search button or follow the MANY links the nice gentleman posted above for you.
cmd512 said:
Yes, this phone has horrific battery drain. I recommend you take it out to the nearest field, strap it to a rocket, and shoot it into the stars as soon as possible.
Or, you can consider using the search button or follow the MANY links the nice gentleman posted above for you.
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Lol maybe the battery will drain less in an area with very little gravity.
On a more serious note does anyone know of a list with apps that are safe
To freeze or even remove? I've been looking through the above posts for about an hour and can't find
Squat.
Edit : holy crap I need to open my eyes, its stickied at the top of the general section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069924
esk02k said:
Lol maybe the battery will drain less in an area with very little gravity.
On a more serious note does anyone know of a list with apps that are safe
To freeze or even remove? I've been looking through the above posts for about an hour and can't find
Squat.
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Um, it's one of the first links under General, lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069924
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Um, it's one of the first links under General, lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069924
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Yea I saw. See my edit. Feel silly now lol.
Just do a factory reset fixed all my problems and my phone came with KE7 installed I didn't upgrade to it.
Battery life went from 10 hours to a day and a half
after lot of tests, i discover that was the calendar sync. In idle mode my phone drain 5-7% per hours without 1% per hour.
After I uninstalled all the useless battery draining system apps, my system doesn't use alot.. like 2-5% , but my screen is getting 50-60% everytime!
I allready tryd different settings, but still, it attacks.
Do someone here have a friend with a SGS2 with good battery life !?
Try to change the battery for 1-2 days and see if its better or not, so we can know if its the battery thats need to be changed!!! report pls !
war
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After I uninstalled all the useless battery draining system apps, my system doesn't use alot.. like 2-5% , but my screen is getting 50-60% everytime!
I allready tryd different settings, but still, it attacks.
Do someone here have a friend with a SGS2 with good battery life !?
Try to change the battery for 1-2 days and see if its better or not, so we can know if its the battery thats need to be changed!!! report pls !
war
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I doubt EVERYBODY that posts in these forums have a faulty battery. It MUST be software related. So many "faulty batteries" would be a great cause for concern.
from my understanding its 50% user and 50% the version of gingerbread were running.
Im coming from an atrix which has great battery life. A little bit of optimization which the great devs are doing is definitely helping.
please post screengrabs of your battery usage... i'm just really wondering what times you people are getting and what is the main battery drainer on different phone...i know it's probably pointless anyway...but still
i will post another one after normal usage during the day...
im running villain rom 1.4...
thanks to all those who'll (<-??) upload a screenie!
If you want more battery life check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1135033
I was just looking through it.
I don't have the Galaxy S 2 but am considering it.
On your screen shot where on earth is that are that shows the graph for wi fi etc or is that an app you have added?
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On your screen shot where on earth is that are that shows the graph for wi fi etc or is that an app you have added?
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i tapped the graph in the battey usage thingy...but no clue, my guess is you have to be on a wifi network..
feralicious said:
If you want more battery life check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1135033
I was just looking through it.
I don't have the Galaxy S 2 but am considering it.
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yeah i saw that thread...i just wanted to see how other people batteries are drained...just to have an idea if my battery usage is more or less normal...
Mine's getting very good these days. Admittedly, I've hardly touched it today cos I've been very busy, but still..... 11% in nearly 7.5 hours is pretty impressive! That's with full background synching and wifi on all day.
Fully stock (KE2) and rooted. Other than that all I've done is disable fast dormancy, the wifi sharing app and frozen every app with "sams" in the title.
arz said:
i tapped the graph in the battey usage thingy...but no clue, my guess is you have to be on a wifi network..
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mmm well i did that even though i am on my home wifi and i cannot see all of those things that you have ie signal strength, charging etc.....
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mmm well i did that even though i am on my home wifi and i cannot see all of those things that you have ie signal strength, charging etc.....
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Go to settings, about, battery usage and click the graph at the top. See my previous post for the same type of info.
When i was using 2G the battery life was good for a whole day. How i have switched my connection to 3G, the main problem is the battery life as it drains in a half day. How can i control this ? which application is draining my battery life? what are the other systems that can save the battery life and extend it to a day time when using 3G????
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which application is draining my battery life?
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How on Earth should we know? lol
have a read round the many many many battery threads
incidentally, did this really need two threads created for the copy and paste?
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incidentally, did this really need two threads created for the copy and paste?
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Thats becoz I really need to have a solution for this problem as I am not able to use my mobile effectively...
Its MOST URGENT
Desperately looking for a solution ....
Help me if u can really do it
learn to manage your phone better, is it rooted? either way try this, Unless you actually use 3G (I assume most of us use wifi) go to..
Settings > Wireless and network > Mobile networks and switch network mode to "GSM only"
Not only will you get better battery life, but you'll get a stronger signal too.
hope this helps your problem.
rab1es
I am using galaxy s II. its the best android phone i have ever used so far but the problem is the battery draining. i can only use it 7-8 hours with normal use. please tell me some solution to increase the battery life..
Next question : how to decrease battery life ?
Seriously dude, there's so much threads about battery saver tips, do you know that ?
Try for example "setcpu" or lower brightness or use searchbar to look for more examples. It's not difficult to find solutions ;-)
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14 - 30 hours
omararshad said:
I am using galaxy s II. its the best android phone i have ever used so far but the problem is the battery draining. i can only use it 7-8 hours with normal use. please tell me some solution to increase the battery life..
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Here you will find the information you're seeking.
i have tried each and everything, even saving tips from google as well but nothing happens. battery time is same. you guys plz tell me what you did?
THANKS..
Put your phone in flight mode :-/
In other words, quit being lazy & search the forum. There are at least hundreds of posts on here with ideas on how to get more use out of every charge. You're not trying hard enough & you expect it to be handed to you on a silver platter.
omararshad said:
i have tried each and everything, even saving tips from google as well but nothing happens. battery time is same. you guys plz tell me what you did?
THANKS..
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I did exactly what I read about in the articles that I found on the interwebs using Google.
Read the battery threads in particular the better battery stats post .
Turn off everything that connects aim for 2 % overnight sleep battery drain .
Buy another battery as a spare .
jje
sean is here. said:
Here you will find the information you're seeking.
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Honestly thought you were going to rickroll him
As well as checking out the battery saving threads check out this post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1466017
Using siyah kernel and this thread I instantly gained battery life.
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wsatia said:
Honestly thought you were going to rickroll him
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Nah. I might be a **** about it when it looks like someone hasn't even tried searching with google or in forums, but I still try to be mildly helpful when I can.
Look for post speaking about Betterbatterystats.. it's great!
Ok people I could use some help. I think I am getting some average battery times but the score card would definitely say 'could do better'.
So what I want to know is what screen shots from BetterBatteryStats/Phone/other would I need to upload here to help someone with far more technical nous than me identify what is causing the drains and how to stop them?
To start here is my battery screen shot for today. This is with approx. 3.20hours of screen on time.
The screen is a real battery-hog due to it's size. You may want to lower brightness, that helps a lot.
For starters, please attach Kernel Wakelocks and Partial wakelocks from BetterBatteryStats, that shall show if something drains your precious juice.
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The screen is a real battery-hog due to it's size. You may want to lower brightness, that helps a lot.
For starters, please attach Kernel Wakelocks and Partial wakelocks from BetterBatteryStats, that shall show if something drains your precious juice.
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Excellent. I'll start with that. Would have done it this minute but I just plugged my phone in....Doh! Will upload this this afternoon.
d4fseeker said:
The screen is a real battery-hog due to it's size. You may want to lower brightness, that helps a lot.
For starters, please attach Kernel Wakelocks and Partial wakelocks from BetterBatteryStats, that shall show if something drains your precious juice.
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OK here we go....I guessed from looking around the forums this is the best way to deliver the information? If not let me know and I'll change it.
Analyse away
Not sure whether this is relevant but I have Tasker turning WiFi on and off in two locations.
Alright, let's see: Your phone's screen was on for an hour, but the phone was awake for two. That means we found a wakelock. Unfortunately I have no idea what "deleted_wake_locks" stands for. Maybe someone else knows more about this. Besides that wake lock, you seem to spend quite some time in an area with bad or no signal at all. That will drain your battery pretty quickly too as the phone is constantly searching for a better signal. You might want to turn of phone data in that area to prevent to phone from trying to get a better signal all the time. Finally, you should consider getting rid of the Facebook app. I've read that it isn't exactly gentle when it comes to saving battery.
Rationale: In the API available to android drivers it is advised to call wake_lock_destroy before freeing the memory of the wakelock struct that you created. This is probably done on shutdown OR perhaps if for some reason a driver is unloaded from the kernel. Whenever it does this it ads the wakelock stats to the deleted_wake_locks.
Know actions: AlarmManager itself is not generating partial wakelocks but the applications (intents) that were set to be called when an alarm goes off do. Alarms can be listed through the menu "Actions -Alarms".
Known conditions of occurence: In relation to Wifi and depending on the sleep policy wakelocks seem to be collected when screen goes off and Wifi is turned off
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Greedyfly said:
Ok people I could use some help. I think I am getting some average battery times but the score card would definitely say 'could do better'.
So what I want to know is what screen shots from BetterBatteryStats/Phone/other would I need to upload here to help someone with far more technical nous than me identify what is causing the drains and how to stop them?
To start here is my battery screen shot for today. This is with approx. 3.20hours of screen on time.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722
download the zip file
and flash it via cwm
and check the difference
vegeta1 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722
download the zip file
and flash it via cwm
and check the difference
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That doesn't help battery life, that just fixes an error in battery stats reporting.
That cell standby problem was NOT draining excess battery it was just being reported incorrectly by the android battery stats.
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easy. use speedmod kernel
i am use ninphetamin3 1.20 with criskeloron v5.1 and my battery life is good
Surely it's not just the kernel though? I'm using Siyah as I thought that was supposed to be good? Will changing it help? Surely it's not that causing the wakelocks?
Any other suggestions or comments on the stats I posted ?
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Greedyfly said:
Surely it's not just the kernel though? I'm using Siyah as I thought that was supposed to be good? Will changing it help? Surely it's not that causing the wakelocks?
Any other suggestions or comments on the stats I posted ?
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Maybe post a batterystats dump in the betterbattery stats forum.. it would be cool if some guy who could really read onto batterystats very well to start a betterbattery stats thread just for us gs3 owners.. would help everyone..cos gs3 is a popular device and it would be easier to post them here for quick answers
Chillz88 said:
Maybe post a batterystats dump in the betterbattery stats forum.. it would be cool if some guy who could really read onto batterystats very well to start a betterbattery stats thread just for us gs3 owners.. would help everyone..cos gs3 is a popular device and it would be easier to post them here for quick answers
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Mmmmm maybe you sometimes find that responses get lost in those things.
Anyone else able to help here?
Your battery goes down steep all the time, but according to your screenshot of the battery stats there are 2 critical points, the latter not ending.
Please next time also include a screenshot of the menu appearing after tapping on the graph (which includes screen-on, wifi and signal quality)
According to BBS some of the issues are related to:
No or Unknown Signal (): 1 h 26 m 54 s (5214 s) Ratio: 20.5%
Poor Signal (): 1 h 4 m 45 s (3885 s) Ratio: 15.3%
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No or poor signal causes heavy battery drain since it keeps searching for the network until the connection is re-established.
Are you on 3G connection? If so, Facebook is a known battery drain.
Try using 2G whenever you're not needing the speed and see if that improves your battery life. (Only to test for now)
Alternatively disable Sync (all of Sync, not only Google or Facebook) and check if that improves the life.
You are on an old ROM version, try upgrading to a BLFB-based firmware or a CM9/AOSP based one. Both have great battery life improvements over the old ALEx Roms.
d4fseeker said:
Your battery goes down steep all the time, but according to your screenshot of the battery stats there are 2 critical points, the latter not ending.
Please next time also include a screenshot of the menu appearing after tapping on the graph (which includes screen-on, wifi and signal quality)
According to BBS some of the issues are related to:
No or poor signal causes heavy battery drain since it keeps searching for the network until the connection is re-established.
Are you on 3G connection? If so, Facebook is a known battery drain.
Try using 2G whenever you're not needing the speed and see if that improves your battery life. (Only to test for now)
Alternatively disable Sync (all of Sync, not only Google or Facebook) and check if that improves the life.
You are on an old ROM version, try upgrading to a BLFB-based firmware or a CM9/AOSP based one. Both have great battery life improvements over the old ALEx Roms.
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Can I just upgrade the Rom from the ALEx one I currently use or will I have to go back to stock in order to do it?
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Greedyfly said:
Can I just upgrade the Rom from the ALEx one I currently use or will I have to go back to stock in order to do it?
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Anyone know the answer to this or can direct me?