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I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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How much screen on time over how long and what kind of use?
60% is high but there's known bugs in android OS reporting.
I'm asking because you we're saying your new. It takes a lot of power to power this 4.8 screen
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natefish said:
I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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How often do your widgets that gather info refresh? Try scaling down on some widgets and see if that helps. If not, try to flash stock with odin and start over. I was having some problems with my phone when I first got it (MTP specifically) and I falshed stock and everything started working fine. Also, if you are using Google Chrome, make sure you have the experimental feature of using the gyroscope for tilt scrolling set to off....it is known to drain battery.
Hope this helps :good:
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How often do your widgets that gather info refresh? Try scaling down on some widgets and see if that helps. If not, try to flash stock with odin and start over. I was having some problems with my phone when I first got it (MTP specifically) and I falshed stock and everything started working fine. Also, if you are using Google Chrome, make sure you have the experimental feature of using the gyroscope for tilt scrolling set to off....it is known to drain battery.
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Maybe I will try flashing stock if I have time today. I reset my battery stats in recovery mode when I took the phone off the charger this morning, so we'll see how today goes.
I looked into the widgets and the only one that refreshes data on a schedule is the clock/weather. I'll try a different one or just not use the weather.
Great tip about Chrome. Didn't know it did that.
Do I actually need to calibrate the battery? I tried the method of letting it die and charge back up a few times and I've tried recharging once it gets down between 70-80 percents life. I'm not sure which method helped, but I did notice an improvement.
Thanks again for the help.
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How much screen on time over how long and what kind of use?
60% is high but there's known bugs in android OS reporting.
I'm asking because you we're saying your new. It takes a lot of power to power this 4.8 screen
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Not sure how to know how long the screen was on. Is there a way to know that? If I had to guess I'd say 4 hours. I use the Smart Stay option as well. I wonder if wiping the stats will give me more valid data.
Thank you for the help.
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Not sure how to know how long the screen was on. Is there a way to know that? If I had to guess I'd say 4 hours. I use the Smart Stay option as well. I wonder if wiping the stats will give me more valid data.
Thank you for the help.
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settings>battery>click on the gray use bar & you can see screen on time.
It is because you are running touchjizz. Cm and aokp are the best :highfive:
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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Great advice. Thanks. What do you use for "cpu sleeper"?
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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Never mind! Just searched" CPU sleeper" on the Play store and--voila!
On another note, I'm so glad I got a device with a huge support community. Coming from iOS, it's nice to feel part of a collective effort again and get such great advice. I know there are a lot of iOS forums and there is some great work done through those communities, but those seem so trivial compared to what is done through XDA and the level of helpfulness is unparalleled here.
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Great advice. Thanks. What do you use for "cpu sleeper"?
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Do I actually need to calibrate the battery? I tried the method of letting it die and charge back up a few times and I've tried recharging once it gets down between 70-80 percents life. I'm not sure which method helped, but I did notice an improvement.
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I read somewhere in the forum that these batteries actually like to be constantly charged up and not let die completely. There was no explanation for this but I will research it because I am curious. With my old Captivate, i let it die then fully charge to extend the overall life of the battery.
How is your battery so far?
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I read somewhere in the forum that these batteries actually like to be constantly charged up and not let die completely. There was no explanation for this but I will research it because I am curious. With my old Captivate, i let it die then fully charge to extend the overall life of the battery.
How is your battery so far?
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I've applied all the tricks folks have shared here and have flashed the Diet ICS rom. I am going to take screen shots of my usage data on a daily basis and see how things fair. I'll post my results here. Here is one from last night before really getting into all the tricks and the new rom. So, maybe this is my "before" shot in this documentary of a noob's journey to better battery life.
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natefish said:
I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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Have you tried using the CPU Sleeper app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745516
I found that it does a great job of preserving battery life when the phone is in standby. I used to notice my battery draining really fast over short periods on standby (phone would be hot to the touch). After installing this, I have not encountered that problem again. I get 16-20 hours of use on moderate usage. LTE, gps, and sync are always enabled. I DO NOT have the phone in power saving mode and I seldom use wifi. I used to get 10-12 hours of battery life on the same usage before. I am running the rooted version of the stock rom from my carrier.
CPU sleeper app works great for me. I am in a non LTE area but get incredible battery life, last all day usually with around 50% left. An order of magnitude better than my SGS2
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Have you tried using the CPU Sleeper app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745516
I found that it does a great job of preserving battery life when the phone is in standby. I used to notice my battery draining really fast over short periods on standby (phone would be hot to the touch). After installing this, I have not encountered that problem again. I get 16-20 hours of use on moderate usage. LTE, gps, and sync are always enabled. I DO NOT have the phone in power saving mode and I seldom use wifi. I used to get 10-12 hours of battery life on the same usage before. I am running the rooted version of the stock rom from my carrier.
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CPU sleeper app works great for me. I am in a non LTE area but get incredible battery life, last all day usually with around 50% left. An order of magnitude better than my SGS2
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I am using CPU Sleeper now, thanks to the advice of a previous poster on page 1. Good to hear it works for others.
I had the SGS2 as well and the S3 is definitely better.
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Hi all,
I also notice this and this were the steps that I did and seems to help me to reduce this process to like 5 %. I'm on Sprint S3 but should be the same for the all carriers.
Go ahead and open Talk application. You should see your account in green (I'm not using this application) then hit the menu and then select sigh Off. Make sure that your account changes to Offline (sometimes it is change back it self so open one more time make sure that it says Offline). Then what else I change is in wi-fi advanced options: under Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep I choose Only when plugged in option. then I reboot the phone and from now on (almost 2 days) my Android system process show up only 5% of usage and my battery life improve significantly. I hope this will helps.
Thanks
Those are great tips. Thanks. I will say I've gotten increasingly better life since employing other tips discussed here.
Something else I did was download a profile changing app. I got Quick Profiles, but anything should do. If anyone uses anything better, please share. I have a profile for power saving that turns down my brightness, and turns off wifi and Bluetooth. The app will let you put shortcuts on the home screen to instantly change the profile. I'd like to find one, however, that will also turn off gps and mobile data.
Can somebody help. My sgs3 battery seem to drain like a loose drain. I charge 100% at 12.30am and go to sleep but by 5am battery is completely drained and phone is dead off. This is not the same during the day. Are there processes running when the phone is Idle that brings about this massive drain. Please I need help asap.
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Do you leave many programs running, alot of frequent sync going on? Did you leave Bluetooth on or something that you don't need during night? Just guessing...
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Search battery drain on Google for this device....lots of results,b but it generally comes down to learning how to use your phone and it's features, and when and what stuff to turn off etc etc
I don't leave anything on. I ensure I disable prefetch on my YouTube, disable auto updated on dropbox, I don't use SNS, and off course screen time out after 10 sec.
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I don't leave anything on. I ensure I disable prefetch on my YouTube, disable auto updated on dropbox, I don't use SNS, and off course screen time out after 10 sec.
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mine drop 1% per hr ... is that normal?
"multipdp" (): 12 m 26 s (746 s) Cntc/wc/ec)68/0/68 3.6%
how can i fix the multipdp problem?
Thankz for help^^
There is obviously a problem if it's dying in <5 hrs.
Did you recently connect to Kies because I was having probs with my SGS2 getting really hot and losing power as a result of Kies/a dodgy USB lead?
A factory reset solved it however ( remember to back up ) but sometimes just removing your battery for 90 seconds to reset the values works.
Good luck.
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The last thing I remember dong was hotspot and I made sure I switched off everything. From the posts above I tried the cell_standby fix and it still did not fix.
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The last thing I remember dong was hotspot and I made sure I switched off everything. From the posts above I tried the cell_standby fix and it still did not fix.
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Turn off Google backup, face awake, try that for starters
First of all, switch off your phone for a while to see if there is problem in battery or its the apps you are running. If you think it is a stupid step,
Then try using some software like JuiceDefender or something.
In app manager, kill apps that are useless.
Also turn off features like bluetooth, gps etc. if on.
Reduce phone's brightness, recommended to set it to "auto".
Turn off useless vibrations and LED notifications.
You should now see significant improvemance in battery life.
Hope this helps
I have taken all these steps gone ahead to remove live wall paper, auto sync disabled, brightness is set at auto. And its still the same. I don't want to tow the line of hard reset because am not sure that would solve the problem coupled with the time it would take to get my sgs3 to suite me
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I use juice defender which manages everything for me, an overnight schedule ensures the battery only drops by 1 or 2%
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okay so i thought i had a battery problem before i tried putting my phone aside (meaning no games, no internet browsing and no video streaming nothing, just using whatsapp and leaving facebook connected. I also have lots of apps and games installed over 15 or something)
If you decreasing screen time you will notice a HUGE difference (24hrs in my case), its basically down to usage, I have tried over 10 different roms and kernels as well as the v6 supercharger script, i dont ever notice the difference, EVER. unless of course i use a minimalistic rom with almost nothing to play around with, but if thats how u like it then go for that. Id say following all the fundamental steps will take you a long way
my final advice:
less screen time
when on the screen use the least brightness available
decrease stock brightness even more if you can
less app usage
if your not one to constantly play with your phone and customize stuff on it try installing a minimal rom like
|ROM|XXBLG8| IOIDroid Super Slim Edition | Buttery Smooth | V1.0.0 LIVE !! |
or
[ROM][4.0.4] Slim ICS (SGS3) - Clean, Simple & Fast (63MB)
i dont know if this is a placebo of not, but sometimes i notice improvements when i undervolt, underclock and limit to only dual core. believe it or not sometimes it has little or the adverse effect of saving battery
good luck man
And another question, which can be solved through the search function or Google -.-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937080
So here is my experience. Have been using android for years, have had an hd2 so I know how to get good battery life results. For some reason I easily lost 15-20% overnight with just the gsm 2g radio on. No matter what I did it drained fast even though deep sleep was fine, all extras sync and etc were off. 3hrs screen on time in 14 hours and it was dead.
I kept waiting for an update to solve this and it never came even though I was force checking it.
I ended up factory resetting the phone and as soon as it booted up an ota update popped up. Since then I am having nearly 6hrs screen on time in 40hrs,which is amazing.
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I will try the juice defender route and hope that it solves my problem or else I will be forced to tow the hard reset route.
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Greetings, I have seen a similar problem back in our hox forums. I have come here in peace to help, though. Recently, someone suggested bump charging, it's like a natural way of making your battery recalibrate itself without wiping battery stats or stuff like that.
First off, charge the battery until it says 100% while the device is on.
Then remove the charger, turn off the power, and charge again.
Remove the charger again when it says full while the device is off.
Turn it on again, then when it's properly booted, charge again, but don't use the device until it says it's fully charged already.
Mind you, we're not sure if it's just a placebo or not. Some claims to have had better battery life after doing this for once a month. I haven't tried it yet, but I thought I could share it here too.
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Greetings, I have seen a similar problem back in our hox forums. I have come here in peace to help, though. Recently, someone suggested bump charging, it's like a natural way of making your battery recalibrate itself without wiping battery stats or stuff like that.
First off, charge the battery until it says 100% while the device is on.
Then remove the charger, turn off the power, and charge again.
Remove the charger again when it says full while the device is off.
Turn it on again, then when it's properly booted, charge again, but don't use the device until it says it's fully charged already.
Mind you, we're not sure if it's just a placebo or not. Some claims to have had better battery life after doing this for once a month. I haven't tried it yet, but I thought I could share it here too.
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I saw this method being used with good results (reportedly) on my SGS2 so it's definitely worth a bash if you can't be arsed to reset.
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Just to offer two cents from my experience with this phone.
I recently got a replacement for my s3.. the details of that are for another post, but this relates to battery:
when I first got the phone i started using it right away. I did not charge the battery until I got to the office and charged the phone while using it the first day.
when I got the second replacement phone I already had a second battery.
This battery was fully charged and immediately used that in the new phone. fully charged the samsung battery before I used it.
I noticed significantly better performance with the second phone. I think it was because of the way i treated the battery strait out of the box.
any one agree, or have a similar experience?
Ibroe said:
Can somebody help. My sgs3 battery seem to drain like a loose drain. I charge 100% at 12.30am and go to sleep but by 5am battery is completely drained and phone is dead off. This is not the same during the day. Are there processes running when the phone is Idle that brings about this massive drain. Please I need help asap.
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Do you have an Exchange account set up?
After the newest update i also notice that it has a high % drain even if i turn 3g off, gps and everything nothing unusual runs in the background that can explain high drain yet it does.. and i didnt notice that before the latest update and i havent installed any weird apps. I also have all my weather and news on manual update so i dont get what can drain the battery with internet off overnight.. its frustrating a bit.
Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone can help. I have a stock S3 running 4.1.1 and for a while its been running great, but the past few days the battery drain has been quite fast and the RAM usage seems to be high.
In the past my battery would be very good but this morning it had drained 10% in about an hour with me only checking a few web pages via wifi (wifi was constantly on. And I have noticed that my RAM usage for the past 48 hours has been around 600-700mb when previously it was between 400-500mb.
I have used all the usual battery saving tips since I got the phone, sync off, location off, haptic off etc. I have uninstalled apps that were installed in the past few days but doesnt seem to have helped. This morning I have disabled S-Voice but not had any time to see if it has helped and RAM usage seems the same.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Also was wondering if apps like GSam batt monitor and advanced task killer/manager are worth using or whether they will just add to the battery and RAM drain.
Many Thanks in advance
Don't use google now. Sorted out my battery life
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Google Now is already disabled. Just wondering if it's worth restoring to factory to see if that helps?
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Then id say try use betterbatterystats to see what's keeping your phone awake.
Might be some rogue app going crazy
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After doing a complete wipe install of mean bean, my battery is still draining about 2%/minute. Now, I realize there is more than likely some other issue, that installing mean bean uncovered or removed the block before.
Questions;
1) is it normal for the screen to be using 60% of the battery power?
2) Is there actually an app that controls the battery usage, and truly kills apps?
- I have tested several, with no noticeable difference in power usage.
Thanks for any advice, for a somewhat novice rooter.
yup
The 60 normal if screens been on a lot. The 2% deal sounds whacked. Have u gone into settings/apps/running to see whats running?
Fixed, I think
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The 60 normal if screens been on a lot. The 2% deal sounds whacked. Have u gone into settings/apps/running to see whats running?
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I'm not sure what I changed, I limited the processes to only 4 running, that might have helped. The battery still drains faster than before when the screen is on, but not as it was before. I am giving "Easy Battery Saver" a try see if that tells me anything useful, it at least keeps the settings that are applied. With any luck it will keep working until I break it again, lol.
Greenify and juice defender
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Seems like you get bad signal
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I was having bad drain issues and read some post about location tracking with Google maps. I disabled that and my battery life on MB 3.09 is back to normal which is great.
Funny thing is this happened seemly out of no where but I think there was a recent update to maps. My location tracking has always been on and never seemed to affect battery life before. Go figure.
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This isn't your usual battery thread. My drain is MASSIVE. 25 percent in 2 hours just sitting with the screen locked. I am unlocked with TWRP. It started out of the blue, no new apps installed when it happened. I wiped cach/data and then had TWRP wipe the system partition. Then installed a clean ROM, Beans mostly stock ROM, the one I have been running since it came out with no problems. The massive battery drain continues. I have installed very few apps after flash, none of them are out of the ordinary. All data sync and app syn is off except Gmail.
The maps usage is weird, very high, I have gps turned off. But even the maps usage does not explain the rapid drop. Battery stats snapshot attached.
I am almost thinking my battery is just fried.
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This isn't your usual battery thread. My drain is MASSIVE. 25 percent in 2 hours just sitting with the screen locked. I am unlocked with TWRP. It started out of the blue, no new apps installed when it happened. I wiped cach/data and then had TWRP wipe the system partition. Then installed a clean ROM, Beans mostly stock ROM, the one I have been running since it came out with no problems. The massive battery drain continues. I have installed very few apps after flash, none of them are out of the ordinary. All data sync and app syn is off except Gmail.
The maps usage is weird, very high, I have gps turned off. But even the maps usage does not explain the rapid drop. Battery stats snapshot attached.
I am almost thinking my battery is just fried.
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Have you checked to see if history is turned off? Maps will try to locate you based on cell signal if gps isnt available which would still drain your battery pretty fast if it was consistantly running in the background.
MAPS>>>SETTINGS>>>LOCATION SETTINGS
There you'll see options for location reporting, location sharing, location history, etc.
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Have you checked to see if history is turned off? Maps will try to locate you based on cell signal if gps isnt available which would still drain your battery pretty fast if it was consistantly running in the background.
MAPS>>>SETTINGS>>>LOCATION SETTINGS
There you'll see options for location reporting, location sharing, location history, etc.
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Good call, history was on. Interesting that it stays active even though I had location reporting turned off. And I am in a building that gets a poor gps lock. You might have nailed it, I will let you/everyone know.
No joy, still dropping like a rock.
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No joy, still dropping like a rock.
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Search xda for better battery stats thread, download the apk and install. Maybe you're getting wakelocks somewhere causing it to drain. If that doesnt help maybe your battery just crapped out on you... o_0
And get Greenify it helps a ton especially with maps.
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No joy, still dropping like a rock.
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If u set ur automatic date and time and time zone off that will stop a lot of battery.
Thanks gang, BetterBatteryStats is awesome, and Greenify is looking pretty slick too.
Still struggling, but getting info. Battery is on order, really hope that is it but I am not hopeful. It really appears my Google Maps is out of control. During the screen shots below the phone was 95 percent just sitting. I did a little twitter, couple of emails. Never opened maps, location history, sharing and gps was off the whole time. Stand alone gps in locations was off, google and vz locations were on.
In four hours with only a little twitter/gmail it dropped 40 percent. For 3.5 hours of that time it was in deep sleep. I am not seeing any wakelock issues, that is attached. As is the 'current' stats from BetterBatteryStats.
The main battery stats from Android say Maps is using a good deal of this battery. I have uninstalled maps updates and cleared data on it. Maybe it is looking high because the battery is fu'bard. The new one wont be here for a few days because of the holidays.
I may be out of touch for a couple of days. Time to put some miles on the bike.
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Thanks gang, BetterBatteryStats is awesome, and Greenify is looking pretty slick too.
Still struggling, but getting info. Battery is on order, really hope that is it but I am not hopeful. It really appears my Google Maps is out of control. During the screen shots below the phone was 95 percent just sitting. I did a little twitter, couple of emails. Never opened maps, location history, sharing and gps was off the whole time. Stand alone gps in locations was off, google and vz locations were on.
In four hours with only a little twitter/gmail it dropped 40 percent. For 3.5 hours of that time it was in deep sleep. I am not seeing any wakelock issues, that is attached. As is the 'current' stats from BetterBatteryStats.
The main battery stats from Android say Maps is using a good deal of this battery. I have uninstalled maps updates and cleared data on it. Maybe it is looking high because the battery is fu'bard. The new one wont be here for a few days because of the holidays.
I may be out of touch for a couple of days. Time to put some miles on the bike.
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What does the Partial Wakelock screenshot from BetterBatteryStats look like?
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Did you hibernate maps in greenify? There's no way it could draw that much power if you have and you're not using the app at all.
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What does the Partial Wakelock screenshot from BetterBatteryStats look like?
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Very clean, just the gmail syncs. It is attached.
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Did you hibernate maps in greenify? There's no way it could draw that much power if you have and you're not using the app at all.
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Good point, I did not. I have now...but since uninstalling map updates and clearing it's data it is not showing up in the battery stats at all. But I will Greenify it. Battery drop is a little better, but still massive.
My next test is to recharge it and let it sit in airplane mode.
TonikJDK said:
Very clean, just the gmail syncs. It is attached.
Good point, I did not. I have now...but since uninstalling map updates and clearing it's data it is not showing up in the battery stats at all. But I will Greenify it. Battery drop is a little better, but still massive.
My next test is to recharge it and let it sit in airplane mode.
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When Maps was still updated was it showing under the Partial Wakelock tab?
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I dont know if this would help....but with my last phone.. the gnex, I would go outside and get a solid gps lock then turn off gps. It would stop the constant searching for a lock and battery drain. If I never got that initial lock, even with gps off it would drain it but not really show up in a better battery stats as a problem....just had to do it every time phone was rebooted of course but not that much of a pain.
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I dont know if this would help....but with my last phone.. the gnex, I would go outside and get a solid gps lock then turn off gps. It would stop the constant searching for a lock and battery drain. If I never got that initial lock, even with gps off it would drain it but not really show up in a better battery stats as a problem....just had to do it every time phone was rebooted of course but not that much of a pain.
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He turned off his gps.
joshm.1219 said:
He turned off his gps.
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Yes I know. But in the gnex days even if I turned it off, without first getting a lock, it would be the cause of battery drain. I don't even dare to think I understand the why of it, only that it was the solution that everyone on the gnex xda forums offered.
jersey droid said:
Yes I know. But in the gnex days even if I turned it off, without first getting a lock, it would be the cause of battery drain. I don't even dare to think I understand the why of it, only that it was the solution that everyone on the gnex xda forums offered.
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Really that's so weird maybe it's from maps trying to use the network for location... I don't see how it could be the gps radio if it's off.
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joshm.1219 said:
Really that's so weird maybe it's from maps trying to use the network for location... I don't see how it could be the gps radio if it's off.
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Because even though the GPS is turned off the apps still doesn't realize that when running in background mode. Its like it just never made the connection to GPS being turned off and stopping searching.
I've read about this quite a bit and it is just something to do with how Sammy phones communicate with Maps.
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Don't use greenify to solve your problem. Find the root issue first. Then use greenify if you want.
Try going to Maps in manage apps in settings and clear all data.
You could also uninstall maps and reinstall it. (Probably need to be rooted and use a something that will uninstall a system app like Rom Tool Box)
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ezas said:
Don't use greenify to solve your problem. Find the root issue first. Then use greenify if you want.
Try going to Maps in manage apps in settings and clear all data.
You could also uninstall maps and reinstall it. (Probably need to be rooted and use a something that will uninstall a system app like Rom Tool Box)
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Tibu works for uninstalling Sys Apps as well.
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shangrila500 said:
Because even though the GPS is turned off the apps still doesn't realize that when running in background mode. Its like it just never made the connection to GPS being turned off and stopping searching.
I've read about this quite a bit and it is just something to do with how Sammy phones communicate with Maps.
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Interesting thanks for the info.
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