Hey guys, I am using Accubattery to monitor my battery performance and I noticed that after the last software update the battery performance dropped significantly. On the previous version, my stats were roughly 9%/h screen on and 1,5%/h screen off. After the update, the screen on discharge jumped to 22,9%/h. I used to charge my phone once in 3 days, now I have to charge it every day. Also, I noticed that the phone was significantly warm while reading an ebook and drained the battery really fast.
Something is really off. Any idea how to report back to Realme?
Seriously, no one has a similar issue? I tried pretty much everything except for a full factory reset. I tried to turn off GPS, LTE, Wifi, and Bluetooth with negligible improvement in battery consumption. I froze and force shutdown Zepp app and Notify for Amazfit ( I bought a new Amazfit watch recently) - with no visible improvement. What helped - at least a little bit was Battery->Performance mode->No performance improvement. Smart performance mode causes huge battery drain and the phone gets significantly hot during normal usage - web browser, ebook. etc.
I checked if there is a misbehaving app - nope there is not. Checked for malware, just in case - no problem there either.
My theory is they somehow tweaked governor in an update and screwed up.
I get some weird data from AIDA and CPU monitor. It seems that the triple-core cluster is running at full-speed 2,42 GHz all the time. That would explain the battery drain.
Check this screenshot.
The latest update to Android 11 and Realme UI 2.0 seems to fix the high battery consumption, also the tri-core cluster frequencies are finally adjusted normally.
I just hope they didn´t introduce more bugs with the latest release
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finally found a thread on this issue after posting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748301
sorry mods, pls delete
Me too ... it's driving me nuts.
I am experiencing this. My battery life is horrendous. Even when I barely touch the phone the battery drains extremely quickly. I have already rooted the phone with a few different roms with the battery setting "fix" to no avail. I'm on at&t. I have disabled wifi and gps. I have tried to use both the stock app killers and 3rd party ones recommended by these forums. My battery monitoring apps (both stock and 3rd party) consistently attribute the battery loss (always more than 90% of battery use) to an android system app. The android system app or file changes from day to day seemingly randomly. Files have included: UltaCfg, com.samsung.app.playreadyui and security storage.
Any help will be extremely* appreciated. I love the phone but it is nearly useless in this state.
zeesubalpha said:
I have been experiencing some serious battery drain issues. Looking at my battery stats, "Android System" is responsible for over half of the drainage. These are the only apps that run constantly besides those which the phone requires to operate:
- SetCPU
- HDWidges
- The Weather Channel
- LBE Privacy Guard
- avast! Mobile Security
other phone info is in sig. Any insight/advice??
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I am draining my battery as quickly as I can (streaming Netflix through 4G LTE with max screen brightness, max overlclock w/ performance gov) and then i'm going to power off and do a full recharge. this seemed to have fixed similar issues in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756776
let you know the results.
edit: suppose i should say that i was not experiencing this issue until i updated KT747 this morning.
this is what i did:
1) drain the battery completely. let the phone die.
2) charge to 100%. do not power the phone on until it is completely charged to 100%.
3) when i powered the phone on I was at 99%. i plugged it in and it went to 100% in about 2 minutes.
this seems to have completely solved my problem. the android system has gone from using 57% of the battery to 6%. it seems like the kernel i was using vastly overestimates the percentage of the battery to allocate to the android system until it "learns" the capacity of the battery
zeesubalpha said:
this is what i did:
1) drain the battery completely. let the phone die.
2) charge to 100%. do not power the phone on until it is completely charged to 100%.
3) when i powered the phone on I was at 99%. i plugged it in and it went to 100% in about 2 minutes.
this seems to have completely solved my problem. the android system has gone from using 57% of the battery to 6%. it seems like the kernel i was using vastly overestimates the percentage of the battery to allocate to the android system until it "learns" the capacity of the battery
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So this worked for you? I am having excessive battery drain with my Telus S3?
colemac said:
So this worked for you? I am having excessive battery drain with my Telus S3?
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I am also a Telus user. I had big time battery drain issues even with trying everything: enabling power savings mode, running Juice Defender, using wifi more, using darker wallpaper, keeping a closer eye on syncing operations, screen brightness and some other stuff.
After about 10 days I went back to the vendor (Futureshop) and convinced them to give me an exchange on the battery. They have a 14 day return/exchange policy for cell phones if you are not completely satisfied. I took some screenshots to argue my case. Thankfully the rep said ok and further explained how much power an AMOLED screen uses. I really didn't want to convince him that I am quite informed on battery drain issus and took the new battery and ran!
Conclusion is the new battery is so much better it's like night and day. I have the capacity now that others have been raving about.
If you can exchange the battery, do it. Then get the new battery and charge it up fully first thing.
Screen darker than | 5 times darker than | normally possible thanks to Screen Filter app,
removed more than 70 system apps (I have less than 40 now) with the rest except absolutely essential being frozen,
WiFi GPS and all the rest turned off,sound muted, CPU and GPU undervolted and underclocked,(flashed 4.4.2 ROM and Dorimanx 10.43v98.4 Kernel which noticeably boosted battery life, especially after tweaking with the settings) disabled error reporting and everything else battery using I could think of while playing any game?
I doubled the battery life thanks to all the changes I made (read above) because the battery lasted barely an hour, often less.The issue was ever since I got the phone and I thought it was caused by the Samsung bloatware and Android 2.3.4.Being very UNsatisfied with the battery I bought a new one and it doesn't help except that I have double the battery life again (4 hours max) which is still very bad for Me.
The screen gets hot but the battery is even hotter and the area around the SoC (CPU, GPU etc) gets the hottest, I believe
**So is this normal? What else can I do apart from the improvements I wrote above to improve the situation?**
If a battery gets hot maybe try flashing different modem.Can eat alot of battery if it's poorly suited for your country.
TheImpossibleEnemy said:
If a battery gets hot maybe try flashing different modem.Can eat alot of battery if it's poorly suited for your country.
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Even with airplane mode on wifi always off, no simcard, phone etc apps removed? (In about phone baseband entry is blank!)
It shouldn't be so.
This could be a problem.Try flashing one suitable for your country or one of the so called global ones,like xxms2,xxms4 etc.
Wrong modem+ril may eat your battery even on airplane mode.
So first a little background on this phone: my girlfriend had been heavily using it for 2 years. Over time, the battery went bad. She would keep it always on charger when she's at home, so she can have a full battery when she goes to school. At one point, after over 1.5yr, the phone started behaving weird when connected to charger: it would be either discharging while on charger, or charging very slowly, like 5% in 2 hours, during which the phone is on standby, not being used.
I took the phone and flashed a CM11 nightly. Ever since then, the charging problem has been resolved. However, the phone has extremely poor battery life. I'm able to get maximum of 2 hours screen-on time.
- I have the Greenify app, and most of the apps are greenified, including keyboard even.
- I have data off at all times, and am using Tasker to turn it on only when certain apps are running. Turning the screen off or exiting the app disable data.
- Screen brightness is at 50%
- Maximum CPU frequency is lowered to 1000 MHz (min is at 200 MHz)
- CPU governor is ondemand
- I/O scheduler is CFQ
- The phone is running CM11 nightly from 16/02 with it's native kernel.
I have recently bought a battery which is claimed to be an original. I don't know if it is, is there a way to actually check it? The battery life has not improved in regard to the old battery, the one that came with the phone.
I have also tried Gustavo kernel, but for some odd reason the drain was like 1% every 2 minutes when on standby, so I restored the latest backup.
Maybe worth to mention is that I have a yellow-ish rectangle going over my screen. It's not really noticeable, only in apps with white background. The rectangle is located in the middle of the screen, goes from side to side, and takes ~1/3 of the screen vertically. I have no idea what is that, but the screen is okay. It's responsive and the colors are fine.
I have no idea with else I could do to improve my battery life. It's seriously awful.
I'm going to try and calibrate the battery using this app tonight, but I'm really not too optimistic.
Any tips?
Lucenzo7 said:
At one point, after over 1.5yr, the phone started behaving weird when connected to charger: it would be either discharging while on charger, or charging very slowly, like 5% in 2 hours, during which the phone is on standby, not being used.
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These are common symptoms of a damaged usb port. It was the same with me, until i replaced the usb port. Now my S2 works, battery wise.
Lucenzo7 said:
So first a little background on this phone: my girlfriend had been heavily using it for 2 years. Over time, the battery went bad. She would keep it always on charger when she's at home, so she can have a full battery when she goes to school. At one point, after over 1.5yr, the phone started behaving weird when connected to charger: it would be either discharging while on charger, or charging very slowly, like 5% in 2 hours, during which the phone is on standby, not being used.
I took the phone and flashed a CM11 nightly. Ever since then, the charging problem has been resolved. However, the phone has extremely poor battery life. I'm able to get maximum of 2 hours screen-on time.
- I have the Greenify app, and most of the apps are greenified, including keyboard even.
- I have data off at all times, and am using Tasker to turn it on only when certain apps are running. Turning the screen off or exiting the app disable data.
- Screen brightness is at 50%
- Maximum CPU frequency is lowered to 1000 MHz (min is at 200 MHz)
- CPU governor is ondemand
- I/O scheduler is CFQ
- The phone is running CM11 nightly from 16/02 with it's native kernel.
I have recently bought a battery which is claimed to be an original. I don't know if it is, is there a way to actually check it? The battery life has not improved in regard to the old battery, the one that came with the phone.
I have also tried Gustavo kernel, but for some odd reason the drain was like 1% every 2 minutes when on standby, so I restored the latest backup.
Maybe worth to mention is that I have a yellow-ish rectangle going over my screen. It's not really noticeable, only in apps with white background. The rectangle is located in the middle of the screen, goes from side to side, and takes ~1/3 of the screen vertically. I have no idea what is that, but the screen is okay. It's responsive and the colors are fine.
I have no idea with else I could do to improve my battery life. It's seriously awful.
I'm going to try and calibrate the battery using this app tonight, but I'm really not too optimistic.
Any tips?
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You should try different Roms like slimsaber 4.4.4 by fusionjack. I know i've said this particular line many times before (to others) but it has now become one of the first things I say. AFAIK, the last few cm11 night lies weren't particularly stable or battery friendly. You should try a custom ROM with a different custom kernel (i have noted that you've flashed gustavo kernel) like apolo kernel 7.2 beta 3 by pedestre or dorimanx 10.44 v008 by cybernetus.
I just got my Alpha SM-G850F last week and I went straight to flashing 5.0.2 on it. After a couple wipes and reset to defaults it's now working fine but I'm still not happy with the battery life, especially while the device is idle.
My idle drain is about 3% per hour, which to me it seems a lot coming from a Z3c which usually has around 1% per hour in the same conditions (on WiFi at work or home).
Deep sleep seems to be active most of the time (according to CPU Spy), no rogue apps seem to be active (I even removed the official FB app for this tests) and I don't know what to look for anymore.
Here are the stats:
https://goo.gl/photos/fC5BbXqfZ8PpZFmy7
Some info on my setup:
- no power saving
- brightens on auto set to minimal
- location ON with high accuracy
- Bluetooth ON paired with G Watch R (switching it off at night does not make much difference)
- WiFi ON and connected
- Google Now OFF
- Nova Launcher instead of TouchWiz
- S Voice, S Health and the rest of S Krap disabled
I was wondering what's the average idle drain on WiFi for you guys.
PS: Is it normal that CPU Spy does not report above 1300Mhz (was it not supposed to go up to 1800) ?
First of all, Sony Xperia Z3 Compact has a bigger battery, 2600 mAh compared to Alpha's 1860 mAh battery. Second thing G850F has 2 processors, one clocked @ 1.3 GHz, second one clocked @ 1.8 GHz. I recommend turning all these settings off when you can (e.g. WiFi, bluetooth, location)
I've got a question though; does your touch screen work at the top left corner of the screen, like you can try swiping the navigation bar slowly from the top left corner and tell me if it goes back to its place (when im playing games buttons sometimes dont function)..
Best regards,
James
Of course there is a battery difference but still there is a big difference. Assuming the Alpha was half size that would still mean at most 2% drain. That's why I was asking for people to share their idle usage so I can compare. At the moment I'm flashing KK and I will report back after the weekend. I'm not about to dumb it down by turning off all the smart features that I use. I also remember I had the same high drain in the first version of lollipop for the z3c, but they fixed it in the meantime.
Regarding your touch screen issue, I saw your thread but I'm not experiencing it. I have no games to try with but in other apps I do not sense this issue.
Perhaps it's related to CPU usage which I assume it's pretty high during gaming ?
Battery is better in KK, idle drain dropped to less than 1.5% per hour, also memory management is way better and most of my apps are always in ram so they resume instantly, tho the system overall does not feel as snappy as with LP.
I miss the lock screen notifications and smart lock but I'm gonna stick with KK until a new version of LP turns out (hopefully 5.1.1).
Here are the stats:
https://goo.gl/photos/nAQuZzLzdyD2imV39
I dont understand your statistics,but obviously Android system & kernel drain your buttery and this is not normally
but we have only first build of 502 jet,and I think newer version of 502 will be much better
Actually that's normal when you don't have any apps wreaking havoc in background when the screen is off. So basically what you're left with are the notifications, communication (WiFi, Bluetooth & GSM), location and the rest of the google/samsung stuff that you can't really control. Overall 26h with 1.5h SoT for such a small battery is reasonable to get you through the day.
Here is my idle drain after full charge and leaving the phone untouched through the night.
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Power saving is off and I`m on Ozcan ROM. With my pattern of usage battery lasts for 2/2,5 day with around 2,5h SOT (no power saving and brightnes on auto 5).
93drago said:
Here is my idle drain after full charge and leaving the phone untouched through the night.
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Power saving is off and I`m on Ozcan ROM. With my pattern of usage battery lasts for 2/2,5 day with around 2,5h SOT (no power saving and brightnes on auto 5).
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Looks good. My battery went down about 14% over night from fully charged (as much as 20% on other 5.0.2 roms). Do you have exchange accounts? I've found them a bit of a drain in the past. I'll try again tonight and post some stats.
I have facebook, messenger, snapchat and 4 gmail accounts that have push notifications. I also use greenify with experimental functions enabled - it indeed saves some battery power.
Hi guys,
i used to get more than 7 hours of active screen on my Nubia Z9 (3G browsing) - i have measured it one day during intensive day usage.
Now it's only 3 or so on current firmware.
Wakelocks seem to be ok, i don't have problems in sleep mode.
I don't remember which firmware i used before, i've changed a lot of them.
Battery itself is less than 1 year old and seem to be ok, i've tested it with Battery Monitor widget during several weeks and it almost did not loose capacity by now.
How to find, who drains the battery on this firmware on ACTIVE usage? Radio? CPU on abnormal frequencies? I'm pretty satisfied with new firmware, it's smooth and has a lot of useful features. But so much reduced active mode usage worries and annoys me.
I suspect the problem is Android OS itself, but why only in ACTIVE MODE?
I also want to mention I use two smartphones with identical set of apps and settings (including google syncs, etc.). And that second phone is doing fine in terms of battery drain. Second smartphone uses Snap 615 and this uses Snap 810.