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Any suggestions about my battery life

I know that there are lots of these battery life threads and i have read most of them and I've tried closing processes that i don't need and i have tried setcpu to keep the cpu low when the device is off, which seemed to help some but my phone would shutoff randomly. So last night i had a full battery and went to bed when i woke up 8 hrs later i was at 20% so about 10% an hr not even using the device. I have attached some pics for reference does anyone have any thoughts that might help. Thanks

I don't know about galaxy S but on my X10 the problem was wifi.
When I didn't have a data plan I had wifi on all day and the battery was down in 10h max 12h.
To improve it I had to use JuiceDefender to enable wifi every five minutes for updates..
Try to disable wifi overnight, reboot the phone and see what happens.
By the way, what app you used for those stats?
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tuxStyle said:
I don't know about galaxy S but on my X10 the problem was wifi.
When I didn't have a data plan I had wifi on all day and the battery was down in 10h max 12h.
To improve it I had to use JuiceDefender to enable wifi every five minutes for updates..
Try to disable wifi overnight, reboot the phone and see what happens.
By the way, what app you used for those stats?
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I don't have wifi enabled, I don't use it that often. the name of the prog is system panel

Very weird indeed. I have my Captivate with Wifi on all day, GPS signal and auto sync and when I go to bed and wake up, the battery hasnt gone down at all. I had the phone go on full battery one day and I even sent a few texts and went online for 10 minutes before it lost just a bit of battery.

Do you have that one LED app installed? The one that shows a little red dot on the corner of your screen when you have a notification?

hacker01 said:
Do you have that one LED app installed? The one that shows a little red dot on the corner of your screen when you have a notification?
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yes i do.. Why? but it was turned off last night, as its turned off every night

Ok so i tested again last night and I did not have my im+ app running and the battery life was soooo much better. I also did not have system panel running which records all the battery and cpu stats but i'm think its the im+ app that was taking up all the juice. Can anyone think of another app that does skype and facebook but that also does not take up sooo much batter life??? Thanks

88EVGAFTW said:
Very weird indeed. I have my Captivate with Wifi on all day, GPS signal and auto sync and when I go to bed and wake up, the battery hasnt gone down at all. I had the phone go on full battery one day and I even sent a few texts and went online for 10 minutes before it lost just a bit of battery.
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Possible he has his set to stay on. While yours may turn off when sleeping.
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Open up the dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#*
Go to BATTERY HISTORY>PARTIAL WAKE USAGE and maybe that will show you which app is sucking up your battery life while you sleep.
Also try, if you don't absolutely need an internet connection while you sleep, SMODA widget to turn off your mobile internet. It's quick, free, and painless.

m_1000rr6 said:
Open up the dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#*
Go to BATTERY HISTORY>PARTIAL WAKE USAGE and maybe that will show you which app is sucking up your battery life while you sleep.
Also try, if you don't absolutely need an internet connection while you sleep, SMODA widget to turn off your mobile internet. It's quick, free, and painless.
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yeah the app that took the most juice was im+

I drained mine down to 5% and charged full a few times and still only got 8 - 10 hours on mine until i flashed to jh2 and now have been getting almost 16 hours with same usage and apps installed. I charge mine at night. I use ebuddy with the piwer saver option turbed on abd it does an ok job.
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I have the stock ROM and stock launcher and my battery is awsome! 8 hours and I will still be above 80%.
Brightness: Lowest (manually control via stock stock gesture)
GPS: OFF
Wifi: ON all day
BT: OFF
GMail manual
Other emails accounts hourly for the most part.
Widgets: Google/Fancy Weather
BG: Mostly Black
I have never seen such good battery life on a smart phone.
I could easily get 2 days, but i rather charge every night and then not worry about battery usage.
The wifi/gmail/gps made a big difference, its too bad you can't set gmail to hourly or something lik e that. Some of my email accounts i would like to set longer than hourly.

The last few days have been pretty good one my phone. Used to get maybe 16 hours but my last charge lasted me about 50 hours with moderate browsing, gaming, and voice/text. Juiceplotter is telling me I'll be getting about 47 hours
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tysj said:
The last few days have been pretty good one my phone. Used to get maybe 16 hours but my last charge lasted me about 50 hours with moderate browsing, gaming, and voice/text. Juiceplotter is telling me I'll be getting about 47 hours
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How many hours with the display on?
Sent from my phone so I apologize for any spelling mistakes

My battery icon depletes one notch when I'm using the screen for about an hour. Some people recommend cycling the battery, in which you do a full drain and immediate full charge, 3 or 4 times. I've done it, but it's hard to say if it explains my good battery life.

let the battery drain COMPLETELY until the phone turns off a couple times, then charge it till 100% without unplugging it.

Berserk87 said:
let the battery drain COMPLETELY until the phone turns off a couple times, then charge it till 100% without unplugging it.
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You don't want to drain the battery that much, those kind of batteries can be damaged. The phone turns off for a reason.
I haven't done the cycle thing and its fine. A lot of that comes from older batteries with the memory problem.

irus, software which is based on data connection drains the battery one way or another. Some apps now support push notifications and IM+ does too. Did you try to use push?

These claims of multiple day charges with moderate use is crazy to me. I have the newest ROM, a black screen, display all the way down, gps off, wifi on when in range, make zero voice calls, run juice, and only have 2 widgets that update every 4 hours. I use my phone for a maximum of 3 hours browsing the web, reading XDA and feedR, checking facebook and the occasional text message. My phone lasts a total of 12 to 14 hours. My battery has a manufacture date of late July. Is there some secret I am not aware of?
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I'm I'm your boat Shuggins, except I don't use juice, I have it installed though
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what exactly eats battery on android system? (Battery woes!)

Ok, just flashed to CM 7 #22. My battery usage indicates 35% for android system.
My settings were the same on RC 2 and usage of android system was like 5%?
what exactly is wrong?
I have sync apps all day long on RC 2 too.

more info is needed. you need to post your total battery percent that you started with, and how much battery dropped, and how many hours that took to drop. and also post your "screen on" time. without that info, your android system 35% is meaningless. maybe the phone was only unplugged for 25 seconds, and android system used 35% in those 25 seconds. we need the relative usage.

RogerPodacter said:
more info is needed. you need to post your total battery percent that you started with, and how much battery dropped, and how many hours that took to drop. and also post your "screen on" time. without that info, your android system 35% is meaningless. maybe the phone was only unplugged for 25 seconds, and android system used 35% in those 25 seconds. we need the relative usage.
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im sorry, . I just wiped battery stats so dont really have a screenshot of it.
but essentially i started with 65% battery at 6pm, ended with 32% at 10pm, with no major usage (no games, minor web surfing, accounts syncing were on) , display usage was tabulated to be 50% and android system 35%.

afishpie said:
im sorry, . I just wiped battery stats so dont really have a screenshot of it.
but essentially i started with 65% battery at 6pm, ended with 32% at 10pm, with no major usage (no games, minor web surfing, accounts syncing were on) , display usage was tabulated to be 50% and android system 35%.
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you wiped battery stats without recalibrating your battery.. google on how to do it if you're unsure

zephiK said:
you wiped battery stats without recalibrating your battery.. google on how to do it if you're unsure
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That info was before i wiped battery stats. I recalibrated my battery and will post an update in about 10hrs time.

Roughly 3 hours into battery time, with minor browsing. Android system is using 30%.
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14 hrs on and android system is eating 23%.
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Seems pretty normal to me. How much battery have you lost.

I have a N1 in 2.3.3 and had the same problem. Right after I updated from 2.2.1 to 2.3.3 android system would devour my battery very quickly. Turned out to be an issue with how gingerbread handles wifi sleep. I changed wifi sleep policy to Never and the android system usage of my battery decreased slightly. Then I took it a step further and started turning off my wifi once I left home (constant wifi source). Since then my battery life has been amazing.
Again I'm on a N1 not a NS but maybe it'll help.
Sent from my Nexus One

RogerPodacter said:
Seems pretty normal to me. How much battery have you lost.
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After 1 day, my android system now takes about 8%, things are getting back to normal.
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OblivioN1 said:
I have a N1 in 2.3.3 and had the same problem. Right after I updated from 2.2.1 to 2.3.3 android system would devour my battery very quickly. Turned out to be an issue with how gingerbread handles wifi sleep. I changed wifi sleep policy to Never and the android system usage of my battery decreased slightly. Then I took it a step further and started turning off my wifi once I left home (constant wifi source). Since then my battery life has been amazing.
Again I'm on a N1 not a NS but maybe it'll help.
Sent from my Nexus One
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I agree with this as well.. Infact, i'll go one step further and say leave ur wifi off, if your phone finds it hard keeping the connection..
I assumed that leaving my Wifi on would be a good thing while I was at home..but certains parts of my house have pretty lousy wifi coverage... so i switched wifi off completely..and tadaaa.. my battery lasted a lot longer..
(i guess its probably because my phone had to spend lesser energy "searching for wifi" and then hooking onto poor reception, only to lose it again in 5 minutes.)
have a look at the inflection in the battery usage graph attached at the point where i switched wifi off ..definitely looks like something's up with wifi

Try CM7 build #26. The battery life is quite impressive on it, especially when on standby mode. Over night, it drained the battery less than 2%.

i'm having an issue with this as well.
running stock rooted rom
11hrs 49 m on battery
display 29% screen on 2h 12m
android system is 17%
etc.
why is android system so high!? i don't recall it ever doing this before until recently.

@crzdcole
If your overall battery life is still ok, then nothing to worry about. High percentages in one part doesn't automatically mean something is wrong, might as well be that the other parts - in relation - just take less.

afishpie said:
Ok, just flashed to CM 7 #22. My battery usage indicates 35% for android system.
My settings were the same on RC 2 and usage of android system was like 5%?
what exactly is wrong?
I have sync apps all day long on RC 2 too.
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please try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1121294

[Q] Why is my standby battery usage high?

Hi, I have just come over from the HD2 threads as I'm using a Sensation XE now . My battery current when running android on standby was around 7 - 20 ma. On my XE it is between 180 and 220ma. I killed all running tasks etc but still no change. i'm using Battery Monitor Widget to check the currents. The only thing i have on is mobile internet. I also have on background sync but that was on with my HD2 as well. Is there anything I should look out for that my being draining the battery? Also I'm on stock rom

What did you already tried to solve the problem? Did you already do a soft reset/wipe all data (except that on the SD card)? How long is your battery life?
Yesterday i called HTC because my battery life is reduced drastically compared to a few weeks ago. They told me to turn off everything like bluetooth, wifi etc (after a soft reset) and put the phone in plane mode while screen brightness was 100% and screen time out never so the screen stays on during the test. Next I needed to write down how fast the battery was drained. My battery was at 55% after 2 hours (without doing anything with the phone). According to HTC this was to fast and therefore they send me a new battery.

brannos99 said:
What did you already tried to solve the problem? Did you already do a soft reset/wipe all data (except that on the SD card)? How long is your battery life?
Yesterday i called HTC because my battery life is reduced drastically compared to a few weeks ago. They told me to turn off everything like bluetooth, wifi etc (after a soft reset) and put the phone in plane mode while screen brightness was 100% and screen time out never so the screen stays on during the test. Next I needed to write down how fast the battery was drained. My battery was at 55% after 2 hours (without doing anything with the phone). According to HTC this was to fast and therefore they send me a new battery.
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In 1 hour of standby the battery has drained 5%. the battery current usage is way to high for standby. I have had this phone on 3 days so I dont think i need to do a full wipe. I dont use wifi or bluetooth and they are always switched off. Seems strange to have a high battery usage while in standby compared to my hd2. This battery is meant to be a high capicity

use battery monitor widget (use a beta version from the forum, not the market). set it to "mA corrections" and choose automatic from the list of supported phones. i get anywhere from 5-7 mA drain (standby, of course).

RussianBear said:
use battery monitor widget (use a beta version from the forum, not the market). set it to "mA corrections" and choose automatic from the list of supported phones. i get anywhere from 5-7 mA drain (standby, of course).
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from here ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905999
it doesnt show beta

Try turning OFF mobile data AND sync. Then see how the standby current drain is.
Matt

indie said:
from here ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905999
it doesnt show beta
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this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17402830&postcount=12

Thanks, I will try it out

It's still in the -200's in standby

Sorry, i changed to automatic and now it -40 and 60. Is it right now or should it be lower?

indie said:
Sorry, i changed to automatic and now it -40 and 60. Is it right now or should it be lower?
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mine's weird, it'll start higher and gradually gets lower. see what happens in a few hours of standby.

Hi indie.
How is your battery drain now? I ask because I have same problem (original rom) and I don't know what to do.

decebal12345 said:
Hi indie.
How is your battery drain now? I ask because I have same problem (original rom) and I don't know what to do.
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Hi, I'm on stock Rom too. Once I kill all tasks by the default task manager, it ranges between 25 - 60. It does take a bit of time to get there. I Have seen it as low as 19. You need to follow steps and get the beta widget and set it to corrections as mentioned earlier in the posts.
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indie said:
it ranges between 25 - 60. It does take a bit of time to get there.
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Same here, took about half an hour to go from ~-100mA to -30mA
However I can't seem to get 0mA when fully charged. Anyone else with the same issue?

akpidis said:
Same here, took about half an hour to go from ~-100mA to -30mA
However I can't seem to get 0mA when fully charged. Anyone else with the same issue?
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same here. stays at 100mA after 100%. i can live with that

Check out guide in my singature.. It will solve your battery problems in no worires

Just a quick update. I let my battery completely die (never done this before) and charged my phone fully. I then deleted the battery stats.txt and switched phone off. the charged some more. Now when my phone uses -5 on standby which it never did before.

Well took my phone off charge at 11.05 today and its been on standby. It's now 15.52 and battery is still on F. Battery drain is now at -3 so i'm well happy.

Thanks indie. Can you let us know what will be happening in the future with your battery?

annoying battery life issue

Hi folks,
since some days my battery drives me crazy...
Last week i flashed CM10 by nk111. Nice ROM, but my battery lasted only for some hours with normal usage. So I went back to MIUI...problem stayed.
Yesterday I flashed Jellytime and replaced the battery. The problem stayed as well. At 6 pm battery was full, I restored my apps with Titanium, used it a bit and when I was going to bed at 10 p.m. battery was 81%. Getting up at 5:30 this morning --> battery was 41%.
After the battery was full yesterday night I used display for maybe 10 minutes, why there are 36% battery usage by th display?
WTF happened to my system by flashing CM10 by nk111???
Any help is appreciated!
PS:
Baseband-Version: 20.72.30.0833U_3831.17.00.310
Kernel-Version: 3.0.50-g6ea80e4

First, do you have Google now on. It really drains the battery. If that doesn't help install better battery stats and let it go through a couple of cycles, it will help you pinpoint if any apps or wakelocks are draining your battery.
“Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.” – Erik Naggum

I don't use Google Now. I use the same apps withe the same intensity than in better battery times...
Could you please give me a recommendation for a battery stats tool?
Thanks!

flsch said:
I don't use Google Now. I use the same apps withe the same intensity than in better battery times...
Could you please give me a recommendation for a battery stats tool?
Thanks!
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Use the search, you'll find it in both xda and playstore it's called better battery stats
“Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.” – Erik Naggum

U have an app or something that is running when screen is off.
Find the app and del it.
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app called carat could also help you find the battery sucking thing. It's a bit more simple than battery stats, you'll like it if you're not an expert.
it doesn't need to be a new app that is sucking power, it could be the poorly made update of some app that you're using for a long time.

I installed both apps.
But in both I can't find any kind of statistics about consumed power by apps or something similar, am I that stupid?

flsch said:
I installed both apps.
But in both I can't find any kind of statistics about consumed power by apps or something similar, am I that stupid?
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Bbs needs to run for at least a full battery cycle to give you a clear picture, if recommend running it for at least a day
“Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.” – Erik Naggum

I get max 24 hours battery life , sometimes 12 hours , so it's not something to worry. If you speak 2-3 hours and WiFi on another 2-3 hours that is the battery în my case 12 hours max.
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spavian said:
I get max 24 hours battery life , sometimes 12 hours , so it's not something to worry. If you speak 2-3 hours and WiFi on another 2-3 hours that is the battery în my case 12 hours max.
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IT IS something to worry, cause battery behaviour changed dramatically while I didn't change my usage of the phone.
40% battery loss over night should be a clear indication of abnormal behaviour.
@jugg1es: thanks for the advice!

flsch said:
I installed both apps.
But in both I can't find any kind of statistics about consumed power by apps or something similar, am I that stupid?
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you must run carot a day or two, than it will display some apps on the first page and the approximate battery life you get if you kill them. read the manual also..

Yesterday in the evening I realized a 96% entry in the Partial Wavelocks section - AndroidMediaScanner. I freezed it (I know where my pictures and music is located...), did a full load on the battery and for 4 hours the battery remained at 100%. I really thought the problem is solved...but in the morning...31%
But - the 'Media' entry in the android accu stats is gone, I think this is a partial success.
In the BBS app, there is no remarkable value - the biggest is 3,8%.
When I watch the graphs - WiFi and Awake is nearly completetly blue over the whole night (unfortunately, I can't take screenshots right now for any reason).
I'm a bit helpless right now, will charge the phone now and keep an eye on BBS the next hours/days.

androidmediascanner shouldn't be the bad guy, it's a system app that we all have. maybe your battery is the problem...

toxic-hero said:
androidmediascanner shouldn't be the bad guy, it's a system app that we all have. maybe your battery is the problem...
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I inserted a new battery last week without any change. Don't think both batteries are broken.

The common way to solve this is to do a fresh install. Leave it for a day without any apps yo see if it is ROM related. See if the battery life improve. Install one app per day and monitor your phone awake period with screen on, it should be almost same.
Sent from the DesiredS

Yesterday night I made a full wipe, installed Jellytime and Gapps and went to sleep...
In the morning --> 67%.
Very odd, normally this would probably indicating a defect battery, but it is new!
Maybe a hardware defect?

Maybe RRU Problem?
Hi,
I have a similar problem here. I was using the desire s for a long timne with stock rom (2.x android), a full battery was enough for ~2 days. Then I rooted the device and installed CM10 (NK111 alpha build).
2 things changed:
The battery is empty after 24h or less.
The wireless network is worse than before. This is my subjective impression but there are places at home or in the office where wifi worked before and stopped working.
I'm starting excessive tests (disabling everything, removing apps, running carat) during xmas holidays to find the reason.
My guess what it might be: to root the device I did a downgrade, including a radio downgrade. Now I run baseband 20.23.30.0802U_38.02.01.11 which is known as "Saga Test RUU" and has the lowest version number of the RRUs listed in the forum. I did not found anything about this in the forum or with google but maybe this is the reason.
My average battery stats with normal use (whole day, used the phone a few minutes):
~30% Display
~25% Wifi
~17% Mobile Standby
~5% Android Os
For comparison, my Motorola Defy has in a similar scenario ~5% Wifi and ~3% Mobile Standby

[Q] dramatic baterry life from 100% to 0% in 13 hours ?

I have a problem with the HTC one S
battery life is very short
instead of describing, I'll show you a screenshot
phone info :
I bought a used phone
S4 processor
android 4.0.4

lukasz050 said:
I have a problem with the HTC one S
battery life is very short
instead of describing, I'll show you a screenshot
phone info :
I bought a used phone
S4 processor
android 4.0.4
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Battery is going down really fast when you're on wifi. At first I would check with cpuspy (which you find on the market) if there is some app responsible for a wake lock and a massive cpu drain.
Edit: you have 4 hours of screen-on? If that's the case it's far less strange.

Nah, wifi doesnt drain the battery all that much, unless you have a truckload of data constantly going on.
My S drains roughly 20% overnight with wifi kept alive (running msn client and some other junk)

Goatshocker said:
Nah, wifi doesnt drain the battery all that much, unless you have a truckload of data constantly going on.
My S drains roughly 20% overnight with wifi kept alive (running msn client and some other junk)
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as you can see, wifi and 3G transmission were turned off at night.
and the screen is always at a minimum illumination

I don't get it, of cause it drained fast if you using it like you have I be more worried if you was doing nothing and it did that.

baterry
When the phone is in idle, battery runs out of 3% per hour
wi-fi - off (internet - off)
all applications - off

lukasz050 said:
When the phone is in idle, battery runs out of 3% per hour
wi-fi - off (internet - off)
all applications - off
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Use a battery app to see what's using it up.

battery
what is the name of the application

lukasz050 said:
what is the name of the application
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I use this one here.