I downloaded this app to help speed up GPS fixes and to gawk over the data for a bit, and it does indeed speed up how fast you can acquire a GPS lock, especially indoors. I downloaded the app, launched it and reset the GPS then downloaded A-GPS data. The program was on for maybe 2 minutes, and after quitting I verified it as not running in the background. I went to sleep with 87% battery life left and when I woke up I was at 64%, a noticeably larger drain with GPS Status listed as using 16% under battery usage. Anyone else using this app notice it taking a large chunk of battery? It didn't have this much usage when I went to sleep, the app wasn't running while I slept, and yet its battery usage increased during these hours.
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I realize the screenshot lists 11% and I said it used 16%, but I have been using the phone for a while since so as other apps use more its total %age goes down.
Anyone else using this app?
That's odd, my GPS Status and toolbox runs fine, however occasionally there is a bug where if you exit out of the app, your GPS wont turn off unless you actually toggle it off.
That may be the problem, there was an update to that app today, try that and report back to us. Or, you can also use "GPS TEST" that works okay on these phones
Yeah I suspected that but I'm a battery fiend so I turn on and off services like gps and mobile data as needed anyway. I've even tried toggling gps on and off a few times just to make sure. I uninstalled and reinstalled the app last night but got similar results. Actually it used more last night than the previous and I haven't even launched the app for two days. I suppose I'll have to uninstall it which is a shame because it really does improve gps performance. It used 22% last night!
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as previously stated, tonight try GPSTest by chartcross. It does the same thing
Thanks, I'll give it a shot tonight and report back!
Indeed GPS Test worked just as well and didn't suck my battery all night! Thanks for that.
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No worries, glad it worked for you.
Just FYI: I got the same problem on a SGS2 so it's most certainly not your ROM/device/settings.
Uninstalling GPS Status, going back to GPS Test.
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I downloaded this app to help speed up GPS fixes and to gawk over the data for a bit, and it does indeed speed up how fast you can acquire a GPS lock, especially indoors. I downloaded the app, launched it and reset the GPS then downloaded A-GPS data. The program was on for maybe 2 minutes, and after quitting I verified it as not running in the background. I went to sleep with 87% battery life left and when I woke up I was at 64%, a noticeably larger drain with GPS Status listed as using 16% under battery usage. Anyone else using this app notice it taking a large chunk of battery? It didn't have this much usage when I went to sleep, the app wasn't running while I slept, and yet its battery usage increased during these hours.
I realize the screenshot lists 11% and I said it used 16%, but I have been using the phone for a while since so as other apps use more its total %age goes down.
Anyone else using this app?
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How did you get the battery graph like that?
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Settings > About phone > Battery usage
I think this was introduced in 2.3 Gingerbread.
faildroid said:
Settings > About phone > Battery usage
I think this was introduced in 2.3 Gingerbread.
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Ahh I see I'm still on froyo
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I went to sleep around 11:30 last night. Before I went to bed I turned off mobile completely and had 94%. When I woke up at 7:45 I had 64%. Take a look at these screenshots and tell me how I can improve my battery. As you can see in the second screenshot I didn't use my phone at all but look at the drastic decrease.
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That's odd for sure. Did you check the system's battery stats? Just seems like the app you're using isn't telling the whole story.
BTW, what app is that?
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System Panel
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Anyone know what I could do to fix this?
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First thing I'd target is system panel itself...an app that polls your phone for system statistics...yeah...
Was this a one time thing, or does it happen every night? Did you check the system's battery info, as suggested above? Are you running a custom kernel/ROM? Did you see CPU spikes in System Panel during that period? Was wifi on?
I frankly have no idea what your problem could be, but a little more info might help.
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First thing I'd target is system panel itself...an app that polls your phone for system statistics...yeah...
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system panel is superb, it uses barely any cpu at all.
anyway to the OP, i do the same test every night, i leave my phone idle, then check system panel in the morning. i drop 6% in 7 hours, but yours definitely dropped a lot. obviously no app or process is showing up, so i would just reboot and try another test tonight. perhaps some glitch happened, radio was wacky, i dont know. but that's not normal.
however we do know that the stock ROM has a high current draw at idle, around 34mA, when other phones get 4mA during idle. so who knows maybe it's normal.
i wish i had some screen shots of my system panel figures to show you.
I've noticed abnormal battery usage with low phone signal as well. Think the phones (Inc and Thunderbolt) ramp up voltage trying to amplify a low signal.
But i notice that you have a graph for 8 hours but the usage report is showing you only 2 mins. Dont think it's giving you an accurate usage report while charging. Depending on what you having it charging on it's possible to drain more charge than your receiving. Especially with USB computer charging.
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First thing I'd target is system panel itself...an app that polls your phone for system statistics...yeah...
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Linux is actually keeping the statistics, the app just scans /proc and other directories at intervals to log it over time. Intervals are 15 minutes-ish on battery, our target spec is <1 min of CPU consumption per day to perform this service. (Am the author)
Unfortunately SystemPanel also isn't finding the specific culprit in this case, i.e., it's only showing that app CPU usage isn't the problem. Best guess in such scenarios is either some app that is running in the background preventing the phone from going into its best low power state or is using a bunch of power running one of the radios. I'd next try doing the same thing in airplane mode.
Will be adding more data logging for additional such as network bandwidth in future versions.
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I've noticed abnormal battery usage with low phone signal as well. Think the phones (Inc and Thunderbolt) ramp up voltage trying to amplify a low signal.
But i notice that you have a graph for 8 hours but the usage report is showing you only 2 mins. Dont think it's giving you an accurate usage report while charging. Depending on what you having it charging on it's possible to drain more charge than your receiving. Especially with USB computer charging.
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What the usage report is saying is that in those 8 hours his System Processes only used the CPU for about 2 minutes. That would lead me to believe that there is something running in the back ground that System Monitor is not picking up. I would suggest doing what the Dev above me said and see if that might help figure out what process that is.
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What the usage report is saying is that in those 8 hours his System Processes only used the CPU for about 2 minutes. That would lead me to believe that there is something running in the back ground that System Monitor is not picking up. I would suggest doing what the Dev above me said and see if that might help figure out what process that is.
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i believe system panel uses linux commands such as "top" which picks up everything that hits the CPU. so the offending battery drainer is something else, such as the radio for example going wacky, etc. i admit the OP's usage seems strange as i do the same test every night with system panel, but when something weird does happen, the ofending app clearly shows up in system panel.
the next step is taking logs with the current widget and seeing how high idle current draw is. i get around 5mA to 10mA idle current draw.
Recently I've noticed a lot of battery use when the phone is supposed to be asleep. (Rom -- old Vahalla Final). Battery life used to be okay. I ran cpu spy and better battery stats and found out the phone was not going into deep sleep mode at all. Where do I go from here?
what is bbs telling you is keeping the phone awake in terms of programs
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Check wakelocks... both partial and kernel. Then look at alarms and network stats...
seems to me that deep sleep is working just fine on my sgs4g.
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That doesn't show deep sleep... just really good battery.
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That doesn't show deep sleep... just really good battery.
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always gotta spoil someone's fun, don't you?
anyway, let me just say this, screen was off the whole time. the thing that surprises me is i know for a fact that the last time i charged it was more than the time indicated (feb 28th to be exact cause that's when I posted in the proton thread) and i had to turn the phone on to get the screen shot and it was still at 1% before i plugged it in.
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what is bbs telling you is keeping the phone awake in terms of programs
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under "kernel wakelocks" it says "ste-gps-interface" 93.6 % but I almost never use gps.
then "vbus_present" 19.9%
"synet"3.2%
"powermanagerservice" 1.8 %
"radio-interface" 1.5%
"max8998-charger"0.1%
and the rest are 0%.
so what is "ste-gps-interface"? There are some threads on it. The only time I switch on gps is for this speedometer-radar detector app that I haven't used in months.
partial wakelocks are negligible.
Under alarms I am getting 61 wakeups for Yahoo mail which makes sense as I'm on too many email lists. I've now frozen the Ymail application since I don't want email notifications on my phone anyway. the next highest is 21 wakeups for maps and I don't know why that is.
Sounds like your ROM/kernel's GPS handler is screwed up.
My suggestion would be another flash of your ROM without a wipe, reboot to system, unlock phone and accept any SU request popups, wait 10 minutes, and then if you had a custom kernel reboot to recovery, flash your kernel, reboot to system, wait another 10 minutes... and check Better Battery Stats to see if GPS is still going nuts. If so, you'll probably need to wipe system and just follow those steps again.
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Sounds like your ROM/kernel's GPS handler is screwed up.
My suggestion would be another flash of your ROM without a wipe, reboot to system, unlock phone and accept any SU request popups, wait 10 minutes, and then if you had a custom kernel reboot to recovery, flash your kernel, reboot to system, wait another 10 minutes... and check Better Battery Stats to see if GPS is still going nuts. If so, you'll probably need to wipe system and just follow those steps again.
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I reflashed the rom using CWM after wiping everything but I am still getting the ste-gps-interface wakelock. I'm wondering if reinstalling the system and bootloaders with Odin will do anything. I tried a different modem with no results.
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I reflashed the rom using CWM after wiping everything but I am still getting the ste-gps-interface wakelock. I'm wondering if reinstalling the system and bootloaders with Odin will do anything. I tried a different modem with no results.
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Unchecked everything in settings / location services and see if that makes a difference.
Do you have GPS turned on or off when your getting that wakelock? If it's off turn it on and leave it on.
Maps and GPS rings a bell. Something about maps reporting your location periodically comes out of the dusty portions of my memory. Might want to do an XDA and a Web search on that.
Yep...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Maps+gps+wakelock
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Believe that I saw something about Maps still running even when it's frozen, so you actually have to uninstall it.
Ive tried two ics roms and installed proton v2 and it is not deep sleeping. So i always end up reverting to hefe. Can anyone tell me why or confirm this ?
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I'm having an issue where apps which require location seemingly stay awake after being greenified and killed from the recent apps. In my battery stats, it shows the gps use details going up continuously, while the CPU usage does does not.
I am running the stock ROM and trinity kernel.
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I'm having an issue where apps which require location seemingly stay awake after being greenified and killed from the recent apps. In my battery stats, it shows the gps use details going up continuously, while the CPU usage does does not.
I am running the stock ROM and trinity kernel.
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I don't see the little GPS peg on the screen that would indicate GPS is being used. Is your battery dropping fast? It's either a bug in the display, or a bug in the GPS code.
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I don't see the little GPS peg on the screen that would indicate GPS is being used. Is your battery dropping fast? It's either a bug in the display, or a bug in the GPS code.
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That is correct, and why I am baffled. GPS is turned off. Battery life seems fine from what I am seeing.
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That is correct, and why I am baffled. GPS is turned off. Battery life seems fine from what I am seeing.
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Is the issue reproducible?
go to your phones main settings, location.. what mode is it in? high accuracy, battery saving, or device only? also is googles location reporting on or off?
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That is correct, and why I am baffled. GPS is turned off. Battery life seems fine from what I am seeing.
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It happened with me also some days back, location services were completely off but google services kept gps on, while I didn't enable it and I was able to track down the culprit, for me it was google play services. Restart fixed it for me.
I think this is another bug because same thing happened with a person who I know and for him it was facebook and for you its speedtest app.
I've noticed the service GoogleLocationManager tries to keep itself running at all times, even with locations completely disabled.
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Hi, i have the same problem. Few days ago i found out that may GPS si running background even if my google location, google maps are off. I put phone into airplane mode but GPS was still running.
My nexus 5 is stock and unrooted. If i turn off/on GPS stop running.
Has anyone any solution about this problem?it seems it has to be some bug draining my battery, but if i dont root nexus i wont know wick app is draining battery?
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go to your phones main settings, location.. what mode is it in? high accuracy, battery saving, or device only? also is googles location reporting on or off?
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^^^^^ this.
Set it to battery saving. A majority of the apps do not need high accuracy (active) GPS. The only time I have to enable High accuracy active GPS is when using maps/navigation (a tasker profile takes care of that for me - enable high accuracy when maps is launched, and switch to battery saving when I exit maps). Most of the other apps work just fine with battery saving location settings.
I got this issue today ( stock rooted)
After using the map and GPS for many hours, the GPS was awake even after force close the map app, and setting location off.
Rebooting the phone is the fix.
So I had great battery life not too long ago but now I can barely make it a whole day. My awake times are very high and I can't pinpoint the cause. I attached some wakelock detector info. Right now I have about an hour and a half of screen on and 16% battery left.
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I am having same issue with phone getting really warm. No new app installs other than things like wakelock detector. I can't figure out what is causing it and better battery stats isn't showing me anything.
Add me to the list. Never needed my third battery until yesterday. No out of the ordinary modifications.
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So I had great battery life not too long ago but now I can barely make it a whole day. My awake times are very high and I can't pinpoint the cause. I attached some wakelock detector info. Right now I have about an hour and a half of screen on and 16% battery left.
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Try freezing maps and other not needed Gapps, it solved my long wake times. I also use Tasker to hibernate all my apps then put the phone in airplane mode when the screen turns off then waken them up and turn wifi back on when the screen comes on, battery life through the roof
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So what's a normal awake time?
I've had battery problems in the past with other phones but usually wake lock detector can find the offending app. Nothing is jumping out at me this time. Google seems to be using a lot but I would like to keep using those apps unaffected.
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Same here I took my phone off the charger at 10pm by 1am I was down to 37% with 17 min of sot, something isn't right, I'll try to grab ss tonight. And yes the phone gets really hot
I just had my G3 replaced after my new one suddenly died on me.
I notice a couple of subtle software changes by AT&T.
Yesterday my battery was on 60%. Before I left the office.
When I got home (45 minutes) I took the phone out of the pouch and it was really hot and the battery wad won to 19%.
First time this has happened to me. Will have to monitor.
I got fed up with it all. I did a factory reset. I'm going slowly re add apps back. I certainly noticed a performance bump after the factory reset. Night and day. I didn't even realize how much it slowed until i reset it.
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I got fed up with it all. I did a factory reset.
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wake lock detector isn't really a good app for telling you exactly what the issue is. betterbatterystats is your best bet to find out exactly what the issue is - it will tell you precisely what the issue is holding your phone awake.
Sometimes, shutting down and pulling the battery out for a second is all it takes to fix the problem. rebooting doesn't always solve whatever it is...
My phone "freezes" now and again, it always has something to do with me texting, but screen off and on will fix it..and it does get warm when frozen per say...but it will normally fix itself with me interacting with it. But if your guys are not holding it when it happens I can see it draining out your battery stuck at higher clock for no reason...now wonder if I should pull logs....
When I say interact I mean I have to push the power button. Knock on won't work. Similar to the dreaded sleep of death but seems to pull out of it.
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Like another user mentioned pulling battery or at least resetting the phone periodically helps with battery and helps keep things running smooth. Using Better Battery Stats and looking at Alarms and Partial Wakelocks is a good way to determine if there is a rogue app killing your battery. A couple good Xposed Modules, if you're not using them or aware of them, are Greenify to help hibernate apps that like to constantly wake the phone and NLB Unbounce module is a good one for if you want to keep your location on and keep Google Now functionality. You can set how often you want the wakelocks and alarms to trigger and with the donate you can do the same with any wakelock/alarm. Just be cautious if using the pro version as some alarms or wakelocks if disabled or tinkered with incorrectly could make the phone unstable. Just a few tips/ideas. I have the VS985 and have had pretty good battery life since getting everything set up and debloated. Usually about 17-18 hours on battery (I don't sleep much) and 4-5 hours screen on time. I like the screen on the brighter side as well, which usually I adjust with the status bar so I don't have an exact percentage for the brightness. For some other tips and apps or even maybe something you haven't thought about check out this thread: G3 Battery Tweaks :good:
Factory reset.
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I noticed my phone was getting warm in the pocket too, with bad battery life. I finally figured out the phone was waking as if it thought it was getting the 'double tap' to wake. I believe you can disable the double tap in the secret menu (3845#*850#)
So I am back to the stock rom and recovery and the wifi drain bug is back. :'(
Though I noticed the CPU's runtime stays roughly the same at 22 seconds, the computed power use is 536 mah but there is no actual showing of power use and my screen on time in my lowest brightness + adaptive brightness setup is Still giving me a good near 10 hours SoT of constant use.
This means that the wifi battery drain bug is. Not actual drain, but it's just a bug that shows it like that. Notice how nobody actually has reduced battery life because of this? Those percentages the bug shows are a lot but nobody has less SoT because of it.
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So I am back to the stock rom and recovery and the wifi drain bug is back. :'(
Though I noticed the CPU's runtime stays roughly the same at 22 seconds, the computed power use is 536 mah but there is no actual showing of power use and my screen on time in my lowest brightness + adaptive brightness setup is Still giving me a good near 10 hours SoT of constant use.
This means that the wifi battery drain bug is. Not actual drain, but it's just a bug that shows it like that. Notice how nobody actually has reduced battery life because of this? Those percentages the bug shows are a lot but nobody has less SoT because of it.
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Yes its a bug affecting the nexus devices as well.
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Is this 'Mobile Standby' in the battery stats?
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No,it's the wifi
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what the **** is this..im using mobile data all the time n did all the **** in location n turned of wifi scanning.. still this wifi eating my battery.. guya help me out thanks in advance
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Same here. Android System keeps my phone awaken all the time, even if screen is off.
I never noticed this bug. Do you mean when you wifi is switched off its still showing like it was on all the time in the battery stats?
The only bug I noticed is the mobile signal drain when using dual sim roms on my single sim device.
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I never noticed this bug. Do you mean when you wifi is switched off its still showing like it was on all the time in the battery stats?
The only bug I noticed is the mobile signal drain when using dual sim roms on my single sim device.
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I dont use wifi at all..still it shows drain in battery stats
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Since it's not draining your battery I shouldn't worry to much.You could try clean dalvik and cache and if that doesn't help try a factory reset or reflash the whole rom.
The wifi IS draining my battery
Kept the phone overnight, dozed properly, but still lost 11% in 7 hours!
Wifi is eating it all up
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The wifi IS draining my battery
Kept the phone overnight, dozed properly, but still lost 11% in 7 hours!
Wifi is eating it all up
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I still have no problems with wifi draining though, I mean, look at the time it was actually on, if it was seconds, it really isn't draining, computed power use isn't actually what it drained.
I even went back to stock, updated all the way to 6.0.1, 2 days ago, same reporting bug is back but no actual drain.
Disable location scanning, and search for Wi-Fi on the background. After reset and the Wi-Fi status on the graph should stop. At least this is what I do, after using the maps or tinder, or other location app
I fixed the battery drain due to wifi
Go to settings, backup and restore
Reset the network settings, reboot the device and charge it to 100%
No more wifi eating battery
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