Hi folks!
I tried to search the topic before starting a new thread but I couldn't find any.
So, here's my problem. I noticed that since I flashed the stock JQ1 Gingerbread from chainfire's thread apart from everything else being fantastic, the battery use statistics in Settings -> Status -> Battery Use I can see are stranger and stranger.
First I have noticed that my the battery usage of Display had frozen to 2%. It is completely impossible, comparing it to the Froyo before, where it often went beyond 50 or even 60% of total battery usage.
Then, I saw that the Android System was taking about 90% of the stats. At first I thought it may be the infamous Gingerbread battery drain. It is not that, however, because I do not feel the battery draining any faster than before.
Then came the realization that no matter what application I am running, it does not get reflected in the Battery Use - only Android System percentage grows bigger. The funny part is that from time to time the total of all percentage goes beyond 100%
And, finally, today I unchecked the background update of the PULSE application, because I do not really use it and checking the Battery Use again what did I see. See attachment:
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Not only the display category had gone away totally, but half of the battery usage is now transferred to PULSE, which I don't use.
Please, do you have any ideas how to repair that?
I am on a European Galaxy Tab, JQ1 2.3.3 Android + CF-Root v3.3 for JQ1
Not anyone experiencing the same problem? Just a little update from me. I read half the cloud already, strange but it is the first time that I cannot really find my topic in Google.
I tried what not - no result. I wiped battery stats, which only helped to the extent that the PULSE has gone from battery use stats, and display is back but the readings are stuck at 2% no matter how much I am actually using the display.
I read somewhere that it could be the kernel, where some thing may have not been allowed or switched on??? But if that was the case I would not be the only one with the same problem, but all the people that have flashed the ROM + CF Root 3.3 from chainfire's thread????
Still no ideas?
Hey guy,
Once ago I had the same problem. I don't think that pulse realy eats your battery. But we all know that the battery statistics is incorrect. So don't worry. Do use "AntTek App Manager ☆ root" (its free) to remove the puls app and wipe the cach. Or just install the overcome rom. It's much better then the Sock Rom. Trust me Because after removing of puls, there are other false statuses. I don't remember but i think it will show you that the battery is eaten by the core apps for more then 70%.
Sorry guy... I know about my terrible english
Hey odysseus84,
don't worry about your English. I am glad that you tried to be helpful. It is not that bad. After all I understood what you mean. You are right, even without Pulse in battery stats, I am still missing statistics for practically everything.
It is interesting that the Battery Use fails to record third party apps. As you can see below, the usage for all main system processes like Idle, Standby, Bluetooth, Wi-fi, Voice Calls are there. The statistics for display usage is stuck at 2% as already mentioned, which is the most annoying part.
Another interesting thing is that everything seems to be put into Android System usage, because normally it wouldn't get more than 10% of the overall battery usage share.
May I ask for other people running Gingerbread 2.3.3 to post their battery stats here?
Look. It's just a Bug. There is "Android System"written but it means the % of the Display. There is "Display" written but it means something else. As you can see on the attached pic we have almost the same "Display" usage.
And the other thing is that the statistics nothing shows with less then 2% usage.
Finally you can just accept it or flash something else.
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Finally you can just accept it or flash something else.
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I really liked that last sentence. It really seems that I am going to just accept things or flash the OVERCOME. From what I read the dev team have done a great job! Thanks.
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Hey,
I have a Fido RHD on the latest official ROM (no root or unlock). I have noticed over the past few weeks that the battery life has been a lot worse, but I can't think of any particular app that may be causing it. Strangely, Android OS is using a lot of CPU time and also sending data!
Things I have tried to do:
Stopped all the optiona "location services" for Google apps (e.g. Google Now)
Installed Snapdragon Battery Guru (but it is currently in learning mode)
Uninstalled all unneccessary apps
How can I find out what is hammering the "Android OS" process, and why it is keeping the phone awake? Is there a more advanced battery stats app that could help with this?
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Hello Suman,
I have a similiar issue here. Android OS is not heading my battery stats, but it held the phone awake for a reasonably long time. You should try downloading BetterBatteryStats (the apk is available here in xda dev for free, but the developer did a nice work on it and the app is very useful, so I think you should support the developer if you don't mind). For a better understand of what's going on open BBS and set a custom ref before you go to sleep. Save the dump immediatly after you wake up. Post it here. Anyone that understand partial wakelocks will be able to give you a better support.
I have seen another guy here with a similar issue, but still unresolved. Also, I still have the problem, but my ROM is different (Vivo - Jelly Bean).
If you have received the update recently via OTA, you can try wiping data. Not sure if will help, but wiping data after receiving major updates is always a good and recommended practice.
Also, if you have instant upload on, turn it off. A bug seems to cause the instant upload to try syncing every minute so you'll have high times of SyncLoopWakelock keeping the phone awake most of the time. It happened to me. If a cloud backup of your photos is very necessary as it's to me I recommend Camera Uploads feature on the Dropbox app.
Let me know if something helps!
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Hey,
I have a Fido RHD on the latest official ROM (no root or unlock). I have noticed over the past few weeks that the battery life has been a lot worse, but I can't think of any particular app that may be causing it. Strangely, Android OS is using a lot of CPU time and also sending data!
Things I have tried to do:
Stopped all the optiona "location services" for Google apps (e.g. Google Now)
Installed Snapdragon Battery Guru (but it is currently in learning mode)
Uninstalled all unneccessary apps
How can I find out what is hammering the "Android OS" process, and why it is keeping the phone awake? Is there a more advanced battery stats app that could help with this?
Thanks,
Suman
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Hello Suman,
I have a similiar issue here. Android OS is not heading my battery stats, but it held the phone awake for a reasonably long time. You should try downloading BetterBatteryStats (the apk is available here in xda dev for free, but the developer did a nice work on it and the app is very useful, so I think you should support the developer if you don't mind). For a better understand of what's going on open BBS and set a custom ref before you go to sleep. Save the dump immediatly after you wake up. Post it here. Anyone that understand partial wakelocks will be able to give you a better support.
I have seen another guy here with a similar issue, but still unresolved. Also, I still have the problem, but my ROM is different (Vivo - Jelly Bean).
If you have received the update recently via OTA, you can try wiping data. Not sure if will help, but wiping data after receiving major updates is always a good and recommended practice.
Also, if you have instant upload on, turn it off. A bug seems to cause the instant upload to try syncing every minute so you'll have high times of SyncLoopWakelock keeping the phone awake most of the time. It happened to me. If a cloud backup of your photos is very necessary as it's to me I recommend Camera Uploads feature on the Dropbox app.
Let me know if something helps!
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Ok, I will give BBS a go, thanks for the recommendation.
I did a factory reset as soon as I received the JB OTA (I always do this after any major software update). The Android OS problem did not start right after the update - it is a fairly recent problem.
I don't have Google+ camera upload turned on (but I do have Dropbox camera upload, as you suggested).
Thanks,
Su
Hey,
Bit of a noob question I think... how exactly do I "use" BetterBatteryStats. I'm not sure how to set it up so it measures what I want it to.
This is what a full day's drain from 100% to nearly empty looks like at the moment:
Can anyone shed some light on my mystery battery thief please??!
Cheers,
Su
Hi,
I have a nexus 5 running cyanogenmod 11 ,and for a while now I have been experiencing
some very poor battery life performance.
yesterday it went from 50% to 1% at night because of com.android.systemui and android system.
I tried installing different nightlies versions but the battery was still unstable and drained completely. :/
So today I re-installed everything and did a complete factory reset and cache partition format installing nightly 20140731 and Gapps, hoping that would help.
I charged my phone to 100% ,and then unplugged it and let Gsam battery monitor run in background with no apps working ,almost everything greenified, with WiFi off,location off and sync on.
Google now is off, brightness on low settings (no auto brightness),good data signal strength and very low usage (mostly checking whatsapp, couple of minutes of gaming, checking some stuff on chrome, but most of the time I didn't even touch the phone).
Normally this kind of usage should not make my nexus run under 90%-95%. this time it dropped to 20% ,in 4 hours...
I followed the battery troubleshooting sticky thread , and did everything I could to make the battery last.
I've uploaded the pictures of my battery usage in a rar (it doesn't let me upload all 5 pictures,so rar it is...) and I'm really hoping someone could help me solve this..
I don't want to go back to stock android, but this battery drain is intolerable.
If you need more information please ask..
Theres a sticky thread for this:
[Battery Life Help] Troubleshoot battery issues here!
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Theres a sticky thread for this:
[Battery Life Help] Troubleshoot battery issues here!
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Sorry, I'm kinda new here.
I followed the thread and updated my original post according to that.
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Sorry, I'm kinda new here.
I followed the thread and updated my original post according to that.
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For these two you need to tap on it to see whats causing the wakelock ._.
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I think it's gone now...
I guess I need to do the test again...
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I think it's gone now...
I guess I need to do the test again...
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It hardly tells us anything until you tap on something that has somewhat high usage/what type of wakelock is keeping your device awake. In your case it would be "System..." and "Combined App Wakelocks", you tap on those.
Lethargy said:
It hardly tells us anything until you tap on something that has somewhat high usage/what type of wakelock is keeping your device awake. In your case it would be "System..." and "Combined App Wakelocks", you tap on those.
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Well ,then I'll update the screenshots after the battery is drained again ...
Considering it's a nightly, it could just be bugs. I've never actually tried nightlies because I like stability, but I suppose it is possible that there's wakelocks bugs.
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Considering it's a nightly, it could just be bugs. I've never actually tried nightlies because I like stability, but I suppose it is possible that there's wakelocks bugs.
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There is no stable version for nexus 5,and I heard that snapshot is less stable than nightlies.
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There is no stable version for nexus 5,and I heard that snapshot is less stable than nightlies.
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I just mean in general a nightly might be unstable. Not saying you should switch to a stable CM. Just saying some bugs are expected. But regardless, I agree with the previous posters. You should click on the individual apps in that list to get more information.
Can someone please explain to me why don't the percentage add up to 100% or even the used battery.
Like if I use 50% of my battery the percentage all together should be 50%, it doesnt even reach 30%
Im talking about this percentages here, in kitkat It was closer to reality, I always assumed there was a small error window but this is way too much.
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Can someone please explain to me why don't the percentage add up to 100% or even the used battery.
Like if I use 50% of my battery the percentage all together should be 50%, it doesnt even reach 30%
Im talking about this percentages here, in kitkat It was closer to reality, I always assumed there was a small error window but this is way too much.
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They changed how it works in L. In KK, they called it 100% of your used battery. That was a little confusing. It meant that everything had to add up to 100, so it was easy to proportion it out.
Now in L the percentage matches what was used. So now if you have used 50% then your stats add up to 50%. Previously on KK it would have been 100% of 50%
So now you think your stats should match up with used battery. They were never accurate, not even in kk. But in L its more obvious.
That's why they created miscellaneous in L but everyone moaned that it was a "WiFi" bug so they removed it from stock ROMs..
Hopefully this helps...
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Its really simple and basic and is in no way "drain". If the big wall of text in the screenshot doesn't clarify what it is, then I will elaborate further.
All your battery stats are guessed calculations. They're never accurate. Never have been and never will be.
Here's how battery stats work.
In android, there is a file. It lists "power consumption" for certain things.
For example (and these numbers are made up because i can't be bothered to look in the code)
WiFi disconnected = 4mA
WiFi connected = 10mA
So if your phone has been connected to WiFi for 10 hours, it calculates that 10 hours @10ma = x% of battery used.
However, what if you're in your bedroom for 10 hours? The router is in your living room. Actually your WiFi is using 20mA because of the weal signal. Well, this magic file cannot account for that. There is no "WiFi connected but user is in bedroom = 20mA" entry in the file.
Battery stats actually have no link to actual battery usage. Its just a guess. Battery stats knows how much battery has been used and using its magic file, makes an educated guess at how much % battery has been used by each thing.
So your battery has depleted by 50%. 25% is WiFi connected at 10mA. But your WiFi was actually using 20mA because of distance. Battery stats cannot know this. So you actually have 25% missing in battery stats. That's what miscellaneous was created for. To show that there was a difference between battery stats guess and actual battery use from the battery.
Its the same for screen brightness, cell signal, CPU usage etc. The file knows very little. Battery stats is very inaccurate
Google actually removed miscellaneous from stock ROMs due to people who don't understand, calling it a WiFi bug. However it still exists in aosp.
I hope think clarifies for people
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rootSU said:
They changed how it works in L. In KK, they called it 100% of your used battery. That was a little confusing. It meant that everything had to add up to 100, so it was easy to proportion it out.
Now in L the percentage matches what was used. So now if you have used 50% then your stats add up to 50%. Previously on KK it would have been 100% of 50%
So now you think your stats should match up with used battery. They were never accurate, not even in kk. But in L its more obvious.
That's why they created miscellaneous in L but everyone moaned that it was a "WiFi" bug so they removed it from stock ROMs..
Hopefully this helps...
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Thank you so much, this as been anoying me since forever.
Hello,
So recently i've noticed the Battery performance on my Sony Xperia Z3 has become poor, I mainly use my device for socialising etc, I don't game alot. I'm currently Running Android 4.4 Kitkat (UK)
(I'm usually at home and connected to Wi-Fi)
See the results for yourself:
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Hello,
So recently i've noticed the Battery performance on my Sony Xperia Z3 has become poor, I mainly use my device for socialising etc, I don't game alot. I'm currently Running Android 4.4 Kitkat (UK)
(I'm usually at home and connected to Wi-Fi)
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Check if the device is constantly awake at the detailed battery information if you click on the graph.
If that's the case, search xda for "wakelock" and how to get rid of it.
An easier attempt is, to think if it's a certain app you installed recently or a change you made to your system.
Aronuser said:
Check if the device is constantly awake at the detailed battery information if you click on the graph.
If that's the case, search xda for "wakelock" and how to get rid of it.
An easier attempt is, to think if it's a certain app you installed recently or a change you made to your system.
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Thank you for your response,
I'll Go ahead and download a Wakelock Detector By someone who works here at XDA, and i'll see if it finds anything; But as of now my battery died again; So i left it dead for 15 minutes, and now i'm charging it back to 100% with no interruptions
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Thank you for your response,
I'll Go ahead and download a Wakelock Detector By someone who works here at XDA, and i'll see if it finds anything; But as of now my battery died again; So i left it dead for 15 minutes, and now i'm charging it back to 100% with no interruptions
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You could also install the ota update for lollipop and see if that automatically solves your issue. (new versions are being created to be better)
Another option is to flash the lollipop stock rom and try if that solves it. (but that's a bit more advance)
I suddenly got a similar issue - not as bad as yours but a drop in battery life. I turned off scanning even when wifi is off and turned on location based wifi and my battery life went back to normal. I'd just had a Google Play Services update and have had this issue with various play services updates in the past on other devices which is why that was one of the first solutions I tried.
Might be worth a shot if you haven't already tried it :good:
There's always Greenify.
Repair it or flash another ftf file.
Same thing here. Since I've had this when I purchased it new I've not had any good battery life. My old z2 had way better battery life and stamina mode works.
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Was there any update to this matter, OP?
What brightness options are you using? (% and adaptive or not?)
Also, did you actually update it to Lollipop? Was there any problem with wakelock?
Best regards.
Network & Wake Lock
The last screenshot you posted clearly shows that the battery drain is because of your Mobile Network and a Wake Lock.
Network Signal:
As signal strength decreases, the device requires additional power resulting in battery drain.
The cost of 1 hour’s worth of calls is 150mA, assuming a strong signal
So, on a 2000mA battery, it takes 8% of total capacity (8% =150 / 2000)
This means the same 1 hour of calls could cost as much as 23% of battery life (23% = 450 / 2000)
Wake Lock:
WakeLocks are a Power Manager system Service feature, available to your applications to control the power state of the host device.
Wake Locks can be used to keep the CPU running, prevent the screen from dimming, prevent the screen from turning off, and prevent the keyboard backlight from turning off.
So I am new to both the S10e and Android 10 (or 9) and I can't find where the total battery usage since the last charge is displayed. On the battery usage page there is only 2 charts which show percentages, and not time, individual times per app, not total time, and even if I were to manually add the individual times together, for each separate day, I'm still missing standby time. Googling I found that there is supposed to be a 3-dot menu button to enable full usage statistics but I can't find that either. Am I just being a noob or did Samsung decide we don't need to now the usage time since last charge?
I use GSam Battery Monitor. You can find it in the Play Store.
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I use GSam Battery Monitor. You can find it in the Play Store.
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I will check it that app out but did Samsung really remove this basic information or Google did? I don't really like adding yet another app for something that should be there by default.
So I've been googling for the past few days and found little to no information on this issue. What makes it worse is that I don't even know if this is standard in Android 10, it's only on Samsung phones, or only on this specific model. Installing a third party app is something I am trying to avoid, but after all the useless information on the net (when you google android and battery, the results you get are either people complaining about battery life or people providing the same old useless tips for improving battery life, none of which answer my question) I've actually answered my own question. It seems the information I seek was there all along, hidden in plain sight (though not exactly what I was looking for but it's better than nothing). Check the shot below:
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The second chart has the time. 0 - 4 - 8 - 12 - 16 - 20. Why it's in sections of 4, I dont know, why it's missing the key number, 24, I don't know, why they didnt bother adding just a small "h" to the scale so people can see those numbers are actually hours, I don't know. Now, this still doesn't give me the total usage since last full charge (the charge was on dec 19th) because I have yet to find a way to select multiple days, if I select the individual days, 19,20 and 21 and approximately add up the charts, I get the total time. So, 21st has about 12h (as you can see above), 20th has 24h, and 19th has about 20-30 mins there, I'd say 36-37 hours of usage since last charge. Now, why exactly they removed this tiny bit of useful information is beyond me (it's been there all the way up till Android 8, I don't about 9, and it's gone in 10, or just removed by Samsung, again still don't know if it's been removed by Google or specific to Samsung only, I don't have another non-Samsung Android 10 phone just lying around for me to check).
Maybe someone can shed some light on this issue, maybe there is a way to select multiple days in the chart so it's automatically added up, maybe it will be added back in a future patch (yeah, right).
I've seen Android 10 on Pixel 4, it shows battery usage and screen on time since last full charge, so it's just OneUI 2.0 that doesn't.
Not only they removed this, they also removed idle time and its battery usage.
This would be my last Samsung phone.
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I've seen Android 10 on Pixel 4, it shows battery usage and screen on time since last full charge, so it's just OneUI 2.0 that doesn't.
Not only they removed this, they also removed idle time and its battery usage.
This would be my last Samsung phone.
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I appreciate the confirmation. At least we know it's on Samsung, not Google.
Anyone know of an app that adds the battery settings back to the quick settings? It's REALLY inconvenient to get the battery stats for this. I can't understand why Samsung removed that from quick settings.
I noticed the same issue with my S10e. This OS seems to be full of bugs and issues [emoji35]
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I think that android 10 features... Digital well being... Even on xiaomi it's like that... No screen on time since last full charge....
I use Gsam battery monitor.