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Music Widget draining battery

I don't know if anyone else has experienced this or not, but I just received my Atrix 2 and yesterday was my first full day with it. I noticed that my battery was draining pretty fast, I let it get low and then charged it up again and again within like 10 hours it was going dead again and the phone was HOT. I looked at the battery usage, and saw that Music was using a lot of power, and I saw that it was keeping the phone awake for 7 hours+ and I wasn't using the music player at all. I've since removed the player and I do not see Music using any battery so far and the phone is cool...just letting people know.

That is weird, I notice that my facebook fails to close. After 45 minutes the android OS alerts me so I can close it. I use advanced task killer a lot also to kill apps that like to randomly run in the background. Battery life is friggin outstanding on my side, I forgot to charge it last night and still had 50% battery left. You could always root the phone, freeze the app, and then download a music player app from the market to replace it.

cheetablaze said:
You could always root the phone, freeze the app, and then download a music player app from the market to replace it.
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Agree!! I've always been a big fan of doubletwist so freezing the stock music player was one of the first things I done after root.

Thats what I was gonna do, but I have to find a suitable replacement for the FM Radio. I've frozen most everything else.

After removing the widget...my battery life has increased tremendously!!! Don't know if it was just an anomaly or what, but the widget is a killer.

Here you go, they ripped this from another Moto device for FM radio. Works perfectly on my A2
http://db.tt/enbuyZSX
This is linked to my drop box.
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Thanks man!!! Now back to Poweramp

[Q] Battery Life

Greetings peeps,
I just wanted to pop in and ask how you guys are doing with the battery life.
Reason I ask is over xmas I had alot of interaction with my N5, but it wasn't exactly an extreme use.
I got 3 hours SOT before shut down and the phone managed a whole 8 hours powered on time. I know not amazing.
now in contrast I knocked my N5 off my wireless charger while in bed last night, I checked what the battery life was like. In a rather shocking contrast, the phone had been on for 10 hours and had dropped 10% or 1% per hour if you prefer.
I just can't fathom what's going on, I appreciate it was sitting there doing nothing, but my syncs are the same as the other day and were looking at 8 hours vs 100 hours can anyone shed some light on what might be causing this, alot of the time my drain is the screen and i've employed LUX to alter the high brightness to something more fitting to the surroundings. But i still sync G+ Fb and Twitter, I sync all of my Google account but thats it.
the 5 hours while it drained when the screen was off the other day, when i managed only 8 hours, it wasn't draining at 1% an hour. soo what gives, if we take the screen out of the equation and look at those 5 hours, that should have been 5% charge, not the remaining battery.
I've used betterbatterystats and doesn't show any particular items drawing battery.
While it's only play services which tops the list on the battery list in settings, thats the highest, but again it's like 4 minutes, not 8 hours!
So any help is welcome.

Over night it lost only 2% battery. The nexus survives (without any problems) 24hours with 5hrs SOT. Of course it depends on user's behaviour. I dont play ganes but i am using wifi 3g and navi for min. 4hrs (smtimes more) and in the evening i still have over 30-40%. Important: have stock 4.4.2 and ElementalX kernel 0.18, undervolted and max 1,5GHz
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what about battery life when listening music with hands free and playing mp3 ecc?
i m not sure guys but everyone is complaining about battery..
it s so frustrating
it makes me re consider buying or not buying

Battery is completely based on usage and how often the phone needs to wake itself. When the screen is off my N5 will essentially never wake itself unless for a message, phone call, or update.
I even have Google Now enabled so I can still set and use reminders, but I don't have it searching my weather updates for me. Dashclock does that instead and only updates when I turn the screen on.
With auto syncs off, Wifi always scanning off, and hotword detection off for more SoT I've not been let down by the battery once.
raptonicus said:
what about battery life when listening music with hands free and playing mp3 ecc?
i m not sure guys but everyone is complaining about battery..
it s so frustrating
it makes me re consider buying or not buying
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N5 deals especially well with music playback due to it's hardware tunneling feature. An hour of music playback barely registers on my battery listing.

bblzd said:
N5 deals especially well with music playback due to it's hardware tunneling feature. An hour of music playback barely registers on my battery listing.
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Even if all my music is on the cloud on Google music?
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ryukiri said:
Even if all my music is on the cloud on Google music?
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Local mp3 files work best. Streaming will use more but I haven't found Songza to be much worse beyond usual data needs.

This DSP tunneling thing isn't work at all...
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Why does Google Play Music use so much more battery than a local media player?

Used to use GPM for all my music needs, and it used to use so much battery (phone down to 60% or so after a total of 4 or 5 hours of music), even when the music was cached locally and my phone was on airplane mode. Battery usage from combined GPM and Mediaserver was about 40% or so. No extraneous sources of battery drain either (ie. no Google+ running in the back or anything like that).
Recently, I tried Apollo and copied some of my most frequently listened to music to the internal storage. I got away with listening a total of 6 or so hours of music, and it lost maybe 10-15% of my battery (also on airplane mode). Battery usage from Apollo (didn't even see Mediaserver) was also around 40%, but the drain was MUCH less.
Why is it that GPM music sucks up so much battery? I thought this phone had a dedicated part of the CPU that kept battery usage from music very very low.

thattypicalnerd said:
Used to use GPM for all my music needs, and it used to use so much battery (phone down to 60% or so after a total of 4 or 5 hours of music), even when the music was cached locally and my phone was on airplane mode. Battery usage from combined GPM and Mediaserver was about 40% or so. No extraneous sources of battery drain either (ie. no Google+ running in the back or anything like that).
Recently, I tried Apollo and copied some of my most frequently listened to music to the internal storage. I got away with listening a total of 6 or so hours of music, and it lost maybe 10-15% of my battery (also on airplane mode). Battery usage from Apollo (didn't even see Mediaserver) was also around 40%, but the drain was MUCH less.
Why is it that GPM music sucks up so much battery? I thought this phone had a dedicated part of the CPU that kept battery usage from music very very low.
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I noticed that as well. The mediaserver I've actually noticed with every music app I've used. Pandora/SoundCloud.

Do you use the equalizer by any chance? Or any sound mods?
I used to experience the same thing with local playback, media server would be higher than I expected and GPM showed fairly high CPU times. Over all it was using the same or more battery than streaming lower quality files with Slacker.
That is no longer the case. Only thing I've changed is headphones and disabled the GPM equalizer.
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PsychDrummer said:
I noticed that as well. The mediaserver I've actually noticed with every music app I've used. Pandora/SoundCloud.
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Just tried Pandora, noticed the same thing.
bblzd said:
Do you use the equalizer by any chance? Or any sound mods?
I used to experience the same thing with local playback, media server would be higher than I expected and GPM showed fairly high CPU times. Over all it was using the same or more battery than streaming lower quality files with Slacker.
That is no longer the case. Only thing I've changed is headphones and disabled the GPM equalizer.
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No sound mods (by that you mean Viper or the like, right?), and I haven't messed with the EQ settings at all in GPM, not even sure if it's enabled by default or not. So does the dedicated part of the CPU that handles music playback not do EQ settings?

Remember when Google was teasing the audio tunneling to DSP feature for Kit Kat and our Nexus 5? Remember the 60 hours of promised music playback?
Yea. Good times.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...duces-battery-consumption-when-playing-audio/

muyoso said:
Remember when Google was teasing the audio tunneling to DSP feature for Kit Kat and our Nexus 5? Remember the 60 hours of promised music playback?
Yea. Good times.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...duces-battery-consumption-when-playing-audio/
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Actually, I think I got pretty close to that with Apollo (6 hours of music for 10-15% battery, with some other apps sometimes waking the phone up and me using it a little). They weren't lying, but GPM doesn't use it (for me at the very least)

thattypicalnerd said:
Actually, I think I got pretty close to that with Apollo (6 hours of music for 10-15% battery, with some other apps sometimes waking the phone up and me using it a little). They weren't lying, but GPM doesn't use it (for me at the very least)
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Perhaps it is GPM, because that is pretty much the only music app I use. Ironic that their music app wouldn't use a key feature of kit Kat.
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I thought I'd chime in as well on this problem. I love my Nexus 5, a LOT! But this app really does drain battery for me. I thought maybe it was just a bug with my phone? But I see others are having this problem.
It is kinda ridiculous that listening to music takes up about as much battery as having the screen on! And it's off when I listen to music. I want to get rid of my messed up iPod Touch in favor or my N5 but the batter is really hit... I don't have the best signal either in some classes and my transit to school is horrible signal, so it also takes a hit on the battery life.
Does anyone know what the problem is? Also the system UI seems to drain battery too. D; why does Google Play Music do this??

snappycg1996 said:
I thought I'd chime in as well on this problem. I love my Nexus 5, a LOT! But this app really does drain battery for me. I thought maybe it was just a bug with my phone? But I see others are having this problem.
It is kinda ridiculous that listening to music takes up about as much battery as having the screen on! And it's off when I listen to music. I want to get rid of my messed up iPod Touch in favor or my N5 but the batter is really hit... I don't have the best signal either in some classes and my transit to school is horrible signal, so it also takes a hit on the battery life.
Does anyone know what the problem is? Also the system UI seems to drain battery too. D; why does Google Play Music do this??
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You know what is weird? I tested GPM against Poweramp with the phone in airplane mode and it was SIGNIFICANTLY less power hungry. GPM used 1.5% an hour with headphones plugged in vs 4.5% for Poweramp with headphones plugged in. Going to have to run the same test on WiFi to see the difference playing music makes when GPM has internet access. From using it daily I can say its SIGNIFICANTLY more than 1.5% an hour.
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Is this happening on wifi? Cellular? Or both? Certainly you will achieve much better battery life while streaming over wifi.

muyoso said:
You know what is weird? I tested GPM against Poweramp with the phone in airplane mode and it was SIGNIFICANTLY less power hungry. GPM used 1.5% an hour with headphones plugged in vs 4.5% for Poweramp with headphones plugged in. Going to have to run the same test on WiFi to see the difference playing music makes when GPM has internet access. From using it daily I can say its SIGNIFICANTLY more than 1.5% an hour.
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Huh... That is rather weird. I have tried at home on WiFi and it still drains like how it does on mobile data. Of course o don't stream on GPM, I have all pre-loaded songs from my iTunes folder on my Nexus 5 and listen that way, offline. I don't know why it drained so much for me and others but so little for you? Even airplane mode still drains, not as much, but barely noticeably slower.
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With EQ off and not playing Flac files, GPM and media server seem to barely register after 2-3 hours of listening.
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well for me its eating a lot of battery and I notice a lag when I play/pause and next a song??? I am using the latest PA with Franco kernel. I now use Walkman from Sony; it works way better. Less battery and doesn't lag.
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I've been using Google play music for the longest time and haven't noticed any battery drain no more than any other app I'm using for hours at a time. If I am constantly playing music its expected to me that is that my battery will drain. I can get usually around 7-8 hours of non stop music while streaming and also switching from Google play music to tune in. Tune in on the other hand is a huge battery drain because for some reason it likes to stay running in the background and sometimes I forget to shut it off manually and eats my battery up quick lol
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If you have music stored in the library download it for offline and see if that helps you. When I use to do that I could listen to music all day in airplane mode that is
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Hmm, does anyone have any luck with keeping WiFi on and GPM running, but with the same songs looped? It shouldn't have to keep streaming due to the files being kept locally, yet it still has terrible drain for me

Battery Drain Streaming

How is the battery life for everyone while streaming music? I am streaming music via 8 tracks my battery seems to be draining fast at 10% every hour. Is this normal?

No issues here with Spotify.
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Am using Soundcloud, no issue as well.

spartandawgs_03 said:
How is the battery life for everyone while streaming music? I am streaming music via 8 tracks my battery seems to be draining fast at 10% every hour. Is this normal?
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I actually switched from 8tracks to InfiniTracks (for incompatibility issues on my Galaxy SIII, and then habitually for the M8). Try it out, maybe it might help with battery (can't make any promises here).

spartandawgs_03 said:
How is the battery life for everyone while streaming music? I am streaming music via 8 tracks my battery seems to be draining fast at 10% every hour. Is this normal?
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I think, battery life is just a normal problem nowadays when it comes to any smartphones. Not only while streaming.
Here's how to extend your battery life:
http://www.htc.com/www/support/htc-one-m8/howto/465198.html

Google Play Music

Hey everyone just a quick question. I am currently on OOS 5.1.5 and have pretty good battery life expect when I use google play music. I came from an Iphone where play music barley sipped any battery and talked to a friend that has a Oneplus 5T who also says that he streams 6 plus hours at work and still finishes his shift with 60 to 65 percent.
Just yesterday I was streaming music for about 4 hours and it completely drained my batter from 70 to 0. At 1 percent I looked at battery stats and it said that google play music used 45 percent of my battery.
On a normal day when I listen in the car. A 15 minute drive will make me lose about 3-4 percent. All of my music is downloaded locally.
Anyone have similar issues?

davbay1 said:
Hey everyone just a quick question. I am currently on OOS 5.1.5 and have pretty good battery life expect when I use google play music. I came from an Iphone where play music barley sipped any battery and talked to a friend that has a Oneplus 5T who also says that he streams 6 plus hours at work and still finishes his shift with 60 to 65 percent.
Just yesterday I was streaming music for about 4 hours and it completely drained my batter from 70 to 0. At 1 percent I looked at battery stats and it said that google play music used 45 percent of my battery.
On a normal day when I listen in the car. A 15 minute drive will make me lose about 3-4 percent. All of my music is downloaded locally.
Anyone have similar issues?
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Not noticed but I'll do some tests when walking the dog tomorrow.

davbay1 said:
Hey everyone just a quick question. I am currently on OOS 5.1.5 and have pretty good battery life expect when I use google play music. I came from an Iphone where play music barley sipped any battery and talked to a friend that has a Oneplus 5T who also says that he streams 6 plus hours at work and still finishes his shift with 60 to 65 percent.
Just yesterday I was streaming music for about 4 hours and it completely drained my batter from 70 to 0. At 1 percent I looked at battery stats and it said that google play music used 45 percent of my battery.
On a normal day when I listen in the car. A 15 minute drive will make me lose about 3-4 percent. All of my music is downloaded locally.
Anyone have similar issues?
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It prevents the phone from going into deep sleep to conserve battery, while also using data to stream the songs.

gmlogan said:
Not noticed but I'll do some tests when walking the dog tomorrow.
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Bluetooth headset, music downloaded, can't see any issues

Do you use an adblocker by any chance? If you do, it's because GPM is coded poorly and keeps pinging googleadservices.com and googletagmanager.com while it's in the background. Whitelist those two sites and you should be good. I went from GPM taking 10% of my battery to 1% of my battery by doing that.