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Battery drain in standby issue?

Hi all,
My 6 days old Sensation (Vodafone contract UK) discharge a huge amount during Standby (200-350mA). I got the number via Battery Widget Pro 1.65. For the first few days I did deplete the battery fully before charging it to full. Today I have factory reset it to the original condition at around 4pm with 58% battery full. Now at 9pm, it is only 18%. During this time, I spent about 1 hour with the phone, the rest is standby. I set the widget to monitor with 1 minute interval and when looking at the log file, it can be seen that the phone consumed from 200-400mA during the standby time. Coming from HD2 with Android modded 3-8mA standby consumption, this is a huge huge dissapoinment!
Is this because of my battery or is this my phone? Should I ask for a replacement? What about you, did you see similar pattern?
Thanks,
Duong

duongnt said:
Hi all,
My 6 days old Sensation (Vodafone contract UK) discharge a huge amount during Standby (200-350mA). I got the number via Battery Widget Pro 1.65. For the first few days I did deplete the battery fully before charging it to full. Today I have factory reset it to the original condition at around 4pm with 58% battery full. Now at 9pm, it is only 18%. During this time, I spent about 1 hour with the phone, the rest is standby. I set the widget to monitor with 1 minute interval and when looking at the log file, it can be seen that the phone consumed from 200-400mA during the standby time. Coming from HD2 with Android modded 3-8mA standby consumption, this is a huge huge dissapoinment!
Is this because of my battery or is this my phone? Should I ask for a replacement? What about you, did you see similar pattern?
Thanks,
Duong
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Ditto!! So annoyed since I too am coming from HD2 where HyperDroid's consumption had dropped to a flat 2mA in standby. This is insane for a native android device. Not to mention the heating while playing games and most importantly, the front facing camera producing upside down image during fring video chats.. grrr!
Dunno what the cause OR solution is (besides switching over to a custom rom if and when the BL gets unlocked and people like pongster develop for this device)...
Overall, sexy device but disappointed with such major holes left unattended..

A little offtopic but was a battery related questions and did not wanna start a new thread so posting here -
Does anybody know of if there's any app which can get the battery percent to show in the top bar instead of the default indicator?
Thanks
EDIT: neva mind... found it... everybody's allwoed 1 dumb post once in a while

something is keeping your phone awake, you need to figure out what it is.

xnifex said:
something is keeping your phone awake, you need to figure out what it is.
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Any ideas on how I can do that? I tried using current widget but I guess because it's not rooted, current widget showed me a log of 0mA all throughout (yeah rite! hehe)

when I figure it out myself I'll let you know.
Current things I found that killed my battery over night: VTOK & Google Latitude

I went into Settings --> About Phone --> Battery --> Battery Use and checked, and it says display is eating most of my battery.
As far as mine, I get about 12 hours of battery life with standard usage, with the display eating most of the life, so if you're saying the screen is off, you might get different results...

over my 8h sleep battery dropped like 10%, nothing special (count in : wifi on, sync with gmail, weather) guys. new phone, fresh unoptimized kernel and radio. it'll get better. my prev phone (desire) was like sh*t at beginning in relating to its current spec rom ... and btw for checkin consuption : system panel (not lite), there is monitoring and u can see which apps running again if ya shoot them, check sync-s etc. many many thing to do, hard to tell in a single post

r3v0Lut10n said:
over my 8h sleep battery dropped like 10%, nothing special (count in : wifi on, sync with gmail, weather) guys. new phone, fresh unoptimized kernel and radio. it'll get better. my prev phone (desire) was like sh*t at beginning in relating to its current spec rom ... and btw for checkin consuption : system panel (not lite), there is monitoring and u can see which apps running again if ya shoot them, check sync-s etc. many many thing to do, hard to tell in a single post
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well it certainly sounds like a part of it is specimen issue.. here's my latest experience... last few times i have let it completely discharge and then charge back while the phone was off so i dont mess with it... once 100% charged, i switched the phone on and received a call.. a 25 minute conversation ate away 15% of my battery... LOL...
then, (now it gets better)... in 2 hrs of standby, the phone was at 60% which means it lost another 15% battery in 2 hrs of "standby".. im not sure if i can even call that state a "standby" anymore...
anyways... im wondering if its worth pinning hopes on rom development on our forum or should i just return this and go with something like nexus S which, O well, I can live with... atleast it has a 3300mA batterypack available... what's the use of kickass speeds and features if i have to use a phone like a desktop..

Hey, I have pretty bad battery drain during stand by as well I recommend trying to adjust the sync accounts, esp HTC hub and how often it updates that should improve it...I have a bunch of HTC widgets set up so im suspecting that being the reason for battery drain during stand by also adjust your email update setting accordingly. Every little bit helps!

Battery gauge stuck at 100%
Another one slightly off topic - but why start another battery thread.
It is the second day with my Sensation, and since I took the phone off the charger this morning, the battery gauge has been stuck at 100%. All other apps reading the battery status (e.g. Battery Widget) show the same number. I rebooted the phone multiple times, replaced the battery - nothing - permanent 100%. Has anyone had a similar experience? Did I get a perpetuum mobile ?
BTW the readings were fine yesterday.

JohannFaust said:
Another one slightly off topic - but why start another battery thread.
It is the second day with my Sensation, and since I took the phone off the charger this morning, the battery gauge has been stuck at 100%. All other apps reading the battery status (e.g. Battery Widget) show the same number. I rebooted the phone multiple times, replaced the battery - nothing - permanent 100%. Has anyone had a similar experience? Did I get a perpetuum mobile ?
BTW the readings were fine yesterday.
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Yes, the rating will go downhill pretty quick after that. Mine behaves in the same way.

jawang26 said:
Hey, I have pretty bad battery drain during stand by as well I recommend trying to adjust the sync accounts, esp HTC hub and how often it updates that should improve it...I have a bunch of HTC widgets set up so im suspecting that being the reason for battery drain during stand by also adjust your email update setting accordingly. Every little bit helps!
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Thanks for the pointer.. I will surely try that and see if it makes a difference..
That being said, call me crazy but it just occurs to me that HTC should be putting in some minimal efforts to check off basic quirks like battery consumption and QC. I mean all of us are spending a buttload of money on these devices year over year and then we rely on our devs here to give us basic functionality. Back in the days the reason people joined forums was to tweak devices.. Now it almost feels like we might as well expect only the hardware for the price we pay... disappointed!
Anywho...

I fully charged the phone before I went to bed last night. Eight hours later, the battery is at 10%. Is there something wrong with the battery?

Try using the Spare Parts app to see what's really using the battery in detail.

[REQUEST] display brightness tweak

Hi, for galaxy i9003 is there a tweak to reduce auto brighness levels more than the stock levels. Default values are very high, if it can be battery consumption will also decrease.
There is some tweaks on forum, but they are for other phones likes desire, etc.

yucelakpinar said:
Hi, for galaxy i9003 is there a tweak to reduce auto brighness levels more than the stock levels. Default values are very high, if it can be battery consumption will also decrease.
There is some tweaks on forum, but they are for other phones likes desire, etc.
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there's an app in the market for that, called screen filter. go check it out.

Atleast say thanks to above member ^ for helping u !!

supergaijin: i checked the apps that you adviced. I think It is not a real reduce brightness, because when i set lower brightness, it adds a dark layar to the screen, i am not sure that it can help for battery comsuption, because screen looks like black with brightness, also in description developer says that reduce battery consumption for amoled screens. I9003 is not an amoled screen.
prince_venom :i'm not at computer 24 hours, i know to say thanks.

yucelakpinar said:
supergaijin: i checked the apps that you adviced. I think It is not a real reduce brightness, because when i set lower brightness, it adds a dark layar to the screen, i am not sure that it can help for battery comsuption, because screen looks like black with brightness, also in description developer says that reduce battery consumption for amoled screens. I9003 is not an amoled screen.
prince_venom :i'm not at computer 24 hours, i know to say thanks.
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lol, I guess I got fooled thanks for pointing that out. now I'll just set my display at the lowest setting without using the filter and see if my consumption changes. if so, I guess it's not so useful after all, and I'll join your tweak request

you dont need to have an app for that...
try this:
press and hold status bar above and slide it to the left if you want to decrease brightness and slide to the right if you want to increase it ..
hope it helps..
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mjbri0613 said:
you dont need to have an app for that...
try this:
press and hold status bar above and slide it to the left if you want to decrease brightness and slide to the right if you want to increase it ..
hope it helps..
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some of us know that trick already (I learned it by reading this forum), but even for those that don't, it's just a shortcut instead of going into settings>display>brightness and turning it up and down.
the tweak that's being requested is to be able to make it go lower than the stock lower limit.
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lol, I really did get caught by that app. shoulda read this line first: "Applies a shade that acts as a dimmer to ensure your eyes don't hurt." so yeah, not gonna save battery life if just adding shade on full brightness gonna test some other market stuff now, see if anything will save us from needing this tweak

supergaijin said:
some of us know that trick already (I learned it by reading this forum), but even for those that don't, it's just a shortcut instead of going into settings>display>brightness and turning it up and down.
the tweak that's being requested is to be able to make it go lower than the stock lower limit.
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lol, I really did get caught by that app. shoulda read this line first: "Applies a shade that acts as a dimmer to ensure your eyes don't hurt." so yeah, not gonna save battery life if just adding shade on full brightness gonna test some other market stuff now, see if anything will save us from needing this tweak
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It's been set that way so that the phone actually turns on, There is a default value in which the phone reads and is aware that it's actually displaying, If you lower the value than the actual, don't forget this is an SLCD, It requires you to burn a few crystals at a preset level so it actually displays something when they are heated, if the crystal's don't get cooked to a certain level it won't display anything or get cooked at all that's the reason why LED phones can have their display really low and not LCD. If you've taken IT fundamentals, you would know that LCD stands for liquid crystal display and LED is light emitting diode and you would notice that LCD monitors take some time to boot up compared to LED due to the crystal heating factor. Sadly LCD consumes quite the battery for the larger the DPI or Brightness. This is one of the major factor's why there are no apps or people who have made apps that drop the values lower than stock.
And to the guy telling to say thanks, This isn't Facebook to press thanks for every post, it's an optional button and entitled for people who actually do help/people who's work you actually appreciate. That's why It's limited to 5 per day.

Have u tried the NIGHT MODE in chain fire 3d? That should work as its a gfx driver! Maybe I'm wrong
☞★sent from drajax's Galaxy SL!!! *♂ツ

Misledz said:
This isn't Facebook to press thanks for every post
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LOL. xD
thnx for the info regarding display.
btw does anyone know any app similar to lux auto brightness by Vito Cassisi? that app is a paid one
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Misledz said:
It requires you to burn a few crystals at a preset level so it actually displays something when they are heated
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so that explains y there is some delay for the display to turn on when u wake the phone.
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found an application SuperDim from market (requires root)...u can set brightness to very low levels than the phone's default brightness
am using this for almost 2 weeks and very useful

@Misledz :can i LIKE YOUR POST
Its hardware type guys,, like misledz just said there is is a major diff between a LED and a LCD... I tried using some dimmers or filters Its so all the same.. the still question for me if whats is the battery life of our phone?as its not clearly benchmarked by usage???? cause there some thread or post that his/her battery lasted for 4days...can we clearly agreed with a standard of usage so we know how much are phone can take....?!?!?

blaqkarma said:
@Misledz :can i LIKE YOUR POST
Its hardware type guys,, like misledz just said there is is a major diff between a LED and a LCD... I tried using some dimmers or filters Its so all the same.. the still question for me if whats is the battery life of our phone?as its not clearly benchmarked by usage???? cause there some thread or post that his/her battery lasted for 4days...can we clearly agreed with a standard of usage so we know how much are phone can take....?!?!?
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juiceplotter graphs can be useful here. like continuously using 2g connection to browse the net for certain duration n monitoring the drain for that period.
but battery calibration n background services also need to b taken into account.
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AdrenalineX said:
found an application SuperDim from market (requires root)...u can set brightness to very low levels than the phone's default brightness
am using this for almost 2 weeks and very useful
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you ruined my surprise!
after this thread was opened and I learned that screen filter was not helping anything, I found superdim (needs superuser and root).
since I was testing my battery just before installing it, I can say it is working, at least a bit!
before installing it, these were my battery stats, starting from 100% charged:
running on battery: 9 hr 18 min, 70% remaining
display on-time: 1 hr 22 min (75% of usage)
angry birds: 26 min (11% of usage)
cell standby: 9 hr 18 min (6% of usage)
all others are 5% or less.
after installing superdim and setting the screen to 20/255, here are my stats, starting from 100% charged:
running on battery: 1d, 4m, 1% remaining
display on-time: 8 hr, 26 min (71% of usage) * this was mostly used for aldiko, reading a good book by stephen king
angry birds: 30 min (8% of usage)
wi fi: 1 hr (forgot it was on, lol), no battery stat provided
cell standby: 1d, 4 min (6% of usage)
all others are 4% or less.
doing calculation extrapolation, we can see the display eats less overall battery:
*only angry birds and display consumption percentages changed by more than 1%, but angry birds was close to the same, so only display consumption is calculated *
before installing:
70% after 9 hrs = 30% drained in 9 hrs = 3.33% per hour of phone run time
75% of 30% drain = 22.5% battery usage by display
22.5% usage/1.5hr = 11.25% battery consumption per hour of display on-time
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after installing and setting at 20/255:
1% after 1 day = 99% drained in 24 hrs = 4.125% per hour of phone run time
71% of 99% drain = 70% battery usage by display
70% usage/8.5hr = 8.3% battery consumption per hour of display on-time
keep in mind that this shows moderate to heavy use, since I was intentionally using the display alot. a more reserved use of the phone should get you closer to 2 days between charges or longer
Misledz said:
...if the crystal's don't get cooked to a certain level it won't display anything or get cooked at all that's the reason why LED phones can have their display really low and not LCD.
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thanks for the info. that explains why they have the warning that certain phones won't operate if you set the value too low
so, does this mean that even superdim is just pretending to actually do something, and my apparent battery savings was just random?

i will try superdim, it looks like it's doing its job well.

supergaijin said:
you ruined my surprise!
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I installed SuperDim to save too much brightness hurting my eye while using it at night...still dono whether it saves battery or not...
thanks for detailed info...
U can also check setting brightness level to 20/255
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AdrenalineX said:
I installed SuperDim to save too much brightness hurting my eye while using it at night...still dono whether it saves battery or not...
thanks for detailed info...
U can also check setting brightness level to 20/255
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yeah, the one thing is it's not truly "locked" at 20%, but that's a request for the developer.
oh, and thanks for pointing out my mistake, I meant 20/255, which was my setting for testing and normal use now (except in daylight). I'll edit my post now

supergaijin said:
yeah, the one thing is it's not truly "locked" at 20%, but that's a request for the developer.
oh, and thanks for pointing out my mistake, I meant 20/255, which was my setting for testing and normal use now (except in daylight). I'll edit my post now
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yup...waiting for next version
may be developers can look into tweaking brightness if there are any chance to reduce battery consumption by display...
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lol, turns out this is old news, and this app we've been discussing (superdim) was created by a member of xda for lcd screens
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/how-low-can-you-go-superdim-for-android/
please consider this thread closed, as no tweak is needed thanks to this

[Q] Heavy Battery Drain Issue

Hello,
Since last week I have been noticing that the battery drains pretty fast. I'm running on Mokee RC3 with JbX .7b(26/7). I find the same issue on liquid smooth too.
Not running any applications. All are hibernated using greenify. The phone runs on ktonservative itself. Most of the time the screen was off say more off. I'm attaching the screenshots of the battery stats and so on. Tried clearing the battery cache and so on but didnt work. WIFI off, 3G off, GPS off
I know that there are many posts on battery drain around, I tried searching and didnt find a similar issue and I've got this feeling that its my battery dying.
Kindly help me.
Edit: Mods, Please move it to Q& A. It was an accident putting it in General

That's a lot of screen time.. that's nearly 3h of screen time rite?
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hafizkris90 said:
That's a lot of screen time.. that's nearly 3h of screen time rite?
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The screen was off for d entire time. technically this was during night while I was sleeping. screen was off. screen time out is set to 30 Sec

That's a huge drain.. but your screen seems like the one dominating the chart.. wakelock maybe?
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hafizkris90 said:
That's a huge drain.. but your screen seems like the one dominating the chart.. wakelock maybe?
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In batterystats under partial wake lock, all I see dominating is AudioOut_2 (15.7%)
most of the user apps are hibernated using greenify. Likewise No Viber installed.

dittualex said:
The screen was off for d entire time. technically this was during night while I was sleeping. screen was off. screen time out is set to 30 Sec
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Your screen was 71% of the overall battery usage. Are you sure the screen was off the whole time? I see in your first screenshot that the screen was on almost half of the time (the blue line under the graph at the top). If this was indeed while you were sleeping then I would say that you have an app that not only wakes the phone but also turns on the screen.
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1BadWolf said:
Your screen was 71% of the overall battery usage. Are you sure the screen was off the whole time? I see in your first screenshot that the screen was on almost half of the time (the blue line under the graph at the top). If this was indeed while you were sleeping then I would say that you have an app that not only wakes the phone but also turns on the screen.
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I don't know why my thumb decided that I should quote myself.
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1BadWolf said:
I don't know why my thumb decided that I should quote myself.
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Thats y i conclude that he at least have around 3h of screen time.. maybe someone used ur phone w/o permission?
Sent from my Google Eyelids while sleeping..

hafizkris90 said:
Thats y i conclude that he at least have around 3h of screen time.. maybe someone used ur phone w/o permission?
Sent from my Google Eyelids while sleeping..
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Hey guys,
thanks for your replies.. I was soo irritated with this drain. some issues with the battery stats too i guess.. coz when I get into bmm and choose system 4, its showed 99% charge always and for the remaining roms, it displayed it right.
Due to impatience, I deleted all those *.img's and created new ones..installed mokee on a different system . Now i guess its fine.

dittualex said:
Hey guys,
thanks for your replies.. I was soo irritated with this drain. some issues with the battery stats too i guess.. coz when I get into bmm and choose system 4, its showed 99% charge always and for the remaining roms, it displayed it right.
Due to impatience, I deleted all those *.img's and created new ones..installed mokee on a different system . Now i guess its fine.
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I've noticed that sometimes BMM will show 99% battery regardless of what the actual battery percentage is. I've never thought much of it, and I have learned to not rely on it to give a correct reading in regards to the battery. I strongly suspect that was the culprit with your issue then, just a matter of an incorrect battery reading.
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Hi,
A good practice would be to wipe the battery stats when you install a new ROM.
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Karthik

karthiks.840 said:
Hi,
A good practice would be to wipe the battery stats when you install a new ROM.
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Karthik
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That's actually a useless practice. See here:
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...-battery-stats-does-not-improve-battery-life/
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it died on me for no apparent reason...

nearly was late for work because my phone died and i was using it as an alarm. what could have drained 50% battery in 6 hours and not show? wifi was off

while the graph is nice, better battery stats is what we need.

ihatelolcats said:
nearly was late for work because my phone died and i was using it as an alarm. what could have drained 50% battery in 6 hours and not show? wifi was off
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Poor mobile network signal

aavvaallooss said:
Poor mobile network signal
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Except it's green meaning full signal all the way to death...

ihatelolcats said:
Except it's green meaning full signal all the way to death...
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what you didnt post is the page with what was using your battery by %. now how are we supposed to tell you what happened and what used your battery? this thread is pointless because you gave us no usable information. what i got from the info that you did post is that a UFO flew by you and drained your battery of its power. and the thing is, my guess will be just as good as any other guess.

simms22 said:
what you didnt post is the page with what was using your battery by %. now how are we supposed to tell you what happened and what used your battery? this thread is pointless because you gave us no usable information. what i got from the info that you did post is that a UFO flew by you and drained your battery of its power. and the thing is, my guess will be just as good as any other guess.
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sorry but there was nothing out of the ordinary there so i didnt even think to screenshot it. by a large margin the screen used the most % battery. i thought it might have stuck on but that's not shown in the above shot

ihatelolcats said:
sorry but there was nothing out of the ordinary there so i didnt even think to screenshot it. by a large margin the screen used the most % battery. i thought it might have stuck on but that's not shown in the above shot
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right, not in the posted shot. could have been an app that decided not to go away and drain your battery instead.

simms22 said:
right, not in the posted shot. could have been an app that decided not to go away and drain your battery instead.
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+1 to this theory
Sent from my Nexus 5

is that a known problem with the alarm app itself? stock rom
there just wasn't anything that stood out to me on the app battery use list

ihatelolcats said:
is that a known problem with the alarm app itself? stock rom
there just wasn't anything that stood out to me on the app battery use list
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stock alarm app, no. but you do have a lot of wakelocks. when the screen is shown off, your device should be asleep. your device shows a lot of activity when your screens off(ironically, not when the supposed battery drain happened though, so i cant say thats why it drained).

Do you have the horrid camera bug?

Do you use exchange at all? I've had a lot of phones (android mostly htc and iphones) hit bugs from exchange in push mode and burn through their battery really quickly constantly trying to sync and hitting an error.
I charge mine on my dresser next to my head, and also use it as an alarm, I'd recommend charging it over night

Stealyourface said:
Do you have the horrid camera bug?
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god i hope not. what is that?
i don't use exchange

davidcampbell said:
Do you use exchange at all? I've had a lot of phones (android mostly htc and iphones) hit bugs from exchange in push mode and burn through their battery really quickly constantly trying to sync and hitting an error.
I charge mine on my dresser next to my head, and also use it as an alarm, I'd recommend charging it over night
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i charge it every night, and its also by me every night, as its also my only alarm.

ihatelolcats said:
god i hope not. what is that?
i don't use exchange
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I'm guessing this http://www.androidcentral.com/googl...cpu-usage-bug-fix-coming-next-android-release
I found it by googling "Nexus 5 horrid camera bug" lol, first link

Stock apps have no such issue as till date.Except for apps that use internet /wifi consume a lot of battery. So switch of those frst or keep ur cell on flight mode. The battery consumption may be due to gplay service, account sync,gmaps etc. I don't own a nexus device but I have experienced this kind of behaviour with my phone sometimes with a hot back cover sometimes.Try using apps like greenify to control this prob(or switch of ur network @ night/use lower cpu values + governers like powersave/conservative)

Atrix 2 Extremly High Battery Drain

Hi
my atrix 2 is losing 1 % battery in a minute, in 20 minutes it went down to 80% after a full charge. its happening since yesterday. also my lcd has a big dead pixel on top left looks like solar eclipse. could it be because of that? i've not installed anything in the phone lately. i put in another battery but it is the same thing. battery drains out to 0 in an hour.
whats the problem? it shows screen usage super high on idle !?
any advise
thanks

nripen said:
Hi
my atrix 2 is losing 1 % battery in a minute, in 20 minutes it went down to 80% after a full charge. its happening since yesterday. also my lcd has a big dead pixel on top left looks like solar eclipse. could it be because of that? i've not installed anything in the phone lately. i put in another battery but it is the same thing. battery drains out to 0 in an hour.
whats the problem? it shows screen usage super high on idle !?
any advise
thanks
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Firstly...there is a million reason for battery leak like that "could be software or hardware"
Secondly... go HERE and download the excellent app BBS (Better Battery Status) to report which app is exactly eating your battery "note that download section is in the second post of BBS thread"
also there is known bug in Atrix 2 "and old RAZR I guess" which report a fake screen consumption and push it to the top consumers "it doesn't matter if you have a hardware black dots problem or not" so those black dots are not the battery problem.....BTW here is a great way to solve your LCD and get rid of those black pixels HERE
Another great solution.....reboot your phone in safe mode "which means that no downloaded apps will run in background" only the sock apps will run normally How to do that (( just press the power button until you see the "Power Off" dialog then press and hold "Power off" option until you see a message asking you to reboot in safe mode press yes and voila )) if you want to load apps again and back to normal just restart as normal again.
then wait and see if the battery still drains that fast or not
NOTE: I'm not really sure that safe mode feature exist on ICS 4.0.4 or not! as I'm on 4.4 kitkat along time ago :

i think the big blue dot is the problem. the phone is hot all the time. and the dot is hottest part of the screen. i can feel it on my thumb , the rest of the screen isn't hot. now i see that the aura around the big dot is getting bigger n bigger, and it displays screen usage high in idle. here are the BBS screenshots. i am going to put the phone in the fridge and hope it solves the problem.

About getting hot...it's normally that your whole phone gets hot as it didn't enter "deep sleep" but that's really strange that that dot is more hot than other screen parts as the screen is just a very thin glass over a kind of steel to reflect light, that steel plan surface is just above the main board which leaks heat so it means that there is a direct contact between the main board and the screen on that faulty part "maybe because you have pressed on that part too much"
anyway to make sure that apps in not the problem, try to turn off WIFI and reboot in safe mode or at least turn off sync and other apps manually "as your phone has entered deep sleep only for 17m while the processor keeps running at highest level 1ghz for along time".

before the blue dot it had only a thin line in that area which turn into this big blue splotch, it happend because i was trying to pull out my Atrix 2 out of the case. I bend to much probably then the next day the thin line appeared then after 2 weeks that line became this big dot., im really frustrated now. i will just replace the lcd.
thanks alot for helping

alright i replaced the LCD and the battery drain is the same. i even reflashed the stock rom , battery cant be the problem coz i put another battery it drains out just like the other one. and my front camera is disabled. could that be eating the bettery?

nripen said:
Hi
my atrix 2 is losing 1 % battery in a minute, in 20 minutes it went down to 80% after a full charge. its happening since yesterday. also my lcd has a big dead pixel on top left looks like solar eclipse. could it be because of that? i've not installed anything in the phone lately. i put in another battery but it is the same thing. battery drains out to 0 in an hour.
whats the problem? it shows screen usage super high on idle !?
any advise
thanks
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Try Greenify or check what is causing wake locks....as ur fone seems to be showing high usage even while idle. :silly:

i monitored BBS and it shows high usage in "Deep Sleep" battery drain rate is 58.8%/hour. i installed paranoid android in system 3 but drains just like stock rom. my front camera is disabled it doesn't show up anywhere,
in partial wake locks - audioOUT_1 in on top
in kernel wake locks - caif_hsi is on top

nripen said:
i monitored BBS and it shows high usage in "Deep Sleep" battery drain rate is 58.8%/hour. i installed paranoid android in system 3 but drains just like stock rom. my front camera is disabled it doesn't show up anywhere,
in partial wake locks - audioOUT_1 in on top
in kernel wake locks - caif_hsi is on top
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You can try install PA on your main system..as you say PA rom give you the stock battery draining...
but make sure you use PA minimal gapps bcoz our main system has limitation for system data ...

PA rom does not give me stock battery draining, stock rom was draining my battery even before installing PA 2 months ago. i thought my LCD was the problem because it had huge black dot on it, i changed LCD myself now i still have the battery drain problem, is there anything i can try before i lose hopes and send it to motorola repair center?