Hello guys,
Have a small question about battery use when phone is idle, e.g. at night. I loose 1%/hour with 3G/WiFi disabled, sync disabled, and 2%/hour with 3G/WiFi enabled, sync disabled. So no sync, no apps updating or refreshing. When I sleep for 9 hours I lose 18% with 3G on, which seems quite much to me. This also used to be only 4-5% with 3G on. While using the phone my battery is fine actually, I lose 2-3% an hour idle with sync enabled (whatsapp, push gmail, hourly weather, tweetdeck every 6 hours). The battery seems to be a bit worse then before 2.3.4, but I'm not quite sure about that.
So I downloaded BetterBatteryStats to see what might keep my phone awake at night (see pics). The slow decline is at night, no sync. As you can see there is one blue block in which the phone is awake but the screen is turned off. However, this wakelock is not present in the BetterBatteryStats output afaik. Anybody has any thoughts on reducing battery use when idle? Cause I see alot of people who lose like 1-2%, I would like to have that as well!
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Phone Signal
WiFi
Awake
Screen on
Charging
When in normal use my phone doesn't show any abnormal wakelocks, it's just that the battery drains quite (too) fast when idle, can't seem to figure out why.
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Last two times I've ran slacker, it freezes up on me and doesn't exit properly and causes excessive battery drain, like 1% per minute.
Even while running it, it seems to consume a lot of battery sometimes. And the processor is pegged at max setting while its running. 1017 mhz today, to be exact. This is both streaming and cached content.
Anyone else notice this? I installed watchdog to see what was causing it, and this is what i found, even after exiting the app from the menu. Yes, it shows at running in the taskbar cause I turned it back on after I shut it down.
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In case it matters, I'm running inspired ace 1.0.1 and mdj's 17 kernel, running at 1017 max and on demand scaling.
excessive battery drain
I have been having issues with this as well. Slacker is constantly running, and must be force closed from the settings> applications menu. Battery drain is roughly 3% a minute while unplugged, and 1-2% even while plugged in! I love slacker, but this is no good..
The problems seemed to have started for me when Slacker was updated with the Ford Sync service. Killing just the ford sync service seems to improve battery life substantially as well, but presents problems in using the slacker app sometimes. (N1 running CM7)
Check your radio and Ril to make sure they matching... it could cause battery drain.
Below is the screenshot of my battery usage. I disabled cell radio and WiFi at 12 midnight until 6am. As you can see radio is off (see the gap) but my WiFi has no gap. I can assure you the WiFi is disabled. I don't see the WiFi icon during those time. FYI since I got the phone last January I really don't disable my WiFi even if not in use. Is this a bug?
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motogmoko said:
Below is the screenshot of my battery usage. I disabled cell radio and WiFi at 12 midnight until 6am. As you can see radio is off (see the gap) but my WiFi has no gap. I can assure you the WiFi is disabled. I don't see the WiFi icon during those time. FYI since I got the phone last January I really don't disable my WiFi even if not in use. Is this a bug?
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In Wi-Fi advanced settings make sure "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep is not set to always (Default)
Thanks man. What does "only when plugged in" mean. So even if I set it to always, it does not consume battery? Because I can see that I improve battery after disabling radios. Like I save 8% of battery.
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Thanks man. What does "only when plugged in" mean. So even if I set it to always, it does not consume battery? Because I can see that I improve battery after disabling radios. Like I save 8% of battery.
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1. always on even in sleep
2. only on in sleep if phone is being charged
3. never on in sleep
Why does the never, increases the data usage? If its never On in sleep. Haha. I'm sorry I'm so dumb haha.
Hi there.
I have Nexus 5 running Cataclysm 5.1.
I wanted to make this post because I'm having some doubts regarding deep sleep states. For example, how long should it take before the device enter deep sleep (i.e. < 1%/h discharge rate) after the screen has been turned off? I'm monitoring mine with Battery Monitor Widget, logging discharge rates every 5 minutes, and I noticed that after I turn the screen off, my N5 will often remain using 2 to 5%/h (sometimes more) for at least 30 minutes (sometimes more) before entering deep sleep, i.e. < 1%/h., which naturally causes a little, but not neglectable drain.
I'm currently one of the Lollipop users who are suffering from the Mobile Radio Active bug that drains the battery when on mobile data. Because of this I've turned off mobile data and made a Tasker profile to turn it on every 10 minutes for 30 seconds. I tell you this because in this case (mobile data off) BMW register even higher discharge rates and longer times before it goes into deep sleep. When on wifi this gets a lot better, although it will occasionally remain at ~2%/h for several minutes sometimes more than an hour.
My real question is, is this normal? I'm getting maybe 3h of screen on time, which is not terribly bad, but I used to get more than 4. I'm not having significant wakelocks (Wakelock Detector shows my device sleeping more than 90% of the time), I have a bunch of apps greenified and can't figure out why this happens.
I'd appreciate your help in this matter.
Thanks in advance.
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Connected to wifi, played Tsum tsum for 15mins, SOT 30 mins
adaptive brightness was on
screen brightness was similar to 40% when adaptive brightness is off,
location was off, wifi scanning off
I was not expecting that kind of battery drop when screen on
I'm also noticing that the phone isn't deep sleeping sometimes
Thanks for helping!!
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Sounds about the same as mine - around 4 hours SOT and I usually get about 24 hours total from the phone. Also stays awake for seeming no reason. My Z3 was way better in this regard.
Same here! Did Factory Reset solve the problem?
BR4DOKYBrazil said:
Same here! Did Factory Reset solve the problem?
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Is there any "benchmark" or normal battery usage for this?
Somehow I seem to get rid of the awake issue but don't know if it really helps
i turned off Settings-->security-->trusted agents-->smart lock
And turned off all apps with usage access except stamina mode and greenify
Also turned off location when not used
leon090807 said:
Is there any "benchmark" or normal battery usage for this?
Somehow I seem to get rid of the awake issue but don't know if it really helps
i turned off Settings-->security-->trusted agents-->smart lock
And turned off all apps with usage access except stamina mode and greenify
Also turned off location when not used
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Take a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z5/help/battery-drain-factory-reset-t3277136#post64482472
So basically just out of nowhere, about 2 weeks ago, my phone's battery just starts dying really quickly when connected to WiFi. I am talking from 100% to dead overnight (7-8 hours). It's an S6 purchased on release day, original battery, but before this issue, I could easily go a day with normal use and have 40% or more. Even now with the problem occurring, I can leave WiFi off and still get my normal battery life.
No settings have changed (I have always had all the suggested battery saving settings set appropriately), no system updates, just usual app updates. I figured an app update caused the issue so I factory reset the phone with no luck. I ran a suggested app, GSam, to check for usage. It hasn't shown any apps consuming the power, just power draining very quickly when WiFi is enabled.
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Not sure why this screencap is so huge, it won't let me resize it on here. Anyway, it's a screencap from GSam. The first half shows during the day with minimal use with WiFi off. The steep drop just before the green line is usage when I get home and have WiFi on. The solid green line indicates charging. After that is the overnight period with WiFi on, massive battery drain.
I'm at a loss at what to do. I really like this phone and this WiFi issue is killing the usability of it. If I'm at home and browsing apps with WiFi on the phone dies so quickly. If this were an issue regardless of WiFi, I'd understand that it's just old and a dying battery, but it's only ever present when WiFi is on.
Besides trying a custom ROM, is there anything else I can try to fix this? I don't have it rooted and would prefer to just keep it official firmware only if I can.
Thanks in advance.