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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Sent from my MB865 using xda premium
Thanks man!!! Now back to Poweramp
Related
Ok so may be I'm just panicking but I got my infuse last night. I drained it to 0 and charged over night. Since the morning I've used a bunch of SMS, emails and what's app. And its 1pm and after a reboot battery us at 7%. What the hell? Is it just me or that's how this phone is??
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App
It's just you and the battery life should get better over the next few days as well.
beatblaster said:
It's just you and the battery life should get better over the next few days as well.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So I should replace the set??
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App
No just use it. In a few days it will get better, but if you want iphone battery life You'll have to get an iphone.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA Premium App
My battery easily lasts all day if all I do is check/send emails, texts/chat, and play some games. Even when I stream iheartradio from a full charge in the morning it will be about 30-40% remaining by 12-1pm (4-5hrs of streaming) on top of email/texts/chat. I bring my charger to work because I tend to stream radio all day and no battery is up to that task for 8 or so hours a day. Battery life kills my iphone3g which was ready for the charger by 10:30-11am doing the same stuff.
Why would you drain a lithium ion battery down to zero?
Sent from my Infuse 4G
shadow65781 said:
but if you want iphone battery life You'll have to get an iphone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
for the record this phone gets better battery life than either of my iphones did
I've had the same experience you have had. It's 4:00 pm my time and I'm down to 5%. It's been charged all night and was taken off the plug today morning. Made a few phone calls, surfed the web for a bit, gps, bluetooth, wifi are all OFF. Texted on regular messaging and kik messanger for a bit. Skyped my brother on wifi for 3 mins.
From experience, when I did more than this, on my iPhone 4 I'd barely be at 50% by now.
Battery is an issue with this phone for sure. I don't know if it's a bad batch (as some have mentioned) or just general Infuse behavior. I'm giving this phone another week and if it doesn't improve, I'm going to sell this.
Check your settings, make sure there aren't things constantly updating in the background. That will drain your battery like you guys seem to be experiencing. Also if you are using high screen brightness, good by battery this puppy with the 4.5" screen eats battery.
Itll get better in about a week, thats how mine was.
Keep Wi-fi off in the status bar when your not using it and keep GPS off, those 2 helped my battery life tremendously.
A few tips before u jump to conclusion and start blaming the phone battery. Take in consideration - running services, auto sync, bad apps not letting phone going in to deep sleep, pressing the home button instead of back button to close apps, lots of Widgets, live wallpaper, having brightness to high, using navigation, games and so on ect ect. These are things that will shorten your battery life. I'm not saying not to use your phone but if you can, keep to minimum unnecessary stuff. BTW I get a full day with heavy used with no auto sync only Gmail, no unnecessary background service, GPS off and ones in a blue I use a task killer. I had 3 android phones and by far the Infuse had the best battery life.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA Premium App
This rom used to be fine, now it is draining extrememly fast and I don't know why.
I am on Gingerbread KF2 and really haven't done anything else yet. I used to be able to make it through an average day of ~15 or so hours using the phone only for some messages, a call or two, and a few minutes of music. After this type of usage, the battery would be around 70-80% at the lowest usually. This is even with the screen at FULL brightness all day.
About a week ago, it started draining super fast. The same usage runs the phone down to about 20-30%, which is ridiculous. In battery stats, Android OS is always FAR above everything else with like 60%. A couple battery calibrations did nothing. I don't use task killers, but I do check my running apps. OS monitor didn't help me at all, and checking my currently running apps just showed mostly system apps that should not be draining hardly any battery at all.
Any suggestions? I think that about covers it all. This just has me stumped...
go through your apps and see how often they check for updates. there were a lot of updates recently and some settings may have changed. If nothing changed, can you do a quick scan with look out? Just to be safe. Also, try juice defender and set it to aggressive
Sent from my SGH-T959V using XDA Premium App
Lookout didn't pick up anything and I set JuiceDefender to aggressive. Will JuiceDefender warn me of an app using excessive battery?
Nope, that battery is still dropping like crazy. (8% in half an hour from almost no use.)
Maybe I just need to reflash and start over fresh...
It will take a day out two to settle in. is your phone sleeping properly when the screen in off? Press the volume keys once it locks and if it makes the sound then it if still on.
Sent from my SGH-T959V using XDA Premium App
jager555 said:
It will take a day out two to settle in. is your phone sleeping properly when the screen in off? Press the volume keys once it locks and if it makes the sound then it if still on.
Sent from my SGH-T959V using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sleeping just fine.
Yea, I guess if you can't figure it out, you can reflash. That is a pain though. I would say to try out jd for a while longer and see if you get results. fb us usually the culprit for my battery drains, but if you checked all of your apps and changed them to manual, then there isn't much more you can do.try putting your screen to auto brightness
Sent from my SGH-T959V using XDA Premium App
So either juice defender is helping or ADW launcher was using excesive battery. It is working better today after I switched back to launcher pro, but still going down pretty fast.
Sent from my SGH-T959V using XDA App
ADW doesn't really drain much battery for me. It actually uses less RAM compared to LauncherPro and Go Launcher (for me).
I think you should just try reflashing your ROM, maybe flashing the new GB ROMs too.
Also, are you sure you're doing the battery calibrations properly? That might also be an issue.
Maybe it's not your phone or ROM...
I've had several ROMs in the last few weeks and have noticed this behavior on many of them....after searching, I found this.
T-Mobile has apparently noticed some abnormal battery issues in areas with their "4G" HSPA+. They're asking people in their support forum for a bit of info to help them find the issue.
support[dot]t-mobile[dot]com /thread/3544
The problem was initially believed to be affecting the G2 only, but is now believed to be affecting all phones in their "4G" footprint that started when they updated their towers in late July. The update provides the government an emergency channel to use, but it appears that it may be causing network issues.
Thanks for bringing it up, this is affecting me too. i lose 20-40% battery PER HOUR of use on the phone at 25% screen brightness playing a card game online (no wifi, just on HSPA+). This is on a BRAND NEW flash of KH2 (GB 2.3.4).
The top half of the phone gets really hot and battery drains like crazy. ceasing data use cools it down and reverts to normal battery use.
My phone seems to be draining pretty rapidly when listening to music. I lose about 10% every 30 minutes. If I remember correctly, listening to music while running Froyo was easy on my battery; about 1% every 10 minutes. I'm wondering what other people's experiences are with battery and listening to music. If you can, please post your ROM, music player, and battery drain.
CM7.
Using Music and WinAmp.
10% in 30 minutes.
Thanks.
I use UberMusic on my stock TB running 2.2.1.
Noticed first hand Yesterday, It drains the living hell out of my battery.
I started out the morning on full battery, then using UberMusic for a 30 min drive there and back.
Then started to use the music player by the end of the day with a 20 min drive to school and ended with 0% battery.
I did have my brightness on 100% also UberMusic does use the internet for connection to display "Artists" picture's for the background.
Thanks for the information.
It may be better to get stats based on apps that don't use data.
skinien said:
Thanks for the information.
It may be better to get stats based on apps that don't use data.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yup, But UberMusic is too damn good of a music player to stop using
I'm running OMFGB nightly 7/31 and I use poweramp. Over about 8 hours I lose 30% battery, so my drain is pretty light.
Jaredsk74 said:
I'm running OMFGB nightly 7/31 and I use poweramp. Over about 8 hours I lose 30% battery, so my drain is pretty light.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's more like what I'm seeing with the stock player on Gingeritus3D, too. I hardly notice the drain. Are these other players trying to download lyrics or cover art or something?
Thanks everyone. It seems I'm not crazy - my drain is excessive.
My battery never got that hot on just standby or normal texting and web use. But ever since I decided to disable stocks and stocks widget the battery got real hot like 40c and just over. I used to hover around 28-30c. Anybody else experience this?
I re enabled the stocks widget and stocks app but battery still feels hot. Well the battery was at 12% so right now I have it charging hopefully it goes back to normal temps.
I have those disabled and have no battery or temp issues. I would use an app like system panel or watchdog and see if you have a rogue app that's running.
No not forme
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
No issues here since disabling the junk apps.
I had the same issue and was only getting 37 minutes screen time before needing to charge the I reset the phone left all the apps there and now I am getting great battery life !
Thanks for the replies. I just put them back on ("stocks" apps) and battery temps back to normal with no overheating. Dont kniw what caused it or if it was just coincidence, regardless leaving it alone now.
edit: seems like its getting hot again. I don't think its a rogue app as I had the same apps before when it was running normal temps. its up to 35c with just texting for couple minutes. I did that before and it wouldn't get warm to the touch.
Could the battery gone bad on me???
switch it out...
sent from my HTC One X Rooted locked bootloader
When I go to account & sync and turn on auto sync. I had to re add the stocks account and then pressed sync all and the stocks isn't synching. Maybe that's why its overheating its trying to turn on but cant?
I readded the 3 "stocks" apps i had disabled is there some other way to turn them back on?
lol, stop focusing on the app removal and look at what you installed from the market.
designgears said:
lol, stop focusing on the app removal and look at what you installed from the market.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
But I haven't installed anything from the market when I started getting the hot temps. All the apps i have now are the same when it wasn't overheating.
try to freeze Sense Apps... It might help...
and dont delete the sense apks, it may crash the launcher sometimes...
Well I gave in and did a factory reset. Pain having to redo everything but I guess only way to make sure. Ill see if tomorrow it doesn't overheat. Thanks.
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
PsychDrummer said:
I noticed that as well. The mediaserver I've actually noticed with every music app I've used. Pandora/SoundCloud.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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/
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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??
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Sent from my Nexus 5
With EQ off and not playing Flac files, GPM and media server seem to barely register after 2-3 hours of listening.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
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.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
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
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
---------- Post added at 01:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:48 AM ----------
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
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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