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I'm just wondering if anyone's been experiencing the horrible battery life that I've been dealing with since installing the Google+ app?
My battery went from being able to go nearly 2 days with minimal use, to being under 20% after 8 hours of sitting beside me on my desk during the work day without barely even touching it (maybe sending a text or 2 during the day).
Android OS has now become the main reason for battery drain on my phone where as in the past, it's always been the Display.
Anyone else noticing this with their phone?
I've noticed it to on my Captivate. It seems like data is constantly going in and out and battery life is non-existent. Going to uninstall the app for now and hope that an update is released for it soon.
Ok...
So I wasn't just imagining things then.... I've been contemplating removing it as well, which is too bad since I've found it to be a bit useful
If you do remove it make sure to reboot the phone. I was still getting drain issues before rebooting. I'm watching it now to see if it still is draining or if it's been resolved. I'll let you know in about 30 minutes one way or the other.
I'm having the same thing on my G2x running CM7 nightlies. I'm about to uninstall this to test. Did uninstalling work for you OP?
edit: I just thought it could be related to instant upload? My wife has Google+ installed and no issues, but she's running a stock G2x. I'll disable it and test.
Stock Thunderbolt here. Don't seem to have any issues with the Google+ app.
I am also having this issue. lost over 20% over night. I have a nexus s and can normally get 3+days out of my phone. Since installing Google+ battery has not even lasted a day!!!! i have killed the service and already i am seeing massive improvements with battery.
I dont believe it is to do with instant upload as i have turned it off with no luck.
I hope google fixes this issue soon!!!!!!
I've got a Desire using the Leedroid 3.0.8 rom,
but it doesn't seem to show the mentioned issues.
I do have the instant-upload enabled and
about 70 people divided in circles with not
much activity in the updates-stream yet.
(I'm guessing it's based on push technlogy)
I uninstalled and rebooted my phone yesterday...
Curious to see if I get the battery life that I had prior to installing...
On a Captivate running CM7 Nightlies #54
Wasn't sure if the battery performance was related to CM7 or the app... So we'll see! I was getting some great battery performance when I was on #34, but did the Google+ install and the update on the same day... Haha
same here on epic 4g. uninstalled g+... problem went away. Go figure.
It's because G+ app has push notifications - any app that has that automatically starts up if closed and starts on boot.
Push notifications are a good thing, but only if you have a spare battery
OMg could i have found the cause for my POOR battery life, i cant even get a single day out the battery with my inspire 4g
I have a htc hd2 running RAFDROID HD and i been using the app for about a week now. I can say i haven't seen an increase in my battery usage while using the app. not sure what to suggest, have you tried to disable push notifications? settings/sync/google/uncheck sync google+ notifications. its set to unchecked as default.
I've noticed that Google+ is trying to instant upload all my photos for no apparent reason. They show up in G+ in Photos->Photos from your phone section, but I'd rather not have all my photos uploaded - eats out of my very limited (100mb) internet and lowers battery life. I'm not exactly sure if its only photos and videos either - need to look into it more.
Well....
I uninstalled G+ the other day to see if battery life would increase... And it did.
So I decided to do another test..
I reinstalled G+ last night, and after I took my phone off the charger this AM, I gave it a reboot. My phone's sitting at 72% right now with 8 hours of light usage... So I dunno what to say...
Maybe Google updated it? Maybe installing a different kernel helped me out? No clue...
How do you guys uninstal G+ the safest way?
Its not possible to remove without Roooting it says...
I recently received an Nvidia Shield and updated it right away to 4.4.2.
Today I noticed that overnight the Android OS was taking up a large portion of the battery life. The Shield's Android OS used 70% of the battery while my Nexus 4 usually only uses 12% or so.
I'm not sure if this is because it's a new install or going to be a persistent problem.
Has anyone found out why this is or have a solution to fix it?
I don't want to disable multitasking. I'm probably also not going to root the device anytime soon just in case this is a real problem and I need to RMA it. I have disabled Wi-Fi when the device sleeps.
Actually, now that I'm looking at the screenshots again, it seems the battery stats aren't reporting the other apps I was using. Maybe it all got combined into Android OS somehow? I checked my Shield again and the games and apps I was using are shown and the % of Android OS seems to be going down.
I hope this was a fluke, but it'll be a few more days before I know for sure.
It seems it might have just been a weird glitch in the way the battery stats was shown.
Today I checked my Shield and it only used 3% battery life overnight with Android OS only using 9%. All the other apps also stayed visible on the list of apps.
Last night I turned on "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" again since it's actually pretty annoying when I'm trying to download something on the Shield and it gets cancelled when it goes to sleep.
I had 30% battery life when I went to bed and the Android OS battery usage was a low 12%.
I woke up with the Shield having 30% battery life still, but the Android OS battery usage shot up from 12% to 45%.
I went out for 30min and came back and the Shield had 32% battery life.
I used it for a couple of minutes and battery life dropped to 25%.
I have no idea what the heck is going on with the battery stats. I'm probably going to see what happens tonight and if the Android OS starts to get really high again I'll then turn off "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" for a few nights to see if that's really what's causing it.
Outrager;541903Last night I turned on "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" again since it's actually pretty annoying when I'm trying to download something on the Shield and it gets cancelled when it goes to sleep.
I had 30% battery life when I went to bed and the Android OS battery usage was a low 12%.
I woke up with the Shield having 30% battery life still said:
No live wallpaper? Or gpu rendering in dev options?
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No live wallpaper? Or gpu rendering in dev options?
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Using the stock wallpaper. I think it's just an image.
Force GPU rendering is off. All the Dev options are default.
I'm interested to know if this ever gets resolved. I'm experiencing the same thing, just a tad more extreme. Android OS taking 95% battery. Been on the wallcharger more than a day, i wake it up and its at 45% charge. Stock, non-rooted, no Dev options enabled. I have a sneaking suspicion its related to Google Play services, but have no way of knowing.
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I'm interested to know if this ever gets resolved. I'm experiencing the same thing, just a tad more extreme. Android OS taking 95% battery. Been on the wallcharger more than a day, i wake it up and its at 45% charge. Stock, non-rooted, no Dev options enabled. I have a sneaking suspicion its related to Google Play services, but have no way of knowing.
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So after doing a factory reset and getting the same results I finally decided to just unlock my bootloader and root the Shield. I did contact my 3rd party insurance company first to make sure they would still cover any hardware faults if I did that.
Anyway, unlocking the bootloader meant a factory reset too. Well instead of Android OS taking up the majority % of the battery life it became Wi-Fi that was doing it.
I thought it might be the battery so I ran it down to 0% then while charging it back up I just said, "Screw it," and started fresh using the Recovery OS Image from the Nvidia site.
SO FAR, it seems to be much more normal in terms of the battery stats.
What's weird is Android OS and Android System have swapped positions compared to the way my Nexus 4 is.
It'll probably be another day or two when I use the Shield some more before I can make sure it's all better.
Update:
Nevermind.
Overnight Wi-Fi and Android OS shot to the top of the battery usage.
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So after doing a factory reset and getting the same results I finally decided to just unlock my bootloader and root the Shield. I did contact my 3rd party insurance company first to make sure they would still cover any hardware faults if I did that.
Anyway, unlocking the bootloader meant a factory reset too. Well instead of Android OS taking up the majority % of the battery life it became Wi-Fi that was doing it.
I thought it might be the battery so I ran it down to 0% then while charging it back up I just said, "Screw it," and started fresh using the Recovery OS Image from the Nvidia site.
SO FAR, it seems to be much more normal in terms of the battery stats.
What's weird is Android OS and Android System have swapped positions compared to the way my Nexus 4 is.
It'll probably be another day or two when I use the Shield some more before I can make sure it's all better.
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Nevermind.
Overnight Wi-Fi and Android OS shot to the top of the battery usage.
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Not more than a week and a half ago, I did a factory reset on my Shield, for reasons unrelated. I was running into problems where the thing would randomly reboot in the middle of playing games. I attributed it to issues related to moving games to SD.
After the reset, and re-install of everything it has been running rock solid, it's only past few days this battery drain started being an issue. Last night I went through and unchecked 'show notifications' for any and all downloaded games, not sure if that makes a difference really. The thing sat on the charger an entire night, and in the morning it was still only at 52% charge, Android OS still being the top offender.
I've turned location OFF, and set WIFI to off during sleep. Going to see how the battery looks after a few more hours. If I was more adventurous I'd root, and install a wakelock detector, but I'm just not that motivated. I'm hoping if I ignore it the problem will work itself out eventually. Not sure what to think, none of my other Android tablets or phone are experiencing this phenomenon.
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Not more than a week and a half ago, I did a factory reset on my Shield, for reasons unrelated. I was running into problems where the thing would randomly reboot in the middle of playing games. I attributed it to issues related to moving games to SD.
After the reset, and re-install of everything it has been running rock solid, it's only past few days this battery drain started being an issue. Last night I went through and unchecked 'show notifications' for any and all downloaded games, not sure if that makes a difference really. The thing sat on the charger an entire night, and in the morning it was still only at 52% charge, Android OS still being the top offender.
I've turned location OFF, and set WIFI to off during sleep. Going to see how the battery looks after a few more hours. If I was more adventurous I'd root, and install a wakelock detector, but I'm just not that motivated. I'm hoping if I ignore it the problem will work itself out eventually. Not sure what to think, none of my other Android tablets or phone are experiencing this phenomenon.
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Setting Wi-Fi to turn off during sleep does sort of help keep Wi-Fi battery usage down, but I just find it so inconvenient.
I just rooted and have BetterBatteryStats installed. The Kernel Wakelock category doesn't show anything for some reason and nothing unusual about the Partial Wakelocks.
The only unexplained thing is a Process called migration/0 that has been on for 15h 15m 6s even though the device only shows an uptime of 13h 1m 26s. A quick Google search says, "The migration kernel process distributes workload across CPU cores. You should have one migration process per processor core." so I guess it's normal?
Also, while typing this, my Android OS battery usage shot up to 80% and my Wi-Fi is now at 10% which is still higher than the Screen on usage of 7%.
I also just used ROM Toolbox Pro to freeze all the Nvidia system apps, like NVStats and TegraZone, to see if that will help at all.
I have this feeling that it is Android 4.4.2 that is causing the problems and I hope Nvidia at the very least updates to 4.4.4.
I've been reading some more articles and there are some that point to the external SD card being the culprit of the battery drain.
It seems to be that Media Scanner is trying to constantly scan the external SD card.
I'm not 100% sure if it is the cause because on my side I don't have the Mediaserver using any battery.
The next time I fully charge my Shield I might try removing the MicroSD card to see if that is causing it.
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I've been reading some more articles and there are some that point to the external SD card being the culprit of the battery drain.
It seems to be that Media Scanner is trying to constantly scan the external SD card.
I'm not 100% sure if it is the cause because on my side I don't have the Mediaserver using any battery.
The next time I fully charge my Shield I might try removing the MicroSD card to see if that is causing it.
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I'm not sure removing the SD card changed anything.
I did notice a process in BetterBatteryStats called migration/0 that is very high usage and I have no idea what it is for or how to stop it.
Okay, so I think I've found the cause of the high Android OS battery usage.
First my solution:
In the Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> (your account)
Leave Sync enabled, but ONLY check "App Data", "Chrome", and "Google Photos Auto Backup". Leave everything else un-checked.
Set Wi-Fi to turn off when the Shield goes to Sleep.
*I haven't bothered to test individual sync option, but those are just the 3 I left checked. You can try it yourself to see which one is the real culprit. My best guess is it is Calendar syncing that is causing the problems.
*Do not just disable Sync. I found that did not help at all. I don't know why.
*I don't know if it's my router or the Shield, but Wi-Fi also uses way too much battery when asleep. I can see that it is going into deep sleep too. Setting Wi-Fi to turn off when the Shield goes to sleep drastically lowers the Wi-Fi battery usage. Fun fact: The Wi-Fi stays on for 20 minutes after you turn off the screen before turning itself off.
After un-checking a bunch of the syncing options my Android OS battery usage went down to 20% for a 20 hour period compared to the 70% or so it was using the day before I did it.
The "migration/0" process no longer shows up at the very top in BetterBatteryStats. If it is showing up, it is <10sec of usage.
After 20 hours, with about 35min of 3D gaming and 40min screen on time, the Android OS battery usage was using 20% with 30m30s of CPU Total. I also spent about 10min transferring files using AirDroid then moving them to the SD card.
The battery life dropped from 100% -> 84% in those 20 hours. I think I would have had battery life closer to the Anandtech review if I was just doing 1 thing consecutively and not gaming then using the Wi-Fi to move files. I might try that one day, but most likely not.
I hope this helps for everyone having the same problem as me.
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Okay, so I think I've found the cause of the high Android OS battery usage.
First my solution:
In the Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> (your account)
Leave Sync enabled, but ONLY check "App Data", "Chrome", and "Google Photos Auto Backup". Leave everything else un-checked.
Set Wi-Fi to turn off when the Shield goes to Sleep.
*I haven't bothered to test individual sync option, but those are just the 3 I left checked. You can try it yourself to see which one is the real culprit. My best guess is it is Calendar syncing that is causing the problems.
*Do not just disable Sync. I found that did not help at all. I don't know why.
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Thanks for this pointer.
I was also facing significant CPU consumption by the real time kernel process migration/0 on my Googy-Max-1.7.9 kernel.
I turned off the calendar sync and this seems to have fixed the issue. Now I am only syncing App Data, Contacts, Gmail and the others [browser, Calendar, Chrome, Chrome Beta and People details] are off.
Related thread: http://superuser.com/questions/416779/linux-migration-n-high-cpu-consumption
Hey,
my battery life seems to vary, maybe wakelocks? I am not rooted so I can't check. Some days I get 7-8 hours sot, however today (a day at university with wifi connection) my battery life is terrible, mobile network standby and Android system seem to be battery hogs.
Does anyone else have this problem?
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I wanted to post the same thing... I haven't even installed all my apps on the new phone,
and I get terrible battery drain especially in standby, it's losing 20% overnight.
Then I factory reset it and it seems a little better now, but it's too unstable...
I was expecting better to be honest, and I only had it for less then a week...
How was your cell reception? Having bad reception has a big toll on battery performance, at least in my experience.
There have been reports of other users on battery drain with certain themes installed. What theme are running and could you compare with the default theme?
same here, not found the cause yet but tempted to do a full reset and start from scratch.
For wakelocks non root, download wakelock detector lite, you just enable it via a chrome app and usb debug, will have to do it when you restart the phone but thats not so often now days.
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How was your cell reception? Having bad reception has a big toll on battery performance, at least in my experience.
There have been reports of other users on battery drain with certain themes installed. What theme are running and could you compare with the default theme?
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In my house the reception is not very good, but that's why I set it to 2G and turn off mobile data, leave it only on Wifi.
Did not install any theme, default everything. But really, can a theme cause battery drain ?
Me too
The battery standby stability is not great is it?
I'm currently turning on "battery saver" when I am not using the phone - a slight pain, I know, but it does seem to have helped, a bit.
Will keep an eye on it and let you know (I am hoping to get away with charging the phone every two days rather than every day).
Will see if that proves possible - FWIW, for me, it seems that Ourlook and Bluemail are two key culprits. I have changed the settings on Bluemail from Push to Fetch every 15 mins, which has helped, but of course you cannot do this on Outlook. Well done Microsoft.
At this rate I'll end up using the "extreme" power saving mode
I know battery usage will never be consistent among different users, but the background drain is too much (based on what I see here and the other thread). If you can figure out your background drain you'll be sorted.
I know Dropbox had a bug that affected a lot of people recently, where it would keep the phone awake for hours at a time, they sorted it out in a BETA but not sure if its been pushed to stable yet.
I'd recommend everyone to download BetterBatteryStats, give it permissions via ADB and then use your phone normally until you reach 10% and see what is keeping the phone awake. My phone drains less than 1% an hour overnight (typically lose 4-5% over an 8-9 hour period.)
By the way, it is VERY common amongst the U11 and U11+ for mobile network standby to appear very high. It always does, even when I get 7-8 hours SOT, the mobile drain appears high. I think the battery stats are a bit bugged if I am honest. Sometimes it will say Spotify has been using battery in the background for 10 hours, yet it drains less than 1% and doesn't show up on battery historian. Other times it will say Nova is using 50% battery with 10 minutes screen usage (even though my phone has been running for 30+ hours). Doesn't always make sense.
My experience with battery drain is that I don't have any issues. As others have said, it will be different for different users depending on apps running in the background.
I have over 100 apps installed, some are running in the background, but I usually have 50% left most days. My battery drains really slowly. Couldn't be happier.
I think there is som bug with software
Hi there,
This is the problem I have with this HTC U11+ battery: if I don't reboot the phone after charging, kernel is always awakes
If you reboot your phone regularly you won't notice this.
I wonder if it is a common problem to U11+ and if HTC knows this.
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This is CPU
It has raisen to 100% during charging and never changed.
Seems more like a software issue.
I would try seeing what apps maybe like to wake up when charged (anything that backs up only when charging etc) or do a factory reset.
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Seems more like a software issue.
I would try seeing what apps maybe like to wake up when charged (anything that backs up only when charging etc) or do a factory reset.
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I did factory reset, wipe cache, everything... Unfortunately there are many people with this problem since the last software update, so I think it's something HTC related that must be fixed.
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I did factory reset, wipe cache, everything... Unfortunately there are many people with this problem since the last software update, so I think it's something HTC related that must be fixed.
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I don't recall many people saying the kernel is constantly awake?
Galactus said:
Seems more like a software issue.
I would try seeing what apps maybe like to wake up when charged (anything that backs up only when charging etc) or do a factory reset.
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I don't recall many people saying the kernel is constantly awake?
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Not here maybe but I'm Italian and I'm talking about an Italian forum where we are trying to understand what happens exactly.
By the way this is another thing I noticed
Of course any help would be appreciated. ?
Same here.
I have the China version U11+. After I upgraded to 1.24 via OTA, battery draining has become a serious problem, even in airplane mode.
I have solved it after I noticed the problem by doing a factory reset.
I have the European U11+ and I'm experiencing very fast battery draining after the latest OTA update too.
With me it's Google Play services causing the problem even in airplane mode and with extreme power saving on
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Same here.
I have the China version U11+. After I upgraded to 1.24 via OTA, battery draining has become a serious problem, even in airplane mode.
I have solved it after I noticed the problem by doing a factory reset.
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I have the European U11+ and I'm experiencing very fast battery draining after the latest OTA update too.
With me it's Google Play services causing the problem even in airplane mode and with extreme power saving on
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Disable background data and motion permission and if you are rooted install magisk module dose on google play service
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I have the European U11+ and I'm experiencing very fast battery draining after the latest OTA update too.
With me it's Google Play services causing the problem even in airplane mode and with extreme power saving on
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I don't think it's play services' problem… Because the maximum battery consumption is caused by the EPS.
Maybe it's a bug made by HTC. They may change some files after the update, but forget to deal with the case of these files have been generated. So my problem was solved after factory resetting.
I use Google apps too, they don't cause battery draining if everything goes well.
I reached out to HTC as I noticed an absolutely huge decrease in battery life. I was asked to calibrate the battery and that seems to have stopped the issues at the moment. Email I received had the following instructions:
Recalibrate the battery/charging logic with the following steps:
•Charge the device for at least 10 minutes
•With the device truly OFF while still being plugged into the wall outlet, push in and hold volume up and volume down AND power button, for 2 minutes.
•Let go. Device will boot up, and battery/charging logic are re-calibrated.
I tried that and then reset it and I've been getting about a day since then. It's definitely linked to the last software update despite what they'll try and say.
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Same here.
I have the China version U11+. After I upgraded to 1.24 via OTA, battery draining has become a serious problem, even in airplane mode.
I have solved it after I noticed the problem by doing a factory reset.
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I have the European U11+ and I'm experiencing very fast battery draining after the latest OTA update too.
With me it's Google Play services causing the problem even in airplane mode and with extreme power saving on
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Disable background data and motion permission and if you are rooted install magisk module dose on google play service
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I don't think it's play services' problem… Because the maximum battery consumption is caused by the EPS.
Maybe it's a bug made by HTC. They may change some files after the update, but forget to deal with the case of these files have been generated. So my problem was solved after factory resetting.
I use Google apps too, they don't cause battery draining if everything goes well.
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I have to agree that something is happening with the software, and moreover, since last week the drain became really noticeable.
I was losing around 15% by night, so what I did to fix it was the following:
Clear cache of Sense Home
Disable the apps I was not using; for me those were:
Weather
HTC Account
Device configuration
Google Documents (didn't let me uninstall, but Sheets and Presentation let me)
Duo
Zoe Video Editor
Facebook
Facebook App Manager
HTC Alexa
HTC AppCloud
HTC Sense Companion
Instagram
Messenger
News Republic
VR Google Services
TouchPal
Clear cache from recovery
After doing this, the drain was gone and I was getting 2%-3% drain overnight again, and so far, is behaving properly now.
Maybe you guys can try.
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I have to agree that something is happening with the software, and moreover, since last week the drain became really noticeable.
I was losing around 15% by night, so what I did to fix it was the following:
Clear cache of Sense Home
Disable the apps I was not using; for me those were:
Weather
HTC Account
Device configuration
Google Documents (didn't let me uninstall, but Sheets and Presentation let me)
Duo
Zoe Video Editor
Facebook
Facebook App Manager
HTC Alexa
HTC AppCloud
HTC Sense Companion
Instagram
Messenger
News Republic
VR Google Services
TouchPal
Clear cache from recovery
After doing this, the drain was gone and I was getting 2%-3% drain overnight again, and so far, is behaving properly now.
Maybe you guys can try.
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I've ended up doing something similar- starting in safe mode I found that I wasn't getting the same drastic battery drain so I removed/disabled some apps, including HTC Weather and Touchpal, same as you. Now battery life seems much better and Google Play Services isn't causing a problem. I'm cautiously optimistic....:good:
Hi All--
I've been on the Android P Beta for a while.
However, starting with the final beta that was released (and now on the final version of pie) I've been experiencing really quick battery drain.
Tried a total wipe and restore, and the same thing. My wife (also the pixel) isn't having those issues at all.
Thoughts?
(nothing shows up in the battery section)
Yes, I had great battery life. Then once Android Pie was released, jumped on the beta to get 9 sooner. Then got the upgrade from beta to final and battery life is horrible. I did not factory reset, I have battery saver on and it doesn'tseem to matter. If I leave on standby, no issues. If I use the phone, it can bleed as much as 10% per hour! Unacceptable. I may try factory resetting, but idk...
have you allocated sufficient time for app battery optimization?
I also have a pixel, Android 9.0/Pie (bought it brand new three days ago) and think battery is draining very (!) quick.
Yesterday I had roughly 2.5 SOT (with battery saver enabled) and this seems consistent with what I can expect typically. I did factory reset and have tried restricting "background activity" for my frequent apps - seems to make no difference. Obviously it had not time to do full battery optimization yet I guess, but I doubt it would mean a that big difference?
Saw a thread where someone mentioned it seems CPU-freq is high/inc. very rapidly when just tapping the screen (GPU-0%), and I can agree with that although I have not the prev. experience of what to expect.
My previous experience is with Xiaomi mi6/mi5 (lineage 15.1), similar usage would give 2x or 3x SOT (however with some other hw-issues.. ).
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I also have a pixel, Android 9.0/Pie (bought it brand new three days ago) and think battery is draining very (!) quick.
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Reinstall factory image & see if that helps.
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Reinstall factory image & see if that helps.
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Flashed factory image without -w/"wipe". Will that do or should it be "full" factory reset to make sense?
Thank you for your information, I will stay on Oreo.
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Flashed factory image without -w/"wipe". Will that do or should it be "full" factory reset to make sense?
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I don't think it would make a difference. The user data is on a different partition.
You could try flashing the image again, without Magisk or any other additions.
I had used up 50% with only 21 minutes screen on time.
I noticed the app Device Health Services, was constantly active in the background.
I had the same like the OP: everything was fine until the last beta came, and battery is draining faster, phone gets hot from even the smallest usage even in the prod release of android pie.
I was thinking it has something to do with being about 36 degrees (summer time....), but it is the same even in cooler temperature rooms. It's like if the phone is constantly doing something in the background, but only if I use it.
It has been a few days since I upgraded my Pixel 2. Battery life is noticably worse, maybe 20-30% more battery drain in a day than what I saw in Oreo.
I notice the issue as well. I did factory reset after update it's been a week. I was on beta and started noticing battery issues in the first beta and throughout. I decided to install Accubattery to track my battery usage and ended up with a result.
My phone states the battery is in good condition but this app says otherwise. I guess it's time to change the battery along with cracked screen!
i'm curious if my battery is shot as well... Seems like after I purchased my used Pixel.. the battery is not as lasting as I hoped for the smaller pixel phone... I may try one of those battery testing apps to see if it will tell me its current health..
I normally welcome up updates, but this update screwed up my battery life so bad. I mean everything was perfect until the update. Now the battery drains so fast I can watch the percentage count down like a timer and now when the battery gets anywhere from 15-40% the phone will just shut down.
I would like to go back to oreo, but it's such a pain in the ass having to back everything up and flash a ROM considering I haven't done that since before I bought the pixel
I have the same problem. I hope Google can fix it.
Wow, that is not normal. Stock android 9 with root and elemental kernel.... I go back to android 8.1.0 and wait for feature releases
I think I found an Draining App/Setting
I disable the RCS Service on my Phone. It can be found under Messages >> 3 dot Menu >> Settings >> broadcast News. Disable it.
And then Bluetooth and WiFi scan disable.
Same here, crazy idle drain after pie, only 50% deep sleep, tried factory reset and no luck
Try BetterBatteryStats. People in that thread spend their free time analyzing logs to tell you what's eating up all your battery life.
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I had used up 50% with only 21 minutes screen on time.
I noticed the app Device Health Services, was constantly active in the background.
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Same problem :crying::crying:
Hey people,
Recently installed Android Pie and noticed that battery drain in background has increased.
Anyone else having this situation with the new system?
You are not the only one...I'm trying to figure it out as well...I know on the second beta I had the battery life of the gods. I went 3 days without charging my phone and still had 40% left but after that beta it was all down hill...have you noticed Google play services consuming more battery?
Sometimes. But most of the time play services wasn't that much of a drainer. The worst part is that the "full device usage" has been useless ever since the official release. And I keep all of my apps restricted not to operate in the background.
I have tried going back to Oreo and then installing the update from there. Let's see how it goes from there
BakedTator said:
You are not the only one...I'm trying to figure it out as well...I know on the second beta I had the battery life of the gods. I went 3 days without charging my phone and still had 40% left but after that beta it was all down hill...have you noticed Google play services consuming more battery?
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I've had Google play services go crazy from time to time on Pie. Finally installed greenify and have greenified as much as possible. Will see what happens. Though I've notice play services really eating up battery in airplane mode.
Also, I think the play store is triggering play services issues. Will see in a day or two.
I've noticed an increase. Lost about 10% last night which is more than I used to. hoping that now pie is final that essential can make optimisations and additions specific to ph-1 that will help.
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No problems for me, I'm seeing around 5 sot.
I do d do a full reset though.
I had horrible drain right away. Checked BBS/Gsam and it was clearly GP services and the play store. Just did a stop/clear cache/clear data on both and yesterday I got 8hr SOT.
ridobe said:
I had horrible drain right away. Checked BBS/Gsam and it was clearly GP services and the play store. Just did a stop/clear cache/clear data on both and yesterday I got 8hr SOT.
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I've done this several times on 9.0, only to have GP services suddenly eat the battery a couple days later. Installed greenify and seen that the play store keeps restarting and the Google app was always working. So to test i disabled them. Will see what comes.
I hope yours behaves!
From the looks of it greenify has been helpful. I resisted on using it because for some reason it made my phone touch-vibrate even with battery saver on. But let's try it again and see how it goes
It takes a few days to settle down.
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Hi I had an issue too. XD
Before pie I used to use 7h but now only 5h30
I found problem. It was intelligence battery maneger
I turned off after that okey.
Go settings -) bettery -) bettery manager -) turn off manage apps automatically
Hi my battery is dying fast since 9.0. I think i had about 2mins SOT since last charge and it was about 60%. I too noticed Google App running constantly so I disabled it. Battery is still loosing charge quickly.
If it is the battery optimizer it may day a few days to settle down. I will report back any findings.
On a side note, I installed OTA, then did a full wipe.
If all else fails, factory reset the thing.
I did a fresh install. Noticed overnight 7-8hrs of off time on the screen, it is using about 10-12 percent. Normally 4-5 percent it would use. Running custom elemental kernel as well. Not cool.
Disabling the Google app and or Google play store caused Google play services to eat even more battery.
Now my current test is to enable all Google bloatware. If you notice Google is tying in all there stuff together especially with assistant. My current guess is, because of this if you have certain Google products disabled etc... It causes a circle and constant attempt by one or more apps to accomplish something that's disable.
I'm sure the Googlers don't disable all the Google stuff we do.....
These are my current stats. I turned on battery saver at 15%.
johnny8910 said:
No problems for me, I'm seeing around 5 sot.
I do d do a full reset though.
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That is nothing tho...I was getting over 8hrs SOT with 8.1. Now I am only getting 4-5 on 9.0.
Heh I am getting between 8 and 12 hrs sot per charge uptine between 15 and 24 hrs the lower numbers are when exclusively on the cell network with no wifi. This is about 1 to 2 hours better than 8.1
I flashed on release. This was what I have gotten so far. Bare minimum use. It does drain fast when in use, but idle is semi decent.
Check out WiFi Calling, I think it's turned on by default. I turned it off and my phone has been pretty good today. Too early to tell if it's better then Oreo, but much be then yesterday.