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Battery killer

Something is killing this battery some kind of fierce.
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redishbrown said:
Something is killing this battery some kind of fierce.
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[sarcasm]Whoah...slow down, man...the amount of information you're throwing at us is a bit overwhelming...give us time to catch up on all of this!!!![/sarcasm]

do a fresh wipe and freeze bloatware, you will see a difference, i get 17hrs plus on my phone.

id say my battery is tough!
can last me all day and maybe enough for the next.
moderate use - lots of texting, phone calls, internet use, and some apps.

*sigh*
What rom?
What kernel?
How long of a life do you get?
Post your battery usage statistics. Settings-About Phone-Battery Use will tell you what's been using it since last charge, the app Spare Parts will tell you overall usage.
We can't help you if you don't give us any useful information.

LordButtersI said:
*sigh*
What rom?
What kernel?
How long of a life do you get?
Post your battery usage statistics. Settings-About Phone-Battery Use will tell you what's been using it since last charge, the app Spare Parts will tell you overall usage.
We can't help you if you don't give us any useful information.
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why even bother dude? best way to learn is to solve your own problems, trial and error...

Thanks for all the feedback sarcasim and all. I've never had a battery issue before I installed the recent apk of the new android market. That is my only guess.
Is there a way to revert back and wait for the official update from the market? (I'm still new to android so I'm feeling my way around)
I am running stock rooted. Nothing special on this end.
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I pulled the SIM outta my G2x last week after my N1 came back from the dead.
With the G2x just sitting there without a SIM, being used occasionally for Riptide or Pinball HD and some web browsing/email while watching the tube I get a solid 3 days of battery life. I forget the stupid thing is even on until the alarm goes off every morning at 6:45.
Just don't use the phone part of your $500 phone and it will work great!

solution
it was the downloaded apk for the market. i did a complete reset so this should fix my issue.

Google now?

I'm curious to know how many people are using Google now on their nexus s. I find it to be a huge battery drain so always turn it off. Do other users feel the same?
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Jamalsid said:
I'm curious to know how many people are using Google now on their nexus s. I find it to be a huge battery drain so always turn it off. Do other users feel the same?
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I use it regularly since the start, I have no noticeable battery drain.

I use it and don't mind it, I get around 2 days of battery with moderate use and some calls. Wi-fi is always on, localization services are always on, mobile data (3G) is always off. It lasts me more than one day even if I keep using the phone so I'm fine with it.
I would say it 'eats' 10 to 50% more battery per charge depending on usage. If you have it mostly in standby you are more likely to notice the battery hit. If you keep using the phone for one thing or another, it won't make much difference.
With 4.2.1 it seems to hold pretty well while being very snappy. The official 4.1.2 follows the same trend (lasting around 2 days with the same use), but I really liked how fast it got with Air Kernel. I usually have around 200 MB free.
I'm currently using Rasbeanjelly (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028718) with Air Kernel #270 (CM,Voodoo Colors http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1469842) and noop+SmartAssV2 setup. So far battery seems to hold up fine through the day. The only real downside I got from this was the occasional sleep of death (while using the phone, very weird, I would report it to the maintainer but I can't as I'm new around here), a FC when accessing Chrome settings (seems to be related with google sync feature) and the less stellar performance when changing orientation (same kernel and official 4.1.2 ROM doesn't have the issue).
Although it is handy sometimes, I think the worst aspect is the 'nagging' that Google Now has. Last time I got a "WTF" expression was with it saying that I walked 40Km that month more 20 than the last month, a nice feature, but completely unexpected, I would like to have a proper access to that kind of cards and the information that they provide... If you search weather it won't give you the same weather card shown automatically by it (at least for me).... one of these says it will be ready to take over the world...

G next should do you pretty well
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Never used it so far.
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I find it useless. I have my weather app, and I have my lottery app. Hockey has been cancelled, so I have no scores to keep checking. What would I use it for? Random google search? Meh.

I hate every time I accidentally hit the search button.
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I use Google Now because I'm fascinated by the creepiness of it. I like that when I'm at work, it tells me how long it will take me to get home if I leave now. I was confused when one Saturday at 11:45 am it was giving me the locations of nearby restaurants, then my wife said it's probably because it's almost lunch time. Google Now knows what I want before I do!
I haven't tried turning it off to save battery life yet, but I unplug from the charger at 6:30 am and plug in at midnight no problem.
I hate every time I accidentally hit the search button.
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I just disabled the search key in CM10. Check if your ROM has the option?

Kolero said:
I use Google Now because I'm fascinated by the creepiness of it. I like that when I'm at work, it tells me how long it will take me to get home if I leave now. I was confused when one Saturday at 11:45 am it was giving me the locations of nearby restaurants, then my wife said it's probably because it's almost lunch time. Google Now knows what I want before I do!
I haven't tried turning it off to save battery life yet, but I unplug from the charger at 6:30 am and plug in at midnight no problem.
I just disabled the search key in CM10. Check if your ROM has the option?
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thank God, I always hated that.
google now / voice search is miserable on the nexus s.

I've been using it since I got it and I like it. No noticeable battery drain as far as I'm concerned. Never used the search key in-app, so I don't miss it.
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....I use it every day-it works fine for me since I put system-language to us-english. As I am in Germany it was not so rich on info in my home- language settings.
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I use it every day because it is fantastic! I can get lots of information from it. I love it.

Ok. So I had previously disabled Google Now because it drained so much battery. But I was wanting to use it since the updates keep getting better so here's what I did to where it isn't destroying battery anymore.
I have Latitude and location updating turned off in Maps, but found out enabling Google Now turned location updating back on. So once you have Now enabled, go into Maps and uncheck where it says "Update my location from this device". It still works fine because I have location reporting (or something like that) turned on in Google sync in Settings. It still uses wifi and/or the towers to update your cards, but Maps isn't taking chunks out of the battery anymore.
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zebarnabe said:
With 4.2.1 it seems to hold pretty well while being very snappy. The official 4.1.2 follows the same trend (lasting around 2 days with the same use), but I really liked how fast it got with Air Kernel. I usually have around 200 MB free.
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I'd like to know how the heck you have around 200mb free and still have a functioning system... At most I can get is around 170mb free... But at that, the phone becomes unstable because I had to shut off some system apps...
I'm using Matr1x now... But was using Air for a long while before switching... I'm also on the same ROM but for crespo4g
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Google services uses a lot of battery

Hello
I've been having thoughts about my battery stats on my i9505. I can pretty much go through the day but sometimes a full charge is just not enough. I usually get 1:30 to 2 hours of screen time, and have about 20-30% battery left.
Here's what I'm wondering: why does google services use this much battery?
I'm running stock rom with Chainfire's cf auto root.
Here's some statistics.
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I've had this issue in the past. Your going to have to do a factory reset my friend. That should resolve it.

try tunrning off google network location service, sometimes it helps
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Location services have been on for long and new firmware was flashed, with factory reset not 2 weeks ago... anyway , it's all right, i was just curious if I'm the only one with this...
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Your definitely not the only one. The only way I could fix mine was factory reset.
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I had the same problem with GE ROM, and after I put Location Services Off and then On again, the problem went away. I have Google now active.

Location service is the culprit. I had same issue on my S4. But I turned it off permanently and now I have nice battery life.
You can keep GPS on but turn off "Use wireless networks" option. Also make sure you have latest Play Store and Google Play Services installed on your phone.

try disabling the samsung push notification thingy... i suddenly started getting horrible battery life, and disabled this little guy yesterday... After 10 hrs of normal usage so far today, i still have 75% juice left

2dorr said:
I had the same problem with GE ROM, and after I put Location Services Off and then On again, the problem went away. I have Google now active.
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You have google now on and google services doesn't drain most of your battery? That's odd because i disabled and re enabled google now(and location services with it) some times and same battery drain every time ... did you have data and sync constantly on?

AvelonTs said:
You have google now on and google services doesn't drain most of your battery? That's odd because i disabled and re enabled google now(and location services with it) some times and same battery drain every time ... did you have data and sync constantly on?
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Yes I have data always on and all the syncs.

2dorr said:
Yes I have data always on and all the syncs.
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So you either using the phone extensively through the day which results to other things using up more battery ... or am i having a problematic phone? Or there is a magic setting that has to be made?
My average screen time is about 2-2,5 hours and that gets me easily 2-2 and half days of battery ... with same usage and google now on that's halved ... i m getting literally half the battery life with google now doing its thing ... without altering anything else on the phone ... just on and off google now ... which i ve been testing for a couple days ...

Yeah I don't see a daily benefit in phone knowing network location until I want a certain app to access my location. Try greenifying Network Location and any other wake lock apps that are NOT widgets or apps that u require notifications from (I greenified Google maps, play store and Google services). You will need greenify donate though (well worth it).
I got my standby battery almost flat instead of steady decline and can get an extra 10-20 hours of standby time.

Download betterybatterystats and find the culprits on your battery drain
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I had the same problem, I fixed When i disabled location services in location menu and uncheck all in google account except Gmail
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That's not really a fix though. That's a workaround. I've gotten it completely fixed by doing a factory reset but I haven't gotten it fixed any other way.

agent929 said:
That's not really a fix though. That's a workaround. I've gotten it completely fixed by doing a factory reset but I haven't gotten it fixed any other way.
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So you re implying that google services gets for some random reason bugged?

Just got my galaxy s4 a few days ago. Had the same problem so I decided to restore the firmware using kies. Now the google services takes very little battery.

ash_c64 said:
Just got my galaxy s4 a few days ago. Had the same problem so I decided to restore the firmware using kies. Now the google services takes very little battery.
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That's what I've said before in this post to correct it, but I feel some may not believe me.
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So you re implying that google services gets for some random reason bugged?
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Sorta, in a nutshell. I do believe it's a bad installation of the ROM that's causing the issue. If you're on a custom ROM that requires a gapps package the I would think reflashing the gapps package would do the trick to fix it but I can't promise that.

Don't have 10 posts, but I uploaded a screenshot to imgur, just add /GW1UrDo.
Obviously the issue is google services. What's strange is that it doesn't do this all the time, just once every few weeks...

Omlas said:
Hello
I've been having thoughts about my battery stats on my i9505. I can pretty much go through the day but sometimes a full charge is just not enough. I usually get 1:30 to 2 hours of screen time, and have about 20-30% battery left.
Here's what I'm wondering: why does google services use this much battery?
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I had the same problem.
Try to go to Settings--->Account--->Google and uncheck "App data" and "People details"
It worked for me.

Exchange Services uses 30% of battery in Kit Kat

Is it just me or is exchange services hogging the battery in Kit Kat it says in my battery usage that its used 30% of the battery power.?! This was never like this in jelly bean..? Please someone correct me if I'm wrong but is this actually the case.?
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maconsultant said:
Is it just me or is exchange services hogging the battery in Kit Kat it says in my battery usage that its used 30% of the battery power.?! This was never like this in jelly bean..? Please someone correct me if I'm wrong but is this actually the case.?
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it's been reported in the google product forums. Some are reporting battery drain, some having problems connecting to their exchange servers( authentication fails). Other (me included on this) Exchange connects, but push mail is erratic. Also, items read on the phone do not get marked read on the server.
In the mean time, I am using touchdown from the play store (30 day trial) hoping that google will get it sorted. Using touchdown, the battery drain is gone, and push mail works flawlessly...
Frankly, it's the only thing that is bugging me on this phone. I shouldn't have to go to a third party for a solution....
Mark

Agreed thanks for the word I thought I was crazy.. I'll try touchdown.. I have 3 exchange accounts so my phone never really gets a rest the way it is now. I hope they fix this asap.
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That's discouraging. I have push disabled with 1 hour sync for now
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Set mine up this am and its showing only 6%. And that includes the initial full downloads.
I really like the new look....matches the look and feel and functionality of my gmail.
One thing I hate though... I wish it would auto download attachments.
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maconsultant said:
Is it just me or is exchange services hogging the battery in Kit Kat it says in my battery usage that its used 30% of the battery power.?! This was never like this in jelly bean..? Please someone correct me if I'm wrong but is this actually the case.?
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Actually, I switched to Touchdown on my Nexus 4 running Jelly Bean 4.3 because Exchange Services absolutely killed my battery. Tried everything I could find to fix it, and never could. And from the searches I did at the time I wasn't alone.
So far, Exchange Services is behaving on my Nexus 5, but I'm concerned to see that the problem could come back.

Funny i disabled the contacts portion of the exchange sync on 3 of my 4 exchange accounts and i DO NOT see this big battery hit anymore. must have been a glitch, i will be watching it closely now..

I use touchdown. No issues with battery.
Plus it keeps your email encrypted which is kind of important for most companies.

akenis said:
Set mine up this am and its showing only 6%. And that includes the initial full downloads.
I really like the new look....matches the look and feel and functionality of my gmail.
One thing I hate though... I wish it would auto download attachments.
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I did have a quick 30% run on my battery the other day where email/exchange took about 15%. I have a weird routine of turning airplane mode on and off due to my job. Something got stuck on...
Still got great battery that day. On a normal day I'm seeing 5 hr screen on....wow compared to a rare 3hr day on the Note with 3200 Mahr Anker.
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akenis said:
I did have a quick 30% run on my battery the other day where email/exchange took about 15%. I have a weird routine of turning airplane mode on and off due to my job. Something got stuck on...
Still got great battery that day. On a normal day I'm seeing 5 hr screen on....wow compared to a rare 3hr day on the Note with 3200 Mahr Anker.
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Your exchange account is set to push, right?
Go to settings > corporate
Its flicking between syncing and last updated, right? I think its syncing every other second, which is whats draining the battery. I just turned off the sync for that until they release a fix

Ditto for battery drain issues. I hadn't noticed it as much until today where after 3 hours my battery had dropped 40% and I wasn't even using it. Checked and it was due to exchange services.
I wont go with a third party solution so hopefully this gets fixed soon.

I haven't had any issues with enhanced email either

Mate 9 : overheating and battery drain on 1st day

Good evening
I Buy the phone 2 days ago on Amazon USA - yesterday arrived at night and has been an absolute disaster.
1. It overheats on the back side - top right
2. The battery does NOT last for 2 days. Today on its first day of actual use disconnect it at 6am and it's 1.26pm at 10% battery life
3. The LEICA camera is ... basic and normal nothing surprising in the quality of photos
3. 30 mins ago I asked Amazon today, to replace it with a new one, I hope it is a hardware problem and that it is not a global problem in the device s
4. Huawei my first experience with the Brand has been Fatal a real #EPICFAIL
5. I will continue to tell you my experience ... I hope I can say something good
Any Advice ? Any tweaks? To get a 2 day battery and superb performance as they promised!

Day 3 for me and I had serious battery drain issues today. I was constantly notified of the power hogging apps, something I never experienced the previous 2 days. Not sure what happened but I was extremely happy the first 2 days.
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I can't comment on the US edition, but with international versions, sometimes doing a factory reset helps a lot.

Anyone have a little yellowish darkness at the bottom of the screen? That's my only beef. My god this thing charges fast.

Yeah I have the international version but the included Facebook app(3 total) were killing my battery.
No issues after that and disabling wifi scan in location settings. Getting a solid 7hrs of sot. Was almost 10hrs sot before I updated to newer firmware but I couldn't deal with the number notification thingy.
Like any phone I don't expect perfect without some tweaks.

intruda119 said:
Yeah I have the international version but the included Facebook app(3 total) were killing my battery.
No issues after that and disabling wifi scan in location settings. Getting a solid 7hrs of sot. Was almost 10hrs sot before I updated to newer firmware but I couldn't deal with the number notification thingy.
Like any phone I don't expect perfect without some tweaks.
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Let's hope a new update comes out soon to get us the 10 hours again.

duraaraa said:
Let's hope a new update comes out soon to get us the 10 hours again.
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But it is supposed to have a 2 day battery . Why expect only 10h

HectorL_U_co said:
But it is supposed to have a 2 day battery . Why expect only 10h
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He was talking about SOT not standby time.

HectorL_U_co said:
But it is supposed to have a 2 day battery . Why expect only 10h
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You need to sell your phone immediately

intruda119 said:
You need to sell your phone immediately
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lol wut?
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Governa said:
lol wut?
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I got a good feeling he wasnt being sarcastic about the 2 day battery life.
If he wasnt, thats the reason im no dev.

victorlht88 said:
The Facebook and messenger app have been reported to cause overheating and battery drainage.
Do try to uninstall them and see if it fixes the problem. Had a similar problem on my phone and deleted both of these junks after monitoring what's causing it
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Yep. This has hit Reddit: "Is there something mysterious about FB Messenger using a ton of background data lately?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapp...here_something_mysterious_about_fb_messenger/
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Did you insert a MicroSD on the phone ?

Just goto app settings and activate 'close when sleep' option for all the suspected app. Its like an inbuilt version of Greenify app

HectorL_U_co said:
Good evening
I Buy the phone 2 days ago on Amazon USA - yesterday arrived at night and has been an absolute disaster.
1. It overheats on the back side - top right
2. The battery does NOT last for 2 days. Today on its first day of actual use disconnect it at 6am and it's 1.26pm at 10% battery life
3. The LEICA camera is ... basic and normal nothing surprising in the quality of photos
3. 30 mins ago I asked Amazon today, to replace it with a new one, I hope it is a hardware problem and that it is not a global problem in the device s
4. Huawei my first experience with the Brand has been Fatal a real #EPICFAIL
5. I will continue to tell you my experience ... I hope I can say something good
Any Advice ? Any tweaks? To get a 2 day battery and superb performance as they promised!
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Everytime your phone gets hot ( and it's the same for all brands) you should turn off your phone and then back on. An app is keeping your processor at 100%. Two days ago I had the same problem with facebook and messenger.
The camera it's on top of all available phones. I have the latest firmware available and it's capable of very very good results, even better then S7/edge.
All the android phones, at first use are scanning all the files. It's ususal that first charge or two to last less.
Huawei has this prompt for apps runnng in backgroud. It's annoying but at least we know witch apps are more power hungry.
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No overheating at all. My Note 4 often got a little warm/hot, but this phone is just cold most of the time. I use it with dual sim, work and private, lot of sync actions, working fine. No Facebook or FB Messenger
The power consumption warning can be turned off for apps that you trust.

Uninstall Facebook and Messenger
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This phone has the best battery life and SOT of any Android or iPhone that I've used. The control over individual apps is great.
And the camera is pretty damn good too.
Sounds like the OP has been sent a dud.

RR-99 said:
Sounds like the OP has been sent a dud.
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Nah I bet it's just a rogue app. Also he seems to be confusing SOT with standby time.
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intruda119 said:
You need to sell your phone immediately
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Cleverness ALERT