When I first got my phone it would last all day without any issues at all. Today I unplugged it at 7am and with very very little use it was dead by noon. A few phone calls, maybe 5 text messages and thats about it. No facebook, no email, no video.........
When I go into the "Battery" section it says that "Android System" is using 80% (next most used is "standby" at 7%), when I touch the bar graph it shows that the Wi-Fi and Awake are both solid blue, does this mean these are the main culprit?
I have rooted my phone, but didn't flash anything. After rooting I installed AdFree and ran it. I disabled quite a few bloatware apps as well. I've noticed that the last 3 days it really started dying fast, so I uninstalled my most recent apps, but that didn't help.
My GS3 does have the problem where it's constantly switching between 3G/4G and Wi-Fi, many times per minute. I've done the *#0011# and switched wifi power saving mode OFF, but yesterday that didn't seem to help at all. I know it resets after each reboot and I'm sure it was OFF yesterday.
What else can I do without flashing a custom rom?
I guess it just takes a post in the help section to figure it out yourself......well almost.
My screen isn't shutting off! If I get a txt and don't check my phone, the screen stays on until I manually turn it off. If I hit the home button and just sit the phone down, the screen will not shut off.
I've gone into the "Display" settings section and made sure a timeout time was selected and it is. I've changed it from 30 to 15 and that doesn't matter. I've unchecked the smartstay option and that didn't help either. If I manually turn it off, then it's fine until something wakes it up.
WHY WON'T MY SCREEN SHUT OFF???
I just pulled out the battery for 15 seconds and it's working fine now, but I would like to see if I can figure out why it does so next time I can fix it.
Get betterbatterystats from the play store. It will give a breakdown of what process is causing the partial wake lock
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Are you using the stock charger or another brand? Some aftermarket ones WILL cause the screen to stay on until it's cycled on and off a couple of times. Also check that it's not your actual router, my net gear router seams to "pulse" at times causing the wifi to continually go on and off on my phone. Had to reset my routers settings to fix. Keeping your wifi toggle on should not use that much juice, unlike older phones where it would continuously search and kill the battery.
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So today the battery died before 11:00AM again (unplugged at 6:30AM) I showered and began eating breakfast and noticed that it was down to 89% wihout ANY use, this time the screen was not stuck on. I downloaded a free battery monitoring app called GSam Battery.
It's telling me that my Android System used 85.2% of the battery. This program allows me to touch "Android System" and it gives me more information, which I don't fully understand. I took one screenshot, scrolled down and took another.
Please help!
Anyone?
Jarredw said:
Get betterbatterystats from the play store. It will give a breakdown of what process is causing the partial wake lock
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Try this...
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I see you're using a Task Killer. Do not use task killers. They will cause instabilities and problems with the phone. Android will handle memory on its own. Uninstall the task killer and see if anything improves.
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I noticed this recently so I'm guessing it might be related to an app but now my Android System keeps the Xoom awake always even with the screen off. Anybody else with the same problem? If so what apps do you have installed? Maybe we can find the common one amongst us that is causing this. Luckily the battery is so good that this isn't a huge issue but I want to fix it.
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Having the same issue. Wifi only model, I had wifi off for my 1hr commute to work, and it was awake the entire time.
k0smo86 said:
Having the same issue. Wifi only model, I had wifi off for my 1hr commute to work, and it was awake the entire time.
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It's definitely an app or something because I know in the past it hasn't done that at all. Can you list what apps you're using? Or if yours is new enough maybe do a factory reset and see if that fixes the problem?
Either way it's definitely software not hardware.
P.S. I have a Verizon XOOM.
What do you guys mean by the xoom staying awake? the screen not turning off or the android system not going into a sleep/standby mode.
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What do you guys mean by the xoom staying awake? the screen not turning off or the android system not going into a sleep/standby mode.
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If you go into Settings -> About -> Battery and you click on Android System it will say how long it's been awake. Mine currently has an awake time that equals the total time the Xoom is off the battery - i.e. it never is not awake. The screen turns off fine and the battery usage is low but not as low as if the Xoom was sleeping. When it's sleeping it goes into a lower power state but since Android System is keeping the XOOM awake it can't do that. Other than reduced battery there is no other problem with it though.
Under "Included Packages" for Android System in battery usage the following is listed:
PGM System
Settings
Google Backup Transport
Android System
Settings Storage
System UI
Motorola Location Proxy Service
In the main battery usage list nothing is above 3% usage. 5h 31m on, awake for 5h 11m.
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I am long time fan and user of "Screebl Pro" By Key Labs. It takes into account the screens orientation and keeps your device (Tablet or Smartphone) backlit. Its great.
I did a factory reset. The problem seems to be about 99% better. There is still awake time under Android System, but it's verrrrry minimal and not even close to the amount of time the display or system has been on. Leaving the Xoom idle for a while to check once again.
I was sort of dreading that. Please check often after you install apps so we can see if there's a particular app that's causing that.
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No apps are over 1-2% after being on for 4 hours. 4 min of awake time under Android System. Looks like the issue is solved.
It turned out being Weatherbug. I uninstslled and reinstalled and I'm back to being able to sleep.
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After much testing it turned out to actually be having more than one CNN stack on my homescreen. Don't ask me why this causes this problem but it does. Weatherbug seems to be ok. I hope we get Android updates soon to address these bugs.
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No apps are over 1-2% after being on for 4 hours. 4 min of awake time under Android System. Looks like the issue is solved.
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It's resolved, but not really solved. If anyone notices an underlying application or setting causing this, please be a dear and update this thread?
I just noticed this today. 100% wake time even with long stretches of the screen off. Happened before installing weathebug. I do have 1 CNN stack on my home screen gonna remove it and test.
Very perplexing. You will see much better battery life if the system actually sleeps lol.
Edit: Yep looks like it was the CNN widget. Took it off the home screen and the Xoom started sleeping. Weird.
I FOUND IT! Listen up folks there is a bug in the latest CNN app that was released recently.
When you have 1 or more CNN widgets and you click on a story VIA the widget it launches a service called BangoAnalyticsService or something and THIS is keeping the XOOM awake. Very easy to test, if you go into Applications -> Running Services -> CNN and terminate just the Bango service you will see the XOOM sleep immediately.
Good news is that you can launch stories using the CNN app (NOT the widget) and it will not launch this service so XOOM will sleep.
I've already reported this issue but PLEASE can you all do the same.
Here is how.
1. Make sure you have latest CNN app
2. Have at least 1 widget on your homescreen
3. Launch a story from the widget
4. Go back to home
5. Go to Settings->Applications->Running Services
6. Click on CNN (1 process, 2 services)
7. Click on BangoAnalytics or whatever it is and click on "REPORT"
Put a nasty comment in there for good measure too!!
Glad at least I know what it is. More people that complain, the quicker it will be fixed.
Workaround: Logout of CNN app if you're logged in. Now it appears you can use the CNN app (not the widget) and it will not launch the Bango service that is the culprit. Let me know if you see other issues.
Is there any concern in "Tablet idle" being at like 3%?
Accuweather Bug
I can confirm that the application Accuweather was keeping my wifi xoom awake. Please note that I checked the in app settings for a run in background or update interval setting which it did not have. Once I uninstalled the problem ressolved.
mobilehavoc said:
I FOUND IT!
Glad at least I know what it is. More people that complain, the quicker it will be fixed.
Workaround: Logout of CNN app if you're logged in. Now it appears you can use the CNN app (not the widget) and it will not launch the Bango service that is the culprit. Let me know if you see other issues.
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Just did this. This was the cause of my 100% wake times. Amazing though I still got 9hrs of life on the first 50% of my battery weven with constant awake lol.
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Is there any concern in "Tablet idle" being at like 3%?
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nope.
Thank you! CNN widget was the culprit for me as well.
Device keeps to be ON and Heats up really bad and drains battery
Mine Xoom after the ICS 4.0 keeps running Android OS @ 90% use and keeps screen on and drains battery within 2 hours.
After hard reset, it seem to be disappeared, but once I've installed some app updates and minimum apps that I had to use, same thing happening.
So far after removing the DrawEverything app, it works better but have to test it and see further.
It is weird, and seem to me some sort of the memory leak causing device to enter into this state.
I will call Motorola and see if I could get any additional information.
Thank you for everyone posting an updates here.
Anyone else using the app Auto Airplane mode? It is a cracker of an app for battery life on standby (got 3 days of sporadic use, about 4 hours, and still have 49% batt left on the tablet). However, I am finding that the tablet lags really badly after waking up from a couple of hours or more of screen off time. Really bad lag, lasting at least several minutes after wake up. I get sick of the lag after 5 minutes or so and cold boot it, which completely fixes lag. I know it has to update apps, mail etc after wireless comes back on, but this probably shouldn't take minutes to do. Anyone else experiencing this problem? I want to keep the app, but I need the tablet to be responsive when I wake it up, cause I use it at work to take notes, make appointments etc.
Cheers,
Mike.
This app was great in the early Prime Firmware, but is no longer necessary. There are 2 seperate places in settings that give you roughly the same thing. Go to WiFi, hit the three dot menu, select advanced and "Turn off wifi during sleep" I prefer the "only keep wifi on when plugged in" option, but you can choose never or always. Second, in Asus Custom Settings, you can stop all syncing while in sleep mode. This will also cause the tab to do some updates when you wake iy, but I wpuld look into just how mich crap you are actually syncing if you are seeing that kind of lag. Go to accounts in settings and sellect each account, especially the Google primary account, you will see what apps are syncing here. Get rid of auto airplane mode app. Its niche has been filled by stock firmware, with the exception of GPS, which does not shut down in sleep mode without it. Its a little more effort to manually contfol it, but getting almost the same benefits with a stock firmware option is always preferable in my opinion. Consider: The auto airplane app has to run in memory, thus consuming SOME battery, though it's likely negligible.
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Hi all.
Couldn't find a specific forum for this question, sorry if there is but tapatalk hasn't brought it up :
Does anyone know how to disable the Does anyone know how to disable the visual Charge status when plugged into visual Charge status when plugged into the mains? the mains?
I find it annoying that it tells me what I find it annoying that it tells me what percentage the battery is in at night, I percentage the battery is in at night, I don't need to know this & i can't stand don't need to know this & i can't stand lights on at night lol!! lights on at night lol!!
For now I turn the phone on it's screen, For now I turn the phone on it's screen, but want it disabled completely. but want it disabled completely.
Cheers
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Have you tried settings? or are you using an app that does this. Could you specify some further details? It may be that your application is default set to do this. And if its not an app, then get an app that stops this from happening. could find one for you, but need more detail to attempt anything
You should download should download an app from the market this cool app from google market.
It is called, the name of the app is ES Task Manager. I think its called ES Task Manager
You should also use. There is another app you can look into Auto Killer, this app is called auto killer
You can download CPU spy to check if the phone is going into deep sleep mode after you kill all the apps and one by one work out the culprit.
Haha! What has happened to my post??
I cut and paste from another forum I didn't get an answer from, read it back ok and it seems to have gone a little weird!
Sorry about that!
I've checked all settings in the phone, I cannot seem to turn it off. The only setting I can see that relates to it is the stay awake function in display.
Ill check out those apps thank you.
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Oh the phones done it ever since I have had it, without even putting apps on it, so has to be something on the os which is standard.
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Clear the caches and battery stats.
Your phone shouldn't be displaying the (lit up) charge screen for more then 5-10 seconds max providing your not pushing any buttons....
I use awesome off to turn my pad on and off so I don't have to use the power switch all the time. I always do this so I don't have to go through the whole boot up process when I want to use it. I noticed that when I wake up in the morning the pad is dead or almost dead. Is there a better way to put this to sleep at night? There is always so much stuff running that kills the battery. I read on here somewhere that someone was not even losing 1% by putting it in some deep sleep. Is there a mode for long time sleep that does not use battery or run any processes? But without shutting it down all the way.
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Can't you just set the tablet to sleep in 5 or so minutes after being inactive?
You can have the tab cut wifi off in sleep also.
I don't do the wifi off in sleep tho...sometimes it doesn't reconnect after a wake up.
I don't know what awesome off is...I'll have to check that out.
My tab just goes into sleep after 10 minutes when I set it down.
The problem is awesome off. It won't let the pad sleep and is constantly checking for movement, light levels etc. Dump it and use the power button to turn it off and on.
Battery dies
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I use awesome off to turn my pad on and off so I don't have to use the power switch all the time. I always do this so I don't have to go through the whole boot up process when I want to use it. I noticed that when I wake up in the morning the pad is dead or almost dead. Is there a better way to put this to sleep at night? There is always so much stuff running that kills the battery. I read on here somewhere that someone was not even losing 1% by putting it in some deep sleep. Is there a mode for long time sleep that does not use battery or run any processes? But without shutting it down all the way.
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I have Nook color power button donate that I got when I had my old rooted Nook color with flaky on off switch. It was in my google apps when I was loading apps on my infinity so I figured try it and see what happens lol It works remarkably well on my tab and does put it into deep sleep . See attached. I have not used my tablet much in last day but you can see that it does put it to sleep and turns wifi on and off and also reboots. Also BTW I then tried it on my rooted ICS leak Bionic and it gives reboot function instead of the long drawn out shut down then turn on process. It does not speed up any of these functions as far as rebooting.
Could be the "wifi location drain"-bug with google maps. From reading the forums it seems quite a few people have it without knowing it. You can of course disable wifi while sleeping, but this will not cure the main issue.
Turn the location settings on in google maps, then make sure that unneeded check boxes are disabled under location settings menu and you should be fine after that. The interesting part here is that google maps will drain the wifi even when the settings are not enabled, perhaps because you can't access the underlying menu without first enabling it. So only after you first enable this setting in maps will it work correctly.
Hopefully this helps, it did for me ..
Yoop,
I watched the awesome off YT video and it didn't look as though the tablet was being sent into full sleep.
I guess with it just grinding away essentially not shut down into a battery save mode it would die.
Doesn't the Tegra3 have a 5th core for minimum power processing or fast wake up?
Reboot your phone, then see how long after your android desktop comes up that the tasker notification shows up.
I seem to have an issue where it takes like minutes, and only shows up after I lock/unlock my phone. This is new to KK for me, I'm running completely standard, no task managers or anything, just curious if its the same for anyone else.
Mine takes around 15 seconds
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No for me. All good here. en.EU.
I barely can tell the difference between the startup times with and without Tasker.
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What about battery consumption with and without tasker?
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What about battery consumption with and without tasker?
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I can not tell, some of my Tasker stuff is about battery conservation (turns off mobile data and switches to 2G at home and work, switches to 3G and turns off the wifi outdoors, puts the phone to airplane between midnight and 5AM etc.) or messes up my battery stats (for example keeps the screen alive when USB debugging is connected) Of course it needs some juice, but it conserves me even more.
Mine takes about 15 seconds also