I've read posts before of people seeing better battery life after they've had their phone a couple weeks. I've had my a couple days, and sometimes it gets pretty hot when I'm not doing anything. So I've been using Android Task Manager to view realtime processes. What I've noticed is that the "Music Enhancer" and "Sound Set" processes all the sudden have become active and are in the top 5 CPU utilizers. Usually this was accompanied by Power Amp (which I wasn't using the app) but now it is accompanied by Google Play Music Service (which I wasn't using either).
I have a large music collection loaded. Is Android/Google up to something as far as cataloging my music or sending information to Google Play about the music on my Phone. Of course that wouldn't explain why Power Amp was eating CPU when not being used.
It's enough draw that the USB charging can't keep up with the CPU utilization. This is on wifi so it can't be something to do with 4G data transfers going on.
I have Google Play music sync turned OFF on the phone.
It has to do with HTC Music Enhancer. Must be analyzing my 2000 MP3s for the first time or something? There's no information anywhere as to what it does / is doing.
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I noticed that all the music players I have tried (MIUI, stock, stock 3.0, mixzing, winamp, cube) are one of the, if not the, most battery consuming apps at the end of the day. It seems that each of these apps keep the phone awake for the entire time they are playing music, at least that's what it says when I click on the music app under "Battery Stats". I was ready to resign myself to the fact that no one has quite figure out how to play music without burning through battery until I tried PowerAmp.
It seems that PowerAmp does not keep the phone awake, according to battery stats, and while running it barely appears in the top 6 list of battery consumers. Does anyone know of other music apps that do this? Or an even better question, does anyone know how PowerAmp does this and why the other apps can't?
Poweramp & battery
This is my first post on XDA and on forums in general. I listen to music all day at work and cannot get to the end of the day without my battery being almost empty. So I trawled through various forums to find out why this might be, then used the battery use built into gingerbread. Noticed my phone stayed awake for an extended period even when the screen was off. Did a few tests, and indeed the culprit was the built-in music player. Found this post and thought I'd give Poweramp a try, not expecting too much. But you are completely right, playing music now for ~10mins, screen off, and phone has not been awake!
Buying Poweramp right now!
Hey all,
I've just recently received my OPO and it seems to me that things like listening to pocket casts/google play music are burning through my battery at a much faster rate than on my n5. I know one of the selling points of the n5 was the the use of the secondary low-power processor for audio tunneling, and I believed this functionality was included in the snapdragon 801- can anyone confirm that this functionality is enabled?
Edit- earlier blog posts regarding this here ; anything I might have done to disabled this or any reason cached music/podcasts would not take advantage of this?
Yes, the actual playback of media uses very little battery, it's the apps that are sucking juice.
My suggestion:
Go to Settings>Privacy>Privacy Guard>Advanced and set "Wake Up" and "Keep Awake" to "Disabled" on all your audio apps.
One catch, you'll need to have the audio app on screen before you turn the screen off, or playback will pause a couple minutes after the screen turns off.
I've found this saves a ton of battery.
Let me start off and say this was not an issue when I first got my Pixel on 10/20/2016. During my lunch hour I enjoy browsing the web while streaming BT audio to my car. This past week however I have noticed my Pixel getting warm while doing this and my battery taking a huge hit with 1% dropping every 1 to 2 minutes. I then brought up my battery info which I’m listening below and I notice that Google play music is consuming more battery then my screen is during that time frame. I can see this being an issue if I was streaming music over LTE but that’s not the case. All of my music is downloaded through the Google play music app so there’s no streaming involved.
I then figured it might be because I’m rooted and I’m using Viper4Android which will eat some of the battery. I then did some testing and I monitored my CPU usage with 3C Toolbox Pro. Turning Viper4Android on and off during my tests I can figure it’s adding another 4% or 5% while playing MP3’s. That in itself should not eat battery like I listed above.
I then paused the music and swiped away the notification only to find out that Google play music was still running in the back ground and using a good 20% of the CPU……. Once I killed Google play music my CPU dropped down to 5% usage from a constant 25% to 30% while it was running in the back ground.
In the last screen shot please note I have paused the music over a min before I took this screen shot. During that min the CPU Consumption was 80.30%
Anyone else having issues with Google play music?
I've had the same issue from approximately the same time as you, I'm using a Note 4 though. Haven't found any fix yet unfortunately, have you?
My fix was to download all of my music and play it with black player. Since then no issues. There's no reason Google play music uses that much CPU.
Hi folks, I just started a new account today to post about this issue so hopefully I am posting in the right place.
I have noticed that when playing music back on the Pixel, Google Play Music (GPM) keeps the device fully awake and away from deep sleep regardless of what settings are selected. I previously owned a Nexus 5 and the DSP audio tunneling feature allowed for audio processing to be done through the phone's DSP, allowing the device to reach a deep sleep state through most of the audio playback. This greatly enhanced battery life and I believe was advertised as a feature of the Snapdragon 800 chipset in that device.
I know that when making voice calls with the pixel, the battery usage and associated wakelocks look very similar to my Nexus 5. It seems to do this audio processing with the DSP just fine, and the phone enters deep sleep intermittently despite the voice call, so long as the screen remains black. I also know that the Pixel has a more creative use of the DSP in the camera software, and it is part of the reason we get such beautiful photos with such small shutter lag.
However, I have found absolutely nothing online or otherwise related to the Pixel's distinct lack of DSP usage during audio playback. It would stand to reason that this device, using a chipset based on the Snapdragon 821, and including a DSP even more advanced than that of my Nexus 5, should also be taking advantage of this feature. Unless there are any drawbacks that I am aware of, it would only serve to improve the battery life even more.
If anyone knows something that I do not about this, or has any inclination to try it out and see if it works on your device, I'd love to know more! It could be a bug that nobody noticed, or they may have removed the ability for the device to do this for some reason. Or it could be a GPM related thing, I really don't know if this feature was enabled for other devices. I am using a play store purchased Pixel 32gb running stock 7.1.2. For the record, it is less of an issue on this phone than it would have been on the Nexus 5, because I get great battery life streaming music or otherwise.
The feature only ever worked without bluetooth, by the way, as streaming audio over bluetooth adds extra processing that requires the device to be kept awake as far as I know. Only playback through the phone's internal speaker or through the audio jack with EQ disabled allowed the feature to work for me on my Nexus 5.
I have it turned on,
The Pixel 4a is always listening for music.
It findS music and the song information is seen on the Ambient Display.
It is pretty nice, but how does it impact the device ?
Extra Battery, Extra data ?
Of course this is another source of data mining, when Google is listening for you music it takes note of your preferences.
Oh you listen to .... here is an Ad you may like; but this alone does not bother me; the overhead in resources maybe prohibitive.
AstroDigital said:
I have it turned on,
The Pixel 4a is always listening for music.
It find music and the song information is seen on the Ambient Display.
It is pretty nice, but how does it impact the device ?
Extra Battery, Extra data ?
Of course this is another source of data mining, when Google is listening for you music it takes note of your preferences.
Oh you listen to .... here is an Ad you may like; but this alone does not bother me; the overhead in resources maybe prohibitive.
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I don't know about battery life but it should not use any data or affect your ad preference because google claims "Now Playing never sends audio or background conversations to Google" and "Now Playing protects your privacy using on-device recognition and privacy-preserving analytics." These are shown in my settings at the bottom of the page where the toggle to "Show songs on lock screen" is found.