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I've been noticing higher than normal standby drain on Synergy for a while now. Using BetterBatteryStats I noticed Google Maps is the culprit. Currently, I have 9 hours since charged and it's been sitting idle next to me while I slept. AlarmManager accounts for 2m23s of wakelock, but a staggering 1342 counts. Under alarms, com.google.android.apps.maps and com.google.android.location are the top two, accounting for 315 wakelocks (everything else is another 150 counts). If I'm on Wifi, these numbers blow up and I can see tons of wakelocks even on the built in battery graph. Oddly my battery life is about the same in both circumstances. I notice most of the Alarm events are unaccounted for, so whatever is causing them must be hurting the most. Also, when on Wifi, most of my Partial Wakelocks are caused directly by Google's location services, usually with tens of minutes of wake time and hundreds of counts in ~16 hours. It doesn't sound like much time, but it's the counts that are killing me, I think. I end up with ~90% deep sleep when I don't touch my phone. I lose about 1.2% per hour or so, and I know the phone is capable of less than half of that.
I've disabled Latitude, made sure my CPU was set back to 1.51 GHz (it defaults to 1.9 GHz on Synergy), and my GPS/Location options are all enabled. Switching to a different maps/navigation app isn't really an option for me.
I've found posts discussing this, but typically it's caused by Latitude or just gets chalked up to a bug in Map. If it really is a bug, it's been around off and on for about a year and I have a hard time believing Google would leave a battery draining bug in one of their main apps that long.
TL;DR Is anyone else getting lots of wakelocks cause by Google Maps? Does anyone know how to fix it or narrow down the cause?
I'm seeing very similar, haven't seen a good explanation yet.
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I am having a similar issue. I am starting to think that it is related to Google Now. This isn't meant for ICS and I think it is causing issues. I am going to turn it off for a few days to see if anything changes.
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Yea it sucks I had major battery drain from maps for no apparent reason either on wifi at home
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I noticed the same, I kept Google now off with this last nightly I installed and I'm getting a little under 1% an hour with screen off and wifi on. I think my battery is also better without juice Defender or green Power.
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Clienterror said:
I noticed the same, I kept Google now off with this last nightly I installed and I'm getting a little under 1% an hour with screen off and wifi on. I think my battery is also better without juice Defender or green Power.
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Yea, +1 on killing Google Now, although I just killed the location history option (under latitude and google now, if I recall) and saw a big decrease in battery usage/wakelocks from maps.
I decided to just freeze Google maps. So far so good
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For me, I narrowed it down to the Facebook app. When I uninstalled it, my Maps Wakelocks stopped right away.
Good tip. I just installed Facebook for the first time last night, so for me at least, it's not the cause. I do remember seeing a location option in the settings, so you may be able to solve that issue without resorting to uninstalling.
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For me, I narrowed it down to the Facebook app. When I uninstalled it, my Maps Wakelocks stopped right away.
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If u think it's Facebook u can download friend Caster if I'm not mistaking that app doesn't use gps every time u open it like Facebook does
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I've seen this when I have the Google location service option enabled. It seemed better when I disabled that.
My standby time is now amazing compared to before with maps unfrozen
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Hey, I recently installed paranoid android v20, (my first custom rom on this phone) and I'm noticing that my phone isn't entering deep sleep very often. Last night I rebooted to refresh everything and get fresh numbers. I plugged it in and put it in airplane mode. And this morning it showed 5 hours in 192mhz and only 1 1/2 hours in deep sleep. (I only slept for 6 1/2) any idea what I can do to increase the use of deep sleep?
More detail: I have my cpu set to 1350mhz max - 192mhz min, with interactive governor, using Kernel tuner.
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You can go to settings, developers options, and make sure that " stay awake" is not checked. Because if checked it will prevent device from sleeping. Also check permissions on your installed apps and make sure they don't say prevent phone from sleeping. You can also try the app from the market called " Deep sleep battery saver " it puts the device into deep sleep when not in use. I think this will be helpful for you! Best wishes and hope I've helped you!!
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Stay awake is off. And I tried that app before and I'm not sure if it worked. But I'll try it again. And how would I find out which apps have "prevent phone from sleeping" other then checking each app one by one? And, other then uninstalling, how would I disable it? Thanks.
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You could install BetterBatteryStates.
It monitors 'wakelocks' which keeps the phone awake. You might find the app/settings to blame.
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I remember now why deep sleep battery saver doesn't work for me. It turns off wifi at home, yet I need wifi for groove ip phone calls. So can't use it. I'll check out better battery stats, maybe that'll fix it. Thanks.
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Raven2k said:
You could install BetterBatteryStates.
It monitors 'wakelocks' which keeps the phone awake. You might find the app/settings to blame.
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Okay, last night I charged my phone and left it unplugged with better battery stats monitoring. This morning I look and find a 22% drain after 10 hours, 9 hours in deep sleep, 1 hour awake. I checked and 44% of partial wake locks was Google maps. Why? Am I being tracked? Sheesh! So I used link to SD to freeze it until I need to use it. (which isn't to often as I primarily use Waze for navigation, maps is mainly for bus directions.) hopefully that will increase my battery life. Thanks!
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Yeah okay, maps wasnt the problem its googles location service thats always checking where i am. So I disabled it. Hopefully that will fix the problem.
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I have a similar problem, that is when I look at battery status plot under settings sometimes I see that the phone NEVER goes into sleep mode (always awake).
I installed BetterBatteryStatus and I see a lot of time spent under "partial wakelocks": mainly AlarmManager and Event Log Service. Any hint on how to solve?
Thank you in advance.
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I have a similar problem, that is when I look at battery status plot under settings sometimes I see that the phone NEVER goes into sleep mode (always awake).
I installed BetterBatteryStatus and I see a lot of time spent under "partial wakelocks": mainly AlarmManager and Event Log Service. Any hint on how to solve?
Thank you in advance.
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The guy who made the app is very responsive and a lot of the people there will help you. so, make a dump of your partial wake locks and submit it in the thread. you should also read through it a bit to understand others problems which may be similar to yours. see thread link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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The guy who made the app is very responsive and a lot of the people there will help you. so, make a dump of your partial wake locks and submit it in the thread. you should also read through it a bit to understand others problems which may be similar to yours. see thread link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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Ok, Thank you! I'll take a look to the thread
Hi, since a few days ago, a battery drain started to appear, the phone is almost always awake and no deepsleep. In the settings menu it shows that Android system is responsible, and batterystats says powermanagerservice...
So where can I find this service, and investigate what went wrong all of a sudden. Didn't have such problems before, and only changes are I started to use the network localisation service(without wifi) and had viber, which i just removed.
Any ideas how to fix?
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bo6o said:
Hi, since a few days ago, a battery drain started to appear, the phone is almost always awake and no deepsleep. In the settings menu it shows that Android system is responsible, and batterystats says powermanagerservice...
So where can I find this service, and investigate what went wrong all of a sudden. Didn't have such problems before, and only changes are I started to use the network localisation service(without wifi) and had viber, which i just removed.
Any ideas how to fix?
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if you are rooted you can get rid of this power management thing.
you can delete the htcpowermanagement.apk/odex in system/apps.
This is the easiest thing to do. But i want to find out the reason of this sudden misbehaviour. Thanks.
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bo6o said:
This is the easiest thing to do. But i want to find out the reason of this sudden misbehaviour. Thanks.
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strange. did you tried a factory reset?
I still hope to avoid it
I think of getting some log info, when this happens again. This morning, after unplugging the charger, just checked mail, browsing and tapatalk, and the phone remained awake. Now sleeps like a baby, but already lost 10% from this, and the cpu was stuck at 300mhz during the awake period...
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I still hope to avoid it
I think of getting some log info, when this happens again. This morning, after unplugging the charger, just checked mail, browsing and tapatalk, and the phone remained awake. Now sleeps like a baby, but already lost 10% from this, and the cpu was stuck at 300mhz during the awake period...
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funny,
I already deleted my htcpowermanagement stuff and still the powermanagerservice in better battery stats, so its another service..
sorry for my wrong hint/information.
No Viber - no issues, so far
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Anyone out there who have issues with mediaserver draining too much battery? Last night i charged my phone till it reach 90% then i wake up and it dropped at 72%. When i checked the battery usage in settings, mediaserver is 6 hrs kept awake.. also in GSam, mediaserver is responsible with the drain. I know i've read somewhere here in One S forum about this but i couldn't find the exact thread.. does it have a fix? Thank you.
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Anyone out there who have issues with mediaserver draining too much battery? Last night i charged my phone till it reach 90% then i wake up and it dropped at 72%. When i checked the battery usage in settings, mediaserver is 6 hrs kept awake.. also in GSam, mediaserver is responsible with the drain. I know i've read somewhere here in One S forum about this but i couldn't find the exact thread.. does it have a fix? Thank you.
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If you have viber, uninstall it. There are tricks to fix that, but are annoying. Waiting for update.
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If you have viber, uninstall it. There are tricks to fix that, but are annoying. Waiting for update.
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But i don't have viber on my phone..
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Hm, I saw your problem, as a common on many devices, caused exactly by viber...
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Is android OS destroying anyone else's battery? Its using like 40% for me. Anyone else? Any fix?
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Is android OS destroying anyone else's battery? Its using like 40% for me. Anyone else? Any fix?
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No, i'm at 6%.
something you are running is causing the activity to spike.
Percentages like this are meaningless without something to compare it to. 40% isn't unheard of if you never use the phone, for instance.
I was having this issue yesterday. I installed FAUX kernel and it went away; screen: 28%, mediaserver 16%, rocket player 13%, android os 10%. Yesterday at this time my battery meter was 40% ; today 67%.
That could be coincidence and not correlation though. If you are up for the challenge, a custom kernel could help.
However, like vincent law said, it's all relative. If android os is 40% and your battery is at 95%, that's not really so bad is it...
When android os is high... It's an app keeping your phone awake 90% of the time
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Is android OS destroying anyone else's battery? Its using like 40% for me. Anyone else? Any fix?
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im at 4%...... not sure whats wrong with your. im not running any custom roms either. just rooted and unlocked bootloader
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Reboot when you see this happening.
I've seen it once before... I didn't think to check OS monitor before rebooting to see exactly which process it was though.
I have this problem. Anyone got solutions to it?
Try disabling some location features in Google now. I found the traffic cards to give big battery drains in Android OS. Or you can check which in settings - double slide down from top > location, to see which app is using the highest request. Google play service was usually high when I had huge android os drain.
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inspiron41 said:
Try disabling some location features in Google now. I found the traffic cards to give big battery drains in Android OS. Or you can check which in settings - double slide down from top > location, to see which app is using the highest request. Google play service was usually high when I had huge android os drain.
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+1
I have also noticed that at times google play services has a huge drain on the battery. I was wondering if play store setting had anything to do with it. I have mine set to " do not automatically update".
I have both facebook and google search on low battery use. For Google location reporting, I only have location history turned on. I don't know if this helps.
I start getting the same issue since yesterday.
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I've also been experiencing the same issue. Started a few days ago. Checked tonight right before I put my phone on the charger after a full day of use, and Android OS had 9+ hours of awake time. It's driving me crazy and I can't figure out what is causing it.
I am so disappointed!!! I have the same bug. I had it on my old Phone (Samsung Galaxy S). I flashed 3 different firmwares on my i9000. Nothing helped. Now I bought the Nexus 5 and after one day it starts again
I went to bed with 97% Battery. Woke up and it looked like this:
It is stock Firmware with no changes. Maybe it is because of my google account? I am using the same google account for my nexus5 and i9000.
Check your WiFi connection. I don't really know why (yet) but sometimes, being connected to certain WiFi networks increases Android OS usage. This happens a lot in my college's network so I believe it's a problem with that, because it does not happen at my home's WiFi. You could try disabling WiFi in the different networks you use and check which is draining.
Hope this helps.
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Is android OS destroying anyone else's battery? Its using like 40% for me. Anyone else? Any fix?
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Yes I had this problem. I flashed factory image and enable high accuracy location AND reporting. My problem I pinpointed was Google Now NOT refreshing.
It would hang there trying to update and without location it didn't have anything to report and it would eat battery. I would force close the launcher and notice the wakelock stopped shortly, to return to Now not updating.
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I found a way to prevent the Play Services and the Android System from eating my battery.
First I noticed that it was only happening, when the location services were enabled, and then I found the App Ops App for KitKat.
All I did was disable the rights for those two Apps to use location and to keep the device awake.
I'm having the location services on - and working in 4sq, Maps, etc,.. - and no more drain.
Maybe you can verify this?
Try this
My Android OS is at 3% after 19 hours.
Google services not enough to even show.
Battery 75%.
Light use 55 minutes screen time.
Google auto sync off, i sync when i need to.
I don't let play store check for app updates .
I turn location on when i need it.
I use mostly wifi some LTE
Unchecked wifi scanning always available.
Keep wifi on during sleep
Minimize battery use when wifi is on is checked.
I refresh my email accounts when i open them so it's not being checked automatically.
No battery or services complaints (Google services is so low it doesn't even register), give it a try?
raul90 said:
Check your WiFi connection. I don't really know why (yet) but sometimes, being connected to certain WiFi networks increases Android OS usage. This happens a lot in my college's network so I believe it's a problem with that, because it does not happen at my home's WiFi. You could try disabling WiFi in the different networks you use and check which is draining.
Hope this helps.
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The problem is definitely caused by the Wifi! I am using my College-Dorm-Wifi over night. When turning it off, the battery life is normal.
But turning off the Wifi is no solution! I don't have data so I am only using my phone in college networks
There musts be another way.
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I start getting the same issue since yesterday.
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Me too. I have disabled wifi when i'm out... i will check if this changes something!
OK so I rooted and over the pass few days I have noticed battery drops a lot. Before I could easily get 3-4 hrs screen on time but now there is only 1-2 hrs? Is this a known problem after you root? And is there anyways to fix. I use snapdragon guru before and after I rooted.
Thanks
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dec1153 said:
OK so I rooted and over the pass few days I have noticed battery drops a lot. Before I could easily get 3-4 hrs screen on time but now there is only 1-2 hrs? Is this a known problem after you root? And is there anyways to fix. I use snapdragon guru before and after I rooted.
Thanks
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Do yourself a favor and install Better Battery Stats. BBS will give you very detailed information about what wake locks are keeping your phone awake and draining your battery. In general, most people say to avoid "optimizing" and "battery saving apps" because they rely on activating the processor to function. Your best bet for great battery life is to minimize your wake locks.
Especially guru which uses more battery than it saves
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In the thread above yours someone else has a similar issue and they found that it was tied into the wifi being turned on or turned on and then off.
Try turning off wifi, reboot the phone and go a day without using wifi (if possible) and see if that is the problem.
dechronic said:
In the thread above yours someone else has a similar issue and they found that it was tied into the wifi being turned on or turned on and then off.
Try turning off wifi, reboot the phone and go a day without using wifi (if possible) and see if that is the problem.
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One of the few things Snapdragon Battery Guru tries to do is dynamically switch your WiFi on and off, coincidence?
Of course as Rootsu said, in the process it will use more CPU cycles than it saves. You could use Llama or Tasker for this and many other tasks with a minimal footprint. Avoid the advertising platform that is Battery Guru all together.
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Especially guru which uses more battery than it saves
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This this this ^^^^^
Terrible app. ?
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