Hello Developers.
My Device is Lava XOLO A500.
Everything was fine when I brought it. Its battery life was perfect. But since a week I am experiencing problem with the battery.
Its draining very fast even when not in use. I keep my phone full charged at night and when I see it in the morning I find it fully discharged.
Please Help Me. I really need your help.I am providing the battery usage screenshot below which may help you to understand my problem.
Thank You.
Its hard to say. I take it you're rooted?
If so, install BetterBatteryStats found here, run it and check for any kernel wakelocks or heavy processes. You could also use TricksterMOD to see which CPU frequencies were used the most and whether or not your phone is going into deep sleep.
why don't you go to the svc center and claim the warranty?
it's still a week, isn't it?
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Go to setting > app > running and look for apps at cached processes status and stop most of them.
Ishan16 said:
Hello Developers.
My Device is Lava XOLO A500.
Everything was fine when I brought it. Its battery life was perfect. But since a week I am experiencing problem with the battery.
Its draining very fast even when not in use. I keep my phone full charged at night and when I see it in the morning I find it fully discharged.
Please Help Me. I really need your help.I am providing the battery usage screenshot below which may help you to understand my problem.
Thank You.
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bro, go to settings > apps > running apps
check which user apps (not system apps) are running like maps, lava/xolo centre or something(any lava/xolo app), browser etc..
now go to > all apps (right towards the running apps) find that apps which u noted running for long time but u not need it run. select it and press Stop > Ok.
these apps restart every time with phone restart. so i suggest you to root your phone and uninstall those unwanted apps.
press thnx if i helped.
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What about trying to reset it?
Did you already try to run a full reset on the device? If the problem still occurs I'd think its a problem with the battery it self.
if you are rooted try changing the rom and doing proper wipe in recovery before installing the new rom.
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i lose around 40 precent overnight everyday
its really frustrating knowing that i have to work with it full day afterwards
so is there any fix for this?
No idea what youre talking about. Mine only drains 20% with wifi and wifi apps running overnight.
Maybe you should look over what you got running, and if you got a custom kernel, reduce the lowest frequency of the cpu. Im running mine at 450Mhz or something.
Ooooor maybe 'overnight' for you is like 26h ?
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Leave it on the charger over nite! I know. Shocking.
Download "BetterBatteryStats" from here and check which app is causing it. If you need assistance, just head over to BBS thread. Remember to attach your log file so it's easier for them to help you.
Hearmeman said:
i lose around 40 precent overnight everyday
its really frustrating knowing that i have to work with it full day afterwards
so is there any fix for this?
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First thing, you should get CPU Spy from the market. This will tell you if your TF is going into deep sleep or not.
If you were experiencing the same issue under HC then ICS most likely wouldn't fix the issue anyhow.
Prior to ICS I was loosing about 25% over night which just shouldn't happen. I was rooted but stock otherwise. I unrooted my TF & completely wiped before flashing ICS. One cool thing about ICS is there is an intergrated task manager widget. You can see what programs are running at any current time. There were three programs that were constantly running that I disabled. Those were PixWE, Netflicks, & My Uploads. Netflicks kept wanting me to update but I don't use it so why update it? I simply disabled it and there are a whole host of other programs that can be disabled too.
With all this being said I am only loosing 3-4 percent over night running ICS completely stock.
Try airplane mode
There's an app in the market that simulates airplane mode, but allows wifi still. After I installed it I stopped losing battery overnight. It's basically a wake-lock issue.
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There's an app in the market that simulates airplane mode, but allows wifi still. After I installed it I stopped losing battery overnight. It's basically a wake-lock issue.
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+1 This worked for me too but for a different reason. My TF tends to leave wifi switched on, even when told to turn off when the screen does. It could also be a rogue app as described above. Once you sort it out, overnight drain should only be a few percent at the most.
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There's an app in the market that simulates airplane mode, but allows wifi still. After I installed it I stopped losing battery overnight. It's basically a wake-lock issue.
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Could please tell me the name?
How to diagnose here
I lose ~20% overnight in flight mode.
If I go Settings > Battery I see it's a lot of Android OS. But widgets must be included in that. So then I go settings > apps > running and see a few apps running, but I can't tell which of these is killing the battery and I don't know which app would tell me ((can I run top on the the commandline?)). I will experiment more and report back. I suggest you do that same.
This should go in the first post of this thread:
To diagnose this charge before sleep, put into flight mode overnight and look in the morning to see if the Android OS has been the culprit.
Perhaps you don't need any 3rd party apps for diagnose but if you need to be available for early morning calls use a profile scheduler.
Get a new Kernel
The main problem is the kernel in ICS, a way to fix this is changing your kernel, I do recomend the Test kernel from Guevor, install from version 11 to up, test it and keep the one you like. My tf is lasting fully with keyboard, around 30hrs.
I use test 13
but on .17 and not .23
I'm on ICS 4.0.3 with 3.0.8-NEO though
werewolferx said:
The main problem is the kernel in ICS, a way to fix this is changing your kernel, I do recomend the Test kernel from Guevor, install from version 11 to up, test it and keep the one you like. My tf is lasting fully with keyboard, around 30hrs.
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My Nook got stolen and I'm waiting for a DroidPro to arrive so this would be on my main phone. When I've tried to flash just the kernel on it's own I've had problems before. This time I'll give it a go but am I missing something in terms of flashing a new kernel on?
I'm on ICS 4.0.3 with 3.0.8-NEO-3.0-TeamICSSGS-257174-g197c9a1-dirty (build *07)
Other than the possible battery problem it's been good. I just want to check to see if yo uhave anything more concrete to backup your decision... that a different kernel really might make any difference because that Test kernel from Guevor is very much in flux... I'd no idea which one to choose.Up to test15 now.
(thread for reference here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1565519 )
For convienience it would be nice to backup the current kernel first as other than battery it's working well...
update, edit instead of bump:
ok, I lost 1% an hour last night in flight mode (6% over 5 hours) with all background apps and services killed. Does that seem about right? The interesting thing was that not all processes/services/backgrounded showed the same on different task killers...
I bet there's lots of people updating kernels when actually it's an app, or the left over effects of an app or something like that.
Hearmeman said:
Could please tell me the name?
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Use Auto Airplane Mode by DON this fixed my problem with battery drain from the wifi staying on.After 4 days of use I still hade 35% battery left!
My screen battery percentage is around 70%. I am wondering if that is normal because on a screenshot I saw in another thread, the person's screen % was in the 40s. If it isn't normal, can someone help me with bring the the battery usage of the screen down? (My battery is being drained and I was wondering if it was the issue with the screen .) And sorry if I seem very noobie >_<.
The higher your screen percentage the better it is because it tells nothing else is draining your battery significantly. At 40%, there are other things that are running your battery dry aside from screen.
You could post a screen shot for others to see and advice.
Royaltiger said:
The higher your screen percentage the better it is because it tells nothing else is draining your battery significantly. At 40%, there are other things that are running your battery dry aside from screen.
You could post a screen shot for others to see and advice.
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Ohhh, I didn't know that. Thank you for telling me! However, now I wonder what is causing my battery to drain... especially when I am web browsing. Here is a screenshot of the battery usage on my system.
Royaltiger said:
The higher your screen percentage the better it is because it tells nothing else is draining your battery significantly. At 40%, there are other things that are running your battery dry aside from screen.
Interesting explanation...I didn't know this.
mine is running 80-90% all the time
Thanks for the info
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If you're rooted you can always clear battery stats in CWM. Some devices appear to perform better. Also check what's running in the background (processes). Disabling things like GPS can save battery. If you use TiBu, freezing unneeded apps can free up power and resources. If you venture into that, I would suggest doing one at a time to avoid freezing apps that your tab needs running. Google/search forum as I'm sure others have posted their experiences.
Just a few random thoughts....
x3ducky said:
Ohhh, I didn't know that. Thank you for telling me! However, now I wonder what is causing my battery to drain... especially when I am web browsing. Here is a screenshot of the battery usage on my system.
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I notice android media process consume your android battery. I am also wondering about android media and server process in my GT- 6800 with paranoid 2.55. Here are the process that help me out
try to delete all you music or picture files and back it up to you pc
unistall the game and try to install game one by one to see which game will consume your android media process
using terminal emulator to disable android process media. I refer to this site; http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=37199
1) have Android SDK installed on your laptop
2) enable debugging on your *rooted* device
3) connect it to you laptop via USB
4) adb shell
5) su
6) pm disable com.android.providers.media/com.android.providers.media.MediaScannerReceiver
It works for me and now I have no media process in system and media server consume reasonable memory. Thanks
skeeterpro said:
If you're rooted you can always clear battery stats in CWM. Some devices appear to perform better. Also check what's running in the background (processes). Disabling things like GPS can save battery. If you use TiBu, freezing unneeded apps can free up power and resources. If you venture into that, I would suggest doing one at a time to avoid freezing apps that your tab needs running. Google/search forum as I'm sure others have posted their experiences.
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My tablet is rooted, but I don't know how to clear battery stats. However, I am currently using Battery Monitor Widget Pro and I see the calibration tab. Once again, I have no idea how to use the calibration thing on this app. And I disable GPS all the time, unless I really need to use it, which is hardly ever. As for TiBu, I don't know what that is. Is that Titanium Backup?
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My tablet is rooted, but I don't know how to clear battery stats. However, I am currently using Battery Monitor Widget Pro and I see the calibration tab. Once again, I have no idea how to use the calibration thing on this app. And I disable GPS all the time, unless I really need to use it, which is hardly ever. As for TiBu, I don't know what that is. Is that Titanium Backup?
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If you have CWM installed then there is an option (from the menu) to clear your battery stats. If you don't have CWM then please download from the "development" section.
x3ducky said:
My tablet is rooted, but I don't know how to clear battery stats. However, I am currently using Battery Monitor Widget Pro and I see the calibration tab. Once again, I have no idea how to use the calibration thing on this app. And I disable GPS all the time, unless I really need to use it, which is hardly ever. As for TiBu, I don't know what that is. Is that Titanium Backup?
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Poke around in CWM. I believe it's under Advanced. And yes, TiBu is Titanium Backup.
Hey, I'm not rooted at the moment and might not be for some time.
When I go to Settings > Developer Options > Process Stats > (Menu) Show System Stats (check) > Android System ....it shows AntService is taking up 100%.
Can someone who is rooted put AntService to sleep/freeze/quarantine and see if that helps the Android System battery drain situation?
Thanks
master4g said:
Hey, I'm not rooted at the moment and might not be for some time.
When I go to Settings > Developer Options > Process Stats > (Menu) Show System Stats (check) > Android System ....it shows AntService is taking up 100%.
Can someone who is rooted put AntService to sleep/freeze/quarantine and see if that helps the Android System battery drain situation?
Thanks
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No. It does not stop it, the only thing that does is a lot of debloating. Root your phone and install RDDT/RODT and your Android System will not take up as much. But keep note that Android System really isn't draining your battery per-say. There are just a lot of new processes involved in the "Android System" package.
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No. It does not stop it, the only thing that does is a lot of debloating. Root your phone and install RDDT/RODT and your Android System will not take up as much. But keep note that Android System really isn't draining your battery per-say. There are just a lot of new processes involved in the "Android System" package.
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What is RDDT/RODT? And what specifically are you debloating? When I got the phone, I set it up as normal and Android System and Android OS were taking up 40% of my battery. I started uninstalling my apps and freezing the apps which I was allowed to , until I was down to the bare bone, and still Android System and OS were taking up about 40% of my battery. I did a hard reset and chose not to have Google automatically reinstall my app, and even with a fresh install, it was still a problem. Im out of ideas and am not sure what to do. I was hoping for a root with didn't trigger Knox so I might wait a bit longer. (The Note 3 root which didn't trigger Knox came out only one week after first root which came out)
My wifes Moto G on KitKat doesn't have a Android System drain issue, and my S3 on Stock didn't have an issue either. BTW how many hours of screen time do you get with your setup?
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What is RDDT/RODT? And what specifically are you debloating? When I got the phone, I set it up as normal and Android System and Android OS were taking up 40% of my battery. I started uninstalling my apps and freezing the apps which I was allowed to , until I was down to the bare bone, and still Android System and OS were taking up about 40% of my battery. I did a hard reset and chose not to have Google automatically reinstall my app, and even with a fresh install, it was still a problem. Im out of ideas and am not sure what to do. I was hoping for a root with didn't trigger Knox so I might wait a bit longer. (The Note 3 root which didn't trigger Knox came out only one week after first root which came out)
My wifes Moto G on KitKat doesn't have a Android System drain issue, and my S3 on Stock didn't have an issue either. BTW how many hours of screen time do you get with your setup?
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GSam says I average 4hr 30min of on screen time with a total battery usage average of 35 total hrs per charge.
Dear All,
I'm writing this simple trick or guide to help all Zenfone 5 Users- Indian Version to use the phone effectively, with battery optimisation, so that we can get maximum juice out of the battery, without any external tweaks or battery savings app.....Atleast I'm getting a good battery life out these optimisations.
Neither ME or XDA is not responsible for any issues in your phone after you try this or if you brick your phone(dont worry, you cant just brick your phone by optimising battery).. These are just tips... use it as your wish... but please know what you are doing or please ask before doing anything...
Root is a must!!!!!
Apps needed: App Ops Settings, Battery Calibration(Pls. download from playstore)
First: Battery Calibration:
Root is a must for this app. Pls don't try on non rooted phones, it will not work!!!. Once you have installed this app, don't open it yet... Charge your phone to 100% or till the lights turn to green. Then open this app, grant root access and then click "Calibrate Battery"
Once you have done this, you need to use the phone without charging till 2% and then recharge it fully again.. Do this for 2 to 3 times, we will get very good battery backup and efficient battery...(This just deletes, the battery_stats file from the system, so that a new one will be created fresh with the new battery status.
Second: App Ops Settings
You need root for this app, since it has to detect the system apps which are running in the background and trying to use services in the background. After instaling this app, open the app, navigate to each tab, which shows location, personal, device, settings, etc and carefully read through apps, open one by one and disable the unwanted services from the app which are always running in background... this will save battery from restarting the services everytime and trying to refresh.
Also, you need to be carefull while selecting system apps, since some apps like gallery, settings, camera will also be there in the list trying to run or refresh background services.
Additionally, I have installed titanium backup and frozen all asus inbuilt apps and using it with combination of greenify... so, I'm getting 2 days of battery backup with only 2G...
I hope these tricks will help some users to get maximum juice out of the battery...:good:
Helping with rooting process?
I've purchased this phone (A501CG) last week and updated to KitKat 4.4.2. As we all faced the battery problem, I tried to root my phone.
I've tried so many apps and method but the rooting failed.
Can you make a post regarding how to root Asus Zenfone 5 (A501CG).
Thank you.
p.s.: I really want to root and REMOVE MOST OF THE ASUS APP....
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 and the battery was doing fine. A few weeks ago the phone started getting quite slow and the battery life went way down. I had installed a few apps around then, so I removed them and still battery life was bad. I tried restarting the phone and that didn't help. At the time I was running Marshmellow and I was using OSMonitor to watch the system. I was finding that Android OS was taking most of my battery and 30% of the CPU all of the time. Not long after that Nougat became available and I upgraded thinking that might help. It didn't help and OSMonitor no longer worked. I switched to GSam Battery Monitor and used adb to give it the permissions to see all app information. I'm still finding that the Kernel is taking 28% of my battery and Android System is taking 37% of my battery and I can't figure out why. I would rather not need to do a full reset and install all of my apps and settings again, so I'm asking if anyone out there has ideas on things to try and fix this. This is a non-rooted phone running the stock image from Samsung/Verizon.
Thanks for any help.
try activate the Battery Saving option and use it for a day and see if helps
I've had this happen to me before. The phone was getting seriously hot while it was happening too. I decided to do all I can without doing a factory reset (I was on vacation at the time, so no access to something to backup my data).
I cleared the cache of all apps. Then I disabled all of the stock apps I didn't need (like Gear VR). I also shuttered apps running in the background to about a max of 3 apps open at any given time. That stopped the insane heat issue, but Android System was still sucking 30% of the battery. I turned off Always On Display, that got me down to about 25%. A factory reset got the phone down to around 10%, and I never saw the issue again.
Before you do that I would recommend checking out this thread below as there does appear to be a bunch of other possible solutions provided by others.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/help/how-experiencing-android-battery-drain-t3327730/page51
Djuganight said:
try activate the Battery Saving option and use it for a day and see if helps
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But then my background syncing is turned off too...
I didn't need this before, so wondering why I should need it now.
I had same issues and was able to fix it. See the following thread for details.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=71558514
Try this , it helped me a lot .
Download from the XDA forums the Kernel named : "Apollo Kernel" v7
Just flash it , and when you install it , if you dont use your phone for high end games or hard work,that requires high end specs , then you can underclock the cpu/gpu .
It s a battery life saver, plus , your components will be much better in terms of thermals/life