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I was just curious what kind of idle battery life you guys are getting as mine is awful. In 6 hours overnight, mine drains 9% even after closing all applications before I went to sleep. Upon checking app history, the only significant entry is 29 seconds of cpu time to mail. Any idea what's going on here?
Mine doesn't drain near that quickly.
Did you leave any apps open? I generally close everything when leaving it overnight.
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Mine doesn't drain near that quickly.
Did you leave any apps open? I generally close everything when leaving it overnight.
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Yup, closed everything, but still drains that much. I did a diagnosis and my original battery life when I first got it was much better, but I'm not sure what changed to make it much worse.
yokuyuki said:
Yup, closed everything, but still drains that much. I did a diagnosis and my original battery life when I first got it was much better, but I'm not sure what changed to make it much worse.
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What app are you using to see the stats? I am not sure how my battery life is so far, but anecdotally it seems great so far.
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Mine drains around 5% overnight. I'm leaving it on, just turn off the display. The only activity that I know off is receiving emails.
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spongers said:
What app are you using to see the stats? I am not sure how my battery life is so far, but anecdotally it seems great so far.
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Open command prompt and run
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powercfg /batteryreport
ctitanic said:
Mine drains around 5% overnight. I'm leaving it on, just turn off the display. The only activity that I know off is receiving emails.
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Is there any way to check which apps are running in background. The only place that I can see is the lock screen apps section in pc settings under personalize.
I've seen a couple threads praising their s4s for how long the battery life and in one case how much it flatlines while it's idle.
Since I've had mine , I've noticed the opposite. Using it very casually throughout the day with some light texting it'll drain probably about 30-40% while doing very little of anything.
But the part that stands out the most is when my s4 is idle overnight , it'll drop about 17-20% while others have reported seeing very little loss.
Has anyone else expierenced poor battery life? Is this normal for my s4 to do?
The only features I have turned on are; Wifi, Sound, Mobile Data, and Sync.
MentalToast said:
I've seen a couple threads praising their s4s for how long the battery life and in one case how much it flatlines while it's idle.
Since I've had mine , I've noticed the opposite. Using it very casually throughout the day with some light texting it'll drain probably about 30-40% while doing very little of anything.
But the part that stands out the most is when my s4 is idle overnight , it'll drop about 17-20% while others have reported seeing very little loss.
Has anyone else expierenced poor battery life? Is this normal for my s4 to do?
The only features I have turned on are; Wifi, Sound, Mobile Data, and Sync.
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Seems you have a run away app that is sucking your battery. If you are rooted, check out Better Battery Stats on xda. I get at most ~2% in an hour but normally its not even 1%.
nakedninja42 said:
Seems you have a run away app that is sucking your battery. If you are rooted, check out Better Battery Stats on xda. I get at most ~2% in an hour but normally its not even 1%.
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Weird.. I don't think I have any apps that are running wild in the background. I'm not rooted atm though.
If it were a mystery app running in the background, would it be listed on the battery stats screen showing the % each program is taking up?
MentalToast said:
Weird.. I don't think I have any apps that are running wild in the background. I'm not rooted atm though.
If it were a mystery app running in the background, would it be listed on the battery stats screen showing the % each program is taking up?
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Could be location reporting
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MrPlNK said:
Could be location reporting
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I'm sorry if I'm TOTALLY off, but would that require the gps toggled on?
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I've seen a couple threads praising their s4s for how long the battery life and in one case how much it flatlines while it's idle.
Since I've had mine , I've noticed the opposite. Using it very casually throughout the day with some light texting it'll drain probably about 30-40% while doing very little of anything.
But the part that stands out the most is when my s4 is idle overnight , it'll drop about 17-20% while others have reported seeing very little loss.
Has anyone else expierenced poor battery life? Is this normal for my s4 to do?
The only features I have turned on are; Wifi, Sound, Mobile Data, and Sync.
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You said you have sync enabled, how many different accounts or apps are syncing and how often? If you have 4-5 accounts syncing every 15 minutes, your phone will never sleep and you will see massive drain
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I'm sorry if I'm TOTALLY off, but would that require the gps toggled on?
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One of the problems I had when updating to my new S4 was the memory card. Going from the S3 to the S4 was not good. The S4 didnt like the memory card and was causing high Gallery cpu/battery usage. Reformating the card fixed that problem.
Now, my Galaxy S4 has the best life of any Android I have ever had. At the end of the day, it still has 40% battery remaining with an screen on time of around 4 hours.
hmbpopo said:
You said you have sync enabled, how many different accounts or apps are syncing and how often? If you have 4-5 accounts syncing every 15 minutes, your phone will never sleep and you will see massive drain
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I think you're aiming in the right direction here. That was one of my guesses was that sync is draining it fast.
Just checked what i had under accounts. The only ones that were syncing were Google (toggled off a few of the features i don't use so i only sync what i do use, drive , calender etc)
The only other one that was on was Samsung account which i just toggled off as well since I don't have any need for that to be synced up whatsoever.
The only other apps I can think of that actively try to sync are my gmail and facebook. I'm not sure how to view the frequency for gmail to sync, but facebook is set up to check every hour.
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I think you're aiming in the right direction here. That was one of my guesses was that sync is draining it fast.
Just checked what i had under accounts. The only ones that were syncing were Google (toggled off a few of the features i don't use so i only sync what i do use, drive , calender etc)
The only other one that was on was Samsung account which i just toggled off as well since I don't have any need for that to be synced up whatsoever.
The only other apps I can think of that actively try to sync are my gmail and facebook. I'm not sure how to view the frequency for gmail to sync, but facebook is set up to check every hour.
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Yeah I have more accounts than that and I see 4+ he's of screen time a day with 30-40 percent left at the end of the day. I would try formating your sd card as stated above as that is also a known problem
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Not I personally. My buddy his wouldn't charge past 46% no matter what. Not even with new battery or after a factory reset.
I tho notice better battery life with this phone then on my s3.
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Yeah I have more accounts than that and I see 4+ he's of screen time a day with 30-40 percent left at the end of the day. I would try formating your sd card as stated above as that is also a known problem
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I don't have a sd card inserted
Here is mine on little usage. About a good 2-3 hours of screentime, everything turned on, max brightness, and live wallpaper...
I also had a 64GB MicroSD from my Galaxy S II that I did not format.
From the screenshot, the MediaServer is from the live wallpaper, and Maps -> almost every location setting in maps setting is checked... which will change soon... :good:
FWIW, GSMArena did a new battery test for the i9505 after the recent OTA update:
http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-i9...ests-update-battery-life-improved/#more-48734
Overall, it saw a slight improvement.
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I'm sorry if I'm TOTALLY off, but would that require the gps toggled on?
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Doesn't google now always tell you how far you are from home regardless of gps being on?
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nakedninja42 said:
Seems you have a run away app that is sucking your battery. If you are rooted, check out Better Battery Stats on xda. I get at most ~2% in an hour but normally its not even 1%.
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Is there a free app that is good for checking out the stats. Looks like the Better Barry Stats is paid.
Yea just checked bbs and it showed that any smart screen feature turned on caused wakelocks 7 hours straight while I was sleeping. disabled and Now I barely get battery drain and my phone goes into deep sleep. Sucks cuz I liked using smart screen features.
I'm getting itty good results I think? Formatted memory card installed.
How does this stack up against your guys
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Is there a free app that is good for checking out the stats. Looks like the Better Barry Stats is paid.
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Its paid in Play store, but if you find the xda thread (search on google: "better battery stats xda") there is a version available there. If you like it support the dev
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Is there a free app that is good for checking out the stats. Looks like the Better Barry Stats is paid.
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Look on XDA, its free.
Also after the OTA update my battery life is about 2x worse. Before I would lose 1% overnight and now i lose about 3%. Before I could get 4hrs screen on time with 20hrs standby, and now I am at 35% with 10 hours standby and 2hrs 6min on screen on.
Going to factory reset tonight.
I have only slightly better battery life than my rooted inspire 4g with a 1230 mah battery....
I cant WAIT for the custom roms and developers tweaking these phones...there is soo much potential for this device!
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I have stock android Non rooted. I turned off Google now, reduced the number of apps that automatically sync. Put display down to 15 percent brightness.
I have no idea whats causing this:
Down to 70 percent so far today.
http://imgur.com/a/2mAc2
http://imgur.com/9iUieNJ
http://imgur.com/D115tbf
I did some youtube, gaming etc. Obvisouly not THAT much given my low screen on time.
Even without vid watching, it drops about this much each day.
THe only way Im gettign by is by having a wireless charger so i constantly charge it.
Do you have the SendHub app by any chance? It was sapping up my battery and I have better results after I froze it with Titanium.
I have a rooted, stock, and tweaked 32GB Nexus 5.
What settings are on your kernel?
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What settings are on your kernel?
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I..dunno. I never touched any of those settings.
Is the CPU over clocked?
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He said he's stock people lol.
I dunno I'm stock and I get great battery life. Have you tried going to settings / apps and then running. It will show processes that are running and the CPU time, look for something taking up an lot of CPU time.
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It's obviously the screen doing most of the damage. How bright is your phone set to again? Just 15? I can see the dips when your screen is on and for an hour of screen on time, that's not out of the question on a device that only totes about 5 hours max of screen on time.
Also why are your fonts so huge? Accessibility settings? If you're not rooted and running stock you need to be checking background processes. Id recommend maube looking into rooting and installimg a custom kernel so you can check and adjust a cpu governer to make sure your CPU isn't running faster than it needs to. You could also possibly stand to undervolt a bit.
Edit: made some errors my bad
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wafermagnet said:
I have stock android Non rooted. I turned off Google now, reduced the number of apps that automatically sync. Put display down to 15 percent brightness.
I have no idea whats causing this:
Down to 70 percent so far today.
http://imgur.com/a/2mAc2
http://imgur.com/9iUieNJ
http://imgur.com/D115tbf
I did some youtube, gaming etc. Obvisouly not THAT much given my low screen on time.
Even without vid watching, it drops about this much each day.
THe only way Im gettign by is by having a wireless charger so i constantly charge it.
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Speculations until we see a BetterBatteryStats log. Get us one of those if you want real answers. Using the device while gathering the data for the log can obscure the issue, so gather a log overnight. That awake time is troubling.
Is Google Now keeping the phone awake? Mine sometimes hangs up and I have to force close the app or restart the phone.
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Is Google Now keeping the phone awake? Mine sometimes hangs up and I have to force close the app or restart the phone.
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I turned google now off.
movielover76 said:
He said he's stock people lol.
I dunno I'm stock and I get great battery life. Have you tried going to settings / apps and then running. It will show processes that are running and the CPU time, look for something taking up an lot of CPU time.
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Yes there were a few apps that had a lot of time, the keyboard, Box.com app, facebook, and a few others. But I didn't bother with it too much because the idle time isnt that bad. The battery goes down quickly two ways: 1. Screen on time. 2. Me checking it every few minutes wakes everything up I guess and lowers it really fast.
What do you mean by "some Youtube"? 15 mins or an hour?
And did you check the Mediaserver runtime? I had a battery issue with my Nexus 5 on stock ROM too and the reason was the permanent Mediaserver activity.
Sadly, I couldn't figure out the reason. Maybe there is a corrupt file on your storage and it keeps scanning or an app is not really compatible with 4.4...
I switched to a custom ROM and the problem was gone...
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What do you mean by "some Youtube"? 15 mins or an hour?
And did you check the Mediaserver runtime? I had a battery issue with my Nexus 5 on stock ROM too and the reason was the permanent Mediaserver activity.
Sadly, I couldn't figure out the reason. Maybe there is a corrupt file on your storage and it keeps scanning or an app is not really compatible with 4.4...
I switched to a custom ROM and the problem was gone...
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Well, the screen on time was about 45 mins...Id say about 30 min of Youtube.
Its not mediaserver usage. the biggest thing is the screen I think. Ive been trying to find apps that run in the background and uninstall them as well.
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What do you mean by "some Youtube"? 15 mins or an hour?
And did you check the Mediaserver runtime? I had a battery issue with my Nexus 5 on stock ROM too and the reason was the permanent Mediaserver activity.
Sadly, I couldn't figure out the reason. Maybe there is a corrupt file on your storage and it keeps scanning or an app is not really compatible with 4.4...
I switched to a custom ROM and the problem was gone...
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Well, the screen on time was about 45 mins...Id say about 30 min of Youtube.
Its not mediaserver usage. the biggest thing is the screen I think. Ive been trying to find apps that run in the background and uninstall them as well.
I have done the following already
Location services disabled
Google Now disabled
Location reporting disabled
Wifi Scanning disabled
wiped cache
G is still getting drained quick. Screen on time doesnt cross 2.5-3.5 hours . I keep wifi and 3g both on
Install an app like BetterBatteryStats or Wakelock Detector. They will show more information but require root.
Dexxon said:
Install an app like BetterBatteryStats or Wakelock Detector. They will show more information but require root.
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I am unrooted unrooted G's in the other xda moto g battery screenshot thread are getting a screen on time of 5-6 hours.. cant seem to be able to match their numbers even remotely
Do you have the brightness set to auto?
Dexxon said:
Do you have the brightness set to auto?
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actually yes, but could that be such a major drain factor??
Actually i don't really know but who knows? Since when are you facing this issue?
Dexxon said:
Actually i don't really know but who knows? Since when are you facing this issue?
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the device itself is about 10 day old. so can't pinpoint exactly
Seems to be a strange issue. Maybe you should give it some time. If it is not getting any better you should consider rooting and install a better battery app
You could try a factory reset
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Battery drain app might give you some ideas, I'm averaging 0.85% hour with location and google now on
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.WazaBe.android.BatteryDrain
There are threads and a bug report with Motorola regarding this. It seems sometimes once GPS is used the battery continues to drain at 1-3% per hour until you reboot.
It may not be the issue in your case but it looks likely as the drain you see when the phone is not awake looks very similar to the problem.
If it drains in airplane mode and the phone shows as never awake then its the same problem.
For now don't use GPS or if you do then reboot directly after.
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Battery drain app might give you some ideas, I'm averaging 0.85% hour with location and google now on
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.WazaBe.android.BatteryDrain
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ok, installed it, will keep posting results
scott_doyland said:
There are threads and a bug report with Motorola regarding this. It seems sometimes once GPS is used the battery continues to drain at 1-3% per hour until you reboot.
It may not be the issue in your case but it looks likely as the drain you see when the phone is not awake looks very similar to the problem.
If it drains in airplane mode and the phone shows as never awake then its the same problem.
For now don't use GPS or if you do then reboot directly after.
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I have disabled location completely and haven't used GPS at all. But other phones in XDA seem to be getting awesome battery life despite GPS on
xgt001 said:
I have disabled location completely and haven't used GPS at all. But other phones in XDA seem to be getting awesome battery life despite GPS on
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If you use your camera, then that might be the problem. Google itself noted a bug in Kit Kat that may run down the battery if you use the camera. Do a search on Google for more details...
btw I found this article stating skype sucks battery, how true is it?? will keep posting any changes after uninstall
@emgee It's showing a drain of 2.8%/hr with wifi on
Prior to this early morning I had turned off data and wifi and I got a battery drop from 100% to 91% in about 7 hrs, is that Ok?
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I have disabled location completely and haven't used GPS at all. But other phones in XDA seem to be getting awesome battery life despite GPS on
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OK, it was just that he first screenshot showed GPS was used right at the start of the battery graph. I assume you have rebooted since then.
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OK, it was just that he first screenshot showed GPS was used right at the start of the battery graph. I assume you have rebooted since then.
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yeah have done.
So you suggest that battery saving option in Location is the best to use?? I have been following that thread
xgt001 said:
yeah have done.
So you suggest that battery saving option in Location is the best to use?? I have been following that thread
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If you are getting the weird drain issue that seems to be related to GPS then maybe best to use battery saving. Depends his bad you need GPS though. So up to you really.
battery drain around 2.5 % /hr . Basically havent been using phone after 82%
I am running Skyfall with stock kernel. I was getting decent battery life, but today noticed that phone was awake for 2 of the 4 hours that it was off the charger. I have gsam and wake detector and wake detector shows nothing crazy that wakes it. I did disable location reporting, so maybe that might be pissing off some apps? I have not installed any new apps, only change was location reporting.
Thanks in advance.
Here is what I use,
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector
Works great for helping to find those pesky apps.
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Was it doing it before you installed gsam? I installed it and my battery went downhill. After I removed it battery got dramatically better.
dsEVOlve said:
Was it doing it before you installed gsam? I installed it and my battery went downhill. After I removed it battery got dramatically better.
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For clarification, you're saying that gsam was killing your battery? I'm trying to figure out if it's killing mine lol. But I have no other way of seeing my screen on time :/
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sparky_005 said:
For clarification, you're saying that gsam was killing your battery? I'm trying to figure out if it's killing mine lol. But I have no other way of seeing my screen on time :/
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It seemed like it. I installed it while I still had BBS running. While I was running GSAM my awake time was about 2.5 hours out of just under 4 hrs total and the phone was just in my pocket most of the time. After I removed it and rebooted the awake time stayed proportional to the time I was actually using it. Other than turning on WiFi optimization I can't think of anything else I did. So it may have been either one but I didn't have WiFi optimization on before I installed GSAM and my battery life was okay.
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Was it doing it before you installed gsam? I installed it and my battery went downhill. After I removed it battery got dramatically better.
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For clarification, you're saying that gsam was killing your battery? I'm trying to figure out if it's killing mine lol. But I have no other way of seeing my screen on time :/
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I have tried with and without gsam. I flashed the lastest firmware and radios and also the snapdragon app that monitors your use and is supposed to save on battery and today I got 3 hours of SOT, off charger for 16 hours and still have 55% left. And wake time back down to normal use. Im about to flash the latest Skyfall so we will see how things go on that build.
So started getting bad wake locks again. I looked and saw media server using a good portion. I have 0 media on my phone as I just stream. Anyone else seeing this issue?