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Anyone else get stupid fast drain while its sleeping? I have wifi sleep policy set to turn off wifi when screen is off, and using the task manager nothing looks to be running that i havent launched myself. But usually i'd have the battery last DAYS and DAYS if i wasn't using it that much, but the last few charge cycles it's been nearly dead at the end of the day. Is there an app I can get to monitor stuff while its sleeping to see if something is keeping it from deep sleep? I can't remember what i've installed recently that could keep it in wake-lock or whatever. Thanks guys.
There's a build in feature in the settings menu to tell you what uses battery
Check that the wifi is actually sleeping when the screen is off. Tap the power button to wake up the tablet then look at the notification bar in the right hand corner to see if the wifi is turning on and connecting. If its not doing that then I dont think the wifi is disconnecting and turning off when the screen is turned off.
For battery issues, two "must have" tools are "better battery stats" and "cpu spy"
gary's right. download better battery stats here:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats
and since the developer of that app loves XDA, there's a free version for us!
OP: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
DL: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=833619&d=1325149176
Look into the partial wakelock and find the cuplrit!
Battery Drain
Try loading the free util Auto Airplane Mode which has helped fix the SOD issue and the related battery drain during the SOD.
Sorry to push the old post up again.
Recently im suffering from the weird battery drain, i didnt play/use my phone much on sunday , the idle battery drain is huge. like 8 hrs from 100%-40%.
I've installed both betterbatterystats and cpu spy already.
From battstats , it shows that kworker/0:1-3 and kworker/u:12-13 etc using up most of the batt , secondly is the doubletwist music player.
From cpu spy, most of the time is with 200mhz even i didnt use the phone at all, rarely goes to deep sleep mode.
for the process kworker it didnt show whats the process/app is about , anyone else know wt to do now ?
Same problem here :-(
Fully loaded at 7 o'clock and now I'm 34% - this really sucks!
faygo6464 said:
Sorry to push the old post up again.
Recently im suffering from the weird battery drain, i didnt play/use my phone much on sunday , the idle battery drain is huge. like 8 hrs from 100%-40%.
I've installed both betterbatterystats and cpu spy already.
From battstats , it shows that kworker/0:1-3 and kworker/u:12-13 etc using up most of the batt , secondly is the doubletwist music player.
From cpu spy, most of the time is with 200mhz even i didnt use the phone at all, rarely goes to deep sleep mode.
for the process kworker it didnt show whats the process/app is about , anyone else know wt to do now ?
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All you can do is to check the apps you recently installed or updated. They might lock you from sleep. No easy way to control this
For me it was the "samsung-keyboard" - I froze it and now everything seems normal.
Hello all,
I'm running Tweaked 2.1 with the 5/24 PBJ kernel. Everything works great, except that I've found my phone won't deep sleep after I've charged it for the night. The only fix I've found is to reboot.
So, to be really clear.
I turn it on - deep sleep happens.
Use it all day, deep sleep happens.
Charge it overnight,
Disconnect and no more deep sleeping happens, it just stays at 100MHz and the battery drains that much faster.
So, my clever cell-phone-friends, any ideas?
Go this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Download Better Battery Stats from the bottom of the second post. Install it, and then wait for the problem to happen again. When you see that it's happened, run BBS and select the options to view partial wakelocks since unplugged. That will show you what is holding wakelocks (preventing the phone from sleeping).
stats
Okay, so, here are the wakelocks after last night's charging.
Partial:
* ImapFolderPusher.....
k-9
12s
* RILJ
Dailer
7s
Kernel:
* "RXNET_MSL_LISTENER_WAKELOCK"
48 m 2 s
* "vbus_present"
2 m 21 s
And it records 51 minutes since unplugged.
I've looked for anything about RXNET... before, and found nothing. Is it maybe something realted to wifi? RXNET sounds like some sort of network receiving thing. I don't suppose anyone else has this problem?
I've also read about turning on the screen while unplugging and other hacky fixes, but nothing has worked for me. Those were for other phones, so I didn't really expect it to work.
In any event -- an further ideas? Thanks for helping.
You definitely don't have an issue with partial wakelocks, but kernel wakelocks seem to be a big problem. 48m of wakelock out of 51m is bad for battery life. I did a quick search and couldn't find anything specifically on that wakelock either. I'll keep looking and see what I can find.
Imnuts is the person to ask about this one.
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Fixed!
So, apparently, freezing the Rx Networks PGPS downloader app causes that wakelock. Unfreezing it has let my phone sleep again. Odd that it waited until after charging to be a problem.
Hi, I really did some research but I find alot of ROMs and Kernels and I always get lost. I just need a good safe way to better the battery life of my Nexus 5 and keep it's stability and all the functions it has. So I wanted to ask what you guys recommend as Kernels, apps and lastly (I dont want to change unless its worth it) ROMs.
Sorry, its been hard without a PC to do decent research.
Enviado do meu Nexus 5 através de Tapatalk
The ROM has very little to do with battery life. It's all about the kernel or the apps.
We can't recommend kernels (or roms) as this is against the rules. They will all pretty much help with battery life. Just try them all- yourself.
Apps:
Greenify
Better battery Stats
That's it. Anything else I would recommend is going through all your settings and turning off things you dont need like location reporting etc
if battery life is all you are looking for... the difference are ... not much
Just disable google apps that you do not use, then you are good to go.
Locations settings, always off, activate only when needed. uncheck all under Google Location Reporting.
Disable NFC if not needed.
If you don't have good LTE coverage, change it to 3G under mobile networks.
For maximum battery life, do NOT activate Google Now.
eg. (These are apps I've disabled)
Drive
Earth
Email
Exchange Services
Face Unlock
Gallery (I use QuickPic as alternative)
Gmail
Google Hindi input (These ones gets disabled once you uncheck them from input settings)
Google Play books
Google Play Games
Google Play Magazines
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Music (I use Poweramp *Paid)
Google+
Keep
Maps
News & weather
Quickoffice
Street View
Tags
TalkBack
Hangouts (I use HoverChat *Paid)
Check this thread mate...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/nexus-5-battery-results-t2509132/
CitizenLee said:
Check this thread mate...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/nexus-5-battery-results-t2509132/
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What he said ^^^^
It doesn't matter what's on your phone....you should be able to get good battery life. Its all about setup and usage.
Just gotta troubleshoot issues occasionally.
Please check the thread linked above, and read read read. . (Start on last page and read back for a bit....a lot of good info)
On my phone it certainly seems to have something to do with signal quality. At home, I can put the phone next to the bed at night with it fully charged and wake up with it at about 95 or 96%.
At work a fully charged phone just sitting on my desk drops to about 90% in only a couple of hours.
The signal quality in my building at work is pretty poor, so I'm guessing the phone is using a lot of extra energy desperately searching for a better signal .
Claghorn said:
On my phone it certainly seems to have something to do with signal quality. At home, I can put the phone next to the bed at night with it fully charged and wake up with it at about 95 or 96%.
At work a fully charged phone just sitting on my desk drops to about 90% in only a couple of hours.
The signal quality in my building at work is pretty poor, so I'm guessing the phone is using a lot of extra energy desperately searching for a better signal .
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Poor and searching for signal is probably the biggest battery drain there can be.
Get gsam. And after your at work a few hours, open and click on "phone radio". It will say how long your phone was actually searching for a signal. That's a huge battery killer.
The only cures, get on WiFi. Or go into airplane mode. Toggle off data might help, then you'd still get texts and phone calls.
kj2112 said:
The only cures, get on WiFi.
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I do have wifi on in both locations, so the wifi part of this doesn't help. I suspect data isn't the issue, just the cell connection. My old phone used to randomly reboot inside this building when trying to get a signal . I guess I should install gsam just to verify, but the signal is really the only difference between work and home, so I'm pretty sure that is the issue.
Claghorn said:
I do have wifi on in both locations, so the wifi part of this doesn't help. I suspect data isn't the issue, just the cell connection. My old phone used to randomly reboot inside this building when trying to get a signal . I guess I should install gsam just to verify, but the signal is really the only difference between work and home, so I'm pretty sure that is the issue.
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Usually battery drain from a low or bad signal is only a big issue while on data. On WiFi it doesn't affect the battery much , if any. Its from apps trying to sync through data on a bad or no signal. So on WiFi, that's not an issue.
At home I get fairly poor reception...sometimes only a bar...with some time spent searching for signal, but my battery times are at their best at home. On WiFi.
It could be a network issue. Some devices on networks can affect your device by spam polling your phone....might want to also get wakelock detector to see that. If the LAN is draining your battery, there will be wakelocks from it.
Try gsam and compare work results to home results. Especially good would be trying at least a few hours of total standby to see the difference at both locations. You'd have to reset gsam stats to start your standby test at all zeros though. A reboot will reset gsam.
Good luck!
Remove all google [email protected]%# ...
And disable autostart from programs like poweramp which start on boot...use romtoolbox and autostart manager
Of course, pay attention to what you're going to disable
If You will try and You have some doubt ask here
I use a lightweight aosp ROM, a minimal gapps package, stock kernel, disabled some programs from boot and run in background...and battery duration is good
Don't ask to us roms/kernel combo, please Questions like your are not allowed on xda
Always read the users feedback and make Your choice
And... My doubt..is it really needed to change the kernel ??
Give stock kernel a chance... That's all I can say...
And make sure to charge your phone the right way
Hi! Anyone knows if I can disable the processes that Viber starts every so often? Like the in-app processes, it keeps on running in the background consuming a huge chunk of my battery. I already emailed Viber about it but unfortunately they don't have a fix for it.
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natadecocolococo said:
Hi! Anyone knows if I can disable the processes that Viber starts every so often? Like the in-app processes, it keeps on running in the background consuming a huge chunk of my battery. I already emailed Viber about it but unfortunately they don't have a fix for it.
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Greenify?
rootSU said:
Greenify?
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I'll try that. Thanks.
kj2112 said:
Try gsam and compare work results to home results. Especially good would be trying at least a few hours of total standby to see the difference at both locations. You'd have to reset gsam stats to start your standby test at all zeros though. A reboot will reset gsam.
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OK, I turned the phone off, charged it to 100%, then pretty much let it sit doing nothing after rebooting. After sitting overnight at home (where the battery doesn't drain much) the "Phone" app was way down in the list:
GSam Labs - Battery Monitor - Export Data
Phone
Apr 30, 2014 9:55:45 AM
Usage Details
CPU Usage:2s
CPU Usage (Background Only):2s
Keep Awake:19s
Number of Wake Locks:177
Number of times waking device:2
App UID:1001
Wakelock Detail
RILJ8.8s(136)...
Did the same recharge with phone off at work, rebooted, then let it sit on my desk for just a couple of hours, and "Phone" is now the 2nd biggest culprit in the apps list:
GSam Labs - Battery Monitor - Export Data
Phone
May 1, 2014 10:35:57 AM
Usage Details
CPU Usage:3m 24s
CPU Usage (Background Only):3m 24s
Keep Awake:12m 1s
Number of Wake Locks:1167
Number of times waking device:141
App UID:1001
Wakelock Detail
RILJ11.9m(1031)...
Wifi was on in both locations (with a good signal), I even turned off location to prevent that overhead. It just hates the environment at work .
Claghorn said:
OK, I turned the phone off, charged it to 100%, then pretty much let it sit doing nothing after rebooting. After sitting overnight at home (where the battery doesn't drain much) the "Phone" app was way down in the list:
GSam Labs - Battery Monitor - Export Data
Phone
Apr 30, 2014 9:55:45 AM
Usage Details
CPU Usage:2s
CPU Usage (Background Only):2s
Keep Awake:19s
Number of Wake Locks:177
Number of times waking device:2
App UID:1001
Wakelock Detail
RILJ8.8s(136)...
Did the same recharge with phone off at work, rebooted, then let it sit on my desk for just a couple of hours, and "Phone" is now the 2nd biggest culprit in the apps list:
GSam Labs - Battery Monitor - Export Data
Phone
May 1, 2014 10:35:57 AM
Usage Details
CPU Usage:3m 24s
CPU Usage (Background Only):3m 24s
Keep Awake:12m 1s
Number of Wake Locks:1167
Number of times waking device:141
App UID:1001
Wakelock Detail
RILJ11.9m(1031)...
Wifi was on in both locations (with a good signal), I even turned off location to prevent that overhead. It just hates the environment at work .
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I think that is just the difference in signal quality. It seems to be pretty common to get degraded signal at work places due to larger structure sizes as well as more users per cell tower.
Phone Idle is from the voice network, Cell Standby is from the data connection.
Is it normal for Google Play Services to be running in the background always? The gcm and the location service is always on.
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natadecocolococo said:
Is it normal for Google Play Services to be running in the background always? The gcm and the location service is always on.
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Yup
And its worse with location on for sure....battery wise anyway.
I recently installed wakelock detector to help me save battery life with greenify. Looking at what it says it seems my phone never goes into deep sleep. This screenshot only shows the past hour and a half as before that I greenified things that looked like it might be causing the problem, but it looks the same now as it did before, 0.0 of deep sleep no matter how long I leave it, but none of the listed wakelocks seem to be that long, so I can't figure out why my phone wouldn't be deep sleeping.
Its a rooted Sony Xperia e4 running 4.4.4
Any thoughts?
You should also check Settings -> Battery -> tap on battery graph to open History details. There can be some dependencies between 'Awake' data and other data. Or you can post the screenshot of it here.
Hi, Sorry it took so long for me to respond, I was hoping to get a screenshot from a period where I hadn't touched my phone for longer but I kept forgetting at night time. I notice this time it actually says my screen has been on the whole time (though I never used it in this period at all, and when I picked it up the screen was off) So I have also included a screenshot of the screen wakelock page. Frustratingly, a lot of the things on the cpu wakelock page are already greenified and I manually hibernated them before turning the screen off, so not sure why they are still causing issues.
Either way, none of it adds up to the time awake
I posted a reply on this earlier but it seems to have disappeared. Anyway, I installed betterbatterystats and it showed that *backup* was keeping my phone from sleeping.
Google suggests it isn't altogether unconmon, and following some instructions I found I disabled back up, cleaeed dalvik cache and enabled back up again
So far its worked brilliantly, hopefully it stays that way.
Just an update on case anyone googkes and reads my solution above, it didn't work. Restarting my phone makes it go away for a little while and my phone gets plenty of deep sleep even in only a short space of time, but then *backup* comes back and its all over again. I can't keep restarting my phone every couple of hours. Maybe turning backuo off permanently will help, but then I have no backups, so hardly av good solution.
Hi,
*backup* is a wakelock from Google's Backup service. Wakelocks are so crazy because it regularly backups your data (such as Contacts, your Play Games' progresses, WiFi passwords, app data, etc) to Google's server. Disabling this equals to no longer having up-to-date backups.
You could actually disable the automatic backup, but make sure you backup your data periodically.
It's better for me to use BBS instead for checking for wakelocks.
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krasCGQ said:
Hi,
*backup* is a wakelock from Google's Backup service. Wakelocks are so crazy because it regularly backups your data (such as Contacts, your Play Games' progresses, WiFi passwords, app data, etc) to Google's server. Disabling this equals to no longer having up-to-date backups.
You could actually disable the automatic backup, but make sure you backup your data periodically.
It's better for me to use BBS instead for checking for wakelocks.
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Yes I've found BBS better to, never would have found the problem otherwise. I turned off back up maybe 13 hours ago and so far so good. Not the ideal solution though eh. Hopefully google will fix it soon
Normally when I put apps manually in deep sleep they don't do anything , run , wake up or use background data, send notifications , more so when their mobile data is restricted as well as their background activity. The highlighted even show as "manually disabled " within the apps menu. Yet they are showing up usage in background process within GSAM monitor.
Any ideas lads?
Edit. I checked their status under Dev menu, they were set to working _set , changed them to Frequent and will monitor.
It's a bloody joke , that deep sleep or sleeping apps setting under device care.
Just checked a few of my apps that are set to deep sleep aka manually disabled. Yet within Dev menu, their status is Active under standby apps.
Here's one example.
I checked mine and the apps are not "disabled" when I add them to deep sleep. I can still open the app, which would be impossible if the app was disabled.
I wouldn't trust the dev option as an indication that the app isn't sleeping (aka running in the background)... I have apps listed in mine that I haven't used yet, and there has been zero activity in the apps at all (battery use or otherwise).
Double check the battery use of the app and see if it is running in the background.
**Never mind, just woke up here and saw your first post edit. Hopefully the issue gets resolved for ya
scottusa2008 said:
I checked mine and the apps are not "disabled" when I add them to deep sleep. I can still open the app, which would be impossible if the app was disabled.
I wouldn't trust the dev option as an indication that the app isn't sleeping (aka running in the background)... I have apps listed in mine that I haven't used yet, and there has been zero activity in the apps at all (battery use or otherwise).
Double check the battery use of the app and see if it is running in the background.
**Never mind, just woke up here and saw your first post edit. Hopefully the issue gets resolved for ya
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Yeah you're right. The dev option status for those apps running or not appears to be variable ,.changing them changes them back to whatever they want to be i believe.
I was just shocked ( not really ) I had those highlighted two or three apps in deep sleep status via the battery care menu, yet when my device was left sleeping and untouched for 2 hours I opened GSAM and it showed those very same apps as being used in the background as the top five usage lol
I use Nap Time by Francisco Franco to put the phone in a deep doze. Been using it on all my phones for several years now. Just need a couple adb commands for it to work on an unrooted phone.
Naptime - the real battery sav - Apps on Google Play
Makes your device sleep faster to save precious battery life when you need it
play.google.com
ggrant3876 said:
I use Nap Time by Francisco Franco to put the phone in a deep doze. Been using it on all my phones for several years now. Just need a couple adb commands for it to work on an unrooted phone.
Naptime - the real battery sav - Apps on Google Play
Makes your device sleep faster to save precious battery life when you need it
play.google.com
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I'm good with 0.5 to 0.4% usage per hour in standby, however I might look into that in the near future if it may improve them. Current issue on hand if at all any might be SOT. I'm currently averaging similar figures to my last Samsung device which was an S10+
I guage all my devices battery performance by how much screen on time I can attain for around 40% of battery consumption. Currently averaging 4.5 hours. Was hoping for 6 plus but they might be over optimistic considering the 4370mAh battery.
ggrant3876 said:
I use Nap Time by Francisco Franco to put the phone in a deep doze. Been using it on all my phones for several years now. Just need a couple adb commands for it to work on an unrooted phone.
Naptime - the real battery sav - Apps on Google Play
Makes your device sleep faster to save precious battery life when you need it
play.google.com
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ive used naptime before on other phones, will it interfere with notifications on oneui?
Doesn't for me.
Limeybastard said:
I'm good with 0.5 to 0.4% usage per hour in standby, however I might look into that in the near future if it may improve them. Current issue on hand if at all any might be SOT. I'm currently averaging similar figures to my last Samsung device which was an S10+
I guage all my devices battery performance by how much screen on time I can attain for around 40% of battery consumption. Currently averaging 4.5 hours. Was hoping for 6 plus but they might be over optimistic considering the 4370mAh battery.
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With Nap Time I only lose 3-4% in a 12 hour overnight. I also have a lot oy Samsung bloat disabled too.