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[Q] battery life and deep sleep

Recently I've noticed a lot of battery use when the phone is supposed to be asleep. (Rom -- old Vahalla Final). Battery life used to be okay. I ran cpu spy and better battery stats and found out the phone was not going into deep sleep mode at all. Where do I go from here?

what is bbs telling you is keeping the phone awake in terms of programs
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Check wakelocks... both partial and kernel. Then look at alarms and network stats...

seems to me that deep sleep is working just fine on my sgs4g.
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That doesn't show deep sleep... just really good battery.
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Cooptx said:
That doesn't show deep sleep... just really good battery.
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always gotta spoil someone's fun, don't you?
anyway, let me just say this, screen was off the whole time. the thing that surprises me is i know for a fact that the last time i charged it was more than the time indicated (feb 28th to be exact cause that's when I posted in the proton thread) and i had to turn the phone on to get the screen shot and it was still at 1% before i plugged it in.
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QUIETLYloud said:
what is bbs telling you is keeping the phone awake in terms of programs
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under "kernel wakelocks" it says "ste-gps-interface" 93.6 % but I almost never use gps.
then "vbus_present" 19.9%
"synet"3.2%
"powermanagerservice" 1.8 %
"radio-interface" 1.5%
"max8998-charger"0.1%
and the rest are 0%.
so what is "ste-gps-interface"? There are some threads on it. The only time I switch on gps is for this speedometer-radar detector app that I haven't used in months.
partial wakelocks are negligible.
Under alarms I am getting 61 wakeups for Yahoo mail which makes sense as I'm on too many email lists. I've now frozen the Ymail application since I don't want email notifications on my phone anyway. the next highest is 21 wakeups for maps and I don't know why that is.

Sounds like your ROM/kernel's GPS handler is screwed up.
My suggestion would be another flash of your ROM without a wipe, reboot to system, unlock phone and accept any SU request popups, wait 10 minutes, and then if you had a custom kernel reboot to recovery, flash your kernel, reboot to system, wait another 10 minutes... and check Better Battery Stats to see if GPS is still going nuts. If so, you'll probably need to wipe system and just follow those steps again.

Theraze said:
Sounds like your ROM/kernel's GPS handler is screwed up.
My suggestion would be another flash of your ROM without a wipe, reboot to system, unlock phone and accept any SU request popups, wait 10 minutes, and then if you had a custom kernel reboot to recovery, flash your kernel, reboot to system, wait another 10 minutes... and check Better Battery Stats to see if GPS is still going nuts. If so, you'll probably need to wipe system and just follow those steps again.
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I reflashed the rom using CWM after wiping everything but I am still getting the ste-gps-interface wakelock. I'm wondering if reinstalling the system and bootloaders with Odin will do anything. I tried a different modem with no results.

nazcalito said:
I reflashed the rom using CWM after wiping everything but I am still getting the ste-gps-interface wakelock. I'm wondering if reinstalling the system and bootloaders with Odin will do anything. I tried a different modem with no results.
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Unchecked everything in settings / location services and see if that makes a difference.

Do you have GPS turned on or off when your getting that wakelock? If it's off turn it on and leave it on.

Maps and GPS rings a bell. Something about maps reporting your location periodically comes out of the dusty portions of my memory. Might want to do an XDA and a Web search on that.
Yep...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Maps+gps+wakelock
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Believe that I saw something about Maps still running even when it's frozen, so you actually have to uninstall it.

Ive tried two ics roms and installed proton v2 and it is not deep sleeping. So i always end up reverting to hefe. Can anyone tell me why or confirm this ?
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More battery problems

As soon as I enable Google Now on my phone (Android 4.4.2 root, stock ROM and kernel) my battery starts to drain incredibly fast (it lasts about two hours idle). This problem doesn't happen if I disable Google Now and Location Services. I also tried with Greenify with no results. Will I ever be able to use Google Now?

Jaggions said:
As soon as I enable Google Now on my phone (Android 4.4.2 root, stock ROM and kernel) my battery starts to drain incredibly fast (it lasts about two hours idle). This problem doesn't happen if I disable Google Now and Location Services. I also tried with Greenify with no results. Will I ever be able to use Google Now?
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I have a bone stock N5, and have Google Now enabled; my battery life is awesome. I poll 3 email accounts every 15 minutes, and have an exchange email account on push. I end the day at 30 - 50% most days. There has to be another issue at play on your phone.

download wakelock detector or use better battery stats to show us a log of what is happening on the phone so that we and YOU can better assess what is going on with your phone. :good:

mistahseller said:
download wakelock detector or use better battery stats to show us a log of what is happening on the phone so that we and YOU can better assess what is going on with your phone. :good:
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After some days of testing I used Wakelock Terminator to kill some wakelocks, but I noticed that these wakelocks can't be killed and they are making some problems.
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try clearing date & uninstalling updates for google play services.
then reinstalling via the playstore.

shilton.charles said:
try clearing date & uninstalling updates for google play services.
then reinstalling via the playstore.
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It worked the first time, but now it doesn't anymore

Guys I really need help! GCM services are killing my battery!

Can you give the wakelock log of a full day? or a full night?

Nikueltrasgu said:
Can you give the wakelock log of a full day? or a full night?
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I can't: my battery only lasts 2-3 hours idle!

Well the wakelock log of a full 2-3 hours using BBS
What does the battery chart says?

Nikueltrasgu said:
Well the wakelock log of a full 2-3 hours using BBS
What does the battery chart says?
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See attachment. One more thing: the phone is always hot and it charges really slowly. Thank you.

Thanks!
Which google play service version are you using?
It appears that Google Cloud Messaging is messing up, trying to do something and getting an error... What are the apps installed and what did you tweaked in the phone?

Personally, with such a severe battery issue, I'd just wipe clean and reinstall. Problem should be gone.
You'll spend more time trying to troubleshoot it than just wiping.
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Nikueltrasgu said:
Thanks!
Which google play service version are you using?
It appears that Google Cloud Messaging is messing up, trying to do something and getting an error... What are the apps installed and what did you tweaked in the phone?
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Google Play Services 4.2.43 (1035512-038). I'm on the stock ROM (rooted). Here's some of my apps which may use GCM:
Code:
Facebook
[STRIKE]Freedom[/STRIKE]
Gmail
Hangouts
Hushed
IM+ Pro
PayPal
Plus Donation
Reminder
Skype
Twitter
WhatsApp+
Xposed
kj2112 said:
Personally, with such a severe battery issue, I'd just wipe clean and reinstall. Problem should be gone.
You'll spend more time trying to troubleshoot it than just wiping.
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You may be right. If I can't succeed within a few days I'll wipe. Thank you

GPS keeping apps awake, even though GPS is off and apps are greenified.

I'm having an issue where apps which require location seemingly stay awake after being greenified and killed from the recent apps. In my battery stats, it shows the gps use details going up continuously, while the CPU usage does does not.
I am running the stock ROM and trinity kernel.
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ikn0wagh0st said:
I'm having an issue where apps which require location seemingly stay awake after being greenified and killed from the recent apps. In my battery stats, it shows the gps use details going up continuously, while the CPU usage does does not.
I am running the stock ROM and trinity kernel.
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I don't see the little GPS peg on the screen that would indicate GPS is being used. Is your battery dropping fast? It's either a bug in the display, or a bug in the GPS code.

Aerowinder said:
I don't see the little GPS peg on the screen that would indicate GPS is being used. Is your battery dropping fast? It's either a bug in the display, or a bug in the GPS code.
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That is correct, and why I am baffled. GPS is turned off. Battery life seems fine from what I am seeing.

ikn0wagh0st said:
That is correct, and why I am baffled. GPS is turned off. Battery life seems fine from what I am seeing.
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Is the issue reproducible?

go to your phones main settings, location.. what mode is it in? high accuracy, battery saving, or device only? also is googles location reporting on or off?

ikn0wagh0st said:
That is correct, and why I am baffled. GPS is turned off. Battery life seems fine from what I am seeing.
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It happened with me also some days back, location services were completely off but google services kept gps on, while I didn't enable it and I was able to track down the culprit, for me it was google play services. Restart fixed it for me.
I think this is another bug because same thing happened with a person who I know and for him it was facebook and for you its speedtest app.

I've noticed the service GoogleLocationManager tries to keep itself running at all times, even with locations completely disabled.
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Hi, i have the same problem. Few days ago i found out that may GPS si running background even if my google location, google maps are off. I put phone into airplane mode but GPS was still running.
My nexus 5 is stock and unrooted. If i turn off/on GPS stop running.
Has anyone any solution about this problem?it seems it has to be some bug draining my battery, but if i dont root nexus i wont know wick app is draining battery?

simms22 said:
go to your phones main settings, location.. what mode is it in? high accuracy, battery saving, or device only? also is googles location reporting on or off?
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^^^^^ this.
Set it to battery saving. A majority of the apps do not need high accuracy (active) GPS. The only time I have to enable High accuracy active GPS is when using maps/navigation (a tasker profile takes care of that for me - enable high accuracy when maps is launched, and switch to battery saving when I exit maps). Most of the other apps work just fine with battery saving location settings.

I got this issue today ( stock rooted)
After using the map and GPS for many hours, the GPS was awake even after force close the map app, and setting location off.
Rebooting the phone is the fix.

1.5hr SOT - I must be doing something..

Hey there,
So I've had my Nexus 5 for quite some time now and tried a few different ROMs and Kernel combinations. I care a LOT about battery life but this device has never really kept up to what others are saying it's capable of.
ROM: OmniROM latest nightly
Kernel: Faux123 Kernel v013
I'm currently getting around 1.5 hours of screen on time of use with no 'battery saving' apps, no greenify, location reporting on. The only setting I've changed is make GPS set to battery saving. Is this normal? Android OS takes up 30% of the battery stats. I have also attempted a full factory reset and built it from scratch (not restoring any backups) with no change.
Any help is greatly appreciated,
Thanks!

use better battery stats and give us that info.

You have the Android OS disease
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DarkRyoushii said:
Hey there,
So I've had my Nexus 5 for quite some time now and tried a few different ROMs and Kernel combinations. I care a LOT about battery life but this device has never really kept up to what others are saying it's capable of.
ROM: OmniROM latest nightly
Kernel: Faux123 Kernel v013
I'm currently getting around 1.5 hours of screen on time of use with no 'battery saving' apps, no greenify, location reporting on. The only setting I've changed is make GPS set to battery saving. Is this normal? Android OS takes up 30% of the battery stats. I have also attempted a full factory reset and built it from scratch (not restoring any backups) with no change.
Any help is greatly appreciated,
Thanks!
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1) Set screen brightness manually.
2) Turn location reporting to high accuracy or device only, or even off.
3) Don't agree to Google location reporting.
4) Turn off Wifi background scanning (Settings, Wifi, Menu->Advanced, Scanning always Available unchecked)
5) I find Wi-Fi optimization off may or may not help.
6) Make sure you get good signal strength. If you need to, downgrade to 3g (EVDO, not HSPA) if Sprint from LTE if the signal is better, or even 2g (edge, not 1x) if T-Mobile.
7) Disable unnecessary syncing for your accounts (Google Play ...).

you bought the wrong phone if you care allot about battery life.
Though what your getting is abnormal, im easily able to get 4 hours screen on time with heavy use

First - disable location reporting (leave location on. I do)
Download this - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wq.disableservice
And make Google play services look like this -
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See how that helps
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Your battery drain is certainly anomalous. I leave everything on all the time and average 22 hrs up with 5 hrs SOT. As @Zepius said, you need BBS logs to be able to troubleshoot.

Using that disabling app and using common sense you can also scrap off the location calling of other apps that really don't need it -
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Thanks for the help guys but I haven't had much better luck, I didn't get a screenshot but today it lasted 9 hours with 1 hour screen on time.. there's definitely something wrong and even after a factory reset it's still not improving.
After running BBS today I got two that showed up as potential culprits.
bam_dmux_wakelock and wlan_rx_wake. Neither of these are linked to a specific app though.
Maybe time to call Google? I went through 4 Nexus 4 devices because of various issues.. maybe I need a second Nexus 5.

why dont you try just stock and see if its different?

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why dont you try just stock and see if its different?
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I have, stock with my apps is just the same but I doubt it's an app, I have the exact same apps on my Note II (Backup synced from google when I reset the note) and that lasts days..

DarkRyoushii said:
I have, stock with my apps is just the same but I doubt it's an app, I have the exact same apps on my Note II (Backup synced from google when I reset the note) and that lasts days..
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are you sure its not a badly coded app? the note II is not on kitkat if i remember correctly.
go with stock rom, stock kernel, and minimal apps for the day and see if there's a difference.

Zepius said:
are you sure its not a badly coded app? the note II is not on kitkat if i remember correctly.
go with stock rom, stock kernel, and minimal apps for the day and see if there's a difference.
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Daily both are running OmniROM with the same set of apps, get home from a day of uni and the Nexus is on 30% while the Note is on 72% both with an hour of usage each.

DarkRyoushii said:
Daily both are running OmniROM with the same set of apps, get home from a day of uni and the Nexus is on 30% while the Note is on 72% both with an hour of usage each.
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you're comparing phones with massively different size batteries.
will you just try what i asked?

Try a different kernel?
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Certain routers or network settings can destroy batteries on wifi also. Kinda sounds like that's what your wakelocks could be from.
But yeah....before talking exchange or repair....you really need to reflash a clean stock version.....no installed apps and see how it is. If its an app or a router/network issue, the next phone will be the same.
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Boot into safe mode and see if it goes away. That's what Google support would suggest you to try.
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Deep sleep

Is anybody else having trouble getting the device into deep sleep?

I use DS Battery saver, have no problem going to deep sleep..
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shaker2k said:
Is anybody else having trouble getting the device into deep sleep?
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Actually, I had the same issue.. I haven't gotten around to seeing if maybe it was an app issue for me, but when I checked BBS, it stated it was Google Services causing the phone to stay awake.

CephiroX said:
Actually, I had the same issue.. I haven't gotten around to seeing if maybe it was an app issue for me, but when I checked BBS, it stated it was Google Services causing the phone to stay awake.
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That's a CM bug, unplug phone from charger while screen is on., or just reboot when 100% and unplug...
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This is what I get.
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I got a response on the one plus one forums. Fix is merged. I'm guessing it will be in the next release.

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I got a response on the one plus one forums. Fix is merged. I'm guessing it will be in the next release.
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Do you happen to have a link to the post? Just curious what they said.
I tried Wombat's fix and mine still doesn't seem to sleep properly
Nevermind. I found it Thanks!

CephiroX said:
Do you happen to have a link to the post? Just curious what they said.
I tried Wombat's fix and mine still doesn't seem to sleep properly
Nevermind. I found it Thanks!
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This works. Just did it this morning. My phone had never been into deep sleep before. This method is easiest and works perfectly
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53739230&postcount=5031

Had the same issue!
this what worked for me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/help/systemupdateservices-wakelock-solution-t2810252
do we have any permanent solution? Any CM bugreport?

MarvinFS said:
Had the same issue!
this what worked for me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/help/systemupdateservices-wakelock-solution-t2810252
do we have any permanent solution? Any CM bugreport?
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It is supposed to be fixed in the next OTA update.

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It is supposed to be fixed in the next OTA update.
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really? where the info came from? as far as i've read on the net they tried to fix this issue since M5!

google play services is killing me. 4 hours of screen time, mostly watching youtube videos. and google play services is still the number one usage of battery. the device says its always awake. very wtf. ive tried everything, wake lock killing apps and location turned off, and it wont stop.

MarvinFS said:
really? where the info came from? as far as i've read on the net they tried to fix this issue since M5!
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It was fixed in normal CM11, I can't find the post that said that it was part of the big July update.
review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/66894/
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The Jack of Clubs said:
google play services is killing me. 4 hours of screen time, mostly watching youtube videos. and google play services is still the number one usage of battery. the device says its always awake. very wtf. ive tried everything, wake lock killing apps and location turned off, and it wont stop.
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Follow the instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53739230&postcount=5031

SystemUpdateService is disabled, but still my OnePlus won't get to sleep... :-/ Google Play Services keep waking it up, even after restarting the phone

pppprrrr said:
SystemUpdateService is disabled, but still my OnePlus won't get to sleep... :-/ Google Play Services keep waking it up, even after restarting the phone
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Try using Wakelock Blocker. I think theres a module in Xposed for that.
I'm using Mahdi + Franco + Banks gapps and don't have the Google play services wakelock.
Is Google Location Reporting disabled for you?

yes, location reporting is disabled. checked that one
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For anyone still having problems, check post #123 in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2753354
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in my case SystemUpdateService was disabled and when enableing it it finally gets into deep sleep
however when rebooting I have to enable it again...
as it seems... it is a bug in CM11s... in CM11 the problem is already solved
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if you disable privacy guard for "disable_services" and you after this disable "googloe.update.services" in "disable_services.apk" then your deep sleep comes back!