On my rooted Note 3 & 10.1 and their battery life has been pretty bad thus far. I installed WakeLock Detector and uninstalled the apps I deemed unnecessary and I greenified the apps I still wanted. Thing is, the 1 app that is still persistently causing Wake locks is the super user app. How do I fix that. I haven't tampered with it because it's most central app on a rooted device.
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3 screenshots from 3 different days with no apps running in the background, I cleared it before going to sleep. Help please?
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3 screenshots from 3 different days with no apps running in the background, I cleared it before going to sleep. Help please?
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Tap and show the info about Android OS battery usage. Usually if keeping the phone awake can be solved by rebooting the phone.
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3 screenshots from 3 different days with no apps running in the background, I cleared it before going to sleep. Help please?
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Without root and a lot of advanced tweaking there is only one simple thing you can do - turn off WiFi and Mobile Data before you go to sleep. Eventually as an even bigger step you can also go to Airplane Mode but obviously you will not be able to take any phone call. See what battery drain you get under those conditions.
Thank you! Thought I had to unroot my phone. Already tried rebooting but did mot work but O tried factory reseting my phone and solved the problem.
Try my battery saving thread here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2579075
It has helped many. It could help you too.
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3 screenshots from 3 different days with no apps running in the background, I cleared it before going to sleep. Help please?
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1st picture
i think dropbox is eating up your battery
2nd picture
your mobile network signal is weak, this could be the culprit
3rd picture
same as above
post some wakelocks. Otherwise this is useless.
The 1st picture it's obviously dropbox. In the other two, who knows. without wakelock stats this thread is useless
Worth rooting...
If you root go for :
- Wakelock Detector (find out exactly what caused the drain: screen / cpu)
- Greenify (hibernate apps regularly)
- ROM Toolbox Pro (disable startup and other related intents)
Since I did (I stayed on stock) : I don't have to worry about charging during the day + all lag is gone (even with 500 apps and >100 more frozen).
wakelock detector works just fine without root greenify partially
Turn off the wifi
Hi,
I am not sure if this should be posted to specific forum for my Moto X. If so, please let me know.
The battery drains very quickly. I used CPU spy and it showed that phone never enters deep sleep, even though I barely uses it.
How could I found out which application is preventing the sleep?
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Like Sewrizer said, search for a wakelock detector on google play store and lock your screen for some time
It should show you which app is causing this problem
I have Moto X with 4.4 and no root. It looks like Wake Lock Detector would need root on 4.4. Is that right?
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betterbatterystatus is also a good app that helps with analysis of battery drain.
Anyway in the case you know you only need to check wakelocks, but I would still recommend BBS for you (of cource, BBS can analysis wakelocks as well)
@redhonker
BBS did not work in 4.4.4 in non rooted mode.
It happened to me on Moto g. Some culprit app drained battery. So i used DS battery and greenify together.
DS battery- Slumberer mode (This forces deep sleep i guess)
Greenify- Allows you to shut down nonsense background apps.
Now phone is back to normalcy. Again CM battery doctor listed some music app as "Fast draining" I uninstalled some.
As general advice:
Disable auto sync and poll frequency of your email and other apps and get back your motto x. Enjoy
Press Thanks if helped.
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I thought greenify needs root as well. Will try it.
This KitKat change is really bad. I don't know why they want to prevent users to know more about their battery usage.
What is CM battery?
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Greenify has a hack for non root. You can enable hibernate feature from home up button for screen lock pin enabled devices through experimental menu.
For non - pin screen lock devices go to experimental menu click "automated hibernation". This will enable hibernation after screen off.
I prefer home button scroll up menu for " hibernate + lock screen ".
CM battery doctor was previously KS battery doctor. I just use it to kill apps and know battery % left in status bar.
Remember no battery saver app is useful for non root devices because ability to control is much lessor.
Rooted battery savers can limit cpu usage, kill apps and prevent again from Android picking up.
Greenify an exception beyond 4.0 devices.
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This post will benefit all not just @OP
To identify bg apps that suck your internet and battery just install No root firewall and check access log. Uninstall those apps that keep pinging servers outside for adverts etc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts.firewall&hl=en
Eg: Nova launcher access advertisements on avg of 4/sec. Do decide which one is best for you.
You can even control system apps like Motorola updates etc.
DS battery saver
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootuninstaller.batrsaver&hl=en
Greenify
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify&hl=en
CM/KS battery doctor
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ijinshan.kbatterydoctor_en&hl=en
As you see CM reports higher battery available time than DS battery saver.
I suspect former (CM) is more publicity driven and not sure about its performance. While DS is good.
Please press THANKS if interesting. Sent from Moto G-od via xt1033 free Android app.
One more way to analyze usage
1. Press following
*#*#4636#*#*
2. Or download phone testing app which does the above for you
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=diewland.testing.phone&hl=en
3. Click "Usage Statistics" -> "Usage time"
This does not require memory intensive app or root as it comes pre installed on your phone. Enjoy.
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I run Mobiwol and block all apps I don't think need internet access. Plus AdblockPlus to remove advertisement trafficc. (I wish I have root then I need only one app).
Without root on 4.4, how much these can do?
I installed GSam. The frustrating thing is that most of application usage is by Android System and Kernel: 9 and 5 out of 34.
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Thanks for all the pointers.
With a few tries with GSAM, I was able to identify 2 rouge applications. Surprisingly, one is Google+. Since I don't use it, it's uninstalled.
I also recently moved to a different spot in office. The data signal apparently is bad from time to time. So I used llama to turn off data in office and wake up every 10 min to check for message.
This allowed me to go through the day without a recharge. Still not happy about battery life but that's ok for now.
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Try the Deep Sleep Battery Saver app mentioned earlier. Should solve your issue, since it forces deep sleep!
I'm not sure if I posted this thread in the right forum, so please move it if it's needed, but I just wanted to let people know about this serious bug.
So, "Here" is obviously one of the best free offline navigation apps but there's a pretty serious bug that started occuring after the app went from beta to stable. The app keeps running in background after closing it, swiping it away from recent apps and even after force stoping it so it keeps heating up the phone drastically and also affecting the battery pretty hard. I've had this bug on 2 different phones so it's definitely not phone or brand related (it happened on my Sony Xperia V and also on Samsung Galaxy S4). The only solution for now is to use greenify and hibernate the app after using it, because just force stoping it doesn't work (it starts automatically again). You can go into your running apps and you'll probably see it there in active processes (I've just used it once to download maps and try it out a bit and it kept running 2 days non-stop). My Galaxy S4 was very hot and battery was also worse than before installing the app so that's how I found it out even though it didn't show up in battery usage information, but it did on my Xperia V so that's why I knew it was this app that was causing the problems. So I installed "Greenify", added Here app to the list and hibernated it. Now it doesn't automatically start and my phone never gets hot, not even warm.
I hope this information will help some of you who are using this app and having overheating and battery issues. :fingers-crossed:
Brand new S6 but very poor battery life. It lasts about 12 hours without heavy use.
GSam shows screen at 2:45 but it's 1:47 in settings -> battery. GSam shows Held Awake time is 5:26.
How do I troubleshoot? I don't have root.
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Have a look at wakelocks. I have had that the youtube app was causing massive battery drain and I was not even using it. Also have a look as the camera quick launch in the camera settings. Might be that you are accidentally hitting the center button twice and the camera launches and eats your battery.
How do I check which app is doing the wakelock?
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I've done some homework. Gmail is disabled. Location service is off.
Is it rooted? If yes go with greenify and amplify... Shut up those wakelocks. I get above 5hours on my s6 edge.
If not rooted uncheck those apps from which you dont need notifications... Update your phone to the latest baseband... In short keep it updated. Also you mention your phone being new, let it drain completly so that it can caliberate properly
The phone is not rooted (it comes with 5.1.1 and there seems to be no way to root it). It's already updated to latest this week (OTA).
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The phone is not rooted (it comes with 5.1.1 and there seems to be no way to root it). It's already updated to latest this week (OTA).
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Buy/Download an app called Package Disabler Pro and disable the bloatwares(pink colour). No root required! It's the best app one could buy for the unrooted S6, I guarantee!
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Buy/Download an app called Package Disabler Pro and disable the bloatwares(pink colour). No root required! It's the best app one could buy for the unrooted S6, I guarantee!
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How do I know which package is the problem to start with?
I've disabled the mobile data (WiFi remains on) for a day. The kept-awake time gets close to screen on time. So it must be app with mobile data usage. How could I find out which?
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I've disabled the mobile data (WiFi remains on) for a day. The kept-awake time gets close to screen on time. So it must be app with mobile data usage. How could I find out which?
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try wakelock detector from playstore.
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try wakelock detector from playstore.
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That seems to require root. My phone is not rooted.
Hi does any one knows what is consuming my battery ? I have turn off WiFi put into flight mode install greenify and such but my battery life is still taking a beating.
ROM - Mokee 4.4.4
Kernel - latest xposed
Something (a background process/app/service) is constantly keeping the phone awake (doesn't let it to go to deep sleep state).
Try installing BetterBatteryStats and check wakelocks to see what's causing this.
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Uninstall unusual apps and games because many games keep running in background.
Also you can install apps like Wakelock Detector from playstore which will provide you more information about the service that is using battery power.