mm-qcamera-daemon 15% Battery Drain! - Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Im on PA 4.4.5 Rom (Stable) and I have just noticed my battery was draining a bit more than usual. So I check my apps, nothing unusual, I check my battery and I see the process as listed in the title. It seems its a camera background process that continues to run, Assuming im a avid snapchat user thats why it started. Now I cant stop it. Ive flashed a new rom and back, wiped cache and I dont know what else to do! Anyone know a Fix?

VividTheMan said:
Im on PA 4.4.5 Rom (Stable) and I have just noticed my battery was draining a bit more than usual. So I check my apps, nothing unusual, I check my battery and I see the process as listed in the title. It seems its a camera background process that continues to run, Assuming im a avid snapchat user thats why it started. Now I cant stop it. Ive flashed a new rom and back, wiped cache and I dont know what else to do! Anyone know a Fix?
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Since you are avid snapchat user,,the only workaround is to reboot your phone. As long as you will be using snapchat (or Skype in some cases), you will face this problem.
Battery drain issue is because of a software process on the Android KitKat build that allows applications to access the device camera. The mm-qcamera-daemon process continues to run in the background even after the app using the camera has been force closed(like you mentioned) leading to persistent high CPU usage and battery drains faster.

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CM11 crashes after upgrading e.a

When I upgrade to a newer version of cm11 I often get a blue screen of death or a sudden reboot before the device has finished rebooting.
How can I find out what is causing this ?
I also have a huge battery drain (like 20-25% overnight), Im using greenify for system apps too, RILJ is causing a lot of drain and powermanager too (betterbatterystats, wakelockdetector), any suggestions ?
Maybe I should disable Fast Dormancy ?
robuser007 said:
When I upgrade to a newer version of cm11 I often get a blue screen of death or a sudden reboot before the device has finished rebooting.
How can I find out what is causing this ?
I also have a huge battery drain (like 20-25% overnight), Im using greenify for system apps too, RILJ is causing a lot of drain and powermanager too (betterbatterystats, wakelockdetector), any suggestions ?
Maybe I should disable Fast Dormancy ?
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As to the first issue, is this only an issue during bootup? If so, that's a known issue, and after it goes through its reboot cycle a time or two, the phone should be fine. If it's happening other times, we'll need logs of the situation to see the issue.
As for this 'huge battery drain' ... We'll need some logs.
Magamo said:
As to the first issue, is this only an issue during bootup? If so, that's a known issue, and after it goes through its reboot cycle a time or two, the phone should be phone. If it's happening other times, we'll need logs of the situation to see the issue.
As for this 'huge battery drain' ... We'll need some logs.
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Only during bootup after an upgrade/clean install. Good to know it's a known issue. The drain has stopped (using greenify for system apps).

[Q] Battery draining 1% every two or three minutes

I'm running Mahdi ROM on my D800, but I'm having a similar problem no matter what ROM I'm on. I was on CM11, then switched to Madhi (yes, I wiped everything before installing, etc etc) and restored my apps with Titanium Backup, and the battery drain problem is still here. I am on the stock kernel for Madhi, was on the stock kernel for CM11 when I used that, and battery drain is still an issue.
I have BBS installed and it's not telling me anything helpful. I use Greenify, I have blocked the wakelocks for several usual culprits, to no avail. The drain while the screen is off seems minimal, so it seems the biggest drain is the screen. Android OS also shows up high in the battery stats.
Any suggestions on how to improve battery life? I know it's subjective and all of that, but I know there are also some tweaks and mods that can be performed and installed to help. Please don't say "it doesn't matter," "it's subjective," "figure it out yourself," etc – serious answers only please.

Any 5.1 ROM that doesn't have these Android System/OS/Kernel battery issues?

Before I begin I just want to say that I have been using Android for a while and understand wakelocks etc. I have already made sure none of my apps are causing wake locks by uninstalling them but it has made no difference.
Here are my GSam screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/1Cp9z#0
As you can see, Android System and Android OS are the culprits that are draining my battery, but the phone isn't "awake" when they are draining it, so I am not quite sure what is happening. There is no wake-lock but there is a lot of CPU usage for some reason,
Please ignore the average times shown by GSam at the bottom, I get nowhere near 5hrs screen time, I reset the histories yesterday so its not yet calculated average properly yet.
I have tried - Stock COS11S, the latest COS 12.1 and also CyanogenMod 12.1 nightlies and the recent snapshot and they all exhibit this issue even with no apps installed. Is there a ROM out there that has no issues with this stuff?
Thanks!
Same problem. No idea the solution. No matter what battery app I use to try and tell me what is going on, it's always just listed as "android system" or "system" that is draining battery. I didn't have this on sultan's build so I guess it's back to that.
I dont want to give yo spoilers...
you can try every rom here, every kernel, every mod...
it really up to your personal use... you do this 3 simple things and like me will reach 5, 6 hours SOT.
disable lte and go for EDGE
restrict privacy guards things on apps: keep awake, auto start, wake up... on every app you install
use your social network on browsers... installed apps use background...

Android system severe battery drain 5.1.1

Sup XDA!
When I updated to android 5.1.1 (cm12.1, rooted) android system started to drain my battery, even more than my screen would. This wasn't an issue back on 5.0 and I wonder what the problem is, and I thought you guys could be able to help me out as this forum has helped me before, thx for that!
Ive attached 3 screens, first is from battery monitor and the other 2 are screens of my battery 'page' in settings. Let me know if you need any additional information and or screenshots and I'll be happy to provide.
Thanks in advance
Disable all of the google services you feel that take RAM (and so, battery) using the Disable Service app. Don't disable GCM Service. Don't disable FusedLocation Service if you use GPS. The only google service running on my phone is GCM. Disable location services, key chain, pppreferences, CM logger, dev tools, etc. just anything that you find isn't important and takes battery! Use apps like Greenify, Disable Service and Titanium backup to greenify, disable and freeze the apps/services.
TheHighLife said:
Sup XDA!
When I updated to android 5.1.1 (cm12.1, rooted) android system started to drain my battery, even more than my screen would. This wasn't an issue back on 5.0 and I wonder what the problem is, and I thought you guys could be able to help me out as this forum has helped me before, thx for that!
Ive attached 3 screens, first is from battery monitor and the other 2 are screens of my battery 'page' in settings. Let me know if you need any additional information and or screenshots and I'll be happy to provide.
Thanks in advance
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This seems to be a common issue.... the fix involves downgrading the modem. However downgrading the modem requires downgrading your TWRP Recovery... which you cannot do if you are running CM12.1, the downgrade will fail every time no matter which "tricks" you use.
lotherius said:
This seems to be a common issue.... the fix involves downgrading the modem. However downgrading the modem requires downgrading your TWRP Recovery... which you cannot do if you are running CM12.1, the downgrade will fail every time no matter which "tricks" you use.
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You don't need to downgrade TWRP to flash a modem. You can very easily flash a modem without TWRP even installed; fastboot. It isn't even certain that the modem is causing this drain either.
Working on the likely assumption that it is the same problem, the modem is indeed not to blame.
I have moved through COS12.1, CM12.1, sultan, paranoid android, and exodus, with and without flashing the modem and gapps, using both stock and Boeffla kernel.
They all exhibit the same drain, 9-11% overnight or 16-40mA/h (via dumpsys). This is regardless of wifi/cellular/ambient and other features being disabled.
The only obvious anomalies differing from 5.0.2 are high system_server cpu (25-450% via top) when asleep, and intermittent floods of "unknown" wakeups without wakelocks (Observed by dumping batterystats, and are not registered by settings - battery).
On one of my many reflashes Exodus 12.1 suddenly began behaving reasonably, with 6-10mA/h drain and 2% overnight.
The high System_sever cpu and intermittent wakeups were still present at this point, and may be unrelated oddities.
I later made the mistake of flashing a newer nightly (and later the correct modem), upon which the problem reappeared.
Doing a wipe and reflashing in the same manner did not resolve the issue, and many attempts later I have been unable to reproduce the same state.
Coming from kitkat I figured 5.0.2 would be the same, but it has been smooth sailing since flashing it last night (Exodus), with 6-10mA/h drain and 0% overnight.
Roughy said:
Working on the likely assumption that it is the same problem, the modem is indeed not to blame.
I have moved through COS12.1, CM12.1, sultan, paranoid android, and exodus, with and without flashing the modem and gapps, using both stock and Boeffla kernel.
They all exhibit the same drain, 9-11% overnight or 16-40mA/h (via dumpsys). This is regardless of wifi/cellular/ambient and other features being disabled.
The only obvious anomalies differing from 5.0.2 are high system_server cpu (25-450% via top) when asleep, and intermittent floods of "unknown" wakeups without wakelocks (Observed by dumping batterystats, and are not registered by settings - battery).
On one of my many reflashes Exodus 12.1 suddenly began behaving reasonably, with 6-10mA/h drain and 2% overnight.
The high System_sever cpu and intermittent wakeups were still present at this point, and may be unrelated oddities.
I later made the mistake of flashing a newer nightly (and later the correct modem), upon which the problem reappeared.
Doing a wipe and reflashing in the same manner did not resolve the issue, and many attempts later I have been unable to reproduce the same state.
Coming from kitkat I figured 5.0.2 would be the same, but it has been smooth sailing since flashing it last night (Exodus), with 6-10mA/h drain and 0% overnight.
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So right now you are on the 5.0.2 exodus builds and having minimal battery drain? Which modem are you using?
f41lbl0g said:
So right now you are on the 5.0.2 exodus builds and having minimal battery drain? Which modem are you using?
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Correct, with the Xposed Mobile Radio Active fix applied.
bacon_firmware_update_2015_04_03.zip from ... <10 posts and am not allowed to post links yet.
It's on Exodus' 5.0.2 download page along with the roms.
As usual the modem will not flash in TWRP, and has to be done manually via fastboot.
Paresh Kalinani said:
Disable all of the google services you feel that take RAM (and so, battery) using the Disable Service app. Don't disable GCM Service. Don't disable FusedLocation Service if you use GPS. The only google service running on my phone is GCM. Disable location services, key chain, pppreferences, CM logger, dev tools, etc. just anything that you find isn't important and takes battery! Use apps like Greenify, Disable Service and Titanium backup to greenify, disable and freeze the apps/services.
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I did all of this but it's still draining battery, should I post new screenshots?
TheHighLife said:
I did all of this but it's still draining battery, should I post new screenshots?
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As you have tried many things to improve your battery life, last option I wanna suggest you to use your device in safe mode for one complete charge cycle from 94% down to 5% (I know that this mode is pathetic).
If you still find that it's causing battery drain, you need to reflash the ROM and please do not restore any backup(restore only those which are most important).
If you find that Android system is not causing anymore battery drain, then it's one of the third party app that is doing so.
Mr hOaX said:
As you have tried many things to improve your battery life, last option I wanna suggest you to use your device in safe mode for one complete charge cycle from 94% down to 5% (I know that this mode is pathetic).
If you still find that it's causing battery drain, you need to reflash the ROM and please do not restore any backup(restore only those which are most important).
If you find that Android system is not causing anymore battery drain, then it's one of the third party app that is doing so.
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Ive only tried to disable some services that show up under android system. How do I put it in safe mode tho?
By the way, I just noticed that the CPU total time for android system is exactly the same time as the SOT, what does this mean? It only drains this much battery when the screen is on?
TheHighLife said:
Ive only tried to disable some services that show up under android system. How do I put it in safe mode tho?
By the way, I just noticed that the CPU total time for android system is exactly the same time as the SOT, what does this mean? It only drains this much battery when the screen is on?
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Boot your device into safe mode https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/2852139?hl=en
Just post some screenshots of the battery (complete overview of graph screen and app list screen) after using your OPO in safe mode atleast for one charge cycle (90%+ down to 10%)
This will help us to figure out what is the exact issue you are facing.
If you are not interested in troubleshooting, just flash fastboot images of this build(CMOS12.1) using following guide
forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guides-bacon-timmaaas-how-to-guides-t2839471
For OnePlus One, about a month ago after systems update, my battery started draining fats and it has gotten worse over the past week. The battery barely holds four hours of after a full charge and the phone gets very hot. Also, over the past week, my main SMS messaging app (SMS) crashes nine out of 10 times -- I can start the app but when I click any of the messages I was to read or type, it freezes and crashes. Also, since yesterday, my phone dilaer crashes very often. Any thoughts/help? I am not familiar with how to flash ROM, etc. Also, since yesterday, charging has been very slow -- overnight, the charge went from 35% full to 74% full. I tried safe mode as well and no luck -- battery still keeps draining at 1% every three minutes.
I have the same issue. Any fixes which work ?

Need help on battery life and CPU usage

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

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