I've used to have a very good battery life on my Droid Charge. Few days ago I've installed Google+ client and played with it (love auto-syncing photos with Picasa). Yesterday I've noticed that my battery drains much faster than usual. Tried disable all sync and notifications in Google+ settings and even signed out from accout, but it was still draining about 6% per hour overnight. Uninstalled Google+ and so far it seems I am back to 1-2% per hour.
I am running EE4. If you have Google+ and have issues with battery life, try uninstalling it (not just signing off) and see if you battery life improves.
I also have suspected Google + for abnormal battery drain. I'm goingto uninstall and see if that helps
I have not noticed any extra battery drain with google + installed. I have auto sync pictures on when plugged in only if that makes a difference.
The problem is sync notifications turn themselves back on...funny you say this, as I have been watching it for the last week...but didn't have a real chance to test till today...
It be great if I could get some more input...to see if its me or not...or the rom(s) I'm running but turn off sync through settings open appear back out and go back to settings. Saw the same thing on reboots?
Anyone else getting this?
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I haven't completely figured this out yet so you'll need to be patient with me.
Basically there was a new update for Es Task Manager which made it a whole lot more advanced, giving you control over not just running tasks but what tasks autostart at startup etc.
Anyway, i was playing around with it and decided to kill everything that i dont use and prevent it all from restarting for a laugh. The one thing i added to the "ignored list" - a list of apps that it never kills - is adw launcher.
Now im not sure which particular task it is but there must be some piece of LG software which is seriously eating up the battery because with all the ancillary background crap killed and just usual phone use (calls, texts, emails, some browsing, one or two photos and a pair of short 1080p 2D videos) and then a whole nights sleep with 3g on the whole time i have mamanged to retain 71% of the battery after 16 hours, 56 minites abd 30 odd seconds.
Im gonna investigate it more to find out what i did but so far this looks promising in helping fix this horrible battery life some of you have been getting.
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Most LG apps are blockable, latest update however made com.lge.omadclient (the update checker) semi unblockable but blocking that breaks settings app so have to live with it until that's fixed.
But yeah, seems weird that the phone uses 2/3 of the power that the screen requires for Phone idle (% used divided by time) guessing there are a lot of things that currently are using too much juice from the battery for no reason, hopefully this will change with CM7
Third party apps can still access the setting even when the settings app itself force closes. I had to find a way around that previously when i removed the fonts app and discovered that display settings no longer worked. Most of the "battery optimization" apps allow you to change most of the settings you might need to if any part of the menu becomes innaccessible.
I noticed that omadclient seemed to be running forever and not achieving anything. Also com.lge.hiddenmenu is a suspect for using a bunch of battery.
Im hoping that some serious efficiencies can be discovered with the wifi adapter too cuz it seems to absolutely ruin the battery life even when just idle.
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If you guys have background **** that wants to sync the whole time on the web....doesnt juice defender ultimate help? Its supposed to only grant internet access to all apps on a user definced time frame? (every 30mins for example)
I figured that default email app consumes too much battery and data with activesync. I deleted my corporate account and battery improved at least three times
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I normally turn off 3G unless im actually using it, i fire it on selectively to check mail and google something. Old habits. Recently i have been leaving it on but the only things i have running that update are facey and gmail. Im convincee there is some other background process running that doesnt need to be.
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Amazingly BAD
I charged my O3D last night and went to bed with 82pct batery. 8 hours later when i woke up it is on 4pct...
Data and wifi turned off
screen turned off
auto sync turned off
how is this possible ?
4700pedersen said:
I charged my O3D last night and went to bed with 82pct batery. 8 hours later when i woke up it is on 4pct...
Data and wifi turned off
screen turned off
auto sync turned off
how is this possible ?
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Like im saying, theres something in the system eating battery behind the scenes.
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Parhaps the o3d does not sleep like the evo3d also had that problem?
Should be fixable somehow.
Wll lets hope so.... Im about to sell it just because of the damn battery drain....
And october is so far away if it will be fixed in gingerbread
I am on V10F today. I got the update yesterday night.
I have unplugged my phone at 07:20 this morning. I have made some calls, recived and sent a couple of texts. 3G data was always on, FB, Google+, Twitter, Gmail, Market, Weather App were always syncing. I have played a couple of games. Some surfing etc. It was a very ordinary day for my phone.. It is 22:44 now and I have 61% battery left. I think it is doing quite good.
I am using Automatic Task Killer and deleted my corporate e-mail account from the phone. E-Mail app of LG is a true disaster. Havent tried Touchdown yet, probably it will solve the case.
exceleth said:
I am on V10F today. I got the update yesterday night.
I have unplugged my phone at 07:20 this morning. I have made some calls, recived and sent a couple of texts. 3G data was always on, FB, Google+, Twitter, Gmail, Market, Weather App were always syncing. I have played a couple of games. Some surfing etc. It was a very ordinary day for my phone.. It is 22:44 now and I have 61% battery left. I think it is doing quite good.
I am using Automatic Task Killer and deleted my corporate e-mail account from the phone. E-Mail app of LG is a true disaster. Havent tried Touchdown yet, probably it will solve the case.
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thats the life im looking for. il probaly use 3g browsing about one hour per day and also leave syncing of everything on the whole day.
then play games for an hour...wondering how much il have left?
screen brightness medium or did you had it lowered all the way?
borgqueenx said:
thats the life im looking for. il probaly use 3g browsing about one hour per day and also leave syncing of everything on the whole day.
then play games for an hour...wondering how much il have left?
screen brightness medium or did you had it lowered all the way?
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Screen brightness is always automatic.
Today, I have 77% battery left and it has been 7 hours after unplugging.
Data, 3G and Sync was always on. I havent played any games yet but used 3D camera which also consumes a lot.
I've got something incredible for me:
2 days, 2 hours, and 44 minutes. And I still have 8% remaining:
Details:
- Default launcher.
- 3G always off.
- Wireless is one when needed, first day it was on for about 4 hours of usage, and the second day for about two hours. During that time Sync is on, checking emails, using twitter app, reading Whatsapp messages, surfing by Tapatalk, youtube 3D, and downlading some videos.
- Taking some 3D pictures and some 2D/3D videos.
- Showing off 3D videos for friends.
- Playing a little bit 2D games before sleeping, about half an hour.
- Using TwinPic app and viewing 3D pictures.
- Receiving and making some calls.
Note that I have 14 3D app,42 default app, and 120 downloaded apps.
What helped me is Advanced task killer app, I used this configuration:
- Auto kill level: Aggressive.
- Auto kill frequency: When screen is off.
abo_mara7 said:
I've got something incredible for me:
2 days, 2 hours, and 44 minutes. And I still have 8% remaining:
Details:
- Default launcher.
- 3G always off.
- Wireless is one when needed, first day it was on for about 4 hours of usage, and the second day for about two hours. During that time Sync is on, checking emails, using twitter app, reading Whatsapp messages, surfing by Tapatalk, youtube 3D, and downlading some videos.
- Taking some 3D pictures and some 2D/3D videos.
- Showing off 3D videos for friends.
- Playing a little bit 2D games before sleeping, about half an hour.
- Using TwinPic app and viewing 3D pictures.
- Receiving and making some calls.
Note that I have 14 3D app,42 default app, and 120 downloaded apps.
What helped me is Advanced task killer app, I used this configuration:
- Auto kill level: Aggressive.
- Auto kill frequency: When screen is off.
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What rom?
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What rom?
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Stock rom, V10f.
hey guys,
i made the experience, that the LG battery widget is one of the major problems for me. I just deactivated that and couldn't believe that this helps so much.
would be nice if you could test it for you and share your experiences.
check if there is a battery widget running. usually they drain battery. have optimus 3d and with everything off (wifi, bt, gps, no sync, no email, no skype, default task manager shows 0 apps running) from durning 8 hours of standby mode got from 90% to 6%. charged till 97% unplugged from socket in 20mins lost 3% battery. after 2 hours 50 was left.
removed LG battery widget from the desktop. charged back to 100%, unplugged. 2 hours passed: 99%.
seems that was the issue. hope it helps someone
I'm running V10D. Normal calls, text, browsing a bit... Here is my battery usage:
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I haven't completely figured this out yet so you'll need to be patient with me. Basically there was a new update for Es Task Manager which made it a whole lot more advanced, giving you control over not just running tasks but what tasks autostart at startup etc. Anyway, i was playing around with it and decided to kill everything that i dont use and prevent it all from restarting for a laugh. The one thing i added to the "ignored list" -a list of apps that it never kills -is adw launcher. Now im not sure which particular task it is but there must be some piece of LG software which is seriously eating up the battery because with all the ancillary background crap killed and just usual phone use (calls, texts, emails, some browsing, one or two photos and a pair of short 1080p 2D videos) and then a whole nights sleep with 3g on the whole time i have mamanged to retain 71% of the battery after 16 hours, 56 minites abd 30 odd seconds. Im gonna investigate it more to find out what i did but so far this looks promising in helping fix this horrible battery life some of you have been getting.
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did you turn on your O3d or just let it standby,hefonthefjords?
I use juice defender, advanced task killer... it didn"t help me at all... or maybe my setting was wrong...
Rom 1.3 ThiaiZO3D
hefonthefjords said:
Third party apps can still access the setting even when the settings app itself force closes. I had to find a way around that previously when i removed the fonts app and discovered that display settings no longer worked. Most of the "battery optimization" apps allow you to change most of the settings you might need to if any part of the menu becomes innaccessible. I noticed that omadclient seemed to be running forever and not achieving anything. Also com.lge.hiddenmenu is a suspect for using a bunch of battery. Im hoping that some serious efficiencies can be discovered with the wifi adapter too cuz it seems to absolutely ruin the battery life even when just idle.
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i uninstalled the com.lge.hiddenmenu and then i can't access setting... so be carefull.... about this O3D battery.... i carry another battery with me everytime...
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I have had the Nexus S 4G since November and i like it but it always only charged to 94%. But recently (last month and to now) I have somehow gotten it to sometimes charge up to 96% or even 98%. Well just 15 mins ago from when i'm posting this, the phone just shut down and it still had like 45% or so left of battery, it wouldnt turn on so i pluges it to my laptop and it says its charging so i turned it on while its charging and its still on 0% battery for the past 15 mins now. I go to school every weekday and i need it each day so i need to fix this as soon as i can.
I have it rooted on the OTA 4.1.1 JellyBean.
What I can remember was it started to slow down and kick me out of kik, opera, text+ and so on so i deleted a N64 emulator that sent me ads in my notifications, along with Orbot, NSTools, Kernel Manager, Rom Manager, and a couple more apps. So it may have to do with one of those being uninstalled. Just someone please help because I have alot of people I talk to that get angry at me when i dont msg them soon and I cant hace it pluged in all the time..
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I have had the Nexus S 4G since November and i like it but it always only charged to 94%. But recently (last month and to now) I have somehow gotten it to sometimes charge up to 96% or even 98%. Well just 15 mins ago from when i'm posting this, the phone just shut down and it still had like 45% or so left of battery, it wouldnt turn on so i pluges it to my laptop and it says its charging so i turned it on while its charging and its still on 0% battery for the past 15 mins now. I go to school every weekday and i need it each day so i need to fix this as soon as i can.
I have it rooted on the OTA 4.1.1 JellyBean.
What I can remember was it started to slow down and kick me out of kik, opera, text+ and so on so i deleted a N64 emulator that sent me ads in my notifications, along with Orbot, NSTools, Kernel Manager, Rom Manager, and a couple more apps. So it may have to do with one of those being uninstalled. Just someone please help because I have alot of people I talk to that get angry at me when i dont msg them soon and I cant hace it pluged in all the time..
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Sounds like you have either a power hungry app, or you rbattery calibration is way out of whack.
Power-Hungry Apps:
Check your battery stats and see how much battery a certain app is using by going into Settings>Battery then check for apps that are using a lot of your CPU and using much of your battery charge.
Battery Calibration:
Litium-Ion batteries like the one found in your Nexus S have a small memory chip inside of them to report battery stats to your phone amog other tasks. This chip can become un-calibrated and not report proper stas causing your phone to think you have no battery when you actually do have some juice left.
As you are rooted, you have many options:
Apps:
- http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration
- http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ignisoft.battery.calibration&hl=en
- http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.jonrichards.batterycalibrator.ui&hl=en
- http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.liteup.calibratebattery.free&hl=en
Recovery:
This depends on your recovery, I will assume you use ClockworkMod or vanilla recovery. If so, you can us this detailed guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1616598
Good luck! If you need anymore info, don't hesitate to ask and please don't forget to click the "Thanks" button if I helped you
~HeroKhar
1.To overcome battery drain you can also use app Greenify from Google Play, which allows you to hibernate (in time) such of your apps. But, be carefull, not all apps work properly when hibernated (sms, calender etc). You have to try.
2. Also, you can check how it looks with so called "wakelocks" (ratio between awake and real screen on in your phone) with BetterBatteryStats (also from Play). It is a little bit complicated app, but when you understand, its can help a lot.
Hey all,
Been using my phone and I love it, but just yesterday my phone died faster than normal. Usually I can get a full day and then some, but yesterday my battery made it down to 4% by eleven pm (usually in like the twenties by this time for me, had a couple days where I made it into the 40's). I would wake up at 6am and my battery would be at 80% by 8am (usually it's been in the 90's still). I looked at my power consumption and Gmail was eating up 51% of my battery with screen at something like 10%, that's when you know Gmail is taking a lot.
I was wondering if any of you had a similar problem and a fixer for that. I've tried changing my sync settings today so we'll see how that affects it but I really want to know what the problem could be. Like I said, I was getting great battery life before buy now it's dropping considerably faster.
i had the same problem T_T and had to switch over to Inbox by google... now all is well(no wakelocks-constant attachment downloads in statusbar) and this things really needs getting used to.
Why not try using the sony email apk for gmail? You can control how often it synchronizes.
Well it seems as if I solved the problem on my own. I changed a bunch of settings yesterday to reduce battery drain just all around, but as for Gmail I changed my syncing from every 15 minutes to every hour and my battery life seems to be back to normal today.
Had this problem and was even worse; at 8 hours I had only 10% battery life and Gmail usage was at 51% while screen was only 22%, which is abysmal. I cleared Gmail, stopped using it and used inbox with the stock email client.
The biggest thing I think helped though was going into storage and clearing the cache (somehow it had used 3GB of storage!) and now I'm back to good battery life. Thanks for the tips everyone!
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I use K-mail from F-droid and disabled Gmail and the built-in email app.
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Hello experts,
I had my Samsung Galaxy s6 G920F one week ago, nothing to say about the phone, amazing battery life. I always plug my phone to charger when I'm home after work, I don't leave it plugged while I'm sleeping.
During the night the phone consumes like 1 to 2% battery. I shut down wifi, bluetooth and data during the night.
Two days ago I installed Adobe acrobat reader, and disabled some built-in apps which I don't use (Google play music, google newsstand, chrome, hangouts, google+ and skype). Before I go to sleep my phone was 82% battery. When I woke up, my phone was 64% battery. I thought that the issues with Samsung/Android battery life are over with android 5.1.1 and galaxy s6, but in fact no.
The main battery drainer was Android OS.
I went through some posts, and found that a clear cache can solve my issue. I did this and battery drain stopped.
Yesterday night, I decided to make a full wipe/clear data, and clear cache as advised by some posts. I reinstalled same apps that were on the mobile before, and disabled the same built-in apps. Phone was at 74% when I went to sleep.
This morning, my phone was at 52%!!! So I uninstalled Adobe Reader, and activated all the apps that I disabled before, restarted into recovery and cleared cache.
Now the issue disappeared again, but I wonder if this will not appear again when I charge my phone to 100%.
I had a Samsung Galaxy S4 before, and when I upgraded to KitKat, I had the issue of battery drain when phone is charged at 100%. Only workaround is restarting the phone whenever it reaches 100% battery. I hope it's not the same case here.
Attached sceenshots of battery usage.
Thank you in advance for your help
you should re-enable the apps step by step to find the source of your problem...
Actually as I said before, the phone was running ok for one week.
Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader, and disabling Google play music, google newsstand, chrome, hangouts, google+, skype and Peel Remote control made issue appear for me.
So if we can say that disabling apps will not cause battery drain (I am not sure of that), then maybe adobe Reader is the guilty one here...
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