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Hey,
3 days ago my mobile Internet flatrate ran out, I don't really think that this has anything to do with this but I try to provide as much information as I can.
My Nexus S was bought December last year and never really had any problems.
But now for 3 Days I have to charge that thing every damn day and the battery only lasts 18-19 hours instead of 2+ days. I haven't really used the phone in the last 3 days except from recieving calls and using whatsapp.
I have also not installed any apps in this time.
Here a screenshot from my current battery live. (Seems to be always awake)
(ICS 4.0.4 Rooted, Stock Kernel, Stock Launcher.)
Thank you guys in advance!
What does it say is the top consumer of power on the battery usage percent chart. We can't help you very much without that. Also, grab BetterBatteryStats. That will help tremendously as it can damn near narrow it down to a single culprit.
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chronophase1 said:
What does it say is the top consumer of power on the battery usage percent chart. We can't help you very much without that. Also, grab BetterBatteryStats. That will help tremendously as it can damn near narrow it down to a single culprit.
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Oh damn haven't even looked at it.
Says 45% Whattsapp
32% Google Services
will download better Batterystats now. But first I will just reinstall whatsapp.
EDIT: I just reinstalled Whatsapp and will now wait what the battery says in a few hours before I buy betterbatterystats.
Thank you so far, will report back.
Yeah. Those two are probably trying to "phone home" constantly, thus causing a drain. That may be what the issue is. From the looks of it, it looks like your signal isn't stellar either. How good is Whatsapp over EDGE speeds? The 3g connection just might not be strong enough, trying to search for a signal and also draining the battery.
chronophase1 said:
Yeah. Those two are probably trying to "phone home" constantly, thus causing a drain. That may be what the issue is. From the looks of it, it looks like your signal isn't stellar either. How good is Whatsapp over EDGE speeds? The 3g connection just might not be strong enough, trying to search for a signal and also draining the battery.
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Your guess is quite good, because in my room and ONLY in my room there are some severe problems with network connectivity for almost everyone.
(But battery life was good just a few days ago?)
I currently have no mobile Internet and only use WLAN. Just disconnected phone from charger and will now see how it runs.
bobdowl said:
Your guess is quite good, because in my room and ONLY in my room there are some severe problems with network connectivity for almost everyone.
(But battery life was good just a few days ago?)
I currently have no mobile Internet and only use WLAN. Just disconnected phone from charger and will now see how it runs.
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If you have "no mobile Internet" and WiFi is off (as in screenshot), this is your issue. The android processes are trying to re-connect keeping your phone from deep sleep. In Mobile Network Settings, disable Data. Turn on WiFi, and set Keep WiFi on during sleep to Always. When you are out of WiFi range, disable background sync.
I've noticed something on 4.0, at least in my case. Huge wake locks for no reason in airplane mode. The phone home thing is most likely the cause. Google must have changed something in the way their apps operate because this never happened in gingerbread for me.
Well, so I have observed it a little more and battery usage by google services is now up to 70%.
Thank you for the suggestions I'll try now.
But why the hell does this issue come just now? I have 4.0.4 since it came out and the issue just appeared about 5 days ago.
I wish I knew. I've got mine in airplane mode now, but no SIM in it. I've got a G2 as my daily driver now. The Nexus hasn't had any more of the airplane mode wakeups strangely enough though. Wish I knew what was actually causing mine.
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I wish I knew. I've got mine in airplane mode now, but no SIM in it. I've got a G2 as my daily driver now. The Nexus hasn't had any more of the airplane mode wakeups strangely enough though. Wish I knew what was actually causing mine.
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So to report back again, I tried SpookyTunes suggestion for one cycle of battery life.
Then after recharging I went into the app management and force-stopped the google services framework and deleted the cached files afterwards.
So now I'm back to 3% battery usage (from Google Services Framework) for the last hour.
I would give it more time to see what it uses over the course of the day.
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Okay just to deliver on my part and report back.
Here's a screenshot of my battery life now.
Google Service isn't even shown in the battery list anymore!
any news????
I have an odd issue that happened twice so far over the last couple months.
I'm well aware of the common issues that cause battery drains, such as app wakelocks, Google Play Services, wifi scanning, location etc... Sometimes my phone's battery just tanks @ idle, dropping like 5-10% per hour, with nothing causing wakelocks at all. Normally, my phone probably drains < 1% per hour, so obviously it's an issue.
I was able to fix the issue after going into recovery and wiping cache/dalvik and what not, but it's really odd. It seems like the phone sometimes just can't measure the % correctly.
And again, my phone generally drains <1% per hour, and when the issue occurs, I check my phone and I see it tank to like 40% after 5-6 hours idling when settings were not altered.
Does anyone else have similar issues as this??
As you stated above, there are wakelocks. I don't know how you would lose 10% every hour on idle mode. Normal loss is 1%- 4%. Please install a wake lock app such as betterbatterystats and report back with a screenshot or look up what the wakelock means. Majority of the time, it's just a app sucking your battery. If this is a major concern to you however, just factory reset.
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Anyway to not have everything off in airplane mode and get less than 1% drain an hour?
I think thats substantial battery drain lol
Aria807 said:
I have an odd issue that happened twice so far over the last couple months.
I'm well aware of the common issues that cause battery drains, such as app wakelocks, Google Play Services, wifi scanning, location etc... Sometimes my phone's battery just tanks @ idle, dropping like 5-10% per hour, with nothing causing wakelocks at all. Normally, my phone probably drains < 1% per hour, so obviously it's an issue.
I was able to fix the issue after going into recovery and wiping cache/dalvik and what not, but it's really odd. It seems like the phone sometimes just can't measure the % correctly.
And again, my phone generally drains <1% per hour, and when the issue occurs, I check my phone and I see it tank to like 40% after 5-6 hours idling when settings were not altered.
Does anyone else have similar issues as this??
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I posted about what I think is the same issue I've seen here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2589036. Look familiar? Happens more frequently to me than it does to you, but I reboot often due to kernel updates, Xposed module updates, etc.
I hope it's a software bug, but honestly, I haven't seen anyone else complain about it. Until now. I find it impossible to believe nobody else has noticed it. It's impossible to miss.
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I posted about what I think is the same issue I've seen here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2589036. Look familiar? Happens more frequently to me than it does to you, but I reboot often due to kernel updates, Xposed module updates, etc.
I hope it's a software bug, but honestly, I haven't seen anyone else complain about it. Until now. I find it impossible to believe nobody else has noticed it. It's impossible to miss.
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I've been on Cataclysm rom for a while now and it's very random. Only experienced twice and I preordered my phone (so however long I've had it).
And as to the other posts above, like I said, I'm not a novice to identifying wakelocks... I'm well aware of the typical wakelock issues this phone has, and my device generally doesn't experience this drain. Unfortunately I don't have any screenshots, but basically everything looks normal in BetterBatteryStats, but the battery % just tanks in a linear line with hardly any awakes.
I'm personally thinking it's a bug with the software regarding reading battery %.
jetlitheone said:
Anyway to not have everything off in airplane mode and get less than 1% drain an hour?
I think thats substantial battery drain lol
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Not on this phone no. When I had my HTC one I would regularly get around 0.4% per hour standby drain. That was the best I've ever gotten on any phone except the iPhone.
aooga said:
Not on this phone no. When I had my HTC one I would regularly get around 0.4% per hour standby drain. That was the best I've ever gotten on any phone except the iPhone.
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My HTC One was at about 1%/hr. My Moto X on it's best night lost only 1% over 8 hours but I usually lose 2-3%. My Nexus 5 is at 3-4% overnight. I've seen it do less though. I have to leave wifi off (on both my X and my N5), otherwise the drain becomes more substantial. As long as it's on LTE, when it sleeps, it SLEEPS.
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Does anyone else have similar issues as this??
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I did last night for the first time, and a friend of mine had it a few times too, but it mysteriously fixed itself... At least it's a while that it doesn't happen anymore
Hi I have an 8 gig moto g UK version on KitKat 4.42 I have noticed some days my battery life will be superb like today and others not as good I will post screenshots today's battery life is the second charge after running it down to 0%..
Battery life from the other day
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2614346&stc=1&d=1394014951
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Today's battery life so far
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2614348&stc=1&d=1394014951
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2614349&stc=1&d=1394014951
thanks.
1: Your cell coverage seems to be kind of bad sometimes, it cna cause battery drain
2: Your phone is awake most of the time even with screen off, you should check your wakelocks
3: There is a thread about a mysterious battery drain, which unfortunately I got as well http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50467389
miklosbard said:
1: Your cell coverage seems to be kind of bad sometimes, it cna cause battery drain
2: Your phone is awake most of the time even with screen off, you should check your wakelocks
3: There is a thread about a mysterious battery drain, which unfortunately I got as well http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50467389
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Hi thanks for the reply yeah my network is bad in this area never more than 2 bars of signal, I was running wakelock detector on 4.3 but obviously Google stopped the user from being able to read process data. I do have gsam battery monitor installed I will see if that turns anything up. I hope Motorola fixes the battery drain issue soon thanks for your help.
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Hi thanks for the reply yeah my network is bad in this area never more than 2 bars of signal, I was running wakelock detector on 4.3 but obviously Google stopped the user from being able to read process data. I do have gsam battery monitor installed I will see if that turns anything up. I hope Motorola fixes the battery drain issue soon thanks for your help.
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Notice how your battery drain is bad after GPS is used. See the link posted above by the other poster. My posts in that thread refer to GPS as being the culprit. It seems it may be the same in your case.
When you notice the bad battery drain try a reboot. It should fix it until GPS is next used. BTW I have noticed GPS doesn't always cause the drain to start, but it does quite often.
Are you on non-gpe device or gpe.
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Notice how your battery drain is bad after GPS is used. See the link posted above by the other poster. My posts in that thread refer to GPS as being the culprit. It seems it may be the same in your case.
When you notice the bad battery drain try a reboot. It should fix it until GPS is next used. BTW I have noticed GPS doesn't always cause the drain to start, but it does quite often.
Are you on non-gpe device or gpe.
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Hi Scott thanks for the info I didn't notice that I will fully charge tonight and then use the GPS for a little while and then stop using it to see if that causes the drain by the way my phones a standard g non gpe.
A quick update this is today's total battery life with some GPS use and Bluetooth on from 5pm connects to my car stereo.
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A quick update this is today's total battery life with some GPS use and Bluetooth on from 5pm connects to my car stereo.
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actually with that signal level I think this is the normal drain, you got quite some screen time as well.
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miklosbard said:
actually with that signal level I think this is the normal drain, you got quite some screen time as well.
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Ah thanks I would have got more but the phone powered down at 10% seconds after i'd posted that, calibration issue I'm guessing.
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Notice how your battery drain is bad after GPS is used. See the link posted above by the other poster. My posts in that thread refer to GPS as being the culprit. It seems it may be the same in your case.
When you notice the bad battery drain try a reboot. It should fix it until GPS is next used. BTW I have noticed GPS doesn't always cause the drain to start, but it does quite often.
Are you on non-gpe device or gpe.
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Did a bit of a GPS test this morning Scott was used for 15 mins then maps was turned off along with data so I had no other battery drain.
tje1991 said:
Did a bit of a GPS test this morning Scott was used for 15 mins then maps was turned off along with data so I had no other battery drain.
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My personal experience is that I only get the drain when I have used GPS but I do not always get it when I have used GPS. Basically to me it seems like some intermittent GPS issue that causes the drain. I had it yesterday and rebooted. But today I have tested gps and all fine again - no drain.
Also have noticed after the latest KitKat update (the tiny 9MB update) that at times GPS can't get a lock.
I noticed battery draining fast since I installed gravity box. Without even touching the phone in the morning it will go down to 99%
I attached the screenshot of wakelock detector from this morning. an hour commute with just listening to music dropped 15%
You need to be a bit clearer with your reports about 'drain'
Are you reporting 1% battery drop as a 'drain' definitely due to gravitybox?
Are you using a custom rom with a feature conflicting with gravitybox?
Can you uninstall gravitybox and immediately confirm the drain goes away?
Your 15% drop, were you streaming via 3G on your hour commute? If so that sounds reasonable as it works harder to keep the signal
Try betterbatterystats as well to look at other wakelocks
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You need to be a bit clearer with your reports about 'drain'
Are you reporting 1% battery drop as a 'drain' definitely due to gravitybox?
Are you using a custom rom with a feature conflicting with gravitybox?
Can you uninstall gravitybox and immediately confirm the drain goes away?
Your 15% drop, were you streaming via 3G on your hour commute? If so that sounds reasonable as it works harder to keep the signal
Try betterbatterystats as well to look at other wakelocks
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I am stock but rooted.
I am on lte but half of my commute i have no signal from being on a train. but usually my phone lasts a day or at least 12 hours now i am only getting 6 hours.
I will try better battery stats and then post a screenshot before uninstall gravity body
I have the same problem. I Ajay lost 3%in one minute after using this for 4 minutes. Something not right with that gravity box. I'll be lucky to get 2.5 hours of screen time compared to my 3.5 I used to get.
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here is the better battery stats
not sure if accurate reading since it was installed with 80% battery left.
I will have to try again when it is fully charged
Gravity box won't drain your battery.
Not having a signal on the train will tho....big time. Unless you switched to airplane mode? Anytime the phone has to look for a signal, the battery takes a real beating.
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Gravity box won't drain your battery.
Not having a signal on the train will tho....big time. Unless you switched to airplane mode? Anytime the phone has to look for a signal, the battery takes a real beating.
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The weird thing is even with traveling on the train i used to get at least 12. Even on the weekends when I am home it is draining fast unless I don't touch the phone at all
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I am stock but rooted.
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rooting does not necessarily mean you will have better or wore battery. Try changing the kernel, stock kernel gives you 3-3.5 hrs SOT normal usage.(unless you use it to read books)
I had 0% drain overnight when i first bough the phone, but after a while 1-3% drain overnight is normal.
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rooting does not necessarily mean you will have better or wore battery. Try changing the kernel, stock kernel gives you 3-3.5 hrs SOT normal usage.(unless you use it to read books)
I had 0% drain overnight when i first bough the phone, but after a while 1-3% drain overnight is normal.
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I understand that. I was just stating that I was not on a custom rom.
I heard that franco kernal is the same battery stats as stock.
any suggestions?
Thanks
There was some problem with old version of KitKat. Google Now constantly was accessing location services and draining the battery like hell. I don't know if it got fixed or not.
Try turning off location and use phone normally.
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cooolforce said:
There was some problem with old version of KitKat. Google Now constantly was accessing location services and draining the battery like hell. I don't know if it got fixed or not.
Try turning off location and use phone normally.
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I was thinking of that. I never had the problem with keeping it in battery saving mode. I will have to try turning it off
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I was thinking of that. I never had the problem with keeping it in battery saving mode. I will have to try turning it off
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Great! So let us know the results
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jj71787 said:
here is the better battery stats
not sure if accurate reading since it was installed with 80% battery left.
I will have to try again when it is fully charged
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jj71787 said:
I understand that. I was just stating that I was not on a custom rom.
I heard that franco kernal is the same battery stats as stock.
any suggestions?
Thanks
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Different kernels behave differently for everyone's device and usage. You need to experiment yourself.
But before you do, work out what is using your battery first, electricity doesn't just disappear, tends to obey the laws of physics...
Then determine if it's definitely gravity box, or if you're experiencing phone 'usage' as opposed to battery 'drain'
Leave wakelock detector and betterbatterystats for collecting data for much longer. Put your phone down for a while...
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Different kernels behave differently for everyone's device and usage. You need to experiment yourself.
But before you do, work out what is using your battery first, electricity doesn't just disappear, tends to obey the laws of physics...
Then determine if it's definitely gravity box, or if you're experiencing phone 'usage' as opposed to battery 'drain'
Leave wakelock detector and betterbatterystats for collecting data for much longer. Put your phone down for a while...
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I turned location off to see if it is that. I am going to try better battery stats tomorrow after i gets a full charge
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I turned location off to see if it is that. I am going to try better battery stats tomorrow after i gets a full charge
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So man, did turning off location services help ?
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Are you performing soft restarts? If so, that's probably the reason. For some reason, Android doesn't take well to soft restarts, so when you soft reset it never initializes properly and you end up with strange things like excessive battery drainage.
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Are you performing soft restarts? If so, that's probably the reason. For some reason, Android doesn't take well to soft restarts, so when you soft reset it never initializes properly and you end up with strange things like excessive battery drainage.
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Interesting...I've been having erratic drain patterns lately with no visible culprits. I've noticed it happens sometimes after updating gravity box and I always do a soft reboot, so that might explain it. Do you have any more information about it?
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I only did 1 softboot.
I think the culprit is google music it drains the battery like crazy. I tried not listening to music on my commute and got to work with 98% battery. With google music I will get to work with 90%
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Are you performing soft restarts? If so, that's probably the reason. For some reason, Android doesn't take well to soft restarts, so when you soft reset it never initializes properly and you end up with strange things like excessive battery drainage.
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soft reboots do fine on android. your "never initializes properly" is inaccurate and just plain wrong.
jj71787 said:
I only did 1 softboot.
I think the culprit is google music it drains the battery like crazy. I tried not listening to music on my commute and got to work with 98% battery. With google music I will get to work with 90%
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To be honest this looks like phone usage, rather than particularly bad battery 'drain'. Are you expecting that your battery should be 98% if you listen to music while on the move for an hour? Or what would a reasonable expected level be?
Your first post said that an hour commute dropped 15%, now it's dropping 10%? Sounds like an improvement to me.
Hello, this is the battery drain of Mi 11i( haydn,SD888). I have this problem since the day I bought the phone, I tried multiple official roms and updates and neither helped. Right now I am on latest MIUI 14 version for the phone, and since I won't be updating it any time soon, I decided to tap deeply into the problem and rooted it, put LSPosed on it and installed many analytic apps that may help. Phone has abnormal "Other" app battery drain while standby, but even with rooted apps, I cannot see the culprit. At first I thought that the "SNS_SMD" sensor, also known as "Significant motion" sensor is at fault, since I saw very large amount of wakeups from it before root, actually constantly while the phone is off. Besides that one, there is also "RMNET_DFC", also used quiet a lot while idle. I managed to get SMD sensor under control by disabling it via sensor disabler app. Weird thing is that the GSAM still reports it being used, even after I disabled both it and sensors like step detector, but now after disabling it, it is not used constantly, "only" half of the uptime of the phone. Next thing, "RMNET_DFC" is also fixed, it's cause was something to do with google play services. Now GSAM reports it's usage of about 1-2h while standby, it used to be also for the whole uptime of the phone while it was idle. Even thou I got those things kinda under control, I still have 1800Mah drain in battery tab by "Other" app. Neither better battery stats nor GSAM report what is it. That "Other" app drain is completely gone if airplane mode is turned on, but I don't see any "radio" or "cell standby" like other people do when they have a problem with the modem. Mine is listed, but the drain is neglegable. I said that the phone is not useable since it lasts me about 2-3h of screen on time during the day while using basic apps. Funny thing is, when I go on a gaming session, charging up the phone to 100% and playing some very demanding 3d games for 2 hours, I am left with 50% battery life at the end of the session...
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Hello, this is the battery drain of Mi 11i( haydn,SD888). I have this problem since the day I bought the phone, I tried multiple official roms and updates and neither helped. Right now I am on latest MIUI 14 version for the phone, and since I won't be updating it any time soon, I decided to tap deeply into the problem and rooted it, put LSPosed on it and installed many analytic apps that may help. Phone has abnormal "Other" app battery drain while standby, but even with rooted apps, I cannot see the culprit. At first I thought that the "SNS_SMD" sensor, also known as "Significant motion" sensor is at fault, since I saw very large amount of wakeups from it before root, actually constantly while the phone is off. Besides that one, there is also "RMNET_DFC", also used quiet a lot while idle. I managed to get SMD sensor under control by disabling it via sensor disabler app. Weird thing is that the GSAM still reports it being used, even after I disabled both it and sensors like step detector, but now after disabling it, it is not used constantly, "only" half of the uptime of the phone. Next thing, "RMNET_DFC" is also fixed, it's cause was something to do with google play services. Now GSAM reports it's usage of about 1-2h while standby, it used to be also for the whole uptime of the phone while it was idle. Even thou I got those things kinda under control, I still have 1800Mah drain in battery tab by "Other" app. Neither better battery stats nor GSAM report what is it. That "Other" app drain is completely gone if airplane mode is turned on, but I don't see any "radio" or "cell standby" like other people do when they have a problem with the modem. Mine is listed, but the drain is neglegable. I said that the phone is not useable since it lasts me about 2-3h of screen on time during the day while using basic apps. Funny thing is, when I go on a gaming session, charging up the phone to 100% and playing some very demanding 3d games for 2 hours, I am left with 50% battery life at the end of the session...
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I noticed one thing which you didn't seem to have noticed. Your mobile signal. It is poor and usually that is a huge drainer since it will constantly search for a better signal. Try to move the phone to a location where the signal is better and try some observations.
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I noticed one thing which you didn't seem to have noticed. Your mobile signal. It is poor and usually that is a huge drainer since it will constantly search for a better signal. Try to move the phone to a location where the signal is better and try some observations.
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Thanks for the insight, I know that modem has to work "harder" when the signal is weak, but didn't know there is much difference between 4 and 5 bars. I am running 4g even thou I have 5g support here, 5g usually has 4 bars while 4g usually has 5, sometimes dipping to 4 when weather is bad but even then I am getting about 100mbps download speeds. According to the BBS screenshot shown above, it seems that the weaker signal isn't a big deal tho since it was at moderate signal for 53 min in total. I will see what will be the result with 3g but last time I tried while the phone was not rooted, there was not much difference with standby battery health.
Not really an answer you are looking for, but you do have a lot of junk apps installed. It is easier to charge your phone twice than let all that junk run on your phone.