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Help on what's draining my battery?

The battery life on my Desire is horrible, and I would like to acheive some of the great battery performance I've been reading of other members. I've got LeeDroid 2.1a A2SD+ ver., with the 38.44 radio (I installed older versions in hopes of acheiving better battery). I am now getting far worse performance then when I had new versions of LD/radio, because "something" is draining the battery. ie. Before, I'd get 15% loss per hour during the day, and 1% loss per hour at night during my sleep, with the screen and wifi ON, (using GentleAlarm night clock, which shows the time but on a dimmed screen). Now, I have a 75% loss during 8 hrs of sleep! I even installed "Juice Defender" (Pro ver. with "Ultimate Juice"), which turns off wifi for a few hours, etc. It did nothing to improve battery life, or possibly made things worse. I tried uninstalling some programs, but nothing's changed yet. How can I find out which program or configuration is causing the battery drainage problem?
Battery Indicator Pro stats (8h40m since unplugged):
DISPLAY: 42%
CELL STANDBY: 26%
WIFI: 25%
ANDROID SYSTEM: 5%
PHONE IDLE: 2%
Quick Info stats:
Running: 95.9%
Screen on: 95.9%
Wifi On: 95.7%
Wifi Running: 95.6%

Wi-Fi drains faster than anything, if you're not using it then shut it off! Also, 15% drain per hour during the day and 1% at night isn't that bad. I would switch back to your first configuration. Maybe you're not taking into account how much you're really using your phone?

Well I'm comparing battery performance when I am NOT using my phone at all (during my sleep), and its night and day. When I was getting 15% per hr, 1% loss at night, that was with wifi ON (ie. JuiceDefender was not installed then, and it cuts off Wifi at scheduled times). I'd like to switch back to my first configuration, except that's my prob lem: I have no idea what that configuration was exactly. Lots of programs installed and uninstalled since. I'm going to take a look at a few apps though that might help me understand how to control battery performance.

OSMonitor from the market. See what may be hammering your CPU. Real time read out of CPU usage broken down by each process.
good day. From my Fascinate using the XDA app.

[Q] Using 4% of battery an hour in deep sleep

So for the past 2-3 weeks my Infuse's battery has gone down (not gone down TO) 20-40% by the time I wake up in the morning if it's at 100% when I go to sleep. I use CPUSpy to see what state it was in and it appears to have been in deep sleep. So what's my Infuse's problem? This just started in the last few weeks, it used to use 1% of battery every few hours in deep sleep.
It's running infusion kernel but I'm pretty sure it was fine running that before this was noticed.

TheNetwork said:
So for the past 2-3 weeks my Infuse's battery has gone down (not gone down TO) 20-40% by the time I wake up in the morning if it's at 100% when I go to sleep. I use CPUSpy to see what state it was in and it appears to have been in deep sleep. So what's my Infuse's problem? This just started in the last few weeks, it used to use 1% of battery every few hours in deep sleep.
It's running infusion kernel but I'm pretty sure it was fine running that before this was noticed.
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Check battery stats in Settings->About Phone->Battery use, and if anything looks weird there, check wakelock stats using the app BetterBatteryStats from XDA (not a Market app)

Entropy512 said:
Check battery stats in Settings->About Phone->Battery use, and if anything looks weird there, check wakelock stats using the app BetterBatteryStats from XDA (not a Market app)
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Cell standby is 40%, display 24, idle 20(that seems odd...), wifi is 11% but i have that off when I'm sleeping, and the rest are below 5%.
Don't know if I'm doing this right but wakelocks:
LocationFriendService 7h9m37s count: 2512 16.8% (says this is google maps..)
NetworkLocation Check Location (what the hell, I have network location off...) 4h 6m 33s count: 8432 9.6%
WifiService 2h 46m 59s count:13402 6.5%
The rest are one percent or less and there are few. So what's going on with the location services I don't have activated?
Also, I forgot to mention my key backlight has a seizure when it's off, every once in a while it'll go on and off 10 times in a second.
Edit: I restarted my phone, charged it to 100%, froze Gmaps, and it appears to be doing alright.

[Q] Better Battery Stats

I'm not really sure what most of the followings things are, but they are what shows up when i run betterbatterystats. For some reason my battery stats are always changing. One day I could get over a day on a full charge and others it could be 6-8 hours and mainly the same amount of use. I have noticed on the bad days that the partial wakelocks and kernel wakelocks are much higher. the problem is that I dont know what these services are and whether or not I can kill them, or even how to kill them. But here is my lists.
Phone running on full charge for 4hr39m.
Wifi on 4hr17m
Awake 1hr01m
Screen On 32min25s
Partial Wakelocks, only EmailEngineAPI is more than a min. at 10m47s
Kernel Wakelocks:
PowerManagerService 7m47s
svnet 5m27s
DPRAM 2m42s
radio-interface 2m33s
max8998-charger 1m43s
Ive read that PowerManagerService is the collection of all wakelocks so I guess that doesnt really count. I assume emailengine is just the push email (kinda sucks that its either push or never and you cant just have it auto refresh every hour or so). As for vbus, i read that that is when your phone is on the charger which makes no sense because my phone is never on a charger or connected through usb. I have a seperate wall charger that charges the batteries on its own so I never plug my phone in, when the battery dies, I just put in a fresh fully charged battery. The other wakelocks I couldnt find when I searched for them.
BTW I dropped down to 77% battery and as you can tell by my screen on time, I was only on the phone for 32m. So these damn wakelocks are stopping my phone from deep sleep (which btw is at 66% according to cpu spy) On good battery days the deep sleep is between 80-90%
If anyone knows anything about this stuff and can pass on some words of wisdom I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

Could be wifi causing the wakelock, this is a known issue with most roms, I'd try killing the wifi when you don't need it.
Either use a toggle widget or use something like juice defender.
Personally, I've got power control plus to manually kill GPS and wifi and then juice defender ultimate to automate data every couple of hours to synch apps. I've never had any wakelock issues using this setup.
CPU Spy:
1267 MHz: 8%
1075 MHz: 1%
384 MHz: 1%
245 MHz: 11%
Deep Sleep: 75%
Seems strange that you have such a large drain on some days and not others, anything stand out when the battery is draining faster (away from home for example, meaning your data will be on rather than wifi ?)

Does anyone know where I can find better battery stats apk or link for it. I've obviously been looking in the wrong threads.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

Battery Problem

Hey Guys
i have a strange Problem
my last one plus one had a good battery life time but the sound buttons get brocken , so one plus change my mobile.
1 wekk ago i get my new phone, everything is working but the battery drain was very fast.
i decided to install blisspop with bueffola kernel tweaked it a little bit for battery saving and install BBS for wakelock detections.
I elimenate all the wakelocks that cause a fast battery drain and since that te battery drain in idle is minimal but when my mobile phone is on the battery drains 3% in 1 hour.
That's weird cause as i say i eliminate all the wakelocks that causes fast drains and use the phone most time for spotify and whatsapp.
And if i start to browse on the Internet the battery life drops even faster
So what can i do?
Am i do something wrong
or is the battery of this new phone crap and i'm so luckily to get a phone with a failiure battery?
Any suggestions would be nice and sorry for my bad english.
German or russian is better

on 50% battery i have something like 2h of screentime so i thing till 0% battery i will have 4h SOT and this is nothing (don't use the Phone much a saing above only whatsapp and spotify)

Well, to be honest, 13% in 4:30h is not "very fast" considering you had 30 minutes of screen time. Mine loses about 10% per 30 minutes of using the device, going by that there are only 3% unaccounted for which easily fit the 4h standby your device was in.
Anyway. In 4:20h of tracked time, you have 1h awake time of which you had 35min of screen time. The remaining 25 minutes can be split up in roughly 15min of AudioOutput and 10min for several wakelocks such as the proximity sensor doing stuff for 3 minutes, the phone doing stuff for 4 minutes, basically everything is accounted for. All in order I'd say.
What I spotted:
You are on Lollipop. Did you wipe after/before upgrading to Lollipop or did you dirty flash from CM11s?
Do you have the new Lollipop-compatible firmwares (they come with CM12) installed? Not sure they come with Blisspop.
BetterBatteryStats has the CPU sitting on 1500MHz for half an hour. Check whether you configured your system to stay at 1500MHz with screen on which of course would be crap, the CPU should idle at around 300MHz.
It seems you had the device shut-down and then booted. Booting up the device eats massive amounts of juice.
Android reckons 3 days of usage like that, what's not ok with that?

1. Yes i wiped it and don't dirty flash the rom befor i was going to lollipop
2. Not sure have the latest bissplop
3 Where can i check what i configured to stay at 1500MHZ , in the kernel settings?
4. i know i rebootet it once
5. The reckons of the 3 days is not true , it only affects if my device is staying in standy cause i lost nearly nothing (as you will see in the logs i posted in the spoiler.)
The first BBS log shows the Device fully charged at 100% with wifi and Mobile Data on. I left the Phone in standby for the night (8h) and i didn't lose any precent.
So after 8h standby i still have 100%
After 11 o'clock till now i used the Phone mostly for spotify , a few times Whatsapp and something like 30-50min for internet.
In the second BBS log you will see that i lost Bat.: -35%(88% to 53%) [4,5%/h] although the SOT time is only at something like 2h.
The SOT time of 4h would be total normally for me if my reckon of android would be 3 days cause this is the case on my lg g2.
Because i use the phone most of the really only for spotify.
So the main problem of my device is not the idle drain but the drain if the screen is on or spotify works in the background with screen of.
I hope that the BBS logs in the Attachment and the 3 pictures can help you.
Thanks for your help

Don't go by the sudden drop of battery percentage after staying in standby for a long time, eg. over night. The very subtle decline of the voltage over the course of the night is smoothed out and reported as 0% lost. Once you start using the device, and the change in voltage gets more noticeable, the situation is re-evaluated and the previous drop of 0% gets counted in and a sudden drop of several % over a short amount of time will occur. This is physics and by design.
As for the rest, I'm by no means a pro in reading BBS Logs but from what I see, yes you are on Lollipop firmwares/baseband so we're good. The device enters deep sleep just fine, excellent in fact. No major or irregular wakelocks seem to occur, perfect.
As for the daily usage log, I see 7:45h. Of which 4:10h in deep sleep and 3:35h awake, of which ~2h screen on and ~30min phone on. You lost 35% in that time, averages 4.5% per hour. This seems perfectly ok. This would translate to 7h awake time with 4h screen time. I seem to fail to see your problem.
Interestingly the frequency tops now at 1500MHz. Did you change something?
To take myself as an example, on my way to work, I lost 19% in roughly 45-50 minutes of playing ingress. I had about 45 minutes of screen time, GPS constantly active and of course constant data traffic. I arrived 2h ago, barely touched my device in those 2h and lost another 2%. This is more or less in line with your usage, 1-2% when sleeping, 4% when awake with screen off, ~20% with screen on. You're not happy? You reckon you had more on your previous device?

Thanks for reply and help
My goal is to have a few days with android e.g 2-3 days
SOT is not so important.
Important is that there is not hudge battery drain wenn i hear spotify cause it dosn't mather if the screen is on or off it drains hard
On my lg g2 it's not so hard
And no didn't change anything about 1500MHZ
Any suggestion ?
Greetings
EDIT:
Open the back cover of the Phone
The battery is bloated
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Spends too much in in 400mhz speed

My phone half of the time stays at 400MHz.
Is that normal?
even when is idle and screen is switched off. battery life is not that good though i am not sure if it should be better on an S6,
I am rooted and I have uniKernel.
Note that I do have Deep sleep but only like half of the time even when my phone display is off.

Phone CPUs adjusts their speed depending upon the need to conserve power.

bebseh said:
My phone half of the time stays at 400MHz.
Is that normal?
even when is idle and screen is switched off. battery life is not that good though i am not sure if it should be better on an S6,
I am rooted and I have uniKernel.
Note that I do have Deep sleep but only like half of the time even when my phone display is off.
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If you mean you have no deep sleep you can root and download BetterBatteryStats or Wakelock detector to see what is causing the wakelocks.
GSM battery monitor works without root, but you can't see the wakelocks, but you can see what apps are draining your battery.

Faspaiso said:
If you mean you have no deep sleep you can root and download BetterBatteryStats or Wakelock detector to see what is causing the wakelocks.
GSM battery monitor works without root, but you can't see the wakelocks, but you can see what apps are draining your battery.
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Hello
I do have deep sleep, pbbly +50% of the time,
However it does spend quite some time in 400mhz even when is idle.
is this normak ? i dont remember seeing the same behavior on my Note 3.

bebseh said:
Hello
I do have deep sleep, pbbly +50% of the time,
However it does spend quite some time in 400mhz even when is idle.
is this normak ? i dont remember seeing the same behavior on my Note 3.
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Well I have 98-99% deep sleep buy I'm also on a custom kernel + Rom without all the battery hungry apps like Facebook, messenger, Spotify and so on, so only thing that wake my phone from time to time is Google play services.
On stock Rom I mean I had around 50-70% so if you're using a lot of battery hungry apps (that wake your phone a lot) I think it's normal.