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Can anyone help me I'm getting horrible battery life with my one s I'm running cm10 and I swear it goes down 10% in like 30min
Can anyone tell me how to fix it? Or calibrate it? Something
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Do u use auto brightness,?
Our screen takes a lot less battery if we have black wallpapers too just another note.
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k1llacanon said:
Do u use auto brightness,?
Our screen takes a lot less battery if we have black wallpapers too just another note.
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Yeah I use auto man I madd the battery sucks balls
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Better Battery Stats
Start by installing Better Battery Stats:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
That will help pinpoint what is running the battery.
If you lose 10% in like 30 minutes, that means that whatever you're doing, you can do that for like 5 hours. That may not be bad at all, depending on what it is you're doing.
Of course, if you're doing nothing and have the device in your pocket or on your desk with the screen off, 5 hours really bad.
beekiller1 said:
Yeah I use auto man I madd the battery sucks balls
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Don't use auto brightness drains battery enough try use dark backgrounds and as suggested download better battery stats u may have partial wake locks not letting the phone sleep and you can find out which app is doing it
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k1llacanon said:
Don't use auto brightness drains battery enough try use dark backgrounds and as suggested download better battery stats u may have partial wake locks not letting the phone sleep and you can find out which app is doing it
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Can you explain how auto brightness causes battery drain, because that's new to me. I assume if I'm using the optimal backlight for the room, I'm using optimal battery.
If you're in a bright environment, brightness on the screen goes up with auto brightness
Manually set the screen brightness to low = less battery consumption
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Don't use auto brightness drains battery enough try use dark backgrounds and as suggested download better battery stats u may have partial wake locks not letting the phone sleep and you can find out which app is doing it
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auto brightness doesn't even effect the battery performance. Speaking of "battery saver" apps, don't ever use those, it only makes the problem worse. I suggest don't use live wallpapers, end unnecesarry background apps, or just free the phone storage
Try dynamic notifications. This is an active display app. You can wake your phone by turning it over or taking it out of your pocket. Btw the newest 4.3 builds have this but don't work as well yet.
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No thanks
Just thought it was cool and might help someone. Battery drain isn't bad either.
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My apologies. The "replace lock screen option" which enables auto unlock seems to have significant battery drain after 24 hours. Dev updates frequently so this may get addressed.
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amazing battery performance after dong the following...
1- turn off smart stay
2- turn off smart pause
3- turn off smart scroll
4- turn off smart air gesture
5- turn off Air View
6-turn off NFC
7- turn off Sbeam
if you don't use them make sure they are off.
only turn them on when needed.
running rooted note 3 Official ROM.
Peace
Thx it helps brother
Oh really? Does turning off features save battery?
tcntad said:
Oh really? Does turning off features save battery?
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yeah worked for me pretty well
Lets cut him some slack shall we?
Shall I also turn off my handset?
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I never turned them on to begin with... now what?
I appreciate your effort but without showing your SOT we won't know how good is your battery life.
Plus your screen shot obviously shown that your phone has been recharged to a certain amount. Good effort but this is not really a genuine battery test.
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I keep all of the above on aswell as Bluetooth and manage the following
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I can't believe my battery backup after turning off my phone.
LOL
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looool
jakethesnakeuk said:
Shall I also turn off my handset?
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yeah keep it off for 3 to 5 days ... then never turn it back on ... should solve your issue.....
williamyi said:
I appreciate your effort but without showing your SOT we won't know how good is your battery life.
Plus your screen shot obviously shown that your phone has been recharged to a certain amount. Good effort but this is not really a genuine battery test.
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thankss... yeah i forgot to take a screen shot of screen time.. the reason i uploaded this is because i usually get 1 day max of usage... but since i turned all theses features off. and kept same usage it lasted longer...
for the charging times its not really a charging as it was only some time spent for transferring some files between my pct and handset.
thanks for the info tho...
After all this, turn off the phone as well. You won't believe the battery life
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I can't believe my battery backup after turning off my phone.
LOL
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you should also put it upside down.. try that
then what is the use of buying note3
sx4 said:
then what is the use of buying note3
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use them when needed...
most of the time people leave them on, and when they need the battery the most ... its not there....
sx4 said:
then what is the use of buying note3
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S- bean, smart stay, air gestures, etc are useless in my opinion. They're only functions for showing your friends how many things your phone does and then turn them off and never use them again
Great battery life and performance, great s-pen functions like action note, drawings and S- Note, those are real functions of the Note 3
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Me too, they've been off since I got the handset. I'd CM11 this thing if it was 100% stable. I keep TouchWiz for the s-pen - but I find I rarely/never use it.
Best advice here:
Remove the battery after a couple of hours use wait 3 days with battery removed.
Repeat.
This way it could last an entire month
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anthon said:
S- bean, smart stay, air gestures, etc are useless in my opinion. They're only functions for showing your friends how many things your phone does and then turn them off and never use them again
Great battery life and performance, great s-pen functions like action note, drawings and S- Note, those are real functions of the Note 3
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.... AGREE:good:
Hi guys, I've just bought a Motorola moto g 16gb and then I've installed android 4.4.2 and I noticed that the battery stats doesn't show the battery usage of many user apps..
Is it a bug or not?
(Before this phone I had a HTC desire c with android 4.1.2 cyanogenmod)
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It is not a bug.. android does not show user apps battery data anymore..
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Ah.. I found it very useful sometime..
And is it normal the percentage of battery used by the screen? (I keep it around 30/40% during the day)
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zazzy24 said:
It is not a bug.. android does not show user apps battery data anymore..
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It does, but it won't show any user app that is less than (I think) 4% use. He's got a user app showing up on the list in his screenshot.
What has changed is that some user app use of core OS features now get reported as Android OS/Android System where as under JB they were reported as the originating app.
smoza said:
Ah.. I found it very useful sometime..
And is it normal the percentage of battery used by the screen? (I keep it around 30/40% during the day)
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What was your screen on time? (Long press Screen/Shermo)
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What was your screen on time? (Long press Screen/Shermo)
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Yesterday I recharged it so the old screen on time is gone.. But today I didn't used it a lot but the percentage of used battery is 53%
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Hey @smoza I noticed in your screenshots you're using a battery percentage app. Did you know that KitKat already supports battery percentage? You can enable it with this app, without root https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kroegerama.android4batpercent
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smoza said:
Yesterday I recharged it so the old screen on time is gone.. But today I didn't used it a lot but the percentage of used battery is 53%
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OK, really need to know battery consumed, how much of that is reported to be the screen and the screen on time to see if that is an issue. It is normal for screen to be top of the list with regular usage but how much it drains (and how much screen on time you get) is basically going to be a function of your brightness settings.
Looking at your second screen shot I can see a couple of things you might want to investigate/change.
Wifi is always on - fine if you are actually connected to wifi - but if you are out and about and not using a wifi connection having wifi enabled will add a significant amount to your idle drain rate. You should also disable 'Scanning always available' in the Advanced Wifi Settings (Settings/Wifi/Menu Button.Advanced).
Your cell signal is often quite poor - not a lot you can do about it but that will cause faster drain when you are connected to mobile data.
Your phone is waking up regularly when not in use. There could be numerous causes for this, but most likely it is having location set to High Accuracy or Battery Saver - the phone is regularly collecting info from your cell tower connections and surrounding wifi networks to feed back to Google to get a location fix, and apps that like to know your location may be asking for a fix regularly. Depending on what you use location for you may wish to consider turning it off entirely or running in Device Only mode.
You've used GPS - some people have experienced an issue with a continually higher drain rate after using GPS - it's intermittent - for some it is everytime after using GPS, some most of the time, others very occasionally. A reboot will fix if this is an issue (it doesn't look like it is a problem but it's hard to tell - it's most obvious if the battery drains in airplane mode).
I turned off the GPS right now, disabled 'scanning always available' and set the brightness as auto.. I'll write here if this will increase my battery life or not, thank you anyway
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smoza said:
I turned off the GPS right now, disabled 'scanning always available' and set the brightness as auto.. I'll write here if this will increase my battery life or not, thank you anyway
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You might want to keep it between 10 to 20% manually adjusting to higher levels if you're going outside, for the brightness sensor to not be working and therefore, consuming more battery.
From this morning at 10a.m. with 94% of battery I reached the 9p.m. with 7% of battery and I used it a bit more of my average use.. That's better than before (I had to charge my phone at 8p.m.), so thank you guys
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smoza said:
From this morning at 10a.m. with 94% of battery I reached the 9p.m. with 7% of battery and I used it a bit more of my average use.. That's better than before (I had to charge my phone at 8p.m.), so thank you guys
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just curious.. which launcher app are you using? by any chance are you using the google now/experience launcher?
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pisherthefisher said:
Hey @smoza I noticed in your screenshots you're using a battery percentage app. Did you know that KitKat already supports battery percentage? You can enable it with this app, without root https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kroegerama.android4batpercent
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this app is pretty much useless as till your battery is very low it won't show the battery %... wish someone came up with a circle battery with text app for moto g..
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There is anything to do to fix. this bug? The phone had aroun 70% of battery and the phone shootdown it self and you can see the results, 0% of battery but the phone is still working.
Here you can see the screenshot, i'm running stock ROM with aerokernel, and xposed and Gravity box.
zazzy24 said:
just curious.. which launcher app are you using? by any chance are you using the google now/experience launcher?
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I'm using google now launcher, why?
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smoza said:
I'm using google now launcher, why?
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try using nova for a day and tell me if u notice a difference in the battery drain...
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It's not bug.
will try something....latters
Hey all
I had a wake lock trigger that was draining my battery so I decided to try and find what was causing it. I turned off all background sync and disabled GPS. I charged my phone to full and then let it drain over night. As you can see in screen shots... Massive drain occurred with no visual signs of the cause. Anyone have an idea?
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Demonic240 said:
Hey all
I had a wake lock trigger that was draining my battery so I decided to try and find what was causing it. I turned off all background sync and disabled GPS. I charged my phone to full and then let it drain over night. As you can see in screen shots... Massive drain occurred with no visual signs of the cause. Anyone have an idea?
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Try to turn off wifi and see what happens
Demonic240 said:
Hey all
I had a wake lock trigger that was draining my battery so I decided to try and find what was causing it. I turned off all background sync and disabled GPS. I charged my phone to full and then let it drain over night. As you can see in screen shots... Massive drain occurred with no visual signs of the cause. Anyone have an idea?
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Did you get any shots of the Kernel Wakelocks and Partial Wakelocks screens in bbs? That's where you would see the culprit(s). Also, do you ever do soft reboots? Some people (including myself) have experienced increased battery drain with no visible wakelocks after soft rebooting. Doing a full reboot seems to fix it.
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It's definitely something using Wi-Fi. Need more in depth analysis
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premo15 said:
Did you get any shots of the Kernel Wakelocks and Partial Wakelocks screens in bbs? That's where you would see the culprit(s). Also, do you ever do soft reboots? Some people (including myself) have experienced increased battery drain with no visible wakelocks after soft rebooting. Doing a full reboot seems to fix it.
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I checked those but there was nothing abnormal. I'd done a reboot when I flashed the kernel back to stock pa.
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rootSU said:
It's definitely something using Wi-Fi. Need more in depth analysis
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I've disabled wifi and it drained to dead. Going to recharge to full and see what it does off wi-fi. What could I do to see why/if wi-fi is killing it?
You can see it is draining it in your screen shots. Maybe you didn't fully disable the background Wi-Fi usage. "scanning always enabled" for example
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rootSU said:
You can see it is draining it in your screen shots. Maybe you didn't fully disable the background Wi-Fi usage. "scanning always enabled" for example
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That was one of the first things I disabled.
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That was one of the first things I disabled.
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Doesn't look like its disabled correctly. Your screenshot shows nearly 8 hours Wi-Fi.
Maybe there is a bug in your settings data.
Not sure if you're rooted or not but maybe a backup / wipe is the best course of action
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rootSU said:
Doesn't look like its disabled correctly. Your screenshot shows nearly 8 hours Wi-Fi.
Maybe there is a bug in your settings data.
Not sure if you're rooted or not but maybe a backup / wipe is the best course of action
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Here's the current setting. I guess I can factory reset again. I'll try that after this current charge cycle.
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You could try booting the phone into safe mode to see if it's a 3rd party app, though unnecessary if you plan on trying a full reset anyways.
Disable xposed
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Factory reset, no syncing enabled, no auto updates, google now disabled, no apps other than stock gapps installed. Still high android os usage.
Demonic240 said:
Factory reset, no syncing enabled, no auto updates, google now disabled, no apps other than stock gapps installed. Still high android os usage.
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while at first it looks high, in reality it isnt(yet). in your screenshot you have only lost 5% battery so far with light use. at this point you really cant tell what your battery will be like with use.
simms22 said:
while at first it looks high, in reality it isnt(yet). in your screenshot you have only lost 5% battery so far with light use. at this point you really cant tell what your battery will be like with use.
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How about now?
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How about now?
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ahh, thats a little better, but itll drop a little more with use. while 20 is a little high, id still classify as normal. really anything up to 20% is normal. typically, after a full cycle, i see android os between 9-15%. but it would all depend on exactly how you use your phone.
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ahh, thats a little better, but itll drop a little more with use. while 20 is a little high, id still classify as normal. really anything up to 20% is normal. typically, after a full cycle, i see android os between 9-15%. but it would all depend on exactly how you use your phone.
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Right now.. I'm not doing anything other than replying to this thread.
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Right now.. I'm not doing anything other than replying to this thread.
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i see that chrome(and chrome sandbox) is taking a huge amount of battery for very little use. 21% together, just to respond to xda..
Install system monitor from play store and check CPU freq and number of CPU's online while screen on.
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As said above....use the phone normally and check when its almost drained. It will surely be much lower.
If location is on...it will probably be higher than 10% I'd guess. If so....completely normal.