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[Q] GPS Status and Toolbox

I downloaded this app to help speed up GPS fixes and to gawk over the data for a bit, and it does indeed speed up how fast you can acquire a GPS lock, especially indoors. I downloaded the app, launched it and reset the GPS then downloaded A-GPS data. The program was on for maybe 2 minutes, and after quitting I verified it as not running in the background. I went to sleep with 87% battery life left and when I woke up I was at 64%, a noticeably larger drain with GPS Status listed as using 16% under battery usage. Anyone else using this app notice it taking a large chunk of battery? It didn't have this much usage when I went to sleep, the app wasn't running while I slept, and yet its battery usage increased during these hours.
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I realize the screenshot lists 11% and I said it used 16%, but I have been using the phone for a while since so as other apps use more its total %age goes down.
Anyone else using this app?

That's odd, my GPS Status and toolbox runs fine, however occasionally there is a bug where if you exit out of the app, your GPS wont turn off unless you actually toggle it off.
That may be the problem, there was an update to that app today, try that and report back to us. Or, you can also use "GPS TEST" that works okay on these phones

Yeah I suspected that but I'm a battery fiend so I turn on and off services like gps and mobile data as needed anyway. I've even tried toggling gps on and off a few times just to make sure. I uninstalled and reinstalled the app last night but got similar results. Actually it used more last night than the previous and I haven't even launched the app for two days. I suppose I'll have to uninstall it which is a shame because it really does improve gps performance. It used 22% last night!
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as previously stated, tonight try GPSTest by chartcross. It does the same thing

Thanks, I'll give it a shot tonight and report back!

Indeed GPS Test worked just as well and didn't suck my battery all night! Thanks for that.
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No worries, glad it worked for you.

Just FYI: I got the same problem on a SGS2 so it's most certainly not your ROM/device/settings.
Uninstalling GPS Status, going back to GPS Test.

hokulus said:
I downloaded this app to help speed up GPS fixes and to gawk over the data for a bit, and it does indeed speed up how fast you can acquire a GPS lock, especially indoors. I downloaded the app, launched it and reset the GPS then downloaded A-GPS data. The program was on for maybe 2 minutes, and after quitting I verified it as not running in the background. I went to sleep with 87% battery life left and when I woke up I was at 64%, a noticeably larger drain with GPS Status listed as using 16% under battery usage. Anyone else using this app notice it taking a large chunk of battery? It didn't have this much usage when I went to sleep, the app wasn't running while I slept, and yet its battery usage increased during these hours.
I realize the screenshot lists 11% and I said it used 16%, but I have been using the phone for a while since so as other apps use more its total %age goes down.
Anyone else using this app?
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How did you get the battery graph like that?
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Delicate Donut said:
How did you get the battery graph like that?
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Settings > About phone > Battery usage
I think this was introduced in 2.3 Gingerbread.

faildroid said:
Settings > About phone > Battery usage
I think this was introduced in 2.3 Gingerbread.
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Ahh I see I'm still on froyo
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Battery life is is bad now. 4+ hour wake time.

So I had great battery life not too long ago but now I can barely make it a whole day. My awake times are very high and I can't pinpoint the cause. I attached some wakelock detector info. Right now I have about an hour and a half of screen on and 16% battery left.
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I am having same issue with phone getting really warm. No new app installs other than things like wakelock detector. I can't figure out what is causing it and better battery stats isn't showing me anything.

Add me to the list. Never needed my third battery until yesterday. No out of the ordinary modifications.

smac7 said:
So I had great battery life not too long ago but now I can barely make it a whole day. My awake times are very high and I can't pinpoint the cause. I attached some wakelock detector info. Right now I have about an hour and a half of screen on and 16% battery left.
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Try freezing maps and other not needed Gapps, it solved my long wake times. I also use Tasker to hibernate all my apps then put the phone in airplane mode when the screen turns off then waken them up and turn wifi back on when the screen comes on, battery life through the roof
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So what's a normal awake time?
I've had battery problems in the past with other phones but usually wake lock detector can find the offending app. Nothing is jumping out at me this time. Google seems to be using a lot but I would like to keep using those apps unaffected.
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Same here I took my phone off the charger at 10pm by 1am I was down to 37% with 17 min of sot, something isn't right, I'll try to grab ss tonight. And yes the phone gets really hot

I just had my G3 replaced after my new one suddenly died on me.
I notice a couple of subtle software changes by AT&T.
Yesterday my battery was on 60%. Before I left the office.
When I got home (45 minutes) I took the phone out of the pouch and it was really hot and the battery wad won to 19%.
First time this has happened to me. Will have to monitor.

I got fed up with it all. I did a factory reset. I'm going slowly re add apps back. I certainly noticed a performance bump after the factory reset. Night and day. I didn't even realize how much it slowed until i reset it.

smac7 said:
I got fed up with it all. I did a factory reset.
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wake lock detector isn't really a good app for telling you exactly what the issue is. betterbatterystats is your best bet to find out exactly what the issue is - it will tell you precisely what the issue is holding your phone awake.
Sometimes, shutting down and pulling the battery out for a second is all it takes to fix the problem. rebooting doesn't always solve whatever it is...

My phone "freezes" now and again, it always has something to do with me texting, but screen off and on will fix it..and it does get warm when frozen per say...but it will normally fix itself with me interacting with it. But if your guys are not holding it when it happens I can see it draining out your battery stuck at higher clock for no reason...now wonder if I should pull logs....
When I say interact I mean I have to push the power button. Knock on won't work. Similar to the dreaded sleep of death but seems to pull out of it.
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Like another user mentioned pulling battery or at least resetting the phone periodically helps with battery and helps keep things running smooth. Using Better Battery Stats and looking at Alarms and Partial Wakelocks is a good way to determine if there is a rogue app killing your battery. A couple good Xposed Modules, if you're not using them or aware of them, are Greenify to help hibernate apps that like to constantly wake the phone and NLB Unbounce module is a good one for if you want to keep your location on and keep Google Now functionality. You can set how often you want the wakelocks and alarms to trigger and with the donate you can do the same with any wakelock/alarm. Just be cautious if using the pro version as some alarms or wakelocks if disabled or tinkered with incorrectly could make the phone unstable. Just a few tips/ideas. I have the VS985 and have had pretty good battery life since getting everything set up and debloated. Usually about 17-18 hours on battery (I don't sleep much) and 4-5 hours screen on time. I like the screen on the brighter side as well, which usually I adjust with the status bar so I don't have an exact percentage for the brightness. For some other tips and apps or even maybe something you haven't thought about check out this thread: G3 Battery Tweaks :good:

Factory reset.
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I noticed my phone was getting warm in the pocket too, with bad battery life. I finally figured out the phone was waking as if it thought it was getting the 'double tap' to wake. I believe you can disable the double tap in the secret menu (3845#*850#)

Cell Standby Battery Drain?

Cell standby is continuously one of my top two battery drain items. I did a search and found a recommendation of booting into recovery, wiping cache, rebooting, and ensuring that advanced calling was turned on. I went through those steps and while it may have helped a little, it still seems to be using much more battery than it should be. Anyone else battling this on a Verizon version? If so, any other items I can try to fix the problem? Thanks in advance!

I have this on my s6, but not on the note 5.
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I just can't seem to find what is causing it.

I get it too but it doesn't seem to drain my battery much. I'm still getting 6 hours of SOT. I haven't used my phone all that much the last few days but I'm at four days without a charge and 29% left. I tried clearing cache three times but cell standby remains on top. It would be nice to get rid of but it's not killing me.

Misterxtc said:
I get it too but it doesn't seem to drain my battery much. I'm still getting 6 hours of SOT. I haven't used my phone all that much the last few days but I'm at four days without a charge and 29% left. I tried clearing cache three times but cell standby remains on top. It would be nice to get rid of but it's not killing me.
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I found this in the General Section: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62555790&postcount=19
Maybe it could help.

darksidesh007 said:
I found this in the General Section: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62555790&postcount=19
Maybe it could help.
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Thanks for the response. I do already have advanced calling turned on. This may vary from carrier to carrier. I am on Verizon.

I have this issue when I have WiFi on, with WiFi off just have no issue
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If you are like me then Cellular is still going even when on WIFI. If you notice, the 3g/4g icon is activated and WHITE when using data. Otherwise it is grey. From what I understand when on WIFI this should always be grey. I should also mention I do not have Advanced calling turned on.

Keep in mind results vary depending on where you use the phone. Do you have a weak cell signal? When the signal is weaker, the phone compensates by using more power to boost it as much as possible. I haven't noticed the problem but I'm usually full or one bar from full signal at my home.

Mine drains more than 2% during standby, which is definitely not normal

Fix for cell standby bug is to go to Settings > Wi-Fi > more > advanced then make it look like this.
This is for the people that are having issues with the battery draining while on wifi only.
Setup like image below and it should fix your issues.
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ztahoez said:
Fix for cell standby bug is to go to Settings > Wi-Fi > more > advanced then make it look like this.
This is for the people that are having issues with the battery draining while on wifi only.
Setup like image below and it should fix your issues.
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mine looked like that from day one, still getting cell standby drain

ztahoez said:
Fix for cell standby bug is to go to Settings > Wi-Fi > more > advanced then make it look like this.
This is for the people that are having issues with the battery draining while on wifi only.
Setup like image below and it should fix your issues.
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I did it, but still getting cell standby at the top
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Battery drain will always vary my mileage, what firmware version are you on, what apps you have open , are you on LTE, 3G, wifi or no wifi and how many apps you have going, running in the backgroud. etc etc etc.

ztahoez said:
Fix for cell standby bug is to go to Settings > Wi-Fi > more > advanced then make it look like this.
This is for the people that are having issues with the battery draining while on wifi only.
Setup like image below and it should fix your issues.
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my is exactly like that, cell standby is still crazy high

No idea why this worked but switching data from global to LTE /CDMA only seems to have fixed my cell standby draining while on WiFi.

I bought my Note 5 on VZW yesterday, after coming from the note 5 on AT&T. My issue seems to be unusual high Android OS draining my battery. Maybe new phones just need a day or two to settle? I'm about to clear cache for apps by rebooting into recovery. I have done the following:
-Disable VZW/Samsung Bloat (Package Disabler Pro)
-Disable S Finder (Package Disabler Pro)
-Turn off motion Gestures
-Turn off S voice
-Turn off or decrease vibrations
-Turn off Google Location History
-Turn off Android Device manager
-Disable Unnecessary Sync Service
-Turn off S pen Alerts, pen detection, and S pen sound and vibration (will still work exactly the same)
-Turn off 'Always allow scanning' under advanced wifi settings (Allows apps to serach for Wifi even when wifi is off)

I have seen location history posted as a possible battery drain when not using phone. Check to see it's status. Turn off and try.

jeffdanger said:
I have seen location history posted as a possible battery drain when not using phone. Check to see it's status. Turn off and try.
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This helped. Just because Location isn't used, does not mean Location History is disabled. Thanks!

Android 11, UI 3.0 excessive battery drain.

Anyone updated to 11 and UI 3.0 getting excessive drain from the screen. According to GSam Battery Monitor Pro the screen is using 90%. On android 10 and UI 2.5 the screen barely used any battery. I have the display at about 50% and using dark instead of light theme.
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It looks like it's getting good SOT... about 11% @hr
The screen always uses the most battery.
Run display at 60 hz to get more SOT savings.

blackhawk said:
It looks like it's getting good SOT... about 11% @hr
The screen always uses the most battery.
Run display at 60 hz to get more SOT savings.
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Already doing that, on Android 10 UI 2.5 it was never that high. At a full charge when I went to bed in 10 hours it would be at 95-96% now while laying around and not using it drops 2-4% an hour. Some of those stats were while it was still on android 10.

ggrant3876 said:
Anyone updated to 11 and UI 3.0 getting excessive drain from the screen. According to GSam Battery Monitor Pro the screen is using 90%. On android 10 and UI 2.5 the screen barely used any battery. I have the display at about 50% and using dark instead of light theme.View attachment 5166121View attachment 5166121
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Wow 13 hours screen on time for 22% of battery usage , hallajuha we have a winner .
Delete cache and data of GSAM or reinstall it.

ggrant3876 said:
Already doing that, on Android 10 UI 2.5 it was never that high. At a full charge when I went to bed in 10 hours it would be at 95-96% now while laying around and not using it drops 2-4% an hour. Some of those stats were while it was still on android 10.
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Probably Google Backup Transport, Transport Framework and/or Goggle Play Services running in the background. Clear their data.
AOD usage should about 1%@hr
Try disabling all power management and deal with the cause(s) directly if they persist.

Limeybastard said:
Wow 13 hours screen on time for 22% of battery usage , hallajuha we have a winner .
Delete cache and data of GSAM or reinstall it.
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Cleared the cache of GSam and booted to recovery and cleared the cache, see how it goes now.

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Anyone updated to 11 and UI 3.0 getting excessive drain from the screen. According to GSam Battery Monitor Pro the screen is using 90%. On android 10 and UI 2.5 the screen barely used any battery. I have the display at about 50% and using dark instead of light theme.View attachment 5166121View attachment 5166121
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Give it time to recalibrate it's info (battery) coming into android 11. Give it about 2 weeks.

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Give it time to recalibrate it's info (battery) coming into android 11. Give it about 2 weeks.
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Recalibrate: drain to near autoshut off then fully recharge to 100% to reset parameters.

Mines also going tits up since android 11 update. What I had to do was remove/ exempt GSAM from battery optimization.

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Mines also going tits up since android 11 update. What I had to do was remove/ exempt GSAM from battery optimization.
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That didn't help mine. I'll give another week to calibrate and then start worrying about it.

I also went to Android 11 and this night did the GSAM test: Eight hours my dear friend sleeping next to me. But no AOD.
Result: 0,8% per hour, which is perfect. Before, with Android 10, I sometimes sqeezed out 0,7%/hr but that is of no importance. The best overnight was 0,6% loss./hr.
I have 540 applications installed I found out.
No battery calibrating or whatsoever done.
And..... I never switch off anything!. Bluetooth connection with watch remains all the night and WiFi remains on. Same location/GPS etc etc.
I sometimes become a little tired of reading advices to switch it all off, inclusive radio. Gives no difference in power consumption.
That may have been the case ten years ago.

And here is my GSAM screen. Looks OK.

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That didn't help mine. I'll give another week to calibrate and then start worrying about it.
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Ended up doing a FDR and didn't restore any old data. Battery is still the same, must be an OS problem that will be solved with a future update.

I noticed that without any disabling apps and just using battery background usage limits (setting which apps to to deep sleep etc.), the battery life got better with time. The moment i started doing app optimisations (goodlock) etc, battery life went haywire. I use accubattery just to check on parameters (it doesn't give accurate app usage in background). I'm using on 96hz as well.

Question Huge battery drain when sleep tracking after updating to R860XXU1CUJ2

Hey there. I am noticing a big battery drain on my GW 4 40MM Bluetooth when I am going to sleep, for example last night I've gone to sleep with 83% of battery left and in the middle of the night the watch died, the same thing the night before. Normally I would get about 20-25% loss with previous firmware
This problem started after I updated to R860XXU1CUJ2. The strange thing is that I am not noticing bad battery life when I wear the watch in the day (maybe a little more draining compared to previous firmware), also note that I am just using regular sleep tracking not O2 or snore detection even though I have used this options with the previous firmware and still I had battery when I woke up.
Does anyone else has big battery drains when sleep tracking and also is there an official site where I can make a ticket?
Thanks!
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Same here, happened to me twice already , can't track it back other than sleep mode

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Same here, happened to me twice already , can't track it back other than sleep mode
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I also posted here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyWatch/comments/qe1eyb
I turn off Bluetooth at night and I want to try if keeping it on does anything, because as you can see from my screenshot it uses Wifi and maybe this affects the battery life at night. Do you keep Bluetooth on or off?

Lefty_Kas said:
I also posted here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyWatch/comments/qe1eyb
I turn off Bluetooth at night and I want to try if keeping it on does anything, because as you can see from my screenshot it uses Wifi and maybe this affects the battery life at night. Do you keep Bluetooth on or off?
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I would say you've got your answer. If you have enabled the option to continue receiving notifications via wifi or lte then turning off Bluetooth will inevitably use wifi all the time and result in high battery drain, most probably...

CUJ2 version as well, 28% battery drain during the night. I just left the watch on my table. No sleep tracking. No wifi. No app listed under battery usage. Nice!
Is there a way to get more details on battery consumption?

Lefty_Kas said:
Hey there. I am noticing a big battery drain on my GW 4 40MM Bluetooth when I am going to sleep, for example last night I've gone to sleep with 83% of battery left and in the middle of the night the watch died, the same thing the night before. Normally I would get about 20-25% loss with previous firmware
This problem started after I updated to R860XXU1CUJ2. The strange thing is that I am not noticing bad battery life when I wear the watch in the day (maybe a little more draining compared to previous firmware), also note that I am just using regular sleep tracking not O2 or snore detection even though I have used this options with the previous firmware and still I had battery when I woke up.
Does anyone else has big battery drains when sleep tracking and also is there an official site where I can make a ticket?
Thanks!
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Same problem here. In this update, I think the Watch WiFi is set on when I turn the phone WiFi or data off. It's not happening before this update.

Lefty_Kas said:
I turn off Bluetooth at night and I want to try if keeping it on does anything, because as you can see from my screenshot it uses Wifi and maybe this affects the battery life at night. Do you keep Bluetooth on or off?
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I agree with DaReDeViL. You have your answer. Why do you turn off BT and leave on wifi? Wifi uses significantly more power. I'm on newer DUJA but I saw no issues with CUJA which I ran for several weeks. I have sleep tracking on without O2 or snore detection. I don't have BT or wifi on when I sleep though. I have no desire to get notifications when I sleep, I want to sleep. I actually use bedtime mode when I sleep. I loose between 4 - 6 % of battery when I sleep (I average about 7 hours). This has remained fairly consistent with every update.