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Battery drain from a non-running app?

Hi. Its been a few days since my Nexus 5 battery has been drained pretty fast. Lasts only about 4 hours after fully charged with little use. Since I recently started working in a really poor reception area I figured that was the problem, my phone constantly trying to find a signal, but when I go to the details, I see that Instagram is responsible for using up 40% and it wasnt even running!
Im no developer, or even experiencied android user, but, how is this possible?
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javiwankenobi said:
Hi. Its been a few days since my Nexus 5 battery has been drained pretty fast. Lasts only about 4 hours after fully charged with little use. Since I recently started working in a really poor reception area I figured that was the problem, my phone constantly trying to find a signal, but when I go to the details, I see that Instagram is responsible for using up 40% and it wasnt even running!
Im no developer, or even experiencied android user, but, how is this possible?
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Welcome to android and app permissions. It's accessing a number of things on your phone with location probably being the number one. Get something like xposed and app ops to tame what the app is allowed to access. You should also get gsam or BBS to get a closer look at what is using your batery.

This happened to me last night with a messaging app I used to replace hangouts. It dropped about 12% overnight with data and WiFi all off.
I looked in battery use and messaging sucked most if it up. I cleared data in the messaging app and that fixed it. Later today I switched back to hangouts until I download another messaging app. I don't trust that one now.
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Thanks for your reply. I'm guessing I need root for Xposed and those other apps ? Like I said I'm just an ex iPhone user who just converted to Android. So haven't given myself the time to tweak around.
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you dont need xposed. looks like instagram had a stuck process or was stuck syncing. a reboot usually fixes that. there are other ways to fix things, other than installing xposed(as xposed could bring in its own issues). there are many apps out there that help, greenify being one of them. also, there are a few great apps to help you stop wakelocks that are out of control.

How to get the best Battery life?

Hey I'm currently running CM11 and I want to be able to maximize my battery life but still have customization. I'm looking for any option weather it be flash another ROM or what.
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Battery life depends on the users configuration. Start here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785128
[Battery Life Help] Troubleshoot battery issues here!
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Flashing custom kernels (Franco for me) has yielded some improvement (but as it always is with this kind of things, YMMV), disable Google Now, turn location to "battery saving" or "GPS only", disable wifi always on scanning, you know, the usual. The thread above should help you quite a bit. Also, this is what I do...
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kilowatt95 said:
Also, this is what I do...
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If you Greenify apps that don't need to be Greenified (ones that don't wakelock) and you use them often it'll use up more battery than save.

I Have figured how why my battery life was being so weird and I have fixed it. I had an app called Lux and for some reason it was killing my battery.
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purenexus said:
I Have figured how why my battery life was being so weird and I have fixed it. I had an app called Lux and for some reason it was killing my battery.
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Lux never drained my battery on n5 but on s2 it drained battery like hell

doctor_droid said:
Lux never drained my battery on n5 but on s2 it drained battery like hell
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Yeah man I have no idea my battery just went to hell, after deleting it its gotten alot better.
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Lethargy said:
If you Greenify apps that don't need to be Greenified (ones that don't wakelock) and you use them often it'll use up more battery than save.
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Never thought of that - guess there'd be diminishing returns at some point. I do want to keep FB Messenger greenified though...that app sucks up battery like there is no tomorrow. I'll try degreenifying WhatsApp and a few other apps and see how it goes.
purenexus said:
Yeah man I have no idea my battery just went to hell, after deleting it its gotten alot better.
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I use Velis Auto Brightness instead - I use these apps because honestly, the stock Nexus 5 auto-brightness is overkill. In a dark room, the screen is like a second sun!
Though if you have GravityBox, you could apparently tweak the auto brightness values...I haven't given it a try though.

[APP][ROOT] Servicely - Replacement for Greenify [24 Apr 15]

Servicely ----> Go Check it Out
I am sharing this because some of you on Lollipop may not know of it or were using greenify with xposed. Great news, this app works better, less resource intensive and you have more control.
- Screen off only option
- Custom App hit list
-Custom service hit list
-control service check intervals
- XPOSED NOT NEEDED
"If you're rooted you'll be able to select which services or apps you wanna kill automagically. The app runs a simple service every X seconds (default is 60s) and checks if those services that you've selected are alive. If they are - BOOM - good night. A small detail though, if that service or app is running on the foreground this app won't kill it. It's a small safety measure because you don't want apps that you're using to close on you."
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Interesting.
Can you go deep in explaining its features?
Thank you.
Cheers.
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PIRATA! said:
Interesting.
Can you go deep in explaining its features?
Thank you.
Cheers.
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You just install the app, it has root priveledges and it runs every minute by default, killing the app or service that you define so its not running in the background. Use this in tandem with app ops as you can disbale keep awake on all apps of your choosing. It's similar to greenify except you don't need xposed. You have to ensure you have it enabled and to set on boot

does it work with GCM like greenify? can you get notification from hibrenated apps?

K-a-M-u-Z-u said:
does it work with GCM like greenify? can you get notification from hibrenated apps?
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I don't know what GCM is, however it's the same concept as greenify, just doesn't require xposed.... Tinker around with the settings you may be able to get notifications
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Can you tell me what system services are safe to disable?
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3ddfknmontana said:
Can you tell me what system services are safe to disable?
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Check this out here
...yes, I am a few months late to this party... LOL

Phone re-installing apps by itself?

So i noticed that my phone keeps installing the "Amazon" app as well as the T-Mobile "Sling" app. I go and uninstall them, then randomly they will reappear. I noticed this because i DID install the Amazon app from the Play Store but then noticed i had TWO (2) Amazon apps. After removing it and the Sling app they reappeared. Anyone having this problem? Thanks
-Auto Update Apps is turned off
-In settings, auto update is also turned off.

Yeah I'm having this same issue. Along with a couple others with wifi and my SD being ejected in an unsafe manner. I have my replacement coming in the mail already.
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Yeah it sucks. I want them to stay uninstalled. I went ahead and turned off 3rd party apps so i'll see if that helps. I haven't had any other issues with the phone yet. My SD card is working fine, and i haven't noticed any issues with wifi. Only other random thing is that it rebooted once for no reason. Nothing else.

I cursed tmobile's Twitter personalities out about this the other day. They told me it was a pre-installed app that could only be disabled not uninstalled, then I proved them wrong twice. They finally said this must be a software error and informed me they opened a ticket with LG

The apps just reinstalled themselves again tonight
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Yeah i noticed them on my device this morning. I wasn't sure how long they were there. Couldn't have been more that a day though. I literally just noticed the T-Mobile TV one which reminded me to check this trend. It is getting annoying.

that's pretty weird, I can't recall how but I went through settings and uninstalled/disabled everything I could and then hid it from the launcher. This made me go into my Apps in Settings just to make sure these guys didn't re-install themselves and I just blinded myself... but they stayed off my phone. Dk what to tell you :/

Go in the app store and turn off auto-update per app you dont want. Also uninstall any uodates.
Then go into Settings and Disable that app.

Double0EK said:
Go in the app store and turn off auto-update per app you dont want. Also uninstall any uodates.
Then go into Settings and Disable that app.
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As already mentioned, auto update is already off. If they ever come back, i will try to disable instead of uninstalling.

Add me to this growing list of apps reinstalling. ?

Ok..its happened to my wifes phone (G5). Just looked at the apps I Disabled and theyre back..
Guess it just took a while for me to notice. Also because im using a V10 and dont look at her phone on a day to day basis.

So the apps haven't reappeared since I started staying off WiFi. I was noticing worse battery life and wakelock issues while on WiFi. I'm sitting with 17% in the tank and over 38 hours uptime and 4 hours SOT.
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jonathan3579 said:
So the apps haven't reappeared since I started staying off WiFi. I was noticing worse battery life and wakelock issues while on WiFi. I'm sitting with 17% in the tank and over 38 hours uptime and 4 hours SOT.
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I'm always on wifi except when out and at work( no wifi there) and since last reported, they haven't reappeared yet. (knock on wood).

Nova launcher seems to keep doze mode from running

Ever since I started using nova, I noticed I havent been getting doze mode even after I've slept overnight.
I use gsam to monitor doze activity.
How about others? Thanks
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tclocki said:
Ever since I started using nova, I noticed I havent been getting doze mode even after I've slept overnight.
I use gsam to monitor doze activity.
How about others? Thanks
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Hi
I use BBS , been around for a while it gives you all kind of information and has lots of support ......but you need root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

tclocki said:
Ever since I started using nova, I noticed I havent been getting doze mode even after I've slept overnight.
I use gsam to monitor doze activity.
How about others? Thanks
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I use also nova launcher but I hope you're wrong most likely is gsam that keeps the phone up, because it's monitoring the signal. You can go to the app optimization from batter options and "always optimize Nova" maybe it will help.

I really hope Im wrong because I like nova a lot.
Anyway, Ive been seeing huge doze times before until I installed nova a couple of days ago... im still monitoring more...
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I thought I had a problem with nova on my s7 too.
But now it's installed and since the last 2 days everything is perfect. the phone goes into deep sleep and the battery life is just fine.
in my opinion it was chrome beta what was keeping the phone from not getting into deep sleep or doze mode.
I deleted it and now i am using normal chrome browser. i also changed wifi settings on standby to only while charging.
Now the phone runs like on the first day with nova wich is way better then touchwiz launcher.

tclocki said:
Ever since I started using nova, I noticed I havent been getting doze mode even after I've slept overnight.
I use gsam to monitor doze activity.
How about others? Thanks
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