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Is something wrong with my battery?

I used to get about 24hours on my international version S4 running ICS while running a 3G connection,and a good amount of screen usage.
Ever since the JB update(i updated within 2 days of its release), battery life dropped to 9 hours max, and it has been incredibly difficult to live it.
I switched to TrickDroid 9.1 hoping for better battery life. I then turned off Google Now permanently but i am still not getting more than 9 hours of battery life.
Has my battery been spoilt completely? Has its life reduced because ive been running jelllybean for so long now ? Is there anything i can do to fix this ? Or has this got something to do with Sense 4+ ?

Shash747 said:
I used to get about 24hours on my international version S4 running ICS while running a 3G connection,and a good amount of screen usage.
Ever since the JB update(i updated within 2 days of its release), battery life dropped to 9 hours max, and it has been incredibly difficult to live it.
I switched to TrickDroid 9.1 hoping for better battery life. I then turned off Google Now permanently but i am still not getting more than 9 hours of battery life.
Has my battery been spoilt completely? Has its life reduced because ive been running jelllybean for so long now ? Is there anything i can do to fix this ? Or has this got something to do with Sense 4+ ?
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I got this phone (S3) with Jb already installed in it, so dont know the difference in battery timings with ICS or JB. But one thing is sure the battery life of this phone (seems with Jb, coz i read the same thing on some other forums as well) is quite poor. I also get less time on battery. Though i have auto sync on for some accounts like gmail, but still battery time shd not be that poor. Hopefully it will be resolved in some next updates. :S
Also i m facing sound issue (posted in other thread in this forum with Jb). Dont know whether this sound issue is only with few handsets or with all One S (having Jb).
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Shash747 said:
I used to get about 24hours on my international version S4 running ICS while running a 3G connection,and a good amount of screen usage.
Ever since the JB update(i updated within 2 days of its release), battery life dropped to 9 hours max, and it has been incredibly difficult to live it.
I switched to TrickDroid 9.1 hoping for better battery life. I then turned off Google Now permanently but i am still not getting more than 9 hours of battery life.
Has my battery been spoilt completely? Has its life reduced because ive been running jelllybean for so long now ? Is there anything i can do to fix this ? Or has this got something to do with Sense 4+ ?
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What might be a solution for you both is installing a custom kernel
I'm running dark jelly cm10.1 rom in combination with bubba kernel v2.7, and with the right settings I get awesome battery life.
I can really reccomend switching to aosp rom like dark jelly in combo with this kernel.
Or check out xda forums for sense kernels to combine with trickdroid rom, like here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1851841
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The kernel you listed is for 4.0.4 based ROMs.
Anyway, i already have the kernel for TrickDroid.
I'll switch to a non-sense ROM and see if things get better.

[BUG?] Mobile radio active battery drain

Since upgrading to lollipop (have tried many roms, from 5.0.2 to 5.1.1, now getting it on Cynaogen OS 12 ) i get really high battery drain because some apps like facebook, sometimes xda keep mobile radio data active until i force close them. Has anyone else noticed this issue or got a clue what might be causing this? Because i was getting this bug on different versions of lollipop with different apps, i think this might rather be a lollipop issue than the fault of apps. I have also tried flashing different modems, nothing helped. I will post screenshots below
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I have the same problem xd with oxygen and cm12s

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=165558
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I have recently joined the mobile radio battery drain club running latest version of COS12 with the latest incremental update being about 2 weeks ago. since that "update" that was only supposed to fix touch screen issues I have had this radio bug. A full battery life cycle will only afford me 4-5 hours of use..... heavy use is MUCH worse! Like 3-4 hrs....
Anyone hear of a patch/fix/work around? I am also bone stock without root, never rooted, etc..... only stock updates on COS....

sick_DMP said:
I have recently joined the mobile radio battery drain club running latest version of COS12 with the latest incremental update being about 2 weeks ago. since that "update" that was only supposed to fix touch screen issues I have had this radio bug. A full battery life cycle will only afford me 4-5 hours of use..... heavy use is MUCH worse! Like 3-4 hrs....
Anyone hear of a patch/fix/work around? I am also bone stock without root, never rooted, etc..... only stock updates on COS....
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Unfortunately it's a core google OS bug and only google can fix it. It'll happen if you use Mobile Data and there's no solution at all. Either switch to KK or pray that they'll fix it on Android M. Or get used to it like me

Yeah, I've just been using battery save mode and this has been very helpful. Although it does effect performance and gets rid of all the fun animations that make lollipop so enjoyable. It's definitely worth having at least 7-8 hours of use. But, I admit even on battery saver mode I'm noticing extreme battery issues start to effect this profile as well.
Crossing my fingers that Google does roll out a fix of some sort bcuz I'm seeing new apps and Google services show up on my battery stats!

So has anybody been looking at this outside of Google? Some of us are developers, after all, and if the bug is in the Android code and not Google Play Services, we should be able to find it. I haven't seen too many attempts, so far...

acwest said:
So has anybody been looking at this outside of Google? Some of us are developers, after all, and if the bug is in the Android code and not Google Play Services, we should be able to find it. I haven't seen too many attempts, so far...
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I have read from a number of people that only Google can fix this problem since it is a low level android bug. And it is also supposedly in the beta versions of android M as well. The only current solution I have found to this problem is to stay on Kitkat. And not buy a phone that comes stock with lollipop (or M) until this problem is fixed, assuming you want the best battery life, since it is likely that there will not be any KK roms available for any new phone.
You can help by starring the issue at https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=165558

As fars as I can tell, the bug should be in code we have access to, so it doesn't have to be Google that fixes it. I've fixed bugs in the Linux kernel before, and it doesn't get any more low level than that...
They have to accept the fix and include it for it to be much use, but that is an entirely separate issue...

Newbie here

Hello everyone I have just joined this forum about two days ago. I own a oneplus one which i found to be one of the finest smartphones until CM12 came along. It seems to me that CM12 ruined battery life of the oneplus. With CM11 battery life was much better, even charging time was not more that 2hrs max. Now I have read the forums that many oneplus owners experienced the same issues.
Now the thing is that I do not have any experience in how to root my my phone or install kernels and other stuff. Is there anything that would help my phone to have a similar battery life of CM11?
Thanks

DavidMalta1991 said:
Hello everyone I have just joined this forum about two days ago. I own a oneplus one which i found to be one of the finest smartphones until CM12 came along. It seems to me that CM12 ruined battery life of the oneplus. With CM11 battery life was much better, even charging time was not more that 2hrs max. Now I have read the forums that many oneplus owners experienced the same issues.
Now the thing is that I do not have any experience in how to root my my phone or install kernels and other stuff. Is there anything that would help my phone to have a similar battery life of CM11?
Thanks
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I take it you haven't unlocked your boot loader yet?
Unfortunately 5.0+ seems to be a bit poorer in the battery dept for most people. Most are hoping 5.1.1 helps the battery life, if not we'll have to hope for android M whenever that arrives. If you had an unlocked b/loader and custom recovery you could tryout some custom roms. Or even flash a 4.4.4/kitkat rom as many (including myself) have done. I had installed multirom and have been running COS12 as the main rom and CM11S on the secondary. The battery life was/is so much better, I was hitting 5-6hrs screen on time over 2days from a full charge, with lollipop I was hitting 4-5hrs screen on time over 1-1.5 days at a stretch., the standby drain is also a lot more.
If you havent already done so you could try checking privacy guard and denying wake up and keep awake permissions to google play services or anything else that seems to be active a lot in the background that you think shouldnt.

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gsmyth said:
I take it you haven't unlocked your boot loader yet?
Unfortunately 5.0+ seems to be a bit poorer in the battery dept for most people. Most are hoping 5.1.1 helps the battery life, if not we'll have to hope for android M whenever that arrives. If you had an unlocked b/loader and custom recovery you could tryout some custom roms. Or even flash a 4.4.4/kitkat rom as many (including myself) have done. I had installed multirom and have been running COS12 as the main rom and CM11S on the secondary. The battery life was/is so much better, I was hitting 5-6hrs screen on time over 2days from a full charge, with lollipop I was hitting 4-5hrs screen on time over 1-1.5 days at a stretch., the standby drain is also a lot more.
If you havent already done so you could try checking privacy guard and denying wake up and keep awake permissions to google play services or anything else that seems to be active a lot in the background that you think shouldnt.
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No I never unlocked anything. the phone is just unrooted. What I only is just change themes, which seems also to be buggy. So is it possible to revert back to CM11s? Are COS12 and CM12 the same or different please?

DavidMalta1991 said:
No I never unlocked anything. the phone is just unrooted. What I only is just change themes, which seems also to be buggy. So is it possible to revert back to CM11s? Are COS12 and CM12 the same or different please?
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It isnt possible without unlocking your bootloader, see the below guide if you want to look at that option. It seems a lot of hassle but once its unlocked, thats it, it wont lock again unless you specifically go through running a command to do so. As an added advantage you can install a custom recovery which will allow you to make a full nandroid backup, which you can keep on your device or copy over to your PC. You can use this if you ever run into any problems or if you want to try out some other roms, you have the option to go fully restore your last setup.
I dont think I've had any issues with themes, is it one in particular or all, what happens?
I believe we are referring to the same thing, COS12 (Cyanogen OS 12) is what the oneplus one runs out of the box (stock Cyanogen OS). CM12 which is what it also gets called can also mean the CM12/12.1 nightlies, which can be flashed like a custom ROM and are considered the most up to date (on the bleeding edge if you like).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guides-bacon-timmaaas-how-to-guides-t2839471

Over-Counted showing up in battery usage - What is it? (S5 CM13 Alpha)

Hi all,
I am new to XDA and flashing roms etc. I have currently flashed 5 times... mainly due to experimentation though. I am currently running Albinoman's CM13 Alpha build on my Samsung Galaxy S5. I have the kltedv build.
Since upgrading (i have always had battery issues) I have noticed that I have in my battery usage section I have an item called Over-Counted. yesterday it took over 44% of my battery usage!!
What is this item? What does it do? Is there something I can do to better manage it?
Thanks!

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Target Practice said:
Hi all,
I am new to XDA and flashing roms etc. I have currently flashed 5 times... mainly due to experimentation though. I am currently running Albinoman's CM13 Alpha build on my Samsung Galaxy S5. I have the kltedv build.
Since upgrading (i have always had battery issues) I have noticed that I have in my battery usage section I have an item called Over-Counted. yesterday it took over 44% of my battery usage!!
What is this item? What does it do? Is there something I can do to better manage it?
Thanks!
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thats something that got implemented not too long ago, and im not sure why.
it is my understanding, that its some sort of mis counted battery statistics, and its not something using battery that you can fix.
i could be wrong, thats just what i thought it was.

Thanks. That is what it sounds like... My battery is leakier than a sieve. Hopefully my replacement arrives soon

Is it recommended to Upgrade to version 10+ ???

Using OnePlus 7, I have been using android 10 (security update Sep 2019) from date of purchase. I flashed TWRP and stock ROM (which was available when the phone was launched) so that I can root the phone. Later Gpay and other banking apps stopped working, so I unrooted the phone and continue using it.
I have lots of apps on phone... 797 apps and used up 223GB/240GB. The performance has been pretty good... as I have optimized properly, only apps which I require run / run in background ... zero notifications from all those apps... only the ones from apps which are important to me. The battery performance is pretty good... runs whole day for 1 charge.
Facing very minor issues, like Netfilx app doesnt work on my phone (not a big thing for me)... see some other minor issues in some apps due to android 10
Before this, I was using OnePlus 1 and OnePlus 3 .... I have changed ROMs many times on those phones focused on optimized usage...
Is it recommended to upgrade to version 11, 12 or 13? How is the battery life for these versions for Oneplus 7? what other issues are there?
If I have to upgrade to next version? then should I go with Stock ROM or any other ROM?