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This mystery process called "sensorserver_ya" is killing my battery, between 50% and 150% of what my screen is using (which is, of course, a lot).
Anyone have any idea what it is? Tried googling things for awhile and found nothing other than people listing their battery processes, and a couple other people asking what it is also...
TimeWalker pedometer widget was the culprit in my case, see details near bottom of thread.
Shane112358 said:
This mystery process called "sensorserver_ya" is killing my battery, between 50% and 150% of what my screen is using (which is, of course, a lot).
Anyone have any idea what it is? Tried googling things for awhile and found nothing other than people listing their battery processes, and a couple other people asking what it is also...
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How did you find this info?
icantdrawanime said:
How did you find this info?
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By going to the stock battery statistics in the settings, about phone.
Very Strange... I have no clue what that is. Sorry
It doesn't show up in my task manager, or as an app in Titanium or anywhere else.
I have quite a few widgets installed (Weather Channel, Buzz Box, Agenda Widget, Battery Widget, Facebook, Pandora, TimeWalker, Twitter) as well as Tasker running. Could it be one of those? I might try removing them one by one to see if it goes away.
Do you have any games installed? I found this on some Swedish site. They were talking about the same process.
Originally Posted by Double Barrel
Now, added that the phone has been on the table all night. Had an app called Labyrinth started. Could be it. Now I'm down to 13%.
Labyrinth Games that are heavy users of the sensors so it is not surprising.
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Do you have any games installed? I found this on some Swedish site. They were talking about the same process.
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No, although one of my tasker profiles is set to turn the alarm off if I put the phone face down at night. I might try deactivating that and seeing what happens.
I disabled the Tasker profiles and let the phone sit for almost 2 hours.
Sensorserver_ya :40%
Cell standby: 22%
Phone idle: 16%
Bluetooth: 9%
Display: 7%
Android OS: 3%
WiFi: 3%
Android System: 2%
TimeWalker (pedometer widget): 2%
What. The. Cuss. ???
I have the same thing but it only takes 3-4%
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same thing here, used 27% of battery in few hours and 1hr 18m CPU usage time.
Galaxy S Vibrant user
sparkling said:
same thing here, used 27% of battery in few hours and 1hr 18m CPU usage time.
Galaxy S Vibrant user
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What widgets are you running?
Sensorly app?
Weird, I dont even have that process in mine....
I disabled the TimeWalker widget (pedometer) and the process hasn't appeared yet. I think this may have fixed it. Anyone else?
At least in my case, the TimeWalker widget was the culprit. "Sensorserver_ya" didn't show up for days. This morning, I reactivated it and all of a sudden it showed up again, shooting up to 9% of battery usage (and draining 2% of my total battery) in less than 10 minutes. The widget itself took another 1/3 of that.
Too bad, I had a pedometer built into my Sony Ericsson w580i and it was awesome. Battery rocked. Not sure what the problem is here.
I see that process on occasion and I've never run the widget that you are referring to.
It is probably triggered by running a compass or other app that uses the position sensors.
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Since not everybody is seeing this power drain, I think it is not likely to be the system setting to check orientation and adjust the screen from portrait to landscape automatically, although that seems a likely suspect to me. I also suspect a screen management tool called Screebl. I have disabled Screebl now to see if that makes a difference. (Even though I had Screebl configured to not work when power is applied, my system didn't have any period of Suspend through the night last night, despite being plugged in for about half the night.)
Shane112358 said:
This mystery process called "sensorserver_ya" is killing my battery, between 50% and 150% of what my screen is using (which is, of course, a lot).
Anyone have any idea what it is? Tried googling things for awhile and found nothing other than people listing their battery processes, and a couple other people asking what it is also...
TimeWalker pedometer widget was the culprit in my case, see details near bottom of thread.
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I observed that besides the mystery process sensorserver_ya and the shortened battery life, if I watched the phone go into power saver mode with no apps running it would dim then kill my display as expected, but then after 3 to 5 seconds it would light it up again as if I had pressed the activate button.
I tried uninstalling two apps ACIDR and PowerAmp. This behavior stopped after
that. I reinstalled PowerAmp and the behavior did not recur. ACIDR had been on my GalaxyS for some time PowerAmp was recently added. Both were up to date.
I know, old thread, but...
Just to add to the possible causes for others, I found that CardioTrainer had frozen up while trying to post my workout to Facebook. Several hours later I saw the sensorserver process sucking my battery at 14% of total usage according to "About Phone". When this thread mentioned pedometer and labyrinth I checked and found that CardioTrainer was hung. It didn't show in the normal "Active Applications" but TitaniumBackup told me it was running.
Hope that helps anyone else with the problem.
Seeing that process means that you have something that is making use of the accelerometer on a frequent basis. You should figure out which of your apps are using the accelerometer and either uninstall or make sure they remain closed.
Making use of the accelerometer in a way that is using it at nearly all times is the fastest way to burn through your battery.
Trying to figure out what was causing excessive battery drain on my phone, I downloaded SystemPanel and had it log overnight. I read that when the phone is unused, none of the apps in the "Top Apps" should show over 0.2%. I left my phone on the charger all night and the "system" app sucked up 1.2% completely unused. Apparently there should also be some kind of standby app showing up, and that is nowhere to be seen. I'm running Nero v5. Anyone know what could be going on?
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System panel logging uses cpu cycles
n2ishun said:
System panel logging uses cpu cycles
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In my experience, System Panel is not the culprit when this happens. I've had success with getting 0% battery drain on airplane mode overnight, and always w/SP running. (It's inconsistent, though -- I actually tried it just last night, and Market ended up jacking the CPU all night, even though I had killed Market hours before bed. Don't know why this happens.) I actually leave SP Monitoring on all the time, and generally get (what I consider to be ) great standby battery life.
To the OP: what were the top apps that were running (at more than 0.0%); and were they burning CPU the whole time? If an app/process is running the whole night, it seems to also "trigger" System to burn CPU -- but the app itself is the "real" culprit. (Pls keep in mind I know none of the technical details; but I've experimented a lot w/this.)
EDIT: sorry, just read yr post more closely. To address two more points:
(a) re: the "Standby" process -- this rarely pops up for me, even on the occasions where I do get a totally placid phone overnight w/no batt. drain.
(b) re: I left my phone on the charger all night -- try it without doing this (stay off charger & use airplane mode), and see what happens. I haven't had good luck w/leaving phone on charger: I wake up to same thing -- System jacked up -- and end up needing to power-cycle phone to get System to settle down.
(By the way, I'm totally stock JI6, and so can't address Nero etc.)
The standby process ("suspend") should always be near the top of the list if your phone is truly in standby in a given 8 hour period.
notverycreative - system always uses between 1.9-2.5% for me. It's the system processes and regular apps that you should pay attention to. Once I used Titanium to freeze Media Hub, the DRM Protection Processes, WiFi Calling and some poorly coded apps, my battery life improved significantly.
Here's some screen shots from mine over night.
Alright, I'll try doing all that tonight. I just flashed Bionix V so I lost my data from last night, but I'll try to recreate it tonight. I did get rid of the DRM processes and Media Hub, as well as SNS sync. I never installed WiFi sync for that exact reason.
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Just spent the night on flight mode and nothing took more than .1% battery and the battery didn't drain much at all, as the meter read 90% before and after I slept, which was about 6 or so hours. It may have something to do with flashing Bionix, but regardless I am happy thanks everyone!
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You should have left flight mode off. ;-)
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last night the phone was fully charged at 7pm. made no calls, went on the web for 10 minutes, checked my alarm to be sure it was set. at this point it was 9pm at 70%. woke up this morning at 23% at 6am.
what the heck is going on? i have to say, i never had this problem before i did the ODEX Mod. but noticed it started around the same time that i also installed the Weatherbug app which is always updating. so i deleted that.
is there anything i can do to check what exactly is using the battery?
I'm using SystemPanel (paid), because it has a monitoring tool, and allows me to check the which apps are in used.
It did help me weed out certain bad apps that were taking up resources.
kalte84 said:
I'm using SystemPanel (paid), because it has a monitoring tool, and allows me to check the which apps are in used.
It did help me weed out certain bad apps that were taking up resources.
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Which apps were those?
9 Hours 55 Minutes since last unplugged.
Phone idle - 60%
Cell Standby - 24%
Display - 17%
Battery is still at 90+ percent.
I don't have any program managers running other than the factory system manager which has nothing on its terminate list. Something is definitely up with some program or mod you have done.
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Which apps were those?
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To be honest with you, I can't recall because I was using those when I got the Captivate months ago...on top of my head, the official facebook app, some random battery widgets, but mostly have been updated since or I stopped using those.
I do have to add, I'm not sure how well the SystemPanel reports on the Atrix, because it shows as single core. I'm going to check with the dev.
Mine was unplugged (fully charged) from 8pm yesterday through now (12.30pm, and I still have 40%. (approximately 16.5 hrs?).
I left emails on (MailDroid, with sound/vibrate off from 12am - 7am), light flow LED night save mode off, battery to performance mode).
My widgets on screen (currently on the Atrix): 3G watchdog, LauncherPro's facebook widget and calendar widget, GTask, Catch notes, 2 sets of extended controls and beautiful widgets home.
blame Weather Bug...
tha5150 said:
last night the phone was fully charged at 7pm. made no calls, went on the web for 10 minutes, checked my alarm to be sure it was set. at this point it was 9pm at 70%. woke up this morning at 23% at 6am.
what the heck is going on? i have to say, i never had this problem before i did the ODEX Mod. but noticed it started around the same time that i also installed the Weatherbug app which is always updating. so i deleted that.
is there anything i can do to check what exactly is using the battery?
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...had the exact same problem. Uninstalled WeatherBug and that fixed it!
me too had the same problem with weather bug, if you really want a weather widget get one that you can set how often it downloads data. i use sense home clock with weather set to refresh every 3 hours.
i uninstalled weatherbug and still having the same problem. before the Atrix i was on the Droid X and had to SBF to get rid of the issue with weatherbug killing my battery. i proved it with a friend. very very odd..
what i want to do now is SBF this phone, but how? i have ODEX'd or whatever and rooted.
how do i get it back to out of box state?
give the phone some time to recalibrate the battery stats or you may have other apps that are still draining your battery
neotekz said:
give the phone some time to recalibrate the battery stats or you may have other apps that are still draining your battery
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nah, its already been 2 weeks almost i have been dealing with it. not sleeping well at night cause i think my phone will die overnight and not wake me up in the morning hah.
isnt there a way to sorta SBF this since there hasnt been any real development yet for ROM's??
or will a factory reset be ok and possibly fix my problem?
tha5150 said:
nah, its already been 2 weeks almost i have been dealing with it. not sleeping well at night cause i think my phone will die overnight and not wake me up in the morning hah.
isnt there a way to sorta SBF this since there hasnt been any real development yet for ROM's??
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Why wouldn't you just plug it in overnight then?
just did this process and i hope it works.. unfortunately, i choose Google to backup my apps and they are not coming back... where is this setting to double check?
To perform an External Manual Reset of your handset to restore to factory settings, read instructions below and then perform.
Power off the phone, press and hold volume down button, press power button.
Screen will come up with "Fastboot", press Vol down key to cycle through choices until you get "Android Recovery", then press Vol up key
Wait for the "triangle ! / Android" screen then go on to step 4
Tap on bottom right corner of the screen (may take a few times). a menu will come up
Tap on "wipe data/factory reset", and tap OK. Another Confirmation screen will come. Tap Yes and OK
After userdata is cleared, the "reboot system now" option will be highlighted by Default. Tap OK.
Phone will reboot to initial setup MOTOBLUR screen.
Spikevyxel said:
9 Hours 55 Minutes since last unplugged.
Phone idle - 60%
Cell Standby - 24%
Display - 17%
Battery is still at 90+ percent.
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wow sounds amazing, my phone drains 10% an hour with absolutly no use and no apps installed and nothing syncing
shanghei said:
wow sounds amazing, my phone drains 10% an hour with absolutly no use and no apps installed and nothing syncing
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There is something seriously wrong with your phone then, that's all I can say. With no apps and no syncing I would assume it is a hardware issue.
I think you guys are missing the point entirely. A few of you may have rom issues, software issues or even hacker issues. 70% of battery issues are due to a dead or dying battery . If you do the research you will find batteries are made to last 1 year with moderate usage and that is only if you follow the manufacturer's charging instructions to the letter. Come on guys how do you think the capitalist make their money? Lol I guess you thought they were gonna give you an atomic battery that would never die! It's probably banned by the trade federation even though it does exist. Anyway congratulations it's time to go shopping.
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If you like me and you refuse to play the pig game... charge your phone via usb only. My charger put out 1 amp power. Usb puts out half that power. The slower you charge a battery the longer it holds a charge.
It really is interesting to me to see all these modified roms floating around. It's like you think you can trust anybody. I don't trust my own mother. Just last night she had the phone company put a signal locator on my IMEI (international mobile equipment identifier.) History will prove it is true that if you give people power they will abuse it.
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found a response to my own questions from this morning about SBF....
[FLASH_SBF] Motorola Atrix 4G U4_1.5.2
Avid Droidery said:
I think you guys are missing the point entirely. A few of you may have rom issues, software issues or even hacker issues. 70% of battery issues are due to a dead or dying battery . If you do the research you will find batteries are made to last 1 year with moderate usage and that is only if you follow the manufacturer's charging instructions to the letter. Come on guys how do you think the capitalist make their money? Lol I guess you thought they were gonna give you an atomic battery that would never die! It's probably banned by the trade federation even though it does exist. Anyway congratulations it's time to go shopping.
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I have had my atrix for less then a year, I am on stock, restored factory, let battery die few times. I talked to some friends who have had the atrix for over a year and there batteries out preform mine.
shanghei said:
I have had my atrix for less then a year, I am on stock, restored factory, let battery die few times. I talked to some friends who have had the atrix for over a year and there batteries out preform mine.
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Ummmm....the Atrix came out last month. Soooo, how did your "friends" have one for more than a year?
Hiya,
Ever since I got my phone replacement (Brand New in Box from Bell) I noticed that the battery drains 10% per hour regardless of my current clock speeds.
I'm only listening my music.
My mobile data is on.
Wifi is off.
I have ES Task Manager set to autokill when screen off
Details:
ROM- CyanogenMod Nightly #140
CPU Clock speeds- 245~368 Mhz
CPU Governer- ON DEMAND
VM Heap Size- 48m
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Just making sure I'm reading you right, you have es task manager killing apps? Android 2.2 doesn't have any need for that, and it may hurt your battery life.
First thing to check is to make sure any apps that sync (weather) aren't syncing every 15min, and change them to every few hours. If that still doesn't work, try a different battery. May just have a bad one.
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Go into spare parts > battery history > partial wake usage
This will show apps that are running in the background that are using the battery. If there are any 'rogue' apps that aren't behaving properly, this should show it. You can also use Watchdog Lite from the Market (free) to monitor CPU usage of applications to try and find what is running down your battery.
Although, if you are listening to music, 10% drain per hour doesn't sound too much out of the ordinary.
Update: I stopped my music for roughly 45 minutes and it seems that music doesn't affect it much. It still drains.
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Update: One application that was leeching my battery was actually "Friendcaster". Removed.
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Also mobile data with automatic syncing rapes battery
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TheRedDroid said:
Update: One application that was leeching my battery was actually "Friendcaster". Removed.
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Yea good call. And get rid of that task killer! No need for that, especially in CM7.
Having similar problems suddenly. I was getting nearly 24 hours of battery life with normal usage, but in the last 4-5 days the phone drains to death while in standby. Searched here and online and couldn't find anything other than the normal check apps, etc. But I haven't changed anything in months, and usage isn't showing anything out of the ordinary.
Is it possible my battery is hosed? Android OS says battery health is still "good", and outside of screen-off it seems to drain normally. I even left it on for about 30 minutes and lost 1%. But overnight it went from 100% to 1% in just short of 7 hours with absolutely no use. So bizarre...
http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/2710?tstart=0
It's not just you.
I have same problem, with two different batteries, even after hard reset.
I have been having this problem the last two days as well. The t-mobile forum says to roll back the updates to the google maps app. I just rolled it back, will see if it helps.
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I have been having this problem the last two days as well. The t-mobile forum says to roll back the updates to the google maps app. I just rolled it back, will see if it helps.
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Didn't help me.
Only turning on airplane mode helped me.
I think it's a TMO infrastructure/network problem of some sort, honestly. Maybe a bug with the deployment of 2.3?
Yeah didn't help me either.
I had my phone fully charged when i made the post earlier and it is now dead.
Hopefully they shed some light on this soon.
OK good I'm not crazy
One thing I noticed last night after draining and wiping battery stats again is when I woke up it said Dialer took up 49% of the battery usage? I charged to full with the phone off, turned it on and it sat on the nightstand until this morning. Received 2 texts during that time, no phone calls made or received, and my alarm is set at 6am on it and went off. Battery went from 100% to 19% in this state.
This is frustrating. I read the T-Mo thread and it's seeming more like network issues? Anyone else have this problem here on XDA?
EDIT: Customer Support is useless. Insistent that forum posts "mean nothing" and I need to pay them $20 to replace the phone. Also they have no logged issues on this, even though I've seen multiple posts of people who've called in. Sigh.
Also been experiencing the exact same problem with CM13X and CM151. I had uninstalled maps, which didn't improve anything, so I reinstalled it and it appears to be okay now
So far 1h16m since full charge after uninstalling Maps completely and rebooting and clearing cache, and battery is still 100% while sitting on my desk here at work. Also Dialer isn't showing 50% usage either. Hmmm.
I'm on CM7.1 stable. Haven't had battery issues for a while, but starting a few days ago I've been getting rapid drain with heating. Battery use screen shows that the phone is awake most of the time the screen is off, but it doesn't reveal which app keeps waking it up. I also tried Spare Parts to see if any app is hogging the partial wake lock, but nothing seems to account for it.
Any other ideas on how to trace it? Must've been an app that updated in the past 3-4 days.
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Just to show how this looks, here is a screenshot of the battery screen.
Notice that I put the phone in airplane mode for the past hour as I was writing an exam, yet it still appears awake with screen off. The phone was warm when I retrieved it after an hour of the radios being off! Something is seriously wrong here.
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I can only guess it is an application or service keeping your phone from going to deep sleep- also known as "partial wake lock" or something like that...
What to do? You can probably nail the culprit using some application like BetterBatteryStats (Market it, or look for it at xda's app thread- it is somewhere here). It will help you find who/what is keeping the phone awake.
I think that Battery Monitor Widget can also give you similar info.
You may need some help in the BBS thread to help you interpret the results as they are not always obvious or easy to tell who's the problem.
Right. What's confusing me is that nothing in the partial wake lock list is showing more than about 10 minutes of lock time, yet the phone gets stuck awake for more than a solid hour of screen off time.
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I think I figured it out. I had a trigger set up in Tasker that resets the phone's data connection every time it crashes out with an error (and my carrier WIND Mobile does this quite frequently). On days when the battery was constantly draining, it may have been because the network was particularly error-prone and my trigger therefore kept going off. And each time it went off, Tasker must have flipped the phone into awake mode.
I've turned off the trigger for now, to see if it stops draining.