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Another battery issue solved!!!! went from AT LEAST 10%/hr to about 3%/hr..

.... no task killing and always using 3G. I also have a couple of widgets updating (currency converter and engadget) and really make no special effort to save power. (screen always 100% during day time for example)
Using spare parts, I found phone was never sleeping. (forgot what post I read that advice in but thanks who ever it was )
I found the culprit was beautiful home (most likely due to the location and update settings I was using). As soon as I uninstalled beautiful widgets, phone would sleep.
I then reinstalled beautiful widgets, and set up beautiful home with the default settings. After that, everything is working perfectly and battery life has improved DRAMATICALLY.
I'm also using ADB launcher, but that in itsself didn't make any noticeable difference for me. F....ing LOVE it though.
I don't use any task killing apps, but do have activity/process managements set to aggressive in spare parts.
I always have 3G on, and don't use wifi any more. It seems to stop phone sleeping and whenever I change wifi sleep policy to "default", it always changes back to "never" some how i have 2Gb/month data on my plan so data usage isn't an issue
Loving the X10 more and more. Usually I'm bored of a phone within a month or two, but this thing is keeping me interested. Can't wait to see what SE has up their sleeve as an X10 replacement though........

Hi,
Had the same experience with Beautiful Widget. Mentioned it a while ago in the thread Easy Battery Fix.
It's a shame though... I really like this widget (also bought Weather & Toggle and tried Fancy Widget - Beautiful Widget is the best in my opinion).

Music player skips

Thought I would share this in case anyone else is seeing this issue. I'm running stock, never rooted, with LauncherPro.
I was having an issue with the music player hiccuping. One-by-one, I turned off wi-fi, weather channel widget, digital clock widget, power widget, and battery widget. Removing the gauge battery widget fixed it - I verified this by adding it back in again. I uninstalled this widget, re-added everything else back in, and it's still good.
So if your music player is skipping, try fooling around with the widgets!

yeah i noticed that today...it's annoying, thx btw.

Yep. Seems like the music players, I'm using Winamp beta, don't like the polling the battery meters are doing. My battery meter is BattStatt and I have been seeing the same issue.

Thank you for taking the time to narrow it down! I've been cussing my phone for this audio problem for some time haha!

Wait... So all Fascinates have this issue? I have the same problem and am getting a replacement phone from Amazon. Are you saying that my replacement phone will have skipping music? I'm not using any battery widgets and my phone is completely stock. I guess I'll play with the widgets and see if I can get it to go away. The skipping problem and the low navigation volume issues need to get fixed by Samsung. Unfortunately I'm not even sure if they know about it.

Ah, thank you very much! I'm having the same problem on my epic.. Damn, battstat looks cool and all, but I need smooth music playback!!

Haven't had an issue since installing Voodoo. Try it, if you're comfortable.
Sent from my Voodoo-powered Fascinate with XDA

I had it with Dirrk's 1200lv voodoo

phone randomly reboot / force close

I picked my Nexus S up this am as the store opened at 9am. I powered it on and away it went it had all of my apps dl in minutes.I had to go into work so I just let it charge on my car charger. Got to work and went to start Cardio trainer ( which is an app I use daily for about 3-5 hours per day) it immediately force closed. Force closes each time I try and use it. So i sent message to dev. The next thing I know I get a message saying that Beautiful Widgets geolocation is getting false reading from the GPS and it force closes. The GPS has been spotty. When first initiated it took over 10 minutes to get a lock. Turned it off and tried again and it took 7 minutes. The third time it was about 15 seconds and since then it alternates back and forth from almost instant to minutes again. What concerns me is that the accuracy just bounces back and forth from 32.6 ft to 16.3 ft and anywhere in between and really never stabilizes. This may be normal for this type GPS systems(I don't know) Also I have the old market and cannot find a link for the new market.Wasn't Gingerbread suppose to come with the new market? So far I am impressed with the smoothness of the system but not with the GPS. Also the lInpack scores are lower than on the Vibrant. Appears to be very solid. Anyone else have any of these problems?

tenbeau said:
I picked my Nexus S up this am as the store opened at 9am. I powered it on and away it went it had all of my apps dl in minutes.I had to go into work so I just let it charge on my car charger. Got to work and went to start Cardio trainer ( which is an app I use daily for about 3-5 hours per day) it immediately force closed. Force closes each time I try and use it. So i sent message to dev. The next thing I know I get a message saying that Beautiful Widgets geolocation is getting false reading from the GPS and it force closes. The GPS has been spotty. When first initiated it took over 10 minutes to get a lock. Turned it off and tried again and it took 7 minutes. The third time it was about 15 seconds and since then it alternates back and forth from almost instant to minutes again. What concerns me is that the accuracy just bounces back and forth from 32.6 ft to 16.3 ft and anywhere in between and really never stabilizes. This may be normal for this type GPS systems(I don't know) Also I have the old market and cannot find a link for the new market.Wasn't Gingerbread suppose to come with the new market? So far I am impressed with the smoothness of the system but not with the GPS. Also the lInpack scores are lower than on the Vibrant. Appears to be very solid. Anyone else have any of these problems?
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It sounds like a GPS problem with your device, Just get it swapped mate
JD

I've only had FCs using the new google maps so far.

Random FC for me in maps, market and gallery :-/

ive yet to experience a FC

Cardio trainer is not working for me either, I am wondering if the dev's need to update it for 2.3, I also can't get vlingo to work.

JupiterDroid said:
It sounds like a GPS problem with your device, Just get it swapped mate
JD
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I don't think it's a gps thing, I can't even get into cardio without it FC, my GPS locks without a problem.

phone randomly goes to boot animation screen
Ok, so it appears something is wrong with my phone. Every once in a while, i'll look down on my phone or in the middle of doing something, and it will go to the boot animation screen. Most of the time, the boot animation screen is dimmer than on normal start up. It will eventually go back to the ui, which I will then have to restart my phone because it won't connect to wifi or 3g.
Anyone else had this problem? Think it's worthy of getting a replacement from bestbuy or a glitch that should be fixed with an ota?

I haven't seen anything like this yet, though I suppose I don't keep my eye on my phone constantly, so I suppose it could have happened while I wasn't looking. No WiFi or 3G problems, either.
Sounds like you've got a serious issue there if you're seeing it a lot, though. I would get it replaced. Unless you're running a third-party ROM or some other non-stock mod, in which case dump it first and see if the problem is being caused by that.

Yea I had this happen twice. At gym was changing a track with Bluetooth headphones and went to dimmer bootscreen had to pull battery. And another time I had to reapply all my Widgets on my homescreen. I'm on CM7 rom
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Are you using a custom ROM/kernel/SetCPU? Those problems sound like the ones the D1 has when it's clocked past a stable speed.
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rocketragz said:
Ok, so it appears something is wrong with my phone. Every once in a while, i'll look down on my phone or in the middle of doing something, and it will go to the boot animation screen. Most of the time, the boot animation screen is dimmer than on normal start up. It will eventually go back to the ui, which I will then have to restart my phone because it won't connect to wifi or 3g.
Anyone else had this problem? Think it's worthy of getting a replacement from bestbuy or a glitch that should be fixed with an ota?
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I'd look at the software you've added since the phone was purchased as the first primary suspect. Weird widgets, background services, live wallpapers, background syncing app, something like that...
You'd want to wipe/reset the phone before a return anyways, so why not do a factory wipe/reset from the settings/privacy menu, then start off with a fresh phone (software wise)? Be conservative in what apps you install at first, and check for stability; then slowly add back the stuff you'd have one by one and see which app from the Market causes the glitch.
I think that's a bit more fair to Samsung, Best Buy, and whoever ends up with the device as a refurb, than returning what is probably not bad hardware to the store.
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Yea I had this happen twice. At gym was changing a track with Bluetooth headphones and went to dimmer bootscreen had to pull battery. And another time I had to reapply all my Widgets on my homescreen. I'm on CM7 rom
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Hmmm...and you don't think the fact that you're using ALPHA level firmware that is known to have some bugs in it, might be your problem?
I'd expect that kind of thing with CM as long as it's alpha, and even beta. I wouldn't be surprised with it even on the RC versions. It's experimental until Team Douche releases an actual ready-for-prime-time version.

Are you using a custom ROM/kernel/SetCPU?
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Nope, I'm not even rooted. I am however running ADW ex launcher. As far as widgets, the only widget i have running is the weather/news that came stock on the phone. As far as apps, I really don't have anything crazy downloaded or running.

rocketragz said:
Nope, I'm not even rooted. I am however running ADW ex launcher. As far as widgets, the only widget i have running is the weather/news that came stock on the phone. As far as apps, I really don't have anything crazy downloaded or running.
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I've been running ADW.Launcher without problems up to now. I just upgraded to ADWLauncher EX last night; I'll post here again if I start seeing this issue.

this is similar to the other topic.
Random Reboots, we call it on the SGS (samsung galaxy s) side
hoping for the best, it is not the same deadly problem we found on some of the 16GB SGS phones, that eventually lead to the corruption / destruction of the internal SD
but those were the signs.
so i'm really hoping that is not the same problem, else i'll really be pissed with Samsung to produce yet another crappy phone with cheap internal parts.
it should not be, as i saw pictures of the innards of the SNS (samsung nexus s) and it was clearly showing SandDisk for the 16GB internal SD

Random Reboots
A couple of times I've had the Nexus S reboot, once when I was in the middle of a call and once again as I was messing around with the settings.
I'm running 2.3.1, th latest build GRH78, does anyone have an idea as to why the random reboots are occurring?
Thanks in advance for your help
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Let's please keep it friendly and on topic here. Thank you

reception bar is stable but on active call it gets disconnected and i have to turn the phone off and on right away thia happens pretty often. I called samsung and they have no solution but to tell to go get it exchanged. This is already a second device.
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Same thing happens to me.. now 4 times its happened to me
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Gallery App Battery Drain

Hey Everyone,
I saw a post about what i'm having issues with a few weeks ago, but I can't seem to find it. Essentially this what my problem with my Galaxy 10.1 32gig (stock wallpaper) with the new touchwiz update from a few weeks ago is:
The gallery app is killing my battery life. I charge from a dead battery to full, turn on the tablet, and let it sit over night, i lose 40%+ of the battery and i check the battery usage and the majority of it is because of the Gallery App (note, i never "used" it, its just running in the background).
This is a new problem (like 3-4 weeks), before i would lose just a couple of percent overnight, but now its just ridiculous.
EDIT: From what i remember of the other post, someone had mentioned that the gallery app is constantly monitoring rotation so its draining the battery? not quite sure
Thoughts? (I'm pretty darn sure its not my wallpaper as i've never changed it and this is a new issue)
I'm thinking about rma'ing the thing, its just pretty much unusable because the battery is dead so soon.
I'll also point out that i tried the battery recalibration that was posted here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1215182&page=1)
Thanks!

blackbird2150 said:
Hey Everyone,
I saw a post about what i'm having issues with a few weeks ago, but I can't seem to find it. Essentially this what my problem with my Galaxy 10.1 32gig (stock wallpaper) with the new touchwiz update from a few weeks ago is:
The gallery app is killing my battery life. I charge from a dead battery to full, turn on the tablet, and let it sit over night, i lose 40%+ of the battery and i check the battery usage and the majority of it is because of the Gallery App (note, i never "used" it, its just running in the background).
This is a new problem (like 3-4 weeks), before i would lose just a couple of percent overnight, but now its just ridiculous.
PP
EDIT: From what i remember of the other post, someone had mentioned that the gallery app is constantly monitoring rotation so its draining the battery? not quite sure
Thoughts? (I'm pretty darn sure its not my wallpaper as i've never changed it and this is a new issue)
I'm thinking about rma'ing the thing, its just pretty much unusable because the battery is dead so soon.
I'll also point out that i tried the battery recalibration that was posted here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1215182&page=1)
Thanks!
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I only have high gallery battery usage after a fresh flash of the rom, on my tab as well as on my SGS2! this is because the gallery app indices your pictures, as well as creating thumbnails...
so if you have lots of pictutes this would be quite normal, but only for a few hours!

I had this or similar problem. Download Terminal Emulator and type "top -n 1", you will see a list of processes and how much processor they are using. For me the problem was media process, it used over 30% all the time. Killing it fixed the problem for some time. I installed a leaked firmware and the problem went away. But i think that factory data reset could also fix the problem.

Perhaps you have your Gallery app synced with your Picasa account.
If you do, and you have WiFi running while in standby mode, it will drain.
Mine used to drain in the background.
I installed a widget to turn off WiFi when I'm not using my tablet.
My battery life is so much better.
I also disabled the Picasa sync for my Gallery app as well.
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Go to Settings/Applications and find Gallery apps and force close it. It should stay this way. Check it after a while.

blackbird2150 said:
EDIT: From what i remember of the other post, someone had mentioned that the gallery app is constantly monitoring rotation so its draining the battery? not quite sure
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This happens on phones too. Common solution is to uninstall Gallery3D, and install QuickPic from the market.
I've never been impressed with the image display quality of Gallery.

cdf3 said:
Perhaps you have your Gallery app synced with your Picasa account.
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I have mine synced with Picasa and experience non of these problems. My "Running Applications" doesn't even show the Galley App and it's not listed under Battery Use either.
I installed a widget to turn off WiFi when I'm not using my tablet.
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Would't it be simpler to use the factory setting to turn off WiFi when the screen turns off?
16GB WiFi Stock TW
I suspect the OP may have an errant app that may be causing the problem.

Jay Evans said:
I have mine synced with Picasa and experience non of these problems. My "Running Applications" doesn't even show the Galley App and it's not listed under Battery Use either.
I suspect the OP may have an errant app that may be causing the problem.
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Install Spare Parts from the Market (assuming the ROM you're using is providing stats). When the Gallery is sucking battery you'll see excessive sensor usage under 'Battery History'. Partial Wake Usage is another good place to look if you suspect an errant app.

Help..battery dead in 22 hours on standby?

So I had my a500 fully charged Saturday afternoon. I go to turn it on and its dead. Something is wrong here for sure because I use to go a week on standby. I posted some pictures of what my battery life looks like. Its a straight linear decline and I can't figure it out. I'm rooted, and thinking maybe I'm trying to receive the 3.2 update and I can't due to be rooted. I checked system update and it says I'm up to date. Please, any help?

tu3218 said:
So I had my a500 fully charged Saturday afternoon. I go to turn it on and its dead. Something is wrong here for sure because I use to go a week on standby. I posted some pictures of what my battery life looks like. Its a straight linear decline and I can't figure it out. I'm rooted, and thinking maybe I'm trying to receive the 3.2 update and I can't due to be rooted. I checked system update and it says I'm up to date. Please, any help?
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Check to make sure your Bluetooth is turned off, and your wireless is set to disconnect when screen turns off.

tu3218 said:
So I had my a500 fully charged Saturday afternoon. I go to turn it on and its dead. Something is wrong here for sure because I use to go a week on standby. I posted some pictures of what my battery life looks like. Its a straight linear decline and I can't figure it out. I'm rooted, and thinking maybe I'm trying to receive the 3.2 update and I can't due to be rooted. I checked system update and it says I'm up to date. Please, any help?
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From the pictures you've posted it does look like something is up. Awake time is supposed to coordinate more or less with Screen On time. That's a general rule of thumb. Background things will wake the tablet and work very briefly sometimes but it doesn't look like that and generally takes seconds, adding up to mere minutes in total over days of that behavior. In essence awake time is supposed to follow screen on time closely with mere pips in difference. Yours is pretty much solid.
You could be right about the update, though I don't see how or why it would cause that anomaly, since it doesn't try to check for the update if the wifi is off, and even if the wifi is on it doesn't download it unless you tell it to. Plus, you can always turn off the automatic/scheduled check entirely.
Other issues I can come up with are net' related (stuck weather update, account sync, browser sync, picture sync, etc.) but are all invalidated since your wifi use is not that bad. I'm thinking any of these would trigger your wifi to stay on.
What's left, perhaps a rogue task manager? Something that's killing a necessary task which is then quickly restarted and so the loop goes on till your battery dies. If I can think of anything else I'll post it.
My only recommendation for now is to stop any task manager you have running, as well as locale or tasker if you have those. Restarting and then seeing how things fare after a day of standby.

i have similar situation.......
battery drain on my HoneyVillain 1.2 with Richard's Kernel is unbelievable.
It is not keeping even a half day. With Honeycomb 3.1 or 3.0 it was much much better.
What i see right now:
- on the battery usage graph i see that "Screen" is eating 80% of the battery - is it correct???
- when i'm at work, where my tablet is connected only to internal WLAN Network (no internet access) - the battery is going down much slower
What i have installed (and running in background)
- exchange mails (3 accounts - push method) with exchange widget
- simple calendar widget
- asus weather widget
- extented controls
- hacker's keyboard

looks like i got the same issue

proxonic said:
i have similar situation.......
battery drain on my HoneyVillain 1.2 with Richard's Kernel is unbelievable.
It is not keeping even a half day. With Honeycomb 3.1 or 3.0 it was much much better.
What i see right now:
- on the battery usage graph i see that "Screen" is eating 80% of the battery - is it correct???
- when i'm at work, where my tablet is connected only to internal WLAN Network (no internet access) - the battery is going down much slower
What i have installed (and running in background)
- exchange mails (3 accounts - push method) with exchange widget
- simple calendar widget
- asus weather widget
- extented controls
- hacker's keyboard
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80% is harsh but I suppose that could be correct, especially if you use the tablet a lot. Following my own tablet as an example, at any point in time my screen takes more juice than anything else on the tablet. I have my screen set to 40%. Auto brightness isn't as sensitive as I like it so it always falls to maybe 60% when I'm fine with it at 40% or so so I manually adjust that while at home.
My screen follows my awake time almost to a T.
Wifi also does seem to be eating a bit more than it did in 3.1 - maybe Acer increased the transmit/receive power in the chips so people stop having wifi connect/disconnect issues? Who knows. I've always had my wifi on 24/7 and overall it never took more than 10% of the battery from full to dying. Now it's considerably higher, 15% or more depending on how much I use the tablet.
But that 80% is still more normal than the awake time posted by the OP.
Have you tried turning down the brightness or adjusting the timeout? Indoors 30-40% is fine for me though I can go even lower, especially when I'm in bed or in the living room and the lights are off in the area. Outdoors I set it to auto or to 50/60% depending on whether I'm using it in my car or during shopping. Also, setting the perfect timeout can matter too. I set mine to 1m, but a really good practice is to set it to 30s and just set your browser or media player to keep it awake while in use. I'm too lazy to do those things

Neoprimal, thanks for the response! I just got home from work, and come greeted with what I suppose is the 3.2 update(~357mb). Now I don't know if that is my issue or not but it could have been. I'm rooted but stock everything. Am I okay to download this 3.2 update?

tu3218 said:
Neoprimal, thanks for the response! I just got home from work, and come greeted with what I suppose is the 3.2 update(~357mb). Now I don't know if that is my issue or not but it could have been. I'm rooted but stock everything. Am I okay to download this 3.2 update?
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The 3.2 update has no root, do you have setcpu installed?
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Quick suggestion.
Try changing ROM maybe it will solve your problem.

Neoprimal, thanks for your answer.
I reflashed my iconia back to 3.1 - honeyvillain 1.05a and i have no more battery drain issue.
Screen battery usage is as well at level about 80% so as you said it seems to be normal.
I tried as well other 3.2 cooked roms like taboonay or revolver port - everywhere i got unbelievable high battery drain.
So for me it looks like 3.2 issue.
You can be right with higher wifi power consumption in terms of better signal with honeycomb 3.2.
With3.2i had all the times all stripes blue - with 3.1 signall seems to bea little weaker but anyways strong enough for the internet.
proxonic

proxonic said:
Neoprimal, thanks for your answer.
I reflashed my iconia back to 3.1 - honeyvillain 1.05a and i have no more battery drain issue.
Screen battery usage is as well at level about 80% so as you said it seems to be normal.
I tried as well other 3.2 cooked roms like taboonay or revolver port - everywhere i got unbelievable high battery drain.
So for me it looks like 3.2 issue.
You can be right with higher wifi power consumption in terms of better signal with honeycomb 3.2.
With3.2i had all the times all stripes blue - with 3.1 signall seems to bea little weaker but anyways strong enough for the internet.
proxonic
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Hey Proxonic, as you can see it can't be a '3.2 issue' because I'm on 3.2 and I don't have the issue.
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I barely used my tablet this week because my wife asked me to 'break in' her Touchpad. The brand new one she got had a massive screen problem and we didn't discover it until days later because she never used it much during the week. Pray this never happens to your A500!
Anyway, this is showing that I have my wifi off when the screen is off - the screen on times are generally when I use the tablet to start music, usually before heading to bed.
Most of the awake time is the music playing, but some is probably IM programs and apps looking for internet. I use either google music, pandora/tunein radio/iheartradio or 2player Network Music Player; the radios and 2player NMP use wifi while I've cached a couple playlist or 2 worth of google music to the tablet. I also ran a test for another thread where person(s) reported their Acer Media app turning music off when the screen goes off, I suspect that'd be that long block of awake time without wifi.
Point is though, that I don't think 3.2 has a battery drain issue. Not in regards to while the tablet is sleeping/hibernating anyway. It sounds like maybe you just have some app gobbling up either cpu cycles or something else causing it.
Glad you at least got it fixed with the ROM though.
P.S The touchpad screen, btw looks like this...keep in mind, this is on a good day. When it got bad it was just a huge black block or tons of moving lines. Did a factory reset using Webdoctor and that didn't fix it. The replacement we got seems to be fine so far. The picture's really bad, sorry - took it in the car at a shopping center.
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I have the same issue I am 100% stock on mine and ever since the 3.2 update i will have it fully charged at 8am and at 8 pm I am down to 20% and i never touched it the thing just sat in my bag while I was at work. and i have a 100% uptime. I don't use task mangers and have no idea what is draining it.

downer06 said:
I have the same issue I am 100% stock on mine and ever since the 3.2 update i will have it fully charged at 8am and at 8 pm I am down to 20% and i never touched it the thing just sat in my bag while I was at work. and i have a 100% uptime. I don't use task mangers and have no idea what is draining it.
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That definitely sounds like a rogue application.
Any app in your accounts and sync section has the ability to cause that sort of uptime, so take a look through them. Force a sync and go through each of them to see if anything gets 'stuck' syncing. Twitter and Facebook are always suspect, especially if you're 'busy' on them (meaning you have lots of tweets/facebook posts to sync).
Furthermore, the system is SUPPOSED to close away/sleep some apps after they move from foreground to background however, some of these apps can become locked for some reason and not close (thus the definition of a rogue app). Running processes, etc. may do this. So in addition to programs found under account and sync; any app that plays media (video or music) or connects to download data (news, social apps, shopping/deal apps) can cause this sort of uptime.
I know it can be frustrating but the fix may be as simple as removing the offending app.
Good Luck.

I figured my problem out last night. On all 3 of my gmail accounts it was trying to sync picasa and google photos constantly.