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Cell Standby

Not sure if it's just me or not but has anyone noticed a cell standby issue too? My phone gets up to around 20% while I sleep which is weird because in my room I have four bars... so is it my device or does anyone else havt the same issue?

I did notice this myself. I would go to sleep with 95% and wake up with 70%.
So went to Settings/Accounts and Services/ and turned off Background Data.
Went to sleep last night with 97% and woke up this mornin' (nah na na nuh) with 94%. The gmail app seems to hammer the data. And I have found no scheduling within that app. Stock app has scheduling gonna try that and report back.
btw: with background data off and you go to the market it wants it on so I'll turn it on and back off after.
good day.

My cell standby floats around 11% at all times.
I find this to be acceptable.
My battery life has been satisfactory.
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As long as this means my gmail/text/gtalk works automatically, I figure I may as well leave this off.
I don't use any syncing apps like Facebook, our anything like that.
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I should have thought of this before. Turning off now, we'll see what happens. Also does anyone else notice flaky 3g connection mine is weird, a lot of the time my 3g bar just says 3g with a d under it instead of arrows and my signal fluxuates quite frequently verdict for you guys?

Ah, screw this.
Market doesn't work without it turned on and neither does the Yahoo Mail app.
That wouldn't be such a big deal if I wasn't bothered by Yahoo with a notification tray icon telling me to turn it on.
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egg_head said:
Ah, screw this.
Market doesn't work without it turned on and neither does the Yahoo Mail app.
That wouldn't be such a big deal if I wasn't bothered by Yahoo with a notification tray icon telling me to turn it on.
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Use Gmail?

I use both and can't justify getting rid of my Yahoo just yet.
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DigitalDementia said:
I should have thought of this before. Turning off now, we'll see what happens. Also does anyone else notice flaky 3g connection mine is weird, a lot of the time my 3g bar just says 3g with a d under it instead of arrows and my signal fluxuates quite frequently verdict for you guys?
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The d under the 3g bar is like a 3g "idle" icon if u will. But i have had a lot of issues with service and 3g. I rarely get above 2 bars and if i do its only for a short while. I lose 3g more often than i would like and get the dreaded 1x though it usually switches right back. I absolutely love this phone but the constantly having weak signal is killing my experience. Am i the only one struggling for service?

Nope, same here. Just left the Verizon store for the second time for this issue & connection errors with the Samsung email app. Their fix for this? "No one's having these problems that we know of. Let's try another PRL list."
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garywojdan81 said:
Nope, same here. Just left the Verizon store for the second time for this issue & connection errors with the Samsung email app. Their fix for this? "No one's having these problems that we know of. Let's try another PRL list."
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I've encountered problems with the stock e-mail app on several Android phones.
There's seemly no answer to why it works and then doesn't work.
You'll find numerous threads suggesting you use K9, or some other 3rd party e-mail application for many POP3 e-mail addresses.
My main e-mail is a GMail, so that's a convenience for me.
I also use a Yahoo and before the Yahoo Mail app from the Market, I would also have trouble with the Android e-mail application from time to time.

According to the battery monitor, Cell standby is using a lot of my battery. Seems like this started happening more once I flashed the voodoo kernel and overclocked to 1.2 GHz, and put the "kickstand" case on my phone. I'm going to run fora few more days and see if it's consistently bad, and if so, I'll try taking the case off first to see if it gets better.
For instance this morning it says Cell standby has used 33% of my battery, it's been on for 11 hours, and I haven't charged in about 6 hours. I've dropped to 62% battery capacity, with the screen mostly off and not using the phone in those 6 hours. It says my time without a signal is 23%, I've seen it as high as 40%... I don't get very good signal in my apartment, but this seems wayyyy worse than it should be. I did a *228 update yesterday but that doesn't seem to have helped.

thanks, was wondering why battery drop 20% even when i set to airplane mode before bed.
chopper the dog said:
I did notice this myself. I would go to sleep with 95% and wake up with 70%.
So went to Settings/Accounts and Services/ and turned off Background Data.
Went to sleep last night with 97% and woke up this mornin' (nah na na nuh) with 94%. The gmail app seems to hammer the data. And I have found no scheduling within that app. Stock app has scheduling gonna try that and report back.
btw: with background data off and you go to the market it wants it on so I'll turn it on and back off after.
good day.
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shagaholik said:
thanks, was wondering why battery drop 20% even when i set to airplane mode before bed.
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Disregard what I said. That statement was made before a root. I significantly improved battery by rooting, purchasing titanium pro and freezing all things verizon and countless other apps that came on the phone.
Things I have frozen.
3G Mobile hotspot
411 search
analog clock 1,2,3,and 4
All live wallpapers
Backup Assistant
Bing
Blockbuster
Buddies now
Calender clock
car cradle
city ID
daily briefing
desk cradle
digital clock 1and2
dual clock 1and2
Email 2.1 (I only use gmail)
Feeds and updates
InnoPath
Kindle
memo 1.0
MobileIM
My verizon mobile
Skype
SNSAccount
Swype (I use touch pal)
Sync service
vcast music, tones, videos
voicemail 1.0.20
vvmservice
vz navigator
vzw sms filter
weather clock
Have not needed the car charger since. Goes whole day and more.
good day.

My cell standby stays high at my home as time without a signal is between 45% to 65%. My battery life is horrible because of this. I am unrooted...
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i actually have TB Pro freezing majority of the stuff on your list. even installed SuperPower by Chainfire (thread #807989 since i can't post links) to help w/ conserving power. even in airplane mode still lose 20-25% by the time i wake up.
chopper the dog said:
Disregard what I said. That statement was made before a root. I significantly improved battery by rooting, purchasing titanium pro and freezing all things verizon and countless other apps that came on the phone.
Things I have frozen.
3G Mobile hotspot
411 search
analog clock 1,2,3,and 4
All live wallpapers
Backup Assistant
Bing
Blockbuster
Buddies now
Calender clock
car cradle
city ID
daily briefing
desk cradle
digital clock 1and2
dual clock 1and2
Email 2.1 (I only use gmail)
Feeds and updates
InnoPath
Kindle
memo 1.0
MobileIM
My verizon mobile
Skype
SNSAccount
Swype (I use touch pal)
Sync service
vcast music, tones, videos
voicemail 1.0.20
vvmservice
vz navigator
vzw sms filter
weather clock
Have not needed the car charger since. Goes whole day and more.
good day.
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shagaholik said:
i actually have TB Pro freezing majority of the stuff on your list. even installed SuperPower by Chainfire (thread #807989 since i can't post links) to help w/ conserving power. even in airplane mode still lose 20-25% by the time i wake up.
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Sounds like a background process is hogging. See this post. Hope it helps find your problem.
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EMail app at 100% CPU load

I had a problem with the stock EMail app.
It stuck at 100% CPU load, the phones back was hot and the battery lost ~70% in half an hour.
I can't understand how this could happen, the app is set to check both my EMail accounts every hour and there has been nothing out of the ordinary (no big attachements or so on).
Anyone else had this problem? Any solutions? Should I use a 3rd party app for EMails?

the same problem
skycamefalling said:
I had a problem with the stock EMail app.
It stuck at 100% CPU load, the phones back was hot and the battery lost ~70% in half an hour.
I can't understand how this could happen, the app is set to check both my EMail accounts every hour and there has been nothing out of the ordinary (no big attachements or so on).
Anyone else had this problem? Any solutions? Should I use a 3rd party app for EMails?
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I have the same problem, since yesterday, today I reset ROM and problem still appear, I think this is caused by sd card, any ideas?

skycamefalling said:
I had a problem with the stock EMail app.
It stuck at 100% CPU load, the phones back was hot and the battery lost ~70% in half an hour.
I can't understand how this could happen, the app is set to check both my EMail accounts every hour and there has been nothing out of the ordinary (no big attachements or so on).
Anyone else had this problem? Any solutions? Should I use a 3rd party app for EMails?
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It happened to me three days ago Using OS Monitor, I only showed 34% usage, but this time, Android System Monitor acknowledged 100% usage, but was unable to account for where it was being used. where did you see it stucks at 100 % , it sometimes shows wrong , ;
you can also check ur email mobile or 3rd party app or reboot ur device you can also fallow these steps , maybe it helps you.
go into "Settings...Voice input and output", and, if the Eyes Free TTS engine available, the default TTS is not set and check the box to have the native TTS as the default, and checked the box for "Always use my settings".

I saw it in the Samsung Task Manager. I think it showed correct because also the phone's back became very hot.
But, fortunately, this never happened again until now. The battery life is terrible after all, but the EMail app seems to be fine

I have a similar problem if I'm not using the standard Samsung keyboard.
It's a bit of a pain in the arse as I have to remember to swap keyboards if I decide I need to reply to something. If I forget the phone locks up and the battery drains very quickly.
I've seen other posts with same problem. Wouldn't be so awkward if the standard keyboard wasn't so useless.

I binned the stock samsung email app, and use the 2.3.4 vanilla email app

I'm having major problems with the Mail app too - consistently high CPU usage, short battery life, back of phone warm to touch and Mail showing as the top battery hog (& CPU hog in Watchdog). Not impressed!

High CPU usage and email app gets stuck
I have the same issue. When I am in the email app it just gets stuck. This is crazy. I switched out from a HTC EVO 4g to Samsung Galaxy so I could have more ROM. I hope I don't regret it. Tell me if you find a solution.

I had the same issue on my SGS II and now my Note. I finally figured out it started after I installed Viber. I uninstalled Viber and the issue went away.
Does anyone else with this issue have Viber installed?

I had this problem only once yesterday - picked up my phone to answer a call and it was very hot. I can't think it was a co-incidence that earlier that day I had enabled Contacts sync with Exchange. Whatever the issue was it has gone away by itself. The only other factor worth mentioning is I was in a supermarket with Free WiFi - but it only works after you click through their homepage. Previously I seen this cause background apps using data to constantly stall due to the HTTP redirect they encounter.

Is it just me or what is wrong with GB

There are so much problems especially with the battery issues, but even that I can deal with
I'm having major text delay. My messages come all at once. Every so often it tells me message faileed when sending. Next thing you know I get a text from my friends telling me to stop texting them 10 times in a row.
Most of my incoming phone calls never rings and I get a text message from google saying I have a voice mail
2.2 had those issues but only every few months but not everyday and nowhere near as annoying and GB. After receiving messages 45 minutes after they send it I went back to 2.2 and everything is working fine

That's not an issue with GB. Try ##72786# followed by your MSL to reset your data profile. If that doesn't work call Sprint and ask them to do a device refresh.
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Battery is really the only MAJOR problem I have.. 1% percent drain on light use..

Are you on an Airave? If so reset it. If not update Profile and PRL.
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I'm not having any of these issues on stock GB. Battery on GB is better than on Froyo. I suspect you've got something constantly syncing or some other setup issue that's killing your battery. Are you on a stock rom or custom?

Google processes (talk & gmail) will incessantly sync, as will facebook. Also on GB, the visual voicemail will stay in "initialization" until you open the app and go thru prompts. Then it will restart that mess everytime you drop signal, reboot, or come back out of airplane mode and unless you go thru the process each time, it'll run in background. Beyond that it guzzled my battery too with ei22 modem even with nearly everything uninstalled... something causes the "system" processes to run the cpu away and not sleep properly (my experience)
Some are having great luck with GB. I'm having better luck with eh17 & cm7.

My gingerbread experience has been fantastic if not perfect.
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Mine chews through a fully charged battery quick since the GB update.

Stock GB seams to last a bit longer than Froyo for me, and all of the custom roms I've tried so far a bit less.

Got a pair of bluetooth head phones, run the stock music app for 7 hours with BT 9 with headphones, then I hit 10% and I have to change my battery. I am having great battery life on a 1500 mAh battery.
Not bad for not letting it deep sleep all day.

I wasn't expecting "phone" to use so much battery on my phone

I am used to seeing "screen", and "android OS" or even "Google Services". I have never seen phone so high on any of my other android phones. Then again, I have never seen MyFitnessPal use so much either.
I only use MFP a few minutes a day to log my calories, and since I finally activated my Moto X on Sunday, I have only made one call, and that was into voicemail to set up visual voicemail.

jimmyhauser said:
I am used to seeing "screen", and "android OS" or even "Google Services". I have never seen phone so high on any of my other android phones. Then again, I have never seen MyFitnessPal use so much either.
I only use MFP a few minutes a day to log my calories, and since I finally activated my Moto X on Sunday, I have only made one call, and that was into voicemail to set up visual voicemail.
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That actually happened to me today, too. Phone was causing a wakelock for some reason. I rebooted and it went away.

Does wake lock work on 4.4?
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I am experiencing this as well. I have rebooted multiple times, no change. The only thing I can think that I did with the new phone app was rearrange my favs. I have tried re syncing all my accounts but it still persists.
Any ideas what is causing this?
FYI. Updated to 4.4.4 yesterday.

Phone doesn't even show up on my list.

You guys have managed to resurrect a very old thread...
Please use the existing (and older) thread HERE
Thread closed.

Why am I getting huge a difference in battery life

So, I've tried all the roms for exynos U/C variants
Recently I noticed I was getting the same average battery life in almost all roms, i tried different kernels/modems etc and noticed it didn't really matter what settings I used I was getting average 8-10 hours daily use. So I replaced battery seeings as its over 2 years old. No difference. So I went back to a rom I really liked the out of box feel "dreamUX"
What I noticed was really astounding.
For example
Same simple setup with greenfied apps, doze otg etc
Nothing major (no xposed etc) just essential apps like maps, SwiftKey, chrome, Gmail etc... On other roms over night I would lose 10-20% battery.
Recently I reinstalled dreamUX with the same setup as always...
On the first night I went to sleep with 65%battery when I woke 5 hours later I was still on 65% battery.... It was amazing to be able to finally get decent standby idle time.
So my question is why?
What does dreamUX do differently?
Currently I can't use it as a daily because this silly bug, there is no way I can find how to enter voicemail number setting and constantly have this new voicemail notification that drives me crazy. I can't even call voicemail because no number is defined..... Anyone able to help understand this issue?

to call voicemail hold the 1 key in the dialer or call your own number from your phone. Or call the number it says in the notification.

MhikeiMPC12 said:
to call voicemail hold the 1 key in the dialer or call your own number from your phone. Or call the number it says in the notification.
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thats just the issue. the notification says "VOICE MAIL NUMBER NOT DEFINED" and there is no way to "DEFINE IT" there is no area inside the setup or anywhere in settings to define the number.
i can physically call the phone number and check my voicemail but it doesnt remove the notification.
i found 1 work around but i cant get it to work on dreamUX was with a mod on xposed. "disable persistent notifications".
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anyone else know a fix or how to get to the setting for this in dreamUX?

I debloated my stock 6.0.1 rom recently because I had weird drains overnight. Now it's ok, doesn't seem to loose anything at all over a few hours of standby (during night I recharge it usually).
So yeah, uninstalling bloatware/freeze/greenify would help.
Still SOT is very poor. Got worse with each update. Now I think I get less than 3 hours despite new battery and debloated rom.
How much SOT do you get ?

Last time I checked 3 hours 40 minutes, yesterday was 3 hours 12 minutes.

I just need to figure out how to fix this voicemail bug

my theory
I noticed the same with a lineageOS rom (one that I couldn't use daily)
I looked into the possible factors and concluded it must have been the default DPI setting, which was lowered to 414 (rather than the default 520/560)
I'm not quite sure how DPI settings are any different than screen resolution (do the apps only rescale in size with DPI?) but that was the only internal difference I noticed