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Does anyone know how I can find out what's draining my battery?
It goes from 100% to 85% in less than an hour. Just a little facebook and web browsing and it drains. Also when I leave it idle it drains significantly. It'll be great if you guys recommend an app or tips on how to save battery life.
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kingvaj23 said:
Does anyone know how I can find out what's draining my battery?
It goes from 100% to 85% in less than an hour. Just a little facebook and web browsing and it drains. Also when I leave it idle it drains significantly. It'll be great if you guys recommend an app or tips on how to save battery life.
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Need to check your sync settings. How often are your accounts set to sync?
facebook is the culprit... even when it isn't doing anything, it's doing way too much. Log out and see if your battery improves.
I use facebook to sync contact pictures only.... just turn off the facebook notifications by going into the app, menu - settings and check off notifications.
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Big help: use that app disabling method and disable app that you don't use. Biggest culprits are Google bloatwares such as: finance, shopper, listen, my tracks and many more. Also make sure you use a taskiller that works cuz most are crap and just make up fake number of killed apps. (Ask me if you wanna know how to find out if a taskiller works or not)
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funkadesi said:
I use facebook to sync contact pictures only.... just turn off the facebook notifications by going into the app, menu - settings and check off notifications.
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I have mine set to sync contacts only as well... works perfectly fine. Very little drain.
Basically, I agree with you. Don't sync notifications ... manually do that via the app if you want to.
nighthawk626 said:
Big help: use that app disabling method and disable app that you don't use. Biggest culprits are Google bloatwares such as: finance, shopper, listen, my tracks and many more. Also make sure you use a taskiller that works cuz most are crap and just make up fake number of killed apps. (Ask me if you wanna know how to find out if a taskiller works or not)
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Finance isn't really bloatware... it's a good app.
Shopper, listen and my tracks I'll give you. I disabled some of those type apps.
What is a good task killer? Cause I've heard task killers are bad and not necessary on froyo
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I try not to sync
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You don't need a task killer in my opinion. Use the running services tab in application settings to disable anything you don't want running.
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Taskiller is good because I prefer one app running constanly in comparison to 6 or more. The taskiller I use is the one with the red droid icon. To find out if a taskiller is good open it and make sure its not excluded or ignored then click "kill all apps" or whatever. And if the taskiller itself isn't killed then its not worth squat
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i got same situation as you. drain so fast ...can't take it..
now ill try turn auto sync off see what happens
Get a new battery lol look at the accessory sub form we have a thread about extended battery with evo batteries
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Well if you have exchange emails set up then it will drain your battery like no tomorrow and that is the reason i am going to give this phone back to tmobile
vikramdhani said:
Well if you have exchange emails set up then it will drain your battery like no tomorrow and that is the reason i am going to give this phone back to tmobile
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I have exchange setup... what settings do you have?
Exchange is the same on all the Android phones so I'd be curious to hear what you have setup and how.
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I have exchange setup... what settings do you have?
Exchange is the same on all the Android phones so I'd be curious to hear what you have setup and how.
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Exchange email sync has a known problem for high cpu usage. I can't post the link as I'm new, but do a google search for "email sync high cpu" - it's the google.code issue #5424
Please note that there is a workaround that has worked for nearly all users. Set the exchange email sync to "never" or "push". The issue is that with specified time intervals the sync may fail and continue failing, consuming ~50% of your cpu.
I've experienced this myself, and couldn't understand why my phone was so slow till I looked at the processes running and % of cpu usage (via 'top'). I'm experimenting with never-sync and only have a handful of days battery monitoring and guessing I'm getting about 8 more hours out of my battery (again, not empirical data).
edit: I stopped using task-killers after reading up on froyo behavior and more importantly monitoring my cpu usage (again via top). All the apps that were showing "running" in my task-killer were consuming ~0% cpu. They were using memory, but I now leave it up to the OS to manage that. In the end I find that the apps that I didn't want running were eventually automatically stopped by the OS for me.
Can someone tell me the average battery life for the g2? Normally I'm only worried about battery life if I'm gone at work or out and about. Normally I just txt when I'm at work or out with people.
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xamadeix said:
Can someone tell me the average battery life for the g2? Normally I'm only worried about battery life if I'm gone at work or out and about. Normally I just txt when I'm at work or out with people.
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I have G2 my avg battery life is about 36 hours on reg battery casual usage and about 18 hours with heavy usage (i consider heavy usage data streaming from slacker, using phone as modem via wifi router 150 text messages and about 10 calls). setup i have is 2g when NOT using the phone, background data off & auto sync off, email account set for manual sync.
In regards to Task killer they are worthless on froyo devices use Watchdog app it watches for rogue app that are consuming too much power.
I have a evo battery in my current phone right now and I never worry about battery life. i did a little modifications to get it to fit but it works great (make sure you get the red color battery if thats the case, I didnt get the correct battery originally but i ripped everything off the battery it fits and it works).
Reference this thread for the battery.
Now why is the phone charging yet battery level doesn't go up but down very slowly WTF?, also I have this problem very frequently where it just doesn't charge at all! But this time it isn't charging its discharging even with the charging sign SMH, anyways who else got this problem?
This phone is so lucky there isn't another htc phone with a real keyboard that looks as classy and has the latest GPU processor (I swaer these are the only things that is keeping me with this phone) in tmo other than the G2, and no not the mytouch 3g slide, it is outdated already small 3.4 screen, thicker than G2, older GPU (adreno 200) so nop not that one lol the glacier seems to sport a real qwerty keyboard but not much is known so it is too far away from now.
do u have wifi turned ON when you charge? If so, try turning OFF wifi and charging it.. you should see a difference
You didn't have Navigation running, by chance, did you? I remember my Nexus One couldn't keep up with the stock car charger and got nice and warm while Navigation was running. You might also want to try rebooting; there may be an app that's drawing a lot of CPU time and killing the battery faster than it can be charged.
System Process "YES" Running G2 phone down?
So I did some digging last night and noticed that this system process was running my phone at 100% cpu usage all the time... System Process YES. Anyone know what the hell this is for and why it is having such a negative impact on my G2? I am at wits end here I want to find out if it is me before I call in to T MOE AGAIN.
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do u have wifi turned ON when you charge? If so, try turning OFF wifi and charging it.. you should see a difference
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It is unlikely to be wifi directly. In my experience wifi uses less than 3G. I have been leaving my wifi on nonstop since the initial reports that T-Mo may be going to a (firmer) softcap of 5Gb, which I go over every month currently even without tethering. I have had no problems whatsoever with charging.
I think the advice to reboot and see if the charging problem still occurs afterwards might be the better suggestion. It could be a rogue app maxing out CPU time or perhaps continually probing GPS, though I am not sure if GPS alone would be enough to tip the scales.
Nop I got nothing on no navigation or wifi, but now it seem to be charging even tho very slowly.
You could always try powering off the phone when you charge it.
Got the same problem with my T-Mo G2...
Now it isn't charging / powering up anymore :|
Possibly a stupid question, but are you using the stock charger? Most other chargers do not provide as much current and may not be able to keep up with the phone's power usage.
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Also, keep in mind that if you're charging via USB (via laptop or PC) you're not going to get as much charging current versus using the AC adaptor.
I'm using the stock charger that came with the device and the stock MicroUSB cable connected to the charger.
Also tried with HTC HD2's charger.
Man I just hope this gets fix with the OTA update, but wouldn't this be a hardware issue so it can't be fix with update?
This phone by far is the wierdest most problematic device I've ever had in my life, but at the same time the best lol
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Wow and the charging problem continues smh, its now stuck on the small red bar not going to the yellow or green been charging for 2 hours and its only @ 15%, and the replacement shipping had issues so the 2 day shipping I paid for did not happen so now ill have to wait by Monday and I order the 2 day shipping on Friday. Lucky me I did demand them to waive the 20 dollar fee for the 2 day shipping since I did not get the shipping in 2 days so they did waive the fee
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And its been already 6 hours since it started charging its its just at 91% :s
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Just an idea, but try a CPU monitoring utility like WatchDog and see if there is a specific application using CPU heavily.
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I agree. Get Watchdog from the Market and leave it running. You have something killing your CPU; I'm pretty sure it's a rogue app.
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Just an idea, but try a CPU monitoring utility like WatchDog and see if there is a specific application using CPU heavily.
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Kk ill let yu know
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Yea it says there are no alerts :s
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So everything is fine no app is killing my G2 but I still have the charging problem. But I don't care anyways because I'm getting a replacement Monday so its fine
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androidfeen809 said:
So everything is fine no app is killing my G2 but I still have the charging problem. But I don't care anyways because I'm getting a replacement Monday so its fine
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Just so you guys are aware most laptop usb ports do not supply enough power to charge your phone efficeintly. Most have a high power usb port with an icon to indicate this which is what u should charge from.
Iv noticed if I use a regular port my phone bearly charges.
Let me know if this helps!
I'm now on my third G2. Sent the first two back in because they were having the freezing issue that's been documented here and on other forums that require a battery pull to get the phone back up. The second phone also had a dead pixel.
I have not yet had the issue with the latest phone, but have only been using it for a day and am not super optimistic given my experience with the first two. I'm still curious if the freezing is a hardware or software issue.
I'm wondering if anyone had this issue with their G2 and had it resolved by installing cyanogenmod or another mod. I have not tried rooting/modding yet as I knew I'd likely be returning the phones and didn't want to go through the work of having to undo it. It just dawned on me today that perhaps it's something tmobile has installed on the phone that is causing it to freeze. So I was thinking it might be possible that a non-tmobile mod might resolve it.
I had the issue on RC1 and haven't had it freeze since installing RC2. It would freeze while the screen was off and I had to pull the battery and let it boot up again.
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I had the issue on RC1 and haven't had it freeze since installing RC2. It would freeze while the screen was off and I had to pull the battery and let it boot up again.
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Thanks for the reply. How long have you been running RC2?
Since it came out. On RC1 I had about 2~3 crashes within the first week of using it.
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All of my problems were gone after the OTA update. It has been running like an absolute champ since.
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I stopped having the reboots once I turned off the wifi sleep. If you live somewhere with lousy Tmobile coverage, but have wifi @ home, it helps a lot. Even helps battery life.
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I need help with my g2. my battery life on this phone is very inconsistent, sometimes i can go 50+ hours on it with 6 hours screen time, but lately my battery has been draining for no reason at all. Im not even using the phone and its rapidly draining for no reason. This all started happening when the gps kept on turning on i read about the carrier iq service and the google location to turn them off. But it doesn't really help much. On my battery manager it says that the android system is first with like 85% or more and it says that my gps has been on for hours and hours even though it hasn't. I don't know what to do i can barely make it through a day now. Should i root my phone? I like the lg ui and i want to keep all of the features such as q slide and especially knock on and off. Can someone help me out if you have had the same experiences. I want to turn off the iq agent permanently. Is this possbile? I have never rooted a device before so im a complete beginner.
fromc2m said:
I need help with my g2. my battery life on this phone is very inconsistent, sometimes i can go 50+ hours on it with 6 hours screen time, but lately my battery has been draining for no reason at all. Im not even using the phone and its rapidly draining for no reason. This all started happening when the gps kept on turning on i read about the carrier iq service and the google location to turn them off. But it doesn't really help much. On my battery manager it says that the android system is first with like 85% or more and it says that my gps has been on for hours and hours even though it hasn't. I don't know what to do i can barely make it through a day now. Should i root my phone? I like the lg ui and i want to keep all of the features such as q slide and especially knock on and off. Can someone help me out if you have had the same experiences. I want to turn off the iq agent permanently. Is this possbile? I have never rooted a device before so im a complete beginner.
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Download better battery stats and see what wakelocks are causing the drain. Are you using Google+? Are you on Wi-Fi all day? Have you tried uninstalling all your apps and adding them back one at a time until you find the culprit? Something is keeping your phone running...
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Jank4AU said:
Download better battery stats and see what wakelocks are causing the drain. Are you using Google+? Are you on Wi-Fi all day? Have you tried uninstalling all your apps and adding them back one at a time until you find the culprit? Something is keeping your phone running...
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Yes i have downloaded better battery stats, and im not using google plus. And im not on wifi all day. The battery is just draining for no reason i even end alot of the running apps such as google location service, facebook, carrier iq agent. I was wondering if i could root my phone and delete carrier iq and get those apps that can help with the battery life, yet keep the original lg ui with all the features.
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Yes i have downloaded better battery stats, and im not using google plus. And im not on wifi all day. The battery is just draining for no reason i even end alot of the running apps such as google location service, facebook, carrier iq agent. I was wondering if i could root my phone and delete carrier iq and get those apps that can help with the battery life, yet keep the original lg ui with all the features.
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There are a lot of custom roms built off the stock LG ui
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I'm using my G2 now since 2 months and generally I'm happy with it, coming from a Galaxy Nexus. Just the battery is still one of my concerns, I just don't seem to be able to crack the code to get that awesome battery life, everyone is talking about.
I have the international, unlocked, no carrier version.
I'm rooted, using Greenify (most background apps greenified), Gsam, Snapdragon Battery Guru. Most unnecessary LG/spam processes are frozen with Titanium (as per the respective threads), Google Location Service I only switch on when needed (Play Service is updated to the latest, battery saving version), I tried that with sync as well, without much difference. Bluetooth, NFC all off. I'm mainly in area of good 3G reception. LTE is off via Network Modes.
Mainly I use the device for Internet browsing, Whatsapp, tapatalk, Facebook. Nothing spectacular, no gaming.
I usually get a SOT of around 3 hours on 3G, 4 if I'm lucky, and sync & location is off and when on Wifi only.
Over night I regularly lose around 10% of battery if unplugged, with empty task manager/recent apps.
Following my Gsam stats, Android System is the biggest culprit. What disturbs me most, is that apps and processes that show frozen in Titanium are showing up in the details as well, aka LG Backup, Install Service, Setup Wizard, PC Suite Service.
What the heck is going on? Has anyone a clue what else I could do?
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I would like to extend this as well. I have frozen lots of lg apps and in android system today lg VPN was my highest usage. I have never used lg VPN or any VPN service so.....
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try to uninstall facebook app if installed.use fast instead. its really heavy and bad app the official one.
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try Betterbatterystats app .. u can search in XDA ... it will show u which rogue app is eating your battery :good:
Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps are two of the worst apps when it comes to battery drains. I just have shortcuts set up to the webpage versions. Also, I had a significant increase in battery life after disabling Intelligent Agent. Make sure you're rebooting your phone after disabling an app to clear it out of memory. And I've read that Snapdragon Battery Guru is a battery hog as well even though it's supposed to help battery life.
EDIT: Changed freezing to disabling, because I didn't freeze anything, but disabled IA. Disabled CIQ as well, but didn't noticed any significant increase.
CIQ and Intelligent Agent don't seem to be in the international version, at least not on my device, can't find.
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Guys, i start to think that the battery in this phone is sh*t After 1-2 months it's starting to drain quickly and we are goin nuts to disable or freeze almost everything .....
instead of using facebook app use, chrome web browser. I have facebook messenger and it does not seem so have much impact on battery life.
Also I think you have too many apps that monitor battery life. I don't use any I get 100 hours standby 2 hours talk 2 hours screen time.
Also are you getting weak signal? or frequently lose it?
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CIQ and Intelligent Agent don't seem to be in the international version, at least not on my device, can't find.
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Didn't see that your phone isn't carrier specific...I believe CIQ is carrier bloat. Intelligent Agent should be on there as it's an LG app. It is listed as LGLIA in your system folder
I'll chime in. Haven't had my phone for 2 months but battery life is solid, and this is coming from a previous Note 2 user.
I don't go crazy using this and that app to freeze everything under the sun, just the unnecessaries (just made up that word ). Most LG stuff is disabled and a few are frosted with TiBackup. I don't use Greenify or GSam or whatever. No fancy kernels or undervolting or any of that stuff. Just stock and rooted, how i like my stuff.
I'm usually streaming Pandora most of my 8 hour shift at work to a Bluetooth Sound Dock and still pushing 70% on the ride home with Gmail sync on, 2 emails pooling every hour, etc. I even have the dreaded Facebook app installed and its okay.
I don't bother with obsessing over screen on time, I just USE my phone. I check emails, browse the web, use apps, occasional game here and there, read eBooks, movies, music, pictures...and still have more than 60% left on the way home.
That's how I prefer to measure battery life. I have the Sprint version, CDMA, which usually use more juice than GSM in general, so I'm perplexed how you're not getting good battery life.
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Didn't see that your phone isn't carrier specific...I believe CIQ is carrier bloat. Intelligent Agent should be on there as it's an LG app. It is listed as LGLIA in your system folder
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I check everywhere, but I don't have that LGLIA in Titanium nor in System Folder. Weird.
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nomad4ever said:
I check everywhere, but I don't have that LGLIA in Titanium nor in System Folder. Weird.
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That's a good thing then...maybe they don't include it in the no carrier version. That bugger is a big drain.