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So my wife and I both have Evo's. Both of them running DamageControl's ROM. My battery life will be down to about 45% (or less) after about 4-7 hours. Hers will be between 94-97%. This is with not really using the phone except to answer a call or two. Everything is turned on, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, Sync, GPS location, etc. All the social and Sprint apps have been removed except for Sprint Navigation. No CPU controlling tools are running, such as SetCPU or OverclockWidget. Though Advanced Task Manager was running in the background to kills apps every 30 minutes, but I don't think that had much of a bearing on it.
At first I though my battery was defective. It was nuts that her phone was lasting so long and mine was being sucked dry. She wouldn't let me take the battery out of her phone to test, so I started looking at what the differences are between our phones. The only main difference between our phones is the number of apps installed.
So based on that guess, I used Titanium Backup to backup all my apps, then proceeded to remove just about all the apps on my phone. Especially any app that might use the network. Though I left wireless tether as that was installed on her phone as well.
I charged up the phone to 100%, left it unplugged overnight, and after seven hours, it still had 98% charge left. So it was an app(s) that ended up killing my battery life. Now I'm using Titanium Backup to start restoring a few apps at a time until I can find out which apps that are causing the large battery drain.
Very good read. I'll be trying this out as well.
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Like Google said at their I/O conference, "if you can't get a day out of your android device then something is wrong with it".
Wow - sounds like a great experiment. Eagerly awaiting your findings.
ChrisDos said:
So my wife and I both have Evo's. Both of them running DamageControl's ROM. My battery life will be down to about 45% (or less) after about 4-7 hours. Hers will be between 94-97%. This is with not really using the phone except to answer a call or two. Everything is turned on, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, Sync, GPS location, etc. All the social and Sprint apps have been removed except for Sprint Navigation. No CPU controlling tools are running, such as SetCPU or OverclockWidget. Though Advanced Task Manager was running in the background to kills apps every 30 minutes, but I don't think that had much of a bearing on it.
At first I though my battery was defective. It was nuts that her phone was lasting so long and mine was being sucked dry. She wouldn't let me take the battery out of her phone to test, so I started looking at what the differences are between our phones. The only main difference between our phones is the number of apps installed.
So based on that guess, I used Titanium Backup to backup all my apps, then proceeded to remove just about all the apps on my phone. Especially any app that might use the network. Though I left wireless tether as that was installed on her phone as well.
I charged up the phone to 100%, left it unplugged overnight, and after seven hours, it still had 98% charge left. So it was an app(s) that ended up killing my battery life. Now I'm using Titanium Backup to start restoring a few apps at a time until I can find out which apps that are causing the large battery drain.
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There's an app called Systempanel. Even the free version will tell you in an instant how much cpu each running process has been using since it was loaded into memory.
I also use it as a task manager. Since it doesn't need to be running in the background like some other popular task managers.
Added back about 60% of my apps and still have excellent battery life. Only lost 3% over last night while sleeping. I mostly concentrated on adding back apps that shouldn't access the network. I'll start adding a few apps back that might access the network and let you know the results.
My battery last over 30 hours.
Here's the proof. I also had 50% battery left.
ChrisDos said:
Added back about 60% of my apps and still have excellent battery life. Only lost 3% over last night while sleeping. I mostly concentrated on adding back apps that shouldn't access the network. I'll start adding a few apps back that might access the network and let you know the results.
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can you let us know what apps you're running and what was re-installed and what has been re-installed as yet.
One thing that EVERYONE should do before they even begin to evaluate their battery performance is CALIBRATE THEIR BATTERY!!
Can't stress it enough, it's crucial.
And fwiw I've found beautiful widgets to be a battery hog whether you're using it or not
we should create a wiki data base of the apps on gdocs.
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we should create a wiki data base of the apps on gdocs.
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Exactly. We need a wiki for everything on the evo (battery, apps, ect.)
I get about 8 hours of normal usage (texting a little bit, an hour of phone calls, some camera time and streaming music for 2 hours), but as soon as I get a good replacement, I'm going to flash up a good rom.
What is currently installed:
A quick dump of /data/apps:
com.dynotes.miniinfo.apk
com.soundroid2012.startrek.apk
com.bumptech.bumpga.apk
com.android.mastermind2.apk
com.aldiko.android.apk
com.google.android.apps.localdirectory.apk
com.google.android.diskusage.apk
com.bendroid.mystique1.apk
com.hypermatix.app.CalendarSync.zip
org.freecoder.android.cmplayer.apk
com.mhuang.overclocking.apk
ymst.android.homeswitcher.apk
com.falcon4ever.fIRC.apk
dk.logisoft.aircontrol.apk
jackpal.androidterm.apk
cheewee.screenTimeout.apk
com.google.android.stardroid.apk
com.google.android.apps.googlevoice.apk
com.g3.android.widgets.sdcardm.apk
org.adw.launcher.apk
com.adobe.flashplayer.apk
org.prowl.torquefree.apk
com.google.android.apps.maps.apk
bz.ktk.bubble.apk
com.pandora.android.apk
com.akproduction.notepad.apk
com.g3.android.widgets.internalm.apk
android.tether.apk
com.google.android.chess.apk
com.jiuzhangtech.rushhour.apk
com.google.earth.apk
com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer.apk
jonasl.ime.apk
com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2.apk
com.bigtincan.android.adfree.apk
com.google.android.apps.unveil.apk
com.siriusapplications.quickboot.apk
com.qikffc.android.apk
com.qualcomm.qx.neocore.apk
com.mixzing.basic.apk
org.ajeje.remotewipe.apk
com.stylem.wallpapers.apk
com.androidapps.spare_parts.apk
com.biggu.shopsavvy.apk
com.edburnette.fps2d.apk
com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup.apk
fishnoodle.silhouette_free.apk
com.deckeleven.windsofsteeldemo.apk
com.adobe.psmobile.apk
com.teslacoilsw.quicksshd.apk
com.sirma.mobile.bible.android.apk
org.lsartory.cachecleaner.apk
dcbanned
com.appspot.swisscodemonkeys.jokes.apk
com.revsodev.volumecontrol.apk
jp.picolyl.led_light.apk
com.a0soft.gphone.aTrackDog.apk
com.zillow.android.zillowmap.apk
com.chartcross.gpstest.apk
com.hmw.android.fullkeyboard.apk
com.glu.android.bonsai.apk
com.fatsecret.android.zip
com.bonfiremedia.android_wikimobile.apk
com.agilesoftresource.apk
com.nix.game.mahjong.apk
com.CharSoftware.GPSSpeedometer.apk
com.arron.taskManager.apk
com.google.android.reversi.apk
com.mixzing.upgrade.apk
net.adyno.adyno.apk
com.google.android.apps.translate.apk
com.neogb.BatteryLevel.apk
org.connectbot.apk
com.soundroid2012.montypythonhg.apk
net.mensus.togglescreen.apk
com.ChuckNorrisJokes2.zip
com.adobe.reader.apk
com.soundroid2012.starwars.apk
org.zwanoo.android.speedtest.apk
List of apps that I still need to re-install:
Quadrant Standard
Advanced Map
Contact Owner
[email protected]
Have2Eat
BTC CellFinder
IaxAgent
CellFinder
Toggle Sttings
OSMonitor
Wifi Analyzer
Fring
Tickr
Starfield
Waves Wallpaper
Astro
Astro Bluetooth Module
Astro SMB Module
Mirror 4 Evo
3D Galaxy
EarthRot
Map Pack - Earth Live Wallpaper
Sensorly Map Viewer
Speed Anatomy
Night Earth Wallpaper
Square
Trapster
The Weather Channel
WeFi Connect
Xtremelabs Speedtest
3gtest
Aquarium Free
Galactic Core
Startup Manager
Ultrasound
Bluetooth File Transfer
AndExplorer
AndFTP
Asteriskdialer
Root Mobile Beta
Plasma
NexusMod Live Wallpaper
Fireworks Live Wallpaper
Fast Call
Bezier - Live Wallpaper
SysTray Monitor
WordPlayer
I have had less than impressive battery life on my evo as well. I am using baked snack .7 rom which is supposed to have excellent bat life.
Looking at that list the OP posted of apps he hasn't re-installed, i am seeing that we have 4 common apks...Astro, Square, Fring and The Weather Channel.
I have a feeling it may be TWC that is eating battery...I will try uninstalling this and Fring.
I also notice that he has several live wallpapers. Having checked systempanel, the only thing that is really pushing CPUs is live wallpaper. I am also going to disable that for now.
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What is currently installed:
A quick dump of /data/apps:
com.dynotes.miniinfo.apk
com.soundroid2012.startrek.apk
com.bumptech.bumpga.apk
com.android.mastermind2.apk
com.aldiko.android.apk
com.google.android.apps.localdirectory.apk
com.google.android.diskusage.apk
com.bendroid.mystique1.apk
com.hypermatix.app.CalendarSync.zip
org.freecoder.android.cmplayer.apk
com.mhuang.overclocking.apk
ymst.android.homeswitcher.apk
com.falcon4ever.fIRC.apk
dk.logisoft.aircontrol.apk
jackpal.androidterm.apk
cheewee.screenTimeout.apk
com.google.android.stardroid.apk
com.google.android.apps.googlevoice.apk
com.g3.android.widgets.sdcardm.apk
org.adw.launcher.apk
com.adobe.flashplayer.apk
org.prowl.torquefree.apk
com.google.android.apps.maps.apk
bz.ktk.bubble.apk
com.pandora.android.apk
com.akproduction.notepad.apk
com.g3.android.widgets.internalm.apk
android.tether.apk
com.google.android.chess.apk
com.jiuzhangtech.rushhour.apk
com.google.earth.apk
com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer.apk
jonasl.ime.apk
com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2.apk
com.bigtincan.android.adfree.apk
com.google.android.apps.unveil.apk
com.siriusapplications.quickboot.apk
com.qikffc.android.apk
com.qualcomm.qx.neocore.apk
com.mixzing.basic.apk
org.ajeje.remotewipe.apk
com.stylem.wallpapers.apk
com.androidapps.spare_parts.apk
com.biggu.shopsavvy.apk
com.edburnette.fps2d.apk
com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup.apk
fishnoodle.silhouette_free.apk
com.deckeleven.windsofsteeldemo.apk
com.adobe.psmobile.apk
com.teslacoilsw.quicksshd.apk
com.sirma.mobile.bible.android.apk
org.lsartory.cachecleaner.apk
dcbanned
com.appspot.swisscodemonkeys.jokes.apk
com.revsodev.volumecontrol.apk
jp.picolyl.led_light.apk
com.a0soft.gphone.aTrackDog.apk
com.zillow.android.zillowmap.apk
com.chartcross.gpstest.apk
com.hmw.android.fullkeyboard.apk
com.glu.android.bonsai.apk
com.fatsecret.android.zip
com.bonfiremedia.android_wikimobile.apk
com.agilesoftresource.apk
com.nix.game.mahjong.apk
com.CharSoftware.GPSSpeedometer.apk
com.arron.taskManager.apk
com.google.android.reversi.apk
com.mixzing.upgrade.apk
net.adyno.adyno.apk
com.google.android.apps.translate.apk
com.neogb.BatteryLevel.apk
org.connectbot.apk
com.soundroid2012.montypythonhg.apk
net.mensus.togglescreen.apk
com.ChuckNorrisJokes2.zip
com.adobe.reader.apk
com.soundroid2012.starwars.apk
org.zwanoo.android.speedtest.apk
List of apps that I still need to re-install:
Quadrant Standard
Advanced Map
Contact Owner
[email protected]
Have2Eat
BTC CellFinder
IaxAgent
CellFinder
Toggle Sttings
OSMonitor
Wifi Analyzer
Fring
Tickr
Starfield
Waves Wallpaper
Astro
Astro Bluetooth Module
Astro SMB Module
Mirror 4 Evo
3D Galaxy
EarthRot
Map Pack - Earth Live Wallpaper
Sensorly Map Viewer
Speed Anatomy
Night Earth Wallpaper
Square
Trapster
The Weather Channel
WeFi Connect
Xtremelabs Speedtest
3gtest
Aquarium Free
Galactic Core
Startup Manager
Ultrasound
Bluetooth File Transfer
AndExplorer
AndFTP
Asteriskdialer
Root Mobile Beta
Plasma
NexusMod Live Wallpaper
Fireworks Live Wallpaper
Fast Call
Bezier - Live Wallpaper
SysTray Monitor
WordPlayer
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Please keep us updated. I'm interested to hear your findings.
I use Damage also. I get good battery life. In a stock configuration, there is still one massive battery drainer on my phone, 4G. I turn that on, and battery power drops like a rock.
I had 4G on in the office. (The area around the building is 4G, but not inside. ) I had an almost full battery at 10am and 50% by 12:15pm.
FYI, I do have the radio patch installed too with Damage 3.2.
ChrisDos, this is an excellent thing that you are doing. Sometime soon, by adding an app or two at a time, you'll find the battery assassins. I appreciate you doing this, and look forward to your discoveries, especially since my phone is rooted yet. It will be wonderful to know in advance what the main culprit or culprits are so I can ditch them.
I'm basically in stock, as-shipped configuration, and with light usage I'm getting maybe 6-8 hours, less if I am active on the phone, and we know that I'm not alone.
Now we just need one of the slick developers figure out how to root the Evo in such a manner that it can be restored 100% original and undetectable. My brother can do that on his phone, don't recall the model and don't know how its done, but could be very handy in the event of a warranty issue.
Thanks again, ChrisDos!
I'm not trying to hijack the thread into a "show your battery usage" thread, but I... I... I thought that it might be useful and-- Anyways, I'm on the stock (1.32.651.1) rom from flipz; haven't found a rom that really caught my attention yet. I'm not a media whore, but this snapshot is after 3.5 hours of usage that consists of phone calls, vpn access, wireless access, gps, remote desktop, text messages, emails, web browsing, and a lot of music. Screen was taken at 44% battery life according to Spare Parts.
Thank you for doing this!
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I'm not trying to hijack the thread into a "show your battery usage" thread, but I... I... I thought that it might be useful and-- Anyways, I'm on the stock (1.32.651.1) rom from flipz; haven't found a rom that really caught my attention yet. I'm not a media whore, but this snapshot is after 3.5 hours of usage that consists of phone calls, vpn access, wireless access, gps, remote desktop, text messages, emails, web browsing, and a lot of music. Screen was taken at 44% battery life according to Spare Parts.
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Dude.......that...is...awesome.
I've had no luck with battery. I've been playing Battery Nazi the past few days and still no luck. Three different ROMS, killing stuff every hour, only turning on the network radio when I need it...it's like being in a jail cell with a barred window that opens to a mini golf course and go-kart track. Every thing I want to do is within reach, but I just feel trapped!
I got my Nexus 7 in the first batch from Gamestop on the day of release. Initially, the performance was very fast, even faster than my Galaxy S2. However, after a couple of weeks now, it has become extremely slow. It is still stock, havent even rooted it. It is a 16gb model, and has close to 10gb free. I have tried clearing cache, closing all running applications, restarting but nothing really has worked.
The problem is almost every app is very slow. I get a notification of an email, i click on it and then stare at the white email screen for almost 10 sec before it opens up (the regular email app). It almost feels like a different device now than what i bought few weeks back. Other applications that run equally slow - Google Reader, Chrome, WSJ (this is perhaps the worst), Fluent News Reader. I am not much into games so havent tried a lot of them.Oh, and it is no match now to my Galaxy S2 Skyrocket or even HP Touchpad Cm9 that i got rid of last week.
I don't want to exchange it as it does not suffer from all the other problems being reported here (and am afraid that the new one might exhibit those). Please help.
Just a guess, but you most likely loaded something on it that is doing that. Check what you have installed on it, perhaps uninstalling some of the larger things to see if you can figure out what is holding it up.
Stock Nexus 7 Image
If cleaning the device does not work, you can always flash back to the stock image, which can be found on developers.google.com
Be sure to backup your apps and data!
or for the most simple of us...
Setting>Privicy>Factory reset.
That will remove any app that might be causing it.
Be warned tho, i think on this device it wipes the internal storage...
how is your WiFi signal?
seeing how almost every app require internet access, the delay could be it trying to connect.
Actually I thought that too... but my wireless signal is very strong in my small apartment and i have 30mbps line. I checked with speednet app and i am getting 13mpbs down, 4 mpbs up on nexus 7.
I am happy that this seems like my issue only - i will try to remove apps one by one to see if it helps or worst case, i will do a factory reset.
I was wondering if there are any known culprit apps responsible for memory leaks or something.
dilldoe said:
how is your WiFi signal?
seeing how almost every app require internet access, the delay could be it trying to connect.
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I have noticed how mine has been very sluggish when there are apps upgrading in the background or installing, etc. Maybe turn off auto update for play store?
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Actually I thought that too... but my wireless signal is very strong in my small apartment and i have 30mbps line. I checked with speednet app and i am getting 13mpbs down, 4 mpbs up on nexus 7.
I am happy that this seems like my issue only - i will try to remove apps one by one to see if it helps or worst case, i will do a factory reset.
I was wondering if there are any known culprit apps responsible for memory leaks or something.
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If you send me a PM, I'll give you my email address and I can help you narrow it down by using screenshots of your app drawer.
install watchdog task manager lite, it monitors app in the background and tells you which one is causing problems.
have you tried turning off gps (location service) and see if hats the issue?
same thing
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I got my Nexus 7 in the first batch from Gamestop on the day of release. Initially, the performance was very fast, even faster than my Galaxy S2. However, after a couple of weeks now, it has become extremely slow. It is still stock, havent even rooted it. It is a 16gb model, and has close to 10gb free. I have tried clearing cache, closing all running applications, restarting but nothing really has worked.
The problem is almost every app is very slow. I get a notification of an email, i click on it and then stare at the white email screen for almost 10 sec before it opens up (the regular email app). It almost feels like a different device now than what i bought few weeks back. Other applications that run equally slow - Google Reader, Chrome, WSJ (this is perhaps the worst), Fluent News Reader. I am not much into games so havent tried a lot of them.Oh, and it is no match now to my Galaxy S2 Skyrocket or even HP Touchpad Cm9 that i got rid of last week.
I don't want to exchange it as it does not suffer from all the other problems being reported here (and am afraid that the new one might exhibit those). Please help.
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Just wanted you to know you aren't alone here...I have been seeing the same exact behavior on mine. I have started to uninstall apps one by one. I must be a bad app or something. If not I'm gonna wipe it and start over. It does feel disconcerting to go from easily the best tablet experience I have ever had to it becoming so sluggish.
i have the same problem, mine did the same thing on stock, ran great for a week or two, then became unbearably slow. so i rooted it and it wiped all data and the problem seemed to be fixed. then another week or two passed and its back to slow. i found out after testing with quadrant it has something to do with the i/o on the device, because the i/o score was abnormally lower than all the devices. putting a custom kernel will help, but still the i/o score is still quite low. i dont want to wipe all data again and if anybody knows a fix it would be greatly appreciated
nexus 7 has Kingston eMMC, it is better then the crummy Prime Hynix eMMC, but is eMMC none the less, not proper NAND flash/SSD
Well you could've had a bad app that is bogging your system down. A factory reset may be the only option so you can start fresh
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Check the cache size of your Google Playbook or Magazine apps. It keeps downloading large files (400 mb) and may fill up your storage...causing it to slow down?
Having the same issue after owning it for two days. I really wanted to like this tablet,but between the sluggishness, and other various shortcomings, I'm going to be returning mine.
I deleted WSJ app and it seems to have helped a lot - not as fast as new, but a lot better. One thing which still irritates me is email app which just seems to be too slow...
Sorry to say but mine so fast I can't keep it down it trys to fly away lol
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Same
has anyone been able to figure this out? I'm having the same problems and I've been running watchdog but there been no out of control process is on my device. I have wiped the device and the same thing just keeps happening after a little while it'll get very slow. it happens more often than not when there something in the background downloading are using the internet, but it's definitely not my connection because I've had no problems with any other devices.
Been getting similar behavior recently. cm10 euroskank, trinity 7.
Edit: in logcat, getting stuff like
I/Choreographer(10656): Skipped 30 frames! The application may be doing too much work on its main thread.
W/InputEventReceiver(10656): Attempted to finish an input event but the input event receiver has already been disposed.
I think I may have come across a solution. For me, the slowdowns were always connected to when something was downloading in the background, or when a process was using data, so I went through and turned off syncing on any non-essential Google services and other apps, and it seems to be working much better right now.
Basically as the title says, my note3 is constantly waking up while on 4g. it doesnt stay in a deep sleep. over the last few days i have done some experimenting erasing apps and turning them off and force stopping. i am pretty sure it is the android system itself not a app i have. i barely have any apps installed. i use maildroid, its setup to push and checks only every 6 hours. i use fleksy for a keyboard. and hoverchat for texting. using nova for a launcher, swipe up for swiping up. pretty simple and clean i keep all of the eye tracking nfc stuff like that off just using it as a simple powerful phone to browse the internet and text.
background. i had the kitkat leak that was posted here in jan i loved it becides everything would stop responding constantly. but the battery life was amazing. so i backtracked went to the 4.3 release then did the official update with the instructions on these boards. immediatly i noticed the battery life was less and the phone wasnt staying alseep so i started the troubleshooting. it has been over a week since the update too i know sometimes new roms take a few days to stablize. but it hasnt.
so what would cause a phone to be constantly being woken up while on 4g only? the pics i included show it. the first about half of the 4 hr 38 minute one part of data i am on 4g only. the long bar of being awake at the start and end of the 4g time is me playing music. the only screenshot the first 1/3 is on 4g only. no music only texting and internet didnt use it much today.
thanks for reading
Grab wakelock detector or Better Battery Stats and let it run for a few hours, then post the log if using BBS - and check the wakelocks, it's possible your signal is fluctuating too much and causing the device to constantly seek. But a wake lock monitor will pretty much tell you exactly what it is.
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Grab wakelock detector or Better Battery Stats and let it run for a few hours, then post the log if using BBS - and check the wakelocks, it's possible your signal is fluctuating too much and causing the device to constantly seek. But a wake lock monitor will pretty much tell you exactly what it is.
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I was under the impression that wakening detection doesn't work with kit kat unless rooted? I use gsam battery app sometimes and it is basically the kernal it seems.
for most of my time with the phone I am in downtown of a major city with amazing 4g when it is doing it
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Tried a wipe reset and it worked great tested off and on WiFi. No drain at all when screen was off. Installed apps slowly and tested and all was good. Then I left the phone on the charger overnight woke up and it was back to the being awake often when on 4g only. I am stumped any new idea's?
hmmm... reminds of of fast dormancy during the S3 days... I wonder if it applies to Note 3
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hmmm... reminds of of fast dormancy during the S3 days... I wonder if it applies to Note 3
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What's that?? And I actually think it's the lte now not so much 4g since I am always on the 4g network and only on lte when off of wifi
frank72785 said:
What's that?? And I actually think it's the lte now not so much 4g since I am always on the 4g network and only on lte when off of wifi
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here's one link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291100
I am not sure if it applies to Note 3
lemmuls which
frank72785 said:
What's that?? And I actually think it's the lte now not so much 4g since I am always on the 4g network and only on lte when off of wifi
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Read up and figured out that its the customer. Xml file It is turned to on I tried editing it but cannot save it because it is protected file I guess. Any other way to save it?
Seems to be the bam_dmux_wakelock I googled it seems to be only when not on WiFi which is my issue. Just gotta figure out the rest
Anyone know how to edit that customer. Xml file? Fast dormacy and the bam_dmux_wakelock seem to go hand in hand. Phone was all over the place today I have 47 minutes of that wakelock with about 6 hours of off WiFi time so it's a decent drain
Hi,
I'm an owner of a samsung galaxy s5. never had trouble with battery so far. I could use it like on and a half day with some gaming music and internet. Now since 2 days My phone drowns the battery crazy during night. You can also see below in the images. when splitting the chart in half left side is during day, right side is during night. You can clearly see the power consumption is A LOT more during night. I don't know exactly why.
Just before 2 days ago I did these things:
I installed Angry birds. You see during day usage two steep battery usage drops. those are from playing angry birds.
I configured flipboard with my account and started using it for the 1st time.
I downloaded a new TTS voice pack for for google TTS engine for the google now I use now instead of the S Voice I hate.
for the rest there are a few apps that updated such as:
Antutu benchmark and speedtest, perhaps accuweather, can't remember for sure though these might be wrong.
i.imgur.com/RMY4SLN.png
i.imgur.com/R41deei.png
This is a huge problem since I woke up yesterday to an empty battery.
I hope you guys know what could be causing this.
Thanks in advance.
Sometime just reboot the phone may help to fix the issue.
Good call, thanks
Edit: Though yesterday the battery was completely drained and the phone closed. So technically it was restarted back then. Yet the problem occurred this night again.
i am having the same proble
android OS And Gpds are using all my battery even after a fresh reinstall i dont know what to do
Okay, this night I didn't have the problem anymore (after ai had the same problem 2 consecutive nights).
All I did was disabling and uninstalling all the apps I don't use (if it was possible of course, some apps such as the ELM Agent cannot be uninstalled).
So the programs I disabled are:
Flibboard
S Health
S Planner
S Voice
Smart Remote
For the most samsung services he phone offers I always hav ebeen using the google variant if possible
Programs I uninstalled:
Free App a Day (program giving that names a program every day that became free)
Diablo 3 dashboard (shows the statistics of my diablo 3 characters. This Always seemed to be running in the background, but I actually have no use to it so deleted it)
For the rest cannot remember for sure. But yeah problems seems to be solved for now, and I hope it won't happen again.
And it happened again for some reason.
As you can see in the screenshots.
About the game "unpossible" I forgot it on right before I was going to sleep and noticed it was running right before sleeping so I did close it. At the beginning of the graph, you can see a small dip, that is because of that game.
i.imgur.com/jtwCDCU.png
i.imgur.com/mYw5xqM.png
Also in the morning I noticed the ram was being used up 1.55GB of the 2GB. I restarted my phone and it was somewhere in the 900MB this time.
This is getting frustrating. I need to find the cause of this.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Genkli,
maybe Kaspersky is doing a full scan from time to time, when the phone is not used?
It will probably try that until the full scan is done.
Good luck,
Matt
gigamatze said:
Hi Genkli,
maybe Kaspersky is doing a full scan from time to time, when the phone is not used?
It will probably try that until the full scan is done.
Good luck,
Matt
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Thanks for the reply. Though I would doubt that, since kaspersky only has one scan function which takes only a minute or two I mean A phone doesn't have much data on it compared to a computer.
Also if kaspersky was the cause why doesn't it show up on the battery statistics as the main power consumer?
But it could still be true as you said, will look into it. Thanks.
EDIT: Checked the app, it does have a scheduled scan option which is disabled by default.
genkli said:
Thanks for the reply. Though I would doubt that, since kaspersky only has one scan function which takes only a minute or two I mean A phone doesn't have much data on it compared to a computer.
Also if kaspersky was the cause why doesn't it show up on the battery statistics as the main power consumer?
But it could still be true as you said, will look into it. Thanks.
EDIT: Checked the app, it does have a scheduled scan option which is disabled by default.
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Did you try uninstalling angry birds for a day or 2 to see if the use returns to normal?
Otherwise, I'd do that with each of the apps that you've added recently until you find the evil one...
Sorry for the crosspost - hoped I can get more eyes here...
Searched and searched so posting here and will try in general thread in case it's not tied to the watch itself.
Background: IOS user for phone, have to - developer, had Apple Watch (hated it). Got myself a Huawei Watch 2 on a deal and loved everything about it except the useless bezel and tiny screen size. Seeing as I had a great experience, I started a hunt for an LGWS. Hunt because not a single store sold one and I'm in Chicago with LOTS of stores. So online we go. There too - few resellers. Finally found one. New. Manufacture date of May 2017.
The Watch 2 worked flawlessly as functions go. Sycn'd, stayed connected, battery life of full use (all functions on - obviously no LTE), brightness at 8, raise to view on, always on display on... end of the day going to bed around 10:30 still had 50% of battery left at worst! The only issue other than cosmetic that it had was WIFI would not connect so "automatically" so to speak. So when I sent a watchmaker face, I always had to go to settings, connectivity, wifi and wait until the SSID showed connected. Then all is fine. Transferred over and enjoyed.
So the LGWS shows up. I unpair the Watch 2, connect up the LGWS and love it. The display I expected, size is great for me and off to the races. Within an hour it went from 95% to 60%. I figured - setup blues. Ignore it. Let it fully bake and see what happens. Another hour later I'm at 30%... ok onto the charger we go. Did a full charge at 6pm, by 9pm it was flat.
LGWS background: GW 2.8 loaded, Watch 2 was still running 2.0. LGWS - cellular off, raise to view on, display brightness 4, wifi connected...
But here's what I noticed: on my phone, it consistently says disconnected - tap card to connect. I tried that about 20 times, no joy. Rebooted watch and phone... no joy. Reset watch, deleted app on phone and deleted Bluetooth pairing. Re-installed Wear app, re-paired watch, left all at stock settings except shut-off cellular and OK Google listening.
That last bit is the 6-9pm going totally flat.
So. Any ideas here? Things I see - 8 vs 2 OS... obviously IOS (I get it, but why did the Huawei work so well?) and there is nothing I can do about that. Don't know if I can downgrade to 2 to see if that makes a difference... if I do, will it self-update back to 8 when it gets a chance?
I really want to keep this watch - it's exactly what I wanted (short of strap change capability). I sure hope Google doesn't give up on Wear. As a Mac/IOS dev, I can easily say this is a superior platform for the user. Truly great stuff and I want it to improve and keep improving. The iWatch bigots are really missing out!
Thanks in advance for your tips.
Cheers!
P.S. One thing I cannot do on IOS AW app is see battery usage by app. Sadly if I paired up to my old Galaxy S5 test phone, I suspect the problems may go away as it would be a first pairing of a watch to that phone plus it's not the same as the use environment.
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Sorry for the crosspost - hoped I can get more eyes here...
Searched and searched so posting here and will try in general thread in case it's not tied to the watch itself.
Background: IOS user for phone, have to - developer, had Apple Watch (hated it). Got myself a Huawei Watch 2 on a deal and loved everything about it except the useless bezel and tiny screen size. Seeing as I had a great experience, I started a hunt for an LGWS. Hunt because not a single store sold one and I'm in Chicago with LOTS of stores. So online we go. There too - few resellers. Finally found one. New. Manufacture date of May 2017.
The Watch 2 worked flawlessly as functions go. Sycn'd, stayed connected, battery life of full use (all functions on - obviously no LTE), brightness at 8, raise to view on, always on display on... end of the day going to bed around 10:30 still had 50% of battery left at worst! The only issue other than cosmetic that it had was WIFI would not connect so "automatically" so to speak. So when I sent a watchmaker face, I always had to go to settings, connectivity, wifi and wait until the SSID showed connected. Then all is fine. Transferred over and enjoyed.
So the LGWS shows up. I unpair the Watch 2, connect up the LGWS and love it. The display I expected, size is great for me and off to the races. Within an hour it went from 95% to 60%. I figured - setup blues. Ignore it. Let it fully bake and see what happens. Another hour later I'm at 30%... ok onto the charger we go. Did a full charge at 6pm, by 9pm it was flat.
LGWS background: GW 2.8 loaded, Watch 2 was still running 2.0. LGWS - cellular off, raise to view on, display brightness 4, wifi connected...
But here's what I noticed: on my phone, it consistently says disconnected - tap card to connect. I tried that about 20 times, no joy. Rebooted watch and phone... no joy. Reset watch, deleted app on phone and deleted Bluetooth pairing. Re-installed Wear app, re-paired watch, left all at stock settings except shut-off cellular and OK Google listening.
That last bit is the 6-9pm going totally flat.
So. Any ideas here? Things I see - 8 vs 2 OS... obviously IOS (I get it, but why did the Huawei work so well?) and there is nothing I can do about that. Don't know if I can downgrade to 2 to see if that makes a difference... if I do, will it self-update back to 8 when it gets a chance?
I really want to keep this watch - it's exactly what I wanted (short of strap change capability). I sure hope Google doesn't give up on Wear. As a Mac/IOS dev, I can easily say this is a superior platform for the user. Truly great stuff and I want it to improve and keep improving. The iWatch bigots are really missing out!
Thanks in advance for your tips.
Cheers!
P.S. One thing I cannot do on IOS AW app is see battery usage by app. Sadly if I paired up to my old Galaxy S5 test phone, I suspect the problems may go away as it would be a first pairing of a watch to that phone plus it's not the same as the use environment.
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Man, as I was reading this I was like.. is this guy a mind reader.. I swear to you I have the exact same issues, and the same reason for switching from Apple watch Series 3 to Android Wear (watches should be round darnit).. I almost bought the HW2 classic and for the same reason (smaller screen, giant bezel, etc.) bought the LGWS.. I sure hope someone has some advice for both of us recent converts!
Day 2... full delete of app IOS, reboot phone. Full restore of watch. Remove from bluetooth pairings. Start over from scratch.
left it mostly stock... only OK Google and Cellular turned off (no sim in there anyhow, but to be safe since technically all phones are supposed to allow 911 calls regardless of sim status)... in that stock vanilla flavor - battery held up all day. Ended the day with about 30%. WIFI was not linked to any network, so just Bluetooth to my phone. All worked great.
Day two of grand experiment.. added WIFI set to auto on. Loaded the main app I really want, Watchmaker. five hours of use 44% of battery gone - roughly 8ish percent per hour. Not terrible, but compared to vanilla. MUCH worse. Will keep playing. The mix is in there somewhere.
The shocker is that the HW2 has a slightly smaller battery (10mAh smaller) but also a MUCH smaller face. That would account for it.
I had exactly the opposite experiences with the Huawei and LGWS. I tried out a Huawei watch 2 classic for about a week, and I had TERRIBLE battery life. Like, fully charged to DEAD in 12 hours. The LG lasted me 18 - 25+ hours (the lesser on workout days). I had all connections turned off except Bluetooth, although I turned on GPS on the LG and didn't notice any battery life change. I had assistant on, fit with everything on, always on, basically most of the apps and such.
Unfortunately, it seems like the battery life you get depends on the watch, and what you have on with AW. With LTE and WiFi on, I'm sure I would have been charging the LG once at least during the day.