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I installed Spare Parts and saw that my phone was never sleeping, even though it was on standby all the time.
This was caused by the location by antenna feature.
Ever since i unchecked that feature i've had around 50-60 hours of uptime, with a few calls and a lot of texts.
hope this helps alot others
With the new firmware the problem of battery dissapears completely
There is a known issue with network location detection in android 1.6. I had the same issue with my galaxy and it was solved. Now that we have root, we can hopefully do the same.
Also, br aware that I have found spare parts to actually stop the phone from sleeping, as well as tapatalk. I suggest rebooting after using either program.
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There is a known issue with network location detection in android 1.6. I had the same issue with my galaxy and it was solved. Now that we have root, we can hopefully do the same.
Also, br aware that I have found spare parts to actually stop the phone from sleeping, as well as tapatalk. I suggest rebooting after using either program.
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Actually that issue is fixed in the latest update so it's already fixed without needing root.
Which firmware? I know I'm still experiencing it.
RBA020 solved the battery issues for me.
Where in spare parts does it show you if your phone has been sleeping?
you don't need spare parts. Just dial *#*#4636#*#* and click battery history and then the running bar.
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This was caused by the location by antenna feature.
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I hope this means that under Location, you had Wireless Networks and Assisted GPS enabled.
One question tho... how did you isolate this feature as the one that was keeping the system awake?
I just found that my phone has been running most of the time, I see Running at 100% under Battery History. Then I select Partial Wake usage and see Android System has the largest share. But what part of Android System? how does one get to know?
I know from having a Samsung galaxy and being part of the androidforums community that was going nuts until Simone found a bug report with Google saying that network location was stopping devices from sleeping. We had root so a Dev applied a patch to services.odex and voila! Phones were napping again.
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adrianoftyriel said:
I know from having a Samsung galaxy and being part of the androidforums community that was going nuts until Simone found a bug report with Google saying that network location was stopping devices from sleeping. We had root so a Dev applied a patch to services.odex and voila! Phones were napping again.
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Hmm... time to give this a try... so is it just Wireless Network or also AGPS that causes this problem?
I hope I can still leave GPS turned on?
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Didn't know that there was an XDA App till I saw your sig. Looks like its worth a try since its free!!
Update after turning location off completely
Well first run with all location methods disabled (I can still enable GPS quickly via a widget when I need to use it)... the battery performance is up phenomenally!!
I charged fully before going to bed last night, then kept the phone unplugged... woke up and found the battery was at 97%. This has never happened to me.
Ok, one thing tho, I use Juice Defender with night time schedule, so my wifi and 3G were off during most of the night. Anyways, its been around 3 hours since I woke up, and I've been using the phone on and off to do some browsing.
The battery is now at 93%.
I do not use any other aid other than Juice Defender... no task killers, no startup editors. Will update on how the rest of the day progresses.
EDIT: my thanks to Inebriatef and adrianoftyriel for pointing this out.
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I hope this means that under Location, you had Wireless Networks and Assisted GPS enabled.
One question tho... how did you isolate this feature as the one that was keeping the system awake?
I just found that my phone has been running most of the time, I see Running at 100% under Battery History. Then I select Partial Wake usage and see Android System has the largest share. But what part of Android System? how does one get to know?
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I too would like to hear a bit more. Could the OP please elaborate?
I'm running the latest FW and although my battery life increased exponentially, I find that it's not going to sleep anymore! I had close to 50 hours battery life and now I repeat everything to get just under 20 hours.
I don't use task killers and crap anymore, just before I put my phone away. If I don't, I have a trillion programs running with like 40mb of RAM free. Although I understand this is Linux based, these programs are RUNNING and not idle. All my **** is draining the battery again after a clean reinstall of everything. What a bummer.
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I too would like to hear a bit more. Could the OP please elaborate?
I'm running the latest FW and although my battery life increased exponentially, I find that it's not going to sleep anymore! I had close to 50 hours battery life and now I repeat everything to get just under 20 hours.
I don't use task killers and crap anymore, just before I put my phone away. If I don't, I have a trillion programs running with like 40mb of RAM free. Although I understand this is Linux based, these programs are RUNNING and not idle. All my **** is draining the battery again after a clean reinstall of everything. What a bummer.
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@bongd, by latest FW, do you mean the R2BA020? If yes, then you shouldn't be affected by the problem being reported here. I'm still on R1FB001, which apparently has this Android 1.6 bug related to location.
As in my case, simply by disabling location settings (even though this reports that network location is the culprit, I disabled them all), the phone is now able to suspend itself and basically consume very little battery in standby.
Personally, I dont see any issue with lot of applications running and having little RAM left because I trust the Android system to manage it efficiently. Furthermore, the RAM on these phones is not as fast as what you would see typically on desktop systems, so it actually helps having things around in memory rather than aggressively cleaning it out. Checkout this link to understand a bit more about Android task management features: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html
I suggest you use Spare Parts to isolate your battery drain, there might be some app that is misbehaving and hogging systems resources. Also turning off very frequent updates/refresh intervals in some applications is the way forward.
I found through trial and error that fancy widgets keeps my phone from sleeping.sad cause I really want to use it.
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@bongd, by latest FW, do you mean the R2BA020? If yes, then you shouldn't be affected by the problem being reported here. I'm still on R1FB001, which apparently has this Android 1.6 bug related to location.
As in my case, simply by disabling location settings (even though this reports that network location is the culprit, I disabled them all), the phone is now able to suspend itself and basically consume very little battery in standby.
Personally, I dont see any issue with lot of applications running and having little RAM left because I trust the Android system to manage it efficiently. Furthermore, the RAM on these phones is not as fast as what you would see typically on desktop systems, so it actually helps having things around in memory rather than aggressively cleaning it out. Checkout this link to understand a bit more about Android task management features: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html
I suggest you use Spare Parts to isolate your battery drain, there might be some app that is misbehaving and hogging systems resources. Also turning off very frequent updates/refresh intervals in some applications is the way forward.
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Thanks, j4mm3r. I am using R2BA020. It looks like I have some diagnostic troubleshooting to do when I get home.
Sitting here at work charging my phone, it isn't loading craploads of programs anymore. And it seems to be sleeping okay. I'll play around when I have some free time.
Fixed my problem big time
Hey guys,
I just wanted to throw my two cents into the pot.
OK – so after experimenting with Task Killers, Task Managers, Spare Parts, Juice Defender, etc. I came to the conclusion that they (for the most part) did more bad than good. It was getting to the point that I was just starting to accept that “The X10 just has ****ty battery life” end of story.
I also read in a Google released post on the web, that there are a number of reasons that Task Killers, etc. are actually not required to end tasks. Android actually has a fairly intelligent and systematic approach to killing tasks that are not being used. I haven’t used any sort of proprietary battery saver, task ender, startup cleaner, etc. and I’ve been having the best phone performance since I got the headset.
The time now (Eastern Standard) is 3:30pm on Monday. The last time I charged my phone was Saturday evening at 6pm, and currently I am showing 24% battery remaining. Let those numbers do the talking!
My settings are:
Wi-Fi always off unless I am going to be actively using it (browsing)
Using Phone info, I change WCDMA Preferred to GSM Only (enables 2g instead of 3g without disabling data altogether)
GPS always off
Screen settings, brightness, etc. I believe have a much smaller effect than people tend to believe. The SINGLE BIGGEST factors for me, and noticing this huge increase in battery life are:
Settings -> About Phone -> Software Update -> UNCHECK Automatic Search (this constantly searches the market, etc. for app updates and what not)
Cycle power immediately after charging. Once my phone completes its charge, I turn off and then on again.
I hope that some people can enjoy moderately extended battery life as I have. I am SO ecstatic to be at HOUR 43 and still at 20%+
Worth mentioning also that I am on Rogers (Canada) and have not received any updates, so this extended battery life is not a result of a firmware update.
How I Fixed My Batter Life Problem
My Incredible would run dead in about 4 hrs doing nothing. I finally dug into several "task killer" programs and found that about 20 - 30 apps were invisibily running in the background constantly. As soon as I permanently killed them, my battery life went to normal. I can now get about 2 days of normal use on 1 charge. Even a day of pretty heavy use will last almost all day.
So for me, it was all the new apps I installed when I first got the phone that were running in the background. The free "task killer" program was not showing them. I finally found the app called "System Panel." It was the ONLY app that would show me all the "invisible" apps that were still running invisibly in the background and let me kill them. Once I killed them with System Panel, they stayed dead and the free "task killer" program could auto-kill them from them on.
Not sure why the free programs could not see the rogue apps, but my battery life is GREAT now.
Inebriatef said:
I installed Spare Parts and saw that my phone was never sleeping, even though it was on standby all the time.
This was caused by the location by antenna feature.
Ever since i unchecked that feature i've had around 50-60 hours of uptime, with a few calls and a lot of texts.
hope this helps alot others
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What do you mean caused by the location of the antenna feature?
Where is this option to uncheck this feature.
Thanks dear.
Vatis
I'm running R2BA023 and I am struggling to get a full day from the phone at the moment. It normally lasts around 12 hours and then its flat.
However, I ran the Telenor R2BA020 update and I manage to get a full day with ease.
I have just done a clean install of R2BA023 Generic UK "root" edtion and going to see how I get on. What I did notice before is that the phone was not returning to a idle state.
We have yet another possible remedy for those of us experiencing wakelock/battery drain issues still. Read about it from someone on the bugtracker.
Try leaving your GPS set to on, rather than toggling it. I switched mine on this morning (yesterday, now) and now for the first time in over a month I have now had my Evo unplugged for 13 hours and still have 31% battery remaining after moderate usage today.
It seems that CM may be managing it better or something (someone will have to look into it if this proves successful for more people)
Give it a try and post your results here!
I have never turned off my GPS once since I had the phone in like 6 months. GPS is not the issue for me.
I've always found that about 2 weeks after flashing a new ROM, I start getting wake lock issues which I can never track down. They always resolved themselves after I flash a new ROM, but reappear about 2 weeks later again.
Rinse and Repeat.
The GPS-on fix makes it look like there's an issue with the network location. This would tie in to earlier reports. In this case, it would be best to turn off "Use wireless networks" from Settings > Locations and Security until this bug is fixed.
The two most common causes mentioned so far are network location issues and SMD_RPCCALL wakelock issues.
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What PRI are you guys running? This is likely unrelated, but PRI 1.90 seems to cause wake lock (100% wake) for some.
Edit: BTW, for every post I read, reverting to 1.77 PRI solves the 100% wake issue.
Not sure, haven't flashed a sense ROM in awhile... I'll try to check when I get a chance
kevinbear said:
We have yet another possible remedy for those of us experiencing wakelock/battery drain issues still. Read about it from someone on the bugtracker.
Try leaving your GPS set to on, rather than toggling it. I switched mine on this morning (yesterday, now) and now for the first time in over a month I have now had my Evo unplugged for 13 hours and still have 31% battery remaining after moderate usage today.
It seems that CM may be managing it better or something (someone will have to look into it if this proves successful for more people)
Give it a try and post your results here!
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You do realize that this makes no sense, don't you?
Not if something keeps trying to call on the GPS when it's off causing some sort of wakelock while it loops trying to get a GPS fix. Leaving it on allows CM6 to manage it or something. But it does seem to help.
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You do realize that this makes no sense, don't you?
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You know there's a well-known bug with Sense ROMs and the HTC 4G widget that forces 4g into a scan loop when you try to toggle 4G off that absolutely _kills_ the battery in a few hours...
I've not tested his suggestion, but the community has found stranger things before.
Side note: before two days ago I _never_ ran wifi on ... but also never ran into a wakelock ... I've left my wifi on just over the weekend as I was playing with something completely unrelated ... maybe with your suggestion Ill just continue to leave it up and see if i run into this wake-lock issue.
I've never turned gps off, it's been on since I got the phone this summer. I think it's funny that one of the settings we see for gps says something about "may cause excessive use of batter" or whatever and fact is - gps on 100% of the time doesn't do ANYthing until an app needs it. It's not used at all. No gps icon, no nothing.
The 4g problem is a PITA but it doesn't drain the battery within a few hours. It draws a little ut unless someone had shown me and proven it to me.....I wouldn't have known. And even now that I do know and I know to reboot my phone after I use 4g, I haven't noticed a big gain in battery life. Leaving 4g ON after you leave a 4g area or no longer need it WILL drain your battery within a few hours. fact
I've been investigating how to get rid of that pesky background idle battery drain on 2.2. The biggest improvement I've found is from disabling Google location services. With this disabled, my background drain is about 1% per hour. Enabled I see 4-8% per hour. This drain mainly seems to kick in when not connected to wifi AP.
This observation holds true for stock ED01 and sc 2.9.2. GPS still seems to work reasonably well with Google location services disabled, bit it may impact you.
Let me know if anyone else sees the same. Thanks!
Scrappy1 said:
I've been investigating how to get rid of that pesky background idle battery drain on 2.2. The biggest improvement I've found is from disabling Google location services. With this disabled, my background drain is about 1% per hour. Enabled I see 4-8% per hour. This drain mainly seems to kick in when not connected to wifi AP.
This observation holds true for stock ED01 and sc 2.9.2. GPS still seems to work reasonably well with Google location services disabled, bit it may impact you.
Let me know if anyone else sees the same. Thanks!
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I always leave Google location services on and have NEVER lost 4-8% per hour
Doubtful that it would do that
I can't recall losing that much either.. *shrugs*
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Wouldn't and doesn't make any diff.
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Wouldn't and doesn't make any diff.
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Lots of people have commented on worse battery life with froyo. If you're one of those, and its idle drain, then try this out.
If not, mind your own buisness. It definately makes a difference for me. Tested / confirmed multiple times!
Google Location Services does not do anything on its own, until an applications calls for it.
Disabling Google Location Services is like draining your gas tank because it has a hole in it.
Sure, it won't leak anymore, but not only can you not use it, you also will have the problem the next time you fill up.
Fix the problem, don't hide it, imo. You have an app thats draining you if turning off Google LBS fixes your issue.
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Google Location Services does not do anything on its own, until an applications calls for it.
Disabling Google Location Services is like draining your gas tank because it has a hole in it.
Sure, it won't leak anymore, but not only can you not use it, you also will have the problem the next time you fill up.
Fix the problem, don't hide it, imo. You have an app thats draining you if turning off Google LBS fixes your issue.
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Ohhhhh.. In yo face @op
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I get about 4%/hr battery loss regardless *shrugs* its acceptable for me...
Tapatalked from my rooted/rom'd/themed Fascinate snacking on FROYO
adrynalyne said:
Google Location Services does not do anything on its own, until an applications calls for it.
Disabling Google Location Services is like draining your gas tank because it has a hole in it.
Sure, it won't leak anymore, but not only can you not use it, you also will have the problem the next time you fill up.
Fix the problem, don't hide it, imo. You have an app thats draining you if turning off Google LBS fixes your issue.
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A constructive comment! Thank you. Before disabling Google location services on stock ED01, I killed every background service that would stay killed, and turned off all widgets and updates. I still had the high idle drain. If what you say is true, it appears there is something systemic in stock 2.2 ROMS abusing Google location services.
Watching cpu usage over time with system pannel and battery state didn't show any suspicious usage.
When using sc 2.9.2, I'm fairly certain the idle drain / location services is only an issue when Google latitude is enabled.
This certainly can't be indicative of ed01 roms or everyone would be screaming to high hell about it...I leave Google location services on all the time and am completely fine battery wise
Sounds like you have a app installed that is using the Google Location service installed, sounds like you need to a factory reset and run a day or so with no apps installed, right now I am running on stock self debloated ED01, and I always have GPS and Google location services turned on, and I have gotten the best battery life I have ever seen on this phone. Not sure if you use Google Latitude, but I have seen that cause some drain on phones.
Its one of the big double edged swords of Android, the ability to have true multitasking can really hinder your battery and this is proof, especially when it comes to a service like Google location services.
Just a thought, maybe if you quit checking your battery usage so much, it might get better.
heffzilla said:
Just a thought, maybe if you quit checking your battery usage so much, it might get better.
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Come on now, dudes having a problem and trying to help. Just because he is wrong doesn't mean the thread has to go this direction. Instead perhaps it can be used top help him find the true cause, aswell as any one else with similar findings.
Oh and only quoted you cause I thought it was pretty damn funny.
After more testing, I have some interresting findings.
The idle drain I described earlier along with dependence on Google location services holds true while I'm at work. This is a location where I get 0-1 bars of cell signal, and android reports about 60% time without signal. When I'm at home and in good signal area, I can leave Google location services on all the time without high idle drain. Now I know why most people weren't agreeing with my observation.
Now then, to the root of my problem when I'm at work. I know everyone says Google location services is mostly passive and only consumes power when an app is polling for location. However, I'm starting to wonder if this is true for the cell tower portion of location services. Could android be doing some extra background tracking of towers when location services enabled? Or could the phone radio be put in a more aggressive "find a freeking tower at all costs" mode? My experiments at low signal level would seem to suggest so.
Anyone with info or similar test results please let me know. Thanks!
heffzilla said:
Just a thought, maybe if you quit checking your battery usage so much, it might get better.
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maybe if you stopped checking xda so much our threads may get better...just a thought.
Do you have a WiFi connection when at work (and it setup!), or are you using 3G only? If so, that could be your cause. Google Location Services periodically does send data to Google (read the agreement!), so if it's trying to send off data when you've got pretty much no connection, it could very well explain why it'd be causing such a huge drain on your battery (causing the radio to power up to full power, and continually fail to send your location data off, forcing retries).
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Do you have a WiFi connection when at work (and it setup!), or are you using 3G only? If so, that could be your cause. Google Location Services periodically does send data to Google (read the agreement!), so if it's trying to send off data when you've got pretty much no connection, it could very well explain why it'd be causing such a huge drain on your battery (causing the radio to power up to full power, and continually fail to send your location data off, forcing retries).
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This.
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KitsuneKnight said:
Do you have a WiFi connection when at work (and it setup!), or are you using 3G only? If so, that could be your cause. Google Location Services periodically does send data to Google (read the agreement!), so if it's trying to send off data when you've got pretty much no connection, it could very well explain why it'd be causing such a huge drain on your battery (causing the radio to power up to full power, and continually fail to send your location data off, forcing retries).
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Yea, I suppose that's possible. I don't have a wifi connection at work currently. At home I do have wifi, but my wifi sleep policy is set for screen off. To test I did disable wifi alltogether at both home and work, and it doesn't change my idle drain issue. The theory that Google location services is desperately trying to send data over a partially working cell connection does make some sense.
What I've found so far with ed01 froyo has been vastly improved in most regards including battery. My idle drain is almost nonexistant with the comm.rom 1.2 & nemesis' 1.3 kernel with uv/oc to 1.3ghz. It only eats battery when I'm actively using it & there it is more aggressive than eclair depending on what I'm doing. I have google services & standalone gps always on & never use wifi only 3g and easily get 16+ hrs on a charge.
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After upgrading to Evilfascinate 3.x, I found if I left my WiFi on and my 3g my battery would barely make it through the day... Now I only turn them on when needed and I am running a couple of days before I put it back on the Charger...
I have done the same with GPS, only turn it on when I need to know where I am or where I am heading...
I'm using Razr M but the battery drain so fast even though I use it just casually.. Indicated that "wakelock" contribute up to 15 percent and Android System also a lot. The screenshot is above as you can see my phone was just 19 minute on screen. >"<.. No idea why.. I was really concern about bloatware comes with the device keep running background and drain the battery. Because the Phone Idle take most battery as well
The Three thing in Wakelock are
Orientation Notifier
ModemStatService
Modem Fastdormancy Mornitor Service.
Screenshot included.
Does anyone knows what are those belong to and how to stop it?
Thanks
simpledave said:
I'm using Razr M but the battery drain so fast even though I use it just casually.. Indicated that "wakelock" contribute up to 15 percent and Android System also a lot. The screenshot is above as you can see my phone was just 19 minute on screen. >"<.. No idea why.. I was really concern about bloatware comes with the device keep running background and drain the battery. Because the Phone Idle take most battery as well
The Three thing in Wakelock are
Orientation Notifier
ModemStatService
Modem Fastdormancy Mornitor Service.
Screenshot included.
Does anyone knows what are those belong to and how to stop it?
Thanks
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Much more info is needed, to test if your phone has a problem remove all installed apps, charge to 100% and then check your batt stats. More likely than not something you installed is causing this.
simpledave said:
I'm using Razr M but the battery drain so fast even though I use it just casually.. Indicated that "wakelock" contribute up to 15 percent and Android System also a lot. The screenshot is above as you can see my phone was just 19 minute on screen. >"<.. No idea why.. I was really concern about bloatware comes with the device keep running background and drain the battery. Because the Phone Idle take most battery as well
The Three thing in Wakelock are
Orientation Notifier
ModemStatService
Modem Fastdormancy Mornitor Service.
Screenshot included.
Does anyone knows what are those belong to and how to stop it?
Thanks
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Something is definitely wrong there. Wake lock should not even be showing up unless you are using some app to purposefully keep the phone awake or something. You must have a rogue app.
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I agree
phositadc said:
Something is definitely wrong there. Wake lock should not even be showing up unless you are using some app to purposefully keep the phone awake or something. You must have a rogue app.
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Yeah, I'm really suspicious about maybe some rogue apps run behind but no way to find out. maybe it's Viber or Whatsapp since it's always require internet connection to receive message. ... I would love to find a way to remove the bloat-software :crying: .. they ate half memory of the 8Gb Razr M, only 4.1 Gb Usable
simpledave said:
Yeah, I'm really suspicious about maybe some rogue apps run behind but no way to find out. maybe it's Viber or Whatsapp since it's always require internet connection to receive message. ... I would love to find a way to remove the bloat-software :crying: .. they ate half memory of the 8Gb Razr M, only 4.1 Gb Usable
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does betterbatterystats work on this phone? I use this on my S3 to find out what's keeping phone from deepsleep. Then you can find out which apps are keeping it up.
It's not whatsapp - I use that as well and I get 1-2 full days on a charge.
You've got a lot of apps running in your notification tray (top left) - I'd pull them all out... or better yet, FDR and don't opt to restore your Google config then start over.
Unless you want to list every app you have installed those are my recommendations.
Non Verizon SIM?
simpledave said:
I'm using Razr M but the battery drain so fast even though I use it just casually.. Indicated that "wakelock" contribute up to 15 percent and Android System also a lot. The screenshot is above as you can see my phone was just 19 minute on screen. >"<.. No idea why.. I was really concern about bloatware comes with the device keep running background and drain the battery. Because the Phone Idle take most battery as well
The Three thing in Wakelock are
Orientation Notifier
ModemStatService
Modem Fastdormancy Mornitor Service.
Screenshot included.
Does anyone knows what are those belong to and how to stop it?
Thanks
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I have the very same issues, but only on GSM as soon as I am on Wifi battery life is excellent. I am using a German SIM card (in Germany) which works well (except of mobile hot spot). So I am suspecting some internal service looking for a Verizon service, which it obviously cannot find. Any thoughts?
MasterServant said:
I have the very same issues, but only on GSM as soon as I am on Wifi battery life is excellent. I am using a German SIM card (in Germany) which works well (except of mobile hot spot). So I am suspecting some internal service looking for a Verizon service, which it obviously cannot find. Any thoughts?
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Go into your dialer and type *#*#4636#*#* then hit the "phone information button" then scroll down to something that says "network types"or something along those lines and choose the "wdcma preferred" option. That might stop it from looking for vzw networks.
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Go into your dialer and type *#*#4636#*#* then hit the "phone information button" then scroll down to something that says "network types"or something along those lines and choose the "wdcma preferred" option. That might stop it from looking for vzw networks.
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Thanks for the hint. But that does not solve the problem. I have installed juicedefender, which in its default setting seems to solve the problem. The battery life with juicedefender seems eternal . However, the phone is less "reactive" to email pushes etc.
I am getting the pro version of juicedefender, perhaps I can get down to the root.
simpledave said:
I'm using Razr M but the battery drain so fast even though I use it just casually.. Indicated that "wakelock" contribute up to 15 percent and Android System also a lot. The screenshot is above as you can see my phone was just 19 minute on screen. >"<.. No idea why.. I was really concern about bloatware comes with the device keep running background and drain the battery. Because the Phone Idle take most battery as well
The Three thing in Wakelock are
Orientation Notifier
ModemStatService
Modem Fastdormancy Mornitor Service.
Screenshot included.
Does anyone knows what are those belong to and how to stop it?
Thanks
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My gf is having the same problem with her M. GSam said GMaps was wakelocked-looped...woke the thing 1,271 times in the 8 hours she had it unplugged. Auto-location reporting was turned on (wtf), switched it off but it kept dropping. ~10 hours off the cord with maybe 30 minutes use and it was at 6%. We'll see what happens tomorrow, but any ideas are much appreciated. I know more info is needed but it's kind of hard to pry into unrooted phones...we'll see.
I had the same problem two days ago. Two words for you... FAST DORMANCY (google it). Thats the culprit and is very telling with the first picture showing the phone is awake constantly when wifi is off and mobile data is on... you can test it yourself, compare battery drop rate with mobile data on and with wifi on.
Solution
1. Root phone, unfortunately you have to.
2. Download titanium backup
3. Freeze modemstatservice
4. Freeze fastdormancy.
Let me know if this helps you.
Thanks.. i just did freezing those 2 service.. lets see what will happen then...
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sombody said:
I had the same problem two days ago. Two words for you... FAST DORMANCY (google it). Thats the culprit and is very telling with the first picture showing the phone is awake constantly when wifi is off and mobile data is on... you can test it yourself, compare battery drop rate with mobile data on and with wifi on.
Solution
1. Root phone, unfortunately you have to.
2. Download titanium backup
3. Freeze modemstatservice
4. Freeze fastdormancy.
Let me know if this helps you.
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Can you explain why titanium backup is needed?
I stopped the modemstatservice and fastdormancy services. Hope that works. I actually did a factory reset and thought for a short moment that it has improved, but that's not the case. I can stay a whole day with quiet a lot of browsing on Wifi and us up 20%. On 3G I drain 25% in 4h
So I bought titanium backup, freezed modemstatservice and fastdormancy.
No change in battery drain. I would like to know if all the other who have the same problem are running on a verizon SIM.
Until now nothing has worked. Under normal usage, I get a flat battery in about 16h. Normal means 2calls (<3min) and perhaps 5min of browsing.
I am having the same issue - coming from a Thunderbolt I am still happy with the battery as it is but if the wake lock could be resolved the battery would be awesome...
Not sure what is causing the gtalk spike as I removed that app...
ETA: running Jelly Bean leak & rooted... I also reflashed the leak wiping data, etc... with no change
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MasterServant said:
Can you explain why titanium backup is needed?
I stopped the modemstatservice and fastdormancy services. Hope that works. I actually did a factory reset and thought for a short moment that it has improved, but that's not the case. I can stay a whole day with quiet a lot of browsing on Wifi and us up 20%. On 3G I drain 25% in 4h
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Sorry to hear that this fix didnt work for you. Could you provide more info regarding your network and if possible some screenshot of betterbatterystats or something similar. Maybe *#*#4360#*#* > battery information might give me more information with regards to your problem.
Also, if you want to do really help eliminate more variables, try using ur phone on 3G without installing any apps.
I'll try to help you the best i could. :cyclops:
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Notrega said:
I am having the same issue - coming from a Thunderbolt I am still happy with the battery as it is but if the wake lock could be resolved the battery would be awesome...
Not sure what is causing the gtalk spike as I removed that app...
ETA: running Jelly Bean leak & rooted... I also reflashed the leak wiping data, etc... with no change
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Maybe uninstalling gtalk and leaving an apk is causing the spike since it is trying to sync. Why not leave it on, also try reducing email refresh time to 1hr as oppose to the default (15 mins). Your battery life seems reasonable.
Wake Lock Questions:
Anyone know what the bam.dmux.wakekock is for? It says it's for a power management system but I don't know what that's supposed to do.
Also the Ssmdcnt10 wake lock?
Those are the two that are running on my phone and both are running like 36 minutes since I unplugged my phone this morning. Is this bad or is it something that I could allow to continue happening? Thx!
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MasterServant said:
So I bought titanium backup, freezed modemstatservice and fastdormancy.
No change in battery drain. I would like to know if all the other who have the same problem are running on a verizon SIM.
Until now nothing has worked. Under normal usage, I get a flat battery in about 16h. Normal means 2calls (<3min) and perhaps 5min of browsing.
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I froze mine and so far it has improved and I'm running the jellybean leak with root; HOWEVER my battery still drains fast and when I was on ICS my battery life was amazing so I'm actually probably going to revert back to that tomorrow. I fed the jellybean leak since it came out early last week and tried everything that I know to increase battery life but nothing works.
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I reverted back to ICS yesterday and let me tell you there is no lag or battery drain issue at all. It's so much better.
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I reverted back to ICS yesterday and let me tell you there is no lag or battery drain issue at all. It's so much better.
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Thinking of days in this...
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Anybody got some good battery life tweaks w/ 4G?
I just upgraded to a 4G plan and my previous vanilla (rooted) install with minimal tweaks is seeing far worse battery life lol.
I've turned off as much syncing as I can deal with, made sure latitude is off and gtalk is signed out. Aside from that does anyone have any tips aside from turning off 4G (sob)?
Auto brightness works for me. I keep GPS and WiFi off until I use them. You could also use the One Power Guard app. It was reviewed here recently. I get around 4 hours on screen time with heavy use. That's one day normally for me.
I use AI mode only for the most part. Occasionally I use Power saving mode in the OPG app. Try it out. Let me know what you think.
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is it the mobile data signal that is killing the battery (looking at the battery stats)?
If so, could recommend an app like "AutomateIt" that turns mobile data off at a certain time of the night to help. It also helps for turning on GPS when certain apps are open.
Some tips could be:
1. Get Battery Widget App to make the phone enter AIRPLANE MODE at nights from 2 am or so til your wake up time.
2. Install Notification TOGGLE and INCLUDE LTE as a toggle, then choose CDMA instead WCDMA (or equivalent if HSDPA choose GSM) when you doesnt need the download speed and still need to mantain email and contacts notifications. Just change back when u require speed.
thanks guys looking at it from a 'do not have to turn off beautiful 4G' type question (radio tweaks? lol) but appreciate the ideas.
In all honesty its not that bad, it now has settled down to from 'great battery life' to 'about same as other smartphones' level lol, I guess auto toggling from tasker or the suggested above apps would be the key
check out an app on the play store called "Juice Defender", works like a charm.
Avoid task killer apps. They don't do any good. Some apps are culprits of battery drain (meaning they misbehave and eat up your memory)
Install system panel lite and turn on system monitor for a day to see which apps are hogging up memory.
Also it is courtesy to hit the thank you button when someone helps you. Just a tip from your friendly neighborhood spiderman.
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Anybody got some good battery life tweaks w/ 4G?
I just upgraded to a 4G plan and my previous vanilla (rooted) install with minimal tweaks is seeing far worse battery life lol.
I've turned off as much syncing as I can deal with, made sure latitude is off and gtalk is signed out. Aside from that does anyone have any tips aside from turning off 4G (sob)?
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Haha! I warned u... ... I did notice the battery takes some time to condition tho. Good luck!
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