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My phone has been off the charger for roughly 3 hours and my batter is already down to 66% .. I spent about 10 minutes in the market and that's about it.
Battery status looks like this-
Android OS 70%
Display 10%
Android System 5%
Cell Standby 4%
Phone Idle 3%
Market 2 %
Any ideas on what is going on with my android OS?
*Running completely stock*
Rooted phones have a few extra options like cpu settings unvolted kernel. Stock phones-try to lower you brightness, shorten screen time out, turn off gps and bluetooth. There is a app called juicedefinder that seems to help.
check what services are running maybe?
settings>applications>running services
dionysos911 said:
My phone has been off the charger for roughly 3 hours and my batter is already down to 66% .. I spent about 10 minutes in the market and that's about it.
Battery status looks like this-
Android OS 70%
Display 10%
Android System 5%
Cell Standby 4%
Phone Idle 3%
Market 2 %
Any ideas on what is going on with my android OS?
*Running completely stock*
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You can click on Android OS and get a more detailed break down of what is using up the most juice in that subset... I am betting you downloaded an app at some point that is corrupt and running non-stop draining your battery.
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You can click on Android OS and get a more detailed break down of what is using up the most juice in that subset... I am betting you downloaded an app at some point that is corrupt and running non-stop draining your battery.
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I clicked on it from the battery status but it only lists CPU Total, Data Sent, and Data Received. Doesn't break out what programs are doing it.
Under the running services is there a way to see the programs power usage or perhaps an app that will do this?..
On a side note my battery is now down to 30% with it's only uses since it was at 66% was taking it out of standby every once in a while to see the battery usage. Android OS is now up to 73% of the usage..
You either have a high refresh rate for data on a running service, or you downloaded a program with crappy code that doesn't kill itself when not in use.
List your installed programs.
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I clicked on it from the battery status but it only lists CPU Total, Data Sent, and Data Received. Doesn't break out what programs are doing it.
Under the running services is there a way to see the programs power usage or perhaps an app that will do this?..
On a side note my battery is now down to 30% with it's only uses since it was at 66% was taking it out of standby every once in a while to see the battery usage. Android OS is now up to 73% of the usage..
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Odd... I am on a Desire ROM, but when I open up my system battery usage, AndroidOS isn't even showing, it has a long list of apps, and appears to be in order of battery usage. I could swear AndroidOS does the same.
Download Spare Parts from the market, then click on Usage Statistics to see which apps have been running the most, etc.
I am using Task Manager to autokill apps but I feel this tool is itself eating battery no??
How do you like this ??? ...(but: no WiFi/3G used !!)
Check out the battery & hours!
vegetaleb said:
I am using Task Manager to autokill apps but I feel this tool is itself eating battery no??
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Yes.
Task manager are running service(battery eaters) that monitors and closes apps in saved states(not battery eaters) and other running services. It's counter intuitive to run autokill applications because it itself, is wasting battery killing stuff that doesn't need to be killed.
Task managers that autokill are good for applications that have ****ty code and don't close themselves, or for programs that hang up.
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If you're autokill killing services alll day long, why are you even running the services? Just run then as needed.
my display is like 65/70% of the battery use
So you are using Cyanogen ROM
Try Emo or Desire Roms it should fix display battery problems
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Yes.
Task manager are running service(battery eaters) that monitors and closes apps in saved states(not battery eaters) and other running services. It's counter intuitive to run autokill applications because it itself, is wasting battery killing stuff that doesn't need to be killed.
Task managers that autokill are good for applications that have ****ty code and don't close themselves, or for programs that hang up.
Nothing More
If you're autokill killing services all day long, why are you even running the services? Just run then as needed.
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I've tried more taskkiller programs (ATM, Taskiller, etc) and came to the conclusion, that the ONLY auto task killer which actually SAVES battery (compared to setup w/o task killer program) is Task Panel. Don't ask me why/ how, but with TaskPanel my N1 is fast en lean, battery lasts about 130% of native (w/o/ TaskPanel).
Of course, question is whether task killer necessary, but as I use lots of widgets, programs, in my experience task killing helps to keep my N1 fast..
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So you are using Cyanogen ROM
Try Emo or Desire Roms it should fix display battery problems
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imm using modaco custom R13 rom
http://android.modaco.com/content/g...custom-rom-for-nexus-one-with-online-kitchen/
this one
this morning at 100% it was 8am
at 2PM im at 52% , its been 6hours with 3G on, light at 25%, everything else off.
with 30min music, 10min calling, some sms and a 50min TV show....
my iphone held quite a bit better
So after some systematic disabling of apps it seems the culprit was the Touch Input that came with the HTC_IME .. After disabling that I am back up to regular battery life and android OS is only using 2% of my battery again.
Sometimes the Android OS is stuck at 70% and the battery is drained really quickly. A reboot fix it. Next time I have to check what exactly is causing that Android OS is at 70% battery usage.
So after some systematic disabling of apps it seems the culprit was the Touch Input that came with the HTC_IME .. After disabling that I am back up to regular battery life and android OS is only using 2% of my battery again.
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just to be sure, you're using nexus one? if so, can you elaborate more on what app or service you're talking about. thanks
that's weird because i am using the HTC IME keyboard and i have touch input running too, but my display takes up 90% of my battery all the time. must have been some weird glitch.
RogerPodacter said:
that's weird because i am using the HTC IME keyboard and i have touch input running too, but my display takes up 90% of my battery all the time. must have been some weird glitch.
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Yes this is a Nexus One running stock ROM.
It may have just been a fluke with the version I downloaded from this forum. I am going to install the new version as soon as I get around to it. Not sure how it did it but as soon as I disabled it my battery usage went back to normal.
I was having this same issue on a MyTouch 3G running a 1.6 Rom (TheOfficial), and it appears it's a common problem on the Droid as well from some research. I was using HTC_IME. I just switched back to the default android keyboard and will see if it fixes my battery drain issue.
(My thread in the mytouch devel forum got locked for some reason, even though I consider this a legitimate concern for ROM development, since it's a rather major and hard-to-find defect.)
UPDATE: the "Android OS" task has stopped being a problem after I switch from HTC_IME, but "Cell Standby" is now taking up 50% of the battery, so the battery still drains, but slightly 30% slower.
hello guys i have x10a fw r2ba026 rooted and i install setcpu and i have 2 task killers systempanel and process manager but still i dont see any improvement in my battery life i dont even know what to do. please guys when u read this thread please reply. i went to my battery use and this is the result i got it says 8 hours since unplugged but i unplugged like 13 hours ago i dont know why its saying that please help
8h 20m 39s since unplugged
display 72%
cell standby 8%
voice calls 6%
phone idle 5%
android system 3%
maps 3%
browser 2%
wifi 2%
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2 task killers systempanel and process manager but still i dont see any improvement in my battery life
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i would not bother running task killers. i have not got anything like that running in my rooted 26 and i can get 2 days from a charge with general usage. Task killers run and actually chew up more power than they free up and on another note, android itself is very clever at handling resources. you do not need to have 80% of your ram free (read: wasted) in order for your phone to be running well. android will kill off tasks as required.
my advise, ditch your task killers and enjoy longer battery life
I agree, automatic task killers are a complete waste of time.
Ditch the task killers. Seriously.
Also make sure your screen brightness isn't too high. Just wastes battery for nothing.
should i uninstall setcpu also? or keep it ? i uninstall process manager but havnt uninstalled systempanel
battery
on my x10 firmware v...26 rooted, battery lasts over 3 days. HOWEVER for 30hours was in plane mode and i use SetCPU in powersave mode...It's third week since i bought the phone. And screen brightness is on automatic. In that 3 days 1 reboot, few calls, mp3s, video clips, vwifi web browsing for a few minutes. If I want to play for instance NFS shift It will last for only a few hours...
@kremx can u tell me your setcpu profile settings? r u using any task killers?
I use setcpu and juice defender, both on automatic settings and set to start on bootup. Batt lasts 2 days with normal usage
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I agree, automatic task killers are a complete waste of time.
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I see that said a lot on here, has the theory been tested at all, is there any data to support that?
In response to the O.P, I use Advanced Task Killer and SetCPU.
i use setcpu and juice defender, works well for me, i get bout 20 hours of heavy usage out of my phone which is a lot better then when i first got it (got like 6 hrs of battery life), i am also running 020
edit: am also using helix launcher
mate as bin said by others, cant stress enuf, get rid of any task killers and battery aids as i hav found they do more harm, since the update the only thing i use is SEEPU to monitor the processor and memory, and my battery life has improved on mass amount, typical day, unplug at midnite, 3%/4% used overnight, bluetooth on at 8 till 4.30 with gps and sometimes wifi with few phone calls and tx plus bit of browsing market etc, by time i get home for 5.30 i still hav 65% left, so could easy do 2 day, if i turned it all off i reckon i could prob get 3 half day out of the battery maybe little more
@Shonan_ thanks an ill delete all taskkiller on phone to see how it goes. what is seepu app for i saw it on market how do i use it? does it have any benefit?
Imho task killers, setcpu etc. do more harm than help. Your display usage seems high what is your display timeout? Mines set at a minute and while my battery only lasts a day, the r1f fw my battery would only last 4-6 hours. Definite improvement. Hope this helps
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i download helix launcher omg in 6 hours i only lost 5% with like 15 texts and 10 mins call and 45 mins browsing. wow every1 should install helix launcher donut.
the_ahmadzais said:
wow every1 should install helix launcher donut.
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Nice! glad to hear it is going better for you
FWIW - i run ADW launcher on mine, no task killers/CPU or Battery tools and short screen timeouts. I get great battery life.
Turn down the display brightness!!!
the_ahmadzais said:
hello guys i have x10a fw r2ba026 rooted and i install setcpu and i have 2 task killers systempanel and process manager but still i dont see any improvement in my battery life i dont even know what to do. please guys when u read this thread please reply. i went to my battery use and this is the result i got it says 8 hours since unplugged but i unplugged like 13 hours ago i dont know why its saying that please help
8h 20m 39s since unplugged
display 72%
cell standby 8%
voice calls 6%
phone idle 5%
android system 3%
maps 3%
browser 2%
wifi 2%
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72% of your battery goes to display! Man that should give a clue!
Turn down the brightness of your display, way down. 20% brightness perhaps, that's what I can live with under most weather circumstances.
Even with auto-brightness my display doesn't eat THAT much battery.
Do you live perhaps in a very sunny area, that you keep your display so bright??
Anyway, to improve your battery life, turn down the brightness!!
I found juice defender made a difference. Before I installed it Android System was using the most power, now it's screen which is as it should be!
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tnleeuw said:
72% of your battery goes to display! Man that should give a clue!
Turn down the brightness of your display, way down. 20% brightness perhaps, that's what I can live with under most weather circumstances.
Even with auto-brightness my display doesn't eat THAT much battery.
Do you live perhaps in a very sunny area, that you keep your display so bright??
Anyway, to improve your battery life, turn down the brightness!!
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I also dont get great battery life and the display is always using at least 70% of it when I check the usage but when I turn off auto brightness it ends up being brighter even when its manually turned all the way down so it seems auto would make more sense....
First let me tell you exactly what my phone says
9 Hours 42 Minutes since unplugged
Battery Level 84 %
Display 41 %
The major things that can help in saving the battery is killing the 3G and Manually set the brightness.
am using the 3G only when i need it , i wont keep it running all the time, the reason of that is most of our apps mails etc, will Auto sync , and that will eat your batter.
Plus : Stop GPS , Bluetooth when it is not needed
why display shows 70 % of consumption ?? (((( cause you have 4 inches LCD screen ))) , smaller the screen the less it will use .
Task Killer , is not for saving battery , it is for freeing your RAM , X10 has 384 MB RAM , Android is using more than 200 MB out of it , leaving you with less than 180 MB to run your apps , so if you run few apps your free RAM will start dropping and you will start feeling how heavy is it to start any app.
I agree to the post above.
Here are the check list to improve battery life:
If you use email, put the update duration to max, except for important mail account
Set brightness to automatic
Enabled GPS, Bluetooth and WiFI when required
Only enabled 3G when you are using the phone for internet access (Find a good 2G-3G switch apps, mine runs in notification), i also found talking on 2G line gives better quality specially if you live where 3G BTS is very scarce
Uninstall all task killer and battery management
Use less widget, widget updates also takes baterry
I usually able to run the phone without need to charge for 2 days for daily task such as check email, messaging, IM and few phone calls.
wlan - standby
... with juice plotter i have seen, that my wlan-standby (screen off) does not work correctly, if some apps (also no typical always on apps) are installed, but i cant remember which ones. So after installing new apps, i always check juice plotter after (in the standby mode) ...
... i know some apps are doing an intervall update, that is ok (you can see spikes in juice plotter) but a 100% time use is silly ...
... is there a app i can monitor, which app and when an app use wlan/gps/bt (time/open/close) ???
This has been plaguing my phone for a few months i can't even get 24 hours without it dieing. I can't figure out what the problem is and i have tried everything except a full wipe which i want to avoid.
Before i would get about 2 days with normal usage (few calls, browsing the net, msn, music and little bit of gaming)
Now when i unplug it at 7AM it is almost dead by 3PM (15%) but nothing has changed so i can figure out where the drain is coming from. I'm using Doc 9.6.6 (was on 9.1.4 and did a NO WIPE of 9.6.6 yesterday to see if i could get better battery) and SpeedMod K13C 500.
Everything that uses data is disabled or set to manual. Wifi is disabled, GPS is disabled, Bluetooth disabled. Google/Facebook sync is disabled. No Live Wallpaper, Email is set to NEVER, Fancy Widgets is set to NEVER. Reset the battery state in recovery numerous times, wiped cache etc.
Last night phone was at 60% when i woke up the phone was at 35% and that's only about 10 hours and after a FRESH shutdown and reboot. So nothing out of the ordinary like a game was running.
Whats Running after a fresh boot is in the pictures below, ending things like Tango and Galley, Facebook make no difference.
What is causing this massive idle drain?
If i need to do a full wipe is there a way to save my games saves? don't care for anything else just dont wanna start angry birds over again for a 3rd time.
You got 2 days before??
I've always only ever gotten max 12-14 hours out of my battery. Wifi off, bluetooth off, gps off, 3g on, background data & auto-sync on for: 2 gmail accounts + facebook (no auto refresh) + twitter (updates ever 30 mins) + whatsapp. BeejiveIM, GoSMS, Lookout, weatherbug elite widget (updates every 12 hours), agenda widget, NoLED on, and go launcher ex. Running stock rom JL2. Drains about 15% overnight (7 hours).
Not sure how you got 2 days before, but sounds about right to me that you get less than 24 hours from your battery.
Myself and many others get 2 days with light-moderate usage. I'm on 2 days 9 hrs and 10% left right now with 2 hrs 15 min screen time.
If you can't figure it out you might just have to bite the bullet and wipe it to see if that works.
Did you try this:
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In this post i will try to give some advice and troubleshooting about battery issues. It will be linked from 1 post.
Any contributions is very welcome.
- How to reset battery calibration:
Discharge the phone fully
Charge it to full
Enter recovery, advanced CWM features : wipe battery stats
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haloimplant said:
Myself and many others get 2 days with light-moderate usage. I'm on 2 days 9 hrs and 10% left right now with 2 hrs 15 min screen time.
If you can't figure it out you might just have to bite the bullet and wipe it to see if that works.
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can you post your usage habits and what you have running the background etc?
I've only ever been able to get 14 hours out of my battery with light usage (mainly texting every 10-15 mins or so). Even after a wipe
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yes i did try that, its annoying the hell outta me that it used to last 2 days but now its like this and thats with everything off.
I used to have a live wallpaper on all the time and yes that did drain the battery allot but i would still have about 30% after a full day of usage from a full change.
Now it dose not matter what i change if i live wallpaper or not its still dies about 3PM
any way to save my games says if i have to do a wipe?
That's awesome! I get 8% an hour drain on idle with 2 gmail accounts, and a few apps synching... with usage (bluetooth music, browsing, texting...) I have about 15% an hour drain.
Wiping, battery stats wipe, new roms, kernels, and modems don't fix anything... I guess we just have to accept that some units go through more battery than others!
If you're using Google Latitude service (configured via Maps), try signing out of it and see what it does for you. I've been suffering from excessive battery drain as well and after a lot of experimenting I've found out that using Latitude on Froyo ROMs (any Froyo) leads to phone not entering sleep mode properly for some reason and therefore draining battery a lot.
Nexus S users are experiencing this as well and I've even had confirmations from Desire users experiencing this, so this might be some bigger issue not related to SGS.
Case_ said:
If you're using Google Latitude service (configured via Maps), try signing out of it and see what it does for you. I've been suffering from excessive battery drain as well and after a lot of experimenting I've found out that using Latitude on Froyo ROMs (any Froyo) leads to phone not entering sleep mode properly for some reason and therefore draining battery a lot.
Nexus S users are experiencing this as well and I've even had confirmations from Desire users experiencing this, so this might be some bigger issue not related to SGS.
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:O oh man I hope this is the case, I will sign out of Google Latitude, and report with the results in a few hours
quaff said:
can you post your usage habits and what you have running the background etc?
I've only ever been able to get 14 hours out of my battery with light usage (mainly texting every 10-15 mins or so). Even after a wipe
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There's all the standard stuff running, gmail, swype, social hub, task manager, some other widgets, etc... There's no talk time on this run, it can burn it up pretty quick probably 20+% per hour.
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There's all the standard stuff running, gmail, swype, social hub, task manager, some other widgets, etc... There's no talk time on this run, it can burn it up pretty quick probably 20+% per hour.
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Wow. I'm insanely envious of your 3days! and also, your display only sucks up 53%. Something is odd with my phone, my display usually takes about 98%.
haloimplant said:
There's all the standard stuff running, gmail, swype, social hub, task manager, some other widgets, etc... There's no talk time on this run, it can burn it up pretty quick probably 20+% per hour.
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Hm, do you have Google Latitude signed in on Google Maps?
No, no Latitude.
The display will suck up 90+% if you're using the phone alot since it burns battery much faster than idle or networks.
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No, no Latitude.
The display will suck up 90+% if you're using the phone alot since it burns battery much faster than idle or networks.
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Interesting, I'm going to give it a go without Latitude on after I reflash stock JL2. My "Time on" for Display is usually something like 40mins or so when I check it at 98%
Idle drain seems to be what are most worried about.
Ok first fix permissions from cwmedia recovery in speedmod.
Then wipe cache and dalvik partitions, don't worry your phone will rebuild them.
Next I would try something if you want avoid a factory wipe.
Disable swype and clear app data then re-enable. Swype seems to have non wipe issues thru kies.
Now use OS monitor app to find apps which lurk in the background and then check their permissions, ones that can keep the phone awake are the culprits. Wipe their data or uninstall.
Facebook app sometimes doesn't shut down properly so watch that.
Also after a session I like to use clear mem level2 to stop Facebook or another app eating battery.
Finally what modem are you using? Jpy modem sucks for me at least. The latest jve from the gingerbread leaked rom is superb!
Hope this helps and good luck!
Stock JPY, Insanity SpeedMod OC-1200Mhz/UV, ext4, JVE gingerbread Modem,
Something I did a while ago seemed to help.
I ran down the battery till it switched off. Phone wouldn't power on. I plugged in the charger and powered on again. To my surprise the battery showed about 25%. Unplugged the charger then used it again till shutdown. Took about half an hour to do so, even though it was only connected to charger for a minute or so. Did that about 5 or more times till finally booting up with charger connected showed 0%.
Generally it not a good idea to boot with the charger connected as it stuffs up the battery stats or something, but I think in some cases it can help. Charged it to full and had no problems since.
Obviously this wont help if something in the background is killing the battery.
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May be you have a task killer running in background and killing tasks that you shouldnt kill, by example any widget you have in your screen, it will cause that it will be reestarting and consuming CPU each certain time.
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Remove TANGO !!! This soft was draining more than 25% overnight on my SGS (even if there's no service running and if it's not in task manager), After removing it, now my battery decreases 3-4% in 8h !
Funny Tango was the one thing that jumped out to me from the process list, but I don't have any experience with it myself. Shutting that off for a while is probably worth a shot.
This is my batterystats. "Taleanrop" is phonecalls or whatever the english term is.
Battery drAin last night 10% and alarm didnt sound.
Now have 5%, and drain 1% each 3 or 4 min, its amazing... (mode ironic off).
What can I do?
No wifi or data plan activated, only phone in 3g mode...
Download TaskKiller from the market and kill any task you aint using. Then fully charge and keep the memuse low
friscoltu959 said:
Battery drAin last night 10% and alarm didnt sound.
Now have 5%, and drain 1% each 3 or 4 min, its amazing... (mode ironic off).
What can I do?
No wifi or data plan activated, only phone in 3g mode...
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weird as I'm using the same setup as you are, only 3G activated and my battery goes 16 hours with 93% left.
Till today with an hour and a half of game play, my battery went to 49% after 36 hours unplugged.
The battery is amazing, you just need yo restart and check what's activating in background
Do you have whatsapp running?
I'm not using any task killers by the way
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Task killers are not good for what you are talking about here. Don't just sit there kill every task you see. That could actually hurt your battery performance because the kernel will just start those apps and processes right back up again taking cycles from the cpu, and juice from your battery
Besides, Gingerbread has it's own task killer, so why clutter your system with more unnecessary apps?
What you need to do is open your battery stats and find what exactly is running and destroying your battery. Im most certain its only one thing, and just stop that one process.
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I have new experiences. Let´s go...
23:00 - 00:00: Only wifi turn on. Twitter, facebook, playing snes emulator, also fpse psx emulator. My baterry drain 60% to 50%.
00:00: All radios turn off. Very impressed 23:00 to 00:00 because only 10% of battery usage on heavy mobile working. Let´s see what happened when I go to bed.
00:00 - 7:30: With 50% of battery, alarm don´t sound because ALL BATTERY HAVE DISSAPEARED, in other words, 0% of battery. Seven hours after, with all radios off (airplane mode on), xperia in inactive mode, and don´t have battery. I´m really disapointed, scared, angry,...
CONCLUSIONS:
If I turn mobile to inactive, each 5 minutes, 1% of battery drain. With 50% and 7:30 hours of inactivity, no batery to my xperia.
So please.
What Can I do? Love this phone is my second android (i´m bored using iphone), but this unnormal draining of my battery, scares me. I can´t complete faith with xperia.
One more thing.
Before goint to sleep I´ve installed Go launcher, and no plugins because this problem happens to me since first day, and want to be secure not was my fault.
Please help me
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I have new experiences. Let´s go...
23:00 - 00:00: Only wifi turn on. Twitter, facebook, playing snes emulator, also fpse psx emulator. My baterry drain 60% to 50%.
00:00: All radios turn off. Very impressed 23:00 to 00:00 because only 10% of battery usage on heavy mobile working. Let´s see what happened when I go to bed.
00:00 - 7:30: With 50% of battery, alarm don´t sound because ALL BATTERY HAVE DISSAPEARED, in other words, 0% of battery. Seven hours after, with all radios off (airplane mode on), xperia in inactive mode, and don´t have battery. I´m really disapointed, scared, angry,...
CONCLUSIONS:
If I turn mobile to inactive, each 5 minutes, 1% of battery drain. With 50% and 7:30 hours of inactivity, no batery to my xperia.
So please.
What Can I do? Love this phone is my second android (i´m bored using iphone), but this unnormal draining of my battery, scares me. I can´t complete faith with xperia.
One more thing.
Before goint to sleep I´ve installed Go launcher, and no plugins because this problem happens to me since first day, and want to be secure not was my fault.
Please help me
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there are several causes to this
It could be an application running wildly in background
Or
Your battery is defective
I recommend you re-installing your firmware and note the applications you use
Avoid task killers and any app that updates itself every 10 minutes or so ( Facebook twitter.. etc ) let them update every couple of hours or manually
The battery in Xperia play is amazing so it's sad what's happening with you
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I solved problem, and really impressed with battery performance.
Have 80% with all day wifi on, playing emulators, and using whatsupp, gmail...
What i do:
Task Manager de Rhythm Software = close apps when turn off screen.
SystemPanel App - Task Manager = cpu usage, close apps
MySettings app
Im using Power control plus, and deleted Extended Control Plus.
My battery now, is better than other smartphones like defy or nexus, which I´ve tried.
Tornlogic said:
Besides, Gingerbread has it's own task killer, so why clutter your system with more unnecessary apps?
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where is this? i dont see?
Settings then applications then manage applications.
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Then you will see 4 tabs on the top. Select "running"
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Then you will see 4 tabs on the top. Select "running"
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Sorry forgot that. Cheers.
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Settings then applications then manage applications.
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no that is different, that is running services not running apps. Samsung has a default task killer on their phones, which is very good and shows actual running apps and allows you to kill them. i used to have it on my galaxy s i miss it.
there is only one app i have found on the market that works in the same way, that is; Active Apps. all other task killers are a load of **** and really do nothing.
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no that is different, that is running services not running apps. Samsung has a default task killer on their phones, which is very good and shows actual running apps and allows you to kill them. i used to have it on my galaxy s i miss it.
there is only one app i have found on the market that works in the same way, that is; Active Apps. all other task killers are a load of **** and really do nothing.
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You mean the task manager with the galaxy s one when you hold the menu button? That is useful but must admit never needed to use it. I prefer to restart the phone.
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matknny said:
You mean the task manager with the galaxy s one when you hold the menu button? That is useful but must admit never needed to use it. I prefer to restart the phone.
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well you dont have to hold down the home button to access it. you download it through samsung apps and can use it like a normal app. dont know about you, but i found it very useful and used it very often. for example; when you quit the web browser, it never really closes. go into samsung task killer and you can see it running and can stop it and close it FULLY from there. again, any app you use the "home button" to exit out off, will remain running in the background. i always used the samsung task killer to end these apps properly.
the only other app, as i've said, that works like this is Active Apps. all other task killers are such of load of ****.
I have gotten as much as 7 hours straight gameplay out of this device !
So battery life is exellent just kill tasks that are un-needed. ( f.e. google maps , media server , etc...)
As for standby mode I can squeeze in 2 days I guess
Still playing to much so kinda hard to confirm
Battery life is excellent for me.
I started yesterday on 100%.
- Took it in the bathroom and watched some youtube while i had my bath (ye ye i know !)
- Played 1-2 hours worth of gaming
- Phone went on standby for another 2-3 hours while i went out, did some shopping and some random texting
- Came home had another 1 hour roughly gaming and web surfing
- Text some more to say i'm going round my mates house to watch the boxing
- Spent 4-5 hours up my mates house, showing him the phone, google earth, streetview, maps, emulators, games, everything
- Came home late at night, left my phone on the floor OFF from charge and woke up this morning with 7% battery power left.
Considering how much i used it, i think that's dam good.
Same battery problem here too. Recieved at 10am. Charged by 1pm, dead at 10pm with little use really. Some downloading, browsing, few texts and 30 secs of phone calls.
Advanced task killer seems to have done nothing. Any tips guys, defective battery maybe?
try active apps.
advance task killer, task killer advance, yada yada yada are all full of ****.
also put a shortcut for "Running Services" on your homescreen. periodly check this to end services like "get games" or "Event management" or "TimeScape" or "Google Maps", etc.
Zub7 said:
try active apps.
advance task killer, task killer advance, yada yada yada are all full of ****.
also put a shortcut for "Running Services" on your homescreen. periodly check this to end services like "get games" or "Event management" or "TimeScape" or "Google Maps", etc.
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Tried that, active apps isn't showing any apps that are using any cpu time at all, just the same stuff advanced task killer shows for using ram, which i continually kill. This is with all signals barring normal signal turned off, i'm getting a 1% drain every 10 mins at the moment.
The battery monitor is showing cell standby, phone idle and display as the main things eating the battery. Will give it until the end of the day then call orange for a new battery as there's obviously something wrong here.
fishbow, I recommended you hard reset, because me happens same thing.
I discovered extended controls was my problem.
In your case, maybe anything.
Sorry for making another thread about high battery consumption, but I need some answers about my case.
The problem is that After I fully charge battery it rapidly get drained, about 3-5% per hour with everything turned off (wifi, gps, data, background data...).
I tried every tip from this forum and nothing helps!
Only thing that sometimes helps me is tu turn off my phone and remove battery for 5 mins. After restart battery consumption is good but after some time it start fast draining again.
Also, I noticed when battery goes down to 25% it stays at same percent for more than 12h (although I am using my phone for talks and sms).
THis problem persist in all custom roms, but i am not sure about Stock Rom (I had it only for few days)
What do You think: is it problem with roms (should I downgrade to stock 2.1 rom?) or it's hardware problem.
p.s. How long do You charge Your battery? (my battery is charged within 70 mins from 1% to 100%)
In XGin 4 ROM I have seen great battery improvement after freezing Google maps and Email.apk
You could try freezing these apps and see if the problem still persists.
Yea but camera doesn't work on XGin...
Use FroyoBread v12 by doixanh
I am using Froyobread v12. My battery can last 3 days with moderate SMS, wifi calls and games.
I used battery calibration (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867) I think it really helped a lot!
Hmm, curious problem indeed... What tricks did you try? Wipe battery stats in xRecovery? Battery calibration app? Elaborate please
Yes, I tried battery calibration and now installed, Fast Reboot.
Uninstalled: gmail, Email, maps, facebook and some other apps I don't using.
Now I am testing Airplane mode, it seems that battery life is very good in this mode (1% consumption after 3-4 hours)
LegoGabi said:
Yea but camera doesn't work on XGin...
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Of course camera works on XGin.
XGin Camera
I confirm camera works in XGIN as VGA for pics (all Ginger 2.3.4. have the same except Racht's who chose to disable it) and recording on High.
See Shpit's page:
shpitisme.blogspot.com
dragan985 said:
Yes, I tried battery calibration and now installed, Fast Reboot.
Uninstalled: gmail, Email, maps, facebook and some other apps I don't using.
Now I am testing Airplane mode, it seems that battery life is very good in this mode (1% consumption after 3-4 hours)
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Check power management to see what causes this huge drain
I don't see anything unusal in battery use:
in standby mode it's: display: 60%, cell standby: 20-30% and all other components are less than 5%
Is it possibly that high battery consumption is caused by low gsm signal?
I doubt it can cause such a high consumption, but who knows?
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I don't see anything unusal in battery use:
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Did you freeze google maps as Chris95X8 had suggested?
It worked for me.
Besides use task manager or something to check what apps are running.
map shows only 2% but during the night it took me more than 20% when the phone is not used.
oskarq said:
Did you freeze google maps as Chris95X8 had suggested?
It worked for me.
Besides use task manager or something to check what apps are running.
map shows only 2% but during the night it took me more than 20% when the phone is not used.
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as I already mentioned in earlier post I uninstalled Google maps, e-mail, gmail, gtalk and facebook apps.
Just switched to Xgin 5.3 and I was suprised with battery 'till I installed fancy widget pro. Maybe widget consumes a lot of energy! Going to test it now!
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display: 60%, cell standby: 20-30% and all other components are less than 5%
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This was my problem too. I prefer to activate/deactivate wi-fi myself. I bet that in wi-fi sleep policy you don't have checked `never`. Check it and That will solve the `20-30%` to a normal percentage. In addition you can activate the `undervolt` feature.