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Hi guys,
I have a problem with my Jade. I've charged it last evening and I've barely used it. When I've went to bed it was 96% charged (ARIELbattery) and 10 minutes used.
This morning, when I've woke up, The battery was 33% and and the phone was 34 minutes usage time.
Something is wrong. Since there were no bluetooth, no wifi, no anything activated. And for sure, nobody played with the phone during the night.
This is not the first time when I see this behavior, but is the first time when the decrease is so big.
I suspect an app, but I do not know which of them. How can I see it?
Do you have other suggestions?
thanks!
There are some possible reasons:
Some SD-Cards seem to drain battery, so you can take it out for a test.
Some additional software is told to drain battery. Did you install something?
It is also helpful to switch to "flight-mode" over night. This normally reduces battery drain to nearly zero, if no additional consumers exist.
Hi,
Yes I've installed some software, like gAlarm, S2U2, icontact,ThumbCal, Skype, etc but last night none of them was started.
What can I do with the SD Card?! I need the SD-Card. Which card does not drain battery and which does?
I cannot turn off the phone over night.
Some clues here in this forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=514556&highlight=battery
I've read those before posting, but there was no answer to my problem. I have 67% drop of battery in 8 hours without touching the phone.
This is most likely that your device goes to screenoff or unattended power state instead of sleep. Your power settings might be corrupted. To change that go to your power settings advanced tab and change everything there (checkboxes and sliders), press ok and then change them back as they were, press ok. I'd suggest to keep the device turning off in one minute while on battery and none of the checkboxes for cord powered mode. There is a really freaky thing that even if you get your device to sleep with power button it will go back to screenoff mode after time specified by the turn off device slider while on battery IF you don't have that turn-off-while-on-battery checkbox checked there.
darfri said:
even if you get your device to sleep with power button it will go back to screenoff mode after time specified by the turn off device slider while on battery IF you don't have that turn-off-while-on-battery checkbox checked there.
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Thanks for the answer. But I do not really understand what you are saying here.
My power settings are: 30sec for Screen Light and 1 min for Device (on battery).
None of the check boxes is set for the case when the device is powered.
It could also be due to the battery defect. After some time the battery could lose its storage ability (because of the defect), despite the mAH stated.
As a comparison, my battery is nearly one year old. On full charge, overnight drawdown (on sleep mode) is about 2%-3% .
ungureanub said:
Hi,
Yes I've installed some software, like gAlarm, S2U2, icontact,ThumbCal, Skype, etc but last night none of them was started.
What can I do with the SD Card?! I need the SD-Card. Which card does not drain battery and which does?
I cannot turn off the phone over night.
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I have no own experiences with this programs but Skype for example needs permanent connection to internet when activated (be care of the background job!). This uses data connection and this drains battery. I can not quantify this in %. In addition Skype does not allow the system to switch to deep sleep because it needs permanent connection!
None of the app was started. I just have Skype installed, but it was not used.
Uninstall S2U2 !!!!!
nicodbgh said:
Uninstall S2U2 !!!!!
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I found some German threads that discuss a problem with this software and battery life. Some loose 10% over night others 50%. I think you should try to uninstall (and afterwards soft-reset!) for a night and see what happens.
Please keep us informed.
First of all, I've disabled the 3G. Now it only gsm with gprs. Since I've done this it seems the battery drop is ... super ok. If yesterday morning I've had 33%, this morning I've had 20%, so 13% drop in 24h, and the phone was used normally as before.
last night the S2U2 was not started.
I will wait until the battery level reaches 10% an I will do a full charge.
I will keep you informed. Thanks to all for advices!
Some clues here too ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=471365&highlight=battery+3g&page=2
Hi,
So now, 2 weeks later... after setting my Jade to GSM only (no 3G) I get 7-8 days of normal usage. As I said, before I always had to charge it the third day.
Normally, i get -28mAh drain in standby. When the screen is on around -130mAh (for wake up) and then -70mAh. In a gsm call i get around -250mAh.
I did not switch the phone back to 3G yet, but I will and I will see again the battery drain.
PS: the values were provided by Mobadi.
i believe i have S2U2 installed... and my phones fine!
i have the overloaded rom... and battery life seems great only needs charging every 3 or so days and i do use it quite alot!
so...
after some time of testing and re-testing I still have, from time to time, the behavior that during night I see a massive drop in battery level and an increase of the usage time.
I do not know what is going on, but I suspect that some app is waking up the device to do some work (without turning on the screen), and the Jade cannot go to sleep anymore for a while.
I've notice the same behavior on a HTC Diamond 2.
Since none of the app I have installed on my Jade are installed on my friends Diamond2, I have no idea what app could do that.
If anybody has any idea, feel free .... I am idea-less!
I've made myself a little application to log the current values of the power data. So, I've saw that my phone wakes up each hour by himself, without turning on the screen, does some work (cca -70mA) and after 30sec goes back to sleep.
Any ideea about this?
I'm having problems with It shutting off overnight while charging. Anybody else having this problem?
bjh2379 said:
I'm having problems with It shutting off overnight while charging. Anybody else having this problem?
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I just discovered this "feature" this morning as well. -_-
Did u find how to fix this?
I love the feature where the A500's battery doesn't last overnight with the screen off. I didn't think I needed to charge it overnight since the battery was at 95% anyways, so I just set it on the table next to my bed and went to sleep. Woke up this morning and it wouldn't power on. Pretty cool. Wonder what is draining the battery? My DroidX can sit on the same table for almost a week w/o being charged.
I haven't seen it, then again I play music from getting into bed till I wake up so ill try leaving it to sleep and see what happens.
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Me too
Same issue here.
i have not tried the trick that I just found that seems to extend the batery life....I put the tablet in "airplane mode" , enable the WiFi and the battery looks like it is draining alot slower. There is power being used for "cell standby" even though is a wifi only tablet
Same problem here with shutdown on charge. Right now it seems fairly consistent-
I'm experiencing them same thing when leaving asleep for extended periods. It first happened while I was charging... now it happened again when I left for dinner and came back. I don't see any setting options for that
Same here. Thought it was a "feature" to keep from using as much battery.
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So shutting off notifications seems to stop the problem for me.. except that I don't get notifications At least it boots pretty fast
Lets run some tests, shall we?
bjh2379 said:
I'm having problems with It shutting off overnight while charging. Anybody else having this problem?
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I don't think they're shutting off, I think they're crashing/freezing during sleep and not rebooting.
This is speculation by me, and could be different for different people.
Finding the problem:
The test.
Night/Bedtime
This is an overnight/while you sleep test and requires about 2hrs. of your time beforehand. Record your figures if you can and post them for debunking. A couple hours before bed and while you use the tablet during the evening, charge it. After 100% and once it's off the charger please don't use it for anything. We want to simulate the sleep process for about 90m before bed. So if you use the tablet even for a quick web surf, plug it in and getting back to 100%. We're going to allow ~3% for errors anyway but we want to be as close to accurate as possible.
90m before you're ready for bed remove the charger. Don't use the tablet simply set the brightness to auto and take note of your battery level and the time. 60m in take a look at that battery charge again and record the time and charge level. 90m in is the last check and after this whether you go to bed or not please don't wake the tablet. Don't worry if it seems to wake and go back on it's own. That's inconsequential for this test. Just put it somewhere that no one will bother it and resist using it until you wake up. Please
Morning/Wake time
Wake it up.
1. Comes on? Record the charge level and time for posterity so we get an idea of idle drain here on the thread. Everyone gets different values. You'll have to run this test at another time as your shutdown/freeze hasn't been reproduced this time.
2. Doesn't come on? Try a power on press. Comes on? Same as 1. Record the charge level and time and post it here.
3. Doesn't come on? Try a power on press. Doesn't come on? Plug it in and power it on. Now do the same as 2. Record the charge level and time and post it here.
I hypothesize a few different scenarios the summary of which is that I don't think they're shutting down, but this is mostly based on the assumption that the batteries are being charged while the unit is frozen. If they do not charge then my entire test would have to be re-designed. I surmise they freeze and don't restart so they either run out of juice or they're actually frozen when you try to power them on and the long press is rebooting the unit, not powering it on. If I am right then we should see that the batteries are drained as if they have been on all night. This is going to be very imprecise, but my idea is that we'll take the charge % of your bedtime check which is a 60m mark check and just times that by the amt. of hours you were sleeping.
So if you were at 95% when you touched the tablet for the last time, this would mean a drain of ~5% give or take ~1% due to your use while checking, per hour. You take that and multiply it by how many hours you've slept and you'd get X x 5 = 40% which leaves the tablet with ~60% battery when you wake up, again give or take 3% for errors, syncing during the night etc.
If you're seeing a somewhat accurate numerical representation of this formula then it means the tab drained all night.
If you're seeing something way off like the tablet still having way more than it should then it means at some point in the night it really did shut down on its own.
People who are actually saying it shut off probably just reboot the tablet without realizing it as it was on the charger when it froze. Since a power off/reboot press of the power button is roughly the same length as a power on press, it's difficult to differentiate sometimes.
Solving the problem:
I have had this happen twice and it was while I left GPS on.
I haven't had an android cell phone yet that hasn't frozen or reboot itself when I left GPS on for extended periods (aka overnight) so the first time this happened I instantly knew to check and I purposely left it on the second time to reproduce and the second time, the tablet ended up rebooting not freezing. If you're not technical the easiest way to know if your tablet reboot during the night is to leave a web page or IM window on the screen or leave music playing.
You may want to skip the above "finding the problem" tests and attempt this "solving the problem" test. As I mentioned, this is all speculation so I'm just trying to get to the bottom of it and I'm sure we can as a grp.
Once you rule out hardware though, then it's a problem. So if it is indeed NOT the GPS then we're at the mercy of Acer and Google because otherwise there'd be just too many factors to track down.
I'm getting this and i'm loosing a ton of battery somewhere in the process too. I think the above poster is right.
I plug in tabby. go to bed. wake up to pee. see tabby is 100% battery. unplug and go back to bed. wake up to go to work and tabby is powered off completely and battery is anywhere between 85%-90% in a matter of 2-3 hours after being unplugged.
Its likely a rogue app I would get a program like advanced task killer watch it and see what apps are loading in background after you kill all apps.look for apps you installed.not so much the ones Acer put on your tab.
With Ti backup freeze the first one you think should not run give it a day.if that's not the issue keep going down the list.
Had a similar issue it was a app I got from amazon.that was So CALLED FREE.they are not so I uninstalled everything from amazon. No more battery drain.
SOME APPS do not fallow the drained android or social rules
Watching the apps to be sure nothing is running CPU cycles allow the time I loose about 2 to 3 % batter life over night with wifi set to stay awake.
This is ideally from 11 pm until around 10 am the fallowing day.
Yes I sleep in alot giggles
re-flashed with Taboonay v.2.0/Richardtrips v.3.3 Kernel and it fixed everything.
JiggaGeazY said:
re-flashed with Taboonay v.2.0/Richardtrips v.3.3 Kernel and it fixed everything.
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had this on my tab for 2 days and reflashed back to stock because battery life was awful.
Hey guys just like we all i suffered from the insane battery drain in CM7 with my lovely Vibrant. But yesterday night i found a cure that gives me now great battery life - almost like a 2.2 rom.
What i did?
I googled around and found this post:
1. Open up the dialpad, and type:
*#*#4636#*#*
(the numbers are for 'info'; don't press call, it should automatically go to a 'Testing' menu)
2. Go into 'Phone information'
3. Press Menu, and select 'Select radio band' (this will result in a force close, but that's what we want.. just keep going.)
4. Go back into 'Phone information' and scroll down to the bottom'. It will probably still say 'CDMA auto (PRL)', but the problem is this is probably a visual glitch. Or it might say 'Unknown'. Either way, switch it to something else, then switch it back to 'CDMA auto (PRL)'. Then you can turn off the radio and turn it back on with the button right underneath that.
5. At this point, the fix has been applied, but it would be a good idea to clear the battery stats to get a fresh start. So boot into recovery and do that, then reboot. The fix *should* stick after this reboot, but I think it didn't when I first did it. But assuming it does, then you're golden. It will be like this for all other reboots. If it does not, then just do it again. You can tell if it worked if when you go into battery usage, and go into cell standby, the TWS% is much lower. I charged mine completely overnight after applying this fix and have been off the charger now for over a half hour and TWS% is still at 0% (even though cell standby is at 46% (but that's not a problem at all..), and my battery is still at 100%
My Vibrant gives me now GSM/CDMA auto (PRL) as network type.
So let me know whether it works for you too or not.
For me its asesome, since i can enjoy CM7 all day long ;-)
Seems to be working fine for me, would I have to do this for every nightly.
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great find +1 the battery life of cm7 drove me away to a JVQ rom but imma try this find and use it!
I don't know if the cure will work for me, too. I found out that my device doesn't enter deep sleep, so even when I'm thinking it's sleeping, it is not.
The process Android System keeps it awaken. At least it did in #54 and other recent builds. It completly depletes my battery like me drinking lemonade.
Does it sleep for you?
I like this. I can actually stream music while charging without slowly losing charge.
I'm going to try this and see what happens
Hope this gets run through Atinm.
kleineschatz said:
Hey guys just like we all i suffered from the insane battery drain in CM7 with my lovely Vibrant. But yesterday night i found a cure that gives me now great battery life - almost like a 2.2 rom.
What i did?
I googled around and found this post:
1. Open up the dialpad, and type:
*#*#4636#*#*
(the numbers are for 'info'; don't press call, it should automatically go to a 'Testing' menu)
2. Go into 'Phone information'
3. Press Menu, and select 'Select radio band' (this will result in a force close, but that's what we want.. just keep going.)
4. Go back into 'Phone information' and scroll down to the bottom'. It will probably still say 'CDMA auto (PRL)', but the problem is this is probably a visual glitch. Or it might say 'Unknown'. Either way, switch it to something else, then switch it back to 'CDMA auto (PRL)'. Then you can turn off the radio and turn it back on with the button right underneath that.
5. At this point, the fix has been applied, but it would be a good idea to clear the battery stats to get a fresh start. So boot into recovery and do that, then reboot. The fix *should* stick after this reboot, but I think it didn't when I first did it. But assuming it does, then you're golden. It will be like this for all other reboots. If it does not, then just do it again. You can tell if it worked if when you go into battery usage, and go into cell standby, the TWS% is much lower. I charged mine completely overnight after applying this fix and have been off the charger now for over a half hour and TWS% is still at 0% (even though cell standby is at 46% (but that's not a problem at all..), and my battery is still at 100%
My Vibrant gives me now GSM/CDMA auto (PRL) as network type.
So let me know whether it works for you too or not.
For me its asesome, since i can enjoy CM7 all day long ;-)
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I hope this works, but when i first went to phone info and did radio band, it asked for country, i choose usa, it didnt FC thou, then when my setting was already GSM/CDMA (prl) . I will report back tommorow how it goes. thanks
I'm guessing the same would apply to MIUI?
It definitely seems to be doing something. My signal hasn't dropped below the full four bars yet, which is weird considering it's normally around 1 or 2. The phone also seems to go to sleep faster, but that could be placebo.
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I'm guessing the same would apply to MIUI?
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yes i tried this it didnt seem to work for me i dont think i got it to stick on im gona try it again
didnt get Force closed at the select radio band. Now what should I do?
on Miui I had to select Turn Radio Off first, then it forced closed and now it seems to stick when I change radio bands. Just turn on/off radio a few times and it should help.
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on Miui I had to select Turn Radio Off first, then it forced closed and now it seems to stick when I change radio bands. Just turn on/off radio a few times and it should help.
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Thanks! Finally I got it to force closed and I did everything else. But I went into cell standby I saw my TWS% is 71 when my cell standby is only 21%. Is that a problem?
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I don't know if the cure will work for me, too. I found out that my device doesn't enter deep sleep, so even when I'm thinking it's sleeping, it is not.
The process Android System keeps it awaken. At least it did in #54 and other recent builds. It completly depletes my battery like me drinking lemonade.
Does it sleep for you?
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I had this same problem. Apparently alot of others did too, but no one seems to have a solution that I have seen.
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Effect of USB Charging on CPU Idle Utilization CM7
First, this test was performed on nightly #55 with KB5 baseband. I have performed this on KA7 as well and found the results to be similar.
I am very sensitive to my battery utilization. In turn, I am also a very frequent charger. Even if I'm at 80%, I feel I must plug my phone in as soon as possible. Because of this, there is hardly a time where my phone is on during a session in which it had never been on usb. This changed, however, this last weekend. I was playing around with KA7 vs KB5, and was away from my computer and charger. Later, when I reviewed my cpu utilization during idle time, I was shocked to see that the phone was just sipping the battery. Less than 1% utilization in System panel.
My initial reaction was "KA7 is amazing." However, the next morning, battery usage appeared to be the same as normal. On a hunch, I wondered if it was possible that it was the charging that is causing issue. As we all know, when the phone is plugged in, cpu utilization is fairly high (~30%), and some even report the battery getting hot (in some cases, even to reboot the phone). But -- is it possible that even after you unplug, there is some lingering "stuff" happening that will not go away, regardless of how long you idle?
What I did was simply charge my phone fully, unplug, reboot. I consistently find that my phone will go in and out of very low cpu utilzation state when I do this. If I go into airplane mode, I will even see full sleep state with no green bars in System panel (not that I would do this, as I like to USE my phone).
I am very curious if some of you may be able to try this experiment and report back. If this is confirmed, I wonder if there may be a way to determine what is getting stuck and robbing our cpu cycles after the phone is unplugged from charging.
Attached are four screenshots:
syspanel_pre_reboot_8hr.jpg: showcasing the long overnight charge, followed by very low activity, yet with >3% cpu utilization while idle. (by wall charge, though this has shown to be the case via computer usb charging as well)
syspanel_pre_reboot_2hr.jpg: a closer look at the idle time after the charge.
syspanel_post_reboot_8hr.jpg: A big picture view of the charging, the reboot, and the subsequent idle time. The first thing I did once the phone booted was download and install several app updates from market. I wanted to stress the phone before letting it fall back to idle.
syspanel_post_reboot_2hr.jpg: here you can see the lower idle cpu utilization on the phone. Initially there is activity as I updated apps from the market, and then it fell to hover around ~1%.
This behavior can be replicated and repeated on my phone every time. I was hoping someone with logcat experience may be able to help me define a filter so that we can see exactly what processes plugging the phone into usb starts, compared to which it terminates when unplugged. If we were to find this, I would suspect it could be added to the code itself.
THAT is what I'm experiencing TOO.
I have tried that fix. When entering the "select radio band" it doesn't force close. I just see "EURO Band" , "USA Band" etc...
also on the bottom it says "GSM only".
Is the fox already applied for me?
I'm using TRIGGER (CM7 based).
ginzberg said:
First, this test was performed on nightly #55 with KB5 baseband. I have performed this on KA7 as well and found the results to be similar.
I am very sensitive to my battery utilization. In turn, I am also a very frequent charger. Even if I'm at 80%, I feel I must plug my phone in as soon as possible. Because of this, there is hardly a time where my phone is on during a session in which it had never been on usb. This changed, however, this last weekend. I was playing around with KA7 vs KB5, and was away from my computer and charger. Later, when I reviewed my cpu utilization during idle time, I was shocked to see that the phone was just sipping the battery. Less than 1% utilization in System panel.
My initial reaction was "KA7 is amazing." However, the next morning, battery usage appeared to be the same as normal. On a hunch, I wondered if it was possible that it was the charging that is causing issue. As we all know, when the phone is plugged in, cpu utilization is fairly high (~30%), and some even report the battery getting hot (in some cases, even to reboot the phone). But -- is it possible that even after you unplug, there is some lingering "stuff" happening that will not go away, regardless of how long you idle?
What I did was simply charge my phone fully, unplug, reboot. I consistently find that my phone will go in and out of very low cpu utilzation state when I do this. If I go into airplane mode, I will even see full sleep state with no green bars in System panel (not that I would do this, as I like to USE my phone).
I am very curious if some of you may be able to try this experiment and report back. If this is confirmed, I wonder if there may be a way to determine what is getting stuck and robbing our cpu cycles after the phone is unplugged from charging.
Attached are four screenshots:
syspanel_pre_reboot_8hr.jpg: showcasing the long overnight charge, followed by very low activity, yet with >3% cpu utilization while idle. (by wall charge, though this has shown to be the case via computer usb charging as well)
syspanel_pre_reboot_2hr.jpg: a closer look at the idle time after the charge.
syspanel_post_reboot_8hr.jpg: A big picture view of the charging, the reboot, and the subsequent idle time. The first thing I did once the phone booted was download and install several app updates from market. I wanted to stress the phone before letting it fall back to idle.
syspanel_post_reboot_2hr.jpg: here you can see the lower idle cpu utilization on the phone. Initially there is activity as I updated apps from the market, and then it fell to hover around ~1%.
This behavior can be replicated and repeated on my phone every time. I was hoping someone with logcat experience may be able to help me define a filter so that we can see exactly what processes plugging the phone into usb starts, compared to which it terminates when unplugged. If we were to find this, I would suspect it could be added to the code itself.
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i usually reboot after i charge when i wake up then i send a few texts and work the phone a bit my battery life isnt too bad
romitkin said:
I have tried that fix. When entering the "select radio band" it doesn't force close. I just see "EURO Band" , "USA Band" etc...
also on the bottom it says "GSM only".
Is the fox already applied for me?
I'm using TRIGGER (CM7 based).
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no i have the same problem for some reason i cant get this fix to work either
Gave it a try, will see what happens. Battery life is now the only bummer on CM, if this solves it, I'll be a happy guy.
I can't find an automatic power saving option on my S7 Edge on Nougat for when the battery drops below a certain persentage (eg. 15% or 5%).
All I can find is just a notification (for 30%, 40% and 50%) that prompts me to "tap there" to enable power saving which then opens another window with power saving options, I need to tap one, it takes a dozen seconds for it to change the power profile.. it's a drag.
So I'm wondering if there's anything automatic for power saving (like in all Android phones since lollipop) or maybe I somehow turned it off?
My phone was on 13% battery and still didn't switch to power saving (just the notification to tap there to turn it on).
Same here. I also can not find the automatic power save setting on Galaxy S7 / Nougat. How lame if Samsung took default Android feature out.
I see power saving mode on mine just fine.
Settings - Device maintenance - Battery - Battery Usage - /3 points upper right corner/ Optimise battery usage
Ah...sorry...didn't read everything
Szadzik said:
I see power saving mode on mine just fine.
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The thread is about *automatic* power saving when the battery drops below a certain persentage. Please learn to read.
Pet1981 said:
Settings - Device maintenance - Battery - Battery Usage - /3 points upper right corner/ Optimise battery usage
Ah...sorry...didn't read everything
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Yeah, that list is kind of useless from a user's side. Also unrelated to my question.
atirage said:
The thread is about *automatic* power saving when the battery drops below a certain persentage. Please learn to read.
Yeah, that list is kind of useless from a user's side. Also unrelated to my question.
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Quite rude when people are trying to help.
So here's is a partial answer to my question: there is automatic power saving, it kicks in at 5% battery.
Anybody found an option to raise that 5% to 15% or 20%?
I checked everything battery and power saving related in settings and couldn't find it...
Device Maintenance> Battery.>App power monitor. There you can choose the apps you want to set power saving for and choose "Save Power".
It is not exactly the same as in vanilla Nougat, but if you want vanilla, Samsung is the wrong device.
Szadzik said:
Device Maintenance> Battery.>App power monitor. There you can choose the apps you want to set power saving for and choose "Save Power".
It is not exactly the same as in vanilla Nougat, but if you want vanilla, Samsung is the wrong device.
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No, that's not at all what I'm asking or looking for.
I know about this list, it is also present in vanila android, and it is completely useless...
I'm looking for an option to set the automatic power saving mode to kick in on higher battery percentage (20% or 25% or 30%), basically anything above 5% what the default is.
atirage said:
No, that's not at all what I'm asking or looking for.
I know about this list, it is also present in vanila android, and it is completely useless...
I'm looking for an option to set the automatic power saving mode to kick in on higher battery percentage (20% or 25% or 30%), basically anything above 5% what the default is.
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I understand what you are asking for because I myself would like the option, not sure why it's a manual process as seems daft to me.
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maverick1103 said:
I understand what you are asking for because I myself would like the option, not sure why it's a manual process as seems daft to me.
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Right!? It's weird that auto-power saving only kicks in at 5% battery, but then again the battery is pretty impressive.
I'm getting used to manually turning on the power saving mode and tweaking the brightness if needed.
Yesterday I achieved 9 hours of screen on time, manually tweaking the phone as the battery drained.
Maybe they forgot the option with the 30/40/50% notification to also activate medium power saving.. a simple toggle is missing there :/
I hope they add it in a future update...
atirage said:
Right!? It's weird that auto-power saving only kicks in at 5% battery, but then again the battery is pretty impressive.
I'm getting used to manually turning on the power saving mode and tweaking the brightness if needed.
Yesterday I achieved 9 hours of screen on time, manually tweaking the phone as the battery drained.
Maybe they forgot the option with the 30/40/50% notification to also activate medium power saving.. a simple toggle is missing there :/
I hope they add it in a future update...
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Yes the battery is pretty impressive and maybe they'll fix it like you say, hopefully!
I've not been one for power saving settings before but I like how this works, except for the one bug I've noticed is annoying me slightly.
When turning off the power saving and the resolution changes back from FHD to WQHD my keyboard (SwiftKey) size changes to really small so I have to adjust it each time; not sure if it's a bug or because the resolution is changing.
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Yes, it looks like they have added a short way to reach the power saving setting screen, but avoid an automatic activation of the mode, rather then at 5%.
To activate it easily and using that fast activation, you have to wait until you get a notification for low battery, then click on the notification and select manually MID or MAX.
I just loved the old fashion automatic power saving....
I noticed the same right after updating. It is extremely annoying. It's frustrating when useful options which used to exist are removed. "Updating" is meant to make stuff better after all...
I liked the 2 power saving options before the update. One decreased performance a little & my screen didn't change. It was a little slower and not as bright. It was perfect and it's gone. The other was Ultra Power Saving. Apps were very limited. It was great when I was in a crunch & couldn't charge it right away. The new "improved" Power Saving is horrible & I hate it!
Updated my S7 to Nougat, couple days and regretting the decision more and more everyday. Yesterday I've noticed hey I'm at 10% and not in power saving mode like why? Oh we thought it be great idea to kick in power saving mode automatically only at 5%.....
There is suppose to be a Battery Saver option that lets you choose between 15% or 5% when to automatically kick in power saver mode. But apparently Samsung removed this option?
Yes, I also hate this change...
If anyone has a link to a petition or something please post it. I used to go powersaving at 50% and kept my phone topped off, I hate even seeing 2x%.
And I dont see an ultra saving mode, you basically flip the customization options each time? I understand the concept -- but we all like to have the phone at full-everything at least for the glorious first 10% after charge.
Then OK for the next 40%.
Then frugal mode kicks in. Being frugal all the time is just no fun.
S7 user here, the same thing happened with android 7.0 update. Really miss the auto power saving feature... I had set it to kick in at 20% and it was what I needed to have my battery last for a whole day. Now with Nugat update the battery doesn't hold for whole day anymore because of this, what a shame!
So there is no option to set it to say extreme power saving when battery drops below 10 % ?
Nope
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Battery stuck on 50% won't change even when charge or discharge. Today it randomly shutdown in my pocket. and then had a battery symbol with a ?. The phone eventually turned on, I've tried turning off location, rebooting still having issues. Sometimes the battery saving mode stops working, i.e. it cannot be turned on. As I can see the problem concerns a large group of users and nobody knows what this problem is related to. Google is silent as usual. Is this a problem with the software or components ?! I am in a bad situation because I have no warranty for the device and I do not know where to send the phone in Poland because no one knows what is the cause of the problem. Help me please.
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/25796722?hl=en
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/22385581?hl=en
SignumOne said:
Battery stuck on 50% won't change even when charge or discharge. Today it randomly shutdown in my pocket. and then had a battery symbol with a ?. The phone eventually turned on, I've tried turning off location, rebooting still having issues. Sometimes the battery saving mode stops working, i.e. it cannot be turned on. As I can see the problem concerns a large group of users and nobody knows what this problem is related to. Google is silent as usual. Is this a problem with the software or components ?! I am in a bad situation because I have no warranty for the device and I do not know where to send the phone in Poland because no one knows what is the cause of the problem. Help me please.
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/25796722?hl=en
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/22385581?hl=en
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there's already been a fix for this it's on the link you posted.
Martin Medley
2/11/20
I wanted to chime in and say I am also having this issue. It has to be related to latest update? Anyways, I tried the squeeze trick and HOLY **** it worked! Thanks for that! Went from showing 50% to 93%. I would like to see Google's response. This issue the last few days has had me frustrated...enough to pre-order for an S20 Ultra and getting $600 for this POS. I was also experiencing random shutdowns, etc. I am going to continue to monitor this and will update if anything changes.
also you can try to factory reset.
Cheers, Hope this helps
That "fix" doesn't actually work unfortunately
jalado said:
there's already been a fix for this it's on the link you posted.
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This is the Pixel 4 thread
kappadappa said:
That "fix" doesn't actually work unfortunately
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do you just charge it up again when it shuts off at 50%? keep trying to drain the battery till it hits 0% just keep turning the phone on Everytime it shuts off. if you ever get to the point where it wont turn on anymore. charge the phone to 100% without turning the phone on. once it reaches to 100%, unplug the phone and turn it on. discharge the phone all the way to 0% and repeat the process at least 2 or 3 times. this will hopefully reset the battery stats. also clear the storage on the "device health services" app. battery stats are also kept in here
jalado said:
do you just charge it up....
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Actually I'm just setting up the warranty replacement handset that Google sent me. This is a hardware issue, not fixable with reboots or software. The new phone works great. Old one is still stuck saying 50%
I had the same issue and the repair was covered by Google, even though my phone is about 15 months old.