Crazy battery usage graph maybe some can help? - Epic 4G General

I check battery usage now and again and since I moved to gb you have the handy dandy graph. However as seen in the attached graph there is very strange drop I can't explain maybe some might help shed some light?
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I've seen this once, after turning the phone off and putting in a diff. Battery... Could also be something else.

Would have made more sense if it corresponded to hooking up to wifi. I get over 2 days on wifi on weekends at home.

You have data corruption that's not giving you an accurate read on the battery.
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I would get drops in my graph when my phone randomly rebooted or when the modem crashes. Check your uptime when you see those dips, it will probably correspond with those dips. At least it did for me.

Thx for the responses guys. Yea I have noticed both 4g and wifi seem to get a lot better battery life than 3g which was not the case with froyo. I figured that is what samsprint are working on. It might have been a reboot but I can't get data corruption from a reboot when I'm on rfs right? All in all I chalk it up to an unfinished build but I thought I would ask around anyways.
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I've had some ridiculous graphs. Open Gaps, 90% battery loss, you name it. It happens lol.
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Turn off yur phone then back on again you'll see the exact same thing happen, and obviously since your on gingerbread, it was a reboot, which is common with the leaks.
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Camera Draining Battery?

Um...is this normal?
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Hadn't really noticed a huge drain though.
Edit: I'm running DCv1.
Just checked mine. I'm at 88% display and 12% cell standby. Running Darchtrev v2.
Using DC v1
Cell Standby 70%
Phone Idle 20%
Display 8%
Android System 2%
im right there with you ajones. anybody have ideas as to why this is? i havent really seen a difference in battery life though. could just be a glitch.
Did you guys open the camera before you checked?
no. its been like that for a while. last time i used the camera was last night.
Not right before... I did use my camera today though.
I don't like telling people this because you can get in trouble by closing the wrong thing but... try a task killer and make sure the camera is completely closed.
Many Roms come with Astro of ES File Manager and those have a task viewer/killer built in.
i tried that. didnt see the camera as one of the running processes.
Maybe its an app running like goggles or barcode.
just checked. only thing that i could think of to have a hold on the camera is handcent and the messaging app. closed those. ill see what happens
*update*
so that didnt do anything. still reading at 93%. anybody have any ideas or are we just out of luck?

Android system very high in battery usage

Wtf. This never happened to me on my hero. Does anyone know why its so high.
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I think its ridiculous.
In spare parts it says my sensor is high for android sysyrem so I wiped it and recalirabate it and nothing.
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Yeah I had a similar post right after it came out. Unfortunately, its still unknown and still happens even after patches. We'll see if the next MR fixes it, but I won't hold my breath. There's a lot of processes running under it, so figuring out which one is the cause would be pretty painful. Tap on it sometime and there's like 20 something services under Android System that are shown as having contributed. I can still manage great battery life with it doing that, just annoying that the Android system uses more of the battery than anything. Sometimes it even uses more than Cell Standby.
I feel flashing another cdma snapdragon rom like the incredible and see if it would boot and if it would have this problem. Its pissing me off.
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get alogcat and see if there are any obvious error messages
here's the thing, atleast from what i've noticed, if you do alot of flashing, wether it be theme, boot anim, splash, rom's kernels, then yes you will see the android system running a high percentage, that is normal, but if you not doing any of that then chance's are it's a app that is preventing the phone from sleep, or many apps keeping the phone from sleeping, such as the Facebook bug not long ago that did that when they made the updated facebook app the first time around, till they pulled it and fixed that issue.
If you have recently been doing some flashing if your rooted, just put the phone down and leave it alone for awhile and you'll start to see the percentage drop.

Debugging bad battery life

Having battery woes?
no matter what ROM you are on, these simple steps will help with debug.
Install CPU spy and badass battery manager.
Start the apps and reset statistics.
Let phone run for a few hours.
Open CPU spy.
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See deep sleep?
An idle phone should be spending most of the time in this state.
If so, you are fine. All is well.
If not open Badass.
Here click on the bottom line which shows app usage.
Here is what you see. Kernel is at the top for me as there are no rogue apps.
If your device is not going into deep sleep and kernel is the one taking most CPU, it can be ram issue
NOTE : THIS method is android generic. Not specific to note.
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I had Facebook show up under kernal because it was accessing my GPS. I use better battery stats which offers a really good way to show you what is using your battery. badass didn't help in that case, it only showed that the kernal was using the battery because GPS falls under it. Better battery stats showed me it was the GPS and then it also showed me that my router wouldn't let me phone sleep, so a static IP fixed it.
Badass is nice, but it's very generic when it comes to android specific functions that are being called upon. It's only good to show apps that are using the processor, not the functions or processes that the apps are calling up if they do so.
Regardless, thanks for the how to guide.
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[Q] damaged battery?

Hello, I don't know if my battery is dying, but lately I've been experiencing terrible battery drops (70% to 50%, 40% to 20%) using CM10, that started since the 24.09 build. Then I flashed stock and installed the latest nightly build from Quarx, (10.01) thinking that it might fix that way, and I've read that you should be able to have a better battery performance but I didn't. Anyway, I went back to stock, thinking that CM10 might be the reason of those drops, but it happened again.
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I would like to know if indeed my battery is damaged, or if I'm doing something wrong or I'm missing something at any installation step.
thanks in advance for the help.
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Drops usually mean ur battery is bad, but maybe you should clear battery stats (in recovery) and see if that fixes anything, if not buy a new battery, that's what I did, hovever I even got the 1700 mAh one (original for defy+) and I love it
Buy only original batteries, cause others are usually awful....
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I did the "clear battery stats" thing, and did not work at all, still the drops... Then I went for the buying option, and I bought a 1500mAh last week, and it works like a charm! no drops at all ! At least not that big, hehe, anyway, thanks for the tip!

Overheating

So I know the phone gets hot but I was watching a flash video on Firefox and the audio got garbled. I closed Firefox immediately and took this screenshot.
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Everything else about my N4 is excellent. Well, except battery life. That aside, is this a hardware issue? I hate doing RMAs but I'd hate for my phone to die even more and can't be without a phone.
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I'd crack an egg on the back and have breakfast.
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How many hours do you get screen on?
You could try a kernel w/ undervolting available and see if that helps.
If your phone is rooted and have busy box installed then I'd recommend Bricked kernel. I used to have issue with heat too but after using bricked kernel I have never seen it goes up past 105. Its even rare to see it goes up to 100.
So this could be a kernel issue then? Hm. I'll think about it then. I wanted to keep the phone stock but maybe I'll try the kernel.
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from my experience flash always makes the phone run hot. hell anything that uses the CPU at a high utilization for a long amount of time makes it hot, games like GTA Vice City for example
m4r0v3r said:
from my experience flash always makes the phone run hot
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He's right. It's flash.

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