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Hello all,
I've had my EVO for about 2 months so far. I've notice just like everybody that the battery life sucks to hades. I've rooted the phone since then.
1st problem) Maybe it's me or it's a problem no one addressed yet, The phone will start getting hot when it is in standby mode. When the back light goes out it gets hot. I've check to see if there were any wild or un-needed services running and there isn't, and its not like McDonald's Coffee hot but very very warm to the touch. And when it does that the battery life starts at 100% and ends at 20% within 40 minutes.
2nd problem) I've installed two programs in which I've deleted since the time it happen. A Super User Permission app, the one that's gray and has the jolly roger look to it. The next one is Juice Defender. I notice the problem after I installed them that the phone will start restarting itself like every 3 or 5 minutes. I'll be in the middle of a phone call and it would go blank and restart. The only time I notice it doesn't do it is when I connect it to the computer while I have debug on and when I do a hard restart in which I pulled the battery out. The battery trick only lasts for about half a day. I installed those apps 4 days ago, both at the same time.
My phone info is:
Software #
1.32.651.1
Firmware version:
2.1-update1
please help!!!! it's driving me up the wall.
I'm no expert but it sounds like a rogue app to me. If my phone were doing that i would wipe it and start from scratch.
Just my thoughts.......
Wallabe said:
My phone info is:
Software #
1.32.651.1
Firmware version:
2.1-update1
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Try updating to one of the rooted 2.2 Froyo ROMs. Be sure to do a full wipe (data, cahe, dalvik-cache) before installing a new ROM, unless otherwise instructed. You're running an old software version of Eclair (current Froyo is 3.26.651.6). I've received considerably better battery life since the update to Froyo, especially with a custom ROM and custom kernel. I personally run both SetCPU and Juice Defender with no problems or any overheating issues.
Mostly it sounds like you have something locking your CPU usage at 100% which would explain the heat and battery drain. I suspect you may be having software conflicts using the old OS version. Do a Nandroid backup before flashing a different ROM so that you can rollback to your exact setup you currently have if you do not like the results of the updated ROMs.
And by all means, DO NOT flash an unrooted stock Froyo ROM (or take any OTA update). There still is no method to root that.
Yeah I have been debating the whole wipe the phone and start with the 2.2 OTA and wait till they root that. This is driving me mad, cause it's seems it knows when I need it the most. When I'm at the house it last and stay up like a champ, when I leave it starts acting up.
Which leaves me with the question how do you save the apps on your phone?
Wallabe said:
Yeah I have been debating the whole wipe the phone and start with the 2.2 OTA and wait till they root that. This is driving me mad, cause it's seems it knows when I need it the most. When I'm at the house it last and stay up like a champ, when I leave it starts acting up.
Which leaves me with the question how do you save the apps on your phone?
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Appbrain is a good way to manage apps. Any paid apps should still show up in your downloads section of the market after a hare reset. I have no battery problems with the ota 2.2 patiently waiting root. Don't know if I'll root when they do figure it out because its pretty stable with decent battery life for me.
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So today is Day Two since I changed the ROM. I have notice alot has changed, some things are new, and some things are working that never work before. It's like having a new phone all over again. LOL
I also use the instructions in the thread about battery life
Edit: I can't link it due to new user access. But its in the General fourm.
15 hours and I haven't plugged it up yet to recharge it yet I still have 60% left on the battery. I made 8 phones calls that lasted 2 mins and more, plus ran the music app and more.
I want to thank you guys for your help
Do you getting more then24 hours on a stock battery?
Do you keep 3g on and always connected checked?
You have to be a real light user
No sir.... by no means I'm I a light user. As I stated I use my phone pretty heavy and that was only day two that I done that.
Yes....I now get more then 24 hours out of the stock battery.
At 7am I unplug and jet out to work. I use my phone as a MP3 player for the car. 30 minute drive to and from. When at work I play games and make random phone calls for 9 hours of the day. SN: I'm doing my job also When I leave work I go to my gf's house which has no signal out there. I use to have to put it on Airplane Mode to save the battery. Now I just leave as is without changing it.
Total time using the phone in 24 hours: 14 hours
Times I charged my phone in 24 hours: 0
Battery Percent in 24 hours after 14 hours of use: 45%
Longest hours since unplugged: 2d 2h 4m 10s with a 50% life left.
Yes I keep my 3G on. I turn my GPS off and Background Data, Set the weather app or widget to update every 6 hours (Why would you need to know the weather every hour on the hour, Just press update when you open the weather app) along with other things I don't need running while I'm at work or even not using them.
This is with the OMJ Froyo 2.2 Rom update. The phone is still running smooth and as it should (in my opinion)
One minor but major problem to some I wish they would fix.
Multi-touch though out the whole phone. The Droid X, Incredible, and Nexus 1 has it.
Why can't we have it. I would be so happy if we can get that.
hi!
i bought a e900 yesterday, brand new.updated it to latest rom, and after a full charge.....taken out of the charger at 9 in the morning.....after 3 hours, battery is at 70%.
15 mins of voice calls, data always on, google email pushed and automatic brightness.
isnt this a little odd? or the battery needs calibration like in android phones?
I've also been having the same battery issues you have.
The appeared after the latest ROM/firmware update.
The call quality was improved, but the battery was much much worse than before.
My guess is that it might have something to do with Mango, but Mango might be a month away, so I am returning to the old installation.
Can report back on weather or not the battery is back to normal.
Optimus 7 had a good battery prior to the ROM update, would last at least one day with normal settings, push email and so on.
If you're looking here you might be struggling with terrible battery life after the mm update. The first couple of days and few complete cycles after my update, I was getting less than 3 hours sot, in less than 12 hours, whereas lollipop treated me much better, approximately 5-6 hours sot in 24 hours. Let me clear some things from the very start: I am not attempting to create perfect battery life by sacrificing radio speed, disabling wifi when asleep etc. I'd rather have lte whenever possible and I only stop the radios at night between 11pm and 6am, using the tasker-like app included with z5.
I will continue by explaining a little bit more thorough how I did my update and in next post will give the exact steps to follow so if you're in a hurry or only here to find tips on improving battery life, head there right away. Also, if anyone has other ideas on how to improve on battery life, don't be shy and chip in.
So, since this is my first unrooted android phone ever, I had to adjust a little bit. Where previously I was using a combination of apps such as tasker, secure settings, greeenify, logcat and BBS to diagnose wakelocks and the like, I found that when I first tried to improve on lollipop battery life with these tools, actually I worseend the battery situation. For instance greenify would stop apps so they would take more cpu cycles to start again, etc. The z5, as it is, it has awesome right from the shelf standby capabilities so I feel root for those reasons only is not that sought for, after all.
Marshmallow update
I installed the nordic combined fw with clean wipe of all options present in flashtool. Afterwards I started the phone and let it restore the apps via google backup. At this step you might want to get rid of unnecessary apps (I had quite a few of them). I let all the updates happen, then I headed back to the pc and sony pcc to restore my backup (I know some people recommend starting fresh with the apps but I am the kind of lazy person, and really spoiled by titanium backup, but well, since i cannot have the latter..). I specifically chose to restore the apps data.
After restore it might take a while for the phone and whatever apps you have to sync with their respective cloud and data. I would only mention that although I kept google photos for now (with no auto sync yet) I am rather using the sony memories cloud, it seems to me faster and more standby and mediaserver friendly. So I had some problems with photos but will try it again, maybe it works better in mm.
I haven't disabled a lot of the bloatware, actually I advise you to go slowly and carefully about that since in lollipop disabling some of the preinstalled apps result in random reboots.
What I did though, after the first (horrible) battery cycle was to clear all app cache: settings/storage/internal storage/cached data
I also disabled location scanning under settings/location menu
I also performed a battery re-calibration which you should do anyways once a month or so by letting the device deplete completely (1-2% really) shutdown, charge in the wall charger up to 100%, start it plugged in charger and verify that battery percentage reads 100%, then unplug.
I didn't take a screenshot of the 3 hours sot I got a few days ago, but here are some screenshots of the much improved battery life, second day of 6+ hours. Let me tell you I didn't go easy on the battery either: few hours of listening to flac from ext sdcard in poweramp or google play over apt-x bt, couple minutes of hangouts, few sms, lots of tapatalk/reddit, a bit of camera, in other words, kept radio lte almost the whole day (while at work), all with adaptive brightness at halfway mark
steps
If coming from complete firmware reflash, you really got to let the phone 'settle' ie, sync your emails, photos and what not cloud services you sync with. When mediaserver usage decreases in battery usage you should be fine for next step
Delete all apps cache
Optional, if you have root/recovery mode you might be able to delete system cache
Optional, disable location scanning
Calibrate battery (you really gotta do this periodically)
I would add, as some sort of maintenance procedure, don't let your phone become too hot as that not only drains the battery faster but can permanently damage the battery, ie reduce its life/capacity.
There are also other ideas that I am currently trying, however as I am not sure they help or even cause problems of their own, will mention them later on when I'll have tested it more thoroughly: it's about debloating, usage access and others
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Some apps might not very well compatible with MM and draining. After a clean flashed I managed to get a good battery but after installed all apps the battery is a bit worse now.
Same observations here. Not a quality update for the moment. Having some problems with fingerprint unlocking. With lollipop I didn't encounter this kind of problem.
nitski said:
Same observations here. Not a quality update for the moment. Having some problems with fingerprint unlocking. With lollipop I didn't encounter this kind of problem.
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This is how to improve battery thread so don't start the crap about what you don't like in MM.
I think trickle charge might be an issue for some. When it's been charging for some time and at 100% unplug and plug the charger back in a few times
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lol, try this way dude
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@sajithsajan, are you retarted? Quoting whole first post? Really?
Going to give that a try, but, what was your screen brightness
I could get five hours with the brightness slider at zero.
Pretty much useless if I'm not in dark room all day.
unfaix said:
Going to give that a try, but, what was your screen brightness
I could get five hours with the brightness slider at zero.
Pretty much useless if I'm not in dark room all day.
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The post says brightness halfway brightness slider (with adaptive display).
It's been a while since this post and a couple MM builds. I think that the battery calibration is still a good procedure towards experiencing better battery life, so I'd do that every month or so. Otherwise, look for more obvious issues. Just the other day I noticed a new --and very well rated-- social app I used for a few moments then, half an hour later it didn't let go of the location, even in background, exited with back button.
Did you notice a worsening in battery life on 6.0.1?
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Did you notice a worsening in battery life on 6.0.1?
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Without having timed it precisely, my ballpark numbers put it within same previous battery performance.
IMO, z5 is good enough for light to moderate usage, even some gaming although not expert on that.
It is good also for standby time (I keep on all location scanning that you might have, google now active etc), music listening ,etc.
What depletes the battery pretty fast though are any camera-related action/video recording, hangouts videochat. The camera also overheats quite rapidly so there's that.
Hi all,
After the last update to 24.14.12, I started experiencing much worse standby battery drain. In a single day, the battery would drop over 25% with Google play services taking up out of the power. Is there anyway I can fix this issue?
I'm having similar issues. I did a factory reset which helped somewhat with the battery drain, but the phone still drops calls and is generally unresponsive at times. Did you find a solution?
I did not. I hope Moto/Verizon push an update patch to fix the issue. What is the biggest power sucker for you? For me, google play services is taking up to 40%.
Just the other day I had the same problem with bad battery drain. I realized that an app called PIA (private internet access) which is my VPN service was juicing my battery bad. I turned it off for a few days and have seen excellent results. But I use the heck out of my phone, as I run a small business, and by the end of the day (5 pm-ish) I'm lucky to have around 25% battery left.
I do a lot of texting, calling, emailing etc.. Again for ME, this is a business phone. I will probably end up turning on the VPN service again but I want to try it out for a few days without it.
As far as the update, I'm not sure I've noticed bad battery since the update, but I have always been of the mindset that when there is an OS update, I usually perform a Factory Data Reset to get the cleanest install.
I feel like my battery is worse as well. The phone also seems a lot more sluggish/less responsive than before.
I did another factory reset, this time by going into recovery and wiping everything twice. This helped substantially and the slugginess is gone. The battery life is poor when in use, but the standby is back to being good. I have a ton of wake locks I need to chase down, but I think they're all related to google location services. If I set my location to device only my battery life improves substantially, but the phone has trouble getting a GPS lock at times like that. Kind of ironic that using GPS only makes it hard to get a GPS lock........
Hello all,
So I know there's various discussions all over the web about the Galaxy s10 and battery issues on both Snapdragon and Exynos variants. It seems people are experiencing a wide margin of difference in avg battery life..
So here's my situation. My wife and I both have S10+'s through AT&T. We got them the first week they came out. I looked though the forums and performed several battery optimization tweaks on both phones and since then the battery life has been really impressive... No complaints really. Until this last week.
We both recieved the March security patch and fingerprint scanner fix about a week ago. My wife's phone seems unchanged by this. Everything working as expected. My phone however has been draining battery MUCH faster both in SOT and standby time. I'm losing 2-3x more battery % overnight. In the last 20 mins of just reading through threads on the XDA forum app, I've lost about 10% battery. I'm sitting in the dark with my screen brightness very low too. (down another 5% since I started typing this!)
My wife and I have very similar phone habits. Since both our phones are optimized identically, and we used most of the same apps a play the same games, I started looking through everything different I've done in my phone since this problem started. I installed Adhell3, which seems to be setup properly and working. Mike B. from Adhell's Discord assured me that Adhell shouldn't be draining my battery. I'm mostly using it just to remove a bunch of basic bloatware and block some ads.
The update seems to have worked fine otherwise. My FP scanner is much better now, but something is definitely wrong. I've tried wiping the partition cache afterwards. I've tracked down others experiencing issues after this particular update, but cant seem to find a way to fix this problem yet. I saw something about Deep Sleep problems after the update when someone uses a VOIP service like Skype or WhatsApp, but I dont use anything like that. I can't even find a good tool to use to see more information about my battery usage, as the built-in battery monitor lacks a good deal of information. CPUspy doesn't work on my version.
If anyone has any ideas of what could be the culprit, what else I could try, or what tools I could use to try and track down what exactly is causing this sudden increase in drain, I'd really appreciate it.
Which update do you have ASBA or ASCA? This is rather weird, Battery drain can also come from restoring from backups. I lose 2% every night and my phone is on airplane mode, not connected to anything except location. I do not have adhell, and last time I tested before the fingerprint update I had 10h SoT on wifi purely. When I got the new fingerprint update I checked if the phone went to deep sleep and it does, so I really do not know what might be your issue. I have an exynos variant btw. Also I charge my phone constantly from 80 I let it drop to 40 and charge it back, I do not use fast charging options. Since unplugging my phone now on LTE fully I have lost 1% in 30 min, I have my fitbit always connected, location on, max resolution, I have a semi black wallpaper and brightness around 40-50%.
I will see today how much SoT I can get from 80% part wifi, part LTE, I will update.
clear cache helped a lot of people
Update 1
Reset all phone settings to factory. Don't do full factory reset, just all the settings, fixed my post update battery drain issues
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Hrrm. It seems I don't have ASBA or ASCA, I have ASD3. The March update.
I'm really hoping I don't end up having to factory reset and manually install everything... Because I did do a restore from backup with AT&T Transfer, because it seemed really convenient and time saving. I had no idea that so many people have had issues with restoring from various back up services (AT&T, Samsung, Google etc.)
I did the same restore from backup on my wife's S10+ too and she's had no problems. Her battery life is phenomenal. My battery issues only started after this last update.
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I'm really hoping I don't end up having to factory reset and manually install everything... Because I did do a restore from backup with AT&T Transfer, because it seemed really convenient and time saving. I had no idea that so many people have had issues with restoring from various back up services (AT&T, Samsung, Google etc.)
I did the same restore from backup on my wife's S10+ too and she's had no problems. Her battery life is phenomenal. My battery issues only started after this last update.
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Well that seems rather strange to be honest, you can eliminate possibilities by just testing and see what works. Last possibility can be that factory resetting and installing all new, but then again, it could be that it solves your issues or not. You should be having rather horizontal lines to prove your phone is truly going into deep sleep in my opinion, but also you can check with CPU Spy
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Try to log too safe mode and check the battery drain
If stopped then it was from an application that have a problem
If not I think it might be a system app or something
So. I'm starting to think that some of my problem has to do with wakelocks. Unfortunately I have limited access to wakelocks statistics since my phone is unrooted. However. Last night I fully charged my phone right before bed and then took it off the charger to see how much it would lose overnight. It dropped a whopping 10% vs the 1-2% it used to.
I looked through some of the battery info and noticed several apps running in the background for very long periods of time since last night. Chrome(2hrs) , Discord(2hrs), Google Play Services(a whopping 13hrs 30mins running in background) and Google Play store (5hrs)
Somehow Discord was responsible for draining 7.6% battery in that time!
So, could this be a wakelock issue causing my phone to lose so much battery overnight? I know that's only half the problem, because I'm also experiencing higher drain than usual while using certain apps too. But I'm trying to figure out one thing at time.
SinisterDev said:
So. I'm starting to think that some of my problem has to do with wakelocks. Unfortunately I have limited access to wakelocks statistics since my phone is unrooted. However. Last night I fully charged my phone right before bed and then took it off the charger to see how much it would lose overnight. It dropped a whopping 10% vs the 1-2% it used to.
I looked through some of the battery info and noticed several apps running in the background for very long periods of time since last night. Chrome(2hrs) , Discord(2hrs), Google Play Services(a whopping 13hrs 30mins running in background) and Google Play store (5hrs)
Somehow Discord was responsible for draining 7.6% battery in that time!
So, could this be a wakelock issue causing my phone to lose so much battery overnight? I know that's only half the problem, because I'm also experiencing higher drain than usual while using certain apps too. But I'm trying to figure out one thing at time.
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You can look at this thread and see if you can install the app without being root or not
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
aromerodaniel said:
Which update do you have ASBA or ASCA? This is rather weird, Battery drain can also come from restoring from backups. I lose 2% every night and my phone is on airplane mode, not connected to anything except location. I do not have adhell, and last time I tested before the fingerprint update I had 10h SoT on wifi purely. When I got the new fingerprint update I checked if the phone went to deep sleep and it does, so I really do not know what might be your issue. I have an exynos variant btw. Also I charge my phone constantly from 80 I let it drop to 40 and charge it back, I do not use fast charging options. Since unplugging my phone now on LTE fully I have lost 1% in 30 min, I have my fitbit always connected, location on, max resolution, I have a semi black wallpaper and brightness around 40-50%.
I will see today how much SoT I can get from 80% part wifi, part LTE, I will update.
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10 sot？！？！？you sure about it?!?whatever I try I always only have 7 something sot,how can you make it 10?!?
paullu said:
10 sot？！？！？you sure about it?!?whatever I try I always only have 7 something sot,how can you make it 10?!?
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I have done it before, I can look for the image, if you would like. That was a full day of wifi actually.
paullu said:
10 sot？！？！？you sure about it?!?whatever I try I always only have 7 something sot,how can you make it 10?!?
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Here is the pic
Also you can look at this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s10-plus/how-to/official-exynos-battery-life-thread-t3917814/page7
You have it good compared with me I get background drain on all apps and I have all apps set not to run in the background
da1e8 said:
You have it good compared with me I get background drain on all apps and I have all apps set not to run in the background
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You just need to tweak your settings more, put which apps do not run on the background or go to sleep, how many days you need to wait to put unused apps to sleep. Is all tweaking the settings.
aromerodaniel said:
You just need to tweak your settings more, put which apps do not run on the background or go to sleep, how many days you need to wait to put unused apps to sleep. Is all tweaking the settings.
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I've put all apps to sleep and they still register as been used
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I've put all apps to sleep and they still register as been used
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Then I don't what you can do, either do a factory reset and so not restore anything from backups and see if that works. I usually set my phone that way, clean no restoration from any backup all apps are installed manually, and I do not even use adhell to disable most of Samsung crap apps and services.