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App drainimg battery?

Bought the vibrant 4 days ago. Flashed it 2 with the Obsidian ROM. Getting great battery life from it too.
Had some free time on my hands yesterday and went on an app downloading rampage. In two hours of light use today my battery has dropped 40%!
How can I identify the source of the power loss?
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Media hub always seems to start itself and does drain some. Have you reconditioned your battery yet? I'm on obsidian v2 and this is where I'm at so far.
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19 hours with 23% left, not too bad. I downloaded a boat load of apps, installed even more from backup, played a little bit of angry birds and have been streaming Pandora for the past 4 hours.
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I did. Took about 9 hours of constant use to drain the ***** too! Exactly why I dont get what's draining the battery. Task manager and Services seem normal as well. Battery usage itsthe same as yours... :\ FML

What I do to recondition is charge to 100% and keep it plugged in for 5 minutes longer... unplug for a minute or two, plug back in, charge til full again and keep plugged in for a few minutes longer. Continually doing this until it takes awhile for it to get below 100% unplugged. This seems to work better for me than the charge, clear battery stats, discharge etc.. and doesn't take nearly as long.
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i'll give it a shot... she went down to 11% in a flash. lets see whats up

System panel is a great app to monitor how much CPU an app uses.
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Overheating Bug? (Charging Paused)

hey guys, was doing some wifi syncing, went for a shower, came back, screen was off but the battery was at 1% hehe, i plugged the charger in and this is what came up:
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strange right? i then unplugged the charger and put it back in, it was back to normal..
but heres the temps... temps are legit, the phone was cool to the touch (and i know what warm is! )
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I've had this issue too. The other day my phone was at 52degrees whilst charging.
Someone suggested the cases may be to blame. I use a gel skin but have sent for the official case.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117709
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yeah, but the temperatures are cooler than normal? :S, it NEVER hits below 29.0C ...

Today is a hot day, and my phone is at 32 degrees whatsapping online for 20 minutes. But playing games it jumps to 40-45, really painful to receive a call after that. I hope they can lower the CPU speed when it gets hot, that way it won't create as much heat or something. I don't know.

I am having this same issue on my Galaxy Tab

zkyevolved said:
Today is a hot day, and my phone is at 32 degrees whatsapping online for 20 minutes. But playing games it jumps to 40-45, really painful to receive a call after that. I hope they can lower the CPU speed when it gets hot, that way it won't create as much heat or something. I don't know.
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Painful as in burning your ears or any other issues we should be aware of ? We should issue a warning: "Don't play games when you expect a call" or get yourself a personalized voicemail message: Hi, i'm playing games on my phone right now and my battery temp is >50C, there's no way in hell i will reply to any call

argh, i gotten this popup too when i tried to charge my phone. wasn't doing anything with the phone!

@OP Sorry, out of topic question. What is the widget that monitor your cpu speed+ temperature?

Setcpu I believe.
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@OP Sorry, out of topic question. What is the widget that monitor your cpu speed+ temperature?
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So no go I guess

Try to uninstall Set CPU and see what happens.
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Another myth debunked.. "batterystats.bin"

Just ran across this post by Dianne Hackborn, system developer for Android at Google on Google+
I figured it was worth reposting here
"Today's myth debunking:
"The battery indicator in the status/notification bar is a reflection of the batterystats.bin file in the data/system/ directory."
No, it does not.
This file is used to maintain, across reboots, low-level data about the kinds of operations the device and your apps are doing between battery changes. That is, it is solely used to compute the blame for battery usage shown in the "Battery Use" UI in settings.
That is, it has deeply significant things like "app X held a wake lock for 2 minutes" and "the screen was on at 60% brightness for 10 minutes."
It has no impact on the current battery level shown to you.
It has no impact on your battery life.
Deleting it is not going to do anything to make your more device more fantastic and wonderful... well, unless you have some deep hatred for seeing anything shown in the battery usage UI. And anyway, it is reset every time you unplug from power with a relatively full charge (thus why the battery usage UI data resets at that point), so this would be a much easier way to make it go away."

I'm in shock.
Why did I read this with my hands down my pants
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I'm in shock.
Why did I read this with my hands down my pants
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And a picture of me to the side..
But that's interesting!

Extrapolation is a wonderful thing
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omg deleting the batterystats.bin works! /trollololol
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That's crazy, another myth down the drain. It's like quadrant scores, we cared about them on the beginning
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Doesn't surprise me, considering most on the forum aren't hardware types and/or know how lion batteries behave...

Truthfully, I don't even know what works and what doesn't anymore. My battery is still sucks!
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Battery life sucks

2 hours on the phone did this to my battery. Screen time was 48 mins. Screen was off on call using BT. Phone was red hot after call
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It is something you installed or something on your setting up the phone.
this phone battery is amazing , trust me it is.
I get screen on times , unthinkable to my previous phones with brightness way way higher
so.. just try to figure out what is eating your batt and why.
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then again you didnt start your battery log with 100% batt
and your drain was due to a very phone cal (?) With screen off, but your network signal suck really bad, maybe is from there ? But even with low coverage I find it hard to imagine that drain.
But then again.. never had low coverage ..

Yeah I can assure you it's something in your settings that is giving you poor life. You didn't give much description of what they are so it's tough for me to help you with what to fix, or how much knowledge you already have. I recommend BetterBatteryStats and Battery Mix for starters.

Install BBS (Better Battery Stats) and find the rogue application that is causing battery drain.
Battery life for me is amazing. I get close to 28-30 hours with mid - heavy usage.
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Your signal during this two hour call was awful. Keeping a connection while not using the phone is a battery sucker in these conditions. I imagine it is much more so when you are actually on the phone. I'd suspect that as the culprit, as the radio has to be pumped up to the max constantly, instead of every minute or so.

I had a note 2 on same network and never saw this kind of drain. I think this qualcomm chip is ****. In my settings my cpu was at 2.27ghz for 1 hour 43 mins! Why was my cpu maxed out while making a simple call.?
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Battery drain problems... funky wakelocks... Please help!

I'm having a funky wakelock issue. Over the last couple of days I've had a PhoneApp partial wakelock that's been running almost continuously while the phones been off the charger. Today a new one related to the phone popped up. I've attached screen shots and dump files from better battery stats so hopefully someone can help me figure out what's going on.
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I also have the log cat file if needed.

Do you have any MOD that enables the Torch/Flashlight to work from the lockscreen by long pressing volume up or down? I used to have that on and it killed battery from my experience

I do have that mod enabled although I have had it enabled for months and have not had any issues with it draining battery.

nateohio said:
I do have that mod enabled although I have had it enabled for months and have not had any issues with it draining battery.
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Yeah I would disable it for process of elimination to see if that's the cause.
Or another route is do you remember if you restarted your phone since you unplugged it off of the charger? Try to restart your phone everytime you take it off of a charger with the MOD enabled to see if that corrects it

I don't know why this fixed it but it did. I wonder what the developer changed in the coding to cause this to be an issue now
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I read that not only the long press for torch but also the long press for music controls did the same thing. Thought it would be a great idea until I read about the power drain
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With the note 3's massive battery I was still finishing an 18 hour day with 40-50 percent remaining but anything that hits battery life, in particular anything that keeps the phone from deep sleeping, has got to go.
For me it's not so much about day to day battery life as it is about long term battery health
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