Hello everyone,
My battery drains so fast and I don't know what to do.
It seems an application is open that drains it but I cannot turn it off.
Please check the screenshot
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Search, read, learn then experiment. You can't expect help if you aren't prepared to help yourself.
There are many threads about battery, apps and wakelocks - go find them.
boomboomer said:
Search, read, learn then experiment. You can't expect help if you aren't prepared to help yourself.
There are many threads about battery, apps and wakelocks - go find them.
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I suppose this answer is just to increase your posts...
If you don't have an answer then don't post something like this. I searched before posting this but didn't find anything.
Sorry for the above link but 'cause I'm a new user it doesn't let me post url's.
I highly suggest u take a look at this thread. You will find some answers
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1878828
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Liaros said:
I suppose this answer is just to increase your posts...
If you don't have an answer then don't post something like this. I searched before posting this but didn't find anything.
Sorry for the above link but 'cause I'm a new user it doesn't let me post url's.
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Doubt it but what is true is that you and the OP did not even bother to read the rules or the stickies .
Thousands of battery drain posts all identical you cannot expect members to continually point out the basics that is not what this forum is for .
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You might need to close all your running applications. Plus close wifi, sync & others when not in need. Or it could also be your downloaded apps that have advertisements on it. This will automatically lights up your phone even on stand by mode. Try uninstalling them, download ad free apps on google play so you will know what are your installed apps that have ads on it. Hope these help!
Depending on what you are running on your phone, ie; Stock Samsung Official Firmware or Custom Firmware Via CWM etc,
There are many many posts about battery drain & how to solve the problem, I thought the same, but I persisted and found what I needed.
OK, I am sure you know about custom roms, some stable, some not. many have battery drain problems, many dont.
I advise if you are running a custom rom, go to the thread for that rom and read about any problems about battery, if not post in the thread
and ask the person who made the rom for help. battery drain could be anything, which includes a bad flash or installation.
Anyway I hope you get sorted.
Every time i hear somebody suggests To close almost everything that make a smartphone deferent than a common phone I wonder if android has many problems to solve.. A smartphone is smart because of the services that it offers...
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Totally agree redcom7, a smartphone is just that, if everything is turned off then what's the point???
Android is not perfect but it is pretty dam good, battery drain issues are more likely in custom roms.
I am running a custom rom which I researched prior to install, now it's in it lasts on average 14 - 19 hrs longer than the Official Firmware
and that is with everything running.
You are right everything does not need turned off, just a bit of common sense mixed with research and everything should be fine. :good:
I am running omega rom.
The thing is that when I flashed this rom it didn't have battery issues. But now it does!
So I thought an application drains the battery and I wiped everything but it still drains it.
The app is called media as you can see on my screenshot.
I really don't know what to do...
I wiped battery stats and it seems better now...
I'm thinking of changing kernel. Would that help?
See my post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35010121
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I m just wondering to find whats the normal battery timing of Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 ?
My phone battery timing is about a day with normal usage.
Its 4.1 J.B
And I also want to find out some new tips and tricks.
Thanks.
(I m a new member)
Depends on use. Stock I only get about 7 hours with my use. With tweaking I usually double my battery life.
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Liaros said:
I am running omega rom.
The thing is that when I flashed this rom it didn't have battery issues. But now it does!
So I thought an application drains the battery and I wiped everything but it still drains it.
The app is called media as you can see on my screenshot.
I really don't know what to do...
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You have the media scanner bug. There are various solutions but the most common one is to reformat your SD card.
You can stop it happening temporarily by force closing media scanner but it will return when you reboot the phone.
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ROM Sotmax Ultimate V8
Kernel Yank555.lu-V2.7a
'Rescan media root' solved a problem I was having with battery drain from media.
Also, I also used to think that shutting down some android services was defeating the purpose of having a smart phone. Unfortunately, I was losing 20-30% battery when at work for about 5 hours. Recently I've started switching off data while working (I can't use my phone when working anyway) and now my drain over the same amount of time would be around 5%.
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corrsea said:
You have the media scanner bug. There are various solutions but the most common one is to reformat your SD card.
You can stop it happening temporarily by force closing media scanner but it will return when you reboot the phone.
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I put another sd card and I'll see how it goes now.
Just to mention after 30 mins battery is at 98%
Ok guys! Problem solved! :good:
Thank you very much for your help!
Liaros said:
Ok guys! Problem solved! :good:
Thank you very much for your help!
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Thread closed, post in the Q & A section next time.
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did a search so if already asked sorry but i didn't find the post..
anyways.. anyone else getting a really fast battery drain after using google wallet?
i i'm on stock but rooted.. loaded the file available for the ns4g and when i open google wallet, everything works and what not.. leave the program either pressing the back button or home.. and after a few hours.. battery drains pretty quick.. look at the battery monitor stat thing.. google wallets always on the top even though i used it once for 1 min... same results even if i turn off the nfc chip in the settings.. basically have the restart and not open up the program and battery is fine..
kunalp83 said:
did a search so if already asked sorry but i didn't find the post..
anyways.. anyone else getting a really fast battery drain after using google wallet?
i i'm on stock but rooted.. loaded the file available for the ns4g and when i open google wallet, everything works and what not.. leave the program either pressing the back button or home.. and after a few hours.. battery drains pretty quick.. look at the battery monitor stat thing.. google wallets always on the top even though i used it once for 1 min... same results even if i turn off the nfc chip in the settings.. basically have the restart and not open up the program and battery is fine..
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I'm using peter alfonso's stock rooted 2.3.7 and I've even used google wallet and it isn't even in my battery use screen.
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I'm using peter alfonso's stock rooted 2.3.7 and I've even used google wallet and it isn't even in my battery use screen.
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Same here.
i'll flash to this rom and see how it goes.. should i still clear cache and stuff?? plan on just flashing but still trying to keep programs and contacts etc installed..
Stock 2.3.6 and no battery drain issues. I'm curious if it's stuck polling some resource. If you capture a logcat do you wee any wallet activity? Are you seeing the device wakelocked or waking often?
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I had the same issue as well, I'm running stock and unrooted.
I've been wondering peter alfonso's would be a better rom to run btw?
I'm running a kang'd cm nightly with google wallet and sure enough now it says 59% google wallet...
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I'm running a kang'd cm nightly with google wallet and sure enough now it says 59% google wallet...
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Yea, I had my suspicions it had something to do with CM7. I saw quite a few posts on the interwebz about people having battery troubles with GW and was curious as to why I wasn't having any trouble. Everything was gravy on stock 2.3.5 with the 2.3.7 update, and on my current ROM, Pete's GPA18 Beta.
I was running stock 2.3.7 for a few days and was also running into battery drain issues with Google wallet, where according to the battery use utility it was using upwards of 36% of the battery at the end of the day after simply opening the wallet app, not even after actually using it. There is probably a few bugs in the software as it was just newly released so look for Google making some updates in what I assume will be the near future.
Happened to me too today. I noticed subsequently trying to open it that it didn't want to "unlock" either until a reboot.
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Yea, I had my suspicions it had something to do with CM7. I saw quite a few posts on the interwebz about people having battery troubles with GW and was curious as to why I wasn't having any trouble. Everything was gravy on stock 2.3.5 with the 2.3.7 update, and on my current ROM, Pete's GPA18 Beta.
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Yep, after switching back to GPA18 it works fine.
i ended up flashing to peter's rom.... stock rooted odexed rom.. and now i can open google wallet without battery draining.. i opened it thru one or two times a day the first few days while keeping the nfc chip on.. and without actually purchasing anything.. and no serious battery drain... so for me solution found.. clear cache and such.. then flash to peter's rom.. problem solved
I have the same problem. Here's what I posted in the Google wallet possible fix thread.
Anyone having any battery issues with this? I flashed this last night and I'm down to 45% battery in 7 hours with Google wallet using 52% of my battery and a keep awake time of 4 hours and 34 minutes....
I'm running a fresh install of the latest NSCollab which is based on nightly 212 I believe.
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Same here... after update my battery life is gone. Very unhappy as I can't find how to shut it down. My phone had 74% when I went to bed. It drained & shut off before I woke up. 6hrs of sleep for me and the phone died.
Why?
if you dont have this issue, why the F*** do you comment on it saying:
"nope, no issues here."
your not helping at all.. its so pointless. this guy needs help.
Im running 2.3 oxygen, and it just happened to me today, been running the same setup for 2 days now and today it happened. I just tried to force close wallet and cleared the apps data and cache. will post results
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if you dont have this issue, why the F*** do you comment on it saying:
"nope, no issues here."
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Perhaps because the OP asked the following QUESTION:
kunalp83 said:
anyways.. anyone else getting a really fast battery drain after using google wallet?
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Now calm down. It's gonna be alright.
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Perhaps because the OP asked the following QUESTION:
Now calm down. It's gonna be alright.
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i understand, but honestly what is the idea behind saying that? I understand if you also offer some kind of advice, but its just annoying with out help.
joebarkho said:
i understand, but honestly what is the idea behind saying that? I understand if you also offer some kind of advice, but its just annoying with out help.
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Oh, I definitely get your point. I,myself, try to provide a bit more than just a basic "yes" or "no" answer. But that doesn't necessarily mean those that don't are being unhelpful.
I have this problem too. Nexus S - tmobile - oxygen 2.3.
even when wallet is in the apps draining the phone, it seems my battery drains faster now.
Rooted. Getting just under 5 hours per charge.
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Hello,
Long time lurker here with an issue, I've tried many different solutions but seem to come up with no better results.
The main issue is that my atrix has never gotten better than 15 hours of life. It seems that it is not able to reach sleep state and therefore I get a constant battery drain of ~7.3% per hour regardless of usage.
I am a heavy user averaging 2 hours of screen-on time per day but I experience the same range of battery life (within an hour) whether I use the device or not.
I use background sync setting for google apps (gmail, contacts, music etc), whatsapp and groupme messaging.
I am currently using turl's ICS v6 with Faux123's v025beta kernel. However I've used Neutrino, Wet Dream and DarkSide with similar consistent results.
I recently bought a new OEM battery but that has not affected the run time. The last install of ICS I used the fastboot clean wipe (erase boot, preinstall, system etc) in hopes to fix possible lingering bugs but without any change in the battery run time.
The Atrix is from Bell, tegrapart d00. The screen was replaced once due to the screen becoming non-responsive for touch. Other than that no issues.
Using BetterBatteryStats it appears I have the "suspend" process bug that has been discussed on the forums before, preventing the phone from sleeping. This I think is the main issue, but different kernels and ROMs have not helped it at all. Is this a phone defect type of bug? I don't understand it enough to tell. Also previous forum posts concerning the suspend process have not yielded any types of fixes for it.
Any assistance or help with this issue would be much appreciated.
Switch to Turl v8 with stock kernel and make sure you fastboot -w first
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Also try to calibrate your battery
Edit: when you replaced the screen are yo sure nothing is shorting?
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neer2005 said:
Also try to calibrate your battery
Edit: when you replaced the screen are yo sure nothing is shorting?
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Fixed! I had to flash a new radio. I flashed the 1.77.36P att radio. I had an older Bell radio before. Drain was 7% an hour before, 3% an hour now. Huge difference.
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Fixed! I had to flash a new radio. I flashed the 1.77.36P att radio. I had an older Bell radio before. Drain was 7% an hour before, 3% an hour now. Huge difference.
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Try the newer 37P radio. It works just as well.
I got same issue as you (I think - can't install betterbatterystats for some reason market won't let me!!!) but I'm already running N_01.77.36P. Was going to reflash, but read the last comment. What is this new radio and can you help me find a CWM zip? no luck in google so far.
Tried this thread but can't see the correct file?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1339047
edit: found it in the thread, its buried aruodn page 10
I've just downloaded and flashed the latest CM10 ROM. I must say it's fantastic. A big thank you to the developers. I thought I'd report a few bugs that I found/ stuff that I felt was lacking.
Major problem: this thing doesn't report the battery charge properly. The phone didn't look like it was going to die, but it suddenly did. When I connected it to charge, it said 5%. I let it charge until 10% before switching it back on. When I switched it on, it said battery had 36% charge.
It still has a problem connecting to WiFi once in a while. I'm not sure why.
I don't have the option of locking individual apps. This was a feature in CM7 I loved. I could prevent my friends from reading my e-mail, but let them play games on my phone. Although there exist apps that allow one to lock individual apps, I thought it'd be nice to have this built in.
EDIT: Oops! This is in the wrong subforum. Sorry. Could the mods move this? Thank you.
Wipe battery stats for the battery issue
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Please ask all questions in the Q&A section. Thread moved there.
Any idea how to know whats running Using the android system. Its sending data somewhere i think and its draining my battery as well. Adds up heating my phone up as well.
My battery went down from 97% to the one indicated in the screenshot. Help please... Im beginning to hate android now with this lackluster battery life. This just happened yesterday. Everything was fone before that.
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I think I have this problem too. Or I'm really paranoid about my battery. I did a factory reset a few days ago, but it was fine before that. Usually my screen is the #1 battery consumer, now Android System is 75%.
Did you update your firmware? I'm running ME2 and had no problems whatsoever before that.
I downloaded "battery stats plus" and the issue might be the "camera test"?
I dont think the firmware updated has something to do with it? Not sure though.
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Downloaded that app, and Camera Test shows pretty high on mine as well. About 1,73% though, but with a bit over 5 hours without charging. It's been using my camera sensor 2 hours out of 5.
I think this is a really good case for the experts in the better battery stats thread. They have a special procedure to help you quickly solve the problem.
Read the OP, or if its a multiple post OP read them. It says exactly how to let the phone sit idle (i think I recall its 4 hours) and get some specific info and post it and they will help you narrow down exactly what's causing it but also give a solution.
I have a job interview in just a bit, and am in a hurry but wanted to share that with you.
I have an idea what the problem might be and those guys actually have a really good solution to fix it without having to eliminate anything and just changing some settings.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15869868
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CharliesTheMan said:
I think this is a really good case for the experts in the better battery stats thread. They have a special procedure to help you quickly solve the problem.
Read the OP, or if its a multiple post OP read them. It says exactly how to let the phone sit idle (i think I recall its 4 hours) and get some specific info and post it and they will help you narrow down exactly what's causing it but also give a solution.
I have a job interview in just a bit, and am in a hurry but wanted to share that with you.
I have an idea what the problem might be and those guys actually have a really good solution to fix it without having to eliminate anything and just changing some settings.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15869868
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Thanks for the input Charles, I'll definitely try there. I see a few others in the thread might be having the same problem as us.
And I thought after buying my S4 I'd be happy forever after... +1 thanks to you.
Same here... Im beginning to hate android... Im close to throwing this phone on a brick wall... This is my 4th time to reset due to settings acting up and ruining battery life.
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Draining is as fast as charging...
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Looks like i fixed the issue somehow...
I think google and samsung apps might be the problem. Tried to open and setup to not use any data on all google and samsung apps. Namely google setting app, samsung hub, samsung link, Keis, etc.
Update them all via samsung hub and possibly download kies air from samsung app store. Was trying to setup them while charging the phone. Location based apps was also turned off for using gps or data. Turned off notifications on them as well unless you do want to be notified.
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Hello, I've had this phone pretty much since release. I've never had any problems with battery life on it, I would typically get 5-6 hours of screen on time since I'm not that heavy of a user. Recently, however, I have not been getting very good battery life at all. My phone drains a lot, even while it should be sleeping. I checked the battery usage report and the first thing on the list just says 10037. I click on it and cannot force stop or anything and it doesn't provide me with any additional information. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to figure out what this is or if any has had any issues with this is as well and found a fix. I haven't really done anything new to the phone that I can think of. I posted the screen shot of my batter usage. Thanks.
http://i.imgur.com/9PwkHcX.png
It's an app that was previously uninstalled. If you restart the phone and recharge it should disappear.
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chanchan05 said:
It's an app that was previously uninstalled. If you restart the phone and recharge it should disappear.
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I haven't uninstalled any apps that were number 1 on my list, though, that's why I'm confused. This puppy is showing that's it's using a lot of battery lol.
Just try it. I've encountered a lot of this on other forums. Fix was always the same.
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chanchan05 said:
Just try it. I've encountered a lot of this on other forums. Fix was always the same.
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I'm in the process of trying it lol. But I don't think it hurts trying to get more information while the phone is charging. I've given it a google and couldn't find it on other forums, which is why I made a post asking. I did see a lot of people that posted their battery logs from their rooted apps saying an id of the deskclock was 10037. So I wasn't sure if that was draining my battery for some odd reason after the update a couple weeks ago.