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Low battery life

For the past few weeks i've been noticing a bigger drain of battery than the usual and i don't seem to be figuring out what's going on...
If someone knows any way to increase battery life feel free to post any solution. Thanks in advance
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nikeradsn said:
For the past few weeks i've been noticing a bigger drain of battery than the usual and i don't seem to be figuring out what's going on...
If someone knows any way to increase battery life feel free to post any solution. Thanks in advance
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have you been fully charging and fully discharging your phone?

What app did you install? Did you install a new rom? what rom are you on? My guess would be a rouge app. Have a look in the battery usage graph or get spareparts and look at the things that are keeping the phone awake.

dc959 said:
have you been fully charging and fully discharging your phone?
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Fully discharge only some times i usually start to charge it at 10%
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PaulMilbank said:
What app did you install? Did you install a new rom? what rom are you on? My guess would be a rouge app. Have a look in the battery usage graph or get spareparts and look at the things that are keeping the phone awake.
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Im running aurora 4.1.1a, the problem might be a rouge app i don't know
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I would suggest you download CPU Spy to see if an application is preventing your phone from entering deep sleep mode, for example. You may have a lot of widgets refreshing way too often, as well.

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I would suggest you download CPU Spy to see if an application is preventing your phone from entering deep sleep mode, for example. You may have a lot of widgets refreshing way too often, as well.
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The only widget that refreshs at my home screen is SetCPU, in order to monitor the Temperature, but i will try that app in order to check whats going on thanks.

Ok finally I've managed to see what was the problem that was causing such battery drain/loss... The problem is that i wasnt full charging/discharging, now the battery seems to be working fine. Also I've check cpuspy and nothing is interferindo with the deep sleep.. Thanks for the help
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nikeradsn said:
Ok finally I've managed to see what was the problem that was causing such battery drain/loss... The problem is that i wasnt full charging/discharging, now the battery seems to be working fine. Also I've check cpuspy and nothing is interferindo with the deep sleep.. Thanks for the help
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Never fully discharge Li-ion batteries.

But is not fully discharging, under %15 damages battery? And also i put from batter over %95 because after %100, it waits until it drops and again charges if i forget there.

Battery Life on 4.1.2 I9300XXELK4

I got this battery life on first day of usage.
Autosync ON (Facebook, Google (Only Gmail), Hotmail, Skype, Tango, WhatsApp, Viber)
Auto Brightness ON (100%)
WiFi most of the time (You Can see photos, like 95% of the time was ON)
GPS OFF (Location Settings, Maps & Latitude)
Google Now OFF
Power Saving OFF (I Never use it)
Mobile Networks (GSM Only)
NFC OFF
S Beam OFF
Stock Rom
Stock Kernel
Never had this kind of screen usage with 4.1.1 JB.
Sorry if this post should not be here, but lot of people had bad battery life on 4.1.1, so they can try this leak if you like better battery and better features
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Same here. Finally a firmware that's excellent for battery
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Wow. That's impressive. I get around 3.5 hours of screen-on time in 4.1

DeadSOL said:
Wow. That's impressive. I get around 3.5 hours of screen-on time in 4.1
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Same here with 4.1.1
3.5 hours was max screen time on.
But with 4.1.2 i got up to 5 hours on first charge after full wipe, maybe after 2 or 3 cycles we can arrive to 6 hours
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Is this a standard update via Samsung?
I need this desperately as my battery is not even funny with 4.1.1
How did you update?
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Android System's battery usage is still too much, don't you think?

TheNazgul said:
Is this a standard update via Samsung?
I need this desperately as my battery is not even funny with 4.1.1
How did you update?
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We flashed it via Odin.. It is leaked fw.
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TheNazgul said:
Is this a standard update via Samsung?
I need this desperately as my battery is not even funny with 4.1.1
How did you update?
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Here you go. Download and flash it via odin. It is leak version not official.
Btw better than official 4.1.1 for me.
Link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835931
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raul90 said:
Android System's battery usage is still too much, don't you think?
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It is, but 5 hours and 16 minutes screen time are much too ... never get this before..
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xhaniGS2 said:
It is, but 5 hours and 16 minutes screen time are much too ... never get this before..
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7hours with 4.1.1
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xhaniGS2 said:
Here you go. Download and flash it via odin. It is leak version not official.
Btw better than official 4.1.1 for me.
Link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835931
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Will this ROM increase the binary counter or set custom ROM = YES?

xhaniGS2 said:
I got this battery life on first day of usage.
Autosync On
Auto Brightness
WiFi most of the time
GPS Off
Google now off
Never had this kind of screen usage with 4.1.1 JB.
Sorry if this post should not be here, but lot of people had bad battery life on 4.1.1, so they can try this leak if you like better battery and better features
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And using 3g???

venki5star said:
Will this ROM increase the binary counter or set custom ROM = YES?
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Both.
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5h screen time! Pretty good. I guess you're the type who never puts the phone down, I do at most 3h screen time and that's pushing it.
I'm running ELK4 right now, waiting for everything to settle to test battery life, I have a very long day and night tomorrow, perfect time to see how far the battery will go.

very bad for me in 4.1.2
in 8 h ( standby ) :
4.0.4 -------------- 1%
4.1.4 -------------- 3%
4.1.2 -------------- 8%
decrease in battery %

@ALIRAFAAT Really? on 4.1.1 i lose 1%/hr on standby

tqgia2 said:
@ALIRAFAAT Really? on 4.1.1 i lose 1%/hr on standby
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yes really
from 24 to 8 am for several night
(rom: custom / several google and samsung app deleted )

avercros said:
And using 3g???
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No 3g.
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Battery is awesome on lk4
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Fredo13127 said:
7hours with 4.1.1
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Good for you never saw 7hours screen time on s3
I was on 4.1.1 from leaks to officials. My battery arrives max 3.5 screen time on.
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Poor Battery Performance of my S 2

Hello everyone,
My S2 only last for 10-13 hours and it drains battery too fast. Tried everything and nothing happened.
In my phone i disabled almost everything which drain battery.
No Facebook
No auto syn of Gmail
Access location is off.
GPS Off
Soft key light/Vibration off
No skype
Disabled Accu weather app
Disabled many others bloat ware
Brightness is set at almost zero level
Better Battery Stats show connectivity wake lock. i think ghis the main problem for drain.
And plz tell me how can i set my phone to only gsm. There is no option for that in phone. In setting it says GSM / wcdma and only wcdma. I set it at gsm/wcdma. Am from Pakistan and here there is no 3g/wcdma.
And if by dialing *#*#4636#*#* i choose gsm, it comes back to gsm/wcdma. Is it draining battery?

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cute_kayani said:
Hello everyone,
My S2 only last for 10-13 hours and it drains battery too fast. Tried everything and nothing happened.
In my phone i disabled almost everything which drain battery.
No Facebook
No auto syn of Gmail
Access location is off.
GPS Off
Soft key light/Vibration off
No skype
Disabled Accu weather app
Disabled many others bloat ware
Brightness is set at almost zero level
Better Battery Stats show connectivity wake lock. i think ghis the main problem for drain.
And plz tell me how can i set my phone to only gsm. There is no option for that in phone. In setting it says GSM / wcdma and only wcdma. I set it at gsm/wcdma. Am from Pakistan and here there is no 3g/wcdma.
And if by dialing *#*#4636#*#* i choose gsm, it comes back to gsm/wcdma. Is it draining battery?
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what ROM are you using ??

What!?
You wrote "My S2 only last for 10-13 hours and it drains battery too fast."
On attached screenshot you have 80% left after 6 hours of usages whereas 48% is used by Screen and 17% is used by Boat Browser.
You have to expect about 1~1½ % drain per hour ... even if you don't use your phone.
Screen drains a lot depending of your amount of Brightness! If you can get 4 hours Screen On, your happy.
From what I can see ... your battery time is totally normal!

I have Stock rom ICS 4.0.4
My cellphone is branded version and it comes from 3 Mobile UK.
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no its not normal.. today i charged it and not use it for 2 hours.. i put it on airplane mode and leave it for 2 hours after 100% charge, to check the partial wakelocks.
I thought this time connectivity service wakelock doesn't appear but it does.
i thought connectivity service wakelock is due to mobile signal but when i put it on airplan mode for 2 hrs this partial wakelock still appear.
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cute_kayani said:
I have Stock rom ICS 4.0.4
My cellphone is branded version and it comes from 3 Mobile UK.
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Hmm , I am not a Fan of ICS though, but the battery time which you have shared (Just Saw it) LOL , it is totally fine , and secondly , use a safe kernel to root the phone (PhilZ Kernel) link is in my signature , and then Flash NeatROM Lite v4.0 , my battery lasts easily 18-20h and i am a heavy user of the phone with Calls , Messaging , FB , Twitter, Whatsapp, Viber & Tapatalk
Follow my guide which i posted Here

Mr.KiLLeR said:
Hmm , I am not a Fan of ICS though, but the battery time which you have shared (Just Saw it) LOL , it is totally fine , and secondly , use a safe kernel to root the phone (PhilZ Kernel) link is in my signature , and then Flash NeatROM Lite v4.0 , my battery lasts easily 18-20h and i am a heavy user of the phone with Calls , Messaging , FB , Twitter, Whatsapp, Viber & Tapatalk
Follow my guide which i posted Here
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... or just use your phone "as is" and be happy :laugh:

haha thanks for your solution
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but tell me one thing, how to minimize connectivity partial wakelock? what are the cause of this wakelock.
This is tha main problem for me...
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cute_kayani said:
but tell me one thing, how to minimize connectivity partial wakelock? what are the cause of this wakelock.
This is tha main problem for me...
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i think you are using wrong RIL and modem , just flash firmware for pakistan

Try JuiceDefender from play market.
cute_kayani said:
Hello everyone,
My S2 only last for 10-13 hours and it drains battery too fast. Tried everything and nothing happened.
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juice defender did nothing for me. it turns off everything which i already turned off.
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pepe_palotes said:
Try JuiceDefender from play market.
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PLS STOP with all this Juice Defender nonsense! A task killer often will drain your battery even more ... some processes will just restart again after you have killed it.
On newer Android version (GB and ICS) I haven't found any task killers that actually prolonged my battery time.
Adjust your screen brightness as low as possible, use a dark backgrounds and themes, get rid of unnecessary Widgets and Live Screen backgrounds, Sync Mail, Calendar, Twitter only when needed ... and then you will be fine :good:

cute_kayani said:
juice defender did nothing for me. it turns off everything which i already turned off.
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use the rom which i am using , its awesome ... Links are in my signature !

hmmm. how to set only GSM?
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cute_kayani said:
hmmm. how to set only GSM?
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why do u want to do that , its useless as there is no 3G here

ok....
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And better, get an original 2000ma battery, this help very much.
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cute_kayani said:
ok....
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A simple click on "Thanks" Button would be Appreciated
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DummyPLUG said:
And better, get an original 2000ma battery, this help very much.
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I wished i could get a original 2000mAh battery in Pakistan

Nexus 7 power spikes.

I'm not sure what's happening. My Nexus 7 remains idle most of the time, yet I get pretty bad battery drain and then when I check the battery history I see this. This happens during every battery drain.
Any ideas guys?

g.davis17 said:
I'm not sure what's happening. My Nexus 7 remains idle most of the time, yet I get pretty bad battery drain and then when I check the battery history I see this. This happens during every battery drain.
Any ideas guys?
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Wow, have never seen that on any device! Install Gsam or better battery stats if you are rooted to see what's going on. My best guess, it's a hardware issue.
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Woah... Is your tablet trying to go Super Saiyan?....

Also I'm completely stock and have never rooted it and the Android system usage was close to 70% of the battery usage.
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Looks exactly like mine !

g.davis17 said:
Also I'm completely stock and have never rooted it and the Android system usage was close to 70% of the battery usage.
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Have you already tried reformatting? Kind of a pain, but that's the only thing I can think of.

Try contacting Google or the seller they might give you a replacement.
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That happened to me once or twice. These spikes are only visible on the battery graph in settings app. I use an alternative battery monitor app from Google play and it does not show any spikes. Also battery life seems pretty in line with what other people report. I simply ignore them since they do not seem to affect battery life.
Could it be caused by the wireless charging functionality being triggered by other electronic devices in house?

I saw the same problem in the G+ community there, but it's Gelexy Nexus which updated to Android 4.3 recently
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/StjSPYyRwtNHMBDli224-BiHIgMBpJ53YOMAKLIutHw=w498-h885-no

bandit_knight said:
That happened to me once or twice. These spikes are only visible on the battery graph in settings app. I use an alternative battery monitor app from Google play and it does not show any spikes. Also battery life seems pretty in line with what other people report. I simply ignore them since they do not seem to affect battery life.
Could it be caused by the wireless charging functionality being triggered by other electronic devices in house?
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Yes, but the screen shot shows 2 days of battery , and he don't use the tablet
If I have a Light use I have battery to 4 Or 5 days...
I advise you to factory reset with the battery charged
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I'll try doing a factory reset I suppose and see if that cures this. I'll keep everyone updated.
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g.davis17 said:
I'll try doing a factory reset I suppose and see if that cures this. I'll keep everyone updated.
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ppdebie said:
Seems more likely to me then the battery actually spiking it's voltage. That'd be potentially more serious...
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Hey everyone,
My Nexus 7 (2013) is having the same problem with battery graph. There are about 2-3 spikes to 100% in every discharge cycle.
I noticed this problem has been reported in different cycles, but no one seems to be able to give a definite answer of what the source of this problem is.
BTW, after a reset to factory settings, the problem still persists.
ANY idea why this is happening???

g.davis17 said:
I'm not sure what's happening. My Nexus 7 remains idle most of the time, yet I get pretty bad battery drain and then when I check the battery history I see this. This happens during every battery drain.
Any ideas guys?
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SEARCH 1st b4 posting!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381550

henklbr said:
SEARCH 1st b4 posting!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381550
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You just keep referring to that forum without actually answering my question, even on that forum

glanceviewservice causing huge battery drain

Hi Guys,
Bought Note 3 few days back, biggest battery drainer as I see from better battery stats is "glanceviewservice" as kernel wake lock.
I dont even use this feature, is there a way to disable it ?

saj2001ind said:
Hi Guys,
Bought Note 3 few days back, biggest battery drainer as I see from better battery stats is "glanceviewservice" as kernel wake lock.
I dont even use this feature, is there a way to disable it ?
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go to settings, air gestures, and turn off quick glance
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thelostlegend said:
go to settings, air gestures, and turn off quick glance
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thanks, so is the "glanceviewservice" related to that ?

yea I think so.. it has t be..
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thelostlegend said:
yea I think so.. it has t be..
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Ok I disabled it, it drained 8% battery overnite and phone didnt went into deep sleep...did you also experience this service causing battery drain ?
any other thing I should disable to keep better battery