Database Users

Specific battery life issues

I have had a rooted atrix since release date.
The battery life has been frustratingly bad.
Right now (9am) I am at 86% with the screen having been on 26m.
It's very very very common for my "running" time in spare parts to be 2-3x my screen on time.
Partial wake usage is led by the process: UID 1001, followed by Android System.
Network usage is dominated by process "0" followed by android system. "0" is so far in the lead it is unreal.
My total in all time stats are:
Running 28%
Screen on 14.1%
Phone on 1.5%
Wifi on 30.5% (??????????????)
Wifi running 17.3% (Even more ????????????????????)
I have frozen all of the recommended freezing apps. I have beautiful weather set to refresh every 2 hours. Facebook, twitter, etc, aren't set to notify me at all. I have no idea why it's so bad.
It's coming to the point where i'm about to give up. My nexus one gave me better battery life.
I've already tried a factory reset, is there something i'm overlooking?
What is UID 1001? What is "0"?
The most frustrating phone I've ever owned. It is so close to greatness. I wish I could get rid of this terrible terrible terrible motorola blue garbage.

I've been struggling with battery life too for some reason. If you have Tango installed, get rid of it. That app didn't let your phone sleep and drained battery. Now my problem is the sensor usage when I check my battery history in *#*#INFO#*#*. Android system has been using the sensor 100% of the time for me. I factory reset it, but that didn't work either. I'm really contemplating going back to my N1 too, which is such a shame since this Atrix has so much potential
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

Which radios do you have on:
-gps
-bluetooth
-wifi
Do you have 'autosync' turned on?
P.S How long until your phone goes from 100% to 0%?

Man_of_Leisure said:
Which radios do you have on:
-gps
-bluetooth
-wifi
Do you have 'autosync' turned on?
P.S How long until your phone goes from 100% to 0%?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I turn wifi on and off. On a home off at work. Gps is on. No bluetooth ever. Autosync is on I guess. It may be frozen though.
Right now my phone is at 63% and the screen has only been on 37 minutes! This is pathetic.
Sent from my MB860 using Tapatalk

Dont know how you guys have such bad bat life ive been rooted since i got the phone i changed bat saver off to performance and after to days of mod usage im still at 60% so i dont know what tell u my battery is rockin
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

eallan said:
I turn wifi on and off. On a home off at work. Gps is on. No bluetooth ever. Autosync is on I guess. It may be frozen though.
Right now my phone is at 63% and the screen has only been on 37 minutes! This is pathetic.
Sent from my MB860 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Has your phone ever gotten down to 5%-10% or do you always recharge it before then? I've had issues in the past where a lith-ion battery loses lots of its capacity until completely drained and then completely recharged. It seems way to early for this for you, but it might help. From my limited experience, gps is very very costly in terms of battery.

Man_of_Leisure said:
Has your phone ever gotten down to 5%-10% or do you always recharge it before then? I've had issues in the past where a lith-ion battery loses lots of its capacity until completely drained and then completely recharged. It seems way to early for this for you, but it might help. From my limited experience, gps is very very costly in terms of battery.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Draining a li-on battery completely more than once a month damages the battery. It's a very bad practice.

I'm having the same issue with UID 1001 under Partial Wake Usage and I also have the 0 under Network Usage. Under Partial Wakelock it shows UID 1001 and a total time of 7h 7m 30s under Total in all time. I've tried a hard reset and still showed up. Have you guys checked to see if you are getting the same thing. If people are getting good battery but have this then I'll feel a little better. I just thought it was weird. I still get this even with WiFi, BT and GPS off.
Under Network Usage the 0 is pretty much all blue all the way across and a little bit of pink at the end. If i try to click on it "Settings has stopped unexpectedly" message.

The battery doesn't seem to last as long as my n1. With my n1 I still have roughly half when I get home from work. The atrix was at 30 or so when I got home today and its been similar most of the times.
Sent from my MB860 using Tapatalk

I am also not terribly happy with the battery usage. Maybe its because I have WiFi on all the time?
Also, just having bluetooth on (but not connected to any BT devices), shouldn't be a big drain on the device.
The main auto-sync feature I have is Exchange push notifications. Gmail only syncs every 3 hours.
I also have device running time on Spare Parts higher than Screen On Time.
I am going to try a factory reset and add applications one by one to see if that has any effect.

I've let it fully discharge once. I just can't sort it out. People in the other threads are getting 1+ DAYS uptime.
Sent from my MB860 using Tapatalk

With light usage I was originally down to about 20% at the end of the day. That's now improved to 50-60% charge after installing the 'green power' app recommended in another thread and further improved by turning off the auto brightness.
Auto brightness is good but needs to be reduced by about 30% to be useful.
Gps Navigation with google is the biggest battery drained I've seen so far. Its on the order of using 1% charge per minute. Im hoping that an offine nav app will be more efficient.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

There are a lot of reviews stating that spareparts IS the cause of battery issues. Maybe uninstall that and use the built in battery manager to determine use?

Man_of_Leisure said:
There are a lot of reviews stating that spareparts IS the cause of battery issues. Maybe uninstall that and use the built in battery manager to determine use?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Really? It seems to just be a monitoring app.

[Q] does the battery suppose to drain even in standby mode?

I am concerned about the battery life of my exchanged tab. The first tab I had has great battery life but had some sound issues that's why I replace it. But now I have this new tab but battery is draing fast even not using heavily. I am charging the tab whole night. I did not even has email account setup so its not retrieving any emails. Any suggestions to improve battery life please?

Is your wifi and GPS running at all times?
If you have rooted the tab try using an overclock tool to reduce the load, this should increase the battery life. Until then we are gonna have to wait for a custom honeycomb ROM that increases battery life. If its as bad as you say it is I would try another tablet and hope you dont get another thats messed up.
GL

No the tablet is not rooted but its factory unlocked. How do I know if the tablet is rooted?

It would only be rooted if you rooted it

Mine barely drains with screen off and Wifi on with everything syncing at the same time.. I can go like 2 days average use on my tab so far.

so it seems like there is an hardware issue. Diversion is your tab unlocked or locked?

Diversion said:
Mine barely drains with screen off and Wifi on with everything syncing at the same time.. I can go like 2 days average use on my tab so far.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same here. Too bad it takes forever to charge tho.

dazz87 said:
Same here. Too bad it takes forever to charge tho.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Forever is an understatement.

I have different battery experience than the OP. I keep my wifi on constantly. On standby with little use (~0.5 hour today), the battery went from 100% to 93% since morning to midnight.

I think it's your unit. I use mine for about a total of 4 to 5 hours a day with wifi and bt at a fixed 75% brightness and when it goes into standby I only lose about 1% every 2 hours. Usually by the end of the day I'm at about 70% battery with a low of 50%.
Sent from my GT-P7510 using XDA Premium App

Switch launchers I'm running adw ex (LPP had a number of fc's that I didn't like).
Sent from my GT-P7510 using XDA Premium App

Have you checked the battery usage to see if any apps are using a lot of battery? (Settings -> About Tablet -> Battery Use)
Mine was at 98% when I went to bed last night and at 94% about 7 hours later this morning. That's with wifi, bluetooth and GPS on, and GMail syncing (but not much else).

all of you guys whose battery has no issue do you guys have tab with locked or unlocked boot-loader. Mine is unlocked and i think because of that battery is discharging fast. Snoopstah i check the settings battery use is screen, browser (which is closed), wifi, android OS thats about it. Please let me know what should i do i have one more day to exchange it.
Thank you all

Exchange it. The battery life in standby mode is stellar. Mine's unlocked too and I lose 2% all night with everything on.

The bootloader on mine is unlocked, and came that way. In either case, that should not affect battery life, though I could imagine how rooting would possibly allow you to install or turn on something that would drain your battery faster (and is left off by default).
Just as an aside, what brightness setting do you guys use on your tabs? Somebody mentioned 75% and that seems super bright to me. I keep my brightness at around 20% or so. Auto brightness is way too dim on this thing. I look forward to some development action on this thing, the ability to customize the auto-brightness levels in CM7 on my Captivate is really awesome.

I have the same battery draining. I can only get 6 hours of straight usage with 20 on brightness. I'll exchange mine today. My zoom can last 8 hours straight of usage

tabing said:
all of you guys whose battery has no issue do you guys have tab with locked or unlocked boot-loader. Mine is unlocked and i think because of that battery is discharging fast.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have no battery issue when in stand by mode and my tab is unlocked and the wifi policy is set to stay on. I drain about 3% per 7 hrs which is excellent.

Battery life on this phone?

I just got this phone, instantly updated to jellybean, still did a factory reset to help with little issues that happen sometimes on android updates ... and the battery life is terrible. Nothing at all like everyone is bragging about. I even made a lot of smart actions to try to help (i.e. put in airplane mode when I'm not using it, 4g off when wifi on, background data only when using phone, etc.).
I'm getting around 2h and 45 min of screen on time. And it still loses around 12-15% overnight with airplane mode on. No apps downloaded or settings synced from account.
Are there other things I could check?
Facebook freezing and FC constantly too.

SilverTipp said:
I just got this phone, instantly updated to jellybean, still did a factory reset to help with little issues that happen sometimes on android updates ... and the battery life is terrible. Nothing at all like everyone is bragging about. I even made a lot of smart actions to try to help (i.e. put in airplane mode when I'm not using it, 4g off when wifi on, background data only when using phone, etc.).
I'm getting around 2h and 45 min of screen on time. And it still loses around 12-15% overnight with airplane mode on. No apps downloaded or settings synced from account.
Are there other things I could check?
Facebook freezing and FC constantly too.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'd disable smart actions and also Google now. People report that helps a little
Sent from my XT907 using xda premium

I also found it took about 3 weeks for the battery to settle down and really give good long life on each charge. Now I'm super impressed with battery life of this gem of a phone...

Hmm ... I'm debating on sending it back. How was your battery life in the beginning?
No one experiencing huge facebook issues? Some other apps seem to take awhile to load.
Thanks.

I have the official jelly bean and I'm a rooted. So far today has been the best battery life that I've had even since flashing from ICS last week.
Sent from my XT907 using xda app-developers app

Amazing freaking battery life. Definitely. Probably top five of all time considering the power of the phone
Sent from my XT907 using xda app-developers app

I disabled location reporting in Google Latitude and find the battery life good.

SilverTipp said:
Hmm ... I'm debating on sending it back. How was your battery life in the beginning?
No one experiencing huge facebook issues? Some other apps seem to take awhile to load.
Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Seeing you had 2-3 hrs on screen time, its no wonder the battery is dying on you. At first I found the battery life ok, would get through the day, but as I used it more the battery seemed to settle and now get 2 days a charge...BUT as with everything concerning battery this is relative.
I don't sync pretty much anything. I don't sync gmail, facebook, etc...which i know do take up substantial battery life. One thing I've found with this phone from using CPU Spy (app), is that when it goes into deep sleep, it really uses no battery power...I mean NONE! The other day at work it was just sitting on my desk doing nothing for 3 hours and went from 90% at 9am to 90% at 12 noon.
Battery is great on this phone...

SilverTipp said:
I just got this phone, instantly updated to jellybean, still did a factory reset to help with little issues that happen sometimes on android updates ... and the battery life is terrible. Nothing at all like everyone is bragging about. I even made a lot of smart actions to try to help (i.e. put in airplane mode when I'm not using it, 4g off when wifi on, background data only when using phone, etc.).
I'm getting around 2h and 45 min of screen on time. And it still loses around 12-15% overnight with airplane mode on. No apps downloaded or settings synced from account.
Are there other things I could check?
Facebook freezing and FC constantly too.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've had this phone for about a month now and my battery life is incredible. Better than I ever expected. I'm getting 2 full work days out of a single charge. I can suggest an app that I'm convinced works very well for Motorola's as this is the second one I've had. 2x battery saver seems to work better than juice defender. Cutting off background data when the phone is idle will help out a lot and that app does that very well. Smartactions should also be kept to a minimum. My phone uses virtually no battery when it is idle. If you play around on the internet a lot then its gonna drain your battery. For mostly talking and texting, its great.

Same problem but it does get resloved
When I got my razr m it had the same battery problem, but with time it will start holding more of a charge. It takes roughly month, and now i'm getting two days easily with it.

Yep. The battery here is unbelievable. I used ~1gb data, about an hour of calls and a few games for bout 30 min or so. Oh and some music. About 1.5 hours to charge and 2 days battery. Best battery life I have seen since the Nokia 1700 with net ten. Really. Its that good.
And I mean straight out the box. I bought it on Thursday last week and charged it maybe 3 times.
Charged it on Tue at 830 or so till bout 10 central standard time. I got 35% right now. I'm TRYING to kill it before I go to bed. I'm not very optimistic. Outstanding battery. Shoot, unheard of. 4.1.1
Oh and PS. I ain't rooted it yet either.
Sent from my XT907 using xda premium

To speed the settling in process.
Use the phone unit it dies. And then Charge it fully with no interruptions. Dont unplug and replug.
I had 4 of these going through my place now.
My girls, Mines and 2 from friends.
My girl's was settled in well when we received it already.
Mines took 1 week to settle in. My 2 friends took 1 weeks with that Calibration process and the other took 4 weeks of normal usage.
The phones battery is a monster !!!
2 hours worth of phone calls Screen is on time 3 hours, 16h wifi, I am at 40% and been off the charger for 17 hours.

The battery on this thing is great! One thing Motorola does better than any other manufacturer. I'm getting all weekend off a charge as my phone pretty much runs off wireless
Sent from my XT905 using xda premium

Anyone compared battery life of RAZR M vs RAZR i battery life?
I've seen on gsm arena that battery life of RAZR i is incredible, but there is no battery test for RAZR M.
Sent from my MB525 using xda app-developers app

Proda said:
Anyone compared battery life of RAZR M vs RAZR i battery life?
I've seen on gsm arena that battery life of RAZR i is incredible, but there is no battery test for RAZR M.
Sent from my MB525 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The i is more efficient when using it acctionally by 5%
Heavy usage the M is by 3% better, at conserving battery but the i is faster on heavy usage on large application
I have to get the screen shots we got few weeks ago.
Also the i tends to suck more power on some apps due to the emulation. But is not slower in anyway.
They are marginally almost the same.
Its just where u need the Processing power to be.
Heavy need of processing power the i is very competitive on single 3D apps
Need 100% compatibility with the apps store use the M with its ARM CPU
1.5 ARM Dual core or 2.0 Hyper Thread Single Core

I'm getting AMAZING battery life on my RAZR M. I get through the entire work day (lots of voice calls, wifi usage, bluetooth, maybe 1.5 hrs of screen time total) and still have about 35% remaining before I go to bed (about 15 hrs of usage). I even try to kill the battery by watching videos at home, putting the screen brightness on 100%, still havent managed to kill the battery.
So far very impressed with this phone, especially compared with my old Galaxy SII on TMobile

My Record:
2d 4h with 3.30 screen on

v0rtex604 said:
My Record:
2d 4h with 3.30 screen on
View attachment 1569869
View attachment 1569870
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Dudee how are you getting that much!
Sent from my XT907 using xda premium

I think you got a borked phone, ive had this phone for 3 days now, noticed the amazing battery life the first day, phone came with a 50% charge, didnt charge it all day, finished day 1 with 30% after heavy use, day 2 heavy use navigation, texting, games, ect, finished day again at 30%, now day three same heavy use as day 2, days almost over and im at 50%, think i got a good one well deserving of the trident case i bought for it.

jarzy00 said:
Dudee how are you getting that much!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've got rule in SmartActions.
If screen off - then turn off mobile data.

My nexus 4 battery compared to my Nexus 7

I know its apples to oranges but hear me out.
I have nexus 4 and Nexus 7 both on 4.2.2 and both on the latest Motley kernels. Both are rooted and that's it. neither is over clocked and both have the same exact apps installed sans tablet apps on the N4 so my N4 has less apps installed than my N7.
i charge both devices over night. both devices are set to use WIFI and WIFI is set to ALWAYS ON even during SLEEP.
i unplug both devices and leave the N7 at home.
take th N4 to work.
I dont touch the N4 at all on my 15 min drive to work.
i get to work pull it out and it shows down to 98% already wtf?
my N7 i get home and it still shows 100% fully charged and i play with it browse XDA and after 15 min is still shows 100%
I took my N4 and flashed it back to stock 4.2.2 and stock kernel.. everythign stock. did not root it.
charged it back up to 100% and removed form charger.. i check the phone in 20 min and its down to 99% already and i havnt touched it..
whats going on?
i know the N7 and N4 are both different, different battery capacities and different chipsets but my N4 should not be dropping down from 100% in 20 min when I havent even touched it.
oh yea one last thing..
my N7 is set to sync everything..
my N4 i uncheck syncing on everything except GMAIL, CONTACTS and BROWSER and have NO widgets on any home screen.
so very frustrating...
I have better battery stats installed and i see nothing weird for wake locks or partial wake locks.. nothing more than a few seconds even and no weird apps showing as a battery hog.

You have to think, the N4 is running an extra radio, as well as a different CPU anyways, and its 2100 mAh, versus >4000 on the N7 just like you said, don't expect it to stay on 100% forever with WiFi and Data going and the N7 only having WiFi.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

While you're driving your 4g network is enabled which will drain your battery more. Your nexus 7 is always on wifi. Also your nexus 7 4375mAh battery whereas your nexus 4 has a 2100mAh battery which also makes your phone to lose juice faster.

I would never expect similar standby times out of the two, given the modem and just over halfed battery capacity of the 4... But having said that, for regular browsing use, they provide surprisingly similar screen on time for me! I usually get 7-8 hours out of the 7 and 6-7 from the 4... Gaming splits them again though, I usually get less than three hours of 3D gaming from the 4 and more like five hours out of the 7. All in all, not a bad showing from either, Android battery life has finally reached what I would define as reasonable.
I have seen ten hours from my Nexus 7 where usage has predominantly been video playback, but that's an exceptional usage case which is obviously an optimal scenario for the LP core in Tegra 3.

I understand but my n4 dropping from 100 to 98% in 15 min with screen off directly off charger is ridiculous.
Right now its at 23% with battery showing 5 hours since unplugged and only 1.5 hours screen time. That's nuts.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

nextelbuddy said:
I understand but my n4 dropping from 100 to 98% in 15 min with screen off directly off charger is ridiculous.
Right now its at 23% with battery showing 5 hours since unplugged and only 1.5 hours screen time. That's nuts.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You have to consider that while you're driving around with your phone in your pocket it is changing cell towers which uses the radio and consequently battery.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

1.5hours screen-on time means something is wrong. That being said 2% after a bit of driving isn't abnormal, and it's never going to be the same depending on where you drive where you live where you work etc reception wise, but 1.5hours of screen on @ 2x% battery totally is fubar'd.
Check your battery stats for wakelocks, find whatever naughty app it is you have that's doing it. Make sure Location History is off if you haven't already checked this!

100>99 or 100>98 means nothing.
The battery monitoring is clearly not linear.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

My battery life sucks, try lowering brightness for screen time
Sent from my Nexus 4 @1.67 GHz on Stock 4.2.2

Bad battery life

My Note 3 seems to be able to get only 4-5 hours of screen time while on 4G. Using Wi-Fi doesn't improve the battery life much either.
My brightness is set to auto and mostly used indoors. I've also used set cpu to limit cup usage to 960 mhz, installed greenify but nothing seems to help. Mostly surfing the web, fb, Twitter etc
I felt that I got better battery life out of it during the first week of my purchase 3 weeks ago. But ever since last week it's been getting bad.
Any ideas why?
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

batt life
Although the Note 3 is a beast of a phone..all the functions that it has are also battery hogs.. what you dont need to use frequently, can be turned off with the factory toggles..
things like air gesture, command, motions, (turning power sav mode on) wifi off, live wallpapers, lookout antivirus, and if you press the 3 line icon at top right, there are 20 functions that can potentially drain battery..nfc, air view, smart stay..etc.. also, try battery doctor app to help control additional consumption. Turn the fucntions on only as needed..
OR- Get an extended battery or just a battery like mugen or zero lemon battery..with extra power within same parameters, similar dimensions. etc. hope this helps. REMEMBER - like a cop car, that has all those lights, radios, laptop- they run a bigger battery AND a huge alternator.

I have all the fancy system apps and features already disabled with root app delete. What's weird is it happens when I'm doing basic web brwosing.
The battery also seems to be draining at 1% per hour while the screen is turned off, is this supposed to happen?
Or could it be a faulty battery?
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

have you tried turning off animations?

aeronium said:
I have all the fancy system apps and features already disabled with root app delete. What's weird is it happens when I'm doing basic web brwosing.
The battery also seems to be draining at 1% per hour while the screen is turned off, is this supposed to happen?
Or could it be a faulty battery?
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Use juice defender to turn off data when your phone is not being used (deep sleep), use this as a temporary measure I would say while u use the various battery stats monitoring tools to find the actual culprit.

Sounds like an app issue. Have you installed any new apps recently that may coincide with the sudden poor battery performance? I don't use any power saving apps and leave all my Samsung features enabled and still get over a full day's worth of use.
Are you in a poor reception area? Perhaps you should consider a factory reset. If that doesn't change anything, exchange your device for a new one.
Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk

you have the s800 witch it's not an low consuption cpu even if the governor sysfs settages are good

aeronium said:
My Note 3 seems to be able to get only 4-5 hours of screen time while on 4G. Using Wi-Fi doesn't improve the battery life much either.
My brightness is set to auto and mostly used indoors. I've also used set cpu to limit cup usage to 960 mhz, installed greenify but nothing seems to help. Mostly surfing the web, fb, Twitter etc
I felt that I got better battery life out of it during the first week of my purchase 3 weeks ago. But ever since last week it's been getting bad.
Any ideas why?
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do you have Google Now enabled? I noticed as soon as I enabled Google now and location services my battery life has suffered.

aeronium said:
The battery also seems to be draining at 1% per hour while the screen is turned off, is this supposed to happen?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How is that a problem
Are you saying that if you left your phone fully charged and didnt touch it. It would last over 4 days
and you think this is bad battery life
Many many factors can cause battery drain apps you use sync of apps,signal strength,brightness,sensors,google now,s-voice etc.
themes you use
Using black themes will use less battery because an led display will turn off the black areas of the screen etc which is how it achieves the best black contrasts.
I myself have the same use 4-5 hrs of on screen battery which i find great as i can take my phone and use it all day without a problem
people who have 7-8 hrs of on screen time per day on there phone should really seek counselling or go to AA meetings as you have a problem
As to disabling features of the phone Buying a smartphone and disabling all the features that make it a smart phone is pretty pointless if you ask me

It's been the same for me. The first couple of weeks I had the phone the battery was amazing. I could last 2 days easily with heavy usage. I'd say since the most recent update I had on this phone the battery life has been draining significantly faster. I now have to charge my phone each night as it is always hovering around 30%
Do you guys think the update has anything to do with this issue?
Sent from my SM-N900W8 using xda app-developers app

The biggest battery hog I've ever seen is facebook. Particularly, its auto sync. Kill that and try again.
Send From My Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9005 Using Tapatalk